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Show 0 UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT Utaf) Haljor Efltablished 1929 LABOR ON ITS FORWARD MARCH Jeto (Continued from Page 1) MINE, SMELTER WORKERS START A PUBLICATION A MEMBER OF THE This paper receives Union News Service, a C. I. O. affiliate. $1.50 per annum Address all communications and remittances to Utah Labor News, 24 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Published weekly at 24 Utah. South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Telephone Was. 2981. Publisher THOMPSON THOMPSON Office Manager It Commercial advertising is says: forbidden. The district union will finance the paper entirely. It will feature official information among the local unions of district No. 2 of the international, and speak the mind of the district union. The Utah Labor News congratulates the district board for the forward step taken in starting the publication. It has a place here and a mission to serve the increased membership of the district carry commercial advertising. OUTSIDE LOOKING IN By KATE RICHARDS O'HARE without their help. Business is on (Continued from Page 1) i the upgrade, with little increase in that they are a danger signal not does say employment. Production is speedcannot overlook. Jle huand benevolence up, but it must increase twening much about man brotherhood, but considerable ty per cent to bring them in sight of a job. about self preservation. n be Unfortunately a man twenty per There seems to growing cent these that away from the means of life awareness everywhere are the is just as hungry and just as des- union. economic outcasts already thrust perate as if it were fifty or one UTAH PLUMBERS ARE outside our industrial system; so hundred per cent unattainable. orTAKING EXAMINATIONS labor of dis The the with upsurge mighty cial lepers unclean man to the little means outsid ganization of ease poverty, pariahs Those working at the plumbing the pale. They are the submerged outside the system. in the cities of first and sectrade of no and no with land hope job, Having farmers tilling poor in Utah must take an class ond and modern most the whom one, society getting poorer equipment examination and qualify as a jourunionism of forward The type looking need. not does upper or an apprentice. as in cold. the neyman of the farming class tilling still leaves him out A model has been fitC. the ultimate I. wins the 0. If workshop better soils with modern machinery in ted base state the reduce can in or it labor up capitol we need, organization can easily produce all where wielders ment wrench the increase hours wages somewhat, at least all present purchasing artists will take a make jobs and blow-torc- h power can buy. So, the various somewhat, and possibly Oral quesexamination. of practical the farm-loa- n jobless. bills, the modified AAA. for a portion y 12 sets are drawn of and them, tions, hours the If ant the ever normal granary, in now bill Resettlement congress pending wages the messing about by in toting down and out farmers becomes a law it might provide em- velt dwells on it so frequently he from onq spot to another are just ployment for a million additional is not merely coining effective plain hooey. Until more people can workers, and thats a small per- phrases, but prodding the alleged eat more food and wear more centage of the unwanted. We intelligence of the country. clothes, these submerged farmers Danger in Tragedy have tried for seven years to meet For years every remedial meas- this problem by creating artificial are on the human scrap heap. ure has driven deeper the wedge scarcity, Displaced Workers and it simply will not These pariahs are also the work- between the haves and the have-not- work. and forged more bars of fear ers whom labor saving machinery Newspapers Are Ignorant has displaced, the technologically to keep the outcasts on the outside Scientists tell us the entire hudisemployed that modem industry looking in. Danger lies in the man body changes every seven does not need. They are the sur- tragedy that these long, bitter years, maybe that includes brains plus professional and white col- years have warped the vision of also if they have not ossified. lar workers whose highly skilled the victims until they include with Washington really seems to have services are as much a drug on the the haves all who have jobs. learned something in seven years Gone is the old dogma of the market as labors brawn. I They The Industrial Expansion Act are the workers past forty whom class struggle. It is not class did not explode the newspaper barindustry rejects, and the young against class, but outcasts against rage that the supreme court issue born twenty years too late. They insiders now. Gone is our beloved set off, but its influence is more are the most dangerous of all men, ideal of the solidarity of labor. No profound. It is just one of those the most easily misled by dema- solidarity is possible between those things! ! For the most part the gogues, making for cruel mobs, who can work and those who cant. reactionary papers have ignored men without hope, men with noth Our old formulas fail, our old the bill, not because it is not a ing to lose. It is from such that creeds crumble, and our old ap good story, but because they dont fascism and communism breed. proach to social problems has no know how to handle it. They are The depression has sifted them validity. afraid to comment favorably be; out from the common mass and We are face to face with the cause it has to do with an ecoherded them into the brotherhood grim reality that a man robbed of nomy of abundance at which they of the damned. Being, unwanted, hope cannot be constructive; that have been sneering. They are like being a leper, breaksdoyvn all robbed of the power to build, his more afraid to attack it because it human relations, and wipes out only outlet is to tear down. When might be a good thing for indusevery normal human tie. It is true he cant climb out of the pit, he try. No great industrialist or finwe have fed our unwanted workers will drag down the man nearest ancier has blasted it as comat public expense; Harry Hopkins him. no and munism, politician has has run the biggest and best called it subversive Mushy Stupidity or an atbread and circus show the world The congressional galleries are tempt to overthrow the governhas ever seen. But every dollar marvelous places to study down ment. of the dole has widened the chasm and out emotions. Here the eco General Hugh S. Johnson sent between us on the inside, and them nomic outcasts come in some des- up a trial balloon in his syndicated on the outside, of life. perate hope that the Federal gov- column in the Scripps-Howar- d paPresidents Courage ernment must, and will do some-;hin- g pers, in which he indicated it might for them. I watch them as make history; that it had the Washington is shot through with unspoken fear of them, which only they listen with bitter intensity to Presidents support, and that the President has the courage to maundering debate, to callous Maury Maverick might be the Advoice, but not until recently has cruelty and mushy stupidity, to ministrations congressional leadanyone held out even a will o the weasel words and asininity, until er in the near future. souls are stripped and the danger wisp of hope. The all important thing is that Until the Industrial Expansion that lurks in hopelessness stands for the first time since the depresAct came before congress every bit out in appalling nakedness. sion descended on us, congress is of legislation was a drive towards d of our population fil- considering legislation that is in more artificial scarcity and more ed, and without harmony with modern industrial people outside the economic sys- lope is not a political issue or an and economic development, legistem. Prosperity is returning, but academic question. When Roose- - lation which hitches social forces on the front end of the wagon of progress to pull it towards plenty instead of on the' hind end to pull Greetings and best wishes to the Utah Labor News for conit back to scarcity. ill-fe- d, ill-cla- d, ed two-thir- ds Black-Conner- of the new Utah Cooperative Life Insurance company; Tracy It. Welling, EDUCATIONAL FEAST p, M. I. L. M. Kirkham, Salt Lake City, HAD UTAH COOPERATORS We welcome The Spokesman, an official publication of district 2, International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, a C. I. 0. affiliate, on our exchange table, and wish it a successful future. E. M. Hoyle, district secretary - treasurer of the union, is the editor. It will be published monthly for the dissemination of union information to the more than 9000 members of the International Union of M.,' M. and S. W. in Utah. Volume 1, number 1, of the publication is well balanced in typographical make-uand in reading matter. The new publication is financed by the district union and it will not matter March 28, 1930, at the post office Entered as second-clas- s at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rates by request. LAKE CITY. UTAH, JULY 16. 1937. executive secretary of the Utah Utah's cooperative leaders gath- Farm bureau; Oro Moore of the ered at Logan July 7 to 10 to hear Cooperative cannery. Payson speakers explain all phases of coof the conferfeatures Special who those regoperation. Among istered and participated in the four-da- y conference were members of organized labor, agriculturists and educators. M. Visser of Salt Lake City was the official repren sentative of the Labors conthe League of Utah at ference. Among the speakers during the conference were: J. II. Appleby of the Consumer Cooperative association of North Kansas City, Mo.; Cliff O. Skorstad of the Credit Union National association, Madison, Wis.; Dr. Joseph A. Geddcs, Utah State Agricultural college; George A. Christenson, manager of the Bear River Mutual Fire Insurance company; Dr. Francis W. Non-Partisa- from the hat by the applicants, and they must be answered. Twelve applicants were given tests Tuesday, and the examinations will be continued from day to day until the 300 applicants have been tested. Members of the examining board are A. M. Scott, president Plumbers union No. 19 of Salt Lake City, chairman; W. A. Bywater of Salt Lake City, representing the public; Lester Bills of Salt Lake City, representing the master plumbers; C. A. Stone of Ogden, and N. W. Pickett, sanitary engineer of the state board of health. The examinations are given in (Continued on page 3) ence were the round table discussions directed by these speakers and other leaders of the group. The educational training of the farmer has been intensified in recent years with the result more efficient production and better farm management have been employed, Mrs. Mary K. Mower, state chairman of the home and community section of Utah state farm bureau, told the conference. We cant make a complete of our economic system as far as the farmer is concerned until we set up a cooperative education program, she explained. Christian Spirit John T. Woodbury, Jr., dean of men of Dixie college, addressed the group, saying, The twentieth cenChristian must choose betury tween the spirit of Christ and the spirit which prevails in our present industrial system. Mr. Woodbury gave the concluding talk of the session. T. E. Howard, senior administrative officer of the agricultural conservation and domestic allotment program in the western region, addressed the conference explaining that "the future of agriculture as a major industry is dependent upon the development of marketing cooperatives which can bring the prices the farmers receive up to a parity with the prices manufacturers are asking for the things the farmers must buy. pfe-tu- re YOU SHARE IN THE PROFITS We Welcome You as a Customer or a Member UTAH CONSUMERS COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION GROCERIES FRESH MEATS FRUITS VEGETABLES Wasatch 4864 860 South Main JUST PHONE WE DELIVER s, 1 Best Wishes to United Mine Workers of America 0 & Western Powder Co. 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