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Show I M 4 k ji CSSIVa H8lTxm OS' UG Current Event?Zns Review o 1 u l !9j cxsir EDUCATE ORGANIZE COOPERATE VOL VI 1 1 NO. 5. s . U. S. SENATORS FROM UTAH There just as much difference between the two United States senators from Utah as there is between night and day. Senator Elbert D. Thomas is a liberal and has been a constant supporter of the President's New Deal legislative program and other progressive measures in behalf of the American peo pie. His work as a member of the Senate Committee on Education and Labor, and its the La Follette Civil Liberties committee, has been splendid. The work of Senator Thomas should have won him the admiration and friendship of every progressive citizen of the is sub-committ- nation. Utah' s senior senator, William H. King, is entirely opposite to Senator Thomas. He talks, acts and votes just opposite. Senator King has broken all his campaign promises, while Senator Thomas has done ' far more for the liberal cause than now has a mandate from the senhe ever promised in his campaign ate making it necessary for them in 1932. to bring out a bill in accordance with the compromise reached Thomas for the People Senator Thomas has labored in which will substantially take care the interest of the people, while of as many of the Presidents obSenator King has voted and work- jectives as it was possible to enact into law at the present time. 1 ed for the special interests. Senator King ignores the re- think my vote was the proper one Such standpoint. quests and letters of those who from every have sacrificed for him back home. strong supporters of the PresiSenator Thomas strives to please dents plan as Majority Leader and and answers his correspondence Darkley, Senator Minton, from his friends back home, and many others, voted to recommit. Train Limit Bill explains his actions. Senator King is just as reactionary as a stand-pa- t reactionary can be. Senator Thomas is a sensible liberal and' wants to do the right thing at the right time. Thomas Explains Vote In explaining his vote on the court plan, Senator Thomas writes: I thought I had made my stand in favor of the Presidents ' court proposals so strong that no one would misunderstand my vote to vote to recommit recommits meant simply this: the committee -- In the vote on the Train Limit bill (S. 69) we met the same situation and some misunderstanding may result there also. I voted, of course, against recommitting that bill, but I voted against the antilynching amendment which was added to the bill merely to kill bill and the both the train limit bill. No final official vote was taken on the McCarran train limit bill. I think that everyone understand my, voteo rpcom.-- ( Continued on page 3) anti-lynchi- ng OUT IN THE OPEN By KATE RICHARDS OHARE Washington has been as dull as ditchwater all through this session. It's been just one big headache five hundred odd elected representatives of the people being jockeyed into a position where they have spent six months piddling, piffling, and "passing the buck forced to stall and soldier, waste their time and the taxpayers' money yet undef all the dreary inertia one could sense mighty forces simmering. These forces have boiled over now, and Washington is anything but dull. Its no longer a headache, its a tragic heartache. The pathetic thing is that a handful of old reactionaries in the senate, ably assisted by a crafty "social lobby of millionaires wives, and mistresses, have used the supreme court issue as a red herring" to smell up the trail leading to the real issue of one third of our people ill-fe- d, and millions still unemployed. The fight is out in the open nowT, and at the moment the reactionaries and the social lobby seem to have been successful in strangling every major New Deal measure. ill-cla- d, By LEN DE CAUX reaction is becoming evident, in the more serious organs of business opinion, against the which has resulted from the highly - financed propaganda campaign against the C. I. 0. The campaign has been con ceived and carried through along lines made famous by Nazi Goeb-bel- s. The aim is to sway mass psychology by emotional appeals to prejudice. Logic, and facts are disregarded or defied. No effort is made to prove contentions, the object being merely to popularize slogan ideas through methods of mass suggestion. The ridiculous leaflet, with its scurrilous' and easily disproved charges, is the lowest form of such propaganda. A shade more subtle, and much more expensive, are the full-paads such as are now being run in daily papers by alleged citizens committees, repeating in more refined language the same kind of Millions of charges and slogans. A self-decepti- red-baiti- ng ge on By M. I. T. BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER SOMETHING NEW IN CONGRESSMEN My idea of congress is Farmer-Labo- r Per Copy 5 Cent BITOROAL News and Comment regular guys in John T. party Bernard, solon from Minnesota, says A1 Sesh in Bakersfield (Cal.) Labor Journal. Every time he gets a chance Ber r.ard ducks out of Washington and spends a few days in his home state organizing iron miners into the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers. As soon as the present session of congress is over, he will devote his entire time to this job. You see, Bernard believes in democracy and he thinks that the best way to preserve democracy is to have a powerful-labomovement. No doubt before congress adjourns he will have contacted Alfred J. Elliott, representative of the 10th California district. Mr. Elliott will spend all his spare time organizing the agricultural workers of Tulare county. Another lad who has chalked up quite a progressive mark for himself is the irrepressible Maury Maverick of Texas. Eyebrows of the economic royalists were considerably elevated recently when Maury took a trip to Detroit and at a mass meeting of the United Automobile Workers union blistered Henry Ford and predicted that Ford, too, would eventually deal with the union. Congressman Jerry J. OConnell of Montana got up in the national capitol the other day and said some terrible things. One was that, through his mothers milk and on his fathers knee, he had learned ' " (Conthiutd uu page t) 5 r ' -- Political Outlook Utah and U. S. Compiled From Reports of Observers Birds of a feather flock together" is an old saying but it is still applicable in this year 1937 and perhaps in the years to come. Since the decision of the American Newspaper Guild to withdraw from the American Federation of Labor, and affiliate with the fastest growing labor organization in the world, the Committee for Industrial Organization, the birds of a feather have been flocking together to say bad things about the Guild and its membership, and the C. I. O. Among the birds of a feather who are occupying the same roost are: William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor; William Randolph Hearst, Walter Lippman. Francis Doolan, Henry Ford, Tom Girdler, James G. Stahlman. president of the American Newspaper Publishers Association; the publishers of the capitalistic-controlle- d daily papers, and the company union stooges in the editorial and news rooms of the daily papers. These birds are inspiring baseless stories about the Guild, the C. I. O. and the loyal labor leaders. The daily papers are labor-hatin- g filled with open-shovituperations of the masters, written by underpaid reporters, news and editorial writers, who have prostituted their brains for a weekly stipend. Talk about the freedom of the pressl There is no such animal in the capitalistic circles. It is free press only to the labor union haters, child labor advocates and slave p, open-shopper- s, Irivers. There is no free daily press for bona fide labor unions, genuine new dealers, and the liberty loving American people. The news and editorial columns of the average daily newspaper are tainted and prostituted with the most subversive and corrupt material imaginable. Heywood Broun, president of the Newspaper Guild, and of l, one .thc1prlQ?JL4nJ;Pftdet.-nd-'democIatis;-oelumnistrnT- (Continued on page 8) Law and Order Group Defeats Efforts fo Prevent Bloodshed Massillon Police Chief Tells At Hearings of Being Forced to Break Strike Heat Put On Officials No Time for LABOR SUPPORT MOUNTS Police Official Neutral Steel Made Threats to Republic FOR WAR BALLOT BILL Reduce Massillon To a Junction On the Prairie, Unless the Plant Was Opened Chief Predicted Bloodshed. Two important labor groups have recently added their support to the Ludlow Amendment which By HOLLACE RANSDELL provides that except in the case of WASHINGTON be declared cannot (UNS) - A revealing story of how invasion, war until the question has been submit- agents of the Republic Steel company "pounded away at the ted to the people of the United town officials of Massillon, Ohio, until they finally achieved States and approved by them in a violence their bloodshed and aim was drawn dramatically, national referendum. bit bit of chief of police, by the quesout Switter, The resolution Stanley by unanimously Federation the Lawrence National tions Labor of Relations Board attorHunt, adopted by Chicago of Labor stated: It seems but ney, at the hearings held in the au fair that those people of the Unit- ditorium of the Public Health with the right of peaceful picketed States who in the last analysis Service building. ing, the stimulation of a are called upon to bear the finanThe Labor Board has charged movement and other violacial burdens entailed by warfare the Republic Steel corporation tions of the Wagner labor act, engenerally, to endure the suffering with the use of violence against tered upon for the purpose of inand privations, sacrifice of health, union organizers, the maintenance timidating and coercing its em- , Parliamentary Strategy There are honest, courageous, loyal men in both the senate and .and the house, but the old grey wolves have outwitted them by parliamentary strategy. A lot of able (Continued on page 4) wealth, life and limb, should have the opportunity to determine the need or the desirability of future wars. Congressmen from the Chicago district are being petitioned to vote favorably on the Amendment, dollars have been spent by big cor- and to sign Discharge Petition No. porations in the recent past for 11, for the purpose of bringing this amendment before the conthis type of propaganda. A headwith gress for debate and vote. Reactionary papers lines, news stories, cartoons and copy of the resolution was sent to editorials constantly pound home the President of the United States the same set of slogans, until odd and to Congressman Louis Ludlow recent phenomenon! the profess- (D. Indiana), the author of the edly liberal press also begins echo- measure, who inserted it in the ing the same ideas in diluted and Congressional Record. more sanctimonious form. The Washington State FederaRadio commentators catch up tion of Teachers in supporting Ludthe swirling slogans. Politicians lows proposal for a war referenparrot them word for word. And dum asserted, We believe that even preachers fall in line. congress in the past has declared no when the majority of people is war coincident Nazi It that It in were runbeen have opposed to such action. papers Germany I. O. too, petitioned its members in the ning pages of this anti-C- . propaganda, in a form hardly more house of representatives and sengrotesque than it has taken in the ate to sign the petition for the disUnited States. Theirs is an in- charge of the resolution from comstinctive tribute to a coordinated mittee. t These two expressions of opinion campaign such as one might only believe possible under complete are the most recent to be filed with Fascist control of all organs of the Labor Department of the Naopinion-formatiotional Council for Prevention of War, which reports that 158 memInspired by Fear Nor is it any coincidence that bers of the house have signed the (Continued on page ) (Continued on page 4) n. Price: SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. AUGUST 6. 1937, back-to-wo- of extensive arsenals, interference rk (Continued on page 6) Labor on Its Forward March; C. I. O. Is Active C. I. O. regional offices for Utah were opened Monday in Salt Lake City in rooms 324 and 325 Beason building, 21 East Second South street. The telephone number is Wasatch 4195. Regional Director James Morgan is expected to return to the headquarters today (Friday) from an official visit to Seattle and Portland. During Mr. gans absence Miss Elizabeth Mor- Wat- Western Federation of Miners, had kins, the genial office manager, is only 16,000 members 18 months looking after C I. 0. interests in ago, but has since more than trithe office. pled its membership. It is one of the MINE. MILL, SMELTER WORKERS CONVENTION DENVER The largest and most important session in the long history of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers opened in Denver Monday. Credentials for more than 200 from local unions delegates United States and the through Canada were reported to the conventions credentials committee. The organization, formerly the original 10 international unions to form the Committee for Industrial Organization, and is headed by President Reid Robinson of Butte, Montana, and Secretary-TreasurJohn M. Sherwood of McGill, Nevada. Glenn Gillespie of Tooele is an international board member. The convention sessions, expected to last all week, are held in Included among Woodman hall. convention speakers were listed Governor Ammons of Colorado, Mayor Stapleton of Denver, Van (Continued on page 2) er |