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Show 6 UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, AUGUST 13. 1937. PARKof CITY the Silver Capital Utah Greets You You are invited to visit the biggest silver camp in the West. KILLING OF STKIKEK IN CLEVELAND 11KINGS DEATH LIST TO EIGHTEEN -- (Continued from Iage 1) strike was not over, but was still - rean I I , SLOAN SHED TEARS FOR LOSS AT G. M. WHICH TURNS OUT TO BE A GAIN Since the court fight began, it is said, this gang has sent out over b,hou,0oo pieces of literature under WASHINGTON (UNS) Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., Chairman of the Board of General Motors, lets on that his company is slipping, ana its all the unions fault. In a statement issued July 27, Sloan accuses the United Auto Workers of causing a loss of $22,000,000 in G. M. profits for the second quarter of 1937, and bluntly accuses the union of "irresponsibility. In foreboding tones he calls on the public to realize "the unreasonable and unnecessary losses which it issustaining by such experiences as General Motors has been subjected to during the period under review. What are these losses? According to Sloan, cash resources of G M. dropped $120,000,000 in the second quarter of 1937, as comparec to a similar period in 1936. This sounds serious, but on look going strong in spite of the lies appearing in the press. OutofState Scabs Brought In lie charged that the city administration had broken its pledge to remain neutral and had taken sides with Tom Girdler and the Republic Steel Corporation against the strikers, although the company was openly violating the Labor Act, and the Byrnes Act which prohibits the importation of strikebreakers from outside the state. Balint demanded that the mayor investigate acts of the company in scabs to bringing in interfere with the workers right to strike. Other members of the committee told the mayor that police in uniform had called at the homes of strikers telling them that they should go back to work. In some cases, the workers charged, the police had tried to recruit strikebreakers and had escorted scabs into the mill. Chief Justice Homer GPowers. out-of-sta- te POLITICAL OUTLOOK (Continued from page 5) contend that the uphold is twisted and should read holdup but Frank Gannet says Frank Gannet is a great patriot and. he should know. Recently Gannet sent out a hurried S. 0. S. wire to a number of people. It read, Emergency appeal from Senators leading court fight prompts this telegram. Im mediate vote on g bill would be dangerously close. Our committee is asked quickly to renew aggressive national drive to assure defeat. "Also requested to supply funds to distribute Senators speeches to their constituents to offset reprisals of Farley machine. If the court battle is lost next move will be to jam through pending bills court-packin- ing closer other figures begin to emerge which make an entirely different picture. During the same period, G. M.s holdings in U. S. Government securities increased in$77,000,000, its inventories creased $79,000,000, and its net working capital increased $19,000,-00- 0 which more than offsets the "loss in cash. In fact, it makes the loss of $120,000,000 look suspiciously like a gain of $55,000,000. Sloan also complained about the drop in profits on sales. Again a second look at the figures shows that during the period covered in the statement, earned surplus increased $28,000,000 equal to the increase in sales. This proves something: Sloans cost of making cars has not increased. It has decreased, in spite of wage increases to G. M. workers and in spite of union irresponsibility. It wipes out Sloans claim that the cost of higher wrages and collective bargaining is destroying his company, the public, and the nation. One other item in Sloans statement also escaped notice in the papers. This was the decrease of approximately $3,000,000 in G. M.s allowance for employes bonus, etc. for the first six months of mg line for many year4. (Continued from page 5) He is now inaugurating a projonce at in Germany ana setting up one man rule over in ect whereby funds of tne state-owne- d thrownlaughed out of beer cellars on his Bank of North Dakota will dustry, agriculture and labor. Our neck. be used to buy up wheat at fair fight will build opposition to these There is nothing funny about the dictatorial measures. prices to check the milling trusts, w'hom are Langer charges Senator McCarran rose from selling speeches made at Johnstown, Pa the farmers short by price cutting. during the launching of the Citisick bed and defied Farleys threat, ... wheat farmers ol zens National Committee. Bitter to end his political career and ap-- 1 Dakota at a time when they attacks were made on labor unions, pealed to the nation, It is time for I 1937. Jews, foreign-bor- n citizens, Nethe people to rise in defense of I nee( savm We are going to checkmate groes, President Roosevelt, memtheir government. Will you ne-- 1 these spond to Senators appeal with 1 milling trusts who have cut bers of congress, and various state BEST WISHES nancial support. This committee I the price ol wheat a total of 52 governors. I to the Labor haters from eight states has organization and material to cents in 24 hours and we are go reach immediately million key in-- 1 ing to use the entire resources 0 were present at the meeting. MINERS AND RAILROAD dividuals. 'the state, if necessary, to do it Spokesmen for reaction and represMEN sion were cheered and cheered Please mail check to Summer he declared. when they called for direct action North Dakota has state-owne- c Gerard, treasurer. Sen. Wagner reWhen in Park City to place the nation under the mills and flour terminal elevators ported wavering. Telegraph or IPs write him your protest. signed and the people of the state wil thumb of Big Business. so Frank Gannet, chairman, National back Governor Langer to the limit is much nonsense Democracy It is a foregone conclusion tha success in industry calls for a Committee to Uphold Constitutionn Governor Langer will oppose Senal Government. dictatorship, is the adP. Gerald June the ator at creed of Gustavus W. Dyer mitted Nye Thus the liberal Sen. Wheeler, and of Vanderbilt University, Tenneswhen he needs funds, Appeals to 1938 .pna5l be will nominatef who was the chief spellbinder see, FRIEND OF LABOR guess an for a Republican U will be and elected next the and at the Johnstown meeting. Wheelers job. task is to keep the court as a bar- S. Senator from North Dakota. Dyer, incidentally, is the rabid labor-baitrier to pending bills setting up whom the Minneapolis one man rule over industry, agri- G 0 p is Citizens Alliance used to import culture and labor which presum- COMMITTING SUICIDE for its guest of honor at the annual Best Wishes to the Miners voodoo dinners given by that means the and hours ably wages The national affairs committee loathsome crowd. bill and the farm aid bill which has been endorsed by representatives of the national Republican party President Roosevelt, so Dyer Cold Meats of farm organizations. Groceries committee is assisting the G. O. P. told his Johnstown audience, is an A few commit suicide. to days ago anarchist, and the government General Merchandise If Gannetts telegram is not has broken down, and no one is enough to illuminate the peculiar the committeea met in New York character of Wheeler liberalism and adopted resolution that will obligated to be loyal to an imthen take the fact that William not help the party to gain any of poster. Prestige. Castle and William Hard, in Re-- s WEST SIDE STORE According to Dyer, there is no Evidently the G. O. P. leaders do difference between buying a head publican national headquarters, are writing the speeches of oppo- - not recognize any other of and hiring an employe. Phone 15 837 Park Av Senators and are backing sciousness except the big business In cabbage both cases, he says, the object Senator Byrd (D., Va.) in his fight class consciousness. The commit- is to get them as PARK CITY, UTAH cheaply as postee statement for the guidance of sible. the party, included condemnation of what it called the doctrines of and Smeltermens Convention Karl Marx and of Moscow now being encouraged in this country by fi-- Grover Cafe one-ma- . vice-president- ial A WELCOME, LABOR er STOP AT COFFEE JOHNS Home of Famous Hamburg- ers and Good Coffee Sand- wiches, Cold Drinks and Beer, Plate Lunches and Meals Fountain Service Phone 1, Park City, Utah Hiway No. 40 Ileber and ParkCity Junction Success to the Miners, Millmen class-con-siti- Park City Bottling Works Bottlers of High Grade Carbonated Beverages DISTRIBUTORS Becker's PHONE 142 UINTA CLUB UNION MADE PARK CITY on the New Deal. Evidently the big guns of the G. O. P. are anxious to go back to the reckless days of Hoover, Coolidge 4 and Harding. 4 SENATOR BORAH IS DIFFERENT 4 4 ALWAYS 4- - Senator William E. Borah, the from Idaho, always big wind-ba- g thinks differently from other people. He starts many things, but never finishes them. Now he is asserting there is no vacancy on the supreme court due to retirement of Justice Van and that President Roosevelt has no right to name a successor. He declared a vacancy cannot be created on the court through the retirement of a justice, since the incumbent remains a justice of the supreme court. If Senator Borah is right then our country is not a democracy only a dictatorship of the judiciary. Of course Senator Borah is all' wet. Common sense will tell us differently. President Roosevelt, no doubt, has the power to make a supreme court appointment, and he will do so at a proper time. Successor to Van Devanter will be named, and successors to Justices Sutherland and McReynolds will be named by the President as soon as they resign. And they are expected to resign about the first of the year. De-vant- E Archer Mortuary Geo. G. M. ARCHER, Prop. LICENSED EMBALMER AND FUNERAL DIRECTOR Ambulance Service, Night or Day PHONE 190 P. O. 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