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Show V' 1 Review o Current Events EDUCATE ORGANIZE COOPERATE SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. SEPTEMB VOL Vllf NO. II. Full Text of the Declaration of Independence B r M. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have con nected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. ; We hold that all men are created equal, these truths to be that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.That to secure these rights, Governments are in stituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the con sent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Govern ment becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its pow ers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to proSuch has been the vide new Guards for their future security. patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his Go vern'ors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance,' "unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to He has refused to pass other Laws for the attend to them. accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihila- t, ( Continued on Page 3) WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? By KATE RICHARDS OHARE The dominant feeling is that the old ways are no more, and that for the first time in the history of this country political fence straddling is out. Each congressman knew when he started homo that he would go home to a new condition; that he would be called to account, and that the American voters have lost their appetite for baloney. He knows that they know that politicians usually go in the direction of the strongest push, and that the voters will insist on knowing who has .been doing the pushing. Have You Compared? There is no use of us trying to fool ourselves. The reactionary us this powers have session. We out voted them in the election, but the peoples mandate to the President and congress, to go forward in establishing New Deal social policies, was only a pain in' the neck to the reactionary ( out-push- ed powers, 1 which called for more money and stronger pressure where it would get the most results. The economic royalists were all organized and ready to start the push when the first member of congress arrived in Washington, and they have let no grass grow under their feet since then. Efforts to bring the supreme court into harmony with modern economic and social developments were spiked. One by one every bill that sought to make good on the Democratic party platform and promises was either emasculated to pitiful impotence, or killed outright. Have you compared your representatives and Senators voting record with their campaign and platform promises? Why It Happened did this happen? Because Why no President and no congress can withstand the pressure of well organized, disciplined, adequately financed power, driving towards reaction and retrogression, unless (Continued on Page 2) pre-electi- on 1937. Price: 5 Cents Per Copy BDYMOAIlj I. T. ANNIVERSARY OF THE CONSTITUTION It is the 150th anniversary of the Constitution. The Constitution of the United States was signed on September 17, 1787, and had by June 21, 1788, been ratified by the necessary number of states. George Washington was inaugurated as the first President of the United States on April 30, 1789. President Franklin D. Roosevelt on July 4, 1937, issued a proclamation for the commemoration of the 150th anniversaiy of the signing and the ratification of the Constitution and of the inauguration of the first President under that Constitution. Roosevelt in his President In commem said: proclamation we shall affirm this period orating our debt to those who ordained and established the Constitution in Order to form a perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity. The President further said that We shall recognize that the Constitution is an. enduring instrument g fit for the governing of a population of more than 130,000,-00- 0, engaged in diverse and varied pursuits, even as it was fit for the governing of a small agrarian Nation of less than four million. .It is therefore appropriate that in the period herein set apart we shall thinlc afresh of Ah? founding of our Government under the Constitution, how it has served us in the past and how in the days to come its principles will guide the Nation ever forward. (Continued on page 8) far-flun- Company unionism and coercion by employers of their employes do not become sanctified -- or legal because they occur under the label of the A. F. of L. Furthermore, employers who think it smart to introduce a tame union in place of the one desired by their workers, are not only breaking the law but may also find that it is pretty poor business. These are the conclusions which may be drawn from the experience of the National Electric Products Corporation at its Ambridge, Pa., plant and the recent decision of the National Labor Relations Board in the case. The decision is significant because it relates to a practice which has become all too common since the supreme court upheld the Labor Relations Act and its outlawry of company unions, and since the C. I. O. launched its aggressive drive to establish independent unionism in previously unorganized industries. In quite a number of cases the C. I. O. has gone out to orand a with met considerable success in signing up ganize plant the workers only to find that an A. F. of L union without membership in the plant has followed it up and is offering its services to the employer in the role of company union. Many employers have tried to force their employes into the A. F. of L union under such circumstances, and have signed . (Continued on Page 8) Labor on Its Forward March; C. I. O. Is Active - i The Committee for Industrial Organization what it is and what it is not You hear a lot about the C. I. O. over the radio, and you read columns about the C J I. O. in newspapers and periodicals. Man y, of the radio speakers and ,. newspaper columnists pretendj to explain the aims and policies of the C. I. O., but at least 90 per cent of them appar- ently do not know what it is all plant employing machinists, mold-er- s, about. carpenteis, common laborers; Is the C. I. O. a one big union ? etc., are organized under one banner in that particular industry, Answer: No! Nine times out of ten. ignorant owned and controlled by one corradio speakers and newspaper poration or one individual. This writers leave the impression that means a one strong union. Political Outlook Another example: The C. I. O. the C. I. O. is a one big union. In This is erroneous. organizes retail store employes as an industrial union. It takes in Union Industrial ' Utah and U. S. The C. I. O. is an industrial sales people, bookkeepers, drivers, Compiled From Reports union, and not a one big union. maintenance help, etc. of Observers Thus it can be seen that under There is just as much difference between an industrial union and the C. I. O. plan strong industrial one big union as there is between unions are organized in all indusCONGRESSMAN ROBINSON and day. tries whether that industry is a night HITS UNFAIR ATTITUDE The C. I. O. organizes the workr retail store, a manufacturing plant, OF MINE OPERATORS ers by industries. a mine, a steel plant, or any other For example: A manufacturing (Continued on Page 2) Congressman J. Will Robinson without mincing any words made the charge that the recent metal mining convention of the American Mining congress in Salt Lake City Radio Address of John L. Lewis delivered at Washington, D. C., presented an unfair attitude toadRoosevelt President ward the Friday, September 3, 1937, from 7:30 to 8 p. m., Mountain Standard Time ministration. Mr. Robinson was a Ward Second the of guest speaker Democrats Monday night in the ballroom of the Newhouse hotel Out of the agony and travail of economic America the when he gave facts and comparis- Committee for Industrial Organization was born. To millions' ons on the mining industry diviof Americans, exploited without stint by corporate industry dends in 1933 and 1936. and a he that socially debased beyond the understanding of the forHe said regretted its coming was as welcome tunate, of citizens, representing group one of our most important indus- as the dawn to the night watcher. tion were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their ecotries, failed to mention anything To a lesser group of Americans, nomic wrongs, to alleviate their sosituatadminmore the President Roosevelt and infinitely fortunately cial agony and to grant them ed, blessed with larger quantities istration has done for them. . . their political rights. Despairing of Had the convention been held of the world's goods and insolent fair treatment, they resolved to do in 1933, he continued, the pic- in their assumption of privilege, its themselves. for harbinsomething difheralded was as a ture would have been entirely coming They, therefore, have organized ferent. At that time we had just ger of ill, sinister of purpose, of a new labor movement, conceived ended three administrations during unclean methods and within the principles of the nationwhich the ideas of these industrial objectives; al bill of rights and committed to IndustriBut the Committee for leaders had been followed out to the is proposition that the workers now al here. is It the letter. Organization to assemble in their owm free are instrudefinite a Robinson and then henceforth, Representative voice their own grievances, drew comparisons between 1933 mentality, designed greatly to in- forums, own declare their 1936-3hopes and conand Number of employes, fluence the lives of our people and he said, has increased from 5748 the internal and external course of tract on even' terms with modern industry for the sale of their only to 10,902. Total mining payroll the republic. material possession their labor. has increased from $7,574,488 in Find Justification Millions Enrolled 1933 to $15,358,813 in 1936 and This is true only because the average wage per year from purpose and objectives of the The Committee for Industrial $1317.76 to $1408.80. Committee for Industrial Organi- Organization has a numerical enBut a more striking comparison zation find economic, social, politi- rollment of three million seven can be found in the dividend rec- cal and moral justification in the hundred eighteen thousand memord, he continued. All Utah metal hearts of the millions who are its bers. It has thirty-tw- o affiliated mines in 1933 paid dividends total- members and the millions more national and international unions. ing $410,613. In 1936 they paid a Who support it. The organization Of this number eleven unions actotal of $7,295,205, an increase of and constant onward sweep of this count for two million seven hun1500 per cent. I think you will see movement exemplifies the resent- dred sixty-fiv- e thousand members. some significance in the fact that ment of the many toward the sel- This group is organized in the texwhile average wage per year was fishness, greed and the neglect of tile, auto, garment, lumber, rubber, the few. The workers of the na (Continued on page 4) (Continued on page 6) LABOR AND THE NATION The senators and representatives are gone. The Capitol and the Senate Office buildings are deserted except for the tourists who wander through the long, gloomy corridors listening with bored resignation to the mechanical patter of professional guides. The atmosphere is like that of a home after the corpse has been taken to the graveyard.- - Even the negro por- ters, wise in the ways and wiles of congress, are uneasy, feeling that the old, familiar things are dead, and they are wondering what the future will bring. , News and Comment In CONGRESS. July '4, 1776. self-eviden- 1 non-virtuo- us 7. |