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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, APRIL 8, 1938. Economic Highlights six municipal wards; four delegates from each of the four county legislative districts; the four ex(Continued from Page 4) ecutive officers of the central comCatholic and other churches. mittee, and the presidents of the The Republican county vice Sagebrush, Jackson, Junior and d chairmans statements Womens Democratic clubs. will not help the ailing G. O. P. elephant here. Labors Non- It is queer that the Republican Partisan League daily newspapers are ready to editorialize such d statement of but (Continued from page 4) when it comes to giving good news lie ahead. For here the disthat about labor meetings and conventions they are not there. Without unity of labor will bring confusion labor patronage these papers would and chaos to all the forces of prolose about 75 per cent of their gress. The result: A catastrophe for democracy, and the victory of readers. reaction. UTAHS G. 0. P. LEADERS HARM PARTY LABOR ON ITS SUCCESS IN UTAH POLITICAL OUTLOOK (Continued from page 1) On the other hand, in spite of the lethargy of business, and the growing belief that there will not be any significant improvement until fall, the feeling of most of the financial journals has not been pessimistic. Thus, Business Week re ports that although no importan changes have occurred in the leve of industrial activity . . . sentimen has been somewhat better. The Annalist, dealing with more tangible factors, says that there are signs of improvement in some consumer-goods industries and in commodities affected by speculative demands. The labor situation has shown marked improvement in recent months. The Presidents was price analysis commendably obscure. No reputable authority is actually bullish but it is worth recording that a considerable degree of optimism obtains in spite of the constant appearance of new current statistics which are largely unfavorable. Some brief items relating to the state of business follows: RAILROADS: Carloadings are seriously down; with railroad revenues showing a grave decline. The ICCs decision on the 15 per cent rate increase is expected this month. Railroad heads are talking of plans for consolidating lines. AUTOMOBILES: The outlook has definitely improved, with production rising after bad experience in January when new passenger-ca- r registration amounted to only units, as against 280,000 in January, 1937. The sales of a typical car, the Dodge, for the first three weeks in February were almost 85 per cent above the same weeks in the preceding month. STEEL: Oprating at around 31 per cent of capacity. A more or less substantial increase in structural steel bookings is expected soon, inasmuch as these bookings have been declining in spite of a good volume of engineering contracts awarded. WAR MATERIALS: Here Is a really booming business, and every factor indicates that the year ahead will see still bigger sales. Almost every country in the world, large and small, not excepting the U. S., is spending record sums in preparation for Der Tag. PRICES: Here is the great question mark at present. It is likewise one of the Administrations The Presiprincipal headaches. dent believes in a price parity policy that is, that some prices are too high and some too low, and that a balance must be reached. A reflationary trend now seems to be underway and it is believed that the gold sterilization policy will be modified, so that some of the yellow metal which now has no securities or currency out against it will be used to enlarge the credit base. A large business and banking bloc has long favored this, though such a policy is somewhat inflationary in nature. No one UNEMPLOYMENT: knows how many employables are out of work everyone knows the In all figure is still growing. probability, the total is not far from the 1932-3- 3 high. A few corporations, of which General Motors is the largest, have started to cut salaries, but this tendency has not become widespread as yet. To sum up, we are today in a static period. There is no reason to expect either sharp upturns or downturns in the business cycle or security values for some time to 158,000 half-cocke- half-bake- on FORWARD MARCH The statement of policy, read by State Chairman David J. Wilson of (Continued from Page 4) Ogden, at a Republican party con- gressives. ference in Salt Lake City, helped In enforcing the rights guaranto put nails in the G. O. P. ele- teed labor in the Wagner Act, it phants coffin. enforced for millions of Americans Among the things the statement the rights of free speech and free covered was prayers to return to the days of Harding, Coolidge and assembly. And, finally, labor made itself a Hoover. force to be reckoned with in strikes American political life. Opposition to sit-do- and contributions by labor for political purposes was expressed. Nothing was said about the strike of Republican congressmen in Washington. Nothing was said about large contributions by large corporations and special interests to the G. 0. P. campaigns. The Utah Labor News observer is reserving further comment at this time. The statement is enough to defeat Republicans in this state. The majority of Utahs voters are progressive. They are backing President Roosevelt in his efforts to do something beneficial to the people of this nation over the opposition of reactionary Republican-Democropposition. Of course one cant expect anything progressive from a committee headed by Paul II. Hunt of Keetley, former state senator. Hunts record in the senate is an He opposed every open book. introduced in measure progressive the legislature. sit-do- at CHOOSE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE DEMOCRATS Parnell Blacks Salt Lake county Democratic central committee meat Newhouse hotel Tuesday night and elected an executive committee of 66 to carry on the functions of the party. Under the law the central committee is a body of 404. The executive committee is composed of two delegates from each of the 15 legislative districts in Salt Lake City, and the chairman and vice chairman of each of the watched constantly for possible changes in problems and policies it is possible but not probable ;hat a big break will come in ;he next two or three months. All in all, best forecast is nothing much will happen in either field jetween now and late summer. Hitler, who has unofficially conquered Austria and won the Cham-erlai- n government to his side, now has a covetous eye on little the one real deCzechoslovakia mocracy remaining in central Europe. The Czechs have a government very similar to ours. He apparently wont find the gothe Czechoing easy, however slovakian government has announced it will fight the Nazis to the last man, and has embarked on as ambitious a military expansion )rogram as it can afford. It has come. France on its side. Thus, little by The political situation and the little, the ententes of the next international situation must be world war are forming. , EASTER GREETINGS WELCOME, ORGANIZED LABOR O VISIT UtoHn TTBiMBaiittn0 t Salt Lake City, Utah s AMERICAS LARGEST EMPLOYER OF LABOR LAUDS C. I. O. Myron C. Taylor, retiring chairman of the United States Steel corporation, at an annual meeting of the stockholders at Hoboken, N. J., lauded the corporation relations with the Committee for Industrial Organization. experience of Tracing a his connection with the steel giant, Taylor singled out one of his most forward acts, the signing of a contract with a C. I. 0. affiliate,' to give his unreserved approval. He said: The union has scrupulously followed the terms of its agreement and, so far as I know, has made no unfair effort to bring other employes into its ranks, while the cor Page poration subsidiaries, during a very difficult period, have been entirely free of labor disturbances of any kind. The cost of a strike to the corporation, to the public and to the men would have been incalculable. The U. S. Steel has a collective bargaining contract with the C. I. 0. covering 250,000 employes in its steel mills. Added thousands are covered by agreements with the corporations iron mines in northern Minnesota and other sections of the country. the overalls. The wearer of Ca'rhartt products can hold his head high with the thought that they are made by a man who puts his soul in his products and is helping to uphold human rights. Ask for Carhartt products. union CARIIARTT UNION MADE OVERALLS On page 4 of this issue of the , Utah Labor News you will find an advertisement of Carhartt overalls by Universal Safety Appliances company, 69 East Fourth South street, Salt Lake City. We congratulate Manager Jack Coombs for securing the Carhartt line of work clothes and shoes. The Carhartt is well known to all men who wear good work clothes. It is among the best brands in the country. Hamilton Carhartt organized the labor overall industry a half a century ago. Everything that Carhartt manufactures carries the Union Label. Every piece of printing used by the Carhartt factories carries the Union Label of the Allied Printing Trades. 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