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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, APRIL 8. 1938. Page 8 :dbkoal and all those who believe in progressive government. n Labors League is moving forward with Pres ident Roosevelt and the progressive social and labor program of the New Deal. It is determined to bring the New Deal to Utah. This can be done only by maintaining organized labor and all other liberal forces as one unit in the 1938 elections, and adopting a program acceptable to the entire liberal move ment of Utah, You can give this support and benefit your own organiza tion by affiliating to the League, n Labors League is your organization. Its success and the success of the liberal cause in the 1938 elec- tions in Utah depends on you. Join with the rest of liberals to win a liberal victory in Utah this year. Non-Partisa- (Continued from Tage 1) sponsible for the flood of telegrams on congress, the President pointed out that the reorganization efforts were in line with proposals of the last seven or eight administrations. The President said: "You know that when over a year ago I recommended a reorganization bill to the congress, all parties and all factions agreed to the need for such a measure. You know, too, that a year later a carefully manufactured partisan and politiacl op- position to any reorganization has created a political issue created it deliberately out of whole cloth. "It was said, for example, that the work of the army engineers was to be abolished, in spite of the fact that the congress and the congress alone can determine who will do river and harbor dredging and build flood control levees. It is charged that the splendid work of the forestry service is to be hamstrung hamstrung, I suppose, by the best friend forestry ever had in the United States. I1is charged that the extremely efficient veterans bureau, or the excellent railroad mediation I Non-Partisa- Representative Herbert S., ..Bigelow of Ohio, j j a $'?' a. recent in . 5 t T 1 war ta,k n this country, an insistent be I Arr to keep minds centered on our home affairs. our -examples of a score of equally .illy. nightmare, conjured up at Here we have milion, of wotke unemployed, he de- . the either ot those who would restore the governconquer unemployment? We ment to those who owned it between 1921 and 1933, or those faJdm;n,."W,ar'We gTg who either have no pension at all who for one reason or another seek deliberately to wreck the Qr bave a grucjging charity dole. This is our war! e ni e governmen o maintained that the immediate Representative Bigelow job . . . . . . . Ihus you will see that charges of dictatorship are t r . i bnn to actlv ,nto if I wanted to be a dictator, which. out of whole cloth-e- ven rJlve nd1ustiy resources and powers of cooperation our financial I heaven knows don't and labor in order that the and management no doubt but that .Roosevelt opposition has iIWad They. c)othe an(J house an(J lhemse,VM I he cry of dictatorship bed. planted bogies under-everThete are of soimembets congress who are mere poll- . holding down fat jobs t!ciansf he !aid They,are play-boygood government are bul withU' woyinS about the h',r There is no chance fof dictatorship under the administr i here honest and earnest men whose course, Jot,ess' Ansr'knnot American with hon of President Roosevelt. are cast n olJ molds fiut j beieve tIiat there are at least nearly half of the present congress whose minds are ripe for a new deal, for a more intelligent drive for economic bet terment than we have yet seen undertaken in this country. m'" ?f a new 1adshiP " the "I have none of the qualification which would make me a Uhl lo. CongreMman concluded, and a movement is successful dictator.going on f "I have too much historical Background and too much mfn M?" udy forwardlki"S the to center of . make desire form knowledge me jgK existing dictatorship, to any f of a dictatorship for a democracy like the United States ot ress m ak,a11 ?andlda.tM ! cn,j their 8tat I and thus the election this position America." a referendum on these issues. Let us not get our attention wars of the old world. Our war is here at astene) Pn t I home. It real UULIMi liMDLLD war that we will neglect at our peril." is a V 9C IM11.1 j . mader I ill-fe- fd s, I com-lmin(- W7 Js d, any other official of the government, and he has the right to try to change that government. If the communists who have that freedom in America were to oppose the government in Russia, they would face a firing squad in short order. In America, if we dont like the men we have elected to office we have the right to fire them out and replace them with men we can trust. If we fail to elect such men it is our own fault. Under a dictatorship it is necessary to have a revolution in order to get rid of an unbss someobjectionable ruler bomb a throws or pulls a gun body on him! Under the rule of the dictators absolutism tempered by In America we assassination. have freedom of the individual tempered by justice and mercy. In the recent soviet purge it was not Prisoners who were .on trial but the government and in the eyes j of the world the government was Proven guilty. Some after a some soviet rilitar what purge I marked to an eminent red: Its too bad that they are pulling 1 srtas stuffarein Russia,to par- ; ticularlv thev gam trying will of the world. the What do you know about the he fired Russian people, back at me, although' he used stronger language. They are dif- of the world, tfrorn the he added. I This may be true-alth- ough we have OFFERS ANTIDOTE FOR WAR FEVER -- est American may criticise the President of the United States, or i I - foTaTnSfrjh!''3 fil ?! f I For A. F. of L. in Utah to abide by orders of William Green in opposing political candidates who are friendly to the C. I. O. would be foolish indeed. The parent federation in this is permitted to come into the state of Utah and dictate to the state body, at the same time telling the Utah body that any candidate friendly to the C. I. O. is out. As though it were the most awful sin to belong to any other labor organization than the A. F. L., It would be just as silly for the Presbyterians to pull their skirts away from the Methodists, or for the Jews to ban the Catholics from religious tolerance. All this propaganda against the C.I. 0.1 Why) The members of the C. I. O. are just as democratic as are the members of the A. F. L. They are just as much opposed to communism and fascism as the A. F. L. They certainly are as good citizens as any in Utah. Labors League welcomes C. I. O. affiliates. A. F. L. affiliates, railroad brotherhoods, AVorkers Alliance, farmers, professional men, independent business men, or any individual or group of honest men and women who believe in democracy. How far can the A. F. L. go by itself) Not very far. Then why this peculiar attempt to make inroads upon a movement which can succeed by unity of ALL organized labor and liberal groups) We ask! United action of ALL is the only solution in the present problems. Non-Partisa- Pp0d n REACTIONARIES ARE RUTHLESS NEWS AND COMMENT (Continued from Page 6) as important to industry as men are, and are worthy of better wage consideration than they now reDiffer ceive, the report states. ences in skill that may exist are far from sufficient to justify a wage to women that frequently is only 60 to 70 per cent as great as that paid men. The Womens Bureau investiga- tors found that women employed in facg mens shirt and work-clothin- tories in one state averaged only 26 cents an hour, while men working as unskilled laborers on streets and sewers averaged 32 cents an hour. , Few men and boys doing The dull, the stupid, the brutal, suffer little pain. unskilled work in seamless-hosier- y Pain is reserved for the sensitive, the refined, the souls plants were found to receive less than 30 cents an hour but nearly made strong through cleansing from dross and coarseness. 40 per cent of the women knitters The low-livecoarse and brutal, do not notice the things and more than 25 per cent of the that the refined torture and gentle. women loopers jobs requiring d, considerable dexterity were paid less than 30 cents an hour. Cases of women doing exactly the same work as men but receiving less pay are also cited in the report. In some factories men were employed to etch designs on glassware and were paid according to a union scale. Elsewhere women were doing the same work and were paid at a much lower rate, although the patterns were fully as complicated and the product was in every way as satisfactory. In another plant both men and women were paid on time rates for feeding machines which cut felt into strips for blackboard erasers. The mens earnings were 45 cents an hour, the womens 35 cents. The reactionaries of 1938 are more ruthless and more desperate than they were when Hooverism was in flower. A defeat of the New Deal program in 1938 would be not merely a return to 1929, but it would signalize something far worse a long step toward fascism in America. The 1938 elections are vitally important to labor and to all progressives. The task of holding on to the gains made and to pushing on to the new gains is a difficult The menace of any problem, unless liberals and progressives are elected to the group to wage standards in general is stressed in the report . legislative bodies. The depression has added to the present difficulties. BAITING Disunity in the ranks of labor threatens disaster. THE REDS In the name of democracy, let s have sense enough to be united in political action. By CHARLES STELZLE The Reds are their own most effective baiters. It doesnt reTHE the attacks of quire their oppoLEAGUE nents who, it must be admitted, are often unfair and unreasonable Labor s League of Utah is the only organiza- in their charges to prove that tion in this state which has united labor for political action. It their philosophy and their practices are undemocratic and takes into its membership labor, organized and unorganized; to Americans. farmers, independent business men, professional men, teachers, All that particularly one needs to do in order al-rea- dy low-wa- ge NON-PARTISA- Non-Partis- N an objec-tionab- le The brutal murderer wipes the red blood of his victim from his blade, smacks his lips after a hearty meal, and goes to sleep without remorse of conscience or suffering of mind, while his innocent mother endures the tortures of the damned because of the misdeed of her son. Between the two, you and I would rather be in the mother s place, even though she spends long nights in weeping and in anguish of soul. Without feeling pain for suffering children in sweatshops there would never have been any crusades in their behalf, and often the crusaders felt more keenly the afflictions of these little ones than they did themselves, for the children had become stu pified because of their surroundings, and they were not aware of that of which they were being robbed. Pain suffered by the sensitive is responsible for cleaner streets and alleys, shortened hours of labor, higher rates of pay, the liberation of slaves, and the long line of reforms fought for and won by the peple. Knowledge always brings pain, but if we were compelled to choose between the ignorant who are "blissful because they do not know, and the scholar who suffers because he knows, wed choose the lot of the one who suffers. Pain is the thermometer of the soul. It is as one grows in his soul-lifthat pain becomes more intense. The most sensitive soul that ever lived died not because of the spear-thrusbut of a broken heart. Pain is not punishment it is reward. For while the sensitive suffer infinitely more than those who are brutalized, they enjoy the heights of happiness which come only to those whose souls can respond to the finest and purest pleasures of mankind. e t, 1 |