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Show L Review o Current Events EDUCATE ORGANIZE THE PEOPLES PATEK COOPERATE SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. APRIL VOL Villi NO. 41. EASTER MEDITATIONS Price: 5 Cents Per Copy -- News and Comment By M. I. T. enters your life the world withdraws. It resigns. It puts crape on the door. It adds gloom to your WHAT YOU ARE heart. It doesnt know what to LIKELY TO DO say; it leaves you alone. At such If a farmer has four hired men an hour God knocks at the door. whose work he is familiar and with comHe He comes into your life. back from a trip to the comes he all He soul. His forts your wipes away way. ting in finds a field plowed, he and city There is one God. He is the tears. can after tell, examining the job, There can be no death in God. Lord and Father of us all. In Him one did which it. and through Him we are related Jesus turned into a house of joy A print shop foreman can tell one to another. There is one every home that harbored death. Brotherhood. In it there is no He broke up every funeral that he by examining a galley of display ever attended by the resurrection type who set the job or ad. Some klan, no clique, no cleavage. lines There shall be no compositors space their We are partners with God. He of the dead. in different or other ways nor tighter did not furnish the world in crea- more death, neither sorrow, tion. The world isjbeing complet- crying, neither shall there be any than others. Some have a special more pain, said the great voice Dreference for a certain type face ed through us, His fellow-worker- s. God dignified Labor by Himself out of heaven that spoke to John or arrangement or other pecuin The Revelation. Every home liarity. becoming a Workman. Detectives going over the scene in over which hangs the shadow of God calls men to be lights This remark, the world. Just as He swung the death may find comfort in these of a crime often and wrork so of looks so, the like stars in the heavens when the words. such a and such or gang. God triumphs in the Resurrecworld was young, so that men There is considerable truth in might not stumble in the dark, so tion. And in the open tomb man the a man leaves his saying, in these later days God is send- triumphs, too. For death has lost on his. work. trademark ing illumined souls into the world its sting. And the grave its vicBecause human personality perThis is the day which the so that they may light the way for tory. with fairly in accordance forms travelers Lord hath made. We shall be glad troubled, tempest-tosse- d wrell students of established laws, Adam in as and rejoice in it. For on the highways of life. and Comfort is one of the worlds all die, even so in Christ" shall all human nature, professional desome with tell can greatest needs, but it is one of the be made alive. Thanks be to God, otherwise,will how a of person gree certainty worlds rarest gifts. When sorrow who giveth us the victory!" react to give stimuli, providing they know his early history and also what he has been doing for a living, for pleasure and for society, during the past year. There are several ways in which your past determines what you are likely to do. Ways of doing things, mental attitudes toward duty, to-- ( Continued on page 7) Democrats Cast More Than Double the Republican Vote in By DR. CHARLES STELZLE In the beginning, God." These are the first four words in the Bible. God first," is a good mot to. Some of us make it very hard for the Almighty to do anything for us because we are always get- - 0. P. Makes Poor G. Showing in Illinois Governor Homer Primaries Tuesday Backed New Dealer Wins Senatorial Nomination Over Chicago Mayor Kelly Machine Endorsed Candidate Illinois Republican Vote Drops Way Below the Usual Primary Election Standard. " Nominating Special to the Utah Labor News CHICAGO Congressman Scott W. Lucas received the Democratic nomination for United States senator from Illinois in state-wid- e primaries Tuesday. He defeated Michael L. Igoe, United States district attorney in Chicago, by a record vote. The successful candidate was supported by Governor Henry Horner, while the defeated candidate was the choice of Chicago Mayor Edward J. Kelly of party machinery, between Govand his powerful city political ernor Horner and Mayor Kelly. machine. Igoe carried Chicago, but Republican Vote props While the Democrats cast a recnot with large enough majority to ord vote, the Republican vote fell several hundred thousand below Both candidates declared support normal primary vote. It was far for Roosevelts New Deal policies. below the 1,000,000 goal set by G. The principal fight was for control O. P. party leaders. overcome the big ties piled up for Lucas. majori- up-sta- te LABORS NON-PARTISA- LEAGUE N The Political Arm of Progressives NON-PARTISA- fast crumbling away. But labor must continue vigilant lest some puny excuse for a wage-ho- LEAGUE N BACKED CANDIDATE WINS IN CONNECTICUT ur NEW BRITAIN, Conn.Labors 'League endorsed Democratic candidates won control of the municipal government here in city election Tuesday. George J. Coyle was elected mayor by a majority reaching almost 4000. The hew city council will have 15 Democrats and 15 Republicans, with mayor empowered to vote in case of tie. Prior to Tuesdays election Republicans controlled the city commission by a 21 to 8 vote. Thus in a hotly contested election in which more than 20,000 votes were cast the New Deal became a reality in,New Britain. Non-Partis- an WAGES AND HOURS LEGISLATION NOW Wages NOW! and hours legislation the watchword of ALL labor today, of President and. also a majority of of Representatives. is in sight in the two-yefight for a law placing a floor under wages and a ceiling over hours. So universal has been the demand for this legislation that the last vestige of opposition is That is American Roosevelt the House Victory ar bill is put over by the reactionaries at the last moment. Labor must keep up the pressure until this law an adequate law is signed by the President. One big factor in turning the tide for wages and hours legislation NOW is the series of conferences arranged by Labors League between labor representatives and congressional delegations of various states. The League started this move by having a group from Pennsylvania including labor leaders, working and even some employers, go to Washington and personally lay before the Pennsylvania House members the facts about the need of wages-hour- s legislation. Pennsylvania congressmen were so impressed they agreed not only to vote for the bill but also to WORK for its passage. Next was a delegation of Ohio labor with a startling story of mass, migration of industry from the state to escape paying decent wages or dealing with unions. Ohio congressmen were shocked by accounts and also the first-han- d gave support to the wage and hour bill. Similar meetings are scheduled (Continued on page 4J Non-Partis- an Political Outlook In Utah and U. S. Compiled From Reports of Observers ECONOMIC ROYALISTS PLOT TO DEFEAT NEW DEAL PROGRAM Wall Streets economic royalists and their lesser aides throughout the country are out to defeat every proposal of the New Deal program in congress. The flood of telegrams to congressmen apparently is paid for by the money of the economic royalists to make the congressmen believe that the people are opposed to the New Deal. One of the many examples is revealed by Senator Elbert D. Thomas of Utah. He was scanning the flood of telegrams he received during the reorganization bill fight and was struck by the fact that seven came from the same address. Investigating, he discovered that all seven wires had been sent by the head of the family, who telegraphed one under his own name, another under his wifes name, a third under his wifes maiden name and the other four under the names of servants. And Wall Street, Fred Gannett, and other Liberty Leaguers say that the people protested. DESERTED PLATFORM PLEDGES All of the Republicans and 103 Democrats in congress who voted against the reorganization bill in be House thought they were voting against the Roosevelt administration but, instead, they voted the platform pledges of against the )oth Republican and Democrat Darties. Both the Democrat and Republi- can party platforms pledged to ring about the reorganization of be executive department of the government, in 1928, 1932 and 1936 campaigns. This fact should be published far and wide in the districts whose congressmen opposed the reorganization bill. MICHELSEN HEADS SEVIER DEMOCRATS Sevier county Democrats have (Continued on page 2) I EDITORIAL he Brookings Institution in Washington has made a sur-v- v family incomes for the year 1929, when we were, without knowing it, sliding into the depression from which we have not as yet emerged. They found that the wealthiest 36,000 families were receiving as much annual income as was being received by the I million families at the bottom of the ladder. In 1916 a committee created by Congress reported that two per cent of the people of this country owned 60 per cent of the total wealth, that 35 per cent owned 33 cent, and that the remainder, or 63 per cent of the people, per owned but seven per cent of the wealth. Concentration of wealth in the hands of the few during the next 4 years kept growing at an alarming pace, for in 1930 ecera Trade Commission reported that one per cent of 59 per cent of the wealth and 75 per cent of l6 Pe0Pe owned people owned about five per cent. Is it any wonder then that all the present system has had to has been people ert constantly recurring periods of depression, each depression more aggravated than the former? Between the American people and their government, as Secretary of the Interior Ickes has pointed out, there now stands a small group who control Americas inter-stat- e corporations, ress control by the Federal Government by saying that 'T this interferes with state s rights, and who resist control by state governments by threats to move elsewhere. These great corporations dominate the wealth and industry of the nation. A recent investigation showed that one per cent of these mammoth corporations control half of the corpor1 1 (Continued on Page 8) Labor on Its Forward March; C. I. O. Is Active , Inland Steel Told To Sign With C. I. O. In Labor Board Ruling Sweeping Decision Upholds Principle of Signed Contracts As Basis of Orderly Collective Bargaining -- Orders Company Union Disbanded. WASHINGTON (UNS) Employers must enter into signed agreements with their employes union representatives, to carry out the legal requirements of collective bargaining. This is the main point in the decision handed down by the National Labor Relations Board ordering the Inland Steel Co. to sign an agreement with the Steel Workers, Organizing Committee, and to company to cease supporting the cease and desist from supporting a Steel Workers Independent Union, company union in the plant. Inc., branded the outfit as t. comPhilip Murray, SWOC chairman, pany union, pure and simple. commenting on the decision, de Testimony on this organization scribed it as a complete vindica- showed the intention of the comtion of the SWOC. ,He pointed pany in setting it up and its manout the Little Steel strike would ner of controlling it after it was have been avoided if Inland and set up. other companies had agreed to sign Callis, an assistant foreman in a contract with the SWOC. the pipe shop, admitted to the I hope, Murray said, that Board that the primary purpose Inland Steel will promptly do the of the Independent was to fight honorable thing and sign a contract the C. I. O. with us. (Continued on page 3) Contracts Held Basic The decision made clear the fact that signed contracts are basic to orderly collective bargaining processes. The main objective of organized labor for long has been the be collective agreement, Board declared, and the history of organization and collective bargaining may be written in terms of be constant striving for union recognition through agreement. The Board scored the company :or persistent refusal to sign with SWOC, stating: The respondent ON FREEDOM the company) can advance no OF THE PRESS reasons for refusing to conform to Freedom of the press is gensuch practices except those solely erally interpreted as freedom of n in character. the wealthy to put out all the propThe . respondent may dread the aganda their money can command advent of a union in its plant, but and freedom for the poor to read its fears, real or imagined, cannot this propaganda. Of course, the poor are also justify a denial of the rights guaranteed the workers by the National free to buy million-dollpapers in Labor Relations Act. order to give their point of view The company was severely criti- an equal circulation. AH they cised in the decision for its attempt need is the necessary millions of to stall the SWOC workers with an dollars. oral agreement. Lacking these millions, the poor Employes, in insisting on a and their organizations are usually written agreement, are merely ask- compelled to confine themselves to ing what any prudent businessman leaflets or pamphlets, or at best would expect as a matter of course small weekly papers. from those with whom he deals, When it comes to circulating the Board declared. their free press, the poor have Independent Exposed equal freedom with the rich to en-- ( The decision, in ordering the Continued on page 6) anti-unio- ar |