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Show , UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, APRIL 15, 1938. Page 2. t Anderson Heads lafcor Wit af) A MEMBER OF THE Established 1929 This paper receives Service, a C. 1. MM Consumers Union News 0. affiliate. 04 second-clas- s matter March 28, 1930, at the post office at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Entered as $1.50 Subscription Advertising rates by request. per annum Address all communications and remittances to Utah Labor News, 28 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Published weekly at 28 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Telephone Was. 2981. M. I. L. M. Publisher Office Manager TIIOMPSON TIIOMPSON Co-o- p Joseph A. Anderson was reelected as president of the Utah Consumers Cooperative Association for the ensuing year at the reorganization meeting of the board of directors, Wednesday night, in the . Dooly building. Oscar Carlson was reelected vice president, and L. B. Summerhays, secretary. Mr. Summerhays succeeds George Christensen, resigned. Mr. Summerhays was also designated as supervisor of the growing activities of the association. Plans for the coming years work were mapped out. Among these are extension of the growing coopera- foes in fight for democracy, and the party workers who do not sup port the President are traitors. (Continued from Page 1) He painted a word picture of the elected Olof It. Michelsen as coun- deplorable condition of the nation when Roosevelt took office and ty chairman to serve during the outlined his accomplishments since Mr. Michelsen next two years. was state Democratic chairman un- 1933. til 1930, and has served several terms as county chairman. He is A LOT OF SILLY a New Deal Democrat and has at TWADDLE ON CHARGES all times opposed the reactionary OF DICTATORSHIP political machine. Other officers elected at the The opponents of the Govern convention held in Richfield Satur- ment Reorganization bill have put day are: Mrs. Delbert Ilansen of up a lot of silly twaddle in chargRedmond, vice chairman; Wallace ing that the bill would set the Gregerson, secretary, and Mrs President up as a dictator. Olive Hansen of Richfield, treasAnyone who knows the backurer. ground of the Reorganization fight Mr. Michelsen heads the Sevier and who has taken the trouble to county delegation to the state inform himself about the measure understands that the bill itself answers the dictatorship charge There is nothing in it that would ELLETT REELECTED TO HEAD UTAH let the President become a dictator even if he wanted to be one COUNTY DEMOCRATS which we are convinced that he If any further evidence At its convention in Provo the doesnt. is there is the word of desired, Utah county Democrats reelected to the effect that Hoover Herbert A. 0. Ellett as chairman of the bill does not the propose a dictaDemocratic county committee. Mr. Hoover is a partisan, The unanimous reelection of El- torship, he but a sense of sometimes has lett was a slap at the state admin- fairness. istration which refused to appoint The sense of fairness has been him as senator to succeed Hugh Woodward in 1937. Mr. Ellett is notably absent in a great share ex-of the opposition to the bill. For a liberal and a New Dealer.' one of the syndicated colample, Marcellus Nielson of Mapleton wrote that umnists the fight was renamed treasurer, Mrs. Althe Reorganization bill bert E. Ballif of Provo was chosen against become has a fight against possivice chairman, and Dean F. Terry ble Hitlerism in America. Bunof Pleasant View, secretary. combe! A. S. Brown of Salt Lake City, The bill no more tends to estabDemocratic national committee- lish Hitlerism, or anything remoteman, was the Jceynoter of the conly resembling it, in America than vention. to tends Shintoism. it promote He lauded the administration of Even in columnist the question has President Roosevelt. He termed to he has after admit, got his the action of the reorganization of off his startling fancy flight bills foes as a bitter personal as- chest, as a of matter that, fact, sault on the President. Mr. Brown said that Democrats the Reorganization bill itself is not bad as it has been painted. must accept the challenge of the as The bill is the culmination of a effort, carried on alike by Republican and Democratic Presiexecutive dents, to make the U. branch of the government more efficient. For years it has been a sprawling assortment, of boards and bureaus, filled with duplicated and overlapping functions. Like it has just growed. There Topsy, Are Now Available to AH is no rhyme or reason in the way Intermountain Poultrymen hundreds of the powers of the exCall, Write or Wire for Full ecutive arm are allocated among Information the departments. Mr. Hoover once described the Ramshaw - Timpanogos Hatcheries governmental set-u- p as a morass of waste and inefficiency. With Salt Lake City Provo the government engaged in more activities now than ever before POLITICAL OUTLOOK . 40-ye- ar S. Certified CHICKS BEST WISHES TO LABOR CALL ON US Utah Concrete Pipe Company MANUFACTURERS OF High Grade Cinder and Concrete Blocks, Sewer, Culvert, Irrigation and Drain Pipe, Posts and Joists, Water System Pipe. Branch Brigham City Main Office 925 So. 6th W., Salt Lake City Branch Provo, Utah headlines yet, is of very great importance. This is the company measure, which the President mentioned in a press conference in January. Oddly enough, the author of the bill is a senator whoi has often been one of the Administrations most telling Carter Glass. Senator critics Glass, a leader of the conservative wing tf the Democratic party, has long been opposed to holding companies in the banking field. And in this field his" opinions carry great weight in congress, inasmuch as he was secretary of the treasury under Wilson, and father of the Federal Reserve system. Five major provisions constitute the Glass bill. As summed up by News Week, they would: (1) Prohibit the formation of any more bank holding companies; (2) forbid existing bank holding companies frm acquiring control of more banks; (3) restrain banks controlled by holding companies from opening new branches, making loans to affiliate, or purchasing securities from affiliates; (4) subject bank holding companies and their subsidiaries to periodic on Page 3) tive business, increase in membership, educational programs, greater efficiency and service. The reports from the consumers market at 8C0 South Main street, store and the ladies ready-to-weat 309 South Main street, revealed increased sales during March, and still greater increases thus far in April. President Anderson, Vice President Carlson, and Secretary Sum- CONGRESS DOWN TO merhays were chosen as an execu- SERIOUS BUSINESS tive committee to act for the board of directors in the interim between Easter Greetings The current congress is at last board meetings. getting around to serious business. Flowers It faces a congested calendar, plus Say and whether or not one likes that the most of some the prospect of condition is beside the point reor- acrimonious debate in years. from ganization in the interest of greatWeek the Business that forecasts er efficiency is every day more im- senate will Ret through its revision perative. of the tax bill along in April. The Now, the only way to reorganhouse-senat- e ize is to reorganize, and the only proposal will go into a conference, and what will hap.way under high heaven to get the there is in the laps of the pen job done is to let the President do 870 East 9th South gods. it. Congress is so constituted that About two weeks ago another it will never do it. Every conPhone Hyland 8191 gressman is for reorganization in bill was introduced in congress has while not made it the the abstract, just as he is for eco- which, nomy, but watch the average member when some proposal is WELCOME, LABOR made to cut down the personnel or Auto Water-Proo- f Tents Auto Beds Water Bags decrease the powers of some buTruck Covers Horse Blankets reau in. which his political henchOre Bags, Etc. Camping Outfits men or friends are interested. Camp Equipment For Sale or Rent ar We stand for what the Constitution stands for-- r domestic tranquility,' the establishment of justice, and the promotion of the general welfare." UTAH LABOR NEWS. centralization of authority in nothing Washington, when it does is to does it that All sort. of the to rearrange, President the permit in the interest of greater efficiency, the powers that are already there . The goal of reorganization was and sought by Herbert Hoover beother dozen presidents half a fore him. By creating an entirely false issue in the reorganization fight the opposition to the President has weakened itself for those battles in which a genuine issue of public policy is involved. It has played Mr. directly into the hands of has Roosevelt on all issues. It helped to discount in advance every argument that may hereafter be urged against a real attempt to centralize power unduly in Washington. That is what we mean when we say that those, who for whatever cause are trying to work the country into a fury against Mr. Roosevelt over , a fake issue are doing, both from their own point of view and that of the countrys welfare, an incredibly stupid thing. inves-(Continu- It with Colonial jflotoer House and are ancient arts in congress, and they are practiced with deadly effect when any proposal involving a curtailment or regrouping of the government bureau is brought forward. This matter of reorganization is not, or should not be, a partisan question, and certainly it involves no real question of public policy. The issue that has been created is purely synthetic. The bill sets up a safeguard against the misuse of the reorganizing power by providing that congress shall have the right to disapprove any proposed change within CO days. The bill is sound. There is no part of it that warrants the charge that it opens the way to dictatorBack-scratchi- ng log-rolli- ng ship. 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