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Show Review o Current Evento a ' v.t V 4 J . A , yi V'j , , EDUCATE ORGANIZE COOPERATE SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. APRIL VOL VIII; NO. 42. President Roosevelt Believes In Action Now m Price: 5 Cents Per Copy News and Comment By M. I. T. EMPLOYMENT and RELIEF TIIE SOLUTION Delivers a Message to Congress Offers a Recovery Program FOR UTAH BOYS Nation-Wid- e In the the Plan GIRLS Radio AND to a Explains People Hook-U- p The Vast Majority of Americans Endorse the Chief Executives Proposal Reactionaries Oppose It. mencernenexercfsea L Every American citizen should read carefully the Presi- "U use ou dtn,'! recommendation, to congress on the new .pending to turn their gram to create employment, purchasing power, and speed up school President Roosevelt in his fireside chat Thursday night thoughts to graduates the problem of manag- - recovery. I said that for four and a half years recovery proceeded apace, ing to go to college next fall, Regardless of the criticisms of the reactionary opponents, but it is "only in the past seven months that it has received a Many parents who had hoped to economic royalists, and spokesmen for the one per cent of the send Frank or Mary to some large visible find that for budgetary "And it is only within the past two months," the President university reasons they must change their continued, "as we have waited patiently to see whether the plans. forces of business itself would Here is where the junior college counteract it, that it has become offers a happy solution. We have , pro-hig- 1 1 set-back- - - ." apparent that government itself can no longer safely fail to take aggressive government steps to meet it. The Address The Presidents address in part follows: Five months have gone by since I last spoke to the people of the nation about the state of the nation. I had hoped to be able to defer this talk until next week because, as we all know, this is Holy week. But what I want to say to you, several of them in Utah, and an other one under construction at Price. These junior colleges have a genuine college atmosphere and spirit. High school graduates may enter these institutions as juniors and take practical business administra- tion, home economics, secretarial and other courses which will make them capable of earning fairly good wages at the end of two years. Or, if in that time the fam ily finances improve, their training has been sufficiently cultural so that they may continue in the senior college of their choice, in most instances. Much expense is saved in junior They are colleges to students. near at home and the cost is kept down to minimum. WE WANT WORK! AMERICAN LABOR SPEAKS To Congress To Business To all America TROUBLE AND TRIUMPH I have dropsy and heart trouble. This Nation is in the ninth year of The Great Depression. I have dropped down in this chair The Nation is at war with hunger, misery and UNEM- and I havent the heart to get up. man who uttered those PLOYMENT, the cancer at the heart of our society. In this war The fatwords hinted at a great trifling JOBS ARE BULLETS. truth. Many people whom life has Thirteen million Americans walk the streets today in search (Continued on page 7) of work but there is no work. Their chance to live by the sweat of their brows is denied. Their RIGHT TO WORK is ignored. ConPolitical Outlook Congress falters in its task. The people ask for jobs but In gress gives them battleships. Congress moves but to meet the Nations desperate need for JOBS FOR THE Utah and U. S. PEOPLE. Recovery waits while Congress debates. Compiled From Reports Business cannot use our idle millions. Machines have reof Observers placed hands in the Nations mills. Business goal is profits, not plenty. Jobs for the people are not on the business program. American labor is the one clear voice. We speak for all, for PAUL REVERE LOBBY CAUSES AMUSEMENT Congress, for the Nation, for recovery THROUGH JOBS. The AT NATIONS CAPITAL idle Nations job is our job. We cannot rest while millions are and hungry. WE WANT WORK. Mild amusement was expressed The American people want work. If business cannot give in Washington at the Paul Renajobs, government must. The great heart of America and the vere lobby which came to theBosNew from tions We York, capital the for Nations desperate plight call for jobs unemployed. beat ton and points to cannot fight the depression without ammunition and JOBS ARE Rooseveltsother, reorganization bill and BULLETS. sprag some of the proposed New 4 half-hearted- ly I the country from 1929 to 1933 Millions upon millions were unemployed. There was no relief worthy of the name. There were bread lines, and many people stood in bread lines for hours, only to be turned away. This country knew starvation as it will never know it again. People were talking about economic collapse. ' In many parts of the country the economic machinery had already collapsed. Banks were closing their doors. Essential public services were being In many communities farmers were losing their suspended. homes and farms. There was no such thing as security, whether it was a job, a farm, shares of stock, deposits in banks, or a life insurance policy. Today we have a different picture, thanks to President Roosevelt and his New Deal program. We are not threatened with collapse of the social and economic structure, even if conditions are serious. People are not afraid of the soundness of their banks and for their money. firms and homes are not under-thsame threat of foreclosure. Farmers do not feel that agricultural surpluses are unmane ageable. Above all, certain minimum guaranties have been established by a widespread security program. The present administration has substituted for the degradation of the bread line the policy of work for the unemployed. The collapse that came in 929 was long in the making, and in this making deep-roote- d difficulties were created which are not to be corrected in one year or two years or seven years, especially when there are too many Wall Street spokesmen in our national congress who are unsympathetic toward human 1 needs. Conditions making for widespread unemployment have been under way since the turn of this century, or since the private banking captured the control of national currency. The measures which the Roosevelt administration has (Continued on page 8) Labor on Its Forward March; C. I. O. Is Active Deal laws. Wall Street brokers and others directed by Frank Gannett and Edward A. Rumeley, with plenty of had flooded the members of money Turn to page 8 and read Labors Program for Jobs. congress with telegrams protesting Labor Refuses To Split As A. F. L. and C. I. O. Unions Conagainst the reorganization bill. tinue Cooperation Typographical Union Leads In Move Rumeley and Gannett were charged To on the floor of the house with havFight Disunity From Above Musicians Union Also LEAGUE LABORS NON-PARTISAficStands Against Disruption William Greens Personal ing telegrams sent signed by telenames from titious persons, Political Arm of The Progressives Representative Was Repudiated By Rochester Central phone directories and from dead Body. persons. Representative Lindsay Warren n Labors League is solidly behind President charged that Rumeley was directSpecial to the Utah Labor News Roosevelts recovery program. The national headquarters of ing the attack of the lobby on the ROCHESTER, N. Y. The local labor movement will not the League in Washington this week issued a statement in bill. split itself at the behest of any one, no matter where the order In a long telegram to Represenwhich it said: come from, leaders of the local central body declared, after tative Warren, Frank Gannett de- may the Every American worker should write, wire, telephone, or nied personal representative of President William Green was reanonymous telegrams were call upon his congressman and senator, insisting that the Pres- sent. Both Gannett and Rumeley pudiated by that body at its last meeting. idents proposal be enacted into law quickly and without are officials in the organization Alfred T. Murphy, Greens trouble shooter, had issued a CommitNational as The known amendments." crippling statement to the press prior to the councils meeting that there tee to Uphold Constitutional Gov- would be no collusion : Labors League is the only truly represen- ernment. whatever 1 refused Dr. had Rumeley C. tween the I. 0. and A. F. L. tative political organization of the workers and all liberals. It to laid the down policy by William produce its correspondence files no compromise of any nature on ing has millions of members made up A. Green L. and F. executive the the benefit of the senate com- any issue . . ; not even moral supof A. F. L., C. I. 0. railroad broth- professional and small business for involved no the and in board, way mittee, investigating the activities port for C. I. O. in disputes with local business affiliated erhoods, Workers Alliance, Farm-er- s men, and other people who believe of agents dithe organization which he employers. with the A. F. L. Union, and other independent in democracy. rects. Senator Minton, Indiana, Council No of Says workers, professional groups I. T. U. Takes Lead chairman of the committee, sent and small business men. It does VALENTINE HEADS But when the came to The lead it action, against disunity in the process servers to New York sub- Central Labor Council voted not draw lines between different PARK CITY LABORS down local movement labor was taken by poenaing the records of the Rumley this position with a loud no. factions of labor organizations. It which dethe Union, LEAGUE Typographical organization but he refused to prowants to unite all democracy-lovin- g The the Councils to after clared formal statement in a secretary, duce them. Senator Minton had American citizens in the battle to the press that Division of labor issued this statement meeting, At an enthusiastic meeting of declared the organization was the press : of ballots for democracy. sentiment between the A. F. L. and In Utah the League has more Park City citizens Friday night at financed by a handful of rich Wall statement or actions refer- C. I. 0. is not in the interest of the Any red to in local than 30,000 pledged supporters. Miners hall a Summit county unit Streeters. were labor and this union In answer to Senator Mintons purely Murphys newspapers per- continuesmovement, the Labors The membership in Utah comes of to cooperate with the en-- ( expressions from all labor groups, farmers, sonally as a representative follow (Continued on page 5) (Continued on Page 3) Continued on page 3) WE WANT WORK! N Non-Partisa- Non-Partisa- n be--.- NON-PARTISA- N Non-Partis- an -- h |