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Show 1938 UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT. LAKE CITY, UTAH, APRIL 22, Page 2. Utah labor Jletotf Established A MEMBER 1929 OP THE This paper receives Union News Service, a C. 1. 0. affiliate. 04 matter March 28, 1930, at the post office Entered as second-clas- s at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Subscription Advertising rates by request. 11.50 per annum er 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. Publisher Office Manager M. I. THOMPSON L. M. THOMPSON We standi for what the Constitution stands for domestic tranquility,' the establishment of justice, and the promotion of the general welfare." UTAH LABOR NEWS. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT (Continued from page 1) are thinking of the Prince of reace. Five years ago we faced a very serious pioblem of economic and For four and a social recovery. that half years recovery proceeded apace. It is only in the past seven months that it has received a visible Time for Action And it is only within the past two months, as we have waited patiently to- see whether the forces of business- itself would counteract it, that it has become apparent that government itself can no longer safely fail to take aggressive government steps to meet it. This recession has not returned us to the disasters and suffering of the beginning of 1933. Your money in the bank is safe; farmers are no longer in deep distress and have greater purchasing power; dangers of security speculation have been minimized; national income is almost 50 per cent higher than in 1932; and government has an established and responsibility for relief. But I know that many of you have lost your jobs or have seen your friends or members of your families lose their jobs, and I do not propose that the government shall pretend not to see these things. I know that the effect of our present difficulties has been uneven; that they have affected some groups and some localities seriously, but that they have been scarcely felt in others. But I the first duty of government is to protect the economic welfare of all the people in all sections and in all groups. I said in my message opening the last session of congres that if private set-bac- k. d con-'cei- ve enterprise did not provide jobs this spring, government would take up the slack that I would not let the people down. We have all learned the lesson that government cannot afford to wait until it has lost the power to act. Recovery Program Therefore, I have sent a message of importance to the congress. I want to read to you tonight certain passages from that message, and to talk with you about them. In that message I analyzed the cause of the collapse of 1929 in these words: Overspeculation in and overproduction ,of practically tised every article or instrument by man . . . millions of people had been put to work, but the products of their hands had exceeded the purchasing power of their pocketbooks . . . under the inexorable law of supply and demand, supplies so overran demand which would pay that production was compelled to stop. Unemployment and closed factories resulted. Hence the tragic years from 1929 to 1933. I pointed out to the congress that the national income not the governments income but the total of the income of all the individual citizens and families of the United States every farmer, every worker, every banker, every professional man and every person who lived on income derived from investments that national income amounted, in the year 1929, to $81,000,000,000. By 1932 this had fallen to $38,000,000,000. Gradually, and up to a few months ago, it had risen to a total of $68,000,000,000 a pretty good comeback from the low point I went on to point out to the far-reachi- senate and the house of representatives that all the energies of government and business must na-be to increasing the directed tional income, to putting more people into private jobs, to giving security and a feeling of security to all people in all walks of life. I am constantly thinking of unemployed and all our people of their humar employed alike and food clothing anc problems of homes and education and health You and I agree and old age. that' security is our greatest needy the chance to work, the pppor-tunitof making a reasonable it in our businoss--whethprofit business or a be a very small arger one- - the possibility of selling our farm product for enough money for our families to live on I know these are the decently. things that decide the well being of all our people. Therefore, I am determined to do all in my power to help you attain that security and because I know that the people themselves have a deep conviction that secure prosperity of that kind cannot be a lasting one except on a basis of business fair dealing and a basis where all from top to bottom share in prosperity, I repeatec to the congress today that neither it nor the chief executive can to weaken or destroy afford reforms which, during the great five years, have been effectec past on behalf of the American people. In our rehabilitation of the banking structure and of agriculture, in our provisions for adequate and cheaper credit for all types of business, in our acceptance of national responsibility for unemployment relief, in our strengthening of the credit of state and local government, in our encouragement of housing, slum clearance and home ownership, in our supervision of stock exchanges and public utility holding companies and the issuance of new securities, in our provision for social security, the electorate of America wants no backward steps taken. Labors Rights We have ' recognized the right of labor to free organization, to macollective bargaining, and labor of the for chinery handling relations is now in existence. The principles are established, even though we can all admit that, through the evolution of time, administration and practices can be improved. Such improvement can come about most quickly and most peacefully through sincere efforts to understand and assist on the part of labor leaders and employers alike. The ever - increasing evolution of human society will doubtless bring forth new problems which will require new adjustments. Our immediate task is to consolidate and maintain the gains achieved. In this situation there is no reason and no occasion for any American to allow his fears to be aroused or his energy and enterprise to be paralyzed by doubt or uncertainty. I came to the conclusion that the present-da- y problems calls for action both - by the government and by the people, that we suffer ng The Democratic National Committee Extends Its Best Wishes to the Workers of Utah defrom a failure of consumer mand because of lack of buying us to create an power. It is up to , economic upturn. and can How and where should the government help to start an upward spiral? I went on to propose three and I .will groups of measures recommendations. summarize the apFirst, I asked forarecertain intended which propriations to keep the government expenditures for work relief and similar fiscal purposes during the coming of expendirate same year at the tures as at present. That includes additional money for the works addiadministration; progress farm the security tional funds for administration; additional allotments for the national youth administration, and more money for the Civilian Conservation corps, in order that it can maintain the existing number of camps now in al Preserve Democracy In recommending this program I am thinking not only of the immediate economic needs of the people of the nation, but also of the most their personal liberties precious possesion of all AmeriI am thinking of our cans. democracy and of the recent trend in other parts of the world away from the democratic ideal. . . . History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments, but' out of weak and helpless ones. If by democratic method people get a government strong enough to protect them from fear and their democracy succeeds, but if they do not they grow on page 4) star-vatio- n, operation. These appropriations, made necessary by increased unemployment, will cost about a million and a quarter more than the estimates which I sent to the congress on the third of January. Second, I told the congress that the administration proposes to make additional bank reserves available for the credit needs of About one billion, the country. four hundred million dollars of gold now in the treasury will be used to pay these additional expenses of the government, and of a billion dollars of additional credit will be made available to the banks by reducing the reserves now required by the three-quarte- Best Wishes to Our Labor Friends Welcome The Mint Cafe Union House 27 E. 2nd So. Was. 7417 rs federal reserve board. New Jobs Needed These two steps taking care of relief needs and adding to bank credits are, in our judgment, insufficient by themselves, to start the nation on a sustained upward movement. Therefore, I came to the third kind of government action which I consider to be vital. I said to the congiess: You and I cannot afford to equip ourselves with two rounds of ammunition where three rounds are necessary. If we stop at relief without ammunition before the enemy is routed. If we are fully equipped with the third round of ammunition, w'e stand to win the A V E $ Welcome, Labor UNITED FIVE and TEN CENT STORE 1069 E. 21st So. SUGARHOUSE Crackers battle against adversity. The third proposal is to make definite additions to the purchasing powrer of the nation by providing new work over and above the continuing of the old work. First, to enable the United States housing authority to undertake the immediate construction of about $300,000,000 of additional slum clearance projects. Second, to renew a public works program by starting as quickly as by Purity Salt Lake possible about $1,000,000,000 worth of needed permanent public in states, counties and cities. Third, to add $100,000,000 to the estimate for federal aid highways in excess of the amount I recommended in January. Fourth, to add $37,000,000 over Made in the only Cracker Factory between Denver and the Pacific Coast !7 CENTURY Utahs oldest and largest UNION Printing Plant Witli the continued support and cooperation of the people of this nation the splendid program of our peerless leader, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, can and will he enacted into laws of our nation. 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