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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH, APRIL 29. 1938. Page 2. Pressmens Ladies Auxiliary Meets Utafj labor Jletog Established Union News This paper receives Service, a Cl. 0-- OF THE A MEMBER 1929 O. affiliate. 4 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 per annum $1.50 Subscription Advertising rates by request. 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. ..Pnblisher Office Manager THOMPSON THOMPSON The regular monthly meeting and social of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Pressmens Union was held at 8 p. m., Tuesday, April 19, at the home of Mrs. Theresa Ancell, 851 McClelland street. Following a short business meeting games and refreshments were enjoyed by the following members: Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Caddy, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Brunner, Mr. and Mrs. Lorenzo Ancell, Mr. and Mrs. D. M. "Robinson, and Mrs. Otto Bushman. The May meeting and a social will be combined and held at the home of Mrs. Mae Bushman, 554 Wilmington avenue, Tuesday, May 17, 8 p. m. All pressmen and their wives are cordially invited to As a matter of fact, the Paul Revere idea happens to be the brain storm of a hectic press agent, We stand for what the Constitution stands for domestic tranquility," the establishment of justice, and the promotion of the general welfare. UTAH LABOR NEWS. GANGING UP ON PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT (Continued from Page 1) grams will suddenly descend on Washington to wash away any proposal sponsored by the President. During the recent debate on the Reorganization bill, Congress was deluged by over three hundred thousand telegrams. The impres sion they tried to create was that a wave of resentment wTas coursing through the land against this bill. Rut the whole thing wras a fake from beginning to end. Every Senator and Representative in Washington knew these telegrams to be faked. They dumped most of them into the waste basket without bothering to open them. Even those sent in with honest sig natures were known to have been wheedled and scared out of people Yet reby false representations. actionary Congressmen, knowing these telegrams to be faked, did not hesitate to use them to support their opposition to the Presi dent. Did YOU send a telegram to your Congressman? Do YOU know of anyone who did? Were you, as a matter of fact sufficiently familiar with the pur poses and content of the bill to have a positive opinion one way or the other? Was it likely that anyone not a specialist in the affairs of government bureaus and departments knew what the bill was about, and was therefore sufficiently hopoed up about it to send a telegram of protest? Who, then, did send these telegrams? And why were they sent? And who paid for them? Liberty Leagues Love Child One of those that did spend money in this campaign is an outfit that goes by the goldbrick name of National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government. It is the offspring of the notorious Liberty League sponsored by the du Fonts, the Mellons and other of the sixty families that own the United States. The executive secretary of this committee is a certain Dr. Edward A. Rumely, as oily a lobbyist as infests the nations legislative chambers. Rumely was an agent of the German pronaganda machine in the United States during the World war, was found guilty and served a jail sentence. Nevertheless, here he is at the old stand saving constitutional government for his masters, who hide themselves name of a nathe silk-htional committee. This committee, that is so hot and bothered about upholding constitutional government, is engaged in lobbying activities. There is a law that restricts lobbying within certain specific limits. This law was passed by Congress and its constitutionality was never questioned. There is also a Senate committee charged with the duty of investigating lobbying organizations and no one has questioned the constitutionality of this committee. Yet when the Senate committee took the sleek Dr. Rumely and his outfit to task and demanded to know where they got the coin for their activities, they challenged the authority of the Senate and refused to answer. They did so on the advice of Elisha Hanson, counsel to newspaper publishers. This is the same lawyer who has been giving the publishers very expensive and very bad advice how to buck the unions and the Labor Relations Board. This National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government spent more than fifty thousand dollars to fight the Reorganization bill while it was still in its first stages. How much it has spent since to defeat it, is undisclosed. I How much other such organizations and outfits spent at the same time will be even harder to tell, but it must have been-- a staggering sum, for not only were telegrams paid for, but even actual trips to Washington were arranged for any and all that wanted to go in order to make a show of mass protest against the bill. Paul Ilearst and Revere Coughlin One of the stunts pulled was to have Paul Revere groups travel to Washington to bring pressure on the Congressmen to defeat the Reorganization bill. Very few if any of those who were roped into this circus stunt paid their own expense. Who did pay for them? Two master minds seem to be competing for the dubious honor of having originated the idea. One of them is William Randolph Hearst and the other is Father Coughlin. be-.hi- nd at lobby-investigati- on WELCOME, AND BEST WISHES TO UTAH LABOR All work formed Is per- on inert Authorization and matter under the HONEST I WORK1 HONEST PRICES responsibility Utah LEE WHITLOCK, Manager Takes pleasure in announcing to the Dental Profession SPECIAL NEW LOW PRICES On All Work New Modern Laboratories at Z1Z SOUTH MAIN STREET SALT LAKE CITY Free Estimates and Advice of Licensed Dentists. but both Hearst and Coughlin gave it a play for all it was worth. Hearst seems to be having a tough time of it right now and is reduced to selling his household chattels and real estate holdings to stave off the garnishee man, and so he has plenty of reason to be sour on Roosevelt and , anything connected with the New Deal. As for Coughlin, he is still brushing off the mud from his clerics frock after trailing.it in the muck of the election campaign. They took Coughlins size during the presidential, election of 1936, and when it was over it was proved that he did not have enough of a following to hold a decent wake. Aiding and abetting the Paul Reveres of the Hearst and Coughlin camp came a host of night riders under a variety of names. One of the organizations that signed up men for the Paul Revere march on Washington was the New York Board of Trade. This Board of Trade is spokesman for the most reactionary elements in Wall Street. It opposes all wage and hour legislation, the child labor amendment, minimum wages for women workers. It demands the incorporation of unions and the prohibition of sympathetic strikes. Its board of directors includes such pillars of Wall Street and Big Business as Clarence Law of the Morgan controlled utilities; Harry Crowell of the Pennsylvania Railroad; C. W. Korell of the Underwriters Trust Company; John A. Zellers of the union-bustin- g Remington Rand Company. Patriots, Incorporated A list of the other outfits sponsoring the Paul Revere fiasco will give an inkling as to their true character. It is always well to put reverse English on these names, for the more bigoted and benighted the organization, the more flashy is the name-plat- e attached to its door. Here are some of them as listed in the Hearst newspapers: The National Defenders, Incorporated; The Committee for the Preservation of America; The Republican Builders, Incorporated. Note the number of incorporations among these patriots. Patriotism, incorporated, must pay pretty good dividends to attract the professional chest thumpers. With all this, the patrioteering corporations are only the trashy end of the campaign against Roosevelt. The carriage trade in Roosevelt baiting is in the hands of more clever people more clever and more articulate. The newspapers carry on in print where the raucous barrel thumpers stop by word of mouth. Their attacks are more persistent and more insidious than those of the patrioteering shouters. The results of the election of 1936 should have taught the newspapers a lesson, but it didnt. In the last presidential election the overwhelming majority of the newspapers was against Roosevelt. The campaign they carried on was shameless in its diatribe and misrepresentation. Nevertheless, the New Deal won; Roosevelt was rehigh-soundi- ng took stock Many of them solemnly that confessed and of tncmselves mistake. They a made they had confessed also that their influence on the readers was something less than tangible and that, as a matter of fact, the press did not reflect the true sentiment of the people. They were very meek and apologetic for the role they had played. But here they are again, reverting to the old tricks and showing their old colors. Even those newslibpapers that like to parade asof the ranks erals have joined the and fulminate against Tories Roosevelt together with the worst of them. They are part of the same crew that is ganging up on the President and progressive leg- and reaction to which he contributes his daily share. Every now and then Johnson does include a flattering reference to the Presi-deand his family, but it seems nt inconsistent and thrown in merely to keep his franchise going as a supposed friend of the Administration. This mock friendship is, of course, part of the stock in trade of Johnson as a public commentator. The Lady Changes Her Mind Louder than Johnson or, at least, (Continued on Fage 3) islation, and they are all the more treacherous because they represent themselves as friends of the Administration. A Sliver in the Tin Pants Lord save us from our friends, runs the old proverb, and perhaps a special dispensation w'ill spare Roosevelt from some of the devotthat he himself friends ed One of the to limelight. brought those basking in the national prominence that the President granted him is Hugh Johnson Johnson, formerly NRA administrator and now columnist and radio spieler. He never omits an occasion to avow his great attachment to the President and fondness for the New Deal. But every time Johnson pats the Administration on the back, they have to pick a knife out from For Your Old Iron on a tin-pan- ts MEW ELECTRIC IRON some vital spot. Johnson knows or should know better than any other man that the Reorganization bill was no more than a rather routine measure for greater efficiency and coordination among the government bureaus. The overlapping of government agencies and departments were a splinter that often penetrated His tin pants. They gave him a headache, he complained in his bluff and inelegant way. Yet for violent and virulent opposition to the bill. Johnson was running a close second to Coughlin and he may have nosed him out at the end. Every column, every public that Johnson makes now, is replete with animosity to Roosevelt policies and to the aims of the New Deal. Whatever personal attachment and loyalty he ever had for the President have long since been dissolved in the broth of hate Special for the month of May! See Your Dealer or ut-teren- ce Utah Power & Light Company Best Wishes to Labor General Distributors of Kongo Wax Kleener and French Foam Upholstery, Rug or Drape Cleaners Also Rusco Brake Lining and Clutch Supplies. 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