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Show . " ' ' mr vi- - 0 vtir. , .M Review o2 Cuirreint IE3 y vefutb'-- ai? EDUCATE ORGANIZE COOPERATE SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. MAY 6. VOL VIII; NO. 44. Hopkins Tells How To Lick Depression Price: 5 Cents Per 1 DTMDAIL: News and Comment By M. I. T. PEOPLE'S FIGHT FOR DEMOCRACY , IMAGINATION GONE WOOZY De- Say 100 Per Cent Unionization Would Hasten Recovery mands Job Instead of Doles Living Standards Too Low Purchasing Power Biggest Need. Copy The people of America love democracy. They will fight Worry is imagination gone woozy. for it, if necessary. Did you ever drive a car all day America was founded upon the principles of democracy. old punch By ALBERT II. JENKINS tag with it, and half of the night have The Senate in every paragraph of his state- - ldone WASHINGTON have'tried to Yet we saw the day come in this country when the control and and Committee on Unemployment and ment. out some question requiring management and ownership of the mines and forests, the proThe committee was created to argue Relief reopened its hearings so how hard ducts of earth, the transportation systems of land and sea and deep thought you. .know . that Harry L. Hopkins, WPA determine the extent of unemploy . were in the hands of a few. We saw the day come when his ment and learn how to effectively JV e. administrator, might give Your whole nund appears to air deal with it. Hopkins gave en-- 1 be in the views. held its grip upon every fireside and every man paid fog. You can hardly see monopoly At the conclusion of his testi- lightenment on both questions. the brightest idea as it tries to tribute to the power of privilege. Growing Pains of Progress mony, a Senator who had been Remember the years from 1920 to 1923. Especially reHe strongly emphasized that re- shine through. Formerly familiar drinking in every word, observed: a ideas to In such seem be hazy. member the years of Hoover panic. We witnessed, then, the Thats just the information covery Would be hastened and moment realize what difficulty of a rich nation in which milweve been vainly seeking for many prosperity made permanent if the a drunk you man has in trying to ex- - strange and anomalous situation weeks. For all practical purposes, workers of this country were 10 of starvation because we had too much lions were on the . tht thn d the remainder of our record might as well be tossed out the window. Suffered Crushing Blows It was Hopkins first public appearance since late in the winter, when he suffered a crushing bereavement in the death of a young wife to whom he was devoted and then had a breakdown from overwork and was forced to undergo a serious operation. For weeks his life hung by a thread, and he has not yet been to restored complete physical vigor. That his mind is still click- - clearly. You are per cent organized into strong la-- 1 I 99 bor unions. a5ue does for the What I dont see, he declared, why it isnt possible to have collective brain as a whole worrying does for bargaining for practically all in- - the imagination. Worry poisons the dustrial workers. I look on the! imagination until it becomes (Continued on page 7) labor troubles of recent months as to-1 growing pains in a movement wards complete unionization. Non- One of the real contributions Labors which industrial leaders can make Partisan League to recovery is recognition that economic stability would be greatly OF furthered by acceptance of unions. SALT LAKE UNITLEAGUE (Continued on Page 2) MEETS MONDAY NIGHT point to eat. The merest schoolboy knows today that one of the fundamental causes of that condition was the unwholesome concentration of wealth in the hands of a few, and the unequal distribution of the fruits of individual toil. It was the accumulation of years we were menaced with then. Slowly, insidiously, government had been influenced by the powerful forces of concentrated wealth. Gradually, but steadily, it had been ceasing to function in behalf of the masses of the people those who generate its ideals and whose welfare it was designed to serve. The ideal upon which this nation was founded had been pushed to the background, superseded by a new greedy indusMembers of the Salt Lake coun- trialism advanced as a superior plan of civilization. The lamp ty unit of the Labors of faith low in a hundred million hearts. Gilded was burning League will meet at the Trade Union halls, 168 South West Tem- magnificence was on display. Social justice was hidden by a ple street, 8 p. m., Monday, May 9. deepening mist. Wanted, a mother who will make a home, that'll keep the We were drifting far from the tenets of the founding Among the speakers will be children from wanting to roam; wholl teach them to play in a I State Senator E. M. Royle, chair-spir- fathers. A modern democracy, profoundly influenced by an thats fair, wholl teach them to work and good deeds I man 9 the League organizing originally true conception of the rights of the people, was in to dare. . I rence E. Nelson of Murray, and M. retrocession. ' Whether the members of the oligarchy that owned and Waited, a mother to cook and to sew, not one who is I if Thompson, state secretary of the . slave League. to one" a whos things not to physical go; always controlled America knew it or not, our beloved country was the I,, Iere are.moJe than 20 units o worlds greatest assembling plant of the machinery but one who keeps growing, who reads and who sings. of social Wanted, a mother who through thick and thin inspires all counfThekdgedmembesWp destruction. We could not have gone 12 months longer under about her, takes life on the chin; a mother with faith, who knows j in this county exceeds 10,000. The the old system without widespread riot and civil commotion. members come from various labor That was the situation in 1932. how to pray, whos firm for the right but mostly is gay. of the A. F. L., G, I Wanted, a mother for each lass and lad, a mother like I.organizations Once let the masses of any country reach the firm concluRailroad Brotherhoods. O., and my kids have had. that sion their government offers them no security whatever Workers Alliance, Womens Auxil JOHN EDWIN PRICE iaries. Progressive Democrats and against idleness and starvation, and that they have under its Republicans, and other liberal or- laws no protection from the oppression of wealth and they will ganizations. The meeting Monday night is ex- change that government if they have to write the change in pected to lay plans for the blood and ashes. Those who do not think so had better reread Leagues political campaign in history, absorbing its lessons with sobered minds and fearsome over-exerti- on I NON-PARTISA- N Non-Partis- an it 1 . a-ra- Utah C.I.O. Convention Votes Support For Labors League Non-Partis- an Salt Lake county. hearts. CARBON COUNTY UNIT , OF LEAGUE IS GROWING NON-PARTISA- N Representatives of the several A. M. Peterson Elected to Head State Industrial Union Council Labor s !?ca Parkl tlsan Lea&ueof oftheCarbon Senator Royle Reelected Secretary-Treasurcounty met T Chosen 1939 Convention City President Roosevelts at the county court house in Price Kar-- 1 Sunday afternoon and heard the New Deed Policies Were Unanimously Endorsed by ricks Coal Processing Plan Referred to Executive Board For Study. Non-Par- -r er Special to the Utah Labor News. The Utah State Industrial Union Council at its three-da- y convention here last week adopted a resolution giving whole-hearte- d League of Utah support to Labors as a means of combating the drive of big business organizations for repeal or drastic amendments of such legislation as the undistributed profits tax, the capital - Royle Reelected gains tax and the Wagner Labor Political Outlook PRICE In Utah and U. S. Non-Partis- an Relations Act. The resolutions also called for all local unions to be urged to assess their members 50 cents each during 1938 election campaign for support of the Laof bors League Utah. Coal Miner Is President In the closing session Friday afternoon, A. M. Peterson, Castle-gatwas elected president of the State Council for a term beginning August 1, 1938. The newly elected president is a member of Castle-gat- e local union of the United Mine Workeis of America and president of that local. His election came after a spirited contest over Frank Bonacci of Helper by a vote of 116 to 9. Mr. Bonacci is a veteran member of the U. M. W. of A., and a field representative for the C, I. 0. in Utah. After the vote was tabulated Mr. Bonacci pledged support to the new president and moved that the election be made unanimous. The motion carried unanimously. Non-Partis- an e, Compiled From Reports of Observers State -- Senator Eldred M. Royle DEMOCRATIC STATE of Salt Lake City was reelected CONVENTION WILL BE HELD MAY 21 secretary-treasure- r. The five vice presidents elected, and the subdivisions they repreMay 21 is the date, and Salt Lake are: sent, City is the place, for the H. Democratic state convention as Rasmussen Garfield of Ralph union of Mine, Mill and Smel-- 1 nounced by the state committee I which met at the Newhouse hotel ter Workers. David L.' Day of Columbia local Saturday afternoon, union of United Mine Workers of Chairman Calvin W. Rawlings was authorized to name a special America. M. Visser of Salt Lake City local committee to select a keynote union of Oil and Refinery Workers. I speaker, temporary officers and Zobell of Provo local range for a meeting hall, union of Steel and Iron Workers of I , A total of 800 delegates will be I America. seated in the convention. These W. D. Thomas of Salt Lake City delegates will be elected by county local industrial union of Ice and conventions. Chief business which will come Refrigeration Workers. Park City was elected as the before the state convention will be 1939 convention city, winning over the election of the state chairman and vice chairman. Midvale, Provo and Ogden. Resolutions Announced candidates for the Mr. Among the resolutions adopted, post of state chairman are: besides the endorsement of the La- Rawlings, incumbent; Olof U. bors League of Michelsen of , Richfield, former state chairman, and Frank Olson Utah, were: (Continued on page 4) (Continued on Page 5) an-loc- al ar-Willi- 1 Non-Partis- an Today the clouds have lifted for the common people of this nation. But the sunshine does hot beguile the privileged class. Gloom still haunts the minds of the dispossessed. Although the Roosevelt Administration has stabilized the banks, restored general confidence, and is seeking to guard against a return of the conditions of those agonizing years, we hear from certain quarters the claim that these things are not the business of government. They were the business of government then. But why arent they the business of government now ? What certain people really mean is that it is not the business of government to take steps to permanently stop the rackets the privileged class used to carry on. We are told that business wants confidence. But what a certain class of business wants is confidence that it can start in once more to do things it used to do, and which led us on the rocks of despair. Let us take one recent example. Not long ago one Richard Whitney was head of the New York Stock Exchange. He was leading the fight against the Securities Exchange Commission and declaring that President Roosevelt was disrupting business and destroying confidence. The expose of Whitneys business methods now throws some new light on the subject of what methods have a tendency to destroy confidence and disrupt business, and once again we are reminded that the mills of the gods grind slowly but the fineness of their grist is unsurpassed. When we speak of business let us distinguish between the clothier, merchant, grocer, news dealer, farmer, local banker, salesman, small wholesaler, and independent manufac-tureri:an- d the monopolist, stock jobbers, and trade combinations of the great cities. Many small business men who have nothing in common with this monopolistic group, but whose nterests really lie with the masses of the people, are frequently misled by the Big Business propaganda. Just as in the earlier years many of the same type of citizens practiced the of believing that the tyrannical practices of the special interests were not directed at them but only at a more lowly group. A broader reasoning would have told them then that, in the interplay of the social forces, the economic abuses of those years would be certain, in time, to touch their own lives and long-accepte- dry-goo- d ds self-decepti- (Continued on page 8) on |