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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. MAY 6. 1938. Page 2. CONSUMER NOTES Sltafj la&or J&toa Established A MEMBER OF THE 1929 firm with close compact tips. Angustalks are likely to lar-shaped be tough and stringy. KNOW ABOUT This paper receives Union News Service, a Cl. 0. affiliate. THE GOODS YOU BUY Americas First Lady gives sumers a tip in how to buy. con- DID YOU WEIGH YOUR BREAD TODAY? the Consumers in Writing "A big baker we know, says Guide, publication of the Consum the Consumers Guide, "is willing ers Counsel division of the Agn to wager that not more than one cultural Adjustment Administra D buyer out of 500 takes the trouble tion, Washington, Mrs. Franklin to weigh the bread he buys to see Roosevelt says: if he is getting all he pays for. I think that women as consum Some cities have municipal ordiers should make it their business nances or laws requiring all bread to know more about the quality o to be baked in standard sizes, such goods which they buy, and to con as one-ha- lf pound, 1 pound, 1H sider the conditions under , which rounds, and so on. In many cities, these goods are produced. oaves can be any size the baker "If they do this, I feel sure tlm fishes, many changes could be effectec "Its a careless practice, cauwhich would be , beneficial to the tions to the Consumers Guide, general public. ask simply for a loaf of bread. Consumers should make sure how GREEN TONICS many' ounces they get for their FOR SPRING. money. much be as to used tonic Spring of an annual affair as taking down WHAT IS SPRING LAMB? Youre sure of getting meat from the storm doors, or watching for a young animal whenever you buy the first crocuses. Scientists now teach that a lamb, but "spring lamb is the for a well person re youngest and thats the kind startproper-di- et tonic at any ing to markets now, writes the no supporting quires Consumers Guide. special season. Asparagus is one of the many "Spring lambs, most plentiful green vegetables which do a part from May to July, are 3 to 5 e tonics job. Nutri- months old, and almost always of the tion specialists classify asparagus (Continued on page 3) as a "good source of iron and a It is "fair source of calcium. A and a vitamin in good high "each year about 500,000 workers are added to the labor supply by growth of population. Since 1929, that means 4,000,000 more work $1X0 per annum Subscription ers. With growing labor supply, Advertisinf rates by request. and increasing mechanization, in dustry simply must increase its Address all communications and remittances to Utah Labor News, output if labor is to be employed, 28 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Hopkins warned, and added: "But it is absolutely stupid for Published weekly at 28 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, us to think that we cannot reduce Utah. Telephone Was. 2981. unemployment to reasonably low We have the initiative, S. levels. Publisher M. I. THOMPSON 1 brains to do it. and Office Manager ability L M. THOMPSON want to outline a future security program as I see it. "To my mind, work is the sound means of providing security on a We stand for what the Constitution stands for dignified basis for the unemployed. Public work is the best means domestic tranquility, the establishment of justice, and of bridging the gap between prithe promotion of the general welfare. vate jobs. UTAH LABOR NEWS. Workers who cannot get private jobs should get unemployment compensation benefits, under an extended program. Workers who HOPKINS TELLS IIOW exhaust these benefits should be LICK DEPRESSION given employment by the work TO source of vitamin B, if properly program. cooked. What Americans Want health standards are inadequate. (Continued from Page 1) Reducing diet addicts can really "I think this is what the vast turn showed in 1936 that "Surveys if loose on this vegetable eco"People were talking about d families in the majority of Americans want. My of all do for can without butter clos were Banks nomic collapse. United States had incomes of less experience with millions of unem- they Farmers were than asparagus scores among the lowing their doors. and with people est Incomes a a for $750 ployed workers, year. with carbohyof all losing their farms and homes in all walks of life, convinces me drates at vegetables are the of part large population 3 securonly There was no such thing as per cent. never the should that minimum less than needed the for government should be green Green a farm ity, whether it was a job, return to relief handouts not earn- for almostasparagus its entire length. Spears shares of stock, deposits in banks, existence. "We found that it costs $1250 ed by work. That is degrading to that show 4 or 5 inches of green or a life insurance policy. a family to live at a bare main- the individual; it destroys for tip and an equal length of white No Fear of Collapse adds no wealth to the com- butt level in tenance Yet cities. over may be tough or woody at "We are not threatened with and tends to create a per- the white the half families received munity, less end. Asparagus to be city collapse today, even if conditions than that. The income of one-thimanent body of dependents. must its be fresh, tender, and best are serious. Something has hap- the "We should expand the work families was below the city of afraid are not pened. People and reach a concept in of their banks $900 a year required for an emer- program the soundness unAmerica the that which would New Spring Top Coats, Hats, get Farms and homes are not under gency standard, Now available are to entitled a as employed job a short for but Shoes and Furnishings are eople by time, the same threat of foreclosure. Steinji a matter of right. here. Come in and let us The senators listened intently would have serious consequences if the more a is no There of useful ' shortage show them to you. while the lanky young man from 'ong continued. venlent boti work in the country. The further Union Clerks to Serve You most who handled the has Illness Iowa, Poverty Begets and Ju development of natural resources, "Other surveys furnish conclus- recreational gigantic relief job in history and bos the facilities, spent $8,000,000,000 without the ive evidence that the excess of ill- sanitation, water andconservation, nomical faml sewer sysFINER BEER 59 East 2nd South least breath of scandal, told what ness among the poor and unem- tems, size bottle (pi all of schools, types Handier Bottles public the New Deal has done about un- ployed is directly attributable to under.teurlzed). ; need be to improvements, employment and relief and what it their poverty. Illness, in turn, re- taken. plans to do in the future. His duces employability in a vicious v "It is proposed in some quarters statement was full of shocking circle. "Business is made up of men, material and .methods we abandon these useful activthat Our studies in housing reveal ities on the facts add figures. ground that we can- and men count the most. Early in 1933, he said, "about that millions of people are living in not afford them. But we are richer 15,000,000 people were out of work. homes unfit for human habitation. because of this work. We waste L. E. Frailey. There was no relief worthy of the Widespread poverty is shown by resources when we fail to use them, name. People stood in breadlines studies in rural areas. For ex- not when we put them to work. for hours, only to be turned away. ample, we found that the average 200 Billions Sacrificed This country knew starvation as I annual income of wage hands, Idle men, money and machines croppers and tenants in the Cotton hope it will never know it again. Our job is to give young people the training that will enable cost us at least $200,000,000,-00- 0 have "Above all, certain minimum Belt was only $309 per family. to fit most readily and most usefully into this them since 1929 in income we might picture of guarantees have been established Summing up these and other stamodern business. have but This didnt. produced said: a by widespread security program. tistics, Hopkins The booklet, "Planning Your Future, will tell We have substituted for the deg"Consumers' purchasing power is two hundred billion dollars is gone you how we do it. May we send you a copy ? radation of the breadline, the pol- not large enough to buy the goods forever. With it, we could have that industry could produce. The built the entire railroad system icy of work for the unemployed. L. D. S. BUSINESS COLLEGE This change was brought about many cannot buy enough because five times over, and still have to build left the kind finest by measures which "were directed of their low incomes. The few rich enough 70 NORTH MAIN to only partially spend their large in- of aviation, waterways and hightoward one central purpose Lake Salt City Wasatch 1812 systems. fortify consumer purchasing comes. Industry will produce way WPA The on chieftain his drew We and take declared. slack the thus goods, power, Hopkins up rich experience to make many need never apologize for these gov- in employment. other recommendations, but only a ernment efforts. The best proof Machinery Destroying Jobs them can be mentioned few of of their success is the growth of Displacement of men by machinhere. $40,000,-000,00briefly an0 the national income from ery was cited by Hopkins as One was a large increase in the in 1932 to $68,000,000,000 other cause of unemployment. "We in 1937. know there is technological unem- old age pension program. Another Standards Too Low he said, because dis- was "expansion of the pension sysployment, But, he added, living standards placed workers come to us looking tem for dependent children, more aid for crippled children, poor are still far too low, "because we for jobs. mothers and other unemployable are not producing enough national He said speed-up- s machine oldest and income and it is not properly dis- "have gone on rapidly in recent groups who are without means of UNION Printing tributed. We have millions of un- years, and gave many examples. support. employed people and billions of One of them was that in 1935 each Adequate Health Program dollars of idle capital in plant and worker produced 72 per cent more Still another was "an adequate equipment. Because we fail to put tires per hour than in 1929, and health program, to put into practhese to work, incomes are low, 140 per cent more rayon yarn. tice the knowledge that science has housing standards are deplorable, Meanwhile, he told the Senators, developed for prevention of illEntered aa matter March 28, 1930, at the post office at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. second-clas- s , old-tim- one-thir- self-respe- ct; rd able-bodi- ed 12-o- z. 32-o- z. ROSENDLUtfS L.D.S. TRAINING PAYS! , CENTURY . Utahs largest Plant ness. Consult this friendly bank on matters pertaining to your finances "The program I have outlined, Hopkins concluded, is not simply a security program. It would also provide a broad base of purchasing power, which would go far toward increasing the stability of the economic system. 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