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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. MAY 6. 1938. Page 8 Editoirial Fage ofi DDTORIAL (Continued from Fage 1) hopes and fortunes with a blighting influence and a destructive power. Time passed and they found it so. The New Deal program of today seeks economic condi tions which will give the workers a more equitable share in the wealth they produce. It seeks for legitimate business protection buoyant, from the crushing power of monopoly; for youth the all our and is which our hope trusting, blessed youth, and its energies; chance to succeed upon the basis of its talents of all members for e society for protection against want; standard. a fair opportunity and a decent living There is a class of people who seek to distort and misin terpret this program. They raise the cry of communism now, as they have raised that of socialism in the past. But the real danger of communism lies in that groups own greed and economic tyranny. The heathen in his blindness who bows down to wood and stone is not more undiscerning than this group. For they, in their stubborn pride and insatiable avarice, would perpetrate social evils that would, in time, be as potent to force the development of the communistic spirit here as they have proved in Europe. The defense against communism and fascism is a contented people. Communism is the last resort of a distressed and outraged people. They turn to dictators for short cuts to immediate relief and sweeping reform. All that was denied the masses through orderly means is taken by force. Americas choice, thank God, leads the other way. Through inspired leadership in the White House we are winning through by constitutional means and orderly processes through the ballot box. Democracy stands firm and its principles will prevail! We will always find those who think that when any man in power declares that justice shall be found in low places as well as high, and that the laboring man and the laboring woman shall, with just wage, displace the laboring child, he is hater of capital and is stirring up class strife. What has taken place since 1932, is nothing less than a birth of freedom. new Ours is the privilege of living in the midst of that regeneration. With Roosfevelt at the helm of our ship of state, democracy lives and carries on. Do you remember the closing words of the President in his message to Congress on January 5 ? They were: I will not let the people down. On every altar of this land, by everything held sacred, the people now should swear that they will not let President Roosevelt down. old-ag- LABORS SHARE Once more, "Labors Share pops up. This time, Bernarr MacFadden attempts to put over some silly propaganda, but hes deflated by census figures, notes "Labor," Washington, D. C. It was Sancho Panza who said: "It is a waste of lather shave to an ass. Nevertheless, it may be worth while to expose a peculiarly vicious editorial by Bernarr MacFadden which recently appeared in "Liberty, a weekly magazine devoted to sex and propaganda. MacFadden claims to have discovered a "priceless contribution to our economic libraries, in a report on annual income compiled by the Department of Commerce. He attempts to sum up the whole proposition in the following paragraph of an editorial headed: "84 Labors Share of Industrys Profits. is the here "Now, gist of the startling information the government report brings to light: The employes of the manufacturing industry in the entire country receive an average of 84 cents of each dollar of income produced and paid out by the manufacturers. The employers, the bondholders, the stockholders and the bankers get the balance. The best answer to this silly assertion is to be found in the CAsus Bureau's report on manufacture. The bureau has been issuing these reports, from time to time, for about a century, and no one has seriously questioned their accuracy. Lets see what they show: According to the Census Bureau, in 1935 the total value of manufactured products, at the factory doors, was $45,759,763,-06- 2 and wages paid totalled $7,544,338,434 or, as we figure ; 6.5 it, per cent. Away back in 1849, according to the same authority, labors share was 23.2 per cent. Since then there has been a tremendous increase in total payrolls, but "labors share" has gradually decreased and for more than 30 years has hovered around 6 per cent. For example, in 1909 the value of manufactured products was $20,672,051,870 and total wages $3,427,037,884. Labors share that year was 16.5 per cent. Ten years later, in 1919, the value of manufactured articles soared to $62,418,478,773 and labors wages to $10,- 533,400,340. Labors share was still only 16.8 per cent. 1 1 These figures, and all the others given out by the Census Bureau on this subject, demonstrate that, on the average, every time a manufacturer added $1 to labors share he added $6 to the value of his product. We say "on the average, because The Utalh of course, the figure varied in various plants, but that was the showing made by the manufacturing industry as a whole. These are not our figures, they are Uncle Sams figures, and, as we have said, up to date no one has cared to challenge their accuracy. COMMON SENSE LEADERSHIP The Utah State Industrial Union Council is showing com mon sense leadership. This was very much in evidence at the second convention of the delegates meeting in Price last week. The delegates represented local unions with a membership of more than 10,000. By far the largest labor central body in Utah. The businesslike management of the C. I. O. organization was shown at every phase of the convention proceedings. Utmost care was taken in formulation of a program which is bound to be oj great benefit to every working man and woman in Utah, and will add to the prestige and strength of the industrial union movement in the country. The conventions endorsement of the Labors League of Utah was a forward step, because after all is said and done, labor must be prepared to protect its interests at the ballot box intelligently and vigorously. The League is the only genuine political arm of labor in this state and nation. The C. I. O. in Utah is established upon a firm foundation, and we predict for its great growth and an important place in inter-mounta- Mews iLiatooff in Non-Partisa- n including pleasant surroundings, knowledge that each is needed, shop spirit and This knowledge that feeling determines action was used to a great extent in arousing interest in the World war. American soldiers were aroused to hate the horrible Ilun, to want to repay the generosity and courage of Lafayette, to make the world safe for democracy. They proved themselves to be much more aggressive fighters than the machine-like soldiers of better drilled armies whose fighting spirit was second hand from those in command, who at times had to chain them to the machine guns they operated. Realizing that individual initia- tive acts like yeast and that greater dissemination makes for greater effectiveness America encourages many small businesses rather than huge corporations which tend to In make men feel machine-liksmall owner-operate- d businesses interest mounts to enthusiasm and individual initiative expands at its e. best. Recognizing that it takes brains to do things well it must be admitted that brains work best when the one applying them feels keen the economic field of this commonwealth. interest in the enterprise. The Utah Labor News is proud of this great movement in There is a mighty difference between they who can and they who this state. This paper has been in the front ranks in its support like and the quantity and qualand advancement of this modern, 20th century movement o ity ofto, their output. the American workers. Long may it live and continue its fluence in organizing the unorganized workers. in- AMERICAN LINEN SUPPLY COMPANY MUST MODIFY ITS ARROGANCE Recent talks and actions of William Green and other A. F. and leaders emphasize more than ever the need for unity in the ranks of labor. Some of the challenges coming from the A. F. L. higher-up- s are downright silly and tend to widen rather than narrow the labor rift. But any kind of effort toward peace must be based on a realization that both the A. F. L. and C. I. O. groups are functioning organizations which have a permanent place in our industrial world. This idea that either the A. F. L. or the C. I. O. is to go out of business, sometimes with a definite date for the demise stated, is a matter of wishful thinking, and can only create an overconfidence which must lead to disaster. The Japanese dilemma in China is a good example. The A. F. L. news service and clip sheet, sanctioned by Mr. Green and the A. F. L. executive council, is one of the vilest dissension builders in America today. It is a spleen peddler, if there ever was one. In the main, the A. F. L. leadership is guilty of that and that has developed an arrogance that i3 neither good for inner harmony nor clear thinking. It certainly cannot make for a spirit of give and take so essential to agreement among any two contending forces. The A. F. L. spokesmen must realize that the A F. L. is the movement of all the unions, large or small, affiliated with it, and not the personal property of the very few who for the time being happen to control it. By their assumption that they are the whole show, with limitless powers over the destiny of all other unions and officials, they are digging their own pitfalls which will lay them low, sooner or later, in the future. The A. F. L. affiliates should let the rank and file membership, through a referendum vote, settle the matter. It is the only democratic way. The International Typographical Union, whose president, Charles P. Howard, is pro-C- . I. O., settled a number of questions regarding the A. E. L through a referendum vote of the membership. Mr. Howard is the secretary of the national C. I. O. The Denver convention of the A. F. L. refused to seat him, although he was a bona fide representative of his organization. In the recent referendum of the I. T. U. the members in overwhelming numbers voted against every proposal that upholds the A. F. L. hierarchy. They gave Howard a more than three to one mandate to carry on the fight for the independence of the affiliated unions against the encroaching dictatorship of Cleanliness First! Cleanliness Last! Boost, Build and Support your State. Use American continuous towels and all kinds of linens they furnish. Support industries that L. spokesmen over-confidenc- And in this view, we believe, the printers expressed the resentment and anger of the vast majority of A. F. L affiliates. A number of A. F. L. unions have been direct victims of the A. F. L. dictatorial and arrogant rule, and are doing on the battlefield, what the printers did by referendum repudiating the powers of the A. F. L. executive council which it has usurped for itself contrary to the most fundamental A. F. L. constitutional provisions. If the A. F. L. is to be saved and peace in the labor movement established, the arrogance of its president and executive council must be liquidated. ed NEWS AND COMMENT (Continued from Page 7) With what eagerness he replies, Why, certainly, Dad! With what zest and alacrity he works! What is the difference ? In the first case no driving emotional' interest is aroused. The difference is one of feeling.-Wis- e employers know that it is the Was. way they feel about their business, the love that they have for the enterprise which keeps them working tirelessly night and day giving their best. Knowing that if they can get their employes to take an interest in their work they will accomplish more and better with the least wear and tear, on themselves, they devise ways and means of creating good feeling for the job. Various devises are used, 2484-8- 5 IT PAYS TO KEEP CLEAN Enjoy . . . Farr o Better e, the A. F. L. self-constitut- support you. 33 East 6th South Ice 0 Ogden Cream Salt Lake OFFICIAL NOTICE 1 Myers Cleaning & Dyeing Co. Salt Lake City is UNFAIR to our organization LOCAL NO. 83 Int. Assn Cleaning & Dye House Workers Affiliated with A. F. of L. PATRONIZE A UNION SHOP |