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Show Review ofi Current Events EDUCATE ORGANIZE COOPERATE . SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. MAY 20. 193 VOL VIII; NO. 46. National C. I. 0. Director Speaks in Two S. L. Meets Price: 5 Cents Per Copy POTOGSOAL News and Comment By I. I. T. f EFFICIENCY IN John Brophy Says the Rank and File In A. F. L. and C. I. O. MEMORIZING OVER CRITICIZES ROOSEVELT Are In Agreement This Will Bring About Unity Gives by the grave of a loved Herbert Hoover recently assailed President An Account of the Gains Made By C. I. O. Says Labors oneStanding tears seem to start more read F. D. his policies as being responsible for the Roosevelt and Is Workers Political of Arm the same League jjy than when thinking of the and not business Murdock Lauds Senator Thomas and Representatives recession. By the same reasoning then would having present person in some spot I such intense associations. he take the blame for the 1929 to 1933 crash? Robinson. This fact gives us a glimpse into There are of course those who blame Hoovers something of the technique of refor letting us flop from the highest peak of prosperity to membering things we do not want policy the lowest In a conversation with the representatives of the to forget. depths of despair to which the hard working people in the interest Intense departed of this country ever fell. If the old order could not save us Utah Labor News, Mr. Brophy said that Senator El- mind the ideas one upon impresses it was operating at its best are we to believe that it can when I foi D. Thomas Utah wonderful of is doing work bert Ideas and memories asdefinitely. the people of this nation. His services on the Senate sociated with the feelings have do anything but again land us on.the rocks? While Mr. Hoover admits that business will probably go Civil Liberties committee have proven him of ines- such definite power as to open the after even forward 1 years timable value to the American workers and fair emduring the next few months he can give no credit to has one loved departed. g policies. ployers. As chairman of the Senate Labor committee and feeling, then, Concentration, The News is informed that Canadian papers Labor Utah I he has gained the love and respect of all labor. are two fixers of things we would indicate a recession of business there. Can Roosevelt be blamed Utahs two representatives in the lower house, f not forget. is associatool for Canadian conditions? Another Abe Murdock and J. W. Robinson, are New Dealers. handy the for accounts Association tion. One of our national business journals, while criticizing the Their votes in the house are proof enough of that. (Continued on Page 7) Their voting record on labor bills is excellent, Mr. President, admits that there was a general steady improvement of conditions here until last fall. Such being the case would it Brophy said. be reasonable to expect that the patient would continue to Outlook not Political i KmiiiiiimHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiHitmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiimiiimiiiiiiimMiimiNiimiiimiHiiiimiiHMiitiiiiiiiiiiHiiiHMiiiiiiiiiHiiMiiiiiiii In improve under similar treatment? The criticism of policy that appears justifiable is that John Brophy, national director formation of the Committee for InUtah and U. S. of the Committee for Industrial dustrial Organization, he said. treatment was relaxed and the patient allowed to attempt to Compiled From Reports Organization, of Washington, D. Through efforts of the C. I. 0., on his own resources a little too soon. Of course we would rally of Observers C., addressed two meetings in Salt labor is continuing to make enornot go so far to say that unfriendly visitors put a little poison Lake City at Trade Union halls, mous .gains both in the economic Ex-preside- Non-Partis- nt I I an do-nothi- V'HIIHHIIIinnillllHI'IIIIIIINIIIHIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHMHIIIIIItllllltllHimHIIIIHIIIIIIHMIWIlUIIHMIHIMHIlHHiMHMIllllllMlimHmiMIIIHIIIIIHIIIIimillHHI tear-duc- ng ts pump-primin- West Temple street, and political arenas despite the present business recession. The first meeting was at 2 The C. I. 0., with its more than oclock in the afternoon and other 4,000,000 members, has proven an at 8 p. m. Both meetings were effective bulwark against wage under the auspices of Utah district reductions, and at the same time council of the International Union it has also built an effective of Mine, Mill and Smelter Work- movement for giving service to the ers. Several hundred men and unemployed members, Mr. Brophy women attended the two meetings. declared. Labor Ujiity Moving Forward There is' unity among the rank The labor movement is going forward in this country toward the and file of organized labor in the goal to, organize the thirty mil- C. I. O. and A. F. L., the speaker The rank and file of lion organizable workers of the asserted. deMr. the labor movement, be American United States, Brophy it A. F. L. or C. I. 0. is not anclared. The greatest gains in member- tagonistic: There is some confu ship has been made in the past sion, it is true, but it is in the top two years and a half, or since the (Continued on page 2) 168 ,1 BLINDFOLD BUYING COSTS YOU MONEY Seeing shouldnt always be believing when it comes to canned goods, says the Consumers Guide, publication of the Consumers the course of a year by consumers may well become a secret leak in the family budget. These penny leaks, however, can be stoppered up by the consumers if they check the size of the canned goods they buy. On the label of most canned goods there is a number indicating the net contents of the can. By comparing costs per ounce of food solid in cans consumers can know which is cheaper but as a practical mattter they will find these calculations different so long as food is sold in cans of so many different! sizes as are now on the market. Counsel Division of the AAA. Two cans that look to be the same size may not be the same size at all. And unknowning consumers who select the smaller size get less for their money. A No. 303 can, for example, can hardly be told from a No. 2 can, yet the No. 303 can is 1- of an inch shorter than a of an inch less No. 2 can, and in diameter. Consumers purchas- A MILLION-MIL- E ing three No. 303 cans of tomatoes PICTURE at 20 cents get 9 ounces less tomaThe 1,300,000 square mile face toes of the same quality than they same of the Americas farmland is having 2 cans 3 No. for in get its picture completed this year by price. Blind purchasing of cans over (Continued on page 4) -8 THE ANGLO-ITALIA- N pact new Anglo-Italia- n marks a great step toward the preservation of world peace, and completely justifies the attitude taken by the Chamberlain government which forced the resignation of Anthony Eden. pact The new Anglo-Italia- n marks the complete and unequivoof England to the Nazis cal sell-oand Fascists, and is proof of the perfidity of Albion. Those two statements indicate the extremes of opinion regarding this immensely important document, signed the day before Easter by Count Ciano, Italian Minister, and Lord Perth, British Ambassador to Rome. Nothing that has happened in tangled Europe has scared up more headlines or been reflected in more diversity of opinion. Both the pacts friends and enemies are intensely vocal. And it seems a certainty Jthat if the Chamberlain government and the The ut . in his food. South Saturday. re- main in the ascendant, it will be because of this pact. And if the Chamberlain government falls, it will likely be because of this pact. Only time can tell what will come of it or answer the more immediate question of what the English masses think of cooperation and conciliation with the dictators. The pact completely covers points of conflict between Italian and English interests on the Mediterranean. , Italy guarantees to cease spreading propaganda among Britains African subjects. She likewise guarantees the preservation of Englands righth in Lake Tana, headwaters of the Blue Nile. And the two governments agree to inform each other .beforehand in the event of any changes in their military facilities in both the Mediterraneean and the Red Sea. (Continued on page 3) anti-Engli- sh The Utah state Democratic convention will meet Saturday, May 21, in the Rainbow ballroom, 41 East Fifth South street, Salt Lake City. The principal business of the meeting, is to elect a state chairman, vice chairman and state cen tral committee. Upon these officials will fall the responsibility of the partys success at the polls in this years election. There are four candidates in the Olof R. field for chairmanship: forand Richfield judge Michelsen, mer state chairman; Calvin W. Rawlings, incumbent; State Senator Ira A. Huggins of Weber county, and Frank L. Olson, former superintendent of Salt Lake counAnother ty roads and bridges. mentioned candidate who has been as a dark horse in the race is Nel-l- o Christofferson, postmaster of Brigham City and former chairman of the Box Elder county Democratic central committee. It is said that Mr. Michelsen will Come into the convention with considerable strength from the southern counties, and is favored by a (Continued on Page 5) Persons often die from acute indigestion due to large umps of indigestible food. The ills of uncontrolled capitalism arise in part, at least, from too large lumps of concentrated wealth. f V The majority of us by far undoubtedly want a continuation of the general policy of extra reward for extra initiative and ability, but most of us deplore the wide spread between the excessively large incomes and those that are tragically low. Because or this huge spread in a machine age, with women working, ' (Continued on Page - LABORS NON-PARTISA- 81" LEAGUE N The Political Arm of Progressives MAGNA-ARTIIU- DISTRICT R FORMS LABORS NON-PARTISA- N as delegates to the progressive political action meet. Secretary Smith reported on correspondence pertaining to legislative matters in congress. President Scott presided. The Trade Union Democratic League unit meets each Monday night at 8 oclock at the Trade Union halls, 168 South West Temple street. Members of the League from any of the League units in Utah are invited to attend. Interesting problems are discussed at these weekly meetings. LEAGUE At a well attended meeting in Magna Monday night a unit of the Labors League of Utah was organized with following officers: Lloyd Deland, chairman; Claud G. Rasmussen, vice chairman; Charles Lewis, secretary-treasure- r; Clarence Coon, and Bevans, Charles Black, executive committeemen. State Senator E. M. Royle, chairman of the Salt Lake count addressed JOBS FOR FIVE League organization, the meeting and instructed the new MILLION VISIONED unit in the purposes of the League. FROM RECOVERY BILL Non-Partis- an . Non-Partis- an WASHINGTON The House of Representatives passed by a vote of 328 to 70 the Presidents spending-lrelief bill carrying The Trade Union Democratic ending in direct expenditures League unit of the Labors in loans and auand $660,000,000 at League at its meeting a total of thorizations, making street, 168 South West Temple Monday night, elected A. M. Scott, (Continued on Page 5) G. W. Smith, and William Quinn TRADE UNION LEAGUE UNIT MET MONDAY I Non-Partis- J On Economic and PACT foreign policy it has adopted DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION MEETS SATURDAY, MAY 21 Political Freedom Real political freedom is not possible without economic freedom. That was one of the ideas expressed repeatedly by John L. Lewis and other C. I. O. leaders when the drive to organize the steel workers was launched. Since then these workers have had repeated occasion to realize this was no mere rhetoric but a plain statement of fact. Before union organization came to the steel towns, they were both economically company-owne- d and politically. The companies were Republican, and so perforce were the workers. At least they had to register Republican to avoid company displeasure, and in the elections they had little choice. The wave of union organization that came with the New Deal brought with it a new sense of in-- ( Continued on Page 6) an UTAH A. F. L. LEADER THREATENS PICKET LINES ON DAM JOB Special to the Utah Labor News. Paul Peterson came to everyone against going through the Provo Monday, called a meeting in picket line. followed Two other speakers the High School auditorium, had one the president of the a front page notice of the meeting Paul; Council of Salt Trades Provo Building g in the New the chairman other the and the when Lake, peoEvening Herald, and of Salt union teamsters asthe of had WPA .workers, ple, mostly Lake. They didnt say anything sembled, Paul began to talk. He said the purpose of the meet- about Deer Creek, but talked about troubles ing was to consider the labor pol- their experiences in labor icy on the Deer Creek project; that in differenta places. It was terribly stormy night. the contractors had refused to talk with him; that tha American Fed- My, how it rained! Lightning it was eration of Labor proposed to make flashed and flashed like thunder and the project a union job; and if the striking right outside, contractors continued to refuse to claps shook everything. The lights talk to him, he would have to throw went out several times and the talking. a picket line around the job. He third speaker stopped said he didnt want to do that but When the lights came on the on page 6) if he was forced to do it he warned PROVO- - -- Deal-hatin- speak-continu- ed |