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Show ( Review o Current EDUCATE ORGANIZE COOPERATE VOL X; NO. W SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JULY 22, 3 n Salt Lake League Adopts Platforms Price: By M. I. T. 7.W DEAL OR OLD DEAL? HOUSING IS GREATEST NEED IN SALT LAKE CITY (Continued from last week.) Old the Deal losses, we are only still too sensible. Of There is no doubt about it evil Their visitation's are still largely present wherever we look. housing is the greatest need Salt Lake in City. Where are the compensating Old Deal gains?. Unhappily there The Utah Labor News has pointed out from time to time the ex- are none. But of the New Deal we can claim gains and balancing asVVe recognize it as our duty and tremely high rentals of apartments privilege to propose a platform that are fit for humans to live in. sets. If the Nation is so much the poorer for Old Deal losses, and an adequate program that will We have also called attention that certainly it can be said it is some the richer because of New Deal Non-Partisa- 1 befitting Americans. The platform reads: PREAMBLE The Labor's Non - Partisan materially assist in restoring to League of Salt Lake County meets the people of the state and nation in convention in 1938 in a period the right and opportunity of living of great historic importance. An- conditions befitting American citiother economic crisis faces the na zens. We also realize that in the tion. Millions of men and women solution of social and economic confronting the state it capable and anxious to work are problems denied employment and the right will be necessary to adopt forceto enjoy a decent standard of liv- ful and vigorous measures and to ing. Thousands are being added pioneer in the field of economics Farm and make fundamental changes in daily to the relief rolls. thou- our social system. are such that produce prices Throughout the world the demosands of farmers are suffering, cratic d rights of the people are beand still of the people of the nation are ill fed. Millions are ing challenged and democracy is Internain need of clothing and other per- being held up to scorn. sonal necessities, while factories tional morality has virtually disap prepared to produce such necessi- peared and militaristic govern ties stand idle because of failure ments are threatening another world war. to produce profits. In this critical situation, the LaUntold thousands must exist in bors League of Salt hovels while skilled workers stand idle but ready to build them com- Lake County pledges itself to car fortable homes. Independent busi- ry forward the peoples demands ness men are going bankrupt or for democracy, social justice, economic security and peace. out of business because the We recognize that the issue beand chasing power of the farmers laborers has been cut to a mini- tween the people and the selfish mum. Professional people are suf- - few who control their economic and fering because the masses are un- - social life is daily becomingaresharpnow forces er. able to pay them for their services. Reactionary Youth is denied the opportunity of (Continued on page 2) one-thir- Non-Partis- Non-Partis- an U. S. Senator Thomas and Congressman Robinson Addressed ' Convention Delegates Saturday Night No Endorsement of Candidates Was Made Adopt Program of Action-E- lect Officers for the Ensuing Year Will Back Liberal Legislators. Salt Lake County convention of the Labors League Saturday did not endorse candidates, but voted to sup port liberal candidates and instructed its county central committee to investigate the qualifications of all candidates to be voted upon in September primaries and make these findings known to the members and friends in due time prior to the primary election date, together with the names of those candidates who meet with the requirements of the Leagues plat form, and whose former records in public services have been friendly for the people of this county and state. The nearest the convention came to endorsing any candidates is a provision in the platform reading, As New Deal Democrats we urge support of those Demorats who have mani Non-Partisa- fested their loyalty and support of President Roosevelt. The platform also urges all New Deal Democrats to vote, without fail, in the Democratic primaries for the most liberal and competent candidates available.. Invite Support The convention extended an invitation to all liberal groups and individuals to join hands with the League in a cooperative effort to attain objectives set forth in the program of the League. a It also authorized that committee be named to formulate plans of cooperation and to contact like committees from other progressive groups for a plan of united action in the 1938 direct primary and general election to the end that best friends of the people may be elected to office, especially as members of the state senate and state house of representatives. Officers Reelected In the afternoon session the officers of the county League were reelected as follows: E. M. Royle, chairman; P. S. Marthakis and Lawrence E. Nelson, vice chairmen, and M. I. Thompson, secretary. Mrs. Nellie Jack was elected to the new office n The highlights of the convention were the addresses of Senator Elbert D. Thomas and Congressman J. W. Robinson at the night session; Chairman Royles keynote address in the forenoon; State Senator Nelsons address, and reading of the platform principles in the afternoon session. Democracy Meets Test Senator Thomas made a nonpartisan comparison of democracy with other forms of govemmet. He said, Democracy can become the strongest of all social and political institutions low-co- st evidently there is a combination oi trust among the apartment house owners to raise the rentals whenever they see fit and continue high rents to the detriment of the growth of this city. We are pleased to note that the Salt Lake county convention of Labors League took cognizance of the fact that low-cohousing is needed when ic adopted in its platform the following plank: We favor enactment of laws to facilitate slum clearance and low-cohousing programs for farm and city; and for that purpose we urge the ratification of the Federal Housing Authority by the State of Utah for the benefit of (Continued on page 8) Non-Partis- an st st an Royle Reelected Head of S. L. League of treasurer. News and Comment LOW-COS- T Cents Per Copy E)DKDAIL! Non-Partisa- Constructive measures are basis for the platform unanimously adopted by delegates to the annual convention of Lan bors League of Salt Lake County held Saturday at 68 South West Temple street, Salt Lake City. A pledge is given the people to carry forward the peoples demand for democracy, social justice, economic security and peace in a document which pro- a full and normal life. poses to restore living conditions 5 because it permits greater differences of opinion, greater distribution of power, and more classes of all kinds of people. Ultimately and finally it can pro- vide a more stable government and a more lasting one. American government, he declared, meets the double' test of structure and of government morality, because of its government by the many, and at the same time democracy rather mobocracy. It can be classed as good, Senator Thomas said, because the theory of every state government and of the United States government is that government should be (Continued on page 3) Political Outlook Utah and U. S. Compiled From Reports of Observers gains. Among these New Deal gains we can mention public improvements, valuable social assets, which h&ve come directly from WPA expenditures. There are 44,000 miles of new highways, streets, and roads. There are 19,000 new bridges and 3.000 old bridges reconditioned. Note the 185,000 drainage devices, such as culverts, to prevent erosion and road damage; 42,000 buildings, 12,000 built entirely by WPA workers, which include schools, libraries, fire houses, armories and 99 1 new hospitals. All these are values salvaged in the employment of men and capital during these years that must otherwise have been wholly lost. Is that waste? We have briefly mentioned some of the WPA work, and also call the readers attention to the schoolhouses, courthouses, city halls, hospitals, and other public buildings, valued at over $1,200,000,000, which the PWA has constructed. Wealth of a nation cannot be measured by the quantity of gold and silver it possesses. Rather it is the fertility of its soil, the quantity of its national resources land, homes, buildings, highways, and dams, which make up the real wealth. Here the New Deal has concentrated its efforts. Flood control, navireforestation, gation, and power projects, soil conservation, road reclamation, construction, bridges, public buildings, State (Continued on Page 8) WORK OF CONGRESS COVERS WIDE RANGE OF LIBERAL LEGISLATION Studied attempts of Old Guard commentators in the press and on the. air to convince the public of the widely heralded demise of New Deal liberalism as the 75th Congress passed into history, over an important factor. The fact is that as the record of the third New Deal Congress was even more liberal in many respects than those of its two New Deal prede-- c e s s o r s, unprejudiced observers point out that an overwhelming majority of Senators and Repre sentatives seeking reelection this year will eagerly dispel the gross exaggerations of the interpretive counselors. Certainly no Congress ever enacted legislation more fundamental or than the wage hour measure voted almost unanimously and establishing the princi pie that the laborer is worthy of his hire. That New Deal liberalism was not asleep was shown in the of approximately appropriation $6,250,000,000 for Work relief and recovery and $800,000,000 for slum clearance. Millions more went for agricultural aid, farm tenancy, flood control and loans to business under the R. F. C. This session, persistently pictured as rebellious, went further in following the liberal leadership of President Roosevelt. It rang up a full score of New Deal legislative victories over a wide field. Notable were the revised neutrality law embodying the plan probably the most misrepresented act of the term; a Guffey coal act altered to meet Constitutional objections; a farm tenancy act; retirement of Federal judges at 70; liberalization of the Federal Housing Administration, to spur private building; creation of the first Civilian Aviation Authority; authorization for a huge naval expansion program: extension of Civilian Conservation Corps camps; broader Federal Trade Commission power over advertising; a new and extremelv important food and drug act which Congresses have struggled to secure since the inadequate law of 1906; control of water pollution by the Public Health Service; the highway construction bill, (Continued on page 4) far-reachi- ng cash-and-car- ry Summary or rair Labor Standard Act of 1938 (President Roosevelts signature has made the wages and hours bill the law of the land. Under terms of the act, it cm effective October 24 or 120 days from thedate of its signing. President Roosevelt has appointed Elmer F. Andrews, New York state industrial commissioner, to administer the new law.) . Herewith are summarized some of its outstanding pro- visions: INDUSTRIES COVERED: The provisions of the Act apply to industries engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce. WAGES: The Act enables a general minimum hourly rate of 25 cents for the first year and 30 cents for the following 6 years. Rates above these minimums but no higher than 40 cents an hour may be established during this period in individual industries or subdivisions of industries upon recommendations of Industry Committees nd approved by the Administrator of the Act. Seven years after the act goes of not more than 14 into effect the general minimum for a period in weeks any calendar year to inrate must be raised to 40 cents. However, lower minimums of not less than 30 cents may be set in individual industries or subdivisions by administrative order. (The Committee report suggesting these lower minimums to Congress states that they are to .be granted only in industries in which it is definitely established by a preponderance of evidence that a rate of 40 cents would substantially curtail employment in the industry.) HOURS: Forty-fou- r hours is set for the maximum work-wee- k the first year, 42 hours for the second year, and 40 hours thereafter. Pay at one and one-ha- lf times the regular rate is required for overtime hours. The above overtime pay provision does not apply if the workweek has been established as a lt of a collective bargaining agreement with a workers organization certified as bona-fid- e by the National Labor Relations Board. Such agreement, however, must re-u- provide that no employee shall work more than 1000 hours during any consecutive six months or more than 2000 hours during any consecutive twelve months. Exemption from this overtime pay provision may also be granted dustries found by the Administrabe of a seasonal character. Under either of these two exemptions, overtime pay is required worked over 12 hours for any-timin any one day, or over 56 hours in any one working week. CHILD LABOR: The Act prohibits the employment of children under the age of 16 (except by parents, or persons standing in a parent relationship in occupations other than manufacturing or mining.) Employment of children under the age of 18 is prohibited in occupations declared hazardous by the Chief of the U. S. Childrens Bu- tor of the Act to e reau. The sixteen-yea- r age limit does not apply to temporary work in agriculture during periods when a child is not required legally to attend school, nor does it apply to any child employed as an actor in motion pictures or theatrical productions. In addition, the Chief of the U. S. Childrens Bureau is authorized to permit the employment of children between the ages of 14 and 16, in occupations other than manufacturing and mining, during (Continued on Page 6) |