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Show Kievriew E3veirato' 2 Duainr,iru,fc or ini,; ' OCT 2 9 v?n EDUCATE ORGANIZE COOPERATE VOL. X; NO. Wage-Hou- 1 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. OCT 7 Labors Law r Non-Partisa- n News and Coon League Is Active In Campaign Makes Its Bow By M. L T. On Monday, October 24, the Fed eral government moved back again into territory given up in May, LAST DAY 1935, when the NRA was outlawed TO REGISTER by the U. S. supreme court and hundreds of codes that had been Only one more day remains adopted were scrapped. For it was that the wages-an- d hours law went in effect, requiring many industries to adjust their working time to a maximum of 44 hours a week for the first year un is paid for less time and one-ha- lf overtime, which has been the general custom for many years among all industries employing organized on October 24 ELBERT D. THOMAS SHOULD BE REELECTED Elbert D. Thomas must be re turned to the United States Senate. Wemake this assertion after which voters may assure them selves of a right to cast their ballots in the November election. The last official registration date will be Tuesday, November 1. Be sure and register so you can vote on November 8. It appears that Utah, especially in Salt Lake county, is going to see its biggest vote in a non-Presid- You Cannot Fool the Voters; They Know What the New Deal Has Done for Them Whenever we think back the last we thank over i years careful consideration. It is our D. he and then this that God Franklin Nation Roosevelt, gave do We not own opinion. presume to speak for any organization, or we wonder what might have happened to our 130,000,000 any group of individuals other than people had he not been our President. ourselves. It is a policy of organ We are not going to attempt any defense of the New Deal. ized labor to present the record of It needs no defense. Rather there should be sung a hymn of a candidate and let the voter make his own decision as to his vote. La- thanksgiving. We are gratified that it has been our privilege to support bor believes in freedom of speech in expressing ones opinion as to the I the New Deal in each issue of the Utah Labor News. en 5 tial election. After October 24, too, 25 cents People are taking an interest in J hLifot to in be will minimum pay an hour politics these days such as they In the the extent that any voter may vote affected industries. In many indus- have never taken before. accustomed been have more as he pleases. Our mind is made were work of hours people past tries, . ... it...--, i than 44 in one week. In some inup. we jjaye determined our course. Our vote shall be cast for Senator dustries, particularly throughout l&bor program We are proud that by the grant and graciousness of the voters f Utah we have had in the United States Senate such a staunch supporter of the President as Elbert D. Thomas, and in the House of Representatives J. W. Robinson and Abe Murdock. We are proud of their records in Congress and of their support Thomas on November 8, and we do south, wages were less than the not hesitate now to so express our- of the President. They have never failed to vote for measures minimum. recommended by the President. selves. Here in Utah the new law will While we are making this state not cause much of a ripple as most As a reminder we want to sketch briefly to the readers of ment we wish to be understood the Utah Labor News the industries are operating on a changes that have been wrought in week and less basis. True, that we have been loyal supporters the economic position of our people since the beginning of the some of them, especially where the of President Roosevelts legislaNew Deal. We all know what a desperate situation faced the tive program since 1932, and that open shop prevails, do not pay the as Nation when President Roosevelt entered the White House extra for overtime but wages genstrong for today we are just Roosevelt administration as ever. March 4, 1933. Millions of erally are above the minimum spepersons were out of work, many of Senator Thomas has as his op cified in the new law. them were on the verge of starvation; factories were working on Like all new measures there i3 ponent one who is attacking the New Deal. His campaign speeches less than half time or no time; banks that had not already closed some confusion and it will take President to sure make to that 1936 and attacks on the Roosevelt ad-- 1 their doors were facing runs; farmers could not sell their crops some time, based on experience, work out satisfactory adjustments. Roosevelt would be reelected. It ministration wipes him out of the I for enough to pay what it had cost to produce them; railroads . . law adminis- was the opinion of a number of la- - picture altogether so far as we are The tration in Washington is not bor leaders, both A. F. L. and C. concerned. The case is a clear cut "er SolnS nt the hnda of receivers; the bottom had dropped equipped at thjs time effectively to I. O. that some places the reaction contest between those who are! clean out of the stock market; men and women and children regulate the new requirements. ary Democratic machines would try standing by Roosevelt and those!I were in the state almost bordering on panic; the national are fighting him. We are for come, which had been eighty billions, had been cut in half, This has led to reports that there to sabotage the Presidents cam8 68 W will be some chiseling to avoid the paign. They believed that the best I Five and a half years have come and gone since those dark standards established by the law. way to make sure that the Presi byoosevelt I In announcing our support of days. What has happened in the interim? Opponents of the Officials warn, however, that the dent would be reelected was to or of common the the Thomas our position is I President who were glad enough to accept help when they des- an in people Senator is act important ganize (Continued on page 2) (Continued on page 4) (Continued on Page 7) perately needed it, forgetful of that help, blinded by prejudice and greed and will tell you that we arenobetter off -than we were. They juggle figures in an effort to prove their claims; they cry against the expenditures that have been made and are being made to keep people from starving; they harp about balanced budget; they talk of dictators and regimentation. Ask them what they would have done had they been at Do not overlook the Constitutional Amendments on electhe head of the Federal Government and they are silent. Why tion day. Two of them deal with our school system, and one of camouflage? The men who are loudest in their criticism of the them deals with hours of labor on public works. All three are New Deal have no constructive ideas or plans of their own. important. We favor them and are going to vote Yes on They snarl and bark because they are envious. each of the three amendments. It is true that the country has been passing through a The amendments are published in full in the Utah Labor have been no radical porary period of business recession, because of strike News, and all readers are urged to study them. changes in the political situation in 0f Wall Street industries. But we are already well out of it; the and 2 we call your at- Utah in the past week. This is your skies have cleared and there is In explanation to Amendments every evidence of a permanent conclusion after compiltention to the fact that the public schools and taxation are so Observers the reports from all sections of upturn. closely tied together that one can- - ficult one and tends to become ing We wonder what would have happened if Franklin D. state. If there have been gains the not be considered without the are recorded for on. candidates time as difficult more they by Roosevelt goes had not been in the White House, and we tremble at other. The problem of financing the and D. Thomas Elbert arises increased Senator This difficulty difthe thought. public schools has long been a partly from the large attendance at Congressman Abe Murdock. favorite A few weeks ago the President made a radio address to the President Roosevelt is school, but largely because so many other public functions have been in all sections of the state. In fact, Nation in which he stated some truths and gave some figures. Utah Mining added that the total tax burden be- the President is stronger here in He said : comes very large. Whereas for- 1938 than he was in 1936 when he One word about our economic situation. It makes Industry Rehires of all received the greatest majority ever more than merly no difference to me whether you call it a recession or a dethe public revenue in Utah was given to any candidate by Utah Many Workers DealNew voters are voters. Utah used in support of schools, it is now pression. In 1932 the total national income of all the peoit. no about It doubt is There ers. than ple in the country had reached the low point of $38,000,-000,00- 0 Mining industry in Utah is re- less A large portion of these new is because of the strong New Deal to and is workers in that year. With each succeeding year it rose. expected hiring the be running in full force within a public functions are making use of sentiment in all sections of and Last year 1937 it had risen to $70,000,000,000, deThomas short time. ' Increasing demand,f or new forms of taxation, but the- state that Senator RobinMurdock and constitutional provisions gov- Congressmen spite definitely worse business and agricultural prices in the ' copper and lead has brought this rigid to continue are son the school finance keeps last 4 months of last year. This year 1938 while it is expected gain welcome situation for Utah smelter erning now the until favor from, in tied almost schools wholely ing up too early to do more than give an estimate, we hope that workers and the mining industry. the tangible property tax. ballots are cast on November 8. Reopening Wednesday of a lead with the national income will not fall below $60,000,000,000. Normally R ep u b 1 i c a n voters smelter at the American Smelting The 60 per' cent of the district We remember also that banking and business and farming Utah Democrats with that taxation agree and Refining company plant at school revenue raised by reelecbenefited be will e comes from local all districts the in are not falling apart like the by people shay, as they did in Murray, employing 300 workers, ConThomas and Senator of tion and normally the terrible winter of 1932. was the beginning of an active tangible property 85 per cent of the state gressmen Murdock and Robinson. That in a nutshell tells the story of the economic recovery mining industry era in this state. about agree that next Congress will William J. OConnor, general man- school funds comes from tangible They property. The proposed constitu- be overwhelmingly Democratic and since 1932 a rise in the national income from $39,000,000,-00- 0 ager of the company, said the fur- tional in 1932 to $70,000,000,000 in 1937, or nearly 100 per amendments will make it therefore it is to the best interests naces at the plant were going at men to to return of in Utah this to Congress picture change possible cent. And banking and business and farming are not falling full blast Wednesday. who have cooperated with the PresAnnouncement was made this the future. It must be kept in mind that no ident and thus accomplished so apart.Now this did week by J. 0. Elton, manager of It was brought about by not just happen. much for the people of Utah and the International Smelting and Re- revenue for this new uniform the nation. restored confidence on the part of the people and by action folschool fund provided fpr by the fining company, that the companys amendments a are the come Republicans from can Reactionary relowing the Presidents recommendations. The banks were put copper smelter at Tooele will This hopeless minority in this state. The back of taxation property. tangible 150 to and on their feet $3,108,000,000 was advanced by the give employment open will mean that to the extent this campaign of the G. O. P. is in conadditional men. Government conto keep their doors open; railroads were loaned built up from revenue trol of the reactionaries and The. reopening of the Tooele new fund issources and candidates the that the further sequently party $750,000,000; insurance companies were helped to the extent plant on November 7 it was re- from otherof the schools are attacking the New of $642,000,000 in loans, and move will spellbinders financing the come will $3,232,754,000 was approshortly after ported, Deal program and those Democrats If from property. tangible Mounaway of at for relief the of the unemployed. resumption Farmers received operations up who are cooperating with the Pres- priated tain City, Nevada, where 300 men the new fund can be broughtthere home in and benefits, ident. This has incensed $5,662,000,000 the proowners, whose homes have been called back to work. to a substantial height, then the of reduction threatened with of gressive wing party. They were foreclosure, were saved to the extent of The first shipment of ore from the will be some chance will to and balked have the burden tax go polls Nevada mines to the Tooele smelter of the tangible property and cast their ballots for Senator $3,855,000,000. in the local districts. is expected to leave November 5. Then let us not overlook the wise social and economic leg-- , While the first objective of the Thomas and Congressmen Murdock islation Those in the know predict that that has been enacted by the Congress upon the recoin- This they did in will revive new fund may probably be to raise and Robinson. the I 25-ce- nt 44-ho- ur I wages-and-hou- rs in-w- ho self-polici- ng in-raUi- ude, Vote For All Three Constitutional Amendments tem-The- I sit-do- 1 two-thir- ds one-thir- d. ? -- I , one-hors- mining industry fapidly from now on; : - (Pontinued on page 6) (Continued on page 3) (Continued on Page 8) re |