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Show Page 8 UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, OCTOBER 28, 1938 made the Government at Washington a mockery. Let us stand by the President, and reelect Senator Thomas and Congressmen Robinson and Murdock, who have so loyally supported the President and cooperated with him to make this a better America. Let us look steadily to the beacon light of hope that the President raised at the very beginning of his administration. Let us all have the same confidence in his invincible leadership that the workingman and the farmer has, and we shall have no cause to fear the machinations of the money barons who are deter mined to destroy him and the New Deal. You canhot fool the voters of Utah; they know what the New Deal has done for them. The voters of Utah will vote on November 8 straight Dem ocratic and thus show their appreciation of the good work of President Roosevelt. DDYOInJOM, (Continued from Page 1) should be as adequately represented in company conferences as past labor, or capital. When running without friction at capacity output he invited the Amalgamated Clothing Workers in to organize his group. The agreement they drew up was never signed by company or union. Neither was the business union disrupted; in fact the in outside experts and brought tried in every way to justify their existence. mendation of President Roosevelt and with the help and support of Senator Thomas and Congressmen Robinson and Murdock --The Federal Deposit insurance Act and other banking laws; The Agricultural Administration Act, the Social Security Act, the Public Utilities Act, the Securities Act, the Works Project, the PWA, the CCC, the Home Owners Loan Corporation, the United States Housing Authority, the Soil Conservation Act, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the NEW DEAL AND Profits Tax, the Law, and other much needed reform legislation. UTAH FARMERS We believe, and every intelligent person believes, that no more important piece of legislation for social reform was ever According to reports received by s enacted than the bill. Senator Thomas as Allen T. Sanford, state director of chairman of the Senate Labor Committee had a lot to do in bethe National Emergency Council, TWO SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT there were in 1935 in Utah, 30,695 half of this vitally important legislation. Senator Thomas was farms. In 28 county associations, particularly interested in this bill, and we are happy to say that In this campaign we are facing two schools of thought. One 14,838 farmers organized and parit finally rode successfully the most stubborn and vicious and ticipated in the Agricultural Conunwarranted opposition, because'of wise leadership of Senator seeks to go back to the obsolete and unworkable methods em- servation program in 1936. Of the about 70 per cent, ployed under the Old Deal regime when the economic ills from total Thomas. We confidently believe that the s or 1,017,000 acres, were covered by Law will prove to be one of the greatest blessings that has come which we are now suffering first began to blight the nation. for payment; 46,794 to the working men and women of the Nation under the New The other school seeks to follow the- philosophy of Abraham applications acres were diverted from soil deUncoln when he declared to the reactionaries of his time that Deal administration. pleting crops and on about 247,000 It has been no easy task for the President. To use his own The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate for the stormy acres, soil building practices were words: present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we put into effect. The farmers parmust rise to the occasion, as our case is new, so we must think ticipating during the year received From March 4, 1933, down not a single week has $1,006,603 in conservation payanew and act anew. Therefore, in harmony with Lincoln, we ments, including county association passed without a cry from the opposition to do something, are for the perfection, not the abolition of new methods. to say something to restore confidence.' There is a very expenses. articulate group of people in this country, with plenty of Today we find politicians of the old school seeking to cap During 1937 the average farm italize income for the various counties few on a to their and entreatability petty governmental imperfections views, who have conprocure publicity for was: the to their ing turn people sistently refused to cooperate with the mass of the people, eyes backward to an era when the Rich, over $3000; Box Elder, selfish type of rugged individualism held sway. We who think whether things were going well or going badly, on the Cache, Summit, $2000 to $3000; in terms of human advancement toward a better and ground that they required more concessions to their point happier Daggett, Davis, Iron, Juab, Morday, refuse to follow blindly their theory of political philosophy. gan, Salt Lake, Sevier, Sanpete, of view before they would admit having what they called We hold that in a democracy like ours, the national confidence. govern- Wasatch, Weber, $1500 to $2000; which ment, These people demanded restoration of confidence' is the agency of all the people, must be made an Beaver, Carbon, Garfield, Grand, Millard, Piute, Utah, Tooele, when the banks were closed, and again when the banks instrumentality for the promotion of all General Welfare as the Kane, and Wayne, Uintah, framers of the Constitution intended. This is imperative be- $1000 to Washington were reopened. $1500. cause in this machine age a few favored individuals who exercise For the state of Utah as a whole, 'They demanded restoration of confidence when a dominant control of industries have completely failed to the farms yielded a grpss income hungry people were thronging the streets, and again when propthe hungry people were fed and put to work. ' erly adjust the economics involved in the production and distri of $50,600,000, or an average farm bution of the products of toil. The result of such failure has income of $1650. 'They demanded restoration of confidence when placed millions of people on relief rolls. droughts hit the country, and again now when our fields Therefore, government acting in a representative capacity are laden with bountiful yields and excessive crops. LABOR must assume a proper and essential measure of regulation and demanded of confidence restoration last year They We Appreciate Your when the automobile industry was running three shifts and a8e an hour situation and also find means of pro C??.ro Patronage viding annuities to those who because of age are disqualified to turning out more cars than the country could buy, and operate the machinery of production. Those who have toiled again this year when the industry is trying to get rid of SAVE thus aided in the creation of the vast wealth of, this nation and an automobile surplus and has shut down its factories as a AT THE are unquestionably entitled to receive sufficient annuities to result. Yes, these same opponents of the New Deal would be make possible increased purchasing power in the same manner PREMIUM OIL CO. demanding restoration of confidence if every man and as increased purchasing power was vastly increased by reason Your Gasoline Friend woman in the Nation had an income big enough to own a town of our governmental financial outlays during our participation W. 4th South 457 in the World War. house and a country estate, a garage with a dozen cars, a yacht, 440 So. West Temple and everything else desired. We have no patience with such .505 W. 8th South critics. For our part, we are willing to stand or fall with the NEWS AND COMMENT dences of square deal policies, he Salt Lake City New Deal, We are confident that the voters of Utah know a business from the developed smallest of kind to its the which side their bread is buttered on. largest Spanish Fork, Nephi, (Continued from page 7) in the world in eight short years. more. Cedar City, Salina, The voters of Utah do not have to be told of the countless He proved that there is a law of pairs, one sloping each way across St. George benefits that have come to them through the New Deal. They the river over which the traveler human relations that can be tuned Burley, Jerome, Malad see them on every side; they see them in the splendid new e rockets at tremendous speed. In in through Golden Rule practice in Idaho that makes for some efficient smooth, places there is only one rope buildings; in the new schools and high schools; in the refunctioning. He believed as a matmodeled schools; they see them in the miles and miles of im- slung horizontally across the river; ter of course that active labor then the traveler either crawls proved roads; they see them in the elimination of grade cross- upon it or, suspendings; they see them in the playgrounds and swimming pools ed by leather thongs to a wooden and community houses; in the municipal improvements; they slider is hauled by a guide rope. see them in the Deer Creek and other, reclamation projects in Courtesy of Asia Magazine. Utah. These things are visible. The voters of Utah know IF GOLDEN RULE what the New Deal has done for them in providing employ- NASH WERE ALIVE? ment in the construction, of these great improvements. Candidate for the United States Senate It has been the pleasant' privilege and duty of Senator The presidents recent appeal to Thomas and Congressmen Robinson and Murdock to help in capital and labor to sit down in Asks the support of the working men of all political parties. conference recalls the friendly fact these about bringing great blessings. We say that if it had not that Arthur (Golen Rule) Nash He knows the problems of the working man, since from his been for our great President and cooperation and of died eleven years ago this month. childhood he has had to work. support such legislators as Senator Thomas and Congressmen Robinson His scientific work has been devoted to the betterment of the By means of friendly conferences and Murdock these things would not have happened, and all the in which religion played a conspiculot of those who toil. His educational activities have been with the children of the blatant cries of greedy critics cannot take away from the New ous part, and many practical evi- common people. He knows their problems and he has helped Deal the everlasting glory and credit that is its due. thousands of these young people to prepare themselves to meet WELCOME, LABOR Restored confidence! Why, the people the masses who the uncertainties of the modern world. He has studied the conditions of the working man in all parts UP th!5 &rea Nation -- have no lack of confidence in the of the world, particularly in Russia, Germany, Italy, Spain, and President. The men who lack confidence are those who control Mexico where new methods are being tried. He knows something the wealth of this country. They do not want to give up any of the strong as well as the weak points in labor relations in all of their would continue gains. to the They laborer of these countries. pay ' in the. factories low wages in order that He is a believer in a high standard of living with adequate to continue they may education and suitable living conditions for the workng man. pile up their wealth. They want the farmers to keep on He beleves that these good things may best be obtained on without reward to their own economic welfare in order the principle of live and let live. that the selfish industrial lords may have cheap raw materials. He believes in the cooperation of labor and industry and that Restored confidence! ' This cry of monopolistic industhe permanent security of the working man can be had only by on Display trialists is only a bogeyman. If these such cooperation as will be beneficial to both interests. d heads of inHe speaks the language of the common people, and he is now dustry were willing to do their part yes; if they would only to serve them in. this new capacity. 'anxious meet the President halfway there would be no recession or Chevrolet He asks your support at the polls. Capital depressigp. The workingman is doing his part; the farmer is doing his part. The men who are not doing their part are those U. S. ; who persistently refuse to cooperate with the President because Company . FRANKLIN S. HARRIS stands ready to serve you as United they want to continue their economic control over all industry. 8th South and State St. i . States Senator from Utah. They want to continue to manipulate that invisible government Was. 2057 4877 Was. which for so many years under Republican rule pulled the wires (Paid Political Adv.) from Wall Street and the great, money marts of the East and Un-distribut- Wages-and-Hou- ed rs Wages-and-Hour- crop-lan- Wages-and-Hour- d, - . . post-offic- sloth-fashio- n, Franklin S. Harris , New 1939 Jf ill-gott- en pro-auci- ng . high-salarie- MR. CITIZEN . . i |