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Show tttsiuutr or xjtjux WiYJSHdX'Jor view g$JCuairireirat EveintioNov mzc mss cur 9 1938 fO EDUCATE ORGANIZE COOPERATE VOL X; NO. SALT LAKE' CITY, UTAH. NOVEMBER 4, 1938 18 President Roosevelt ill Speak This Afternoon Political Outlook In Utah and U. S. Compiled From Reports , radio adPresident Roosevelt will deliver a nation-wid- e dress today (Friday) 5:30 to46 p. m., Mountain time. The broadcast will be carried by all major networks. v POINT PRE-ELECTIO- of Observers PREDICTIONS N TO REELECTION OF SENATOR THOMAS Vote For All Three Constitutional Amendments In the final tabulation of preelection predictions by independent observers for the Utah Labor News throughout the state indicate the reelection of Senator Elbert D. Thomas by a comfortable margin. His majority may exceed 35,000. Counties which indicate reasonably sure majorities for Senator Thomas are 18 in number. They Vote Yes" on the Constitutional Amendments. They are the important and should receive the support of all voters. Read All Amendments on page 6 of this paper. Vote for them! special interests, including the Kept press, are opposing the amendments a good Teason why ordinary folks should vote are: for them. Beaver, Box Elder, Cache, Carbon, Duchesne, EmeTy, Grand, Juab, Millard, Piute, Salt Lake, Summit, Tooele, Uintah, Utah, Washington, Wayne, and Weber. The Senator should leave these 18 counties with over 37,000 votes to spare. ' There are only four reasonably and counties that the Republican sure county All the Democratic national, state, legislative candidate can count on. These are s candidates in Salt Lake county will be the guests of Labor Sevier and WasKane, Garfield, n League and allied labor organizations at Asso- atch. The total majorities in these ciation halls, 168 South West Temple street. Saturday night, counties is not expected to go much beyond 2000. November 5, 8 p. m. show. Among the seven doubtful counThere will be entertainment galore, including a floor Dagare listed the ties Candidates will be introduced. Refreshments will be served gett, Davis, Iron, following: Morgan, Rich, during the evening and dancing will be enjoyed until midnight. Sanpete, and San Juan. Some of these doubtful counties All members of the League, Labors Legislative Council, way. In A. F. L, C. I. O., Railroad Brotherhoods, Workers Alliance, may be very close eithercandidate event the the Republican Old Age groups, and all other New Dealers have been invited carried all of the doubtful counties festival. to attend this labors it perhaps would not increase his lead in the four safe counties much over 1000. : Votors-Fc?.&fc.to. expect ty " (Continued 6A pa;,a"1fK - Candidates Will Be Guests Of Labor Saturday Night Non-Partisa- get-togeth- er r?rah ?Ga0t7 Vote Straight Democratic Jews and Comment This is the last issue of your paper, the Utah Labor News, By M. I. T. before Tuesdays election. In our final appeal to you in support of President Roosevelt and his New Deal program for economic DR. BUCHMAN PLEASE NOTE security we urge you to vote safe vote straight Democratic. the like facts As election day approaches certain protrude Among our favorite pieces of muddled from rather thumb sore a political situaproverbial propaganda for foreign tion. - y Old Dealers, repudiated by the voters in four successive elections, are fighting desperately to stage a "comeback. They are hoping that the quarrels between progressive and reactionary Democrats have demoralized the majority party to such an extent that they can slip through. The reactionary Republicans have instructed their candidates to promise anything. In the wheat belt they are promising $1.50 a bushel wheat and permit to produce as much as they like ; they are whispering to men and women on relief that they are not getting enough; they are assuring the supporters of various pension schemes that they are with them. At the same time they are upbraiding the Roosevelt administration because it hasnt balanced the budget; they are promising those who pay income and inheritance taxes that they e emwill drastically reduce taxation; they are telling emasculate will the Wagner LaborRelations Act ployers they and ease up on Wages and Hours legislation. Everywhere the 'reactionary Republican emissaries are promoting fear concerning the future and fanning the flames of prejudice. The reactionaries hope to stampede a sufficient number of voters by these reprehensible tactics to enable them to make important gains in this campaign and thus pave the way for an Old Guard victory in the presidential election year of 1940. There is only one way to defeat the desperate plans of the reactionaries. Progressives everywhere the farmers, the industrial workers, and liberal-minde- d citizens who are neither farmers nor industrial workers must stand together. Do not vote for any Old Guard candidate for office. Their promises are worthless and will be repudiated the moment the disciples of the old order get control of the reigns of power. There is an old story which illustrates the situation: A darky was working in a southern cotton field under a blistering sun. As he mopped his brow, he exclaimed: Mr. Sun, where was you last January when we needed you? From 1920 to March 4, 1933, these representatives of the under Harding, Coolidge and Hoover were in old order of the national government. What did they control complete do to relieve the peoples distress? ; Everyone should know the answer. They did absolutely nothing. Thats what they will do again if they succeed in sneaking into power. For safetys sake, vote straight Democratic. The low-wag- Japanese consumption is a pamphlet called Japanese Spirit in Full Bloom. The high light of the document is . . . we ask this noble sentiment: one favor of the Chinese: please fight like men, civilized and brave: for enemy though you be, you have our love and respect. God save you from betraying this love and respect. From The Nations column, In the Wind. HIS USUAL POSE The rich farmer was paying a visit to his son at the university, and thought it might be a good idea if they had their photograph taken. The photographer suggested that the son should stand with his hand The on his fathers shoulder. farmer objected. It would be much more lifelike, he said .coldly, if he stood with his hand in my pocket. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Monthly. THICK AS FLIES If the nations of earth continue to build airplanes at the present rate it wont be long before they will be thick as flies on a decaying carcass. Moreover the above figure of speech may not be too For in the event of another world war, with disease germs being sprayed from the air, civilization will be the decaying carcass. Germany is said to be building planes at the rate of 400 per month to Englands 125. It would appear that when Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler got through signing the peace pact at Munich each hustled home to speed up the means of enforcing it. Germany feels that this three to one ratio would be a good one to freeze as a definite policy. Of course when England (Continued on page 6) far-fetche- d. Price: 5 Cents Per Copy Let Us Unitedly Uphold the New Deal Next Tuesday Next Tuesday is an important day. It is a general election day. Regardless of political party lines, as believers in humanity and humanitarian principles in government, let us unite in reelecting a senator and congressman who have cooperated with the President to make this a better America. This is the only way, a practical way, to uphold the New Deal program. Nobody has yet devised a process of feeding the hungry without paying for it. If the Government did not take care of the destitute, private charity would have to do it in its haphazard way. Hungry millions are not going to be starved peaceably. Until business is ready to take over the problem of general reemployment the Government has no choice but to continue the job. That is all that the New Deal program proposes to do. Of course, the political foes of the New Deal administration are shooting at this program. Their favorite contention is that because the relief system did not head off a drop in the stock market five years after the New Deal was established, the New Deal is a failure. They might as well contend that because the first-ai- d treatment that saved a person near drowning did not keep that person out of deep water, five years later the first-ai- d ought not to be employed in a second emergency. Actually the New Deal has served its purpose. It not only lifted the country from despair, and increased the national income, but it also kept our American system of government intact and sfficicnt, while other nations were plunged headlong into dictatorship and other forms of tyranny. Was the money wasted? Let us trace what became of it. It went into- - wages that substituted a measure of comfort for downright distress. These wages went into the life stream of commerce, and every merchant and professional institution in America profited by its turn-ove- r. It shows in the bank balances, and in the renewed solvency of corporations and firms that were on the verge of dissolution when the spending began. .P erhaps some people, by superior craft or superior opportunity, got more than their share. Possibly" these very "people are the ones who are financing the campaign to defeat the New Deal administration that took them out of the mire. That is not a happy thought, but such things are bound to happen in a practical world, despite the cry that rugged individualism and individual initiative are being endangered by governmental efforts to make prosperity general instead of making it a monopoly of particular interests. It will come out in the wash. The turmoil created by the drumfire of the doom sealers will subside; business will wake up to its opportunities that in the purchasing power of the mass lies their chance for profit. It will be shown in the future, as it was shown many times in our history, that democratic government cannot be either purchased or coerced. And this will be demonstrated in the elections next Tuesday and emphasized in the Presidential election two years hence. It will be made clear not because the administration has been Democratic but because it has been patriotic, courageous, -- , (Continued on page 8) LABOR ON ITS FORWARD MARCH UNION CONTRACT AVERTS STRIKE OF BEET WORKERS A DENVER, Colo. (UNS) threatened strike of 15,000 C. I. O. beet workers was averted here when the Cannery and Agricultural Workers, C. I. O., signed an agreement with the Farmers Union securing collective bargaining recognition for the workers. The agreement was hailed by Donald Henderson, president of the Cannery Workers, as the greatest advance in cooperative farmer-labo- r relations in recent years, and by John Brophy, national director of the C. I. O., as a sane settlement of labor relations in agriculture. Under the agreement, the Farmers Union undertakes to organize beet growers for adequate prices and to bargain collectively with the C. I. O. on matters of wage rates for beet workers and other working conditions. Previously the growers- were represented by the Mountain States Beet Growers' association, dominated by Wall Street controlled sugar companies. This association flatly refused to negotiate with the workers or even to meet with a fact finding commission appointed by (Continued on page 3) -- - ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS PRESIDENTS DEFENSE PROGRAM WILL AID HEAVY GOODS INDUSTRIES The announcement of the Administrations great rearmament program has finally given credence to rumors that have been making the rounds for many weeks. At the same time, it has given a considerable fillip to basic industry. In the words of an Associated Press dispatch, The broad plans now being worked out in conference between business executives and government officials . . . were designed to become the dominating factor in the recovery picture. The huge scope of the program, they (the businessmen involved) added, was not yet fully realized by the country as a whole. Complete information on the pending program is not yet available, and probably will not be for some time to come. But, according to forecasts, it will cause the spending of at least $5,000,000,000 in the next fifteen months. The President contemplates adding to the next budget to take care of part of it. The balance will consist of private ' spending, plus some nonbudgeted federal loans to industry. (Continued on page 2) |
