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Show IReview 2 'm rjAs " n EDUCATE ORGANIZE COOPERATE LP H s'. ka 5;I gj? SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. DECEMBER VOL X; NO. 26 LABOR ACT IS BULWARK AGAINST FASCISM President Roosevelts Peace Message on Christmas Eve following isthe text of President Roosevelts address - at Christmas exercises in Lafayette square, Washington, Saturday: Tonight is Christmas eve. We are gathered again around our community tree here in Lafayette park, across the street from the White House. Darkness has fallen over the capital, but all about us shine a myriad of brilliant lights. All hearts, warmed by the eternal fire of Christmas rejoice, because new life, new hope, new happiness are in them. "In this.setting 1 wish my fellow countrymen everywhere a merry Christmas with peace, content and friendly cheer to all. I wish also to thank the thousands who have remembered me and my family this Christmas with individual greetings. We shall always treasure these friendly messages. "At this time let us hope that the boon of peace which we in this country and in the whole western hemisphere enjoy under the providence of God may likewise be vouchsafed to all nations and all peoples. We desire peace. We shall work for peace. We covet neither the lands nor the possessions of any other nation or people. "We of the western world who have borne witness by words to our devotion to the cause of peace, ought to take heart tonight from the atmosphere of hope and promise in which rep resentatives of 2 1 free republics are now assembled in the Pan American conference at Lima, Peru. I consider it a happy circumstance that these deliberations will be successfully con eluded soon after the birthday of the Prince of Peace. It is indeed a holy season in which to work for good will among men. ,We derive new strength, new courage for our work from the spirit of Christmas "We do not expect a new heaven and a new earth overnight, but in our own land, and other lands wherever men of good will listen to our appeal we shall work as best we can with the instruments at hand to banish hatred, greed and covetousness from the heart of mankind. "And so this pledge I have so often given to my own countrymen I renew before all the world on this glad Christmas eve, that I shall do whatever lies within my own power to hasten the day foretold by Isaiah, when men Thall beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. New Trade Agreements With Great Britain and Canada By United States Senator James E. Murray The new foreign trade agreements just negotiated by this country with Great Britain and Canada are being subjected to severe analysis by American conflicting interests. d and without an opportunity to give these comprehensive agreements the close scrutiny they deserve and must eventually have .before a positive conclusion can be arrived at, I am led to believe that they will constitute a great impetus to improved agricultural and industrial activity in this country. It has been acknowledged by leading economists everywhere that our American system of high protection destroyed our foreign trade, impoverished American agriculture, and Off-han- contributed to our national problem of unemployment. It also increased the living costs of the masses and, at the same time, brought about a tremendous concentration of wealth in the hands of the few who were the beneficiaries of that mistaken policy. Farmers Were Sold It was our high protective policy, fostered by the big industrial and financial interests of the country, which in a large degree sold the American farmer down the river. It resulted in destroying the purchasing power of agriculture and thereby contributed to the downfall of American industry which fostered it. The American farmer, under that tariff system, was compelled to buy in a highly protected market everything which he required and was compelled to sell his products in an unprotected world market, which eventually led him to bankI ruptcy. That tariff system proved to be of great benefit and advantage to the industrial interests of the coun of the country as a whole is best try which dominated our govern- i.for allAnof us. Attempt to Discredit ment, but it eventually spelled the of course, be an stThere will, itself ruin of American industry and brought on the great depres-- ; tempt to discredit this move on the sion. Our great American mass part of the federal government to trade. Already production system could not con- -. restore our foreign on so which had page 2) (Continued tinue under a system j BOSTON, Mass. (UNS) , f )38 Pi iCc! 5 Cents Per Copy Happy New Year, 1939 Lash-Th- e We wish you a happy New Year. And honestly, if we had the assurance our wish would be granted we wouldnt dare be any more specific than that. Knowing your Treed and desires as you do, probably you couldnt do better yourself for who is there sufficiently wise to look into the future and say what wish if it were granted would contribute the most to his ultimate good) Fortunately, we dont get things in this world by wishing for them. They are obtained through work and thought and sacrifice, and frequently we learn that from the pursuit rather than the capture we gained the greatest satisfaction. So, after all, if we were to hazard a wish for you and as well, itwould be simply this, that New Year may provide us all with worthy ambitions, with the opportunity to be of service in some way, whether great or small, to those with whom wer come in contact, and last, that we may have the courage and strength to carry them through to a glorious finish. For it is what we do, not what it is done for us, that builds character and lays up treasures that are independent of the stock market or the fluctuation value of land. jng out at biased-an- d frequently un- founded criticism of the Wagne Act and the National Labor Relations Board, Edwin S. Smith, Board member, told members of the Massachusetts Conference of So cial Work that the Act has performed a signal service to civilization at a time when the forces supporting democracy are in serious retreat throughout the world." our-silvIt must never be forgotten that the fascist governments of Germany and Italy came into power by crushing the labor organizations of their respective countries and that they perpetuate their power by the same means, Smith warned. Those who are alarmed at the rapidity of fascisms spread may feel a justified sense of protection and of pride in the fact that the And another thing government of the United States If at the beginning of this New Year we could sweep all has chosen to' defend the organization of labor rather than to seek its of our old "cants" and fancied limitations into a good-size- d defeat. basket and burn them, we would be in a fair way to establish Scores Attack some triumphant new standards of achievement duringnineteen The Wagner Act came into be ' thirty-nining because the organized strength of employers was freely and often Forget, if you can, the carping voice of experience. He (Continued on page 8)- ruthlessly used to defeat that right which labor of possessed in theory but was unable JUST A FEW LABORS (Continued on page 3) es e. self-organizati-on Political Outlook Utah and U. S. Compiled From Reports of Observers I REPAIRS ON THE NON-PARTISA- N WAGNER ACT LEAGUE THEY JUST WANT TO AMEND IT TO DEATH-A- LL GALL DIVIDED IN THREE PARTS THE 1939 PROGRAM OF LABORS LEAGUE OUTLINED NON-PARTISA- N The following is the statement of J. C. RICH L. Lewis, chairman of La- John By A BUSY WEEK FOR All the gall against the Wagner borg t League, outTHE DEMOCRATS Act can be divided in three parts lining the activities of the League First, the law is hateful because it for the coming year: The Democrats of Utah will have stems from the New Deal; second, It is essential that all the liba busy time during the coming because it favors labor, and third, eral and progressive forces of the week. because it steps on a few pet, not unite to maintain and excountry On Friday night at 7 :30 p. m. at to say pampered, corns. tend the economic and political the Newhouse hotel the 45 Demoto the Wagner gains of recent years for the When precratic members of the - house of Act we we refer of course, the Labor servation of democracy. mean, deswill to caucus representatives Relations Law. always best to 1. Effective January 1, 1939, the ignate their choice for speaker of be specific. TheIts senior Senator of Labor's the house and chief employes of from New York has membership sponsored so will be broadened to that body. League workThe 21 Democratic members of many laws for the benefit ofbecome include and accept all workers by hand or brain. Any American apthe State Senate will caucus also. ing people tothatreferit might to any one of confusing its tenets may join. f Their task will be easier than that them as the Wagner Act. Let us, proving of the house members. It is con 2. Concurrently the League will that ceded that Senator Ira Huggins, therefore, be exact and state conduct a campaign to increase its of todays lesson is the in all key states. The Ogden, will be the unanimous none subject membership Labor other than the Federal choice for the presidency of the upframework will structural present Relations Law. be in per house. expanded states, congresIf the students will please turn The leading candidates for the sional districts, counties, municito book back the their of pages speakership of the lower house are 1936 the palities and precincts. HeadquarP. S. Marthakis and Sheldon R. and field staffs will be augters some note will year they Brewster of Salt Lake City, and mented for this purpose. curious references to the law under Heber Bennion, Jr., of Manila. 3. In midyear of 1939 a national On Saturday night the Demo- discussion. It seems that certain convention of the League will be even elements were crats throughout the state will subversive in a our held to undermine then city to be later designattrying gather for annual Jackson Day American adconvention will be comed. The were and institutions dinner meetings. The principal dinof of disobedience posed ner program will be at the New- vocating flagrant Cona. Delegates from Lieague units house hotel in Salt Lake City, an act regularly passed by to sad is that relate It gress. all states; and in where some 2000 Democrats are Inthese b. elements, National labor organizations; an-to ( expected participate in the stead of hiding their evil designs, and Continued on Page 5) c. Delegates from cooperating actually boasted of their opposition to the American way of life, and progressive organizations. set themselves up for a while as a 4. The purposes of the convenPresident tion will be super Comment and super-SupreCourt. They a. To authorize the League memsaid that the Wagner Law was not bership and candidates designated By M. I. T. a law, that it need not and should by the League to work within the be obeyed because the Supreme framework of the Democratic party not THE LORDS OF Court would declare it unconstitu- in the selection of delegates to the DAILY PRESS tional. National convention of the DemoA Bright Pupil cratic party in 1940; and Gilbert Seldes has written a book b. To draft a national platform Did you raise your hand, Miss ? entitled, Lords of the Press. It is define the issues upon which case-study of and small the of a Theres a bright girl! Of course, group millionaires who own and control they had no right to do that. No the League candidates will contest the American daily press. one has a right in these United for selection as delegates; and c. To authorize League units to Seldes is strongly critical of the States to disobey a law merely berun of lords Court he these press cause support or oppose incumbent or way many hopes the Supreme their domains, though crediting will declare it unconstitutional. Yet candidate congressmen, or other some with good intentions and hop- that is exactly what these subver- lesser public officials or candisive elements did, and there was no dates, with relation to their attiing for the best. Some of his denied. committee available just then to tude to the national platform of charges may be But no one can dispute his basic expose them and tell them to go the League; and d. To provide for the financing thesis that the American daily back where they came from if they press is a big institution, directed didnt like this country. You will of the League program through inby a few wealthy and powerful in- remember,- of course, that the Dies ternal revenue and the acceptance dividuals. Committee to Find a Red Under of contributions from the public at . Whether their intentions be good Every Bed was established much large; and e. To authorize League deleor bad, their policies paternal and later. that As we turn the pages of enlightened or. malignant and opgates to the Democratic national we American in convention to work for the nomithe their of chapter history pressive, lordships American daily press run their find some surprising names among nation of progressive candidates (Continued on Page 7) (Continued on Page 4) (Continued on page 6) Non-Partis- an Non-Partis- an . flews and super-Congres- s, well-documen- - -- |