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Show 1 VT4 IxiexTiew o2 Cuiirireirufc Exremto Mirror Ui 20mg EDUCATE ORGANIZE k COOPERATE UTAH PEOPLEWARE UP! Congressman Patman Pushing Tax Passage of Chain-Stor- e Act In U. S. Congress Another legislative session has come and gone. The twenty-thir- d session ended its deliberations Saturday night. The session was marked with the Congressman Wright Patman of Texas has introduced in Congress H. R. I. provisions of which would place an excisechain stores. Already more than 100 memon inter-stat- e measure. b.r, of Congress have offered support for this worthy chain stores are operated by the most vie The inter-stat- e ious monopolies in this country, and if they are allowed to con-- 1 I JJ2em of tewkiig. CraZyqUllt The session accomplished noth-ta- x ing new it was the same old care old laws wayof I The Democratic Party Will Be Either a Liberal Party Or a Minority Party Observing the actions of Tory Democrats in State Legislature as well as in the National Congress, we can readily see the greatest danger to the Democratic party today is in a growing public suspicion that its leaders have become so divided and distracted with personal and local politics that it does not have the capacity to agree on policies to run the government. And also, whether its professions of interest in the problems of the people are the real convictions of the controlling elements of the party, or only invoked for election purposes. So far as it affects the Democratic party prospects in the 1940 elections, it doesnt make any great difference whether these things are really true, if the people come to think they are true. The important thing is whether, within the remaining time of this session of Congress, the conditions of Democratic party success in 1940 can be established. If they cannot, we may remember 1940 as comparison1 year with 1920 a year of disasdisaster. ter the Then, too, suspicion is growing that the promise of a liberal administration represents true convictions of only the President and a small group and that it does not represent the attitude of the Democratic party as a whole. There are controversies over the meaning of liberal and conservative. We are not interested in the disputations of the intelligentsia on these revenues fcy proposals of jng pyramiding the already burden-tinu- e some taxing laws. without curbing and regula 10 or mors) control or ownership, AmeriIt was evident during the sesour tion they will destroy an sion that shall stores retail annually pay chain-stor- e The many of the legislators can civilization. excise tax for each fiscal year end- were blind with selfishness and contributed has monopoly already the num- - conceit. The measured suffering of the peo- more than any other factor in ing June 30, scores so by es- -i opened, ke,r,. and r,ea pje apparently did not bother their pauperizing American farmers maintained or operated, tablished, have consciences. industrial workers. They such fiscal year as follows, during The legislature refused to recoglocal the independent bankrupted as provided in subsection nize the trend of industrial and stores and are depriving local boys except hereof: economic events. There is no doubt and girls of future opportunities to (b) of in excess not store each For about that. enter in business life. 15. a i $50 in store; a believe square Sixty days were spent by 23 sen- All those who m store not additional each ators For and 60 members of the house American people the deal for should become enthusiastic sup- excess of 25, $100 a store; not in of representatives in legislating in the interests and justification of For each additional store 1. The Utah Laporters of H. ina of excess outworn and obsolete economic an store; $200 in 50, bor News will do its part in store not additional each For the system. progforming its readers upon Muddled Along ress this important measure is excess of 75, $250 a store; store not in additional ecah For the of and in Congress While the legislators were demaking chain excess of 100, $300 a store vicious tactics of inter-stat- e liberating and legislating, the very For each additional store not in foundations store monopolies. of society were being excess of 200, $450 a store; Text of Patman Bill before their eyes and still abstractions. What we mean by liberal administration is the For each additional store nothin sapped H. R. 1, a bill providing for an they recklessly muddled along kind we all joined in 1936 in making the people think they excise tax on retail stores, intro- excess of 300, $600 a store; would get from the Democrats and there is no need to quibble (Continued on page 7) For each additional store not in duced in the House of Representaabout that. tives on January 3 1989, and re- ercess of 400, $750 a store; in store ' additional not' For each Presiderrt Roosevelt's 'effort to delivef on the Democratic "f LEGISLATURE" ferred to the Committee on Ways " a excess store; $900 of 500, and Means, is as follows: party promise is fully in keeping with the only policy on which each additional store in For effective KNEW HOW the TO after On and (a) the party has been able to win a victory since the Civil war. of 500, $1000 a store date of this act every person openbeSince the Civil war Democratic party victories have been fiscal SPEND MONEY or year (b) For the first ing, establishing, operating, 1 the on following won in national elections by Grover Cleveland, Woodrow WilJuly maintaining under the same gen- ginning "(Continued on page 6) supervision, eral management, d The twenty-thirsession of the son, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. We have almost forgotten that Utah State Legislature, which fin- Cleveland ran for President as a liberal and as a reformer. He ished its labors late Saturday was attacked as the enemy of business! because he assailed the Non-Partis- an night, did know how to spend money, although it was reluctant tariff, and he responded by denouncing the communism of in considering bills whose passage great wealth. He denounced the political spoils system and would have been of benefit to the conducted a house cleaning. Only in the later days, when the people of the state. silver issue emerged and Democratic party faced defeat, did It passed the largest appropria- Cleveland become known as a conservative. tion bill in Utahs history. dolAnd Woodrow and million a Wilson, who fought for many reforms, inEight quarter lars is a lot of money to spend in cluding the Federal Trade Commission Act and the Federal ReSince the adjournment of the State Legislature Saturday a state with only 500,000 popula serve Act, was denounced as a reformer, as an enemy of busiLeague of Utah tion. ness, and with all of those epithets which are so common today. night the leaders of the Labors self-inflict- ex-ea- ed ch League Is Planning Local Units In Salt Lake County Non-Partis- an have started laying plans for active organization of ward and isature witIl economy a3 j?3 the of sections state, password. Buts all cautions went precinct units in Salt Lake county and other of when it came to an into the scrap-pil- e call for an Lake for Salt organization The plans the each appmpriatmg of and active unit in each of the siz municipal wards Tonly cautioU3 the interests of inter- . , precincts. epunty jin guarding Now that we have counted noses and know who is who state an(j other monopolists, and in political circles it is high time to get busy and perfect the do nothing so far as the people best and most ' - I power independE. M. Royle, chairman of the ent political organization in Utah, state organization, said thatunder and the time to begin is now, said the new rules membership in the followone of the League officials has been extended to all ing a conference of League leaders League (Continued on page 3) this week. I of Utah were concerned. So far as labor is concerned it No person who reads and observes the political record of the last 50 years can fail to see that the people turn to the Democrats whenever they are in a mood for liberal government, and that they turn to the Republicans when they are in the mood for reactionary government. This is based on a sound instinct. From its foundation by Jefferson and Jackson the Democratic party has been committed to a philosophy of political liberalism and of regard for the common man. Moreover, its following in Utah, and in many other states, is such that it must adhere to a policy of liberalism if it is to succeed. Its following is among the common people, now well aware of their received nothing of importance from this session. But labor was able to hold what it had received And thats in former sessions. ' (Continued on page 8) when consider the you something tone of some of the legislators. A bill was introduced in the Senate to provide a tax on interstate chain stores, the passage of which would have done more than any else' to help independent thing home-owne- d business, labor and but the bill did not get agriculture, out of the sifting committee. Even President Roosevelt in a special message to - Congress its sponsor seemed to be dodging the issue. Thus this legislature Tuesday requested $150,000,000 additional appropriation for off stave to in the state, This amount he said was absolutely necessary to many Organized labor fought bitterly golden 1 relief continue work and keep on the work rolls those in need. institutions and Utah a flood of reactionary legislation to strangle labor unions. people. help the had the was that It is It state the in introduced legislatures apparent The measures expected that the Congress will grant the President's i ear 1 ths of Farm-legislators iority Associated gave earmark, of the same source, the to tho monopoly dnd spools.! inter request. It is remembered that in January Congress was asked to ers, a big business organization disguised as a farmers group. egtg and forgot the people who who individuals few In reality it is sponsored and backed by a eiected them. This was in evidence appropriate $875,000,000 for he W P A but this was cut the control several chain monopolies in the way of chain farms, in the handling of the various bills, amount President Roosevelt now who were able to asks. The reduction in Senate carperform useful monopolies at chain canneries, etc., supplying big chain-stor- e work. ried a and this by margin of one, a price below which an independent farmer must sell if he is i wag most notable. one vote was that of Utahs Repo-crThe estimates, based on actual One thing learned by labor and to market his produce. Senator William King. and estimated figures, showed that The Message in the judgment of the executive In Idaho and South Dakota labor succeeded in defeating I other people is the fact that this had among its members sion President Roosevelts similar anti-strik- e branch a of the government 3,000,000 In Utah bills. and vicious than message reads as follows:special persons should continue to be emmore liars and double-crossebill was introduced in the house of tee. The bill was a facsimile of To the congress of the United ployed 'during the winter months, any other session in the past 10 measures introduced years. Campaign promises were not States: representatives by Representative thfe anti-labfollowed by a reduction to 2,700,-00- 0 Charles R. Hunter, Republican, of in other- states legislatures. Evi- - worth any more than a snowball At the opening of this session persons during the latter part backers of j ip the hottest hades, and the prom-- ( I advised the congress of the num- of the Cedar City. It died a natural dently the five months period ending (Continued on page 4) Continued on page 2) death in the house sifting commit- ber, of needy unemployed persons (Continued on page 5) Organized Labor Wins In Bitter Battles On Vicious Legislative Measures President Roosevelt Asks Additional WPA Fund WPA so-call- ed - I at anti-picketi- ng rs or - big-busine- ss |