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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MARCH 24,1939 Page 4 BUSINESS LETTER (Continued from Page 1) of inspired resolutions urging that Act be kept on the the books intact. Tories Oppose Leading in the fight against President Roosevelt's foreign policy are, as usual, nearly all the Republicans in House and Senate, and the clique led by Vice President Garner in the Democratic party. No principle can be discerned in most of these attacks, except In general they principle. are against the New Deal and all its works, and in favor of Munich, and the dictators. When the issue of lifting the embargo against Loyalist Spain came up, the Republicans came forward with their own neat plan open up the doors and sell war materials to all comers without restrictions; just let them pay cash and carry; lets make as much money as we can by munitions sales to Germany, Italy, Japan, and General Franco. When they discovered that the United States was selling planes to France, they raised a howl and called up all sorts of imaginary horrors. Later they were forced to quiet down on this when it became clear they didnt have a leg to stand on. Dut they had gotten in their licks, planted their decep tion deeply. The basic principles of New Deal foreign policy still remain ; quarantine of the aggressors; defense of democracy; aid to democratic nations faced with fascist threats or fascist aggression. It is of utmost importance that positive support to the Presidents foreign policy be organized with a minimum loss of time. ity anti-democrat- Pan-Americ- ic an Wagner Act There are fond hopes, not without some foundation, that consideration of proposed amendments to (read, destruction of) the Wagner Act will be postponed for a long time, perhaps beyond the end of the present session of Congress. Certainly postponement of Senate Committee hearings pending the unity negotiations between A. F. L. and C. I. 0. are a strong move in that direction. But the Act forces also have fond hopes that they can prevent such postponement. A clamour is rising among them for immediate consideration of amending bills. In this situation, no friend of the National Labor Relations Act can rest for a moment, nor should any confidence be placed in optimistic notions that anything except increased activity in defense of the Act will save it. A. F. L. unions in numbers are their opposition to registering amendment. But not anywhere enough yet. Communications to their Congressmen and Senators from voters and from organizations of every kind are taking the form of a between-electio- n poll. Every vote cast counts. ant,i-Wag-n- ever-increasi- er ng FACTS ABOUT COAL INDUSTRY Heat for homes, buildings, blast furnaces, and smelters; light, indoors and on the streets and highways; power in coal, gasoline, and fuel oil for locomotives and motors in transportation by land, air, and water; power for every purpose from the threshing machine to the great turbines that drive electric generators such needs for energy in 1937 represented for each family in the country the equivalent of the work of 120 theoretical horses working eight hours a day six days a week for the entire year. The hourly wage received by bituminous coal miners in 1938 (on the basis of returns for first IQ months) averaged out to 87.8 cents per hour, as officially reported by the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. This was the highest ever reported in this industry. Sales of automatic mechanical! coal stokers in 1938 totaled 96,433 units, according to a Department! of Commerce report as compared with 101,808 in 1937 and 86,080 in 1936. , tax in the State Legislature and mate that all our water power, inurging the imposition of sales tax cluding that feasible of developde- WIIAT PRICE WASHINGTON Production of bituminous coal) for the week ending March 4, is re- ported as approximately 8,520,000, compared with 6,405,000 tons in the same week a year ago. Total production in the first nine weeks of 1939 (to March 4) was approximately eleven million tons ahead APPEASEMENT! (Continued from page 1) will build the buildings he needs and buy the new machinery he needs to make his plant more mod em and hire more workers to fill the orders his additional salesmen will get. With business appeasement the public utilities will spend millions on plant improvement, the railroads will buy steel again and the heavy industries will junk their old machinery and take advantage of the more modern production equipment available. In short, business appeasement is to do for this country what Prime Minister Neville Charftberlain says international appeasement will do for world peace. Nor is the analogy for just as Mr. Chamberlain gives away other peoples territory to appease, so our own business appeasers would give away the property of other groups to appease the dictators of Americas seemingly totalitarian indus far-fetch- ed try. Ranking foremost on the cs which operate on the principle of equal taxation for all instead of taxation based on ability to pay. But economy is not the only thing that will coax business into accepting its stick of candy. If business is to be appeased properly the National Labor Relations Act must be amended. The logic of this is a little harder to follow but it all boils down to confidence. A man in business andof course, this all means the man in big business because the little businessman does not really count .when it comes to important items like business ap peasement wants to be sure that his blueprints are not going to be smudged by any labor organizers or union representatives asking for recognition and decent wages. Things like that unsettle him so he cant bring himself to signing the order for that new scale. Sagebrush Club Installs Officers At Annual Party pro ment as well as that already veloped, could produce annualjy energy equivalent to only of the energy contained in all the mineral fuels consumed in the United States in 1937 for all purposes. one-four- th CONSUMER NOTES (Continued from Page 3) A 2Vi year court fight to bring gauze bandages under regulation of the Food and Drug Administration has recently resulted in a victory in the courts, reports the Consumers Guide. in dc Two Federal Courts cisions that are of the utmost importance to the health of consumers ruled that bandages come under the Food and Drugs Act. This means that Federal officials will be able to check adulterations and misbranding of bandages whenever they discover such law violations. Until now, gauze bandages that were misbranded or were not completely sterile were allowed to cross state lines unhampered by Federal inspections. -- New members of the gram of business appeasement is Democratic club were Sagebrush installed economy. The federal government annual an at Monday party FOOD GRADING night is to spend less money each year meeting in the HITS NEW HIGH so that it will not have to raise and Moose 161 Second East get-togeth- taxes on incomes to get the money. If the government will promise business and businessmen with large incomes that they will not be taxed to provide the unemployed with funds with which to buy goods, businessmen and business will be appeased and show their gratitude by accepting the funds that someone else will supply the er street, hall, attended by several hundred members of the club and their friends. The officers installed were Alf G. Gunn, president; Mrs. Mabel S. Moore, vice president; Glen B. Cannon, secretary; William Waterfall, treasurer, and Miss .Elizabeth Goodman, Mrs. W. J. Loomis, H. B. Walker, Royal C. Brown, David Athay, R. B. Barrett and Mr. Wat- unemployed. erfall, directors. At Expense of Workers Mrs. Sarah OConnor, a life-lon- g Let there be no mistake about memeconomy and business appease- Democrat and for two years ment being at the expense of the ber of the board of directors of workers and farmers and the un- the Sagebrush organization, was employed. The three largest item3 presented with a life membership in next years federal budget, tl in the club as a reward for her service for democracy. only items on which any substan- splendid The principal address of the tial saving could be made, are interest on the public debt (which evening was by Mr. Gunn. He in the club could not possibly be cut because auded his businessmen and bankers hold the and predicted a successful year for bonds on which the interest is the organization during the comThis is your organiza paid), national defense (which can- ing year. the members, admonished he ;ion, not possibly be cut because most success and is in its your hands. of the funds are already appropriated and they go directly to busi- We do not look for, nor do we deand recovery and re sire, factional friction among us ness, anyhow) ' lief (now theres something!). so, therefore, let us work for the Senator Pat Harrison (D., Miss.), advancement of those principles chairman of the Senate Finance that mean advancement of. the prinCommittee, is the leading figure at ciples of the Democratic party and the moment in business appease- what it really stands for. Let us ment and when he talks about eco- do this in the spirit of the original nomy he means, he says, the Sagebrush Democrats of Utah, who emergency items, that is, recov- initiated this movement way back in 1888. ery and relief. L. H. Christensen, a native Its no good pointing out to the Utahn and one of the early Sagere the business appeasers that if brush made a short talk Democrats, are and relief expenditures covery cut millions of people will be de on the eariy history of Democracy prived of food and clothing. They in southern Utah. A musical program, dancing and reply that the federal government will provide relief by a system of refreshments, were among the fea public works and that those who tures of the well enjoyed evening. are not absorbed in this program (which is not so bad for appeasing U. S. ENERGY because the public works are done under contract and the money goes RESOURCES to business first and then to the workers) will be taken care of by The latest report of the National the states. If the states raise the funds for Resources Committee, currently Lrelief purposes it is quite all right transmitted by the President to with the business appeasers for the Congress, deals with the nations resources coal, oil, natural very simple reason that the biggest energy and water power and recomgas income the of the of share, by far, states is raised by taxing the con mended ways and means for their sumers, the workers, the farmers, better utilization and conservation The total amount of energy used and not the incomes or inheritances of the moguls of industry. In 1933, annually in the United States is for example, 45 per cent of all tax- - estimated to have, increased six- es collected were consumer taxes, during the 40 years preceding 1939. Indeed, at the present rate on that is, taxes sales, gasoline, of the committee con utilization, soft drinks, amusements, tobacco, and similar levies. Taxes on in- eludes that the country may face comes, inheritances, stock trans- an oil shortage within a decade or fers, and special bank taxes dur- two. Bituminous coal still remains the ing the same year accounted for source of energy, supply18 principal revenues. states cent of per only ing 48 per cent of the total energy An Exception An exception to this is New derived from, mineral fuels and York State which raised 38 per water power. Petroleum, which 40 cent of its tax revenue from an in- years ago was a negligible pro come tax and avoided the imposi- ducer of energy, today accounts for tion of taxes on soft drinks, voting, over 32 per cent of the energy sup sales, and tobacco. Big business ply, and natural gas for an addiin that state is fighting the income tional 10 per cent. Water power, important though it is as a means of 1938. Two years ago at this of generating electrical power, time, an the eve of the wage con- supplies less than 4 per cent of ference then impending, produc-- 1 the total energy used for all pur" tion was running considerably poses, including heat. above normal. .The committees experts esti- - fd BEST WISHES TO LABOR PROGRESS SUPPLY COMPANY RESTAURANT, BAKERS, CONFECTIONERS, BUTCHERS SUPPLIES 411 SALT LAKE CITY Hyland 3215 South State V 4 Smart consumers look for government quality, grades on foods before they buy. Consumers Guide reports that last year 606 million pounds of meat and meat products were graded under the voluntary grading system of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. This was almost a 60 million pound increase over the previous year. Government experts also graded more than 40 million dozen eggs during the year each one of them separately! Consumers purchased more than 24 million pounds of govemment- - graded turkeys and about 11 million pounds of other government-grade- d poultry. More and more consumers are learning to protect their pocket-book- s by asking for government-grade- d foods when they buy. If your local merchant doesnt handle eggs, poultry, and meats bearing the government quality grade stamp, ask him to get them from his wholesaler. More information about government grades on these products and what they mean can be secured by writing: Consumers Counsel Di- -. vision, Agricultural Adjustment Administration, Washington, D. C. LOOK FOR THE WHITE SATIN LABEL rt , Feminine hat shoppers anxious to purchase millinery that has been made under fair working conditions should look for the label of the Millinery Stabilization Commission, advises the Consumers Guide. This white satin label is the consumers guarantee that the hat bearing it was made under saniof tary conditions at a fair rate and sold fair under was pay and equitable commercial practices, writes the Guide. It is controlled by the Millinery Stabilization Commission, formed by workers and employers in the millinery industry to regulate commercial and labor practices in the industry. d consumers who are the thought that their repelled by made are garments by sweated, labor can make sure their hats are fair hats by looking in the lining for the white satin label. About 80 per cent of all womens hats bear the label. The label tells nothing about the quality of the hat. To determine that consumers must judge the felt and workmanship for themselves. Fair-minde- WELCOME, LABOR SUNSET PAINT & WALL PAPER CO. 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