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Show Klevfiow n EDUCATE ORGANIZE COOPERATE THE PEOrLES TAPER VU ' VOL X; NO. 39 on Exreimto d2 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. MAR . Price: 5 Cents Per Copy A Power Dams and Politics State Has Great Resources And Plenty of Room For Research and Pioneering By RICHARD L. NEUBERGER (Published in the Nation Magazine. March 18.) activi- proposition for rehiring min- xcess of thirty (30) days to sob- ers in the' company mines at Park mit to examination by the company City. Mr. Ivers letter reads as follows: physician before returning to work they be furnished with a At a meeting held in this office and that the of doctors findings and copy Saturday, March 18, 1939, at which report. was present a committee representThe Silver King Coalition Mines ing Park City local No. 99 of the company is entirely agreeable to International Union of Mine, Mill above memorandum the and Smelter Workers, consisting of accepting of and abide by the same Fitzhugh White, Ernest Fuelling, in agreement event the it proves acceptable Robert Bunting, Devon Pope, Joe to the former employes companys Fritch and a representative of the action. We beunion their district union No. 1, H. Afton Davis through the words in that lieve, however, and M. G. Heitzman, manager of the (and employes), parenthesis, operations of this company, and might prove to be a source of conthe writer, the following proposi- siderable and misunderstanding tion was considered: . therefor should be eliminated. We Three Days Grace have so expressed ourselves to the (1) That men employed at time union committee as the transcript who make applica- of the discussion will show. of mass lay-otion within three days of the anContract in Effect nounced date of reopening, as per As you are aware, this company section 5 of present agreement, be signed an agreement negotiated by granted opportunity for employ- its representatives with the local ment as provided in section 5 of union No. 99 of the International present agreement without neces- Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter sity of undergoing physical exam- Workers, which agreement is now ination; before any new employes in effect. Of course it is the comare given employment they will be panys intention to continue to required to submit to a physical comply with the provisions of the examination by the company phy- agreement. sician. The union is glad of the fact that , (2) That the company may re- the company admits there is an quire its employes to have a com- agreement between the company plete and thorough physical exami- and union in effect, and, therefore, nation by the company physician it insists that the provisions of the once every two years and that the existing contract will be adhered to employes so examined be furnished by both parties in the controversy. "with a copy of the doctor's report; Claim Conspiracy the purpose of this arrangement Union letter follows: The Miners being to afford an opportunity to Mine and Mill The Park the management (and the em- Workers UnionCity 99 feels that No. ployes) to place employes in de- there is a conspiracy between the partments that will protect their Chairman of the Industrial Comwelfare and health and where they mission and the management of the will not place in jeopardy their Coalition Silver Mining comKing fellow employes. to violate the us to to get pany Examination try on Insist with the have we (3) That is understood that agreement that a ( misrepresenta-the company may require employes company through on 6) Continued page who voluntarily lay off for a period ff dam-buildi- (Continued on Page 5) An open letter from the Park City Miners' Union No. 99 charges buck passing by management of the Silver King Coalition Mining company and chairman of the state industrial commission. It charges that there is a conspiracy between the two parties. The unions open letter followed a letter by James Ivers, general manager of the company, purporting to be a compro-us- e CONGRESSMAN WRIGHT PATMAN H. R. is a bill in Congress known as a bill to tax interstate chain stores. This bill will be insisted upon at this session of Congress. I know that the passage or the defeat of any measure depends upon public sentiment of the people of this nation. If public sentiment supports a bill, it has a chance of passage and will be passed. If it it as a bill to destroy the does not support a bill, that bill posing chain-stor- e systems of this counPublic does not have a chance. That is absolutely untrue. In try. sentiment controls this country first the it exempts from place, on and its all body tax stores. nine Then the tax any major legislation. on a large number of stores in one Major Problems state is not unreasonably high, and I do not concede that the Fed- I assure you that a concern under tax bill is the only this bill could operate a compareral chain-stor- e before problem Congress to- atively large number of stores in major New 1 ol ty-pioneering Paris City Miners Union Charges Buck Passing . t BONNEVILLE, Oregon Englands six Republican governors are taking heroic measures to protect their people from the tyranny of the federal governand power ments flood-contrprogram. No New 'Deal dams across the rivers of Vermont and Massachusetts shall destroy the liberty won by the Founding Fathers. On the other side of the continent such valiant defenders of freedom are missing. There the citizenry is meekly submissive. The people of the Pacific Northwest are going to submit to the thraldom of paying $2.25 for 100 kilowatt-hours of electricity from Bonneville dam. . In the Vermont capital of Montpelier, where Governor George D. Aiken bravely invokes the doctrine of states rights against President Roosevelts plans, the inhabitants enjoy the liberty of being billed $5.23 for the same amount of juice. Shopkeepers in the Oregon town of Eugene are to be subjected to a commercial rate of $13.53 for 750 (Continued on page 7) In natural resources Utah is the richest spot under the sun. It has vast undeveloped stores of all known minerals. Utah's bituminous coal reserves are estimated at 46,350,-000,00- 0 tons. The state's tillable agricultural acres, when developed and placed under irrigation, would produce crops abundant to feed a population of more than fifteen million people. There are industrial opportunities in Utah to establish manufacturing plants employing thousands of men and women. Yes, Utah has natural resources and raw materials and tillable acres to provide for a population 50 times greater than it has in this year of 1939. The development of Utahs resources has been but merely scratched as yet It has not even reached the pioneering stage. Utah has plenty of room and opportunities for pioneering. And, we actually believe, the greatest pioneering in Utah is ahead of us. In the near future you shall see plenty of activity in all lines in this state of natural wealth of opportunities. What Utah needs is men and women who are willing to do some research work and pioneering. ' Men and women who are willing to forget political scraps and scrambles for little jobs at the political pie counter, and who are willing to devote time and effort for making Utah the . Proposed Federal Tax On Interstate Chain Stores law-maki- day. controlled and uninfluenced by those who are selfishly interested. The American people are honest, fair, and intelligent. If they have the benefit of correct information on both sides of a public question, the majority of them will agree on what should be done, and by direct communication, compel their lawmaking Representatives to carry out their will. controls this , Public sentiment country to such an extent that I do not know a member of Congress who is not eager to carry out the wishes of a majority of his con- I I jLIKE A STUBBORN ByM.LT.' it dovetails into other one state without a prohibitive tax major problems on which I am working, and it has a great bearing on them. I refer to adequate security for the aged, parity income for farmers, discriminatory freight rates, a fair monetary system, un- ng Hevs and Cesoent But ng JACKASS stituents. ' More than 150 members of ConSome of the Tory politicians in gress in the House of Representathe U. S. Congress, in their con- tives have already informed continued stubborn determination to stituents that they will vote for block the New Deal prosperity at this bill. Bill Misrepresented any cost, remind me of the stubborn jackass that pulled the cart of i This bill has been very much the Italian fruit peddler. misrepresented. In the first place, i The peddler would load his cart dock and then drive his rounds, with the jackass always balking and causing trouble. Dne morning, after the cart was oaded, the jackass refused to go. When the old Italian tried to lead um, the jackass started to back and resisted all attempts to stop lim. Finally, he backed over the edge of the dock. The old man stood and watched where he went down. When the bubbles stopped coming up, he said, I hope you got your G D satisfy. it has i i at the fruit been advertised by those op being levied against it, though I frankly admit that if the concern attempts to spread out all over the nation and take all of the privileges and opportunities of the people all over the nation, eventually, giving the concern time to liquidate, a prohibitive tax will be placed upon the stores outside of the state. Why a Tax Bill? The question will be asked if we are trying to restrict them to one state, and why we do not introduce a bill to that effect. That was very seriously considered and a bill to that effect was prepared, but the best lawyers of the nation said there was doubt as to its constitutionality. i There is one safe constitutional approach to this problem, and only one, and that is to use the taxing power of Congress as a vehicle to accomplish a worthy objective, and in doing it we have many precedents. After the War between the States, when the state banks were issuing currency and the Congress of the United States wanted to stop it, why did not the Congress (Continued on page 2) BETWEEN THE LINES By LABORS NON-PARTISA- LEAGUE N WASHINGTON There was a laugh during the dehate in the House orr changes to the Untied States Housing law last week, but no one up to the present knows whether the laugh is on the House, on one of the members of the Appropriations committee or on the slum dwellers whose chances for decent SMALL TOWN BOY MAKES GOOD living quarters rest on the House action. It is conceded, however, that the slum dwellers will not Appointment of William O. find much to laugh at when they hear the story. Douglas by President Roosevelt to Jed Johnson of Oklahoma, reporting for the House Apthe position of justice of the suD. court to succeed Louis preme propriations committee, was presenting an amendment to the Brandeis who retired on February United States Housing law which would have set aside $1,500,- 13, reminds us that another small 000 as a This revolving fund. town boy has made good. Bill Douglas, who is assured of Senate confirmation, is the second youngest member ever to sit on the U. S. supreme court since it was created. He is just past 40 years of age and is chairman of the Securities and Exchange commission, where he has been known as tamer of Wall Street. His life story reads like a book. He was bom at a little off the railroad farming community in Minnesota, Maine Prairie, as we used to know the place when we were kids. Maine Prairie was a spot in a forest crossroads consisting of a country store and postoffice, blacksmith shop . and small gristmill, but a home of farmers, who educated their daughters to become able and liberal school teachers. (I speak from experience for my most beloved teachers in my youth came from God-feaf-i- Maine Prairie.) (Continued on page 3) ng money, in the end, could have been used by the Housing Authority as part of its administrative expenses. Immediately someone from the Republican side challenged the amendment as being out of order. He said it involved legislation and therefore was not under the jurisdiction of the Appropriations Committee. Whereupon Johnson, without the slightest hesitation or attempt at ascertaining the justification of the claim, agreed to cross out the item, thereby depriving the Authority of the use of a large share of its administrative funds which, experts say, 'will seriously cripple its activities. The laugh comes in at the discovery that the proposed amendment was perfectly in order and properly handled by the Appropriations committee. Thus, whether due to ignorance, carelessness or complete indifference thousands of slum dwellers . will be deprived of decent homes unless Congress is forced to reconsider this particular item. Another Slam The House took another slam at the Housing law when it cut the unit construction cost per dwelling to $3500. This action, in the opinion of those close to the problem, endangers the whole national hous-- ing program. A. At Expense of Needy is now going on tug-of-w- ar between Administration supporters and its foes in the House of Representatives over the prostrate bodies y of the unemployed. The concerns President Rcdsevelts pull second urgent request to ' restore the $150,000,000 WPA cut. two-wa- unThe recon to themselves place willing ord against the appropriation, are (Continued on page 4) |