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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH, MARCH 31. 1939 Pag. 8 A Prayer For Honorable Peace For Labor Puro-Brc- d Cows Going to Worlds Fair POWER DAMS AND POLITICS This photograph shows the partly completed building which will house the "Dairy World of Tomorrow" at the New York Worlds Fair in 1939. In it the five pure-breassociations Ayrshire, Guernsey, Brown-Swis- s will each have 30 outstanding and Jersey specimens of their breed on display for the entire duration of the Fair. These animals, selected throughout the United States and Canada, are chosen for outstanding merit. They will be milked three times a day on a RotoJactor similar to the one developed at the Walker-Gordo- n Laboratories. The exhibit will demonstrate the production and handling of milk under best sanitary conditions. The Borden Company is with the breed associations and will bear the expense of assembling, feeding and caring for the animals. (Continued from page 7) the White House only 31 per cent of the farms in Idaho and Oregon The eyes of all the workers are still centered on Washing had electricity. Today the figures ton and New York where negotiations are still under way befor the two states are 55 and 50 tween representatives of tlyj C. I. O. and the A. F. L per cent. Money Talks Conferences set afoot by President Roosevelt are now in the storekeeper in Money talks; session in an endeavor to call a halt to labor's misunderstandFalls is interested to Klamgth ings, jealousies and peanut politics and to effect a permanent learn that the electricity which costs him $35 from the California-Orego- n peace between labor forces. Power company can be had the and President determined sincere was Undoubtedly in' for $13.53 from BonneEugene when he asked for the conference. Just what he would do in ville Dam. case the conference should fail one does not know. All may be Massachusetts housewives might assured that he is going to put behind these meetings all of the view Governor Leverett Salton-stall- s 1 V--1 hostility to federal power r-V i power and influence that he can exercise peacefully and perin New England with r-mprojects suasively. something less than enthusiasm if The manner in which the conferences were called and the they knew they paid more than twice the Bonneville Dam rate to spirit in which they began are familiar to the readers of the Utah Labor News. Each of us has his opinion and his judgment light their homes. Bonneville Dam is completed now about them. And each of us makes his own reservations and A and ready to produce electricity. predictions as to the prospects of success that the conferences Grand Coulee will be finished about will bring. 1941. Already twenty-fiv- e public-utility We, too, have our opinion and our predictions. We could districts" have been organized in the state of Washingoffer our judgment as to whether the present negotiations are ton. Similar units will be formed likely to bring peace, and our opinion whether a proper ap- months, Hitler had destroyed the labor unions, confiscated their in Oregon. One of the obstacles proach has been made by one side or the other. . to this thrown con-of thousands leaders German labor into development is that the dis- , treasuries, I tricts have to obtain But we desire to forget all these calculations and all these I centration the money for camps; and launched with full force his persecution the work in the general financing reservations, and we urge you to do the same. f the Jews. We want to cast aside all doubts and all cold reckonings, Austria was seized in March. 1938; and the best informa- - f0 promoters,' sstemedtnves and together with you we want to utter a prayer for the success tion is that more than 2000 Austrian Jews had committed sui- - ment bankers to get started. This of the peace negotiations. cide by the end of April. On March 19, there were 54 suicide as aroused considerable criticism. In our hearts we pray that the negotiators be given vision funerals in 112. If half of these Vienna, and on March f? and wisdom. We hope they hav foresight and moderation. We were Jews, the figures of 2000 Jewish21,suicides is moderate. Tens moneyVo the 3 Vor RFC lons a vengefulness and recrimination be removed from their I of thousands of Austrian Jews were swept into Nazi concentra- - I districts. Some members of the Pra.j and that charity and mutual accommodation tion camps; where the mortality is considerations, Washington State Grange have ap- very high on this mat- guide their counsels. ? Czechoslovakia has been a pretty strong labor union Lproac.d Jess th defimte result- - Inc1' What a simple thing it is that we hope and pray fori All country, and has quite a large Jewish population. One of the1 that we reach out for is no more than the basic tenet of labor's specific points named in the account of the annexation is that expressed in the one word, the labor laws ahd laws of Germany shall prevail Cn.t,rf Plo,80P?y 7? I I UNION, Unite unite That s what we have been preaching to in Czechoslovakia as in Austria. the working people m this country ever since Benjamin Frank- The Nazi march into Prague brings a gold and currency lin directed the Printers Guild, first labor union in America, hoard of more than $100,000,000 within grasp of Hitler, it was gram. And that is the content of our prayer to the negotiators who estimated in Wall Street. Not Concerned are now conferring on peace in the labor movement. The governors of the New EnThe Central Bank of Czechoslovakia reported its gold gland states do not seem especialUnite 1 Let us unite holdings on March 7 at around 81,000,000. In addition, about ly that electricity in Perhaps it is very difficult to compose the differences be- - $1 1,000,000 in gold is held in a special fund against gold lia theirconcerned costs two and three region tween the U 1. O. and the A. F. L The bitterness of months bilities. On the same date, the Reichsbank statement revealed times as much as at Bonneville and years of contention is not easily obliterated. The animosiues that Germany's admitted stocks amounted to less than dam. Testifying before the House Flood Control committee last year, created by vituperation and personal attacks are hard to, forget. $28,500,000, or little more gold than of the Czech gold Governor Aiken was asked if he the jealousies of organizations and leaders are not simple to reserves. thought federal power projects achi'v'd Over and beyond the. Czech gold holdings, are the na- - would result in the reduction of 1? .lriVe for'Jh' bi'Ct that all cost of electricity to consumers differences and tional banks balances abroad and considerations, of foreign curren-difficulti- the holdings in Vermont: must be forgotten and overcome. cies, amounting to about $35,000,000. Governor Aiken: I do not know. And the way to compose these diferences is not by the The Austria anschluss brought only a $46,000,000 gold Congressman Clason: You never Munich or Versailles route. into the New Germany last March. looked into that? dowry There must be no Versailles peace or Munich "appeaseGovernor Aiken: No. ment. One of the most remarkable men in American public life. James There should be no victors and no vanquished in labors Ross, is supervising the New warfare, and certainly there are no suppressed minorities whose Deals drive to cut the price of interests are the special concern of one leader or another. We power to the people of the Far are all, all of us victims in this war, and we can be victors only West. For thirty years he has been if the conflict is ended; superintendent of the municipal ' in Seattle. His power As long as the strife between the C. I. O. and the A. F. L. By RAYMOND LONERGAN get that the principal business of light plant on .the Skagit river is the project The Gallup Poll threatens to be the Gallup concern is preparing continues, we, the working people, we, the organized and unbiggest hydroelectric undertaking come one of the most dangerous and placing advertisements. organized workers must lose. in the United States outside those One question all of us may ponder well: If these two propaganda agencies in this.coun Muddling the Public Mind owned by, the federal government. try. Dr. Once a conservative mayor fired If had submitted a Gallup groups representing the C. I. O. and the A. F. L cannot bring The promoters built up a repuRoss. The voters of Seattle immefor the specific proposal changing us peace, who is going to do so. tation by calling the turn on two and an been act, had diately recalled the mayor, and opportunity It is a fact that division and strife cannot continue. Even or three elections. Now they are afforded to discuss Ross was reinstated. He is a traa then it, poll capitalizing that reputation. From of public opinion have been dition in the Northwest. Famous ,ne I Week to week announce pub- - of some value. might ,alr;i regardless of the lie opinion" onthey As hav, been made should be studied carefully, the question throughout the country is the $4.05 all kinds of ques- - was the worth vacation he offers to the people of presented, isnt poll smeenty or lack of sincerity with which they were offered. This tions. The result largely depends a plugged dime. Seattle in conjunction with the does not mean ready acceptance of any proposal. It does mean, I QnJhe way Question is phrased, The doctor is handling a lot of Skagit river plant. For that sum Recently the question was: Do other important however, an open mind and an honest heart toward every proin the le provides a week-en- d in the you think the Wagner Labor Act same fashion. Ifquestions he with railit posal. mountains, board, room, keeps up, should be revised, repealed, or left he will the road of the and entertaingo way there transportation, is any vestige of personal selfishness and animosi- unchanged? Literary , Digest, which predicted Roos- ment included. between to 48 the conferees cent let it be brought to the front and According Gallup, per evelts defeat at the Since the President ty;8 moment so that the conference may get down to the real said Revise it, 18 per cent said when the American very Bonneville and Grand Coulee, no were people Repeal it, and 34 per cent said preparing to put him across business for which the President called them together. who failed to support the Republican by Dont touch it. most impressive majority ever giv- these projects enthusiastically has Let us have an honorable and lasting labor And Heres the Joker peace en a candidate for the presidency. been elected to public office in the Most of, the newspapers conColumbia river basin. Even chamstrued that as evidence that the bers of commerce make pilgrimAmerican people wished to stick Indubitably ages to the huge structures. Busithe knife into this extremely imIn the corner of the clubroom ness men want cheap power, too. portant labor legislation. Of course Pusher was holding forth as usual, Republican newspapers in New it doesnt such and this prove time the habits economic any thing. England may believe that GoverAdolf Hitler has advanced another stage in his march to- Those who favored retaining the of the Scot were his theme. nor Aiken has saved Vermont from ward the east. About a year ago, he seized Austria. Less than act as is, outnumbered those who Go where you will, cried the federal tyranny, but the Republicsix months ago, he bluffed England and France at Munich, and favored repeal by almost two to bore, to the remotest corner of an Spokesman-Revieof Spokane reduced Czechoslovakia, one of Europes most progressive re- one. the earth, and wherever you find and the Oregonian of Portland But how about those who indi- him you will observe one thing have published special editions depublics, to a helpless vassal; which now he has rearranged to cated a desire to revise the law? Sandy never .wastes!. voted to Mr. Roosevelts dams on ' suit himself. I dont agree, said. Crump, the Columbia river. Right there we discover the jokIn one year, Hitler has added to his domain well over 80,-00- 0 er. What did Dr. Gallup and his bluntly. Unless the G. O. P. platform mean miles and the him. turned colleagues to Pusher makers What? next year combine the talrevising by square 20,000,000 peoples Roughly, this is an ents of Houdini and Talleyrand area equal to that of Pennsylvania and Ohio; and a population law? Therebe are a hundred ways he gasped. Why? that might done from moving Have you ever been to the Sa- they will have difficulty in satisequal to those of those two states with that of Massachusetts a comma to cutting the heart out hara? asked Crump. fying both Republicans in the East, thrown in. of the act. No. who insist New Deal power projIt is useless to orate about the villainy of this performance. Putting it bluntly, this was a Ah, retorted Crump, if you ects are despotism, and Republiccatch question, framed by a had been, what would you have ans in the West, of whom the PresThat is clear to every sane person. It is well, however, to re- bunch smart advertising experts. found there? Sandy wastes of ident was thinking when he said, member that before he had been in power in Germany six In thatofconnection we must not for course! Ive got to give Charlie his dam. d A anti-Semit- ic : one-quart- soal-.mporta- er !fh nt es Columnist Reveals Joker In Gallup Labor Act Poll ' Del-mag- A pp -- 1 The Death of a Republic w ( , |