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Show r UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH, APRIL Page 8 7, 1939 things over. He can save himself and the city workers a lot of trouble if he uses his think cap now and demands that the Main street farmers do not pass any Hitler legislation against MISTER FARMER SHOULD USE IIIS THINKING CAP labor. (Continued from Page 1) NEWS AND COMMENT (Continued from page 7) the very beginning attempted to If he does not use his head now, he will use it later when follow the same principles. Unforand servants of those Wall Street bankers and Insurance awakens he to a realization that the hard times on the farms tunately the need has been so great this has been impossible. Yet, panie. that foreclose on farm, and knock farm prices down, forced hi. boy. and girl, to become worker, in the ci ie.. that the the worker, record of sacrifice by one comon war who to the ore leading Thoie farmer, he comnderable when extent he a to .mke. at labor, rade very for another is a glorious one. are the .ame,intere.t. who .oaked the farmer, with intere.t jhat h's "d Journal of ,he ,n 8,r,, Labor, Atlanta, Ga. hy . rate, that hail the .ky for the limit. Conditions at the. present time are the positive proof that They are the same interests that always soaked the farmer the worker has little, the farmer has little, and vice versa, when he bought anything, and drove prices down on the farmFarmers who use their heads know that the city workers and ers' products. I the farmers go up and down together, They are the same interests that used to, by some magic, labor feels that even reactionary farmers use their heads wheat the farmer sold in change a million bushels of No. too well to very long remain the dupes of the chambers of terminal market to a million and quarter bushels of No. wheat when it was sold by the chamber of commerce gambling commerce, the Wall Street banks, the chain stores, the HARTFORD, Conn. (Special) Is experience the best teacher? tional manufacturers association, and the Republican party. interests. Where automobile accidents are By the same magic it changed a million bushels of No. concerned, experience is the best of a milwheat the farmer brought to market to teacher only when it is somebody lion bushels of lower grade wheat when the farmer was selling elses experience, according to a new booklet entitled Lest We Re. the wheat. gret" just issued by The Travelers It is the dockage pirates who looted the farmers who now Insurance The booklet incite the farmers to make the effort to enslave the city The newspapers report gleefully that the rubber stamps presents a company. comprehensive analysis g based on official workers. are in revolt in Congress and will not pass any New Deal reports from the 48 of about accithe facts workers the reactionary farmers to war on the city states, lation except as they see fit. The accounts of Congressional the states. The forword dent," are the very same interests who have bankrupted the fruit activities are full of colorful detail of the dramatic conflict killed and more than a million of the west. tween Democratic Representatives and Senators and the Dem- - were injured last year. The same interests that now are using reactionary farmers ocratic Administration, The experience of losing his life is on the driver or pedeswasted in an attempt to outlaw labor unions, are thq very banking in- At least one reader of the daily newspapers has in an automobile acciI killed trian that during the war lured the farmers into buying more plained, however, that it is still not clear against whom and The forward the dent," land than they could afford to at top prices, loaned them money what the rubber stamps are rebelling. So far as we can remem-o- n experience of monthsstates. in a hospital the land, and then in 1921 through the organized deflation ber, it was always difficult for President Roosevelt to get full cot or of weeks in a law court Is robbery of the farmers by the Wall Street bankers called these I compliance or cooperation on his New Deal program. It was costly tuition for ones education in safety. If we wish to avoid loans and deflated the farmers into bankruptcy. always something of a surprise when certain Democratic Con- - these dire costs, we must apply the I If farmers will use their thinking caps they will appreciate gressmen acquiesced in the enlightened proposals of the New experience of others to ourselves." that labor has never foreclosed a mortgage on a farm. That Deal and helped make them law. Most of them had served Auto Accidents Analyzed The experience of the thousands labor has fought to keep the farms in the hands of the farmers. tory interests for years and were well known as the rubber Labor knows and appreciates the gamble the farmer takes, stamps of Wall Street, the utilities, and the privileged few. If who had to learn their lesson the brings to light Labor knows the golden dreams the farmer dreams at spring I there ever was a revolt of the rubber stamps, it was when they hard way in 1938facts such as the many interesting seeding time of a plenteous crop. It understands that almost stopped writing ditto to Wall Street and attached themselves following5 always these golden dreams of education for the boys and girls to the New Deal. Exceeding the speed limit was 39.6 per cent of the and of a more comfortable life for Ma and Pa are dashed to For many reasons the rubber stamps now find that they responsible for 25 per cent of the indeaths and sadness and despair at harvest time. can return to their usual environment and usual routine. juries. Despite a decrease in is Often it the weather that brings this plight. But when The fact that the revolutionary Congressmen still fear inN 1938 compared with it is not the weather, it, is the very pirates of industry and fi- - to put themselves on record when they sabotage the New Deal 1937, the percentage caused by nance operating in the market places, who, smashing down ought to prove the extent of their independence and their speed went up. cent of the drivAlmost 94 prices of farm products, bring the anguish and despair which courage. . They are still rubber stamps of Wall Street, but they ers involved per in fatal accidents has too long been the lot of those who toil on the farms. dont iike their constituents to know it were male and only 6 per cent feFarmers have a right to be sore and indignant These male. More than 84 per cent of the Who would set them on the workers in the city have driven accidents occurred in clear fatal down the prices of farm products and sabotaged relief until weather, and 77 per cent happened farm products are being almost given away. That is, consid when the road surface was dry. More people were killed on Sunering the price the farmer gets. But farmers should not be hypnotized into doing the day than on any other day of the week, while the heaviest injury toll dirty work of those who have robbed them. came on Saturday. More persons Farmers should ask the propagandists of the daily press, were killed between 7 and 8 p. m. Railroading through the House of the reactionary Demp- than the farm journals, the Wall Street banks, the chain-stor- e at any other hour. bill, aimed at division of the labor and progressive move sey 43 per cent of all victims Almost in low the if industrial and overlords monopolists, wages lines of citizen vs. an ment along urgent brought accidents were peof traffic fatal make for farm city prosperity, why the farmers are not pros- call for action to half-o- f of final and this all peof destrians. Almost measure, passage prevent perous now? crosskilled were either destrians There are more than 10,000,000 unemployed workers other similar measures before the House and Senate, from the ing between intersections or walkwho with their families are forced on relief and receive a bare International Labor Defense. on rural The Dempsey Bill, born of the Dies Committee, provides ing Danger highways. Unit Introduced subsistence. The wages are practically zero. n believes for who immediate to the statistical In of in, addition deportation any There are millions of WPA workers who with their famibooklet introduces a the or belongs to an organization which advocates' any changes analysis, lies receive the bare necessities. of driving new and concept unique Under its terms, the terms There are other millions unemployed neither on relief nor in the American form of government. in of Danger danger n I.L.D. pointed out, any who believes in any pending Units."- It is pointed out that enWPA, and they shadow the of a receiving wage. New in Deal as measures the increases even amendment, or Wi'tlT all 'thebe progressively ergy many 1000 f'nemployedi. the loweatpos- - which have been of a car increases, but that speed to who or not but enacted, belongs proposed Bible wage imaginable, certainly if to persecute the city work- . outm favor the increment in energy far a on or has which other record union gone organization ers makes prosperity for the farmers, the farmers should be strips the addition in miles per of such legislation, would be subject to immediate 'c deportation, hour. . . . the of now. prospentyI . enjoying . height Other objections to the bill are based upon its Taking as its equivalent the No, it is not the worker who is the cause of the plight of c i of the human thoughts and beliefs, quite separate from any averagetheshock limitUnit the farmers. is mathebody, Danger f he PPula!i.n f United States It is to bo hopod that the farmers will not bo like the good acjon' of a to the energy dematically equal a.m ? st,fle pollal aCtln by n,.n5 and veloped in an automobile moving at Pn ? ?.K,'ntwh.ch farm wife who when her young son came running in th house, have among their mem- - 25 miles per hour, to a street-widt- h 'gan.zat.on, crying that he had swallowed a potato bug, immediately reached ?,hr of actual stopping distance, for the paris green and shot some of it down the boys throat er8 to one in case of an Railroaded through the House Committee on Immigration on the theory that paris green would kill potato bugs. to the fall of a person or accident, y house. This conThe boys funeral was a great surprise to KU mother, ac- - anc Naturalization, and through the House Rules Committee, off a the bill floor House was the the action of for on with the known fact brought up cept, coupled cording to the story. the of a moving body that when its memobserved that liberal energy reactionary proponents Mister Farmer will do well to use his head, lest in atas increases the of the square In bers were momentarily absent. three minutes it was. all over, tacking labor, he slay his best customer and find himself even- and is illustrated in speed, the bill passed without a record vote. It now goes to the clearly understandable even tually in the plight of the good woman who thought a potato Senate for action the there. Committee on to whose knowledge of by Immigration persons bug should receive the same treatment whether it was on a ponation-wid- e Is or laws of final its action Immediate, to physical engineering passage, prevent tato plant or in the stomach of her boy. limited. beand the of other measures of similar purport now passage Mister Farmer is going to use his head. He has to think High Speed Costly fore the House and Senate, was called for by Louis Colman, asAlso contained in the booklet is sistant national secretary of the I.L.D., and director of its Wash- a discussion of the high cost of I fast driving. An increase in averington Bureau. age speed from 35 to 45 miles per Organizations and individuals were urged to- - wire, write, hour .. will save a little more than send resolutions, to the Senate Immigration Committee, urg- six hours of time in each thousand with the House action; to communicate miles driven, it is shown, but each ing Become a regular reader of the Utah Labor News with their, own Senators to the same effect. of the hours saved costs about 65 cents. An increase in average and thus keep up with the progress of Utah and the United At the same time, Mr, Colman pointed out, the danger 35 to 55 miles per hour from speed from other similar bills, or some that are even, worse in their States. Only $1.50 per year, and worth it. the cost of hours saved to jumps implications, is pot lessened but increased. Senators and Con- about $1.20 each. zr. The should insurance he from receive and said, gressmen, company will every organization distribute million two copies of the individual that believes in democracy and human rights, mesbooklet in this of the year sages urging defeat of all measures aimed at persecution of the highway safety. Singleinterest or copies East Street 4th South Salt Lake City 28 foreign born, limitation of their civil rights, or making it more quantities are available through difficult for them to become naturalized. the company or any of its agents. ' com- - -- Lest We Regret' Jen 1 1 1 three-quarte- rs Revolt of Rubber Stamps legis-Usin- be-farm- ers com-teres- ts I I I I fa-;alit- ies Railroading Dempsey Bill Brings Call for Action so-call- ed non-citize- n, non-citize- non-citize- I - co"!OM' anti-democra- I Pio" tic '!' non-c.ttze- n, roll-ov- er two-stor- - word-pic-tur- es i Subscribe Today. non-concurren- UTAH LABOR NEWS ce |