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Show -- - '.wswemrww i.r r if .,, , -- IxlG'vy.GXAT J uwiinfrji'' a prt v 4 3" 'Anr or mju M-Wrx d2 (umrireinni EhreimCo mavis 1939 C!? JStrry oitjca i Ti y r-- VOL X; NO. 45 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. MAY Much Activity Reported By Several Companies oV SANATORIUM - ch United Mine Workers Jt By M. L T. To Sign Work Pacts The United States government representatives tuminous coal operators having agreements with Mine Workers of America to sign with the union so be resumed at once. This request came after the 4 negotiators 5 Cents Per Copy The independent farmer of today is situated between the devil and the deep blue sea. . This is true in the western states particularly in Califorg is on big scale, nia, Oregon and Washington. Associa-ate- d and it is marching under the banner of the Farmers. Chair-store- s and chain this and that are at the bottom of the whole situation. Agriculture has evolved because of the interstate chains, and it has evolved into a large-scal- e aided arid industry abetted by the Associated Farmers. farmers should know that it isn't just oratory Independent tells him the that Associated Farmers are Big Business and the 1 Chain-farmin- so-call- so-call- ed ed utilities. Look at this: Transamerica Corporation (up before the S. E. C. at present for questionable practices) controlled banks in 1937 holding $1,620,000,000 in assets and over $1,424,000,000 in deposits representing 483 branch banks in California, 32 in Oregon, 9 in Nevada. California Lands, large growers of grapes, prunes, peaches and grains, owns more than half a million acres; is worth almost $14,000,000 and had an income of over $2,500,000 in 1936. Kern County Land Company owned 1,250,000 acres in California and New Mexico in 1933 and all the capital stock in 14 canal and irrigation companies. (Irrigation costs $9 an (Continued on page 8) f A 3. "'f'i By A. I. HARRIS MOTHERS DAY-A PEACE DAY invited bithe United mining can Price: Trespassing at the Capital Ileus and Ccnoent V 39 Chain Farming Menacing Independent Farmers GROUP MEETS TONIGHT Utah State Sanatorium Associa Much interest in test oil wells is reported during the past tion meets at the Newhouse hote week from Box Elder, Cache, Wayne and Grand counties. this (Friday) evening at 7:3( More than 1 0 oil rigs are said to be ready to be placed in oper oclock, announced Warren I. Cas sidy of Ogden, executive secretary. ation at an early date in different sections of the state. The purpose of the meeting is reAmong these are prospect wells to be drilled in White val- organization and election of offi anticline and Rozel point ley cers. Box Elder county, leasing of lands gathered Sunday at the location of Mr. Cassidy reports that the aa in Cache valley, spudding of a test the Northern Oil company test well sociation has made it possible for well near Torrey in Wayne county in White valley to hear officials of 96 unfortunate persons to have and continued drilling in Cane the company explain future plans fighting chance for their lives fields in Grand county. for spudding of the test well there. but we must put up a militant About 65 interested persons Everything is in readiness and campaign for the hundreds of oth the date for the spudding of the ers so afflicted. well will be announced Monday by This evenings meeting will be WILL DISCUSS officials of the Northern Oil attended by interested peope from all parts of Utah. COAL INDUSTRY Among the be R. Dr. will J. Friel speakers been acCANE He CREEK Lake has PREPARING of Salt City. What Should Be Done With the FOR sanatorium TEST OF work. in the tive NEW Coal Industry to Establish PermaOIL SHOWING Ora Bundy of Ogden is executive nent Stability? chairman of the association and isThe above will be the burning will preside over the meeting. State sue at the meeting of the Peoples Special to Utah Labor News Senator Ira A. Huggins of Ogden MOAB With gas pressure boilLobby 8 p. m., Sunday, May 14, at is chairman of the legislative comthe City and County building. ing the water at the- top of the mittee. The discussion will follow an adcasing and liberal quantities Friday, May 12, has been desigdress on the subject by M. I. of oil being forced up through a nated as the National Hospital Thompson, editor of the Utah La- column of about 3180 feet of water, association meeting is The bor News, as the guest speaker. the Cane Creek Oil company is now Day. on an appropriate date. held being All are invited to attend. (Continued on Page 4) The result of the splendid work of the association is the State Tuberculosis Sanatorium in Ogden. . 1 WASHINGTON During debate on the Hobbs concen-ratio- n A mother is a mother still, camp bill in the House on May 2, Congressman The holiest thing alive. Cmanuel Celler of New York made this observation: "There is Coleridge. a false notion that prevails in some parts of this House that the does not apply to aliens. . . . Sunday, June 14, is Mothers Constitution -- for the Appalachian operators and no action will be taken the day of the year when the United Mine Workers recessed Thursday or engagements made within the Day mothers son and daughter every at 3 a. m, Thursday without reach- Appalachian area. Thursday, how- honors his or her best friend the ever, all districts outside the Ap- MOTHER. ing an agreement. The negotiators for the Ap- palachian area will be notified that Of all the days celebrated in the palachian area were to reconvene the United Mine, Workers are pre- United States, Mothers Day has at 4 p. m. Thursday. pared forthwith to execute con- perhaps the greatest appeal to the John L. Lewis, president of the tracts and institute production. number of people. United Mine Workers, stated that District 22, comprising Utah and greatest Periodicals, large or small, tha all districts outside of Appalachian Wyoming, is in readiness as soon deal the home in any way area would be notified Thursday as the orders are received from Mr. have with Mothers Day editorials anc that the union was prepared to exe- Lewis. feature stories. . cute contracts. The district officials have made Clergymen of all denominations President Lewis said: all arrangements for a district conThe United Mine Workers ad- stitutional convention and scale preach Mothers Day sermons. in Every man wears a carnation vised Dr. Steelman that it would conference to be held in Salt Lake his in honor of his PHONEY ARGUMENTS USED BY U. S. CHAMBER One heard much about "government hostility to business and lack of confidence at the U. S. Chamber of Commerce meeting in Washington, but not a word about lack of purchasing power on the part of the masses, which is the real explanation for the prolonged depression, recession, or whatever you care to call it. When organizations like the U. S. Chamber talk about hostility to BUSINESS, they do not mean ordinary independent business, but rather monopoly business. It is propaganda - to make the independent business buttonhole accede to the request of the gov- City at Association halls, 168 South man feel that the government is recession, gave as his reason inMother. ernment which they regard as . a West Temple street. The date for to him also. They resent adequate purchasing power due to command made in the public inter- the convention was not set when Very fittingly the peace movement hostile price manipulation and the conhas begun to use Mothers Day to government interference of monop- centration est. of which Pending the meeting of the the Utah Labor News went to press promote peace. In a number of oly business, growth of which in makes monopolyownership wide over joint subcommittee at 4 p. m. Thursday morning. possible American cities and communities the end would destroy all independrecesareas. the Well, strategic the day has become an official day ent business and reduce the living sion came. for peace, and even in those com standards of the American people. It is well also to remember when It is to be recalled that Leon munities where no official actions ecothese the gentlemen use the phoney government have been taken, peace meetings Henderson, of member now a who is nomist hostility to business and phrases L.-Emplohave been held as a matter of yers (Continued on page 7) the SEC, in predicting the business course. Lewis to Bare Deal By A. F. On Wagner Changes (Union News Service) WASHINGTON. Documentary proof of collusion between President Green of the A. F. L, the National Association of Manufacturers and anti-labcorporations in the prepof aration proposed amendments to the Wagner Act was offered to the Senate Labor Committee by John L Lewis, president of the C. I. O., last week. I charge publicly, Lewis wrote, that these amendments recommended by Mr. Green and his associates have been Mothers Day a Peace Day. It seems a good use to make of the day. Nothing would please Mother more than an assurance of peace. So this year when the entire world seems troublesome, let us utter a prayer for peace in honor of Mother. BETWEEN THE LINES By CECIL OWEN Publicity Director, Labor Non-Partis- League an or drafted with the aid, advice and counsel of representatives of the National Association of Manufacturers and of several of the most corporeactionary and anti-labrations of the country. In the event that Mr. Green and his associates either refuse to answer this charge or the questions suggested, or evade or deny the same, I am prepared to present to your Committee at any time or documentary proof of my charges. Full text of Lewis letter to the Committee members follows: The Senate Committee on Education . and Labor is at present holding hearings on several bills proposing amendments to the National Labor Relations Act. This act represents for labor the difference between economic and politi-- ( Continued on page 2) WASHINGTON That speech of Senator Robert Taft. R., Ohio, before the newspaper publishers in New York the othof reaction. It served clear er night was, in effect, a blue-prinotice on the country what it might expect should he or those re speaks for again come into power in 1940. For some time Taft has been in the forefront of the drive to emasculate the Wagner Labor Relations Act. His speech to the publishers went much further and was in the nature of a general assault on the New DeaL It was one of the most SOUND ADVICE TO FARM KIDDIES nt A group of carefully selected boys and girls, representing five farm organizations, spent several lours with Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt recently. With frankness, the First Lady discussed the hostile attitude found requently u rural regions against rankly reactionary speeches any 'city slickers, and particularly the in some time. antagonism of some farmers to la-- Republican has made Taft proposes to junk the wage-lounions. She called attention to the fact law, to sharply curtail social leaders d farm ;hat some security, to hamstring the farm on program and the Guffey coal act, page 2) (Continued : or ur self-style- to turn back relief to the states, and adopt a policy until the budget is balanced. He would also slash to the bone all New Deal agencies. It sounded as (Continued on page 6) ng 5 |