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Show Page S UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MAY 19, 1939 We Are Dumb Folks Reactions Dual Drive Nipped in the Bud We Utahns are as dumb a folk As ever the world did see; With wealth untold locked in our hills We throw away the key To all the riches lying there ' Complain of poverty. The United Mine Worker of America won the greatest victory in the history of American organized labor when it signed a closed union shop agreement with the coal operators. It was not alone a victory for the coal miners, but it was a great stride toward the stabilization of a basic industry with its resultant benefits to the consumers and society at large. This C. 1. O. industrial union has set an example to all la bor in this country in what a united industrial organization can accomplish in the way of collective bargaining, despite the efforts of powerful outside interests and influences to block the union's progress. The most reactionary forces of the nation have been in a dual drive to check labor's progress. The lockout of the coal miners and the drive in Congress to destroy the National (Wagner) Labor Relations Act represent two parallel attempts to achieve a similar result. The sole aim is to weaken or destroy effective labor organization. Labors enemies use both economic and political weapons simultaneousl- y- and nitMewly for their purpo.M. While hundreds of thousands or coal miners were locked out, pressure was put upon the authorities in many states to deny to these miners and their families the unemployment com-- 1 pensation or relief to which they are entitled. A disastrous coal shortage was caused by the efforts of p interests to break the United Mine Workers and to open-shobulldoze the public into tolerating their general drive against labor unionism. At the same time every political string was pulled to prevent the Administration from bringing the operators to reason and ending the situation in the public interest., comment on Section 338. I wouldnt care to do that, he replied, and passed the buck to Congress. . . . Maybe the following quotation from Clifford Kirkpatricks book, "Nazi Germany; Its Women and Family Life, is the reason why the work was banned recently from Naziland: The miracle of conquest of a German empire by a handful of diswas made posgruntled sible by a multitude of causes. Had even trivial circumstances been different, the miracle would not have taken place. Suppose that Hitlers father had not changed his former name, Schucklgruber. Would all Germany have eyer cried 'Heil Schucklgruber? Dr. Kirkpatrick is professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota. . . . What boots it if we have asphalt Roads upon which to ride, If ignorance and poverty Along these roads abide? And we grow so many legislators In whom we have no pride? ex-soldi- Generations of children go Uneducated in economics, While parents elect legislators Who come to Salt Lake and fight We Utahns are as dumb a folk As ever blinked the light. BRITISH NATIONAL DEBT TWICE HEAVIER THAN U. S. Although it is frequently charged that our national debt is larger than that of Great Britain, actually the official figures of the two LILLIAN. I I 1 the total number of tongues in which some part of the Scriptures impoverished have been translated to 1021. It is n?w conservatively estimated that of the people of the world might hear some substantial part of the Scriptures read in their native tongue. No book in the world even faintlv approaches this peo-- 1 story 0ur national to $305 per capita, J1 debt amounts as compared Unite.d With Herr Hitlers admirers, I CuPitan In her fihort, capi- Lord Lothian as the new British Ambassador to the United States; 131 debt 13 more than tw,ce as reat Sir Neville Henderson, British Am- - as ours. Figured from another angle, the bassador to and our own United States debt is less than two-thirrecord. As long as this continues Joe Kennedy Germany U. S. Ambassador to of human freedom has a great ally. England, we last national inwonder, Who is en come, whereas years British debt is the circling whom? . . . times as large as its national income. Interest payARE STATE AND TREASURY ments I here constitute only a tenth DEPARTMENTS AT ODDS7 AT THE CAPITAL our of total expendibudgetary The Treasury boys have the The same anti-labo- r interests that were behind the coal lock in while absorb tures, they England State Department on the spot (Continued from page 1) out are also behind the campaign to amend the Wagner Labor over supplying the Japanese war a quarter of the entire budget. . . . I Act. farmer would be paid the market machine with its materials. A SEEK AMENDMENT OF on all of his output, but would memorandum sent by the price the economic lockout of the Through Treasury SHERMAN ANTI-TRUS- T they hoped weapon ACT hL to weaken the labor union which is the backbone of the Amen- dom'st,' ' to the White House urges the PresThe C. I. O. is now seeking certificates ident to invoke Section 338 of the can labor movement, and then to follow this with an open-sho- p amendment of the Sherman Anti-Tru- st bring the price per bushel or pound I Tariff Act against Japan, drive in other industries. of crop up to parity. In this way, Section 338, they've discovered, law, asking aid of the A. F. I L. and tlie would all other labpr organizato not have the the of President government to Labor the action the gives political Through Wagner crippling right dif- - halt trade with any ef' hundreds tions. of the for prices found barcountry Act, they hope to curtail the workers right to organize and Wonder is that labor has not ferent grades of products but guilty of discriminating against gain collectively, and so to weaken labor resistance would simply fix the value of tW United States exports. sought amendment of this act long wage-cuttincertificates (a flat amount per cerSeveral months ago the State since. The Sherman Anti-Tru- st tificate for each crop). Government Department issued a strong note law was placed on the statute Labor traitors are being used by reaction in both of these experts who have studied the plan attacking Japan for just such dis- books in 1890 for the specific purto have been favor crimination, but failed to wave a pose of protecting the American are anti-labcampaigns. The individual scab we have always had ably reported people against the abuses of fastimpressed. . . . big stick or even a little stick. with us, but now we have the sorry spectacle of organized scab-ber- y The authors The suggestion floats about growing monopoly. with the official blessing of A. F. L leaders. The third term campaign for Washington circles that certain of the act never intended that it be A miserable little dual union was promoted in an effort to Roosevelt is becoming more pro State Department bigwigs hastily used against labor unions, and the And the White issued this statement only because debate in Congress specifically daily. break the miners resistance to the recent lockout, while these nounced House has not called a halt to it. they were afraid the Treasury brought out that fact. same A. F. L. leaders joined with the National Manufacturers would come out with a sharp stateHowever, almost from its incepAssociation and the United States Chamber of Commerce in SENATE IMPROVES ment recommending that Section tion, the courts used this act HOUSE FARM BILL 338 be applied. Should that pro- against labor and not against their drive to cripple the Wagner Labor Act. Senator Josh Lee (D) of Okla-hom- vision of the Tariff Act be invoked, monopoly. this Unquestionably laid down the line during dis- it would mean the end of our ship- has been the most prostituted piece Labor can defeat this dual drive of reaction by being sim- cussion of the Agricultural Bill-anments of scrap iron, oil, cotton, of legislation ever enacted in this the Senate did far better by copper, and other war materials country. . . . ilarly active on both the economic and political fields. The coal miners are solidly organized in the countrys big- the farmer than, did the House. badly needed by Japan to continue Basis of Unity I desire to say her bloody conquest of China. Said Senator gest labor union and they know how to deal with traitors and to the SenatorsLee, on this sideof the cannot We An incident which credence lends bring about a real scabs. They are also assured of the solidarity of the whole C. I. Chamber, that no administration to the belief that the State Depart- world unity based on lasting values O. and the most of the A. F. L. members as well. was ever returned to office on ment doesnt really care to clamp without an understanding of the cotton and But labor needs the political support of all public-spirite- d wheat and, down on Japan is the visit paid to impulses and the fixed grooves of State Departments Dr. Hombeck action of the different races and citizens to see that labor and labor laws are protected and en- he added, very few Senators. . . 225 were Ted Shawn Of importance primary by a delegation from the Washing- nationalities. forced in every state of our nation. Gods Who Dance. million dollars for parity payments ton Committee for Aid to China. The Wagner Labor Act can similarly be saved from and 113 million dollars for farm When this committee presented amendments, if Congress is given clearly to understand that the surplus commodities which is being 6500 petitions asking that the UnitWhat is, the best government? by the scrip plan. ed States stop aiding Japan, one That which teaches us to govern great majority of workers and of Americans generally desire the administered delegate asked Dr. Hombeck to ourselves. Goethe. Act which upholds American living standards to be preserved. Though the usual comment has been that the appropriation of 225 million dollars will give the farmer We congratulate the United Mine Workers union for its 75 . per cent of parity, actually the solidarity in standing as a united front in the recent lockout correct interpretation is that the which resulted in victory to the miners themselves as well as to bill sets a maximum of 75 per cent. However if prices are at 75 per the consuming public. cent of parity, then no parity payments are to be made. While the All liberty-lovin- g, independent American House defeated a 250 million dollar citizens like to read the Utah Labor News. They item for parity, indications are that they are virtually certain to pass like it because it is Jthe most independent and the 225 million dollar parity bill. I nine-tent- hs ds one-and-a-h- 21 1 g. or . e d 50-ce- nt Mast (CfSiritmumEnu ... Bible Is Still the Most Read Book in the World In these days when democracy national problem by honest delibforced to take stock of eration and conference roots back her resources, lovers of hpman into generation upon generation of freedom will read with encourage- Bible reading by the people of ment the releases from the annual England. Even in the face of the report of the American Bible So- dictators edict the Bible out-sol- d ciety, whose 123rd annual meeting Mein Kampf in Germany last year has just been held and whose sole by 200,000 copies. Latin America purpose for a century and a quar- for whose trade and friendship dicter has been to make the Bible tators are strenuously bidding has available to all men of all nations, a hunger for the Scriptures that is .is being however little they may have with which to purchase it. Wherever this great book has been seriously read human freedom has flourished and democratic institutions have been born. Earl Baldwin in an address in Toronto recently expressed his helief that Britains disposition to attempt the solution of the inter apparently insatiable. China with all her appalling needs bought more complete Bibles from the Society than ever in her history. Japan likewise Increased her purchases by about 10 per cent over the year before. Meanwhile the Scriptures moved into a dozen new languages in 1938, bringing While Congress is not hesitating to pass appropriations for 93 million dollar battleships winch can be sent to Davy Jones locker with one well directed bomb dropped from an aeroplane, Senator Richard B. Russell (D) of Georgia found it necessary to come to the defense of an item which provides a loan of 50 million dollars to tenant farmers and share croppers who wish to be their own farm owners. An appropriation of 23 million last year reached only 11 thousand tenant farmers and share croppers, of whom there are 3H million in this country. These represent perhaps the lowest standard living group in America. Uncle Sam takes out a mortgage covering every cent loaned, and the 50 million dollars in the bill would ,not take fearless newspaper in Utah. In telling the truth, it calls a spade a spade. It fights the peoples cause both economically and politically. 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