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Show r- 1 ' Jr OUCATu 0r.GAT.72B COOPERATE VOL X; SALT LA!:E CITV. UTAH. rm NO. 52 n 7G. KJ I At 3 LA:: 7 - 1 JC cr 1 T 'V r I fcb develo: :ent aeiisfui'Go J 1939 rjTJS 23. -- id Pi y .xr ! 7 ' L rpra . .-- ! w V .1 va L h U.: .G-.:L7JX- p. ) ,, n r n :1. : uc.J pi t a cf ' ; J , T::r';ees t dec ui t ;s r f,. TLe stat ct T !i in gA ( ? tT :x tn I cf f fr br' tf frl ' t'; and power prsjrctx ro C:5 Chat this rr. 1 cthsr west may share with the tlrgr cittot 3 includies in the benefits expected as a ed in the new r. vrc rzm. suit of the r.ew recovery plan. The Colorado Bagla Attention cf C.3 President was project plan was parsed in the last called to the prrpcced Colorado ssraion of the Utih state Irgisla-- ( Continued cn pigs 7) HlrerCrtst Essln project in Utah, We are v- - : ! V -- si ri-- cAvel- -' . (Continued on page 8) CwZgrersnaa Ats. IIrrd::h ci Utah wrote a Isttcj to Prcr.:: Keeeevelt asking frrdj fer Cnl oprestti cf cheap pewer cud rttir-rr.l:- n ?:ckz? Act 2H:srn:l K7 b VJ 4 prejsets in Ut:.. , f The failure of the labor peace negotiation. cue to unwillingness of the A F. L. leadership to agree? to any plan xrraAiv'lAcr-r- -t . opment of Utah in a sane trd ccndhln io enrichment of the boys and cirls of Utah arid the boyA cg J clrls b of America, ' ; Abe Murdock in his letter to President Congressman crt ' A r?.L ii GLj ULLy HnEO.Gbld r A,y nsatrrh Utahs c,.r::t water called rriculturiih) to prodr r 7 crops crP datirA cf the itab cf Adllion rr'-'- , irre after t o Uhl lAbcr I" htch pccrikpp'B rCdiV :.i;rth A'h cultural ent.ho cf J Wcr cr.7 3 $3,800,000,000 recovery program ; of chcspr-'lr- b Jen porrrr arid l:rJj far egricuL.1 A U; L, Mr. Murdock told tLs rr:lJrzt C.AJ tKa prc'.zsr sLsai be expanded to cover lenaj hr .? ccd:tret;rn cf riel :Kzs executive y v ArGtrlBa. FO?ULA7ZOiA70'ULD LB I r- - Ul:h ha -- r.: nr IP' V urnirv..;:TiAjr'L ra.. coin r , 7 Congressman AL a Mur. z'l dent Roosevelt this wet!s J i ife: r n - rrart1- -- L-- s hr ff XoOIlAIjI ByM.LT., CANT TAKE IT The National Labor Rclatim Act provides the only successful method for promoting b.J -t- rial peace under fair and reasonable conditions, declared Aaron Vr Warner of Denver, regional director for the administration of the act There is 1 u mintiveiay to,d:ztrcr 2. .7' board in Washington by the C. I. O. peace conimu-tee- , The act safeguards these H. A. C., Laramie, Wyoming, the liberties of the American peo consisting of John L. Lewis, Philip Murray and Sidney writes to the editor of the Utah pie than to weaken the act, he rights by prohibiting employer in. Hillman. The committees report was unanimously accepted by the board. Reporting to the press on the discussion and action on this subject, President Lewis declared: "There was complete unanimity of expression by the members of the C. I. 0. executive Board that the primary purposes of the C. I. O. were in attaining its objectives as first declared, namely to organize the unorganized and to build a great progressive labor movement Organizing Comes First "The Board felt that peace as such was secondary to the organization of the unorganized, the improvement of working conditions and the forming of articulate groups of workers in every indus- - - I : T their will make possible expression on matters of industrial and public interest. "The Board also felt that the A. F. L. is still in the control of a group of leaders who are reaction ary on public questions and who tolerate many evil conditions in the A. F. L. Liason A. F. "These conditions are exemplified in the liason and the entente cor-diabetween A. F. L. leaders and industrial and financial interests opposed to labor in order to fight the C. I. O., and attempt to emas--sAi- o v ;noqu 3uuq o; pun eino Deal senti talization of anti-Nement in the country. (Continued on page 4) try ifrhich le MEET IN SAN FRANCISCO C. I. O. WILL OCTOBER 10 w the Capital Trespassing A.atHARRIS By Labor News: Please discontinue your biasec and prejudicial paper. Since your castigation of Boake Carter for saying what he thought, Ive had no respect for what you thought. The lines of H. A. C. came in a mail with 32 other letters. The 32 others evidently can take it be cause they complimented the tone of the Utah Labor News. So in that one mail the score was 32 to 1 in favor of the Utah Labor News. I. BIG BUSINESS TAX BILL PASSES WITH A BANG! The passage of the new tax bill is the most complete vie tory that the Economic Royalists have been able to win since 1932. For weeks the President fought against this bill almost single handedly. He knew full well that the U. S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers had been organizing for more than a year for this battle on taxation and that they had flooded the country with propaganda attack ing the undistributed profits tax in along with the tax on capital gains. rally behind. The Fifth Column had ranks Administration the pre They sold enough of their wares to Morgenthau so that Roosevelt vented the formulation of a New Mr. Warner was the principal speaker at a meeting of the Salt Lake County Democratic commit tee at Newhouse hotel Monday night. The first of a series to be held where New Deal laws will be explained by speakers who are well versed on acts passed since 1932. Law Explained The speaker in explaining the law said that it is a simple act which recognizes that the right of the workers to organize and bargain collectively is the only sure foundation for industrial peace. The act provides: 1. Protect the workers right to join labor unions and bargain of the most collectively. in the counC. I. O. con- San Francisco, one highly unionized cities try, will be host to the vention this year. The executive board has set the date of the second C. I. O. convention for October 10, and the place as the City of the Golden Gate. In so doing, the board accepted an invitation from San Francisco to meet there. The invitation followed a decision of the A. F. L. to move its convention site from San Francis co to Cincinnati. San Francisco is closely linked to the birth of the C. I. O., for it was at the A. F. L. convention there in 1934 that the industrial union advocates in the Federation made their demand that 5rganiza-tio- n workers be of undertaken. mass-producti- on could not even depend on his own Deal tax measure. appointee, the Secretary of the Treasury, to join him on the fighting liner Morgenthau apparently John allowed his Wall Street a Hanes, formerly broker, to commit the Treasury to the Chamber of Commerces tax program. The President had a heated argument with the Secretary. Morgenthau offered to resign, but of course Roosevelt refused to accept the resignation. Why was there no opposition to the measure in Congress? The answer is that the New Dealers who would have fought against the tax bill had no substitute program to aide-de-cam- p, said. terference with them. 3. The act requires employers to bargain collectively with the chosen representatives of the workers. 4. The act provides a democratic method for choosing collective baron the gaining representatives basis of the majority rule princi- ple. 5. The National Labor Relations board has been established under the provisions of the act to put it into effect and administer it. Peaceful Relations "By theory and by practice, the Federal government has learned over a long period of years that strong labor organizations and the (Continued on page 3) BETWEEN THE LINES By CECIL OWEN Publicity Director, Labors Non-Partis- an League WASHINGTON Constructive legislation of benefit to the people is so rare in this Congress that it is sensational news when something worth while does slip through. Amendments to the social security act passed by the House and slated for early Senate approval go far to make this program a real measure of security. The bill curtails taxation and increases payments. Here is how it would apply in a specific case : John Smith who has earned an average of $78 a month since January 1, 1937, and who dies after January 1, 1940, leaving a widow and three dependent children, fares as follows: The widow draws monthly payments of $47.56 until the third child reaches the age of 8. The total sum she would draw In its present form, the tax bill MARK SULLIVAN WAS OUT OF TUNE . incorporated all of the major recChamU. S. ommendations of the I enjoy the weekly radio debates is $6602.52 ovr a period of 13 ber of Commerce. It seems more over a nationwide hookup between years, assuming' the youngest child than mere coincidence that the tax Mark an opponent of the is five years. by John New Sullivan, proposals submitted and When her children are all 18, the Deal, MorJay Franklin, an Hanes, Treasury Assistant to New Dealer. widow ardent goes off the rolls, but renot genthau, tallied completely Sullidebate last weeks turns again when she becomes 65. During only with those of the Chamber of 1 van hit a wrong key and his song and dance was out of tune entirely. In condemning the New Deal ers, and the Brookings Institution. he The benefits of the tax bill go spending and recovery policy esstated nations, that European almost exclusively to the largest Finland and the Scandiinpecially wealthiest the and corporations re-- ( come receivers. The main features navian countries, had already Continued on page 2) (Continued on page 2) Commerce, but also with the National Association of Manufactur- She then receives $17.84 a month. This is a great advance over the bill as it has been. Under the ear- lier bill the widow in this case would receive but one lump sum payment of $121.04 and nothing for her children. The new bill introduces monthly payments for wid ows for the first time. This illustrates the most strik- ing advance contained in the amendments but other provisions increase benefits under other tions, though not in measure as the aIsfTteT Old age pensions are infSased by upping the federal'share to $20 which the states must match. Since many states are unable .or unwilling to match the federal payment, this (Continued on page 6) - |