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Show ttagn Timet, ITijna, IATTHEW WOLL VICE PREUDEIII MR1C1UI v SATC-STJ1II- . MTECTION OF AMERICAN, YORKMEH it " ted- Rft-- boot ?rin-free- - Utee b na- if hie a bie Ute. -- employ-opportunil- dot eeded f tbe a feet u e (Sty el iWe c- ctp-ionne- pro-rperi- fy cm-ne- nt actite 9 1 recog-e- e your I FEDEItATIOI vails in our land and which has been established in the main through the untiring efforts of American Organized Labor. Our problem is rather that of ex power tending this in view of the constant losses which our producers of cotton, wheat, lumber. and other- - product have suffered and while increasingly suffer in the world markets by reason of a constantly growing competition from other nationals. After all. the prosperity of America is dependant upon the employment opportunities, consuming and purchasing power of the American people, who, in the main, arc the workers and farIndustrial labor docs dot seek mers. any tariff advantage which does not secure equally as well to the benefit of agricultural labor. At a matter of fact, the tariff protection now accorded the products of agriculture exceeds that extended to the products of industrial labor. Regardless of this disparity, Labor of America recognizes .that loss of employment and lens of income to American agriculture as well as loss of employment to Americas industrial workers lessens our consuming and purchasing power. Labor, agriculture. industry and commerce suffer when the income of the masses is thus reduced, .o Unrestrained competition of foreign with domestic goods in our home market, whether of agricultural or industrial products, cannot and will not solve our problems, but contribute to their severity. Labors- - outstanding interest at all times has been and is to maintain and enlarge employment opportunities, and under conditions commensurate with American standards of life and living and required by a balancing of our home-consumi- for any tight thinking and honest ninded American to advocate a policy vhich would add to our present industrial and commercial distress and domestic difficulties and contribute little, if anything, of gain to any foreign peopltf The subtle and continuous demands of tome of our leading international bankers, industrialists, newspapers, and others, 'supported by a number of our economists, to further a free trade polof icy, to enlarge the importation goods produced abroad by labor akin to forced labor, govemmentally subsidized labor, low paid and child labor of Europe and Aria can only lead to further unemployment in America with its consequent enlarged demoralization of our economic, industrial, " social and political structures. we note an Then, too, increasing demand for the reduction of foreign debts and a constant flow of American wealth into foreign lands for both loaning and capital investment purposes. As a result we art forced more and more to depend for our future upon our foreign markets, rather than rely upon our borne markets. Is it not time that we conctm ourselves with our people and their future well being rather than to divert the attention of our people to the proith approximately eleven millions blems of other nations! . Government statistics clearly indi sr people enable to obtain and forced to accept charity cate that more than 93 per cent of the ie form c another as a result of products of American labor and ag hutting down of our industrial riculture are consumed in America. loss in our This is largely due because of the high js and a corresponding nercial activities, an it be pots- - standard of life and work which pre- - ich Aire -- POLICIES AMERICA FOR AMERICANS President. America's Wage Earner tective Conference 'resident. The Union Labor Life : ranee Company Over N. B. C. Network Monday. September 19. 1932 5 P. M. Eastern Standard Time t has been well said that Eternal lance is the Price of Liberty. Vig-- c is. indeed, the price we must for everything worth while. Un-w- c stand guard, the barriers which been erected to protect our stand-an- d institutions will be nibbled or torn down by our enemies but ill ad-- , by our friends as well. nerican Organized Labor stands ervedly for the preservation of land to meet the needs and resents of our people, for the pro-- n and protection of the of America's work - i for the maintenance and not the lowering, of pre- -. andards of life and work. We rimarily nationalists, intent upon xmservation of our natural tees for our own use, the protcc-o- f our present institutions, and improvement of our own lot; r than internationalists, more con d with the lot of others than our wt October 14, j, BY HOOVER JUiJUiERICA D ONLY ASSURED UNDER REPUBLICAN Fr!- - UUls, production ies. To , - and consumption capacit- maintain and enhance their employment opportunities, it is essential to safeguard oar home, oar domestic market, against the entry of the products of foreign workers at landed costs which are less than America! costa of production of similar and comparable products. The prosperity of our nation is dependent upon the ability of the masses of out land to purchase and consume the products of America's workers, whether they be employed in factory, mill, mine or farm. American industrial and farm labor is not lacking in What it is lackconsuming power. ing is purchasing power and purchasing power is dependent upon employment opportunities. The essential problem then is to increase employment opportunities of our people by lemming foreign com petition in oar .borne market, thus enabling oar home industries to re yive and survive, Idle plants do not provide employ meat. Unemployed workers do not provide purchasing power. Employment of workers makes for employment of capital , There are those who unduly stress ' inthe importance of dustrial prosperity upon our abilities to export. Certainly every industrial nation is desirous of disposing of its surplus production in other markets. Indeed, we have greatly expanded our industrial machine with the thought in mind of constantly increasing our export trade and regardless of the resultant effects of such export trade upon our internal trade. Prior to the World War.' America was one of the few nations possessing machine bigbpowered production plants. Today the industrial nations of Europe and Asia have adopted American methods and means of production. Indeed, one nation in Asia is possessed of the most modern of industrial equipment. In addition, many of the highly modernized plants in foreign countries are either owned or were financed by American surplus wealth and American skill. Those foreign American-owned 'slants are today, in part, supplying the wotld markets, thus precluding to that extent possible export trade on our part. Indeed, in a number of instance they have invaded our domestic market With the product of their foreign factories to the distinctive lost of employment of Amet-ka- n workers. .The rapid development of American owned and controlled foreign plants may be attributed to the selfish spin! of gain, to restrictive legislation on the part of other nationals, the subs dicing of industry by foreign nationals and the fact that in oilier lands the wages received krt consderably lower and working hours considerably longer than those that prevail in out own Und. The lower cost of production and of distribution abroad may therefore be fainy ass.gncd as one ot the pi. nopal causes lor tht movement of American capital abroad. Labor view this transfer of American capital to othe .lands With gtnt It realize .as a result apprehension. (here will be an ever increasing pres sure on the part pf this capital to destroy tie barners which saleguard Am mean standards of life and work American labor already has come to feel the loss of employment opportu-- j mties through this process of the internationalization of American cap!-'ti- 3 : of the ed from IIS HAMS office rn Demo ,f the Re-could not man from good jhty & wPr1 i of the City. You - (1! !ice , . Four years ago Herbert Hoover promised to work for agricultural relief and provide a farm cooperative marketing organization that would enable market their own production.'V ;vx the farmers to ; That promise was kept and today there are thousands of form cooperatives functioning successfully, and from which the farmer is profiting1 and will continue to profit much more in the future. headquarters, , ket boom bare srks ed bod ' - tpedthamkvM "the Urge sum, opcan InvsstoB, e sited the Ameti-bcrash carerf sot imitate Can rvelt by Utim "' m ol , into thia omp- -y com public to to believe be mat thia. Aa 1 10 wet teat kindest. ibering bis v would be fair- Btet. if be t 1 to1 atUinl ere He promised tariff protection for farm prod-.-.. ucts and kept that promise and the farmer is receiving from eight to eighteen cents a bushel' more for wheat of the same grade than are tjie neighboring farmers across the Canadian bor- der. That applies also to corn, to live stock and other farm products. While American prices are too low they are higher than the prices on the same products in any other exporting country. He promised protection for American inand he dustry and American kept that promise when he secured the passage of reasonable tariff schedules that are not exorbitant but prevent the dumping of merchandise made by cheap labor in impoverished V. Europe. wage-earner- s, atbtr "bternaaoe with people tbevr value? : - Indigo i A mnul l op ti fro t . Adffl'ntlVr m Utcnnt fowl goint Aninistret0 j rvtUf .rs of an ikn hit ti- i . to tb - So to bade . ""X boo -- glass 1 rle promised reduction in the general oper-- a ting costs of government While extraordi- - alone, though they first consideration. America, that it may and prosperous, not for the many. r. .art forever our We plead for b a land strong for the few, but o. LoorBomiow For United States Congress j-- -- ur Sc photo-engrave- rs hours." Many yean ago the American Fed eration of Labor, under the able leadership of the late Samuel Gompcrs, dein United Candidate For manded the passage of Rectrictive Immigration Legislation. Labor did not State Congress. seek thia legislation because of any . Frederick C Loofbourow, RepubliQuite a number of American manu- racial hatred. American Labor sought can of Salt Lake City. Utah, wa born facturers have shut down tbeir Ameri- and will alwayt fight to retain Recan plants and now supply the Ameri- strictive Immigration Legislation. Our at Atlantic, Casa County, lows, and a can market with the same product for- one purpose in seeking and retaining came to Utah with bit family at boy in 1(89. HU father, the late C F. Restrictive Legislation Immigration uc ted merly prod by them with Ameriwa a DUtrict Judge in can labor but now produced by foreign was to assure American workers an op- Loofbourow, turelv Iowa for yean and practiced for fair at employment cheap labor. It it not to he assumed portunity in Utah until bU death in 1904. that by reason of this greatly lessened wages and with fair working condi- law He wae well known professionally and cost that American consumers have tions. In those yean we had tbs op- at an active and constructive citizen position of leading economists, college benefited because evidence it abundof the State. and American manutome professors, ant that these foreign made commos of dities have been sold but slightly be- facturers who imported Congressman Loofbourow attended low the price of like American madt immigrants for the sole purpose of the Ogden Military Academy and later he was graduated from the University products in our home market, and, securing workers at low wage. There it no fundamental difference of California Law school with th dethis to all practical ends bat completely demoralized American competitive between the policy of Restrictive Im- gree of LL. B. industrial enterprises involved, without migration Legislation and Protective He hat been a resident of Salt Lake ia 'deand engaged in the practice of hU any particular gain to our American Tariff Legislation, If the former City sirable and we are that happy to say consumers. her since graduation. He our policy of restricting immigration profession wa District Attorney of tb Third It it almost a tragic commentary up- hat the hearty approval of at least Utah Judicial DUtrict from January on the tack of our industrial foresight, ninety per cent of the American people, 1, 1905, until April !, 1911, when which permits foreign nationals and then the policy of restricting the pro- he became of th same District Judge domestic,, as well at foreign private, ducts of foreign workers, which is and served until December 31, 1916. Protective interests to acquire a monopolistic tales accomplished through Tariff He hae represented th Second Congrescontrol throughout our nation by our Legislation, ia also sound. Thert sional District of Utah tincc Decembut little, if auything, gained by re ber 1930. patent lawn and - yet not require tingle commodity entering Info that striding the entry of foreign workers aa a Mem- ghiy respect production .to ' be carried on in our and permuting tasy entnr of the products of fore.gn workers. her of the House Committees on la land. It it well enough for the theorists dun Affairs and Irrigation and ReSom fiv yvare ago th officials of in tariff to spin tbrir arguments and clamation. He bat bad unusual recognational unions, affiliated recite their formulas, hut our wage nition for a comparatively new memtwenty-owith the American .Federation of La- earners do not live by those things. ber by hU party leaden in th House. bor, representing a membership for of They live by jobs and wages. Every Among many accomplishments mott. than on million American article of American consumption that Utah, be was active in th successful workers, after a careful survey of the is produced abroad at wages under our efforts to obtain restoration of the conditions which endangered the em- levels and thus offered to out night air mail service between Salt of American ere is that much taken from the wage Lake City and Southern Californu ployment formed workers. America' most effective Wage total of out country and that much. and was on of tb Earners Protective Conference. They ' also, taken from th manufacturing workers in tb silver stabilization mohonored me with the Presidency of j capacity of our of Congress. country. By thia pro vement in the last scssiop this body. The olt purpqse.pf out Mr. 'Loofbourow U a member of hett- - i nOThing idded to our pur' th First Unitarian Church of Salt' g7fii2tion is to secure tariff legists chasing power. tion which will insure a market in Given protection against the peon- Lake City, and has three children America for the products of American age and wage products Frederick R., Leon T. and workers.- We plead for a land that shall not Wc have nothing to sell, and we be over-ru- n with the fruits of th exare not interested in the profits of any ploitation of other land. Give us our MATRON ENTERTAINS enterprise. chance in America, and give America Labor's interest ia Tariff legisla- its chance to be strong in th strength Mrs. Leslie Nelson entertained at a tion and th proper administration of of her people. social evening Tuesday in compliment our customs laws it solely for the pur- of Europe sad Asia and th to Mr. and Mrs. Norman Haintworth, pose of assuring opportunities of em- products of tb bolsheviks, given a fair Mr. and Mrs. Frank Olsen and Mr. ployment for American workers at wage in our own country and the and Mrs. Russel Maglcby. Cards wtr fair wages. To assure American work- - masses of our workers will take cart the diversion of th evening l. 4 custom-opportuniti- ! near-peona- no-wa- HOW HE HATES A SAFE ROAD! nary conditions have called for extraonffnary opertxi ;nditures to meet them, the regular; billion a half reduced been have costs by ating dollars a year. He did that despite the continued opposition of a Democratic House of Representatives led by Democratic Candidate Garner. He has continuously requested the Congress for authority to work out a reorganization of governmental departments, the elimination of those not essential to the welfare of the people, or that duplicate the work of other partmenta. A Democratic House of Representatives, led by Democratic Candidate Garner, has persistently refused such authority. Vice-President- ial Vice-Presidenti- al ttio American people ttdr yetea fear years ago, anil- - By; v . : . ,j 'i t , lA . II 0)Tu)l 0)FTT1 investors, ltd- - wit. Prcri4t- (PAID POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT) 1 , ho ho tspplUd a iSptA buhrAJpfor t! notion In addition to keepinj kit ftcx-M- u tha most strbas finandzl crJ hdzxtrkd dspriwon tinea tha c haa eftha Ckdwsrt haa ffonul rtccseiy, end hoa aat vs egrnn ca fat aitmtbn aqnarafyi hza phased a aofa toad to batter eoodUksan IHs rt!:dica cl Herts! Hoover meizu beHer cricts , recovery, ws urge Cor the unSployed, Ucaccstc! gsrcrcaitnt, quicker financial cid Usmal leade-rlbs people of ccsssssslty to cast their votes for a proven .I f , . Freest Reaver tea kept every vIien e?cz3 La received nu,.'9L . - , b ter, haew irittca were maintain an American Protective Tariff Policy. The Monthly Labor Review, issued by the United State Departmeat of Labor, for Jaauary, 1932, contains some authorative figures oa wages paid in the United States and foreign countries which arc of interest to all those interested in the welfare- - of American workers. I am going to few quota bat wbUb should prove beyond any possible doubt the need of an American Protective Tariff policy; I qnote, "Average wag foe all American manwas sixty ufacturing establishments (S 60) per hour. In France it wae twelve ceme (f.12) per bout; in Italy nine cents (.09) pet hour; in Japan seven ($.07) cents per bout. Printers in the United States average seventy-fiv- e cents ($.75) per hour; in France ten cents ($.10) per hour; in England thirty cents ($.30) pet bout. Shoe Workers in the United States cents ($.44) pet average forty-fohour; in England thirty cents ($.30) per bout; in Belgium and Czeckotlava-ki- a twenty cents ($.20) per hour." I might cite the difference m my own trade. "In London, based on present value of English money, receive fifteen dollars ($15001 Jot forty tight- (4$) hours worlj while in the United States Photo engravers will average more than sixty-fiv- e dol la re ($65.00) per week of forty n ter) , en of aa opportunity of employment of American production and consumpat fair wages, h is essential that we tion alike. We plead, not for workers boat-load- : : ltd (New York Herald-Tribun- |