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Show Progressive- - Independent A PAPER HELP THAT STANDS SUPPORT FOR THE CAUSE HUMAN OF THE WELFARE PEOPLE ' Five Cents Per Copy Vol 3, No. 32 Sugar house. $750 ' COMUNICATIONS THOUGHTS OF TODAY Senator Borah uttered one of the big thoughts of our times when he said, talking of the Utah and other pioneers: "If you would know the pioneers full stature and brasp the full force of his genius, contrast Mm with the cowed, whipped, spineless dependent creatures with --r whom Nazism, Fascism and Communism would fill the world. In the wake of one we find forest and desSOCIALIST CONVENTION erts conquered and subdued, great states erected, law and order established and personal liberty preserved. The Socialists of Utah held their With the other, violence and terror hold sway over state convention at Ogden last Tuestortured and enslaved people day. They nominated the following millions of broken hearts and blastticket. For U. S. Senator, that stal- ed souls. Yes, we need often to pause and wart wheel hone of the party, J. O. consider genius of the pioneers. Watten of Duchesne; for congress- Had theirthe descendenti not been comman from the first district, Wm. J. pletely captured by and submerged g McConnell of Cedar City; Congress- in they would have man from the second district, A. L. maintained that genius in a much Porter of Springville; for supreme larger degree than they have. court Justice, Bert Westover of Duchesne; for state treasurer, Isabelle SEEDS OF DISRUPTION Adamson of Salt Lake. Mr. Watten acted as chairman, W. C. Sumner, O. A. KenNow that the Progressive Alliance nedy, secretary, E. F. Evans, assist- has been successfully launched it is ant secretary. A live campaign com- to be hoped that it will not mittee was appointed, and a ringing allow sincerely itself to be wrecked upon the platform demanding tax exemptions, rock of partisan adherence. cooperative marketing and purchasIt might be well at this point to ing agencies, acquisition of idle Industhe motive that gave birth to trial plants, mines, etc., establishment the movement, L e. to unify the jarlng of clinics .social Insurance, restora- elements within its own ranks. tion of unearned wealth to the stats This principle should be kept conby graduated taxes, repeal of crim- stantly in mind and all discussion of inal syndicalism and sales tax laws factional fads and fancies should be and reduction of salaries. strictly barred from its council chamber. The benefits to be derived from TWO NOTABLE BOOKS close study of theories cannot be denied but there Is a time and a place A book, "New Careers for Youth, for this but that place Is not the Pro-- ; by Pitkin, classes the present genera- gressive Alliance. Such activities can betion as the "Lost Generation, best be cared for within tha portals cause of the effect the depression has of the various groups themselves. had on the young men and women of The time and energy of the P. A. the world. Another book by Brails-for- d should be directed towards putting on Property Or Peace, says Itself in shape for the struggle that that civilization Is doomed if the sys- Is apparently about to overwhelm us. tem of private property and profit Let us perfect our organization and is continued. decide upon the particular activities we are to pursue and get going. What do'ymray, fellers? J. F. WHITTMORE. A MONTH ON OTHER I0B. How UncleSam and People a reFIeeced. iSSEM . to-- 1 '- City Engineer Beers receives $350 per month salary. Recently he was appointed engineer (or the Pelican Point drouth project at an additional salary of $750 per month and will go on holding both jobs Farmers starving and losing crops and cattle while ugly greed is thus taking the money. Is there no limit? GOV. BLOOD, The Progressive Alliance protests this and tells you that some of the leaders will lift up their eyes in sore defeat if this injustice is kept up. Some serving and starving while favorites grow rich. LEAGUE PROGRAMi PURPOSE The Cousumera Welfare League la an organization composed of several thousand members residing In all parts of the State yt Utah. It is an and Incorporated, association with its principal office in Salt Lake City. It was organized in the fall of 1933, by a group of public spirited citizens who saw the necessity for an organization which would protect the rights of the people against economic, political and social usurpation by the selfish, combines and monopg olies that exist today. The purpose of the Consumers' Welfare League is to protect the economic interests of the consumers through fair and reasonable price adjustments, and through the establishment of equitable and just relationships between consumer and producer. The Consumers' Welfare League further proposes to develop sound and enlightened public opinion upon all economic, political and social problems which affect the general interests of the consuming public. It further proposes providing facilities and means for the solution of all problems affecting the welfare of the consumer. non-prof-it, non-partis- an fear-smitte- sorrow-stricke- n, n, har-rasse-d, money-gettin- vice-chairm- re-sta- te ' ' communication; A large sum In back taxes was PRAYING FOR RAIN DIRECTOR OF FARM DROUTH (Editor's Note: Dr. Paul is more or less mistaken. The Progressive stands for all that Public Issues stands for, but leads toward a system that will do away with the need for many of the things the writer asks for.) Editor Public Opinion: The report of the Progressive Alliance committee does not express the aims of the Public Issues Society. The latter stands for what Is, essentially, the Roosevelt plan for the future; namely, e 1. and widowed 'mothers Old-ag- pensions. profit-seekin- A WORD ABOUT DEBT The dally press has reported great misuse of funds In the state auditors department during some past years. hs two-fift- well-to-d- hs Decent Housing, with fuller use of the land. This means that village communities will be created for slum and cabin dwellers. Homes will be built by the federal government on fertile acres under reclamation projects. One fifth of American today are living In slums or in cabins unlf fit for human habitations, and of American homes have no plumbing. It la proposed, by loans, to abolish these conditions. 5. A Great Basin Authority based on Senator King's bill establishing in Utah a Research Foundation for metminerals. Built als and on the border of Great Salt Lake, which would be dyked for that purpose. This project would become the nations chief munitions plant, besides producing chemicals used in war and medicine; also smokeless fuel, a main product, lying Utahs slack coals and supplying the Rocky Mountain 'area, rendering the region smokeless, and prolonging human life; gasoline, a produced at about seven cents per gallon; coal gas, a produced at 15 cents per 1,000 cubic feet; and electric current, a byproduct, produced at 2 cents per kilowatt hour. Candidates for Congress should be asked how they stand on this Roosevelt plan for the future. Point 5 Is local and has not yet been specifically approved by the Roosevelt administration, though the King Research Foundation law clearly leads toward and Indicates it. J. H. PAUL. 4. one-ha- non-metal- llc ct, MISUSE OF FUNDS It appears that money was deliber- ately taken from the livestock men and transferred and used for exorbitant salaries for favored employees. For 48 hours work one employee was paid 33,000 and the bounty fund overdrawn to the tune of 321,000. All in 48 hours. A years salary for keeping the office open that long. The officials should be led out into the fields and to the work projects and the factries and Industries and shown how the people struggle to earn their tax money, only to have it squandered in this manner. The farmers, who pay the burden of the property taxes, should have a strong committee at the office buildings daily and nightly to keep watch. ALL DEBTS CALLED OF-F- North Dakota's dirt farmer, Ole H. Olsen, has proclaimed a moratorium on every farm debt where the debtors show Inability to pay. This is fine and should be followed by other governors. Thousands Must Leave Farms nt Dr. Elwood Mead, reclamation commissioner, has said that the drouth area of the western half of the Dakotas and the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains must be evacuated. Tens of thousands of people must be moved off the stricken land and placed elsewhere. ITS W! a-b- old-ag- PROGRESSIVES Its somsthing for this Paper. Come to the Support of PUBLIC OPINION n $12500 A YEAR Another Way of Distributing Money funds. Two-fift- five-poi- ns GETS Some blatherskite politicians rave about the debt the present administration is piling up, saying that it will soon equal the war debt It would really be too bad if we should spend enough to save people, to feed them, to rehabilitate them as we did to kill and destroy. Says Colliers: Whatever we spent on the war represented slaughter. What we are spending now represents lift. Instead of spending those billions to kill our neighbor, we now spend billions to clothe and feed them. If we hadnt spent the first we would not now be incurring the second debt. One-fif- th ct, Elg-gre- RELIEF Safeguarding Public Health of the people of the United States. are now on charity or public work. These get free medical and (the hospital service. middle classes) are now unable to pay their doctors, but could pay under health insurance of. say $3.00 per month per family (the Ontario plan). It Is proposed to Insure the health of the families of all wage earners. The o are the upper paying their own physicians, and will probably prefer to continue to do so. ' 3. the Unemployment Insurance British plan Improved, by putting the insured on public work (not on charity) whenever they have drawn out their full amount from the insurance 2. paid to the state of Utah by the Electric Bond and Share company of New York as a result of the efforts made by the Consumers Welfare league of Utah, it was revealed by Lorenzo E. EIggren, president of the league. The tax money was paid under protest, Mr. EIggren stated. The Electric Bond and Share has an agreement and contract with the Utah Power and Light company, which could not be fulfilled unless the New York concern were operating here in Utah, according to Mr. account. The Consumers league claimed that the E. B. & S. had been operating here for many years without paying Utah taxes and MAN OF THE PEOPLE. had suit instituted by the Utah attorney general's offices. Suit is now being pursued to obtain a 35,000 penIt. alty payment in addition to the taxes SOUKX J. Mlt'KEIAKN While praying for rain, we might already paid. SEEKS COMMISSIONERS!!!! pray for the poultry farmers. Poultry farmers, like dairy farmers, are beACCOMPLISHMENTS Soren J. Mlckelsen of Draper is is ing financially crushed; because they Welfare The Consumers' League a at sell to are eggs price compelled its preparing to go before the Democratin full sympathy with and lends 8:30-LET- S Insufficient to pay cost of chicken GovFederal to the ic support County Convention and ask for the hearty ernment in its attempt to secure feed. nomination for the office of County praying for rain, we might higher wages, Increased employment askWhile Scores of friends and Commissioner. who those for Gods grow the for CALL THEM UP help and better standards of living have Shrewd urged him to take acquaintances buyers masses; and it will continue consist- fruits and vegetables. until down of of good, honhammered Interest have in the this the to prices step exploitation oppose ently the consuming public by means of growers are unable to pay taxes or est and efficient county government. land rent. Growers In turn, have cut combines and trade monopolies. Mr. Mickelsen is a prominent farmer The Consumers Welfare League wages, until men are working today, and a good, Progressive citizen who and relatives has continually advocated lower util- on truck farms for ten cents per piUENDS has the interests of his county at Instrumental and been of has and All because hour. selfishness, in other towns, the ity rates, in securing the initiation of a state- greed. Because profits are placed heart, and if nominated and elected wide action for the reduction of rates above justice. folks back home or memhe may be depended upon to do his Growers cannot earn, therefore, against the Utah Power and Light level best for the interests of the bers of your own family Company. they cannot pay farm labor enough He needs no recommendation people. Welfare League on which to live. The Consumers' living in other cities are to those who know him because his has been successful in having an acWhile praying for rain, let us pray only a minute away by lif among the people of his part of tion commenced by the state of Utah for the guiding influence of the hand and Bond Share Electric the telephone. To against of God toward work girls and young been Low station - to - station the county dohasnot knowoutstanding. Company of Maine to compel that mothers. Some of them working in his those who personally state. this in company to pay taxes night rates begin at 8:30 it may be said that he is everything the trades, on piece work, The Consumers Welfare League are clothing m. Why not suprise a dollars p. than six less earning believes in the development and con- week that a real county commissioner be to with a call tonight? are them supposed yet they servation of publicly owned resources should he and is deserving of the supminimum a national by of the State, by the State, and for the protected of every Democrat uml every some are amount the twice of port wage the benefit of all the people of all of conditions Present day receiving. Progressive. Delegates will do well to State. fanners, farm labor, and sweat-sho- p Any employee will take PROGRAM stand by him in the convention. are the direct result of indiThe Consumers' Welfare League workersselfishness and greed, and are your order or rail our advocates a policy that public utilities vidual R. WALLACE should exist for the greatest public a kin to slavery. office not for While derain, should be why praying such that plants FOR SENATOR good, God. individThe statement made in the daily veloped for their control and owner- pledge ourselves, before to abolish such use and best collectively, ually ship that will lead to their papers by Hon. Wm. R. Wallace is damnable conditions in Utah?. in the Interest of all. one of the best ever made by any The Mountain States GEORGE J. COX. The Consumers Welfare League Utah as candidate for office, lie Is out insurance advocates employment Hon. Herbert B. Maw, candidate for the senate in dead earnest. a means of effecting permanent seTelephone & Telegraph Co. for the Democratic nomination for Utah Should Elect Her Benefactor curity for the worker. The Consumers Welfare League IT. S. Senator, has been traveling e throughout the state during the advocates the establishment of 'I' S",1;11 pensions -t- hereby driving out past week, giving talks to groups , the existence of such unsocial insti- here and there on various phases of gl the problems confronting the voters tutions as County Foor Farms. The Consumers' Welfare League of Utah. He has met with a splendid advocates a plan of health Insurance response and everywhere the evito be established by law, whereby dence is piling up to the effect that medical, dental and hospital care the people want him to represent them time you did would be made available for the mas- in the upper house of congress. The costs busiand and the workers risks farmers, many ses by spreading the over a large group of people and a ness people are pronounced in their desire that he be nominated. Locally long period of time. The Consumers' Welfare League the Good Government Movement. The advocates a more equitable adjust- Consumers' Welfare League and the ment of tax easts. It insists that the Progressive Alliance are Jointly worktax burden should be placed upon ing in hisnotbehalf. Should ho fail, likely, they will support the shoulders of productive property, which is men lj tangible or intangible, rather tha: ithe best The officials of the L. D. S. church have Invited the membership to join in prayer for rain, a very laudable request. We need rain. A lot of rain. While praying for rain, would it be amiss to also pray for Devine assistance for those engaged in dairy farming? Whole families are working from early morning, into the night washing, scalding and drying milk pails and milk cans. Keeping dairy barns sanitary, and in milking cows. All of this is necessary in order to supply city people with clean, sweet milk . Dairy farmers are compelled to sell milk below cost of production. Dairy farmers families are going without life's necessities, because of Five Cents Per Copy. $1.50 Per Year. 217 David Keith Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1 ONE OF THE BIG A MONTH OFFICIAL GETS $350 July 27, 1934 Fisher Harris Out For The Supreme Court Fisher Harris, present City Attorthat he will seek the nomination at the hands of the Democratic state convention for Judge of the Supreme Court. That he Is qualified goes without saying. He has a brilliant legal mind and would fit into the place on the supreme bench very well. He is the son of the late Fisher Harris who became famous in advocating the See America First idea. He is a graduate of one of the leading law schools, has had years of experience at the (Continued on Page 4.) bar, and has performed the duties of City Attorney about as well as they ever have been performed. He may be depended upon to give all people a fair, honest and square deal before the supreme court of Utah if nominated and elected. He is a man of tireless industry with the ability to grasp and clearly express the essential points and underlying principles of complex problems; a keen student of modern social and economic questions with a sympathetic perception of fundamental human rights. By training education and experience he is one of the most eminently qualified lawyers of the state. In 19.17 Mr. Harris enlisted on the day war was declared and served until after its close when he resigned his Captain's Commission to return to the private practice of Law. Fisher Harris by temperament, experience and character Is eminently fitted to fill this high judicial position with honor to the people of the State of Utah and he Democratic Party. .ArfiaL ney, has announced . . While we are giving fam Hies as low as$2.75per week leaders are paying the Utah Drouth Administrator the sum of $12,500 a year, besides the engineer cost. And scores are getting similarly larpe salaries for doing Govnext to nothing . ernor should pubfsh all the names of those holding office, the number ofjobs each holds and the salaries, it would be enlightening le UTAHlROTESTS ' Harry L. Hopkins, Jacob Baker, Federal Emergency Relief Knowing that you are fully aware of Utah's official record in opposip tion to activities and projects thru cooperatives here, we, the CONSUMERS' WELFARE LEAGUE of UTAH vigorously protest against this obstructive policy on the part of the Governor, his State Relief Administrator and State Relief Committee. We also strongly protest against the action of the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce in their telegram to you further opposing Government funds coming to Utah thru FERA for mattress and quilt materials for those on relief rolls to furnish constructive and productive Self Help Work for the jobless and unemployed. Private Agencies have absolutely failed M provide this and other nec essities, and we consider it a display of gross selfishness on the part of our local Chamber of Commerce to thus object t6 our unfortunate unemployed but thrifty Utah families providing themselves with bedding during the coming winter.. This action only gives confirmation to the opinion which many already have here that the Chamber of Commerce in many of its activities is prompted purely by selfish motives, and certainly the public Interest cannot be served by such predatory profit seeking. Powerful influences with present State officials and persistent efforts of the Chamber of Commerce has for over a year past succeeded in preventing Government Self Help funds from coming to Utah's thrifty unemployed people thru Self Help Cooperatives here. While many other Statee in the Union are cooperating loyally with their Self Help groups and thus constructively putting themselves back on their feet it is decidedly unfortunate that here in Utah we should find the most unethical kind of misrepresentation and propaganda coming into our State. Not being satisfied with thus obstructing the application and operation of this phase of the New Deal in Utah they now proceed to protest the FERA from operating plants here for and by the jobless on the flimsy and untenable excuse that to do so would tread upon the toes of private industry. No state in the Union is in more need of these Self Help funds, and no group of citizens have a finer cooperative background or are more capable or willing or have better facilities to successfully carry it on than the citizens of Utah if they are not obstructed in doing so by the official leaders and big interests in charge. It is evident that the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce dominated by the powerful utilities banks and other large corporate interests is not representative, neither do they speak for the great masses of Utahs people who are so vitally concerned. We assure you that the majority of the voting citizens here are back of the Federal Administration in their splendid efforts to consider human welfare, relieve suffering, and make a more just distribution of the nation's So long as unemployment wealth. continues, and we can place these unemployed and jobless in Self Help industries and activities in Utah, these people will then he producing for themselves. They will thereby become self sustaining and will feel honored in this opportunity to do so. Otherwise it will be continued requests for federal funds for our State which we realize cannot Indefinitely Self-Hel- continue. In view of the fact that authorities have declared that in Sait Lake City many mattresses and comforters are needed. We are happy that the FERA is willing to lend itself in assisting our unemployed people to constructively provide for themselves in this great emergency. We trust therefore, you will not allow a few officials together with private but minori- ty and powerful interests to dictate from our State and that you will promptly dismiss any counter proposals which would substitute the motive of private profit for that of human welfare and service. |