OCR Text |
Show In 653 days Herbert B. Maw and Gus P. Backman will retire to private life The lig Search ff III, No. SALT 23. LAKE CITY, ff ff eff eae” Published every alternate Friday F. L. Jensen, Publisher : 72 T Street, Salt Lake City, Utah Dial 5-3989 $2.00 a year A Specialist in Neglected Truth VOL. ff UTAH, MARCH 10c PER 19, 1943 COPY Lynn S. Richards “Friend” of Labor Every once er. It kids can change in a while itself its into the labor pulls a prize notion that a bon- leopard spots. But when he took his seat in the Senate almost his first actions were to sponsor and aggressively push Last summer it made what amounts to a political bargain with Lynn S. Richards. Two representatives of labor—an AFL man and a CIO man—called on Lynn. He welcomed them. They inquired into his views on political and labor questions. Mr. Richards made only one pledge, to-wit: he would always vote for good government. Naturally the labor men viewed good government from the angle of protection of collective bargaining and kindred democratic matters. Mr. Richards unquestionably comprehended what his interviewers would understand by his pledge. So all parties were satisfied that even though Mr. Richards was believed to lean somewhat toward the conservative side, he would be a Sincere friend of labor’s in the Legislature. He received labor’s active support for election, and won by a heavy majority. virtually opposed. And every on measure to most vital the which labor measure of was all, HB 168, he was the real leader in the Senate fight against labor’s wishes and labor’s interests. Surely he cannot be so arrogant as to claim that he knows better than the leaders of labor unions what is good for them. The only other explanation of his actions is that he deliberately double-crossed labor and violated his pledge. Labor is through with Lynn Richards—so much through that even though the Senator asks to be forgiven he should be told in the language of the great Wendell Phillips that labor doesn’t forget. Mr. Phillips, addressing faithless legislators, said: “You may go down on your knees and Say, ‘I am sorry I did the act’, and we will reply, ‘It may avail you in Heaven, but on this side of the grave, NEVER’.”’ Those Racketeering Charges !! Empleyees of the Deseret News openly brag that the editorial policies of that publication bring it increased circulation. Its fight on collective bargaining is profitable. Does labor propose to take that arrogant chatter lying down? When implacable foes of the right of the working people of Utah to enjoy a decent livine undertake to break down the legal safe- cuards surrounding collective bargaining, they cloak their reprehensible actions with a mask of piety and purported disinterestedness while they spread the inaccurate inference that they seek only to perform a noble service in the public interest. They speak glibly of ‘‘labor racketeering’’ as the particular villain they would destroy. With pious gestures and assertions of good will they boldly insist that they approve collective bargaining—they only want to purify it. They hopé to elevate the conduct of labor to the righteous standards established ‘by the Chamber of Commerce, the Utah Farm Bureau, et cetera, et cetera. Their attitude is all pretense and sham. When pinned down on any one point they have to recant and substitute another purported misdeed of organized workers in some far away region. What they really want to accomplish is to inerease the profit side of the business (Continued on following page) |