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Show A READER'S ADVERTISEMENT Is the Deseret News Anti-Labor? When the first organizers of the U.M.W. and the A.F.L. started out in the State of Utah, when the mines and smelters had an arsenal of six-shooters, rifles, sawed-off shotguns, when they paid gunmen $8 to $10 per day to beat up all organizers and union men, when they threw the household things in the road, then told the striker or union man to get his family and get going, and keep going until you are off the Company's holdings, that was some 3 to 4 miles away. This was in November and very cold. I took my wife and three months old baby, moved into a tent furnished by the U.M.W. We had no cars in those days, walking seemed to be too good for union men and strikers, and if you didn't walk fast enough to suit the gunmen you were punched in the ribs with the long end of a rifle. That wasn't all. A union man was blackballed. black-balled. Two years after this strike in Sunnyside, Utah, I was in the coal camp of Clear Creek. I was told by one of the gunmen to get going and stay out of Clear Creek. We were denied the right of the U. S. Post office. The union men and strikers showed no violence whatever. They could not; their homes were searched and all weapons of any caliber were taken away. Then the mine owners had the (Continued or paire fo r) Reader's Advertisement Con'd State Militia move in with machine guns and cannon. Feature Fea-ture the union getting the State Militia for protection. Did the Deseret News write any editorials condemning that ? If so, please let me read it. Never have the union and working men had a better friend than Franklin D. Roosevelt. Roose-velt. Is the Deseret News anti-Roosevelt? Yes! It hates him. I know there are other old timers like myself that remember when working 10 hours per day, going sometimes half a mile to place of work, all that time was our headache. head-ache. We had to put the 10 hours work underground at . place of working, the bunk houses would not be fit places for cattle today. There are a lot of good things yet for the unions to do. If they are going to do it, they better stay with the best friend they ever had. That's Franklin D. Roosevelt. (Paid political ad by R. M. Brandon.) '. i |