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Show A Proposal to Defer the Chain Store Tax Referendum n in the Interest of a United War Effort , tjf This letter is published for the information of the public and especially the 54,263 qualified Utah voters who signed petitions referring the proposed special tax on chain stores 1 to a vote of the people at the General Election Nov. 3, 1942 y February 14, 1942. :?s,:ir . Mr. A. D. Stewart, President, -, 'V. - 1 UTAH RETAIL GROCERS ASSOCIATION, INC ; . Salt Lake Gtv. Utah. ' ; : '.. 'j t Dear Mr. Stewart: , ' The retail chain stores of Utah have authorized me to place before your Association a proposal for cooperation in a joint action in connec . ( tion with the referendum on Senate Bill 44 (the chain store tax). j Under existing Utah law, this issue will be voted upon by the people j at the general election on November 3rd, next. We assume that your j Association, as the publicly acknowledged sponsor of S. B. 44, will undertake a campaign to persuade the public to vote for your bill. And since S. B. 44 is aimed solely at chain stores, and would be a sentence of slow death for chain stores, our members have no alternative but to defend themselves, to the best of their ability, before the bar of public opinion. , In arranging for the passage of S. B. 44 you undoubtedly believed that it was of great importance to the competitive interests of your ' members. We may also assume that the 54,263 qualified Utah voters i who signed referendum petitions did so in the belief that a complete air ing of the facts, culminating with a vote by the people of Utah, would be in the public interest. We fully acknowledge that our members have j a "life and death" interest in the decision of the voters. i However, we cannot help but believe that all of these interests la i this issue have become less important since December 7, 1941. There is only one issue now confronting us, as Americans, today the necessity of ! conducting an all-out defense of our nation in its hour of greatest j jeopardy. , I At a time when American soil is under invasion and American lives are being sacrificed in its defense, we believe, as we are confident that j you do, that in a period of such grave national peril we should submerge j our internal differences and meet unitedly the emergency that faces us. ' The present war is total war. It is a conflict in which all of us have a : place, and which demands of each of us the utmost in time, money, and j energy. It is a struggle in which it would be criminal to do less than our best. Both independent and chain retailers have an important task j in this war. We are depended upon to assure the steady flow of avail j ' able supplies so that production may proceed unhampered, and civilian - morale be maintained at a high level. Our contribution is distribution. )i We are in the army of supply. p-j For these reasons, we propose that your Utah Retail Grocers Associa j. tion unite with us in a petition to Honorable Herbert B. Maw, Governor of Utah, requesting that he place before the Utah legislature, if a special J ' enjoy the luxury of ' l the whiskey of the "flavor years" I 5 years old A Kentucky Straight Dourbw WhUkey, 90 Proof. t Tkii WhUkey i$ 6 Years Old. jW WE GUARANTEE OUR COAL TO GIVE SATISFACTION SEE US FOR NUT, DOMESTIC LUMP, LUMP, OIL TREATED SLACK. H HAVE SCALES GUARANTEEING HONEST J WEIGHTS. FtlONE 80 FOR PROMPT COAL DELIVERIES. WE HAVE A COMPLETE LINE OF BUILDING j MATERIALS. .COPPER COAL AND LUMBER CO. IBL CHADWICK, Mgr. PHONE 80 session meets prior to August 1st, 1942, a recommendation that the legis j lature act to suspend the vote upon S. B. 44 until a general election fol- j lowing the cessation of hostilities. , J "t.i k Counsel assure us that this is entirely feasible, and that the rights of i your Association, those of the public, and of ourselves, will be in no ! j way injured by the postponement. : j Acting upon the assumption that your membership would prefer, as ours does, to be free during the time of trial ahead to devote full atten ) tion to the war effort, we are submitting for your consideration an 1 opinion covering the question of the legislature's constitutional author ity to order the postponement, together with a suggested measure to accomplish this objective. ' A copy of this letter, with attachments, is being forwarded to Governor Gover-nor Maw for his information and because this proposal has been sub- . stantially inspired by his many splendid statements regarding tho necessity for complete undivided effort in marshalling all of Utah's facilities for the job of winning the war. , This letter is being published as a paid advertisement so that the j 54,263 Utah citizens, in every county of the state, who signed referendum petitions on S. B. 44 may also be informed of our proposal. f : We sincerely hope that you will accept this invitation. We hope i that our joint petition will result in favorable legislative action and that i it will be possible to arrange for further wholehearted cooperation i between us in any and all ways by which we can unitedly and unselfish ly carry out our responsibilities and duties to Utah and the nation. - Yours very truly, .':'' ' (Signed) H. T. Fowler, President, UTAH CHAIN STORES ASSOCIATION, INC 'K ADAM. 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