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Show Granger, Maw, Denounce Republicans in Address To Milford Audience Congressman Walter K. , Granger headed a delegation of Democratic candidates for office when ihey addressed a group of Milford voters at the high school auditorium Tuesday Tues-day night. Earlier in the evening eve-ning they had been feted at a banquet, served in the Catholic Catho-lic church, with a few staunch Milford Democrats as specially invited guests. Introduced by Milford's retiring re-tiring county commissioner, W. G. White, the Southern Utah representative said he had been "damming the Republicans all over the state and expected to keep on damning them." Stating Stat-ing that the Republicans refused to meet or discuss openly any of the major issues of the cam paign, Mr. Granger touched briefly on many Democratic programs which he said the Republican Re-publican party was pledged to .tear down. Included in the list were "the many benefits accruing accru-ing to farmers under the New Deal, social security legislation, price controls, and the vast strides laboring men have made since the introduction of New Deal ideas into the economy of the nation." "Since the days of Samuel Gompers," Congressman Granger Gran-ger said, "labor has had to struggle every inch of the way for the economic gains they have made. Under the Wagner act, they were assured of the privilege privi-lege of talking things over with the bosses, as a group, instead of each individual having to fight his own battle for better living standards. The Republicans, Republi-cans, anxious to tear down all the New Deal legislation, dared not go too far before the 1948 election, and contented themselves them-selves with passing the Taft-Hartley act, of which they seem so Continued on Page Four HERE'S MORE ABOUT GRANGER (Continued from Page One) proud, and which has caused more labor strife than any other piece of legislation in history." Mr. Granger charged that in the last session of congress instead in-stead of adding to the social security program, with the ultimate ulti-mate aim of almost completely doing away with relief rolls and poverty among the aged, the Republican majority group ''slashed 750,000 persons off the social security program." He blamed the National Association As-sociation of Manufacturers. "which controlled the Republican Republi-can congress," for the runaway prices that are plagueing today's housewife and wage earner. Mr. Granger held hope, however, of "weathering the storm" with straight thinking and caution, and urged holding the line on wages and farm parity programs at their present level during the price-tapering off period. Governor Herbert B. Maw, after af-ter informing his listeners that "the governor gets the blame" for everything that goes on in the Capitol building of which various groups disapprove, "stood on his record" of 16 years of work with a complete welfare and pro-labor program. He also asked the audience to inform in-form the sportsmen of Beaver County that he was opposed to the shooting of large numbers of doe deer, but his "hands were tied" by the board of big game control, which is appointed by various interested groups. The governor explained that the ! board of big game control attempts at-tempts to keep the Utah deer j herds at about their present level by killing off 60,000 to 70,000 buck and doe deer annually. annu-ally. He stated that any changes in the methods of apportioning the doe kill must be done by legislative action. The governor prophesied that within the next few years labor will face "utter collapse or become be-come very, very strong," and after denouncing the Republicans Republi-cans for threatening to tear down all the New Deal labor programs, urged the election to office of Democrats in every legislative and executive office. Referring to the welfare program, pro-gram, and specifically the lien provision of the welfare act, Governor Maw charged that all but three Republicans voted for the lien provision, "and one of them was absent and not voting, and another had some relative on the welfare rolls." He charged that no Southern Utah Republican Republi-can representative voted against the lien provision. Switching to the liquor question, ques-tion, Governor Maw said "some folks think that if they elect my opponent, they can buy liquor by the drink. But they're wrong. That's a legislative problem; and the governor has no control over it" Governor Maw said "after he'd finished the program he started back in 1932 he'd be glad to retire" re-tire" and said the war years had interrupted his program before he could complete it. Heber Bennion Jr., Secretary of State, running for re-election, reviewed the work of his office, and explained some of the duties of the secretary! of state. Dr. Bateman, superintendent of ipublic instrustion, spoke briefly brief-ly regarding some of the problems prob-lems of the department of education. edu-cation. Clinton Vernon, candidate for attorney peneral, reviewed his background in public office, and stressed the need for "cheap power in Southern Utah. J. S. (Slim) Murdock of Minersville, and Carlyle Gron-ning Gron-ning of Milford, candidates for county commission posts, spoke briefly, and Jack Barton, candidate candi-date for the state legislature, heartily endorsed the candidates who had appeared before .the group of voters, referring to them as "honest, hard-working, fearless men, who were all good Democrats and loyal to Demor cratic party ideals." |