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Show THE o SEARCHLIGHT -_—- penalty; four weeks, ten per cent; and so on, until only the flagrant cases would draw the maximum penalty. BS Boys~ (Continued from preceding page) The workers of the state would pay a tax of one per cent on their wages, beginning with Beginning with July 1 July 1 of this year. of next year unemployed workers would be entitled to six additional weeks of unemployment insurance, if they were unemployed and ellThis extra money cible for such insurance. would be used by these workers to buy goods offered for sale by the Salt Lake storekeepers (many of whom are taxed to pay Gus’s salary) who, in turn, would have to buy more goods from the Utah Manufacturers who are taxed of said The salaries to pay Stan’s salary. Backman and Stephenson, however, are apparently not dependent upon the amount of business done by their employers for on a conservative estimate, this B-S combination, by their action Thursday, have knocked their employers out of at least $5,000,000 worth of business which these employers would be glad to get soon after Hitler and Hirohito are laid end to end in restful slumber. The other main point was relating weekly unemployment benefit amount to This would decrease cost-of-living index. weekly benefits 20 per cent when the cost living fell a point and a half below normal is more than 20 points above normal the tlie the of (it now). Here was another concession which labor, in the interests of sound economies, was willing to make but which B-S* apparently could not (They probably will have a good comprehend. answer ready for their bosses when wages and living costs tumble and unemployment benefits do not.) Then another point, which did not concern labor but which would have saved the employers of B-S both money and headaches, but which B-S did not understand, concerned penThe present alty on delinquent employers. Employment Security Act provides a stiff penalty of twenty-five per cent if employers are late in reporting—two weeks late, five per cent But, Gus and Stan were so busy helping the workers, who did not want their help, that they forgot all about their employers who, God knows, need somebody’s help. Just why they opposed 176 the opposers Stan attempted to but did not clearly state. he could not read his speech when he waved his arms, and he could not give his speech without waving his arms. Gus, whose ‘brevity was only outdone by Gibb Marr’s silence, made a pretty He stood up and stated, fair presentation. ‘We to it’’, and are opposed then, not know- ing anything else to say, promptly sat down. Stan, Mark and Adrian would probably have made a much better impression on the listeners if they had done likewise. Labor—ably represented by Latter, Duffin, Edwards, Noller and Hodges, and backed up by twenty more persons well known in labor circles—urgently appealed for the right to build up the unemployment fund as protecRay R. Adams, tion against the days ahead. Executive Director of the Department of EKmployment Security, answered numerous questions which had been raised or implied by other speakers. Dean W. H. Leary, Chairman of the State Advisory Council on Unemployment Insurance, explained why the Advisory Council, composed of both business and labor representatives, believed the bill should pass. Former: District Judge George W. Worthen of Provo, a member of the Advisory Council, added his voice to the appeal made by Dean Leary. -And Mrs. Algie Ballif of Provo, another member of the Council, was on hand ready to support the bill when time was called at 6:30. Stan immediately rushed out to continue his extensive program of lobbying via the dinner table.—Contributed. contributor our believe We *<Editor’s note: used the letters “B-S” as an abbreviation to identify Backman and Stephenson rather than to describe their arguments. In 22 months the most important the word Excellency will be Ex. syllable in |