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Show THE SEARCHLIGHT Let the Farmers Take Warning There is little or no objection to Senate tensen of Salt Lake, provided the scope of the sociation existing in Utah. Bill No. 23, introduced by Senator George A. Chrisproposal is broadened to include every non-profit as- Labor should not be singled out for either reguiation or crucifixion. What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. if there be need for registration and Supervision of Labor there is equal need for similar treatment for every other group in the State. If the microscope is to be turned on the Labor Unions , it also should be directed toward the following groups: The Farm Bureau and all agricultural associations (who are the front for the preposal to sit down on Labor); the Chambers of Comme rce; The Manufacturers Association; the Fax Dodgers Association; the Labor Relations Council; all churches, fraternal societies, and education organizations; the Metal Mine Operators Asscciatio n; the Coal Operators Association; The Retail Grocers Association; the Wholesalers Association; the Medical Association; the Dental Association; the Service Clubs; the Women’s organizations; the Bar Association, and every other association of any character whatsoever that seeks to promo te the well being of its members and attempts to exercise any influence on public opinion. Ft is just as unfair to single out Labor for hostile scruti ny and crippling regulation—if the purpose—as it would be to pass a law compelling the Mutual Improvement associations versity Ward to list contributing members and make sworn Statements of purpose, dues, liabilities, and excuses for existence, while leaving all other non-profit associations outside main of hampering regulation. If the Legislature proposes to give any group “the works” , it should be fair enough to out all round. Utah has a surprising list of institutions and self-exalted personages whose holier-thanthou complex is a little burdensome to most of us on occasion. So many taboos have blossomed into full flower that unwary persons live in a state of trembling apprehension. Among the sanctified institutions that bedevil us the Farm Bureau ranks high. Without regard to specific information, or lack of rb; the Farm Bureau utters omniscient opinions on every subject desired by its predatory business allies. Its statements must not be questioned. The Farm Bureau is never wrong—always infallible. And it musn’t be criticised nor reproached. You’ve insulted the ‘‘farmers’’ if you even raise an eyebrow, following a Bureau ukase. If the sugar interests have an axe to grind, and the Bureau grinds it, you must bow your head in silent approval. And don’t forget that wear Farm them Bureau jauntily. leaders They are wear halos— wholly sinless and pure—without ulterior motives. The brains of that lily-white is Clyde C. Edmonds, farmer de luxe. Clyde assets, the do- dish it may not know the difference between an irrigation system and a hog-wallow. But he’s smart enough to take a high enough percentage off the farmers’ products to let him live in luxury. Clyde may have been the inspiration for that expressive phrase, ‘‘farm the farmers’’. Clyde has been conferring and planninge— with lesser personages we’d eall it conniving’ —with Harold Bennett, Clix Wright (should be clicks wrong), the beloved old Deseret News, Skinny Madsen’s ZCMI, the Labor Relations Jouncil, and the whole predatory clique of un1on busters, to make a few lusty thrusts at collective bargaining. Clyde and the other Farm Bureau eladiators want to regulate labor—not in the interest of workers, but in the interest of sharpshooting business executives who have usurped control and direction of the Farm Bureau— under cover—meanwhile keeping the real dirt farmers in the dirt. Clyde, and Relations organization that be of Uni- islative the smoothies Council bills that have they operating concocted propose a to the Labor series have (Continued on following page) of leg- enacted — |