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Show In The Search lig eee ee ee ee days Herbert Backman B. Maw will and retire to life Published every alternate Friday F. L. Jensen, Publisher 72 T Street, Salt Lake City, Utah Dial 5-3989 $2.00 a year es SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, APRIL 30, 1943 III, NO. 27. P. private A Specialist in Neglected Truth VOL. 611 Gus 10c PER COPY —_-— Rehabihtating the Governor State business has begun to play second fiddle to politics. Several times a week notables in the upper tier of Statehouse politicians go into huddles or meet with His Excellency to map the strategy of the 1944 campaign. The activity arises from the urgent need to rehabilitate the Governor as a political asset be- fore the prospect of success in 1944 is completely soured. At the beginning of the year more than fifty per cent of the Governor’s appointees frankly admitted he had become a political liability whose renomination must inevitably lead the party to defeat in the State in the next campaign. Dr. Maw was urged to do something about it. He was told frankly that all was lost if he did not succeed: in re-kindling the crusading popularity that brought him success in 1940. His Excellency admitted the situation was bad. But he pointed out that he had managed to keep Gus pretty well under cover and a little less in evidence as the mainstay of the administration. Other things, he was sure, could be sweetened by a return to his political cordiality, worn so effectively as a disguise in 1940. As a result of the conferences His Excellency has been more active than a Mexican jumping bean—and about as effective. He has been to Cedar City. He has wandered through the Ole regions of Sevier and Sanpete. He took a plane to Cache. And he handed out a whole cargo of soit soap to the Old Folks, siding with them ina crack at his Welfare Commissioners. But his case is hopeless. He cannot understand that people all over the State know—they don’t have to guess—that his word isn’t good. They use the words ““Maw Promise” and “‘DoubleCross” aS synonyms. Until Mister Maw can live that down and until he makes his old-time supporters forget about the Mourners Bench, and other things—he might as well retire from politics. If the Democratic Party wants to win again in 1944, particularly the State offices, it should agree on a candidate for Governor who can at(Continued on following page) What's Back of Gus Satellite Organizations and Interlocking Directorates Financed by Predatory Corporations Supplement the Pernicious Activities of the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce; Political Corruption Disclesed. This the second in a series of Editor’s note: articles relating to the makeup, politics, and baleful practices foisted on the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce and allied groups of an Inner Ring composed largely of absentee-owned corporations. Other articles will continue to expose the undemocratic, iniquitous operations and purposes of the constitutes Utah’s Chamber’s Inner Ring which Invisible Gevernment. While the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce is the chief instrument employed by absentee-owned corporations to dominate the economic and poli- tical life in Utah, there are many subordinate satellite organizations that are used Ring to operate in special fields. The policies of the satellite or by the Inner groups are care- fully coordinated with the grand stategy enforced in the big show in the main tent. In each of the subordinate and perhaps organizations a guileless, Utahns number of provide the willing, window dressing. They think they are being honored by being entrusted with important roles in a drama whose sordid qualities they fail to observe, or strive to ignore. They intimate rather smugly that public they are making valuable contributions to welfare. But actually those Utahns serve only as comeons to ensnare their fellow citizens and to prepare them for insidious exploitation by giant corpor(Continued on page 4) |