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Show i:r Kleiiew 2 (Dmirireiniti 00 EJemitto f EB 7 rr-- EDUCATE ORGANIZE i VXMX 1939 sXuqXZ2!Jp TEE PEGfLES PAPER COOPERATE VOL X; NO. SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. FEBRU 31 If ;, Price: 1939 5 Cents Per Copy J RINb V Crawls from Sick Bed to Vote Against Sufficient Relief For Children and Invalids Did you ever before hear any decent person crawling from a sick bed so that he could withhold bread from the mouths of millions of children? No, you have not. And, we hav$ not. But this is just what happened in the nations capital last Friday when Utahs Tory Senator William H. King left a sick bed to go to the Senate, where he cast the deciding vote that defeated President Roosevelts request for $875,000,000 for the WPA work relief. As a result of Tory Senator Kings presence at the voting the Senate upheld the House slash of $150,000,000 by a vote of 47 to 46. The Senates starve the poor bloc, consisting of almost the entire Republican members lip and twenty some Republicrats, like King, was jubilant at be pared from WPA rolls winning the battle over Adminis- men will 30. June by forces. tration - This does not mean anything to Voted Misery heartless and the The paring of the funds asked for by the President will cause the King. He is well paid by the Govimmediate firing of thousands of ernment for doing the bidding of WPA workers and more wholesale Wall Street. At Uncle Sams expense, he and cuts in the early spring, until by his family take an annual junket June 30 the rolls are down to curone-hthe of trip to the Hawaiian Islands. He jobs, or does not worry over the welfare of rent rate of operation. Here in Tory Senator King s the needy people in Utah. (Continued on page 2) home state, Utah, it will mean 9800 WAGNER FILES HEALTH BILL WASHINGTON Senator Robert Wagner of New York, whose name is closely connected with great government projects in labor, hous ing and social security, last week announced his sponsorship of an $850,000,000 federal health program. Senator Wagner announced that his bill ould carry out the recommendations made by the Nations Health Conference last summer, which have the backing of Miss Josephine Roche, chairman of the U. S. committee on health and welfare activities; President Roosevelt and the C. I. O. The C. I. O. Pittsburgh convention endorsed Miss Roche's proposals after she had addressed the delegates and given them a picture of the jcontemplated program. The Senators bill, it is expected, will call for increased medical care, greater hospitalization facilities and a form of health insurance. . cold-blood- ed af Chain Stores Tax Bill Introduced in Utah State Legislature A bill to impose graduated license tax on chain stores was introduced in the State Senate Tuesday by Senator Wendell ' . Grover' of Salt Lake City. Louisiana the after The proposed measure is patterned ' chain store license tax law, which has been upheld by the decision of the United States Supreme Court. Under the Grover bill the tax would be levied on the basis of the number of stores in the chain throughout the United States. It would be payable on March 15 of each year. . Amounts to be paid on stores op erating in the state according to the number of stores in the chain, are as follows: Between 2 and 10 stores, $10 for each store; between 10 and 35 stores, $15; between 35 and 50 stores, $20; between 50 and 75 stores, $25; 75 to 100 stores, $30; 100 to 125 stores, $50; 125 to 150 stores, $100; 150 to 175 stores, $150; 175 to 200 stores, $200; 200 to 225 stores $250; 225 to 250 stores, $300; 250 to 275 stores, $350; 275 to 300 stores, $400; 300 to 400 stores, $450; 400 to 500 stores, $500; over 500 stores, $550. Protect Utah Industry There is a demand for a chain store tax from several sources. It is claimed that it would protect Utah industries. The powerful Labors. League of' Utah in its convention last July adopted as one of its platform planks the chain store tax. It reads: For the benefit of the independent merchant nd small business man we advocate a gradual corporation income tax and chain store tax based on the national unit, the principle of the Louisiana Act. The League platform also declares: The Labors Non - Partisan League differentiates sharply between the huge monopoly corporations and trusts and legitimate independent businesses. The former evades taxes, take their profits out of the state, and do not contribute their share to the genera! welfare of the people of Utah. The independent business man lives and pays taxes in Utah, employs Utah Non-Partis- -- an labor, buys Utah products, and contributes everything to Utah's prosperity. We propose to protect Utah business against predatory monopolies to the end that we may have a balanced prosperity among all the people of Utah. Same Age-Ol- d Story Told At Hearings On Labor Bills islators that they had no business to accept for consideration any measures unless they had the stamp of approval of some official bureau or expert. Senators Nelson and Grover took issue with the expert's assertions. Senator Nelson declared that it would be a sorry situation if the legislature had to bow down to the bureaus. Instead of a democracy, we would become a bureaucracy, he said. . , Senator Grover pointed Wi that the bureaus are the creation of legislative acts, and therefore the leg islature is their boss and will not take orders from the bureaus when it comes to consideration of legislation and public welfare and best interests of the people. Bread Question Another bright idea came from a manager of a bakery he thought it would hurt the baking industry and wheat farmers if this bill became a law. One gathered from his remarks that the only places where folks eat bread is at drug store, department store, and lunch counters. Another opponent of the bill thought if it became a law it would be harmful to the ice cream industry and dairy farmers. Then there were those who tooted the horn for their particular soda fountain lunch stand. The department store girls, as usual, were on hand to speak for their bosses. One admitted she was speaking for the employes organization, evidently a company Darkness and Death The traffic accident problem is everybodys problem because there are few of us who do not at one time or another, or in some way, have the advantage of automotive transportation. Yes, we all have a direct interest in the traffic accident problem and the man who who goes to work every day, possibly, more than most. For not only is there a great army employed in operating the vast fleets of trucks, buses, and commercial vehicles in service, but everyone, regardless of his job, hnus get to it, and in order to do so, must venture the highway and streets. 4t There are too many traffic accidents in Utah. Utah, and we are not proud of it, led all other states in the United States in traffic accidents in 1938. There is a segment of the whole problem that has been too little thought of in the past and about which too little had been done. That problem is night traffic safety and the relation of light and visibility to it. Take a good look at the drawing, After Dark, by Rice, and you will agree with us that extra care is needed in night driving. The drawing follows: , ( After Dark !! ... by Rice DID YOU KNOW THAT THE LIGHT YOU SEE BY IS REDUCED FROM 10,000 FOOT-CANDL-ES OF LIGHT WHEN THE SUN IS SHINING A FRACTION 1 FOOT-CAND-LE OF AFTER union. A Health Measure f The speakers for the proponents AT 50 MILES PER HOUR of the bill brought out plain facts as to how unsanitary was the ZOO FEET IS COVERED , method of providing food at some IN ABOUT ZY SECONDS of the unregulated soda fountains. Lester Larson, secretary of Culinary Alliance No. 815, related some experiences he had had upon his Sixty per cent of the total of traffic fatalities occurred visits to these lunch places. Among other things he found cockroaches during night time hours when only one out of every four cars in the food, and in a basement was out on the road. Night driving is six to ten times as dancookery noted rats much in evi- gerous as driving in the day time. AT It is the same old, old story that we hear from the spokesmen for the bosses at hearings on labor bills. This week we heard the same age-ol- d story on S. B. 9, restaurant health measure. And twas the same tale of woe at the hearing on H. B. 30, wage-hobill for intra-stat- e industries. And it will continue to be the same old story as long as there are misled industrialists who think low wages, long hours, and unsanitary conditions are profitable to them. Debates On Restaurant Act At the hearing on the restaurant health measure in the convention room at the Newhouse hotel Monday morning were all the forces of the Chamber of Commerce, headed by Gus Backman, secretary. stateSome of the opponents ments were simply absurd. For example, one speaker a health expert asserted that the bill was all wrong because it had not been submitted to a health expert or a board of health, etc., etc. He went so far as to tell the leg ur dence. The rate of night fatalities is in almost direct ratio to the He said the bill was patterned after the Colorado restaurant law, degree of visibility or light provided for the driver. This is an age of light yet we are tearing along at 50 which has proved a success. The Colorado act has stood the test in miles an hour and up over highways which, except for the bare the courts of the land, it was 200 feet of as dark afforded headlights, are visibility just by pointed out. rattled the roads which coaches over as many years ago. stage J. J. Richards, a chef and a In 10,000-ft- . driver the has to a daytime anywhere up restaurant man, spoke in support of the bill. He said it should be candles of natural illumination. At night he has practically no passed for the protection of the illumination at all. In consequence, automobiles carry headpublic. 1 -- ft. 150 candle. which fraction of feet, a provide, at The bill provides a periodical lights . candles of light in the daytime to health inspection of those persons Think of it from 10,000-ftfoods. one-foalso to handle fraction candle a of It at night! employed provides that the area where food The headlights of 1937 afforded about 150 feet of visibilis cooked and served must be partitioned off from rest .of the busi- ity. The headlights of 1939 afford barely 200 feet of visibility, ness and thus prevent carrying of and no more. The light that was available for night driving in dust, dirt, and disease germs into 1917, though bad, was infinitely closer to being adequate than (Continued on page 3) (Continued on page 8) -- ot |