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Show I rEN YEARS OF CONTENTION and CIVIC STRIFE vs. FEN YEARS of PROGRESS and CIVIC UNITY SSfi A HOME PAPES Printed for Home Fsft By Home People In A HOME PLANT iimmmtmtmmtt FECIAL A WEEKLY NEWSMAGAZINE edition DEPENDABLE """ PUBLISHED . iteel Workers Pledge AT PBOVO, Him Re-Ele- ct For Interference in Provo it Attorney Worthen At our plant we manufacture electricity and the past fifteen yean without any and Light Co. It has from Uiah kelp uu ben eo successful that it ie a deciding factor in our support of a Municipal Power Plant. have done eo for ?? " "We cannot believe that the U. S. mid manufacture their own electricity rved better or cheaper by the Utah Steel Corporation if they could be Power and Light x The largest Steel Co. in the world must know what ey are doing; hence our belief that Provo City can and 01 operate their power plant as a benefit to all of its stock Oden the residents of Provo City. , Wm. will be over. i E. Zobell Colorado Springs, Colo. MARK ANDERSON Jhe Committee Urges MAYOR OF PROVO The Municipal Plant at Colorado Springs has earned a net profit exceeding $4,000,000 in fourteen years. Our plant will earn a net profit of $1,638,000 in fifteen years, and we will have a plant of 10,000 KVA capacity at the end of the period and no debt. ttaijor s Statement: In other words we will have a million dollar plant free of debt and will have enough cash to pay Provos general . To the People of Provo: As the campaign draws to a dose I would like to vite your attention to two fundamental things. Asserts Rank and File of All Organized Labor Will Vote Against All Three Power Trust Propositions Tomorrow to inform the people of Provo City, that after thorough canvass of approximately 800 railroad worker Ming in Provo, all affiliants of the 21 Railroad Labor ttuizations covering all branches of railroad service, we id approximately 97' per cent favor exclusive Municipal We wish and Power service, without private competition. Ihe railroad workers are one of the largest labor jpa in Utah. Some fifteen of these 21 labor organizaare connected with the American Federation of Labor d repudiate the endorsements made by the State Federa-- o of Labor officials at their Price Convention. These matters were never presented to the rank and Feder--J membership for acceptance or rejection by State officials and such endorsements represented only ytain reactionary officials own opinions and not the canvas jmion of the various labor groups; whereas, our the reflect does and foked the individual lay member dies of the rank and file membership who have nothing sell. Our advice to all voters, men and women of Provo City, all three especially to laboring people, is to vote against Positions tomorrow. United we win. Divided we shall be victimized another in- First: our Municipal Plant has ample capacity for all present needs and a sufficient reserve capacity for safety. Current surplus revenue from operations of the plant will easily take care of additional generating capacity if and when needed. Provision is made in the original plan and structure for doubling the initial capacity when increased power demands justify. Be assured also that the City Light Department will trouble and repair service at least as efmaintain ficient as that now rendered by the Utah Power and Light Company. 24-ho- ur Second: Provos contractural obligations are binding. 14 here V tay. They will have to be fulfilled. Our Plant conditions Under these can buy. It is the best that money all citizens, regardless of past differences of opinion, should make give the Citys enterprise full support It is yours; it a success. things our City needs unity and peace. I ask each of you to join me in achieving that unity by voting AGAINST all three Power Trust Propositions tomorrow. Above all Respectfully yours, Mark Anderson d years. A house divided against itself cannot stand, city with competing power plants will be a house itself. Join us in removing the obstacles tzarding the successful operation of the Municipal Power and help make Provo a better place in which to he. Vote AGAINST all three Power Trust Propositions. Commutee Respectfully Unionized Labor G. T. HARRISON L. G. MERTSIIEIMER L. E. WAID Attorney Worthen aays that the Power Company just wants to be nice. If we will let them leave their forest of old poles in the streets, the company will be happy to let the City Plant do all of the business. The Company will provide a Provo stand-b- y service just to insure no "blackouts for the Power Company's good friends. How sweet. Bet I think I see the buzzard of the Electric Bond and Share perched peacefully on a cross-arHe is hoping that we will die, and if we will just let him hang around ten years he will do his darndeat to make us die, or feed on us while we are still alive. Shoot the buzzard dead with your ballots tomorrow and our worries Pres. Local 1577 dor - it ly sup-fe- I Trust Propaganda By Mayor Mark Anderson Now the Utah Power and Light Company ahows graphically how Provo's modern municipal plant, with a 5,000 KVA capacity, would be inadequate six days out of the wed: on a peak load that the Company estimates to be 800 KVA for the Provo area. If this were true the two-unplant at Ft Collins would have proved inadequate because the peak load frequently exceeds the capacity of one unit, but Ft Collins has not had a seconds outage in nearly four years. Even if the peak load of Provo is 3,200 KVA, or even When4,200 KVA, Provos plant is constructed to carry ever there is any danger that it will not third unit will be installed at once. Don't be scared by the Power Companys propaganda. Provo local of the Steel Workers organization edged its support to Mayor Mark Anderson, Commissioner F, McGuire and the Municipal Power Plant at a meeting hy. President Zobell asserted Steel Company generates at such small cost, and with service so dependablr s Utah Power and Light Company cannot compete. Actual demonstration of service and economies at Steel mt was a deciding factor in the decision of the organiza-- a to back the Municipal Plant The announcement reads: local 1577 Steel Workers Organization, the largest as fide labor union in Utah County, Resolved at our regu-- r meeting to support Mayor Anderson and our present rt and also to Vy officials in their fight for the Municipal Power Plant and vote against the proved three amendments. ight Price Organization Rebuked Peak Load The S Mayor Analyzes Power Municipal Plant elec-ici- MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1989 INDEPENDENT . Support for Mayor Snd OF LOCAL AFFAIRS UTAH Free Rally Dance - Sponsored by Young Voters Organization Supporting 8:30. MONDAY UTAIINA Municipal Power Public is invited. Dob Ortons orchestra will furnish the music. obligation debt. Deer Creek debt, and special improvement debt. To vote the Power Company another franchise would be a major community disaster from a financial as well as a moral standpoint We could not make a greater mistake. We will lose most of the profit from our plant and violate sacred agreements by voting a new franchise to the Utah Power and Light Company. Municipal Power Plant and Officials Endorsed By Alliance Provo Local Workers Alliance went on record Frida night aa endorsing Mayor Anderson, J. P. McGuire and the Municipal Power Plant 100 per cent This endorsement follows the report of a Political Committee set up some time ago to investigate both sides of municipal question. The Committee met with Mayor Anderson and the City Commission and made a careful study of their platform for the coming election aa well ss their record in the past and found that this platform is in full accord with the principles of the Workers Alliance and is truly based on building a bigger and better Provo for all classes of people in the City. Procurement by Utah Power and Light Company of interference in Provos Community affairs, to supplement the activities of its Army of Occupation, received a stern rebuke from Mayor Anderson last week when he decried the attempt of Southern Utah Associated Industries o' Price, Utah, to advise Provo on Power questions. The Mayors reply to the Price ally of the Power Company reads: "Mr. Val D. Hicks, Secretary Southern Utah Associated Ind., Inc., Price, Utah Dear Mr. Hicks: Your resolution of October 24 is before me. I assume that you have been misinformed as to the type of plant that Provo is building. Ours is a modem plant that will, at the beginning, consume about Utah coal per day and we already have prosof ton forty demands for new industrial uses that of increased pects additional capacity and additional coaL may require "We are positive from what we have learned from the experience of other cities that are operating modern plants that our plant will encourage industry sad a greater use of coal, Utahs greatest natural resource. . "Kansas City, Kansas, is selling electricity as low as four mills per K.W.H. to industries from the Citys modem coal-stea- m coal-stea- coal-stea- m plant. m "Provo Citys Power project is the result of years of study on our part. Perhaps our plant will injure the Utah Power and Light to some extent but we are positive that the coal industry of Utah will benefit from our program. "We regret that the Utah Power and Light Company has been able to induce so many organizations outside of our community to interfere with Provo in its efforts to throw off the yoke of the Electric Bond and Share Company." Respectfully yours, ' . , (signed) Mark Anderson Mayor. "i, How the Power Trust Obtains Signers for its Advertising and Campaign Circulars Provo, Utah Nov. 6, 1939 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The name of the undersigned, Edward Hood, appeared in the Provo Herald of yesterday beneath the resolution of the Power Companys Young Voters League. Non-Partis- an t I wish to emphatically state to the citizens of Provo that my name was so used without my consent and against my will. I do not sanction the use of my name in connection with a cause in which I do not believe. Respectfully yours, (Signed) EDWARD HOOD Therefore the Committee highly endorses Mark Anderson for Mayor, J. P. McGuire for City Commissioner. In view of the fact that the Auditors Office does not affect the Workers Alliance as an organization this matter was left entirely to the option of the individual members. Dr. Bennlon, in behalf of your Company yon should apologize to Mr. Hood end other citizens who have been victimized by Power Company The Workers Alliance also went on record as opposing all three propositions on the Power question. methods . |