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Show NON-PARTISAN LEAGUE SCORED BY M'INTOSH Emphasizes Need for Close 'Co-operation Between Manufacturers and Producers. Warning against activities in U tali of an organization known in the northwest as the Non-partisan league, which is branded as an un-American and really pio-Orman organization, was sounded to Jkf the members of Ihe Manufacturers' As-V As-V ijociation of Utah yesterday at a lunch- eon at the Commercial club by John H. j Mcintosh, secretary ot the Employers' I association of Montana. Mr. Mcintosh stated that this organization organiza-tion had been surreptitiously working in ) N a number of the northwestern states and had secured a strong foothoid in two or three slates before it was known. The plan of operation of the organlza- i 1 ion. which, he said i.5 composed of agi- lators and unscrupulous politicians, is to yo among t'.ie farmers with the doctrine that they cannot expect any fair deal from the government under either of the ohl parties, and thus inducing them to ; enroll, at ?"'. per head, in the new or ganization, which promises UienvSli wheat and other big prices for their products if they will suppoi t the cause of the Non-, 1 partisan league. Mr. Mcintosh urged that Utah interests guard against the organization getting a foothold in thia state. t-Te also informed the association that ho proposed to adopt and use in Montana Mon-tana the idea of I'tuh Products week, which has proved so successful in Utah. M r. MoJ ntosh Iris just returned from a lour of the Pacific coast, where be attended at-tended several conventions and meetings at which industrial conditions were di,5- us-cd and t he duties of manulacturers and other iiuiust ries in the present war crisis were considered. The speaker emphasized the necessity lor close co-operation between the industries in-dustries and between the producer and the manufacturer to secure the desired results. "( wain to sound a note, of warning against the so-called national Non- p-;rtis;in league," said Mr. Mcintosh. "This political cull, was fathered in I lie I Uikolas. where !t has securelv throttled i those states, ;uid is now invading Mon tana. Idaho, Washington and Oregon. , 'o!ormlo, Wyoming ami Utah are now h'dttg felt out by the paid hirelings of Hiw league. 1 understand tliev hav-y 500 members in Utah, but the inoveniorH in i Ins state is young yet and can he SMtielciied by prompt and concerted action Vol such oiMHuizations as the manufacturers manufac-turers associii tions." |