Show WAR AGAINST PRISON MADE GOODS URGED Utah Must Be Guarded From Such Products Manufacturers Manufacturers' Manufacturers Manufacturers' Manufacturers Manufacturers' Head ai Says Seven new directors were cre elected Wednesday to the Utah Manufacturers Manufacturers' ers ers' rs' rs association E. E R. R Alton and A. A P. P Miller of at Ogden Osden M. M J. J Greenwood S. S P. P Barter Harter Harry V V. A. A jk Tracy and L. L A. A Roser all of Salt Lake II If A. A Snow and Leslie Squires of at Salt Lake tied for tor the eighth Declaring that Utah does not desire desIre de de- de- de sire Ire to be the dumping ground for prison made products of ot other states Charles N N. Fehr president of the Utah Manufacturers Manufacturers' association strongly urged members to pay particular attention attention at at- to formulating laws to be presented pre pre- to the thc next legislature which will stop the practice at the annual meeting of ot the association Wednesday at the Hotel Utah He urged that immediate steps be betaken betaken betaken taken to obtain the unanimous backing backing backing back back- ing and active support of all interested interest interest- ed groups in Utah for the introduction introduction tion Lion and passage of the proper legis legis- lation The Utah Manufacturers' Manufacturers association association association tion must watch closely the state subsidized subsidized sub sub- prison industry which has for many years presented a constantly recurring threat against the hope and necessity for reasonable stabilization of wages paid productive labor in every industry faced b by this unfair type of ruinous competition he de de- de- de dared Prisoners must work work nobody nobody disputes disputes dis dis- dis the fact fact but but when prison labor is employed as slave labor in manufacturing manufacturing manu manu- products to be sold on the open market at any price regardless of local labor costs there can be no disputing the essential unfairness o of any such solution to the problem of prison employment Utah certainly does not desire to be the dumping ground but any state which fails to enact the necessary leg leg- prior to January 19 1934 will ill be just as powerless as as it is s tOd today to to regulate the sale of prison-made prison goods shipped in from other states The Cooper Hawes-Cooper law which Is federal and goes into effect in 1932 Continued on Pare Page Eighteen WAR VIAR AGAINST PRISON MADE GOODS URGED I Continued rr from Eleven I does docs not prohibit the shipment or sale of prison products In fact the very language of ot the act presumes prison prison- made goods will be shipped he said Mr Fehr told the members that one of the reasons more Utah products products prod prod- are arc not sold at home is because the people do not know what is being made within the borders of the state and the general quality of ot the mer mer- chandise mer-I mer The greatest asset assel to your organization organization he declared is the proper merchandising and advertising of your goods which sets forth the story that your products are arc of hi high h quality and the price is right Advertising has become a pertinent factor in the distribution of merchandise and we must compete in order to exist I There in LI no other organization in Utah today that has so successfully succeeded in its work of building u uthe up p the state as the Utah association With each year the volume of business ha has s increased If we wc are arc to have the industrial industrial industrial in in- development which rightfully rightful ly belongs to Utah then to secure the proper cooperation we must have ou our r organization Mr 11 Fehr touched on the thc organization tion of ot the Utah Manufacturers' Manufacturers Em Em- league which now has hns a membership mem memo o of the education campaign campaign campaign cam cam- concerning Utah made goods carried on in the schools the success of the manufacturers manufacturers' exhibits at the last state fair and md the label contest |