Show GROCERS BACK BACKi i CHAIN TAX LAW Three hundred Utah grocers delegates and their fri friends were en en route home Wednesday after the the conclusion late Tuesday afternoon after- after afternoon noon of the fourth and final business busl- busl ness session of the thIrty thIrty-sev thirty seventh nth j annual annual convention of Utah Retail I Grocers association in the Newhouse Newhouse New- New bouse house hotel Concluding the session with a aa banquet a and dance in the gold room the delegates wound up the three-day three conclave with an executiVE executive executive exec exec- session that placed the the theas as association as- as tion firmly behind the Utah chain store tax law anc and pledged organization members to an educational edu educational educational edu edu- c campaign in its behalf in fn 1942 Other resolutions pledged the organization to support programs state agricultural Designed to help groups in such campaigns as Celery Cel cry ery ry week and Eat More Lamb amb Week urged legislation which v guld legally hold bankrupts liable Hable liable lia- lia ble for bills incurred in the pur- pur purchase chase hase of food and asked legal protection for retailers in connection connection connection tion with federal laws which pro- pro attachment of federal em em- for unpaid bills The main speaker at the afternoon afternoon afternoon after after- noon session P. P W. W Hale recently appointed executive secretary of the thc Utah trade commission as- as as Lured cured the grocers th that t the commIssion commission com corn mission is pledged to strict enforcement en enforcement en- en of the fair trade practice practice practice tice laws and would do all in its power power to assist in enforcing the Sunday store closing law Selling on Sunday the speaker pointed out constitutes in effect an an unfair trade practice Grocers pledged their support The tie for second vice president president president dent which developed in the forenoon forenoon fore fore- noon election of state officers was was' resolved in a run-off run election elec elec- tion late Tuesday which gave the post to George G G. Wood Salt Lake City over Francis G G. Nicholas of Ogden |