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Show State Milk Control, Nonpartisan Courts Bills Are Introduced Labor Relations Board and Higher Wage Levels on Public Works Proposed as Session Start s Third Week By JENNINGS PHILLIPS Regulation of the Utah milk industry to prevent milk wan, creation of a nonpartisan judiciary, higher wages for employe on public works and measures for benefit of labor were proposed to the twenty-second Utah legislature Monday among the welter of bills that heralded the opening of the third week of the 1837 session. Fsd into ths hopper after tho call to order at J p. at,, la both houses were resolutions calling (or twe constitutional amendments, one of which would give the legislature power to increase or decrease membership mem-bership of the state supreme 'court as part of the proposed nonpartisan Judiciary. The other would rewrite the school financing provision of the state eonsUtution to set up a uniform school fund. Accompanying these measures were others to set up a labor relations rela-tions board to arbitrate labor disputes dis-putes with Industry; to urge congress con-gress to defeat a pending bill to repeal the long-and-ehort haul provisions pro-visions of the lntertstate commerce act; calling (or a new bounty law; making adult educaUoa a part of district school (unctions; and providing pro-viding other changes in the statutes. Of statewide interest was a bill proposed by Senator Lawrence E. Nelson, Salt Lake, calling (or self-regulation self-regulation of the Utah milk industry indus-try under direction of the state department de-partment of agriculture, and a house measure by RepresentaUve T. W. Jensen, JKt. Pleasant, requiring the agricultural board to establish standards for cheese. Ice cream and other dairy food products sold in (Continued en Pi five (Column Four) MILK CONTROL BILL LAUNCHED (Coottaort turn Pat One) the state. . Coming as sa outgrowth of the recent milk war involving Salt Lake City and Ogden dealers, -the Nelson bill empowers the board of agriculture, agricul-ture, on petition of 60 per cent of the producers and distributors in an area, to eetabllsh a market area and provide for fair trade practices for sale of milk and milk products. Those areas would be administered by boards selected by the producers and distributors, who would be empowered em-powered under the act to fix minimum mini-mum prices for milk sold in each area. The bill recognises that milk production pro-duction and distribution in its fluid state is "vested with a public interest" in-terest" and asserts that "the general gener-al welfare requires a continuous and adequate supply of pure, wholesome milk." To achieve this, the bill sets forth, production and distribution of milk must be stabilised "to the end that unfair practices heretofore existing la the Industry bo eliminated, elimi-nated, that a fair pries for market .milk be maintained to avoid monopolies mono-polies and Insure the producer, distributor dis-tributor and consumer a fair price for that commodity." Distributors and producers would be required to finance administration administra-tion of the act and operation of the milk boards In each of the falr-trade falr-trade areas. ! While ths act would not compel the distributors and producers to set up such areas, its provisions would apply to all milk sold In an area when set up, regardless of whether producers and distributor joined in the petition. The nonpartisan judiciary proposal pro-posal was drafted for introduction by Senate President Herbert B. Maw, Salt Lake, and Senator Clarence Clar-ence K. Baker, Tooele, both attorneys. attor-neys. The measure is understood to have the backing of the Utah State Bar. Ths measure would permit removal re-moval of any judgs after a hearing before this committee. The plan is embodied In a Joint resolution calling for an amendment amend-ment to the state constitution to permit the legislature to increase or decrease the number of supreme and state district court judges. Each judge at expiration of his tsrm would come before the people automatically auto-matically for reelection. In the event the electorate does not approve ap-prove of a second tsrm for the incumbent in-cumbent a judicial committee, composed com-posed of three ssnior members of the state supreme court the senate president speaker of the house and representatives of the stats bar, would nominate a candidate for appointment ap-pointment by the governor. Opposition Cited The memorial urging congress to defeat the bill introduced for the purpose of repealing the long and short haul provisions of the interstate inter-state commerce act was sponsored by Representative Walter K. Granger, Gran-ger, Cedar City, It cites the opposition oppo-sition of Joseph B. Eastman, federal coordinator of transportation, to repeal re-peal of the clause, and a similar attitude at-titude of the legislative committee of the interstate commerce commission. com-mission. A strong effort Is being made to strip the L C. C. of its present power over the long and short haul rates, the memorial set forth. Repeal of the clause, congress is told, would open the way for return of the discriminatory dis-criminatory and unreasonable practices prac-tices of railroad common carrier! prior to 1920, with a resultant hardship hard-ship on Utah shippers. Representative C. W. Spence, Salt Lake, Introduced the wage bill that |