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Show eitv ktcsmii eh wmm mite HAULERS OPEN BIG FIGHT FOR RIGHT TO TABLE SCRAPS Independents Seek to Break Contract by Which Mountain States Company Gets All Restaurant Refuse. SALT LAKE CITY, Dr. Samuel G. Paul, city health commissioner, commis-sioner, the city board of health and J. L. Weiler, chief sanitary inspector, are enjoined and restrained In an alternative writ of mandamus issued by Judge J. Louis Brown of the Third district court today from arresting or interfering In any way with independent garbage haulers engaged in removing garbage from downtown hotels and restaurants. The order was issued by the court a few minutes after (he filing of mandamus proceedings against the aforesaid defendants to snow cause why permits should not be Issued to certain independent inde-pendent garbage haulers. The action is brought by A. B. Smith . and other independent haulers and was filed by King, Straup, Nibley and I eatherwood, attorneys. Judge Brown set October 26 as the time for hearing. The complaint is declared by the plaintiffs to be the first step in a relentless fight to break the garbage hauling contract entered intojsst July with the Mountain States Feeding company by the city commission alter a controversy of several weeks. It is charged that the city commission entered into the contract with the Mountain States company for the sole purpose of granting the latter company a monopoly to obtain all garbage, waste and ua , : . I refuse matters from everr eource In the city to feed hogs raised and owned and kept by tha said company. It U further alleged that the action of th city wna taken for th exclusive gain and profit of the Mountain Utatea company com-pany and to th exclusion and dstrt-ment dstrt-ment and dental of privileges to all others. VOID, PLAINTIFFS SAY. . -Plaintiff at leg that th, said eon ' tract Is "void, unlawful and against puhllo policy, snd that Bait Lake City, through Its commission, was without power tn mak or enter Into any such contract. It is alaa charged that tha . ordinance purporting to glv to any one company or person the exclusive right to haul all city garbage Is unreasonable, un-reasonable, void, unlawful and against public policy. The complaint prayed that th court Issue a writ of mandate directed to th several defendants, and especially to Welter, directing that he laeua permits to the independent haulers to obtain garbage from duwntown hotels and reatauranta, or appear before th court tn show taus why they hava Dot done so. RESTRAINING ORDER ASKED. The court almost immediately issued a restraining order against the further srrest, prosecution and molestation of Independent garttaga haulers for hauling haul-ing refuse snd wsste through th streets by the various defendants. Costs -of the action and such other relief as the court may dee no Just and proper are also prayed for. INDEPENDENTS ARRESTED. The complaint Is the outcome of several arrests which - have followed the attempts of haulers to obtain far-bage far-bage from local hotels and restaurants. Under th agreement between the city and Mountain Htates company, the latter concern Is given the exclusive rights to all city garbage, whether th owners of such garbage desire It or not. Th city pay th Mountain Htates rempany 936,000 a year for hauling the garbage. Hog raisers declare th garbage from hotels and restaurants Is worth thou sands of dollars and they claim that for several years pa at they hav paid the restaurant men for th garbage In addition to hauling It away free. PERMITS REFUSED. Hinc th contract was nterd Into between th city and th Mountain Htates company, haulage permlta hava been flatly refused th Independent haulers by the board of health. It Is charged In th complaint that Weiler on several occasions started that the exclusive hauling rights belonged to the Mountain Htates company and that no prm 1 1 s would be Iss ued to ln- (Continued on page .) bate from downtown hotela aa long aa thay compiled with tha aanltary je-atrlcllona. je-atrlcllona. Their petition, however, waa flatly refuaed on tha 'round that tha exclusive right to all garbage had been (Ivan to tha Mountain tttatea rompany In tha contract between tha city and that concern. Attempt, were aubaequantly mad., by ho ralaera to collect tha garbage In aptta of tha order and thay ware ar rented hr the hoard of health officera HAULERS OPEN ' (font I n ued from pa g a 1 ) . tlefendent haulera without tha aanti- tlon of the latter company. It la. act forth In the complaint that certain independent haulera went to I the Mountain Htatea company and aaked for the right to haul garbage , from hotels and reatauranta. Tha com-' com-' pany, according to the action filed to-! to-! day, demanded $2600 a month for ueh ' I rluht. i PETITION RCJECTCO. He vera I week a ago a petition waa 1 filed wllh the city commiaalon by In-i In-i dependent ht.g- ralaera. aaklng for the I right to continue the collection of gar- |
