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Show i5 1 Monday, November UTAH VALLET XEW8 KT3 71 Vi? So tike People May Know pansiyely about payrolls. The right of a community to conduct its own enterprise is pitted against the payroll The honor and integrity of a City are subordinated to the magic of the payroll. Three yean ago, on September 15, 1986, in the midst of the Provo pfmiMpal Piower campaign, then rasing, the following advertisement was a photograph of its purported employees as follows inserted oeS ff. PE! Ill V weuCt 4 to oie PM!! tils qfwfl.attda ; 5271) ifeak. TO THE PEOPLE OF PROVO: Not only are there great hazards in the attempt to set up a municipal plant in the face of competition, but Provo may well be concerned about other financial What Are The Facts? Today the number of employees at Provo is bally-hooe- d at 131, a growth of 170 per cent, if we accept the Power Company claims for 1936, and the insidous propaganda of Dr. Bennion. The payroll of the Company claimed in 1936 was from $60,000 to $75,000 every year. Our acquaintance with the Power Company leads us to accept the first figure as at least appreciably nearer to the actual truth. The loss of those 40 employes would mean a loss of payroll in Provo of from $60,000 to $75,000 every year. That means $25,000 for food, $15,000 for shelter, $12,000 for clothing, and $20,000 for sundry purchases. Manager, Provo Division Utah Power & Light Co. i After a careful check City Officials placed the actual number at about 50 employes. Today, as then, the Payroll Racket is standard practice. It is the universal alibi. The fees to Bond & Share are, by design, lost sight of in the flood of payroll propaganda. The high rates of Utah Power & Light Company are waved aside while Dr. Bennion discourses ex- - Wlky Eevite ww aviimw 60 than 1311 The people of Provo are entitled to the TRUTH. They should have a genuine picture of employment conditions and personnel not Payroll Racket Propaganda. Mark Anderson for Mayor. .Vote FOR Vote FOR (Xl J. P. McGuire for Commissioner. To Supporters of the Municipal Plant: The Power Companys employees arc attempting to put over its franchise by telling you that if you want to vote for the City Power Plant you should vote for the ordinances. ' W. E. FLEETWOOD. nearer WARNING: . Nor is that the only loss. Industries do not locate in towns with small isolated plants Neither do they choose towns with a reputation for kicking other business out After all a town is sustained economically by the payrolls which it can attract and keep. We believe that Dr. Adam S. Bennion should reconcile the glaring discrepancies in Power Company claims versus facts in the matter of the magnitude of its payrolls. He should take a little time off this evening to explain he can explain anything to the People of Provo the exact status of each and every1 employee his Company pretends to have in Provo. We have shown condusively he does not have 131 Provo employees as his Company daims to have. We know the bona fide number of regular employees WHO BESIDE IN PROYO is Vote AGAINST Xl All Three Power Trust Propositions Provo is division headquarters for Utah Power & Light Company in the territory from Eureka to Vernal and from Lehi to Nephi. Because of this fact the Company in Provo regularly employs 60 local men and women. If the Company were driven out of Provo, division headquarters would naturally follow. Instead of 60 employes, the promoters claim they would need' only about 20, ample to take care of the single local municipal 's v.-plant si We are positive, and the evidence is indisputable that a large portion of the daimed Provo employees are merely superfluous members of the Army of Occupation, who have been concentrated in Provo only for the duration of the campaign. We are equally positive that the extras will be dismissed, or returned elsewhere to regular berths when the battle is ended. STOP THE PAYROLL RACKET! considerations. . 6, 1933 It is a brazen attempt by the Power Trust to make you vote for the very thing you are opposed to. the Municipal Power Plant you shooM vote AGAINST All Three Power Trust Propositions. The following is a reproduction of that part of the Official Ballot having to do with the Three Power Trust Propositions. Place your X in the square it the word AGAINST appearing beside each of the Three Propositions in the manner indicated below: To support op-pos- In the recent Anderson-Bennio- n debate, Dr. Bennion daimed existing (1939) payrolls of $250,000, an increase of 415 per cent Meanwhile the Power Company's gross income from power sold in Provo went from $240,000 in 1936 to $290,000 in 1938, or an increase of only 21 per cent Compare those figures with its payroll claims. 7" ' PROPoamoir no. PBOPoamoN no. Of the 131 employees of the Power Company whose pictures adorned last Sunday Herald, we find 15 of them reside in Utah County, outside of Provo. Another 32 of them cannot be found in a 1939 Provo City Directory, or in the City Telephone Directory. so-call- ed NEITHER CAN THEY BE FOUND IN THE OFFICIAL REGISTRATION LISTS FOR a An Initiated Ordinance asking the people of Provo to vote to repeal that certain Ordinance passed by the voters of Provo City, Utah, October IS. 19SI, which authorised Provo City to enter Into a contract with the Ulen Constructing Corporation for the construction of a municipal power plant and distribution system. PROFOMTIOir M. a An Initiated Ordinance asking the people of Provo to vote to grant the Utah Power A Light Company, a corporation, a franchise to maintain and operate an electric power distribution system within the limits of Provo City for a period of ten (10) years. OFVOT-ERS- ! ONLY 43 of the daimed employees in Provo are found to be taxpayers. i An Initiated Ordinance asking ths paopla of Proro to vote to repeal that eertaln Ordinance passed by the voters of Provo City, Utah, October IS. lilt, which authorised the Issuance of 1850.000 Electric Revenue Bonds and the sale and delivery thereof to John Nuveen 4k Company. municipal power committee Commercial Bank Corner War when you May Have eace? |