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Show THE SEARCHLIGHT Unions Approve Increased Bus Fares Efforts of the Transport Workers Union, local 215 to obtain wage increases has received the emphatic endorsement of the State CIO and various local unions whose members reside in the area served by the Transport Workers. Resolutions passed by Midvale and Murray smelter and miners unions indicated the willingness of members to pay increased fares to enable the Airway Motor Coach Lines to make wage increases The and improve Transport service. Workers man the busses of Their hourly wage rate is 52c as compared to 77c, top wage, now Traction Company. is slightly under paid by Utah The Light & Traction wage the average for rate comparable systems in Western United States. The Airway Lines Company insists it cannot bring the wages of its drivers up to standard without increasing bus fares. The unions are asking it to do so. if bus fares The are raised Company admits that to charged levels by the Traction Company when that concern served the same territory, it can pay standard Airway Lines operating between Salt Lake City and Murray, Midvale, Sandy, Mill Creek wages and render improved service. At the request of the labor unions the Company plans to ask the Public Service Commission for in- and other towns. creased bus fares. . He’s In A gain Which Way, Governor ? Kilsewhere in this issue of the Searchlight we present a factual discussion of certain phases of the Maw administration. The record is not of our making. We chronicle the facts exactly as ascertained. And we believe public is entitled to the information. The the in- cidents recorded seem to point to startling and unwelcome trends in the administration. If those facts are deemed sufficient to warrant the conclusion that Dr. Maw has definitely allied himself with the big guns of the Chamber of Commerce, it follows that he must have abandoned both his friends and his program of 1940. It was upon the Maw program and the Maw pledges that labor unions, liberal Democrats, and others were attracted to his cause. They joined Dr. Maw’s political campaign in the firm belief that his election would effective- ly minimize the influence of the Chamber of Commerce in State affairs. Were they mistaken? Is the influence of the Chamber now paramount? If Governor Maw cannot refute the plain inferences that must be drawn from the information we present it will have become clear that the interests represented by Gus P. Backman have come to exercise the commanding influence in the Maw administration We await the Governor’s statement. (Continued page 6) re-establish domination—to tive from equality of the legislative and executive branches of the State Government. Executive leadership must rest on principle; not | for votes. Records in the on of jobs an exchange secretary of state’s show there will be 15 senate seats office to be filled at the November election. One is that of Senator Thomas Bailey (D), Nephi, who died recently. si It also will be necessary to elect successors to the following whose terms expire the end of this year: Senators James A. McMurrin (D), Logan; Ira A. Huggins: (D), Ogden; Francis Lundell (D), Benjamin; F. D. Williams (BR), Minersville; Byron A. Howard (D), Huntington; Alonzo F. Hopkins (D), Croydon; Stanley N. Child (D), Salt Lake City; Grant Macfarlane (D), Salt Lake. City; Arthur O. Ellett (D), Spanish Fork; Ed Johnston (D), Mt. Pleasant, and Mrs.:E..E. Ericksen (D), Salt Lake City. The terms HOA: Attorney-General of Ed H.’Watson | has (D), Wendell (D) and Charles W. Spence City, and Lynne Ashton ruled (D) that the Grover of Salt Lake (D) of Vernal, State employees, must be filled by election. |
