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Show The In 667 days Herbert B. Gus P. Backman will private life Published g F. 72 T Dial A Specialist in Neglected Truth L. every alternate Jensen, Street, Maw and retire to Friday Publisher Salt Lake 5-3989 City, $2.00 (Pole. Utah a year 6 COV NS ILD os — VOL. Til, NO. 22. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MARCH — ——s 10¢ PER 5, 1943 ee ee COPY —— The Legislature Maw’s reorganization paramount issue of scheme the 1944 will State be the campaign. Lhe inability of the Senate to get down to brass tacks until well past the 11th hour, coupled with the Governor’s effective lobbying, will : force a decision by the voters. The State must endure 4 whole years of. Maw mis-government. The net loss to taxpayers in cash will run into millions of dollars. The substitution of political shouting for conerete performance has killed all hope for constructive legislation. Politically the outcome is a ten-strike for the Republicans. Except for their shabby treatment of organized labor they have managed rather well. The way is open for a Re- publican-Democratie coalition in the event Maw is renominated. Had Republican members of tne Legislature shown a disposition to protect collective bargaining from predatory chiselers who operate in both parties under a ‘‘patriotic’’ cloak, or a Farm Bureau mask, they would have had a walk-away in 1944. As it is GOP legislators have supported a group of connivers who are concerned only with cracking down on wage and living standards. The Republican contingent in the Legislature has done its level best to force organizecl workers to cast their lot with Herbert B. Maw in 1944. T'wo constructive Legislature have measures real (Continued adopted merit. on page They by the save this 4) The Reese Case Karly last summer there were intimations in the State Capitol that preliminary figures compiled by the State Auditor’s office seemed to indicate that Governor Maw’s reorganization mess Was an expensive innovation. About the same time a preliminary investigation of Mr. Reese was undertaken. After the close of the fiscal year when complete figures appeared to confirm the preliminary forecasts that State reorganization had eost Utah taxpayers more than $1,- 112,000—that His Exceellency’s estimated aaa gta? ’ were about two millions wide of the mark—the investigation was intensified. When the Auditor’s figures were finally available to the Governor His Excellency threatened reprisals against the State Auditor for alleged sabotage against the Maw admuinistration. The threat voiced by the Governor was directed against allocation of State funds to meet the expenses of the Auditor’s office. It appeared to be a tailor-made audit to suit the Governor’s political fancies—or else. There is ground for believing that His Excelleney was aware of the move to investigate Mr. Reese at the outset—perhaps he even instigated it. Finally His Excellency has taken complete charge of the case. In effect he has become judge, jury, and executioner in a case where he already has threatened reprisals— an unthinkable situation in American democracy. Mr. Reese M. Reese may—or may not— have been generous with himself in compiling his travel accounts. There is a widespread belief that padding expense accounts has_ become a sacred Utah custom—possibly to even up niggardly salaries. We are not in possession of the facts as to Mr. Reese. (Contined on page 5) But has any- |