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Show THE SEARCHLIGHT 9 What's Back of Gus (Continued from preceding page) Backman is paid to do the talking for them, and they see to it that he earns his salary.* Those men use the Chamber to carry out schemes and unsocial enterprises that, if sponsored directly by their respective corporations, would prejudice them in the public mind. The public is used to almost anything coming from the Chamber—and it is never disappointed. While the absentee-owned virtually all of the gravy, the who love the same to associate dues—$60 with corporations get home-town boys, important money, pay per. The only difference is that ruling corporations pay the tickets of their agents while the local boobs have to dig up their own. Special “drives” and “contributions” supply extra funds for various purposes—some of them legitimate. ‘The make-up of the absentee-owned circle of the Chamber is as follows: ELECTRIC Corporation AND UTILITY inner GROUP ° No. of Memberships Utah Power & Light Company ........ at UOtaih Shigiin as braGLwn, 2% acinieatiad 25. 4 Other electric concerns and SUDDLY NGUSES*” 5.02 os eer 9 Mountain States Tel. & Tel. Company... .10 Mountain Fuel Supply Company ...... 3 meer Oey St OE Ae ee 1 POEL os tino sis oP TENET sda ere kc. 1 Fifteen representatives of Oil companies belong to the Chamber. While some of them, hke Utah Oil Refining Company, a Midwesi subsidiary, have Utah names and Utah fronts, they essentially are absentee-owned and controlled. They take their cues on economie and political policies from outside influences. MINING AND SMELTING (Including Direct Allies) No. Mae Mires Sel American ee Ne 2 Smelting Total in COND the 6 3 2 9 7 Mining and Smelting ic cruses ie ore Oe a1 The Mining and Smelting group includes seven or eight concerns who cannot properly be classified as absentee-owned, but who, nev- ertheless vote consistently with the absenteeowned corporations. To go into opposition might bring them reprisals. (Including allies GROUP and subsidiaries) 45 “SAIL but two concerns in this group are outof-State corporations, controlled and largely owned outside of Utah. However, the two companies willingly support the policies of the utility group and the inner circle. Chamber & Refining ComPE hb Otay Vines brat ot ares ee ae International Smelting & Refining I eink s vets tons steel) Se Metal Mine Operators Association ...... Equipment companies, Supply houses, SO PrOLTeSSIONAL BIS 6 cccccseuties lewd: Ute os oS vas Soe a he Total “Gus seems to partake of the nature of a domesticated pachyderm, indifferent to reproaches while he is used by giant corporations to round up and subdue the wild elephants of business and labor in Utah. He draws big pay for trading his fellow Utahns into the thralldom of pitiless exploitation. of Corporation Memberships Weal COUper GUTOR eea oe 16 Ulalt wire Olay Company soi... Ae, 1 United States Smelting, Refining & While COL ery) re oho e S, D RAILROAD memberships held by Electric RNG AItHey CLOUD ee ee GROUP No. of Chamber Corporation Memberships REPEC PEPE BA ree -viowsn Send ca ob Bate ca tea. wad es Li WOGGUE Ct | i: ad. eet ia wee ck. 9 RT PEE LENG cack 82 Glatt Bae ak ees HD Denver: &..Wid sGrande. Western. .4 cu. de. 12 Due fuel COmpnny... . 64... 2 FUdJEWAY IGXDrOSS AGONCY os. hice ek ae. SUE We A <p el. nk APeiiue fm Over nee ey, Cottle eS ee Ge Lobe de dete MAttoad (Continued GrOUD on 2 1 3 3 ©... : 6a 6. So. 64 following page) |
