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Show THE SEARCHLIGHT Our Fourth Year With this issue the Searchlight begins its fourth year of publication. 'The boys around the State tell us we have been of inestimable service in cramping the style of predatory outfits and running interference for the liberal cause. We confess that we have had a hand in roping and branding Reddy Kilowatt, but the end is not yet. The reformation of the Power Company is only beginning. Indeed, so obdurate is its disposition that the critter may die before it repents. ‘During the past year we have given Doug Moffat and his yes-men a lot of wholesome advice. But the Copper Barons have been singularly lacking in appreciation. They ignored our suggestion that they eall off the Snipe Hunt before the Federal Government should be compelled to deodorize it. The lads hang on to their sins with the persistence of a street cur chasing automobiles. And the results are quite similar. Three years ago the Searchlight was a staunch supporter of Herbert B. Maw. But when Gus P. Backman and the Inner Ring of the Chamber of Commerce, and _ affiliated gangs, moved in, we moved out. We learned —rather late, it must be confessed—that Gus P. Backman and Stanley J. Stephenson actually won the election of 1940. At this time the Searchlight has under way a survey of the subserviency of the Farm Bureau aristocracy to powerful, absentee-owned corporations—a movement blessed and stimulated by those arch manipulators, Clyde C. Kgemonds and Tracy R. Welling. The results of that survey will be presented in appropriate articles in due time. We enter upon our fourth year of publication with gusto, and, as usual, wholly unrepentant. Currently we are engaged in exposing the raseality and corruption of certain absentee-owned corporations who control the Chamber of Commerce, the Utah Manufacturers Association, the Tax Dodgers Association, the Labor Relations Council, the Mine Operators Association, and affiliated organizations. | During the summer and fall we shall com- plete that series of articles. We shall also present other items of neglected truth that have a bearing on political movements and State Government. In general, we plan to give readers the purport of news overlooked or suppressed by the daily newspapers. The Searchlight believes that the citizens of Utah are entitled to a clear view of the pernicious nature of corporation rule—government for a profit for powerful vested interests. We believe that such rule, unless immediately corrected will seriously weaken democratic zovernment and force the State and Nation into complete state socialism. Reviving the Dead Shortly after Reed Damron and Doug Moftfat backed down from their proposed strike of Company Union members against the Nonferrous Metals Commission, several influential members of the Association indicated the time had come to quit. But Mr. Moffat and his top Snipe Hunters thought otherwise. They believed that if the vhost of the organization were paraded around a while Copper workers might believe that even the dead could be revived. It might throw a monkey wrench into the bargaining elections at Bingham and Arthur, sought by the CLO. So the ‘‘Spotlight’’ was revived. A milk and water edition was put out that was so anemic that readers believed they were snoozing over a Tribune editorial. Some of the slush was even weaker than the eye-wash that appears in the Trib under the caption, ‘‘ What Sunday School Did for Me’’. Bargaining Elections The CIO won its bargaining election at KKimberly,Nevada, a few days ago taking 85% of the votes. At Las Vegas in the magnesium plant it also won ‘by a substantial majority. The A. F. of L. won bargaining rights at the Lang plant in Salt Lake City. |