OCR Text |
Show THE SEARCHLIGHT What's Back of Gus Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of articles exposing the makeup, politics, and the vicicus methods of the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce acting in concert with its allied and subordinate organizations. Other articles will discuss the cynical effrontery of the combine that. has not hesitated to buy public servants stroying its use unethical means of de- opponents. In the two activities and preceding and articles ramifications of the exposing Inner the Ring of the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce, we have presented the following facts: Ist. That a well organized clique made up principally of absentee-owned corporations controls the policy and actions of the Chamber of Commerce and provides Utah with an Invisible Government — almost a boldly visible one. 2nd. That many Utah-owned concerns, daily newspapers, political figures, and professional men acquiesce in and support that vicious out-of-State domination of Utah. ord. That the same corporations that make up the Inner Ring of the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce also control the policies, the personnel, and the activities of service clubs, inelud- ancing of candidates for public office by unserupulous corporations*’ who expect to run the State Government in return for their investments in political candidates. oth. That the Securities & Exchange Commission obtained an injunction in Federal Court against Utah Power & Light Company prohibiting that utility from continued participation in wholesale corrupting of Utah office holders. (Incidentally, the Power Company rushed pell mell into Federal Court to consent to the injunction asked by SEC. The Kilowatt crew simply did not dare to let the case go to trial because then, with the Searchlight forcing the issue, the daily newspapers would have been forced to report the unsuppressible, ugly truth. The extent of corporation iniquity and corruption in this State would have been disclosed. So the Power Company rushed to cover, confessed its sins, and promised to behave itself.) 6th. That the Farm Bureau has been the recipient of ‘‘contributions’’ from absenteeowned corporations—‘‘contributions’’ that unquestionably influenced that venal organization to participate as lead-off batter for the Inner Ring of the Chamber of Commeree in the last Legislature. ing Rotary and Kiwanis, as well as the Farm Bureau, the Tax Dodgers Association, and the Utah Manufacturers Association. The Carbon County Associated Industries; the Associated Civie Clubs of Southern Utah (Tom Jensen); The Ogden Chamber of Com- sacred name of ‘‘Agriculture’’ and earry forward its nefarious purposes under the mantle of purported farmer welfare. Clyde C. Egemonds, who cooperates the cooperators (modern newspaperese for ‘‘farm the farmer’’), and merce; Tracy the Junior Chamber Weber County Farm Bureau, Bureau; and a large number of Commerce; the the Cache Farm of other organi- zations and affiliates throughout the State also know their master’s Gus Backman voice, and jump when and Stan Stephenson’s backers crack the whip. 4th. "That at the behest of absentee-owned corporations such as Utah Copper Company and Utah Power & Light Company, the Utah Manufacturers Association has operated a socalled ‘‘Build Utah’’ division to serve as a blind to cover the corrupt, surreptitious fin- The Inner Ring was R. Welling, able to hide behind Farm Bureau bigwig the and Chairman of the State Department of Agriculture, were the chief manipulators. Tracy is the right-hand-man of His Excellency, Herbert B. Maw. 7th. That Gus P. Backman has used the under-cover political machine operated by the Inner Ring to attempt to defeat and destroy upright public officials, including Congressman (Continued “The rectly Salt in such Lake on Chamber activities. page has 6) participated di- |