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Show THE SEARCHLIGHT What's Back of Gus Have you, or any member of your firm, used any pressure or coercion; given any “‘advice’’; made any suggestions; or disclosed your views to any public official whose campaign for office was financed wholly or in part by the Utah Manufacturers Association, or any of its divisions, or by the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce? Have you lobbied in behalf of any legislative proposals? Or have you sought to intluenece admuinistrative acts of public officials? If so, what and whom? 7th: Sth. Have you insisted that the Utah Manufacturers Association and its divisions, in- cluding ‘‘ Build Utah’’, list all political expenditures with appropriate officials as required by the State Corrupt Practices Act? Your prompt attention to the foregoing will be appreciated. Members who fail to reply will be so listed in publishing the results of this inquiry, and their activities and views will be presented to the public in the lhght of their known views and activities. Very truly yours, KF. L. JENSEN Editor The Searchlight. A Halfway Butter Rollback If the rollback of 5e a pound in the price of butter, which became effective yesterday, is judge the any eriterion by which we.may scope and speed of the rollback to September loth levels, then we may look for the end of the war before OPA completes its job. The reduction in the price of butter is about halfway in the return journey to September, 1942, levels in this area. Meat, which was first scheduled is still hopeful on the | other commodities. Evident- have been boosted a cent. Kees as are list, iy Clyde Egemonds was able to steer the rollMark Greene, baek in a different direction. in announcing the increase in ege prices as- serted it was justified. is talking about, but He may know what he begin to we believe we comprehend why Prof. I. M. Greene emphatically disclaims any relationship to the other Professor Greene. Congressional opposition: to any form of subsidy to finance a rollback may explain in part the extreme hesitancy with which Mr. Prentiss Brown proceeds. But even with such obstacles we fail to understand why, if OPA ean push back prices to the. halfway mark it eannot go the entire distance and bring them back to the price level agreed upon in the President’s tember 15, 1942, figures that creep stabilization before prices. his Rollback it walks. plan—to-wit: Maybe Baby Mr. must Sep- Brown learn to Move Fictitious Claims More than a vear ago wage increases were sought in certain wage classifications in the mechanical department of Utah Copper Magna and Arthur. The pay boost was at in- tended to bring those mechanies up to the pay levels effective in comparable plants. The CIO reeommended jobs in other the increases. The H. M. War Labor Sehiller as Board designated referee to gather Judge facts and make his recommendations to the Board. The Judge ‘‘sat’’? on the case so long that observ- ers thought he had appropriated ion. it as a cush- "The ease was about to lapse. But the ClO began stirring things urged the War Labor Board It to insist on a re- port from Schiller before the men through lack of action. 'The Judge protested that he had able to complete the case. up. The lost out been un- Board advised him to send in his recommendations based on what studies he had completed. Thereupon Schiller recommended an increase of a dollar a day. As soon as Sehiller’s recommendations were known the bosses of the Company Union appropriated the case and began going the rounds at the mills patting the mechanics on the back, informing them that the Association had won pay increases for them. The Salt Lake dailies joined in the chorus. They always (Continued on page 7) |