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Show THE SEARCHLIGHT The Municipal Campaien Salt Lakers apparently are unable to rouse themselves sufficiently to take a little interest in the municipal primary. The campaign may yet need artificial respiration to last until election day. Even the Searchlight is a bit weary. The three divisions of organized labor— while sharing the general grogginess—have found time and inclination to do a little fighting among themselves. The Rail Brotherhoods threw the first monkey wrench into labor’s 1943 harmony program by lining up back of a candidate for the Commission before the other two groups were consulted. Next the A. F. of L. handed a fishy double-cross to the CIO when it ignored its pledge to support a candidate for the Commission favored ‘by the CLO. Finally the CIO got its back up and called off all agreements with the other two. So all three groups are going it alone. So far as the primaries are concerned the results are unpredictable. Three men appear to be in the lead for mayor. And about four appear to be out in front in the Commissioner race. The Searchlight regrets the lack of harmony among the labor groups. The city campaign should have been a training ground for the important election next year, when the vital interests of all wage earners in the State are at stake. With the situation as it is we confine our efforts to one observation. We opine that high office in the Chamber of Commerce, membership in Rotary, and a mushy story in ‘‘ What- Sunday-School-Did-for-Me’’ in the Sunday Trib, do not zpso facto—as the lawyers say— imply superlative qualifications for the office of mayor. the young women and the soldiers get overly romantic now and then, and sometimes are a bit soused. | But that’s something that time is certain to remedy. By the time the kids are 57 they will have slowed up a lot. And anyhow, we don’t believe Ogden is more ‘‘wicked’’ than Salt Lake. And we don’t believe Ogden gets more ‘‘wicked’’ just before election. We are sure it was just as ‘‘bad’’ 10 months ago, and will be equally ‘‘bad’’ six months hence. Of course, we realize that people who become ‘‘righteous’’ just before election feel the urge to be heard. They simply have to ‘‘save’’ the community by eliminating opponents with whom they disagree. To Colonel Tierney (Continued ous tricks to weaken from page 1) and destroy them. The record is plain to any candid observer. In such a situation more strikes are certain to occur. When working men see themselves everlastingly enmeshed, blocked, and _ overridden at every turn by an employer who flouts impartial administration of law, they come to the conclusion, however reluctantly, that they have no recourse except to strike. They see the machinery of Government nullifled and made ineffective by predatory employers such as Utah Copper. Under the circumstances we believe the time has come to serve an ultimatum on Utah Copper that if it continues to provoke work stoppages—if it fails to comply decently with decisions and orders of Federal agencies set up OGDEN to administer labor laws—then the Government will be forced to take over the plant and operate it for the duration. Over in Ogden the usual game of trotting out a crusade to beat Harm Peery and Ed Saunders is well under way. Four years ago the Kilowatt crew framed a taxpayer’s suit just before election. It clicked, and they beat Peery. This. year it’s” a. “*vice’’ -erusade, - he Peery opposition blames the Mayor because Penalties also should be inflicted on executives who do not scruple to instigate interference by a puppet organization with orderly mediation prescribed by law and ordered by an enforcing agency. ‘The time has come to smash the arrogant high-handedness of Utah Copper Company. —The Editor. |