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Show The First Buy Searchli F. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, T FEBRUARY every L. First! Bonds alternate Jensen, Street, Dial A Specialist in Neglected Truth 19. War Published 72 VOL. IV, NO. Things Salt Friday Publisher Lake 5-3989 City, $2.00 10¢ PER 18, 1944. Utah a year COPY Refiners Should Guarantee Price The President’s veto of the anti-subsidy bill leaves the situation exactly where it was a month ago. Subsidies are to continue. Even sugar sub- sidies, beloved by the Utah-Idaho Sugar pany, will be retained for the present. However, tie continuance of Com- Sidies are will not subsidies throughout the year is not yet fully assured. An- other fight by advocates of inflation may be engineered by mid-summer. antee the growers a price of $12.50 per ton of beets to guard against the possibility that a subsidy is lost before the beets are processed. Then, if sub- This is a political year, and Republican-Democrat reactionaries see in the subsidy fight a method of discrediting the Presi- thrown overboard this summer, farmers be left holding the sack. By yuaranteeing the farmers a full price for beets regardless of the final outcome of the sub- sidy fight, the UtahIdaho Amalgamated Sugar Companies will be merely gambling their usual profit—or a part of it—against the possibility of subsidy repeal. If there is no repeal the compan- dent’s conduct of economic stabilization which they may turn into a political profit. ies will make their usual juicy profit. Under the circumstances the Searchlight suggests to Utah and Idaho farmers that they insist that the sugar refiners be required to guar- their profit, but that is all. If subsidies are repealed the companies will lose all or part of children who do the should be protected. The men, women and hard labor on the farms Retribution Will Come A note of foreboding dampened the enthusiasm of the Utah Poultry Producers Association at its convention in Salt Lake during the week. expect destructive legislation themselves. Certainly, if the combination of co-op leaders; Farm Bureau and Grange leaders; powerful in- Even the ill-advised anti-subsidy talk by perma- dustrialists; and nent boss Eggmonds, parties, are successful in destroying labor organi- bers. failed to arouse They were perturbed farmer cooperatives might the mem- by warnings he subjected pling and destructive legislation taxation with other businesses. that to crin including equal reactionary politicians in both zations, the co-ops will be next on the list. Business men and. reactionary politicians do not love farm co-ops or farmers more than they love labor organizations. They play up to the There is good reason to fear such an eventuality. The leaders of many farm cooperatives farmers now only because they can use the Farm have entered into political alliances with preda- spearhead to strike at collective bargaining. tory industrialists and vicious politicians to break up and destroy labor organizations. Undoubtedly there will be reprisals. Bureau, Grange, and Co-op Once the destruction complished—if machinery as the of labor unions is ac- it is—the value of the guileless If farm- farm outfits to their Wall Street allies will van- ers permit their co-ops to be maneuvered into a po- ish, and the time will have arrived when they, too, will be consigned to the boneyard. And they will have only themselves to blame. They cannot advance a single valid reason why they should be after labor’s scalp now. sition where they are the avenue of attack on colIctive bargaining, the same farmers can reasonably expect to see their own organizations subjected to the same assaults they now visit upon others. “Those who live by the sword, die by the sword’, has its peacetime equi launch destructive legislation against others must Farmers allies. They and industrial have workers everything (Contined on page to 5) are gain natural by being |