Show Labor Farmers Against awns Tax ax on Chain Stores ores I Recognizing a serious threat to the welfare weare of oC wage-earners wage and farmers alike organized labor and organized agriculture have joined I II I fight against the proposed death tax on Utah's chain stores the Citizens Citizens Citizens Cit Cit- Cit Cit- State Against No 2 2 announced this week Latest to join the mounting opposition opposition opposition op op- position to the drastic tax are the Utah Federation of oC Labor and the major association representing the states state's sugar beet farmers and the poultry producers The three act act- i t have a combined membership membership mem mem- In excess of union and farm producers Organized labor and agriculture do not always see to eye-to-eye on economic issues the Committee pointed out yet in this case the impartial groups are unanimous In their condemnation of the death tax I They realize as have other citI citizens citizens cit- cit I and nd organizations in the fight II j against No 2 that raising price-raising market- market destroying legislation of this vicious nature is opposed to i ithe i ithe the interests of both producers and consumers and is especially harmful with the nation at war warThe war The Utah Federation of Labor officially officially officially of of- condemned No 2 in a resolution resolution resolution res res- sponsored by Fullmer H. H Latter Federation president at its I recent convention in Price Latter denounced the proposal as a wage cut for Labor and urged the Federations Federation's Federations Federation's Federations Federation's Fed Fed- members to work for the defeat of No 2 in their own Interests The current issue fo Co the Utah Poultry Cooperator official magazine magazine magazine maga maga- zine of the Utah Poultry Producers Cooperative Association informs its members that we are against against against a- a the chain store tax bill The magazine warns the membership membership membership mem mem- that the Association itse itself may be held liable Hable for Cor the destructive destructive destructive tive tax because of the chain store characteristics of its operations The Association sells feed and supplies supplies supplies sup sup- plies to poultry farmers through its I 24 21 branches in Utah I Also emphasized by the magazine magazine magazine maga maga- zine is the fact that more than 60 1 per cent of the Associations Association's products products products pro pro- ducts is sold to chain stores as a aj I result of their long longstanding standing policy policy policy poli poli- cy of supporting agricultural coop coop- Meanwhile the Board of Directors Direct Direct- ors of the Utah Sugar Beet Growers Grow Grow- ers Association recorded Its opposition opposition opposition to the tax as being unfair to producers ers and consumers and called upon its beet beel farmers to vote against It in November |