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Show Near 100 Groups Are On Record Averse To No. 2 With nearly 100 important Utah organizations on record against No. 2 on next Tuesday's ballot, the all-Utah campaign to defeat the chain store death tax has reached its most critical phase. "Organized groups of citizens that have studied this issue are practically unanimous in condemning condemn-ing this trick tax scheme to raise prices," says a statement issued by the Citizens' State Committee Against No. 2. "But that won't mean a thing, in the final analysis, analy-sis, unless the people of the state go to the polls next Tuesday and cast their votes. "Our only fear now is that, with sentiment overwhelmingly against No. 2, too many people may sit back and think their votes aren't necessary. If any considerable consider-able number of people stay away from the polls through over-confidence, then there is a very grave danger that the bill might be adopted. "This would be a tragedy for the state of Utah, since it has been proved conclusively that the passage of No. 2 would raise retail re-tail prices and thus lower thej standard of living of practically everybody in the state," it adds, j Organizations on record against No. 2 include dozens of agricultural agricul-tural groups, led by the Utah Council of Farmer Cooperatives, the Sugar Beet Growers' association, associa-tion, Utah Farm Bureau, Utah Poultry Producers Co-operative association and numerous other representative farm associations. Also on record as emphatically against No. 2 are the combined forces of organized laibor, spearheaded spear-headed by the Utah Federation of Labor, the CIO and the Railroad Brotherhoods. The Utah State Press association, associa-tion, the Utah Real Estate board, and dozens of other important groups from St. George to Logan and from Wendover to Monticello have also condemned No. 2 and are urging their members to vote against it. "All these groups," the state, ment adds, "recognize the fact that No. 2 is a sinister threat to the welfare of Utah. It would disrupt important outlets for Utah agricultural products, force consumers con-sumers to buy from higher-priced stores, throw many Utah men and women out of jobs, and eventually drive out stores that buy more than $1(5,000,000 worth of Utah products every year and pay-nearly pay-nearly $1,000,000 in taxes. "There is not one store in a thousand that could possibly stand an extra tax of $5,000 a year in special taxation, for that is considerably con-siderably more than the total profit pro-fit earned by most stores. Thus the low-price chain stores' like J. C. Penney, Sears, Woolworth.l Kress, Walgreen, Montgomery Ward and Safeway would eventually even-tually pass out of the picture and the many bcni-fits they bring to the people of Utah would be completely com-pletely lost. "There is only one way U avert such disaster. That is for the people of Utah to go to the polls on Tuesday and vote against No. 2. There is no other way to defeat de-feat this unfair Rch-tne to destroy competition and raise prices on the necessities of life." |