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Show ' UTAH NEEDS THE REFORM. ml " ' - Hi Washington has a stale industrial commission, the . fluty of IrtKl "which is to pass upon the claims of victims of extra hazardous cm- Wf ploymont. Last November a powder mill blew up at Chehalis, fflf Wash., and seven boys and girls, employed in the factory, were i'j tilled. The relatives asked for aid and the coiwr.ission on Monday j -allowed $20 per month for each fatality, the payments to extend ff ; over a period of four or five years. ' J J This commission does away with the long drawn-out damage Jsj suits which clog the courts of the country and 'are added to with , j each railroad disaster or other calamity involving loss of life, ill Utah should have some such commission but Utah will not E j 1 move in that direction until the progressive forces obtain control of I the state government. h I ' These reforms will prove acceptable not only to the people but to j j the great corporate interests when once the fairness tliat is pro-I pro-I j jnoted and the bitterness that is eliminated become evident. I |