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Show u.j. 01 T;2jday's Fallot, i:-s: Es Upheld." says Chair-n-?n ci The Local Committee 'No. 2 on Tuesday's ballot, the I hotly contested chain store con- -trol measure, must be upheld by the people, if we are to preserve rnx'dom of individual opportuni- , ties in Utah," declared the chair-1 man of the local citizens com-! nn: tee for No. 2. j He stated that the wealth of I Wall Street is being employed in frantic efforts to defeat the measure. "The very evidence of their great wealth and power as illustrated by their extravagant and wasteful campaign to defeat this bill, is one of the greatest reasons why the law should be upheld," he stated. The chain store control law was passed by the 1941 legislature legisla-ture by a decisive majority of 13 .;ei:a!ois and 39 representatives. Following the adoption of the i.ieasure by the legislature, Gov-u Gov-u i.e. i.e. t B. Maw signed the v.as to have become law had not the chain stores intervened in-tervened to overrule the intent of the legislature and governor by procuring sufficient signatures to referendum petitions to bring the law before the people on Tuesday, November 3. lie pointed out that every penny pen-ny of cabin stores' net profits leaves our state "as soon as it is collected from the people." "It is only fair," lie added "that Wail '.:cec should leave in Utah, where it was earned, a small portion of the large profits which it takes out of the state every year." |