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Show CHAIN STORES HAVE MANY FRIENDS As election day nears it is interesting in-teresting to learn how people are thinking and reacting favorably in support of the Chain Stores of the State in their fight against a patently unfair tax aimed at their extinction. Following ii a partial list of the organizations organiza-tions passing resolutions against the Chain Store Tax Law and pledging active support looking toward it's nullification: Associated Associ-ated General Contractors of A-merica, A-merica, National Wool Growers' Association, American National Livestock Association, Utah State Wool Growers' Association, Utah Poultry Producers' Cooperative Association, Utah Farm Bureau Federation, The Draper Egg Producers' Pro-ducers' Association, Utah State Press Association," Salt Lake County Newspaper Publishers' Association, Associated Civic Clubs of Southern Utah, Utah State Fedeation of Labor, Northwestern North-western Turkey Growers' Association Asso-ciation and the Utah Beet Growers' Grow-ers' Association. Some quotations from resolutions resolu-tions passed by the above organizations organi-zations show that thinking people peo-ple are not in favor of the discriminatory dis-criminatory tax against the Chains and are going to defeat the measure on November 3rd. "Taxes which needlessly increase in-crease retail prices are not in the public interest . . . Wage earners and their families should not be called upon to pay highe prices for their neccessities as a subsidy for a few merchants who seek to drive out Chain Stores and the low prices they have brought tc the consuming public." Utah State Federation of Labor Sept. 22 1942. The State Realty Association, in its 1942 convention, declares that the proposed extra tax on Utah Chain Stores, No. 2 on November No-vember Ballot, would have disruptive dis-ruptive influences on the business busi-ness structure of the State at this time of extreme emergency, and declares such legislation tt be "paticularly undesireable, un-fair, un-fair, discriminatory, and un-A- ; merican." I "Such taxes are not in the pub- I lie interest, since ihey are paid by the consumer in higher prices for the necessities of life and they are harmful to the producer i. clause they add unnecessarily to the cosls of distributing the products of field and factory. The Utah State Press Association. Mi." Pleasant Citizen's Committee Against No. 2, Clarence Anderson, Ander-son, Chairman. |