Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-11-22
COUNCIL AT WAR
ON COAL COMBINE
Adopts Hall Resolution Calling on
State Officials
To Act.
NO POLITICS IN MOVEMENT
Framcr of Resolution SAYS lie Acts in
The Wclfaruof the pcoplc-Onc
Lone Negative Vote.

Members of the city council almoy
unanimously Went on record Monda
night In protest against the actions o
the coal dealers in raising the pric
of coal to a new high mark for thI
state. The Endorsement of a resolution
by Mr., Hall. urging state officials I,
take action In the matter. shove,
where the counclmen stood.
MI, Halls resolution is as follows
Resolved, that the city attorney i
hereby requested ana instructed In he.
half of Salt Lake City to advise viii
the secretary of state and attorne,
general in regard To the combination
| which has brought about tho recent
rise in the price OF coal and II said
combination is believed to be Illegal. ia
urge said state officials to seek action
I" dissolve such a combination and
| punish the members thereof as our
| state law provides"
The offering OF tho resolution wa.
! the signal for q long discussion. Coun-
Gilman Hall said that he would not
nave offered 1t had he not been con-
WINGED that the opinion was general
throughout the city that there was
undoubtedly Il coal combine. He
thought the council ought to 20 on
record rs not being willing to lie
suPinclS while the coal combine
robs the people of the city"
Councilman Mulvcy agreed with Mr.
Hail in that the resolution was "a
fine one" but he declared that it ourb,
to certainly include bacon Bacon at
d5 cents pound" said he '.why a
race horse can't keep up with a hoe
these days"
FERNSTROM WAVES pESsINITSTIc
Mr.. Mulvcy said that he would vote
for the resolution. however, as a
protest against the action of the coal
combine,
COUNCILMAN Fernstrom was in any
thing but an optimistic mood with
regard to the effect of the resolution
lie declared that there had been other
attempts at trust-busting and that
they had failed miserably He cited
the Sharp case and said this was an
example of how hard 1t was to get at
the combine. The only remedy. he
thought would be railroad commits
sion. The councilman from the Third
declared that the agitation looks TO
MIN like 1t was not started for any
honest purpose. I am afraid If ] vote
for 1t | VIII be voting for something
that Is not what 1t seems to be-
Mr.. Halls motive in Introducing tho
resolution was not questioned in the
he was ontirr,,. in .,,.,,,o w sun INA.
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ofa.;aIs st,o, i.s' eol''c Wheh the state
a,,ornny ,rannra, ~ ~. ~ "atlu and the
,bo lave ). .a;, VI ms statc enforce
IL IamS' s"ii councilman Mcklnney.
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