The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-11-24
Weber Club Board Of Direc-
tors Hold Special Meeting
to Consider Action Against
the Coal Combination.
LEGISLAT0RS-ELECT
PLEDGED TO COMMISSION
President Haywood Says Mat
ter VIII Be Referred to the
Committee Which Is to
Make Early Report to Board.
PEOPLE ARE AROUSED

Especial 10 The Herald-ReDubIicanl
y GDEN, Nov. 23.-ArOused BY the
action of the coal trust Ia ad-
vancing coal prices In ogden ana
elsewhere through the state TO what IL
AN unreasonable degree, the Weber club
has taken the matter up and r. special
meeting Of the hoard of directors has
been called for the latter part Of the
week to consider what action shall be
taken.
That the matter will be fully laid
before the directors at the special meet
Ing was announced today by President
4. *. Haywood.
Samuel C. Dye county chairman OF
the Republican county committee to-
day suggested that the proper way TO
deal with the coal trust and high
prices Is hy means of a public utilities
commission. such as was indOrsed in
the Republican platform Of Weber
county ana 10 the support OF which
the Weber county delegates TO the
state legislator are pledged.
The meeting or the board Of directors
or the Weber club Will De called either
Friday or saturday night when eVl-
dences OF Combinations and COLLISION
viii be laid before the members 10 b8
acted upon. According TO Ar Haywood
there is no doubt but that the matter
viii be placed in the hands Of a COM
mittee made up OF competent broad
minded friends of the people. who will
carry the fight TO the last ditch.
Resentment brewing.
While up TO the present time tbs
people of Ogden and Weber county have
made no formal protest 90 the yeritable
outrage that IS being imposed upon
them, as well as other citizens Of the
state there has been a brewing Of re-
sentiment that threatens 10 grow into
an ultimatum from the people that the
trust viii have 10 answer
Not only viii the Weber club deiVe
into the true circumstances surround
rnu Hra1 10 la fae. aHr.a.
been SO unsatisfac tOrlly accounted for.
but the people of Weber county have
elected four well-knoWn men 10 the
state legislature, an of whom ia ac-
cepting their nominations on the Re-
publican ticket. pledged themselves 10
support the county platform faVOrlng
the regulation of public service corr
porations by the enactment of statutes.
Anxious for Action.
The people of Weber county are
anxious that something be done now
not that the bodies Of public enter
prise remain idle waiting for the leg
/ islature 10 cOnNene-and there is little
question that the CITY council will ia
constituents of its various members.
The president of the city council.
/ Samuel Brow ming. declared today that
to ask the council for aid in a matter
affecting the railroads 10 the ultimate
end of reducing the profits of the roads
would be as useless as going 20 the Of
IlClalS OF the coal companies ana peLla
tiOning them for relief.
1T can't be done ina the city couu-
ell" declared Mr. Browning. Il wish
| il could. but there's no use. I've been
| in that council too long 10 hope for any
such admirable legislation. While
personally / am heartily in favor II
doing an in my power. either as a pri-
| vate citizen or as a member of the
citys lawmaking BODY, ] know that
nothing can be done. The solution lies
in the hands Of the next legislature
and il is up 10 the members Of that
body TO make good"
Club ia the Fight.
President Haywood Of the Weber
| club was also of the opinion that the
| legislature should take steps 10 curb
| the unbFidled power Of corporations
which so closely affect the classes, bUF
/ nevertheless, as the chief executive 81
the largest commercial organization ia
| ogden, he declared il the duty OF the
Weber club TO take a hand in the mat
| ter and 10 see the fight through 10 the
finish.
THE raise i'm the price has come so
| suddenly said Mr. Haywood. that
the board of directors have not had a
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