Word: petitioners
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The Student Union will begin a door to door canvas throughout the College tomorrow in an effort to secure at least one thousand signatures to a petition addressed to the President of the United States. The petition begins, "We won't be convoyed into war!"
The petition drive is part of a national campaigns to solidity peace sentiment between now and the President's "momentous" pronouncement on May 27th, Student Union leaders feel that the President's last speech was postponed because of the reluctance of the people to support the administration on convoys.
Since Wright Patman began his anti-chain-store crusade in 1935, the stores have read little good news. But last week Utah gave them some. The citizens rared up and threw an anti-chain tax for a loss. By Utah's constitution, a petition of 10% of the voters...
Credit for the coup d'etat went to the Utah Chain Stores Association, whose members operate about 400 of the State's 6,400 stores. The tax was extreme, ranged from $50 to $5,000 a store, with the levy based on all stores owned by a chain...
The only important legislative action to remedy this situation; the Geyser Anti-Poll Tax bill, lies buried in the House judiciary committee, and will not be proposed for consideration before the House. The principal objective of National Anti-Poll Tax Week is to blast this bill out of the committee...