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Show THE SEARCHLIGHT Copper Barons at the Snubbing Post Aldrich, are runing out of alibis and cheap tricks Bingham Utah Canyon Copper will is not be obliged employees. The National has ordeied elections to March 6-7 in units to determine designated the only to spot bargain where with its Labor Relations Board be held at Magna on the bargaining in the Magna-Arthur agencies mills. The Searchlight believes that a plant-wide bargaining agency in an industrial union organization will prove most advantageous for bargaining purposes for Copper employees. A strong, effective industrial union affiliated with similar unions in the non-ferrous metals industry, will give added strength to Copper workers in negotiations in their own plant. Industry-wide programs are always more effectively achieved when the unions are working together in complete harmony. with which they try to hoodwink the public and their employees. In spite of their kicking, bucking, side-stepping, and bellowing, the boys are moving steadily in the direction of the snubbing post. They face the horrible prospect of being compelled to obey the law—to Utah Copper and Kennecott an almost unthinkable humiliation. They long have had the idea that law was something fixed up to govern the common herd, but not the Copper barons. Utah Copper kept up its course of non~compliance with Federal regulations even after the CIO and the AFL electrical workers won bargaining elections in units at Bingham. The Copper barons went right on thumbing their noses at Uncle Sam. They declined rectives to bargain to comply with their employees’ The International Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers is currently striving to bring the wages of its members in the non-ferrous metals chosen representatives at Bingham. industry up to parity with wages a hand in the tries such in other indus- as aircraft, shipbuilding, automobile Emmanufacturing, and other basic industries. ployees of Utah Copper should add their bargaining power to that of other industrial unions for industry-wide wage increases. For many years Utah Copper has defied the plain intent of the National Labor Relations Act. It has thumbed it nose consistently at regulatory agencies of the Government. It has discriminated against its employees. It has bamboozled them. It has foisted) compariy-dominated organizations upon them with sophisticated hypocrisy. And it has made repeated pledges of law observance to the National Labor Relations Board, only to violate its word almost before the ink was dry on its promises. But Utah Copper’s sins are catching up with it. The day of reckoning is at hand. Regardless of its time-consuming appeals to the courts and the worthlessness of its pledges, Utah Copper is approaching the day when it will be forced to comply with United States law. It is an almost ludicrous performance. The august Chilly Charlie Parsons, the saintly-faced Doug Moffat, and the blustering news-fixer, Nels Finally the National War Labor game. with di- Board duly took It served notice on the Company that if Utah Copper had not negotiated with duly certified employee representatives before April 1st, the Board then would convene a public hearing to determine what provisions should be incorporated in a contract between the Company and its Bingham workers. The Company would be compelled to sign such a contract on the dotted line. The Government notice was served on the Company early in the week. So far no indication been forthcoming from Utah Copper as to whether it will com- ply with the War probability deavoring crastinate. wigs will by raising has Labor Board’s order. In all it is now exploring the situation ento invent new tricks to stall and proJudging by the past the Copper bigendeavor to again side-step bargaining another legal question. : However, it is apparent that the patience of the National War Labor Board is running out. So we my expect the Board to stop the Company in its tracks in any new move to play horse. The people of Utah, to say nothing about the labor organizations involved, will have won a great moral victory when Utah Copper is compelled to obey the law. at long last |