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Show THE SEARCHLIGHT Malicious Misrepresentation Reed Damron, Moffat’s company union agent, 1s deliberately trying to create the impression that the CIO is responsible for the refusal of the War Labor Board to consider the joint application made by the Copper Company and its company union for a 25e wage increase. Mr. Damron and D. C. Huston, personnel director of Utah Copper Company, were in Denver recently in connection with the joint application of the Copper Company and its Snipe Hunt before the Nonferrous Metals Commission for a 25¢ pay raise. Varro C. Jones, District Director of the United Steelworkers of America, and George W. Haycock, staff representative of the same organization were in Denver at the same time. They were attending a meeting of the War Labor Board, of which they are members. The Copper-Snipe Hunt application was before the Nonferrous Metals Commission—not before the War Labor Board. Mr. Charles A. Graham is chairman of both agencies. On Mr. Damron’s return to Salt Lake City he reported to assembled Sack Holders at a meeting of the company union in Cyprus Hall, that Mr.. Haveoeck and Mr. Jones were in Denver tryimg to circumvent the Snipe Hunt’s efforts to obtain official Government recognition of their (and Moffat’s) organization, after NLRB’s Mr. Damron knowing that Mr. Jones and Mr. Hayeock were in Denver as Board members to 1s a strike against the United States Govern- ment, in wartime. Denver If the CIO or the AFL were calling the strike the News would be screaming bloody murder, and calling for the army to put the ““Hoodinims=, “Dims, ana “Stitts’” im jad, In every since story and the Moffat-Damron tated the News editorial strike has endeavored in was the News first agi- to protect the a regular War Labor Board hearing, appearance before his Sack Holder au- dience. But the Damron inventions will fall of their own weight. Damron, Brooks, Moffat, and other Snipe Hunt leaders have published statements that the company union is proposing to strike against the Government, to foree a » Federal Tribunai to extend official recognition to a company union ordered dis-established by another Federal agency. How can the CIO possibly be mixed up in that? the News would-be strikers, sailing the United and has joined States them in as- Government. For instanee, on Mareh 30th, the Tribune and the Telegram printed the following: statement from Charles A. Graham, chairman of the The reason the News is sympathetic toward the strike is because that strike is a cooked-up Moffat-Damron affair—a move to embarrass labor agencies of the Government that administer the Wagner act. The News hates the Wagner act. And the News loves Utah Copper, Doug Moffat, D. C. Jackling, and all the things the Copper barons stand for. on maliciously misrepresented the reason for their Prostitutin For the first time in the memory of Salt Lakers the Deseret News is not only condoning’ a strike, but is actively egging on the misguided employees. And the Copper strike referred order of dis-establishment. War Labor Board at Denver, Colorado: “Under circumstances such as these the strike can be described only as little short of treason.”’ The News printed most of the Graham statement that day, but deleted that quotation —the most newsworthy statement of all. On the other hand, less than a month ago the News went to the Widest extreme when it ran an eight-column banner to trv to fasten a little of the Al Capone odium on legitimate labor organizations. Clark, Bowen, Adams, Mark Peterson, and Dave Robinson certainly prostitute the news to give decent labor a black eye and to protect the stinking henchmen of Doug Moffat. |