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Show THE SEARCHLIGHT We Called Ghe Gurn Under date of March 26th in an open let- ter to the War Labor Board the Searchlight pointed out that Doug Moffat was responsible for all he clamor and fuss kicked up by Reed Damron and the Company Union of Utah Copper Company. We invited attention to the fact that Doug could stop the noise at any time by merely instructing his creature, Damron, to shut up. And that is about the way it worked ont. On Thursday, April Ist, about 2 p. m., we went to press on the April 2nd edition in which we said: THERE WILL BE NO STRIKE Regardless of the defiant talk put out by Moffat and Reed Damron there will be no strike at Utah Copper. They just don’t dare. They know that not only will the army step in immediately, but that a Federal investigation may put Moffat and Damron in jail on charges of collusion to obstruct a vital war in- Perfidy-(Continued from preceding preclude lar raise Sack in pay Holders later page) consideration that he as bait for Moffat will have Reed Damron his nose at the War Labor Board and then the delectable pair will thumb for a while, start eating crow. Thirty hours later Reed Damron, at the instance of Doug Moffat rescinded the strike action, and the Company Union followed the identical procedure we outlined course open to the Snipe Hunt There was no strike. as the only crew. It wasn’t a matter of patriotism that stopped it either. Rather it was the unequivocal information that the Army would have been called in to operate Utah Copper Company. Moffat, Stannard, and Jackling didn’t want that. The Company Union won nothing except an unenviable reputation for unpatriotic action. Subsequently Utah Copper Company filed an application by itself for permission to make a voluntary wage increase of 25ec a day. The permission was granted. But the Company Union was left out in the cold. Moffat’s scheme to resurrect it didn’t work. Why Doug Owns Reed a day. He knew that Utah Copper never raises wages more than two-bits at a time. And he was a party to it. He had agreed privately with Moffat to accept the two-bits and make the joint application for that amount. He also knew that acceptance of the two-bits would So of was holding the dol- out to his the strike vote. To understand why W. Reed Damron and other officers of the miscalled ‘‘ Independent Association of Mill Workers’? at Magna-Arthur are Company-owned as Independent sider their and cannot negotiators, we status of ‘‘walking function need only condelegates’’. -For several years Damron and other Snipe Hunt steerers did little but walk about the mills, spreading propaganda for the Company Union on Company time. They did virtuallv no work. Their job seemed to be to ride herd on the Sack Holders. If Copper workers really want to catch up with Damron—if they want to discover his astounding perfidy, and his collusion with Doue Moffat, they have only to study the strike ballot above and the published statements of But their pay went right on. The Copper Company paid their full salaries while it had them act as agents for the Association. Their Damron conferences and Moffat, together with the text of with Doug in behalf of the Asso- the joint application to the Nonferrous Metals Commission. No act of duplicity in the long line of Snipe clation were painful exhibitions of groveling. His curt ‘‘No’’? was enough to terminate any Association proposal. Hunt offenses of that type even No wonder the National Labor Relations Board disestablished the outfit on the ground’ it was—and is—Company dominated! vicious misrepresentation phony strike vote. approaches the of Damron in the |