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Show The In 513 days Herbert B. Gus P. Backman will private life lig ht IV, NO. 6. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, AUGUST ee ee Published every alternate Friday F. L. Jensen, Publisher 72 T Street, Salt Lake City, Utah Dial 5-3989 $2.00 a year A Specialist in Neglected Truth VOL. ee ( Search SL Maw and retire to 10c PER COPY 6, 1943 Paying For What You Dont Want The Utah Ordnance Plant is a Governmentbuilt, Government-finaneced undertaking. Rem- ington Arms a basis of Company 10% operates above costs. the ‘The plant on Company runs no risk. It can’t lose. For all practical purposes, the more it spends, the greater its profit. A few months ago Remington Arms was greatly over-staffed. It had hired several hundred—according. to reports 2300—employees more than an efficient operation of the plant required. The Company paid little attention to the manpower needs of private industry in this region. The situation became acute. Fi- nally Government officials were obliged to step in and talk turkey. The War Production Board ordered the formation of labor-management production com- mittees throughout essential war industries about 16 months ago. An imitation committee at the Utah Ordnance Plant was brought togvether three or four months ago, and is now little more than window dressing, manifestly set up as a pretense of compliance with the policy of the War Production Board. The Remington labor policy is a continua- tion of the Remington-DuPont policy, long ago discredited. The companies continue to thumb their noses at the spirit of Federal labor laws. They hide behind ‘‘Ordnance’’ whenever possible. Why pay Remington 10% for doing things contrary to public policy? Is the dearth of capable executives so great that the people must pay for something they don’t want in order to vet a little of something they do? Edmonds Faces Labor Charges Once troubles. again Clyde C. Edmonds has labor And again they_are of his own mak- ing. This time he is charged with firing an employee, Willis L. Jacobson, because of that employee’s union activity. Hearing on the case began before Industrial Commissioner E. M. Royle on July 26th, but was recessed on the following day to August 6th. Testimony during the first two days disclosed that Jacobson was an old and econscientious employee; that he had served as president of the so-called Independent union; and recently had been urging that Edmonds’ employees return to the A. F. of L. That appears to be the real reason why he was fired. He now seeks reinstatement on his old job with back pay. The Jacobson case is only an incident in the long warfare waged by Edmonds against collective bargaining. Several years ago, without consulting his employees in any way, he signed a closed shop agreement with the A. F. of L. That seemed to be Clyde’s way of complying with State and Federal labor laws. He shoved his employees into the A. F. of L. regardless of whether they like it. But very soon he discovered that the A. F. of L. would not operate as a Clyde Edmonds Company union—that it insisted on obtaining solid benefits for its members, the employees of Edmonds’ Poultry Producers Association. Clyde was chagrined at making’ such an error. He But he is crafty to the point of slickness. promptly maneuvered his employees back out of the A. F. of L. again, and, through stooges (Continued on page 4) |