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Show THE SEARCHLIGHT Moffat Aids 2align Smeltermen The Army-Navy E Smelting & Refining Award to Company the American and the CIO must Not begin until then handling did their the CIO former affiliate amount of come as a bitter pill to the sniveling libellors of Garfield smeltermen. It must be worse than gall copper concentrate. A fine record. IS THIS CIO’S IDEA OF PRODUCTION and wormwood for Quayle, to see the men they have Cannon and Damron maligned now given ACHIEVEMENT? | National superlative Recognition for perform- ance. Compare that:,slanderous statement the following faets.. In June, 1942, the held Smeltermen’s The closing hours of the labor election campaign at Bingham witnessed an avalanche of insults and abuse heaped on the CIO by the Company Union. Like an expiring reptile the CannonsDamron-Quayle clique. lashed this way and that trying to inflict injury with its poisonous venom before its power for evil should finally cease. The Company Union and Quayle resorted to infamous misrepresentations—the most ma- licious lies and affronts—in a last minute at- tempt to rob the CLO of a well-merited victory. In paid advertisements in the daily press they made definite statements exactly eontrary the faets. For to a instance, in an advertisement Tribune on June 17th, Harry Quayle, tary of the Company Union, said:. The only bottleneck in dustry, producing one of the metals for the war effort, the CIO. CONSIDER THESE in the seere- the copper inmost important was caused by The Garfield Smelter (affiliated with the CIO) was handling all the Utah Copper concentrates produced until approximately July Ist of 1942. Beginning at that time (the CIO affili- ate) demanded a wage increase. When this increase was not immediately forthcoming, 3,000,000 pounds of copper concentrates was forced to be stored daily at the Utah Copper Company. This continued for a ten-month period. Upon War the demands Labor Board) being granted the men were (by the ordered back to work within 30 days in order to participate in the retroactive wage award. union negotiated an agree- ment with the American Smelting & Refining Company. Some of the Union demands, including a dollar-a-day wage increase had to be referred to the War’ Labor Board. Before a decision was handed down many employees had left the employ of A. S. & R. On September 1, 1942, the Company was short about 175 men... A check by the Union disclosed that after. the wage award was made only one individual returned to take advan- tage of its retroactive provisions. Concentrates began to accumulate. In the meantime the Company began a program of repairs that kept a part of the Garfield smelter out of commission. The Company re-arranged its flux shipments during that period, a move that contributed to temporary lessening of operations. But when repairs were completed and all other operating factors were adjusted to meet the needs of high-speed production, things be- evan to happen. The voluntary offer of the Un- ion to go on a six-day basis was Company FACTS: with Gar- accepted. officials readily joined the Unior in ereating a labor-management production committee along lnes laid down by Philip Murray and Donald M. Nelson. The results have been highly successful. At no time in the ten-month period referred to in the vicious advertising was the smelter fully manned. Even today it is short 74 men. But to overcome manpower shortages the labor-management production committee has in- troduced mechanical short cuts, and an impressive array of other improvements to step up operations. | And, in spite of the handicap of under-manning, the Garfield smelter men have pushed the output of the smelter up from 20 to 30 per (Continued on fol.owin: page) |