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Show EGGS The Search lig A Specialist in VOL. OUTRAGE ES 66c DOZEN GROWS WORSE Published every alternate Friday F. L. Jensen, Publisher 72 T Street, Salt Lake City, Utah Dial 5-3989 $2.00 a year ys SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, OCTOBER 15, 1943 IV, NO. 11. A 10c PER COPY To Colonel Tierney Col. Joseph Tierney, Ninth Service Command, Salt Lake City. We join you in deploring the rail strike at Utah Copper. We believe that labor’s NoStrike Pledge to the President should be observed scrupulously. We offer no excuse for the actions of the strikers: We also concede that ordinarily your assertion has merit, that there should be no strike ‘‘when machinery is set up to settle such disputes amicably’’. And in nearly all industries, and with nearly all employers that machinery does suffice. But things are different at Utah Copper. The Company has no desire to use that machinery. It bucks and fights every step of the way when Federal mediation is invoked by its employees. At the slightest pretext it appeals or threatens to appeal every order or decision to the courts, thereby wantonly provoking interminable delays in the settlement of disputes. The rail strike came after eight years of futile effort to bargain with Utah Copper. In short, the Company—not its employees —refuses to bargain or negotiate on any matter with any genuine labor union. Instead of cooperating with labor unions it employs devi(Continued on page 6) Union Wins Copper Strike Utah Copper gaining Concedes Position; Empty Gesture; Subterfuge. Rail Organization Company’s Its Record Pledge May BarBe One of Evasion and Another unnecessary and_ unjustifiable strike in the Copper Domain has come and gone. After a 27-hour work stoppage of Bingham & Garfield railroad employees the men are back on the job. The Company has consented to bargain with them—if that means anything. Concentrates are pouring from the mills again. While we do not in any sense condone the strike we believe that candid men will place the blame squarely where it belongs—on the doorstep of Utah Copper Company. The labor and personnel relations of that concern are rotten to the core, and have been so for nearly a quarter of a century. Poley making officials of Utah and Kennecott Copper companies are perverse and wilful to a degree that borders on deliberate eriminality. They thumb their noses at laws and administrative decisions. As a permanent labor policy they deliberately goad their employees Pledge into made violations by Rail, AFL of the No-Strike and CLO unions. The story of this particular strike begins in February, 1935, eight and a half long vears ago. Even a bare outline of the highlights of that story reveals Utah Copper’s stubborn determination to avoid honest bargaining: relationships with its employees. Through appeals to the courts and use of obstructive tacties it has given its striking railroad workers an eight-year run-around. Certainly it cannot face the public with clean hands. In a statement discussing the background (Continued on page 4) |