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Show SPECIAL EDITION The Search lig lh Published every alternate Friday F. L. Jensen, Publisher 72 T Street, Salt Lake City, Utah { Dial 5-3989 A Specialist in Neglected Truth VOL. $2.00 a year SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MARCH 26, 1943 III, No. 24 U. 10c PER COPY Moffat Can Stop Clamor Western Regional Office, War Labor Board, Denver, Colo. Gentlemen: May we point out that there is no necessity for the artificial clamor that has been stirred up by the Utah Copper Compay at Arthur and Magna. The commotion is deliberately planned to coerce the Nonferrous Metals Commission into accepting the dictation of the Copper Barons. The management of Utah Copper Company is solely responsible for the publicised threat of a strike vote by a clique of employees of the Company. That clique seeks to override the decision of the National Labor Relations Board that the ‘‘Independent Association of Mill Workers’’ is Company-dominated, and therefore cannot represent Copper workers before any Government agency. The order applied against both the Company and the Association. In spite of that order Utah Copper Company refused to dis-establish its puppet. Instead it continues to recognize its illegitimate offspring. On March 11th the Company and the association made a joint application before your Nonferrous Metals Commission asking its approval of a proposed 25c raise in pay for Copper workers. By that action the Company flouts the authority of NLRB and seeks to have your Board override NLRB. On Mareh 20th you notified the parties (Continued on page 3) And They Call It News !! Kiven more pernicious Utah Copper Company’s and corrupting than persistent efforts to foist organization a counterfeit employees was the deliberate news, by all three a purported labor on mis-handling its of Salt Lake dailies, relating to strike vote to be taken by the so- called Independent ers if the National Association War Labor of Mill WorkBoard fails to recede from its stand of refusing to hear D. D. Moffat’s company union. The story of that strike vote broke on March 23rd, following the action of Mr. Moffat’s company union Monday evening. Not one line—not even an inference or an intiniation—was published by the Salt Lake Tribune, the Telegram, or the Deseret News ON THAT DAY disclosing that the so-called “Independent Association of Mill Workers” was barred from appearing in be- half of Copper agency of the employees Government before because any the regulatory National Labor Relations Board had ordered the “Inde- pendent” dis-established on the ground it is Company dominated—i. e., a company union. It was not until Howard Lee and Victor Bohne, representing the bona fide CIO organization at Arthur and Magna on March 24th, had ealled on all Salt Lake dailies** and demanced that they publish a prepared statement by the union, that any reference to the true status of the company union appeared in any daily paper in Salt Lake City. Even then the Deseret News failed to publish a line that might give its readers an inkling of the truth. But the Deseret News always has ‘been even more unethical than the Tribune and the Teleeram in its treatment of labor news. On February 20th of this year the National Labor Relations Board issued an order disestablishing the ‘‘Independent Association of (Continued on following page) |