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Show e wa y , i CF { ACE / Lo a oo 7 C éF7 ¢ : Maw and retire to ~~ Published F. 72 A Specialist in Neglected Truth L. every alternate Jensen, Friday Publisher T Street, Salt Lake City, Utah Dial 5-3989 $2.00 a year Ags mn ae (Tees) Serre SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JULY 2, 1943 4. A Cc In 548 days Herbert B. Gus P. Backman will private life Searchli IV, NO. f Z < ‘The VOL. went Vf ~ 6 ry OILY 10c PER COPY Kilowatt Crew Unrepentant Utah Power & Light Seeks to Retain Water in Mergers; Preferred Stockholder Group Joins Gadsby to Work Both Sides of the Street. Hearings of Utah Power & Light Company before Utah and Federal regulatory commissions during the last few months have brought out clearer than ever that the kilowatt nobility is wholly unrepentant—that by hook or crook, it proposes to saddle a tremendous burden of inflation onto Utah rate payers. Altogether the water’ in the Bond & Share companies that the Power Company seems termined to retain in any reorganization, totals about 37% millions. Besides that sum there is an admitted inflation of about 4% millions in Western Colorado Power Company, and approximately 4.6 millions in the Traction setup that is scheduled to be included in Utah Power & Light’s reorganized status if the proposed merger of the three affiliates is approved. No one objects to a consolidation of Traetion’s electric properties with similar properties of Utah Power & Light Company, particularly on a basis of original costs, and minus (Continued ce- on following page) CIO Cracks Copper Domain Collective bargaining has won its most sig- nificant victory in Utah. A gap has been blasted in the solid wall of Copper opposition. The quarter century struggle of open pit miners at Bingham for bargaining equality with the Copper cess. The Barons has been crowned with suc- tricians by the decisive vote of 86 to 33 for the CIO, and walked off with the blacksmiths by a vote of 10 to 1. The machinists, operating engineers and boilermakers with a total of 163 votes will have to go into a runoff election with the CIO to determine the winner in those hostile combination of daily newspa- pers, Doug Moffat’s Company Union, and implaecable opposition of Utah Copper Company was unable to stem the CLO tide. The Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers—CIO, won the principal bargaining election by an overwhelming margin, and is well in the way to a similar victory at Arthur and Magna. units. While the contest between the CLO and the A. F. of L. was sharp, and no punches were pulled, good feeling prevailed on both sides, and the eontestants will mareh shoulder to shoulder to defend against onslaughts collective from bargaining the outside. Friends of collective bargaining throughout the West will rejoice that workingmen in pared to a total of 259 votes for the A. F. of L. crafts. The ‘‘no-union’’ vote representing the Bingham may now obtain their just due in the way of travel pay, improved working conditions, and better wages to the extent per- die mitted The CIO hards cvible. east a total of 730 of the Doug Company Moffat’s eause on the hill. The A. F. of L. won Snipe votes Union Hunt majorities as com- was _ negli- is a lost in the elec- by war gained now will face the post-war ance. restrictions. enable period The foothold Copper workers to with greater assur- |