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Show First Things First! War Bonds—Red Cross The Searchli 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. IV, NO. 20. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MARCH 10, 10 1944. PER COPY CIO Wins Copper Election a public hearing to determine the text of a D. D. Moffat, president and manager of Utah Copper Company, has formally notified Glen Freeman, staff representative of the International Union of Mine, Mill t Smelter Workers—CIO, that Utah Copper is now ready to enter into bargain- ing with the CIO at Bingham. Mr. Moffat designated Louis Buckman, general superintendent at Bingham, as Utah Copper’s representative at the bargaining table for Bingham workers. The first meeting is scheduled to occur Friday, March 10th. Mr. Moffat’s notification to Mr. Free- man came a few weeks after the War Labor Board had set a time limit on the Company of April 1st, by which time, if the Copper Company had with Union, the not entered into bargaining the Board would contract. If Utah Copper now decides to bargain in good faith, the way will be opened general for amicable relations between the Company and its employees. The labor atmosphere in the Copper Domain has begun to clear. The sunlight reveals a solid victory Mine, for the International Mill & Smelter Union Workers—CIO. of Its ma- jority at the mills is decidedly more real than tabulated results of election returns would in dicate. A great step forward has been made toward industry-wide collective bargaining in the nonferrous metals industry. The CIO polled a clear majority of 29 over the combined vote of its opponents with the chal- convene (Continued on page 4) Post-War Planning A Proposal for a Five Billion Revolving Fund to Finance Low-Cost Building Four or five years ago the writer of this ar- ticle presented a “Silver Building Fund Plan” to the executive board of the International Un- ployment would provide workers with a sus tained ability to buy the necessities and luxuries of life—would be the equivalent of an annual wage. Silver, the backbone of western mining, would be given a position of first rate importance in the national economy. If silver were put to work; in ses- if it were used as a base to secure a vast con- The plan also was presented to struction program, it was believed that anti-silver a number of mine and smelter operators in Salt Congressmen and hostile international financiers would be unable to deliver a serious threat against the legal status of the white metal. ion of Mine, Mill sion at Denver. Lake City. & Similarly, interest business plan. Smelter Workers friends executives in endeavored to publicising the The proposal contemplated the use for re The proposal was designed to promote and stabilize employment in the construction: and ma- volving fund purposes of the accumulated profits arising from purchases of silver by the Treasury, terial and trades; in mining; and every other activity in the country. indirectly in Steady em- from silver seigniorage; those profits being (Continued on following page) |