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Show The In 527 days Herbert B. Maw and Gus P. Backman will retire to private life Searchli Published F. 72 A Specialist in Neglected Truth VOL. IV, NO. every L. T Street, Salt Dial 5-3989 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JULY 23, 1943. 5. alternate Jensen, Friday Publisher Lake City, $2.00 Utah a year 10c PER COPY ‘he Copper-Rail Strike We do not believe that strikes of any kind for the duration of the war can be condoned or excused. We believe that the No-Strike Pledge of the AFL, the CIO, and the Rail Unions should be observed scrupulously. Adeuqate machinery has been provided for adjustment or adjudication of all grievances. Union leadership participates in such machinery on an equal footing with management. However, if there is one place in the United States where moral justification ean be found for a work stoppage, that place is the Copper Domain, where E. T. Stannard and his underlings tried to take advantage of recent leg- islation to attempt to break down benefits of railroad tirement act. men under the security the Rail Re- The men pay 314 per cent of their wages into the retirement fund. The Company, by law, is compelled to match that percentage. Thus, the aggregate payments into the fund total 742% of rail wages. The Bingham & Garfield railroad, by court (Continued on page 11) Decision Protects Worker Right To Choose Bargaining Agent Koppers-AFL Geneva Agreement Invalidated Utah Labor Relations Board on Showing Violation of Utah’s “Little Wagner Act” by of workers of their stick. And ever The real signficance of the decision of the Utah Labor Relations Board in the controversy between the United Brotherhood of Welders, the AFL, and the Koppers Company at (seneva, is not the impetus it gives toward an international setup of welders either within or outside of the American Federation of Labor. The important thing is that hereafter, in Utah at least, and probably throughout the country, contracts and may workers pre-construction with employers be abandoned. will determine and pre-production will be discredited From now on Utah for themselves, by majority vote, whom they want for bargaining agents. No advance arrangement between union officials and employers that deprives the of a voice and vote own representatives, that is exactly right bargaining off, then of as it should be. When- workers representatives collective in the selection can be made to to select their is abridged bargaining and own or cut unionism has ceased to be democratic. Union members must not be denied the right to exercise their free choice, either by employers or by union officials. 'There is no room in the American system for undemocratic procedure. It took courage and vision of a high order for ULRB to re-establish democratic procedure in the face of probable strikes, and the risk of ineurring the enmity of powerful* unions. The Commissioners could have pussyfooted and slapped down the welders—an insignificant minority. Instead they unerringly went to the heart of the real trouble at Geneva—a (Continued on following page) |