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Show THE SEARCHLIGHT Company Unions Die Hard As was forecast by the Searchlight more than a year ago the National Labor Relations Board has ordered Doug Moffat’s company unions dis-established and disbanded. Doug will take the ease to the U.S. Cireuit Court on appeal, and will have his stooges in the company unions do lkewise. Copper barons die hard. Like the Bourbons of France they learn nothing and forget nothing. Regardless of the appeal to the Cireuit Court—and thereafter to the Supreme Court —the company unions cannot appear before the National Labor Relations Board in behalf of their membership or anyone else. They’re out in the cold. Neither can the company unions represent workers before any other Federal administrative agency. About all they can do during the period of litigation is to hold meetings and spend workers money in a futile appeal. In the forthcoming elections to determine a bargaining agent for the workers the company unions cannot even appear on the ballot. Altogether, the company unions have taken the Copper workers to a thorough cleaning and have prevented wage increases that should have put Copper employees at the top of the list in Western America. Probably Moffat and Jackling will not let their stooges drop out of the useless litigation. The same pliant tools operating under another name were dis-established before. This time it is going to stick. The Copper Company’s persistent enmity toward organized labor is almost certain to come home to roost. Utah Copper may one day regret the mulish obduracy with which it refused to conform to Federal labor laws, and with which it declined to cooperate with Utah workers on a live-and-let-live basis. The Next Governor? Cohe Reese Case (Continued Mavbe it’s the sap beginning to run with the approach of spring. Maybe it’s a carefully prepared scheme to perpetuate a Maw clique in State office after 667 murky days. Or, it may be that personal ambition has led the gentleman to prepare to pick the pottical bones of his boss—at the proper time—even though the meat on those bones is rather unpalatable. political cannibalism or no— At any rate Tracey R. Welling is having the political field well cultivated preparatory to getting himself ‘‘mentioned’’ for Governor. We have uncovered the infallible signs in Cache, Box Elder, and other rural counties. “T'raey has been bitten by the gubernatorial bee. A political hopeful is ‘‘mentioned’’ by two parties—himself and those who think they can use him to earry out plans they don’t want to diseuss publicly. The ‘‘mentioning’’ is almost never spontaneous. It operates as a trial balloon to ascertain publie reaction toward a candidacy. The rank and file, even though knowing better, are supposed to join in the idea that (Continued on page 7) body investigated accounts? His from page 1) Excellency’s expense The Searchlight knows of an _ instance wherein a Booze Commissioner put in a phony But the princlaim for $4—a trivial amount. ciple involved is exactly the same. And—so far as we know—no private dicks have been put on the trail of the Booze Commissioner. But that official hasn’t been critical of Dr. Maw. holds no brief for or The Searehlight against Mr. Reese. We esteemed him as a diligent, courageous, and conscientious public of- ficial, wholly independent. We incline to the view that his great offense was stomping on the wrong toes. But, be that as it may, we have profound sympathy for a man whose political future hes in the keeping of a vindictive executive who heretofore has threatened him with reprisals. We believe the State Senate will be wholly remiss in its duties if it leaves Mr. Reese at the merey of his political foe. There should be final determination of the proceedure to be followed in the case before the Legislature adjourns. |