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Show THE SEARCHLIGHT 5 CIO Wins (Continued from preceding CIO in Group four, the CIO is an almost certain winner. pagie) per circles is that the AFL members voted CIO because they prefer CIO. In a last minute effort to halt the CIO tidal wave, D. D. Moffat sent a personal letter to mill workers at Magna and Arthur. Mr. Moffat urged that each worker recall the “happy” re- lationship between the Company and its em: ployees for many years, and then go home and give the matter of his vote in the bargaining election an hour’s meditation—then vote as the worker pleased. The employees heeded Mr. Moffat’s advice. Then they voted CIO. The “No-Union” vote won in Group II, the teamsters, warehousemen, AFL,. 2; No-Union, etc. The vote was: 17; GIO, 9; and. challenged, 1. The action of the “No-Union” group was short-sighted. It tried to vote its adherents entirely out of the collective bargaining picture. But the thing it really accomplished was to give that unit, too, to the CIO. Because, in the long run, the AFL members will join with the CIO members and participate in the CIO bargaining, which will be the voice of employees in that unit. Some “No-Union” votes also will drift toward the CIO, which in a short time will absorb every unit in the mills for bargaining purposes. In Unit I a single vote of the 20 challenged votes awarded to the CIO will give the Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers a clear majority. Or, if any challenged vote is thrown out by NLRB, the CIO will automatically have a majority. The vote in Unit I was: AFL Electrical Workers, 14; No-Union, 20. 5; CIO, 38; challenged votes, Analysis shows that for all practcal purposes Unit I is already CIO. Units three and five recorded CIO majorities in the voting and now only await certification by the National Labor Relations Board. In Unit four, the AFL, Machinists polled one vote. The CIO cast 100 votes; cast 78 votes, and ““No-Union’’, or neither, 70 were challenged. If the CIO is awarded 15 of the 70 challenged votes, or if 49 of those votes are thrown out by NLRB, the CIO will win automatically. If a runoff election is held between ““No-Union” and the The results of the election should demonstrate clearly to AFL crafts that they cannot compete with industrial unionism in mass production industries. The only result of their continued interference in such plants is to sharpen antagonism between the AFL and the CIO at a time when they should be working together closely in a common political fight. The results also demonstrate that Utah Copper Company no longer can dominate the collective bargaining of its employees, making its pretense of bargaining a ridiculous farce. The Company now should accept the verdict at the polls and do some forthright bargaining with its employees through the CIO. In the long run both the Company and the workers will gain by cleancut bargaining across the table with bygones forfotten. The Searchlight extends its congratulations to the Arthur-Magna Millmen’s Local 392—CIO, on its cleancut fight and splendid victory. Simi larly we extend felicitations to the staff represen tatives and officers of the International Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers—CIO. They did an excellent job and deserve much credit. The victory at Magna and Arthur for industrial unionism will cheer production workers throughout the west and hearten them as they fight on for similar gains in other plants. Wage parity for nonferrous metals workers moves a step nearer accomplishment. And a. stabilized annual wage may be just around the corner. Perpetual Motion If persistence is a virtue, George M. Gadsby has more virtue than any other resident of Utah. George talks about “Free Enterprise” so much that it’s almost perpetual motion. Every time we pick up a paper we read that Dr. Gadsby is to talk about “Free Enterprise” before Kiwanis, Rotary, or some other service club in the kilowatt orbit. George tries to build a halo for what he calls “Free Enterprise”. Then by adroit inference he puts the halo to the brow of Reddy Kilowatt. Its slick work George, if you can get away with it. And, after all these years of endless talks your listeners ought to be about convinced. |