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Show THE And They Call It News!! (Continued from preceding page) Mill Workers’’, the ‘Independent Association of Mine W orkers’? and the ‘‘Employees General Committee’’, fake labor organizations set up and dominated by the Utah Copper Company. The Salt Lake dailies published abbreviated accounts of that decision. Six months earlier each Salt a reporter in attendance at the the NLRB examiner, lasting weeks, in which the evidence of ination and virtual ownership ‘‘unions’’, was obvious to any Lake daily had hearing before more ian two Company domof the phony news man. On Sunday, March 21st, under a three-line single column head the Tribune earried the following story, buried in an inconspicuous place on its mining page. That storv sets forth the reason why the Nonferrous Metals Commission refused to proceed with Doug Moffat’s two-bit deal: BOARD REFUSES TO CONSIDER OF UNION nonferrous Denver—The PLEA metals commis- sion of the national war labor board has refused to consider a joint application requesting a pay increase for the employes of the Utah Copper company, Charles A. Graham, commission chairman, announced Saturday. The company and the Independent Association of Mill Workers asked for the increase for employees at mills at Magna and Arthur, of Mill disestablished relations The Workers by the had national board. company company, company,. company. The with the cases. Obviously But Salt withdrawal of and subsidiaries commission the of said Water Utah Copper the it company’s request then, three all Garfield was in Salt complying these Lake latter City Lake City dailies do not voluntarily carry ungarbled stories about the misdeeds of Utah Copper Company and its slick evasions of the spirit of State and Federal labor laws. Indeed, on the question of Copper news, the Deseret News is more than an apologist for Company—it is a virtual house Moffat and Colonel Jackling. The reference of the three organizations of Utah Copper ions” is two-edged publicity Utah organ Copper for Mr. dailies to the fake Company as “un- put out for the bene- fit of Mr. Moffat. It gives those organizations a semblance of validity in the public mind. Then when Mr. Moffat seeks to joggle the elbow of the War Labor Board by (Continued “*Mr. tive instigating on following a Lee, International Mine, Mill & of the delivered the written and Magna Millmen’s “strike vote” page) Howard Smelter Representa- Workers statement of the union (published union, Arthur in full elsewhere in this issue) to the Salt Lake papers. He made delivery to the Deseret News before he made delivery to the Telegram. The Telegram ernoon. potato. the statement in full Wednesday aft- The Deseret News dropped it like a hot Not a line appeared in the News Wednes- day afternoon about the fake strike vote. The Tribune carried the statement Thursday morning. However, requested applications seeking similar wage increases for employees of the Bingham & Garfield Railway daihes—the Tribune, the Telegram, and the Deseret News—had full information as to the status of the company unions organized by Utah Copper Company. <Any pretense at impartial news reporting would have necessitated reference to that status in the flood of publicity about the purported strike vote carried by all three papers on March 23rd. published Association ordered labor Mr. commission stated it was unable to with the application, since the In- dependent been Utah, at Bingham, mine Utah, and the Graham said. The proceed SEARCHLIGHT the Deseret News on Wednesday carry a laudatory booster story playing up Stannard, president of Kennecott Copper did E. T. Cor- poration, who said he was here on a routine inspection tour. Actually, Mr. Stannard is in Salt Lake trouble action City to try to keep Utah Copper out of arising from Doug Moffat’s ill-advised in threatening a company union strike if the War let Doug’s workers. Labor Board doesn’t back down and company union speak for Copper |