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Show i i ; Labor Leader Sas That Unions Won't Compromise "Unions in Utah will refuse to compromise," LaMar D. Gul-bransen, Gul-bransen, State President of the Utah State AFL-CIO, told fellow members of the Labor Unity Committee of Utah, Sunday evening. eve-ning. Speaking at a meeting of the Committee, Mr. Gulbransen said, "A new bill is being considered in the Utah Legislature which would not just repeal the so-called so-called Right-to-Work Law, but in addition would set up a group of restrictions based on the national na-tional Kennedy-Ives labor legislation, legis-lation, which failed to pass in the last legislature." The labor leader said, "When, in only the past few -weeks, one of the State's respected newspapers news-papers has editorially said Utah Unions are free of criminal associations, asso-ciations, why should new legislation legis-lation be passed to 'control' unions?" He said, "The suggestion sugges-tion that unions be required to provide the State with financial reports is unnecessary, since i such reports are already required by Federal Law and are available avail-able merely for the asking." "In addition," he said, "The Kennedy-Ives bill is not related in any way to Right-to-Work laws." In Mr. Gulbransen's talk, he stressed, "We do not want discredited dis-credited national legislation passed in Utah any more than we want the Right-to-Work law to remain on the Utah law code.'' He said, "Having the right-to-work laws on the law books of the several separate States that now have the law is a form of ' discrimination against union workers in those States having such laws." He concluded, "If Right-to-Work is such a good thing, why is it that both President Dwight D. Eisenhower and former President Presi-dent Harry S. Truman have voiced opposition to it?" |