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Show UTAH COPPER CO. MILL WORKERS VOTEONUNIONS Monday and Tuesday of this week the national labor relations board conducted an election at Magna to determine a bargaining agency for workers at the Utah Copper company mill and smelters. smelt-ers. . The ballots gave employees a choice between CIO, AFL or "neither" as the Independent Union of Mill Workers was barred bar-red from a place on the ballot on the ground that NLRB has judged it "company dominated". To represent workers in the five groups, a union is required to receive 50 per cent plus of the votes cast. Although about 30 per cent of the 1700 eligible to vote did not cast ballots and of those voting the number supporting CIO was little more than those voting otherwise or marking challenged ballots, CIO claims that two of the three groups and possibly more will in the future be represented repre-sented by CIO. In all. the CIO polled 688 votes. vot-es. Those voting for AFL, "neither" "neith-er" or marking challenged ballots bal-lots totaled 659 votes. Approximately Approxi-mately 553 workers did not vote. As tabulated by departments, results were posted as follows: Group I, electrical workers: International In-ternational Brotherhood of Electrical Elec-trical Workers, local No. 1081, AFL, 14 votes; International Union Un-ion of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, local No. 392. CIO, 38 votes; neither, five votes. Twenty Twen-ty votes were challenged. Group II, teamsters: International Interna-tional Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers, local No. 222, AFL, two; CIO, nine; neither, 17; challenged, challeng-ed, one, Group III, boilermakers: International Inter-national Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Boiler-makers, Iron Ship Builders, Welders Weld-ers and Helpers of America, local No. 605, 12; CIO, 100; neither, 39; challenged, 12. Group IV, machinists: International Interna-tional Association of Machinists, lodge No. 1261, one; CIO, 100: neither, 78; challenged, 70. Group V, production and maintenance: main-tenance: Utah Metal Trades council, coun-cil, 18; CIO, 441; neither, 335; challenged, 35. Under the ruling of receiving "50 per cent plus of ballots of those voting" the CIO will represent re-present groups 3 and 5. Group one will await determination of challenged votes before the outcome out-come is known. "Neither" on group 2. A runoff may be necessary neces-sary to determine bargaining unit in group 4. |