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Show NLRB CERTIFIES THREE UNIONS AS COPPERAGENTS Three unions have been certified cer-tified as collective bargaining agents for various groups of employees em-ployees of the Utah Copper company com-pany mine, as a result of elections elec-tions conducted June 17 and 18, the national labor relations board announced Sunday. The International Association of Machinists, lodge No. 568, district 114, was designated bargaining bar-gaining agent for hammer operators, oper-ators, blacksmiths, blacksmith helpers and tool dressers, including includ-ing student employees but excluding ex-cluding foremen and supervisors. In the election 10 votes were cast for the machinists' association associa-tion against one for the International Inter-national Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (CIO), the announcement an-nouncement said. The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, local 1081 (AFL), was designated bargaining bargain-ing agent for X-ray technicians, armature winders, electricians, second and third electricians, electricians' helpers and student employees, but excluding electricians' elec-tricians' bosses, foremen and supervisors. su-pervisors. A total of 8(3 was cast for the electrical workers' brotherhood broth-erhood against 33 cast for the mine, mill and smelter workers' union. The International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers was designated bargaining agent for a majority of remaining production pro-duction and maintenance employees, em-ployees, including axemen of the engineering department, student employees, toe samplers, assayer helpers and precipitation plant workers. Vote in this division was 566 for and 27 against the union. The board made no designation of bargaining agent in machinists, machin-ists, boilermakers and engineers' units, pending requests for runoff run-off elections filed July 16 by the machinists' union for the first two units and July 9' by the smelter workers' union for the engineers' unit. Balloting in the machinists' unit was 76 for the machinists' association and 67 for the smelters' smel-ters' union. Balloting in the boilermakers' unit was lour for the machinists' association, three for the smelter workers' union and six for neither. neith-er. Balloting in the engineers' unit was 83 for the International Union Un-ion of Operating Engineers, local lo-cal 353 (AFL), and 70 for the smelter workers. The board announced it had overruled objections to the certification cer-tification of any representative, filed July 15 by the Utah Copper company and the Kennecott Copper Cop-per corporation. Because the Independent Association As-sociation of Mine Workers or-ganization or-ganization was ordered disestablished dises-tablished by the National Labor Relations board, they were not allowed to appear on the ballot. This week a brief was filed with the Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver, Colo., by Elliott W. Evans, Ev-ans, attorney for the IAMW asking ask-ing the court to rescind the action ac-tion of NLRB. O |