Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-12-16 | Page 2 | Court to Get Labor Issue

COURT TO ET LABOR ISSUE c Tribunal May Fix Lab J Board Supervisory Rights WASHINGTON D Ds- Ds 18 16 p ports from irom justice department men o today to Attorney General for tor use in jn an apparently In Inevitably court contest over the right of lh national labor board to supervise elec- elec elec 1 jons at which es select p per r l sons to represent them in collective bargaining 1 Federal agents yesterday watched orderly balloting at plants of ot the Weirton Weir 1 ton Steel company at Weirton and Clarksburg W. W Va and Steubenville Ohio Ernest T. T Weir chairman of the company refused to let national national na- na labor board men supervise the election j What action would be taken first i in Washington was doubtful Hugh S. S 1 Johnson N R A administrator planned two things First to ask aak Cummings to prosecute the company for violatIon viola viola- tion of the steel code second to suggest sug sug- gest the national compliance board l take away Weirton's blue eagle cagle He said he would walt wait until the labor board had decided upon its course The board meanwhile had hod gathered facts which its members said they believed be- be 4 would impel a federal judge to 1 enjoin Weir from rom interfering with the balloting In all around of the Weirton plants chose 49 men to represent them in wage hour negotiations with their employers It was argued ar at gued by the labor board that the supervising su S comp company my union did not really real rw ly and freely represent the workers while Johnson added that when an election is held by a company A Aman Aman man has to vote with his eye on his boss