Show PROVO POWER 1 BATTLE BREWS VS PROVO PROVO Charges Charges ChargE's and countercharges countercharges counter counter- charges had been heard here I Thursday following a meeting called by Mayor Mark Anderson to I determine the manner In which municipal power plant had Joined a labor organization Attending the meeting were c city ty officials utility department em- em em and local labor tives Mayor Anderson had hat charged that nine of the plant at the request of the Utah Power and Light company had re reportedly reportedly re re- Joined the International Brotherhood d of Electrical Work Work- ers The mayor in a prepared statement state state- statement ment charged the Utah Federation Federa Federa- Federation tion of Labor was taken in by bythe bythe bythe the Utah Power and Light company company com com- pany in July 1938 when the power pow pow- er company found Itself in need of support to stop Ogden anc and Provo from acquiring municipal plants The Utah federation or any other group has a right to oppose municipal ownership but when an organization Is sworn to oppose municipal ownership then we have havea a right to object to its having anything anything any any- thing whatever to do with the operation operation op op- of our municipal power plant Mayor Anderson said I II A labor abor representative William Meyers Salt Lake City organizer for the brotherhood said the Utah fed federation has in no way contacted any of the Utah power department department de de- and although we are affiliated affiliated af af- with the United States F Federation Federation Fed Fed- d. d of Labor they have nothing to do with our organization Mr Meyers said he would welcome wel wel- welcome come an investigation by a committee committee committee com com- appointed by the Provo city commission to determine if the electrical workers' workers union is in anyway any anyway anyway way a tool of the Utah Power and Light company Representing the Utah County Central Labor union was President Edgar Clayton who charged that his organization which represented 1200 men in Provo had been Ignored Ignored ig ignored Ig- Ig nored in discussions concerning the unionization question but declared declared de de- the central labor union to tobe tobe tobe be per cent behind the municipal municipal municipal mu mu- plant and Mayor Anderson |