Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-09-05 | Page 6 | What Readers

0 I f y What Readers Thir 5 5 1 Editors Editor's Note C Contributors to I What Readers Thin In Innot true names and addresses although their these thes' must sign v not be published if th writer write rests requests ests Short letters win eur ii given eiven preference 2 Industrial C Commission Needs Unbiased Control Editor Telegram According to to newspaper reports there is a arow arow arow row within the state industrial commission over personnel changes changes' r recently made by a two-to-one two split within the commission Two new members members members mem mem- bers of the commission Wendell Wen Wen- dell deli Grover and O. O A. A voted to kick out of office three of the old over the protest of the holdover commission commissioner commissioner com com- missioner mission r Chairman William WilliamM M M. Knerr rr S Commissioner Knerr was quoted In the press as protesting protest protest- I ing the changes because it is evident to me that the administration administration admin admin- proposes propose to introduce political influence in this com com- mission He charged that inthe inthe in inI the future as a a- result of ot this I policy the of the I commission would be tie governed by their desire to retain the good god will and pleasure of the politicians Well I dont don't know know about ut that that- I suspect there was plenty of politics in the industrial commission commission com corn mission under the old regime and that it cant can't be much worse now But what concerns me about these appointments appointments and and Commissioner Commissioner Com Corn missioner Knerr didn't even mention it it-is it is another peril of favoritism Two of the changes involved the position of labor relations investigator and wage claim adjuster And who are the new appointees in those important jobs None other than the man who is the president president president dent of the Carbon county C CIO I 0 council and the man who was formerly secretary of the state district union of the C CIO I 0 In International International International In- In Union of Mine 1 Mill Milland Milland Milland and Smelter Workers Think of it The The men men who are going to be responsible for investigating labor relations and adjust wage claims claims' are two staunch C CIO I 0 union men Whom do you think they'll favor in their investigations and deci- deci dons Whose side will they be be bon ben on n in a dispute j employer and a union or Or tween an A F L union ar at CIO do union Impartiality Justice Sr St judgment Bah The r c will be all stacked It is about as bad as fi fig fiEt fiEtto to collect damages for an d dent nt with the judge a w br of the Defendant defendant and the p p with packed with all his industrial The only dy sense in havis bavin commission at as an unbiased biased mediating a between employers employer which by rease rean its impartiality aUty and so sound c s ons e erns the both sides It cant can't hope t l that when that when when its personnel such close connections with side side and and f for r that matter half of one otte side side side-in in the thell thea n ending labor controversy Out of all the thousand citizens of Utah it possible for the industrial mission to find a few D p per r r to hold key jobs in its C who are not cle ck tied tied up with and owing allegiance to either capit labor men who would re x sent not one side or the theo but the general public 9 badly needs such tion Just Justa a Citi