Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-08-19 | Page 10 | Cafe Workers Deny Coercion

CAFE WORKERS DENY COERCION Hearing of charge that the management man-agement of tha Beau Brummel cafe coerced iu employe! to form a company com-pany union wax continued until Saturday by the Mate labor relation rela-tion board after witnesses testified testi-fied at the capitol late Wednesday that no coercion u exerted. C. A. Harvey, baker, told William M. Knerr. chairman of the board, all except three at fnnr employee of tha cafe belonged to the Beau Brummel Independent Employee' union and that hia membership in tha organization had been voluntary. volun-tary. Irma Nelson, another cafe employe, em-ploye, testified workers received a pay Increase a week prior to f or-1 matioh of the company union, but that no wage boosts or change in-houra in-houra had resulted since. , O. W. Carlson, attorney representing repre-senting Beau Brummel. Inc.. moved for dismissal of the coercion complaint com-plaint on tha grounds no coercion had been ahown, that evidence had not ahown that the Culinary Alliance, Alli-ance, as complainant, represented a majority of the care employes and that it had not been shown that jobs of caf employes ara in Jeopardy. The motion was denied. Additional defense witnesses will ba called Saturday.