Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-05-10 | Page 11 | Afl is Warned to Keep out of Utah Cio Field

' AFL IS WARNED . TO KEEP OUT OF UTAHCIO FIELD Union President Gives Reply to Threat of Rival A warning to th Utah Stat Federation Fed-eration of Labor to keep out of the CIO organisational field was issued is-sued Wednesday by A. M. Petersen. state C I O president "They're sticking their necks out If they try to organize the mine and melter fields," Mr. Petersen asserted as-serted upon his return from a trip to Carbon county. Anawer t Threat His warning statement was In answer to th threat of Paul M. Peterson, Stat AFL president, , to send organizers Into CIO fields m Utah r Tetaltatton for-the xi"' sertod employment of C I O men on a construction job for the Utah OH Refining company. 'The CIO has been sticking Its neck out for a Ions time," Mr. Peterson Pe-terson retorted when he was informed in-formed of the CIO's attitude. Mr. Peterson made hie answer from Provo. where he was conferring confer-ring with AFL leaders Wednesday. "The Utah Oil job is not the first ene on which the CIO have stepped over the line." the AFL. leader said. "They have been invading the field of the bartenders and the cooks snd waiters, and they stepped into the building field in Carbon county last U year. Will Go Ahead "We will go right ahead with our plans for organizing, regardless regard-less of the CIO." The job in controversy now is a t filling station being built at 176! Thirteenth East street, which has I been picketed for some time by AFL men. The job, involving an outlay of only S70O0, threatens to precipitate . open warfare in Utah between the CIO and AFL. CIO officials Wednesday charged ! that th Salt Lake Building and Construction Trades council, an AFL affiliate, has been picketing AFL men on ths Utah Oil job. "r" Colon .Ilea "All of th men on th job have been union men, yet th AFL has gone ahead with it picketing just the same," the C I O official said. "One of the pickets was not ven a member of a building trades t council union." F. A. Noller, secretory of the council, confirmed the statement that at one time during the picketing picket-ing some of the men on the job were AFL men. "They belonged to unions not af- filiated with the council, but they have been disciplined and that is nil settled." Mr. Noller said. "At the present time ther are no A F L men on the job." No further meeting with the Utah . Oil Refining company officials to settle the controversy is scheduled at th present time, Mr. Noller said.