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Show I V Vr.'. X HE WON RACE FROM THE MTO-PACIFIC Mr. and Mrs. Carlos E. McAllister . . . expect first child a State Board Refuses Miners Compensation Industrial Commission Votes Workers Took First Step; Knerr Is Dissenter Finding that the coal miners took the initial step through their agents in bringing about stoppage of work in Utah's coal fields on May 4, the state industrial commission in a two-to-one decision held Saturday that the workers are not entitled to unemployment compensation. . , This will not prevent unemployed miners from obtaining unemployment unemploy-ment compensation In the future, now that operations are being resumed re-sumed under a new working contract, con-tract, hut they must wait an addi- k ' tional two weeks before receiving payments. A two-week waiting period pe-riod la required by law and the commission com-mission held that in this case the period did not begin May 4. Commissioners Frank A. Jugler and O. F. McShan signed the majority ma-jority decision, while Chairman William M. Knerr dissented. . Although working contracts ar arrived at In Utah after determination determi-nation of the Appalachian contract In the eastern states, ths commls-e commls-e lion said It found "ths stoppage of work occurring in Utah . . . clearly resulted from a positive action on the part of the worker in Utah, exercising their power to use a stoppage of work as a method of aiding in the national effort to arrive ar-rive at a favorable employment agreement. . . ." "The fact that the determination to use the strike weapon waa made by the international officers of the United Mine Workers of America and the fact that the worker In the stats of Utah may have had no direct voice In such determination does not . . . take away from the circumstances the very real fact that the workers, through their agents, took ths Initial steps leading lead-ing to the stoppage of work May 4," the majority opinion said. Mr. Knerr, in his dissenting decision, de-cision, said: The members of the United Mine Workers of Utah are out of employment em-ployment by reason of a situation which Is beyond their control." He pointed out that the Utah miners min-ers were ordered by their international interna-tional officer to auspend operations, opera-tions, and that they would have loet their standing in ths aational organization or-ganization had they failed to carry out ths mandate. Mr. Knerr also cited the fact that international officials of the union made a proposal during ths Appalachian Appala-chian negotiations to continue work under then existing wage and hour agreements. "Ths operators rejected this proposal pro-posal completely" and, when the union made this proposal, "they placed upon the operator the burden bur-den of offering work during the period upon some different term and conditions," Mr. Knerr said. |