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Show TEST SUIT FILED ON TUNNEL JOB Contractors for the Olmsted and Draper-Alpine tunnels of the Sslt lake aqueduct from the Deer Creek reclamation project filed suit In state supreme court Wednesday Wed-nesday to stop ths Industrial commission com-mission from lodging criminal charges for noncompliance with the eight-hour portal-to-portal law. ' Plaintiffs are George K. Thompson Thomp-son and Frank S. Markham, doing do-ing business as the Thompson-Markham Thompson-Markham company. Defendants are William M. Knerr, O. F. Mo-Shane Mo-Shane and Frank A. Jugler, members mem-bers of the Industrial commission, and E. A. Hodges, metal mines Inspector. The suit asks a permanent writ of prohibition against the commission com-mission from filing criminal charges under the portal-to-portal law, which requires that an eight-hour eight-hour daily shift be timed from entrance en-trance and exit at a mine portal. An attorney general's opinion recently re-cently held that the tunnel operations opera-tions sre subject to the lew. The contractors ssked Attorney General Gen-eral Joseph Chez to reconsider the opinion, but he reaffirmed his original stand. The plaintiffs slleged the commission com-mission has notified them that criminal charges will be filed for noncompliance with the law. Plaintiffs contended they are not subject to the law, since they are not engaged In mine operations. The suit was regarded as a test of the portal-to-portal law so far as tunnel work Is concerned. |