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Show AGREEMENT REPORTED IN 103 -DAY OLD STRIKE AT KENNECOTT WORKINGS The 103-day-old Kennecott Copper Corp. walkout ended Thursday according to word received re-ceived from Washington. Howard T. Colvin, associate director of the federal mediation and conciliation service, announced announc-ed both the corporation and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen Fire-men and Enginemen had agreed to end the walkout, pending a report of a fact-finding commission. commis-sion. The agreement calls for prompt resumption of work. (It was reported in Salt Lake City that operations would be resumed "on a very limited scale" at the Bingham mine within with-in 48 hours after official notification notifi-cation had been received of the agreement. Copper corporation officials said they had not received re-ceived word of the agreement Thursday afternoon. It was estimated, esti-mated, however, that normal production could not be achieved achiev-ed "for some time to come.") Sen. Arthur V. Watkins (R., Utah) also confirmed the terms of the agreement ending the crippling walkout which, according accord-ing to some estimates, cost the people of Utah in excess of $15,-000,000. $15,-000,000. Mr. Colvin said the fact find-in" find-in" commission would be composed com-posed of three public members appointed by his superior, Cyrus S. Ching, director of. the federal mediation 'and conciliation ser- v vice. He said that appointment would come, within the next 24 hours. Although " informal agreement to submit the dispute to the fact finders was reached earlier in the day. it was not until a telegram to the mediators here from E. T. Stannard, president of Kennecott, Kenne-cott, wrote finis to the walkout which began October 24, 1948. In that telegram Mr. Stanard said Kennecott would furnish every ev-ery resource to assist the factfinders, fact-finders, , :-:;.' A message from D. B. Robertson, Robert-son, Cleveland, O., president of the union, said that if the Kennecott Ken-necott Copper would accept the fact finding probe, so would the union. Mr. Robertson noted that, in his opinion, the proposal for such a body of public investigators coincided with a similar proposition propo-sition made by the federal agency on November 26. The union chieftain assured the agency that there would be a prompt resumption of work by the 311 striking employes. The fact finders will investigate investi-gate the entire scope of the strike Mr. Colvin said. Apparently the question of a job evaluation survey will be considered by the fact finders. Mr. gtannard's telegram to the mediators said the firm still was of the opinion that such a survey sur-vey was the only practical means of enduring industrial peace in the copper mines. o , |
