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Show Thursday, December 10, 1930 THE VALLEY VIEW NEWS Page 7 How Things Stand in Copper Strike: QDooQm gtoOOSooGo TFgogOdg ,LfODQQDQi, Dealing with negotiators for the to grips with quicksilver. Mine-Mi- ll Union is like trying to come All day Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and again on Monday Company representatives met with Union negotiators in a sincere attempt to end the strike. Despite important concessions by the Company, the Unions position was evasive. g Union negotiators kept the main issues - stalling, delaying, quibbling about details and trying to change the subject. They were unwilling to get down to brass tacks. Monday morning, for instance, they asked for the rest of the day off to study a minor change in contract language, a change which the Union itself side-steppin- j had requested! Such sessions are an absolute waste of time. Kennecott, therefore, told its Company negotiators from Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada they might as well go home and is ready to talk business-whenev- er that may wait until Mine-Mil- l be. Apparently Union negotiators deliberately were trying to torpedo the negotiations on Monday. They brought up old questions and timeworn issues that were answered in Union and Company talks as long ago as last April. They rehashed positions that had been made crystal clear over the past six months. Mondays discussions on health and welfare provisions of the contract, in which other Unions participated, resulted in nothing but evasive quibbling, One reason may be that the top member of Mine-Mil- ls principally from Mine-Milnegotiating team is only on hand weekends, although the strike continues seven days a week. l. The Company is ready to meet any time and it hopes that Mine- Mill will get down to serious bargaining soon. ' Meanwhile, tho old strike goes on . 121-da- y . . and on. Copper Strike Cost To Date in Utah wago loss por omployeo Total salaries and wagos lost Average salary Loss i & to Stato As of 121st day of strike m $1,739 $11,454,344 $S0,?20,$27 |
