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Show THE SEARCHLIGHT A Back to Work We have discovered the reason for the epr demic of chuckles and grins that has broken out in the Copper Domain. A couple of fellows have gone to work. It isn’t a simple matter of two men getting a job. Rather it’s the laughable spectacle of two ex-walking delegates of the late, unlamented Independent Association of Mill Workers—now defunct—actually doing something useful on the production line. If we weren’t so tender-hearted we'd mention names. For.a day or two we flirted with the idea of asking our pal Doug for concession rights to bring in shift workers from this area to witness Montgomery Ward~ (Continued from page 1) wartime. With few exceptions the stoppages that do occur arise from employer provocation, much of which, like the Avery case, is deliberate. Many employers think the war emergency offers an excellent opportunity to cripple labor unions, or destroy them altogether. Harry Clare Byrd, Tom Hoffman, and Connally, Howard the entire host Smith, of labor’s enemies in Congress jumped at the opportunity to force enactment of anti-labor legislation. They smacked their lips with gleeful anticipation. But when labor laws are applied to anti-union employers like Montgomery Ward, they go into hysterics. They accuse the Administration of try- ing to run private business without regard to the law. The issues involved in the Avery case may be summed up as follows: | 1. The Government seeks to enforce laws against employers with the same energy that the same laws are enforced against labor unions. If Government fails crumble and fall. to do so, Government will There can be no unequal en- forcement of laws in a democracy. 2. Montgomery Ward has been a persistent violator of the War Labor Disputes Act. It has flouted the authority of the National Labor Relations Board on several occasions. Similarly, it has refused to obey the decisions of the National War Labor Board. Industry members of Movement the strange sight. Anyhow, the United States Supreme Court has refused to review the decision of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, which upheld the order of the National Labor Relations Board, dis establishing all of the Copper associations, and cleaning the bargaining slate in the Copper Empire. Maybe now there can be clean-cut normal labor relations in Utah Copper. | In the meantime Doug and Chilly Charlie Parsons have laid their synthetic “unions” ten- derly at rest in the Copper boneyard. ‘The Searchlight joined. in the ceremony by intoning sorrowfully, Requiescant in Pace. the Board joined with labor and the public in a unanimous order directing the maintenance of contract terms at Wards until an election could be held to determine whether the Union is still entitled to exercise bargaining of Ward’s employees. | to comply. 3. rights in behalf Avery arbitrarily refused Shall Congressmen and Senators back up enforcement of the laws they enact—sometimes over the President’s veto—or are those laws in tended only to restrict labor, leaving labor's opponents a free hand? 4. Are the American people forever going to tolerate newspaper and radio blitzes against wage earners, when such attacks are clearly made to serve the purposes of an unscrupulous band of employers who refuse to obey the law? 5. Since labor has finally obtained laws for its protection, is it the intention of Avery et al. (With Congressional approval) to smash or nullify every such law, with which they become dissatisfied? If so the United States is drifting toward some form of dictatorship, or toward civil war. Democracy cannot survive without equal enforcement of law. THE LATEST WORD Judging by the thin, bluish fluid that comes from the Salt Lake milk shed, that widely quoted | slogan should now read: MILK FROM ANEMIC COWS |