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Show Striking Unions Accept Negotiations Offer Members of the three unions who had been on strike against the Cedar City Branch of the Utah Construction Company for two weeks, returned to the jobs at the Iron mines Monday after having accepted the latest settlement set-tlement offer made by company officials. Effected by the strike were 114 members of locals of the Operating Enginees, Laborers and Teamsters unions. The men went on strike on August 12th after the unions rejected re-jected an August 8 offer by the company to en'i the dispute over wages and insurance benefits. Union members voted on terms Friday nlfht following negotiation negotia-tion meetings held earlier in the day. Mine officials and representatives repre-sentatives of the three unions met with Lyle Johnson, federal mediator, to negotiate on the issues is-sues at stake. Terms of the contract con-tract will become effective June 1, 1965. The contract, negotiated last year, was a three-year contract con-tract with provision that wages and Insurance could be discussed or negotiated this year or next. Participating in the negotiations negotia-tions which brought an end to the dispute were Utah Construction Construc-tion Company members, A." M. Wilson, vice president In charge of mining; J. C. DeMoss, manager manag-er of coal and iron operations; William Ryker, labor relations, San Francisco, and Ralph Long, Manager of Cedar City operations. opera-tions. Unions were represented by Leo Smith, Teamsters; Vance Abbott Ab-bott and Jay Nealey, Operating Engineers, and Fritz Engman, Laborers. |