Show 88 Independent nt t Now Contractors Contractors Now Operating Mayflower on Lease Due to economic conditions s I New Park Mining fIning Company of I Ia Salt Salt Lake City was forced to a I cIse close down mining operations at atthe atthe the Mayflower Mine In the Park City City Mining dIning District on T ber bert erf 27 1957 Shortly after this closure a group of oL former employees em em- requested a lease on the operation and this was granted ranted in October 1957 The United Steelworkers of Am America CIO CLO Local Union No- No o picketed the operation expelled ex ex- the contractors contractors' f from om the Union nd and filed an unfair labor practice charge against New ew Park with the National Labor Relations Doard in in- by the th NLRB the Union la ia later pr r withdrew charges charre and on on- March Much 5 5 1958 tiled filed suit against New New- Park in the Federal Faders Court They asked BIked that thi the lease be to to- collective And that former lormer employee receive back pay ai sid ABd other u II New Park legal counsel filed flied a l motion motton for summary judgment requesting dismissal sal of the complaint com com- I I Ion plaint on flU the bal basis l of th the pleadings plead plead- Ings lings Following an ai Initial hear hear- hearOn On ing ng K US U.S. District Judge A. A Sherman Sher Slier man n filed filet a memorandum memorandum decision dated September 3 i 1958 indicating indicating- the tentative view that the company motion for dismissal sal be granted but allowed al at 1 towed lowed the Union to tile rile an n amended amend ed complaint dealing with wIth- technical technical tech phases of the c complaint The judge considered the amended amend amend- ed complaint and on December 16 16 1958 dismissed 1 the Union charges as all tian no c f for fr r action by granting the New Park request r for summary ry judgment The he CJ Fr ae o operated r te teby 4 by bythe the individual contractors has hall b been n conducted as a successful mining operation since its Inception tI tion 1 In October 1951 and at th the Ule Jre ent there Ume-there-ar there are eighty eight independent contractors operating the tie Mayflower Mine |