The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1936-07-24
UPHOLDS UNION
IN WALK0UT OF
LAST sum M Err
20 Miners Ordered Rein
stated with Back Pay
100 Pla ce d on List
DECISION HOLDS MINE
FOSTERED NEW ASSN.
Faulkner Blamed for Aid
ing Company in Viola
ton, 1896 Labor Act

WASHINGTON, July "a. - CBy
Associated Press The National
Labor Relations Board in upholding
Union employees in a controversy
with the Alaska Juneau Gold Min
ing Company here yesterday ruled
that strikes called to win estab-
lishment Of the closed shop were le-
gal under the Labor Relations Act.
The company, operator of one OF
the worlds largest gold mining en-
terprises at Juneau, Alaska, has
been beset with labor troubles for
more than year, with a strike for
closed shop technically still in pro-
gress, the Board said.
Faulkner Blamed
The Board, in announcing its
finding, accused the Juneau City
Attorney, H. l.. Faulkner, with sid
ing with the company and said it
found the company violated the
1885 labor act through interfer-
ence in affairs of the International
Union of Mine. Mill and Smelter
Workers. Also, through promo
ton of company dominated Ju-
neau Mine Workers Association
and through discriminatory dis
charge of more than 100 miners"
The Board ordered the company
TO end coercion of its employees
and withdraw all recognition from
the Juneau Mine Workers Asso-
citation"
Twenty-nine miners who struck
and later were not given employ
ment were ordered reinstated with
back pay and hundred others,
unemployed since the May, 1895
strike, were ordered placed in their
former positions, or on list to be
offered employment when labor is
needed.
AT the hearing in Juneau last
March the company commended the
strike which shut down the mine
from May % to July 5, was not
ethical and legal because it was for
closed shop and the strike was not .
voted upon by the Union member
ship.
The Board ruled that the strike
for closed shop was not illegal"
and employees striking for such
an end are fully entitled to act as
it benefits all other striking employ
ees. Evidence at the hearing re-
futed the company's assertion that
the strike was called without prop
er authority and it was since shown
the Union formally voted to dele
gate to its Board of Trustees pow
er to call strike"
Says Company Fostered Return
The ruling said the company fos-
tered the back to work movement,
yet only offered unemployment to
those who would apply individual
"" 1t said further:
"City Attorney Faulkner assisted
the movement and brought full
weight of local authorities on the
side OF those seeking to break the
strike, and drafted police protec-
ton in a resolution making it I'M
lawful for anyone to interfere with
men desiring to register for work
by shouting, cheering, intimida-
ton, insult or for more than five
men to assemble in any one place
and Faulkner did not act in his
capacity as City Attorney but acted
as attorney for the company, at
least one business matter In the
evidence showing the completely of
Juneau officials and citizens in at
tempts to break the strike by bal
loting June IS in the City Hall on
the return to work question, con-
Quoted at city expense with Mayor
l. Goldstein appointing judges.
1T was shown that Faulkner in
terested himself in the formation
of the Juneau Mine Workers Asso-
citation which the company sup
ported. On June "a an escort of
fifty Juneau police was provided
the workers on their march to the
registration office and when the
line OF march met the strikers
picket line there was riot. Several
Union men were indicted and later
freed after a jury triA and it was
shown Faulkner wrote an anony-
nous letter attacking the jury's
decision" a,