The Ely miner., 1937-06-17
OLIVER UNION
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for one year. After January, 1898, three
directors will be named every year for
| three year terms.
Now serving as officers and directors
are: OSmund Ellis, president; Urho
Hokkanen, first vice president; David
Childers, second vice president; Frances
Spooner, secretary; Mike Evonocheck,
treasurer; Stanley DomonoSh, William
Carlson, Frank Golob and Carl Kruger,
directors.
The statement released by the asso-
ciation of its majority in the Pioneer
and Sibley mines, was discounted by
the officers of the local chapter of the
Amalgamated Iron, Steel and Tin
Workers, inasmuch as they claimed to
| have over 81 per cent of the employees
| in their organization.
| At meeting of the CIO group held
Sunday evening, Henry Burkheimer of
Duluth was the principal speaker. The
meeting was attended by over hum
dred people. Burkheimer in his ad-
dress condemned the independent union
and charged it was company controlled.
He further remarked that the company
did not want the CIO union but failed
to tell the aSsemblage that the steel
mills of the Steel corporation in the
east had signed up with the steel
workers union and that this was why
none of the corporation plants were
! embroiled in a strike at the present
| time.
/ He further decried the American Fed
/ Grafton of Labor and their intention of
getting into the mining field, in other
words, he did not think much of any
thing that was not CIO. He stated
that the closing of the Zenith would
be done by the CIO of the east and
not by the local organization.
AS an excuse for not being able to
sign up the majority, leaders are Of
fering the alibi that unfair methods
have been employed by the COM
panies" in the formation of the inde-
pendent association It was stated
that the matter would be taken up
with the U. S. labor relations board.
This would be considered welcome
move by many of the miners, we un-
derstand, and would show exactly the
strength of the CIO who it is claimed
is clustering through with statements
not substantiated.
| In an election held by the employees
association at the Zenith mine of the
PickandS, Mather company short
time ago, over 80 per cent of the en-
ployees voted on association matters
This is in direct contrast to the claims
set forth by the CIO organizers who
claim that about sixty per cent belong
to their organization
From all over the Mesabe range come
reports of hard time for the organ
izers of the CIO and that even Con-
gresham Bernard, who left his work
in congress to come here to help out
the organization, is not finding easy
shedding.
A range-wide survey of the larger
mining companies made by the Hib-
bing Tribune shows that from 95 to 90
per cent of all employees in the several
districts have enrolled in the employees
independent collective bargaining as
ISOLATION In the Hibbing- Chisholm
district, out of an approximate 1900
employees of the Oliver company, some
1850 have enrolled in local organiza-
tionS.
The employees association of the
Pickands, Mather company has enrolled
e8.1 per cent of all employees in the
five mines of the Mesaba range. Out
of 1875 eligible employees, 1889 have
joined the independent union.
The same kind of reports were
printed about the Virginia dis
trict where 1900 of the 1,5O0 eligible
men had signed the employees asso-
citation.
Reports from the extreme western
end of the Mesaba and from the Guy
ma ranoa ora of ciy,i1or ,,ot,,ro