The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-09-22

gaining did the union in practic, represent all employees on tn, plant side?
 Stamm: Yes. 4
 Banfield: When grievances arose did the union negotiate for all em. ployees?
 Stamm: Yes.
 Banfield: Was there ever any disagreement. between the unior and plant as to whether agreement covered all employees? Stamm: No.
 Bargaining Issue Roden queried Stamm as t6 whether there had been any bar gaining between the Juneau Lum- her Mill and the Longshoremen i Stamm, answering that he was stumped, continued on the advice of Examiner Boyd ito bring out the facts" that he had heard at some previous time there were negotiations between the Juneau Waterfront Employers and the Longshoremen at which repre- sentative of the mill was present; the representative he believed tc be MT. McDermott, whom he had heard was there"
 Stamm further testified that there is an agreement now be- tween the Waterfront Employers and the Longshoremen.
 Roden: Isn't the Juneau Spruce Corporation a member of the Waterfront Employers Association? ! Stamm. No.
 On query of the Examiner as to whether the Juneau Lumber Mills was member of the. Water front Employers Association Stamms answer was mo"
 MT. Roden introduced as evidence certificates of payment of wages and withholding tax to longshore- men by the Juneau Spruce Cor 1 Loration, signed as Employer. which Stamm recognized as having been made up in course of busi- ness,
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 Next on the stand was Marc s Dcles, accountant and office man. ager who had made study o company records and compiled in. formation as to all payments O longshcremen and correlated thess with statements to the companie' for whom the payments had beer made.
 Banfield: Were you able to finc any record of other longshoremel employed by the Juneau Spruce? Dcles: made a search of tn books and found no other long shoremen employed.
 Questioned were specific trans actions and indicated the man ner in which the Juneau Spruc' Corporation made practice 0 billing customers for longshor work when loading customer boats, lover and above the pur i chase price of the lumber 4 Invoices of the Juneau Spruc from company files were produced ! to one of the Astoria and Puge i Sound cannery in which longshor ing was billed as separate item This became part of the rec i ord.
 MT. Doies, on examiation, ex plained the withholding tax cer tificates made out to longshoremel and signed by the company as lem ployers" as having been done pure ly as matter of convenience t, customers.
 i MT. Rogers, Juneau Spruce at i torney, objected to the withhold ing tax certificates and the sigma ture of the Juneau Spruce Cor ] poration having any significance on grounds that the company wa acting only as collection agency fo ! the United States Treasury, tha there was no alternative but tt sign the certificates and mak, collection in the manner perform. ed by the company. Adjournment of the hearine which Examiner Boyd had yester. day indicated might be completed by noon today. was until l .45 thi. afternoon and, spectator woulc venture. will continue for at least another day
 | Rebuttal ] Argument and rebuttal will fol- low the taking Sof testimony. All attorneys, Banfield and Rogers anc Roden and Paul indicated they would have more witnesses. Attor. ney Hartung for the IVA was moi ready to indicate how much time : he might require to complete testi-