The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-09-23
HIDDEN WARMING GIVEN TO SOVIET UNION

Baggen contacted the company agent, Norton Youngs, who in turn called stevedoring company.
 Banfield What occurred?
 Baggen: The lumber was not un- loaded.
 Banfield: What did you do then?
 Baggen: Took the lumber to Ta- coma.
 Baniield Did you see any Local l6 men in Prince Rupert?
 Baggen: Yes. Joe Guy and Vern Albright were on the dock.
 Schultz On Stand
 MT. Schultz on the stand sus- tained previous testimony as to the Juneau Spruce Company's la bor contract with the International Woodworkers Union; said that af- ter reopening the mill following establishment of the ILWU picket line the company had only been running one shift with approxi- mately 105 employees, rather than two with twice as many. Two reasons were given for the con- panys present one shift: that be- cause of the picket line the com- pany was unable to dispose of more products; inability to get more employees as certain people wont go through the picket line and some have left town Necessity to mill operation to ; ship products and inability to ship under present conditions were also brought out by MT. Ban fields questioning of MT. Schultz. Questioned by Banfield on the : July agreement with the IVA, MT. Schultz said it was in effect i a clarification of the November IT contract to include loading of barges as a part of the work of IVA employees under the contract; ithat the Juneau Spruce was now 1, operating with IVA employees un- der the November contract as amended by the July 3 agreement and the company was experience i ing no difficulties with the IVA. i Banfield. who had been attorney for the Juneau Spruce Corporation i since June 1, l947, and of the thJffifeau Gfiifffeef szis since igo5, asked that he be sworn in as a witness
 Banfield Sworn As Witness Banfield, who said he was in timately associated with the work !, ings of the Juneau Lumer Mills under the ownership of Roy Rutherford, explained the different operation of the one-shift Ruther- ford outfit and the larger concern the Juneau Spruce was running. MT. Rutherford operated until 194l with one horse to pull the lumber through the yard Produc- ton was small. He had small yard crew In fact the yard man took care of the horse, led the horse around taking care of the lumber. Consequently when the company had shipments going out, there was no yard crew and MT. Rutherford employed longshoremen from Local 16 to do the work"
 MT. Rutherford's practice was to operate with one shift, to close in December, and open again in April.
 He did sign several waterfront agreements with the longshore- men," Banfield said.
 Attorney for the Juneau Lumber Mills when Rutherford and E. s. Hawkins, Juneau Spruce Company. were negotiating, Banfield substan- tiated previous testimony that the Juneau Lumber Mills did not sell it's accounts receivable or any con- tracts.
 He also brought out that there had been no certification of any kind by the NLRB with respect to the Juneau Lumber Mills em- ployees. There was never any elec- tion of collective bargaining unit nor was the NLRB called on by any employee or employer incl dental to the JIM operations, he said. This was between September l945 and May l, 1947. If there had been any certification between April 1942 and September 1945, I would no doubt have known about it. said Banfield, who had been in the army during that period.
 Henry Roden. ILWU attorney then emphasized, T want to have it clearly understood that the Ju- neau Lumber Mill was under an agreement with Local Is through the Waterfront Employers Associa- ton.
 Trip of Santrina
 To bring out matters incident to the recent trip to Rupert of the Santrina with a load of Juneau Spruce lumber, which Prince Ru- pert Local sos ILWU refused to unload, Verne Albright, Interna- tional representative of the ILWU, Ketchikan, was called to the wit ness stand by Attorneys Rogers and Banfield.