Hungry Horse news. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1948-current, 1955-11-25
AAC Plant Employees Vote AFL 2 to /

Production and maintenance work
ers at Anaconda Aluminium Co. non-'
day and Tuesday picked the Alum-
mum Workers Council AT Of l. over.
the United Steelworkers Of America
CLIO by nearly two to one vote t.
be their bargaining agent.
Official tally completed late Tues
day morning showed:
AZ Of L Neither Go
~ ~
There was also challenged ballet
cast. The man was no longer en-
ployed at AAC, though be had work,
ed through Oct. 80, the qualifying.
payroll period. Since he was nok
employed at time Of election, his
ballot did not count.
Courtesy prevailed throughout The
election on the part of all concerned.
The 96 per cent turnout Of eligible
employees is considered unusually
high. The one check for neither mo
uni0n) was unusually low, more were
expected. All but is of the eligible
employees voted, some coming off
sick leave to cast ballots.
The International Union of Nine
Mill and Smelter Workers had with
drawn from the election last week,
Procedure now allows five work
ing days for interested parties TO
file protest, according to Orville
Turnbaugh, Seattle, National Labor
Relations Board representative who
arrived Sunday and left Tuesday
afternoon. The Hungry Horse News
sees no indication of a protest in
view of there being just one challen-
| ged ballot, no protests by interested
parties during the election, and the
substantial majority.
Without protest, Thomas Graham,
Seattle, regional officer for the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board is ex-
pected to certify the Aluminium
Workers Council of Columbia Falls
AT of L as, the bargaining agent at
the plant, next week.
The Flathead wanted its union
campaign to organize the new plant
mild LoudSpeakers, corner fights,
threats and strife in general were
completely missing.
Election results were not unexpect-
ed. The Flathead had AT of L crafts
building Hungry Horse Dam and
: then the aluminium plant. Many of
these same workers becoming pro
duction workers at the new plant
: stayed AT of L in sympathy as did
most of the maintenance workers,
who generally are AT of L.
Bud Ward, CLIO local president, On
leaving the plant after the ballots
were counted Tuesday commented:
Were all one union now"
h During election hours, Judges
" were Ward and Dave Monroe fol
. the CLIO; Ed Hula and Dick Hustor
,e for AT of L, John Kearns and JOIN
Wilson for Anaconda Aluminium Co
= Their job Vas to see that only eGgi
- bic persons voted Bists were care
= fully checked to see that the me-
- who voted were eligible. In charg
~ was the NLRB representative, On
= vile Turnbaugh from Seattle.
After the election Tuesday morn
: ing, Turnbaugh unfolded each ball
~ OF, and then was joined by the jud
- ges' and three other representative
= from the CLIO and AT of L respect
lively. =
Joining in the tally for the AT q
L were Horn, Ed Cozard, Missouls
machinist representative for Nor
lal tana, and Ken Bowman, Seattle. Fo
ell the Go were Otto Orr, Spokane
Sc sub-district director, Ted Korecl
and Buck Spencer, information,
on representatives. r.
rs Negotiations between the AT OF
sh Aluminium Workers council and n
M representatives. of Anaconda Alum
mum Co. are expected to be undel
OIL way early in December. il.
,se There is even talk that the co..
asst tract may be signed with the e.
in pected wage increases by Chris
mas. Picking date at this time
en-. pure guess.
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