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J(lil.antperIghofienrd-of-367 ich i a nly ud-lin-hisltyed.titsateteriVatoin-ice14,-ikeain27,-idoies.nt-93218;22;93;ithnd-ar-T.rthtt_35oncedck-antsIoncesaatac«EEatI.mCharges of Discrimination AgainstUnion Men Denied by Empire WorkersTENTThree supervisory employes of the Empire District Electric Company, testifying yesterday at the Empire District labor board hearing, denied charges by the Joplin local of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers that union men were discriminated against.It was the first day of defense testimony and four witnesses werecalled. Additional foremen and*department heads mentioned in the labor board testimony were expected to be called today.Gettera! Foreman on Stand.Oscar Brown, general foreman for the Empire District in the central division, and Lee H. Mills, a line foreman here, were on the witness stand a greater part of yesterday. Both denied that they at any time told any employes to resign from the union or threatenedtransmission engineering department of the Empire District, testified relative to the claim of Clyde Dilworth that he was transfericd out of Pendleton’s department without regard to seniority after he had joined the union.Pendleton ‘said he had a “general discussion” with Dilworth of unions and their advantages and disadvantages, but could not recall details of the conversation. He said Dilworth was transferred to the line department because of the necessity of curtailments in his department.A FORMER LIBRARIANAT BAXTER SUCCUMBSBaxter Springs, Kan., June 2.— Miss Lotta Smith, a resident of Baxter Springs many years, died at... u , her home in Kansas City at 11them with discharge If they did not o'clock last night, according to in-quit the union.Both said they had a part Information received here today. She had been in ill health several years.the discharge May 8, 1937, of Her- Miss Smith served as librarian at schel Tabor, a lineman working un- the Johnston public library here 17 der Mills who is a union member years. She was a member of theand a claimant In the present hear- Methodist church. The body Is to ing. They said he was discharged I be brought t-o the Hoskins funeralfor working on “hot wires” with- I home here. Funeral services will be out his rubber gloves in vlouation I beld at 10 o’clock Saturday morn-LEGRobertScccPiche natlng Legion a tenta post nc nomina in good Kobei for a a Georgefor firsClantonadjutanofficer;financechaplaiigcant-aGeorge two vs board flt; The i be nej elected their c:conventmeetingpondedof safety rules, and that he was *n8 a* the funeral home.known as “a flagrant violator of safety rules.”In cross-examination, both Brown and Mills said they had dismissed no other employes for violating safety rules,BING CROSBY^ BROTHERIS GRANTED DIVORCEChicago, June 2.—lt;/P)—George K. Mills also admitted (Bob) Crosby, brother of movie that he probably had violated some star, Bing Crosby, was granted asafety rules himself.divorce in circuit court today fromMills denied he had instructed ^rs» Marie Grounltz Crosby, 34 Charles Buxton, a lineman, to re- I Francisco.sign from the union, but said he I „feThe J6'5?!ar'°1(d °™hestra leaderw tniri *Rnvton desertion. The Crosbyshad told Buxton he could obtainahexaL wJr .were married in Oakland, Calif.,paper and a carbon sheet for wlr- July 1933f and hayc Qne chJing his resignation at the office, ehpawii a He said Buxton later gave him a carbon copy of a resignation from the union and that he delivered it | 4lt; to Brown. Buxton testified previously for the labor board that Mills told him to resign from the union.Asked in cross-examination why he took a carbon copy of Buxton's resignation, Mills said for his “own protection” should any difficulty on the subject arise later.HOMECrest mer te* tonianorth eaquested coming mer rlt; also wi is one lt;It was basket groundsImprov.ecRAMSAY1Fred Gandy, a lineman on Mills’ crew, who said he is not a union member and is opposed to unions, testified that ho saw Tabor working on “hot wires” without rubber gloves and saw Mills discharge Tabor. He said he heard nothing said about the union at that time.Mills said he was opposed to the union, although he had been a member about 15 years ago, and Brown said he regarded union organization as being unnecessary.Brown testified that the policy of the company is to consider aman's qualifications in preference to seniority with regard to layoffs, transfers and dismissals.Testifying concerning the transfer last year of three union men from his division to the eastern division to work on a creosoting crew at Warsaw, Mo., Brown said that none of the men complained to him about the transfers. He said thatTed Alexander, then a foremanhere, was transferred because he was requested by Adam; Rogers, eastern district foreman, and for the further reason that Alexander was particularly qualified as a “hotstick” crew foreman. He said it was his belief that at the time the transfer was made it was entirely agreeable with Alexander.Brown testified that Clay Marshall and Mitchell Vaughan were transferred with Alexander to Warsaw because Marshall and Vaughan were new employes and would have been laid off had they remained in this division, because it was necessary to reduce the pay roll here. He said other men were laid off about that time and that no new linemen were employed to replace^ them.Concerning a party for his men given at the Joplin warehouse the night of May 5, 1937, Brown said he financed it and that It was given in celebration of a pay increase. He said the party ended by 8 p. m. Thecomplaining international unioncontended in the labor board evidence that the party was one ofseveral company parties given on union meeting nights.Brown also testified that the company's safety rules, adopted in 1936, should not be violated except in cases of emergency.Brown also testified that Jack Pritchard, who was laid off last fall and who is a claimant in the present hearing, was dismissed because of lack of work to keep him longer. He said Pritchard was classed as only a temporary employe. He said he did not even know that Pritchard was a union member, and that until last fall he did not know who among employes in his division were union men.The witness admitted in cross-examination that he had seen employes entering and leaving the union hall at Third and Main streets on various occasions, but denied he had met them in any manner other than casually.Brown said he had received no instructions from the company regarding its labor policy except that he was told the company would comply with the national labor relations act.He said he did not know what “stimulated” the resignation from the union of a group of employes last fail. He said he received and kept carbon copies of some of the resignations because he assumed the employes wanted him to have them. He said he “supposed tbc company was interested” and that he knew negotiations between company officials and the union were under way at that time.Ora A* Pendleton, head of theWe have rearra stairs Store. 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Joplin Globe
Joplin, Missouri, US
Fri, Jun 03, 1938
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