Montana labor news., 1934-11-15
LABOR NEWS IN
BRIEF

WASHINGTON. -(FP)- Despite a
slight decline of seven-tenths OF l per
cent in the two weeks ending October
70, retail food prices are still about %
per cent higher than on April IS, 1888,
the postwar low point, the U. 5. Blu
reau of Labor Statistics reports. The
present price level is rs per cent higher
than that of the same time last year,
and l5.2 per cent higher than two
years ago.
WASHINGTON. OPP John J.
Eagan, American Federation of Labor
organizer for Connecticut, has been ap-
pointed labor representative for the
hatters fur cutting code authority.
PITTSBURGH. OPP Jones &
Laughlin, bitterest anti-union steel EN-
ployer in the Pittsburgh district, rail
roads union men to insane asylums, an
investigation of the state labor dept.
has disclosed. The disclosure came
with the release from an asylum OF
George Issoski, Aliquippa steel worker,
a union ma who was arrested for dis
tributing union literature, and was sent
to the asylum by a lunacy commission
appointed by the sheriff Of Beaver
county. Investigation has been going
on for some weeks since the state la
Dor department sent six state police in
vestigators to investigate sensational
charges of terrorism in Aliquippa made
before the Steel Labor Board. Sweep
ing investigation of the company's
lunacy frameup system and punishment
Of the guilty officials has been prom
ised by Governor Pinchot.
TOLEDO, Ohio. - (FP) - Toledo
teachers won an important victory in
their permanent fight for academic
freedom and job security when the
school board backed down in its fight
with Local $50, American Federation
of Teachers. The board, without re-
vealing the grounds for its action, de-
cided that teachers denoted for
radicalism could be reinstated and that
the matter was satisfactorily settled"
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NEW YORK. -FP)-New York
Edison's company union suffered a Sc
we're setback in a mass meeting OF
900 employees of the Edison Corpora
ton and the United Electric Light &
Power Co. The meeting broke up in
disorder after charges of misapplica-
ton of company funds had been made
against the head Of the company union.
The meeting was taken over by Equity
Local 100 of the brotherhood Of Util-
ity Employees, an Independent indus
trial union, which claims to have won
over a great number of the company
union men.
ST. PAUL, Minn-FP-A pro-
gram calling for industrial unionism,
solidarity of all union labor, and IAN
educational program recognizing the
class struggle" was Endorsed at a recent
conference in St. Paul Of representa-
tives of American Federation OF Labor
unions, the Independent Union of All
Workers and the Industrial Packing
house Workers of St. Paul.
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas. - (FP) n
Mexican pecan shelters in San Antonio
are striking for the second time in
three months. Even after securing
better rates in their first strike, they
can average only 75c for an 8-hour day.
Shelters are demanding 7 cent a pound
straight for half-meats, instead Of 5
cents and 6 cents.
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WASHINGTON. -(FP)- Refusal
Of the Department of Justice to prose-
cute the Houde House Eng. Co. Of
Buffalo, N. Y, is seen in labor circles
as indirect permission to employers to
violate board rulings that do not suit
their fancy. The department had been
asked by the National Labor Relations
Board to sue the company for refusing
to abide by a decision that it must rec
ognize the union chosen by a majority
of its employees as exclusive agency for
collective bargaining.