The people's voice., 1939-12-06
LABOR'S NEWS
I'm BRIEF
BY Federated Press

w Ao1li4NNf YIN. - ne
tion is weighing plans to cut expendi-
lures for relief, housing and similar
activities in order to increase mill
tary appropriations substantially.
WASHINGTON. - AFL Pres. Will
liam Green has declared in a letter
to Attorney General Frank Murphy
that, contrary to the opinion Of AS
sistant Attorney General Thurman
Arnold, no labor organization can be
prosecuted under the antitrust laws.
WASHINGTON.-The International
Ladies Garment Workers Union (un-
affiliated may return to the AFL in
the spring if labor unity is snot at
| tanned by then, the executive board
indicated after a meeting here
BESSEMER, Ala new wage sys-
] tenn providing a 25ao increase is in
cluded in an agreement signed be-
tween Local 103. International Union
OF Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers
| tCIO), and the Lipscomb Red Ore
Co, ending a six-week strike.
| NEW YORK-Coastwis passenger
ships and freighters resumed their
sailings following settlement of a two
week strike by 5000 members of the
International Longshoremen's Assn
| (AFL). The old 95c scale remains
with the provision that New York
wages would increase if longshoremen
in other east coast ports win increases
next January.
FORT DODGE, lathe Iowa Pro-
gressive Editors ASSN, a newly
formed statewide organization of edi-
tors of labor papers, voted support to
the joint AFL-CIO Iowa Labor De-
fense Committee at its first meeting
The defense committee was recently
created to resist mounting attacks on
labor in this state.
NEW YORK.-State conventions of
the New York and New Jersey CIO
Industrial Union Councils, meeting a
few miles apart on opposite shores of
the Hudson river, voted overwhelm-
ingly to support Pres. Roosevelt for a
third term.
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-The presiden
tial stock of Sen. Robert A. Taft,
(R., o. dropped to a new low in this
area when Taft crossed a picket line
to attend dinner at the Kansas City
Club, where members of the Hotel 6S
Restaurant Employees Init. Alliance
(AFL) have been on strike for year.
CHICAGO.-Rep. Martin Dies came
in like a lion and went out like a
watery lamb stew when employees in
the main Armour plant here answered
his eleventh hour union-busting red
batting attack on the Packinghouse
Workers Organizing Committee (ClO) |
by voting to l to make that union
it's collective bargaining agent. The |
PWOC polled 1905 votes against l.
047 for the Amalgamated Meat Cut
ters & Butcher Workmen (AFL) and |
1854 for neither union.
OMAHA-A resolution to keep the |
u. S. out of the European war and |
another condemning the Dies un-
American committee were adopted at |
the 35th annual convention of the |
National Farmers Union.
WEST TULSA, Okla-The struck
Midi Continent Petroleum Corp, pro- |
ducer of DIX gasoline, rigged up a !
dictaphone and overlapping system |
through cooperation of the Tulsa po- |
lice department and the state militia |
to listen in on the conversations of
officers and members Of the Oil Work |
ers Intl Union (ClO), testimony at
NLRB hearings revealed.
BROOKLYN. - For the first time
since it was organized in 1903, the
Diamond Workers Protective Union |
(AFL) has called an industry wide
strike of diamond cutters, polishers
and settlers. The union, whose 32O
members are mostly of Belgian and
Dutch extraction, is demanding higher
wages.
NEW YORK.-An agreement pro-
viding $3.50 monthly wage increases
for 1900 seamen on so coal colliers !
has been signed between the Natl. i,
Maritime Union (CIO) and nine com
panies operating along the eastern
seaboard.
BARRE, Vt. - Trucks again moved
over Vermont highways following set
llement of statewide strike by 500
drivers. A new contract, signed by
the Init. Bro. of Transfers, Chauf-
feurs, Stablemen & Helpers (AFL),
provides hourly minimums ranging
from 40c to 60c, a 60-hour maximum
workweek and overtime pay on holi,
lays.
PORTLAND, Ore.--A straight six
lour day, pay increases and the right
to respect all picket lines are in
cluded in the new Pacific northwest
contract signed by the
Intl. Longshoremen's & Warehouse
mems Union (CIO). The agreement
covers workers in Seattle, Longyiew,
Vancouver and Portland.