The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-03-20
LABOR'S NEWS
In BRIEF
Federated Press)

! WASHINGTON. - Purchase of thu
Chicago police as strikebreaking or
ganization in 1886 by the Chicago
Casket Co. was charged in a sensa
tiona1 NLRB decision ordering the
company to reinstate with back pay
members of the Casket Makers Union
| (AFL) who went on strike March 81
1886.
WASHINGTON. - Virtual destruc-
ton of the national labor relations act
was demanded by Rep. Howard Smith
| 3D., Va.) on behalf of a majority of
the special house committee investi-
eating the NLRB. Reps. Healey d.,
Mass.) and Murdoch d., Utah.), in
minority statement, attacked the
Smith proposals as "emasculatory."
WASHINGTON.-At a special con-
ference of the ALL building trades
department, the department of justice
was bitterly attacked for instituting
antitrust actions against unions in the
building industry.
WASHINGTON. - Declaring it had
jurisdiction over building service en-
ployes, the NLRB ordered an election
among employers of the Texas Co. at
it's office in Houston, Tex.
WASHINGTON.-Benefits under the
railroad retirement act during the fis-
cal year ending June 80, 1889, amount
ed to $106,841, 632, the railroad retire
ment board reports.
NEW YORK.-AFL actors and res
taurant workers are cooperating to
fight each others battles in this area
The actors are helping the restaurant
workers in their 15-month strike
against the Brass Rail restaurant and
the restaurant workers are aiding the
actors in an organizational drive on
cabarets and night clubs.
COLUMBIA, S. C.-State and fed
eral investigators have launched an
inquiry into Ku Klux Khan activities
in this state that may break up a
Khan drive against unions. Demands
for state action were made by the
Textile Workers Union (CIO), the
Workers Defense League and the Ma
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People.
CHICAGO. - (FP) = The American
Newspaper Guild (CIO) and it's Chi
cago local were assessed a $4,000 fine
and SALT in costs by Superior Court
Judge John ]. Lupe for violations of
an injunction granted the struck
Hearst Herald-American. The guild,
which has been on strike Is months,
will appeal.
NEW YORK.-National cooperation
TO solve the sharecropper problem was |
urged by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt at |
/ dinner highlighting the fourth Ma |
.ional Sharecropper Week, an annual
by the Southern Tenant
Farmers Union (unaffiliated) to bring
he public's attention to the share
plight.
ALBANY, N. Y.-The state court
II appeals has unanimously upheld
tate labor relations board order call
ng upon the Stork Club, swanky cafe
md erstwhile speakeasy, to reinstate
With $4,000 back pay nine AFL wait
rs and to dissolve a company union
ormed after the dismissals.
ROCK ISLAND, Ill.-Use of the Mo-
awk Valley formula by the ]. /. Case
20. has failed to break strike of
90 workers which started February
0. Local ia, United Farm Equip
lent Workers (CIO),. has offered to
nd the strike if the firm merely {
grees to an NLRB election Il
ST LOUISA drive for a state
lbor relations law modelled after the !,
Wagner act was voted by the Central
rades & Labor Union.
PORTLAND, Ore. The Pacific
cast Fishermen's Union (CIO) has 4
ppealed to the U. S. circuit court
appeals In San Francisco from l.
ortland federal court injunction de- I
gned to destroy the union.
SAN FRANCISCO.-In a decision of {:
tai interest to labor, Superior Court e
ldge l. M. Golden has announced his b
llings on the controversy between a
70 factions of the Building Service s.
mployes Init. Union (AFL). The de-
sion upholds the right of union Off c
RS to conduct trials. a
FALL RIVER, Mass.-This city has :
abor Unity with a capital u. Join =
6 forces in their strikes against two 3
parate companies, the United Hat :,
rs Cap & Millinery Workers (AFL) :,
Id the Federation Of Dyers Finishers
'inters & Bleachers tCIO) conducted >.
int strike meetings and joint picket =
les. The CLIO strikers quickly won, =
ID an AFL victory Is foreseen. =,
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