The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-12-25
LABOR'S NEWS
In BRIEF
Federated Press)

WASHINGTON Sidney Hillman
labor defense commissioner, has pro
tested to the War Department against
the awarding of s2,O0O,O0O contract
to Henry Ford.
WASHINGTON Sturdy opposition
to anti-union proposals being consid-
cred by congressional committees was
expressed December II by the seventh
Natl. Conference on Labor Legislation,
composed of the representatives Of "a
governors.
WASHINGTON.-The CLIO Maritime
Committee on December II accused
the U. S. government of being "negli-
gent" in it's treatment of seamen. I'm
employment compensation for seamen
and immediate aid for men unem-
ployed because of the war were re-
quested.
WASHINGTON = Hearings on
petition by the Intl Longshoremen's
Assn. (AFL) for certification as bar
gaining agency for longshoremen in
three west coast ports were ordered
by the NLRB December 7. The order,
to which NLRB Member Edwin S.
Smith dissented, reopened the boards
certification of the init Longshore-
mems & Warehousemen's Union (CIO)
for all west coast longshoremen.
WASHINGTON.-L continued
cooperation in a program calling for
uninterrupted production in defense
industries" was pledged by the labor
policy advisory committee of the Natl
Defense Advisory Commission.
PHILADELPHIA The Sun Ship
building & Drydock Co. refused to fill
orders for the navy unless hearings
on an NLRB case were postponed,
but backed down few days later I'M
der pressure from Washington The
company is headed by John G. Pew, a
power in republican politics.
NEWARK.-The agreement signed |
December 9 between the Wright Aero
nautical Corp. and the Wright Aero
nautical Employees Assn, covering 49,
900 workers, represents defeat for
the employees of Wrights insofar as
the contract sets minimum of at /
least &c an hour below the standard
set by the CLIO in the aircraft indus
try" So charged Pres. Irving Abram-
son of the New Jersey Industrial I'm
ION Council.
BRIDGEPORT, Gonna state labor
relations act will be one of the chief
goals of organized labor in the 1941
session of the general assembly, de-
,lares John Egan of Bridgeport, secre-
airy of the Connecticut Federation of
4abor.
LANSING, Mich.-Reversing de-
ision of 1898 which outlawed all pick
ting, the state supreme court upheld
he legality of peaceful picketing. /
lifting the recent U. S. supreme cour
ecision voiding an anti-picketing or ,
nance in Alabama, the court held
hat the word picket has taken on |
different color" !
DETROIT.-A $6,744,0 900 increase In :
nnual earnings for 10000 employees of
he Chrysler Corp. was won by the
United Automobile Workers (CIO) in
new 1-year agreement.
CHICAGO. = A drive to organize a
100000 cannery workers throughout Il
ne country was launched by the
Tnited Cannery Agricultural Packing V
Allied Workers (CIO) at it's third d
onvention. The union reported an o
ll-time high membership of 100000.
MARTINEZ, Cal. = The first con- Y
act signed on the west coast be- i,
yeen a public utility and union has S
cen concluded between the Utility C.
1orkers Organizing Committee (CIO) c.
nd the California Water Service Co.
TRENTON.-AFL and CLIO pickets
arched together December in front '
: the struck Hotel Stacy-Trent, big 2
est hotel in the state capital, as u
embers of the legislature arrived in =
wn. The strike by the Hotel & =
estaurant Employees Init. Alliance y
AFL) is in it's sixth month.