The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-03-06
LABOR'S NEWS
In BRIEF
Federated Press)

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3-man U. S. Mediation board within
the department of labor to assist in
settlement of industrial disputes out
side the scope of the national labor
relations act was proposed here by
Sen. Robert F. Wagner 3D., N. ",
author of the act
WASHINGTON.-A and CLIO rep
lresentatives met together here to map
the fight on the poll tax expected in
the coming session of congress.
NGTON.-Senatoria inquiry
into the plight of miners in the tri-
state zinc and lead mining area was
demanded by Pres Reid Robinson of
the Intl Union of Mine Mill G. Smell
ter Workers (CIO).
NGTON.-Confiden that the
Dies committee will plunge the new
dealers down to ignominous defeat,
William Dudley Pelley, leader of the
silver shirt legion, announced the with
drawal of his organization from "the
national scene at this time"
BATTLE CREEK, Mich-The 51st
convention of the Michigan Federation
of Labor raped Gov. Luren Dickin-
son (R.) for disregarding civil service
standards, blocking the federal hospi-
tai program in Michigan, failing to
name labor representatives to state
boards and for utter disregard" of
the needs of the schools, dependent
children and citizens on welfare.
NEW YORK The fight of local
1000, United Bro. of Carpenters &
Joiners (AFL), against suspension
from the international union and dis
trict council for Directing to fraud
|ulent referendum has received a tenn
porary setback. Supreme Court JUS
tice Edward r. Koch denied on tech
nical grounds an injunction against
the locals suspension. An immediate
appeal will be made.
MARYSVILLE, Cal.-Fred e. Ed
wards, a migratory agricultural work
err, has been sentenced to six months
in the Yuba county Jail for the crime
of helping his sister and her family to
come to California from Oklahoma.
The conviction was under a forgotten
state ordinance which says that it is
against the welfare of California to
transport an INDECENT into the state"
GADSDEN, Ala. = How Tom Grid
ler's Republic Steel Corp. used five
naked women to build up attendance
at a company union meeting was re-
vealed in affidavits made by men who
saw the performance in the Y. M. G. A.
building.
NEW YORK-A new organization,
Collective Bargaining Associates, was
announced here on February "a as the
latest effort to minibize industrial war
fare. Unlike many other organiza-
lions that have protested similar aims,
the agency is not trying to attain
peace by destroying labor unions.
SAVANNAH, Ga - The Fitzgerald
Cotton Mills, four Of it's officials and
II other persons were indicted by a
federal grand jury here February 10
On a charge of conspiracy to deprive
union workers of their civil liberties
rs guaranteed by the constitution and
he national labor relations act. The
Inion involved is the Textile Workers
Union (CIO).
DETROIT. = Payment of S3,000,000
insurance benefits to
1000 of the $4,000 Chrysler Corp.
employees affected by the 54-day strike
If the United Automobile Workers |
(CIO) last fall was ordered by Referee
Charles Rubinoff of the Michigan I'm
Compensation Commits
zion.
NEW blishment of I'M
on conditions and elimination Of |
iweatshops have considerably reduced |
an x-ray survey among |
Tx leading unions here revealed. The
.heckup in the Init. Ladies Garment
Workers Union (unaffiliated) showed
hat only one-fifth as many workers
lad tuberculosis as in 1915, before I'M
on conditions were established.
SUPERIOR, Wis.-The consumer CO.
peratives in the Lake Superior area
ook their fifth step into cooperative
reduction when the Cooperative
publishing Assn, publishers of The
Builder and The Finnish
Weekly, formally opened
Is new $4,000 printing plant on Feb
uary IT.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Organize la
or in Little Rock has entered the
light to give the city s1,000,000 low
ost housing project, plans for which
re now damned in the local board
aldermen.
NEW YORK. - Immediate resump- !;
ion of peace negotiations between the
FL and CLIO was urged February IS
y religious leaders of the Catholic, L
and Jewish faiths. "