The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-05-22
LABOR'S NEWS
In BRIEF
Federated Press)

| WAO1lNG YIN lie government
ANTITRUST campaign against labor un
lions suffered a severe setback Ma,
6 when U. S. District Judge F. Dick
linson Let's directed verdict of no
guilty for Local 639, Init. Bro. O.
Teamesters Chauffeurs Stablemen &
Helpers (AFL), and four officials.
WASHINGTON-In an intermediate
report dated May 1, 54th anniversary
of the strike for the S-hour day against
the Mccormick Reaper Co., the NLRH
moved to liberate 10000 employees
of the init. Harvester Co. A trial ex-
aminer recommended dissolution of
company union in six plants.
WASHINGTON Continuation o (
FBI methods would mean "destruc-
ton of human liberty in the U. S."
Sen. George w. Norris lind, Neb.)
declared May 7 in a 3-hour speech on
the senate floor.
WASHINGTON.-The NLRB has is
sued it's fifth order against the Ford
Motor Co., directing the firm to cease
anti-union activity at its Buffalo plant
and reinstate with back pay SO men,
bers of the United Automobile Work
ers (CIO).
ISABELLA, Tenn. = Bitter charges
that the FBI had used "gestapo meth
DDS" in investigating the alleged dy-
namiting of IVA power lines serving
the gigantic Tennessee Copper Co., in
this barren valley were made here fol-
lowing the decision of the init. Union
of Mine Mill & Smelter Workers
(CIO) to terminate a 9-month strike
against the corporation.
NEW YORK. = Scoring the Smith
committee investigating the NLRB,
Merle D. Vincent, local president of
the Natl. Lawyers Guild, declares in
Equality magazine that probably no
congressional committee ever before
such an invasion of the
civil rights of lawful organizations and
of citizens by excursions into fields
wholly unrelated to the purpose for
which the committee was created"
SYRACUSE, N. VA blow to cor
schools which lure stu
dents with false promises of jobs upon
completion of courses was dealt by
Federal Judg eFrederick H. Bryant,
who imposed a $4,000 fine on the Traf-
fic Inspectors Training Corp. and from
8-month to 2-year jail sentences on
four of it's officers.
SAN FRANCISCO. = A diatribe
against the NILRB was incorporated
in a decision by the U. S. circuit
court of appeals voiding, upon rehear-
ing, a board order calling upon the
Sterling Electric Motors Co. of Los
Angeles to disestablish its company
union. The NLRB acted on the COM
plant of the Intl Bro. of Electrical
Workers (AFL).
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Backed by
both ALL and CLIO, local Pres. w.
Daniel Boyd of the American Fedora
ion of Teachers (AFL) was elected |
county superintendent of schools. He |
defeated R. G. Marshall, who was in
trumentaI in firing Boyd and 40 other |
lnion teachers last July.
TONAWANDA, N. "a one-month |
trike by 400 members of Local 19401,
office Equipment Workers Union
AFL), forced Remington-Rand to bar
Jain with a committee of the unions
wn choosing.
NEW YORK.-A survey of salaries
aid by the nations SO leading book
houses, revealed that 35.7%o
f the office workers receive less than
2293 a week, which the State De-
artment of Labor calls the minimum
Or maintenance. The survey was
lade by the Book & Magazine Guild,
local of the United Office & Pro-
essional Workers (CIO).
CLEVELAND-Grea Lakes tugs re-
umed operations May following set
ement of a 12-day strike affecting
90 tugmen in II ports. The walkout
nded with the signing of an agree
lent between the Tug Firemen Line
len & Oilers Union (AFL) and the
reat Lakes Towing Co., raising the
ally scale from $S.37 to 1857.