The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-06-26
LABOR'S NEWS
In BRIEF
Federated Press)

Tense of the U. S., the house voted
$50 to AZ on June 10 to deport Pres
Harry Bridges Of the init. Longshore
mems & Warehousemen's Unior
(CIO). The house also approved al
amendment that would prevent Bridges
from appealing to the courts.
WASHINGTON. = Living standards
of American workers will not be i'm.
paired by the arms program il wages
increase with productivity, If prices
are kept down and if taxes on consum-
ing power are avoided, the AFL de-
clares in its survey of business for
the second quarter of 1910.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT with
the department Of justice In prevent
ing any OF its locals from engaging in
illegal restraints of trade has been
Offered by the Bricklayers Masons &
Plasterers init. Union (AFL), the de-
partment of justice announced June
10. The unions offer was made after
indictments Of locals in Chicago, De-
troit and st. Louis
WASHINGTON. - Speaking in the
senate June ~, Sen. Burton K. Wheel
er d., Mont,1 threatened to bolt the
democratic party "if 1t is going to be
war party"
WASHINGTON. = Launching of a
nationwide drive to force compliance
with the wage-hour law by the lum-
Der industry was announced June 10
by Wage-Hour Administrator Philip |
B. Fleming
SAN FRANCISCO.-The Associated |
Farmers have seized on fifth column |
agitation In an attempt to suppress
of agricultural workers.
They have announced "a total war
against subyersive elements, in the
most intensive American drive ever
directed at a fifth column
NEW YORK.-The beet barrel mu-
my trial ended In U. 8. district court
IN June 1when jury found all 16
Of the S. S. Eva guilty on one
,ount. Judge Samuel Mandelbaum
imposed jail sentences of 80 to n days
IN 10 men and suspended sentences
IN others. An immediate appeal is
icing made. ,
NEW YORK,-The spread of war
itters In the us. brought new threats
0 labor's rights in the first part of 9
une. Daily newspapers prominently
isplayed stories about real or ina
ined fifth columnists, while playing $
own statements by labor leaders and {
theirs who advised the nation to keep I
cool head. o
CHARLOTTE, N. C.-What unio.i Il
eaders described as a studied cam t
align of police terrorism has been d
lpnched against workers of the Nobel t
hitting Go. here as the strike Of the n
merican Federation of Hosiery Work
RS (CIO) against the mill entered it's p
econd month.
NEW YORK.-Joseph McWilliams, =
ational commander of the Christian ;,
[obilizers and congressional eandi- i
ate of the American Destiny party, :,
pasted at fascist meeting June 10 n
lat it was a member of his group
no had unfurled a communist flag w
lring the nationwide broadcast of y,
10 Pres. John 1. Lewis at the United
inc Workers convention in Oolum- al
IS, O., last January. 81
MeKEESP6RF, PA series of or y
nances directed against distribution ~
handbills, against public meetings y
ID against outsiders who stay In iis
wn more than day, were adopted =,
the city council June II as ''war- ~
ne measures" Branding the new
VS. as "a fragrant violation of the w
Institution and the bill or rights" ~
es, Joseph Baron of Lodge 1887, "
eel Workers Organizing Committee ~
IO), said that local unions would se
emily defy them in order to test their w
nstitutionality.
NEW YORK.-Both AFL and CLIO -
ions with large Italian memberships "
J fighting reprisals against their Y
mbers, the result of Italy's entry
o the European war. ~,
ASTORIA, Ore.-The CLIO has been Oh
.itioned by the Maritime Federation ot
the Pacific to call a national farm Sts
labor peace conference ito work to thl
arantee the rights OF labor and to ma
eguard the civil rights Of the Amer me
n people" pc
VIEW YORK.-Warren X. Billings,
tim of the 1916 Preparedness Day w,
nbing frameup, set out June Ia on So
nationwide speaking tour sponsored
the Workers Defense League, in An
Ich he will campaign for the free &C.
a of the five Duquoin miners. The
n are now serving sentences of 40 Wi
rs to life on trumped-up murder Hi.
rges arising from the 1892 juris- Ca
.ional struggles in the Illinois coal Sol
DIS. Sol
WI
orts that 500 of our industrial
ipment is over 35 years old, and