The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-10-09
LABOR'S NEWS
In BRIEF
Federated Press)

marched through Sparrows Point a
1000 workers struck the local shiI
yard of the Bethlehem Steep corpora
ton. The strike was called by local 8;
Industrial Union of Marine & Ship
building Workers (CIO).
WASHINGTON. - Jan Bata hi
rough going on his sweatshop trail a
the department of justice announced
that requests for extension of visitors
permits for AZ alien workers and l.
alien officers of the Bata Shoe com
pany had been denied.
| WASHINGTON. = Revision of two
national defense bills to provide pro
lection for the rights of workers was
asked of congress Sept. "a by Clio
| President John L. Lewis
MINNEAPOLIS-The little Wag-
ner act drafted in 1899 by the Mime
sofa State Federation of Labor will be
presented to the 1871 session of the
Legislature as a substitute for the pres
ent republican state labor law, the
convention.
NEW YORK.-More than 400 per-
sons listened attentively while three
conscientious DIRECTORS to CONSUMPTION
presented their cases to a three-man
draft board" in a rehearsal of what
C. O.'s will have to go through under
the Burke-W adsworth act. The test
trial, first of its kind to be staged
publicly, was held under the auspices
of the War Registers League.
CHICAGO. = MASTERING only 125
votes against 500 for two local AFL
unions, the American Newspaper Guild
(CIO) lost an NLRB election in the
editorial and commercial departments
of the Chicago Herald-American. Fol-
lowing the election, plans for the for
nation of a council of federal news
writer's unions were announced by
ALL President William Green.
AMHERST, Mass. = Condemnation
Of the Smith amendments to the ma
tional labor relations act was voiced
by $50 clergymen of all faiths in an
appeal to Senator Ebert d. Thomas,
chairman of the committee on educa-
lion and labor.
NEW YORK-Overruling the con-
ention of attorneys for Columnist |
Walter Winchell and for Hearst's
Daily Mirror that a union cannot sue |
or libel because of its fluctuating |
membership, Supreme Court Justice
Peter Schmuck upheld the right of |
he National Maritime Union (CIO) TO |
,ring a $1,OO0,O00 libel suit against
Winchell and the newspaper.
CAMDEN, N. ]. = Demanding that |
he R. M. Hollingshead company i'm
nediately install fireproofing to avert |
he danger of another serious explo-
sion, the plants $50 ALL workers
lave struck. Ten workers were killed |
md 20 injured in blast and fire on
uly 80.
SAN DIEGO.-Barred from the air
" a local radio station on the eve OF
n NLRB election at Ryan Aeronauti-
al company, organizers of the United
Workers (ClO) bought
ime at a station just over the border
n Tia Juana, Mexico, and got a last
,inute message to the ITO aircraft
yorkers. Sequelk The JAW won
he election with 354 votes against 2f3
Or no union.
NEW YORK.-Fall painting was re-
umed Sept. 27 when district council
brotherhood of Painters, Decora-
,rs and Paperhangers (AFL), and
ne employers agreed to arbitrate the
MONS demands in the five-week
trike of 10000 painters. The employ
rs granted five fundamental guaran-
ses. ,
ROCHESTER,. - Split by a bitter {
chit betwene supporters of CLIO Presi-
emf Lewis and President Sidney Hill
IAN of the Amalgamated Clothing
the convention of the New
ork State Industrial Union Council
1ded in two separate meetings on
ept. 81.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Progressive I
,rces in the Tobacco Workers Inter 7
ational Union (AFL) made clean {
weep as the union ended on Sept. Il c
10 third convention in its 45-year MS :
nv w. Warren Smith was elected
ternational president in place OF u.
evils Evans, who had also held the
h of secretary-treasurer since 1870
SEATTLE.-Twenty thousand lum-
ar workers, the largest number ever
he covered by single union con-
act in the lumber industry, won 4To
ID so hourly wage increases In
,w 5-year contract negotiated De-
,een the International Woodworkers
,IO) and a committee representing
logging and sawmill operators III II