The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-02-21
LABOR'S NEWS
In BRIEF
Federated Press)

| VI u
of collision between ALL and anti
labor groups in preparing amendment
to the national labor relations act was
made by AFL Pres. William Green anC
AFL General Counsel Joseph A. Pad
way at the ALL executive council
meeting in Miami. The charges con.
sisted of documentary evidence sub
mitted to the senate education and
labor committee here by clio Pres
John L. Lewis.
| WASHINGTON.-Lavish praise was
heaped on the house committee al
legedly investigating un-American &C
tivities here by William Dudley Pelley
leader of the silver shirts and a com
mittee witness.
WASHINGTON. = Concentration OF
wealth and anonymous character of
| the owners of wealth constitute two
great dangers facing society at pres
ent, statement released here by the
archbishops and bishops of the admin
istrative board of the National Cath
Ollie Welfare Conference asserted.
SAN FRANCISCO. = Not satisfied
with the drubbing California labor
gave the drastic anti-labor PROPOSE
ton No. 1 in 1888, the same coali-
ton of Associated Farmers, bankers,
shipowners and employers organiza-
lions has prepared a still more reac-
tionary initiative measure. Petitions
for a place on the November ballot
are now being circulated throughout
the state.
BOSTON. The NLRB will take
court action to force the Ford Motor
Co. to post notices in its Somerville,
Mass, plant that it will cease and
desist from interference" with union
activity, Regional Director A. Howard
Myers declared. The statement fol-
lowed the company's refusal to post
such notices as called for in recent
board order
PITTSBURGH-Fin totaling 1884,
$50 were imposed here on 81 electrical
contractors, union officials and cor
porations in the governments anti
trust drive. The heaviest fine, $1,000,
was levied against Michael P. Gordon,
business agent for the International
Bro. of Electrical Workers (AFL).
NEW YORK.-A new 3-year, indus
trywide contract covering $1,000 hat
workers was approved by the mem
bership of the United Hatters Cap &
Millinery Workers (AFL) at meetings
February g. The agreement covers
300 previously unorganized unskilled
workers and tightens provisions
against runaway shops.
LOS ANGELES.-Attem by Rose
Ann Sitkin, furrier, to get an injunc-
ion against picketing proved boom
,rang when she was served with a
mandatory injunction ordering her to
bargain collectively. The union in |
volved is the init. Fur & Leather
Workers Union (CIO), which struck
he fur shop six months ago.
DENVER. - The horse-and- buggy |
avs are gone and so is Denver's so |
ear-old anti-handbill ordinance. 1t |
vas ruled unconstitutional by Judge |
!. Edgar Kettering. Asst City Attor-
ey E. L. Fundingsland argued that
he ordinance was to prevent the
treets being Uttered, with the posi-
ility that wind-blown handful might
tighten horse.
NEW YORK. = Despite a 54-day
trike of it's $4,000 workers, the Chrys-
II Corp. doubled it's net profits in
}39. The annual report showed that
lie firms net profit for 1889 was $780,
1929 as compared with s18,798,294
/ 1888. !,
PHILADELPHIA. - Although the
TVS " 20 wage tax was held con-
itutional by the state supreme court
ebruary S, organized labor is continu-
g a fight against it. The ruling !
3held lower court, which had dis
Used a suit by Jennie Dole, mem I
II of the Amalgamated Clothing d
'orkers (CIO).
PITTSBURGH.-Pub housing will i
ing thousands Of new homes and I
ns of millions in wages into seven i
sstern Pennsylvania counties If or 7
nized labor wins out in campaigns i
W under way.
- Pledging full support II
. the efforts of an Aberdeen com n
ttee to solve the murder of Mrs. IL
ura Law, LOO delegates at the sew u
tn annual convention of the Wash d.
,ton Commonwealth Federation
led unanimously to send three men u
Washington to ask for federal ac- nt
n. W
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Ark.-Union repre-
Itation on AAA and FSA commit tn
s, more large cooperative farms, la
extension of the wage-hour law Pa
agricultural workers were among Of
demands formulated by the South "g
Tenant Farmers Union (unaffili- ce
d. at it's sixth annual convention. Ger