The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-12-11
LABOR'S NEWS
In BRIEF
Federated Press)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS anti
strike measure stemming from tn
hysteria aroused by the Vultee Air
craft strike was introduced by Rep
Howard w. Smith 3D., Val In add
tion to establishing compulsory arbi
tration, the bill provides for life i'm
prisonment for anyone found guilty
of injurying or destroying property
in defense industries.
WASHINGTON FP)-Employees
of the NLRB have been subject tc
the shoppers of J. Edgar Hoover and
his FBI, it was revealed November Is
as the Smith committee trained its
guns on NLRB Member Edwin s
Smith
WASHINGTON (FP)-"Construc-
tive cooperation" in defense activities
is the duty and opportunity of organ.
] lied labor, the AFL declared in its
survey of business for September, Oc-
tober and November. The 40-hour
week should be maintained, wages
should be raised, and price increases
should be avoided, the AFL declares.
WASHINGTON.-(FP)- Conviction
Of Edgar Smith, Texas negro, to life
sentence was reversed by the u. s.
supreme court on the grounds that
negroes were Systematically excluded
from Texas juries.
WA c11rNrCroNr IND,
wages of 1901 for workweek of 81
hours were found by the WPA to be
the rule for pecan shelters in San
Antonio, Tex, in study published
recently.
DOWNEY, -(FP)-The Vultee
Aircraft Inc. strike, first major walk
out in the industry, ended here No
vember 27 in victory for the United
Automobile Workers (CIO), boosting
minimum wages from SOC to 621hc an
hour. The 12-day dispute, which In
volved $500 workers, was finally set
tied when the management accepted
arbitration machinery in place of its
demand that the union sign away the
right to strike for two years.
DIES MONIES, Ia Opp = Protest
by union building trades workers
throughout the country against en-
ployment of WPA workers at non-un-
ion wage scales for defense construc-
ton jobs took a definite form when
members of the local Building Trades
Council 10
CHARLOTTE, N. c. (FP) A =
month strike against the Nobel Knit
ing Co., marked by police violence,
intimidation and numerous
ended when the firm aban-
doned proposed 208e wage cut. The
walkout was conducted by the Ameri-
can Federation of Hosiery Workers
(CIO) and involved $50 workers
MENA, Ark Commonwealth
College, for II years training school
for labor leaders from all parts of the
country, has been stripped of all its
movable possessions by county off,
Gals, with the approval of the Arkan-
odo iilSh COul To- nC oClLui dppdf-
emily marks the end of a career in
which Commonwealth was hotly at
tackled by reactionaries in Arkansas
and elsewhere and as holly defended
by it's alumni and friends.
BOSTON (FP) - Newspaper pub |
fishers lost the first round in their
court fight to gain exemption from the
wage-hour law when u S. Judge Fran
els W. Ford ordered The Lowell |
(Mass.) Sun to produce it's records for
examination by the wage-hour admin
stration.
NEW KENSINGTON, Pa. - (FP) Il
The Aluminium Co. of America agreed, |
after a 1-week strike of $500 en-
Dloyes, to take disciplinary action |
against worker who had threatened |
o knife union shop steward and to
murder his wife and daughter. The
strike was conducted by the Alumni
lum Workers (CIO).
CHICO, CAL (FP) - Adherence to
lnion demands by the Diamond Match |
20. ended a strike of 400 workers
lere and 9-month walkout at the
irm's Manteca plant. The strikes had
led up several of the firms lumber
vards throughout the state. The two
lnions involved are the init. Bro. of
reamsters Chauffeurs Warehousemen
Helpers and the United Bro. of Car
,enters & Joiners (both AFL).
WASHINGTON PARK, Ill.-(FP)-l
\ statement of policy by the General
Chemical Co., aimed at preventing
Sec John Adamove of the ALL fed
,ral local in the plant from attending
he ALL convention, caused a strike
hreat which resulted in a SC hourly
wage increase for the plants work
RS. The new hourly minimum is 73c.
NEW ORLEANS-(F P)-Gov. Keen
Johnson of Kentucky was again urged
o pardon four miners serving life
sentences as a result of the Battle of
Evarts in 1881. The pela was made
n a resolution adopted unanimously
" the ALL convention.