The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-08-28
LABOR'S NEWS
In BRIEF
Federated Press)

CLIO to CONSUMPTION was intensifie
August II as CLIO Pres. John l.. Levi
sent a letter to every member of con
gress outlining reasons for the CIO'
stand.
WASHINGTON. - National defens,
can either vitalize or sap our whole
national energy and therefore should
be planned by representatives of labor
unions, farmers and businessmen, the
ALL contends in the July-August Sur
vey of Business.
WASHINGTON-Bitter foes of or
ganized labor in the shoe industry are
making handsome profits on national
defense orders while organized plants
are apparently being Disseminated
against, the United Shoe Workers
(CIO) charges.
WASHINGTON The ALL would
national labor relations act than the
amendments passed by the house sew
eral months ago, AFL Pres. William
Green told the senate education and
labor committee.
WASHINGTON. = Antitrust prose
cution of union leaders was protested
here by delegation of IL unionists
the Joint Committee for
Trade Union Rights.
DULUTH, Minn.-Another story of
between co-operatives
and organized labor came to a happy
ending when teamsters, with the aid
of the Central Cooperative Whole
sale, won their strike against Kelley
Co., big hardware firm.
AS soon as the strike of Local 346,
[ntl Bro. of Transfers Chauffeurs
G Helpers (AFL) started
Tune a. the cooperative stopped buy
ng about $4,000 worth of hardware
! month from the company.
BETHLEHEM, Pa.-Four hundred |
lnion delegates from the mills and
hipyards of Bethlehem Steel Corp.
dlQ pldno llClO III q nuii w liid VI
drive. The delegates
we're members of the Steel Workers
Committee and the Indus
rial Union of Marine & Shipbuilding
Workers (both CIO).
SEATTLE.-A strike of 1000 union
Mechanics at the Boeing Aircraft Co.
7as averted August 10 when the
,orkers accepted an arbitration plan
ubmitted by Sidney Hillman, labor
hief on the Natl Defense Advisory
Boeing executives, who
lachinists (AFL), to the verge of a
-rike through their insistence upon
1870 wage cut for new employees ;
ow getting 81 ~ C an hour, were slow
, adopt Hillman's plan.
NEW YORK.-A smashing blow at
unionism was dealt by the
=. S. circuit court of appeals when it
pheld an NLRB order calling upon
10 Western Union Telegraph Co. to
Id 22-year-old stooge union known
the Assn. of Western Union EN-
Dyes. The board acted on the COM
amt of the American Communities
)ns Assn. (CIO). I
Mass. - Disturbed by v
ssage of the Smith amendments in a
e house, group of college and uni G
rsity professors have formed the n
,mmittee for the Defense of the C
itional Labor Relations Act. S
G
Ala.-The first To-
| streetcar strike in 27 years ended
lgust II when LOG negro mainten-
ce workers won 1919 wage increases \
d seniority rights in a new union
ntract. The walkout was conducted
Local 725, Amalgamated Assn. of :
rect Electric Railway & Motor Y
ach Employees (AFL).
NEW YORK. = Asserting that re-
lotions against minority political til
rites in the coming election have DC
suited in ian unprecedented situa- TIL
a." the American civil Liberties hi
ion announced it would protect the us
hts of these parties.
N. G. -" Gross
sgularities" and departure from -,
ablished court practice" marked -,
trial of Is officials and employees ~
the Fitzgerald Cotton Mills, The
ustrial Leader, local labor paper, On
.rged in its August issue. The NV
n were acquitted of conspiracy to eb
rive union workers of civil liber- =.
guaranteed by the constitution 70
the Wagner act. gu
mi
Pa. McKeesport
backed out of enforcement of its tn,
i-handbill ordinance, enacted re- an
thy as war measure" Sam Sly tn,
q, a member of Local 266, Journey AL
I BARRIERS Intl Union ,AFL), who of
the first to be convicted, was re- of
ded his $40 fine. wa
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ley