The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-11
LABOR'S NEWS
In BRIEF
Federated Press)

| WASHINGTON. - The New Yor
Times, most influential newspaper @
the U. S., was ordered by the MIR
on August 26 to stop violating tn
Wagner act. Concurring in trial es
aminer's findings that the paper ha
tried to block unionization, majorit,
of the board ordered reinstatement
with back pay of three active mem
bers of the American Newspape
Guild (CIO).
WASHINGTON. = Daniel ]. Tobir
resigned as White House admins
traitor assistant on August 26 to heat
the labor bureau of the Democratic
National Committee, a post he held
in the 1882 and 1886 presidential cam.
paigns. Tobin is president of the
Intl Bro. of Transfers Chauffeurs
Stablemen G Helpers (AFL).
WASHINGTON-Adoption of peace.
time CONSUMPTION Twill fasten an obi.
Gus military system upon the Ameri-
can people for generations" the Rail-
way Labor Executives Assn, which
represents 100000 union railroad
workers, warned in letter to Sen.
Edwin c. Johnson 3D., Colo.).
WASHINGTON.-A drive for COM
pliance with the wage-hour law in the
furniture, leather goods, shoe, hosiery
and wooden industries was announced
by Wage-Hour Administrator Philip
B. Fleming. An immediate checkup
of 5000 plants by 237 inspectors
started August rs, he said.
WASHINGTON.- What Rep. Vito
(A.L.P., N.Y. described
as "the Hitler-imitating spectacle" of
3, 100000 aliens being registered and
got under way August
81. Marcantonio has introduced a bill
to repeal the law.
CHATTANOOGA. = Consumers in
his city saved S1,417,367 in electric
rates during the 10-month period fol-
owing the elimination of Wendell L.
Willkie and the Commonwealth &
Southern Corp. from the Tennessee
power business, a special report of
he Chattanooga Electric Power Board
or the period ending June 80 shows.
SYRACUSE, N. Y.-One hundred
rictims of the Mohawk Valley formu-
a in 1886 took the witness stand on
he first day of an NLRB hearing to
determine whether Remington Rand
allure to comply with board order
or their reinstatement.
NEW YORK. - European seaman
whose unions were wiped out by war
ave begun to rebuild them over here.
1t the first organizational meeting, |
90 seaman from the Dutch flagship |
Jieuw Amsterdam and from other
butch and Belgian vessels Endorsed |
he formation of the Committee of
European Seamen.
LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y.-The |
ormula of win a strike first and set
10 jurisdictional disputes later won a
MON contract for 40 AFL and CLIO
-orkers who picketed the Premier
fetal Etching Co. for five weeks side
y side. The contract was signed
fter the Imam joint council, repre-
enting both unions, swept an NLRB
lection by SO to 40.
AMHERST, Mass.-Contending that
ne Smith amendments are but the
test effort to rob labor of the pro-
sction of the Wagner act, 709 leading
rofessors from all parts of the coun-
y in a letter to Sen. Ebert Thomas
D., Utah asked that his committee
eport the bill unfavorably.
PHILADELPHIA to block
suit by the Apex Hosiery Co. against
lie American Federation of Hosiery
1orkers (CIO), the union has OBJ
lined an order requiring the company
, show cause why the S1,171,957
amage suit should not be submitted
dTDllTdJlOu. 9
MADEIRA, Cal.-The anti-parade or
nance used by county officials dur
e the 1889 cotton strike to prevent
exciting and to make wholesale ar
,sts is dead. Sheriff w. o. with
IT. Justice and his deputies have
zen permanently enjoined from en-
rcing it in final decree by U. S.
1dge Campbell E. Beaumont.
TORONTO-John Brophy, Clio di-
ctor of local unions, said after a
ur of the Canadian Maritime pro-
noes that he has the highest praise
r "the remarkable development of
lult education in relation to the CO.
,erative movement among farmers,
liners, fishermen and other workers
Nova Scotia"
NEW YORK-A strike called by
list. Council 8, Bro. of Painters Dec
ators & Paperhangers (AFL), in
lives $4,000 painters here and 1880
other eastern cities who are work
e on jobs of the Master Painters
ssn of New York.