The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-10-23
LABOR'S NEWS
In BRIEF


:. OF giving defense contracts to lab
law violators has been turned ov'
q to a subcommittee of three lawyer
7 the Malt. Defense Advisory Commi
q sion said The commission gave 4
. assurance that contracts for Law
breakers would be withheld, let alon
! cancelled.
I WASHINGTON- Members of fet
eral locals of the ALL will be eS
empted from dues payments and II
tain their good standing while in tn
army the AFL executive council al
nounced October 9.
i CHICAGO.-Deaths of workers Ii
, the mining industry, due to exposur
to dust, are excessive and the mining
! industry should take measures to con
troll the dust, DR.. R. R. Sayers, direc
tor of the Bureau of Mines, told the
Natl. Safety Congress.
WASHINGTON. - Congress swung
an axe on the national labor rela
tons act October 4, looping off funds
for the boards important division oil
economic research
WASHINGTON. = Attempts to get
government contracts through a court
injunction against ruling OF Secre-
tary of Labor Frences Perkins failed
as U. S. Judge Jennings BEiley de.
MED the request of the Lane Cotton
Ic % nx1o
kins found the company guilty of en-
ploying child labor and failing to pay
overtime.
NEW YORK. The John Hancock
Mutual Life Insurance Co. has signed
a contract with the Industrial Insur-
ance Agents Union, an affiliate of the
United Office & Professional Workers
(CIO). The first union contract with
a major insurance firm, it covers
1,027 workers.
CINCINNATI.-The Ford Motor Co.
was responsible for the attack on
union organizers at the River Rouge
plant on May &c, 1887, the U. S. cir
cult court of appeals ruled. The
court ordered Ford to reinstate %
members of the United Automobile
Workers (CIO) fired for union activ-
ity and to cease anti-labor practices,
but rejected that part of the NLRB
order which called upon Ford to cease
distributing anti-union literature
COPPERHILL, Tenn.-An increase
of 31ac an hour was granted 1900
employees of the big Tennessee Copper
Co. here under contract negotiated
by the AFL.
NEW ORLEANS The Dunbar &
Dukate Co., which achieved notoriety
in August 1899 when hired thugs
murdered a woman picket, has hung
up new record for southern indus
try The shrimp-packing concern is
one of the first three firms in the |
U. S. to be indicted and convicted |
for criminal violation of the child Ia
Dor provisions of the wage-hour law.
BOSTON. - The Bethlehem Steel |
Corp. was guilty Of plain violation
Of the (Wagner) act" in refusing to
,al 25, Industrial Union of Marine &
Workers (CIO), for
workers in the firms Boston and Fore
river shipyards, the us. circuit court
If appeals ruled.
CLEVELAND.-The Eberhard Mfg
20. changed it's mind about firing 20
'eterans employees after an 8-week
trike of 400 workers. Under the !
erms Of contracts signed by AFL I
MONS, all 20 workers were reinstated {
nd the company rescinded new rule
airing men over IS from jobs. '
FORT WORTH.-A drive to organ /
70 Texas oil workers has been 6
aunched by the Oil Workers init. /
Tnion (CIO).
DENVER-In the face of stubborn
pposition to unionism by local laun-
ry operators, labor has set up its
wn laundry here. The new plant,
nown as the American Laundry G
owel Supply, was financed by the
enver Transfers Joint Council.
hich has been unable to break the
lti-labor front of local operators.
DAYTON, GA general policy of b
1t hiring or rehiring young men of 0
aft age, adopted by Dayton manu- s.
cturing concerns, has drawn pro- IL
SITS from local representatives Of the p
nited Electrical Radio G. Machine n
'orkers (CIO). s,
CHICAGO.-A thousand clergymen, ri
Dor leaders, students and co-opera- 4,
yes leaders from 40 states arrived h
re October IA and Is for the first Fl
ltional Coop Week. The celebra
IN is being marked by the national v,
operative congress, three special n
nferences and the cooperative sill h,
r jubilee. m