The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-18
LABOR'S NEWS
In BRIEF
Federated Press)

the insurance industry, employing
more than 100000 persons, was
claimed by the NLRB as it ordered al
election in the John Hancock Mutua
Life Insurance Co.
WASHINGTON.- Sen. William H
King d., Utah) joined the growing
lineup of labor's political victims
when he lost primary election to
Rep. Abe Murdoch Cd, who was sup
ported by both the ALL and CLIO.
WASHINGTON. = CONSUMPTION OF
men in peacetime was assailed in vir-
tually identical terms by CLIO Pres
John L. Lewis and ALL Pres. William
Green in nationally broadcast Labor
Day speeches.
WASHINGTON. - Secret hearings
on amendment of the Wagner act be-
fore the senate education and labor
committee were resumed September 5
with CLIO Pres. John L. Lewis as a
witness.
NEW YORK.-A threatened strike
of 10000 workers against the Railway
Express Agency was averted as the
company agreed, at a conference with
representatives of the Bro of Railway
Clerks (AFL), to carry out the recon-
mendations of the fact-finding board
appointed by President Roosevelt.
MEMPHIS.-The Firestone Tire &,
Rubber Co. is using the Ford strong
arm formula to KEEP unionism out of
its local plant and to maintain wages
5000 lower than in unionized plants
in Akron. Chief target of company
thugs is George R. Bass, an organizer
for the United Rubber Workers (C1O),
who has been assaulted three times
in 10 days.
ST. LOUIS. A company which
runs away to evade bargaining must
not only reinstate the workers but
their families to the new location. So
ruled the NLRB in the cast of the
Schieber Millinery Co., which in 1887
quietly moved from st. Louis to De
Soto during negotiations with the
United Hatters Cap & Millinery Work
ers (AFL).
CHICAGO-A permanent peace or
ganization, to be known as the Ameri-
can Peace Mobilization, was created
here as more than 5000 delegates and
observers ended the 3-day sessions
of the Emergency Peace Mobilization.
SEATTLE. - A new contract de-
scribed by Pres. Barney Bader of
Local ISL, init. Assn. of Machinists
(AFL), as "the best in the aviation
industry" has been signed by the Boe-
ing Aircraft Co. The demand for
621ac hourly minimum for new en-
ployes, which forced the 1000 work
ers to the verge of strike, is in
corporated in the pact.
HIBBING, MINI. = Another Tom
Girdler company union has bitten the
dust. The NLRB has ordered Off
Gals of Republic Steel Corps Susque-
hanna mine to disband its stooge I'M
ion and to reinstate with back pay a
of the Steel Workers Organ
izing Committee (CIO) fired in 1887
for union activity.
DULUTH Warmly thanking local
CLIO unions for their aid in a recent
strike against Duluth wholesale hard
ware firms, Fred Smith, business
agent of Local BAG, Init. Bro. of Team
sters Chauffeurs Stablemen & Helpers
(AFL), urged labor unity in an open
letter to The Midwest Labor, local
CLIO paper.
UTICA, N. Y. = Organized dairy
farmers of the New York milkshed
their pledge of friendship
and support for organized labor at the
annual convention of the Dairy Farm
srs Union (unaffiliated).
WATERBURY, Conn.-Employes of
he Acme Wire Co. got taste of how
is going to be used for
when a foreman told a
worker: "If you don't get out of the
lnion, the company will see that
you're drafted out" The worker was
/ member of the Intl Union of Mine
Mill & Smelter Workers (CIO).
NEW YORK-Commerc employees
If The New York Times chose the |
American Newspaper Guild (CIO) by |
more than 2 to 1, the NLRB an
bounced after a poll. Results were
I18 for the guild, 1913 against.
TORONTO. = Thirty hours strike |
brought 100 Toronto hotel proprietors |
o terms with Locals 280 and 299 of |
he Hotel & Restaurant Employees |
ntl. Alliance (AFL). A SO weekly in
;rease, the strikers sole demand, was
Won. !