The people's voice., 1940-04-17
LABOR'S NEWS
In BRIEF
Federated Press)

| WASHINGTON.- = Company unions
established at the Rockefeller-control
led Colorado Fuel & Iron Corp. in 1914
after the notorious Ludlow massacre
were ordered dissolved by the NLRB
The board acted on complaints of the
init. Union of Mine Mill & Smelter
Workers and the Steel Workers Or.
ganizing Committee (both CIO).
WASHINGTON. - Steady increase
in the number and coverage of union
agreements since the national labor
relations act became operative was
noted by the NLRB's division of eco
nomic research.
WASHINGTON. = The four amend
ments to the national labor relations
act indorsed by the house labor COM
mittee were warmly approved by AFL
Pres. William Green and strongly con-
demned by CLIO Pres. John L. Lewis.
MONONGAH, w. Va.-Unless the
democratic party nominates a candi-
date and adopts platform acceptable
to labor, national convention of
negro, labor, old age, youth and farm
groups will be called to formulate a
liberal platform, CLIO Pres. John l..
Lewis said in speech at a Miners
day celebration.
BROOKLYN.-Racketeeringo on the
waterfront, which forces
longshoremen to pay heavily for jobs,
came under scrutiny here when a
member of Brooklyn's wholesale
murder ring revealed that Peter Pan
to, foe of the gangsters and a men,
ber of the Intl. Longshoremen's Assn
(AFL), had been murdered last July
CHICAGO. - The first insurance
to be started by a union for
protection of its members was
launched April 2 by the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers (CIO). Chartered
as the Amalgamated Life & Health
Insurance Co., the firm will provide
group life, health and accident insur-
ance for Chicago's $4,000 union cloth
ing workers.
NEW YORK.-New Workers, jittery
over the possibility of general trans
port strike, relaxed on April when
JIO Pres. John l.. Lewis and Mayor
:. H. LaGuardia reached a second and
inal agreement upon union rights for
subway workers when the city takes
'ver the two privately operated sub
ways. The settlement was distinct
victory for the Transport Workers
Union (CIO).
CINCINNATI.-The Wagner act re-
Iuires employers to put agreements
nto writing, the U. S. circuit court |
Il appeals decided unanimously April |
/. The court upheld an NLRB order |
alling upon H. ]. Heinz Co. to sign |
n agreement with the Amalgamated |
1eat Cutters & Butchers Workmen
AFL).
SAN FRANCISCO.-Seven months
fter filing parole application, the
tae board of prison terms and paroles
enied freedom to Earl King, Ernest
/. Ramsay and Frank ]. Conner, vic
ms of the S. S. Point Lobos murder
rameup in 1886.
NEW YORK.-Federal prosecution
I labor and radical groups under
schnicar charges drew condemnation
'om the board Of directors of the
merican Civil Liberties Union.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. picketing
company by non-employes was
pheld March 81 by the state supreme
)urt. The decision voided an in
motion restraining Local 13, Intl.
no. of Teamsters Chauffeurs Stable
en- & Helpers (AFL), from picketing
lie Perry Truck Lines.
NEW YORK. - Recent government
resolutions of labor unions for al
ged conspiracy constitute "perver-
on" of the Sherman antitrust law |
ate Solicitor General Henry Epstein
idl 6Cu dt q Sohici ChCC OH idDoi
ghts called by the National Council {
r Social Democracy.
LOS ANGELES. - The legality of p
e secondary boycott and the right h
pass out handbills, sell newspapers a
d use sound truck in prosecution A
such boycott were upheld in an
portant ruling by Superior Court I
dge Henry M. Willis. The decision j
held the right of the American 7
,wspaper Guild (CIO) to picket ad- i
rtisers of the struck Huntington
rk Bulletin. 1
Conn.-Insurance COM
nies that blacklist hatters who have p
ffered from mercury poisoning (hat- u
's' shakes) were cleared in a deci-
IN of State Insurance Commissioner IL
hn C. Blackall. to
r
MILWAUKEE-The recent crop of
laws in various states n;
8 threatened when Circuit Judge OF
stave G. Gehrz refused on April 1 lin
grant an Injunction against peace
picketing under the republican-en- pt
ed Catlin law. The case involved lti
keting Of the new plant of the New b,
stess Ice Cream Co. by the Build ia
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