The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-05-15
LABOR'S NEWS
In BRIEF
Federated Pressl

E. Roth, president of the San Fran
cisco employers council in a speech
delivered to the round table on in
dustrial relations held by the U. S
chamber of commerce at its annual
meeting May 1.
WASHINGTON-The tory-sponsored
attack on the wage-hour law met de-
feat May when the house killed
proposed amendments by a rollcall
vote of 205 to It's, thus recommitting
the amendments to the house labor
committee.
WASHINGTON.-Attempts of seven
small steel companies to nullify an
order by Secretary of Labor Frances
Perkins, calling for a 62Ac hourly
minimum wage for firms receiving
government orders, were thrown out
April 20 by an S-to-1 decision of the
U. S. supreme court.
WASHINGTON. Reinstatement
with back pay of five workers and
cessation of unfair labor practices
against the Newspaper Circulators
Distributors & Miscellane-
Gus Employees Union (AFL) by The
Los ARngeles Examiner, a Hearst pa
per, was tentatively ordered by the
NLRB.
WASHINGTON. = The Ford Motor
Co. was ordered by the NLRB to re-
instate with back pay "a workers
fired from the st. Louis plant for
union activity, to bargain with the
United Automobile Workers (CIO),
and to post notices informing workers
hat the company will not interfere
with their organizational rights.
SAN FRANCISCO.-The state SUI
oreme court has ruled that 1000 men,
3ers of the Init. Longshoremen's &c
Union (CIO) who re-
used to pass the CLIO ship clerks
picket line in the strike last fall, are
entitled to about 100000 in unem-
)loyment insurance benefits.
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-The U. S. cir
,uit court of appeals at st. Louis has
Upheld an NLRB order directing dis
solution of the company union at the
Kansas City Power & Light Co. and
of member of the init.
Bro. of Electrical Workers (AFL).
MINMEA DOTJC-A oontroot oouar
ng all technical employees involved in
he Columbia Broadcasting Co.'s tele-
-ision operations was signed May 2
~ the Associated Broadcast Techni
ians Unit of the init. Bro. of Elec-
rical Workers (AFL).
NEW YORK-Evidenc of collision
'etween employers and the antitrust
ivision of the department of justice
n prosecution and conviction of II
nion fur workers under 6-year-old
nti-trust indictments was presented
lay 1 by the init. Fut &c Leather
Workers Union (CIO). The evidence
yas letter from the attorney of the |
ndepedent Fur Manufacturers Assn, |
yhich revealed that the employers |
ad persuaded the department of JUS
ice year ago to revive the old in
ictments.
f May Day was hailed by hundreds
{ thousands of workers in the U. S.
4 New York 1850 workers marched
/ the traditional parade. Stable
demonstrations were held in Mime
polls, Los Angeles, Detroit, Cleve-
md, Boston, Philadelphia and other
tiles.
NEW YORK. = With the shipping
ldustry enjoying an unprecedented
artime boom, union seamen on both
oasts won a $40 monthly increases,
citing the highest wage scales in
years.
PITTSBURGH.-In this city, where
lie first sentences in the govern
ent's antitrust drive were handed
own last February, leading AFL Of
Gals told the State Federation of
abor on May 1 that the AFL will
gh to the finish against application
the Sherman antitrust law to build
g trades unions. An injunction
,ainst further prosecutions will be
,ught soon, it was revealed.
ATLANTA Evidence produced at
investigations here and
Anderson, S. c., shows that the Ku
lux Khan, which supposedly exists
lily to protect the interests of the
ltiye-born, white, Gentle, Protestant
,pulation,' is out to smash the labor
lions.
DETROIT. A enlarged Ford or
MIXING committee to start an imme-
ate drive to unionize all plants of !.
e Ford Motor Co. was authorized
the executive board of the United
ltomobile Workers (CIO), meeting
special session May 1.
ST. PAUL, Minn.-What was termed I
e largest assembly of farmers ever t
Id in the nation was gathered here h
the militant Farmers Union to hear a
cretary of Agriculture Henry A. t
allace explain the future program b
the administration in the increas-
ely troublesome area of farmers s
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