The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-02-07
LABOR'S NEWS
In BRIEF
Federated Press)

WASHINGTON.-An additional $751;
900 was voted the Dies committee al
legedly investigating un-American ac-
tivities by the house following ap-
prevail of a resolution extending the
life of the committee for another year
Evidence linking Chairman Martin
Dies 3D., Tex.) with subversive or
CARNATIONS was ignored by the house
rules committee.
WASHINGTON.-F the first time,
a firm has been directed by U. S.
district court o rehire an employee
fired for complaining to the wage-hour
division against his boss. The firm
was the G. G E. Genuine Majestic
Refrigerator & Radio Parts Co. of
Chicago, Ill.
WASHINGTON. - The Ford Motor
Co. was directed by the NLRB to stop
spying on union meetings at Somer
vile, Mass. Another NLRB complaint
charged Ford with similar unfair prac-
tees at its Dallas, Tex, branch.
CLEVELAND. = Admission by the
editor of The Saturday Evening Post
that an editorial attacking the NLRB
was based on "surmise" that proved
to be incorrect was cited by NLRB
Chairman j. Warren Madden as a
sample of the tactics of enemies of
the board in speech before the
United Christian Council for Democ-
racy.
WASHINGTON.-Mo than 100000
jobless human beings begging for food,
selling their furniture and living off
relatives were presented to Rep Cliff
ton A. Woodrum 3D., Va.), chairman
of the house relief appropriations sub
as the results of his
slashes in the last WPA appropria-
tons bill.
CHICAGO. - picketing marathon
lasting six years ended in victory
when strikers at the Edgewated Beach
Hotel won a union agreement January
25 The unions involved were the In
Bro. of Electrical Workers
and the Hotel & Restaurant Employees
Alliance & Bartenders
League (both AFL).
NEW YORK. A government at
.empt to advance the antitrust cam
,aign against unions resulted in new
Kind of labor unity here when both |
ALL and CLIO unions denounced the |
Indictment of Pres. Joseph P. Ryan |
If the International Longshoremen's |
Assn. (AFL) and 10 other AFL Of
icials. The case involved an ALL
JIO dispute in the retail lumber in
lustry.
MOBILE. A threatened strike of |
everal thousand longshoremen in the |
ast gulf area was averted when the I
Longshoremen's Assn.
ALL signed new agreement pro-
riding a 10c hourly wage increase
rhe new hourly scale is SIC for deep |
ca, soc for intercoastal and zoe for
oastwise.
NEW YORK. A 4-day combined
trike and lockout of $500 coal truck
rivers ended January 20 with the
igning of an agreement raising the
ally scale from So to s8.75. The un-
On affected was Local 553, Interna-
ional Bro. of Transfers Chauffeurs
tablemen & Helpers (AFL).
ABERDEEN, Wash. = Exasperated
y the failure of local authorities TO
how any real interest in finding the
lurderers of Mrs. Laura Law, union
its in this area created the Grays
[arbor Civil Rights Committee in an
fort to solve the crime.
E. ST. LOUIS, Ill.-AFL Pres. VIM. {
reen gave an indirect tongue-lashing i
} Westbrook Pegler, Scripps-Howard
,lumnist, when he mentioned in an
ldress here "hireling propaganda
ongers" who are "again becoming {
lrill in their vituperation and abuse"
labor
CHICAGO. = Officials of the Pack +
ghouse Workers Organizing Commit t
e (CIO) announced January % that 7
,reements covering working condi- t
ons in two Armour plants have fin n