The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-08-07
LABOR'S NEWS
In BRIEF
Federated Press)

WASHINGTON.-In his first polit
j ical statement since the democrati
and republican conventions, CLIO Pres
John L. Lewis said on July 25 tina
1.-the greatest job" confronting Labor
Nom Partisan League is the election o
liberal congressman.
WASHINGTON. = An 1S-year-olC
company union among shopmen of thu
Louisville C Nashville Railroad re
ceived its deathblow when, in a Natl
Mediation Board election, the Railway
Employees Department of the ALL wor
the right to represent 5000 of the
railroads $500 shopmen.
WASHINGTON.-An estimated 10.
1000 agricultural workers engaged in
processing perishables will receive
the legal soc hourly minimum, the
wage-hour administration ruled in
cutting down the exemptions for farm
workers.
WASHINGTON. = Substituting of
Wagner act violators through federal
contracts must end, CLIO Pres. John L.
Lewis declared on July 81. Lewis
asked all CLIO board members to sup
port proposal for an executive order
that would require holders of govern
ment contracts to comply with the
law.
WASHINGTON.-New president of
the init. Bro. of Electrical Workers
(AFL) is Edward j. Brown of Mil
waukee, elected by the executive coun-
Gil to replace Daniel w. Tracy, who
resigned to become assistant secre-
tary of labor.
ST. LOUIS-The right of the NLRB
to determine the appropriate bargain
decision by the U. S. circuit court of
appeals here The court upheld an
NLRB order calling upon the Pitts
burgh Plate Glass Co. to bargain with
the Federation of Glass Ceramic &
Silica Sand Workers (CIO) in behalf
of workers in all six of the companys
plants, even though the workers at the
Crystal City plant had voted against
the union.
DETROIT.-The AFL United Auto
mobile Workers has signed an agree
ment with General Motors Corp. for
5, 900 workers in the five plants where
it defeated the UAW-CIO in the NLRB
election. The contract covers two
plants in Kansas City, Mo, two in
Norwood, O., and one in Meriden,
Conn.,
NEW YORK.-Widespre circular
cation of the espionage act for sigma
.ure by workers engaged in certain
war industries was condemned here
by Gen. Sec.-Treas. Julius Emspak of
he United Electrical Radio & Ma
chine Workers (CIO). An estimated
1000 employers throughout the u. S.
lave asked their workers to sign ex-
,erpts from the espionage act, Fed
grated Press was informed.
CHATTANOOGA. - Southern AFL
eaders met here July % to plan an |
Intensive drive in the chemical work
RS field for $4,000 members by Sep
ember Z.
WAYCROSS, Ga.-The trial of Is |
fficials and employees of the Fitzger-
Id Cotton Mills, charged with con-
piracy to deprive members of the
'extile Workers Union (CIO) of civil
iberties guaranteed by the constitu-
ion and the Wagner act, started here
uly %.
LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y.-AFL
nd CLIO pickets are walking side by
ide before the struck plant of the
Metal Etching Co., manufac-
1rer of novelties and polished metal
roducts. The CLIO strikers are mem
ers of Local 1927, United Electrical
.adio & Maritime Workers, and the
FL men belong to Local 8. Metal
olishers Buffers Platers & Helpers
ltl Union.
QUINCY, Mass.-"Open sabotage of
he national defense program" by 27
ompany union Representatives at the
ore River plast of the Bethlehem ,
teel Corp. is charged in complaint
lade July "a to Sec. of the Navy ,
rank Knox by Local 5, Industrial I'm
IN of Marine G Shipbuilding Workers ,
CIO).
NEW YORK-Angered by a deci-
on of Impartial Chairman Arthur S.
eyer ordering Local 584, Intl Bro.
! Transfers Chauffeurs Stablemen
Helpers (AFL), to pay Sheffield
arms Co. $4,000 damages for a 1-day q
rike last February, members of the {
cal have voted to picket Meyers
flee.
ST. PAULA CLIO union that was c
,lked in strike plans by the Repub- d
can labor act has launched the first
ajor legal attack upon Gov. Harold {
.assen's anti-strike statute. The suit j
as filed July % by the Calumet local T
the Amalgamated Assn. of Iron t
EEL & Tin Workers. O