The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-01-03
LABOR'S NEWS
In BRIEF
Federated Press)

WASHINGTON. = Abandonment oil
the Wagner health bill by the
administration and its replacement
with a decidedly more modest meas
ure was indicated by President Roose
welt.
WASHINGTON Charges by ALL
President William Green that the
NLRB was rendering services" to the
CLIO that it was not rendering to the
ALL, were challenged by Charles
Fahy, NLRB general counsel, who
showed that the two groups had re-
ceived about equal benefits.
MISUNDERSTANDING that a
mo strike" pledge might cause
Controversy" among workers in the
Philadelphia navy yard was respon-
sible for deletion of the phrase from
loyalty pledge presented to Presi-
dent Roosevelt.
WASHINGTON = Labor can pre-
pare for 1910 in Courageous and
optimistic spirit" AFL Pres. William
Green declared in a New Years state
ment
WASHINGTON. = Further decen-
tralization of the wage-hour divi-
sion to make possible more vigorous
enforcement of the wage-hour law was
announced by Philip B. Fleming, head
of the division.
HAMTRAMCK, Mich. Fiji Dor
say, night club entertainer, found
a picket line of culinary workers when
she arrived at the Bowery Cafe for
a one-week engagement. She helped
negotiate a contract before the re-
ported for work.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. = Because of
their part in arranging verbal
truce with the CLIO in Illinois, State
Pres. Dave Reed of the Progressive
Mine Workers (AFL) and Board Mem
Der John Battuello of Wilsonville have
been brought before the district trial
board.
CHICAGO.-An appeal to the Pro-
viso Township Board of Education to
reinstate Ralph Marshall and Mary
two haywood, ILL.,, teachers
fired for union activity, has been
made by ALL Pres. William Green in
4 letter to the board.
CLEVELAND. - The United Mine
Workers (CIO) won victory in its
struggle to win unemployment com
,ensation for miners involved in last
springs 43-day lockout when Common
Pleas Judge Joy Seth Hurd ruled that
he shutdown was not a strike and
hat the miners were entitled to bene-
its. If the decision is upheld, it will
mean $1,500,000 compensation for TO-
100 Ohio miners.
SAN FRANCISCO.-Striking West
I'm Union employees in the American
Assn. (CIO) have ac-
epted a proposal of Secretary of La
'or Frances Perkins and have re-
urned to work, pending court deci-
ion on an NLRB order to the West |
I'm Union to disband it's company I'M
on, the Assn. of Western Union EN- |
loyes.
INDIANAPOLIS. - The state SUI !
rene court has ruled picketing for
he closed shop Illegal, reversing the |
,alumet superior court. The case in
olved picketing of Aaron Roth's store
a Lake county by the Retail Clerks
ntl. Protective Assn. (AFL).
BROOKLYN, N. Y.-An important
recedent for labor unions under con-
ract with bankrupt employers was
ct on December 81 when a federal
eferee ordered The Brooklyn Eagle
, carry out it's contract with the New
ork local of the American Newspa-
er Guild.
SAN FRANCISCO. = During the
ears 1934-1938 inclusive, the Asso-
lated Farmers had an income of
berries committee revealed. A break
own of the Swear revenue shows
lat the 10 largest contributors pro-
ided $77,941, or 1850 of the total
lcome. These contributors were:
merican Can Co.; Atchison, Topeka
Santa Fe r. R.; Gamers League;
ried Fruit Assn; Holly Sugar Corp;
ldustrial Assn. (San Francisco), Pa
fic Gas & Electric Co.; Southern /,
Inc; Southern Pacific R.
!, and Spreckels Investment Sugar
D. :
TULSA.-Striking members of the =,
il Workers Init. Union (CIO) marked I
/ December % the first anniversary q
their Walkout at the Mid-Continent |