The people's voice., 1940-04-24
LABOR'S NEWS
In BRIEF
Federated Press)

WASHINGTON.-Tom Girdler's Re
public Steel Corp. must pay close Il
$7,500000 in back wages and rein
state 5000 workers involved in the
1897 Little Steel strike, because OF
the u. S. supreme courts refusal tc
consider Girdler's appeal from cir
cult court order.
WASHINGTON Conclusion s
reached by majority of the Smith
committee studying the national labor
relations act are entirely unsupported
3D., Mass.) and Abe Murdock d.,
Utah) declared in a blistering min
Iority report.
WASHINGTON. = Edsel Ford's de-
scription of the Ford Motor Co. as a
charitable institution was sharply as
sailed by Pres. R. ]. Thomas of the
United Automobile Workers (CIO),
who read statements of Ford auto
workers describing cnoditions in the
plants as "hell" Both Ford and
Thomas testified before the TNEC.
| WASHINGTON story of the
strip mill and what it has meant to
the lives of thousands of steel work
ers was told the TNEC April IL by
Chairman Philip Murray of the Steel
Workers Organizing Committee (CIO)
and Michael Russell, former employe
of U. S. Steel.
NEW YORK.-Nine company un-
ions established by Remington-Rand
Inc. in six plants during the big 1886
strike as part of the Mohawk Val
ley strike-breaking formula were Of
|ficially dissolved April in stipula-
tion signed by the company, the Joint
Protective Board of the District Coun-
Gil of Office Equipment Workers
(AFL) and the NLRB.
PETERSBURG, Va.-The American
Hardware Co., worlds largest manu-
facturer of luggage, signed a union
agreement after 10-week strike by
1000 workers in four local plants.
The walkout was called by Local So,
Luggage Workers Union, affiliated
with the Intl Ladies Handbag Pocket
book & Novelty Workers Union
(AFL).
MINNEAPOLIS. = The good old
days" promised by Gov Harold E.
Stassen (R) during his 1888 cam
paign are here. Latest episode was
the granting of an injunction to the |
Northern States Power Co. to prevent |
a scheduled strike by the init. Bro
of Electrical Workers (AFL).
NEW YORK.-Ringling Bros. Bar
mum & Bailey Circus opened its 1910 |
season at Madison Square Garden on
April 5 behind picket line of the
Circus Carnival Fairs & Rodeo init.
Union (AFL). The dispute, which
Pres. Ralph Whitehead of the CCFRIU
calls both strike and a lockout, in
wolves only the maintenance staff.
The performers are covered by an
agreement of the American Guild of
Variety Artists (AFL), signed April 2.
NEW YORK. - Using the slogan,
THE Yanks Are Not Coming" thou
sands of AFL and CIO unionists from
coast to coast celebrated Peace Day
IN April and adopted resolutions to
Keep America out Of war.
ST. LOUIS.-The Monsanto Chem
~ 20 |
han $4,000 in group insurance divi-
lends, withheld from its employees
,ver a 10-year period, when AFL Fed
,ral Local 20O32 exposed the com
'any's practice.
NEW YORK.-The Hotel Gov. Clin-
on finally recognized the AFL Hotel /
'rades Council April 8, ending a 49,
Month strike by $40 workers.
CADDOA, Colo.-The Colorado for
iula of vigilante activity to prevent
of workers on vast fed
raj dam projects was again utilized
ere on April when a gang of about II
0 union foes wrecked the headquar II
srs for an AFL organizing drive at II
ne s15,O0O,OOO Caddoa dam project. II
SAN FRANCISCO. - Upholding an H
LRB order against the Sunshine II
lining Co, the U. S. circuit court of II
ppeals took a long step toward puri- II
ing the scab silver that goes into III
any silver dollars. The mining COM III
any had been ordered to reinstate 216 HI
orkers fired in 1897 for union ac-
vity and to give them about $1,000 H
10 in back pay. H
ST. LOUIS. - Peace has been re- II
ored to Local 143, Moving Picture
achine Operators Union (AFL), aft
a 5-year battle against the domina-
On of init. Vice Pres. John p. Nick.
srms of the settlement included the
signation of Nick, restoration of full II
Itonomy by order of Intl. Pres.
Gorge Z. Browne, and installation of
w officers elected by the rank and II
e.
ST. PAUL-(FP)-Wi Maho- H
y, nationally known progressive and