The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-01-17
LABOR'S NEWS
in BRIEF
ederated Press)

> WASHINGTON.-In a message [
. congress that dismayed progressiy
|, and labor circles, President Rooseve
announced January 3 that he wa
slashing all important budget item
except national defense.
WASHINGTON. = Final action b
: Secretary of Labor Frances Perkin
: on the deportation warrant sworn on
against Harry Bridges, California CI(
: director, was awaited after James M
: Lands, dean of Harvard law schoo
reported he could find no evidenc
that Bridges was a member of tn
communist party or affiliated witt
that organization.
WASHINGTON. = Courts have n,
power to review action taken by tn,
NLRB in representation cases, the U
s. supreme court ruled in three un
animous decisions including the case
of certification of the Init. Longsnore
mems & Warehousemen's Unior
| (CIO) for all Pacific coast longshore
men.
! WASHINGTON Witnesses oppos.
ing the NLRB have been coached in
advance by counsel for the special
house committee investigating the
NLRB while board witnesses have
been put on the stand with scant
warning, it was developed as the com
mittee resumed hearings after a holl-
day recess.
among ALL and CLIO locals on local
matters was reported to congress by
Secretary of Labor Perkins in the an
nual report of the Department of
Labor
NEW YORK. = Twenty-four repre-
sentatives of the AFL, CLIO and lib
eral organizations have Joined in
protest to President Roosevelt against
the prosecution of 1872 Minneapolis
WPA strikers charged with conspir-
acy to violate the relief act, Secretary
David L. Clendenin of the Workers
Defense League announced
NEW ORLEANS. - Charges that
five colleges had denied their faculty
members academic freedom were
made here by the American Assn. of
University Professors. The institu-
tions cited were Montana State uni
versity, st. Louis university, Univer-
sity of Tennessee, State Teachers col
lege of West Chester, Pa and John
B. Stetson university of Leland, Fla
NEW YORK. = Nineteen persons
were murdered in labor's front line
trenches during 1889, the Intl Labor
Defense reports. The greatest num-
Der of killings occurred in Harlan
county, Kentucky, during the struggle
of the United Mine Workers (CIO)
against the Harlan County Coal OPP
orators Assn. last spring and summer.
PHILADELPHIA Rejecting a de-
cree proposed by Republic Steel Corp.
which would have deprived some 5000
workers of $7,500,000 back pay, the
third federal circuit court of appeals |
and signed an NLRB decree |
unfolding it's November decision |
against Tom Girdler's firm.
MINNEAPOLIS-Afte four months |
If picketing by local 1859, Furniture
Workers Union (AFL), it became ap-
parent that the Puffer-Hubbard Co. |
strike is being prolonged by the
Northwestern National Bank, receiver
or the company. The bank hopes to
reeze out stockholders in order to
ret control of the plant and certai
,atents.
NEW YORK.-Bankers suffered a
etback in their fight against union
cation when Supreme Court Justice
ferdinand Pecora ruled January
hat bank employees are not exempt
rom provisions of the state labor re-
atoms act. Pecora's ruling applied
0 the Bank of Yorktown, which had
ought state labor relations board 1
loyes.
CHICAGO. - Participating in their
rst election in Is years, members of {
he Milk Wagon Drivers Union, Local s
So of the init. Bro. of Transfers 6
hauffeurs Stablemen & Helpers t
AFL), voted on December % to I'M
eat two officials who had led the v
MON since the early 1900s. a
PHILADELPHIA Mayor Rob- ;,
It Lamberton (R.) and his new city r
came into office, they :
.ced struggle by organized labor =
sainst the l " % wage tax enacted =
by the republican administra-
on. Suits to test the constitutions ;,
ity of the tax have been started by :,
9TH AFL and CLIO. r
SAN FRKNCISCO.-Stri mem u
RS of the ship clerks local of the 1
I'll. Longshoremen's e Warehouse I
ems Union (CIO) returned to work Il
January 8, reopening the port of le
IN Francisco under temporary
ruce. The port had been closed IL