The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-04
LABOR'S NEWS
In BRIEF
Federated Press)


n Steel Corp, which lost a court fight
against the 62hc hourly minimum
r under the Walsh-Healey act, has final
s ly agreed to come across. Chairman
s Philip Murray Of the Steel Workers
e Organizing Committee (CIO) attrib
s uted the company's action to the
r SWOC's 4-year drive to make Beth
lehem obey federal laws.
BIRMINGHAM. = Exec. Sec. NAL
colin Cotton Dobbs of the League of
Young Southerners and two others
were arrested on yagrancy charges
while distributing leaflets demanding
court test of local ordinance per-
hitting police to arrest persons with
out warrants and hold them incom-
municado
PHILADELPHIA. Charges by
army officers that unions were respon-
sible for the labor shortage at Frank
ford Arsenal drew immediate fire from
local labor leaders, who laid the blame
on private industry and the govern
ment. Those denying the charges in
cluded AFL Regional Director James
~. Knoud, CLIO Regional Director Jo-
seph G. Cannon and Pres. James L.
McDevitt Of the Pennsylvania State
Federation of Labor.
BOSTON. = The first NLRB deci- |
sion requiring firm to hire union |
workers to whom it had refused jobs |
has been upheld by the U. S. circuit |
court of appeals. The court ordered |
the Wauobec Mills of Manchester, N
H., to employ with back pay two
workers who had been denied jobs in
1887 because they were formerly Of
ficers of the United Textile Workers
(AFL).
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS to con-
scription except in event of invasion
or threatened invasion of America"
was voiced by Pres. Edward ]. Volz
of the init. Photo Engravers Union
(AFL) in a speech before 400 dele
gates attending the unions 41st an
nual convention.
ANDOVER, N. America now has
what might be called a Ku Klux
Klund, for the marriage of the New
Jersey Khan and the German-Ameri- :
can Bund was consummated at
rally of some 1900 members of the :
two organizations at the Bund camp
here on August 10.
NEWARK. - An important prece-
dent in the fight of the U. S. Wage
Hour Division to bring loft building
employees under protection of the =
wage-hour law was set here on August
l9. Seven leading owners of loft and
mill buildings in nearby Paterson con- =
'ented to permanent injunctions re-
them from denying the wage e
Ind overtime benefits to their main
enance and service employees.
DUQUESNE Pa.-The Workers De- Il
ense League won another victory in G
is fight against local anti-handbill u
ordinances when Mayor Elmer Maloy
eversed the conviction of w. D. L. I
Assistant Secretary Morris Milgram !
nd refunded his $40 fine Milgram y
vas arrested while carrying a bundle y
f leaflets. r
RUTLAND, Vt-The Rutland Rail-
DAD, which has led court fight
gainst payment of union scales by -
ankrupt railroads, faces strike be- 20
U.s. U.s. NV $50" %ase eaes ali'o'noeu ~ So
p'' fe
NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y. - After Oh
considerable debate, delegates to the sn
9TH annual convention of the New tn
ork State Federation of Labor oy
dopted a resolution supporting a
bird term for President Roosevelt. an
hose who opposed the resolution de- al
ined to vote. lo'
BOSTON.-Manville Jenckes Corp, err
name synonymous with vicious anti
Dor activity in New England and tic
10 south for many years, was guilty hu
every charge made by the indie tn;
sndent Textile Union (unaffiliated) pa
Woonsocket, R. l., during an g. 20,
onth strike last year. So reported SCI
LRB Trial Examiner William B. Bar Blu
n on August 20.
NEW YORK-Upholding the NLRB,
o U. S. circuit court of appeals
und that the management of the :,
ile G Towne Mfg. Co., makers of 10
lie locks, interfered in board cleo . .ne
49, uo VIII
ldio & Machine Workers (CIO).
SAN DIEGO, Gait took just one
eek for AFL mill workers and team 81,
ers to smash lockout patterned STU
the hot boxcar technique used by
n Francisco warehouse owners in owe
38. About 700 members of the s1,.
lited Bro. of Carpenters & Joiners the
d the init. Bro of Transfers Chauf- mo
IRIS Stablemen G Helpers are back rem
work in 10 local lumberyards under to
ion conditions. loa
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