The people's voice., 1940-11-20
LABOR'S NEWS
In BRIEF
Federated Pressl

S122,323, ,020 contract for airplane er
gines to the Ford Motor Co. was ar
nounced by the Natl. Defense Ad
: visory Commission the day after tn
election. Determination of a polio.
: on the granting of contracts to labo
law violators was indefinitely post
poned as a scheduled meeting of tn,
labor policy advisory committee failet
to materialize.
WASHINGTON. - Wage increases
amounting to about $3,S00,000 a yeal
for workers in U. S. navy yards were
approved November by Secretary oi
the Navy Frank Knox. The raises
were recommended by Navy depart
ment wage board of review which was
convened at the insistence of the un-
ions in the IA yards
WASHINGTON Labor proved to
be the deciding factor in the presi-
Dental election, AFL Pres. William
Green said in a post-election state
ment. CIO Pres. JOHN L. Lewis, who
indorsed Wendell L. Willkie, had no
comment on the returns.
WASHINGTON-Shoe workers won
round in their fight against the
granting of contracts to labor law vio-
lators as it was announced that a
contract awarded the International
Shoe Co. requires obedience to the
labor laws
NEW YORK. = The governments
antitrust drive as applied to unions
received a major setback November
when the u S. circuit court of appeals
unanimously reversed the convictions
of II officials and members of the
Intl Fur & Leather Workers Union
(CIO) on a " -year-old antitrust in
dictment.
JAMESTOWN, N. Y-The Art Met
al Construction Co., one of the first
firms to conduct court fight against
the NLRB's contention that the Wag-
ner act requires employers to put
agreements in writing, has thrown in
the sponge Three local plants are
covered by an agreement with Lodge
1859, init. Assn. of Machinistss
EVERETT, Wash.-The local saw
mill operations of the Weyerhauser
Timber Co., one of the largest single |
plants in the country, are now under
union contract The agreement, |
signed by the Intl Woodworkers
(CIO), covers 1927 workers
NEW YORK.=A Today strike of |
building trades workers and teamsters
which halted demolition of the New |
York Worlds Fair, ended November. |
when the workers won assurance
that only union men would be en-
ployed
NEW YORK.-The Standard Oil Co. |
Of New Jersey has signed it's first |
agreement with a CIO union since |
1899, when its refusal to renew a |
contract with the Natl Maritime I'm
ion provoked a tanker strike. The
new contract, signed with Local %,
Industrial Union of Marine & Ship
building Workers, covers 125 men in
he company's New York standby
gang.
NEWARK.-Of of Al AFL and
JIO locals throughout New Jersey
lave registered their opposition to the
granting of government contracts to
Wagner act violators in postcard
,oll conducted by Labor's Anti-Injunc-
ion League.
LOS ANGELES. = Protests by or
,anized labor against lack of union
representation on draft boards has re-
ulted in an agreement to remove
ertain anti-union persons from the
,oards and to add representatives Of
abor.
NEW YORK.-A 2-day strike Of 300 j
rivers forced the New England Gray
ound Lines to abandon it's plan for {
of services with the
,lueway Trailways, which had re- {
ulted in the layoff of six workers. '
he walkout was conducted by two
3cals of the Amalgamated Assn. of {
treet Electric Railway & Motor s
'oach Employees (AFL). &
CAMDEN - Charges that Walter ,
.ppleby and Joseph Stewart, heads of !
ne company union at the Sun Ship :
uilding & Drydock Co., had offered !
} sell their stooge union for $4,000 :
, the Industrial Union of Marine & +
Workers (CIO), were re-
Grated here by IUMSW Sec. Philip
[. Van Gelder.
BARRE, Vt-Delegates at the con- I
ention of the Quarry Workers Intl. !
-nion (CIO) rewrote their constitu- U
on and recommended that the name y
e changed to the United Stone C
llied Products Workers Of America.
he new name is designed to conform :
18th expanded organizing efforts.
DENVER.-Reid Robinson was re- il
ected president of the Init. Union of s
line Mill & Smelter Workers (CIO) S
ith total of II, All votes in an cleo c
on among the unions members.