The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-11-06
LABOR'S NEWS
In BRIEF
Federated Press)

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!, WASHINGTON.-The right OF tt
: Wage-Hour division to subpoena re
a ords was upheld by the U. S. suprem
: court October % when 1t refused
: review a decision against Montgomer
Ward & Co.
WASHINGTON.-AFL membershi
, hit an all-time high this year, at 4
/ 247 ,443, Sec.-Treas. George Meany re
: ported. The figure is based on pc
: capita payments to the federation.
WASHINGTON-No change in tn
labor policy of Bethlehem Steel Corr
is contemplated, Eugene G. Grace
chairman of the board of directors, de
clared. He boosted that hte compan,
has $1,0OO,0OO,O0O worth of untitled
orders.
| WASHINGTON. = Regulations tt
protect labor from uncurbed use o.
state military units were asked of Sec
of War Henry L. Stimson by CIC
Pres. John l.. Lewis.
| DEARBORN, Mich. = In a historic
decision, Judge Lila M. Neuenfelt Of
| justice court declared a Ford inspired
traffic ordinance prohibiting leaflet
distribution at the River Rouge plant
gates was unconstitutional. Despite
the decision, local police arrested rs
organizers and members of the United
Automobile Workers (CIO) for dis
tributing leaflets the following day.
ST. LOUISA 4-day citywide build
ing trades strike, called to organize
non-union construction jobs in this
area, ended October 29 after 1875 non
union contractors signed closed shop
contracts with the Building Trades
Council. The walkout of $4,000 work
ers was called after Upton Hammond,
picket, was shot to death in an armed
attack on a picket line by 200 scabs.
NEW YORK.-A petition signed by
officials of 721 ALL locals, protesting
the granting of government contracts
to labor law violators, has been sent
to President Roosevelt and Sidney
Hillman, labor member of the national
defense advisory commission. The
petition was initiated by The Building
Trades Union Press and The Trade
serving ALL unions
SAN FRANCISCO.-Dep of
news outlet through refusal of Station
KYA to renew it's contract for daily
abor news broadcast, the California
Union Council is working
out plan for weekly forums in all
arge cities in the state. The ban on
he CLIO program was protested in a
etter from CLIO Pres. John L. Lewis
% Chairman James L. Fly of the fed
eral communications commission.
ST. LOUIS. A 4-month strike |
against the Century Electric Co.,
marked by the murder of a picket and |
police violence against |
ended with 2-year agree
nent for the United Electrical Radio
Machine Workers (CIO).
CINCINNATI. - Members of the
American Newspaper Guild (CIO) are
ligging in for what looks like a first
lass scrap with the Scripps-H Howard
newspapers. Representatives of
Howard guild units met here
o consider the refusal of John H.
,orrells, executive editor of the chain,
o confer on contract covering all
'cripps-Howard editorial and CONNER
ial workers organized by the guild.
NEW YORK.-In no previous cleo
ion in American history have minor
Ly parties been barred from the bal
ot in as many states as in the 1910
residential contest, survey by the
american Civil Liberties Union
bowed. The communist party was
AIRED in Is staes, the socialist party
4 II states and the socialist-labor
arty in five states, the A. G. l.. U.
eported. II
PORTLAND, Ore.-The demand of !
10 Portland Industrial Union Council 6
,r public hearing on it's charges /
gainst five officers of Portland's no i
,rious red squad has been pigeon {
oled by Mayor Joseph X. Carson Jr. {
fter a conference with special A. I
ian committee of the PIUC, Carson
eferred the matter to the department /
{ public safety, which he himself {
eads. r
ST. LOUIS.-Although Pres. Edgar
[. Queeny of Monsanto Chemical Co.
ad warned his employees that a 25-
ear-old girl would handle labor rela-
ons if they voted for union, pro-
uction workers in the main plant
nose the Chemical Workers Union
AFL by 453 to 359 in an NLRB cleo
on held October %.
NEW YORK. = Pres. Charles ]. ?
endley of Local 5, American Fedora t
on of Teachers (AFL), was held in
,ntempt by Supreme Court Justice o
,hn F. Carew October 29 for refusal t
surrender the locals membership t
st to the local little Dies committee Ii
saded by Sen. Frederic R. Coudert a
:. (R.). p