The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-04-23
LABOR'S NEWS
IN BRIEF
Federated Press)

when it upheld lower court rulings
dismissing indictments in three cases
involving AFL unions.
WASHINGTON Formal approval
of zone standards for the shipbuilding
industry on the Pacific coast was an
Inounced April IL. The standards are
embodied in a tentative agreement
worked out by representatives of the
shipbuilding industry and the ALL un-
ions involved. CLIO representatives
participated as observers.
WASHINGTON Enthusiastically
high concentration" of orders for arms
is shown by the fact that DUPONT and
Bethlehem, controlling eight COM
panies, have 1890 of all contracts,
charges The Economic Outlook,
monthly survey published by the CLIO
economic division.
WASHINGTON = CLIO Pres. Philip
Murray put his weight behind the
Transport Workers Union (CIO) in
4NCW VI n w I'LL q ltttCi " ASCW lOlh
Mayor F. H. LaGuardia attacking the
mayors stand against contracts for
subway workers.
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.-A COM
pany union which actually pickets gas
stations under legitimate union con-
tract, and pickets legitimate pickets
at non-union gas stations, has been
formed here. The stooge outfit, known
as the Colorado Assn. of Service Sta
ton Employees Inc, was organized to
fight the Init. Bro. of Transfers
Chauffeurs Warehousemen & Helpers
(AFL).
SAN FRANCISCO.-Fift local ma
chine shops of firms affiliated with
the California Metal Trades Assn. |
were shut down April 7 by strike |
Of the Init. Assn of Machinists (AFL). |
The machinists are seeking increased |
wages
DETROIT.-Henry Ford, who VOW
ed he would never recognize a union,
the United Automobile
Workers (CIO) in settling the his
toric Today strike of $4,000 workers
at the River Rouge plant of the Ford
Motor Co.
NEW YORK.-Annual stockholders
meetings of the Bethlehem Steel Corp.
and the Western Union Telegraph Co.
we're featured by attacks from minor
ty stockholders on the anti-union
policies of the two firms.
BOSTON.-The NLRB asked the U.
5. circuit court of appeals to adjudge
i've top officials of the Bethlehem
Steel Corp. in contempt. The action
stems from a 4-year run-around given
he Industrial Union of Marine &
Workers (CIO) at the
Fore River shipyard.
NEW YORK-Two years of hear
ngs on charges of unfair labor prac-
ices against the $4,000, 100000 Metro {
)olitan Life Insurance Co. ended I'M :
April 10 when the firm and (
It OnlICu olllCC " iOlCoolOhdi
Workers (CIO) agreed on payment of L
$4,000 to 43 dismissed insurance {
gents.
NEW YORK. - Ringing Bros.-Bar-
lum e Bailey Circus opened its 1941
eason at Madison Square Garden on
april under unon contracts with the
G,,i1 of orio iofc | l
AFL) and AFL Federal Local 22628.
MOBILE, Ala-Labor editors from 6
hree states, comforting here, took
tops to halt blackjacking of adver- I
isers by so-called labor publications. 6
3-point program to strengthen the S
egitimate labor press was adopted. S
ELIZABETH, N. 1.-THE main plant @
the Phelps Dodge Copper Products /
'orp. was shut down April by
trike of 1,6OO CLIO workers. Similar h
ralkouts doomed at the firms Fort :
Wayne and Los Angeles plants. T
NEW YORK. Group insurance,
ing a keystone of paternalistic
chemes to keep workers happy,
ould cost 100000 American work .
rs $7S,OOO,O00 less each year If en-
lovers actually shared the expense
n $3.50 basis. This is one of the d
iscoveries made by Labor Research d
ssh. in an investigation of what
mounts to legalized racket of colos- 3
Il proportions. :
AUSTIN, Textile day after Gov W
:. Lee O'Daniel signed drastic anti d
Dor bill which he introduced in the A
gislature, he announced that he had "
ceived requests for copies of the
II from four states: Michigan, Flor Fl
a, South Carolina and Illinois. ID,