The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-04-09
LABOR'S NEWS
In BRIEF
Federated Press)

WASHINGTON. American labo
risks great loss because industrial
and governmental policymakers re
fuse to look at the facts in regard t.
wage increases, the AFL told its mem
bers In the March issue of its eco
nomic survey.
WASHINGTON. = Temporary ap.
pointment of Paul Shoup as manage
ment consultant on the staff of OPM
Associate Director General Sidney
Hillman was revealed recently. Shoup
is president of the Merchants & Manu-.
facturers Assn. of Southern Califor.
mia, open shop outfit investigated by
the LaFollette civil liberties commit
| tee.
WASHINGTON. - Assurances that
the AFL is taking steps to avoid
abuses in the matter of initiation fees
and dues charged new members were
given Sen. George w. Norris lind,
Neb) by AFL Pres. William Green.
WASHINGTON - Launching of an
intensive organizing drive in the shoe
industry, with special concentration
on the 10000 employees of the Intl
Shoe Corp, was announced by CLIO
Pres. Philip Murray and Pres. Frank
McGrath of the United Shoe Workers.
ALBANY, N. Y.-On the heels of
the signing of the anti-labor Ives
Schwartzwald bill by Gov Herbert
H. Lehman, resolution urging con-
gress to cancel draft deferments of
strikers in defense industries was in
troduced in the state senate.
OAKLAND, Calif.-As a result first
of lockout and then of strike, all Gen
eral Motors plants in the East Bay
are now closed down and $3.50 mem
bers of the United Automobile Work
ers (CIO) are out.
BETHLEHEM, Pa.-Strikes in pro-
test against the Bethlehem company
union setup were conducted by the
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
(CIO) at plants of the Bethlehem
Steel Corp. here and in Johnstown.
The local walkout was marked by
vicious attack on picket lines by state
troopers.
DETROIT.-Daily stoppages at the
River Rouge plant of the Ford Motor
Co. have resulted in bargaining by
the United Automobile Workers (CIO)
and settlement of grievances. Com
plants include discriminatory trans
fers, punitive layoffs and accelerated
speedups.
ROCHESTER,, N. Y Newspaper
stories about racketeering in iniation
fes at Fort Meade, Md, were declared
false by local ALL mechanics who
worked on the job. Their statements
appeared in the March 81 issue of |
Labor, organ of the Rochester Cen
trail Trades & Labor Council.
DETROIT.-A singing telegram ac-
cusing OPM and the Navy Department |
Of acting as "strikebreakers" in the |
Allis-Chalmers strike was the answer
Of the United Automobile Workers
(CIO) to a back-to-work order.
DAYTON, O.--Work at the Wright
Field testing station of the Army Air
Jorpe was resumed March 23 with a
anfare of patriotic statements as 400
ARFL building trades workers aban-
Toned their 17-day strike in the in
crest of national defense.
DETROIT.-The plant of the Mid
and Steel Products Corp, which man
fractures auto frames for General
Motors, Chrysler and Ford, resumed
operations March 81 when members
Il the United Automobile Workers
CIO) won a blanket sc hourly in
rease.
ASHEvILLE, N. C.-The large ray
N plant of the American Enka Corp.
vas closed by strike of the United
'extile Workers (AFL). The union
emands wage increases and other
Three thousand work
rs are involved
MARTINSBURG, w. Va.-The ma
ions largest mems hosiery mill, that !
the interviewer Stocking Co., was
losed down March "a by a strike of
400 workers The walkout was /
allied by the American Federation of
Hosiery Workers (CIO).
NEW YORK. = A citywide garage
trike got off to a flying start as $50 Il
wners out of the $50 garages struck
y Local 272, Garage Washers e Pol
hers Union (AFL), met the unions
srms within IL hours after picket
mes had formed. Some $500 work
rs are out.
EDGEWATER, N. J.-Three thou
md workers ended 12-day strike
Iarch "a at the local plant of the
luminum Co. of America in the in
rest of national defense. They acted
the request Of Sidney Hillman, as
,ciate director-genera1 of OPM, and
Pres. Nicholas Zonarich of the
luminum Workers (CIO). II
White House officials have repeated
resident Roosevelt's statement that
J intends to give present mediation
achinery a fair trial before endors-
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