The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-01-08
LABOR'S NEWS
In BRIEF
Federated Press)

WASHINGTON Defense Commits.
sioner Sidney Hillman's protest
against the board of a s1,462,500 con-
tract to the Ford Motor Co. was
brushed aside by army officials. The
contract was signed December 81, no
excuse being offered for the failure
to heed the Hillman protest
WASHINGTON CLIO Pres. Philip
Murray called on all CLIO affiliates
and members to oppose passage of
two model bills proposed to the 4S
state legislatures by the Federal-State
Conference on Law Enforcement Prob
lens of National Defense. The two
bills, Murray explained, while osten-
sibly directed against sabotage and
designed to set up state home guards,
actually are aimed at labor's right to
assemble, picket and strike.
WASHINGTON Formation of the
Wine Liquor G Distillery Workers
Intl Union was announced by the
AFL following 2-day conference of
33 delegates from federal locals.
BIRMINGHAM.-The Alabama Pow
er Co., unit of the Commonwealth
& Southern Corp. formerly headed by
Wendell L. Willkie, has signed it's
first union contract with the Init. Bro.
of Electrical Workers (AFL). The
agreement ended 6-year fight against
marked by labor spying,
forming of company unions, firing of
union members, and intimidation.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL., - Pardons for
the five Duquoin miners. serving SEN
fences Of 40 years to life, were granted
Dec. "a by Gov John H. STEELE. The
men were convicted in April 1888 on
murder charges arising
from the jurisdictional disputes in the
Illinois coal fields when the Progress
sive Mine Workers (AFL) was organ
lied
NEWARK.-The first contract with
an aircraft firm to provide the check
off was signed December 23 between
The United Automobile Workers (CIO)
and the Brewster Aeronautical Corp.
In new contract with the Bell Air
craft Co. of Buffalo, the JAW won an
nual wage increases totalling $500,000
CLEVELAND-A threatened strike
If 1000 drivers against the Central
Lines was averted when |
he men won a closed shop, their main
demand. The new agreement was
signed by the Amalgamated Assn. of |
Street Electric Railway G Motor
Coach Employees (AFL).
TRENTON.-Legality of boycott |
against an unfair firm was
Upheld by the New Jersey court of
errors and appeals. The decision
yoided chancery court injunction re-
'training the init. Union of United |
Brewery Flour Cereal &c Soft Drink
(AFL) from carrying on a
boycott campaign against Kerns Bev-
srage Co., which had refused to deal
With the union.
NEWARK Constant violation of |
he national labor relations act proved
! boomerang to the Ford Motor Co.
when the Newark City Commission,
lcting on the protest of the Greater
Newark Industrial Union Council, can
,eled orders for more than $4,000
worth of Ford cars.
CHESTER, Pa.-The story of how
he Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co.
lsed typically Ford strongarm tactics
o break strike of the Industrial
Union of Marine e Shipbuilding Work
RS (CIO) in 1886 and to build up
trong company union in the plant
vas told during the first week of
JLRB hearings.
SAN FRANCISCO.-A new 2-year
greement for west coast 1ongshore-
no nwas finally signed December 20
etween the Init. Longshoremen's &
Union (CIO) and the
Employers Assn. The
igning came after prolonged negotia-
ions and FREQUENT deadlOcks.