The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-05-29
LABOR'S NEWS
In BRIEF
By Federated Press

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: posed cooperative relationship" b
4 tween officials of American, BIRTHS
8 and Soviet unions were outlined I
3 the AFL executive council May 20 b
Sir Walter Citrine, general secretar
: of the British Trades Union Congress
WASHINGTON.-T Natl. War L,
, Dor Board ordered both parties to
, dispute between 16 New Orleans laur
dries and the Amalgamated Clothin
Workers (COD to abide by the term
of collective bargaining contract
? signed last spring and to put all thei
clauses into effect Immediately.
WASHINGTON = Senatorial ak
wielders suffered a slashing defea
May IS as the senate, by vote 0
4S to 16, agreed to give the Farm
Security Administration more fund.-
this year than last.
NEW YORK. = An overwhelming
majority of workers In war plants dt
not have proper eating facilities, AFT
and CLIO unions told OPA. In many
communities workers bring lunch
boxes because of lack of lunchrooms
and in many cases, they have to cal
lunch standing at their machines OF
in toilets.
DETROIT.-Beaten in congress and
on the economic front, the Natl. Assn
of Manufacturers is looking to the
churches as a spearhead against labor
and progress, to Judge by the Mich
igan Church G. Industry Conference
May IA. Similar conferences have
been held in more than 80 cities.
| CHICAGO-Average wage increases
of 10 in the nations shipyards were
agreed to by representatives of labor,
management and government after a
3-week conference. The increases
will be paid in war bonds.
WASHINGTON. = Communication of
the sentence of Earl Browder, former
general secretary of the Communist
party, was announced May 16 by the
White House. Browder had served IA
months of his 4-year term for passport
Irregularities. A large number of I'M
ions had asked for his release.
PORTLAND, Ore.-With more than
half of the Portland Police Bureau or
ganized, local cops have applied to
the American Federation of State
County e Municipal Employer (AFL)
for a charter.
CALDWELL, N. ]. Faced with
NLRB charges of using the draft to
get rid of unionists, the Curtiss-
Wright Corp. agreed to put an end
to the Propellercraft Inc, company
union in its two propeller plants.
The charges were based on a COM
plant of the Init. Assn. of Machinists
(AFL) which has levelled similar ac-
cusations against the anti-union Doug
las Aircraft Co. in Santa Monica
hard to get job in Reading" The
Reading Labor Advocate, local labor
paper, gave the lie to a feature story
in Hearst's New York Journal-Amer-
lean telling about a local employment
boom. A similar phony job boom
story in The Kenosha (Wis.) News
was exploded by The Kenosha Labor,
AFL-CIO paper.
NEW YORK. - Removal of West |
brook Pegler's columns from The
Stars & Stripes, official AEF news |
paper, was asked of President Roose-
velt by the New York local of the |
American Newspaper Guild .(CIO).
NEW YORK.-Pearl l.. Bergoff, his
brother Leo and Bernhard Haas were
convicted May Is in special sessions
court of conspiracy to operate the |
Modern Investigation Bureal, a strike
breaking agency 1t was the first |
conviction for Bergoff in his many
years of strikebreaking.
ASBURY PARK, N. JAIL build
ng trades workers are picketing the
100000 swimming pool be-
ng built with non-union labor by Wal
er Reade, millionaire promoter and
heater operator.
NEW YORK-Labor must see to 1t
hat all Z points of President Roose-
velt's anti-inflation program are car
led out. This is the general senti-
nent expressed in the editorials of
abor newspapers which have come to
he support of the Presidents pro-
ram.
WORCESTER, Mass. = An unsuc-
essful attempt to bride the president
nd secretary Of the Massachusetts
federation Of Labor with 100000 was
he latest move Of big insurance COM
anies In a fight to keep the state
und for workmen's compensation off
be ballot this fall, MIL Sec. Kenneth
TavIOr REVEALED /