The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-03-27
LABOR'S NEWS
In BRIEF
BY Federated Press

WASHINGTON to stem tn
: congressional tide toward anti-labo
legislation were made by administra
ton forces following President Roose
velt's denunciation Of newspapers TO
their campaign against labor.
WASHINGTON-N Jersey Indus
state war plants were operating a
only 1870 capacity were confirmed by
Chairman Donald NJ Nelson of the
War Production Board. The Chamber
of Commerce had charged that the
CLIO figures were false.
Observation-Disclosures based on g
health and decency were urged by
the AFL in its monthly survey. While
profits in 1941 reached a peak, $40
of American families received incomes
of less than $1,000 a year, 1t was
pointed out.
WASHINGTON. - Rejection of the
demand of the United Automobile Air
craft e Agricultural Implement Work
ers (CIO) for a union shop contract
with the Bower Roller Bearing Co. OF
Detroit was ordered by the Natl War
Labor Board on the ground that the
contract was the first between the
company and the union.
INDEPENDENCE, Mo.-The Saints
Herald, official Mormon paper, ceased
publication for the first time in its
81-year history when its employees
struck for union recognition and
wages. The two unions involved are
the Intl Typographical Union (unaf-
filiated) and the init. Printing Press
mems G. Assistants Union (AFL).
BROOKLYN, N. Y.-Nathan Gott-
lieb, described by the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers (CIO) as the big
gest chiseler ever to hit the laundry
industry, won the distinction March
IS of being the first employer to get
a Jail term for pocketing social Sc
curity taxes collected from employees.
q. S. Judge Marcus B. Campbell i'm
posed a 15-month term after Gottlieb
pleaded guilty to failing to turn over
to the U. S. s422 collected from his
employees in 1910.
LOS ANGELES. = The owners of
the V-O Milling Co. are slackers, not
the AFL pickets who have marched in
front of the plant for the past IL
months, according to the findings of
NLRB Trial Examiner Gustaf B.
Erickson, who recommended rein
statement with back pay for Al strik-
ers. Last December the firm had its
scabs picket the pickets with signs
saying: Work or Fight, You Stacker"
SPRINGFIELD, MOTOR his recent
refusal to bargain with state en-
ployes, Gov Forrest G. Donnell was
assailed In front-page editorial of
The Union Labor Record, local AFL
paper. The governor refused to arbi-
trate the recent firing of a member
of the Init. Longshoremen's Assn.
(AFL).
BAKERSFIELD, Cal.-Kern county
unions are fighting an Associated
Farmer-indorsed proposal to try out
the American Legion labor stabiliza-
tion plan in the county. The plan,
backed by the George A HORNED Co.,
meat packer, is already
in effect In Austin, Mimi, where the
HORNED plant is located, local unions
say.
CLEVELAND 12-man city-wide
AFLCIO ACKNOWLEDGEMENT produc-
ton committee has been appointed by
Mayor Frank Lausche. The commit
tee will consolidate efforts of produc-
ton committees in the plants set up
under the current production drive of
the War Production Board.
WEIRTON, w. Va.-Daily firing of
CLIO unionists by the Weirton Steel |
Co. was brought to the attention of |
The Natl. War Labor Board, War Pro-
AUCTION Board and NLRB on March |
Ia.
NEW Notwithstanding evidence of
he tieup between daily newspapers
md employers In making war against
abor rather than against the Axis was
provided by wide employer distribu-
ion of reprints of Wake Up, Amer
Late" an anti-labor editorial
n the Scripps-Howard papers.