The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-05-08
LABOR'S NEWS
In BRIEF
By Federated Press

! WASHINGTON Congress backe
further away from anti-labor legis
lation April 80 as the house nava
affairs committee voted to table thu
lVinson-Smith measure abolishing over
time pay after 40 hours a week.
| WASHINGTON.-Rigid government
tai controls over retail and wholesale
prices and rents were clamped dowr
April 20 by Price Administrator Leon
Henderson.
WASHINGTON.-A maintenance OF
membership clause in the case of the
Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co.,
U. S. Steel subsidiary, was granted
by the Natl War Labor Board April
I27.
WASHINGTON.-Showing a gain of
nearly 5000 in the number of oppon-
ents in the house to the Dies COM
mittee, the house voted 290 to Ga to
give the committee $4,000.
NEW YORK.-Members of the Ital-
ian-American Labor Council, repre-
senting AFL and CLIO unionists, on
April 25 heard their president, Luigi
Antonini, read message from ALL
Pres. William Green calling for sup
port of the free Italian movement.
GRAND ISLAND, Nebr.-Pres. Roy
Brewer of the Nebraska Federation of
Labor exposed the Pegler line about
union racketeering on defense con-
struction jobs by announcing complete
data on dues schedules at the Corn
husker ordnance plant and by telling
how the unions are fighting for wage
increases for the laborers.
EVANSVILLE, Ind.-The AFL, CLIO
and railroad brotherhoods here have
united to sponsor 5-minute labor
radio program which will be broad
cast over Station WGBF nightly ex-
cept Saturday and Sunday. The
series will start May 4.
CHICAGO The Inland Steel Co.,
one of the anti-labor Little Steel
group, will fight any union security
order of the Natl. War Labor Board.
So announced Pres. Wilfred Sykes
April 29 at the annual stockholders
meeting.
NEW YORK. = Many CLIO unions
and number Of AFL unions through
,ut the country have demanded the
opening of western front against
Hitler.
NEW YORK.-Some "awfully clev-
,r people" are trying to turn our
Irmed forces against labor, Mrs. |
franklin D. Roosevelt told a Y.W.C.A.
conference of women war workers
lere April 25.
CLEVELAND CLIO unionists who
we're fired for putting This machine
works for Hitler" stickers on idle ma
hines at Thompson Products Inc.
lave been ordered back on their Jobs |
W the Natl. War Labor Board.
OKLAHOMA CITY. - The farmers
nd labor have got together to COM /
'at propaganda against both by the
chamber of Commerce and newspa-
ers. The Unity Council of Industrial
research Education was organized for
his purpose by representatives of the
,klahoma Farmers Union, the Okla
oma Federation of Labor, the CLIO,
'eterans of Industry and railroad
|
DETROIT. - First negro families
loved into the Sojourner Truth hous-
lg project April 20 under armed con-
oys and guard, but without the out :
reak of mob violence which marked 9
leir attempt to move In on Feb. 2S. {
PORT ARTHUR, Textile Nodes !.
, frameup Of seven years ago by /.
hich Standard Oil Co. sent nine !,
embers of the Marine Firemen Oil
8 & Watertenders (unaffiliated) to
an Quentin prison in California had :
'percussions recently when Ruel !,
tanfield, one of the framed men, was
llled off tanker here by the Naval
telligence. A protest to the Navy
apartment has been made by the =
FOW. If