The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-06-26
LABOR'S NEWS
In BRIEF
By Federated Press

NGTON.-AttacKlnB lne 40
lar-a-year men for slowing down tn
conversion program, Truman CON
mittee report June Is called on Chain
man Donald M. Nelson of the wa
production board to denote some o
them and to promote representative
of labor and small business. The re
port was made over Nelson's protest
WASHINGTON. - The employers
anti-union security front on the Natl
War Labor Board cracked for the frs
time June IS in decision granting
maintenance of membership to th'
United Automobile Workers (CIO) a
the plant of the Ryan Aeronautica
Co. Two of the employer representa-
tievs voted for union security. The
board was unanimous in granting the
workers Zoe raise.
WASHINGTON. = Enactment of 8
long-term national program for rails
| ing the standards of millions of the
nations agricultural workers was pro
posed in a LaFollette committee re
port based on probe in California
agricultural workers to organize and
bargain collectively was recommended.
FALL RIVER, Mass.-Acting in a
strike of the American Federation of
Textile Operatives (unaffiliated
against the Arkwright Corp, the Natl.
War Labor Board for the first time
instructed the U. S. employment serv-
ice to recruit strikebreakers. The
board acted after the strikers rejected
its back-to-work order
NEW YORK-Arthur S. Ash, De-
troit toolmaker and member of the
United Automobile Workers (CIO),
was chosen June II by the Natl. Faith
ers Day committee as the Outstanding
Father in Labor. Ash has two sons
in the army.
GRANVILLE, o. Endorsement of
President Roosevelts 7-point war
economy program and steps to see
lndb IL 10 CdlilCQ Oul MtlC fOtCQ ct
a Consumers & the War Conference
sponsored by Consumers Union and
attended by SO delegates from con-
sumner groups, co-operatives, AFL, Clio
and railroad unions.
NEW YORK. - Westbrook Pegler,
Americas No. 1 anti-labor columnist,
finally admitted in his Scripps-How-
ard column June Is that he is labor
spy 81 exchange information with
employers and lawyers engaged in
fighting predatory unioneers," Pegler
confessed.
HARTFORD, Conn. Brig. Gen.
James H. Doolittle, hero of the sue
cessful air raid on Japan, has wired
congratulations to ALL workers who
make the propellers on the planes.
They are members of the init. Assn.
Of Machinists at Hamilton Standard
Propeller Co.
DETROIT. - In a strike of the
United Automobile Workers (CIO)
against the Federal Engineering Co.,
Maj. George Strong, district procure
ment officer of the army air corps,
to blacklist skilled alien
who had been on the picket
line.
CHICAGO. - Cooperation between
unions and management has resulted
in the delivery of war weapons and
as much as Ia months
ahead of schedule, War Production
Board Chairman Donald M. Nelson
said in a speech dedicating North
western University's new technolog-
cal institute June Is.
PITTSBURGH The Carnegie-Illi- |
lois Steel Co., U. S. Steel subsidiary, |
lgreed to comply with priorities reg
llations of the war production board |
tune Is, the day hearings were sched-
lied to start on yhe boards charges
If repeated, deliberate violations"
ATLANTIC CITY.-To relieve pri-
'rities unemployment in the ladies'
,arment industry, the Init. Ladies
Workers Union (AFU) has
.dvanced a plan for pooling of small
liant facilities.
JERSEY CITY, N. 1.-THE manage
nent Of the Hudson & Manhattan
not Motorman Louis A. Vier-
ucken, was responsible for the wreck
april 20 in the Hudson Tubes In
which five persons were killed and
So injured, the Public Utilities Com
mission has found.
NEW YORK-President Roosevelt's
equested s600,000,O00 for war hous-
ng will meet only one-seventh of the
eed, the Natl. Public Housing Con-
erence warned June 16.
GTON-Prosecution of the
}. |. dupont de Nemours Co. and
.llied Chemical & Dye on charges of
worldwide conspiracy to monopolize
he manufacture and sale of dyestuffs
Tas shelved indefinitely by Atty Gen.
rancis Biddle.
'ELLEY and TWO