The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-01-07
LABOR'S NEWS
In BRIEF
BY Federated Press

w YIN w Ill thO NitAotA
shop established as proper issue for
arbitration, labor and industry repre-
sentatives agreed upon formula for
peaceful settlement of disputes dur
ing wartime The agreement bars
strikes and lockouts, calls for peace
full settlement of all disputes and
provides for creation of war labor
board by Pres. Roosevelt.
WASHINGTON. = Members of the
United Automobiles Aircraft & Agr1-
cultural Implement Workers (ClO)
have pledged themselves to buy a
battleship to replace the one sunk by
the Japanese at Pearl Harbor Dec.
Z, Sec. of the Treasury Henry Nor
genthau announced.
WASHINGTON-The man-hour out
put of labor in the year ending August
1941 was 1919 higher than in the year
ending August 1889, but money wages
were only To higher and real wages
increased even less, the department
of labor reported in its monthly re-
view for December.
WASHINGTON. = Fred W. Darby,
sawmill operator of Statesboro, Ca,
who challenged the constitutionality
of the federal wage-hour law and lost
before the u S. supreme court, was
fined $4,000 after two years of litiga-
ton.
NEW YORK. = Nineteen forty-one
was a record year for consumer CO.
operatives, the Cooperative League
of the U. S. A. reports. Hundreds
of stores and service stations through
out the country were streamlined.
New stores, warehouses and produc-
tive units were built, and sales
reached new peaks.
OTTAWA shift in the vicious
anti-union attitude of the Canadian
government in wartime was seen in
the appointment of Humphrey Mitch
ell, veteran ALL unionist, as labor
minister. Clarence S. Jackson, CLIO
official held in a concentration camp
for six months, was released, and
charges against IA CLIO members &C
cused of striking illegally were dis
missed.
LOS ANGELES. - Randolph van
Nostrand, public relations director of
the VIGOROUSLY anti-labor Merchants
e Manufacturers Assn, has been ap-
pointed co-ordinator of public rela-
lions for the Los Angeles County De-
tense Council The appointment made
by Sheriff Eugene w. Biscailuz, was
protested by labor.
CLEVELAND.-The salary of Tom
Girdler, chairman of Republic Steel
Corp, is excessive, wasteful and a
reckless dissipation of assets" a
stakeholder charged in a suit filed in
state court Girdler got $4,000 in
1910.
RAVENNA, o. Union tenants at
Westlawn Homes, U. S. defense hous-
ing project near the Ravenna ord
nance plant are fighting against pro-
posed rent increases up to 1870 Most
of the tenants are members of AFL
unions employed at the plant.
RACINE, Wis - Alarmed by I'M
justified price increases, AFL and
CLIO unionists are preparing to fight
back through a recognized Consum-
ers Council.
AKRON, O.-Joining in the growing
demand for peace in labor's ranks, the
Summit County Labor News on Dec.
10 published a front-page editorial
headed, 1--WE Need a United Labor
Movement"
SAN FRANCISCO.--After publicly
praising and offering full cooperation
with Harry Bridges adaptation of the
Murray plan for labor-industry war
councils as applied to the San Fran
cisco waterfront, the employers have
suddenly reversed themselves and
turned thumbs down.
HAMTRAMCK, Mich-Following a
5000 annual raise in minimum pay
won by the Detroit local of the Amer
lean Federation of Teachers (AFL),
the suburban Hamtramck local won
raises ranging from 81 to 5000 year,
effective for $50 teachers Dec. 16.
BENDIX, N. J.-Air Associates Inc,
which staged one of the bitterest anti
union struggles of 1941, has signed
a contract with the United Automo-
bile Aircraft G. Agricultural Imple-