The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-03-06
LABOR'S NEWS
In BRIEF
BY Federated Press

WASHINGTON. - Renew I'd on
slaughts against labor, based on EN-
ployer opposition to union securit.
provisions, found congressional ex
preston as Rep. Howard Smith Cd.
Va.) introduced a bill to abolish al
overtime provisions of the fedora
wage-hour law.
WASHINGTON. - Discharge o
George Deatherage, avowed fascist
was ordered by Secretary of the Navy
Frank Knox after the newspaper Pm
had disclosed that Deatherage was
boss engineer on $25,000,000 navy
construction job in Norfolk, Va.
WASHINGTON The union shoI
and $1-a-day increases were denied
the Init. Union of Mine Mill & Smell
ter Workers (CIO) by the Natl. Wal
Labor Board. The decision affected
$50 employees Of the Phelps Dodge
Corp. at Douglas, Ariz.
DETROIT.-The do-nothing civilian
defense situation in Detroit and else
where in Michigan is drawing sharp
fire from both AFL and CLIO quarters,
who ascribe the scandal to a game of
politics between Mayor Edward ].
Jeffries and Gov. Murray d. Van
Wagner
SAN FRANCISCO-A 5-month AFL
strike against San Francisco depart
ment stores ended with an agreement
that raises will be negotiated over
a 30-day period and then submitted
to arbitration if no settlement is
reached. The stores refused to arbi-
trate the union shop demand.
WASHINGTON. = Claims of the
Transport Workers Union (CIO) for
representation rights on the Los An
geles Railway Corp. and the Los An
geles Motor Coach Co. were rejected
by a 10 to 2 decision of the Natl.
War Labor Board. The board said
it was bound by California court ap-
prevail of a closed shop contract with
the Amalgamated Assn. q of Street
Electric Railway & Motor Coach EN-
ployes (AFL).
NEW YORK. = Declaring that the
agreement works both ways,
NLRB Regional Director Gilmore M.
Herrick placed full blame on the Co
lumbar Bronze Corp. for provoking
a 1-week strike of 215 AFL workers.
1.-THE cooperation which we should
have had from the company has been
signally lacking and wilfully with
held" she said.
NEW YORK.-With the union shop
issue about to come up before the
Natl. War Labor Board, the Natl.
Assn. of Manufacturers in Washing
tons birthday statement declared that
the union shop "can be the downfall
Of America"
LANSING, Mich.-Instead of 1888
to keep him and his family alive for
4 possible year of unemployment, a
worker thrown out of his job by the
war conversion program will get $500
IS jobless benefit. CLIO and ALL
pressure on the Democratic governor
and Republican legislature did the
Job.
CLEVELAND.--Clev unionists
;aved 1861 in the past year through
he CLIO Medical-Dental plan, Admin
strator George Delaphane said in his
annual report. Under the plan CLIO
lnionists and their families get pro-
essional services at $50 to 500 less
han standard fees.
SAN DIEGO.-The San Diego Labor |
leader, AFL paper, won its fight |
gainst rent boosts Of 300 to 249%, |
vhen the local fair rent committee |
roze rents to the level of April /,
GAL.
NEW YORK. Slogans on every |
anitation truck to interest citizens
q saving scrap for war use have beer
recommended to Mayor f. n. La
,uardia by the Greater New York
Industrial Union Council. The CLIO
Ian is aimed to yield $4,000 tons
ear.
CHICAGO.-The twin problems of
ow to win the war and how to pre-
ent mass unemployment among
samsters were dealt with in a nation
| conference of the ntl. Bro. of Team
tiers Chauffeurs Warehousemen &
Ielpers (AFL) held here. The con-
srence called for an early congress
ional investigation to determine
locks of crude rubber Immediately
valuable to the U. S.
ST. LOUIS. - Representatives o f
900 ALL and CLIO union members
orking on the barge lines of mid
est rivers have united on a joint
rogram for helping to win the war.