The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-01-30
LABOR'S NEWS
In BRIEF
By Federated Press

a u. S. to copper, lead and zinc pro
9 ducers represent "a complete victor,
for the deliberate sitdown of the met
. al mining industry during the las
year and a half" siad President Reit
Robinson of the init. Union of Mine
! Mill & Smelter Workers (CIO).
WASHINGTON.-(FP)- Easing Of
tho ban on auto and truck tires tc
permit continuance Of the Transports
! ton services, including delivery serv
ices, was asked by the AFL execu
} tive council following denunciation OF
: the program of Pres. Daniel j. Tobin
of the init. Bro. of Transfers Chauf-
feurs Warehousemen & Helpers.
WASHINGTON OPP - Southern
landowners were deprived of one of
tehir principal weapons January IL
as the U. S. supreme court declared
unconstitutional Georgia slave stat
ute making failure to repay debt
a crime.
| SAN FRANCISCO. - OPP - San
most union city of the nation, blazed
q new trail when representatives of
every section of the labor movement
gathered to pledge united action for
the duration Of the war.
PEORIA, Ill.-(FP)-A demand that
the U. S. take over the struck Toledo
Peoria & Western Railroad was made
by the Bro. of Locomotive Firemen
& Enginemen and the Bro. of Railroad
Trainmen (both unaffiliated), as
GeorgeP. McNear, company president,
continued his refusal to arbitrate and
began to hire strikebreakers.
PITTSBURGH (FP) A crusade
against rent profiteering is fast
spreading here as result of the con-
certed effort of real estate operators
to up rents by 1000.
NORWALK, Conn-FP)-The Hat
Corp. Of America, leading manufac
turer of mems hats, has signed its
| first contract with the United Hatters
Cap & Millinery Workers (AFL). The
firm makes Knox, Dobbs, Crofut &
Knapp and Cavanagh hats
NEW YORK.-(FP)-The National
Maritime Union (CIO) continued its
fight against racial discrimination
among seamen, after forcing the u. S.
Lines to hire rs negroes whom the
company had rejected because of their
race.
NEW YORK-(FP)-The anti-un-
ion front of Wall Street brokers was
cracked when Office Employees Local
20940 (AFL) won an NILRB election
at the brokerage office of Jules S.
Bache & Co. Results were 100 for
the union and 101 against
CLEVELAND. - (FP) - Some $50
delegates to a special convention of |
the Natl. Assn. of Die Casting Work
ers (CIO) unanimously approved the |
merger of their union with the init |
Union of Mine Mill Smelter Work
ers (CIO).
WASHINGTON. = An unexpected
move for labor unity by Pres John
L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers
(CIO) was received coldly by both
CLIO Pres. Philip Murray and ALL
Pres. William Green.
CARUTHERSVILLE, Mo. - A pro-
test against the breaking up of a
meeting Of farm laborers January 16
by local planters was made by Pres.
Roy e. Raley of the Southern Tenant
Farmers Union (unaffiliated) in wires
to Gov F. c. Donnell and U. S. Atty.
Gen. Francis Biddle.
WASHINGTON.-Naval contractors
are making huge profits on arms or
ders and labor unions should be tight
ly controlled, said Rep. Carl Vinson
3D., Ga.), chairman of the naval af-
fairs committee, in report to the
house.
WESTINGHOUSE. of the Treas.
Henry Morgenthau commended the
ALL for setting patriotic example
to the nation" in pledging purchases
Of $1,000,000000 in defense bonds by
It's 100000 members during the COM
ing year. Announcement of the pledge
was made by AFL Pres. William
Green.
NEW YORK. - District so, United |
Mine Workers (CIO), has extended its I
drive to the dairy farmers
If New York state. Pres. O. E. Casa t
way hailed the recent utilization Of '
5000 Michigan dairy farmers. S
DULUTH, MINI. Duluth public 6
school teachers, who belonged to the g
Duluth Teachers Assn, have voted II
'32 to "a to join the American Fedora h
ion of Teachers (AFL). The new 2
lily.
LOS ANGELES-Vigorou protests
" organized labor forced Randolph :
Fan Nostrand public relations direc-
or of the Merchants & Manufacturers y
assn. to resign from the Los Angeles y
Defense Council after labor-baiting 0
peech.
TARENTUM, Pa.-The Aluminium [
.ader Co., which has 100000 back
og Of navy orders, locked out it's h
workers. after AFL Federal Local D
2345 demanded hourly raises Of 10c O
0 25c. Precision machine men get q
My 73c an hour, and the minimum fl
Gale is 45c.