The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-03-13
LABOR'S NEWS
In BRIEF
By Federated Press

| WASHINGTON.-Attempts by ami
labor congressman to abolish all owe
time provisions of the federal wag
hour law flopped when the house d
feated by 226 to So measure intr,
duced by Rep. Howard w. Smith Il
Va.).
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of |,
boris civil rights is essential toda
and the public should beware of en-
ployer propaganda for legislativ
curbs, the senate civil liberties con
mittee said in the first of a ney
series of reports to the U. S. senate
Observation-Disclosures refusal
to pay any attention to its order
have presented the Natl War Labo
Board with one of its most seriou.
headaches. Defiance has come from
George P. McNear, millionaire presi
dent of the Toledo Peoria & Western
Railroad, and from Chicago meal
packing concerns.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of maio,
portions of the plan of the Init. Union
of Mine Mill e Smelter Workers
(CIO) to increase the output of COP.
per was announced March by Sidney
Hillman, labor director of the War
Board.
ERIE, Pa.-Landlords cannot evict
tenants refusing to pay rent boosts
first going through a court
hearing on the tenants rights under
the recently enacted price control law.
Judge Elmer L. Evans has ruled.
he S. S. Kresge Co. to make a profit
IN it's stock of Japanese goods has
been spiked by the Jefferson County
Trades & Labor Assembly. The
scheme involved cut rate sale of
Japanese merchandise in stock, with
he proceeds used to buy defense
ponds for the benefit of the store.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.-Ousting from
he local defense setup of Police Sgt.
I. A. Stapp, who curses unions in
lis defense classes, has been asked
~ CLIO officials, who blamed Stapp
or the failure of local unions to par
icipate intellectually in civilian de-
ense activities
DAYTON, O.-To support the war
ffort, members of Local 1856, Intl
assn. of Fire Fighters (AFL), have
oted to contribute their days off for
special wartime safety inspection.
SAN FRANCISCO. = A California
Var Labor Board on the plan of the
ational board was advocated by the
tate executive board of the CLIO, at
IS quarterly session in San Francisco.
TACOMA, Wash. - An agreement
)r the duration of the war, based on
wing costs, has been signed between
ocal 367, Retail Clerk init. Protec-
We Assn. (AFL), and Tacoma gro
cry stores. Tied to the index of the
ureau of Labor Statistics, the con-
act provides an automatic zoe to
SC weekly raise for each point that
lie cost of living rises.
INDIANAPOLIS.-Scab drivers en-
Ioyed by the $3O,O0O,OO0 Morgan
acking Co. of Austin killed eight per
ms and injured % in 23O accidents
yer an 1-month period, complained
10 Hadley-Mahoney Insurance Agen-
l. The init. Bro. of Transfers
hauffeurs Warehousemen & Helpers
AFL) struck the company three
ears ago.
CLEVELAND.-In letter to Rem
gton Rand Inc, notorious union
lsting company, Pres. Frederick G.
-awford of the anti-union Thompson
-oducts Co. described his method of
citing unions. This business secret
as revealed by Organizer Ed Hall
the United Automobile Aircraft g.
gricultura1 Implement Workers
,IO) as the union prepared to COM
ain to the Natl. War Labor Board
at Thompson's union-fighting was
ndering war production.
- The Sojourner Truth ,
using project remained closed to h
gro families following a Ku Klux
an-inspired outbreak of mob VIC T
ice February % in which police :
rev teargas bombs, Ia persons were 7
ured and several arrests were '
lde. G
- Ruling that COM
ny unions have no legal standing !
representation disputes, the U. S.
cult court of appeals has upheld :
Natl. Mediation Board order calling !.
on the Virginian railroad to recog-
% the Bro. of Railway Carmen
FL). The company union had COM
ined that it should have been in d
med in advance of the boards
and shown the authorize {
n cards.
plan for collect v
scrap, initiated by the milk driv- Il
local of the init. Bro. of Team O
RS Chauffeurs Warehousemen G. B
lpers (AFL), went into effect c.
rch 2. al