The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-09-18
LABOR'S NEWS
In BRIEF
By Federated Press

WASHINGTON - Employers who
had hopefully believed in newspaper
dope stories that President Roosevelt
would announce wage freezing in MS
Labor Day speech were disappointed
when the President urged carrying
out of his 7-point anti-inflation pro-
gram The message was backed by
AFL and CLIO.
WASHINGTON first job sta
bilization program in U. S. history
went into effect when Chairman Paul
V. McNutt of the war manpower COM
mission issued an order that western
metal miners and lumber workers can
switch jobs only with government per-
mission. Unions, which helped work
out the plan, denied that the order
was job freezing, as it was interpreted
by the commercial press.
WASHINGTON.-By rollcall vote
of 247 to SO, the house crashed
through poll tax barriers to give the
vote to all soldiers, and thereby
achieved the greatest victory ever
won against the anti-democratci cleo
ton system in poll tax states.
NEW YORK. - Unions throughout
the country celebrated Labor Day
with the customary parades and meet
ings, but without interrupting produc-
ton. Off-shift workers took part in
the celebrations while on-shift work
ers remained at their benches.
MEMPHIS Southern cotton pick
ers are demanding So per 100 pounds,
which is the equivalent of 3Oc an
hour, and are ready to pull stay-at-
home to get it. They are now paid
fom 75c to $1.50 per 100 pounds, or
from lie to &c an hour, estate
survey by the Southern Tenant Farm
ers Union (unaffiliated) revealed.
SUSANVILLE, Cal-The townwide
lockout technique, used unsuccessfully
by Flagstaff, Ariz., and Chester, ILL.,,
merchants in June, was tried here by
Susanville Employers Council in re-
prisal for recent strike for wage in
creases by the Retail Clerks init. Pro
tective Assn. (AFL).
NEW YORK. - Job discrimination
against loyal alien workers has in
creased, the American Committee for
Protection of Foreign Born said In
asking President Roosevelt to nipple
ment his public denunciations of such
SAN DIEGO.-The first triple dam
age suit against a landlord violating
the price control act was won by OPA
here, where The Labor Leader, AFL
paper, has conducted vigorous cam
paign against rent gouging.
FARMINGDALE, N. Y Ten days
after Republic Aircraft Co. fired Jo-
seph Abramson for union activity, the
department of justice and the army
made the firm dismiss Foreman
Charles Hechtl, who had constantly
rejected Abramson's suggestions for
speeding production.
OKLAHOMA CITY-Senile Thomas
Doyle, one of the three members Of
the Oklahoma criminal court of APP
peals, wouldn't listen to attorneys for
Init. Labor Defense argue the appeals
of four persons from 10-year sentences
and $4,000 fines under criminal syn
dicalism law. Doyle staged a sit
down in his private chambers while
Judges Bert B. Barefoot and Dick
Jones listened to the attorneys.
NEW YORK. = Petty rules issued
frequently by police to intimidate
pickets were outlawed by Magistrate
]. Roland Sala when he dismissed the
case of two ALL pickets arrested for
refusing to stay within five feet of
the curb
LOS ANGELES-An injunction suit
by Pres. Richard Franklin of the
American Union Alliance against the
Init. Bro. of Transfers (AFL) back
fired when Superior Court Judge Hen
ry M. Willis fined the company union
chief $3.50 for contempt of court and
refused to grant the writ.
WASHINGTON. = Figures of the
Natl. War Labor Board substantiate
labor's claim that delays in the board
are adding to unrest The board dis
closed that of 460 cases received since
it was established January IL, less
than half-205-have been closed.
WASHINGTON-By executive or
Ter President Roosevelt has abolished
Tor the duration in war plants double
time overtime for Sundays and holt
days when those days come within
The span of the 40-hour week. This
had been already voluntarily agreed