The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-04-03
LABOR'S NEWS
In BRIEF
By Federated Press

by Feu6TdlSu IIcSS
WASHINGTON Government sci
ure of the Toledo Peoria & WesteI
;. Railroad ended an 84-day strike
the Bro. of Railroad Trainmen an
Bro. of Locomotive Firemen & e
ginemen (both unaffiliated). TIL
seizure followed refusal to arbitrat
: by company president George P. M
Near Strikers were reinstated wit
full seniority as union demands wer
to the Natl. War Labor Board.
WASHINGTON. -. Labor manag'
ment production conferences held b
the War Production Board in variou
cities were enthusiastically attende
by union representatives, but receive
reluctantly by spokesman for manage
ment.
WASHINGTON. - ALL and CI(
united in fight to preserve the 40
hour week and to stop the employer
sponsored onslaught on labor led b,
Rep. Howard w. Smith d., Va.).
| WASHINGTON. - Double-time pay
for Sundays and holidays, when those
days come within the span of the
40-hour week, was waived by bott
AFL and CLIO for the duration of the
war at the request of Chairman Don
aid M. Nelson of the War Production
Board.
WASHINGTON Another story OF
the heroism of union workers was in
scribed on the official records as the
U. S. Navy cited for heroic and most
efficient work" 20 Honolulu AFL navy
yard workers who, under fire, worked
Sc hours to release 80 men trapped
In the U. S. S. Oklahoma on Deem
Der 7.
WASHINGTON. - An offer to put
100000 in defense bonds was made
to Secretary of the Treasury Henry
Morgenthau on behalf of the United
Mine Workers (CIO) March 20 by
Pres. John L. Lewis and Sec Treas.
Thomas Kennedy.
WASHINGTON-The presidents Of
five CLIO unions joined with CLIO Sec.
James Carey in pledging to Sec. of
the Navy Frank Knox that their mem
bers would invest Sill, 100000 in de-
tense bonds during 1912 for the pur-
chase Of four warships and 10 Liberty
Fleet merchant ships.
NEW YORK. - An offer to waive
overtime pay on Saturdays, Sundays
and Holidays If management would
give the funds thus saved to the gov
specifically ear-marked for
war materials, was made to the Gen.
eral Electric Co. by the United Elec-
.rical Radio & Machine Workers
(CIO), in quarter-page ads in the daily
press.
AUSTIN, Minn.-The American Lee
yion labor sterilization plan, opposed
by organized labor, has Topped in its
'irst test. Sec. H. D. Lidstone of the
Austin Chamber of Commerce adj
nitted tina the plan has been dropped,
according to Editor Leslie R. Hurt of
The Unionist.
TORONTO.-Persistent protests by
abor and its friends have won the re-
ease of Pres. Pat Sullivan of the |
canadian Seamen's Union after 81 |
months internment. Freed at the
anne time were Jack Chapman, CSU |
treasurer, and David Sinclair, editor
The Searchlight, CSU organ, and
member of the Montreal Newspaper
Iuild (CIO).
PHILADELPHIA-Held In contempt
y the U. S. circuit court Of appeals,
l. Newhouse, anti-union publisher,
omplied with an NLRB order on
Iarch 20 and forked over s8,86550 in
ack pay to Agnes Fahy, member of
lie American Newspaper Guild (CIO)
red in 1887.
IDAHO FALLS, Ida.-A plan to use
len Japanese evacuated from the !
acific coast for defeating unioniza- !
on of the potato fields has been
Popped, Sec.-Treas. Lee Owens of
ocal 440, IntI Bro of Transfers
hauffeurs Warehousemen & Helpers
iFL), revealed following a mass n
Getting called by potato shed opera
RS. The operators are continuing II
cir fight against the union. III
NEW YORK.-The granting of gov
nment war contracts to southern
while the organized wom-
Is garment industry works at less
an capacity and unemployment
reatens 10000 workers in New
)rk City alone, came In for sharp II
iticism in report prepared by the
IL. Ladies Garment Workers Union
.FL).
- Levelling its guns at
employer who is taking advantage
labor's voluntary yielding of the
ike weapon by violating contract
DIVISIONS, the United Automobile Air
aft & Agricultural Implement Work
, (CI0) demanded government seiz-
2 Of the Irving Chute Co.
demand proved light and spotted.
binary protein No / dark northern
eat, ranging from So to 60 lbs test