Montana labor news., 1944-08-10

News Of The Silver Bow
Trades & Labor Council
An announcement from the delegates
of the Machinists' Union that all ap-
prentices and journeymen released from
the armed forces got their old jobs
back was welcome news to the Trades
and Labor Council at its last meeting
Some time ago the matter OF classi-
fication of part-time employees was taken
up in the Trades and Labor Council. It
was occasioned by the granting of per-
mission by the War Manpower Com
mission to allow men in various essen
tial industries, such as the mines, to
work down town or for other private .
EMPLOYERS to the extent of 80 hours
per week and still be called part-time
workers The unions objected because
under this decision man or woman
could work in private industry as
part-time worker for Is hours for one
employer and then go and work for 10
TO 20 hours for another employers and
still be considered a part-time worker
and thereby enable the employer to
avoid payment of overtime wage sched-
ules. It was brought out at the Tues
dav meeting that the Manpower Com
mission had agreed that 16 hours would
q
could work and still be considered
part-time worker. That is, if he had
been taken from an essential industry
and put into essential one.
Secretary Vawter reported that an
other $4,000 had been paid on the legal
bill incurred when the Trades and Labor
Council asked for restraining order to
prevent the school board from making a
trade of the Garfield school to the Ana
conda company. The unions and other
people are earnestly requested to help
pay the balance of $4,000 which is due.
Make checks payable to the School Wei
fare Fund, Box 1917.
The delegates 70 the Council were
very much interested in a report about
the coming Jubilee Convention OF the
Montana State Federation Of Labor
which will convene in Butte August Is.
on Monday the 14th the State Culinary
Alliance will hold its convention at the
Teamsters' hall, 711s East Park street.
An invitation was extended to all the
delegates of the Council to attend the
session of the Federation convention.
An echo of the Miners strike of 1884
was heard in the hall when the Bar
tenders Union of Bozeman asked the
Trades and Labor Council to investigate
a said person now claiming to be a bar
tender and who it is alleged scabbed in
Butte in the Miners strike. The report
stated that this certain persons Is at
present working in Livingston, under the
bartenders' jurisdiction. The communl-
cation was referred to the Miners
Union.
Joe Richer was seated as delegaue
from the Plumbers Union.
The subject of the Murray-Kilgore
reconversion bill was injected into the
proceedings. The following resolution
was adopted
RESOLUTION
Whereas the reconversion from war
time to peacetime economy will entail
the unemployment of many millions OF
war workers now engaged in shipbuild-
ing. munitions, aircraft and other war
industries as well as the return to
civilian life of the men and women OF
the armed forces and will have far
reaching implications for all of the peo-
pie. and particularly all labor, and
Whereas, the disposal Of billions OF
dollars worth of industrial facilities,
machines, ships and equipment now
owned by the federal government, and
the planning of civilian production with
the view of full employment at fair
wages will determine the future we'll
being of the American people for years
to come.
Whereas, the Murray-Kilgore bill now
before the Senate is the only proposed
legislation which meets the WIDE ap-
proval Of labor and the people and is
the only legislation which seriously
takes into consideration the general
welfare of the American people with
regard to plant disposal and general
reconversion, now therefore be it
Resolved that this organization go on
record in full support Of the Murray
Kilgore reconversion bill, and be it fur
ther
Resolved that, since many attempts
are being made by the coalition of poll
tax southerners and northern Repubi-
cans to evade the issues and ana intro
duce bills and amendments intended to
cripple reconversion and subvert the
interests of the people, this organiza-
ton instrist its secretary to wire Sena-
tors Murray and Wheeler and Repre-
sentatives Mansfield and O'Connor
making known to them our position on
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