LABOR BOARD ELECTION IS ORDERED AT HEARST CHICAGO PAPER IN GUILD STRIKE
Labor Board Election Is Ordered at Hearst Chicago Paper in Guild Strike Illinois CHICAGO, 111.—Four Chicago watch services consented in federal court here last week to the entry of judgments...
...to confer with officials of The Journal-American, a New York Hearst newspaper, "concerning methods of combatting the Guild activities...
...Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (CIO) is continuing to picket the West Coast Cigar Co...
...by the Chicago Editorial Association, an AFL affiliate, or by neither...
...Some Employes Granted Reinstatement by N. L. R. B. WASHINGTON, D. C—The publishers of The Chicago Herald-American, ft Hearst enterprise, were ordered last week by the National Labor Relations Board to withhold recognition from any labor organization as bargaining agent for its reportorial and clerical employes "until such time as some labor organization be certified by the board...
...Richard Gladstein were dismissed when Glad-stein contended that their constitutional right of free speech had been violated...
...Fifty lawyers retained by Annenberg last week lost the fight to save their client on technicalities...
...in respect to the defintion of 'area of production' for the packing (but not canning) of citrus fruits...
...O'Malley declared...
...Drey was advised in a conference with Vincent Ferries...
...All three were arrested after the cigar company had obtained a temporary injunction against picketing...
...was thrown out by Federal Judge Charles B. Davis at St...
...Resistance to Guild Is Alleged Following that meeting, the order said, numerous meetings were held and actions undertaken to accomplish this result...
...On the other hand, the Commercial Associates were said to have been assisted In "a iubstantive manner by the activities of the companies' supervisory agenLv" When the ordered election is held, employes in the editorial departments of the newspaper will vote on the question whether they desire to be represented by the Chicago Newspa)>er Guild, a CIO organization...
...Some 50,-000 workers are engaged in packing citrus fruits, largely In California, Florida and Texas...
...1938...
...The board stated, in its findings, that Adolph Drey, an employe in the advertising department, visited N;w York in May...
...in respect to the definition of 'area of production' for the handling, packing and storing (but...
...Hutcheson's union had been picketing a brewery and urging a boycott of its products during a controversy with the International Association of Machinists on jurisdiction over millwrights...
...O'Malley said the court action was an outgrowth of the division's inspection of 12 Chicago watch services which were found to owe 1,500 employes and former employes back wages of approximately $200,000 because of their failure to pay the minimum and overtime...
...The same firm is also suing the ILWU for $25,000 damages...
...From the beginning," the announcement stated, "the Guild was met with the company's resistance to the extension of Guild membership into the commercial department...
...i 23...
...must face a jury on charges of defrauding Uncle Sam of more than $5,000.00 in income taxes...
...9. The first, will be on "What, if any, amendment should be made...
...Moses L. ("Moe") Annenberg, millionaire publisher of the Philadelphia "Inquirer" and G. O. P. "angel...
...length alleged actions by which the newspaper sought to con...
...The watch services furnish watchmen and beat patrolmen to Chicago industrial, warehouse and business firms...
...Pinkerton's Is restrained from violating the act both in Illinois and California, where it also operates watch and patrol services...
...Contempt charges against ILWU Local Pres...
...not canning) of all perishable or seasonal fresh fruiis and vegetables other than citrus fruits...
...But in his statement of registration he said, "We do not act as an agent for any foreign principal...
...Administrator Philip B. Fleming of the wage-hour division announced Apr...
...Eugene Paton...
...Pinkerton's National Detective Agency, Kane Service, and Kedzie Protective Patrol...
...of Chicago...
...The second, starting May 1, will be on the question "What, if any, amendments should be made...
...Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson cut through a fog of legal hair-spliting and order-ed Annenberg's arraignment on Apr...
...Business Agent Price and CIO Atty...
...In the board order, the newspaper was directed to withhold exclusive recognition from Newspaper Commercial Associates, an affiliate of the AFL to which many business office employes belong, on the ground that this organization was formed with Ihe assistance of the management...
...Editor of the Daily Worker, Clarence Hathaway, has registered with the state department in Washington under the statute requiring foreign agents to identify themselves, their purposes, and their bosses...
...Richard H. Gregory...
...Louis, Mo...
...Hoan, the Socialist, had nothing to offer them but a continuation of a satisfactory status quo...
...covered by the fair labor standards act cud enjoining them from violating the act...
...and the Inland Mfg...
...D. C. — Thurman Arnold, assistant attorney general, sustained a defeat last week in his campaign to prosecute unions under the anti-trust laws...
...This order, which anticipated an election to be held among employes at a future date, "as soon as the effects of the current unfair labor practices have been dissipated," represented the first active step toward attempted official action in probably the longest contest arising from efforts by the American Newspaper Guild to organize newspaper workers outside the mechanical departments...
...AFL officer in New-York to form an A. F. of L. union...
...The decrees represent the division's first court action involving watch services, Elson stated...
...Some Reinstatements Ordered The board's order was directed against American Newspapefs, Inc...
...DAN HOAN'S DEFEAT Commented theWashington Post on the defeat or Dan Hoan as mayor of Milwaukee: "Time takes its toll even of gratitude...
...California SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.— Despite numerous arrests, the Intl...
...and the Evening American Publishing Co...
...The people of Athen...
...Equipment Firms Increase Profits NEW YORK CITY—The improved condition of business was emphasized last week in a report showing that the combined 1939 profits of 151 companies manufacturing transportation equipment had increased 165 per cent...
...Labor Board Election Is Ordered at Hearst Chicago Paper in Guild Strike Illinois CHICAGO, 111.—Four Chicago watch services consented in federal court here last week to the entry of judgments conceding they ar...
...got tired of hearing Aristides called the just, and the people of Milwaukee apparently got tired of Daniel Webster Hoan for no better reason...
...A crimina) indictment obtained by Arnold against the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and its president, William L. Hutcheson...
...Aimenberg Loses Appeal in Court CHICAGO, III...
...Under the terms of the injunctions, the watch services are restrained from paying watchmen and patrolmen less than 30 cents an hour or employing them for more than 42 hours per workweek without the payment of time and one-half for each additional hour...
...O'Malley pointed out that where firms owing back wages do not voluntarily make restitution, employes are entitled under Section 16 (b) of the act to sue for sums due them plus an equal amount in liquidated damages...
...Production Area Hearings Are Due WASHINGTON, D. C—Two public hearings on the question of possible redefinition of the "area of production" will be held shortly...
...The Central Labor Council, which two years ago reached a peace agreement barring Jurisdictional raids In the bay area, has called a meeting to discuss the situation, CLU Pres...
...D. C, was sent here to prepare the government's case...
...The decision was in contrast with one handed down last week by Federal Judge Peyton Gordon in the District of Columbia, who upheld an indictment against the Teamsters' union which struck on a government project following a jurisdictional controversy with the operating engineers...
...It added that Mr...
...Thorr>as O'Malley, regional director of the wage and hour division, and Alex Elson, region?] attorney, declared that the decrees established a precedent for bringing the benefits of the act to about 1,000 Chicago watchmen and patrolmen who have been employed for a customary workweek of 84 hours...
...Employes in the commercial departments, with some exceptions, will decide between the Guild and Commercial Associates, unless they vote against both...
...j; .. . The contest was marked by a long-drawn strike, and was further complicated when the former Chicago Herald-Examiner, a morning publication, and The Chicago Evening American, an afternoon newspaper, were combied into one paper...
...The order directed reinstatement of some employes discharged for alleged union activities...
...and its subsidiaries, the Illinois Publishing and Printing Co...
...Co., both firms having fired ILWU members because of closed shop contracts with AFL cigar makers and box makers...
...Arnold Loses a Point In Drive WASHINGTON...
...Named in the consent decrees, obtained by the wage and hour division, U. S. Department of Labor, are Central Watch Service, Inc...
...Lewis has been a center of controversy ever since his arrival...
...Jr., division attorney from Washington...
...John F. Shelley, who was instrumental in negoiating the AFL-CIO truce, said that the CIO had broken it because of the antl-CIO activities of Meyer Lewis, west coast AFL representative...
...Pinkerton's has already voluntarily agreed to make restitution of back wages totaling $8 000 to 270 employes and former employes, Mr...
...O'Malley said the inspections disclosed some watchmen and patrolmen were paid as little as 20 cents an hour and worked 84 to 91 hours per week without the payment of overtime...
Vol. 10 • April 1940 • No. 16
