Ward Case Perils War Labor Board
In Chicago Judge Philip L. Sullivan ruled the President lacked authority to seize Ward properties under the Labor Disputes Act, pending appeals. He urged cooperation for peace and warned that without enforcement Congress must act. Montgomery Ward remains a distributor, not a production plant, and Avery's defiance risks the wartime labor settlement plan.
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Chicago
War Labor Board
Montgomery Ward
United States Court of Appeals
Philip L. Sullivan
Roosevelt
Ward
Sewell Avery
Sullivan
Avery
Congress
Labor Disputes Act
Davis
WLB
Ouster Sought of Montgomery Ward Directors
Frank W. McCulloch files petition in U S District Court seeking removal of Board Chairman S L Avery and 12 other directors from Montgomery Ward & Co. He alleges mismanagement and waste, with over two million dollars spent on legal actions and publicity to sway the war effort and hinder union issues. Justice Traynor comments on injunction impact on union tactics.
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Chicago
Montgomery Ward & Co
S. L. Avery
U. S. District Court
Frank W. McCulloch
Evanston Common
Ward
U. S
Union
Cal. Court Upholds Pickets and Boycotts
In a landmark ruling the California Supreme Court upheld the right to peaceful picketing and boycotting for unions. It reversed Judge Willis and his injunction that barred Locals 848 and 595 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters from picketing the Los Angeles Park & Tilford liquor distributors over a union shop dispute tied to interstate commerce and the Wagner Act.
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LOS Angeles
Supreme Court
California Supreme Court
Henry M. Willis
Willis
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
AFL
Los Angeles Park & Tilford Liquor Distributors
Refunds Under OPA Rent Control Reach 5 Million in 1944
Washington reports nearly five million dollars refunded to tenants under the OPA rent control program for 1944. The agency notes that security deposits, opposed by labor as a racketeering tactic, made up more than two million dollars of the refunds.
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Washington
OPA
Labor Radiocasts Spotlight Weekly Programs
WLW on Feb 4 12 15 P M features Nelson Cruikshank AFL social insurance director discussing the Nation s Health with Emerson P Schmidt of the U S Chamber of Commerce and Albert S Gross of the National Grange. WCKY on Feb 3 2 45 P M dramatizes Jobs for Tomorrow in textiles and clothing by CIO rank and file. WSAL on Feb 3 5 45 P M offers a two way hookup with World Labor Congress reports from London and CIO leaders at home debating world labor problems.
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WLW
Nelson Cruikshank
AFL
Social Insurance
Emerson P. Schmidt
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
Albert S. Gross
The
National Grange
WCKY
CIO Textile and Clothing Workers Unions
WSAL
World Labor Congress
London
U. S
CIO
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Roger Traynor
John Schwarz
E. McMillan
Andy
Elm St
Esquire
Panagin Pol Say
Union Label
West Fifth Street
Cal
Ray’s
Cincinnati
Union Florist
Ray Barrage
Union Delivery Service
North American Aviation
Inglewood
United Auto Workers
Betty Peck
Jane Hayes
Bonnie Gay
Lorraine Deason
Phyllis Severin
Federated Pictures
Fanger & Rampe, Inc
Pearl & Broadway
Labor
Union Newspapers
Union Stationery
Western Printing Company
Sycamore Street
Main
Hank Yarn
Nellie Bee
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