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'APRIL 30, 1941. PART I. WEDNESDAY MORNING. THEY AND 40,000 OTHERS WANT THEIR MILK FOR BREAKFAST Disney Tells Closed Shop Struggle Looms in Bakery Union Demands -Ji New Trial Won in Union Slaying Court Holds Verdict Convicting C.I.O. Pair Contrary to Evidence Brittain Webster and Claude Smallman, C.I.O.

maritime work ers convicted of second-degree Wage, hour and working condition changes are at stake in negotiations that have been opened with scores of concerns, employing several thousand workers, by the A.F.L. Bakery and Confectionery Workers' Union and Teamsters' Union. Principals in the situation are the bakery and teamster locals having to do with bakers and drivers in 44 wholesale bread and cake plants employing about 1100 persons. In his situation, Secretary Archie Goodman of the bakers' unit and B. Silverton of the bakery drivers' unit are heading negotiators for the union and, Goodman said, Clarence Dale is heading negotiators on the employers' side.

murder for the 1935 street-fight slaying of an A.F.L. seaman, yes-terday were granted new trials by Superior Judge Thomas L. Ambrose on the ground the jury's guilty verdict was contrary to the evidence. Union Threat A.F.L. Accused of Vow to Turn Studio Into Hospital of Beaten Men Imagine the world-famous studio out of which come Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and other fanciful characters being turned into a deserted dust bowl or a hospital filled with workers beaten in a union "war." That threat has been made to Walt Disney Productions by certain A.F.L.

union officials, the studio declared in a public statement yesterday, unless the company makes a deal with officials of the A.F.L. Screen Cartoonists' Union. For some years the studio has been the target of an A.F.L. unionization drive. Early in the campaign, employees formed their own independent Federation of Screen Cartoonists.

SHOWDOWN FAILED Three years ago a showdown came In the form of a collective bargaining election con Whether the prosecution will Besides the wholesale bread and cake group, another local of the same bakers', union is dealing with candy and ice cream concerns and still another local is dealing with cookie, cracker, potato chip and peanut butter; makers. Women of the Pacific have interested themselves in any possible deal that may be made between the unions and the bread and cake bakers. WARNS COMPANIES In a letter addressed to each of the 44 negotiating concerns in that group, Mrs. Edwin Selvin, chairman, wrote: remind you that the essen-tial food product your plant manufactures is imbued to an extraordinary extent with the' public interest, convenience and necessity "Nothing could be more serious for Southern California than dictatorial union.leaders in control of our food 4ipply. "You gentlemen have the terrible responsibility to keep such control from taking over the baking industry "Please remember that home baking is not a losf art, small neighborhood bakeries are not hard to find and three large baking concerns selling direct to the consumer have courageously maintained liberty for employees and free markets for the consumers appeal to the higher courts for an order 'voiding the new trial mandate, re-try the case or ask FEAR FREEZE OCT Uneasiness was said to exist among the wholesale bakers particularly, because the national chain baker branches here mieht.

th court for a dismissal rests with Dist. Atty. John F. Dock- exist under an agreement that weiler. RESTORED TO BAIL Webster and Smallman, who were at liberty on $10,000 bail each before and during their three-month trial, but who were remanded to jail upon conviction, were restored to bail by Judge Ambrose.

The court also ordered the case assertedly would put the smaller local wholesalers out of business. Goodman said that his members have voted to strike but that no date for any walkout has been set. The closed shop is an issue in the new negotiations and in addition to this the drivers' unit i3 demanding that office workers in the plants be brought into the Teamsters' Union. ducted by the National Labor Re lations Board and the independ ent union by a majority vote won 6TH BROADWAY 7TH SET, HOPE GRAND 3122 WIISHIRI HOOVER AT JIFPERSOM stand against daylight milk deliveries. Shown, left to right, are Mrs.

E. K. Taylor, Mrs. Antoinette Stebbins, HOUSEWIVES REVOLT Beoring protests signed by tens of thousands of housewives, these women called on Councilman Norris J. Nelson, right, yesterday to applaud his Mrs.

J. t. Black, Mrs. taith Hobby and Lloyd G. Davies.

Times photo ike Ties Up Truck Lines transferred to Superior Judge Benjamin Scheinman for setting a new trial date tomorrow. Dock-weiler's decision as to the course of action is expected to be disclosed at that time. In granting the new trial, Judge Ambrose pointed out there was no evidence showing either of the defendants assaulted John Riley in the San Pedro street brawl in which he suffered fatal head injuries. DENIED SLUGGING Both admitted being In the fight, but denied slugging Riley. tJudge Ambrose, however, excoriated the two defendants for their courtroom conduct, commenting they were their own worst and damaging witnesses by their attitude of "hatred and suspicion." The court also commented the State had failed in its effort to prove a conspiracy to murder on the part of the defendants but remarked further that the prosecution was handicapped by the fact that nearly six years have passed since the slaying.

Women Press Fight Against Daylight Milk Delivery Law Export Line Fleet JERSEY CITY, April 29. (Ex elusive) Union demands for war bonuses and additional per Bearing protests signed by scores of thousands of milk consumers, a delegation of women, headed by Lloyd G. Davies of the Consumers' Fresh Milk Service League, visited Councilman Norris J. Nelson in the City Hall the board-certified right to bargain for the nearly 1000 employees in the production end of the 1200-employee concern. Some months ago the A.F.L.

union renewed its campaign, filed a charge with the board that the federation is company-dominated and asked for a new election. Later the A.F.L. withdrew the request. Yesterday, Board Director William R. Walsh sfter a conference with union, federation and company representatives, said he would move to have the board hold a hearing on the A.F.L.

charge of company domination, which, if upheld, would pave the way for another election. In this election the employees would vote only on the question of whether the A.F.L. was desired as the bargaining agent because the federation would be ordered disbanded. WILLING TO BARGAIN The studio statement declared that "Disney is willing to bargain In good faith with the majority, but that he will not be forced into letting a minority walk into power." Both Disney and federation officials have protested to the board that there is no company domination of the federation as charged. The Disney statement named an A.F.L.

official and credited him with having made the laration: "We are either going to make men for the major milk distributors, would forbid home milk delivery before 6 a.m. and after 6 p.m. Davies warned that it probably will come out on the floor of (he Council just after the May 6 election and warned citizens to be on the alert against it. He said 200,000 milk consumers would be inconvenienced by such a limitation on milk deliveries to homes, that hundreds of families without refrigeration would suffer, that many persons yesterday to Indorse his stand against the so-called daylight milk delivery proposed ordinance. The ordinance, which Davies charges was instigated by A.F.L.

Teamsters' Union officials who control home milk delivery- sonnel today threatened to tie up the entire fleet of 21 vessels run by the American Export Line. The dispute between the line and the C.I.O. Marine Engineers Beneficial Association came to a head last Saturday when the crew of the liner Siboney, for which hundreds of refugees stranded in Lisbon have reservations, walked off just as the vessel was to sail for Portugal. Today C.I.O. crew members on the company's 9000-ton freighters Excelsior and Exminster, both being loaded with cargo for India, walked off in a sympathy strike.

who leave home before 9 a.m. would not be able to get their Strike at End Pacific Freight Bows to Demands Made by A.F.L. Teamsters Officials of the A.F.L. Teamsters' Union yesterday called off the strike which for 24 hours paralyzed all operations of Pacific Freight Lines' more than 100 trucks in and out of its Los Angeles terminal. The company, none of whose 200 T.U.

member truck drivers dared go through the picket line ordered by the union's officials, capitulated to. the demand that oflice employees in the terminal be turned in to the union after It was confronted with threats that it would not be permitted to operate until it did so. It was reported that the union had by one or another means got the signatures of about one-fourth of the office workers and that the union officials notified the company that it would be kept shut down until a majority of the office workers joined the minority one-fourth that already had been enrolled for the union. One by one the employees were declared to have signed until a majority was on the delivered milk into refrigerators until they return home at night, Jobless Carpenter Admits Killing Six MOBILE (Ala.) April 29. CD-State Solicitor Bart B.

Chamberlain announced today that Esker W. Gibson, 33, unemployed carpenter's helper, had admitted killing his wife and fatally burning his five young children in their two-room farmhouse. that 2000 more trucks would be on the streets during dense traf-i fic hours and that for many other reasons the ordinance is move on their part. Then the union officials lifted the ban and operations were resumed. Rather than submit to this pressure some of the office employees quit their jobs and others said they would quit before they would join the union, it was learned.

They have 45 days in' which to join or quit. President Dewey Copelan and Secretary Rex Smith of the union's Local 20S in the case could not be reached, but it was learned that their plans call for a new campaign to be directed against all concerns with which they have a contract that provides the concerns will give work to no truck driver unless the a deal, or we are going to make ri (tea IN METRO-COIDWYN-MAYER'S "ZIEGFELD GIRL" Now Playing Lorally union's dotted line in what was driver be a member of and ap- descrined as a "rather reluctant" proved by the union. ACCURATELY FITTED DAVISTYLED (GLASSIES creolet a lovely new complexion II HPS. IV i this industry into a hospital, or we are going to have labor trouble. This could be turned Into a nice hospital or dust bowl." WORKER CONDITIONS Vice-President Gunther Less-lng of the Disney concern said: "The company welcomes the co-operation of an honest union controlled by Its employees.

"In five years we have grown from a 300-employce organization to one employing 1200. The average age is 27 years, average salary between $35 and $00. We have no topheavy salaries. The highest is $330 to Disney. In the five years we have paid $102,500 In bonuses.

Employees have two weeks' vacation a year, three days' sick leave, time oft" for holidays and, until the financial situation made it impossible, all had insurance policies whose premiums were paid by the company. REVENUES LOST "The war has deprived the company of half of its revenue. Many have taken salary cuts. We have fought the economic tion and kept going despite the wage-hour law. Now we find stumbling blocks placed in the way of production by a desire of certain people to collect dues.

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