Show Wards Ordered To Obey WASHINGTON Nov 19 UP tIP- tIP President Roosevelt directed Montgomery Montgomery Mont Mont- Montgomery gomery Ward Yard Co lay to comply without further delay with a war labor board order that the big big Chicago mail order firm should include a maintenance of membership clause in a contract with an union The chief executive in a letter i ito to the company's president Sewell Avery said he considered such sucha a course of action essential in the interest of our war effort Montgomery Ward had rejected the boards board's order handed down November 5 which called for a union maintenance contract and i also for compulsory arbitration and a guarantee of wages and working conditions for a year The firm said however that if the president as commander in chief directed that the company accept the W L Bs B's rulings it would obey It contended the rulings were illegal and uneconomic The firm had particularly objected objected objected ob ob- ob- ob to the maintenance of union membership clause saying this was but a form of the closed shop |