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JOURNAL'S POLICY Tte CkwMt* Later Jama! ■teS ahrajra Chr Charlotte labor j (AND DlXrtf ARM NEWS) A New paper Dedicated To The Intereete of Charlotte Central Labor Union and Affiliated Crafts—Endorsed Bp North Carolina Federation of Labor and Approved By The American Federation of Labor. V«L XV; Now 29 Published Weekly CHARLOTTE, N. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER C, 1945 Price 5c Per C$y Subscription Price $2.00 Per Yeor' AFL Opens Emergency Drive To Defeat Smith Bill Charges Congress With Letting Truman “Must” Legislation Go By Board CONGRESS BITS DOWN Washington, D. C. — Congres sional orators who have been ful minating against organized labor because of strikes overlook the fact that Congress has conducted since \-J Day 'one of the most glaring and inexcusable sit-down strikes against the nation. President Truman summoned Congress back into session short ly f^ter victory was won in order to enact a “must” program of re conversion legislation necessary to help America get back on a peace time footing. He submitted to Congress a sound and a workable legislative program. Not a single one of the measures he urged has been adopted. No wonder the President public ly charged that Congress has “let him down!” The list of the measures advo cated by President Truman and the AFL, against which the powerful anti-labor bloc in Congress has conducted a successful sitdown, -follows: UNEMPLOYMENT COMPEN SATION — This measure was trimmed down drastically 8T "the Senate and then pigeon-holed by the House Ways and Means Com mittee. HIGHER MINIMUM WAGE — Many public hearings have been held but action has been stalled. FULL EMPLOYMENT — This bill was amputated in the Senate and then even more cruelly muti lated by a House committee and •the prospects are that no effective legislation will be adopted. HOUSING — While everyone .agrees that a national housing program is absolutely essential to quick postwar recovery. Congress hasn’t made a move yet to ex pedite the Wagner bill which has bi-partisan support. SOCIAL SECURITY — The Wagner - Murray - Dingell bill is buried in committee. HEALTH INSURANCE — Op ponents in Congress are befud dling the issue and planning to etifle any action. This record of futility should be cotrasted by the American peo ple with the speed Congress showed in voting tax relief to big corporation and with the priority granted to consideration of anti labor legislation. AFL Members Urged by Green To Write Letters To Congressmen Washington, D. C.—AFL Presi dent William Green sent out an emergency call to all members of the AFL to help defeat drastic and “wicked” anti - labor legislation now being considered by Congress. He urged each and every one of the seven million members of the AFL to write individual letters to their Congressman and Sena tors opposing the pending Smith bill. , This bill, he explained, would1 provide strike penalties by per mitting employers and any other person claiming damage from a work stoppage to sue the union and its members. It would also deprive such a union of its bar gaining rights for the period of a year and subject unions to court injunctions. Finally, it would prohibit unions from engaging in political activities or makjng polit ical contributions of any kind. With the temper of Congress aroused by CIO strikes and threats in mass production industries and with no decisive results forthcom meat conference, {he*danger of en actment of hasty and ill-consider ed legislation inimical to the best interest of labor an<|.4he nation is considered grave by* AFL leaders. Mr. Green, therefore, rallied all affiliated organisations—including 1 national and international unions, state federation of labor, city cen tral bodies and directly affiliated federal labor unions — to join in the light against the Smith bill, and, above all, to enlist their full membership in the campaign. "Please act promptly upon re ceipt of this communication,” he urged in a circular letter. “Org anise a campaign in every town, community and locality of the country in opposition to this pro posed anti-labor legislation. Call upon the friends of labor to work with you, te communiate with their representatives in Congress along with you, and call upon them to vote against this legislation.” Ironically enough, the new leg islative onslaught against labor \ was engineered by Representative Howard Smith of Virginia as an added starter to his proposed re peal of the obnoxious Smith-Con nally Act, which has proved a col losal failure. Rep. Smith was one (Please Turn to Page 8) OPA Asks Help In W ar Against Profiteering! Washington, D. C.—Th« OPA, in order to combat overcharging by retailers, has made available to consumers 2,700,000 copies of an * anti-overcharge weapon—the Con sumer Anti-Inflation Shopping List These overcharges by retailers selling at higher than ceiling prices, cost each worker's family at least one to two weeks salary each year . .. and threaten to take even more. The lists are simple and handy tools to use. The shopper need no longer carry cumbersome blanket sise ceiling price lists in order to check prices. With this list, the shopper needs only to write down the items purchased; the brand, sise or weight and the prices paid. He or she then sends the completed list to the nearest War Price and Rationing boaird for checking. Members or organised labor are being urged to make full and ag gressive use of these lists in order to wipe oat illegal sniping at their pay checks. Leo F. Lucas, AFL represents* tive in the OPA Labor office said: “Every member of the AFL ^should protect the buying power of his dollar by striking hard at these retailers who illegally cut them* selves in for a slice of the work er’s salary. Action on this front is especially important rfiie that pay envelopes have shrunk as a result of cutbacks in hours and employment. We can eliminate1 | this extra bite on our salary by securing and using these Anti-In flation Shopping Lists.” The OPA Labor office through its Regional Labor Advisers, Dis trict Labor Advisory committees and local union Coet-of-Uving committee plans to help labor to ; utilize fully this “Consumer Anti Inflation Shopping List” as an en forcement weapon against over ceiling charges. * flow mid duo Hu fii/ipit HeadT awf? tt'i *ot just the initial coat, you tee. It’s the X upkeep. It costs billions, first, to mobilise the sulfa, the morphine, the plasma that went to war... those ingredients of mercy that relaxed death’s dutch on hundreds of thousands of wounded. Your War Bonds helped provide them. Now the army of the legless, the armless, the sightless in on the road back. They're one of war’s bleakest heritages, and to a man they're our responsibility. That’s one reason our country is asking us— and for the last time?—to invest in extra Bonds. In I ictory Bonds this time—not War Bonds. Again it isn’t a question of giving—but of lending. For your Victory Bonds will pay off exactly as your War Bonds will. So buy extra Victory Bonds—and hold them! I——i'i. - i I iii.AiiOiSS.l-111 .11 'Following the Victory Ltaa, tbs sale at E, F, and C U.S. Savings Bonds wttl eon tinue through regular authorisation agencies and through the Payroll Savings Plan. . Machinists Suspended By AFL Washington, D. C.—AFL Presi dent William Green announced that the International Association of Machinists has been automatically suspended for failure to pay per capita tax in accordance with the provisions of the AFL Constitu tion. Mr. Green therefore directed ah local and state branches and de partments of the AFL to disasso ciate the Machinists from member ship. In an official joint letter to State Federations and City Cen tral Bodies, Mr. Green and Secre tary-Treasurer George . Meany said: “The International Association of Machinists has discontinued its affiliation with the American Fed* eration of Labor through refusal to pay per capita tax to the Amer ican Federation of Labor since No vember, 1944. Section 3, Article X of the Constitution of the Ameri can Federation of Labor provides: “Any organization affiliated with this federation not pay ing its per capita tax on or before the 15th of each month and assessment or assessments when due and payable shall be notified of the fact by the Secretary-Treasurer of the federation, and if at the end of 3 months it is still in ar rears t shall become suspend ed from membership by the federation, and can be rein stated only by a vote of the convention when such arrear ages are paid in full, as pro vided in Section 2 of this article. “Because of these facts the Ex ecutive Council directed the of ficers of the American Federation of Labor to call upon State.Fed eration of Labor to immediately dissociate and suspend local unions of the International Association of Machinists from membership in State Federations of Labor, City Centra] -Bodies and the depart ments of the American Federation A Labor. “This action was based upon Section 1 of Article XI of the Constiution of the American Fed eration of Labor which provides ihat no central body of delegates hall admit to or retain in their ouncils delegates from locals of national or international organiza tions which are not affiliated with he American Federation of Labor under penalty of having their charter revoked for violation of their charter, subject to appeal to the next convention. “You are therefore officially di rected to disassociate and suspend from membership immediately all affiliated local unions chartered :*y the International Association of Machinists.” VICTORY CLOTHING DRIVE AGAIN BACKED BY AFL New York City—American labor used its organised strength last spring to help collect the used clothing which has saved 25,000, 000 war victims overseas from death and cold. But even that magnificent response did not meet he dire need revealed when all of Europe, China and the Philippines ere liberated. Wherever war has scorched the earth and rased the cities, countless millions of men, vomen and children are still inad equately clothed for winter weath :r, health and self-respect. A nation-wide victory clothing collection for overseas relief will e held during the month of Jan ary—our first new year of peace Living Costs Due To Rise As Government Subsidies Near End AMERICANISM FUND OF LE6I0N GETS A GIFT FROM JAPS Indianapolis, Ind. — The Amer- | can Legion’s national American sm ^endowment fund is $10.00 icher today because of a check received at national headquarters here from the Japanese-American Servicemen’s Parents' and Rela tives’ Association at the Rivers, Arizona, war relocation center, f With the breakup of this camp, the association decided to dis tribute its small remaining funds among a few organisations in which it had confidence. The American Legion was one of these. As a result national Legion headquarters here ^received a $10 check from the Jap association’s treasurer, Sadoshi Gosawa. The sum was turned over to the national Americanism endowment fund. icfiuui rnyymnrn LcblUn utfmMMUtn SET NEW MARK FOR HOLDING HIS OFFICE Indianapolis, Ind. — Earning the distinction of having been na tional commander of The American ! Legion for a longer term than any of his 26 predecessors, Retiring National Commander Edward ;N. I Scheiberling also was one of the | most traveled ones. He held office exactly 14 months. He was elected in Chicago, Sept. 20, 1944, and retired in Chicago, November 21, 1946. This long term was due to the lateness of the 1945 national convention. o During his 14-month {enure of office, Commander Scheiberling covered a total of 110,266 miles on official Legion business. This is a record equalled by few command ers. Of the total mileage 62,225 miles were by plane; 37,600 miles by train; 9340 miles by automo bile; and 300 miles by boat. ' The commander visited all 48 states and the District of Colum bia. He also visited England, France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, and Puerto Rico. Washington, D, C.—The ending of subsidies and the subsequent lifting of price ceilings can be ex pected to cause increases of from 10 to 40 per cent in the prices of at least 37 basic foods within the * next six months, it is stated tn an official survey prepared by government economists for the Of fice of Price Administration and the Department of Agriculture. * John C. Collett, economic stabi lizer, announced that food price sub-sidies will be removed grad ually between now and June 30. Congressional action placing sub sidies back on these commodities, the economists say, would change the situation and make unneces sary any food price rise. Other wise, they say, the price rise is “unpreventable.” No congressional move is thus far known to be afoot to continue the subsidies. The survey states that increases will be necessary in the prices of meats, bread, butter, milk, canned . vegetables, cheese, dried fruit and other commodities. fe The economists said the in creases will cause the highest one Jaar percentage rise in the cent of living since 1930 and will in crease the nation’s food bill for 1940 more than 12,000,000,000 — about $16 a person. One of two subsidies controlling the price of butter was lifted Nov. 8 and the price rose 6 to 6 cents a pound. i TAKES COMMERCE COURSE Biarritz, France, November 9— Private First Class Clyde T. Moody, Jr., Bunn, North Carolina, who was with Associated Trans port, Inc., in Charlotte, in civilian life, is “brushing up” on his civili an occupation by taking a course in commerce at the Biarrits Amer ican university here, free of charge. Soldiers from all over the Euro pean Theater are taking advantage of the Army’s educational program at this accmlited university. Co lumbia, Yale, 'Princeton, Brown, Pennsylvania, Chicago, Notre Dame, Missouri, Texas A. ft M. Stamford and other outstanding institutions hsve loaned educators to help BAU, while qualified of ficers, enlisted men and civilians are on the faculty. Green Named Lab Dr Polio Drive Chairman New York City.—Organisation of national labor -unions into tha fund drive for 1946 March of Dimes, to be conducted January 14-31 by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, was an nounced from the office of Basil O'Connor, president of the Nation al Foundation. Appointed co-chairman of the National Labor division was Wil liam Green, president of the Amer ican Federation of Labor. Thomas C. Cashen, chairman of the Kail- I way Labor Executives association, was given a similar post. In the past, unions have active- 1 ly supported the March of Dimes 1 through their own fund-raising or ganisations. In 1946, AFL mem bers contributed $162,330.93 to the National Foundation. These fig ures are exclusive of individual do nations made at movies and other public functions. Mr. Green has served as co chairman of the National Labor division since the founding of the organisation in 1938 by the late President Roosevelt. Cashen served ** a labor co-chairman in the 1945 drive. Of all contributions to the an nua) March of Dimes, half remains with local chapters of the National Foundation for equipment, trans portation, hospital treatment and care of poliomyelitis patients, re gardless of age, race, creed or color. The other half goes to the National Foundation for research, education and emergency aid dur ing epidemics. In a letter of acceptance to Foundation President O’Connor, Mr. Green said: “I respond wholeheartedly and with a'feeling of pleasure to your request that I continue to serve as co-chairman of the National Labor division of the 1945 Match of Dimes. “Be assured it is my sincere and earnest desire to co-operate with you and those associated with you in the administration of the affairs of the National Foundation for In fantile Paralysis in rendering serv ice to the nation and to those af flicted with infantile paralysis.” » • ♦ "•"Wa&r.
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