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GREETINGS TO LAtOR BARKLEY MACHINE WORKS Manufacturers af TEXTILE MACHINERY PARTS Telephone 5-0371 Works: N. Marietta St. GASTONIA, N. C. LABOR DAY GREETINGS CHARLES STORE COMPANY ' 158 W. Main Avenue Telephone 7921 GASTONIA, N. C. i LABOR DAY GREETINGS E. R. MORGAN GENERAL CONTRACTOR GASTONIA, N. C. MEMBER ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF AMERICA "SKILL — INTEGRITY — RESPONSIBILITY" GREETINGS TO LABOR WILLIAMS PAINT SERVICE 911 E. Franklin Avenue Telephone 5-4200 GASTONIA, N. C LABOR DAY GREETINGS GROCERS RAKING COMPANY % Gastonia, N. C. Operators For A "Czar” WASHINGTON.—The plan by some big coal interests to set up a super-duper bargainer to deal with John L. Lewis brought on a congressional investigation today. The Senate banking committee voted unanimously for its small business group to start a probe next Monday. Senator Robertson (D-Va.), sponsoring the investigation, said its aim is to And out if the plan being considered by a large seg ment of the soft coal industry violates the anti-trust laws. Robertson said small and in dependent coal operators fear a “Cxar,” as he called it. would lead mine management to “the same type of monopolistic control now exercised, and apparently by authority of law. over the min ers.” Many of the operators do not believe our anti-trust laws per mit them to go into such an' agreement, the end result of! which would be to fix prices,” he told reporters. The committee acted in the midst of a week-long strike or dered by Lewis in both soft (bi tuminous and hard (anthracite) coal fields to reduce the abundant stocks of already-mined coal. The way the 480,000 miners, members of the United Mine Workers union which Lewis heads, responded to the walkout order demonstrated that the workers, at least, are rallied behind a single spokesman. Lewis kept silent about the Senate committee action and the plan to set up a powerful man agement bargainer as his pro tagonist. However,Lewis is reported fa voring the co-ordinator idea. Fre quently he has taunted the mine owners for “dismal lack of lead ership” and squabble among them selves. However, Lewis for years has taken advantage of the situation, dealing with one group of oper ators and another, and winding up by making the entire indus try, both soft and hard coal, ac cept the best contract terms ob tained from any one of them. Right now, he seems in the process of doing thst again. His present industry • wide contract expires in two weeks, June 30. He has started separate negotiations with southern producers and the U. S. Steel corporation’s mines. And he has asked for other sep arate sets of negotiations with northern and western soft coal producers and eastern Pennsyl vania’s anthracite owners. That was the setting when George Love, president of the big Pittsburg Consolidation Coal com pany announced the co-ordinator plan. He said a number of major coal operators in Pennsylvania, northern West Virginia. Ohio, Indiana and Illnois are consider ing Harry M. Moses as their joint bargainer against Lewis. Moses heads the H. C. Frick company, coal producing subsid iary of U. S. Steel. For a long time Moses has had a big say in management strategy against Lewis. Love denied the co-ordinator would be an industry “czar” to fix production policies. In Washington today for busi ness meetings at the Commerce and Interior Departments, Love told a reporter the Senate inves tigation of the co-ordinator plan is “silly." “That is something that is far off,” he said. “It is away in the future and has no bearing on this year’s negotiations." Further, Love said he had no idea whether the industry would accept the plan or whether Moses would accept the job. PERUVIAN DIPLOMAT NAMED TO HIGH-LEVEL ILO POST Geneva.—Director-General David Morse announced the appointment of Luis Alvaado, Peruvian diplo mat and educator, as Assistant Director-General of the ILO. Dr. Alvarado served as minister counsellor of the Peruvian Em bassy in Ottawa before being ap pointed Ambassador to the Do minican Republic. He has repre sented Peru on the ILO’s govern ing body sine 1M4 and served as its chairman in IMS. He will be the first Latin American te servo as assistant director gen eral of the ILO. UN Probe of Store Labor Voted Down Geneva, Aug. 29.—The United States lost its struggle for a United Nations inquiry into the practice of slave labor. On the critical amendment the vote in the Economic and Social Council was 10 to 5 against the United States. The council adopt ed an amendment to the United States resolution, for which the United States delegation would no longer vote, that merely requested the Secretary General to ask the member countries again, as he had done earlier this year, whether they would let the United Nations investigate labor in their terri tories. Everyone knows what answers the Soviet Union and the other Communist states, against which heavy charges have been laid in1 the debate, will give to such a re quest. Britain, despite having launched a large-scale propaganda campaign against the Soviet Union for fos tering mass forced labor, voted against the United States proposal for a commission of inquiry. The ostensible grounds for her oppo sition were that such an inquiry would *do no good unless the com mission could enter all countries. In an earnest, eloquent plea to . the other western countries to abandon this philosophy, Leroy D. Stinebower of the United States i rejected this thesis completely. He said the fact that the council could not do everything it wanted to do did not mean it should do nothing about this evil. “The United States,” he said, “is not prepared to retreat on an issue of this kind.” He said the United States consid ered it the gravest moral or social issue ever to come before the" coun cil. GREETINGS TO LABOR GASTONIA COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY 620 W. Franklin Tel. 7Z76 GASTONIA, N. C. LABOR DAY GREETINGS BRAWLEY CONSTRUCTION CO. Tel. 1698-W STATESVILLE, N. C. GREETINGS TO LABOR ROY L. GOODE KNITTING MILLS HICKORY, N. C. GREETINGS TO LABOR CENTRAL LUMBER COMPANY LUMBER FOR ALL YOUR BUILDING NEEDS Telephone 5-4735 DALLAS, NORTH CAROLINA LABOR DAY GREETINGS CORNELIUS ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION A RURAL ELECTRIC CO-OPERATIVE "ELECTRICITY AT COST" I Catawba Avenue Phene 2631 CORNELIUS. N. C. LABOR DAY GREETINGS From IVEY WEAVERS, INC. HICKORY, N. C. LABOR DAY GREETINGS LENOIR ROOFING COMPANY Joimi Barger, Prop. LENOIR, N. C. 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