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My <>t deciding
;< nr ion is
• th in reaching
erne ii '■ & be -
ri* wot ker> and
Ai.iii ihe law
-i i r 11rod by Sen
Uol»ert F.
of New
v. Voi U) was
:ed. wtil> one
• ! unions i'\
\u the Ainor
1 >i>r group, un
- presidency. In
\ au'i-ns." unat
av-ther. Those
yding t.. A.
-V not uttoe
i . II C ' -
mvu and . : tiali
i.H' us'
\ 't-w to keep
>' . -tips out ot
!. >r Relations
«.• that bargains
■A sure-enough
\vs \\ ore made
exclusion ot
. s." The A.
. ,i- > that idea.
\ trie iO'.v
developed llit'
F. oi L. and
•. r.ar.ittoe on
n. >:niv become
• i! Organina
- no aggregation
• unions." It's as
•le as the A. F. oi
the NLKB ielt
a:si- v.inate be
[.. and the C. I. O.
t.'"! i:i M>iae par
t- :i the emp! >y
• . t.. workers on
• l I. O. workers
~.d r '.e employers
But as to ia
ich? Was the A. F.
!ai- r bargaining
r?
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element? Or the C. I. O.?
A Hard Problem.
The NLRB never expected to have !
to solve this problem. The law didn't,
contemplate that it would have to do i
so. Nevertheless. it tackled the situa
tion. Chaos followed.
Every time the board has decided
for tile A. F. of L.. the C. I. O. has
been outraged. F.very time the de
cision has been on the C. I. O.'s side
the A. F. of L. has torn its hair.
Apparently, the board's rulings
have been C. I. O.-ish. Therefore, the
A. F. of L. has done most of the
yowling. The C. I. O. lias been fairly
contented. But it's a mean mix-up.
Within themselves the board's
numbers have fought al.-o. Their rul
a:;s haven't been unanimous.
1 hey've been on a majority-versus
.:-niiiiority basis. They not only have
disagreed. They've been mutually
abusive.
AH this has been conspicuously
brought out in testimony before Re
piesentative Howard W. Smith's con
gressional committee on investigation
of the NLRB situation.
Did Not Foresee 1. O.
The whole nub of it is:
Senator Wagner didn't foresee that
two rival labor groups would spring |
into being. He recognized a clash of
interest- between employers and em
ployes. but didn't prevision a cla.^h
between employes and employes.
Dean Lloyd K. Garrison of the
University of Wisconsin law school!
offers, as a witness before the Smith j
ar. i gating committee, what he be-'
l. Vvv: should be a simple solution of:
•he puzzle.
Wnat he recommends is:
"Let the rival labor groups scrap
it out between themselves. It's their
funeral. Then let them put their
unified verdict up to NLRB."
Chairman J. Warren Madden o!
the NLRB. exhausted by the con
troversy. acquiesces that Dean Gar-J
r;son's M'.ggestion "deserves careful j
study."
Maybe when De\m Garrison calls!
this a "simple solution," he exag-1
gerates.
It's a gut>ss at one, though.
Cotton Prices
Again Lower
Xew York. Feb. 15.—CAP)—Cot
ton futures opened 2 to 6 lower.
At the end of the first hour the
list he^ld steady at net declines of
3 to 5 points.
Around the end of the second
hour prices held 1 higher to 4 lower, i
-larch (olei) 11.02, May (old) 10.75,:
December 9.60.
Stock Market
I
Remains Slow ;
New Yolk. Feb. 13.—(AP)—Buy
ers got behind a handful of low- •
priced issues in today's stock market
and generally neglected the so
called leaders.
The !i<t got off to a fairly active j
start but soon rvvrvtr-d to sluggish-;
ness. Near the fourth hour tractions! |
> i>v -nvconiinated.
Traders came back from their [
lengthlv holiday without strong1
jpcculalive opinion.
j American Radiator 9 5-8
I American Telephone 172
American Tobacco B 90 3-8
| Anaconda *.. 27 1-2
Atlantic Coast Line 20
| Atlantic Refining 23
Dendix Aviation 31 1-4
i Bethlehem Steel 77 1-4
j Chrysler 86 1-4
! Columbia Gas & Elec Co .. 6 1-4
• Commercial Solvents 14 1-4
• Consolidated Oil Co 7 !-4
1 Curtiss Wright 10 1-2
DuPont 184 3-8
Electric Power Light C 1-2
j General Electric 3D 1-2
i General Motors 54 1-2
! Liggett & Myers B 107 7-8
Montgomery Ward & Co .... 54
; Reynolds Tobacco B 41
| Southern Railway 18
, Standard Oil Co N J 44 5-5
: IT S Steel 59 3-8
We have now reached that time
of years when the average .nan
' can't even recall what his New
Year';- resolutions were.
I
~izet! Pails
1*3C Each
i A Customer
White Coated
vauce Pan Sets
*¥ic
Set
Kx.m
Mop Heads
13C Each
Gray Dish Pan
Each
Aluminum
Sauce Pan
1 1-2 Quarts
9c
Each
Aluminum
Percolator
1 1-2 Quarts
Each
2 Quarts
Each vO**
LOW CASH PRICES
itkins Hardware Co.
'one 46 Henderson, N. C,
f! a
Hero For Daddy
Joseph Dooley
Ten-year-old Joseph Dooley is pic
tured on the witness stand in Mine
ola, L. I., court, where, his father,
Patrolman Alvin J. Dooley, is on
trial for the fatal shooting of Mayor
Louis F. Edwards of Long Beach.
Joe, who got his black eye defend
ing his dad's name, said his father
had been kind to him but changed
after he lost re-election in police
organization.
(Central Press)
U. S. Navy High Com
mand Fears General
European War
(Continued lvrom F-.«ee One)
i'or $954.'.)09.(KH) for tho noxt l'isea
your represented a!! possible econ
omies. Stark continued:
"It would in my opinion jeopar
dize the national security to reduce
i-ie number of vessel.-: and aireral'1
recommended lor active service, t(
tail to man tiie fleet effectively, t<
curtail its training or to curtail 01
delay the building prog am foi
ships, aircraft, and shore facilities.*
Averili Compares Plat
forms Of The Candidates
In Gubernatorial Race
(Continued From Page One)
cept oi' tiie sales tax.
GRAlJY: No quotable short state
ment but throughout his volumi
nous statement there are expressions
indicating a" belief that taxes must
be drastically reduced and economy
strictly practiced.
GRAVELY: He favored "the in
jection into the business of govern
ing North Carolina the same methods
of business efficiency and economy
that characterize every successful
business enterprise."
HORTON: "Serious consideration
should be given to, and positive ac
tion taken on, the question of re
ducing taxe: now imposed upon those
least able to pay them."
MAXWELL: "In the scope and
ates of our taxes we have reached
the maximum that can be maintain
ed without regressive effects upon
both progress and revenue. Avoid
ance of waste and extravagance h
an essential part of a sound pro
gram of progress."
SALES TAX
BROUGIITON: "Even if it should
for the present bo deemed a neces
sity, there i.; the very general hope
that it may ultimately be eliminated
from our tax system."
COOPER: "I have always opposed
the saies tax—but I doubt the wis
dom of taking it off ;:ll at once a::
a whole and I favor taking off one
half of one percent each biennium."
GRADY: "It is the most successful
tax on poverty ever devised, and I
oppose it for the burdens which it
levies on those least able to bear
them." He promised a later exposi
tion of how to abolish the tax with
out upsetting ihe state's financial
structure.
GRAVELY: "I am opposed to the
sales tax and want to see it abolish
ed. —f believe that a more rigid
j collection of tax-s, a limitation of
|the right of one man 'f> compromise
taxes, and the natural economics re
sulting from a businesslike adminis
tration will result in increased rev
enues which will probably enable
us to reduce the ?nles tax at the
present time to two percent."
HORTON: No ment'on of the tax
iv name.
' MAXWEI L: "Wh«n the time
comes that the state can—modify it^
Wife Preservers
I
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The smell and taste of cod liver oil is
j said to vanish more rapidly if the spoon is
dipped in milk before it is filled with oil.
TODAY
10c—15c
KEN MAYNARD
in
"TOMB3TON K CANYON''
ALSO
"Dick Tracv's G-Men"
TOMORROW
FRKD MtMURRAY
JOAN BENNETT
'•.US-HOURS BY AIR'
tax structure anywhese, there should
oe general agreement that the last
jchedule adopted—tne sales tax—
should oe ..'ie first to be reduced."
EDI'CATION. TEAC HER SALARIES
AND RETIREMENT
BROt'GMTON: "I believe that
normal increase in revenue, together
with certain economies, will enable
the next General Assembly to in
crease teachers' salaries as well as
to set up a just and adequate teach
er retirement system."
COOPER: "I think the school
i teachers arc- underpaid—they should
ihave a living' wage. 1 also think they
hould have reasonable sick leave
with pay. i think they should have
a reasonable retirement or pension
fund: and if 1 am elected governor
they are going to receive it or 1 will
resign."
GJtADY: "We have two serious
weaknesses in our educational sys
tem. First: In that our public schools
are standardized—and are not suf
ficiently flexible to meet the needs
of those who are not average. Second:
Our course* are arranged to meet the
(needs and requirements of those boys
land girls who plan to go on from
high school to colleges". He said
nothing directly about salaries or re
tirement of teachers, but promised
a later discussion of the subjects.
GRAVELY: "Teacher salaries
should be increased as the revenues
'of the state will permit and our
system of free books should be con
tinued. The Stale of North Carolina
has every industry within its border
J to set up a system of pensions for
i its employees and it i.; sheer hy
Ipocrisy for the Slate to do less for
those whom it employs."
HORTON: 'I say that an under
paid teaching profession is poor
economy. Our teachers are still un
derpaid. and a continued increase in
the salary schedule should be main
tained as rapidly as our resources
will permit. I believe in the princi
ples of a retirement system for school
teachers in North Carolina. There
must be a reawakening of local con
sciousness as to obligations for a
[broader participation in the support
and operation of local schools."
MAXWELL: "The peculiar system
we have developed of State support
should not be permitted to gravitate
too far in the direction of centeraliz
ed control. Teachers salaries should
be increased as revenue permits.
Some reasonable system of age re
Jtirement should be provided for
[teachers, and in all public services,
iChildren who cannot go beyond high
I school should be given practical
training in the direction of useful
|and gainful employment."
HIGHWAYS
BROUGHTON: "Tney must bo
adequately maintained and extended.
Increasing emphasis must be placed
l>u tarm-to-market roads."
COOPER: No specific highway
plank in ins verbai platform.
GRADY: "Farmers—have paid this
tax (gasoline) willingly and have
without complaint permitted the
State to build first iis primary sys
tem. Now they are looking to the
State to go into these areas and
take them out oi the mud and bring
them by sale and comfortable roads
into a connection with our primary
system or hard surface roads."
GRAVELY: "Our highway system
should be improved and expanded as
rapidly as it can be done efficiently.
The fundamental basis of such im
provement and expansion "must
necessarily be the farm t<J market
roads."
110RT0N: "An adequate system of
public highways is indispensable to
the economic welfare of North Caro
lina. Under our plan of school con
solidation it is essential for the safe
ly and well-being of thousands of
school children that our secondary
roads be adequately maintained, and
our entire system of highways be
improved and expanded as rapidly
as revenues will permit."
MAXWELL: Only candidate to go
into details of highway improvement
he headed the paragraph on this
subject "A Fifty Million Program
for Highways and By-Ways." Of it
he said "I have also made sufficient
study of this problem to know that
such expenditure is desperately
needed and is vital to our continuing
growth and progress, as well as to a
reduction of our .shameful record oi
deaths and injuries on our danger
ously narrow roafls, bridges and
curves." He advocates a detailed
four-point change in present methods
of financing highway construction.
(NOTE: Comparison of plat
forms, beginning with the planks
on diversion of highway funds,
will be published tomorrow.)
Mourned by Canada
Lord Tweedsmuir •„
Governor General of Canada ani
noted author under the name of
John Buchan, Lord Tweedsmuir
died in a Montreal hospital of a
brain concussion, caused by a fall
in his home. He wa6 64 years old.
Three emergency operations had
been performed.
Unwilling Hosts of Hitler
Sister Innoccneia (left) and Sister Bogumila, of the Franciscan Order,
with headquarters at Lodi, N. J., return to New York, after serviee in
Poland. The Sisters (old how the American-built convent to which they
were assigned, sixteen miles from Warsaw, was used as headquarters 1>.\
the German general staff during the siege of the Polish capital, Hitler,
himself, they declared, watched the military advance from there.
(Central I'rens)
Love is blind says the proverb, and
jerhaps never so blinri as when the
ibject of love is one's own country
:nd nation.
As 1 ho world grow? older it- \»*nrs
become more terrible. That's under
standable—a man can hit hardtr
lhan a boy.
Scholarship Open
To Local Seniors
Seniors in the Henderson high
.-chool may enter the 1940 competi
tion tor John McMuilen regional
chobivhinj in engineering, offered
by the College of Engineering of
Cornell University it is stated by
Principal W. D. Payne. The scholar
ship- c-M.y $400 a year throughout
the collei.'e coi;r:;e.
These scholarships, open to quali
I'ied seonndarv school seniors are
awarded on the basis of scholastic
I'hrvement. character, and general
•'viity. Applications must be filed
l.i'i'iu" A-v*i! 1. on official blanks
which may b;« obtained from the
principal.
Local -t* iclcut^ will compete in a
no includim? North Carolina. South
C:«rolinn. Georgia. Florida, Alabama,
?Ti-: issippi :»nd Louisiana.
Finns C! aim Red
Attacks Repulsed
(Continued From Pa2e Ono)
: i\ o was hi its 13th day today, the
!-"nr. yo- ; yrday "mode several suc
fi:I counter ;;tlacks" the army
communique :"iid.
T.;o l!:s>i: n attacks "continued
i ur.alu'.ted" throughout yesterday, the
1 ~ir.":- said.
: (/ Red army communique issued
I in AToseow s;iifl that 32 "defensive
fortifications" lias been wrested
J >n».n the Finns on Monday and that
[ mudi war material had been cap
•'rccl.)
(>n ; ,iv.e island.' northeast of Lake
| Ladoga the Finns said t.hey "de
I '.troyod'' a Russian column of 100
I'd? .'iiid tluy reported capturing
-:v. a! Russian machine gun nests
in iho Kuiimo region.
A1 Raate the Finns said they
dvov • Russian detachment "back
i:ryond th.c frontier".
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