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The ONLY REALLY INDEPENDENT WEEKLY in Mecklenburg County * Cite Charlotte For • Weekly, It. Readers Represent tbe LARGEST BUYING POWER in Charlotte Truthful, Honest, Impartial AND DIXIE FARM NEWS Official Unras Central Labor Union; endorsed by State Federation ef Labor Endeavoring to Serve the Masses VOL. IV.—No. 51. VtNT* ASVMTWMnr Ml Tm« f la CHARLOTTE, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1935 mm Dctonri Csihii—itw m TN« WtAB— $2.00 Per Year FISH SUPPER AND POLITICAL MEET HELD BY TEXTILE WORKERS ON SATURDAY NIGHT WAS A SUCCESS The meeting last Saturday night of textile workers, put on by Calvine local to give candidates a chance to tell the workers where they stood, was fairly well attended. Three candidates for mayor and 14 for city council made brief talks, outlining their plat form. L. X- Vinesett, of the textile local, presided. A short while after the meeting opened fish began to be served, and several of the speakers were “Sort of” neglected, but thing* quieted^ down and most of the “boys” got ja_ respect ful and attentive hearing, gave the following report speakers on Sunday momi we quote: Mayor Arthur H.' Wehrfl, i'who seeks re-election, stated that hi had always been, in favor of a (good bud get, that he favors improved schools with equal rights to all children, that he does not believe in reducing the salary of city employees The News s1 to the igj which he can balance the budget and is in favor that and the (he appre have done fill appre him in for of good wages for every! he loves to serve Charlotl people of Charlotte, that dates what the workers for him in the past and date what they can do 1 the future. Ben E. Douglas, candidate mayor, stated that he was, in favor of a progressive city goverrmeht with a balanced budget, and that he would do all within his power to relieve the taxpayer of his heavy burden. H. H. Thomas, candidate for ma yor, stated that a city cannot prog ress by pauperizing the people;, that he was against the modern-day sys tem of tax, and that he was taking a definite stand in regard to reliev ing unemployment, curtailing the city’s expenditures, that he would limit the manager to a $300 a month salary, curtail the necessary depart ments and positions in the city gov ernment, and that he has always been interested in the welfare of the work ing people. Claude Albea, of Ward 6, candi date for the city council, said that after four years on the city council he was confident that he <;ould serve the people of the city ii a better fashion, that he has no special plat form except to act in the best inter ests of the people. W. N. Hovis, of Ward 1, candidate for the city council, pledged to do his best for the people of Charlotte if elected, and would stand for what he thought was right, and that he ad vocates the reorganization of the police department. W. T. Blackwell, of Ward 2, brief ly stated that he would do nothing to the detriment of the people of Char lotte. Miss Elizabeth Conrad, of Ward 2, stated that her first intejrest was, in labor, that she was firft, always for organized last and r, and that every pcrsvii chuucu tvjuo* rights regardless of their rank. J. C. Warren, of Ward 5, prom ised to de the best of his ability if elected, that his interest is to upbuild North Charlotte, and that since North Charlotte was devoid of crime there was no need to reorganize the police department. Roy K. Winchell, of Ward 7, stated that he stood for the rights of the people, liberty and peace in the city, that the police could double its pres ent force and still be inadequate, that he believes the city government can be reorganized and all unnecessary departments cleaned out. T. R. Grimm, of Ward 9, briefly stated that he was in favor of re organizing the police department. W. R. Rea, or Ward 10, stated that he would appreciate the aid of the textile workers. Howard Payne, of Ward 6, stated that he was with the working man to the last ditch, that he fayored a reorganization of the Federal Relief organization. T. V. Griswold, of Ward 5, prom ised a balanced budget and had the interest of the working people at heart always. Roy A. Page, of Ward 3, said that he was not in favor of a wide open Sunday but preferred common sense instead, that primarily he would do his best to help labor. D. C. Staton, of Ward 5, announced that he favored organized labor. Dr. M. F* Boyles, of Ward 2, em phatically declared that he was 100 per cent for labor unions, a large hos pital cauable of taking care of the unfortunate, and that he believes that the present Federal Relief organiza tion is doing more harm than good, and that local men as Federal Relief agents could get better results. Earnest Homsy, of Ward 3,: stated that he was in favor of a good clean government and common horse sense. A telegram from Charles E, Lam beth, candidate for mayor was read to the workers. It stated that he regretted not being able to attend the meeting but gave the workers his best regards. J. H. Fulerton, prominent labor man who is a candidate for the school board, stated that he believed that the workers should have a represen tative on e€ery commission of the city government. Mrs. Bertha Gurley had charge of the serving of the plates and she saw that each and every one was bounti fully supplied, and there were several calls for extra “seryings.” Page Frank Barr And Roy Morton; Fish Are Biting CHICAGO, April 23.—Chester Mc Carty, of Portland, Ore., wjho admitted he “might] have had a little advan tage because I’m a lawyer,” today won the title of Master jLiar in tihe fish story contest of thejlzaak Wal ton League. Dr. George M. Opper mann, of Buffalo, won second prize; Mr. McCarty’s piscatorial prevari cation follows: “I wras fishing on the banks of the Deshutes River in Oregon and wasn’t having a dime’s worth of ljack with my bait. So I started looking for a frog. Btit I’m a little near-sighted and when I finally found one I failed to see that it was in the mouth of a vicious look ing rattlesnake. “When I discovered my mistake^! poured a few drops down the snaklrST throat from a bottle of whisky. He dropped the frog like a hot-cake and I proceeded to bait my nook with it. “A little later I felt a tapping against my leather boot. , j “I looked down. There was the snake I had given the drink to—hold ing two frogs in its mouth.” Government Ownership Of Railroads WASHINGTON.—Senator Burton Urged K. Wheeler, of Montana, chairman of the Senate Interstate Commerce bill provid rship and ginning next Committee, introduced ing for government o' operation of railroads beji January. Mr. Wheeler has been of public ownership of many years. Although with Joseph B. Eastman, ordinator of Transportation, in draft ing the bill, Mr. Wheele - stated that the co-ordinator does no: recommend immediate government ownership of the railroads and did not) suggest the measure. an advocate utilities for he conferred Federal Cp “T feel that government ownership of the riaoralds&inskzMcc Iccetaoinonon of the railroads is ultimately coming and that for the protection of the in vestors it should be done now,” Sena tor Wheeler said. He added: “Also, this bill would guarantee a better transportation system, with lower freight rates to the public.” ■ James Cagney In “The St. Louis Kid” at Charlotte Theater An exceptionally large and tal ented cast was selected, to play in sup port of James Cagney in his latest starring vehicle from Warner Bros., “The St. Louis Kid,” which comes to the Charlotte Theatre Friday and Saturday. Jimmy himself is said to have won the riew laurels in this picture which has been hailed as his most hilarious and most exciting up to date, not withstanding the fact that he 'recent ly played with such success in “Here Comes The Navy,” “He Was Her Man,” “Jimmy The Gent,” “Lady Killer” and others. Patricia Ellis has the leading femi nine role opposite Jimmy and is the ramantic interest in the picture. Al though still in her teens she has had a long stage career and recently has made good in such pictures as “Big Hearted Herbert,” “The Circus Clown,” “Side Streets” and “Convic tion City.” Allen Jenkins, Hobart Cavanaugh, Spencer Charters, Dorothy Dare and Arthur Aylesworth form an excellent comedy team for the hilarious situa tions in the picture. All are among Hollywood’s most famous comedians. Miss Dare, however,, only recently made her bow in pictures in “Happi ness Ahead” before that having been a comedienne and musical comedy star, on Breadway. The picture, based oii a story by Frederick Hazlit| Brennan, combines riotous comedy , with melodramatic thrills and a novel romance. Ray I Enright directed the production from the screen play by Warren Duff and Seton I. Miller. DR. LEVY ATTENDS W. O. W. CONVENTION AT KINSTON, N. C. Dr. Sam Levy is attending the Woodmen of the World state con vention at Kinston this week. He will return Saturday. Dr. Levy is a del egate from Hornet’s Nest camp, but it does seem that he is leaving Char lotte at an inopportune time, being a candidate for city council. “In Union there is strength.” Under Union Labels there is QUAL ITY. By buying non-Union products, the worker places himself in the same category as a strike breaker. In New York City during recent weeks a renewal of former efforts to prevent the teaching of the Bible in the public schools has been Started by an organization which has attached to itself the name of “Freethinkers of America.” They begin their attack by stating that a “persistent and widespread campaign” is now being prosecuted to enforce the teaching of the Bible in the public schools, and they are deadly opposed to such a thing. Just why there should be such strenuous opposition to Bible instruction in our schools is hard for the average citizen to understand. It is true that denominational instruction should not be permitted, but the effort to have the younger and rising generations learn something of the idea that there must of necessity be a higher power than man ruling this universe should not be discontinued by any body of persons whose main thought ap pears to be the desire to discredit the idea of God. When the discoverers of America first set foot on her soil, the first thing they did was to plant the cross, then offer up a prayer of thanks for safe deliverance. Then came the settlers, people who sought the Ameri can shore in hope of finding a place where they could worship their God and be free from persecution. They seem to have prospered, and the Bible has at all times had a prominent place in the life of the nation from that time until the present. In fact, the United States is founded upon the Bible. When a President takes the oath of office it is always on the Bible. If a person is to give testimony in court, he makes oath on the Bible or makes affirmation in some pther way indicating his belief in a higher power. When Congress opens a session for transaction of public business, the first act is to ask Divine blessing upon its labors, which act is performed by a chaplain, one of which is provided for the Senate, and one for the House of Representatives. Our legislatures open their sessions in the same manner. All official acts of our legislative bodies acknowledge the exis tence of a God in its date lines when it says “Anno Domini,” which means “in the year of our Lord.” What these people expect to gain by forbidding the teaching of the to understand. If the Bible is right, their op Bible in the schools is hard ..._ __ position can not make it otherwise, and if the Bible is wrong, the teach ing of it will do no harm that we can see. They make the claim that it is contrary to the American thought of separation of church and state. Stranjge how an idea can be stretched by a little imagination. There does not ap pear to be any particular denomination that wants to control the destiny of this country, but it does seem quite plain, that some people are much agitated over the fact that a knowledge of the Bible may interfere with their method of life, which seemingly is the reverse of the kind of life the Bible would.have them live. One commandment in the Bible says, “Thou ehalt J" m.nY punishment for swearing in public, yet places one is subject to arrest and we have never heard that an effort was being made to have that law Xe moved. Another law of the Bible, “thou shalt not kill,” is also recognized in our man-made laws, but no effort is made to annul the law, although it must be admitted it is not generally obeyed. In fact, it seems that any thing that is inteded to raise the people to a higher plane of thought and action is very repulsive to some people, and a great outcry is made to abolish the thought. The idea of national prohibition was taken from Our laws, since the claim was made the law could not be enforced. Perhaps we should put the Bible on the shelf for the same reason, but if there is a God, and this writer firmly believes that there is, it may be a sad meeting when those who are making such great efforts to abolish his teachings are called before Him to explain their action. If there is no God, then when we leave our breath behind us we shall be like the lower animals—just, die and that is the end of the story. However, it may be the better plan to be prepared to make a good account of our actions here on earth, to the end that we may be worthy of the reward which shall come from a service well per formed. We hope the effort to keep the Bible out of our public schools will meet with the failure such effort deserves. WMMMMMMMMMMMMIllM THE ELECTION NEXT MONDAY Since the registration books were opened some time ago 2,300 have been added to the rolls, 1,300 of whom are negroes, which brings the list up ot around 25,000, all of which goes to show that there is going to be “some” voting done on Mon day, April 29, when the nearly 60 candidates for Mayor and Council will draw up at the starting post at the fall of the flag. It is an interesting melee, and Labor has no little in terest in the race, for it has men in the running, tried and true, men who have gone down the line with the people, espe cially the middleman, who is essentiaUy the fqundation stone of all government, and the ultimate «oat iif all public affairs. To the workers The Journal would say: Be sure you get your men straight and do not be fooled by political “clap trap” of friendship, “backslaps” and “handshakes,” or a cheap cigar. Vote for the men you know, and who know you, and let’s quit experimenting. LEGISLATIVE MIRR0R By ANNE OBSERVES _ RALEIGH, April 23%The General Assembly is back in session after the Easter holidays.1 A few of the mem bers are absent for one reason or an other; the pay has stopped and some of the boys are beginning to feel the need of a pay day . . . The highway workers of the State are watching both Senators and Representatives this week as to what they are going to do wit^ their bill. This measure was introduced by Senator Frick of Bruns wick and eighteen other Senators, a few days ago. The same bill was also introduced in the House by Represen tative Sentelle. It provides for a uni form minimum wage scale for all em ployees in the maintenance, equip ment and prison department and also provides that workers be paid for all houps worked. The bill 'also has a clause' which stipulates that employees must be paid under the classification under whoch they are actually work ing. There has been a rumbling froir certain quarters against the measure but no one has, up until this time had the gall to come out in the oper against it. However, there are thos« who think the highway workers shoulc work from sun-up until sun-dowi and then some extra if necessary ant be paid for only eight or ten hours as the department may choose. Mer with families are now working foi the Highway Department for $32.5< a month or less and working twelv< hours a day and more. Presided Lawrence and Secretary Sandefui have been assisting the officers anc members of the Highway Workeri Union; and they have also beer ably assisted By Represent at ive George Kendall of the International Association of Machinists. If thejre ever -was a group of workers that needed a raise in pay and more rea sonable hours it is these people. |lt is common knowledge that they have for sometime past been used by the Administration when an election came around but when the election was over all the gravy went to some body else, and all they got was a cut in pay and a headache. They don’t think so much of this kind of poli tics. And after all, wno could blame them? A few of those Legislators who signed the Labor Voters League Questionnaire before the last primary and then came down here and voted ; opposite from the way they promised, have let out an awful holler because the Legislative Committee of the State Federation of Labor has called their hand and served notice that the voters back in their counties will be given some of the details of their votes on different bills and amend ments to bills. One newspaper re porter the other day said that it had been suggested to him by one of these . disgrunted boys that the labor moye ; ment should send somebody down here fo lobby for labor that would ' be agreeable and easy to get along with. In other words they want to i tell the State Federation of Labor what kind of officers it should have. They would tell the Federation that I it should elect men with a spine line a jellyfish—men who would agree with them and not report Jtheir broken BRIEF SKETCHES OF CANDIDATES SEEKING ELECTION ON MONDAY; TWO WOMEN ARE IN THE RUNNING The following, taken from the Charlotte News of Sunday, will give the voters a line-up on the candidates, and is worthy of peru sal. The workers, of course, know their own candidates. Each man has his record and own peculiar appeal. FOR MAYOR— Ben E. Douglas, 2194 Crescent ave nue, mortician of the firm of Douglas and Sing. i Arthur H. Wearn, 921 North Col lege street, incumbent mayor, and agent of the Penn Mutual Life In surance,! company. Charles E. Lambeth, 1071 Provi dence road, former agent and head of the Lambeth Insurance agency. H. H. Thomas, 682 East Trade street, salesman of the Mack Sanders Motor company. FOR THB COUNCIL: Ward 1—J. S. Tipton, 325 East Ninth street, mortician and head of the Tipton funeral home; W. N. Hovis, 518 North Tryon - street, mortician with Z. A. Hovis and son; J. S. Mungo, 221 North Caldwell street, barber; Don Richardson, Guthery apartments, violin teacher. Ward 2—Miss Elizabeth Conrad, Addison apartments, head of the Con rad Advertising company, B. N. Rich burg, Piedmont hotel, retired railway construction supervisor; Dr. M. F. Boyles, 703 South Tryon street, phy sician; John F. Durham, Addison apartments, insurance agent with the McDonald Insurance agency; W. T. Blackwell, 113 Greenwood Cliff, op erator of The Rendezvous; Bishop Dale, 408 East First street, negro in surance agent. Ward 3—Roy A. Page, 212 South Church street, electrical contractor; Abraham Homsy, 819 West Trade street, retired merchant; D. 0. Smith, 1008 Grove street, salesman with the Standard Printing Company. Ward 4—W. R. Hudson, 414 West Eighth street, grocer of Love and Hudson; John F. Boyd, 327 North Poplar street, incumbent councilman and president of Boyd and Goforth contractors; Nathan Sharp, 300 West Trade street, manager of the South ern Manufacturers club; Thurman Long, 229 North Church street, stocks and bonds. Ward 6—J. C. Warren, 1100 North Caldwell street, head of the J. C. Warren Transfer company; H. E. Garrison, 1200 East Thirty-fifty street, builder; T. V. Griswold, 2020 North Brevard street, railway con ductor; D. C. Staton, 1127 East Thirty-sixth street, grocer; Ralph Rollins, 1227 East Thirty-fifth street co loemo n ward *6—Claude L. Albea, 1911 Ashland avenue, incumbent council man and linotype operator with The Charlotte News; Howard Payne, 1108 North Pegram street, textile worker and leader of the Textile Workers’ union; R. L. Sing, 708% Preston street, real estate of the firm of De Laney and Sing; J. S. Nance, 1415 The Plaza, druggist of the Selwyn Cut Rate drug store; E. J. Matthews, 616 Louise avenue, magistrate and partner of the M. & M. Realty com pany; M. Lee Heath, 1023 Central avenue .real estate agent; J. F .Love, 625 Oakland avenue, sales represen- j tative of the General Seating and Equipment company. - Ward 7—Roy K. Winchell, 1801 East Fifth street, magistrate; Dr. W. E. Wishart, 2001 East Fifth street, physician; Dr. Sam Levy, 1316 East Seventh street, optometrist and den tist; H. H. Baxter, 927 Henley Place, president-treasurer Of the Central Lumber company; |. E. Clanton, 2104 Dartmouth place, real estate; J. T. Moore, 1220 East Seventh street, lawyer; J. H. Huntley, 1531 East Fourth street, president of Huntley Brothers Vulcanizing companyJ. Caldwell McDonald, 901 Providence road, president of McDonald Service company. Ward 8—L .R. Sides, 528 East Boulevard, director of music in the city schools; Ernest M. Morgan, 709 Lexington avenue, foreman of the shipping department of the McClaren Rubber company; Ben F. Favell, 429 East Worthington avenue, operator of the Favell Shoe Repairing eom Ward 8—L. R. Sides, 528 East Boulevard, magistrate. ! Ward 9—T. R. Grimm, 809 Dowd road, employee of the McClaren Rub ber company; Patrick Hunter, 2315 Toomey avenue, electrical contractor of Hunter Electric company; J. B. Wedenfeller, 1131 South Tryon street, sales ' representative of the' Parker Paper company. Ward 10—John L. Wilkinson, 604 Grandin road, president of the Car olina Transfer and Storage company; W. R. Rea, 2830 Tuckaseege road, clerk with the Standard Oil company; E. W. Haight, 325 South Summit avenue, assistant chief clerk to gen eral manager Southern Railway Lines East: R. Lee Toomb^629~Sirm mit nie, dental laboratory opera tor; John F. Barbee, 413 Hillcrest avenue, assistant superintendent Prudential Life Insurance company. Ward 11—J. D. McCall, 701 States ville avenue, lawyer; Joe Sabiston, 634 West Eleventh street, president and general manager of Sabiston Coal and Transfer company. FOR SCHOOL BOARD: Henry J. Allison, ,3021 The Plaza, — president of Charlotte Hardware com pany and Glasgow-Allison company;' Mrs. W. C. Mitcham, 2738 Briarwood road, housewife and clubwoman; J. H. Fullerton, 801 East Seventeenth street, salesman of the Rawleigh Products company. CENTRAL LABOR UNION Calm and peaceful, with not a rip ple to mar a placid stream, marked -thg meeting of Central Labor Union Tuesday, While a murmur of poli tics was heard at intervals, it seemed to be understood where Labor has an Ichored in next Monday’s primary, and it will be a “silent" campaign. The usual reports of locals was made and showed varying working conditions in the different crafts, Committee re ports were abbreviated, and few, the Label committee being the most ex tensive, and showed that endeavor along this line is on an upward trend. There were a few visitors, but only Brother T. V. Griswold, of the Railway Trainmen, and , Paul. R. Christopher, Textile organizer, made talks. Mrs. W. E. McKamey, presi dent of the Women’s Union Label League thanked Central body for its co-operation in fitting quarters for the culinary activities of the League, and announced that a “Mock Wed ding” would be put on at an early date. Vice President Kiser occupied the chair in the absence of President, bea, who was unable oh account of “prd Secretary Boger and Recording Sec retary Boate occupied their posts and the meeting adjourned on time. business. STRIKE AGAINST BONUS WON BY AUTO WORKERS TROIT, Mich.—United Automo No. 18689 won their strike- against the bonus system imposed by the , Hupp Motor Car Corporation here. The walk-out lasted for six days. It was settled after a number of con ferences between representatives of the management, the auto union, and F. J. Dillon, general organizer of the American Federation of Labor. FARM OWNERS ON RELIEF WASHINGTON.—“Unemployment” has hit farmers rater heavily accord ing to figures made public by the Re lief Administration which showed that 6 per cent of farm owners and 16 per cent of tenants and share-croppers were living on relief last October. In the neighborhood of one-third of the Federal Labor Union farmers Were TfWfftrs $tad two thirds were tenants and share-croppers. In the spring wheat counties the propor tion of tenants living on relief ran up to 63 per cenj»._ NRA COLLECTS $6540 BACKK PAY FROM CODE CHISLERS ST. LOUIS, Mo.—The NRA Com pliance Officers for Missotm^^te nounced that back kages -srfnounting to $6540 were collected from 30 com panies for 226 employes during the period March 31 to April 13. The total represented the difference be tween wages paid by code chiselers aW<l amounts due under the codes. The Compliance Officer said that op erators of automobile establishments and retail food stores were most per sistent violators of code wage rates. promises to the folks back home. They even go back to the textile strike i of last fall and tell you that Law-! rence should have been more easy on the Governor—that if he had been more agreeable and easy in that mat ter that the labor bills would have received more votes, and more of them would have been enacted into law. When approached about a news paper Item oh the subject the other day, Lawrence said: “As long as I am head of the organized labor move ment in this State I am going to represent the members to the best of my ability. And I am not going to be swayed off this course by some politician who signs a pledge to vote with labor and then violates that pledge. If the shoe fits they’U have to wear it And furthermore I don’t think the members of organized labor in North Carolina will let this bunch of designing would-be politicians tell them what kind of officers to elect. If they had not broken faith with or ganized labor there never would have been any reason for them toyelt. Or-' ganized labor is growing by leaps and bounds and it will not be hog-tied or hampered by smooth-tongued traitors. We will keep a straight course, fight ing for the principles that we know to be right. We have many friends here in this Legislature who are with us; we have countless friends through out the State who will line up with us in our program. With the aid of these friends and the help of He who is Supreme our army will grow and we will inarch on to victory.”
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