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The ONLY REALLY INDEPENDENT WEEKLY in Mecklenburg County For a Weekly, Its Readers Represent the LARGEGST BUYING POWER in Charlotte Official Organ Central Labor Union; endorsed by State Federation of Labor Che Charlotte labor Truthful, Honest, Impartial AND DIXIE FARM NEWS Patronize oud Adver tisers. They make YOUR paper posible by their co operation. Endeavoring to Serve the Masses VOL. V.—NO. 12e YOUH ADVERTISEMENT IN TNI JOURNAL IS A GOOD CHARLOTTE, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1935 f . 1 Journal Advertisers Deserve Consideration of THE READER $2.00 Pet Year EMPLOYERS WAITING FOR CONGRESS TO ADJOURN BEFORE BEGINNING WAGE CUTS AND LONGER HOURS SAYS JOHN LLOYD, OF NORFOLK In an address at Central Labor Union hal Ion Tuesday night, John Lloyd, of Norfolk, Va., vice-president of the Barbers’ Inter national Union, expressed the fear that employers were only wait ing for Congress to adjourn before instigating wage cuts and the lengthening of hours for their employes. Mr. Lloyd’s address, along with several others, was the fea ture of an open meeting of Charlotte Central Labor Union, which is beginning an extensive organizing campaign of this territory. He is at all times interesting and at certain periods became dra matic in his portrayal of what the rights of workers were and stressing the point that they were to be obtained only through the medium of organization and seeing that the right men were put into political office.. He called upon union men to put their shoul ders to the wheel, forget self, set aside petty jealousies, eliminate internal friction and work one with the other to bring workers into the fold. His slogan whs to “Keep the bell of organization ringing morning, noon and night, make Charlotte a 100 per cent union town.” Organization of labor was described as the only way for labor to keep its hours, wprking conditions and wages at a high standard. The American Federation of Labor, he declared, has advocated better wages, better hours, and better working con ditions for 50 years. He deplored the “satisfied” man or woman in the Labor move ment as a stumbling block, and declared the organized worker needed no NRA. He lauded and called for support of President Roosevelt, and spoke in favor of the 30-hour week bill. He stress ed the importance and necessity of all union men and women de manding the Union Label on all purchases, stating that it was an important weapon in the hands of the workers. There are “card” men, and “union” men. “Anyone can car ry a card,” he said, “but the Union man takes an active part in the work of his organization.” He further stated that a “Chris tian worker will not take an-honest man’s job at a salary of $2 00 to $3.00 a week less than the man is getting. Such a man is a hypocrite.” &, Mr. Lloyd’s address was well received and at the close of the meeting was thanked by many present for the message be had brought. Textile Red Lisk also made a short address, but it carried the usual fire and sound logic that only Brother Lisk can put into his talks. He paid his respects to a few unfair business concerns m Charlotte and the attitude they hold toward Labor, urging or ganization. Mr. Lisk receives a glad hand at Charlotte meetings, for he is a tireless worker and a forceful speaker. E. A. Thrift, a local labor worker and an interesting talker, closed the meeting with an appeal that the talent among the work ers for more useful service in the cause be sought out and culti vated to the end that the harvest of intelligent Labor workers would be a bounteous one. Judge Criticizes Our Antiquated Jury Machinery GASTONIA, July 22.—“If you ran your business like the courts are com pelled to run in North Carolina, you would be in receivership in 60 days,” Judge Wilson W'arlick told the mem bers of the Gaston county grand jjury in his charge in superior court here today. “The ocurts of the State need a general overhauling," said Judge Warlick. “Under the circumstances the grand jujry is not worth what it costs the county. The grand jury is dependent on the workings of the so Jicitor, acting when he sends in bills, and is powerless to investigate any-1 thing on its own hook. “You have had but little power,” he told the grand jurors, “and when your six months of service is over you will look back over it and won der what it’s all about. Restricted by our cumbersome laws, the present day grand jury is like a one-horse wagon in an age of speed.” TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION MEMBERS TAKE NOTICE The following invitation has been sent out to members of the Typo graphical Women’s Auxiliary, and is self-explanatory: The Auxiliary members (to Typo graphical Union 338) will meet at Bryant Park Sunday afternoon about four o’clock. Each family bring a picnic supper. No other metings planned for July and August. Please come and bring your family. MRS. ROBERT F. WHITE, Sec’y-Treas. IF YOUR SUBSCRIPTION IS IN ARREARS SENT TN A CHECK Pickets Hurt In Durham Mill Strike * - __ DURHAM, July 23.—Quiet prevaTT ed tonight at the No. 1 plant of the Durham Hosiery mills where this morning two local union officials in the picket line thrown around the plant by striking seamless hosiery workers were slashed with knives when a group of non-strikers forced their way through the front gate. Union leaders said that efforts to pursuade those still at work to leave their jobs wil lbe redoubled tomor row morning by pickets who have been instructed to employ no violence. A strike committee appointed by the local central labor union pledged support to Lawrence Hogan, field representative of the American Fed eration of Hosiery Workers. He added that “there are as many workers out on strike, if not more, than when the difficulties first be 916,720 WORKERS WERE HIT BY LABOR DISPUTES DURING FISCAL YEAR Labor disputes during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934, numbered 1,140, according to a report by Sec retary of Labor Frances Perkins. The disagreements involved 916,720 work ers who lost 25 million man days of employment. - Most of the strikes broke out in the Spring of 1934, when the Recovery Act seemed firmly es tablished. In 1933 there were 1,562 disputes involving 812,137 workers and a loss of 14,818,847 man days. The Union Label assures the pur chaser that he is putting his money into the best investment on earth— Trade Unionism. The Union Label is the insignia of the great army of American Labor. NIGHT BASEBALL NORFOLK AT CHARLOTTE July 29,30,31 NIGHT GAMES AT 8:30 Bleachers, 40c (All Tax Paid) Grand Stand 65c 1 PERTINENT COMMENT ON TIMELY TOPICS CHATTING I BY HARRY BOATE V --It is one of the commandments of our Master that, when we give of jour money, we should do it secretly, that even our left hands are ignorant! of what our right hands are bestowing. To give anonymously is the Christian ideal of giving, and that is true whether the nature of the gift may be.! A fine tale from the past is very much to the point here. Once, Gberlin, the French philanthropist, was traveling among the mountains of Alsace in the depth of winter. The cold was intense, the snow lay thickly on the ground, and before he had completed half of his journey he felt himself yielding! to fatigue and to the desire for sleep. He felt that if he gave way to sleep he would wake no more. But, in spite of this thought he found it impossible to resist his desire, and soon he lost consciousness. He did awake at last, to find a wagoner in a blue blouse stahding over him, urging him to take Wine and food. By and by his strength revived, and he was able to walk to the man’s wagph and was given to the nearest village, where, in warmth and shelter, he was soon himself again. Before departing he wanted to reward his rescuer, but the man refused money, saying that it was his duty to assist liven in distress. “At least tell me your name,” said Oberlin .when he could not prevail on the man to accept reward, “so that I may remember you in my prayers.” “I see,” said the Wagoner, “that you are a preacher. Tell me) the name of the Good Samaritan.” “I cannot do that," answered Oberlin, “for it is not recorded.” “Ah, well,” said the wagoner, “When you can tell me! his name, I will tell you mine.”—From N. C. Christian Advocate. ——Below are recorded a few interesting remarks taken from the same pub lication as the above: 4'. w nen a man nas uie last, worn wun ms wue, is is generally an apoiogy. . i,.. “Every man in this world is either an anvil or a hammer,” said a speaker, quoting from some writer. To which remark has been appended the state ment: “This is not true. Some men are merely bellows.” .... How tnjie is the last remark.In remarking on travel through the country inj our present age the writer says: “In the old days a trip by ocean or wagonette was a beautiful long story, but a car ride today is only a synopsis.” . j. . . Expressed in a very accurate manner .... Speaking of the ten most bejauti ful words in the English language, what about this list: ‘ “Business is im proving steadily, so we are raising your salary.” —>—In gathering at the dinner table one day a father noted that his child’s hands were soiled and remarked: “You can't have visited the bath room on your way down. What would you say to me if I came to the table with hands looking like that?” To which the child replied: “Well, daddy, I fink Ifd be too polite to mention it.” ——A father was talking to his young son, and in the course of the conver sation he asked the boy what he was going to be when he became a min, to which the boy remarked he was going to be president of the conferencJ Said the father: “I hope you will some day, but that means a lot of hard work. You can’t be a president all at once. You can’t begin at the top in life). You must begin at the bottom and work up.” To which the boy replied: j“Yes, daddy; but suppose I want to dig a well?” Mayor Douglas has promised to appoint a committee to inves tigate the proposition about the; city accepting the Airport. We thought that had been settled long ago, but it seems that the ques tion will not die. Never before Heard of a going concern offering to give itself away and not being able to find a taker. There is a joker in the offer. If the city takes it for five years and puts it on its financial feet, then the city may buy it from the owners at a handsome price. Very generous. Several times have citizens of Charlotte expressed their views on this subject, but the owners of this place do not seem to believe what was said by these voters. To firmly impress the decision on those endeavoring to unload seems impossible. If the city does not want it, let “No” be the answer and make it emphatic. True, we should have an airport, but why not build a new one if we do not want the one already in existence? ALEXANDRIA CITY GOVERNMENT GIVES WORKERS FULL SUPPORT IN DEMAND FOR DECENT LIVING ALEXANDRIA, Ya.—E. C. Davison, Mayor of Alexandria, told 95 women workers who walked out of the plant of the Cen tury Manufacturing Company here in militant protest against a 10 per cent wage cut that they would have the full moral support of the city government in their demand for decent living standards. In addition to being mayor, Mr. Davison is secretary-treasurer of the International Association of Machinists, with headquarters in Washington, D. C. j * ,| The Century concern manufactures shirts. According'to strike leaders the 10 per cent reduction in wages knocked the pay of average workers down to between $6 and $9 for a 49-hour week. The strike was in charge of a rep resentative of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, who an nounced that all but ten of the 105 operators in the plant were enrolled in the union. r :■ Mayor Davison told the strikers that they would have the protection of the police against outside interference with the orderly progress of the strike and that rather than work for starvation wages they should go on the relief rolls. When he was informed that the management of the company threatened to remove the plant from Alexandria unless the wage cut was accepted, Mayor Davison said: “If the factory will not pay decent and respectable wages, we will be very glad to have it move from the city.” 30-Hour Week Strike Opposed i By Hos. Workers —Philadelphia, Pa.—The convention of the American Federation of Hos iery Workers here tabled a resolution calling for a general strike of hosiery workers on Sept. 1, if manufacturers refused the demand for a 30-hour week in place of the present 40-hour week without reduction in wages. A number of delegates declared the thing to do was to organize the un organized portion of the industry. Otherwise with the 30-hour week em ployers would employ four shifts a day and throw lots of employes out of work. Emil Rieve, president of the Federation, said the manufacturers claim they wilf not accept the shorter week proposal. William Smith, secretary-treasurer of the Federation, estimated the cost of the strike would run from half a million to a million dollars. He point ed out that the 1930 strike in the Aberle Hosiery Mill in Philadelphia, cost the union $285,000, and that the strike at the Kenosha Mills in Wiscon sin in 1929 cost $1,500,000. Subscribe for The Journal Textile Organizing Activities Bring Forth Good Results Word comes to us through Textile Organizer H. D. Lisk, of the follow ing meetings and meetings to be. He is kept busy getting to and from them: Last Saturday at 10 A. M. he was with Local 2293, at Poplar and Sev enth streets. A good meeting at Kamapolis at 8 P. M. with Local 2265. Last Wednesday night at Rockingham one of the biggest meetings ever held in that section took place. On Wed nesday night of this week another overflow meeting was held, and one is scheduled for today (Thursday) at 12 o’clock, noon, with another one at the same place at 10 A. M., and on Sunday afternoon at 2:30. It is re ported that the organization spirit is going great blazes at Kannapolis. There will be a great mass meet ing at 8 P. M., at Rockingham, also one at he same place at 10 A. M. Saturday. , Mr. H. D. Lisk, textile organizer in this section, along with other organ izers, reports a wave of membership increases that is passing the hopes of eve nthe most sanguine union Worker. ASHURST PRISON GOODS MEASURE IS PASSED BY HOUSE WITHOUT DISCUSSION - SENATE FAVORABLE WASHINGTON, D. C.—The House of Representatives pass ed, with practically no discussion, the Ashurst bill prohibiting, with certain exceptions, interstate transportation of prison-made products, o ' The bill would make it unlawful “for any person knowingly to transport or cause to be transported, in any manner or by any means whatsoever, or aid or assist in obtaining transportation for or in transporting any goods, wares, and merchandise manufactured, produced, or mined wholly or in part by convicts or prisoners” in interstate commerce in violation of any law of the State or Territory into which they are shipped. The bill does not apply to commodities manufactured in Federal penal and correctional institutions for use exclusively by the Federal Government. The object of the measure is to supplement the Hawes-Cooper Act which contains similar prohibitions but no penalty for violation. The Ashurst bill fixes a penalty of $1,000 for each offense together with forfeiture of the goods. The Senate Judiciary Committee has already reported the Ashurst bill favorably but the Senate has not acted on it. Washington, D. Ci Street Railway Men Ask Increase Washington, D. C.—Over 2,000 street car motormen, conductors and bus operators, shopmen and bammen employed by the Capital Transit Company are affected by the wage increase demand submitted by Divis ion 689, Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway and Mo tor Coach Employes of America. The proposed agreement includes the fol lowing conditions: Establishment of an eight-hour day, six day week, minimum; increase in the hourly rates of pay during the first three months of employment from 49 cents to 79 cents, and for the next nine months an increase from 53 to 83 cents, with 85 cents an hour after a year’s service. The union also asks that the rate of pay for one-man op eration be 15 cents an hour higher than for two-ma^i operation, with a reduction in the time spread to com plete a day’s work. Shopmen would be placed on a five day week of eiglit hours per day with time and a half for all over eight hours and for Sundays and holidays with an increase of 30 cents an hour. Barnmen would work eight hours a day, sijc days a week, with 30 cents an hpur increase. TEXTILE LOCAL OFFICERS FROM THE PAW CREEK TEXTILE LOCAL VISIT US Among other visitors to The Jour nal Monday were the president and secretary of the Paw<Creek Textile Local No,_ 2078, one of the strongest and best in this section. These boys are up and doing, and a news article from this local will appear weekly in The Journal from now on. Brother Kendall piloted thein hither, and he is some “pilot,” too, take it from us. He is a machinist worker how five days in the week and a Labor worker seven days in the week, excepting his church attendance on Sunday. CAB RATE CUT BLOCKED BY MAYOR LA GUARIDIA Mayor La Guardia of New York City declares )he will not permit taxi cab rates to / be lowered until he is compelled to 'by- a court decree. The Board of Aldermen has the power to fix the rates, which are now 35 cents for the first mile and 20 cents for each mile thereafter. ? He made the statement in connection with the fil ing of a suit by a taxicab prove the installation of low-rate cab meters. “Unless compelled to do so by the courts,” the Mayor said, “I will under no circumstances, under present con ditions permit the establishment of reduced rates. When taxi owners have established a decent living wage for their drivers and have fixed an ; eight-hour day, there will be time eonugh to discuss reduced rates. Teachers’ Union Seek Freedom Intellectually Chicago, 111.—Intellectual freedom for teachers and adequate financial support of the schools are the topics of main interest scheduled for dis cussion and action at the nineteenth annual convention of the American Federation of Teachers, convened to meet in Cleveland, Ohio, the week of August 25, officials of the Federation announced at its headquarters here. The statement regarding the converi tion read: "In the face of the Hearst Red baiting program, the deluge of loyalty oaths and other restrictive legisla tion, the wholesale dismissal of teach ers for thinking thoughts not in con formity with those in authority, the attacks upon the schools by chambers of commerce, pseudo-patriotic socie ties and big business interests inter-1! ested in tax saving, resulting in dras tic curtailment of educational oppor tunity, the American Federation of Teachers will launch a counter-attack and an aggressive campaign i for school and teacher protection.” Raymond F. Lowery is president and Florence Curtis Hanson, secre tary-treasurer of the Federation. 1 A “Thrill-Filled” Zane Grey Picture On At the Charlotte A thrill-filled and exciting Zane Grey picture, which combines murder drama with breath-taking outdoor ac tion, Paramount’s “Rocky Mountain Mystery” brings one of the most com petent casts ever seen in this type of picture to the Charoltte Theatre where it opens Friday. The plot of this unusual picture! centers about the murders committed in a radium mine owned by an aged,' recluse. Randolph Scott, a young en4 gineer makes it his business to trace down the murdered who is supposed to be a mysterious black horsemen] In the process, however, he falls ip fall in love with the old recluse’s niece, Ann Sheridan. As the action proceeds to its climax the girl is spirited away by the mur derer. In the final, gripping scenes, she is rescued by Scott who solves the puzzle of the murders and brings the criminals to justice. Charles “Chic” Sale, who plays the part of a bungling “constibule”, needs no introduction. His characterize- ’ tion in “Rocky Mountain Mystery” is a worthy addition to his many famous stage and radio characters. Other notable members of the cast include Kathleen Burke, George Mar ion, Sr., Mrs. Leslie Carter, James E. Eagles and Florence Roberts. The direction on the film is a erod ed to Charles Barton who has done a job easily comparable to the suc cesful “Wagon Wheels" which he also directed. The program also includes Thelma Todd and Patsy Kelly in “Bum Voy age”; Popeye, tlje Sailor in “Pleased to Meet Cha”;. Screen Snapshots and Rhythm.” a Paramount Headliner “Feminine ROCHESTER WAITRESSES ASK $10 FOR 5-DAY WEEK Rochester, N. Y.—Claiming that many waitresses in Rochester receive only 10 cents an hour in wages and are forced to pay for their uniforms, Mae Yost, business agent of the or ganized waitresses here, said she would recommend $10 for a five-day week of 40 hours before the public hearing scheduled to be held by the State Hotel and Restaurant Wage Board in the near future. HOSIERY WORKERS DRAFT A NEW CONTRACT Philadelphia, July 23.—The conven tion of the American Federation of Hosiery Workers empowered its na tional executive board today to nego tiate a new contract with the full fashioned hosiery manufacturers, the terms to be binding upon the feder ation without further convention ac tion. W. B. WITHERSPOON A JOURNAL VISITOR “Bill” Witherspoon, he of Linotype machinist and operating fame, was a Journal visitor Monday, and we had to look twice before we could be lieve our Senses. He is hale and hearty; looks better than he did around seven years ago when he was “cussing” Observer operators for be ing bone heads. “Bill” as he is af fectionately called has a heart of gold, and if there were more people like him (with all his faults) the world would be better off. He is now doing Linotype repair work hither and yon an dis with the Linotype Maintenance Company, which is located in Char lotte. TERRA HAUTE STRIKE COMES TO AN END; GUARD HAS HANDS FULL TERRA HAUTE, low,, July 23.— Labor leaders called off* tonight the general strike that has caused busi ness stagnation in this city for two days but their announcement brought further disorder at an enameling company where the strike had its in ception. Almost coincident with a statement by T. N. Taylor, local la bor official, that the general strike will end tomorrow, crowds rushed na tional guardsmen stationed at the en ameling plant. Tear gas bombs were tossed and rifle butts were used in repelling the rush.