The Charlotte Labor Journal
AND DIXIE FARM NEWS
■stared u second-cIass matter, September 11, 1131, at the Poet Office at
a tie. N. C., under the Act of March 1, 1871.
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Issued every Thursday from the office co The Charlotte Labor Journal and Dixie
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W. M. WITTER____Editor and Publisher
CLAUDE L. ALBEA......Associate Editor
CHARLOTTE, N. C„ THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1935
SUNDAY SPORTS WITHOUT COST(?)
Sunday sports went merrily on, as a no-charge day was the
magnet, and it appears from the attendance at the bail game and
on the golf links that a majority of our citizens favor an “Open
Sunday!” The management of the Charlotte Baseball Club, we
understand, were given to understand there would be no “lid clos
ing,” and accordingly put thousands of dollars into the venture to
keep professional baseball in our city, and wtih the sudden “moral
wave” that has hit us, will lose much money, as the Sunday games
was what made it possible.
The Journal is not making a plea for an open Sunday, but it
does believe that clean, wholesome recreation should not be de
nied those who desire it, as long as it does not interfere with re
ligious services.. Baseball is a clean sport, as is tennis and golf.
Sometimes we think our City Fathers are straining a gnat and
swallowing a camel, as the old saying goes. Charlotte is no longer
a village but a city, and our blue laws are not in keeping with the
times. If we are to have a closed Sunday let’s close up the whole
works—lock, stock and barrel!
ANENT THE “ELEPHANT EARS”
The writer does not know’ where they got the acid, or secret
formula, but at his home on Crescent avenue he had two or three
to “bloom” the same year, and has seen many such cases that
have occurred without “acid” application. This statement is made
with all respect to Miss Mamie Bays, and its front page publicity.
So all cases against Blue Law’ violators have been dropped, as
the law is declared to be invalid and it is now up to our City Coun
cil to do a little revising. Baseball is still legal, along with other
sports and business activities. Now’ there is something else for
our City Fathers to worry about!
(LATER: On Wednesday our City Wathers “Worried,” and now
paid sports are again illegal, but shoe shine parlors and filling
stations are free to go.) . ,
Our Honorable Mayor is going to appoint a committee to'
“study the Airport situation!” The old-time sport of unloading
the Airport is again on, after repeated efforts have failed to sell
the city an unprofitable investment.
Western Textile
Council To Meet /
At Bethune School
Saturday, 2:30 P. M.
, The regular monthly meeting of the
[Western Textile Council will be held
at the Bethune school, Ninth and
Graham streets, Saturday afternoon
at 2:30, and a large, attendance is ex
pected, as matters of importance are
to come before the body. The meet
ing this month ds with Sixth Street
Textile Local, No. 2293. At 8:00
o’clock the same night an entertain
ment will bp given in the form of a
playlet, entitled “The Trail of a
Traitor,” and we are told that this
will be a good moral lesson in Un
ionism. Every worker in Charlotte is
invited and a packed house is ex
pected.
DENY ALL MACHINES
AT I’ELZER MILLS ARE
BEING OPERATED
I’ELZER, S. C., July 23.—A denial
of the mill management’s claim that
all machines at the Pelzer mills) here
were running despite a strike ip its
second week was issuer! otday by un
ion spokesmen.
Paul H. Ross, president of the
United Textile Workers Union which
went on strike here July 15, saijd he
had “definite information that jthey
were not all operating.”
HOUSE COMMITTEE FAVORS
THIRTY-HOUR WEEK BILL
Washington, D. C.—The Labor
Committee of the House of Repre
sentatives approved the bill sponsored
by Representative Connery to estab
lish a 30-hour week and ban child la
bor. These limitations would be made
effective by barring from the chan
nels of interstate commerce products
in whose manufacture children under
16 years are employed or adult work
ers in excess of 30 hours in any |one
week. .
Bookbinders
Paid $24,000
In Benefits
Cambridge, Mass.—With 100 per i
cent support from the International1
Brotherhood of Bookbinders and the |
-International Printing Pressmen’s i
and Assistants’ Union of North j
America, the strike of the union]
pressmen and bookbinders against,
Ginn & Co., text book publishers, con
tinues with undiminished vigor.
The Bookbinders’ Brotherhood alone ’
has paid its striking members $24,-1
000 in benefits since the walkout took
place over three months ago.
SECRETARY SANDEFUR
VISITS THE JOURNAL
Another Journal visitor on Monday
was E. L. Sandefur, a printer, and
secretary-ti'easurer of the State Fed
^at’on of Labor, and an efficient one,
too. He is a Winston-Salem boy that
has risen swiftly in the Labor move
ment, by his square-shooting, effi
ciency and geniality. The Journal
editor is always glad to have him
visit us^
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GUARDING THE NATION’S “VISION ”
Eyes Examined and Glasses Fitted
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Huey Long Stands
For Union Label
' Nashville, Tenn.—The eagle eye of
Robert M. Morgan, secretary of the
Allied Printing Trades Council of
Nashville, discovered that “Gumbo,”
a publication of the Louisiana State
University, printed by a Nashville
I union shop, did not carry the allied
printing trades union label.
,, He brought the matter to the atten
tion of Senator Huey P. Long, who
exercises considerable control over
educational institutions in Louisiana.
In a letter to Mr. Morgan, Senator
Long said he had never noticed that
“Gumbo” did not carry the union la
bel, and added that he was “communi
cating with the State University offi
cials withe the request that the label
appear inthe future on their publi
cation.” . I.
Senator Long said it was his policy
to have all printed material issued by
hiin carry the union label.
TENN. BUILDING TRADES
SEEK MINIMUM WAGE LAW
Nashville, Term.—The enactment of
a State minimum wage law for the
building trades was discussed in a
conference here participated in by
craftsmen and subcontractors from all
section of the State. The object of
the meeting was to give both journey
men and employers an opportunity to
study their problems from a mutual
viewpoint. It was said the proposed
rate would be 75 cents an hour as
the? minimum pay.
Kentucky Deputy
Sheriff Blocks
Enforcement Of
the Wagner Bill
Halrlan, Ky.—-Maynard Globbs, a
member of the United Mine Workers
of America, formally charged a dep
uty sheriff of Harlan County with j
having confiscated copies of the Wag-i
ner-CJonnery Labor Disputes Act
which he was "distributing at a coal j
camp, at Chevrolet, Ky. The1 com- j
plaint was made to Captain Noel S. j
Jones, He reported it to Adjt. Gen.
Henry H. Denhardt, who recently as
signed Capt. Jones and 14 other State
police to this community as “obser
vers following complaints by the mine j
workers union of intimidation by dep-1
uty sheriffs. | j
Shortly after the State police ar
rived Sheriff Theodore R. Middleton,;
whose removal was recommended re
cently^ by a special commission ap
pointed by Governor Ruby Laffoon 10
investigate conditions in Harlan
County* persuaded Circuit Judge _J.
M. Gilbert to issue a temporary in
junctipn restraining the Governor
from using State police or troops in
Harlan County coal fields.
Officials of the United Mine Work
ers thapge the sheriff with employing
deputy sheriffs for the purpose of in
timidating union organizers. The al
leged action of the deputy in confis
cating copies of the Wagner Act was
cited as ! proof of the accuracy of the
charge. ! i ,
CHARLOTTE DROPPING
PEOPLE FROM RELIEF
> ROLLS AT RAPID RATE
Charlotte dropped more people
from relief rolls in June than any
jther city or town in the State in
proportion to the number being fed
and clothed, according to information
received here yesterday. Mrs. Thom
as O’Berry, state relief administra
tor, said in her report for June thdt,
when the month closed, it was found
that Charlotte had 2,793 on the rolls
as compared to 3,235 in May, the de
crease being 442 or 14 per cent, more
than for any other place in the State.
The amount paid out in the city in
June was $39,651 as against $56,242
in May, a decrease of 29 per cent in
expenditures. It was explained that
the drop in relief in Charlotte was
due to the absorption of employable
persons by industries.—-Observer.
BOULDER DAM PROJECT
HALTED BY STRIKE OF
CARPENTERS-STEELWORKERS
Boulder City, Nev.—July 1 .—All
work on the gigantic Boulder Dam
project came to a halt yesterday as
truck and transport drivers joined
the strike of carpenters and steel
workers for restoration of the seven
and one-half hour work day. The
shutdown involved about 4,000 men.
The Central Labor council, to which
the dispute between workers and the
Six Companies, Ihc., general contrac
tors on the dam and power plant
projects, was submitted, characterized
the ifituatiop as one that has been
“smouldering for more than a year
because of the refusal of the contract
ors to consider wage increases.”
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Scientists Record The
Songs Of Rare Birds
Expedition in the Southwest [Preserve* Voices of Unusual
Species Before Their Extinction
BACKED by Albert R. Brand, Associate in Ornithology at
the American Museum, the American Museum of Natural
History-Cornell University Ornithological Expedition, a cara
van of mud-spattered scientists and two truck-loads of delicate
apparatus, are somewhere in one ol
the southern or southwestern
States picturing rare and common
birds and recording the voices of
unusual species.
Catching the song of a rare bird,
says The Literary Digeet, is a
gamble. At four o'clock in the
morning the scientists are up, ha\ v i
song of a bird at a distance of
1000 feet can be caught; at 400 to
500 feet sounds are faithfully re
produced. £
The :bird’s song is recorded ia
straight lines, like a spectrum, at
right angles to the long way of (he
Him. The thicknesjs of the lines
Photographed by A. A. Allen, Cornell University
Apparatus recording bird’s song.
their apparatus in place and, it
,their position is favorable, they
may be able to record the song of
a rare specie which may be extinct
in the future. The collapsible plat
form on the top of' the truck/ will
permit photographers to have
camera, microphone and blind
twenty feet abovj the ground.
The recording “mike" has Its
back to the source of the sound.
Like a telescopic mirror, its sensi
tive side, located at the foch a
three-foot parabolic reflect or b1
the distant sounds to a.point '! .t-1
represents the volume of sound;
the number of lines to the inch,
the pitch; and the film travels
through the camera at the con
stant rate of eighteen feet per
second.
The “mike” disclosed the fact
that, though the bird's song may
be of short duration, it contains
many notes. The winter wren’s
song, lasting a little more than
seven sepuids, contains 113 notes;
but 4n experienced ornithologist,
• hv ear could only detect
•:> iiurute notes. :r _L.
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