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JU ONLY REALLY INDEPENDENT WEEKLY in Meek aaburg County for a Weekly, Ita Readers Represent the LARGEST BUYING FOWER in CmiMM Official Organ Central j Later Uaian; anterate by I State Federation of Later Che Charlotte labor Journal Truthful, Honest, Impartial AND DIXIE FARM NEWS Endeavoring to Serve the Masses VoL V—No. 46 TOHa tWOTIHIUW IN TM» JOUMAl M * CHARLOTTE, N. C„ THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1936 JouaNAL ADvnutns oastnva coniioiration of TMC n.AOIR S2.00 Per Year TWO NEWS ARTICLES OF INTEREST; “CANNON MILLS SHOW A PROFIT;” “CANNON MILLS FIGHT LABOR” These two articles are clipped from the Charlotte News of Tuesday. One is a special and the other an A.P. dispatch. They make very interesting reading and are given without opinion: KANNAPOLIS, March 31.—Cannon Mills company had a net profit from operations of $4,539,517.73 for 1935, according to the annual report to stock holders made public today. _ L The gross profit from operation was $7,563,719.97 and the net income for the year. $3,271,587.61, the report shows. The company’s earned surplus at the close of the year is shown to be $11,556,303.70. At the beginning of 1935 this surplus was $10,326,410.79. Dividends paid to stockholders during the year totaled $1,975,557. Current assets of the company are listed at $41,240,556.97, including a plant property valuation of $24,883,803.97. Liabilities, including the earned surplus, are also listed at $24,240,556.97. The annual meeting of stockholders will be held in the main office at Kannapolis Tuesday afternoon, April 14, at 2 o’clock. Directors will be elected at this time and other routine business transacted. GREENSBORO, March 31.—Attorneys of the Cannon mills continued their attack upon constitutionality of the *Wagner labor relations act in fed eral district court here today in an effort to obtain an order restrainini a region labor board from reviewing charges brought against the textile firm by the United Textile Workers of America. j Arguments were started yesterday on the hearing brought by the Gan non firm against Charles N. Feiledson, regional director of the national labor relations board in the 10th region; J. Warren Madden, John M. Carmody and Edwin S. Smith, constituting the national labor relations board, and Mortimer Kollender, attorney for the 10th region board. A. Norman Somers, labor board attorney of Washington, argued the plaintiff has adequate remedy at law and is not entitled to a restraining order of injunction. The case had its genesis when the textile union charged the Cannon mills with unfair labor practices. Injunctive proceedings of the mann manage ment prohibited a hearing of the union charges at Concord in a heating originally set for last Thursday. UNION POLL SCOFFED AT BY PRESIDENT GREEN WASHINGTON, March 31 ^-William Greert scoffed at John L. Lewis’ proposal to poll the American Federation of Labor on the industrial union issue. “The Federation was polled at last October’s conven tion and Mr. Lewis was defeated,” the A. F. of L. president told reporters. “The delegates to the convention are truly representative of the entire membership. ] “The trouble is that Mr. Lewis lost the poll and he is unwilling to abide by the Federation’s decision. “However, the Federation will be polled again at this year’s convention in Tampa, Fla., next November after the . membership nas huJ a whole year to discuss the issue, and has elected delegates to express its wiD.” McDonald campaign opens TONIGHT IN WINSTON-SALEM: ADDRESS TO BE BROADCAST (Special to Labor Journal) RALEIGH, April L—A detailed outline of his program will be deliveied in Winston-Salem tonight, April 2, by Dr. Ralph W. McDonald as he makes his formal bid for the Democratic nomina tion for Governor. The address will last an hour, beginning at 8 o’clock, and from 8:30 to 9 o’clock the speech will be broadcast over the facilities of radio stations in Winston-Salem, Asheville, Greensboro, Charlotte and Raleigh. Most of the broadcast portion of Dr. McDonald’s address will be devoted especially to his views and proposals on State taxation. Supporters from many counties have planned to send delegations to the formal opening event, which will be held in the Forsyth County courthouse. They will come from moat of the northwestern counties and from points as far east as Wilson and Bertie counties. [ Home-town adherents of the anti-sales tax candidate, who is waging a vigorous fight on machine government and policies, are planning a Mam moth reception for Dr. McDonald, whose formal opening speech has been awaited eagerly by voters throughout North Carolina. He will be the last of the four Democratic candidates for Governor to launch a major offensive for the nomination. Following the opening address, Dr. McDonald will begin a whirlwind speaking campaign that will carry him into every county of the State. Manager W. L. Lumpkin is arranging an itinerary designed to make the McDonald candidacy the most intensive campaign for the governorship aver waged in North Carolina. The candidate will be introduced by Mr. Lumpkin at the Winston-Salem opening. In his speech Thursday night. Dr. McDonald will lay the issues of the campaign squarely before the voters. In addition, his remarks will include a great deal of first-hand, accurate information of governmental affairs in North Carolina. Intelligent voters throughout the state, regardless of their political preferences, will find a broad appeal in the enlightening nature of Dr. McDonald*a address. MUSICIANS’ LOCAL HAS GOOD MEETING The Musicians’ Union held a meet ing Wednesday night at the Chamber of Commerce. This local is growing at a rapid rate, and has a very large membership, but it certainly has a queer meeting place. -----■ Your own pocket book will swell in lust the degree that you buy Union Label Goods TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION MEETS SUNDAY 2 P; M. The regular monthly meeting of Charlotte Typographical Union No. 338 will be held Sunday at 2 P. M. in the Moose Hall on South Tryon street. This promises to be an interesting meeting. Nomination for officers will be in order. I When you buy foreign-made goods, you are cutting your own pay. Don’t chisel on yoc'-jttf. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS AND BUSINESS MEN A resolution adopted last year as to The Labor Journal and solicitation of funds in the name of Central Labor Un ion was brought out of the minutes and republished as in formation. The resolution reads as follows: “Resolved, That we publish in The Charlotte Labor Journal, that we do not condone any solicita tion of advertising except for The Charlotte Labor Journal, purporting to represent labor, unless over the signature of the secretary of the Charlotte Cen tral Labor Union. CHATTING • i ■V HARRY BOATS Here are a few of the things which are impossible: To sow tares and reap roses. To sow jealousy and reap love. To think wrong and live right. To do wrong and live right. To do wrong and get away with it To dance without paying the fiddler. To bat below par and maintain self-respect. To be unfair and succeed for any length of time. To make decisions to morrow; they must be made now. To cheat the universe, “For value re ceived” still stands. To carry hatred in the heart without reflecting it in the face. To live without growing older, although there is no need for grow ing “old.”—David F. Nygren in The Baptist. -It would appear that just as Nero fiddled while Home burned, so, today, the responsible citizen is little concerned in the appalling poverty which is evidenced by ten millions of unemployed, over twenty millions upon relief with prevailing wages and aslaries only a fraction of what they nor mally should be. The most culpable of all ... . are the churches of America, dedicated as they are to human betterment and maintained at enormous expense. It is directly within thei{ province and duty to find out what it is that has in terfered with God's will by producing the present condition of undeserved poverty and then to use the power of the church to right the wrong. By so doing they might quickly bring about that heaven on earth for which they unctionsly pray. They would then be promoting God’s will in a rational manner. They devote excessive attention to the long ago and too little at tention to he problems of povery today. Again it is fiddling while Rome bums.—Henry Ware Allen. -All who remember the Fourteen Points of the World War might enjoy this from a London publication: When Woodrow Wilson died and arrived at the Pearly Gates he found that St Peter was absent and that Moses was deputizing for him as janitor. Moses was greatly interested in the meeting of the President, and said: “Tell me, how are they get ting on with your Fourteen Points down there?” “Well,” said the Presi dent, “I don’t know much about my Fourteen Points, but they are malting an awful mess of your Ten Commandments!” -For a long time it seemed to many that the only hope of redemp tion from the sins of the old capitalism was either a social revolution or the spiritual reversal of the nature of business men. The beginnings of this new capitalism, however, give hope that we can find redemption from the sins of the old by modem business men finding out that the old capitalistic methods of low wages, high prices, and long hours are, in a mass-produc tion age, unbusinesslike and unprofitable. We must not be naive about this new capitalism. It is still far from ascendency. The most dependable judgment to which I have access estimated that approximately one-fifth of the economic enterprise of the United States was operating when depression struck under the policies of the new capitalism, with the remaining four fifths still following the philosophy of the old capitalism.—Glenn Frank in Economic Forum. . -A re«l estate agent in Cleveland, Ohio, recently advertised under the caption, “Own Your Own Home." A certain gay modern woman replied by letter, saying: “Why should I own a home? I was bom in a hospital, I was brought up in a kitchenette apartment, I was educated in convent as clear a description of the present-day existence of many people in this 1 world as one could wish to hear. Many people who do follow a life pattern ed on thees lines would love to have a home in which to live, but as man does not live unto himself alone, it follows that the desire of others has much T/\ dn nnik n n i .1 .. I 1.. A. I Kg. .J .a a _ to do with regulating the life of each and every one of us, even thouirh we are prone to admit the troth of the statement. It is a great joy to some my ownboss, and do as I please.” That is a very . • . w ^ W wwwl —— —* uv uu JL plCCIOv, II jit IS independent statement, but in the final analysis, is there any truth in it." If so, it is a very rare case. To prove that others tell us what to do, drive against a red light with a policeman on the corner regulating traffic He will tell you what, and you will likely thank him for doing so. His duty is to regulate your movements, and you pay him with your tax money BUILDING TRADES DISPUTE OF LONG STANDING HAS BEEN SETTLED AMICABLY WASHINGTON, D. C.—The internal controversy between 19 building trades unions affiliated with the American Federation of Labor was settled at a convention of the two groups here on March 25, which elected officers of the Building Trades Depart ment and adopted a plan to handle jurisdictional disputes without interruption of building operations. The new executive council consists of nine members. The president and secretarv-treasurer are to be elected every three years and the members of the coun cil annually. ihe jurisdictional dispute settle ment plan provides that mechanics remain at work where jurisdiction is in question, pending action by an ar biter, preferably a Federal judge, who would receive cases only from in ternational unions. Hearings would be held, with both sides given full opportunity to present their views and file briefs. Decisions would be| made promptly and be binding on all unions. At the conclusion of the convention William Green, president of the Am erican Federation of Labor, made the following statement: “The differences and divisions which existed in the building trades organizations of the American Fed eration of Labor have been finally settled. The building trades organ izations chartered by the American Federation of Labor are now united in one building trades organization. They will act together and co-oper orate with each other through one Building Trades Department of the American Federation of Labor. Build ing mechanics throughout the entire country will give hearty approval to this action and will gladly embrace the opportunity accorded them to unite and work together for a com mon purpose to advance and promote the ecenomic interests of those em ployed in the construction industry. “The action of the representatives of the building trades organizations, which was taken at the convention -- - held at the headquarters of the Am erican Federation of Labor today, demonstrated the fact that the or ganized labor movement possesses the ability, the resourcefulness and the power of self-control to settle dif ficult, vexing problems by negotia tions, through mutual agreement, within the family of organized labor, The plan for the settlement of jur isdictional disputes agreed upon and adopted at the convention is of great public interest. It marks a great for ward step in the development of hu man relations in industry. The pur pose and ^finite objective of the plan is to rationalize the settlement of jurisdictional disputes so that ad justments can be made without inter ruption in building construction. ' “This procedure will be of great economic benefit to building me chanics, contractors and the general public. It is reasonable to conclude that it will be very helpful in the promotion of a housing and building construction program. The work done at the convention of the Build ing Trades Department will be of sreat value to the entire organized labor movement.” J. W. Williams, of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join ers of America, was elected presi dent of the department and M. J. McDonald, vice-president of the Op erative Plasterers’ International As sociation of the United States and Canada, • was elected secretary treasurer. Label League Dance Success The Dance at the Moose Hall last Thursday night sponsored by the Women’s Union Label League was a great success. Good music, perfect order and an all-around good time was had by all. The ladies of the League! have ben untiring in their efforts to | promote the union label and to bring together the men and women who have the labor movement at heart THE WOMEN’S UNION LABEL LEAGUE MEETS NEXT THURSDAY NIGHT Don’t forget the regular semi monthly meeting next Thursday night at 7:30 of the Woman’s Union Label Leao-ue at the Moose hall on South Tryon Street The Union Label is the insignia of the great army of American Labor. The Union Label is the O. K. stamp of quality! INDUSTRIAL COUNCIL RECOMMENDS CONTROL OF PRICES, WAGES-HOURS; UNJUST DISTRIBUTION - POVERTY WASHINGTON, D. C.—“Poverty and suffering in a country of abundant productive resources” like the United States was de clared to be the direct result of “maldistribution of income,” in a study of internal and external business competition made public here by the Council for Industrial Progress and submitted to President Roosevelt by George L. Berry, Coordinator for Indus trial Coordination. Holdingthat “competition is un-1 doubtedly the outstanding factor in the question of proper income distri bution” and in balancing production and consumption, the report pointed out that the most important elements governing internal competition are: wages and hours of work, prices and discounts, monopolies and restraint of trade, mechanization, corporate control and government competition. Six specific remedies were suggested for defects in the competitive ma chinery. The report also urged that Amer ican markets should be held for Amer ican products and that labor in this country should be protected by “quantitative limitations on imports, adequate tariff protection, effective anti-dumping or other necessary leg islation.” It suggested that this could be achieved by amending existing laws to levy duties on foreign goods to prevent a delivered, duty-paid cost to the American purchasers of more than 8 per cent below the wholesale cost of comparable domestic merchan dise. u. m. rorter, secretary oi w United States Pulp Producers’ Asso ciation, of New York, was joint chairman of the committee, represent ing industry management, while I. M. Ornburn, secretary-treasurer of the Union Label trades department, American Federation of Labor, rep resented labor. * “In ! the absence of carefully de fined safeguards and controls,” the report said, “the unbridled force of competition will prevent the wage earners from sharing equitably in the recovery, will prevent the construc tive use of capital in the operation, management and development of Am erican industries, and will bring nearer the day when the productive forces of the country will again be brought to a standstill. “It is with the keen realization of the fact that, unless vigorous and constructive action is taken at once, another economic crisis is inevitable, a crisis far more severe and disas trous than the one we have just ex perienced, that this committee sub mits the following program of reme-, dies which it considers indispensable for bringing about equitable distribu tion of income, stabilization of our economic system and preservation of our industrial supremacy. “1. Wages and Hours.—The estab lishment of minimum wages and maximum hours of work is necessary in order to take the factor of labor costs out of the competitive field in sofar as possible, and to provide eco nomic stability. Minimum wage reg ulation is also essential in a pro gram designed to bring about more equitable distribution of income. To be effective this regulation should cover both intrastate and interstate commerce. * Proper distribution of income de mands, however, that maintenance of wages above the minimum be strong ly guarded. This can best be accom plished by guaranteeing the right of collective bargaining in all branches of industry, commerce and trade. Un less intrastate commerce is included competition from intrastate opera tions will tend to break down wage scale sestablished by collective bar gaining in the interstate field. “2. Prices and Dicounts.—The es tablishment of minimum prices, reg ulation of discounts and in some in stances price maintenance must be provided for to avoid destructive competition. No rigid formula should be adhered to. Special conditions, peculiar characteristics and commodi ties, particularly industrial structures, existing channels of distribution and similar factors must be taken into consideration. Again, it must be re membered that intrastate transac tions if left out of account and with out regulation, will break down any attempted regulation of intrastate transactions, and that for this reason price and trade practice controls must be applied equally to inter and intrastate business. “3. Monopolies and Restraint of Trade.—Combinations in restraint of trade should not be countenanced, as they interfere with and obstruct free play between production and con sumption, and prevent an equitable distribution of income. Trade asso ciations under well-defined limita tions and representative control should be permitted for the enforce ment of fair trade practices. As a counterbalance, organization of labor and consumers should be facilitated and encouraged, as necessary to maintain a proper balance. “4. Mechanization. — A thorough study of the extent of technological unemployment should be provided for at once. The progress of mechani zation in the various industries and trades should be studied, the differ ent rate of mechanization in differ ent fields, the rate of worker dis-l placement, the rate of absorption of displaced workers and similar phases1 of the problem. “The possibility and desirability of1 controlling the excessive speed of mechanization should be studied, to gether with the form such control should assume. The desirability o equiring the payment of dismissal wages, the establishment of labor ex changes for the purpose of transfer ring displaced workers to other em ployment, should be compromised in such a study. “To be complete and accurate, a study of this character would require Congressional action conferring pow er of subpoena of documents and records. “5. Corporate Control—In order to point ocrporate control toward the twin objectives of a balanced econ omy and an equitable distribution of income, it is necessary to change the emphasis of interests or the goal of this control, substituting the public welfare for merely private ends. “6. Government Competition—Sales of prison-made goods and other com modities made by governmental em ployes should be at prices which are calculated on the basis of costs which include prevailing rates of wages, to the end that wage scales will not be broken down by unfair governmental competition.” Expressing its conviction “that conscious control of the economic sys tem must be obtained as the only means of coordinating the various parts of the mechanism so that they may function properly and not col lapse under the strain of economic unbalance,” the committee recom mended the establishment of a Fed eral research and planning board with independent status to undertake economic research in such phases of activity as production, distribution, prices, wages, hours and money and credit. The proposed board, the report said, “should have equal representa tion of employer, labor and consumer interests and be so organized as to be able to render effective service in the public interest.” Plumbers and Steamfitters i Meet In Raleigh A delegation from Charlotte on last Sunday attended a meeting in Raleigh of the State Association of Journeymen Plumbers and Steam fitters. This was their regular monthly meeting and Charlotte was represented by A. J. Dumas, W. L. Wilson, E. D. Faires, James Parish and Frank Barr. Business of much importance was transacted and the next meeting will be held in Wilming ton in April. The Charlotte boys say that the members of their organization left no stone unturned in the way of en tertainment as they fared well in solids and liquids.” PWA Worker Jailed For Pawning His Family Belongings — NEW YORK—William R. Dan iels, a PWA worker, was sentenced to six months in the workhouse last week after a detective, who arrested him, testified in Rockaway Beach magistrate's court that Daniels was the meanest man he ever met. When Daniels was brought before the court. Detective Frank Cox said: “This man is the meanest man I have encountered in my 15 years on the police force. I found him in bed with a pint of liquor while his fam ily was destitute. Daniels pawned a suit his wife had bought for their son from money she made by sewing, and bought liquor with the proceeds. He also has pawned his wife’s sew ing machine with which she provided for her family.” Copenhagen Porcelain It Marked With Wavy Lines Royal Copenhagen porcelain has a regal background. The first attempts to found a pottery In Copenhagen are shrouded In mystery. Between 1780 and 1750 suitable knolin was discov ered on the Isle of Bornholm and pot tery-making was started under the di rection of Mehlhorn, a modeler from Meissen. But there Is no definite In formation nntll about 1760, when a Frenchman named Lournler was mak ing a soft paste at Copenhagen. These efforts were short-lived but may ac count for the French apeparance of the porcelain, says a writer In the Kan sas City Star. In 1775, King Christian Vn of Den mark gave the enterprise his support and the government took over the fac tory which had been re-established by Muller, a chemist who used the hard paste. The Royal Copenhagen mark la three wavy lines, said to denote the three belts of sea which divide the islands ^f Zealand and Fuene from Jutland.
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