The Charlotte Labor Journal
AND DIXIE FARM NEWS
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Issued every Thursday from the office of The Charlotte Labor Jouraad and Dixie Farm
News. K! South Collette Street (Upstairs), Charlotte. N. C.
Entered as seond-clasa matter, Septemer 11. 1911, at the Post Office at Charlotte, N. C.
under the Act of March S. 1S79.
W. M. WITTER-.-...-Editor and Publisher
CLAUDE L. ALBEA....Associate Editor
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CHARLOTTE, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1936
BIBLE THOUGHT
1. There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and
it is common among men. 2. A man to whom God hath given
riches, wealth, and honor, so that he wanteh nothing for
his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power
to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it; this is vanity, and
it is an evil disease.—Ecclesiastes 6:1-2.
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ROOSEVELT RUNNING TRUE TO FORM
President Roosevelt’s speech at Baltimore before the Young
Men's Democratic Club of Maryland was typical of the man who
delivered it. “My friends,” (as he is wont to say)—and they are
legion, are with the president of these United States. He falters
not in his utterances as to where he stands and what he stands'
for. He is for an old age pension, for a shorter work week; for
limiting the age of toilers, and an adequate minimum wage. The
workers of America have never had anything to fear at the hands
of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and they are wtih him, but it is de
plorable to see some people who would cut his throat politically, if
they could, climbing upon the Rooseveltian Bandwagon for per
sonal gain, financially and politically. There are certain big dailies
in this country owned, or controlled editorially by Big Business,
that are glorifying him. and at the same time they are a part and
parcel of the United States Chamber of Commerce, American
Manufacturers Association, Citizens’ League, etc. It is pitiful
to read the “bunk" and listen to the “bull.”
GREETINGS, MR. THRIFT
The North Carolina Textile Council did a wise thing when it
re-elected E. A. Thrift as its president for another term. Mr.
Thrift is a tireles worker and a man thoroughly competent to
hold the position. He is not of the blatant, demanding type, he
is not docile or militant, but a tireless fighter for the cause he
represents, and a gentleman at all times.
The Democratic National Committee has drafted Gov. J. C. B.
Ehringhaus for keynote speches and just plain speeches in the
north and north west, and it acted wisely, for we honestly be
lieve he can do the party a lot more good away from North Caro
lina than he can in it.
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RIDING ON THE PRESIDENT’S COATTAIL
The best sign upon the horizon of the success of President
Roosevelt in his effort for a second term is the way all the poK
ticians and candidates for office are swearing undying allegiance
and love for him. They know a political bandwagon when they
see one and ou rbeloved president’s coattail is going to be swinging
on to by a vast multitude of politicians. But the people are wise,
and many of them are sprinkling a litle salt on these avowals.
ARMED STRIKEBREAKERS
Furnishing strikebreakers, often armed with deadly weapons, to anti*
union employers for use in labor disputes is an old practice resorted to by
racketeers, who have no scruples regarding the underworld denizens whom
they mobilize against working men and women struggling to better their
economic conditions.
Recently a large baking company in Philadelphia hired a group of these
maladorous characters to "settle” a distpute with its employes regarding
wages and hours. To the surprise of the company officials, the Philadelphia
Police Department ordered the strikebreakers placed under arrest as a men
ace to industrial peace. This unusual method of handling strikebreakers
was commended by the Philadelphia Record in an editorial entitled “To
Preserve Order in a Strike.”
Pointing out that “it is common enough for police to be called upon ‘to
preserve order’ during a strike,” but thatthey “rarely do that job as logically,
as sensibly as Philadelphia detectives did” in the bakery strike when “they
acted to prevent disorder by arresting 13 strikebreakers, apparently imported
by a labor agency,” the editorial continued:
“It takes two to make a fight, in a strike situation or any other. All
too often one of the parties is a professional strikebreaker. Fomenting
strike violence in an attempt to cause pickets to lose public sympathy is a
well-understood angle of the strikebreaking game.
“Philadelphians who believe industrial diputes should be settled in an
atmosphere of peace will not take kindly to the discovery reported by the
police that these strikebreakers were men used in the recent New York City
elevator strike, and that they have been shifted around from job to job, city
to city, as needed.
“We dont’ want that element in this town and we are sure that the
employers in this case did not know the past histories of the men supplied
to them bj the agencies. Council so worried about crime as to force every
ex-convict to register, even though he be presently enjoying a clean record,
has something to get its teeth into in this problem.
“Whether by city ordinance or State law, or both, the traffic in strike
breakers should be kept under strict official watch. Employement agencies
dealing in strikebreakers should be held accountable for the acts of every
man they supply, and should be subject to fine every time they supply a man
with a criminal record. Safeguards of this order are under consideration
in New York. They are needed here.
“The registration requirements and supervision should be strictest in the
case of the notorious New York City strikebreaking agencies, which are now
ploughing the Philadelphia field."
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TAX LISTING
Uw requires tint all property not exempted by law be listed as of
April 1st, daring April only, by the title holder: New buildings and additions
costing more than one hundred dollars, personal property, solvent credits and
polls for all male persons 21 to 50 years. Real estate is already listed. Pen
alty of ten per cent for City and County for late listing. Balance sheet as
of March 31st required of all corporations and business concerns.
J. ARTHUR HENDERSON,
Tax Supervisor.
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LOW WAGES, HIGH PRICES
WRECKED THE NRA BEFORE
SUPREME COURT DECISION
WASHINGTON, D. C.—American business men wrecked the NRA plan,
even before the Supreme Court decision nullified it, by raising prices and
keeping wages low, Edward A. Filene, Boston merchant, told the Senate
interstate Commerce Committee at the hearings on the Wheeler bill to pro
hibit the so-called “basing point” system of pricing steel and other products.
He declared that when the Administration prospooed the procedure un
der the National Industrial Recovery Act it was expected that business inter
«ts would use it “to enable the masses to buy in maximum volume," but
that instead of doing this they boosted prices to a level which, “in spite of
some raising of wages, made much more buying impossible.”
If organised business had understood its problems, he added, “it would
J*” U8^fl <|Ur re?*5V0ir“ of money to so raise wages throughout the
country that our industries would have had an adequate market, and could,
uieretore, have employed the unemployd; and that would have resulted in
PTP"ltyfth*?, if the Method were declared unconstitutional,
covered! * * tM>naI °f ach,*v,ll8r the desired result would have been dis
. “°? course merely raising wages could not have achieved this end un
I^uldr*ermine^ Meantime were kept as low as free and fair competition
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Backing Friends
Of Labor Urged
By Wm. Green
WASHINGTON, April II.—Wil
liam Green advised labor today to sup
port those candidates in the coming
campaign who were “pledged to the
responsibility of finding how social
welfare legislation can be made the
law of the land unchallenged by the
judiciary.”
The American Federation of Labor
president’s message, dispatched to un
ion leaders throughout the country,
started a new round of talk about the
federation’s position in the battle for
the presidency.
At last fall’s convention, the fed
eration voted to continue its tradition
al political policy:
“Stand faithfully by our friends and
elect them. Oppose pur .enemies and
defeat themT’
The executive council said that “the
records of candidates for President
and vice-president will be printed in
circular form, as well as the provis
ions in the platforms of the political
parties favorable or unfavorable to
labor and the people.”
Vice-Pres. Kiser, of
Central Body Praises
Work of U. S. Agency
Central Labor Union has endorsed
i the Federal Housing insured mort
gage clinic, which will open in Char
lotte Tuesday night at 8 o’clock at the
Chamber of Commerce.
H. L. Kiser, vice-president of the
Central union, asserted: “We shall
go down the line with you for that
which is right and good for the bene
fit of workers.” In .past, the labor
union resolution read, “We realize the
fact that the absorption of unemploy
ment through your administration has
been one of the latest assests to al
leviate the unemployment situation.
We appreciate the efforts being made
by your organization in getting build
ing started in this locality. In the
past we have appreciated the co-op
eration given labor, and hope that a
consideration will be ‘given us fur- i
ther.”
Barbers’ Union
President Passes
INDIAN APJOLIS, Ind. —James
Colmer Shanessy, general president of
the Journeymen Barbers’ Internation
al Union of America since 1922, died
nere on April 4.
Mr Shanessy was a prominent offi
cial of the American labor movement,
dfe was born in New York on July
'• 1870. His father was a switchman.
He was self-educated, with short terms
n primary day and night schools. He
went to work at the early age of eight
years.
Mr. Shanessy was employed as a
barber from 1894 to 1902; he became
business agent of Barbers’ Local Un
ion 102, St. Louis, Mo., in 1902 and
neld that position until 1909, when he
was chosen general organizer of the
international union. In 1922 he was
elected general president, which office
ne held until his death.
He was instrumental in bringing
about Sunday closing of barber snops
in several States and wrote a number
of pamphlets dealing with barbers.
Uverwork Causes
Serious Illness Of
Seamen’s President
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Andrew
Furuseth, president of the Internation
al Seamen’s Union of America, is se
rionsly ill in Sibley Hospital here as
•■'he result of overwork in connection
with legislation in the interest of
teamen and other activities for the
oenefit of those who man the Ameri
can merchant marine.
Mr. Furuseth is the oldest trade
union executive in the United States.
He celebrated his eighty-second birth
day on March 12 by attending to his
work as usual at his office in the
American Federation of Labor Build
ing. He was active at the recent con
vention of the Seamen’s Union here,
which lasted for a month, and at its
conclusion vigorously sought to ex
tricate the King Bill for the deporta
tion of certain alien seamen from the
legislative jam which had blocked fin
al legislative action on it for many
months. His unceasing work in this .
connection was a contributing factor
to his illness.
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