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The ONLY REALLY INDEPENDENT WEEKLY in MeekAnburg County for a Weekly, Its Readers Represent the LARGEST BUYING POWER in Charlotte Official Organ Central j labor Union; endorsed by I State Feder?*ion of Labor I Che Charlotte labor Journal Patronize oar Adver tisers. They make YOUR paper possible by their co operation. Truthful, honest, Impartial AND DIXIE FARM NEWS Endeavoring to Serve the Masses Vol. VI—No. 3 YOU* AOVIRTiaiMINT IN THE JOURNAL !• A CHARLOTTE, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1936 jouanai. utnmiui Duiavi conaidcaavion op $2.00 Per Year i A. I Labor Relations Act Will Be Upheld Is A. F. L. Prediction WASHINGTON, May 24.—With certain qualifications, Charlton Og burn, chief legal counsel for the Am erican Federation of Labor, predicts that the supreme court would uphold the national labor relations act. He said that if “the real and true nature of the act were properly pre sented. it would be upheld “even by the present supreme court.” Ogburn rviewed certain differences he aid existed between that act and the outlawed Guffey coal act and re ported to President William Green of "The court will unquestionably up hold jthe labor relations measure as applied to transportation and com munication corporations and will in all likelihood sustain it as applied to the great interstate manufacturing companies such as steel, automobiles and textiles.” predict Socialists In Split At Cleveland Meet; Down “Old Guard” CLEVELAND, May 25.—Within an hour after the national convention of the Socialist party voted 4own the right-wing “old guard” forces from New York and seated the leftist del egation led by Norman Thomas, the leader of the “old guard” announced yesterday it would organize a new party. The convention, dominated by a coalition of leftists and the Wiscon sin centrist forces, upheld the action of the national executive committee in suspending the charters of the “old guard” organizations before the New York primary&in which the left ists gained control^ R. L. LYLES Funeral services for R. L. ^Lyles, 56, member of the Charlotte police department, who died Tuesday at his home, 1700 North Harrill street, were held at 9 A. M. Thursday at the Hovis funeral chapel. Rev. W. W. Jone, pastor of Allen Street Baptist church, officiated. Burial took place at Fort Hill near Lancaster, S. C. Pallbearers were W. J. .Miller, A. L. McHam, F. L. Austin, R. W. Mil ler, W. D. White and R. C. Hill. Hon orary pallbearers were other mem bers of the police department. Mr. Lyles is survived by his widow, his children, J. B. Williams, Cleo and Tillman Lyles. Miss Mary Lyles, and Miss Miriam Lyles, all of this city, Mrs. W\ A. Sibley, of Washington, D. C., and Harry Lyles, of Winston Salem. Republicans Girding For Convention at Cleveland June 8th WASHINGTON, May 24.—Repub licans girded themselves last night for a clash at Cleveland 16 days hence that already has found friends of two midwesterners claiming a delegate strength on the first ballot that adds up to more than Half of the convention’s 1,001 votes. With only 63 presidential nomi nating delegates still to be chosen, and they unlikely to bring any radi cal shift in alignments, speculation was open that the half-century Re publican trend of nomination on the first ballot might again be dented. Spokesmen for Governor Alf M. Landon, of Kansas, were on record today with a claim of “better than 300 on the first ballet.” At the same time, managers for Col. Frank Knox, Chicago publisher, asserted he fould have “the largest solid block” of votes and was assured of a 230-delegate following at the outset. Backers of Senator Borah of Idaho have been less specific in speaking of their candidate’s convention strength, but undoubtedly the senator will have a following that will make itself heard. JN. (J. s Social Flan Not Adequate Says U. S. Treas. Dept. RALEIGH, May 24.—A United States Treasury department ruling by inference at least apparently had held North Carolina’s unemployment insurance enabling act inadequate to meet provisions of the Federal social security act. Governor Ehringhaus revealed a letter from Chairman John G. Win ant, of the Federal Social Security board transmitting the Treasury de partment interpretation. Strictly, the Treasury ruling was an answer to the Governor’s question if the word “required” in the defini tion of the term “contributions” in title nine ’ (unemployment insurance) of the social security act might be construed tb mean “required as a con . dition precedent to a particular em ployer’s employees receiving unem ployment compensation.” “In the opinion of the Treasury,” Winant wrote the Governor, “such a . constructor) of the word ‘required’ is untenable.”: American Delegates Are Named For The Geneva Labor Party WASHINGTON, D. C.—President Roosevelt has appointed four dele the Social Security Board to repre tary as the'official delegation, head ed by John G. Winant, chairman of the Social Security Board,to repre sent the United States at the twen tieth session of the International La bor Conference, scheduled to con vene in Geneva, Switzerland, June 4. Representatives of the governmnt, labor and employers are included in the delegation. The list follows: For the Government: John G. Winant and Miss Frieda S. Miller, director of the New York State Di vision of Women in Industry and Minimum Wage. For labor: Emil Rieve, president of the American Federation of Hosiery Workers, Phil adelphia, Pa. For the employers: Marion Folsom, treasurer of the Eastman Yxiak Company, Rochester, N. Y. II. E. Riley, of the Bureau of La bor Statistics, U. S. Department of Labor, was appointed secretary of the delegation. Architects Term the Housing Problem A Social Service OLD POINT COMFORT, Va.—The Committee on Housing of the Amer-' ican Institute of Architects in a sur vey report made at the Institute’s sixty-eighth meeting held here, said housing should be recognized as a so cial problem equally important as hospitalization, education, police service or fire protection. The com mittee recommended developments of separate housing plans for families >f low income, but opposed central ized control by the Federal Govern ment. Public; aid to supplement pri vate enterprise in providing dwell ings for low-income groups was rec ommended, with strict adherence to standards below which housing may not be occupied. GIVEN AWAY Warden: “Who gave the bride away?” Connolly. “Her little brother. He stood up in the middle of the cere mony and yelled, ‘Hurrah, Annie, you’ve got him at last’.” ONE DEFINITION Teacher: “Willie! Define the word ‘puncture’.” Willie: “A puncture is a little hole in a tire, usually found a great dis tance from a garage.” Probe Of Labor Spies Asked For By U. S. Senate WASHINGTON, D. C.—A sena torial investigation of labor spies was recommended lat week by the Senate labor committee in a report asserting it had found a condition “markedly at variance with our law fully established national labor pol icy.” The committee reported to the Sen ate favorably the resolution intro duced by Senator La Follette, Pro gressive of Wisconsin, for an inquiry into “violations of the rights of free I speech and assembly and undue in j terference with the right of labor to organize and bargain collectively.” An appropriation of $15,000 for ex penses of the investigation was ask ed. The resolution was sent to the audit committee for approval of this sum. La Follette, in the committee re port, said the committee’s preliminary hearings had ‘“supplied presumptive 1 proof in abundance of yiolations of | civil liberties secured by the consti tution and of undue interference with the rights of labor as defined in the Wagner labor disputes act.” He estimated that indutry was em ploying 40,000 “profesisonal spies” at a cost of $80,000,000. CHATTING •V HARRY BOATS -There have been many stories printed about the various activities of the present national administration put into effect with the idea of bring ing about prosperity and putting Old Man Depresison in the hole which his name really means. Much good has been done by many of these endeav ors: more good could and would have been done had mankind as a whole forgotten self and bent his efforts toward uplifting his neighbor along with himself, for we are bidden by the Bible to bear one anothers burdens. The same book also makes the statement that each shall bear his own burden, and it appears that is the one that is being overworked at this time. Return ing to the thought which inspired these remarks, here is the gist of a news item published some days ago, which no doubt is not only true, but may be the recital of only one of many such cases: Mr. and Mrs. Thomas O’Toole, of Pittsburgh, must go to prison for three years. They owned their $4,000 house, had $11,780 in bank. Never theless, Mr. O’Toole went on the dole in 1932. Since then he and his fam ily have had $706 of emergency relief, also free medicine, free food, his chil dren sent a summer camp at the public expanse. The judge spoke harshly to the couple, and Mr. O’Toole’s only excuse was, “Unless 1 went on relief I couldn’t get a job.” This writer has been hearing many similar stories bearing on the same subject, many of which may or may not be true, but like all other efforts to help men help themselves, there is little doubt that some have Ohio, recently, states that the city was financially embarrassed and one helped themselves first, and perhaps quite generously. -In contrast to the above item a news story coming from Columbus of its citizens, Albert Herman Hawraney, who came to the United States 30 years ago with only $1.15 in his pockets, offered to loan the city, for two years without interest, the sum of $50,000. Hawraney operates a restaurant in Columbus, and 28 grocery stores in Detroit. The news item did not state whether or not the offer was accepted. --Election day in North Carolina is not far ahead. Within the next few months national conventions will be held to nominate candidates for President of our great country. In many cities official offices will be filled by popular election or otherwise. Many seek office of authority. Some will be successful, others will fail. To those office seekers, and to the voters whose duty it is to elect or defeat these candidates, would direct your attention to a story in the Talmud of the snake’s ail. It complained to the head,, “You always lead; I stay in the background. Why should I not lead sometimes?” “All right, lead,” said the head. Ordinary ways were reversed and the -tail led the way into a muddy ditch, then into a fire, next into thorns, and finally said to the head: “You lead; I’m sick of it.” Might be well to keep this little story in mind when we go to the polls, if we can make head or tail out of the general mixup. -With all this talk about wars and humors of wars, especially in Europe, we also get stories of many inventions for war-time use, none of which are designed with the idea of improving the individual health of any participants in war. The claim has been made by a person in Australia that he has invented a ray which “destsroys airplanes in a flash.” Which recalls that some time ago it was claimed that some person in America had invented a gas which would destroy everything it touched. The story seemed to go over very nicely until the question was asked: “What does he keep it in?” Have never heard the answer to the question. ——(Having no intention to take sides in print with any of the candi daes for office in this or any other election, the subject is avoided as much as posible, but an AP story in the Charlotte Observer recently under Sanford date, credits Clyde Hoey, seeking nomination for office of Gover nor, saying no sane man or woman will believe McDonald (one of his op ponents) can do what he has promised. Mr. Hoey may be perfectly correct in his belief, but if he is, this state had better advertise for bids for enlarg ing the institutions at Dix Hill and Morganton, for there will certainly be need for those places in a few weeks if we are to believe what we hear people say. How nice it is that campaign flurries dry up and blow away as do childhood fights and hatreds. In a short ime all will again be quiet. YES, SELLASSIE’S GOT THE GOLD Ex-Emperor Halle Selassie, formerly Ethiopia's ruler, but whose domicile is now Palestine, is on his way to England, with an uncertain reception awaiting him as to his status. But Selassie has nothing to worry about for when he fled Addis Ababa he took the Ethiopian gold with him, up to about $6,000,000, along with the crown jewels, etc. These dethroned kings surely have a hard life, but they seem to have a good idea of “Big Business.” Along with their lamentations of love of country and subjects, there is injected the theme song of "Get the dollars, and hold them tight. Get the dollars wrong or right.” The first copy we have seen of The News Review, Una, S. C., came to our sanctum Monday. It is a five-column six-page sheet, beairng the Spar tanburg Allied Trades Council label. It bears endorsement of its Central Labor Union and Textile Council. Its editor is J. L. Brooks,, and from the reading matter it contains, editorially and otherwise it ism true union paper., serving a purpose and fulfilling a want. It has existed for some years and is an example of the fact that a labor paper can grow but slowly. McDonald conducting a clean CAMPAIGN, AND IS GAINING GROUND AS CAMPAIGN NEARS END RALEIGH, May 27.—As the campaign for Governor enters the home stretch, voters of North Carolina are increasing their admiration for the clean, fair type of campaign waged by Ralph W. McDonald. Those who expected Mr. McDonald to participate in mud slinging during the heated finals of the race are disappointed. Although he has been the object of constant personal attacks, the anti-sales tax candidate has waged his campaign strictly upon vital issues and not upon petty verbal slaps at his opponents. On more than one occasion, Dr.i McDonald has voiced his friendliness; and respect for the other three can-| didates in the gubernatorial race, and! has praised them as among the finest! men in the nation. That North Carolinians respect a! candidate who can and does conduct a clean, hard-fought campaign is evi denced by hundreds of expresisons of admiration for Dr McDonald’s stand pat refusal to engage, in personali ties or to allow himself to be drawn into any controversy inspired by bit ter personal attacks upon himself. In addition, he has pointed out con sistently that he wil ltake off his coat and fight for Democracy in the fall election regardless of who is given the Democratic nomination for Governor, “I entered this campaign in a spirit of friendliness toward those who oppose me,” states Dr. McDon ald, “I have endeavored to spare the voters of North Carolina the sorry spectacle of an unclean political campaign, and after the campaign is over I shall hold no bitterness in my heart for anyone, regardless of the outcome. “After the primary is over, re gardness of whether I am elected or not, I intend to take off my coat and enter the battle in behalf of the whole Democratic ticket in the fall election. It will be my pleasure to do everything humanly possible to up hold the nominees of the Democratic party and to aid in giving Franklin D. Roosevelt the greatest victory ever recorded at the polls. “I invite every Democrat in North Carolina to join me in that glorious fight for our party.” Only One Teacher Of 495 Takes Out In Charlotte Schools Out of 495 teachers in the Char lotte school system only one has re signed effective at the close of the school term, H. P. Harding, city su perintendent, said Saturday. Never before in the history of the system has there been so small a list of resignations at the end of the year, the superintendent said. “This indicates that the local school suoplement is helping to keep our teachers and reducing the turn-over in teaching personnel.” Mr. Harding said. The one resignation is of a young wcman who is to be married and who will reside' in another city. She was the only one who returned a contract for next year without a signature.— Observer. | lypo Union Elects Officers For the Ensuing Year R^y C. Nixon was on Wednesday re-elected president of Charlotte Ty pographical Union No. 338; Hugh M. Sykes was re-elected secretary treasurer; Howard L. Beaty was re elected recording secretary, and H. A. Stalls was elected vice-president. The voting was by ballot. Boxes had been placed in each of the Typo graphical Union chapels in Charlotte and after the votes had been cast, they were counted by a committee named to handle that duty. It was one of the most warmly contested election in recent years. Claude L. Albea, Ray Nixon and Harry Boate were elected delegates to the state convention of the North Carolina Federation of Labor at Winston-Salem in August, there be ing no other candidates. Secretary Sykes was named the lo cal union’s delegate to the Interna tional convention of the Typographi cal Union in August at Colorado Springs, Colo., the headquarters city of the union, where its large home for aged and infirm is situated. The convention is expected to last about 10 days.—Observer. Chamber Commerce Rapped By Filene; May Function As A Business Club BOSTON, May 26.—Edward A. Filene, the Boston merchant-econom ist, has withdrawn from the United States chamber of commerce until it decides, he said, “to substitute fact finding research for opinion aS a guide to decisions concerning the needs of business in general.” <He made his decision known in an open letter yesterday to the cham ber’s president and directors. In part, it said: “The chamber as at present organ ized may function as a successful club of business men when times are good, or as a potent center of reac tion when changing times make some great new forward step necessary; but in neither role cap it furnish any real help to business,; either to busi ness in general or to the particular business of the average member. “The businesses, I fear, which are likely to profit most from an organ ization such as the United States chamber of commerce is today, are those which have some special reason for achieving a dominant voice in the chamber’s affairs, although lacking adequate interest in or an adequate understanding of the needs of busi ness in general. .... Modern business problems, general or special cannot be solved by adding up the opinions, either of board members or of the members gener ally, and calling that the answer.” rresbyterians Are Opposed To Child Labor and Warfare AUGUSTA, Ga., May 24.—The Presbyterian church in the United States condemned vice and aggressive warfare yesterday and indorsed a broad program of social reform. The Southern churchmen j adopted a report of the committee oh morals and social welfare but tacked on this amendment: “The provinces of the church and the state are separate and one should not usurp functions of the) other. These statements are merely given as an opinion of the committee and not to define the missions of the church.” Dr. Stuart R. Oglesby, Atlantan, who headed the committee, said the recommendations “were merely to in struct our people within the church on socsial problems. We do not in tend to go outside the church and tell the government what to do.” The program urged: ( i Abolition of child labor. ' Fqir wages and a fair day’s work in wholesome conditions. Abolition of lynching and obscene movies. ; Improvements of the Southern sharecroppers’ status. A campaign against all kinds of gamblers “whether they be on the stock market, on the race track, or in gaming halls.” An educational campaign against liquor. Protective neutrality legislation. Support of national leaders for peace rather than war. Low prices for consumers. Western Textile Council Meets In Concord Saturday There will be a meeting of the Western Textile Council in Concord Saturday at 2:0 P. M. While this is a regular meeting of the council, business of vital importance is sched uled to come up before the body. A full atendance is requested. Va. tarolmas Typo. Conference Ends Meet At Raleigh RALSIGH, May 25.—The Virginia Carolina Typographical conference endorsed industrial unionism and for the 10th consecutive year re-elected all officers as it ended its annual meeting here yesterday. Durham was chosen for the 1937 convention. Officers are: Dowell E. Patterson, of Charleston, S. C., president; Roy R. Lawrence, of Winston-Salem, vice president. and Giles G. Courtney, of Richmond, Va., secretary-treasurer. Officials said the conference “em phatically resolved to follow the lead ership of President Charles P. 'How ard, of the International Typograph ical Union in his advocacy of indus trial unionism,” but this move" is not to be interpreted as condemning craft unions.” Activities of Lawrence, who is president of the North Carolina Fed eration of Labor, in behalf of the can didacy for the Democratic gubernato rial nomination of Dr. Ralph W. Mc Donald were approved by the confer ence. McDonald attended the ban quet session. Around 350 delegates and visitors attended the banquet which closed the two-day meeting. [A. B. Furr and J. B. Fetner were the Charlotte Typo delegates.] Pickets Keeping Steel Corporation Plant Closed PORTSMOUTH, 6., May 25.— Pickets surrounding the Portsmouth plant of the Wheeling Steel corpora tion kept the mills idle yesterday as they awaited the outcome of confer ences scheduled by a federal media tor with union leaedrs who claim to represent 3,500 of ;the 5,500 em ployees. Authority of the national labor re lations board was an issue in the strike, caleld Friday night after two years ofy disagreement between com pany officials and thg Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin workers. Monday R. M. Ilkington, mediator sent here by Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, planned to meet < with Joseph K. Gaither, international vice-president of the union, to inves tigate the dispute. The union contends; that last Nov ember the labor relations board or dered the VVheeling company to “de sist coercing the Amalgamated,” abandon support of 18 departmental company councils, and reinstate a discharged employee, j This, the un ion leaders said, has not been done. Democratic Party Opened Convention Headquarters 24th PHILADELPHIA, May 25.—Oliv er A. Quayle, Jr., executive assistant semretary of the Democratic national committee, opened Democratic na tional headquarters yesterday with : the prediciton that 500,000 persons would . come to Philadelphia during the week of the conclave, beginning June 23. I Quayle, assistant to W. Forbes Morgan, secretary of the committee, said an office force of 30 to 40 per sons will be installed tomorrow. “Guard ThaTGirl” A Charlotte Theatre Thrill Fri. and Sat. j A secretary impersonates an en ' fiance red heiress and two college i bred detectives battle call sort of om inous acts trying to protect her, to make one of the most thrilling and | enjoyable detective films in many ; months, Columbia's*' “Guard That Girl,” which opens Friday at the Charlotte Theatre. Robert Allen and Ward Bond as the detectives and Florence Rice as the grave young lady about whom an aurora of murder constantly hangs, | give performances that will please . the most fastidious movie-goer. So, I too, do the rest of the cast, comprised of such reliables as Wyrley Birch, Arthur Hohl, Barbara Kent and Bert Roach, and Elizabeth Risdon, a I newcomer from the sacred portals of the Theatre Guild. An attorney, Joshua Scranton, j hires Allen and Bond to protect his client, an heiress who is to come into some three million dollars on a certain date. The lawyer expresses fear that the girl’s relatives are in tent upon murdering her before the deadline, so that they will inherit the money. When he suggests that they get another girl to impersonate the threatened heiress—who has been in Europe since early childhood and hence is unknown by sight to her re lations—Miss Rice, Bond’s secretary, insists upon taking the job. Samuel Clemens was not the orig inal Mark Twain. Captain Isaiah Sellers first used the name, and clemens adopted it after Sellers died.