North Carolina Newspapers

He ONLY REALLY INDEPENDENT WEEKLY in MerkAnborg County .1 if for a Weekly, Its Readers Represent the LARGEST BUYING POWER in Official Organ Central Labor Union; endorsed by State Fedemtion of Labor I Truthful, Honest, Impartial Patronise our Adver tisers. They make YOUR paper possible by their co operation. AND DIXIE FARM NEWS Endeavoring to Serve the Masses Vol. VI—No. 9 roue ADVIRTIUMINT IN TNI JOURNAL IB A WOOO CHARLOTTE, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1936 JOURNAL AOVIRIISIM DESCRY* CONSIDERATION OP ▼NS RBAOSR $2.00 Per Y CHARGES MADE BY PRES. GREEN, A. F. OF L., THAT LEWIS IS AIDING THE FOES OF ORGANIZED LABOR WASHINGTON, July 8.—William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, predicted Tuessday night that “only the enemies of organized labor” would benefit from what he called John L. Lewis’ “unwise policy.” Resuming his battle of statements with the president of the United Mine Workers, Green said that Lewis’ current steel or ganization campaign needed organized labor’s undivided support to be successful. me steel ministry s aiuiuue anu statements, he said, coudl be inter preted to mean only “they under stand no language except the , lang uage of force.” Green leads the federation faction favoring organization of all workers into craft unions. Lewis heads the faction—now trying to organize steel —that favors organization of all the workers in each big industry into one - big union. “Now, those identified with the Committee for Industrial Organiza tion (the Lewis group) find that their realy enemy is not the American Fed council, which they so vehemently de eration of Labor and its executive nounced, but instead their real ene mies are the steel corporations and the powerful financial interests as sociated with them,” Green said. “The sum total achieved by the committee thus far is nothing what ever except division, discord, and con fusion within the ranks of organized labor.” During the day Lewis’ field lieu tenants pushed forward with the cam jjaigu. van a. outlier, wcbicui icj;* ional director, arrived in Cleveland for a mass meeting with the state ment that the committee intended to organize every worker in that area. In Pittsburgh, Philip Murray said that 72 paid organizers and 2,200 vol unteers already were at work in the district extending from Cleveland to New England. Green gave no hint that the craft faction would lend Lewis any help. He concluded his statement with a brief announcement that the A. F. of L. executive council would consider the status of the unions in the Lewis group when it assembled Wednesday. There has been talk that the 11 un ions supporting Lewis would be sus pended. “It is sincerely to be regretted,” Green said, “that the Committee for Industrial Organization thwarted the purpose of the American Federation of Labor to inaugurate an organizing campaign in the steel industry, be hind which the American Federation of Labor would have mobilized the united support and pooled resources of organized labor.” S. C. TEXTILE WORKERS HAVE CONVENTION NEWBERRY, S. C., July 7.—The South Carolina Federation of Textile Workers was on record yesterday as favoring legislation which would pro hibit cotton mills from evicting em ployees from company owned houses un'il the question should be passed on by the national labor relations board and for the congressional action pen alising non-observance of Labor day. The federation adjourned its an nual -onvention here yesterday after hear* f Governor Olin D. Johnston urge i^bor to vote for legislative can date* who would work for its inter es The governor also urged sup pi. rt of the new state free textbook sc,up and he complimented labor for the part he said it played in establish ment of the sctate labor department. John A. Peel, third vice-president of the United Textile Workers, and L. E.1 Brookshire of Greenville, presi dent (of the state federation of labor, also addressed the meeting yesterday. Central Body Elects Officers I Next Wed. P. M. Don’t forget the next meeting of Central Labor Union, at Moose Hall, next Wednesday at 8 IV M. Election of officers for the ensuing year will be one of the features. A large attendance is looked for, as this is an im portant annual event. Be on hand. The ladies of the Label League will fterve ice cream from 7:§0 on. McDonald Makes Statement As To Where He Stands RALEIGH. July 8.—Dr. Ralph Mc Donald, defeated for the democratic gubernatorial nomination, reiterated Tuesday his campaign slogan “we have just begun to fight” but added “our fight is in the democratic party.” It was the militant sales tax re pealist’s first announcement since Saturday's primary, in which he was defeated by Clyde R. Hoey, adminis tration defender, by a 50,000 margin on the basis of nearly complete re turns. Dispelling speculatice reports that he might run as an independent, Mc Donald said: “We have gone a long way toward winning our fight for the principles on which our cause is founded . . . • “Let our slogan continue to be ‘we have just begun to fight’ for these principles. I have always been a democrat, and I shall remain one. Our fight is within the democratic party.” MRS. ROY MORTON A VISITOR Mrs. Roy Morton, who is making her home in Union, S. C., now came to Charlotte last week on a visit and returned Monday. Her many friends were indeed glad to see her. She also dropped in before taking her depart ure to say hello to the editor and his wife. CHRISTOPHER TRIES TO VISIT US Mr. Paul R. Christopher, textile or ganizer of Shelby, paid us a visit Tuesday A. M., but the editor had not arrived upon the scene. He left his card on the door. Sorry we missed you Paul. He had been over Raleigh way to see about the “McDonald votes.” SAGAS OF THE SKIES ---By R. C. Oertel Manager, Aviation Division, Sales Department * Esso Marketers mHE Republican River was a rag I mg torrent. Swollen by con tinued heavy rains, the muddy waters overflowed their banks and injundated the countryside. The raimpant stream uprooted trees and tore at the foundations of buildings uiftil they toppled into the angry waters and were swept away. Ttjiwns along the course of the river in southern Nebraska were fltjoded. Farmers were marooned and some were drowned. Near McCook, two men in a tiny, open boat fought death. Their frail critft was tossed about like a chip oh the crest of the flood. With no cars to help them, all they could do was let the rushing tide carry them where it willed, while they dih what they could to prevent the boat from being crushed and sunk b> the logs and debris which con stantly menaced them. Their plight was desperate and. as they confided later, they never expected to reach shore alive. But out of the skies above the swollen river came a plane. The pilot and his observer spotted the two men in the tossing boat and circled above them. The pilot man euvered his plane to nose it into the high wind and thereby attain a slow ground speed. _ Lower and lower the airman dropped his craft until it was less than ten feet above the water. From the cockpit a rope ladder was tossed over until the lower end of It touched the water. Carefully and with Infinite skill the pilot guided the plane so that the trailing rope ladder was drawn across the tossing boat Harold Steinke. one of the two castaways, grabbed it as it came by and climbed aboard the plane. Again the pilot swung across the boat This time M. R. Gillen caught it as it swung by and was- pulled to safety. As the plane roared away one of the men looked back. He saw the roots of a great tree rise up under the empty bobbing boat For an instant it hung, poised shore the water. Then, with a sudden surge it fell sideways back hpou the tide and sank. ' CHATTING - - - -- --- ■Y HARRY BOATS CHATTING __— — “Father doesn’t' live' here'any more,” were the opening words in a recent article in the Forum. It sems 1 that father was 71 years old and had lost all his money in the depression nnd had come to be regarded as » nuisance in his daughters home. Poor old chap, he was slightly deaf and didn t care much for other people’s conversation, though he did love his and cre ated a good deal of “static” when friends dropped in to call. Moreover, he couldn’t play bridge and insisted on talking with the dummy. And bes.des, he was old-fashioned in his ideas and shocked the young people by Jus un reasonable modesty. And so, says the writer, “I often secretly hoped that Father would get run over or die of Pneumonia. The solution of the prob lem was to send him to a home for old men. , . j Now I have no doubt Father was better off, a good deal better off, and there is much to be said for homes for the aged. But what rouses my indig nation is thl heartlessness, the cold-bloodedness, of the attitude taken by his daughter. As I read it, I longed to get hold of her and to say something llk“WheSn you were a spindle-shanked, pastry-fate* young adolescent, you were for ^considerable period . problem in the home. You talked oo much and at the wrong time; you were impudent and messy and were a nuisance a good deal of the time. But it never occurred father and mother to send you to a home for girls. They never lay aw hoping you would be run over or die of pneumoni* Theyloved y°u andput ud wthvou because you were theirs. A home isn’t builded upon hedonism but upon heroism, and often a good deal isgladly endured for loves sake. “The trouble with you and your kind is that you do not know the meaning of noblesse oblige!”—Bishop SteWart, in the Living Age- , , , , _ . The above item brings to mjnd a case of personal knowledge wherein something of th"samegor a like nature took place In thu> case mother died leaving the husband and three sons to do as best they could, ine father tos £ g<L Christian man, who lived the part every day. His maiden Sf.Ter’ hirlwn ’age. took the place »t the noth, »•<I »•» to her task in every detail, rearing the boys to manhood nad making a hippy Christian home for the father. The two elder boys earned.and established homes and families for themsdves The younger boy with his father and aunt. Father and son both: wpre both stricken witn tvnhoid fever, were cared for at home by the faithful maiden lady, finally SS^idSSr former good health and returned towo^Timeroedon father ouite aged, went to join the wife and mother, r many tne ySnger son inS hfalth and with a good position, took unto himself a wife *and helpmeet. The faithful aunt by now had reached an age where Ihe was i» longer active and able to maintain a home. Her reward for the vears of love and service was to be finally placed in the county borne, aiidttiose responsible for this act congratulated *h^“*veh8 been so “kind” as to provide her with such a comfortable home for her re mThfforeg^ing stories are not the ravings of a disordered brain, but axe simnlv two recitals of similar events taking place almost every day of the vea? in many Sces aU over this broad land. In many such cases it may vL nnlv thimr left to do. In: many other casesiitjis simply a matter of shifting a ^burden to other shoulders, providing what may csdfs °“conscience!”' ^32* veryUunpleasant l t An(i when conscience works it is not laiy, nor is it content with1 h half finished job We may go many years down the highway of life £nd not meei "hiraSser, but KTiif any of us miss him entirely m the journey from the cradle to the gTav€' „ j “Whatsoever ye sow, that shall ye also reap. Courtesy Reigns At Eckerd’s, Along With Real Service Eckerd’s—“Creators of Reasonable Drug Prices”—is well and favorably known to the people of Charlotte and surrounding territory, and is one ot the busy spots in Charlotte’s mercan tile life. -Carrying a complete line of drugs and sundries, with expert pres criptionists, and a courteous coijp of clerks, there is little wonder as to the popularity of this concern. from its head down to the bottom of the ladder you will find an organisation built upon service, quality and court esy, with a line unsurpassed, and priced to suit the purse. —- — j— The average motor car requires about 45 pounds of cotton gooqs in its construction. This means the an nual consumption of approximately 250,000,000 yards of heavy cotton goods made from 500,000 bales of cotton. 4,640,000 UNEMPLOYED GET JOBS IN 3 YEARS WASHINGTON, D. C.—Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins announced that in “non-agricultural employ ments" 30,950,000 workers were em ployed during May, reprenting a gain of 4,640,000 since May, 1933. She said that approximately 12,000, 000 were connected with agricultural pursuits, bringing the total employed to 42,950,000. There were also 3, 230,000 employed on work relief proj ects. If the work relief persons could be considered as employed, they in creased the grand total of 46,180,000 persons with jobs. AUTO UNIONS MERGE DETROIT, Mich.—The Automotive Industrial Asociation, an independent union, has passed out of existence and merged with the United Automobile Workers of America, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. Your o..„ pocketbook will swell in lust the degree that you buy Union Label Goods LABOR NEED OF LABOR NEWS (FRANK DUFFY, GENERAL SECRETARY BROTHERHOOD OF CARPENTERS IN APRIL ISSUE OF THE CARPENTER) There is perhaps no institution and its relation to the general wel fare in this country^that is so much misunderstood “ Organize Labor. The principal reason for this is the Uck of information on the subject b£ the general public, the members of Organized Labor and especially the unorganized workers of the country. i The general public, as a rule, gets their conception of Organized I ahor from the columns of the daily newspapers. There is no more unfair o^biased medium of disseminating Labor news than through the columns oMhe ordinary daily newspapers ThrigmUtorlal po««M are usually formed by their connection with the Masters of Industry, and as th^e gentlemen, in the great majority of cases. are inimical to Organized Labor, necessarily the editorial policy of the ^ady press is along the same line, therefore, the general public gets nothing >ut iMANIZhEDLSTOR“CTS™ELA°B0“,w'S'NAL OB WEEK; LY OF HIS CRAFT. AND USUA^Y KNOW’S WHAT IS GOING ON IV THU1 I 4ROR WORLD AND ESPECIALLY DOES HE ixEI IIIE 5Jb™F HE WI?L SUBSCRIBE FOR THE “LABOR PAPER” PUB L1S THERE iTnOTHINg"THAT SHOULD HAVE GREATER PLACE IN THE WORKING MAN’S HOME THAN HIS CRAFT JOURNAL, SOME SNE OR mSrE GOOD WEEKLY' LABO RPAPERS. But the man who really needs education from the Labor stand point is the unorganized worker, who does not get a trade journal an dhas to depend on the daily press for his information. He Is saidly lacking in the true news and it is to be hoped that some day, some way will be found to get the news to him. WARNING TO BUSINESS MEN Oar merchants are advised to look well into the matter befor* baying advertising space in publications pertaining to labor, unless sponsored by the Charlotte Central Labor Union or endorsed by the Merchants’ Association. LEWIS WOULD PROSECUTE MORGAN IF TROUBLE COMES IN STEEL ORGANIZATION — 500,000 INVOLVED WASHINGTON, July 8.—Threatening; to prosecute J. P. Mor gan and company if “lawlessness” develops, John L. Lewis today signalled full speed ahead in the campaign to bring 500,000 steel employees into the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers. In a speech last Monday night, the head of the committee for industrial organization charged that the “overlords of the steel empire” had declared “civil war” against the unionization drive. un tne neeis oi a prediction that the industry would “deliberately pro voke strife and bloodshed” at the mills to discredit organizers and intimidate workers. Lewis said the high and the low in steel would be brought to "justice” if infractions of „the law were uncovered. Lewis listed J. P. Morgan and*! com pany “which controls the[_JJnited States Steel corporation,” other bank ers, corporation officials and “their armed guards, or other hirelings and mercenaries” as among those who might be held accountable for break ing the law. Lewis charged that the American Iron and Steel institute, employers’ organization, had already “contrav ened the law” by publishing in the daily press its position toward the campaign. He interpreted this state ment as pledging “the vast resources of the industry against the right of its workers to engage in self-organi zation or modern collective bargain ing." As Lewis pressed his drive, the bat tle in the courts over the Wagner la bor relations act, which among other things seeks to outlaw employer in terference with organization for col lective bargaining, continued un abated. I he federal circuit court of appeals at St. Paul yesterday restrained the national labor relations board from the assembly plant of General Mo tors corporation. The court cited a decision by a Missouri federal court holding' the Wagner act, under which the NLRB functions, unconstitutional. The United States supreme court is expected to hand down a decision on the act in the fall. 1 While Lewis spoke, William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, was preparing a statement on the federation’s attitude toward the unionization campaign: He said he would make it public today. The federation was planning to start a campaign to enlist the steel holding hearings in St. Louis on al legations of unfair labor practices in workers into craft unions when Lewis and his associates in the comm' for industrial organization • *Tt. the drive to bring every the industry into the Amir1’ 1 Association of Iroii, Steel at._ workers, an industrial union. A number of craft union chieftains, it is reliably reported, desire to oust the Lewis group, with its 1,000,000 members, from the federation. Such action will be considered by the fed eration’s executive council at a meet ing which started Wednesday. “Right To Beg” Given Jobless In Ontario North Bay, Ont.—Claim ing that the treasury of North Bay was empty, the City Council, instead of raising funds, adopted a resolution discontinuing the administration of relief to the unemployed. Four hun dred families were left destitute. The jobless beseiged the City Hall and demanded the right to beg on the streets for food for their wives and children. Mayor W. G. Bull brook granted the demand. He said it was the only thing possible in view of the moneyless treasury. ANNUAL LEAVE SOUGHT FOR 5,000 WPA AIDS WASHINGTON, D. C.—Despite a negative ruling by retiring Comptrol ler General J. R. McCarl, a way will probably be found to provide around 5,000 administrative, supervisory, re search and clerical workers of the Works Progress Administration, both in Washington and the field, with an nual leave with pay. McCarl,decided that since these workers are on WPA project payrolls they are not admin istrative employes and consequently are debarred from the benefits of the recent leave was enacted by Congress. Aubrey Williams, Deputy WPA Ad ministrator, who had been asked to consider the advisability of counter manding the Comptroller Bcneral’s order explained that such action might put these employes in a worse position than at present, because Mc Carl’s office could suspend payments »f their salaries if the employes took their leave. instead oi taxing: tnis aDrupt ac tion, Williams said he would have his legal staff undertake to work out some method of clasification which would place these workers within the leave law. He added that WPA offi cials are in sympathy with the plight of the 5,000 employes and feel that they should be classified along with other Federal workers who are en titled to annual vacations with pay. MOSKINS’ COMES INTO LABOR JOURNAL FOLD While from time to time The Labor Journal has carried advertising from Moskin’s Credit Clothiers, it is with pleasure that we announce that they will be regularly in the fold of the concerns that are making the paper possible, and we bespeak for this con cern a liberal patronage from labor. Mr. Brooks, the courteous manager of Moskins has made many friends in Charlotte, and the increasing business of the firm he represents is a testi mony both to him and Moskins. A record was made in the sale of large and miniature incandescent lamps in 1935. Preliminary esti mates show an increase of more than 11 per cent, including 410,000,000 large and 297,000,000 miniature lamps. Women’s Union Label League Met Wednesday The Women’s Union Label League held its regular semi-monthly meet ing Wednesday night with President Vemetia Threatt presiding. 8^r. J. H. Fullerton was made temporary- S6Crt-- ' tary until election rolls | around, when a successor to Mrs. R. K. Amyx, for mer secretary, but who' moved to At lanta, is elected. The [regular order of business was gone through with regularity. Mr. J. H. Fullerton was elected delegate to the State Federal tion of Labor convention, which con*' venes in Winston-Salem' early in Au gust. It was decided to serve ice cream at next week’s meeting (Wed nesday night) of Charlotte Central Labor Union to help build up the dele gate fund, and as a iwell-attended meeting <is expected of [Central body on account of the election of officers of that body, the ladies should have a profitable night.. The meeting ad journed about 9:30. Official Returns For State Officers Now Given Out Complete returns from Satur day’s Democratic primary, com piled Tuesday, showed the follow ing: For Governor: Clyde R. Hoey 266,813; Dr. Ralph W. McDonald 212,879. Lieutenant governor: W. I*. Hor ton 217,652; Paul Grady 206,773. Secretary of State: Thad Eure 233,751; Stacey Wade 192,082. Manufacturers are losing $30,000, 000 annually through unnecessary waste and spoiled work that could be eliminated through better lighting. North Carolina farmers are now growing 1,000,000 acres j more food and feed crops than they did five years ago. Every dollar spent for Union Label goods and services means better wages, shorter hours and decent work ing conditions for every worker. PATRONIZE JOJURNAL ADVERTISERS "The Boys With a Bonus” in the ranks of Labor are urged to watch The Journal advertising columns and pat ronize its advertisers. Labor furnished a fair quota from its ranks, and therefore its members will benefit by re ceipt of it. Labor has co-op erated with The Labor Journal in large degree by patronizing the firms that make its publication possible, and we thank them one and all.