GREAT URGE FOR SOCIAL PROGRESS NOW IS BEFORE SOUTHERN STATES; LABOR HAS SERIOUS PROBLEMS It’s a queer old world, but a grand old world, and the last part of that Statement Is the truest. It is a grand old world. Here in 1937 we have the greatest urge for social and economic ad vancement which this old world has ever experienced. We have scientific bnefits impossible to the richest monarchs of 100 years ago literally forced upon the lowliest humand on this globe. In the fields of medical science, transportation, home comforts, production and distribution of today is realised the highest imagings of our ancestors. And it has all developed so suddenly that we are individually and collectively stunned by the vastness of its possibilities. And there are those who would have us believe that there is something wrong, that this old world is topsy-turvy. The truth of the matter is there is nothing wrong. It is all so right that our expectancy of wrong misleads us. Is there anything wrong in a civilization which can produce luxuries so plentiful that they are common, everyday utilities? Is there something wrong with the fact taat man’s ingenuity has produced machines which are capable of taking the heavy toil from the lot of humanity? Is there some thing wrong in the fact that education has become so prolific that men can collectively decide and arrive at a solution of their problem, rather than be forced to trust to the mental capacity and humanitarian instinct of a small minority. No there is nothing wrong with a system of society which has made pos sible these advances for the good of humanity. That intelligent system of rights (property and human) which has been developed here in America can solve the simple problem of distribution if it is not heckled and stampeded into disregard of the very foundations which made possible these advances. These are things well worth the most serious considration of Labor in its deliberations on the issues which are being raised today, within its ranks and without. The American Federation of labor is part and parcel of this great democratic nation and has contributed its share to the common cause of the citizens of these United States through many years of building. Let not the shallow and hypocritical song of anti-American groups mislead you. There is nothing wrong with our social structure, except possibly its tolerance of these termites who would undermine the solid foundation of our Republic. 3 Baby Robins Grow Into His Clothes Asbury Park, N. J. — Morris Brenner left his coat hanging from a tree while he hoed in his garden. - --**•» When he went to retrieve the coat, he found a robin's nest in the right pocket. Hoping the bird would move, Brenner left the coat there and later found three eggs in the nest on his return. The next day the eggs had hatched. RETURNS HOME SOON AFTER OWN FUNERAL Man Hears He Was Burled by Town After Drowning. Milford, Conn.—The grim amuse ment enjoyed by Mark Twain’s he roes upon returning to town after an absence to find neighbors mourn ing their demise was experienced in reality here by John J. Barrett, who startled officers of this com munity by reappearing sound in health and lively in spirits just three days after his funeral. A drowned man, estimated to be fifty years old and dressed in a blue serge suit, was taken from the Housatonic river. He was taken to the Milford morgue and photo graphed. Next day three citizens of Redding, Conn., agreed that the dead man was John J. Barrett, fif ty-two years old, of Redding. They were Mrs. Carrie Phillips, with whom he had often boarded, and Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Osborne, for whom he did occasional odd jobs. There was no reason to doubt their testimony, so the town au thorities buried the man, after prop er rites, as John J. Barrett of Red ding. Three days later the original and authentic Mr. Barrett materialized in Redding and strode briskly up the front steps of the Osborne house and rang the bell. “Good morning,” he said cheerily when Mrs. Osborne appeared in the door. “Have you got anything for" —But Mrs. Osborne had turned pale. “What’s the matter, you sick?” he asked solicitously. “But I thought you were—where— were”—Mrs. Osborne’s voice trailed off. “Why, I’ve just been up to Fair field,” Barrett explained. “Been workin’ on the Morehouse farm.” Mrs. Osborne, finally convinced that no specter had entered her doorway, explained what had trou bled her. A little later Mrs. Phil lips underwent a similar emotional shock when Barrett called to en gage his old room for a few days. Advised to straighten matters out with the Milford authorities, Bar rett presented himself at headquar ters and succeeded in identifying himself. They showed him the pic tures they had taken of the drowned man and he agreed with them that the resemblance was striking, even uncanny. And now everybody is wondering who was buried. A check for your subscription would be appreciated. Starving Tribesmen Sell Girls at 6 Cents Allahabad, India.—Young girls are being sold for as little as six | cents each by starving aborigines of the Partagabh, Banswara and i Tuclam areas, it was reported recently. All crops of the 2,000,000 people of the tribes have been wiped out, it was said. American and Canadian mis sions are attempting to cope with the relief problem. AGED* NAVAJO ONCE SOLD INTO SLAVERY Now He Herds Flock of Sheep in Alamosa Canyon. Alamosa, Cqlo.—Francisco Gal legos, eighty-eight-year-old Navajo who herds a flock of sheep in Ala mosa canyon, thirty miles west of here, is one of Colorado’s few for mer Indian slaves now alive. Gallegos was; bom among a tribe of desperate Indians who raided and plundered Spanish settlements in southern Colorado nearly a cen tury ago. He; narrowly escaped death in a pitched battle which his tribe fought with a group of white settlers after the Indians had stolen the white men’s horses. One of the Spanish settlers sight ed the Indian baby sitting on the ground crying in the center of the battlefield on which the bodies of his mother and father lay. The set tler started to shoot but changed his mind and picked up the infant and returned him to the Spanish settle ment where he was sold to Juan de Jesus Gallegos for a slave. He was reared by the Gallegos family but was never legally freed. When treaties between the whites and Indians were signed which pro vided thpt each give up their slaves, his master agreed to comply with the treaty but did not know to whom the child slave should go. The In dian child had no known relatives and his tribe refus“d to take him. Francisco Gallegos knows nothing of his own people and is even un able to speak his own language. To him Spanish is his native tongue. He is a crack shot With a rifle and has uncanny success as a hunter. In the past he has acted as a guide in the uncharted mountain routes. His master left his “slave son” flocks of sheep numbering more than 2,000 upon his death. Gallegos moved up the canyon and built the adobe hut where he lives today. Conflicting reports are offered as to what became of Gallegos’ sheep. Some persons say that unscrupulous neighbors stole his herd and others say that he lost them gambling. He herds a few sheep of his own today, but a county pension is his chief sub sistence. Age has left few marks on Gal legos, who is only slightly stooped. His hair is black and plentiful and he can walk twenty-five miles a day without tiring. Each year his marksmanship accounts for numer ous coyotes, mountain lioii3, bears ar>H H*>pr DR. SAM LEVY Charlotte's Pioneer Optometrist Byes Examined — Glaaaea Fitted Reepectpr of Better Eyeglasses Since ISM 10® Vi Sooth Church Street A Complete Optical Berries Phene I-4M4 AMERICAN SHOE SHOP 104 East Fourth Street ALL WORK DONE BY UNION SCALE LABOR Guaranteed Satisfaction For Service Dial 9122 C. L. DETTER, Prep. Tenancy Work Money Is Voted WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.—Con gress, in one of it* last acts, voted $20,000,000 to start an experimental attack, recommended by President Roosevelt, on the nation’s tenancy problem. The third deficiency appropriation bill, which the senate sent to the White House, carried two $10,000, 000 items to be used for loans to se lected tenants for the purchase of farms and for government purchase of “unfit” land in the southwestern “dust bowl” for retirement of pro duction. Those now living on such lanr are to be assisted in finding bet ter farms. A.F.G.E.UnST Not Going C. 1.0. A proposal to affiliate the Ameri can Federation of Government Em ployees, an A. F. of L. affiliate, with the Committee for Industrial Organi sation has been spurned by the Chattanooga union of the Federation. The union, which has thirty-eight members among TV A office and cleri cal workers, voted down the proposal this week, W. L. Williamson, the president, announced Wednesday.— Knoxville Labor News. “Living” Barricade Halls Truck Caravan Cleveland. — Housewives on a suburban street, aroused by a steady stream of dirt-loaded trucks past their homes, formed a “living" blockade across the street and forced the drivers to give up. The contractor agreed to' use another route. The city promised to clean the street. ‘ BEAUTY LOSES LEGS; SUCCEEDS AS MODEL Distinguished Artists Laud Her Graceful Hands. Hackensack, N. J. — The last laugh is loudest. Jessie Simpson of Hackensack is laughing today at the tragedy that threatened to spoil her life. Fate played a cruel joke on the little beauty contest winner when a recent railway accident cost her the use of her legs. But Jessie could take it. Two months later the tide has turned. The misfortune that crumbled her world about her has brought her to the notice of famous artists and photographers. Today Jessie Simpson holds suc cess in the palms of her lovely hands. These hands that Howard Chandler Christy described as be ing “filled with grace and charm to the fingertips” have already won her a six months’ contract as a model for wrist form watches with a watch company. Arthur William Brown said that she had “the long, slim fingers that turn up slightly at the end to ex press grace.” Dean Cornwell saw in them “the bravery and tenderness that constitute all true beauty.” Jessie is basking in bright lights just when her skies seemed dark est. Hal Phyfe, distinguished New York photographer, called her “the perfect photographic model, beauti ful without a flaw.” He is waiting for her to come on artificial legs to pose in his studio. The doctors say it will be a year before Jessie can have her new legs. In her effort to jump on a mov ing commuter’s trains she slipped and fell beneath the wheels. To save her life the doctor was forced to amputate. Two-Year-Old Counts to 100 and Can Say Alphabet Camden, N. J. — Two year old David Barry Hoffman counts to 100, sings “Pennies from Hea\«n,” “Margy,’’ and “I’m an Old Cow hand,” and qualifies generally for the title l“child prodigy.” Master Hoffman follows closel> lr. the footsteps of his 11 year old brother Arthur, who did the same things when he was David’s age and continued to be precocious through the lower grades of gram mar school, David can call off his grandmoth er’s telephone number and those of the grocery man, his aunt and his father’s business phone.} Son of an accountant and tutored by his mother, David knows the al phabet, having learned it by request ing information from his mother on the meaning of the odd figures in his picture books. Louis, the boy’s father, is proud of his accomplishments. Rose, his mother, doesn’t want too much at tention paid to the child. Laborers must be recognised as be ing entitled to as much considera tion as employers, and their rights must be equally safeguarded.—Com mit rion on the Church and Social Service, Federal Council of the Churche* of Christ in America. It is hoped that this right (of la bor to organise and bargain collec tively) will never again be called in question by any considerable number of employers.—Administrative Com mittee, National Catholic War Coun cil. Tbs Union Label is the O. K. anx of quality! C. L 0. UNION FACES DAMAGE SUIT1 OF $700,000; WORKERS ARE SAID TO BE] DEPRIVED OF MEANS OF LIVELIHOOD 1 ATLANTA, Aug. 26.—Suits asking $700,000 in damages be cause of expulsion from a CIO union was met yesterday by a union official’s claim that the seven plaintiffs were not expelled but merely suspended pending trial. The CIO, the Textile Workers Organizing Committee, the In ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers Union and five local and regional officers of these groups were made co-defendants in ac tions instituted yesterday by seven women who said they had been expelled without trial from the I. L. G. W. U. and as a result lost their jobs. Mr*. Josephine Walden, business manager of the I. L. G. W. U. local, and one of the defendants, said today the petitioners had not ben expelled. She de clined to detail the charges on which she said they were awaiting trial but said they came under the heading of "conduct unbecoming one of our organ izations.” Since the alleged expulsion, the petitions set forth, the plaintiffs had been deprived of their livelihood because "all factories in the city of Atlanta are under contract with the local union.” Each petition asserted “the democratic form of labor organization has been destroyed and the right of a worker to earn an honest livelihood is at the mercy of the heads and officers of the associations.” It was charged the individual defendants "have been for many months running these associations and directing the activities of members in a manner that is little short of being dictatorial, making contracts with em ployers without consulting the workers as to their wishes and desires, calling strikes at their individual will without obtaining a strike vote from the work ers, expelling members without filing charges or having a trial, and making numerous extra assessments without any vote and having the employers withhold the same from the workers’ pay envelopes.” Defendants named as individuals and also in their official capacity were A. Steve Nance, southeastern director of the CIO and L L G. V. U.; Mrs. Walden. John Martin, regional director of the CIO; Ross Jones, president of the local; and Cora Hubbard, secretary of the local. Plaintiffs in the suit, all of whom stated they were power machine operators, were Mrs. Eural Morris, Mrs. Eulalia Boswell, Mrs. Angie May Brown. Mrs. Inez Sanders, Mrs. Cecil Jones, Miss Anna Lee Sanderlin and Mrs. Artie White. Clerk Yell. “Poison”; Wrong Man Treated LaGrange, Ind. — A physician stopped in a grocery store to get something to “nibble on.” He picked a cellophane package of rat poison from the rack instead of candy. The clerk chased him down the street, yelling “poison!” The doc tor, not having opened the pack age, seized the breathless clerk, told him to cough hard and shout | ed for an antidote. HUGE RATS MENACE PEOPLE IN ENGLAND Rodents From South America Become Serious Pest London, England. — Great Britain is threatened by a new rat menace. This time the trouble is the nu tria, a giant rat from South Amer ica introduced to this counter for its fur, which has been escaping in considerable numbers in several districts. The ministry of agriculture, after a four-year campaign costing thou sands of pounds, has just won its fight with the muskrat, which was breeding in thousands and under mining river and railway embank ments, when this new threat ap peared. Last month nearly 100 nutrias escaped from a farm in Surrey. Re ports of other escapes have been made all over the country. The ministry of agriculture has sent out a circular describing the nutria and asking local authorities for evidence of damage done by the rats. The nutria averages between twelve and twenty-five pounds in weight and when free it bores long tunnels with a diameter of some twelve inches in the banks of streams. “We do not know at present how much damage the nutria is likely to do. Nor do we know its rate of breeding when at liberty in this country,” M. C. A. Hinton, deputy keeper of zoology at the Natural History museum, said. pj “It is very independent and elu sive, seeking lonely stretches of river to nest. It thus can do a lot of damage before being discovered. It is extremely fierce when interfered with and is likely to turn and fight dogs or human beings if attacked” Trade unionism has passed the trial stage. It has come to its maturity but of long years of struggle and ex perience to an earned position of trust and confidence. The unions ;have built iip standards of life and living, carefully, step by step.—Wil liam Green. I look to the trade unions as the principal means for benefiting the conditions of the working classes.— Prof. Thorold Rogers, University of Oxford. Typo Ladies Bridge And “Sticks” Party Proves A Success The Woman’s Auxiliary of Typo Union No. 338 gave an “all-around” party at the home of Mrs. Hugh M. Sykes, on East Boulevard last night (Wednesday) which was well at tended. The object was to raise funds toward defraying the expenses of the Auxiliary delegate to the Aux iliary convention, which meets in Louisville, Ky., in September, joint ly with the I. T. U. convention, Mrs. Robert White being the delegate. It was a success from every angle, and these gatherings are doing much to ward welding a band of friendship and fellowship among the members i of the craft, to say nothing of the pleasure of social contact which is being created. The ladies deserve credit for the work they are doing, as it is one of unselfish motive. Howard L. Beatty, of the Ob server chapel, will be the delegate from Typo Union 338, and The Journal wishes him a pleasant and profitable trip, as well as Mrs. White. Reds Are Ousted From Fla. Union TAMPA, FLA.—Charles E. Silva, vice-presdient of the Florida State Federation of Labor, announced here that William Gren, president of the American Federation of Labor, had given him instructions to “purge the Florida organization of Communists and other extremists,” and to begin the work in Orlando. Mr. Silva said he planned to leave I for Orlando immediately to carry out Mr. Green’s instructions as they ap plied to the Central Labor Union in Orlando. “I am instructed to take up the Orlando chapter, if necessary, “Mr. Silva stated, adding: “Mr. Green is determined to rid all affiliated locals and central bodies in Florida of Communists and other extremists,” he continued. “I have receive instructions to investigate other Florida locals and to expel all that can be found. A Thrill Pack Is New Thayer Movie Romance The “inside story” of the billion slot machine racket as it operates in a big city, is laid bare in “King Gamblers,” a daring and thrilling motion picture story which opens at the Charlotte Theatre. Written by Tiffany Thayer, noted writer of crime and racket stories, I “King Gamblers” parallels with strikig adherence to recent newspa per headlines, the circumstances which led several Eastern cities to smash the racket and to consign the crooked machines to the ocean bot tom. The title role is played by Akim Tamiroff. He is supported by Claire Trevor, Lloyd Nolan, Larry Crabbe, Porter Hall, Helen Burgess and a number of other well-known featured players. Friday and Saturday Movie Actor Tells “Ten Best Ways to Get Name in Papers” HOLLYWOOD, Calif.—The movie actors’ technique in getting their names in print was revealed last week by Spencer Tracy, film star. Listed as the “ten best ways of get ting one’s name in the papers,” Mr. Tracy’s suggestions are: 1. Be born. Almost anyone can get a couple of lines in the “Births” column that way. 2. Step in front of a truck, and get in the “Deaths” column. If you care to die more spectacularly, it may be worth a paragraph or even a col umn. 3. Get married, but remember that thd space you rate on this depends en tirely on the person you marry. 4. The same goes for divorce. 5. Get named as co-respondent in someone else’s divorce. 6. Win a sweepstakes, or come into a lot of dough in any way. 7. If you can’t get the money any way, abscond with it. Recom mended as surefire for page one, part two. 8. If you’re a girl, and good look ing enough, pose in a bathing suit alongside a prize cow, or alongside almost anything, from an all-Ameri can quarterback to a new gadget for shelling peas. 9. Write a syndicated byline col umn. -10. Buy the paper. [And another one: Be a Union La bor organizer in a strike zone.] ALUMINM WORKERS VOTE FOR A, F. L. UNION WASHINGTON, D. C —A tele gram received at the American Fed eration of Labor headquarters here from David Sigman, A. F. of L or ganizer at Oshkosh, Wis., announced that the employes of the Aluminum Goods Manufacturing Company at Two Rivers and Minotowoc plants had chosen the American Federation of Labor Unions as collective bar gaining agents by the, large majority of 1,664 to 760. We affirm as one of the cardinal principles of the trade union move ment that the working people must unite irrespective of creed, color, sex, nationality or politics.—A. F. of L. Convention Declaration. Labor Press Vital Need The freedom of the press, guar anteed to us by the Consitution, must depend after all upon the sup port which the readers of the press give to it. We need scarcely more than mention the fact the usual daily newspaper, to say noth ing of the magazines, do not fee! called upon to espouse the cause of organized labor. Such fair pl«" as is given this cause by these pub lications is based upon the unan swerable strength of the position of the labor movement. But we wish to emphasize the fact, that if there were no great section of the national publications known as the Labor Press, which gives its first and last loyalty to the workers of the nation, and es pecially to those who are members of the organizations of labor, the other sections of the nation’s pub licity organs would probably pay much more scant attention to the rights of labor. Circulation is the Ute of any publication. Given readers, any publication is in a position or pow er, in proportion to its friends who show their loyalty to their own cause by their subscriptions to their own press, and by their activity in helping to enlarge its circulation. The rights of labor will always depend, to a great extent, upon the freedom of the labor press. A la bor paper which circulates freely in its own community is an index of the power of labor in that lo cality. It is a very definite part of the organization itself, and its functions are so vital that neglect of the labor press is sure to reflect upon the qualities of the labor movement itself. PATRONIZE JOURNAL ADVERTISERS Mecklenburg Hotel Hob* of Giatioo WSOC RmU* h4 Bfeetric Pu fa Wwrnr* QUALITY DRY CLEANING Called for and Delivered P. C. Campbell (Member Teamsters and Chauffeurs Local) 719 Louise Ave. Phone 2*1033