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CHARLOTTE, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1938
WORK IS WORSHIP
The following excerpt is from an address delivered by Andrew
Furuseth, late president of the International Seamen’s Union of
America, to the students of the University of California on Labor
Day, 1927:
“Work is to worship—to labor is to pray, because that is to
exercise the highest, the divine faculties implanted in us as the
sons of God.
It matter not if the labor be the writing of a thesis or the
digging of ditch, it is the use of the same divine faculty to labor
-—to create—and upon its prpoper and free use depends the life
of individuals, nations and races.
“Those that have been untrue have shared the fate of the
tree without fruit. They have passed away because they encum
bered the earth.
“Those that have been untrue have shared the fate of the
tree without fruit. They have passed away because they en
cumbered the earth.
"Those that have been true have lived, and according to his
toryand to religious belief they are to live.
. “ket us **7 to profit by this lesson and so live that labor
shall be free that it shall come into its own.”
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MADISON, Maine.—Over 1,000
members of the A. F. of L. paper
workers’ unions have benefitted by
recent wage increases by the Great
Northern Paper Company, the larg
est producer of newsprint paper in
the United States.
The wages of laborers were boosted
three cents an hour and skilled work
ers two cents an hour, at the com
pany s plants in Madison, East Milli
nocket and Millinocket, Maine.
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Labor Activity
In Entire South
I On the Increase
CHARLESTON, S. C., Feb. 1.—
Albert W. Gossett, of Atlanta, Inter
national Representative of the Amer
ican Federation of State, County and
Municipal Employes, was here last
week for the purpose of installing the
charter of the local union organised
here by the employes of the city and
county.
COLUMBUS, Ga., Feb. 1.—With
new local unions being formed and
needing quarters for carrying on
their work, and with increased affil
iation of locals with the Central La
bor union, the Central has found it
necessary to enlarge its quarters,
which was done by taking over the
entire second and third floors of the
building known as the Labor Temple
Building.
TAMPA, Fla., Feb. 2.—Reports for
the month of January from the Flor
ida State Federation of Labor offi
cials indicate an intense activity in
Southern Florida. Charles E. Silva,
Secretary of the Central Labor Un
ion of Tampa, and first vice-presi
dent of Florida State Federation of
Labor, makes report on the activi
ties of organizers in that section dur
ing the month of January.
MERIDIAN, Miss., Jan. 31.—The
Meridian Central Labor Union start
ed the New Year off with great ac
tivity during the month of January,
with noted additions of affiliation. J.
W. Cameron, secretary of the Central
Body, is waging an active campaign
among the locals not affiliated with
the Central, and it is predicted that
all locals soon will be represented in
the Central Body.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Feb. 1.—Sec
retary John L. Essary, of Local 1164
Amalgamated Association
of Street and Electric Railway
and Coach Employes, which organi
zation obtained a Union agreement
last week with the Tennessee Public
Service Company, reports that many
new members have been added to the
local union’s rolls since the agree
ment was signed. “Everybody is
happy,” Secretary Essary Says.
MEMPHIS, Tenn—The Labor
Temple here, of which aU organized
Central Labor
Union
Regular weekly meeting Wednes
day night was not as well attended
as usual, many delegates being at
work and of course the “Golden
Gloves’’ got a fair share, but at that
it was a good meting. A new or
ganization, the Hod Carriers, was
reported as having sent for a char
ter | Central body went on record as
favoring a Municipal swimming pool,
location to be decided by the Parks
commission. Organization committee
reported work being done among the
insurance agents, of which there are
more than 400 in Charlotte.
One of the features was a talk by
C. E. Haury, Int. representative of
the Operating Engineers, who will in
stall a local in Charlotte.
Miss Frances Horne, of the State
A. F. of L. office here, was a visitor
and made a few brief remarks.
President Kiser presided, and the
meeting adjourned at 9 o’clock,
labor is justly proud, is being repaint
ed and decorated, in fact, refurnish
ed, and, of course, by union work
men. In this case, though, it is a
voluntarv job for the Cause. Mem
bers of the building trades unions
issued a firm challenge to all other
locals to do their share, and prompt
ly pitched in. Outside painting, in
terior decorating, re-paneling, and
manv other renovations were indud
I ed in the plans to "do over” labor’s
popular headquarters in Memphis.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Jan. 31.—
John S. Turner, Organizer for the
International Hod Carriers’ Build
ing and Common Laborers’ Union
of America, made an interesting re
| port of his work in the Tennessee
| Valley at a meeting of trades union
ists here last week. Mr. Turner
came into this section Labor Day,
last September, and since that time
has organized eleven Local Unions,
and materially increased the mem
bership of established locals. Or
ganizer Turner, had been working
in the state of Florida up to Labor
Day, when he was transferred to this
section because of the activity at that
time, of the C. I. O. on TV A pro
jects. Hundreds of former mem
bers of the C. I. O. unions have come
into the A. F. of L. locals organized
by Mr. Turnei
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A. F. of L Council
Hears Jurisdiction
Disputes At Miami
MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 1—The A. F.
of L. executive council continued with
its hearing of jurisdictional disputes
yesterday while Charles P. Howard,
president of the A. F. of L.’s Inter
national Typographical union and
secretary of the C. I. O., sniped at
William Green’s written answer to
charges of fostering dual unionism
made by John L. Lewis’ United
Mine Workers.
Howard issued a typewritten
statement criticizing the A. F. of L.
president’s decision not to appear
personally at the U. M. W. conven
tion in Washington on the ground
the council sessions here prevented
it.
The council’s hearing today was on
ar. appeal by the Building Service
Employes’ union from an order
awarding the Hotel and Restaurant
Employes’ union jurisdiction over
certain unskilled hotel employes.
Keller Says Textile
Wage Scale Needed
Now More Than Ever
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.—A House
subcommittee moved yesterday to re
vive the national textile bill which
would regulate hours and wages of
about 1,250,000 workers in the in
dustry.
Chairman Kerrel, Democrat of
Illinois, a House labor subcommittee
which has been considering the mea
sure since last year, declared, “We
need the bill more than ever now that
textile mills are cutting wages.”
He said his subcommittee would
report the measure to the labor com
mittee within a few days.
The textile bill, providing for a
40-hour week and minimum wages
of $15 a week, was sidetracked last
year by the wage-hour bill.
But Keller said he believed it
was “possible to have both bills.”
“I believe we should enact legis
lation for the textile industry and
then the steel, automobile, and coal
industries” Keller said “before we
consider wage-hour legislation.
“From that experience we could
frame a better wage-hour bill after
the regulations for the other indus
tries had been tried.”
The textile bill provides for a three
man administrative board to enforce
its provisions, which include elimin
ation of unfair trade practices as
well as wage-hbur standards.
Charlotte Ketail
Clerks Meet Again
Sunday Afternoon
At 3:00 P. M. Sunday afternoon
the Retail Clerks will have another
open meeting at 113% South College
street, over Dulin Hardware Co.
At the last meeting nearly 100 were
present, and much interest was ex
hibited. Refreshments were served,
and interesting talks were made by
local men.
Be on hand if you are a retail clerk,
Sunday at 3 P. M. Refreshments and
interesting talks.
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