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FIERY DEBATE ON WAGNER LABOR
RELATIONS ACT SLATED FOR NEXT
CONGRESS-HEAT PUT ON BY LABOR
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Controver
sy over the Wagner Labor Act has
paused, for Congress to answer, this
question: Should the law dealing
with collective bargaining be amend
ed, abolished or kept intact?
The three-year-old measure, a vital
part of the socal setting advanced by
the New Deal, may be more strenu
ously debated than any other piece
of workingmen’s legislation. How
ever, the new wage-hour law may be
called upon for some refinements.
For varying reasons, organized bus
iness and one wing of organized la
bor have demanded changes in what
labor once hailed as its “Magna
Charta.”
The attitude of the administration
toward revision has not been made
clear, but some sources indicate that
congresisonal friends of the act will
support “constructive amendments
designed to make it work more
smoothly, and possibly to take the em
ployer out of “the middle” in dis
putes between rival labor factions.
One House leader, speaking pri
vately already has predicted that, un
less the administration takes the ini
tiative to revise some features of the
Wagner act, there is danger a coali
tion of Republicans and conservative
Democrats will attack it.
A senator has suggested wrapping
up the whole controversy in one pack
age and dropping it into the hands
of an advisory committee of busi
nessmen, labor spokesman, and pub
lic representatives for complete. re
study.
The American Federation of Labor
turned “heat’ on the Wagner act at
its Houston convention, adopting
without a dissenting vote proposals to
give greater protection to its craft
union in collective bargaining and to
curtail some of the powers of the
.Labor board.
John L. Lewis’ Congress of Indus
trial Organizations took an opposite
jstand. It voted against any change
in the Wagner act. The sharp divis
ion in organized labor points to a vir
tual C.I.O.-A.F.L. tug-of-war in the
next Congress.
Organizer Fox
Makes Report
On Textile
Organizer Fox, A. F. of L.,
was down this way the first of
the week. He has been up in
Rhode Island, and the results
are evident, as the Providence
telegram wjII show. They are
getting a 40c an hour and a 40*
hour work week, and this should
be the slogan for Southern
workers.
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Poor and General
Funds Not Spent
By County Govt
The County Government underspent
its two principal funds, poor and gen
eral, by an aggregate of a little more
than $9,000 during the first five
months of the current fiscal year, ac-1
cording to figures compiled yesterday.
The perie/i covered: July 1-Nov. 30.
Approbations for the general
fund for the period totaled $151,173.58
and expenditures were $148,779.22 foi
a saving of $2,394.36.
Allotments for the poor “fund were
$153,933.52, or $7,184.25 under allot
ments.—News, Sunday.
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THE SEASON’S GREETINGS FROM GEORGE L. GOOGE
ATLANTA, GA., Dec. 19.—I am taking this method of
expressing a most sincere wish that each and every one of
our members and all members of their families may have a
most pleasant Christmas. To those who are sick, I express
my most profound sympathy, and wish for them a speedy
recovery.
Our great family of Labor can derive greater happiness
on Christmas Day than any other group, for He whose birth
day we celebrate dignified Labor for all time by working
as a Carpenter Himself.
It is impossible for me to send individual greetings to
each of our workers in the South, so I am asking that each
of you accept this as a personal message, and I want you to
know that I shall be rejoicing with you in your happiness
throughout this joyous Yuletide. Anything that tends to
make our family of Labor happy is great joy to me.
Fraternally yours,
GEORGE L. GOOGE.
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CHRISTMAS GREETINGS FROM LABOR
Organizer Labor in Charlotte, through its Central La
bor Union, comprising more than 40 working units, along
with its Women’s Auxiliaries, extends to all the citizens
of Charlotte greetings of the season, with a wish and hope
for the same harmonious relation in 1939 that has existed
in 1938. Organibed Labor as personified by the A. F. of
L. has fought the past year for harmony, on a fair basis,
and has had the co-operation of the citizenship as a whole.
The gains we have made were only obtained by the meth
ods of arbitration, mediation and conciliation, and a de
sire for a Greater Charlotte, where Capital and labor may
exist upon an even keel—BUT, with a prevailing wage
scale and with labor being recognized as one of the units
necessary to our growth.
CHARLOTTE CENTRAL LABOR UNION,
H. L. Kiser, Pres.
Wm. S. Greene, Sec.
Dec. 22, 1938.
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Providence Victory
For A.F.L. Textile -
Is Announced
PROVIDENCE, R. I., Dec 20.
—The National Labor relations
board voted on textile workers
employed in the Atlantic Mill, at
Providence Rhode Island. The
final results were: 994 for the
A. F. of L. and 535 for the C.
I. O.
Heartiest congratulations to
fellow textile workers in the
.south.
ROSA S. SULLIVAN
Organizer for the A. F. of L.
IVE-DAY WORK WEEK BEING
PUSHED BY GOVT. EMPLOYEES
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—The Na
tonal Labor Relations Board union
n oposed yesterday that major unions
f government employes appoint a
joint committee to work for adoption
>i the five-day week in Federal of
fices.
Mills Withdraw
Exemption For
Learners In The
Wage-Hour Act
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18—The
Wage and Hour Division announced
yesterday that three textile organiza
tions had withdrawn applications for
exemption of learners from the Labor
Standards Act because a current
study of wages by a committee had
made the applications “untimely.”
The withdrawals were made with
out prejudice to reopening the matter
at a later date.
Administrator Elmer F. Andrews
said the three were the Cotton Textile
Institute, the National Rayon Weav
ers Association and the National
Federation of Textiles, Inc.
He said this was the first “indus
try-wide request for learner’s exemp
tion” received by the division. He
added that the withdrawal of applica
tions represented the “major
branches” of the industry. The chen
ille and candlewick bedspread organ
izations, silk throwsters the narrow
fabric manufacturers have not with
drawn their applications, Andrews
said.
THIRTY MILLION “SHEAR” IN SIGHT
FROM WPA—HOUSING PROJECTS IN
SPRING AND EARLY SUMMER
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—Senator Barkley, Democrat, Ken*
tucky, said yesterday that the Administration expected to reduce
relief spending about $30,000,000 monthly in the Spring and early
Summer.
He said Congress would be asked to appropriate not more
than $600,000,000 for the WPA for March 1 to July 1—the closing
four months of this fiscal year.
The Senate majority leader said he believed a reduction in
the current rate of relief expenditures would be possible because
of improving business conditions and because PWA and housing
spending will be at its peak in March and April.
The last Congress appropriated $1,425,000,000 for the WPA
for the eight months ending next March. If this rate of expendi
ture were continued, an appropriation of about $712,000,000 would
be required to carry the program to July.
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LOW-COST HOUSING GROUP NAMED
BY MAYOR DOUGLAS—SELECTION IS
SATISFACTORY CHARLOTTE CITIZENS
[Dick Young, Charlotte News Staff
Writer, in Sunday’s issue.]
The most comprehensive social pro
gram ever attempted by Charlotte’s
City Government was started yes
terday when Mayor Douglas formally
appointed the five members of a local
housing authority to sponsor a proj
ect to raise the living standards of
many families and to erase from the
city’s map so-called “blighted areas.”
The members of the authority as
announced late yesterday by the mayor
are as follows:
Edwin L. Jones, general con
tractor, named for the five-year
term and appointed chairman.
Frank Dowd, cast iron pipe
manufacturer, vice chairman,
named for three years.
Earle Gluck, radio executive,
temporary secretary, four-year
term.
L. R. McEliece. electrician and
representative of labor, two-year
term.
James A. Stokes, banker, one
year term. >
The appointees gathered in Mayor
Douglas’ office at the City Hall at 5
P. M. yesterday when they were for
mally §worn in by the mayor, after
which they signed the certificates of
appointment. Then a brief and in
formal session was held when Mayor
Douglas and Basil M. Boyd, City At
torney, discussed some of the prelim
inaries incident to completion of or
ganization.
It was announced afterwards that
the first step will be the incorporation
of the body under the state laws of
incorporation and the new chairman
said that the papers will be completed
and signed, probably tomorrow. They
will be immediately dispatched to the
Secretary of State at Raleigh.
The authority will not formally be
gin to function until the incorporation
has been completed and the papers
have been returned by the Secretary
of State. However, one of the very
first steps will be the initiation of a
real property survey to determine
just what is required.
It is expected that the authority as
one of its first acts will petition the
City Council to request the WPA real
real property survey, which was dis
cussed some weeks ago and which was
held in abeyance until decision was
reached regarding the approval of the
appointment of a housing authority.
This survey, which will be perform
ed under a WPA project through the
co-operation of the North Carolina
Planning Commission, can be done
without much expense to the local
government. It will include the col
lection of detailed data on the land
use of every block in the City and will
provide much valuable information, it
was explained, aside from the housing
problem.
When the authority begins to func
tion, it will be necessary to employ
an executive secretary, who will be in
charge of its actual work.
Under the law, the authority is em
powered to study the housing needs
and to proceed with plans for con
struction of new units to replace
dwellings that are condemned as un
fit for habitation. Wider authority in
promotion of social standards and liv
ing conditions is also provided in the
law, but it is expected that the first
consideration will be given to a pro
gram of low-renting housing. And
this carries with it the authority un
der the law to condemn property. In
new construction, the authority must
provide a family unit for each unit
condemned and removed.
$150,000 Project
Low-Cost Homes
In the Offing
Plans for a low-cost housing: proj
ect—the first of its kind in Charlotte
—contining 60 single-family dwellings
worth an estimated total of $160,000,
were revealed last week by Henry Da
vidson, of the Converse Land Co.
The tract of land upon which the
unique subdivision will be built is sit
uated in Wilmore, adjoining the Mu
nicipal Golf Course. It fronts on
Barringer Drive and contains Bethel
Road, Cartier Way, Skyland Avenue
and Osmond street.
The sale-price range of the houses
to be built in the large development
is from $2,900 to $3,500, Mr. David
son said.
OPEN SEASON FOR “LABOR” AD TAKERS
We have approached the open season for the shakedown
of business concerns big and small. There will be fake funds
for the unemployed or injured workers and other so-called
charitable causes, where the money collected will never
reach those it was collected for.
Organized labor does not authorize any person to seek
donations for the purpose above mentioned. The members of
these unions themselves frequently donate to those disabled
or who are unemployed. However, no local union seeks
funds for this purpose.
In greater Charlotte and Mecklenburg county organized
labor is served by the Charlotte Labor Journal, officially en
dorsed by Charlotte Central Labor Union and the State Fed
eration of Labor. Any other calls for advertising in a labor
publication are fakes and should be reported to the proper
authorities.
L & P. Tea Co.
Lance Pkg. Co.
Charlotte News
Will Give Party
Approximate]v 1,800 tickets will be
distributed in the course of the next
several days to deserving children of
Charlotte who will be guests at a
special Christmas show and entertain
ment at 9:30 A. M., Dec. 24, at the
Carolina Theater.
The entertainment is an annual
event which is given under the co
operating sponsorship of The Char
lotte News, the Lance Packing Co., the
A & P Food Stores and the Carolina
Theater.
Children of the Thompson Orphan
age and of the Alexander Home will
be special guests, as they have been
each of the number of Christmas sea
sons this event has been given.—
News.
ORDERS FOR LUMBER
SHOWS 42 PCT. INCREASE
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—The Na
tional Lumber Manufacturers’ asso
ciation said last night new orders in
the wek ended December 1 last were
42 per cent above those booked in the
corresponding week last year. Pro
duction was 29 per cent above and
shipments 24 per cent above the 1937
figures.
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