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\ ; ■ ; 'j ; " , ■ j:/ .. " j ; ■ ... - ; ./ . . • ■ \ . . 1- ,... t 'j . . ? f Th« ONLY REALLY INDEPENDENT WEEKLY in Mecklenburg County , For a Weekly. Its Readers Represent the LARGEST BUTfflQJTOWIWiB Che Charlotte labor Journal ijjp Truthful, Honest, Impartial ‘ Knd,,r!,ed byu^0? iiboSrUU Fe<Ur" AND DIXIE FARM NEWS . Endeavoring to Sirve the Messes • VrOL. VIII NO. 4.‘i «ow. *o...r,.„«NT .N TH« joU.-»l CHARLOTTE, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1939 — ' $2.00 PerT— Fifth Conference of Labor Factions Ends With Nothing Definitely Done; To Meet Again On March 24th NEW’ YORK, March 15.—Peace negotiators for the A.F.L. and C.I.O. adjourned thej^- fifth conference last night with the announcement that they would meet again March 24 in the Department of Labor in Wash ington. Asked whether Secretary Perkins or some: other representative of the national administration would join the spokesmen of the two labor groups in the renewal of the White House inspired negotiations, A.F.L. Vice President Harry C. Bates said, as spokesman for the two groups: “I don’t think anybody will be pres ent except the personnel of these com mittees.” Appointed upon the personal ap peal of President Roosevelt, the com mittees adjourned after two hours without any public announcement of the trend or progress of the armistice negotiations. r Bates simply said, “We don’t want to announce that, we haven’t been do^ ing anything.” He declined to elab orate. The 10-day adjournment was re-1 garded by the conferees, he said, as the “shortest possibly delay” in nego tiations. A recess in the prolonged conversa i tions had been expected to allow the A. F. of L. committeemen to report to President William Green in Wash ington. The first conference, at which the C. I. O. publicly proposed a plan to reunite labor’s regions, was held only a week ago today in the White House, with President Roosevelt presiding. The escond session was held at the la bor department and subsequent ones here. ECONOMICAL RELIGION By W. S. CAMPBELL President N. C. Fed. P. O. Clerks Everything the Labor Unions are ' doing today can all be summed up in just one phrase with two words “Economical Religion.” Ever since man has been created his utmost goal has been to improve working con ditions for himself and his posteriay. Laboring people are doing no more today than our forefathers did years ago, only they have, progressed far enough out of the Woods than our forefathers were, and have left their shotguns hebind, and can now in this new enlightened age proceed in an intelligent manner to a table where they may settle their disputes in a civilized way. A mail or woman can not profess to be a Christian and at the same time not be a member of their par ticular craft union. To be a good union man you must be your brother’s keeper. The foundation of all Labor Unions was built upon brotherly love atjd co-operation. The motto is one for all, and all for one. Men a'nd women are seeking haven today in Labor Unions for the salvation of their economical ailment!;. There is more opportunity for brotherly love in a solid constructive Labor Union meeting than you will find in any other institution for the advance ment of the poor and unfortunate peo ple. In Labor Unions you will find men and women of all nationality, creed, culture-or race. It does more in fostering the teaching of Jesus Christ than any thing I know. Every good idea for the advancement of our civilization has come from the laboring class of people. Every la boring man or woman has an equal chance and voice. Men and women are given a chance for a practical education. This economical religion has produced or developed thousands and thousands of fine orators in every part of the country. With this fine array of talent and with their abil ity can almost cure any evil that exists. If every man could realize and be come affiliated with the opportunities for betterment that lie ahead in this movement; if the reasonableness of j the program, which has been out- j liner, and which 1 understand has 1 be n outlined to you more explicit! by others that proceeded me; could | be so impressive that you would carry j the message to those close to you; 1 if the hope, for economic victories in the future cbme, first to become bet ter members of our organizations,!' more intensively concerned with the well being of our fellows; if that emotional feeling that causes a na- ' tion to go to war, and sacrifice their ; all for national honor could fill our j heart and soul because of the real ization that our program is not one of destruction but one of construc tion, it is one that will build better men and women, better homes, and better ciMzens, then we become mis sionaries for this superb plan that labor is unfolding for those that be come associated with it. Many people are through near signtedness and other reasons prone to be critically advertise to labor, and especially the men who are shoulder.ng the burden in this work. Men some times criticize men in their own shops who are working hard to better the conditions, etc. Non-merp- i bers are the ones who mostly say-*—! “Why the work and hurry? Don’t I get the same amount of time off and also money that you do?” To illustrate the work that labor leaders are doing in. the garden, 1 am re minded of a story of a man who loved his garden more than he seemed t^> love his home, ami immediately after work he found himself out among his flowers. There, until darkness MEN’S HIGH QUALITY | Spring' Hats UNION MADE $2.95 i Rational J-Jat <^hops 108 S. TRYON ST. f _ SAVE WITH A SYSTEM, AT CITIZENS SAVINGS AND LOAN CO. 114 E. 4TH ST. Friday Saturday |. i Cartoon “Petunia National Park" CENTRAL LABOR UNION HAS BUSY MEET.—CARNIVAL SET FOR APRIL 3; OPEN MEET. LABEL LEAGUE APRIL 19 A well attended meeting Wednes day night, with much business on hand to be transacted. Two new dele gates were seated and a local of about 150 members that had not been heretofore affiliated with Central Body was taken in. Crafts reported working conditions good and various committees noted progress along their respective endeavors. An ex haustive report was made by a num ber of the delegation that attended the conference and committee meet-1 jng in Raleigh last week on the wage and hour law now before the legisla ture. * A representative of the Ideal Expo-1 sition shows was on hand and told of plans for the appearance of this out- I fit here the first Monday in April un der the auspices of Charlotte Cen tral Labor Union. Miss Bernette Threatt reported for the Women’s Union Label League, which is adding new members right along, Announcement was made that an open meeting with entertain ment features would be held at C. L. U. hall on Wednesday night, April 19, this affair taking the place of the regular'meeting of Central body on that date. Labor’s mfember on the housing commission reported that Charlotte was sure of two million dollars for that project, but was hoping for eight million. The Brewery Workers reported that they were giving a “blow out” Fri day night of this week at the old Oak Grove Barbecue stand, known now as Roger’s Barbecue, on the Concord road, four miles out. Regret was expressed by the mem bership of the body on the accident which occurred to Brother Albea who was unfortunate in breaking his leg by a fall. Albea is vice-president of Central body. Albea Suffers From Broken Leg In A Fall Councilman Claude L. Albea is con fined in St. Peter’s hospital as a re sult of a fall, caused from stepping on a rock while with friends at a fish fry in the county last Thursday night. He fell with the weigth of his body on his left leg, which had previously been injured when it was caught in a printing press. Mr. Albea was wounded during the 'World War and his left arm and shoulder were torn by a piece of shrapnel shell. He is the oldest in point of service on the City Council, just now completing four two-year terms on the City’s governing body. He is also associate editor of The Labor Journal, and has been for the past eight years. Mr. Albea was transferred to the Veterans’ Hospital in Columbia, S. C., Wednesday afternoon, where it is said he will probably have to remain for several months. —. Dorton Plans Big Amusement Center For “Friendly City” Spectacular plans for magnificent vistas and esplanades, a half-mile race track around a lagoon in which sleek girls will perform aquatic tricks under rainbow-colored lights, and vast exhibition halls in which blooded cattle, Worses and swine, the biggest pumpkin, the fattest corn, the reddest apples and the fanciest patch work quilts will be shown, were re vealed here yesterday by Dr. J. S. Dorton, of Shelby, president and gen eral manager of the new exposition on the Concord road. All of this will take place on the 100-acre estate of the late Dr. James P. Matheson a few miles from Char lotte, fronting the new four-lane Con cord highway. According to the plans about to be set in motion, a glittering combination of county fair and Billy Rose revue will shortly begin to ap pear to amuse Mecklenburg and the million souls who are potential cus tomers in this territory. Dr. Dorton, who became famed as a promoter by lifting the Cleveland County fair out of the calico class into the biggest exposition in the state and then added his talents to the manage ment of the State fair at Raleigh, said that the exposition had been incor porated with an authorized capital of $200,000 and that $50,000 of this had been subscribed. Yesterday, he bought a building here on Second street, a steel fabri cated structure near the P. and N. railroad, 75 by 275 feet in size, and set about to move it to the fairgrounds for use as one of the exhibition halls. It was a $40,000 building, he said.— News, Sunday. NOT ENOUGH There was once a man not unique, Who imagined himself quite a shique, But the girls didn’t fall For the fellow at all, For he made only twenty a wique. WMMMMWMWWMIMWMMIMIMWW robbed him of an opportunity of cul tivating and developing his garden, he was nursing and husbanding the horticultural and agricultural de velopments that graced the rear of his yard. It wast a magnificent gar den, one that stopped the average man whenever he came past there. And on this particular occasion the preacher was going by, and he saw this beautiful garden, and the man working in it, and he walked up to him and said, “Neighbor, that is a beautiful garden that you and God have made.” And the neighbor think ing only of his hard work, and re calling the looks of the place when he first moved there, said to the preacher, “You should have seen this garden when God had it all to him self.” (You should have seen some of the conditions over the country before the Labor Organizers got into it.) We all should be conscious of our fallibility to always be tolerant of all opinions. Women’s Union Label League Meets Friday The Women’s Union Label League will meet Friday night, March 17, with Mrs. J. A. Moore, 1424 W. Sev enth street, and a full attendance is requested. This League has been tak ing in new members at every meeting lately, and renewed interest is being shown by the old members. 2,000 Ala. Miners Enroll As Members Am. Fed. of Labor BIRMINGHAM, Ala., March 13.— More than two thousand miners in the Birmingham district became en rolled members in the American Fed eration of Labor last week, when A. Fi of L. charters were installed at Muscado, Wenonah and Iskkooda, es tablishing three new locals under the A. F. of L. banner among the miners. S. E. Roper, A. F. of L. representa tive for Alabama and president of the Alabama State Federation of La bor, W. 0. Hare, secretary-treasurer of the Alabama State Federation of Labor, and other officials assisted the miners in obtaining their char ters and setting up their respective local unions. . Organization of these A. F. of L. local unions among the Red Ore miners is recognized as being one of the most outstanding victories for the American Federation of Labor in recent years. Cornelius Maiden, colored organizer for the A. F. of L. rendered great assistance with his work among his people in the formation of the miners’ A. F. of L. Unions. Local Political Pot Is Bringing Out Candidates Five candidates formally an nounced for the City Council Sunday. New entrants into the council race brought to eight the list of candi dates, all of whom are making their initial bid for public honor in the service of the municipal government. Those who made public an an nouncement included: Jerry B. Wood, aged 32, grocer, 1619 E. Seventh street, Ward six. C. P. Pressly, aged 30, drug sun dries proprietor, 801 E. Kinston ave nue, Ward eight. S. R. (Sandy) Jordan, aged 30, orchestra leader and insurance man, 2130 Crescent avenue, Ward seven. Clyde E. Harris, aged 33, business man, 208 Woodlawn avenue, Ward three. Herman W. Noles, business man, 621 N. Davidson street, Ward one. Previously three had announced their candidacy for the council. These are Graham Wagner, Ward five; Captain George E. Golding, Ward six, and Hill Scoggin, Ward two.— News. Nebel Case Goes To N. L. R. Board The National Labor Relations board has carried the cast against the Ne bel Knitting Company, Inc., to the United States circuit court of appeals for the Fourth Circuit. In a NLRB case heard here by an examiner about a year ago, the Nebel company was charged with violation of tne Wagner act, it being charged that they had discharged six men for union activities. At the time, the Nebel company de nied the charge, but the examiner held against them. The company was ordered to reinstate the men, and pay , them for time lost during their unem I ployment. I It is stated that approximately |20,000 is now owed to the men for around two years of unemployment. The case is expected to come up be fore the circuit court at its April term in Richmond. Another Court Decision Against TWOC Is Handed Dawn By Ala. Circuit Court U. T. W. Recapture Confiscated Funds ANNISTON, Ala., March 10.— Under a sweeping jury verdict of the Alabama Circuit Court, sitting in An niston, the last shred ojf legal exis tence, local and national, of the Tex tile Workers Organizing Committee of the C. I. 0. was destroyed. Under this verdict, local No. 204, of the T. W. O. C. was declared to have acted illegally in confiscafting the funds of the United Textile Workers Local in this city. They were ordered to turn over to the bonafide textile workers Local No. 997B, the accu mulated amount of over $1600. This decision enables every local of the United Textile Workers to re capture the funds confiscated by the T. W. O. C. It is an extension of the recent drastic “Rhode Island Decis ion” under which the action of the T. W. Ov C. in seizing the funds and property of the United Textile Work ers abrogating its charter and depos ing its officers, was declared illegal —- 1 as long as nine or more local*, origi nally operating under the charter Is sued by the American Federation of Labor, refused to consent to this loot ing. , The Anniston decision extends the Rhode Island decision to a logical ap plication to local.charters and organi zations. It establishes that, so long as seven members of any local, the number necessary to secure a charter under the U. T. W. constitution, de sire to continue that local organiza tion, all diversion of its funds, prop erty and operations; including elec tion of officers, signing of agree ments, etc., is without legal stand ing. Financial responsibility for the restoration of funds and properties, including custody and administration of collective bargaining agreements, is placed upon ail responsible agents of the T. W. 0. C. from self-con stituted local officers, up to and in cluding the national T. W. 0. C. I QUESTION I BY WM. S. GREENE ■ _| paper of Columbia, S. C. has some thing that might be interesting. “North Carolina groping for easier way to kill. Search that began in 1910, and That Has Gone from Hang ing to Electricity to Gas, Goes on in Quiet Desperation.” It is or it is not a fact that Capital Punishment does not cut down the number of Capital Crimes? SURPRISING? Everyone who reads this paper is interested in the proposed state wage and hour legis lation. There is very little advantage an A. F. of L. card holder will get, as the bill is not designed to aid any one but the lowest paid worker in any industry. But have you noticed the tremendous array of business in North Carolina who are objecting to any legislation of thL type? Evidently there is something to the Economic report of the South we hear so much fuss about. Who is surprised in the CCLU? Not a delegate. DEMOCRACY? Isn’t it wrong to fix a time limit on our state legis lature for payment, but not for term? The representative that is only an average citizen cannot stay much longer than the days he is paid for, because it is too much of a drain on his own finances. Then it means that those who are in a better fix to stay, really can do things they could not possibly do, if the poorer legislator were in Raleigh. There also is the possibility that important bills would be passed by called votes, thus not fixing responsibility on in dividuals. If the pay is limited, so should the term be limited to cover same. SPRING? Last time I wrote about the yellow jonquils and the purple crocuses and the coming of Spring, it snowed for the first time in two years. Well, my back yard is full of yellow, purple and white. My plum tree is in full. pure white bloom; my peach tree is about to break into purple blossoms, and the cherry is still bare. But the shrubbery is all yellow and white. And the fish in the pond are swimming around as if Spring had finally come. Hail to Spring; I hear the birds as they sing. Hark, hark, I hear them sing. And the onion grass planted out on the Plaza needs attention. FOREIGN? Readers of t)da brain storm will remember the writer was one person of a milling multitude of objecting writers who stuck up for old man Chamberlain on die basis that he knew what he was doing a great deal better than many of the writers. The Old Man with the Um brella is still driving the British peo ple. Statistics yesterday, released by the U. S. showed England being given millions more permission to export warplanes by our Government. And France had some few millions of dol lars on the same ticket. I remember an argument I had with a Wrtiii commentator about Chamberlain. My attitude was that the British Gov ernment had lasted for quite soma time, and that they wanted fe> stay in, business. Somehow or ot\£*\the Eng lish speaking peoples have been able to muddle through. My only observa tion at present is that Italy had bet ter watch her step, as she has a few things that would help to pay for a war. Germany drasn’t. And the mer chant English know how to balance. The American debt is the only one they have ever defaulted on. With a little pushing, at the proper time, they will begin paying that. DOMESTIC? Secretary Hull of our own cabinet is the best contribu tor to the cause pf more employment for labor than anyone we have had m some time. j By his agreements with other nations, he ia trying to get our exports on a sound basis. He finds opposition from many coun tries, just like good business gets plenty of opposition from the chisel ing few. We have been up against some tough competition in world cot ton and wheats markets, where gov ernments dump huge surpluses under the regular markets, in order to raise money for armaments. There is one advantage the fair country has. And that is, their outlook for a happy I people is a better one, than that na tion who is equipping itself for an aggressive war, with the consequent killed and injured and starved to be reckoned with. IMPROVINCr? One of the great barometers of business conditions is automobile sales. Evidently we are in for a young boom in business, as the sales for January and February of this year are a great deal higher, than those of last year. DIDN’T LIKE ’EM Landlady: “Do you like that crazy quilt?” Boarder: “No, nor the mattress, either.” WRONG NAME “Does this package belong to you? The name is obliterated.” “No, that isn’t my package. My name is O’Brien.” I . • ’. ‘ 2 fandlsL - t OnaUwidu FUNERAL HOME Ambulance Service ' 900 South Tryon / CHARLOTTE, N. C. Phone 6129
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