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W. M. WITTER-—.Editor und Publisher
CLAUDE L. ALBEA.AssoeUte Editor
CHARLOTTE, N. C„ THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1939
Pres. Wm. Greene Urges Legislation
To End “Oppressive Labor Practices;”
Protect the Foundations of Democracy
WASHINGTON, June 6.—Urging
enactment of legislation to end “op
pressive labor practices” by employ
ers, President William Green, of the
American Federation of Labor, said
Monday such a law was necessary to
“protect the very foundations of dem
ocracy.” v
Testifying before a Senate labor
sub-committee, Green asserted that
labor had suffered for half a century
from “almost unbelievable” oppressive
practices.
The pending bill, sponsored by
Chairman La Follette, Propesisve,
Wisconsin, of the Senate Civil Liber- J
ties Committee, would outlaw the use
of labor spies, strike breaking agen- ]
cies and such munitions as subma
chine guns and sawed-off shotguns in
labor disputes.
Green said the measure was “a nec
essary complement to other labor leg
islation which has been enacted in the
last few years.”
The AFL official called attention
to recent labor disputes at the Rem
ington Rand plant in Syracuse, N. Y.,
and in the Blask and Decker Electric
Co. plant in Kent, Ohio.
“The story of the Remington Rand
industrial struggle is one of the dark
est chapters in the history of Ameri
can labor relations,” he said, adding
that “carefully planned scenes of dis
order and violence were staged—to be
described to the public as riots—to
manufacture public opinion hostile ta
the strikers.”
At Kent, the witness said, the com
pany “bought and paid for the serv
ices of a strike breaking agency and
give it free rein to do whatever it
pleased in order to break a strike.”
Green said that the use of armed
guards and spies in labor disputes,
have tended to discredit unions and
have given rise to enactment of anti
labor legislation in several states.
“The legislation recently passed in
Oregon, Wisconsin and some parts of
California are examples,” the witness
testified, adding:
“In these states 30 years of prog
ress has been undone in a single leg
islative term.”
Editing a Paper Is Not Easy
Some appear think that running a
paper is easy, but from experience we
can say that it is no picnic, because
readers are hard to please.
If we print jokes, people say we
are silly.
If we don’t they say we are too
serious.
If we clip things from other papers,
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selves.
If we don’t we are stuck on our own
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If we stick close to the job all day,
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If we do get out and try to hustle,
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fice.
If we don’t print contributions, we
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if we print them, the paper is filled
with junk.
If we make a change in the other
fellow’s copy, we are too critical.
If we don't, we are asleep.
Now, like as not, some of the boys
will say we swiped this from some
other paper—And IVe Did.
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clude such small fish as the pilchard,
the bristling or sprat, and the herring.
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HE IS GONE
By THERESA YVONNE BARRIE
In Wilminctoa (IM.) Herald
He is gone, and I’m alone;
But I still can feel his lips
So sweetly pressed against
my own.
He is gone, but the touch
Of his kind hand
Yet lingers on in memory.
His smile so dear
Haunts me still;
My heart leaps up
Just like a rill.
His voice deep and clear,
With gentle words
I now can hear
Through all the years
His boyish pranks
Are familiar to me.
I was his swetheart,
Don’t you see?
But never again
Shall I touch his lips
Or hold his hand
Or hear his voice
For God is keeping
Him safe for me
In a castle by a sea.
Sickness Starts YbufB"
as Butterfly Collector
RAVENNA, OHIO.—William W.
Thrasher, 20 years old, has one of
the finest butterfly collections in
northern Ohio, because he suffered
infantile paralysis 10 years ago.
For a long time, he could not walk.
Then friends suggested that butter
fly-chasing would give him sufficient
exercise to relieve his legs’ crippled
condition. «
“For the first five years,’’ he says,
“I roamed the fields near toy home,
catching butterflies. I ir'V'rted only
moths and butterflies die im
mediate vicinity.’’
Thrasher has nearly 5cj varieties
of butterflies and moths.
Twin Generals Retire
PARIS.—Generals Theodore and
Felix Bret, 60, the only twin gen
erals in the French army, retired
today. They spent their careers to
gether except during the Wr H war
German Silver
German silver is an alloy com
posed of copper, zinc and nickel, in
proportions varying according to the
purpose of its use. When intended
to replace silver it contains copper,
50 parts, zinc, 25 parts, and nickel
25 parts. This alloy is harder than
silver and capable of taking a high
polish. It is used as a substitute
for silver in making bells, candle
sticks and various utensils, and
more especially as ft foundation
metal in the manufacture of silver
plated ware.
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INDEPENDENT U.A.W. WORKERS
COME BACK INTO FOLD OF
AMERICAN FED. OF LABOR
DETROIT, June 5.—Headquarters
of Homer Martin’s independent United
Automobile Workers union has an
nounced that its union membership
had voted “overwhelmingly” to reaf
filiate with the American Federation
of Labor.
The office said tabulation of a re
cently-completed membership poll
showed 70,354 votes cast, 66,768 in fa
vor of reaffiliation with the A. F. ol
L. and 3,370 opposed. Blank ballots
totaled 178, and 38 were voided.
Martin, president of the independ
ent U. A. W., immediately wired Wil
liam Green, head of the A. F. of L.,
requesting a conference in Washing
ton Tuesday “for the purpose of con
firming our reaffiliation and receiv
ing our chapter for affiliation.”
The U. A. W. withdrew from the
A. F. of L. and jaoined the Congress
of Industrial Organization after a
U. A. W. convention in South Bend,
Ind., in 1936. Last year Martin split
with his executive board and set ug
his faction as an independent union
at a convention here last March. His
opponents remained with the C.I.O
Both Martin’s independent U. A,
W. and the C. I. O.-U. A. W. are cur
rently engaged in a court fight foi
designation as the “official” United
Automobile Workers union.
Martin’s membership voted for re
affiliation with the understanding
that their union would be given full
autonomous authority in the adminis
tration of it sown affairs.
Other provisions on the balolt spe
cified that the U. A. W. would reaf
filate with power to expand under an
industrial form of unionization and
that all local unions now chartered by
the independent U. A. W. would re
main with the parent body.
A fourth specification on reaffil
iation read “the jurisdiction of the
(Martin) union shall extend to all
branches of the industry engaged in
; the manufacture of automobiles, mo
tor trucks, aircraft, tractors, and
farm implements, including the man
ufacture of parts, tools ana dies, etc.,
and the assembly of such parts into
completed products, and shal lembrace
all employes engaged in such manu
facture and also in office work, sales,
distribution, and maintenance of such
industries and the affiliation of allied
industries to which charters may be
granted by the (Martin union) execu
tive board."
Martin conferred with Green before
the referendum was initiated and
announced that Green has agreed to
accept the union into the A. F. of L.
upder terms laid down by Martin. The
terms included the four provisions in
cluded on the ballot of reaffilaition,
Martin said.
Saw UsetT as Hobby
Results in Distinction
WALLINGFORD, VT. — Birney
Batcheller’s hobby of making things
with a jig saw has gained him dis
tinction.
Beginning at the age of 12, now,
at 73, he carves beautiful furniture,
holds the degree of doctor of science
from Middlebury college, has SO pat
ents on pneumatic tube systems, and
has been given medals by France
and the Franklin Institute of Phila
delphia for the development of these
systems.
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State of North Carolina.
County of Mecklenburg.
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
George Emmett Waleh. Plaintiff,
trs.
Bessie Ford Walsh. Defendant.
The defendant, aboee named, will take no
tice that an action entitled aboee has been
commenced in the Superior Court of Mecklen
burg County for n nabeolute divorce. And.
the*defendant will further take notice that'
he is requited to appear before the Clerk of
Superior Court on the **th day of July. iW», I
in the aforesaid County and State, and aaawer 1
or demur to the complaint in said action or
the plaintiff Will apply to the Court for the
relief demanded in said complaint.
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Clerk of tee Superior Court.1
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County at Meeklenbur*.
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
Ellis A. Lee. Plaintiff.
vs.
Annie Wallace Lea. Defendant.
The defendant, Annie Wallace lea will take
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House Refuses To Reconsider Wage
Hour Amendment Under Procedure
Calling For A Strict Limitation
WASHINGTON, June 6.—Upset
ting administration plans, the House
refused Monday even to consider a
series of Wage-Hour amendments un
der procedure which called for a strict
limitation of debate.
The action came on a teller vote of
110 to 167 against a routine parlia
mentary move which would have led
to. 40 minutes of debate and then a
direct vote on the revisions them
selves.
The amendments were deisgned,
among otherthings ,to redefine farm
exemptions under the law, and it was
on this point that most objections were
heard.
Five farm organisations had ex
pressed dissatisfaction with the pro
posed changes, contending they would
rather have the law as now written.
A month ago the House labor com
mittee approved a set of changes, then
Chairman Norton, Democrat, of New
Jersey, withdrew the entire bill be
cause of farm opposition. Only last
Thursday the committee rewrote them
again and had expected little opposi
tion this time.
The farm organisations, however,
renewed their objections.
Vexed by the House’s action, Mrs.
Norton said that so far as she was
concerned there would be no further
attempt to bring upon the amend
ments.
And she criticised, too, the farm
organisations—the American Farm
Bureau Federation, the National
Grange, the National Co-operative
Milk Producers’ Federation, the Na
tional Co-operative council, and the
Agricultuarl Producers Labor com
mittee.
“The farmers are the dupes of
these organisations,’ ’she told news
papermen. “And I can’t say it in too
strong language. They don’t know
what these people are trying to do to
them.”
Mrs. Norton had sought consider
ation of the committee bill under a
Srocedure which would force the
Ioub eto accept or reject it as it stood,
without making any changes.
She said that if tne wage-hour law
were thrown open to general amend
ment “a certain group” of House
members would “do everything they
can to emasculate the act.”
Representative Cox, Democrat, of
Georgia, and Andresen, Republican,
of Minesota, led the opposition to the
procedure. Afterward, Cox said the
House’s action did not mean that ef
forts to improve the statute were over.
“It does mean, however, that mem
bers of the House have reclaimed the
right to legislate for themselves and
Interstate Commerce Commit
tee Reports On the Wool
Bill
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WASHINGTON, D. C.—The Senate
Interstate Commerce Committee re
port favorably reporting out the
Schwartz-Martin Wood Labeling Bill,
says “The Department of Agriculture
now report stnat (1) the presence of
reclaimed wool fiber of any grade in
a wood product can be determined
scientifically, and (2) the relative
contents of virgin wool and reclaim
ed wool fiber in a fabric containing
only these two kinds of fibers can, ac
cording to recent investigations, be
determined within 10 per cent of the
actual content of these fibers. While
the bill relies on access to manufac
turers’ records for enforcement, avail
ability of a scientific test for finish
ed products will be helpful in locat
ing violations, especially in connec
tion with imports.’’
upon their own responsibility,” he said
in a statement.
“It is to be hoped that in time the
committee on labor will realise that it
is the servant and not the master of
the House.”
He predicted that the rules com
mittee, of which he is a member,
would aprove legislative procedure
which would permit any member to
offer apd discus any amendment to
the laVv.
The farm amendments recently re
written by the labor committee, would
have exempted the preparation, but
not processing, of fresh fruits and
vegetables in the “general recognized
production section” from both the
wage and hour standards of the stat
ute. They also would have exempted
small canners of the. same commodi
ties.
Other changes would have permit
ted employment without overtime pay
up to bU hours a week for 14 weeks in
a year in 16 specified agricultural op
erations and would have exempted
cotton ginning.
Other amendments would have ex
empted from the law white collar
workers whose monthly salary is more
than $200, and workers in small tel
ephone exchanges. Another would
have permitted interstate industries
m the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico
to pay les sthan the legal minimum
wage in certain instances.
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