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Sen. Reynolds Urges
Immigration Doors Be
Closed for Assimilation
WASHINGTON, June 19.—A sug
gestion by Senator Reynolds, Demo
crat of North Carolina, that all immi
gration be stopped “until we solve
our own pressing domestic problems”
drew an appeal from Senator Thomas,
Democrat of Utah, tonight that Con
gress move cautiously in making
changes in the alien laws.
The two men spoke on the American
Forum of the Air.
"The time has come when the tra
dition that the United States is an
asylum for the oppressed of the world
must be changed,” Reynolds said.
“Our house is full. We must now
give first thought to our own citizens.”
The North Carolinian advocated
registration of all aliens who have
not declared their intention to be
come citizens and deportation of all
criminal and undesirable aliens.
Thomas contended that registration
would “open the door to abuse of civil
lights, rights no less real to human
beings, no less human because they
are only the jurisdiction of, and not
part and parcel of our government
structure.”
He termed compulsory naturaliza
tion “ridiculous,” adding “we do not
want any shotgun citizens.” Duress,
he said, “invalidates any proceedings.”
SOUTHERN LABOR NOTES
GOVERNOR CONE VETOES
SCHOOL TEACHERS BILL
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., June 19.—
Governor Fred P. Cone played poli
tics during the last week with the
, school teachers in Duval County, when
he joined hands with the four mem
bers of the School Board, who actively
and strongly opposed the passage of
the Teachers” Tenure Law, which was
approved by the Florida Legislature.
INCREASED PAY AND
SHORTER HOURS FOR WHIT
NEY CO. DRIVERS
NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 19—
Taxi and Truck Drivers’ Local Union
No. 327 report that the Whitney
Transfer Company is now 100 per
cent cent Union in Tennessee and
wherever its trucks operate in St.
Louis, Cincinnati and throughout
Kentucky. On Thursday, June 8th,
F. L. Mediin, President and Business
Representative, and G. H. Anderson,
Vice-President and Chairman of the
Organizing Committee of Taxi and
Truck Drivers’ Local Union No. 327«
went into conference with officials of
the Whitney Transfer Company at
Bowling Green, Ky., and secured a
satisfactory agreement at 6:30 p.m.
Th’s agriaaer.*. p*"o; ides all drivers
for the company with raises gradu
ated from five to nine dollars per
week, while working hours are re
duced from approximately twelve
hours ttfc- nine hours per week. All
time in excess of nine hours per day
to be paid for at the rate of time and
one half.
REACH HIGHEST PEAK IN
PAY FOR BAKERY WORKERS
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., June 19.
—A renewal agreement between the
Bakery Association of Chattanooga
and the Bakery and Confectionery
Workers Union has ben signed here
for a three-year period. The contract
calls for a 10. per cent increase in
wages and reduction of two hours
time each week for the first year; a
10 per cent increase in pay and an
other reduction in the work-week of
two hours for the second year, and
~S wage increases and hours are to be
negotiated for the third year of the
contract. This agreement brings to
the workers the highest wage ever
paid bakery employees in the South.
Curtis Sims, International representa
tive of the Bakery and Confectionery
Workers Union, is being congratu
lated upon this splendid achievement.
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KNOXVILLE BUILDING TRADES
OBTAIN CLOSED SHOP JOBS
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., June 19.—
Knoxville is receiving congraulations
from all Sections of the country be
cause of the agreement obtained by
the Knoxville Building Trades Council
with two contractors who have the
contracts for the Housing authority.
It is the first general Building Trades
closed shop agreement ever obtained
locally. The B. T. Council was or
ganized early in the years, and since
its perfection all building trades
unions have been experiencing rapid
growth in membership,
COLORED RAILROAD WORKERS
ORGANIZE LOCAL UNION
SPARTANBURG, S. C., June 19.—
Charter was applied for last week by
a newly organized local union of col
ored store house employes of the
Southern Railway company at the
Hanye shops. T. D. Grimes, of the
A. F. of L. organizing staff assigned
to this work, organized the local
union and will install the charter upon
its receipt. Mr. Grimes also handled
a grievance in Atlanta last week for
the colored mail and baggage local
union, and succeeded in having meri'
re-instated to their jobs who had
been discharged.
EMPLOYMENT SERVICE
PLACED 125 LAST WEEK
Total placements for the State Em
ployment Service for the week end
ing June 17 were 125, according to
District Manager Phillip R. Bunn.
These included 106 private placements
and 19 placements on public projects,
all local, he said.
Of total placements, 41 were among
white persons and 84 among negroes.
This compared with a total placement
of 80 for the corresponding week last
year.—O bserver.
Postal Meet
Plans Are
Announced
GREENSBORO, June 21.—Plans
for a joint session of postoffice clerks,
carriers, supervisors and auxiliaries
which will be held in Raleigh July 3-4
were announced here yesterday by
Oscar Lam Whitsett of Greensboro,
national state representative of the
National Federation of Post Office
Clerks.
The meeting will bring together
the State branch of Ladies auxiliary
of National Association of Letter Car
riers in fifth annual meeting; sixth
annual bi-state convention of Caro
linas branch of National* Association
of Postal Supervisors; third annual
bi-state meeting of Carolinas branch
of National Auxiliary of Postal Super
visors; 19th annual convention of
State branch of National Federation
of Post Office Clerks; and the sixth
annual meeting of the woman’s aux
iliary of the State branch of the Nat
ional Federation of Post Office Clerks.
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The Roman poet had a word for it
when he expressed fear of the Greeks
—bearing gifts. Modern mothers
have a word for it when they warn
their young daughters against accept
ing automobile rides from strangers.
Experience has given all of us a word
for it in the common proverb—always
look a gift horse in the mouth.
Well, organized labor now has a
word for it—a phrase borrowed from
the 1938 election campaign. It is
simply this—BEWARE THE KISS
OF DEATH OF THE C. I. 0.
The phrase came into being during
the election campaign when Members’
of Congress discovered that endorse
ment by the C. I. O. was virtually a
kiss of death whereas if the C. I. 0.
blacklisted them they were certain of
re-election. Every unit in the family
of, the American Federation of Labor
should take heed and profit by the ex
perience of the Congressmen.
For today the C. I. O. leaders, hav
ing failed in their frontal attack on
the American Federation of Labor,'
have adopted a new strategy. They
come to us bearing gifts. They hold
out what looks like an olive branch.
They talk peace and unity and co
operation. They offer to help some of
our unions in time of strike. They
put on friendly smiles, use honeyed
and beguiling words.
What Are They After?
Just stop and think. Is it possible
the C. I. O. is out to promote the in
terests of the A. F. of L.? Or are
they trying to save themselves? Is
the C. 1. U. flirting with our unions
in a sincere effort to help them, or to
destroy them? Are they offering us
a kiss of love or the kiss of death?
The answer is obvious. Their
strategy is so crude that one doesn’t
have to have more sense than little
Red Riding Hood to see the wolf’s
teeth protruding from the face under
grandmother’s nightcap. The wolf’s
growl will be subdued to a gentle purr
in sections of the country where the
name of the C. 1. O. is anathema to
the public. They will come to our
unions and say: “Let’s work together
on this or that.” Naturally. Because
they know they can’t get anywhere on
their own and they are anxious to gain
shelter from public wrpth behind the
established reputation'Of the A. F. of
I*.
Or they will go to one of our locals
which hasn’t been troubled much by
C. I. 0. competition and hasn’t suffer
ed from Labor Board headaches and
say: "Look here, we can do a little
business together. You’re in a strike
jam. We can help you out. All we
ask is a little co-operation. You’ve
got no beefs against the Labor Board.
Why not pass a resolution opposing 1
any amendments to the Wagner Act?
It’s no skin off your nose. You should
worry about the leaders in Washing-1
ton. They can’t hurt you.” And the]
A
and the Communist press are publish
ing scareheads all over the lot trying
to make the public and Congress be
lieve the A. F. of L. rank and file is
not loyal to its leaders and is not
supporting the A. F. of L. amend
ments to the Wagner Act.
The Longer View
We do not mean to lecture. But
every local and national union within
the A. F. of L. should always weigh
in the balances any possible tempor
ary advantage to be gained from trad
ing with the C. I. O. as against the
disastrous effects of such conduct on
the future of th particular organiza
tion and the entire labor movement.
For; it should be apparent to work
ing men and women everywhere by
this time that the way of the C. I. O.
leads to eventual destruction of or
ganized labor. As long as democracy
and justice prevail in this country,
just so long will the C. I. O. be doom
ed to failure. For those letters spell
abolition of democracy and volun
tarism in organized labor, the princi
ples upon which the whole move
ment is founded and upon which
American freedom rests. Those let
ters stand for dictatorship and au
tocracy, principles which thrive in
totalitarian states but which will al
ways be hateful to the liberty-loving
American worker.
So we say—no matter how tempt
ing the blandishments of the C. I. O.
may sound, no matter how alluring
their promises may seem, beware the
kiss of death.
The Trend Continues
Welcome to the automobile workers,
back home again in the A. F. of L.
after a disastrous trip in the rocky,
leaking; fc. I. O. canoe. President Green
handed President Martin a copy of the
original! charter and all past differ
ence were forgoten and forgiven.
That’s the way to make peace. By
way of dispelling the fog, President
Martin remarked that the auto work
ers never had a serious jurisdictional
dispute while they were in the A. F.
of L. and only encountered such
troubles in the C. I. O.
Odds and Ends
The facade of the A. F. of L. build
ing was all dressed up in American
iknd British flags last week during
the visit of the British King and
Queen in Washington. President
Green met the royal couple at a
White House tea and they showed
great interest in unemployment con
ditions and the progress of organized
labor in this country . . . James W.
Lacey, who has operated One of the
next thing you know, the C. I. 0. press
elevators in the A. F. of L. building
since it was built, received a pleasant
surprise 'the other day in the form of
a giant birthday card signed by every
one in fhe building from President
Green to the office boy .. ..Delegates
to the 30th annual Special! Libraries
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Helen Lewis
Strange Aipiration
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* By TOM FIZDALE
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Canadian guffaws! With Fibber McGee’s
shows slated to start ion twenty-seven Canadian
stations on April 4, the comedian’s laughter
applause takes on international proportions.
Incidentally, the McGee hilarities are signed
fbr another year on seventy-two NBC-Red net
’s' work stations in the U. S. A. So for at least
another twelve months, hysteria is just around
the corner for Tuesday night dial visitors to
Wistful Vista.
Add childhood ambitions! Comely Helen
■ n • .
lpiiis, recent aauuiun to tor uig u«*i
aspired to only one career when she was a kid—
she wanted to be an engineer.
Hope’s hopes! If Bob Hope can wangle
a leave of absence from his radio and movie
commitments, he’ll soon take a brief Euro
pean jaunt with the missus.
Good will continues! John J. Anthony’s
signature on another year’s contract to con
duct his Original Good Will Hour over the
Mutual net from ceast-to-coast assures listen
ers tops In serious fare throughout the coming
year.
Sidewalk chatterl Parkyakarkus, >'he dialect
garbler par excellence, was talking to a friend
about a certain actor who it notorious for being
opinionated and stubborn. "Well, al least, ha has
concrete opinions," said Parity's friend. “But dafi■
Parkyakarkns
All In Pun
Unique Diet
nitty, reputa me comic, -ineyre tnorougmy
mixed and permanently set,"
Double prospect! If Freddie Bartholo
mew’s flicker bosses ever need a double for
the juvenile' star, Kingsley Colton of Her
Honor, Nancy James, is a likely candidate.
He’s a dead ringer far the young Britisher.
Reverse English! Margaret Sangster, who
scripts Arnold Grimm’s Daughter, is eating
aD the butter and cream she can hold—to lose
weight! Unique diet is doctor’s prescription.
It works, too—she’s pounds lighter. f
Our tip let week that Amos V And/s spon
sor would move them over to CBS with their
Orton Welles show has been confirmed. Move is
set for April S. By way of swap, NBC will get the
Bob Benchley show.
Tito Guizar, foe young singer, who is the Tyrone Power of Mexico,
has won such a following for himself in his radio and picture work that
he is being groomed for a star role in the talkies.
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Hollywood scene: On the set of “East Side of Heaven,” between
tekes, Jean BlandeH dreaasHy listening to Blag Crosby recordings and
King, In anolkav aaanar of Mm set, listening to Dick Powell records*
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Hershy WorK’rs In Fold
A. F. L.; 44-Hour Week,
2-Wk. Vac’ti’n and Pay
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We are most gratified to announce
receipt of a very encouraging and rec
ord making report from local 464 of
Hershey, Pa., to the effect that after
two months of negotiations with man
agement, the representatives of the
local Union have signed a union agree
ment .with the Hershey Chocolate Cor
poration, states A. A. Mysup, Int. Sec.
treasurer Bakery and Confectionery
Workers.
The agreement provides that Local
464 is the sole, exclusive collective bar
gaining agency for the employes.
The minimum wage rates of 60
cents per hour for males and 46 cents
per hour for females (claimed to be
one of the highest in the country for
the industry), is secured.
A permanent conference committee,
composed of representatives from the
union and management, is provided to
deal with future wage scale adjust
ments, as well as grievances.
Failure on the part of Conference
Committee to reach a satisfactory ad
justment, agreement provides for the
International Union Wng called in.
and upon later’s failure question in
dispute goes to arbitration.
The forty-four hour work week is
established, including two weeks’ an
nual vacation with pay, and time and
one-half for overtime and holidays.
In the conferences the company was
represented by its own negotiating
committee; participated in also by the
International field representative of
that territory, under supervision of
the writer, latter occasionally partici
pating in conferences and giving
counsel and advice.
Thus is brought to a conclusion for
future progress an important page
m the history of our International
Union.
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More Detailed Account_
Settlement of) Wilmington _
Track Drivers’ Strike
WILMINGTON, N. C., June 13.—A
closed shop agreement was signed here
late tonight ) Tuesday) between R. L.
Brinson, head of the Southern Oil
Transportation company and the At
lantic States Motor Lines, and the
International Brotherhood of Team
sters and Chauffeurs, covering all
drivers and warehousemen employed
by the two companies. Signing of the
agreement ended a strike begun on
the 30th day of October, last year, by
52 truck drivers employed by the
Southern Oil Transportation company.
These strikers are members of Local
Union No. 391, Wilmington.
Signing of the agreement also
brought to an abrupt end a Labor
Board hearing which started here
Monday morning, and recessed at 1
o’clock upon request of both parties,
and negotiations for a peaceable set
tlement were immediately begun.
The agreement calls for a closed
shop, with re-instatement of all
strikers and protection of their sen
iority rights, and provides that wage
scales shall be adopted through arbi
tration within 90 days.
The happy ending of the long
drawn-out controversy is most pleas
ing to all concerned. The 52 truck
drivers involved have stood firmly
throughout the more than seven
months, and have gained the admira
tion of the public here by their splen
did deportment. The wives of the
. Vu/*, driv?n' have been
most helpful throughout the trying
period.
Some time ago charges were filed
against the company before the Nat
mnal Labor Relations Board. Begion
al Director Aicher, of the Baltimore
office, has given his personal atten
tion to the case, and has been ably
assited by Field Examiner Counsel
Bloom, of the Baltimore office, was in
charge of preparation of the case for
the board against the company. Con
sistent suggestions of the Labor Board
officials that the case be settled
peaceably has been influential in
bringing about the happy «u««g of
the case, it is said. Commissioner
Department of Labor, also contrib
uted largely to the settlement
The striking truck drivers have had
the loyal support of The State Fed
eration of Labor and all affiliates in
North Carolina; the International
Union, with its powerful local nn<n««
from Atlanta to Richmond, Washing
ton, Baltimore, Philadelphia and on
into the East, and City Central bodies
and local unions throughout the coun
try, contributions having come even
from the Pacific Coast. Now that
the controversy is happily ended and
the men return to work under closed
shop agreement, these 3ame forces
will throw their vast influence to Mr.
Brinson’s enterprises.
Convention in Baltimore came to
Washington and st^ppedby to inspect
the highly-regaidon~A~. F. of L. labor
library. They were entertained by
Librarian Edith K. McMahon and
Assistant Eloise Giles.
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