The Charlotte Labor Journal
AND DIXIE FARM NEWS
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CHARLOTTE, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1939
Americanism is an unfailing lore of country, loyalty to
its institutions and ideals, eagerness to defend it against aD
enemies, undivided allegiance to the flag, and a desire to se
cure the blessings of librty to ourselves and posterity.
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PUNISHMENT FOR VIOLATORS OF WORKMEN’S
COMPENSATION LAWS
Laws requiring employers ot provide funds to compensate
working men and women for injuries causing temporary or per
manent disability and the dependents of workers killed ip indus
trial accidents are among our most humane statutes.
Such legislation is pre-eminently just. It is therefore diffi
cult to believe that there are employers who deliberately seek to
evade their legal responsibility to provide the fund established
by State statutes and obey the rules set‘up for the proper admin
istration of the laws.
But that such undesirable citizens do exist is revealed in
the report by Frieda S. Miller, Industrial Commissioner of New
York State, that the Attorney General acting for the Department
of Labor finalized in the New York City area 276 prosecutions
during June for violations of the workmen’s compensation law
and won 270 convictions.
The Labor Department charged evasion of the workmen’s
compensation law by fake partnerships or contracts in 47 cases.
In 43 of these cases convictions were obtained.
Fines imposed in 180 cases ranged from $1 to $50 and totaled
$1,200. |
The rules which employers are required to observe under
workmen’s compensation laws are plain and easy to follow. There
are practically no valid excuses that can be presented to justify
their violation. In order to be sure that employers will fulfill
their duties in regard to these laws so eminently necssary for the
protctioniof th workers, it is doubtful if microscopic fines are
effective.]
Therfe are certain laws which are so ethical that judicial
clemency is out of place with regard to persons found guilty of
violating them. Workmen’s compensation laws are in the cate
gory of statutes where full penalties should be imposed.
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1935 Chrysler Sedan -$325
1936 Plymouth Coupe _£-_$375
1936 Plymouth Tg. Sedan-6395
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I QUESTION
BY WM. S. GREENE
QUOTATION? Former Prime Min
ister of England, Earl Baldwin, saya:
‘Progress in labor relations would be
increased ten-fold, if politics could bo
eliminated. The political weapon is
no longer being used in England, be
cause the old die-hards among em
ployers have been eliminated and la
bor has come down to working with
the constitutional government.” It
has always been my recollection that
England still has a very powerful
Labor party, in politics. In fact, for
many years recently they furnished
'he Prime Minister, Ramsey Mac
Donald. I think as long as you have
a free Democracy, we will have pol
itics. But, I also believe that La
bor should be members of any party
ihey see fit to belong to, and take ac
tive part in those parties. We have
Conservative and Liberal men in Un
ions, just as we have the same in po
litical parties, and in factions of each
party.
QUILL? Is it perhaps because F.
D. R. has fixed taxes so that they
have to be paid by the wealthy, instead
of being passed on, as usual, to the
poor, the reason so much High Class
opposition is evident to him.
INTERNATIONAL? If Italy and
Germany want to talk about Danzig,
and I were Mr. Chamberlain, I would
tell them I would talk to them when
they had lived up to the last talk we
had, and not before. In other words,
made them live up to their last agree
ment. That is business, if I were
Chamberlain, I would do a little
sword rattling on my own, unless the
Labor Press
Vital Need
The freedom of the press, guar*
auteed to us by the Consitutiou,
must depend after all upon the sup
. port which the readers of the press
give to it. We need scarcely mere
than mention the fact that the
usual daily newspaper, to say noth
ing of the magazines, do not feel
called upon to espouse the cause
of organized labor. Such fair plan
as is given this cause by these pub
lications is based upon the unan
swerable strength of the position
of the labor movement.
But we wish to emphasize the
fact, that if there were no great
section of the national publications
known as the Labor Press, which
gives its first and last loyalty to
the workers of the nation, and es
pecially to those who are members
of the organizations of labor, the
other sections of the nation’s pub
licity organs would probably pay
much more scant attention to the
rights of labor.
Circulation is the life of any
publication. Given readers, any
publication is in a position of pow
er, in proportion to its friends who
show their loyalty to their own
cause by their subscriptions to their
own press, and by their activity in
helping to enlarge its circulation.
The rights of labor will always
depend, to a great extent, upon the
freedom of the labor press. A la
bor paper which circulates freely
in its own community is an index
of the power of labor in that lo
cality. It Jv a very definite part
of the organization itself, and its
functions are so vital that neglect
of the labor press is sure to reflect
upon the qualities of the labor
movement itself.
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last agreement were lived up to, and
the country of Czechoslovakia restor
ed to its freedom. But I am not M.
Chamberlain, and can’t take it like he
can. And it’s lucky for a lot of peo
ple that Chamberlain has been able
to take it. His actions depend on one
thing, in my opinion, and that is, if
England goes to war, can it get enough
out of it, from their opponents, to
make it pay. He has probably fig
ured out that war with Germany* is
something like getting blood out of a
turnip. The English have always
been good business people.
RIDICULOUS? If you worked for
a corporation, have you ever really
tried to figure out who you were
really working for? The stockholders
of course. That is the answer in the
book. Now the mind of man is such,
that we have many and devious brain
convolutions which act in such a man
ner, that if you try to find out by
what channel an actual decision of
your mind is reached, it would make
a journey across the U. S. seem like
a step or two in comparison. The
mind has also acted on tthe simple
question at the beginning of this par
agraph so that the steps in between
some corporations and their stock
holders in fact, are practically impos
sible to follow. You just can’t find
out who you are actually working for,
with holding companies, and inter
locking directorates, and other convo
lutions in the way of a direct answer.
vVhat is the solution?
SERIOUS? We read in the daily
papers about the Typographical Un
ion being suspended for non-payment
of an assessment of one cent per
month per head. They are paid up in
their per capita tax. This is a dem
ocratic country, and our unions are
run on democratic principles. The
Typographical Union is no exception.
They submitted the request for one
cent additional from the Executive
Committee of the A. F. of L. to their
membership for vote, and the vote
was against paying it. The A. F. of
L. Executive Committee should have
a wide open point of view, especially
from a suspension standpoint. I
would like to know what went on,
when this subject was discussed. Per
haps there is method in their mad
ness, especially when it is known that
the International Typographical Con
vention is being held this week in Fort
Worth, Texas. As one on the battle
front to one of the general staff, I hope
you use the round table to smooth
things.
VACATION? Thursday my family
and I took the second of my one-day
vacations by making a grand tour of
the mountains via route 104 to Mica
ville and back through Little Switzer
land. Saw a beautiful lake on 104 that
should have cottages all around it;
stopped off at the State-Government
fishery and wild game preserve; ate
lunch on the top of a mountain called
Wildacres; saw clouds spattering
themselves on the side of mountains;
marveled at the grandeur of-the scenic
panorama; then home in a driving I
rain.
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Charleston To Have
Its Labor Paper;
F. A. Miles Is Pub.
CHARLESTON, S. C., Aug. 21.—
Announcement is made by F. A. Miles,
of this city, that he is to begin the
publication about September 1st, of
“The Labor Journal,” as an organ of
the Charleston Central Labor Union.
Because of the rapidly growing labor
! movement in Charleston and vicinity,
officials of the Central Labor Union
have felt the need of a paper through
which they can reach their member
ship and the general public with
Labor’s messages.
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Children? Dictators Just Love Them , ^
Though grim “military necessity” causes Chancellor Adolf Hitler ot
Germany, left, and Premier Benito Mussolini of Italy to build huge bomb
ing planes in order to wipe out cities and their populations, the two
dictators never fail to show their love for children—at least when they
face a camera. Here Hitler playfully pats one of his youthful supporters
who was singled out for the honor during a special celebration In Berlin’s
famous Olympic stadium. Mussolini proudly accepts a bouquet of flowers
from a little Albanian child during his recent visit to Ricclone.
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