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Official Labor L’nioa; a) the A. F. of 1* far Charlotte labor Journal YOU* Truthful, Honest, Impartial Endorsed by the N. C. State Federa tion of Labor AND DIXIE FARM NEWS Endeavoring to Serve the Mi VOL. IX—No. 41 AMTIITIMHINT »M Tits JOURNAL It * IMVI9TMSMT CHARLOTTE, N. C„ THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1940 12.00 Fee Ttar LARGER BENEFITS FOR AMERICA’S JOBLESS IS URGED - LESS THAN $5 WEEFLY PAID BY FIVE STATES WASHINGTON, D. C.—President William Groan, of the American Fed* oration of Labor, in a letter to a con ference of State Unemployment Com pensation officials at the Mayflower Hotel here urged the enactment of the McCormick Bill designed to pro vide more equitable compensation for the miljions of workers compelled to serve time in the conscript army of the jobless. The conference had re quested a statement of the American Federation of Labor’s position on the McCormick Bill. “The American Federation of La bor urges the Executive Committee of the Interstate Conference of Unem ployment Compensation Agencies to give its endorsement to H. R. 7762, a bill introduced by Representative Mc Cormick, of Massachusetts,’’ Mr. Green told the conference. “This bill would establish reason able minimum benefit standards and ?rovide for a federal re-insurance und to aid States whose own unem ployment compensation funds were in sufficient to pay benefits according to these standards. “It would also amend the Social Se curity Act provisions on additional credit allowance, making provision for flat reductions to all employers in States which provided benefit stand ards better than the minimum, rather than for differences in the credit al lowances for individual employers. “If unemployment compensatio legislation is to provide any signifi cant security for American workers, the benefit provisions of unemploy ment compensation laws must be drastically revised. The present ben efit provisions of State unemploy ment compensation laws are unrea sonably inadequate. “From fifteen to thirty per cent of the workers in insured employment are declared ineligible because their previous earnings have been inade quate—in other words, because they have already suffered extensive unem ployment. “The elimination of these workers does not, however, serve as a basis for the payment of adequate benefits to those more regularly attached to in dustry, for, in other respects, the State systems are equally unsatisfac tory. “The weekly amounts are pitifully low. In five States over forty-eight per cent of the recipients receive checks of les sthan $6.00. “In most of the States for which figures are available, a majority of the recipients exhause their benefit rights while still unemployed. The waiting periods, in spite of reductions in some States, are still unnecessar ily long and place an undue burden on the wage-earner’s small resources. Finally, States have been adding in creasingly severe disqualifications, deiying all benefits to workers be cause of only minor infractions. Strike On Colored Housing Project Amicably Settled On Wednesday The strike on the Colored Housing project which started on Monday morning was amicably settled Wednesday, an under standing having been reached with the Goode Construction Com pany and representatives of the Charlotte Building Trades Corn ell. Those participating in the conferences leading to the settle ment were: Vance Stamps, International representative of the Carpenters and Joiners International; Thomas Clary, representa tive of the Electrical Workers International; John Turaer, repre sentative of the Hod Carriers and Common Laborers; CharlesDix of the Plumbers and Steamfitters; Glenn E. Penland, of the N. C. Department of Labor; Leon Wofford, assistant labor advisor of the U. S. Housing Authority, and H. L. Kiser, business agent of the Charlotte Building Trades Council. hmwmimww “If unemployment compensation is to have any place in al ong-range so lution of the unemployment problem, . _nnw fn nHnnt benellt luuon OI me r---- - we must begin now to adopt benefit ,_i_i.. ...iii/iVi moot t np minimum ___ j-ww w .7 standards which meet the minimum essentials of an unemployment insur ance program. “Such a program would not require any additional taxes. Millions of dol lars collected from the present unem ployment compensation tax have been oilintr up in huge reserves. At tne present time, for *** ,c0’*nt.|3r.* whole, over a billion and a half dollars have already been set aside for tne future. ,, “In almost every state this repre sents an increase beyond the reserves _ Authentic Reprinted from “PRINTERS INK”— ★ “A Labor Paper is far better advertising medium than any ordinal newspaper in comparisoi with circulation. A Laboi Paper, having 2,000 sul scribers, is of more value^ to the business man who advertises in it than the ordinary newpaper with 12,000 ” -PRINTER S INK, ... acknowledged author ity on Advertising. ★ Advertisers can Profit through use of the col umns of The Labor Journal weekly, for it reaches the vast bulk of Organized Labor who con stitute a large portion of Charlotte’s tremendous buying power, which amounts to over $5,000, 000annually.. Cash in on this vast market, Mr. Ad vertiser! Charlotte | Labor Journal Telephone 3-3094 Charlotte, N. C. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF ORGANIZED LABOR IN CHARLOTTE AND THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA IN THE NINTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION Central Labor Union held its regu lar weekly meeting Wednesday night in the Moose hall, presided over by President J. A. Moore. J. A. Scoggins was elected vice-president to fill an existing vacancy. The Skating Area Committee made a good report, show ing progress in the campaign for funds now being waged. Reports of various locals showed membership gains and practically everyone work ing. Report was made of the settle ment of the strike on the colored hous ing project. The board of trustees re port showed the financial condition of Central body to be in excellent order, and made a few recommendations along other lines. The meeting was one of the best attended in recent months and a number of visitors were present, a few ladies being among the number. t Green Says A. F. L Is Now Ready For Peace Parley WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—Presi dent William Green reiterated yester day that the AFL was ready to re sume peace negotiations with the CIO. In a letter to a group of clergymen who had urged renewal of peace ne gotiations, Green said the AFL Peace Committee “stands ready to accept and consider any proposals designed to bring about a settlement of exist ing difficulties.” His letter was ad dressed to the Very Rev. Monsignor John A. Ryan, director of the Depart ment of Social Action of the National Catholic Welfare Conference. PRESERVE THE AMER ICAN SVSTEM “The people who are doing the ■oat to hasten the advent of com munism and fascism are not the agitators and radicals, but the short-sighted employers who re fuse to recognise organised labor. When the employers of this coun try frankly and openly remove all obstacles to the organisation of labor, and are willing to sit down and talk over the problems of in dustry with representatives of or ganised labor, then we shall have avoided Anally and definitely the menace of communism and fascism. And we shall have preoerrod the American system, the system of de mocracy in operation. The great bulwark of democracy in the United States is the organised labor move ment, and it was never more im portant than it is today.”—Rev. J. W. R. Maguire. It is estimated that insects destroy one-tenth at everything man grows. < SOUTHERN LABOR CONFERENCE CON VENES SATURDAY MORN. ATLANTA; GREEN SPEAK SUNDAY AFTERNOON ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 26.—When President Wm. Green arrives in At lanta next Saturday moraine at 8:M o’clock, to attend the Southern Labor Conference, he will be met at the Terminal Station by the executive officers of State Federation of Labor from ten Southern states, and escorted to the Municipal Auditorium where the Conference sessions will be held. In addition to the executive boards of State Federation of Labor, President Dewey L. Johnson, of the Atlanta Federation of Trades, and the on ar rangements appointed by him will meet President Green. The Conference will be called to order at 16 o’clock Saturday moraine, by President Johnson, of the Atlanta Federation of Trades. The invocation will be made by Dr. Louie D. Newton, pastor of Druid Hills Baptist church. Addresses of Welcoaae will be delivered by Mayor William D. H.rtstteM, for the city of Atlanta. Governor E. D. Rivera, of the Southern Governors’ Conference, for the South. Charles B. Gramling, of Georgia Federation of Labor. President Gramliag will then be called to the chair by President Jeha sen to preride over the morning business session with addresses by George L. Googe, Southern Representative of the American Federation of Labor, on “Labor in th South to This Date”; John Coyne, president of the Building and Construction Trades Department of the A. F. of L. On Sunday Morning, A1 Flynn, President of the South Carolina State. Federation of Labor will preside. Address by Judge Joseph A. Padway, chief counsel for the A. F. of U Hon. Robert Kamapeck, chairman of the Civil Service Committee of the Heuse^fJohn P. Frey, president of the Metal Trades Department of the On Sunday afternoon, with addresses by Frank P. Fenton, director of organisation for the American Federation of Labor; with an address on “Duty Faring Labor in the South,” by Wm. Green, president of the Amer ican Federation of Labor. COYNE’S ADDRESS IN ATLANTA IS AWAITED WITH INTEREST ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 26.—John P. Coyne, president of the Building ana Construction Trades Department of the American Federation of Labor, will preside over the sessions of Die Southern Labor Conference devoted to the building trades problems.' The Conference starts Saturday morning and President Coyne will be heard on the first day of the Conference. Due to the important problems fracing the Building and Construction Trades Unions, Mr. Coyne’s address is await ed with keen interest. OFFICE WORKERS LOCAL UNION TO ENTERTAIN PRES. WEIKLE ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 26.—Local union No. 19903, American Federa tion of Office Workers, will entertain Mr. Frank Weikle, president of the National organization, At a luncheon in the Piedmont Hotel next Sunday at 12:30. President Weikle will be in Atlanta attending the sessions of the Southern Labor Conference and mem bers of the local union have planned the luncheon in his honor. HEAD OF LEGAL DEPARTMENT WILL BE HEARD AT MEETING ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 26.—Judge Joseph A. Padway, chief counsel for the American Federation of Labor, will be heard at the Southern Labor Conference starting here next Satur day morning. Judge Padway’s ad dress will be most interesting to the delegates, visitors and the general public, in view of the highly important nature of legal matters in the Labor movement. J PRESIDENT FREY TO PRESIDE OVER METAL TRADES SESSION ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 26.-^John P. Frey, president of the Metal Trades Department of the American Federa tion of Labor, will preside over the sessions of the Southern Labor Con ference devoted to questions affecting thet workers in the Metal trades. The Conference, starting Saturday, March 2, and running through Sunday, will be intensely interested in the metal trades sessions and in the address to be delivered by President Frey. ATLANTA LABOB JOURNAL WILL BE HOST TO VIS ITING LABOR EDITORS ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 26.—The At lanta Labor Journal, one of the oldest labor papers in the South, is planning a dinner for the labor paper editors and publishers during the sessions of the Southern Labor Conference start ing here next Saturday morning. Je rome Jones, editor of The Atlanta La bor Journal, one of the best loved and most widely known labor leaders of the South, is expected to be present and address the visiting labor paper representatives. SECRETARY ORNBURN TO HAVE CHARGE OF “LABELL” SESSION ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 26.—L M. Ornburn, secretary-treasurer of the Union Labor Trades Department, will preside over the session of the Sonth ern Label Conference to be devoted to promotion of the label. Union Labor’s insignia of honor and honest dralings Mr. Ornburn will then go to Birm ingham where he will deliver an ad dress over Station WAPI at 1:4S P. M. Sunday, March 3. He will be guest speaker at the Birmingham event of the Birmingham Trades Council as a feature of the regular Sunday after noon radio program of the Binning, ham Council. CORNELIUS MAIDEN, ORGANIZER, CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 26.—Cor nelius Maiden, negro organizer for the American Federation of Labor, has been named chairman of the com mittee on arrangements being made for entertainment of the hundreds of delegates of his race expected to at tend the Southern Labor Conference. Chairman Maiden is planning a event for Saturday night, March 2. There are many thousands of negro members of the American Federation of Labor Unions in the South. “The Voice of God" BY CHARLES STELZLE God still speaks through specially inspired people, although this message is not accompanied by “signs and wonders” as in the days of old. Usu ally we do not recognize such people nor heed their message until they have been taken from us. Ordinarily, crucifies them, and the world first ____ long afterward, it “immortalizes” them, and we erect statues to their memory. And yet, what they have collectively contributed becomes part of the common fund of the people’s wisdom, so that it may truthfully be said that “the voice of the people is the voice of God.” The undiscerning hear in the peo ple’s voice only a roar of discon tent, or the mutterings of the mis guided mass. But the statesmen in every age who have accomplished the things which have produced the greatest good for all the people, got much of their inspiration from the masses because no group has a broad er experience in the vital problems of ever^r day life than the “common peo Sometimes the people’s expression of God’s will is crude. Sometimes it comes as a shock to those who are quite comfortable and have become accustomed to things as they are, and who, fully satisfied .with present con ditions, are unwilling to be made un comfortable by the perplexities and problems of others. But rarely is an appeal made in behalf of troubled or perplexed people but what the com mon people respond to such an appeal. And in so doing they express the will of God. This has been proved in history, and it is true today. It is being dem onstrated in many parts of the world where helpless men and women are struggling aganst fearful odds—men and women who are being driven from their homes; robbed of their belong ings; deprived of food and clothing: scourged by brutal persecutors: and many other tortures are inflicted upon them which cannot even be men tioned because of their horror. American Labor has declared it self regarding these atrocities. Many workers in other countries are fight ing the battles of those woh are being oppressed. And the tyrants who are subjecting the masses of the people to these degradations are beginning to fear for their future. The com mon people—the men of uncommon sense—to these the world owes a debt of gratitude. If you would hoar the vote* of God, hoop close to the people! THEATRE DOORMEN, USHERS AND CASHIERS ORGANIZE HEMPSTEAD, N. T.—Theatre cashiers, doormen and ushers in Nas sau and Suffolk counties are on the way tau realise the benefits accruing from membership in a union affiliated with the American Federation of La bor. They are being thoroughly or ganibed under the sponsorship of Hie Movie Operators Local No. 640. A barter covering service employes of the theatre Local 176-B, Theatrical Stage Em; waa recentiy .tauid to International Alliance of tage Employe |ng Picture Machine Operators of the loyes and Mov United States and Canada. Local Mil 640, sponsoring the new local, is one of the strongest in this area. A historian declares that wh«Q Alexander the Great plundered Per. sepolis in Persia, it took 20,000 moUs and $6,000 camels to carry the loot
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