TUOWLT RBALLT PfDEPENDtWT WEEKLY to Mtckknktt CoUtr m Wookfr ito fhdlin tho LARGE8T BUYING POWER to OmrttU omctei Labor laioa; ih« A. F, rf L Cnmi far Che Charlotte labor Journal Mato YOU* _ Truthful, Honest, Impartial by tfc* N. C. Stata FiUtra tiaa af Labor AND D1 FARM NEWS Endeavoring to Serve the Masses VOL. IX—No. 47 Atviatiaumt im Tm« Jwnai t* a CHARLOTTE. N. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1940 92.00 Par Toor SKATING AREA PROJECT POSTPONED; AWAITS SELECTION OF LOCATIONS; REGULAR OFFICE COM. REPORTS The meeting was called to order by President Moore, with Brother W. S. Campbell saying the invocation, and the minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. Various committees reported. The Skating Areas Committee reported still being delayed waiting for a School Board decision for location of two Skating Areas. The Library opening was discussed by the Civic and Pub lic Relations committee, and a hands off policy was de ckled upon, as the Charlotte Civic Council will run the Library Opening Election Campaign. The Special committee re-opening of a regular office for organization work made a report, with the minutes of their actions being read, and receipt of an answer by Paul J. Aymon to the letter of our President stating it was his thought to take same up at the State A. F. of L. Convenion. A wire was sent asking that immediate ac tion be taken after receipt of the letter by the Committee. The Secretary stated that he had not been informed of the time or place of the meeting held by this special committee. Thereport of the committee was accepted by the delegates present. A motion passed to cancel all past per capita tax of the Electrical Workers Local. Another large local in Charlotte has voted to af filiate with the Charlotte Central Labor Union, and cre dentials will be presented in the very near future. An other local came in for a round of applause, this time the Printing Pressmen’s local which has doubled in size. The International Representative, Brother Wilson, of the Pressmen’s union, made one of the finest addresses made * on the floor of the Central Body in a long time. After much discussion pro and con, the meeting adjourned. WM. S. GREENE, Sec. Charlotte Central Labor Union. SCARS OF HATRED S - BY CHARLES STELZLE (Mirtrr htWMtiottl Association of Machinists) It to the fashion in mom families to eater the ex a aoa or daugh tor for admioaion to their favorite col child shall receive the “right” hind ol an education. And yet, they forgel that even during its earliest years there may be stamped upon that child’* heart and mind ceratin prejudice; and hatreds which no college in the land can eradicate. Where does this spirit of class hatred have its source? Most of us imagine that it is due altogether to the propaganda of misguided leaders The fact is, such leaders usually take advantage of prejudice which already exists. They simply build upon it and intensify it. Therefore we need to go back to original sources. Ordinar ily the damage is done in the home. And here’s how it usually happens, so /far as the child is concerned. The family is gathered about the supper table, and father or mother makes an unjust or cruel charge against some one they have encountered during the day, or, they repeat as a fact some thing they read in a prejudiced jour nal or pamphlet concerning a partic ular race or religion, or the alleged act of a representative of organized labor. The tirade closes with an unfair characterization of the person discuss ed and ends with the remark: “That’s just like a-,’’ whatever the nationality, or the religion, or the position of the person may be. And hereby a whole race, or form of re ligion, or the position of the peraon may be. And thereby aw hole race, or form of religion, or movement is iamried.'Tt-Inax seme Kke an unim portant matter to the parent, ^ut the ;hild seated next to father or mother istens in wonder and amazfinent, ind, having absolute confidence in its parent, it believes everything that was mid must be true. Thus the seed of hatred is planted. It grows in the child’s mind and be comes a festering, corrosive sore which affects all its thinking, distort ng all its judgments. The result is hat more harm has been done to the :hild than to the person or persons who were thoughtlessly, ignorantly, or spitefully misrepresented or slan dered. Need it be said that parents should not encourage—especially in their own homes—that which is unnatural in children, and which is one of the great est blights on mankind today? In these times when hatred is so ram pant, causing untold suffering to in dividuals and to nations, the parents of American children can render no greater service in building up the spirit of Brotherhood and Democracy throughout the world than by showing their children how hatred is responsi ble for the great tragedies of today, as well as being the greatest menace to the world of tomorrow. “Whom the Russians would destroy, they first make mad.”—-8talin. WIWMVWMSM THE MARCH OF LABOR nit STRUCK or tmi taiiorcssis MCW YORK CITY-IMS / ^ ^ANDREW lnuAfltaAi 1808'1875 IT PRES. OF US. STARTED WORK AT IEMCH W TAILOR SHOD. WON HIS FIRST POLITICAL CAMPAIGN ASA CANDIDATE ON A WORKINO HEN'S TICKET. ^MtUM il (MMUH*... PRES. WM. GREEN’S FINAL ARTICLE i IN REPLY TO PEGLER’S TIRADE AGAINST THE AM. FED. OF LABOR, Westbrook Pegler’s charge that the American Federation of Labor con dones and protects dishonest unionism is a deliberate falsehood. The American Federation of Labor denounces the miserable few who man age to worm their way into the labor movement for dishonest purposes and personal advancement. We .call upon our affiliated unions to root out and expel any individual found guilty of a betrayal of trust. In addition we call upon the constituted public au thorities of our cities, States and na tion to enforce the law that applies to all our citizens without fear or favor. The American Federation of Labor WHO'S WHO IN UNIONS I EDWARD J. VOLZ _J J. Vol*. President of the International Photo ____Engraver*’ Union of North America, became active in the Labor Union now vent of New York City in 1*04. He waa President of Us Local Union for IS years when he was selected to lead the International organisation In 1989, succeeding Mr. Matthew Woll, who became the President of the Union Labor Life Insurance Company. Mr, Vols has assisted in building one ot the strongest Labor Unions in America. Its member* are among those receiving the highest annual wage and have established exceptional employment standards. Although it is not a large Union in numbers, it has had a great influence on the American Labor movement generally. Each member of the Photo Insurance Company in the amount of S1.000. Unemployment benefits Company in th __ UnempWymen provided over a 10-yac. have averaged more than II 1,000 annually. The significance of the latter fcet is better realised wh«m one considers then are only 10,600 members of the Photo-Engravers Union. Mr. Vols has been a delegate to American Federation of Labor in ventions since 1928, He has taken an active part in the campaign for Union Labels, Shop Cards, and Service Buttons. Through his able 'is enrolled leadership, he has —-- - eent of the highly skilled artisans 95 per employed as photo-engravers and processor* of kindred methods of printing plates, including, relief, intaglio, ] He attend Union and _____ pwvca, Miviuums ntaglio, planographic* and offset* nds all conventions of the >n Label Trades Department is also a member of the Board Jovernorf of the International of Govern Allied Prin He is wld respected movement. His address Ti-des Association. known and highly t’e Trade Union __ Is; Mr, Edward J Vols President, International Photo-Engravers’ Union of North America, 892 Madison Avenue, Room 1110, New York, N. Y, PHOTO-ENGRAVERS’ LABEL The International Photo-Engrav ers Union of No th America adopted its Union Label in 1907. This insignia is stamped on p® Union-made cut or wigraving. Any printed matter on which is displayed the Allied Printing ' ts Association Union Label Trades____- ... gives assurance that the engraving work was done by members «f the International Photo-Engravers Union, because it is affiliated with this printing trades council. For further information ing Union Labels, Shop Csrd^ Service Buttons, write Mr. L M. Orabum, Se 8 of the union, not to the A. F. of close of 1940. The present member have no legal or constitutional au thority to supersede the officers of a national or international union or to give them orders. The A. F. of L, nas no power of compulsion over these unions. Their association with the ArF. of L. is an entirely voluntary one. 1 nai is as u snouia dc. i ne under lying principle of the A. F. of L. is voluntarism. These unions are rep resented in the annual conventions of the A. F. of L. on the basis of their membership. They can, if they wish, vote to chancre the Constitution of the A. F. of L. so ai to give the bentral authority police powers over them. They have not done so and they probably will not do so because i they are jealous of their independence. They fear dictatorship. They reason that in a democratic organisation su preme power should be vested in the membership rather than a small group of officers at the top. Under these circumstances, if con trol of a national Or international union passes into bad hands the American Federation of Labor must rely on the public authorities and the membership of the individual union to correct the situation. True, .otlirr in A bf L. can vote to expel a union from (he Federation, but that would punish the members of the union rather than the real culprits. That is not a cure, but amputation. Experience has demonstrated that cases of this kind are extremely rare, and that they are quickly remedied. Crooks cannot get away with it in definitely in unions any more than in public life. The members of organ ised labor feel they are capable of governing their own unions. They do not consider it wise to sacrifice self government to dictatorship for the sake of protection from the possible danger of racketeers. _ _ . The American Federation of Labor does have power to. regulate to some extent the affairs of directly affil iated Federal labor unions, State Federations of Labor and city central bodies. This power is effectively ex erted whenever the necessity arises. I challenge Mr. Pegler or anyone else to point out a singl case where the A. Eof L. failed to actagainstwrouf doing in any of these organizations over which it possesses regulatory ^Mi^Pegler further charges that the jA. F. of L. demands public prosecu tion of union offenders in one breath and then in the next opposes the cur Irent antli-trust campaign against un ions conducted by Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold. The A. F. of L. does oppose this campaign. It will never agree that or ganised labor comes within the scope of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act which was adopted to break up corporate and financial trusts. When this law was applied against unions, the A. F. of L. secured the enactment of the Clayton Act which specifically ex empted labor unions from the provi sions of the Sherman Act. The A. F. of L. and its affiliated un ions condemn collusion, price-rigging and monopolistic combines between local unions and employers. We in sist, however, that such manifestly il legal practices, if they exist, should he prosecuted under the properly appli cable laws, not the anti-trust laws. We fear, with good reason, that the anti-trust laws reWifrr used as an in strument to deprQy organised labor and place it under the thumb of the Federal Government. No legal pres tidigitation can ever convince us that workingmen and women associated in a union for their self-protection against the entrenched power of in dustry and capital constitute a trust inimical to the welfare of the nation. President Roosevelt recently declar ed that most newspaper columnists are wrong 80 per cent of the time. I would raise that estimate to 100 per cent with respect to Mr. Perierti baseless at tacks on the American Federation od Labor. FREIGHT HANDLERS’ LOCAL UNION MAKING PROGRESS SOUTHEAST. OVER-THE-ROAD CON. HELD IN CHARLOTTE SAT. - SUNDAY; NEXT MEET HIGH POINT, MAY 11-12 fied. Saturday and Sunday the South 's stern Over-the-Road Conference of the Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauf feurs, Stablemen and Helpers of America, an A. P. of L. affiliate, held s conference at the Mecklenburg Hotel, at which time the fact was brought out that there is a differ ential in wages, hours and general condition of bus and truck drivers in this section which is wholly unjuati “ * Three committees were ap by President Pat Ansboury, —-mile, Ky., which will report at the next conference to be held in High Point, N. C., May 11-12. The theme of those taking part in the discussion of freight rates was that rates in the southeastern states, states, especially in Georgia, South Carolina, North Cardins, Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky, are uniform, and that to drive freight trucks in these regions requires as much skill and alertness * as elsewhere in the United States. Hence, declared the conference spokesmen, there is no jus tification of th existing differential in wages, hours, and general condi tions m this territory, as compared, for instance, with wages, hours, and conditions in the territory of which Indianapolis, Ind., is the center.” Chairmen of the committees ap pointed are R. L. McCrorie, of Char lotte, to study the middle-section be tween Atlanta and Richmond, Va.; Tom Heaty, of Baltimore, to study conditions between Richmond and Bal timore; J. T. Odum, of Atlanta, to study conditions in the territory of which Atlanta is the center. R. C. Weigle, of High Point, was appointed a member of the committee to aid Mr. McCrorie in the Charlotte territory. Wage differentials and hours were under fire, and especially relate to in trestate freight and bus services. A membership drive in this territo ry will be taken up, and according to James P. Berry, of Atlanta, head of the public relations department of the organisation, with a membership of 620,000, is one of the largest un ions affiliated with the American federation of Labor. The membership m the Southeastern states ranges around 180,000, he said, and the broth erhood hope more than to double the number. . Before the afternoon business ses sionts, the delegates were guests o 1 local members at a luncheon at the Mecklenburg hotel. It was at this meeting that an expansion program was discussed. Delegates were m at* tendance from Indianapolis, Ind., Louisville, Ky., Nashville, Knoxville, presided at several of the business sessions. Clyde Anderson, of Nash-, ▼ille, Tennessee, secretary, kept a rec ord of proceedings. The office of vice-chairman was created and Joe Williams of Indianap olis, was elected to that poet The conference adjourned at 6:30 P. M. Delegates came from Maryland to Florida and from states in the Middle West. Thomas P. O.’Brien, of Indianap olis, represented the International Union. There are now in the area repre sented at the conference dose to 180,000 members, which it is expect ed to increase to 400,000 before the ship of the Teamsters is now nearly 600,000. Among those present was Frank Prohl, or Indianapolis, who is also a representative of the International body of Teamsters; Joe Williams, of Indianapolis, a director of the inter national union; Clyde Anderson, of Nashville, Tenn., secretary; knd numerous others in official. position within the union. The delegates were guests at a banquet in the Mecklenburg Hotel din ing room. Jrhe meeting was one of a series of Over-the-Road” conferences sched uled for various cities within the east ern section. Recently a similar con ference was held in Atlanta. Organiser H. L. McCrorie, of the Teamsters-and Chauffeurs in this territory, is entitled much credit for the way in which this affair was put put over, and his office in the Build ers Building was a busy place prior to and during the convention. As The Journal has stated before, the Team sters and Chauffeurs as iar as <—« uguuuure, nu., rauMHapaui. rn., Richmond and Norfolk, Va. Thomas ^O’Brien, of Indianapolis, representing the international union, lost sleep. THE LABOR PRESS The labor press Is a sentinel on guard for the of mankind. Every possible effort should be given in order that XhP£?<±i~y ** 8tren*thened for greater work Your labor press renders an incalculable service to those who work. We cannot too strongly urge our fellow workers and friends to give loyal and tangible support. No greater avenue of education is available to the trade union move* ment than your labor press. The community which supports its Union paper reflects that co-operation through better, more effective local unions, councils and central In Hong Kong it is compulsory that a cat be kept in every house. In the larger houses, three cats must be kept. W.PA. reports that of 700,000 workers laid off last September be cause they had been on the rolls 18 months, only 13% had private jobs three months later. After Darkif... by Rice PEDESTRIANS WHO DON'T KNOW HOW TO DRIVE M 6CT KILL CL ■ MORE THAN 9 OUT OF EVERY 10 Pedestrians killed IN CONN. HAD NEVER BEEN LICENSED TO drive-They saw the CAR BUT DIDN'T RE ALIZE HOW LITTLE THE DRIVER CAN SEE AFTER DARK/ /_—