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“THE PLUMBER" By H. A. STEVENS Business Representative United Association of Journeymen Plumbers and Steam Fitters, Local No. 119, Mobile, Ala. In the year 1880 when the able and greatly revered Samuel Gompers, founded the American Federation of Labor, using aa nu cleus that group of crafts then known as the “Knights of Labor” the United Association of Journeymen Plumbers and Steam Fitters were among the first to subscribe to the tenets and principles of the then new Federation. Throughout the years that have followed the Plumbers and Steam Fitetrs organisation, although relatively amaD numerically, have marched steadily forward, shoulder to shoulder with those other great crafts which, with the Plumbers have time and again proved to be the very backbone of the American Federa tion of Labor. The United Association of Journeymen Plumbers and Steam Fit ters have watched the American Federation of Labor movement grow from a mere handful to an organization composed of more than 4.0M.00O dues paying members and have seen their own organization steadily increase in membership and prestige, until it has become one of the moat powerful Unions affiliated with that group known aa MEMBERS NROG THE NATIONS LEADING GR0CER5 PATRONIZE JOURNAL ADVERTISERS Gallimore’s Grocery “YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD” GROCERIES — FRESH MEATS FRUITS AND VEGETABLES OF ALL KINDS. WE DELIVER. 1532 E. Boulevard Phone 4475 B. T. Baker Grocery Your Patronage Appreciated Groceries — Fresh Meats Fruits and Vegetables We Deliver 499 S. Clarkson Phone 9474 G. D. Cloninger Market FANCY AND WESTERN CUT MEAT, STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES — FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES —WE DELIVER 803 N. 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SPECIAL OFFER <10 CASH SAL PAYABLE M 24 NORTHS A. F. L. WIRE MEN FIGHT WORK OF FIFTH COLUMN CHICAGO, 111.—In an article pre pared for the June issue of the Com mercial Telegraphers’ Journal, Frank B. Powers, international president, Commercial Telegraphers’ Union, de clared that members in both Canada and the United States were fully aware of their responsibility in a vital industry to not only guard the secrecy of the communications but to expdse activities of Communists or fellow travelers who have bored into the in dustry through the American Com munications Association. Mr. Powers said the events of the previous thirty years made it more than probable that the mutual inter ests which have bound Canadian and American telegraph workers together for 37 years in the Commercial Teleg raphers’ Union might conceivably be extended in veiw of the fact that an invasion of Canada would bright the United States into the war. He point ed out the close contact of telegraph workers to the heart of war and pre paredness activities of both nations, and how essential it is that communi-1 cations must be above the breath of i suspicion. It will be remembered that the CTU Constitution prohibits any member the Building Trades Department of the American Federation of Labor a group that is made up of the various crafts having to do with Building construction and maintains nee work. The United Association of Journeymen Plumbers and Steam Fitters has been fortunate, throughout the years, in selecting to guide its destinies, men who combine a conservative attitude with keen vision and foresight, as a result it has been seldom that the Plumbers have had to use their economic strength in calling a strike —matters in dispute, in the great majority of cases where only their craft was involved, have been settled by across the table confer ences—although in all instances the plumbers have stood side by ride with other crafts in fighting for a betterment in wages and work ing conditions. The Plumbers proudly point to the fact that during the last few years, when the Comm unis tically controlled C.LO. has been atteaMt ing to invade the ranks of the Building Crafts affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, not only has this dual organization never succeeded in getting a foothold in the Plumbers ranks, but the powerful Plumbers organization has, at all times, lent their assist ance, buth moral, physical and financial to other Crafts in repelling the attacks of this insidious group, whose primary thought is not the furthering of more efficient craftsmanship of better wages and working conditions, but only the thought of the “check off” system and such revenue as may accrue therefrom. In spite of the many stories told about the “Plumber and his tools” this Association has steadfastly maintained its long appren ?*riodviU1rlf*d r*<iuirement8 and ezaaUnations. before an individual can be classed as a master craftsman and proudly carry the “Journeyman Plumber.” J ***** from belonging to any communistic organization,” Mr. Powers declared. “Recent warnings that radio opera tors aie Communists, and an order by the Federal Communications Commis sion against ‘unnecessary or uniden tified communications’ are aimed at the Communist-controlled CIO group and not against any member of the Marine Division, Commercial Tele graphers’ Union.” 1 11 E. I'srk A*-. Phone 8179! It Pays to Trade With Doggett Lumber Co. JACOB RUPPERT and BOAR’S ALE AND BEER NOW TEN CENTS IUIUEGER BEER AND ALE Distributed by ORANGE CRUSH BOTTLING CO. GASTONIA, N. C. 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