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ASHURST DEMANDS BRIDGES’
DEPORTATION; URGES SENATE
ACT ON BILL PASSED BY HOUSE
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WASHINGTON, D. C. —Senator
Ashurst (Democrat), of Arizona,
pleaded with the Senate to give speedy
approval to a bill ordering the depor
tatoin of Harry Bridges, West Coast
CIO leader.
Terming Bridges an “evil and un
happy man,” Senator Ashurst remind
ed his colleagues that the House had
passed the Bridges deportation bill
several weeks ago and it now was
pending before the Senate Immigra
tion Committee.
“All too long the American people
have been tortured by this evil man,”
the Arizona Senator said.
“The enemy hammering on the
gates from within is even more dan
gerous than the enemy hammering
on the gates from without.”
Ashurst said he had received “many
letters” urging that the Senate Judic
iary Committee speed action on the!
deportation bill.
“We must remember the recent
melancholy and bloody history of Nor
way, the Netherlands, Belgium and
especially France where the enemy
operated from within,” Senator Ash
urst said.
Senator Reynolds (Democrat), of
North Carolina, joined in the plea for
Senate approval of the Bridges depor
tation measure, saying that Bridges
was opposed to “the American system
of government.”
“Too long we have, coddled these
Communist, Nazi, Fascist and criminal
aliens who are enemies of this Govern
ment,” Reynolds boomed.
Senator Schwellenbach (Democrat),
of Washington, interrupted to say that
Senate recesses for the political con
ventions had made it impossible for
an Immigration subcommittee to act
on the Bridges’ bill.
FOUR-STAR ESSAY CONTEST WINNERS
ANNOUNCED BY THE UNION LABEL
TRADES DEPT. OF THE A. F. OF L
The three judges chosen to pick the
winners of the Four-Star Essay con
test, conducted by the Union Label
Trades Department of the American
Federation of Labor, this week award
ed the prizes for the three best essays
in each of the four contests. The
judges were: William Green, Presi
dent of the American Federation of
Labor; Edward Keating, editor and
manager of Labor, the official Wash
ington weekly newspaper of the Stan
dard Railroad Labor organizations,
and O. R. Strackbein, member of the
Public Contracts Board, United States
Department of Labor.
In the contest for the best essays on
the subject, “Why I Buy Union Label
Goods,” Miss Lillian A. Benco, 7402
Halle Ave., Cleveland, Ohio, won
first prize of $250; Mrs. Eugene W.
Lewis, 226 E. Charlemont Street,
Kino-snort Tenn., won second prize;
and**!?! Alfred A. Hirsch, 3986 47th
Swi-e-tv Long Ielar.c* <Vy New
won third prize and they r{**r”*d
awards of valuable Union Label ar
ln the contest for the best essays
on the subject, “Why I Use Union
Services,” Mrs. Isabel Dunn, 2535 E.
27th Street, Oakland, Calif., won
first prize of $250; Mr Crawford S.
Sledge, P. O. Box 184, 2001 Avenue I,
Galveston, Texas, won second pnze;
and Mrs. Bernice Sandusky, 2438 W.
68th Street, Chicago, 111., won third
prize and they received awards of
valuable Union Label articles.
In the contest for the best essays on
the subject, “Why I Am A Labor Un
ionist,” Mr. Fred Langhenry Carver,
1610 North Normandie Ave., Holly
wood, Calif.; a member of Stenog
raphers, Bookkeepers, Typists and
Assistants, Local No. ‘20798 of Los
Angeles, won first prize of $250; Mr.
John N. McCarthy, 2233 87th Ave.,
Oakland, Calif., a member of the In
ternational Union of Operating Engi
neers, Local No. 507, won second prize
and Mr. John W. Johnson, 1540 Shehy
Street, Youngstown, Ohio, a member
of the National Federation of Post
Office Clerks, Local No. 443, won
third prize and they received awards
of valuable Union Label articles.
ir, the contest for the best essays
on the subject, “Why I Joined a Wom
en’s Auxiliary,” Mrs. Marion E.
Grimmer, 338 Tremaine Ave., Ken
more, New York, a member of Aux
iliary No. 200 of Typographical Un
ion No. 9, won first prize of $260;
Mrs. Elma M. Barker, Box 249, El
wood, Kas., a member of the Woman’s
Union Label Auxiliary No. 614 of St.
Joseph. Mo., won second prize; and
Mrs. Mary F. Rouse, 418 Fairmont
Ave., Jersey City, N. J., a member of
the Women’s Auxiliary to the New
York Typographical Union, won third
prize and they received awards of
valuable Union Label articles.
The judges stated that 80 per cent
of the essays were unusually good
and the contestants showed a funda
mental knowledge of the American
Labor movement and the Union Label
cause. In each contest the judges elim
inated all the essays except forty or
fifty and these were so excellent that
they had great difficulty in choosing
the winner in each contest. Many con
testants were disqualified because
they did not accurately follow the
rules.
I. M. Ornbum, secretary-treasurer
of the Union Label Trades depart
ment said, “I am greatly pleased with
the publicity received through the
Four-Star Essay Contest. The re
sponse of Labor Unions and unionized
manufacturers was gratifying. While
thousands of people wrote essays,
general interest in the Union Label
cause was greatly stimulated through
the advertising campaign for the con
test.”
Mr. Ornburn also stated that the
NOTICE OP ADMUngnUTlON
Having qualified as administrator of th»
Estate of Cary C. Link, deceased, late of Meck
lenburg County. North Carolina this is to
notify all persona having claims against said
estate to present them, duly verified, to the
undersigned at the Bryant Building. Charlotte.
North Carolina on or before the 5th day
of July. 1941. or this Notice will be pleaded
in the bar of their recovery.
All persons indebted to said estate will
please make immediate settlement with the
undersigned.
This the 6th day of July. 1940.
D. W. HOLBROOKS.
Administrator of Bstate of Cary C. Link.
July U-U-St-Aas. L
four grand prize essays, togetner
with pictures of the winning contest
ants, will appear in the August issue
of the new American Federationist
and later they will be printed in
pamphlet form for general distribu
tion. They can be obtained by writing
to the Union Label Trades Depart
ment, American Federation of Labor,
Washington, D. C.
“Shrinkage” Rules
by Dr. Charles Stelzle
When I was a machinist apprentice
my chum was an apprentice in the
pattern shop. Sometimes I ate my
lunch with him, and, as I sat on his
work-bench and listened to the “se
crets” of his trade, I learned some
very interesting facts. One thing
that strongly impressed mb was his
set of “shrinkage” rules. I discov
ered for the first time, that the wood
en pattern * made larger than tha
casting was intended to be, because
of the shrinkage in the cooling metal.
For cast iron the pattern maker’s
rule was an eighth of an inch longer
than the standard foot; for brass,
three sixteenths; and for steel, one
quarter of an inch, although these in
creased measurements, per foot were
equally divided between each fraction
of every inch. The effect was that
the three rules looked exactly like a
standard rule, until they were placed
alongside a standard rule. But so our
ideals suffer in the work of embodi
ment.
Beethoven said that his beautiful
Symphony is but an empty echo of the
heavenly music he heard in ids dream.
It lost its divinest charm when he
transferred it to manuscript. The
dreamer has an important place in
the world’s work, for every machine
and every great enterprise was
dreamed out before it was worked
out. Sometimes the “dreamer” and
the “worker” personified in the same
man. But it often happens that the
worker becomes contemptuous of the
dreamer who has spent years of nights
thinking through the vision that came
to him on the first of these nights
when his idea or his ideal flashed
across his mind.
me intensely practical man — uuu
“hardheaded” fellow — needs to leam
that before he can get on the job, he
must wait until the dreamers have
told their dreams. For without these
visions there would be no jobs for
anyone.
That pattern maker’s rule taught
me that if my life was to square it
self with the plans laid out for me by
the Creator so that it would har
monize and fit in with other worthy
lives and plans, my ideals as to what
I would be and do, 'must be higher
and better than the average, for these
ideals would suffer grievously when
transmuted into practical, every-day
living. If my ideals were no higher
than the life of the average man
about me, as I saw it, I would be less
than an ordinary man, for his ideals
were doubtless higher than the life
he was living.
It is probably impossible for most
of us to measure up to the best that
has come to us fh our vision, but if
we were even one-half as good as we
might be, we would be twice as good
as we are. This means that we are
functioning only about twenty-five
per cent of our capacity, because the
fire of our zeal has slowed down —
like a cooling casting — and this is
too much “shrinkage.”
Charlotte Police
Ball Set For
Friday Night
Plans are being completed for the
police ball at the Armory-Auditorium
Friday night at which Freddy John
son and his University of North Caro
una orchestra will play, it was an
nounced last night.
Several vocalists and novelty num
bers will be presented by the orches
tra. Tickets are now on sale at Hice
& Williamson and the National Hat
shop, and already a large number
have been sold, it was revealed.
An Indiana farmer in his own right, Wendell Wiilllde was on
ramiliar ground in the photo above. The GOP Presidential nomi
ner is pictured climbing out of the pen after recent inspection of
cattle at the Typographical Union’s home for retired printers at
Colorado Springs.
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WILL BE J
PRESIDEN
SAYS GREEN
NON-PARTISAN POLICY
FOLLOWED BY AFL IN
TIAL CAMPAIGN,
TELLS MAINTENANCE OF WAY CONVENTION LEWIS
STANDS IN WAY OF LABOR PEACE,
QUEBEC, Canada.—The American Federation of Labor win
follow its traditional non-partisan political policy in the coming
Presidential campaign, President William Green told the con^en
tion of the Brotherhood of Railway Maintenance of WayEmployes.
Mr Green said the Federation would vote for its friends
and against its enemies,” a policy which has made the organiza
tion politically powerful. The A. F. of L. chief came here from
Chicago, where he attended sessions of the Democratic National
C°nVThe federation favors all aid to Britain “short of war,’’ and
is behind the United States preparedness drive, he said,.adding
that the organization was calling on the
for the unemployed under “present work standards, with
lowering of standards until all the unemployed are absorbed.
Referring to the international situation, Mr. Green said.
“The Dark Ages fade before today's savagery. It is the black
est of black spots upon the policies of these totalitarian govern
ments and we who believe in democracy protest.
“We wonder why all these forces of destruction have been
turned loose on mankind, for we have been taught for the last
2,500 years that life is sacred.” _ l 4 . ... ^ „
If any dictator attacks the North American Continent, be it
Canada or the United States, “we declare it part of our philosophy
that we will stand together to fight,” he continued.
“We have established the democracy here. We are living in
peace. In fact, nobody can find the line which divides Canada
and the United States and we are determined to preserve liberty
and fraternity on this continent even if it means the giving of our
lives.” i
Mr. Green said the A. F. of L. wanted to see the democracies
of the world give to Great Britain aid “any where, any time, »
the effort that that country now is making to preserve
Turning to the labor picture in the United States, MnGreen
declared that John L. Lewis of the Congress of industrial Organi
zations was “standing in the way of an agreement between the
two labor organizations. . , , .
The formation of the C. I. O., “rebel in character and rival
in purpose,” he said, once cost the federation 1,000,000 members,
but now the A. F. of L. has 4,500,000 members, the greatest num
ber in its history. .
The rank and file of “the rebel movement” were crying and
begging for settlement” of differences, he said.
Machinists Push
Aviation Drive
Will Organize Defense Plants,
Says President Brown.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—A cam
paign to broaden organization of the
aircraft industry was announced this
week by the International Association
of Machinists.
The union already has exclusive
bargaining agreements at some of
the nation’s biggest plane plants, in
cluding Boeing in Seattle; Consoli
date Aircraft, San Diego, Calif.; Lock
heed, Burbank, Calif., Beech Aircraft
in Wichita, Kan., and many others.
“Our union is the only organization
recognized by the A. F. of L as hav
ing jurisdiction over aircraft me
chanics and we have more members
working in the industry than all other
independent unions combined,” Presi
dent Harvey W. Brown declared.
“To keep pace with the tremendous
stimulus which the aircraft industry
has been given by foreign orders and
our national defense program, we are
extending and intensifying our or
ganizing work in that Held.”
But Good Salad
Mrs. Newrich: “Since I’ve been to
New York I simply can’t stand the
sight of an avacado—”
Mrs. Dumkopf: “That’s the trouble
with New York—too many foreign
ers!”
, About AD
Customer: “Do you have anything
for gray hairs?”
Conscientious Druggist: "Nothing
sir, bnt the greatest respect”
TRADE UNIONISTS ARE WARNED
AGAINST NATIONAL SPORTSMAN,
HUNTING AND FISHING MAGAZINES
CHICAGO, III—The Organization
committee of the Chicago Printing
Trades Unions has notified all state
federations of labor and city central
labor bodies that the two sports’ mag
azines known as National Sportsman
and Hunting ft Fishing have been
Elaced on the “We Don’t Patronize
,ist” by that organization.
The announcement states that Na
tional Sportsman, Inc., publishers of
National Sportsman and Hunting ft
Fishing magazines, has refused to re
move its two publications from the
notoriously non-union printing firm
of R. R. Donnelley ft Sons company.
The fight against these two maga
zines is a part of the nation-wide
anti-Donnelley campaign which has
been endorsed by all state federations
of labor, hundreds of city central la
bor bodies and local unions and by
the American Federation of Labor
itself.
Trade-unionists interested in sports
are requested to support the follow
ing sports’ magazines all of which
are printed under union conditions:
Field ft Stream, 515 Madison Avenue,
New York; Sports Afield, Mt. Morris,
111.; Outdoorsman, 386 S. Fourth St.,
Columbus, Ohio; and Outdoor Life,
363 Fourth Ave., New York.
Trade-unionists everywhere will re
call the union-busting activities of T.
E. Donnelley (head of R. R. Don
nelley ft Sons company) when he was
chairman of the self-appointed “Cit
izens Committee to Enforce the Lan
dis Award,” a combination of the
most reactionary industrialists of Chi
cago, which set out to destroy legiti
mate unionism in the building indus
try of the Midwest and, with the aid
of the lowest denizens of the under
world, came perilously close to doing
so not so many years ago.
The anti-union Donnelley concern
is a menace to the entire labor move
ment T. E. Donnelley never hesitates
to lend his support to any movement
that has for its purpose the destruc
tion of trade-unionism.
The anti-Donnelley concern also
prints two news magazines known as
Time and Life. In competition with
the unfair Time magazine are the
following union-printed weeklies:
Newsweek, United States News, The
New Republic, and The Nation. In
competition with the non-union Life
magazine are the following union
printed publications: Look (bi-week
ly), Pic (bi-weekly), and Click
(monthly).
Typo Union Wins
Nat Relations Bd.
Decision, CharFst’n
The National Labor Reflations
Board today announced an order based
upon a stipulation requiring Southern
Printing and Publishing company,
Charleston, S. C., to cease discourag
ing membership in ^International
Typographical Union No. 43 said In
ternational Printing Pressmen and
Assistants Union of North America,
or in any manner interfering with the
right of its employees to join labor
unions of their own choosing.
The company also agreed and the
Board ordered it to post notices in
forming its employees that it will not
engage in the unfair labor practices
and to pay William Frederick $350
for the loss of pay Jie suffered be
cause of his discrimi^Cory discharge.
The company also consented to the
entry of a consent decree by the Unit
ed States Circuit Court of Appeals,
enforcing the order of the Board.
Typo Auxiliary
Celebrates 11th
Anniversary
The Woman’s Auxiliary No. 107 t«
the Charlotte Typographical Union
entertained in the private dining
room of the S. & W. Cafeteria with
a charming luncheon in celebration
of the auxiliary’s eleventh birthday
A color note of pink and white with
the birthday cage holding eleven pinli
candles, cut flowers graced the table
The new president, Mrs. W„ P
Stroupe, was presented with a beau
tiful basket of gladioli.
Covers were laid for Mrs. €. B,
Capps, retiring president, and Mrs
J. E. Kumpe, retiring secretary and
treasurer, also Mrs. Robert P. White,
Mrs. H. P. Carriker, Mrs. Roy Cash
well, Mrs. L. A. Hearn, Mrs. Annie
Granger, Mrs. Eddie Franks, Mrs.
Buford Green, Mrs. Hugh M. Sykes,
Mrs. W. P. Stroupe, Mrs. W. M. Wit
ter, Mrs. Carleton Davis and Mrs,
W. M. Bostic.
The next business meeting of the
auxiliary will be held at the home
Mrs- H.F. Carriker, 2549 E. 7th
St. Mrs. W. P. Stroupe will be co
hostess.
Ouch!
Boss: "That’s a very old-fashioned
coat you are wearing.”
Worker: “Yes, sir; I bought it thi
last time you raised my salary.”
HELLO, HOOSEGOW!
“Where in hell are we,” asked th
drunk, leaning over the steerim
wheel
"We’re cornin’ into a town and yoi
better slow down,” answered his pal
“Oh yeah, how c*n ya tell?”
“ ’Cause we’re hittin’ more people,
came the reply.
WHITS WHO
IN UNIONS
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LEO J. BUCKLEY
LEO J. BUCKLEY
Leo J. Buckley, President of the
International Stereotypers’ and
Electrotypers’ Union ofNorth
America, started his Labor career
in 1929, when he was elected a
member of the Executive Board of
New York Stereotypers’ Union No.
1. A year later he was elected
second Vice President and held that
office for six successive terms. For
ten years he represented his Local
Union as a delegate to the Interna*
tional Conventions. He served as
Chairman of the Laws Committee
for six consecutive years.
In 1939, at the age of 39, Mr.
Buckley was elected President of
the International Stereotypers’ and
Electrotypers* Union. He was the
youngest man aver elected to thle
t<0leo- OC
The I. S. A E. U. is one of the
most highly organised Labor
Unions, having 97 per cent of thoee
eligible in its nous. Each mem
ber of the L S. A E. U. receives a
funeral benefit of 3300 and hi In
sured under a group policy, in the
amount of 3&00, with the Union
Labor Life Insurance 1
Mr. Buckley is also Vice
dent of the International Printing
Trades Association. Although he is
one at the youngest officers at an
International Union, it is predicted
that he will carve an enviable niche
in the American Labor
His address is: Mr. Leo J.
ley, President, International Ster
eotypers’ and Electrotypers’ Union
of North America, 2812
Bronx, N, Y.
STEREOTYPERS’ AND ■
TROTYPERS’ LABEL
The Union Label of the :
tional Stereotypera’ end Electro
typers’ Union of North America
was adopted about 1910. In locali
ties where an Allied Printing
Trades Council has been formed,
none but this Label should appear
upon printed matter. The organi
zations represented by tills Label
are: The International Typograph
ical Union, the International Print
ing Pressmen and Assistants*
Union, the International Photo
Engravers’ Union, the International
Stereotypers’ and: Electrotypers’
Union and the International
Brotherhood of Bookbinders, a The
Allied Printing Trades Label is
representative of the work of all
the members of these various or
ganizations. Aside from this, the
Typographical Union, Printing
Pressmen, and Assistants' Union,
Photo-Engravers' Union, the Inter
national Brotherhood of Book
binders and the International Star
eotypers’ and Electrotypers' Union
have separate and distinct Labels
which appear upon printed •—tfrr*
produced in communities where
there is no Allied Printing Traits
Council in existence.
For further information regard
ing Union Labels, Shop Cards and
Service Buttons write Mr. L M,
Ornburn, Secretary-Treasurer,
Union Label Trades Department
American Federation of Labor
Building, Washington, D, C, ,
Short Jabs
It’s a wise father who knows as
much as his own daughter.
Love is a sweet dream, and mar
riage is the alarm, dock.
Now for a new simile — as out of
date as a last year’s atlas.
Don’t put your trust in money, but
put your money in trust.
All European countries are side. It
must be something they hate.
Here is one about a bow-legged
cowgirl who had an awful tlm* keep
ing her calves together.
Love is valued highest during the
days of courting and the days in
court.
- Rouge is what makes a girt lock
terrible when she doesn’t use any.