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Closed Shop Pact
At Bennettsville
Mill Is Reported
BENNETTSVILLE, S. C. — The
existing labor contract between Marl
boro cotton mills at Bennettsville
and local 1912 of the United Textile
Workers of America was renewed
this week with the addition of a
closed shop provision, it was an
nounced here by Gordon Chastain,
national vice-president of the UTWA.
Chastain said the new contract
would become effective August 4 and
run foj- 12 months. Under the present
contract, all employes of the mill
except three are members of the un
ion, Chastain stated. When the new
contract goes into effect all eligible
employes will be required to maintain
union membership, he said.
According ,to Chastain, the new
contract was signed by himself for
the national UTWA; by Fernie Fow
ler, president, and Wilson Hammond,
secretary for the union local and by
David D. Carroll, president, and E. H.
McGregor, secretary, for the mill
management.
Chastain said the contract was the
first closed shop agreement ever ne
gotiated in the textile industry in
South Carolina. The UTWA is an af
filiate of the American Federation
of Labor.
Brown Heads
The Electrical
Workers Union
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The Exec
utive Council of the International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
appointed Ed J. Brown of Milwaukee
to the office of president, succeeding
Dan W. Tracy who recently resigned
to assume his new post as Assistant
Secretary of Labor. Mr. Tracy was
persuaded to accept the position of
chairman of the council in order that
the Brotherhood may continue to
have the benefit of his advice and
experience.
The new IBEW executive is 47
years old and has been a member of
the Brotherhood since 1916.
A graduate of the law school of
the University of Chicago and ad
mitted to the bar, he has never prac
-tiev'i'-’afw, preferring to remain in the
union field. His ability has also Won
recognition in public life. Former
Governor Philip F. La Follette ap
pointed him a member of the board
of regents of the University of Wis
consin. Last September he was elect
ed a member of the Brotherhood’s
Executive Council to fill a vacancy
created by the death of James F.
Casey of St. Louis.
Dubinsky Denies
Union Caused the
Alpena Shutdown
NEW YORK, N. Y.—President
David Dubinsky of the International
Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, de
nied the statement issued by the Al
pena Garment company, Alpena,
Mich., that the union’s demands for
union recognition and better work
conditions were responsible for the
decision of the company to close down
its four cotton dress factories in Al
pena, Rogers City, Onoway and Che
boygan, Mich. Blaming the manage
ment for the shutdown, Mr. Dubin
sky said “the enormous overhead and
the heavy drawings of the various
executives and directors and _ the
money drained out of the businesa
when it made profits are responsible
for the closing the plants.”
MACHINE THAT SINUS IS HIT
AT BELL FAIR EXHIBIT
The Voder, the machine that talks
like a man, can sing, too!
This remarkable mechanical mar
vel, songs and all, is an outstanding
feature of the Bell System exhibit at
the New York World’s Fair, which
has opened its doors for a second
showing.
But Pedro the Voder is not all the
Bell show, by any means. Visitors to
the exhibit, which last year ranked
among the Fair’s first three, will have
an opportunity to hear their own
voice and test their ability to hear.
Demonstration long distance calls,
a highlight of 1939’s exhibit, again
are providing laughter and thrills for
hundreds.
If you are planning to visit either
the New York or San Francisco fair,
be sure to put the Bell exhibit on your
Must See list.
TIMES-HERALD IN WASHING
TON SIGNS SERVICE CONTRACT
WASHINGTON, D. C. — T h e
Washington 'Times-Herald, one of the
four daily newspapers here, signed a
contract for its employes in the serv
ice detail department who are mem
bers of the Newspaper Service Em
ployes Union No. 22201, a Federal
Local Union affiliated with the Am
erican Federation of Labor,
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NOTICE OP ADMINUTBATION
Harms qualified as administrator of tb.
Estate of Cary C. Link, deceased, late of Meek
lenburs County, North Carolina this is to
notify an persons basin* claims a#eiiist s*Jd
estate to prevent them, duly verified, to the
underslsned st the Bryant Bnildins. Charlotte.
North Caroline on or before the 5th day
of July. 1941. or this Noties wUl be pleaded
in the Ur of tbslr reeorery.
All person, indebted to said aetata wfll
please make immediate settlement with the
undersisned.
This the 5th day of July. 1940.
O. W. HOLBROOKS.
AdmiaMmter of Estate sf Cary C. Lial
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VOTERS SHOULD DISCOUNT WHAT
THEY “HEAR AND READ”; LETS
HAVE MORE LIGHT THAN HEART
The great political parties have picked their standard-bearers
and the campaign may be said to be fairly under way. Let us hope
that it will be conducted with more light than heat.
Charges will be made and will be asnwered with counter
charges. Voters will be well advised to discount what they hear
and read by 50 per cent and accept the remainder with reserve
until it is supported by facts.
For example, George Seldes, well-known writer, this week
charged that in a recent speech before the National Press Club in
Washington, Wendell Willkie “came out openly for industrial dic
tatorship in the United States. Not only American business, but
all America, should be run by Big Business. There should be no
government interference, check, control.”
It was also asserted that the G. O. P. standard-bearer called
“for a let-down of all the ‘New Deal’ social and economic reforms
which would interfere with this business dictatorship.”
Certainly, Mr. Willkie has a right to be heard on these allega
tions. If false, it should not be difficult to disprove them. Sev
eral hundred persons heard the speech, which was made under
promise that it would not be reported.
If Mr. Willkie holds views resembling those ascribed to him,
he would be a dangerous man in the White House. He should lose
no time in giving the American people the facts, and the people
should withhold judgment until he has his day in court.—Labor.
GIRL SCOUT SERVICE BUREAUS
ARE ASKED FOR TO INTENSIFY
COMMUNITY SERVICE FOR GIRLS
The following comes to us from
Girl Scouts, Inc., New York City:
Labor leaders know how important
it is to give young people from 18
to 23 a chance to find jobs and be
active citizens. And they know that
it’s equally important to give boys
and girls from seven to eighteen a
chance to practice democracy on their
own level, to feel that the world needs
them and that they can help build a
better one. Democracies have taken
the training of their children for
granted. Dictatorships haven’t. The
years from seven to eighteen are the
years of most extensive training for
the children of totalitarian states.
And we all know what a short seven
years of such training can do.
Democracies not only have the bad
habit of taking children’s training for
granted. They’re especially likely to
take girls’ training for granted — to
think it’s unimportant. Dictators
knows that girls are not only future
citizens, they’re the mothers and in
fluencers of future citizens, which
makes their training doubly import
ant.
The Girl Scouts of the United
States report that American girls are
literally clamoring for Scouting with
its purely voluntary practical train
ing in self-governing troops.
Why haven’t more of them had it?
Because too few of their now-worried
elders were interested enough to spon
sor troops and help find leaders for
them. Girl Scout leaders are volun
teers; the organization offers train
ing in democratic procedures, in en
couraging girls to ask “what are the
facts” and in helping them to go and
find out.
Scounting is something else that
democracies have taken for granted.
Again, dictators haven’t. When a to
talitarian state takes over a country
Scouting is one of the first things
abolished. Dictators know that a na
tion’s future belongs to its youth.
Any program of youth training
works against time. Working, then,
against time, the Girl Scouts of the
United States stand ready to give
more girls the experience they need
io build democracy at home.
The national headquarters has rec
ommended to all local groups that
they set up Girl Scout Service Bu
reaus to intensify the welfare work
and community service of the girls
and coordinate it with the work of
other agencies.
There are more than half a million
Girl Scouts in America. Millions
more would be members if facilities
and trained leaders were available.
It seems up to farsighted men and
women to make them available.
A. F. of L. Wins Out
On First Unit Of
$5,500,000 Job
MASSILLON, Ohio.— Representa
tives of American Federation of La
bor unions in Massillon won a de
cided victory o”er the C.I.O. in a four
way A. F. of L. contract signed by
the United Construction company of
Grand Rapids, Mich., and Massillon
city officials governing the employ
ment of labor in the constniction of
the municipality’s first unit of the
$5,500,000 flood control and viaduct
project. Through the activities of the
A. F. of L. group the project not
only became a one hundred per cent
A. F. of L. job but contracts were
also negotiated with two building
supply firms who are providing ma
terial for the construction of the two
high pressure conduits. Local unions
negotiating the agreements were the
Operating Engineers, Truck Drivers,
Hod Carriers and Laborers, and Car
penters.
END OF GOLD BUYING?
Having found the pot of gold at the
rainbow’s end, we promptly buried- it
at Fort Knox, Kentucky, The other
day an economist stated that opr gold
policy or our foreign trade would have
to stop because purchaser* of our
commodities have little more gold left
for us to coHe<;t. So in the near fu
ture we will have to go on a barter
basis and accept tin, rubber, mica,
manganese, chronium, molybdenum
and other materials which are vital to
the nation’s industry and our program
of defensive armaments.
It is said that we can manufacture
an artificial rubber which is better and
cheaper than the natural rubber we
get from the East Indies. While this
will create a new industry at home,
it will make more difficult our cur
rent policy of international exchange
based on gold.
Thus the United States, like the rest
of the world, is confronted by a prob
lem essential to our well being. Just
how much foreign trade do we need
or want, and how will we effect an ex
change of commodities through an ac
cepted medium of exchange like gold.
In order to keep the perpetual game
of trade going we may have to give
Europe and Asia a few handfuls of
golden chips from the vast horde of
sterile bullion which we have buried in
Kentucky. Let as use its power and
prestige in such a manner that our
gold will create amity, good wiU and
fredo- «»one the neonle of **“
Baby Is Born
To 12-Year-Old
Columbia Girl
COLUMBIA, S. C.—A 12-year-old
mother gave birth to a baby son at
a hospital here Thursday, it was dis
closed today, and both the mother
and son were reported to be getting
along nicely.
Physicians said the baby was
“normal in every respect and heavier
than the average male baby.” The
child weighed eight pounds, 12 1-4
ounces at birth. The mother, who lives
hene, attended the hospital’s pre
natal clinic for some time before the
baby’s birth.
FOR WAFFLES AT THEIR BEST
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — There are
some people who don’t like waffles.
Waffle lovers in the Brown & Willim
son Tobacco Corporation premium de
partment say these “antis” would
speedily become waffle boosters if
they could taste waffles made in the
Manning-Bowan iron given for cou
pons packed with Raleigh union
made cigarettes. It is a smartly styled
twin iron with baking heat indicators,
cool walnut handles, and chromium
finish. The large aluminum grids sup
ply plenty of crisp delicious waffles,
it is said.
CORKSCREWS
Employers are making funny pass
es nowadays in order to escape the
regulations of the Wage-Hour law.
A button manufacturer in Missouri
claimed exemption because, it argued,
since the product was made out of
mussel shells, its workers were fish
ermen.
A gravel firm in Washington, D. C.,
sought exemption on the grounds that
its workers were seamen since they
had to perform their tasks from
dredges.
On that basis airplane pilots should
roost in tree tops as kin to the hawks.
Memphis Waging
Important Battle
For Labor’s Rights
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — For many
months now'the local union of Mo*
tion Picture Operators, loyally sup
ported by the Memphis labor move
ment and the Memphis Labor Review,
has been waging a fight for Labor
that is far-reaching. Tne Royal The
atre here, operated and owned by W.
C. Parham, has obtained an injunc
tion against the local union which
forbids picketing. Its sweeping effect
goes further, and forbids the local
union to passout handbills to its
friends and the public, notifying
tiem of the unfairness of Parham
and his Royal Theatre.
Such an injunction can be obtained
only in a few states,, and Tennessee
si >ne of them.
Picketing is a recognized and es
tablished right in practically all
states, and has been upheld time and
again by decisions handed down in
the United States Supreme Court,
Yet in Tennessee such an injunc
tion has been obtained by a little two
by-four theatre manager and, if per
mitted to stand, may result in like in
junctions -being obtained against any
union in the state of Tennessee and
in, other states.
Buford Greene Gets
Reissue Patent On
Typesetting Mach.
Patents recently issued to Caro
linians, include a variety of devices,
according to Paul B. Eaton, patent
attorney of Charlotte. The following
is one of them:
| “B. L. Green, the patentee in a
dumber of patents relating to auto
matic typesetting, obtained a reissue
<*f one of his patents with broadened
claims, covering the means for pre
paring a control record for a linotype
machine to automatically operate the
awe, and having means, when a mis
ake is made in preparing the record,
ijor cancelling the mistake and sub
tracting the measurement of that let
ter, and at the end of the line for
. utomatically returning the measur
ng means to zero position for the be
-inning of measuring of the space
the characters in a line will occupy
in regular line printing.”
Lai vine Mill Mews
Mrs. Ben Hudson spent a week at
Laurinburg. N. C. While there she
attended a fish fry, where they fried
up 700 pounds of fish. That’s a lot
of poor fish.
Mr. Fred Kanup went to CCC camp
last Monday and also J. P. Phillips.
Earl Wilbanks joined the U. S.
Army and left last week for duty.
Sarah and Addie Gurley, daugh
ters of Mrs. Bertha Helms, spent
last week with their uncle, Mr. Cleve
Gurley, near Camp Greene.
MRS. BERTHA GURLEY.
BUNDSMEN AND COMMUNISTS
CONDEMNED BY F.B.I. CHIEF
NEW YORK, N. Y.—Communists
and bundsmen were vigorously as
sailed here by J. Edgar Hoover, chief
of the Federal Bureau of Investiga
tion, who declared the Nation was
confronted with a _ new enemy _ “far
more crafty, scheming and despicable
than the kidnaper, the highwayman
or the burglar.”
He told police chiefs attending a
New York state convention “the
forces that threaten America today
are motivated by avarice, lust and
insatiable thirst for power. They
would destroy every vestige of our
traditions, institutions and sacred
heritages. They have but one prin
ciple—that the ends justify the
means.”
“No fifth column will make head
way in America,” he added, “if our
citizens support and protect legiti
mate law enforcement, rather than
the stab-in-the - back activities of
cowardly Communists or goose-step
ping bundsmen.”
ANOTHER PACT FOR HOTEL
EMPLOYES
NASHVILLE, Tenn.—R. A. Far
rell, Special International Representa
I tive for Hotel and Restaurant Em
ployes’ Alliance, reports that Hotel
and Restaurant Employes’ Local
Union No. 557 has signed a standard
union agreement with McDonald’s
“Round House,” now a very popular
eating place on Sixth Avenue, op
posite the bus station.
BOY FRIEND?
“That is a pretty dress you have
on.”
“Yes, I wear it only to teas.”
“Whom?”
KNEW WHO WON FIRST
Husband: “We had a drinking con
test at the club today, dear.”
Wife: “Who won second prize?”
JOURNAL’S LABOR DAY EDITION
THURSDAY, AUGUST 29th
Advertisers are asked to co-operate with The Journal
; to the end that we may be able to put our Labor Day Edition
out on time, by seeing that copy is in not later than Tuesday
: morning. The co-operation up to the present time has been
; far beyond our expectations, and causes us to feel grateful
that the efforts The Journal has put forth for ten years
for peaceful relations between Capital and Labor has been
; appreciated by the citizens of this section.
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L T. U. LAWS GIVE THE SOLUTION
FOR THE CONSCRIPTION PROBLEM
IN U. S. SAYS BILISOLY
With Congressmen in a dither over what to do about jobs of
men conscripted for the national defense, Tony Bilisoly, former
president of the local Typographical Union, suggests that the com
mitteemen studying this question give attention to how the ITU
has solved the problem.
In Section 7 of Article X of the Laws of the International
Typographical Union is the following:
, S*®; 7* case!* where members are admitted as residents
of the Union Printers Home, or who enlist for active service in the
regular army or navy in time of war, or enlist for active service
“ •reJ^In5r or.navy of ®ny co«mtry that may be allied with the
United States in a war for a common cause, or members of the
national guard or Canadian militia who may be ordered to war,
or those who may actively engage in war work for the American
Red Cross, Red Cross Societies of the allies, Knights of Columbus,
the Salvation Army, the Young Men’s Christian Association, or
any recognized organization of a similar character, their situations
shaU be filled by the foreman: Provided, That upon again report
ing for duty the situations formerly held by these members «h»u
be restored to them.
This rule has been incorporated in the ITU laws for 25 years
or more, and proved its efficacy during World War I, Bilisoly de
clared.—Raleigh Labor Herald. *
FACING THE FACTS
With PHILIP PEARL
In his Washington office behind
sound-proofed walls and bullet-proof
windows sits the loneliest man in
America, deserted by his former
friends and supporters, ridiculed by
every newspaper in the country, the
leader of a vanishing army. This man
has lost the loyalty of his followers
because he never was loyal ito anyone
but himself. He has lost the respect
of his associates because he never
respected anyone’s views but his own.
He has lost face because he could
not be self-effacing. He has lost the
CIO because he could not see in it
anything but a stepping-stone for
his personal ambition.
John L. Lewis is through. He may
hide away in his office and cut him
self off from contact with the outside
world but he cannot dodge his fate.
He may still dream about power and
glory but the realities that face him
are defeat and disgrace. He may not
yet see the handwriting on the wall
but he ought to be able to Bead it in
the newspapers.
Let us read it to him with any in
terpretation that may be necessary.
The keynote is sounded by Philip
Murray, CIO vice-president and al
ways regarded as Lewis’ closest lieu
tenant. Mr. Murray in an interview
reported in the New York Herald
Tribune differed sharply with his
chief on the third-term question and
said “that so far as he knew Mr.
Lewis was the only major CEO leader
who was opposed to President Roose
velt’s renomination.” He denied that
this augured any move to oust Lewis
from the CIO Presidency “at this
time.” The newspaper reporter went
on to point out that it was doubtful
whether such a move could be made
until the next CIO convention.
In a former day if Murray were
merly to think in the privacy of his
own mind about ousting Lewis he
would have considered such thoughts
treasonous. Now he discusses the sub
ject publicly. That, in our opinion,
indicates the handwriting on the
wall.
But let •us go further. In the City
of Rochester, N. Y., CIO officials
were even more outspoken than Mur
ray. The CIO industrial council,
which passes as a central body for
local unions, held an indignation
meeting against Lewis which was re
ported in the Rochester Chronicle and
Democrat. The paper quoted Fred
Bunn, council vice-president, as say
ing:
“John L. Lewis is on his way out.”
John H. Cooper, president of the
council, said:
“In my opinion he (Lewis) has
done more harm to the CIO through
out the country than he has done good
in organizing workers. The CIO has
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become a laughing stock In the coun
try because of his silly remarks.
Something must be done to check the
man. He’s not going to humbug me.”
Mrs. Anna Rosen, a delegate from
the Amalgamated Clothing Workers
of America, said:
“I think we should let him (Lewis)
know he doesn’t speak for labor.”
The council proceeded to do this by
adopting a resolution condemning
Lewis’ practical policies. Only two
delegates voted against the resolu
tion.
In Washington, the authors of the
Washington Merry-Go-Round, a syn
dicated column, have for years been
on friendly terms with Lewis and
have given him oceans of favorable
publicity. But the other day Hie col
umn contained this significant obser
vation:
“No matter how much he may do
for labor, no one can please John L.
Lewis.” J
Paul Mallon’s syndicated column,
also from Washington, refers to Sid
ney Hillman’s attitude toward the
CIO United Construction Workers.
Hillman called this a paper organi
zation and “left the impression” that
he had opposed its formation.
Now, to Chicago. There the CIO
United Auto Workers came out with
a statement endorsing Roosevelt
which, the New York Times said,
“was intended by its authors to spike
any third-party movement or other
independent action contemplated by
John L. Lewis.”
And then, along comes Senator
Burton K. Wheeler who for months
has been flirting with Lewis and
was the latter’s choice for President
on a third party ticket. And what
does the Senator do? J!ust when Lewis
thought he had Wheeler all pepped
up and ready to go, the Senator flatly
refused to start. He issued a state
ment eliminating himself entirely
from the Presidential race.
Perhaps Mr. Wheeler had heard
from back home, where the Montana
State Federation of Labor had re
fused to endorse him. Perhaps he
heeded the warning that the Ameri
can Federation of Labor would op
pose any Lewis candidate. Perhaps he
suddenly realized that Lewis had no
votes to deliver. At any rate, he got
out of the picture in a hurry and
left Lewis high and dry.
That’s where Lewis is now — high
and dry alone. The only supporter
ihe has left—excuse the pun—is the
Communist Party. Is it possible that
1 in the absence of any other candidate
for the “kiss of death,” Lewis may
hear and heed an inner call to run
for President himself? We wouldn’t
be surprised — we couldn’t be — by
anything he does any more.
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INCOME PAYMENTS UP 5 PER CENT:
FIVE MOS. 1940 TOTAL 29 BILLIONS
SALARIES, WAGES, MAY 4, BILLION
WASHINGTON, D. C. — Income
payments to individuals in the first
five months of 1940 totaled $29,132,
000,000, an increase of S per cent over
the same period last year, the De
partment of Commerce reports.
The index of such payments—using
1929 figures as 100—increased three
tenths of a point to 87 from April
to May, Secretary of Commerce Har
ry Hopkins announced. This increase,
he added, “reflected largely the in
crease in business activity following
the slow decline in February, March
and April.”
At the same time, the Labor De
partment reported that employment
in nearly every region of the United
States increased between April and
May in non-agricultural establish
ments. There was a net gain of 250,
000 in such employment, it said.
Secretary Hopkins said that a rise
in pay rolls during May was more
than enough to offset a decline in
cash farm income by the sharp drop
in government agricultural benefits.
Salaries and wages for May were
estimated at $3,789,000,000, an in
crease of $61,000,000 over April and
$191,000,000 over May, 1939.
His report said that the total of in
come payment for the first five
months of the year was divided in
this way: Salaries and wages $18,
655.000. 000; dividends and interest,
$3,428,000,000; entrepreneurial in
come and net rents and royalties, $ff,
828.000. 000; direct relief and other
labor income, $1,212,000,000.
COULDN’T DELIVER
A clerk in a miscellaneous store was
serving a caller. The manager was
at a desk som^distance away, but
he overheardJKe clerk say: “No, ma
dam, we haven’t had any for a long
time.’’
“Oh, yes, we have," interrupted the
manager; “I will send to the ware
house immediately and have some
brought for you.”
The lady went out laughing. The
manager turned to the clerk: “Necer
refuse anything; always send out for
it.”
“Well, you see,” replied the clerk,
“she said to me, ‘We haven’t had any
rain lately.”
Agent: “Sir, I have something here
which will make you popular, make
your life happier and bring you a hoot
of new friends.”
Student: “I’ll take a quart.”
HE KNEW