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The ONLY BE ALLY IWDEPEWDENT WEEKLY ta Mecklenburg Coanty Official Organ Central Labor Union; standing for tho A. F. of L. She Charlotte labor Journal Patronize onr _ tisers. Thor Make YOUB paper possible kg tbeir co-operstion. Truthful, Honest, Impartial Endorsed bp tbe N. U State Osa of Labor and DIXIE FARM NlSWg Endeavoring to Serve the Masses VOL. X—NO. 13 VMS ASVMVISSSMT I* TNI JMSRU IS * INVISVHMV — CHARLOTTE, N. C„ THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1940 $2.00 Per Tsar Charlotte — State A. F. L Convention City In 1941? STATE AND FEDERAL AID IS ASKED BY PRES. ROOSEVELT TO COMBAT FIFTH-COLUMNIST ACTIVITIES WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—Hreai-, dent Roosevelt asked today for close Federal and State co-operation in meeting the threat of “fifth column-1 ists,” but urged that it be carried out solely through normal law enforce ment channels. I In a message to a conference on law enforcement problems of national de fense, Mr. Roosevelt mentioned “the cruel stupidities of the vigilante,” and observed: “The amateur detec-1 tive soon becomes a fussy and mali-' cious busybody.” j On the point of Federal-State co operation, he said, “There are manvl policies where joint control can be ef fectively worked.” I “I have in mind, as an example,” t he said, “the enactment by Congress! and State legislatures of laws deal ing with subversive activities, with seditious acts, with those things which slow up or break down our common defense program. I “These mutual objectives can be reached by carefully considered leg-, islation, free from the prejudice andj emotional haste which characterized' much of similar legislation during the last World War.” ' Mr. Roosevelt’s message to the meeting of 166 officials from 46. state* was read by Attorney General Jack* son. Addressing the meeting, Jackson warned of “an effort being made here now to try to ‘soften* this coun try as France was ‘softened.* He asserted that the “softening" efforts took the form of “the prom ise of business orders, and of profits if the war can be called off and bus iness relations resumed as usual with the victor" in an effort to create a “fifth column among men of influence and respectability." Jackson listed these general forms of fifth column activity: Proselyting or attempting to con vert Americans from their traditional beliefs; “softening” by creating con fusion or discrediting a nation’s lead ers; using threats of reprisals and promises of reward. J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said that “the time is rapidly ap proaching when as a nation we must choose between the welfare of the great masses of Americans and a few interlopers who hide between the Bill »f Rights while they undermine our nation.” DONT SELL AMERICA “SHORT” BY DR. CHARLES STELZLE The (rest mass of people in this country have only the vaguest idea of how or why American industry stands supreme throughout the world. They have been the quiescent beneficiaries of an industrial system which has been built up through infinite patience and courage, and which has attracted to the United States millions of pioneers from other countries who have looked upon America as the “promised land.” But many native Americans have taken these things for granted, and in the present crisis they have too easily become panic-stricken, because they had always had a feeling that “ it can't happen here.” Something will happen to American because of the European situation. But no matter what happens, it ia important that American Industry be aoH to our own people in such a way that they will be more intelligent when emergencies arise. When once they learn the whole story, they wiN refuse to be led into the acceptance of half-baked economic theories which may soon be offered to America, and which can only result in disaster. There ia scarcely an Industry in this country but what has in it elements which are capable of creating tremendous dramatic interest, resulting in a greater pride in what America has accomplished and what it may do In coming days. The realisation of this fact may become a driving force in steadying the people in our country. This country will continue to prosper economically as we succeed ia pro viding for its people the things which they desire and can pay for, and as we create newer and better things which will enrich their lives, and which are made accessible to them. These cover a wide range. Every product or de vice which increases health, comfort, beauty, strength, safety, speed, con venience, cleanliness, learning, efficiency, accuracy, style or leisure, or which destroys fear, anxiety, worry, uncertainty or unreliability, is beneficial to humidity. ^ I These also have mental and spiritual, as well as physical values. But* such values can be produced in the days that are ahead, only u Americans believe in America. Therefore, America must not be “sold short.” This means that we must have faith ip ourselves and in our country. We have physical resources which have not yet been touched, but more important than these, we must depend upon the development of the fundamental charactei of th whole people. So long as American maintains the high ideals of De mocracy for which it has always contended, it will be unconquerable. oowwwwvwwwwvwnnnnnsasnnnsnnmmsnnnsMnnmvusuw THE MARCH OF LABOR QB30EDSSB •fouauam-eM k, ovm A'poxt*) ernMH nueu w*U«® o«rr. LT *1*1« I OUTPUT THE JOURNAL has by far the largest city circulation of any weekly published hi Char lotte. Your ad in The Journal will bring resalts from the workers. 6*818 FIRED FROM WPA WASHINGTON, D. C.—The Work* Projects Administration reported that on June 8, 1,888,712 persons mm em ployed on WPA projects* During the first week of June 66,518 were dropped from the rolls. Deep thoughts bl ftd actualities durir n Into beauti during the quiet hour. State Federation of Labor Convention, Durham, Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday, the 12th, 13th and 14th of August CONVENTION PROGRAM MONDAY MORNING. AUGUST 12. It O’CLOCK * BALL ROOM. WASHINGTON DUKE HOTEL. DURHAM Convention called to order by W. M. Barbee, President of the Dor* hast Central Leber Union. Invocation. Rev. John H. Marion. President Durham Ministerial Association; pastor of First Presbyterian Church. Address of Welcome, Hon. W. F. Carr, Mayor of the City of Durham. Response, James F. Barrett, Southern Publicity Director of the Amer ican Federation of Labor. Address, Mr. R. L. Lindsay, President Dur ham Chamber of Commerce. Address, Mr, W. P. Farthing, President Durham Junior Chamber of Commerce. Address, Hon. E. C. Brooks, Jr„ Senator-Elect of Durham County. Address, Hon. Victor 8, Bryant, Senior Member N. C. General Assembly, Durham County, Adoresa, Hon. Forrest Pollard, Junior Member N. C, General Assembly, Dur ham County. Response, A. E. Brown, of Durham, Representative of the N. C. State Federation of Labor and the American Federation of Labor. Presentation of Gavel to C. A. Fink, President of the North Carolina State Federation of Labor by W. M. Barbee, President of the Durham Central Leber Union. President’s Statement, C. A, Fink. Convention Duly Opened for the Consideration and Transaction of Business. Appointment of Cornedttoes on Credentials. Introduction of Invited Guests. Report of Credentials Committee. Obligation and Seating of Delegates. Appointment of Convention Committees. Ad journment for Lunch. MONDAY AFTERNOON, 2:M O’CLOCK Report of Rules Committee. Introduction of Resolutions. Ad dress, Honorable Clyde R. Hoey, Governor of North Carolina. Intro duction of International Representatives and Invited Guests. Report of Resolutions Committee. Adjournment. TUESDAY MORNING. 1* O’CLOCK Invocation, A. E. Brown, Chaplain, N. C. State Federation of Labor. Report of Committee on Laws. Address, Hon. J. M. Broughton, Gov ernor-Elect, State of North Carolina. Report of Committee on Officers’ Reports. Report on Committee on Organisation. Adjournment for Lunch. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, 2:30 O’CLOCK Report of Committee on the Union Label. Address, Hon. Wilkins P. Horton, Lieutenant-Governor, State of North Carolina. Report of Committee on Legislation. Address, Mr. Geo. L. Googe, Southern Rep resentative of the American Federation of Labor. Nomination of Of ficers. Adjournment. TUESDAY EVENING, 7 O’CLOCK Banquet, 7 to 9 o’clock. Daaee, 9 till— (For Colored Delegates and Visitors—Banquet, 7 o’clock, Biltmore Hotel. Dance, 9 till—). WEDNESDAY MORNING. 10 O’CLOCK Invocation—A. E. Brown, Chaplain. Report of Committee on Ed ucation. Report of Committee on Grievances. Introduction of Inter national Representatives and Invited Guests. Adjournment for Lunch. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, 2:30 O’CLOCK Final Reports of All Regular Committees. Report of Committee on Thanks. Election of Officers and Selection of Convention City. Ob ligation of Officers. Adjournment. American Retail Federation Asks Retailers and Other Advertisers To Use Preparedness Slogans [From Col. H. A. Wells, District Recruiting officer, with headquarters in the Postoffice building, Charlotte the Labor Journal is in receipt of the following, and passes it on to its advertisers. The Idea is being followed out to raue extent throughout the country, but not to the extent that it should be Ed.] HEADQUARTERS CHARLOTTE RECRUITING DISTRICT Office of the Recruiting Officer Post Office Building. Charlotte. N. C. July 24. 1944. Gentlemen: The following letter from the Office of the President, American Retail Federation, Washington. D. C., dated July 9. 1949, is quoted for your information: “TO ALL MEMBERS: I call your attention to the new policy of the Army with respect to its recruiting program. The Army is asking retailers and other ad vertisers to include in their advertisements slogans such ns these, or other appropriate slogans acceptable to the advertiser: “We favor adequate preparedness for national defense. Serve with the colors.” “Defend our country—Enlist now.” “National defense cannot wait. The Army is calling.” “The (seal recruiting offices have a supply of posters suitable for window display and cuts of these posters which they will gladly furnish for use in newspaper advertising. The Airlines, banka, bus and street car companies, manufactures, railroads, and other Industries are co operating with the Army in this program. “Inasmuch as my letter of May 2S appears to have been misinter preted by some retailers as an invitation not to co-operate with the Army Recruiting Program, I feel that retailers should know of this new policy. I recommend that retailers support the Army in every possible way in Its preparation for naHoukl defense. Cordially yours, • (Signed) DAVID R. CRAIG.” There seems to have been seme misunderstanding on the part of the retail merchants af Charlotte as to the policy of their national association in co-operating with the Army Recruiting pogrom by carry ing preparedness slogans in their advertising. It is hoped that the above quoted letter from the American Retail Federation will entirely clarify this matter. This headquarters respectfully requests that retail all other advertisers of Charlotte now begin carry! slogans in their advertising, such as are quoted above, and in this way assist in the national ' H. A. WELLS, Colonel. Infantry, District Recruiting Officer. typographical AUXILIARY TO MEET FRIDAY NIGHT WITH MR8. H. F. CARRKBR The Woman's Auxiliary of Char lotte Typographical ‘Union will moat Friday at 8 p.m. at the home of Mrs. H. F. Carriker, 8648 East Seventh Street. Business of importance is to be transacted and a fnl lattendanee is desired. BILL GREENE VACATIONING DOWN FLORIDA WAY Wm. 8. Greene, the popular and efficient aeeretar yof Charlotte Cen tral Labor Union, and Secretary of the Musicians’ Local, is sojourning down in Florida on the beaches, so we understand. Can’t figure out why he didn’t take to the mountains.. That the Ms dsai is with hh saying. AFL Union’s Charges Upheld By NLRB; Ringling Circus Ordered Drop “Co. Union” First NLRB Action On Circus In History The Ringllng Bros.-Barnum 4 Bai ley Circus has been ordered by the National Labor Relations Board not “to recognise or deal with the Amer ican Federation of Outdoor and In door Circus 4 Carnival Workers" and was compelled on July 86th to post an NLRB notice to that effect on the circus grounds in Chicago. The no tice must be posted prominently for 60 consecutive working days. The NLRB order was issued by the New York NLRB office and went into effect in Chicago, where the circus was playing last week. The order provides, furthermore, that the dr ess will not “interfere with, restrain or coerce its employees” in collective bargaining, and also that it will not “discriminate against” employees for “ioining or assisting the Circus, Car nival, Fairs and Rodeo International Union,” A. F. of L. The American Federation of Out door and Indoor Circus and Carnival Workers was organised last winter in Sarasota, Fla. Immediately the Cir cus, Carnival, Fairs and Rodeo Inter national . Union (which is affiliated with the American Federation of La bor) filed a complaint with the NLRB in New York (2nd Regional Board), claiming the new group was a com pany union. The NLRB investigated the charges and, as a result thereof, the Ringling management and the ---- Circus, Carnival, Fairs and Rodeo International Union agreed to a “Consent Decree” whereby the Ring ling management promised not to recognize or deal with the American Federation of Outdoor and Indoor Circus and Carnival Workers. With its* only rival eliminated, the Cireus, Carnival, Fairs and Rodeo International Union is pressing the circus for a closed shop agreement. The show was in Des Moines, Aug. 2L and Mason City, Iowa, Aug. 3. Ralph Whitehead, international president of the Circus, Carnival, Fairs and Rodeo International Union is in Chicago this week. This is the first time in circus his tory that a circus has been ordered by the NLRB to discontinue a “com pany union.” The “company union” (American Federation of Outdoor and Indoor Circus and Carnival Workers) ap plied for an AFL charter several times during the past few «««■«>« »nd was turned down by William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor. The “company union” also, attempted to file a peti tion for certification with the NLRB jffice in Chicago last week, but was turned down because, according to the NLRB in Chicago, the “organisa tion had no legal status.” WHAT CAUSES STRIKES IS FOREMOST IN MIND OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC TRUCK DRIVERS FIGURE IN ARTICLE This question is foremost in the minds of the general public as soon as a strike is resorted to. The answer is generally magnified to a large ex tent and all kinds of rumors and propaganda is turned loose when a good-sized payroll is stopfwV The average good ci^zei! <ioes not have the opportunity of getting the ick on some of the rotten inside tra__ _ __ conditions and hardships imposed upon employees by some of the em ployers, who in their greed for profits and dividends close their eyes in all directions. I do not know or could conceive of any idea where a strike would be more justifiable than to resent in that way the practice and rules in ef fect on certain transportation truck lines running in and out of our city. The truck lines referred to operate the larger type trucks with capacity of iB7r~ . - tonnage of lli,000 to 30,000 pounds, the operator or driver of said trucks are often required to help load and unload en route, also while driving throughout the night are in constant danger of being maimed, crippled or losing their life on these highways. These drivers have proven their efficiency and ability by long and faithful service which has satisfied their employers beyond all reasonable doubt of loyalty and dependability. For this long and faithful record they are awarded the pitiful allow ance of |4.25 for all-night driving of near 300 miles. To make it in less than eight hours the speed laws would be broken. Now if these same trucks have break downs of any nature, it is nec essary to call headquarters to send tires or other parts and the driver has to wait on the arrival which may be from a distance of 150 or more miles, instead of making eight hours he will make two ore three times eight hours and all of that on his own ex pense. When reaching his destination, af ter all the faithful waiting and guard ing his load out on some lonesome highway with the owls, he is told they cannot pay anything extra for thai waiting and his compensation would be that same $4.25 if the trip takes eight hours or eight days. This faithful employee is under the extra expense of room and meals al each end of the line, subtract that expense from $26.50, and his weekly earnings would leave the fat pay day of $15.00. W Do you wonder why the workers gel fed up on such conditions? especially so when they have families to sup port, and children to educate. Sucl families do not have the necessitiei of life. _ ,!‘*rd to understand just why God will let such employers prosper Just suppose he sees old satan witl outstretched arms ready to take then in; won’t there be lots of them. Yoi cannot hide behind your annual con tribution to the Community Cheat. Be ready, the day and hour to near at hand. „ H. P. PERRY, Member Inti. Assn, of Machinists. Wyoming Chnnot jgjproo On Mountain Spelling THERMOPOLIS, WYO.—The Big Horn basin mountain for which an irrigation project has been is spelled “Hart” rather than “Heart,” according to Tobias Bor ner, Thermopolis pioneer. Borner said the mountain was named for a homesteader who lived near Cody at the base of the tower ing peak, whose name was Jamas Hut. The irrigation project, linked with the Seminoe, Casper-Alcova or Kendrick projects and others, will water sparse Wyoming rangelands when the entire program is complet ed. Borner said that Wyoming high way maps spell the mountain “heart” because it resembles a hu man blood pump. Fixing of Ancient Clocks Is Hobby of Professor NASHVILLE, TENN. — Twenty years ago Charles R. Brewer, now a professor of English and Bible at David Lipscomb college, tried Ms hand at doing what every man prob ably has wanted to do at one time or another—take a dock apart and put it back together. Today Professor Brewer’s hobby is to buy broken clocks of ancient vin tage-some dating back to the early 1800s—and to repair them. Four teen of them now tick away in his study alone. WMWWWWWMIMWIMeW DRAFT IN BRIEF 12,000,000 young men, 21 to 30 years old, inclusive, would register. 400.000 would be mustered in to service by October, 1040; others later at President's dis cretion. Period of service—One year, at $21 a month and allowances. Exemptions—Men in essential pursuits, clergymen, men with dependents, the unfit Federal and State officials, judges, mem bers of Congress, conscientious objectors. (The last • named would be liable to noncombatant service.) ^ MWWMMMM The LABOR JOURNAL SERVING THE A. F. OF L IN PIEDMONT, NORTH CAROLINA STRIVING FOR THE RIGHTS OF THE WORKERS — AND A FAIR DEAL FOR THE EMPLOYERS
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