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LESS THAN A LIVING I What ao you consider • bare living for yourself and family? Gov ernment statistics have tried to figure this out, if you haven’t. They have estimated, according to the cost of living in different cities, just how much it costs to feed, clothe and house the average family of man, wife, and a couple of children, at the most economical level, without any trimmings or luxuries or even a second-hand car. This “maintenance level,” as the WPA researchers call it, calls for an income ranging from $1,190.90 a year in Mobile, Ala., to $1,502.29 a year in New York City. In other words, in any of the larger cities of the United States, a family must have an income of at least from $22.90 to $28.89 a week—and have it every week in the year—to be able to eke out a bare existence. Yet the Survey of Current Business of the U. S. Dept, of Com merce shows that in the last year the average wage of boot and shoe ^workers ranged from less than $16 to a little more than $19 a week. Textile workers got from $16.36 to $17.72 a week; lumber and saw mill workers from $17.08 to $19.45. The average for all American factory workers was only from $24.01 to $25.81 a week. If most American factory workers with a family to support can title at only a bare maintenance level even when working steadily, what can be said for the level of existence of those millions who are laid off much of the time or are unemployed? People can and do exist for a time at less than a living wage, but only at a cost of malnutrition, stunted growth, ill-health and general wretchedness that saps a whole people’s strength. By organizing the workers to obtain decent wages, organized labor is performing the greatest possible patriotic service to the American people. The Journal has a “little mountain story, with a “hill-billy” poem fo rpublication at an early date. It will, we hope, have a lit tle human interest touch, but know it will be humorous, to say the least. COMPLIMENTS ALLEN SUPPLY CO. LUCAS PAINTS CORBIN HARDWARE PLUMBING FIXTURES 314 South Tryon St. Charlotte, N. C. BEST WISHES TO LABOR AND THE JOURNAL Farmers & Merchants Supply Co. Wholesale and Retail GRAIN, FEED, FERTILIZERS, HARDWARE 224 E. Trade St. Phone 5749 COMPLIMENTS OF A FRIEND **••*****"******-nn^i,vp*rri~ivrriiVinnrmnrwiAiariAruw / A i_i i.ru~ ir>—<—i—i—■—i—i—1~—i— *---* 1 '■ LACK OF STAMINA Some of the military men say that the young men of today are lower in stamina than those who were drafted in the World War; that they are less able to withstand hard ship, fatigue and disease. The reasons given, according to the United States News, are soft living, automobiles, bad and irregular habits. Those reasons, while they may affect some young men, appear incomplete. How about poverty? How about unemployment? How about slums? How about lack of sufficient nourishing food? You can’t bar 30 or 40 million people from regular fam ily incomes for a whole decade without impairing the stamina of the young and the not so young. This is one of the reasons why organized labor has been lustily hollering, all these 10 years, for a genuine effort to abolish unemployment.—Summit County Labor News. All the political “Big Boys” seem to be turning to the soft drink business. Apologies to Jim Farley and Ben Douglass. PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS BEST WISHES TO LABOR R. P. STEFFEY CO. 116 W. 4th St. DUO-THERM FUEL OIL CIRCULATING HEATERS FAIRBANKS-MORSE STOKERS BEST WISHES TO LABOR AND THE JOURNAL STOCKTON MOTOR CO. EVERYTHING IN AUTO REPAIRS 1525 South Mint St. Phone 3-2914 Charlotte, N. C. BEST WISHES TO LABOR AND THE JOURNAL WILDCAT GROCERY A COMPLETE LINE OF GROCERIES, FRESH MEATS, VEGETABLES, FRUITS AND PRODUCT Under new management by a local home boy Prompt Delivery Service 800 N. Brevard Phone 0878 Labor’s Patronage Appreciated Our Motto—A Square Deal to Everyone COMPLIMENTS TO LABOR TUCKER-KIRBY COMPANY Building Materials, Coal Phone 3-2116 520 West Palmer Street THE HOME OF T-K SERVICE SINCE 1920 BEST WISHES TO LABOR AND THE JOURNAL WENTZ SIGN CO. OLDEST SIGN BUSINESS IN CHARLOTTE 413 E. TRADE ST. PHONE 9461 A FRIEND OF LABOR FRIENDLY CREDIT Open A McDonald Budget Account [A Bor AO You Need 1 jf FIRESTONE TIRES Batteries, Home and Auto supplies ^ Low Weekly Payments To Suit You At Your Favorite MCDONALD’S NEIGHDORHOOD STORE NAT. LABOR DAY LAW SPONSORED BY THE A. F. OF L The campaign to secure legislation making Labor [Day a national holiday began in the 1884 convention of the American Federation of Labor which unanimously adopted the following resolution introduced by Delegate A. C. Cameron of the Chicago Trades and Labor Alliance: “Resolved, That the first Monday in September of each year be set apart as a laborers’ national holiday, and that we recommend its observance by all wage workers, irrespective of sex, calling or nationality.” By 1893 the legislatures of twenty three States had enacted Labor Day laws, and 1923 the roll was completed by Wyoming. Congress enacted the national Labor Day law in 1894. If your argument is weak, use stronger words. DRIVE PLANNED BY WAGE-HOUR BEGAN MONDAY Fifteen inspectors of the Federal Wage and Hour Division met in Charlotte Saturday with Fred Coxe, senior inspector, to receive last min ute instructions on a five-industry, compliance drive whiqh began Mon day morning in the Carolinas and throughout the nation. Industries to be covered in the drive will be furniture, leather goods and luggage, boots and shoes, hosiery and woolen goods. The inspection in the Carolinas will be under the super vision of Mr. Coxe. October 1 has been set as the date for the completion of the inspection. The concentrated inspection of these industries is the second step in the Wage and Hour Division’s drive to obtain compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act on a national, industry-wide basis. The first more was a compliance drive in the lumber industry, now approaching a suc cessful conclusion. SMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM LABOR DAY MADE LEGAL HOLIDAY BY CONGRESS, 1894 The law making the first Monday in September of each year a legal holi day was enacted by Congress in ISM. Identical bills to the effect were intro duced in the House of Representatives by Representative Amos J. Cum i mings, of New York City, and in the i Senate by Senator James H. Kyle, of South Dakota. The bill passed both I houses unanimously and was signed by President Grover Cleveland on June 28, 1894. i COMPLIMENTS TO LABOR ERNEST DeLANEY COLLECTOR OF REVENUE WILDER SODA SHOP THIRD AND TRYON PHONE 6177*6178 £late lunches, toasted sand ®RILLED STEAK plates—we carry a com ™.f,!£ES’ tobacco, cigars, cigarettes, etc. A COMPLETE FOUNTAIN SERVICE. “SERVICE THAT IS SINCERE’ WILDER BLDG. SHAW MANUFACTURING CO. MANUFACTURERS OF UPHOLSTERED LIVING ROOM FURNITURE AND ODD CHAIRS HARRY P. SHAW 107 EAST KINGSTON AVE. CHARLOTTE, N. C. CROUCH FUNERAL HOME and Crouch Mutual Burial Assn. 800 South Tryon St. Charlotte, N. C. Telephone 3-8207 Day and Night CHARLOTTE, N. C. LEE CONSTRUCTION COMPANY GENERAL CONTRACTORS Charlotte, North Carolina OUR BUSINESS FOR 59 YEARS HANDLING SAVINGS AND FINANCING HOMES The Mutual Building & Loan Ass’n 119 E. THIRD ST. COMPLIMENTS TO LABOR ERNEST ELLISON, INC. JUST INSURANCE 115 E. 4th St. Charlotte, N. C.
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