TkaONLY REALLY INDEPENDENT WEEKLY is Mtcklwbirt Q—ty Far a W« Its tfca LARGEST BUYING POWER tm Official Orgaa CastraJ Labor L'aioo; (tending far the A. F. of L. Truthful, Honest, Impartial Che Charlotte labor Journal Patroaiao oar tisara. Thor Maka YOU* hr Endorsed by tha N. C. State Fodara tloa of Labor AND DIXIE FARM NEWS TMth Tmc Of Coatiai Pa bication Endeavoring to Serve the M< VOL. X—NO. 24 fOWR ASVMflllMINf IS TNt JSVSSAi M S iMVUTHIItt CHARLOTTE, N. G, THURSDAY, OCTOBER S, 1940 UN Pw Y«r AJN incredible richness and generosity, yon have given birth to the perfumed orange groves of Florida and California, the waving wheat and com fields of the Middlewestern plains, the white cotton fields of the South and the rolling expanse of the Eastern farmlands where tranquillity and peace nourish the American principle of individual initiative against collective regimentation* In your bosom, you have stored for our welfare all the minerals which American genius gratefully receives and transforms into peaceful instruments by which we live the most abundant life known in the history of mankind. You have given seed to and nurtured our priceless heri tage of freedom of religious worship, free speech, free assembly and a free, enlightened press. With your benefi cence, we have learned tolerance from the intolerant. Such soil, such land, we are thankful to be born on, eter nally grateful to live on, and unyieldingly defiant to die' on, if need be, to save our beloved land from the brutal p rape which threatens to plunge the whole world towards a barbarism and slavery that staggers the imagination of civilized man. We are proud to be part of the first line of defense of American liberties ... to always stand militantly at the side of every true American against the Kf inroads of doctrines seeking to destroy America’s price less heritage. * MANY CITIES ARE TAKING STEPS TO SAVE JOBS OF THEIR EMPLOYES WILL BE REPLACED ON RETURN CHICAGO.—New York City, Mil waukee, Portland, Ore., San Fran-! cisco and Galesburg:, 111., are among the cities taking: steps, either through civil service commission rulnigs, to protect the jobs of city employes called into military or national defense serv ice, the American Municipal Associa tion reports. The New York City action was taken by the Municipal Civil Service Commission while policies of the oth er cities were established by ordinance or are under consideration, New York City’s civil service policy is as fol lows : “Every employe of the city govern ment who is a member of the Na tional Guard, Naval Militia, Reserve Corps, or Federal military, naval or marine services, is entitled to absent himself while engaged in the perform ance of ordered duty. “For the first 30 days of such or dered duty he will receive his city sal ary and for periods of over 30 days' he will receive - - - the difference be tween his military compensation and his regular city salary. | “Vacation and sick leave accrued prior to the date of service are pre served for the employe called to ac-| tive duty.” Promotion rights are preserved for oersons on military duty, according to New York City civil service policy. TYPO AUXILIARY MEETS ON MONDAY OCTOBER 7TH WITH MRS. A. B. FURR The Woman’s Auxiliary of Char lotte Typographical Union will meet Monday, October 7, at 7:30 P. M. with Mrs. A. B. Furr, 2516 Westmoreland avenue. Mrs. Charles Barker will be co-hostess. Business of importance is to be transacted, along with the so cial period, which is always a feature of the meeting of the auxiliary. Explorers of Babylonian ruins re vealed inscriptions of a boast by King Nebuchasnezur, that he had paved the streets of the dty with asphalt. I W. W. SMITH ELECTED HEAD OF TOBACCO WORKERS Louisville, Ky.—W. Warren Smith was elected President of the Tobacco Workers International Union, Robert Petree, Secretary-Treasurer and El mer Keen, senior Vice-President, at the union’s convention here. Mr. Smith is President of Local 186 in Louisville, Petree hails from Win ston-Salem, N. C., and Keen comes from St Louis. Former President E. Lewis Evans was retired on pension and will re main a life-time honorary member of the internationaL JEROME JONES A martyr has passed away. A man whose life has been a benefaction; a man whom Labor in the South owes much; a man who for more than half a century has been a sacrifice for his fellow man. He was never of an antagonistic mood; but hewed to the line letting the chips fall where they may, as far as the rights of the worker were concerned, being a staunch believer in the principles of the A. F. of L. His church life was exemplary, being always steadfast and a worker in the vineyard. Slim in stature, but a giant in thought and direction, Samuel Gompers saw in Jerome Jones a leader of men, and his vision was not wrong, for he worked unremittantly for organization, and wielded a pen that car* ried weight. He served Labor in every office that the Georgia State Federation could give him, being president emeritus, at the time of his death of the State A. F. of L. Last March this writer sat with Jerome Jones at a ban* banquet given by him to the Southern Labor Press, Frank Morrison, former secretary-treasurer of the A. F. of L. was there, he being an I. T. U. man, too, and it was a feast of reason and food for thought throughout. Each guest of the Labor Press was called upon for a talk. Frank Morrison introduced Jerome Jones in as touching a talk as we have ever heard, and Jerome Jones, with the years of labor upon his shoulders responded with a talk that must have sapped his strength, but the fire was in his eye; enthusiasm was in his every gesture, for he was living over again the years he had spent in a battle, not for Jerome Jones, but for his fellowman. . Labor has lost a friend; the A. F. of L. has lost a staunch adherent; Atlanta has lost a noble citizen, and humanity has lost one of its sweetest characters. A. F. L. ALARMED AT WORK TRAINING FEARS FIELD WILL BE FLOODED BY “HALF-TRAINED” WORKERS WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.—Robert J. Watt, international rep resentative of the A. F. L., said Monday that labor was concerned about *the possible flooding of the employment market with half trained, low-priced youths while there are still thousands of well equipped mechanics looking for employment" under the national de fense program. In an article written for the American Federationist, publication of the American Federation of Labor, Watts said: “There is continued and increasing confusion in the minds ef workers throughout the country about what that National Advisory Defense commission is trying to do about training workers for do feme Jobs. Workers are finding it difficult to understand the re lationship to defense and the relationship to each other of the train ing programs of the Works Progress administration. National Youth administration. Civilian Conservation corps. United States Office ef Education, and the apprenticeship section of the United States De partment of Labor." » Watts urged “wider participation by organised labor" in the formulation of national defense policies of “vital concern to workers." J. A. WOLL APPOINTED U. S. ATTORNEY IN CHICAGO WASHINGTON, D. C.^J. Albert Woll, son of Vice-President Matthew Woll, of the American Federation of Labor, was nominated by President Roosevelt as United States attorney at Chicago to succeed William J. Campbell, whose nomination to the federal District court in Chicago was sent to the senate at the same time. Woll, who is thirty-six, was ap pointed a special assistant to the U. S. Attorney General in 1984 and has served in Washington since February, 11934, as head of the Commercial Frauds Unit of the Department of Justice. AFL WHEEL WORKER8 WIN BY 894 TO 42 VOTE TOLEDO, 0.—W. H. Wbetro, Am ncan Federation of Labor organiser, announced that member* of Federal Local 18628 won an overwhelming vic tory in a Labor Board election amour employes of Metal Wheel 894 for the A dependent ui the American Nat_ Company. The vote waa npany. FL focal to don. 42 for an In