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CLAUDE L. ALBEA....AosodaU Editor
CHARLOTTE, N. C„ THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1940
JOHN PAUL LUCAS
'With the passing of John Paul Lucas, Sr., Charlotte has lost
a foremost citizen, the Duke Power Company an able executive,
the church a devout member, and humanity a friend, for he was
a friend to be proud of, and a fellow citizen who fulfilled his every
duty. He had business ability of no mean type, yet a heart
as tender as a woman’s, and his good deeds for humanity were
many. This writer first knew “John Paul,” as he was commonly
known, in the days when he was on the Charlotte Observer, along
with Avery, McNeill, Caldwell and Miss Addie Williams, when the
Observer was in the first block of South Try on street, and is
proud to have numbered him through all the years as his friend.
Mr. Lucas was born January 25th, 1885, being in his fifty-sixth
year, and spent his life from early manhood in Charlotte, helping
m every way to make Charlotte the city it is today.
Interment took place at Elmwood Cemetery Sunday afternoon
at 5:00 o’clock. The floral tributes came from persons in different
walks in life.
SOUTHERN STATES FAIR THEME IS
TO BE AMERICAN ISM-SALUTES
TO FLAG, GUARD MOUNTS, OCT. 18
Americanism will be the theme of
the Southern States Fair here Octo
ber 15 to 19, according to Dr. J. S.
Dorton, general manager. Patriotic
speeches, salutes to the flag, guard
mounts and a special program on
Americanism Day, Oct. 18, will be in
keeping witfc^ne new patriotic senti
ment that is sweeping the country.
There will be special displays of
flags on the grounds and the grand
stand. Before each evening program
a well-known speaker will make a
one-minute address on Americanism. {
On * Americanism Day, which is also'
eity school day, a special program will!
be given on the big stage in front of
the grandstand. On that day also, all
soldiers, sailors and marines in uni
form will be admitted free.
With only two weeks to go before
the fair’s opening, activities at the
100-acre fairgrounds just north of
Charlotte’s city limits are in high gear.
Fair week will bring to Charlotte
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one of the largest and most complete
entertainment and educational pro
grams ever seen in the Southeast.
Among the many attractions are
Echoes of Broadway, big New York
stage show, with the famous Roxy
ettes chorus; the World of _ Mirth
Midway; Lucky Teter and His Hell
Drivers, AAA automobile races, cham
pion trotters and pacers from eastern
and northern tracks.
Clyde Beaty, world famous animal
trainer, will appear at the fair with
his circus acts, each afternoon from
the grandstand. His acts will include
40 lions, tigers, elephants and other
animals. His wife, also a noted ani
mal trainer, will appear with him.
Emphasis is being laid on farm,
home and community displays, for
the basis of the fair is agriculture.
Tickets are still being distributed to
thousands of school children for the
two school days. Rural School Day,
Oct. 16, and City School Day, Oct. 18.
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Monroe, N. C.
The bottlers of Jacob Rupert Beer, sold in the State of
North Carolina, is unfair to organized labor. This Informs,
tion is given The Journal by the Brewery Workers Local, No.
340, and members and friends of organized labor will gov
ern themselves accordingly.
Central Labor Union has concurred in the placing of
Rupert Beer on the unfair list 100 per cent.
Dr. George l. Wike
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Mrs. Roosevelt Says, “Draft My Boys”
(Reprinted from LABOR, Washington, D. C.)
Mr». Roosevelt generally says the right things at the right time.
At her press conference this week she insisted her four sons should
be among the first to be drafted. She pointed out that all were husky
lads of military age. and declared she did not believe they should be
exempted merely because they are married.
On that point she took issue with the policy adopted by the army’s
high command. It proposes to take young unmarried men first. Mrs.
Roosevelt pleads that many of these youngsters are contributing to
the support of their families. The draft will be a real hardship for
them. She holds they should be permitted to continue in their usual
occupations while their places in training camps are filled by yopng
married men who have the means to take care of their families while
they are serving in the army.
Prdmbly the militarists will not approve of Mrs. Roosevelt’s
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FEDERATED PRESS OF NEW YORK
SAYS 74 PER CENT OF LABOR
PRESS IN FAVOR OF ROOSEVELT
The Labor press of the country sup
ports the re-election of President
Roosevelt to the extent of 62.8 of the
editors responding to the first of a
series of polls made by the Federated
Press of New York.
The first enumeration covered 122'
Labor newspapers with 76 of these
backing the Piesident for a third term
and only 3 supporting Wendell Wil
kie. Norman Thomas,, perennial So-1
cial candidate, has the support of 4
of the newspapers; 21 were undevidedj
at the time the poll was taken and j
17 reported themselves as neutral.
Straight A. F. of L. newspapers, 71
of them, participated in the poll. Mr.
Roosevelt received the vote of 63 of
these, Mr. Thomas of 3, Mr. Willkie
of 1. Undecided as to candidacy were
9 with 6 remaining neutral. Willkie’a
1 came from an Iowa AFL newspaper
and the other two were from a CIO
paper in Oklahoma and an unaffiliat
ed paper in Kansas.
Mr. Roosevelt’s strength among the
A. F. of L. newspapers, therefore, is
74 per cent, with an upward surge in
dicated when the second poll is com
pleted.
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FACING THE FACT*S
With Philip Pearl
We see by the papers that John L.
Lewis has pulled a $361,000 “boner."
The story comes to us by way of the
Chicago Tribune of Sept. 29, and if
the facts, as published, are correct,
they constitute a scandal that every
miner in the nation ought to know
about.
The story says that Lewis secretly
loaned $361,000 of the funds of the
United Mine Workers of America to
Josephine Roche in order to helo her
save her company, the Rocky Moun
tain Fuel Company, from closing
down.
Now, it appears, the company has
applied to the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation for a $475,000 loan in
order to straighten out its finances
and to pay back Lewis. According to
the Chicago Tribune, the RFC has
turned down the loan on the ground
that ijt was not satisfied with the
financial condition of the company and
felt a financial reorganization was
necessary before the Government
could lend it such a large sum.
The newspaper asked Thomas Ken
nedy, secretary-treasurer of the
United Mine Workers, how much mon
ey the company owed the union. He
is quoted as replying:
“I couldn’t tell you offhand.”
Asked whether the total, was $361,
000; Mr. Kennedy quickly responded: 1
“I’m sorry, I couldn’t discuss the
the matter at all."
FULL INVESTIGATION NEEDED
We believe that the members of the
United Mine Workers will force Lewis
and Kenedy to discuss the matter— '
and in great detail. After all it is
their money that is involived. The
sum of $361,000 is a neat package. It
represents one-fifth of the total re
sources of the union. The miners have 1
a right to know what Lewis has done 1
with their funds.
The fate that they don’t know and '
that no one knows is an indictment of 1
Lewis’ distatorship. The Chicago 1
Tribune says: <
“So secretive had the deal been I
kept that Jesse Jones, Federal Loan i
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Administrator, said that he was
imazed to learn of Lewis’ interest—
*nd Jones usually knows the history
jf his (RFC) loans from A to Z.
“Lewis is in a vulnerable spot with
the union because the collateral for
the loan is worth only about one-tenth
it the sum loaned.
“In desperation, Lewis has sent a
1 management company from Cleve
and, the Coal Mine Management Com
pany, headed by William Taylor, to
take over the company and ‘stabilize
t financially.’ This management firm
temporarily exercises control of the
•ompany for the duration of its con
tract and gets a sizeable fee.”
We cannot vouch for the accuracy of
these statements, but we believe they
'how the need for a full and complete
investigation.
EXIT TOLEDANO
We also see by the papers that Vin
cente Lombardo Toledano, the “John
L. Lewis of Mexico,” has finally been
(icked out of- office as executive sec
retary in name and dictator in fact of
the Mexican Confederation of Labor.
Toledano is the Communist leader
if Mexico and for some years has ex
ercised a powerful behind-the-scenes
nfluence over the Mexican Govern
ment. It was he who was chiefly in
strumental in bringing about the ex
propriation of American and British
>il properties in Mexico. It was he
vho invited John L. Lewis and Edwin
3. Smith, of the National Labor Rela
tions Board, to addres sa Communist
mass meeting in the Mexico City bull
•ing—an invitation which was accept
sd with alacrity.
Toledano was succeeded, according
o an International News Service dis
patch, by Fidel Valesquez, "who owed
lis rise in Mexican labor to his con
■istent fight against Toledano’s al
egedly Communistic tendencies.”
Furthermore, it is reported that
•lily a week or two ago General Man
lel Avila Camacho, the new President
>f Mexico, publicly repudiated Tole
lano and that this marked “the be
ginning of the end” of the Commun
st labor chief.
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