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POr > Its Readers Represent the LARGEST BUYING POWER la Chartoti Patronize oar Admr* Users. They Make YOUR paper possible by their co-operation. FARM NEWS Tenth Tear Of Continuous Pnbication Endeavoring to Serve the Masset Truthful, Honest, Impartial E*or~d * tViS? AND DIXIE VOL. X—NO. 22 row* AavtaTwtatNT la Tat JWmu la A CHARLOTTE, N. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1940 JOUMAh AOVMTIHM OMMVI COMHO««*TK»H OF *2.00 Per Yi THRILLS OF ENTERTAINMENT ALONG WITH WORTH-WHILE EXHIBITS AT SO. STATES FAIR Star figures in the show and en tertainment world will join hands with farmers, home clubs and agricultural communities to make the Southern States Fair here, October IB through 19 one of the largest and most spec tacular expositions ever held in the south. Five full days of fun and thrills, six nights of entertainment and an opening night replete with a gala prevue of the whole fair program are set for next week. From the advance sale of tickets it looks as if the crowds will be much larger than last year when enormous throngs surged the grounds. Afterwards there will be a prevue program for special guests and the public. There will be horse races Tuesday, Thursday and Friday of next week with some of the leading trotters and pacers in ,the country • competing. Lucky Teter and his dare-devil Crew will take over the program next Wednesday afternoon. AAA auto races will wind up the thrill program on the final day. Clyde Beatty and his famous wild animal acts wil be seen on the grand stand stage each day. Echoes of Broadway, with dozens of stars and CHARLOTTE TYPO. UNION RESOLUTES ON OUR DEFENSE PROGRAM; PLEDGES ALLEGIANCE TO FLAG At a well attended meeting Sun day afternoon Charlotte Typograph ical Union No. 338, President H. A. Stalls presiding, disposed of much business with dock-like precision. One new member was obligated. It was voted unanimously to establish as a regular order of business at all meet ings a pledge of allegiance to the United States and a salute to the Flag.” Wholehearted co-operation and support toward building and maintaining adequate defense” was enthusiastically adopted. The reso lution in full follows: “Whereas, the recent signing of a military and economic pact between Japan, Germany, and Italy has great ly endangered the peaceful policy of the United States, and “Whereas, this action on the part of the Axis powers has been followed up with seni-official threats from members of the Axic powers, and “Whereas, like Czechoslovakia, like Poland, like Norway, like Holland, and like Belgium, like Ehtiopia, like Albania, like Luxembourg, and like China and Manchuria, the United States does not have any assurance whatsoever from any reliable source that its possessions will not be invad ed, and “Whereas, it is the sense of Char lotte Typographical Union, a subor dinate of the International Typograph ical Union, that the foreign policies of the government be stiffened to neet all requirements in dealing with jggressor nations whoever they be, rnd “Whereas, Charlotte Typographical Union is heartily in sympathy with the policies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Cordell Hull relative to their views and actions in handling the world situation, “Therefore be it resolved, that Charlotte Typographical Union go on record as expressing to the President of the United States its whole-hearted co-operation and support toward building and maintaining an adequate defense of the United States and its possessions, and “Be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be sent to President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull and members of the Congress of the United States from this district and to the press.” Notre Dame students are alarmed at the amount of immoral literature put out on the news stands and they have issued pamphlets entitled "No Smut,” of which 125,000 copies have been distributed. through the gates each day. School children will be admitted free two days. North Carolina's 4-H health queen, pretty Miss Mary Francis Grier, of Mecklenburg county, will ride on a prize float in the parade that will open the fair celebration, Monday evening, Oct. 14. School-bands, and commercial floats will make the paraide an out one. Proa* and radio men will be guests at a special supper on that famous Roxyette chorus, will perform on the state each night. The revue includes a girls’ marimba band, a big brass band, a grand opera sing ing star, many specialty acts and nov elty numbers. The big exhibit building will be well filled with school, farm and com munity exhibits. The poultry building, the new swine and the livestock build ing will be filled t ©overflowing. LUf f tiKtiXN 1 When Adolf Hitler reached out his blood-soaked hands to grab England he found a different job from any he had ever tackled before, for the British people are fighters who never give up. Hitler announced that he would con quer England by August 15. Then he changed the date to August 20, and again changed it to September 1 and again to September 15. Here it is the first of October and he has not yet licked England. Hitler slipped a cog somewhere.—Exchange. UNFAIR TO ORGANIZED LABOR QUALITY BOTTLING CO. Monroe, N. C. The bottlers of Jacob Rupert Beer, sold in the State of North Carolina, is unfair to orfanised labor. This informa 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. THE MARCH OF LABOR CohWhaat** Act •» CM»rmr «u a not«Ab Act MHit III ■9«C>«wkmM ctetAiu eiMtu m kmrai. EHflOYUS* gTSr-' MEFOUKPCP UNION tO IMPROVE STANDARDS Of THE. ministry, and *> ENA81E tf III Its rreucftiE ton. |1S ftttMTS.NetfAS The t>*kotor at- «* YbRKS tASTAIDE. UA0OR TEKPLC, A COLfORAl. AND smu.Nhft iNrn Kmoi) «C« WtoRMUti of Att FAITHS Machines^and^Men Whenever a blue-print for a new job cant to me in my machine shop days* I could always tell, without looking at the signature, whether the drawing wan made 4V-; i*sy Hepartmep*- The»*t » individuality about each drawing which immediately identified the draughtsman- He had been given great liberty in the details of the machine which he was designing, and he had a fine chance for stamp ing It with his idea of just what that finished machine should be like. And yet, every machine needed to be constructed upon one or more of these six mechanical principles—the lever, the wedge, the screw, the pulley, theinclined plane, the wheel and axle. Never yet was a successful machine built unless it was constructed with one or more of these mechanical powers as its basis. In making our life’s plans, we too are given considerable liberty Where we shall work and what we shall work at are matters which we generally decide for ourselves. There are expectations, of course, bu tas a usual thing, we have the decision in our own hands. But whatever the work may be, it will always bear the impression of our own personalities. The worker in wood, or iron, or stone, the manipulator of leather or of cloth, no matter what may be his ccupa tion, somewhere on the job, puts something of himself into it. The toolmarks are always there. Those who know paintings can imme diately call the name of the artist, and the machinist is known by his file and chipping marks. .... If what I have said is true of the machine; if one cannot con struct even an engine without the observance of inexorable law, is it reasonable to suppose that a man can be built haphazard, or of scrap pile material? What a fool the mechanic would Im if he went to a scrap-heap in the back yard and fished out a cradled cog-wheel and put it into an otherwise perfect machine. But that is precisely what many a man is doing in building his character. The cracky cog wheel may soon send the entire machine to the scrap-pile, but there is no scrap-pile for the human souL It Uvea on forever. True success in Ufe can be secure only as our plana are based upon certain well defined principles. Honor and integrity are the foundation stones of real power. Reputation is what others give us. Character is what we make for ourselves. Men may take away our reputations, but our characters are ours forever. Hunsinger Goes On Park Board As Labor Member J. A. Moore, a member of the Park and Recreation commission, yesterday tendered his resignation to the city council and R. W. Hunsinger, em ploye of the Railway Express Agency, was appointed to complete the unex pired term. Mayor Ben E. Douglas read a let ter from Mr. Moore, a post office worker, who said postal laws prevent him from serving on the commission. His resignation was accepted with re grets. The Charlotte Central Labor union recommended Mr. Huntsinger for the post. Motion for his appointment was made by Councilman Parks Little and it carried unanimously. There were no other nominations. ' Mr. Hunsinger will remain in of fice until May when the term of this administration expires. Mr. Moore in his short communica tion to the council simply stated that postal laws, adopted in 1939, prevent him from continuing to serve on the commission. MRS. H. C. HULL LEAVES •>. PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL Mrs. H. C. Hull, who has been un der treatment at the Presbyterian hos pital, was removed to her home last Saturday and is said to beg reatly im proved. Ten Million Read Labor Press The American Council on Public Affairs, in announcing publication of a Labor press directory compiled by the Uni versity of Wisconsin Labor Research Library, states that at the present time there are 646 Labor publications in the United States and 30 in Canada. The combined readers of all are fixed at 10,000,000. That's not a bad figure for a press that, at best, has a year end fight with the advertising public (big-business) as to the worth of this medium for sales purposes. Professor John R. Commons, of the Wisconsin Univer sity faculty, in an introduction to the directory writes: “It is upon this Labor press that the historian has to depend for a real insight into what makes the labor move ment and the special industrial institutions which have been its product.” Again: well chosen words, for seldom if ever would one find anything in the daily press that would give this valu able information. A. F. OF L. DRAFTEES EXEMPTED FROM UNION DUES-PRECEDENT WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1917 WASHINGTON, D. C.—The Execu tive Council of the American Federa tion of Labor announced that members of directly affiliated local unions who volunteer or are drafted for service in the nation’s military forces will be exempted from dues payments and will retain their good union standing during their period of service. In taking this action, the Executive Council followed a precedent estab lished by the 1917 convention of the American Federation of Labor which voted a similar exemption to members who served in the World War. President William Green also an nounced that all City Central Bodies and State Federations of Labor will set up machinery to assist draftees to regain their former positions in in dustry, wherever possible, after com pletion of their year of military train ing. “The American Federation of Labor is determined to do everything in its I power to protect the status and pro-i mote the welfare of those who are called upon to serve our country in its time of emergency,” Mr. Green said. “It is the clear and patriotic duty of the American Government, Amer ican industry and American labor to safeguard the physical, moral and economic well-being of the young men who are shouldering the responsibil ity of defending the nation.” — Mr. Green also disclosed that nat ional and international unions affili ated with the American Federation of Labor are now considering: what action they can take in accordance with then- laws and Constitution to protect the standing of their members who are drafted and continue their rights to union benefits. The national and international unions during 1939 paid out more than $25,000,000 in various forms of benefits to members, including old age pensions, death bene fits, health and unemployment com- v pensation and disability payments. ' The entire defense program was thoroughly canvassed by the Execu tive Council. Members who had di rect information on various defense projects affecting their unions re ported to the council on how the rights of workers were being protected. The center of the discussion, Mr. Green said, was the maintenance of labor standards. He said there was no evi dence of danger as yet to these stand ards but he expressd apprehension lest attempts may be made in the fu ture to increase working hours with out payment of overtime. Committees representing opposing factions within the Virginia State Federation of Labor were given an extended hearing by the Executive Council which decided to send a rep resentative of the American Federa tion of Labor to the State body’s next convention to see to it that the laws regarding representation are fully upheld. Central Labor Union MINUTES OF REGULAR MEETING x October 9, 1940. After the pledge to the Flag, the meeting was opened by President Scoggins, and the minutes of the pre vious meeting were read and ap proved. The various special committees re ported: The Federal Housing Au thority, the Skating Areas, the com mittee to aid the City Employes local, -tile Draft Board committee, the Fire men’s committee. The assembled delegates voted to let Bro. Conder go ahead to the fin ish with the much elaborated plans of the Skating Area, underwriting the deficit expected of $150. The Skating Area is a much more; permanent and wox-th while project than when first planned. The secretary was instructed to write re the constitutionality of hav ing a split delegation from the pla toons A & B of the Firemen’s local, treating them as two rather than one local. \ The roll call of locals and delegates shows the expansion going on in the skilled crafts. A letter from the State Highway. Employes asking for immediate action was accepted, concurred in, and given to the committee already formed for same. A late report of the Parks and Recreation member announced that Brother Hunsinger had been appoint ed to take the place of Brother Moore, as recommended. Various members of the newly formed Western Unon local of the traffic department reported, and were given the usual welcome to the fold. Much advice and assistance was given this new body by the older and more seasoned members of the locals in Charlotte. This local is al ready taking its place in the ever ex pending A. F. of L. in Mecklenburg county. They are conservative work men, skilled in their craft. The meeting then adjourned after further usual discussion for the good of the order. WM. S. GREENE, Sec’y. LABOR GETS MEN ON DRAFT BOARD OF 15 MEMBERS Fifteen draft board members and five appeal agents were named Wed nesday by the appointive committee meeting at the courthouse at which time also the whole of Mecklenburg county was districted and the five boards were assigned to handle ex amination of men from 21 through 36 years of age who may be selected for a year of military service as part of the national defense program. Board members for District one are James A. Bell, Rufus Johnston, and Carol D. Taliaferro with John Dur ham being made special agent Dts trict two, H. M. Victor, Bryce Bing ham, and W. S. Green, with Ralph Van Landingham as appeal agent; District three, Louis G. Ratdiffe, W. A. Myers, and Eddie E. Jones, with Judge Fred C. Hunter as appeal agent; District four, F. L. Jackson, J. M. Smith, H. L. Kiser, with Judge E. McA. Currie as appeal agent; District five. Clarence O. Kuester, Rev. Jesse Lockerbie, and F. A. Wilkinson, with Radph V. Kidd as appeal agent. PATRONIZE JOURNAL ADVERTISERS CHRISTMAS SEALS CVAAAA/VAAAAAJl Help to Protect Your Home from Tuberculosis
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