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VOL. X—NO. 23
CHARLOTTE, N. C„ THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1940
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ORGANIZATION WORK IN SOUTH
GOES STEADILY FORWARD, ALONG
LINES LAID DOWN BY A. F. OF L
WESTERN UNION EMPLOYES
ORGANIZE AT BIRMINGHAM
BIRMINGHAM. Ala.—A local un
ion of the Commercial Telegraphers
Union was organized here last week,
with a large number of employes of
the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany as charter members. S. E.
Roper, of the A. F. of L., assisted the
Western Union employes in organis
ing this local.
NEW LOCAL INSTALLED
AT SOUTH PITTSBURGH
SOUTH PITTSBURGH, Tenn.,
Oct. 14.—Charter for Local Union
No. 2696, United Textile Workers of
America, was installed here last week,
and arrangements immediately start
ed for presenting an agreement to the
management of the Star Woolen Mills,
by whom the membership is employed.
MEMPHIS HAS RUBBER _
WORKERS LOCAL UNION
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Oct. 14.—Mem
phis’ newest union, the Rubber Work
ers’ Local Union No. 22,466, compos
ed by employes of the Firestone Tire
A Rubber Company plant, took its
place in Memphis Union circles this
week under the guidance of officials
of the American Federation of Labor
and the Memphis Trades k Labor
Council.
RAYON PLANTS SIGN UP
CONTRACT WITH UNION
AT ELIZABETH TON, TENN.
ELIZABETHTON, Tenn., Oct
14.—Employes of the two big rayon
plants here are highly elated over the
agreement between the company and
the United Textile Workers of Amer
ica two weeks ago.
WINNSBORO ELECTION
18 A GREAT VICTORY
FOR TEXTILE UNION
WINNSBORO, 8. C* Oct 14.—
Textile workers throughout the
South are more active now in organ
isation work than ever before, encour
aged by the great victory in winning
t> -Wtlon here two »cOtS ago in the
United States Rubber Company's big
tire cord plant
HIGH POINT FIREMEN
ORGANIZE LOCAL UNION
HIGH POINT, N. C., Oct. 14.—
Members of High Point’s fire depart
ments have organized a one hundred
per cent local union. A. E. Brown,
organiser for the State Federation of
Labor, and Vice-President Smith, of
Raleigh, assisted the local fire-fight
ers in perfecting their organization.
These jnen give high praise to the
mayor of High Point, the chief of the
fire department, and other city offi
cials for their very fine attitude and
co-operation in the organization of
the local union here.
NEW I. B. E. W. LOCAL
ORGANIZED AT 8HREVEPORT
SHREVEPORT, La., Oct. 14.—
With 60 charter members, a new lo
cal union of the International Broth
erhood of Electrical Workers has been
installed here. E. H. Williams, A. P.
of L. representative in Louisiana and
president of the State Federation of
Labor .assisted the workers in their
organisation campaign.
ALL UNION MEN ON BIG
CAMP SHELBY STRUCTURE
CAMP SHELBY, Miss., Oct. 14.—
The J. A. Jones Construction Com
pany has announced that all men em
ployed on the big $11,000,000 con
struction job here are to be union
men. This agreement gives work to
about 6,000 members of the Common
and Construction Laborers, alone with
other building and construction trades
in proportion.
LABORERS WIN ELECTION
BY VOTE OF FOUR TO ONE
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Oct. 14.—At
an election held here among employes
of the concrete plant of the Sloss, Shef
field Steel ana Iron Company, Local
Union No. 971, Hod Carriers, Com
mon and Construction Laborers, won
by a vote of more than 4 to 1. Hugh
W. Brown, of the Birmingham office
of the A. F. of L. assisted the work
ers in conducting the campaign and
election.
MANY NEW LOCAL UNIONS
ORGANIZED IN ASHEVILLE
ASHEVILLE, N. C., Oct. 14.—Six
new Local Unions have been organ
ized in Asheville in recent weeks, ac
cording to reports from Asheville Cen
tral Labor Union. It has become nec
essary for the CLU to move from its
former location on Pack Square to a
larger building in order to provide
meeting halls with sufficient seating
capacity for the new unions. The or
ganizing movement had its real start
a year ago when the big Enka Rayon
plant was oganiasd.
RAILROAD PATROLMEN FORM
LOCAL IN BIRMINGHAM
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Oct. 14—
I Railroad patrolmen on the L.4N.
the Frisco Lines and the Southern
have organized a local union, and or
dered a charter for the new local.
H. L. McCRORIE ORGANIZING
FOR THE A. F. OF. L. AND
CENTRAL LABOR UNION
Anyone desering the services of an
A. F. of L. organizer is asked to get
in touch with H. L. McCrorie, 812 E.
Fifth street, Phone 6966. Brother
McCrorie is a commissioned A. F. of
L. organiser and for a while at least,
wil lwork under direction of Charlotte
Central Labor Union.
The American Federation of Labor will never surrender
the principle of democratic control or yield to minority force
and domination. It will ever cling to Democratic ideals and
will most jealously guard and protect the principles of De
mocracy and Democratic procedure. It wifi never accept a
dictator or submit to autocratic control. It is upon that sound
and solid American basis it has taken its stand and there
it will ever remain.”—WILLIAM GREEN, President Amer
ican Federation of Labor.
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PRINTING TRADES UNIONS
ADOPT RESOLUTION AGAINST
BREWERS OF BUDWEISER BEER
CHICAGO, 111.—The Chicago print
ing trades unions have adopted a res
olution condemning Anheuser-Busch,
Inc., brewers of Budweiser beer, for
advertising in the two non-union
sports magazines known as National
Sportsman and Hunting ft Fishing.
Both of these publications are print
ed by the notoriously anti-union print
ing concern of R. R. Donnelly ft Sons
Co. , ,
Following is the resolution as
adopted:
“Whereas, National Sportsman,
Inc., publishers of the two sports mag
azines known as National Sportsman
and Hunting ft Finishing, is now hav
ing its publications printed under de
plorable non-union working conditions
by the notoriously anti-union print
ing concern of R. R. Donnelley ft Sons
Company; and
I “Whereas, The American Federa
tion of Labor and its subordinate
I state federations of labor have en
dorsed a nation-wide campaign
against R. R. Donnelley ft Sons Co.
and all of its products (including Na
tional Sportsman and Hunting ft
Fishing magazines); and
“Whereas, Anheuser-Busch, Inc.,
brewers of Budweiser beer, St. Louis,
Missouri, is openly defying the Amer
ican Federation of Labor and the
members affiliated therewith by re
fusing to remove its advertisements
from the non-union National Sports
man and Hunting A Fishing maga
zines; therefore, be it
“Resolved, That this organization
in regular meeting assembled place
Budweiser beer on the ‘We Don’t Pa-i
tronize List’ until sudi time as An*
heuser-Busch advertisements are re
moved from the non-union National
Sportsman and Hunting A Fishing
magazines; and, be it further
“Resolved, That this resolution be
given widespread publicity among the
members and friends of organised la
bor in this community; and. be it
finally
“Resolved, That a copy of this res
olution be forwarded to Anheuser
Busch, Inc., St Louis, Missouri.”
The Chicago printing trades unions
have adopted similar resolutions con
demning National Distillers Products
Corporation, distillers of Old Grand
Dad whiskey; Enterprise Manufac
turing Co., manufacturers of fishing
tackle; Phillip Morris A Co., tobacco
merchants; and Gillette Safety Razor
Co. These firms are also advertising
in the non-union National Sportsman
and Hunting A Fishing magazines
which have been placed on the “We
Don’t Patronise List” of thousands of
local unions and central labor bodies
throughout the United States and
Canada.
The Organization Committee of
Chicago Printing Trades Unions is
requesting all local unions and cen
tral labor bodies to adopt similar res
olutions. Mora than five hundred have
already done so. If your union has
not already acted, why not clip the
resolution from this article and intro
duce it at the next meeting of your
organization? Printed copies of this
resolution may also be had oy address
ing the Organization Committee of
Chicago Printing Trades Unions,
Room 1519, 180 N. Wells St., Chi
cago, 111.
The campaign against the labor
hating Donnelley concern and its prod
ucts has been endorsed by the Amer
ican Federation of Labor as well as
[all state federations of labor affil
iated therewith.
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
EXPENDED $86318,000 IN N. C.
THE PAST FISCAL YEAR
i and outright expenditures of the Federal Government in North
Carolina during the 1940 fiscal year which ended June 39, 1949, amounted to
$86,318,900, according to a statement made today by E. Leigh Stevens, Staff
Representatives for tkrOfflce of Gw&mment Reports.
Loans totaled $19,374,999, and grants-in-aid and other expenditures
amounted to $66,944,000. In addition, the Federal Housing Administration
insured $11,324,000 worth of housing improvement notes and mortgages in
the State.
The following is a detailed list of the loans made in North Carolina
from July 1, 1939 through June 30, 1949.
Farm Credit Administration-$10,278,999
Commodity Credit Corporation _ 150,999
Farm Security Administration- 3,119,900
• Farm Tenant Purchase - 1,733,000
Rural Electrification Administration_ 2,929,000
Federal Reserve Board .. 53,000
Public Works Administration_ (-762,900)
Reconstruction Finance Corporation_ 1,211,000
Home Owners’ Loan Corporation_
TOTAL----$19,374,000
Expenditures and grants are as follows:
Agricultural Adjustment Administration_$16,269,990
Rural Rehabilitation.. 1,256,990
Resettlement Projects .._ 143,009
Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation_ 1,453,909
Soil Conservation Service (Regular Program) .. 479,000
Land Utilisation Program ...._ 68,999
Civilian Conservation Corps (Regular Program). 6,169,090
Indian Service--- 6 MOO
Social Security Act- 3,627,099
United States Employment Service_ 1,971,999
National Youth Administration_ 2,486,900
Public Roads Administration _ 5,132,000
PWA Non-Federal Projects
Work Projects Administration_ 23,196,990
Rivers, Harbors, and Flood Control_ 196,009
TOTAL...$66,944,009
GRAND TOTAL ..____986,318,9#
Insured Loans: Federal Housing Afalnlontbi)
Title I .$2,928,990
Title II .....- 9,296,900
$11434,990
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IN THE MINDS OF LABOR-HATING
REACTIONARIES THE AM. FED. OF
LABOR IS A GALLERY OF CROOKS
NEW YORK.—In the eyes of labor
hating reactionaries, the American
Federation of Labor is a gallery of
crooks, opportunists, crackpots and
criminals. But here is the story of a
type of man the enemies of the AFL
never mention.
It’s the story of Carl Roth, 38
year-old electrical worker who owned
a neat little frame home in a quiet
New York suburban street, where
you’d think that the harsh cries of la
bor conflict and tragedy would never
intrude. As a matter of fact, no one
had the faintest premonition—not big,
jovial Carl, nor his wife, Anna, nor
his 12-year-old son, Billy.
Today Carl is dead. And in the
words of James A. Wechsler, bril
liant young author and contributor to
many of the nation’s most influential
magazines: “Roth’s name has leaped
from rank-and-file obscurity to the
immortality reserved for labor mar
tyrs.”
For Carl met a strange and untime
ly death a few. days ago while doing
picket duty at the gates of the Tri
angle Conduit Cable Company, in
Glendale, Queens, a suburb not far
from the calloused center of this city.
The strike was two months old. j
As police, on foot and mounted,
closed in on the marching rank of
pickets, the emotional shock was too
great for Carl. He collapsed—victim
of a heart attack. _ The same evening
into one of the union’s many meeting
halls—jt has 18,000 members—march
ed about 1,000 cable workers, mem
bers of Local 3 of the International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers,
(AFL) who crowded to hear union
leaders eulogize their departed brother.
The feelings of the union, however,
were not expressed solely in words.
Roth’s son, Billy, was voted a life
membership in the union. The organ
ization also pledged to do all that it j
could to assist Roth’s wife. A check
for $3,000 was immediately dispatch
ed to the bereaved woman.
The next day the union’s seven
story headquarters was draped in
pu ple and black. Roth’s body lay in
state as thousands of his fellow-mem
Dejjf filed in by reverent silence.
There was no reason why Carl
should have been at the Triangle
picketing demonstration. He wasn’t
a Triangle employee. As a matter of
fact,, he worked for the. company
whieh maintains, repairs and inspects
New York’s street lighting system.
The men at Triangle were striking'
for 80c an hour, at present they are
receiving 63c an hour. Roth’s rate of
pay was $2 an hour for a 30-hour
week. Sixty dollars was an average
weeks pay. He was in clover. He
might have stayed home, enjoyed the
company of his wife and son. He fU
getting on for middle-age, when men
are inclined.to take it easy end shy
away from extra chores.
Local 3 is a progressive, dynamic
union. When a Local 3 man says, “An
injury to one is an injury to all,” he
means it. So when the Triangle plant
was struck, hundreds of members of
the union looked on the fight of the
Triangle workers as their fight. The
union had fought for the improved
wages and conditions which Roth en
joyed. It made it possible for him to
own his home, to buy a piano for his
wife, to begin to lay aside a few dol
lars for Billy’s college education. The
least he could do was to help his less
fortunate brothers.
One morning Roth, who had been a
union member 21 years, quit work at
3 A. M. He was on the night shift
and a couple of hours alter, without
going home or changing his clothes, he
started for the Triangle plant in the
fray dawn. He really didn’t have to.
ut that’s how it was with Carl
Roth—somehow other people's trou
bles were his too.
The police were herding armed
thugs and strikebreakers into the plant.
Suddenly there was a flurry of ex
citement, a flame of protest, a momen
tary clash. Roth was standing on
the sidelines looking on at the mo
ment. Then he collapsed. He'
succumbed to heart failure.
Union representatives went to the
little frame house in the quiet, tree
shaded suburban street to talk to W*
family. His was a simple story: He
was a big, good-natured, kindly fel
low. Everyone called him Carl, even
the kids in the street.
He liked to take pictures and lib
listen to his wife play the piano, and
to talk wit htwelve-year-old Billy
about the rosey future that lay be
fore them all. Mrs. Roth told the un
ion representatives that it was going
to be hard to give Billy that college
education of which Carl had always
dreamed
“I guess we’ll have to forget all
about that, she said.
But Local 3 thought differently.
Shortly before the funeral, Harry
Van Arsdale, Jr., business manager of
Local 3, said: “Our union will see to
it that Carl Roth’s boy gets that edu
cation. From now on that is one of
the- responsibilities of Load ®r With- <
out men like Carl, who are prepared
to sacrifice their own professional In
terests for their fellow men, the labor
movement couldn’t exist."
As one of the New York reporters
covering the funeral said: “Carl Roth
has become a name for union history
books.”
UNFAIR TO ORGANIZED LABOR
QUALITY BOTTLING CO.
Monroe, N. C.
« ?h* bot.t,ers.ot Jacob Rupert Beer, sold in the State of
North Carolina, is unfair to organized labor. This informa
tion is given The Journal by the Brewery Workers No.
340, and members and friends of organized labor will m
era themselves accordingly.
Central Labor Union has concurred in the
Rupert Beer on the unfair list 100 per cent.
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