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VOL. X—NO. 24 *— - . •» CHARLOTTE, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1940 ~ *2.00 Par You
®0 A NATION that can point to approximately
40% of its 130,000,000 people who own their
own homes, “Home, Sweet Home” is no mere
figure of speech. Here, home has a deeper,
richer significance than it has in any other
land throughout the world.
Since its glorious founding, America has adopted millions
of the hunted, the persecuted and the oppressed. It has
taught them the love of tolerance, the love of liberty, and
the love of being able to own and to fervently say • • •
“Our Home, Sweet Home.”
To those few who would lend any moral or physical aid
to the forces of dehumanization seeking to violate the
sanctity of our home-loving people^ a united, aroused
America thunders “Beware.”
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America and its home-lovers do not dread the future.
Our love of free speech, free religious worship,* free
assembly and a free press is totlay more deeply imbedded
in the heart of each American than ever before. We
place our unbounded trust in a Providence who has
blessed us for over 150 years. We place our destiny
and guidance in the souls, hearts and bodies of our
people who will fight *to the death for the freedom of
their hands, the freedom of their intelligence and the
freedom of their conscience.
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 inroads oi
doctrines seeking to destroy America’s priceless heritage.
INTERSTATE EMPLOYES INDUSTRY
GO ON 40-HOUR WEEK TODAY;
2,000,000 WORKERS ARE AFFECTED
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—The be
ginning of the 40-hour standard work
week under the wage-hour law today
will mean a shorter work week or ov
ertime pay for some 2,000,000 work
ers in interstate industry, Wage-Hour
officials estimated today.
They said this was the number of
workers who could be found in any
week of average industrial activity
working more than 40 hours without
getting overtime wages at the rate of
time and a half.
Approximately 700,000 more, they
said, work more than 40 hours also,
but are paid time and a half as a
matter of practice or contract.
Under the 40-hour week plan, which
replaces the present 42-hour week,
these 2,000,000 wil leither have their
working time cut by two hours, or be
paid time and a half for work done
beyond 40 hours.
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the largest city circulation of
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lotte. Your ad in The Journal
win bring results front the
The 40-hour week is the final step
in the evolution of a fixed standard
work week under the wage-hour act.
When the law went into operation
in 1938, it called for a 44-hour week
and time and a half pay for overtime.
In October, 1939, the week became 42
hours.
Revised regulations defining ex
empted white collar workers also be
came effective Thursday. Wage hour
authorities estimate that more than
200,000 such workers wil lbe exclud
ed from the maximum hour and over
time requirements of the law.
The change to a 40-hour week will
not affect railroad workers, or truck
and bus drivers whose operations are
not covered by the hours provision of
the act. Retail and service employes
likewise are not affected.
The act is applicable only to per
sons engaged in interstate commerce
or the production of goods for inter
state commerce.
Wage-hour authorities issued these
estimates of the number of workers
covered by the law and the number
probably affected in each state by the
start of the 40-hour week:
Alabama, 178,300 and 50,612: Ar
kansas, 66,600 and 22,960; Florida,
102,384; Louisiana, 1S6J00 and 35,
892; Maryland, 211,800 and 40,544;
Mississippi, 71,400 and 25,424; New)
York, 1,516,100 and 288,448; North
Carolina, 322,000 and 79,632; South
Carolina, 156,200 and 28,784; Tennes
see, 212,000. and 66,628; Virginia,
213,400 and 48,608; District of Co
lumbia, 31,300 and 6,272.
RAILWAY CLERKS SIGN UP
CHICAGO UNION STATION
CHICAGO, HI.—The Brotherhood
of Railway Clerks won a two-year
fight for better working conditions at
the Chicago Union Station.
An agreement was signed by the
management establishing standard
union conditions for the 700 employes
represented by the Clerks and elimi
nating many abuses against which
the Brotherhood had protested.
Two years of negotiations and 300
conferences were held in an effort to
reach a settlement. On August 1, a
strike was voted by a 94 per cent ma
jority. Then the company yielded.
I do the rery best I know
how—the very beat I can—
and I mean to keep doing ao
till the end. If the end brings
me out all right, what la mud
against me won't amoont to
anything.—Abraham Lincoln.
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A pipe line 1,500 miles long will
bring natural gas from the'Texas
Gulf coast to Philadelphia, New Jer
sey and New York.
Fly the FLAG
THE A. P. OF L. STANDS WITH AND FOR THE FLAG
DIES CALLS FOR
CLEAR POLICY
ON CONSULAR
REP’SENTTVES
CHICAGO, I1L, Oct Tt Bi(n
sentative Martin Dies, Primal of
Texas, declared last night «|f
the government doesn’t Hrfhf m
adopt a firm and uniform policy p^,
ting an end to political activities at
representatives of foreign powers fa
the United States, I propose to make
public all the evidence I hare on the
subject.” ”
“I want a clear definition of poll
from the Federal government as
what it plans to do abont
representatives of Russia,
Italy, England, and other coant
engaged in political activities In t
country,' Dies, chairman of the Be
Committee investigating mt-Amerfe
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He added that he referred to “
tivities not connected with their
cial functions.”
t. ?i^,8akl ** ^hile ma
had been made pnbUe con
American activities, recent
obtained by subpoena faNoTlS?
Texas, Los Angelos sn«l ntfc
of the nation had Sen'tlr25rLJE?,i
the State dep.rt.St *"r U
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