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BUY SMTED STATES DEFENSE BONDS AMD STAMPS i||l’ She Chaelotte labor Journal ■ .MUW MITED STATES Endorsed by the N. C. State Federation of Labor AND DIXIE FARM NEWS Official Organ sf Central Labor Uaka; tbe A. F. of L. VOL. XI.—NO. 48 YDWa AOVIRTII CHARLOTTE, N. C„ THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1942 BONDS ANO STANDS 92.00 Per Tanr - “Remember Pearl Harbor!!" - ' Hi ONLY REALLY INDEPENDENT WEEKLY in Mecklenburg County mnwnn am* oomram m aumm a» For a Weekly Its Reeders Represent the LARGEST BUYING POWER in Charlotte . ' ■ ' —IWICOUHTT m TTm BfTlUir. - ■■ ■■■»■— ■■■ 1 — ■ r Roosevelt Warns Against Luxuries LABOR RECOGNISED STATE OP WM BETWEEN IT AND DICTATORSHIPS BEFORE WORLD WAR NO. 2 BEGAN Long before the start of the world-wide war American Labor recognized that a state of war existed between it and the dictator ships. Labor knew that dictatorship meant the end of freedom of action as well as of conscience. Labor realized that the dic tators did not intend to confine their oppressive regime to their own countries and denounced their designs of world conquest. Labor recognized that this new enemy of mankind fought with new and dangerous weapons. Not by armament alone did he destroy one nation after another, but also by the creation of disunity, the fostering of subversiveness, the destruction of re ligion, and the corrison of the national will of his intended victims. To meet and combat this insidious challenge in our own country the La bor League for Human Rights was formed. It proclaims the right of all men to be free, free to enjoy the blessings of democracy regardless of race, creed, or color; it opposes dic tatorship, which kills human dignity, destroys civil liberties and enslaves free working men and women; it con demns the doctrine of race superiority as abhorent and immoral. Labor accepts, as do all Americans, the obligation that victory will entail upon us to render every aid possible to the oppressed, suffering: and dis couraged peoples of the world. When victory is achieved and the United Nations draw up plans to restore the world to peace and brotherhood, La bor intends to be at the council tables to help write the peace treaties in a spirit of justice and freedom. Never again can we withdraw from our in ternational obligations and Labor rec ognizes that America must share the responsibility of achieving interna tion cooperation among all nations. Of particular concern to Labor is the establishment of a strong and permanent Pan-American Federation for the mutual security of all coun tries in the Western hemisphere and the promotion and development of in ter-continental trade and well-being. To the above program the League for Human Rights is dedicated. It is A MESSAGE FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY IB? IMt •KCnKTAnV or TMl TRUMRT »ri. mu TO TH* MW MID WH® 0T OKSMUZB) UMl Thl* nonth Stadia la aatar i nan ea^alpi for tee aala af ter ay throughout tha lotion. It la tee ter tend It la urgently necessary that you double tea rata at nhlch fan are ho buying ter Bonda and Staapa. This will aaao tea aala diract to Individual Anarlcana of ter Bonda and Sta^a to tea anoint af aat laaa than one billion dollars ovary aonth. One billion dollars a aonth la tea tetlmal quota. It la equal to one-tenth tha eotelned incoaaa af all ha art r ana. Ihla no nay la needed to buy tha toale af anr fbr your f ightlng farose. It will not pay for all of than. Our ter aapandlturao nan arc at tha rata of about rail BRUMS a aonth, and they are gracing dally. But a billion dollars a aonth direst fron tea people will , aaka all-out production poaalbla. Without it na cannot da car bset| althout.lt aa cannot pat forth cur Itill effort. It la docparmtaly naadad for another reason, lb can't fight a ter and at tec aaao tins live and spend as usual. There arc net aaoagh goods to go around — tha things na buy with noncy. If as go an spent log at tha 1941 scale, aa'll be robbing tha fighting nan to add to ear can confute or pleasure, te'll be driving te tha east of living fbr all of us. te'll bs lapealag dire hardships on anr I ‘ teat la asked af yon la ten par cant af your earnings — a 1 fbr Liberty. It la not a tax; It la not even a soatrlbattenj It la a loan at interact, for yov aaa and protection later. a, ID Ittt — Tour Oosoenaant aaka you to cut date your oipan your boys on tea firing 11ns and la tea training sen insurant, aak you to aaao so teat they any have teat they need to win TOUR tel for yon — tearing aaka you to aavut te 3471 TO TO IB tell to buy ter Bonds and.gtaagn UP. tft tet laaa than tan par cant of your iwoon. Z think Ikmm ttt U 1 BUY rmr%k lit U I The above letter was sent to this newspaper by Secretary Mor centhan in Washington. We publish It In the Interest of the War Bond Quota Campaign and earnestly recommend that all oar readers do their share In the tremendous Job ahead of financing the War effort. HERE’S WHY NO TIRES Rubber life boats often make the difference between life and death for an aviator forced down at sea or a sailor compelled to abandon ship. America’s precious stock of rubber supplies must now be devoted to such crucial war items as the rubber raft, which this attractive young balloon room worker is making. She fashions “sleeves” which look like stove pipe Joints but which will ultimately be parts of the inflatable rafts, now part of the standard equipment id all Navy planes. . AN HONEST PEOPLE BY RUTH TAYLOR Today my text comes from one of the labor papers. “The people of our country have got to be honest or America is all washed up.” I’m proud that it was a labor prper which came out with this line of plain, everyday common sense. For the editor who wrote it, was right —the only way we can justify ourselves as a people or as a nation, the only way we can demonstrate the enduring quality of the democratic way of life is by building a firm foundation of honesty. Honesty is more than merely being candid. It means being fair, just and upright as welL It means not being as honest as the next person-*-but being completely honest. If we only do as much as our neighbor, we have our mind off our own job, while we watch him—and the chances are he is doing the same thing. As Marcus Aurelius wrote—“A man should be up* right, not be kept upright.’* Unless we are honest with ourselves, with each other, with those for whom we work, or with those who work for us, we have no real basis for self-government. Honesty breeds honesty and a cooperative spirit develops cooperation. Honesty begins with the individual. We cannot have an honest nation without honest citizens. The tragedy of the wars of the past has been that there was no concerted honest aim on the part of the people who made up the nation—just a glib mouthing of high sounding phrases. We must be honest about our aims as a nation. We must be honest in dealing with those whom we accept as allies—understanding not only why it is that we fight shoulder to shoulder but also why and where our paths separate. We have to be honest with those with whom we fight. We fight not merely men but false ideologies. We have to fight them honestly, and see that we do not fall into the same pitfalls of prejudice and hatred under th stress of circumstances. We must see to it that none of the things we despise gain a foothold here. The American form of government was founded upon an ideal of honesty, of fair and equitable treatment of all. The best evidence we can give of our allegiance is honesty, decency and understanding in our work, our thoughts and in all our actions. AMERICAN RED CROSS WEEKLY NEWS BULLETIN GIVES OUT NEWS ON LABOR’S CO-OPERATION AND AID MURRAY, GREEN URGE MEMBERS TO DONATE BLOOD WASHINGTON, D. C.—War production workers made ready this week to increase donations of blood for islasma for the armed forces as the presidents of both major branch** oPWganized labor issued calls to “every able-bodied member” to give a pint of blood through the American Red Cross Blood Donor Service. Further eviednce of the closing of labor's ranks during the war emerg ency, simultaneous statements by Philip Murray, president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, and William Green president of the American Federation of Labor, urge the “soldiers of industry” to make “this vital donation” to save the lives of the men at the front. JUNIOR RED CROSS TO HELP SPEED SUGAR RATIONING REGISTRATION WASHINGTON, D. C.—The 14,000,000 members of the American Junior Red Cross will be available to assist the nation's school teachers when they register all sugar consumers for ration cards later this month and early in May. James T. Nicholson, vice chairman in charge of Junior Red Cross, an nounces that the boys and girls, already familiar with school buildings where public registration will be held, have offered to assist teachers as guides and clerical helpers. the expression of Labor in these cru cil times. Its officers are William Green, Honorary President; Matthew Woll, President; George Meany, Hon orary Secretary. Its Advisory Board numbers most of the national and in ternational presidents. The League seeks to stimulate and coordinate aH of Labor’s war activi ties outside the production field to I the end that Labor will receive full1 credit for everything that it does to raise money for our armed forces and allies as well as in all civilian de fense activities. This the League can do only with the prompt and hearty co-operation of Labor throughout the country. Every Central Labor Body should form a branch of the League in its locality and work in close and con stant contact with the National Of fice. THE MARCH OF LABOR 41 fMWUl LAW *> PROVIDE PtNSONS FOR FU.ilVSSKl' EMPtOY' E« WAS IHACTBD IT AMU 10 RAILROAD WORKERS WACHMCA6K tfeACOMUtM SO YIAKS OS MRVICB . Zs&ssss. 5?ttaS?i3 **£Ss»£S: t Union laior forms -me u*6«t ORGANIZED MARKET M AMERICA. XT COMPRISE* ONER 2$,000,000 MEN AND WOMEN WITH AN ANNUM- PURCMMMS POWER OF MORE THAN $ 6,000,000,000, . Union members cam POWBRAKWMtNOOUS SOCIAL FORCE. BY IN' SlSflNS ON UNION label products. This IS 1MC LABEL VHHICM IDENTIFIES A UNION* HADE MAT. Must Forego Things We Have Heretofore Enjoyed As The Price For Preserving Civilization—Several Hundred Thous and Troops Already Sent Abroad To Battle Axis—Seven Point Program For Economic Policy. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 29.—President Roosevelt, re vealing officially for the first time that “several hundred thou sands” of American fighting men have already been sent to battle the Axis in distant lands, rallied the nation to a gigantic war ef fort last night by saying that the price of saving our civilization “must be paid in hard work and sorrow and blood.” In an address to the country and the world, delivered from the White House, he also expressed the view that the Japanese southward drive had been checked, and declared that Australia, New Zealand and adjacent islands are now to become “bases for offensive action.” The disclosure about the size of the army’s expeditionary forces and naval contingents sent abroad was made in the form of an inetrpolation in the President’s advance text. Since Pearl Harbor, he said, “we have dispatched strong forces of our army and navy—several hundred thousands of them —to bases and battlefronts thousands of miles from home. Mr. Roosevelt also warned the Vichy government that the United Nations would take any action necessary to prevent the use of French territory by Axis forces, and guaranteed a continu ation of the deliver yof arms to China, regardless of Japanese suc cesses in Burma. Bluntly, he informed the civilian population of the United States that its every member would feel the effect of his newly announced program for stabilizing the cost of living, and called upon it for self-denial and sacrifice, in the interest of victory. “Never in the memory of man,” he said, “has there been a war in which the courage, the endurance, and the loyalty of civilians played so vital a part.” 1. We must, through heavier taxes, keep personal, and corporate profits at low reasonable rate. 2. We must fix ceiling on prfeos and rents*-* 3. We must stabilize wages. 4. We must stabilize farm prices. 5. We must put more billions into war bonds. 6. We must ration all essential commodities which are scarce. 7. We must discourage installment buying, and en courage paying off debts and mortgages. N. C. Unemployment To 3614 Millions Fund Mounts Up The North Carolina Unemployment Compensation Fund is five years old this month, and in a position to cele brate a fifth birthday with the an nouncement of a grand total of col lections through the first quarter of 1942 of over fifty-eight millions. Ac cording to the Unemployment _ Com pensation Commission’s Chairman, Major A. L. Fletcher, it would be difficult to assign any special date as the birthday of unemployment insur ance in this state where it has a his tory going back to 1933, but the first payments into the fund after the Commission officially began opera tions in December 1936, were receiv ed during April, five years ago. Payments from this fund, in the form of benefit checks to those en titled to receive the unemployment insurance,/began in January, 1938. From that time on, the Commission has paid out a sum approaching twenty-two millions to North Carolina workers out of jobs. Thus the bal ance on hand at the end of the first quarter of this year amounted to thirty-six and a half millions. -V INFORMATION Editor Charlotte Labor Journal: THE LABOR BUREAU stands ready to assist all unions in the gathering, preparation, and presen tation of factual material and sta tistics for negotiation, conciliation, mediation and arbitration. We shall appreciate it if you would notify your readers in that regard. THE LABOR BUREAU, 152 West 42nd Street New York City. eewshssssMWWwwMwwwwiM PATRONIZE IBOSE WHO ADVERTISE IN THE JOURNAL -Aimn.ri nrrr »♦ * * It’s OUR FLAG I OF L. STANDS WITH AND FOR THE FLAG
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