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Shr Charlotte labor Journal ■ > T Endorsed by the N. C. State Federation of Labor AND DIXIE FARM NEWS Offldal Organ of Central Labor Union; the A. F. of L. for VOL. / TOM AWItTM - * — CHARLOTTE, N. C„ THURSDAY, JUNE 11TH, 1942 12.00 Par Ti - “Remember Pearl Harbor!!” - Tli« ONLY REALLY INDEPENDENT WEEKLY b Mffrkabwrg Cmmmtj For » Wetkfr If Btadwm Rtpr—ent tht LARGEST BUYING POWER In Chariottt CHAKL&TTE PREPARES FOR WAR PLANT UPSURGE plans practically completed for the establishing of the ting plant, Charlotte is going to work to prepare for the lux of workers and technicians and generally meet the coming urge with little or no confusion. , lost of the facts concerning the plant come under the head ingjbf military information, but of one thing we are certain and that is that the people coming there whether men and women to work in the plant or officials from the various Government and company agencies involved, they will all like Charlotte—for the wholehearted co-operation they will encounter and for the general welcome that awaits them. We can only hope that VICTORY and complete victory will come soon and that the industrial plant will then turn its facilities and technicians to the great economic up building that will come after we have won. Advertisers Keassured By Morgenthau; Expenditures Will Be Deducted For - Purposes Of Taxes, Sec.-Treas. Says CHICAGO, June 8.—The statement of Henry Morgenthau, Jr., secretary of the treasury, to the joint congressional committee on internal revenue taxation last week was described Saturday by Advertising Age as the most reassuring news regarding adver which has come out of Washington in recent months. i acre nave Deen many rumors and much speculation regarding possible jpvernpiental restrictions on advertis ing during the war period,” Adver tising Age will say editorially in its next issue; “Most of these reports were based on unofficial or unauthori tative comments, bat they had some effect in unsettling the situation for advertisers;” “.Now the secretary of the treasury, the most authoritative figure in the government, as far as taxation is concerned, makes the flat statement that reasonable advertising activi ties, including institutional or good 51 i,-4vertisinv will continue to be <tt£ftr in businees ex pense for taxation purposes. “This maintains the traditional pol icy of the treasury, established over a long period, during which adver tisers have been permitted to make any expenditures within reason for short-term and long-term promotional purposes. That this policy will be continued is a definite reassurance to advertising and media, and will un doubtedly result in more aggressive advertising programs on the part of most successful companies.” Advertising Age points out that even under war contracts negotiated by the army and navy, some provision for advertising has been made, and that there is little legislation by con gress definitely limiting the amounts which may be spent for advertising purposes. t -V What You Can Expect of Your Grocer or Merchant 1. Everything he sells, with the ex ception of a few goods like fresh fruits and vegetables, fresh fish, eggs, poultry, butter and cheese, must be sold at ceiling prices or less. 2. In each store, there should be posted in a conspicuous place a list or lists of ceiling prices for about 100 “cost-of-living” commodities, desig nated by the Office of Price Adminis tration. The merchant does not have to have it ora one sheet or in one place, but he must have these ceiling prices posted conspicuously near the goods affectedL 3. He must explain to you how he arrived at these ceilings in case there is some disagreement over prices. Re member, however, that he has the right to sell at the maximum price charged for that goods or commodity in the month of March, even though you may have bought at sales or got ten it for less at some other store during the month. 4. Beginning July 1, should you de sire it, he must show you a prepared record of ceiling prices of everything he sells that is covered by the over-all ceiling price order. 1 Hour home WSMUlERf aiWMWttSBONDS iSTMIK P, S. Trmtmry DttarOmfi PRISONERS OF WAR HAVE NO RIGHTS By Allied Labor News. Prisoners of war farmed out as workers in Germany have no rights, the German newspaper, Hamburger Fremdenblatt announces. It said, “The German authorities decided there will be no contracts between war pris oners Used as laborers and their em ployers. Legal relations will exist only between the prison camp and the empjjpyer. FACTS ABOUT!PRICE ORDER By War Production Board Service. 1. Price for the same goods can vary from store to store. 2. The ceiling price is the maximum price charged by. each store for that goods or service during the month of March. 3. Ceilings for service, like laundry or cleaning and dying, don’t go into effect until July 1. 4. Merchants can charge you less than the ceiling. VI iCoftHtty Ctartar W TOGETHER By RUTH TAYLOR Today we speak often of national unity, of the United States, of the United Nations. But how often do we bring this much-to be-desired unity down out of the blue sky of generalities into our everyday life? National unity means just one thing. You and I and the man next door, the grocer down the street, the newsboy on the corner, the man who drives the bus we take to work or market—all of us must work and fight together for our common ideal of good for all the people, regardless of class, race, creed dr color. This is a war of Survival. The old barriers have broken down. Men are fighting side by side regardless of their back grounds. Americans all, they are fighting for the preservation of the right to work and live as free men. The boys who fell at Bataan, who met death on the sea or in the high air over our myriad battle fronts, were fighting for us, and together with us. Can we let down their heroism by divisive ness at home? -) “Now the frontiers are all closed. There is no other country we can run away to; At last we must turn and live with one another.” So speaks one of the poets of this new war. There is no dodg ing the issue. We must learn how to cooperate, how to get along with our neighbors, how to live together. Wherever our duty—our opportunity for service—lies, we must work together, in shop and on the farm, at the battle front and in the home. We must sacrifice together. We must prove our faith by put ting into actual practice our belief in the democratic way of work*' ing together without asking other than that our fellow workers abide by the principles set down in our Bill of Rights. , Therein lies the great difference between the democracies and the totalitarian states. They fight under orders for the State —t'-we fight together for the good of all people. This is the co hesive quality of democracy. This is why we work together now. This is why we will work together for the future and for a per manent peace in a world in which all men will be free. WISDOM Each week a quotation from the pen of some famous person whose genius contributed to the progress of our civilisation. ‘TELL ME NOT IN MOURNFUL NUMBERS “LIFE IS BUT AN EMPTY DREAM, and * “THE SOUL IS DEAD THAT SLUMBERS “AND THINGS ARE WHAT THEY SEEM. “LIFE IS EARNEST, LIFE IS REAL, “AND THE GRAVE IS NOT THE GOAL “DUST THOU ART—TO DUST RETURNEST “WAS NOT SPOKEN OF THE SOUL ... ” HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. , CENTRAL LABOR UNION SHOWS WAY The meeting of the CENTRAL LA&OR UNION last Wednes day sounded a note that should make every member and every North Carolinian very proud. Mr. C. A. Fink, the President of the State Federation of La bor and Mr. J. A. Scoggins, the president of the Central Body at Charlotte—opened a discussion in which there was no dissenting opinion. The vote was unanimous that the members will forget all discussion, organization, and everything else in favor of pitching in to WIN THE WAR. That is all there is to it—no fancy talk—no worry about labor losing any of its hard earned rights—no discussion of any nature—only one thought pervades the mind of every member during the 24 hours of every day—and that is to co-operate in every way to WIN. Regardless of the sacrifices involved the laboring man will do his share—to work harder, give more thought ’ to his work and BUY BONDS out of every pay envelope. The further business of the Central LabQr meeting was in fur therance of the A. F. of L. campaign to BUY WAR BONDS. Every employed man must see to it that at least 10% of his wages is used for investment in our war. There can be no other way, and with bodies like the CHARLOTTE CENTRAL LABOR UNION and like the others throughout the state and with men in charge such as MR. C. A. FINK, MR. J. A. SCOGGINS, MR. H. G. j FISHER and their associates, there can only be one result— 1 and that is that LABOR WILL EMERGE FROM THE WAR WHICH IT WILL HAVE FOUGHT FROM THE ASSEMBLY i LINES IN AMBRICA TO INDIA AND BACK TO NORTHERN ’ IRELAND—with the PRESTIGE AND THE CONSIDERATION ! IT DESERVES. , The C.LO. Moves To Put Mine Workers Out WASHINGTON, June 5.—The Con gress of Industrial Organisations, tak ing the first step toward expulsion of the United Mine Workers ,today de clared the UMW to be delinquent in its per capita tax payments to the CIO. Officials said further action would have to be decided by the CIO nat ional convention in October. UMW, if it continues delinquent, will not be entitle dto representation at that con vention. The board rejected UMW President John Lewis’ claim that the CIO owes the Mine Workers $1,665,000, as well as his proposal that per capita taxes amounting to $30,000 a month be ap plied toward that “debt.’” -V Where is your nearest air-raid shel ter1; and do you know how to adjust your gas mask, if you had one? Charlotte Central ; Body Meets; On Wednesday night the Char lotte Central Labor Union held its weekly meeting at the Labor Temple on South McDowell Street. The outstanding feature of the meeting was the an nouncement by Mr. Lon Conder, representing the Carpenters Union that they are buying an average of $1,000 worth of United States War Bonds every two weeks. Other delegates also gave reports of Bond buying by the members of their unions and it is gratifying to hear of the splendid effort being put forth by these men. Reports of men working was very good and all unions are hopeful of a prosper ous season with new members coming in each week. Typo. Union No. 338 Meets Matters of a routine nature and in stallation of officers occupied the at tention of the members of Charlotte Typographical Union No. 338 at the regular monthly meeting held Sun day afternoon at 2 o’clock. C. J. Prid gen of The Charlotte News Chapel, was installed as president, he having been re-elected to that office for an other year at the recent election in May. Claude L. Albea was re-elected and installed as vice-president, as was also O. N. Burgess as secretary-treas urer. The only contest in the local election was for the office of record ing secretary and the incumbent, How ard L. Beatty, was installed in that office for the twentieth consecutive time. J. C. Metcalf was re-elected and installed as sergeant-at-arms for the new term. Delegates to the Allied Printing Trades Council consisting of Claude L. Aybea, Howard L. Beatty, 0. N. Burgess, Ray Nixon and H. A. Stalls, will be obligated later, as will the auditing committee. President C. J. Pridgen and Secre tary-Treasurer 0. N. Burgess repre sented Charlotte Typographical Union st the annual meeting of the Virginia Carolina Typographical ' Conference in Charleston, S. C., last month, and reported a pleasant and profitable meeting. Howard L. Beatty and Ray C. Nixon also attended the Conference meeting from the Charlotte local, they going by reason of the fact that they hold important assignments in the Conference set-up. Mr. Beatty is rice-president and Mr. Nixon is chair man of the Conference Label Commit tee, they being re-elected to these re spective offices., The next meeting of the Conference will be held in Colum bia, S. C. The committee appointed at a re cent meeting to have in hand the mat ter of enlisting the members of No. 338 100 per cent in the purchase of war stamps and bonds reported real “CW5 "fpOTlfU uvBr TUr' wj/, mm also The Observer Chapel. However, the committee was continued with in structions to watch out for a possible few who might still be outside the fold. President Pridgen anonunced that the Victory Publishing Co., the new est commercial shop for Charlotte, had signed a job scale contract. '-V-1 Green Extends Peace Bid To CIO; Unity Will Help Win War WASHINGTON, D. C.—President William' Green publicly renewed the American Federation of Labor’s stand ing offer to make peace with the CIO and merge the two organizations into i united labor movement. The announcement came as the Jramatic conclusion of the Spring meeting of the AFL Executive Coun :il, which instructed President Green :o invite CIO President Philip Murray :o resume peace negotiations immedi ately. Mr. Green emphasized that the bid vas motivated by two outstanding con siderations: 1— That a united American labor movement could act more effectively :o help America win the war. 2— That instead of labor’s wasting ts strength in organizational rivalry tnd jurisdictional strife, a united labor movement could concentrate its ener gies on improving the economic, social tnd politi&l interests of the working nen and women of this country. Because of the war, Mr. Green itressed, it is most important that inity and solidarity be established in he labor movement without delay, rhe benefits to the nation, as well as o the workers, woud be incalculable, te said. In reply to questions at his press onference, Mr. Green declared the teace move should be welcomed by the Administration. MflWMSttEtOff NISFACE/
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