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Cht Charlotte labor Journal VOL. XII.—NO. 12 Bndorood by the N. C. State Fodontion of Labor tou« ADvnnmnr m tm« jouhnal a AND DIXIE FARM NEWS Official Organ of Control Labor Union; Standing for the A. F. L. '' WAR ^ STAMPS CHARLOTTE, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1942 JOURNAL ADVERTISERS DESERVE CONSIDERATION OF THE READERS $2.00 Per Year - “United We Stand for Victory” - The ONLY REALLY INDEPENDENT WEEKLY in Mecklenburg County J^SZiwmo^SSS Ii££»^For a Weekly Its Readers Represent the LARGEST BUYING POWER in Charlotte Freedom For All Our nation is composed of no one race, faith or cultural herit age. It is a grouping of some thirty peoples linked together by their confidence in our demo cratic institutions, as expressed in the Declaration of Independ ence and guaranteed by the Con stitution for themselves and for their children. The keystone of our union of states is freedom—freedom for the individual to worship as he chooses, to work as he chooses. Liberty, if it is to be for all, must be protected by basic safe guards intended to give it the most general diffusion attain able. Our success thus far as a nation is not because we have built great cities and big factories and cultivated vas areas, but because we have promoted this funda mental assurance of freedom upon which all our material de velopment has depended, and have tolerated, and learned to use, our diversities. Quite apart from any reasons of humanitarianism or justice, it is only common sense to safe guard jealously the rights of minorities. For minorities are rich assets of a democracy. Our way of living together in America is a strong but delicate fabric. It is made up of many threads. It has been woven over many centuries by the patience and sacrifice of count less liberty-loving men and women. It serves as a cloak for the protection of poor and rich, of black and white, qf Jew and Gentile, of foreign and native born. For God’s sake, let us not tear it asunder. For no man knows, once it is destroyed, where ore when man will find its protective warmth again. Wendell L. Willkie. New Labor Policy Adopted By Navy WASHINGTON, Aug. 13. — The Navy, one of the largest employers of labor in the country, has adopted a new policy to govern its relations with labor, Ralph A. Bard, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Labor Re lations, said at a press conference to day. It is “a policy which would be revolutionary if carried out 100 per cent’ ’toward industrial labor in the country, according to Mr. Bard. Under the new procedure the Sec retary of the Navy and the Command er in Chief of the United States Fleet will hold meetings in Washing ton with representatives of labor from each of the navy yards and shore establishments for discussions of methods of cooperation. The first of these meetings is sched uled for Oct. 1, and they are to be hel devery four months for the dura tion of the war. To each meeting 250 representatives of employes will be invited. Since members of C. I. O. and A. F. of L. unions as well as non-union em ployees are concerned, procedure is still to be worked out for choosing the delegates to the meetings so that all groups will be represented. No Spending Spree World War II has not brought “silk shirt’ ’prosperity and free spending to the average city family in the United States, but it has brought a high in crease in savings with which Ameri cans have bought war bonds and stamps and paid taxes, Secretary of Labor Perkins reported August 2. “Although income rose over 7 per j cent between 1941 and the first quar- , ter of 1942 average expenditures for i current consumption increased less , than 2 per cent, she said. “At the same time living costs went up almost 8 per cent.” i ~WTio’s telling who where to get off?" / Million Jobs Filled in June By U. S. Employment Service Job placements by the United States Employment Service were close to the million mark in June, increas ing sharply for the fourth successive month, Paul V. McNutt, Chairman of the War Manpower Commission, announced July 30. More than 644,000 jobs in factories, shipyards, and offices were filled—43 per cent more than in June 1941 and double the number filled by the public employment offices in June, 1940. Firm placements totaled about 281, 000, an increase of 54 per cent over the previous month and 60 per cent higher than in June of 1940 and 1941. The increase over the previous year, Mr. McNutt said, clearly reflects the intensified efforts of the United States Employment Service to meet farmers’ needs. The greatest gains in farm placements took place in Arkansas, California, Idaho, Missouri, and Washington. In all, nearly 925,000 jobs were fill ed by the United States Employment Service in June, bringing the total number of nonagricultural placements for the first half of 1942 to 3,1 mil lion and farm placements to approxi mately 600,000. These figures, Mr. McNutt said, show an increase in total placements of about 20 per cent as jompared with the first six months of 1941. The United States Employment Service figures for June also showed a total of 1.1 million new job appli ?ations filed with the local public em ployment offices. LABOR BOARD DENIES WAGE INCREASE In applying its wage stablization formula to the first case since Little Steel, the National War Labor Board last week refused a general wage in crease to 1,200 employees of the Rem ington Rand Co. plants at Tonawanda »nd North Tonawanda, N. Y. The United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, CIO, which rep resents the employees, had asked for a flat increase of 10 cents an hour. The Board, however, granted a 2’/i-cent increase in the wage for the female employees hired on an in centive basis, thus making their start ing rate 50 cents an hour, in order to iron out an inequality resulting from a growing disparity between the wages paid men and women workers in the company’s plants. The vote of the Board was 4 to 2, the labor mem jers dissenting. COW HAS TRIPLETS HOT SPRINGS, Ark.—Triplet bull calves, each weiging approximately forty pounds at birth, have been born ;o a cow belonging to R. W. Alford. Veterinarians said the birth of trip ets to a cow is comparable in rarity >f birth of quadruplet humans. In 1917, young men in Danville, Indiana, and Syracuse and Albany, •I. Y., drew draft numbers 1430, 6 end 856. Twenty-three years later, he sops of these three men drew exactly the same numbers. One can never reach tomorrow with >ut reckoning with today. WISDOM We are practising the use of a famous quotation for a headline, when the news finally comes that Herr Hitler has been destroyed: “THE BLOODY DOG IS DEAD” From Acts 6—Richard III—Wm. Shakespeare “TWO CHILDREN AND OUR LAWS” Some absurd situations arise under our immigration laws. Two English-born children of a native United States mother and a Norwegian-born father have been given until Nov. 13 to leave the United States. They are held to be citizens of Norway. But Norway is in German hands and we are at war with Ger many. The mother of these children asks the pertinent question, “WHERE are they to go?” Are they to be sent to Norway and given into the hands of our Nazi enemies from whom they and their mother escaped a few weeks after the German invasion of Norway? Here are two children—a girl of 15 and a boy of 13—facing deportation under a silly law which provided that children of an American mother and a foreign-born father took the father’s nationality. They haven’t caused any trouble in the United States. Their father is a prisoner in a Nazi detention camp. There’s no body in Norway to take care of them. They are to be deported. Yet the notorious 'Harry Bridges, alien trouble-maker and pro fessional agitator, who should have bee ndeported years ago, still is allowed to remain in this country and tell us h%w we should be fighting the war. AFL Members and Families To Sign Consumer Pledge to Aid War Effort WASHINGTON, D. C.—The American Federation of Labor has launch ed a nationwide campaign to mobilize its 6,000,000 members and their families—an estimated total of 24,000,000 persons—into a united drive to stabilize the cost of living and make price control effective. President William Green sent to President Roosevelt copies of the new A. F. of L. Consumer War Pledge, which reads as follows: 1 TO HELP MY COUNTRY AND MY PEOPLE WIN, TO MAKE OUR COMMON SACRIFICE EQUAL, FAIR AND JUST— I join my fellow unionists in a solemn pledge that: 1. I will not buy above the ceiling prices. 2. I will not attempt to get more than my share of rationed goods. 3. I will buy only what I absolutely need. In his letter to the President, Mr. Green disclosed that the A. F. of L. on its own initiative and at its own expense is distributing copies of this pledge to 24,000,000 members of workers’ families. “Each member of Our union families is being asked to sign this pledge in duplicate,” Mr. Green added. “One copy is to be returned to the union to keep a record of the progrses of the campaign, and one copy is to be kept and displayed by the signer. “The American Federation of Labor is launching this campaign and is making the financial contribution which such a campaign entails, to do its full part in making the workers deeply conscious of their responsibility to the nation in time of war and to demonstrate the effectiveness of labor’s naitonal organization, as a free and voluntary institution, in carrying out our national policy. “Workers and members of workers’ families participating in this cam paign wil lbe glad to have from you, Mr. President, a statement of recognition and encouragement of their unstinting effort to contribute to the strength of the nation in time of war.” 18,000,000 Workers Under Payroll Savings WASHINGTON, D. C.—During July approximately 18,000,000 workers authorized the deduction of nearly $200,000,000 from their pay for the purchase of War .Bonds, Secretary Morgenthau has announced. The total sales of bonds reached $900,900,000, the second highest monthly amount on record. This figure exceeded June sales by more than one quarter of a billion dollars. Simultaneously with the announcement of sales figures, the Treasury announced that the August quota for the country for War Bonds had been placed at $815,000,000. This is in keeping with the Treasury's twelve billion dollar goal for the fiscal year beginning July 1. It was pointed out that because of seasonal variations in income distribution, it would not be practicable to establish monthly quotas at a uniform figure of $1,000,000. Some months the quota wil lexceed this while in others, as in August, it will be set at a lower figure. The Treasury Department expressed itself as highly gratified with July sales, and laid particular emphasis on the increase in the sales of Series E. bonds. The $508,000,000 of E bond sales represented a sharp increase over June. This was in a great measure due to the 10 per cent Payroll Savings Plan Campaign which is just now getting into full swing. • WE ARE ALL PARTNERS Ever? men, woman and child haa a tremendooa stake in whether American labor fn It ilia President Roosevelt’i victor; procram of (0,000 planes, 45,000 tanks and 8 million tons of ihippins this year. Bat labor which has performed production miracles in war plants in every section of the country is now well on its wal to break the Victory quota in nore than a dozen industries. Union leaders in plants turnins oat planes, tanks and ships have told the President that their unions expect to continue breaking records as kmc as the war lasts. BROUGHTON AND MORRISON SPEAK AT FEDERATION CONVENTION Members of the North Carolina State Federation of Labor, opened their 36th annual convention here on Monday and heard speeches by Governor Broughton, former Governor Cameron Mor rison, Capt. Edward Allen of the office of the commanding officer of the service of supply, and listened to the annual report of C. A. Fink of Spencer, president of the state federation. Mr. Morrison urged labor to unite under the leadership of the “greatest man to appear on earth in the past 100 years— Franklin D. Roosevelt.” Praises Labor and Management Governor Broughton, who spoke at the first session, praised both labor and management in this state for responding to the nation’s call. He and Mr. Fink stressed the importance labor is playing in the war effort. In his report, Mr. Fink recommended that no legislative pro gram be adopted for presentation at the next session of the legis lature in view of circumstances which make it necessary for every citizen to put forth his greatest effort. Capt. Allen praised this recommendation, lauded North Caro lina’s heroes in this war and urged the labor of this state to get started on a hard jojb of production which will eventually “show the Axis what America looks like when we are really angry, really aroused and really united.” In his plea for unity, Mr. Morrison referred to the president time and again and each time he was interrupted by bursts of applause. • Assails “Small Soul” . The former governor congratulated labor on the great effort that it is making to preserve liberty and assailed the “small soul” who thinks things should be done his way. “To hell with the little fellow, so small that he wants to create prejudice against the laboring people of the United States,” he said. He praised Mr. Fink and William Green, president of the A. F. of L. He said that a lot of credit in the war effort should go to the farmer and condemned those who can not see the farmer’s point of view in this struggle. Must Submit To Discipline He paid that the American peojole are not in the habit of. sub-* mitting to discipline but that in a time of war, they must do so, for the nation’s good and for thei rown good. All of Washington’s orders are for the people’s good, he declared, adding it was best for the people to get used to “regulations and rationing so that we can produce the products that are necessary to win the war.” “Our government,” he continued, “is one of the best in all time. It is led by a man who loves humanity better than anyone who ever occupied his office since George Washington.” He said President Roosevelt struggled to keep the nation out of war but prpared quietly for the catastrophe he feared. “Champion Of Rights” “Today,” he added, “we are blessed that the nation was led by him, the champion of rights and the greatest of statesmen. “Let’s step under the flag and unite under the leadership of this great man.” Gov. Broughton spoke of the remarkable progress that has been made in industry in North Carolina since the end of the Civil war and attributed the success of the movement to the mutual understanding of labor and capital. He added that labor will be willing to share the hard times with industry when it is permitted to share equally in the profits that come in more prosperous times. In discussing new industries that’ have been attracted to the state in recent years, the governor declared that they have found ample labor in the state that responsd readily to the necessary training. “I have always contended that labor in this state can do, and do well, what labor in any other state can do.” He pledged “that as long as I am governor there will be no retreat in the educational program in North Carolina.” The convention concluded its business on Thursday with the general keynote of Labor’s attitude in North Carolina and every where in our country—that of ALL OUT FOR THE WAR EFFORT and VICTORY—and nothing else. The CHARLOTTE delegation at the convention was headed by Mr. J. A. Scoggins, H. L. Kiser and J. A. Moore, all Vice-Presidents of the State Federation. AMERICANS ON THE WORK FRONT The campaign to mobilize American manpower war industries brings into sharp focus the dose relationship1, the interdependence between those who make the gun and those who fir eit, those who build the bomber and those who fly it over enemy lines. The following story showing how American workmen from coast to coast collaborate to build giant bombing planes of the sort which raided Tokyo is offered for such use as you may care to make of it in, connection with the manpower mobilization. Out in California widows of men who died in the treacherous Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor are avenging their husbands in the most direct way possible—by helping to make military aircraft. The work these women are doing dramatizes the fact that in this war the “front” is everywhere and that the men and women who produce the tools of war are just as surely fighters in this war as are the soldiers on the firing line. No one knows this better than our enemy, our enemy fears American production above everything and would bomb it to extinc tion—if he could. An invisible part of every bombing raid over Axis territory are the millions of men and women workers who made that raid possible, who dur and refined and shaped and forged the metal which became gun and shell and plane, who painstakingly wrought the parts for frame and motor, whose skills went into the assembly of delicate instruments and all manner of necessary equipment. General Jimmy Doolittle called attention to this truth after his raid on Tokyo last April. There were only 80 airmen in General Doolittle’s squadron of medium bombers, but they couldn’t have rained high ex plosive on the Japanese capital had it not been for thousands of American men and women working together toward a common end in a thousand factories from coast to coast. USE THE PAYROLL PLAN 10% EACH WEEK FOR WAR BONDS
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