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Let Us All Invest...Our Boys Will Do The Rest Local Stores To Be Closed On Labor Day Hundreds Of Employees to Get Day Off. Furniture Men, Banks, City Hall, Courthouse Also to Shut Down. Stores affiliated with the Char lotte Merchants association will be closed on Labor Day, Monday, Sep tember 7, thus giving hundreds of em ployes the last holiday of the sum mer season, it was announced by A1 Bechtold, secretary. The Charlotte Retail Furniture Dealers association decided at a meeting to observe the holiday if the Merchants association did so and thus these stores will be closed. The Labor holiday will mean the end of the vacation season for the hundreds of workers employed in Charlotte retail establishments and also for many boys and girls who will return to othe city schools for the fall term on Tuesday. For the persons in the stores, it will mean a day of rest before the heaviest selling season of the year and the last extra day off until the close of the Christmas buying period. The city’s banks will also be closed and the city hall and courthouse em ployes will take a holiday. Holiday hours are expected to be observed by the federal agencies with offices in the city. In fact, most of Charlotte, with the exception of the grocery stores, drug stores, eating places, and amusement places, will likely take a day off. In the past, Labor Day week-end has meant a general exodus of holi daying Charlotteans to mountain and beach resorts. The fact that gasoline rationing and tire shortages are prob lems of almost every one now is ex pected to eliminate much traveling by automobile, and the movies and other amusement places, the swimming pools, and golf courses at home are likely to be visited by thousands of persons during the day. Labor and War Bonds According to Treasury Department estimates organized Labor will buy two and one half billion dollars worth of bonds a year. Already the A. F. of L. has pledged $1,000,00,000. Among others, these Unions have pledged the following: Auto Workers_$50,000,000 Amgalamated Clothing Workers- .50,000,000 Textile Workers_... 25,000,000 Marine and Shipbuilding Workers- 15,000,000 Retail Clerks_ 15,000,000 Ornburn On Air Labor Day WASHINGTON, D. C.—I. M. Orn burn, secretary-treasurer, Union La bor Trades Department of the Ameri can Federation of Labor, will deliver an address entitled “Victory and the Union Label” over the coast-to-coast network of the Columbia Broadcast ing System on Labor Day, September 7t> 4:45 to 6:00 P. M., Eastern War Time. The originating station will be WJSV, Washington, D. C. GREETINGS TO LABOR National Welders Supply Co. 1230 S. Tryon St. Phone 6634 Welding Supplies, Electric Weld ing Equipment, Oxy-Acetylene Welding & Cutting Apparatus, Oxygen and Acetylene GREETINGS TO LABOR 1429 Bryant Telephone 2-2158 The Phillip Carey Mfg. Co. Asbestos, Asphalt and Roofing, Magnesia and Air Cell Pipe Covering, Rock Wool Insulation Greetings To the Members and Families of A. F. of L. Lester W. Slye Councilman Jack W. Spratt Surveyor Mecklenburg County Mecklenburg County Courthouse Mitchum & Tucker Candy Co. Manufacturers of M & T Peanut Products 219 N. GRAHAM ST. Charlotte, N. C. BLYTHE & ISENHOUR GENERAL CONTRACTORS 133 Brevard Court CHARLOTTE, N. C. If “The One Place” Cleans Then Grimes Cleaning Co. 305 West Morehead St. Phone 3-6149 Diggers Brothers Incorporated Wholesale Merchants Fruits, Produce, Butter, Eggs CHARLOTTE, N. C. LABOR DAY—1942 All Out On The Double Assembly Line Secretary of the Treasury The participation of organized labor in the War Savings Program has been most encourag ing from the very beginning. It does not tell the whole story just to say that workers are buy ing War Bonds. Through their unions, their shop committees and their joint campaigns with management, workers everywhere are also sell ing bonds—selling them by promoting the Pay roll Savings idea for systematic and regular War Bond purchases every payday. The leaders and members of the American Federation of Labor, the Congress of Industrial Organizations, the Railroad Brotherhoods, and other recognized labor unions have been the staunchest supporters of the voluntary War Savings Program. These millions of Americans have been and are doing a splendid job to help the Government’s war financing efforts through bor rowing at least 10% of the nation’s gross payroll for War Savings Bonds. I salute them on this Labor Day, 1912 PRESIDENT GREEN TELLS HOPES FOR LABOR PEACE For the third tine since the split in the labor movement occurred in 1935. representatives of the American Federation of Labor and the CIO will sit down together in Washington, D. C„ within a few days to seek an agree ment under which organised labor in America can be reunited. In this pic ture President William Green of the AFL tells reporters in Chicago that labor peace would be “the greatest single contribution” the AFL and CIO can make at this time to the success of the war effort. President Green voiced confidence the conferees would be able to reach a settlement “fair to all concerned. -V HELP WIN THE WAR—INVEST -V IN WAR BONDS EVERT PAYDAY. -V — FOR VICTORY: BUY BONDS — A Labor Day Message By GEORGE MEANY, Secretary-Treasurer, American Federation of Labor For close to a half-century our democracy has been setting aside the first Monday in September as a holiday on which the people as a whole might pay homage to the unsung anonymous millions of working men and women whose toil has made and kept America a great nation. In former years Labor Day has been observed as a festive occasion, with parades and gala celebration. Yes, there have always been serious speeches uu uauui i/ajr, uui wbu—aim nut at all inappropriately — a substantial measure of merrymaking. But in 1942, with a global war in progress and our country fighting for her very life against enemies both powerful and cunning, Labor Day be comes a day far more of dedication than of celebration. This year Labor Day is a day when American workers, struck anew by the contrast between the incalculably precious blessings of freedom that we enjoy here and the bitter plight of human beings under the totalitarian lash, eagerly but grimly reaffirm a pledge to our government to do every thing within their power to hasten the defeat of the madmen who seek to enslave all the earth. N. Y. CITY WITNESSED FIRST LABOR DAY FETE The first celebration of Labor Day was held in New York City on Sep tember 5, 1882, under the sponsor ship of the Central Labor Union. The celebration began with a parade of the affiliated unions, which was re viewed at Union Square by a large number of labor leaders, and ended with a big picnic and festival in Elm Park. P. J. McGuire, founder of La bor Day, was among those who re viewed the parade. TEXT OF NATIONAL LABOR DAY LAW The following is the text of the Labor Day Law enacted.by Con gress and signed by President Cleveland in 1894: Be it enacted, etc.. That the first Monday in September of each year, being the day known and celebrat ed as labor’s holiday, is hereby made a legal pnbUc holiday, to all intents and purposes, in the same manner as Christmas, the 1st day of January, the 22d of February, the 30th of May and the 4th day of Jnly are now by law made pnblic holidays. IT’S LABOR’S WAR — LETS FIGHT—WITH PAY DOLLARS IN WAR BONDS. Free Labor Will Out-Produce Nazi Slaves GEORGE MEANY LABOR DAY MADE LEGAL HOLIDAY BY CONGRESS The law making the first Monday in September of each year a legal holiday was enacted by Congress in 1894. Identical bills to this effect were introduced in the House of Rep resentatives by Representative Amos J. Cummings of New York City, and in the Senate by Senator James H. Kyle of South Dakota. The bill passed both houses unanimously and was signed by President Grover Cleveland on June 28, 1894. NATIONAL LABOR DAY LAW SPONSORED BY A. F. OF L. The campaign to secure legislation making Labor Day a national holi day began in the 1884 convention of the American Federation of Labor which unanimously adopted the fol lowing resolution introduced by Dele gate A. C. Cameron of the Chicago Trades and Labor Alliance: “Resolved, That the first Monday in September of each year be set apart as a laborers’ national holiday, and that we recommend its observance by all wage workers, irrespective of sex, calling or nationality. Thank You! I Once again IVEY'S wishes to thank all our friends in Organized Labor for their continued and grateful loyal support and patronage. IVEY'S CHARLOTTE BORN CHARLOTTE OWNED CHARLOTTE MANAGED • ! . ‘ ■ * f • ' .
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