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The Charlotte Labor Journal AND DIXIE FARM NEWS BaUrcd u accaad-clan matter September 11, 1911. at the Paat Office at Charlotte, If. C. ■■Bar the Act af March 1. 1179. 302 South College Street—(Second Floor) PHONE 3-3094 The Labor Journal is true to the American ideals of WAGE EARNERS; Men and women spend your wages in the city where you Hire, always remem bering that “The Dollar That Goes the Farthest is the Dollar That Stays at The Labor Journal will not be respon sible for opinions of correspondents. If you do not get your paper drop a postal to the Editor and he will see that you do. We believe in American business and American Workers. We believe that a Just share of the profits which the workers help produce should be given the worker, for without this benefit, lasting prosperity cannot be assured. OUR POLICY Work - Fight - Save To create a better under standing between Labor, Industry and the Public. OUR AIM Work - Fight - Save To influence Public Opinion in favor of the Organized Labor Movement. W. M. Witter_Editor and Publisher Claude L. Albea_Associate Editor CHARLOTTE, N. C„ THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1943 ooo* THE MARGIN BETWEEN FREEDOM AND SLAVERY FOR LABOR MAY BE TEN PERCENT RICKENBACKER—THE “FRIEND” OF THE WORKER Eddie Rickenbacker says he is not and has never attacked Labor—that he is hitting at the Racketeers, but we all know better than that, for if Mr. Rickenbacker were looking for Racketeers, and the real, unadulterated article, of an age-old vintage, he would find them in the reactionary, tory ranks, whose cause he is expounding, named the American Manufacturers Asso ciation and the Organization of a like ilk. HE IS BENT ON AN OPEN SHOP TO SAVE AMERICA FOR THE BIG BOYS, AND PUT THE WORKERS BACK INTO SEMI-BONDAGE. He is not fooling anyone, even though he has been feted and greeted and heroed, world without end by what is supposed to be THE PEOPLE. EDDIE WAS SAVED A TRIP INTO THE NEXT WORLD BY A UNION MAN, AND OTHER UNION MEN WERE ALSO AMONG THE SURVIVORS. WHAT WERE THE DELUDED SLACKERS DOING IN THE ARMY, NAVY, OR AIR FORCES ANY WAY—THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN AT HOME “SLACK ING’^SWEATING, TOILING, STRIVING TO GIVE THEIR COMRADES OVERSEAS THE NECESSARY IMPLEMENTS WITH WHICH TO CARRY ON THIS WAR, ALL OF WHOM ARE HEROES IN THE TRUE SENSE OF THE WORD EVEN THOUGH CONDEMNED AND DAMMED. THERE WAS CHERRY, WHITAKER AND BARTER in that wrecked bunch —Airline Pilots Association, A. F. of L.; Wood, Wire and Metal Lathers, A. F. of L.; C. I. O. Textile Workers. The first was a Pilot Captain; one a Lieutenant; one a Corporal, but MEMBERS OF LABOR UNIONS. Rickenbacker will rave on for the open shop and the “free dom” of the workers to become Marionettes to be pulled by strings at the will of capital. Those boys with Eddie were our boys—and Labor has hun dreds and hundreds of thousands of sons and brothers and mem bers OVER THERE OR ON THEIR WAY; and will be feeding more and more thousands as the days go by, so Eddie, the message you think will be brought back home against Organized Labor will never be brought by a majority of those who return, but by a small minority whom such men as you are trying to delude with the false idea that Labor at home is laying down on the job. Oh, Propaganda, thou art a jewel. The Journal would not take HONOR from any man—but— whe nthose we honor for gallant deeds start a crustade against others who also deserve as much, or more, honor—then our es teem and respect dwindles. IT’S LABOR’S WAR — LET’S FIGHT—WITH PAY DOLLARS IN WAR BONDS. \ Japan cultivates one-hundred thou I sand acres of opium in conquered ' Chinese land. Cnjou Foremost Pasteurized Farm FRESH MILK FOREMOST DAIRIES, INC. PHONES 7116 — 7117 SHAKESPEARE—BOBBY BURNS— WINCHELL—PEGLER AND $25,000 CEILING Am Editorial Some man from Mars looks down and watches a terrible fight going in in the American Congress—a fight against a ceiling of $25,000 a year salary set by the President—and the fight wanes and waxes with the moon tnd finally the man from Mars sees that victory has come to those who are against setting a $25,000 ceiling. What are we coming to? What is money anyway? We have built np a civilization in onr country, based on the bath-tub, the refrigerator and brass plumbing. Is it worth it? What are the valuable things in life? Bobby Burns who wrote “A Cotter’s Saturday Night” never earned more than $700 a year. Walter Winchell whose miles of columns will never pro luce a line worth remembering gets somewhere in the neighborhood of $100,000 a year. William Shakespeare, who had the greatest brain ever incased in a human skull, wrote Hamlet and Lear and Romeo and Macbeth and left an estate equivalent to about $11,000. Westbrook Pegler who will never leave a sentence worth memorizing gets $110,000 a year or thereabout. What is this all about anyway? Who are the people who have moved this earth? “The Morgans, Rocke fellers, the Chryslers, Fords, etc.?” No, and they never will. Those giants who rise to immortality the moment they are laid in their graves are the men who leave a scrap of paper, a poem, an idea, or a SERMON ON THE MOUNT—Things that can not be used in a pawn shop or in a bank. Greetings to Charlotte Labor on the Battle Fronts and in Our Factories. HOUSE OF LANCE Thank You! 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 Martin’s Department Store RELIABLE MERCHANDISE ALWAYS AT LOW PRICES Shop at VYlcudtin'A and Sews , YOUR SPRING AND SUMMER NEEDS ARE HERE AT CORNER TRADE AND COLLE GE Traffic Signals Arc life Sarera DeVONDE Synthetic Cleaners — Dyers Hatters — Furriers Seven Points Why We Are One of the South’s Leading Synthetic Cleaners 1. Restores oricinal (reshnsss and sparkle. 2. Removes carefully all dirt, Cast and 2. Harmless to the mest delicate of fabrics. 4. Odorless. thoroach clean in*. 5. Garments stay clean lenaer. I. Press rsstained tenser. 7. Redeem wardrobe upkeep. DeVONDE CALL 2-2125 224 N. Try on St. Uqaor and Gas Will Not Mix. The A. F. OF L. STANDS WITH AND FOR THE FLAG _ * Honor Roll of THE CHARLOTTE LABOR JOURNAL Employees of this paper in the services of their country. •¥ * * * * EDWIN A. WITTER JAMES (RED) KINLEY U. S. Air Forces U. S. Army JESSE J. KINLEY ROBERT KINLEY U. S. N»vr U. S. Marine Corps ROBERT E. BROWN U. S. Marine Corps BEAUTY ON THE ASSEMBLY LINE; It wasn’t easy for some of the boys working in a Kansas small-arms plant to give up their jobs to join Uncle Sam’s armed forces ... and the rea son was the bewitching beauty shown above. It doesn’t require much of a brainstorm to understand why Lelia Wright Vodrey was selected “Miss Kansas City’’ a year or so ago. But Lelia’s importance today isn’t in the fact that she's a stunning gal and a beauty-contest winner but rather that she's one of the Nation’s 13,000,000 women engaged in crucial war work in plants and factories all over the Nation. Lelia's work is on an assembly line turning out cartridge casings, but other women are welding ships, operating power cranes, turning lathes, and even testing big tanks and guns for the Army. Five million more women workers will be added to the Nation’s pay rolls by the end of 1943, thus releasing large numbers of jnen for the armed forces. 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