Newspapers / The Charlotte Labor Journal … / April 15, 1943, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The Charlotte Labor Journal and Dixie Farm News (Charlotte, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
Job For Victory n>e ONLY REALLY INDEPENDENT WEEKLY to Meckknbnrg County SSmiSwuTO^oSCTrS %CTiw1pm«TTFor » Weekly Its Readers Represent the LARGEST BUYING POWER in Charlotte She Charlotte labor Journal Endorsed by th* N. C. State Federation of Labor VOL. XII—NO. 47 YOU* AOVUTiaiMINT IN TNI JOURNAL •• Invbrtnint AND DIXIE FARM NEWS CHARLOTTE, N. C. THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1945 Official Organ of Central Labor Union; Standing for the A. F. L. TNI IKlAOim 12 YEARS OF CONSTRUCTIVE SERVICE TO NORTH CAROLINA READERS $2.00 Per Yew PRES. GREEN RESERVES COMMENT ON PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT’S WAGE FREEZE ORDER; TALKS WITH BYRNES NEW YORK, April 12. —WILLIAM GFEEN, PRESIDENT OP THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR, TOLD THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LAST NIGHT THAT THE FEDERA TION IS “RESERVING DECISION” ON PRESIDENT ROOSE VELT’S “HOLD THE LINE” WAGE FREEZE ORDER. “WE ARE CONFERRING WITH (JAMES F.) BYRNES, THE ECO NOMIC STABILIZATION DIRECTOR, ON ITS SCOPE AND APPLICATION,” HE SAID. Green, clarifying an earlier state ment to a general press conference, said he could not be quoted as beihg either in favor of or against the order. At the general meeting with the press, the A. F. of L. head declined to comment directly on the statement of John L. Lewis, president, who attacked the President’s order. He told that gathering he had not read the Lewis statement. After it was outlined, he commented: “We in labor know enough about economics to know fully that if the inflation spiral gets out of control, it is labor, the workingmen and women, who will suffer most. They will be the victims. We deem it our duty to guard against such a catastrophe.” That statement, he said later, should not be interpreted as mean ing that the Federation either was for or against President Roosevelt’s freeze order. The press conference was in con nection with a meeting of Curtiss Wright corporation officials with gov ernment and labor leaders. Purpose of the session was to launch a drive in the warplane com pany and among the 1,350,000 persons in its affiliated organizations to in crease production and curtail ab senteeism. James B. Carey, secretary-treas urer of the C. I. O. present at the conference, declined to comment on the President’s order. Green and Carey were asked to com ment on Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker’s campaign against war plant absentee ism. Carey said he thought the World W«r I ace was “rendering a great disservice to his nation because of his lack of understanding of the un derlying causes of wilful absentee ism.” “W'illful absenteeism,” Carey said, “is insignificant in comparison with the loss oi man hours orougnt about by readjustments that must be made when our nation, for the first time, is reaching the point of fully utiliz ing all its resources.” Green said that Rickenbacker, in “his standing as a great hero,” has “rendered a great disservice to in dustry and labor,” and “lacks a com plete and thorough understanding of the causes of absenteeism and man agerial and labor problems that arise at each industrial plant.” Charles E. Wilson, executive chair man of the War Production board, who also participated both in the pro gram and the press conference, said of the government’s attitude on absentee ism: “It is still regarded as a very con siderable problem,” adding that man agement-labor-government confer ences are among the “best instruments to cure the underlying cause.” Asked whether the drafting of la bor would be a cause, he replied that “the present plan is obviously not to draft labor.” In his formal speech opening the War Plant’s drive, broadcast over a Mutual Broadcasting Company het work, Wilson said that “not to use labor - management committees throughout our war industry is not to use our full strength.” “And in learning to use them we shall strike a pattern for peacetime co-operation that will be used again and again,” the nominal head of the nation’s war production continued, “for war—terrible tragedy that it is —is but an incident along the road we must travel.” He said that “this year will not reward us. for petty fvke' for1 grousing, for absenteeism — but our enemies will.” He said there were joint labor-management committees in 2,lftO American factories today which “have shown that they under stand their full responsibility.” 4 Teamster Risks Life In Saving Of Truck Tires Francis N. Smith, member of Team ster’s local 75, Greenbay, Wis., be lieves in “keeping ’em rolling” even if he has to risk his life to do it. His recent action resulted in burned hands and a citation from U. S. Rubber Di rector William Jeffers. Smith’s trailer caught fire while on a trip and his fire fighting equipment C*d inadequate in combating the . The driver jacked up the heavy trailer while the blaze roared about him. His hands were burned—but he saved the tires. A fire truck arrived as he reached the fifth tire and he was removed to a hospital for treat ment. Director Jeffers praised the hero ism of Smith and sent him a citation which read: “At the risk of serious injury, your interest in conserving rubber is both unusual and gratify ing. I feel that you deserve to be commended for the very fine spirit which promoted that act.” -V ITS LABOR’S WAR — LETS FIGHT—WITH PAT DOLLARS IN WAR BONDS. THE PRICE OF CARELESSNESS cross —Pietun rotmni by WPB Labor Prom Unit. This OWI poster, prepared for general distribution, pictures graphi cally how war rumors spread by lively tongues end in tragedy. “Think Before You Talk,” warns OWL JOURNAL READERS PATRONIZE JOURNAL ADVERTISERS I This Week, This World I—-by Ted Friend THE UNITED STATES will be the power of balance in the postwar balance of power! Remove America, through one form or another of isolationism, from participation in world problems, and the British Empire will be compelled to orient its foreign policy in the direction of Soviet Russia. Affiliation between the British and Russians will of necessity force the Chinese to do the same. _ Thus would an American isolation ism drive two of its three principle allies towards identification with Sovietism rather than with American Jeffersonian democracy. Quite the reverse will happen if the United States accepts its share of world leadership after the war. Great Britain will gravitate toward the j United States albeit eager to co-oper I ate with Russia in Eastern Europe. China, traditional friend of the United States, will become the Far Eastern bastion of democracy. The regenerated nations, particularly France, Holland, Poland, Norway and Greece, trusting in the strength and good neighborliness of the United States, will similarly lend their sup port to the democratic cause. Of necessity Russia will have to move and adjust itself accordingly. The United States, in other words, has it within its power to compel the major peoples of the world to unite for the maintenance of peace and the making of a better world. That the British, endlessly wise in the art of political divination, realize that they must link themselves in con siderable permanency with the United States and/or Russia is made plain in Prime Minister Winston ChurchiU’B March 21st address in which he sug gested the organization of regional councils for Europe and Asia with the obvious inference that a similar council of Western Hemisphere na tions, possibly an enlarged and re-en forced Pan-American Union, would fo’low as a natural consequence Cituil/, line uutt couta-U-,' European, Asiatic and New World, would join in a powerful world or ganization which would establish and maintain world law and order. It will be a great temptation to political charlatans to sell a weary postwar electorate a brand of isola tionism which, similar to that which followed the last war, contributed so generously to the making of the pres ent war. To achieve such a nefarious purpose all manner of demagogues may be expected to join up under a single banner for the purpoes of sabotaging world liberalism, including the subversivists, isolationists, fas cists, anti-laborites, anti-Semites, fronters, shirters, klanners and plain racketeers. * * * * BEG IT, or borrow it or buy it . . . out KtAU ix: "is uermany incur able?” by Richard M. Brickner, M.D. (Lippincott). A psychiatric treatise on the German people. A keen an alysis of the influences which make the Germans a recurring and ruth less menace to peace and security. • * * * VIA THE GRAPEVINE . . CZECHOSLOVAKIA. Production of completed aircraft in the so-called Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia has been halted by German authorities vecause of their inability to stop sabotage . . . BELGIUM. Occupa tion troups have thrown a cordon around several quarters of Brussels following the killing of five German army officers including two senior officers . • . THE NETHERLANDS. Five Catholic priests accused of op posing mobilization orders have been arrested in The Hague by the Gestapo . . . NORWAY. Six Norwegians have been seized as hostages following the explosion of a time bomb on a Ger man transport ship in Trondheim har bor. * * * * STRATEGY DEPT. The best mili tary guess is that Hitler, his military back all but against the wall, may at tempt one fling in an effort to wrest victory from the United Nations. Best opinion is that the all-out effort, into which the Nazis will put their every available ounce of energy, will be against the British Isles. * *. * * INSIDE-STRAIGHT: Mexico is •eadying a military mission to Africa % study Allied fighting meth'»ds , . Brig. Gen. Thomas H. Green, who has just been transferred from Hawaii where he was executive officer to the Military Governor, is in line for the post in Africa and Italy for which La Guardia was slated; ore else he will work with LaGuardia . . . Blondes in England are almost non-existent due to chemical shortages . . . It’s a bet that hot dogs won’t be sold at ball games this summer . . . The French island of Guadeloupe will break away from Vichy control almost any edition . . . Good news is on its way concerning new great American victories in the Pacific . . . The O. W. I. faces a stiff fight from Congress within a few weeks . . . China will soon announce the streamlining of its army to insure better equipment and supplies. “They Give Their Lives—You Lend Your Money" THE MARGIN BETWEEN FREEDOM AND SLAVERY FOR LABOR MAY BE TEN PERCENT C. L ALBEA MAKES STATEMENT TO VOTERS AS TO PAST SERVICE; HIS KNOWLEDGE IS OF BENEFIT “To the Voters of Charlotte: “I am announcing my candidacy for re-election to the city council, where it has been my privilege and pleasure to serve 12 consecutive years. Through the discharge of my duties as a councilman I have endeavored to show my appreciation of the friendly political support given to me, and if re-elected I shall try to merit that support. “It is unnecessary for me to present to the voters of Charlotte a platform telling the policies I favor and will main tain. The people of Charlotte know my record. I am seeking re-election solely on that record. “The next two years will be difficult for our community, because of the wartime necessities. While dealing with the urgent problems of today our city government also must take a long range view in preparing for other problems that will arise after victory again has been won in war. My knowledge of our city government’s machinery and my ex perience in dealing with our public affairs will be of value. I am confident, during these next two years. “I have been guided in my service as a councilman by a determination to be firm, just and fair, striving always for the betterment of our best community interests—that will be my attitude if I am re-elected.” MRS. W. M. WITTER OPERATED ON IN NEW YORK CITY Mrs. W. M. Witter, wife of the publisher of The Journal, and well known in Organized Labor Circles in N. C., underwent an operation Tuesday morning at the LeRoy Sanatorium, 40 East 61st street. ^M^¥¥¥¥M¥V¥¥¥¥¥V¥¥¥¥^ New York City. She had been in the hospital over a week prior to the operation, which was of a se rious nature. News received was that she was doing as well as could be expected. The “Madam” —or the “Boss”—as the boys in the shop call her, has been sorely missed at the Journal office, and we are all pulling for her speedy recovery and return to the work which is near and dear to her heart. BAXTER MAKES A STATEMENT AS TO HIS CANDIDACY AND WHAT HE STAN J) S FOB, To the Editor Charlotte Labor Journal: A few Sundays ago our Pastor took as his text “Let Every Man Be Persuaded in His Own Mind.” This quotation could be applied to business or politics as well as religion. As 1 have en tered the race for Mayor of Charlotte, my remarks may be con strued to be political, but using the above quotation as a thought, thmu four remarks will be iust plain common sense. The American way of voting is that after a study is made of the differ ent candidates for office, the voter, himself, decides who is the best man to vote for. Each voter should de cide whether experience counts in seek ing higher governmental jobs as it does in labor and in business. I feel that my six years \on the City Council, and the experience gained in the knowledge of our City’s business, qualifies me for asking the voters to support me in my campaign for the Mayor of Charlotte. While at the City Hall I served as Chairman of the Police Committee and the Fi nance Committee as well as other important committees which further, qualifies me for the high office I am seeking. I believe in politics. If it were not for the freedom of the press, speech, and the town meeting idea, we would today be in the same fix that Germany, Japan, and Italy are, where one party is in control. I believe in unions. Any organi zation bound together for a common purpose with a co-operative attitude towards its problems is bound to suc ceed. Banks could not exist without de positors and labor could not exist with out work. I have constantly voted for projects such as Housing Proj ects, the construction of the Memorial Hospital, and the Airport. One of the planks in my platform is that I will actively solicit new industries to come to Charlotte in the interest of larger payrolls. I am not going to the expense to have an uptown office or to employ a campaign manager. H. H. BAXTER. fHE MARCH OF LAB OK - American unions are SEN0M6 MILLIONS OF UNION made cigarettes id our, BOW OVERSEAS. wtuwmow •auiub**/ _tnti Put mu Of VMK fA/itnb VW* 80*03! pV(EO 9
The Charlotte Labor Journal and Dixie Farm News (Charlotte, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
April 15, 1943, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75