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12 YEARS OF CONSTRUCTIVE SERVICE TO NORTH CAROLINA READERS Endorted by the N. C. State Federation of Labor AND DIXIE FARM NEWS Official Organ of Central Labor Union; Standing for the A. F. L. VOL. XII—NO. 48 YOU* AOVUTItlMBNT IN TNI JOURNAL 10 A INVKSTNINT CHARLOTTE, N. C„ THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1943 journal Advirtiiim Diiirvi Consideration or . TMl RlAOtM $2.00 Per Yew Labor Is On the Job For Victory The ONLY REALLY INDEPENDENT WEEKLY to Mecklenburg County «Cn»1BmmTF" a Weekly Its Readers Represent the L ARGEST BUYING POWER in Charlotte OFFICIAL PRIMARY BALLOT FOR OUR PRIMARY ELECTION TO BE HELD MONDAY APRIL 26 Names of Candidates for Mayor, Councilmen and Members of the School Board of the City of Charlotte, N. C.. as they are to appear on the ballot for the primary election to be held on Mon day, April 26, 1943: OFFICIAL PRIMARY BALLOT Candidates for nomination for May or, Councilmen and members of the School Board of the City of Char lotte, N. C. INSTRUCTIONS 1. Place a (X) mark in the square preceding the names of parties you favor as candidates for the respec tive positions. 2. If you tear or deface or wrong ly mark this ballot, return it and get another. 3. Vote for not more than one for Mayor, and not more than eleven Councilmen and not more than three members of School Board. FOR MAYOR Vote for One) H. H. Baxter E. McA. Currie FOR MEMBERS OF CITY COUNCIL (Vote for Not More Than Eleven) WARD 1 (Vote ftk- Not More Than Two) W. N. (“Bub”) Hovis WARD 2 (Vote for Not More Than Two) J. Murrey Atkins Frank G. Hoover Joe S. Robinson WARD 3 (Vote for Not More Than Two) John Ward WARD 4 (Vote for Not More Than Two) R. Kent Blair Abraham Homsy WARD 5 (Vote for Not More Than Two) William (Ed) Norton J. B. Thomas WARD 6 (Vote for Not More Than Two) Claude L. Albea Chas. H. Daughtry Jake Martin WARD 7 (Vote for Not More Than Two) W. Irving Bullard M. Luther Harkey Fred M. Plexico Louis L. Rose Charles B. Ross WARD 8 (Vote for Not More Than Two) J. A. Baker Manley R. Dunaway Dr. C. D. Hollingsworth Leon Lawrence A. B. Morgan A. Z. Price WARD 9 (Vote for Not More Than Two) C. D. Brady LL. H. Painter WARD 10 (Vote for Not More Than Two) J. I. (Jimmie) Campbell Lester W. Slye WARD 11 (Vote for Not More Than Two) , J. S. Bowser ' Joe Cope Ralph Hood J. J. Meisenheimer FOR MEMBERS OF SCHOOL BOARD (Vote For Not More Than Four) J. E. Burnside Rev. Joseph Fraylon Marshall E. Lake E. Lowell Mason Roy L. Smart Rev. Herbert Spaugh MORGENTHAU TALKS ABOUT SECOND FRONT, AND ASKS LOAN OF MONEY TO GOV’T [The following address Secretary Morgenthau launching the Second War Loan drive was delivered at a rally in Carnegie Hall, New York City, at 9 P. M., Monday. April 12, 1943. and is worthy i of consideration hv every American citizen, of high or low degree.] Tonight I’m going to talk about something you might not] expect the Treasury Department to discuss. I’m going to talk about the Second Front. The Second Front is no military secret, We all know that, just over the horizon, we of the United Nations are piling up the thunder-clouds of the greatest attack in history. We are massing for that attack, now. The planning, the patient preparation, the bitter time when we had to take blows without returning them, because we weren’t ready—all of that is past. Now we’re ready to deal a few blows ourselfes; and they’ll be blows, I can promise you, that will rock Nazi Germany to its rotten, bloodstained foundations. As the Secretary of the Treasury I’ve been given the job of seeing to it that money is available to pay for this great military offensive and oth ers to follow. This is why we are launching the Second War Loan to night—to raise at least 13 billion dol lars before the end of this month—to buy materials and implements of war. We must buy shells today for big guns that will be roaring tomorrow and the day after. I’m here tonight to tell you that your help is needed. The need is real, urgent, pressing. Ten per cent is no longer enough. We are asking everyone to buy extra bonds this month, even workers who are now participating in the payroll savings plan. In our private lives none of us deals with billion-dollar figures. I know they’re bewildering. But except for the size of the fig ures involved there is no mystery about financing a war. The Govern ment of the United States is buying The best equipment ever furnished to any army. It is paying not only for equipment that reaches the fighting fronts but for some equipment that never gets there. For every ship that s sunk we must build two new ships for every cargo that’s lost we must send out two new' cargoes. And that costs money. Where are we going to get it? Well, there are several ways to get the money. We can raise it through taxes. We can borrow it from the banks. And we can borrow it from the people—and that means you. We are now getting more money through taxes than ever before. And it will be necessary, I have no doubt, to ask for still more. But we cannot rely on taxes alone to do the whole job, and I wouldn’t want to—because we could not tax with fairness on so huge a scale, We could borrow all the money from the banks. Our credit is excel lent. But for a variety of reasons, economic and social, this is also un desirable. One reason goes to the very heart of our system of Govern- \ litviiL. it is iiiipm bdia tv uit ao x know it is to you. This is a people’s war—so all of the people ought to have a part in financing it. And I know you feel the same way about it, because five-sixths of all the people who are earning money today have bought bonds. As Secretary of the Treasury, I can report that 96 cents out of every dollar which comes into the Treasury, through war bonds, taxes, or anything else, is spent for war purposes. When you pay eighteen dollars and seventy five cents for a bond, eighteen dollars go immediately into guns and planes and equipment. The 75 cents goes for the regular expenditures of the Gov ernment. The cost of selling bonds is indeed very small. And this is because you and your neighbors and hundreds of thousands of volunteers across the country have taken over the job of selling. I’d like to express, to all of you, my deepest gratitude. I should like to thank all of those who are helping—management and labor, for the splendid success they have made of the payroll savings plan, under which more than 25 million working people now regularly invest almost 9 per cent of their wages and salaries. I’d like to thank manufacturing and retail business firms, large and small, who have given us, free of charge, millions of dollars worth of advertis ing space and radio time, as has the Bell Telephone System tonight. And the Federal Reserve System and thousands of banks working with them—and all the others who are giving their time in this way in the service of their country. You can feel every confidence that the financial affairs of your govern ment are in good condition as the United Nations go on the offensive. The situation is well in hand. We know where we’re going. We know how much money our armed forces will need. During this month of April we must get 13 billion dollars. We shall then have borrowed about 20 billion dollars in the first 4 months of this year. * This Week, This World I—-fry Ted Friend— The execution of the Polish labor leaders, Ehrlich and Alto*' by the Soviet government, betrays a schism in the ranks of * United Nations people, which unless corrected by a major ideological operation, will grow greater and more dangerous as 4 ho war mmes into its final stages. The legal murder of Ehrlich and Alter has deep significances. For one thing it is a direct blow at the free labor movements as organized in the democratic countries, which have his torically proved themselves anti totalitarian. For another, it is a step in the direction of eliminating Polish intellectuals who would be a political nuisance when the peace conference reached the task of re-constituting of the conquered nations, the Polish Re public among them. But regrettable as was the killing of Ehrlich and Alter when viewed in the light of much needed United Na tions unity, more regrettable and cer tainly more pathetic, was the supine lip service paid by American Commun ists leaders in the Red whitewashing campaign which followed announce ments of the executions. Hewing to its established line of reflecting offi cial Moscow opinion, even when essen tial facts are not available to it, American Communists again showed their moral and social bankruptcy by standing all-out at the side of the executioners though labor leaders and liberals the world over denounced the Soviet’s Star Chamber killings. Instituting its customary smear campaign, in the wake of its cus tomary rubber-stamp approval of Soviet action, American Communist leadership heaped slurs upon Ameri working men who refused to be stampeded into approving the killing of Ehrlich and Alter. The smear campaign reached its height after David Dubinsky, president of the In ternational Ladies Garment Workers, denounced the executions as a “black crime.” Speaking at a mass meeting at which scores of outstanding Ameri can liberals were Dufcinksy said, “As free American citizens, as workers and as democrats, in reg istering our fiery protest against their execution, we shall assert and re assert to the end of time our unshak able belief in .their innocence and their stainless idealism. Ehrlich and Alter died as martyrs. They died because even at the price of life itself they would not renounce their convictions, the principles of a free democratic world.” The execution of labor leaders Ehrlich and Alter by the Soviets is clinching evidence that, in spite of the comradship in arms thrust upon it by a war which finds the United States and Russia fighting the same aggressor, America must give the Soviets no blank check on the future. Military aid must continue to go forth, because it is to the best American in terest for it to do so, but insofar as it is possible political value-received must be demanded in return. In any case, though American Com : munists and their stooges may never i allow themselves the luxury of becom ing aware of it, the Ehrlich and Alter killings were meat and substance for pro-Fascist forces in the United States, the Copperheads, subversivists, Fronters, Bundists, confusionists and Klanners among them. * * • QUOTE OF THE MONTH CLUB: “One of the most encouraging ex amples of the readiness to make sacri fices and of the spirit of co-opera tion has been the attitude of both labor and management under self rule. There are a few exceptions, of course. There have been some unwarranted strikes—some bad absentee situations have arisen—some isolated but ugly instances of misconduct in nidustry have occurred. But such cases are merely bubbles on the tidal wave of the American war effort. Except for those few regrettable exceptions, man agement and labor throughout the nation are staying on the job volun tarily and working in cooperation with the government to win the war. That is strong testimony to the real ism and sincerity of purpose of the American people.’’ DONALD M. NEL SON, Chairman of the War Produc tion Board. • * * •C'-fHE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME:... The meat packing industry will soon reach an agreement to gov ern prices and marketing procedure . . . Shipbuilder Kaiser notwithstand ing, steel magnates insist that west ern steel plants are impractical . . . Iceland will hit the front pages soon as a possible springboard to Norway and Finland . . . Bicyck rationing will be discontinued within 90 days . . . F. D. R. is seeking a head for the new office of civilian supply. Joseph P. Kennedy has already turned down the job . . . Transportation will be ra 1 tioned in July. We will need to borrow about 25 bil lions during the second 4 months, and, without any new taxes, another 25 in the final period of the year; a total of about 70 billion dollars for the year. I would like to assure you that we can afford it. But 70 billion dollars is, of course, a lot of money. It isn’t going to be easy to raise it. It means hard work. But I have every confidence, knowing the American people, and how deeply serious they are about this war, that we will get it. We will get it from people who will scrimp and save if need be to buy these bonds. We will get it especially from those upon whom we must depend most heavily —the men and women who are mak ing good money in shipyards and plane factories and tank production; the gallant women who used to call them selves housewives but who are work ing today at lathes and drill-presses in the great war plants. These are the Americans who, all together, buy bonds in amounts that a millionaire, or even all of the millionaires com bined, could never hope to equal. And they’ll buy more of them this year— this year when 10 per cent is no long er enough. The boys at the front are counting on them. They are counting on you. All of us will buy bonds because all of us know that this is our war and that we must win it. We must win it so that nations with a bloody philosophy out of the dark ages of mankind’s. past will never again be able to raise a traitorous hand against neighbors wanting only to live in peace and friendly good will. An hour ago I passed through a railroad sta tion. Standing at the iron gates, saying goodbye, were boys in uni form with their girls, their wives— young coupjes come to the heart breaking minute when there were no more words; when all they could do was to stand with their hands clench ed so tightly together that they hurt. And as I passed them I thought of all the other young Americans whose lives have been torn into ragged bits —young architects and engineers giv ing up their studies; school—girls working in factories; farmers send ing their wives and youngsters out to work in the fields because they can’t get hired hands; business men losing what they’ve spent twenty years creating, because of the neces sary curtailments. By what right do the Germans, the Japanese, blight our lives, shat ter our homes, whirl away our boys to drown five thousand miles from home in a scum of oil at sea, or bleed and cough their lives out in a muddy, filthy ditch ? Who do they think they are?—We know only too well who they think they are! They’re the superman, the Master Races, put here on earth to enslave the rest of us and crack the whip over our bare backs while we do their dirty chores —they and their “great” armies; their great armies of sneaks and bullies that jump on weak, helpless nations •when they aren’t looking. The Japs, with their dreams of empire, built on lies and treachery. The Germans, who twice within the memory of liv ing men have tried, with their Kaisers and their Fuehrers, to conquer the rest of our world. We say: “Never again!” We of the United Nations will show them who we are. We’ll show them some really great armies —Chinese and Russian, British and American. These armies are the mightiest mili tary machine in all history. But to us they are friends and husbands, fathers and sons. They are your boys and my boys. They are asked to give their lives. You are only asked to lend your money. Shall we be more tender with our dollars than with the lives of our sons? -V It takes one hundred years for a sturdy oak tree to grow to full ma turity; but it takes only two months to make a squash. THE MARGIN BETWEEN FREEDOM AND SLAVERY FOR LABOR MAY BE TEN PERCENT IT IS PATRIOTIC TO SHOP DURING MID-DAY, STAGGERING PEAK HOURS OF TRAVEL “Making a day of it downtown”—a day that began at the bargain counter at 9 a.m. and ran the clock around with lunch, more shopping, maybe a movie, and a last-minute scramble for the 5 o’clock bus—is patriotically taboo in the housewife’s war geared schedule. , . _ Shopping as usual, like spending as usual, has-been trimmed by war. Staggered hour systems and the longer work-week limit most non-employed home-makers who want to help in the war effort to a four-hour midday shopping. . , Women now are asked by the Office of Defense Transportation to begin their shopping day no earlier than 10 in the morning and to quit shopping centers no later than two in the afternoon. This is necessary to leave room for essential workers who must travel during peak-load periods. Here’s the reason: More millions of workers are jamming public transit facilities in addition to the already heavy load of other employees and school children who regularly crowded the buses and trolleys. In most cases, all these people must be transported on existing equipment. Staggered hour plans relieve early morning and evening crushes by spreading full passenger travel over a longer period. Bus and trolley lines then run at capacity later in the morning and start carrying homeward bound workers earlier in the afternoon. .,,, Retail stores all over the country are arranging for late closing hours for the sole purpose of serving workers unable to shop at any other time not to accommodate women who can shop during the day. Mothers are requested by ODT to pay particular, attention to their shopping time on Saturday, usually set aside for outfitting children, to many cities, the wartime work-week is in effect, so week-day rush hour crowds of workers must be handled on Saturday as well. “VERBAL SHAM BATTLES ” AND THE “POISON POLITICAL PROPA GANDA” LEAVES THE VOTERS IN A BEWILDERED STATE Editor Charlotte Labor Journal: If it were not for a political campaign every year, the average voting citizen would never know what is going on Government and what happens to his tax dollar. These Verbal Sham Bat tles,” to quote the newspaper headlines, bring out facts and figures which should convince the voter as to the qualifications of the candidates for the respective offices. There has been so much shadowing of the main issues in this campaign, due to Poison Political Propaganda,” that I am sure that the voters of Char lotte will have time to listen to a few facts and figures. I quoted in the press this morning: “The business people of the City of Charlotte have weighed the Iron Dukes in the balance and found them wanting—wanting what—wanting to spend the people’s money, and what do the people get for it. Two yews ago, the last year when I was on the Council, we spent $2,3-3,116.00. The yllr ending June 1942 the Iron Dukes spent $2 532.989 <H> and their budget for the year ending 1943 calls for an expenditure of $2,683.27800. there is a difference of $360,162.00. L. “I would like to ask the Iron Dukes what they did with all of this money ■ It is true that they reduced taxes 10 cents, but it appears to me that they should have reduced taxes 20 cents. Of course, they took in more money which could be credited to surplus and not spent. “As far as I can find out they have not paved a street. They didn t even give the firemen new uniforms last winter, which, I understand, is the first time in twenty-five years that our firemen didn t have new uniforms. I understand that thev increased salaries 10 per cent an dthen took the uni forms away from them, which certainly is not a raise in pay. I heard Mr. Charles Tillett try to Crack at me from two angles last night in his radio talk and I will answer him tonight at 6:30. tou know voters, that Mr. Tillett happens to be the City Attorney, and it is the first time in the history of Charlotte that I have ever known a City employee to publicly speak for his own job. He and his 3 or 4 political cohorts are certainly carrying their message to the public in a very selfish way. lad® and figures on past due taxes will certainly interest you voters when I bring them out in tonights broadcast. Mr. Tillett and his Iron Dukes are trying to make Chief Anderson carry their whole ticket. That seems to be their onlv issue. As mentioned before in previous statements, no mem ber of the “Peoples Party” has anything against Chief Anderson. We are not evading this issue on Chief Anderson. The Ministerial poll will show that all Councilmen candidates on the “Peoples Ticket” favor the re-election of Chief Anderson. We stand whole heartedly for law and order. We simply ask why. ..... . . . Six months ago Charlotte ranked 29th in vice and prostitution, and today ranks Number 1, and when Uncle Sam gets behind this proposition, the sparks really begin to fly. I noticed Colonel Gaes’ statment in last night’s paper about how terrible conditions are in Charlotte. As the campaign con tinues records will speak for themselves. This campaign issue will easily be settled. I would like to ask Mr. Tillett one question, “Why was the vice squad discontinued three months ago?” I will reserve further comment until this question is answered. Perhaps I could ask Mr. Tillett if he can plug one of the holes in my platform with the $800,000.00 per month that the Army is going to take out of Charlotte if Chief Anderson can’t clean up the town. You can’t fool the Army. This race reminds me of a drowning man grasping at a straw. H. H. BAXTER. MRS. WITTER IS REPORTED AS , RECOVERING Word received from New York last night is to the effect that Mrs. W. M. Witter, who under went an operation there on April 13th is getting along nicely, but recovery is slow, due to the se rious nature of the two operations performed. She asks The Journal to extend thanks for the many telegrams from well'wishers and flowers received from Charlotte friends, and the publisher of The Journal also wishes to join with her in expression of appreciation, and is hoping that she will soon be back with us and be able to take up her duties as the best ad solicitor and “contact man” we have ever had. Her address is: LeRoy Sanitorium, 40 East 61st street. New York City, Room 1107. If everything goes well, she expects to be able to return home in about five or six weeks. A card received today (Tues day) from her asked us to es pecially thank Charlotte Central Labor Union and the delegates for the flowers sent and the mes sage accompanying them, which she treasured. APRIL RAIN It is not raining rain to me, It’s raining daffodils; In every dimpled drop I see Wild flowers on the hills. The clouds of gray engulf the day, And overwhelm the town; It is not raining rain to me, It’s raining roses down, It is not raining rain to me, But fields of clover bloom, Where any buccaneering bee May find a bed and room. A health unto the happy! A fig ftp- him who frets!— It is not raining rain to me, It’s raining violets. —Robert Loveman. CULLINGS The New Jersey Senate, not un mindful of the future, has voted unan imously to issue free peddlers’ licenses to veterans of the present war. The Voluntary Committee to Aid" Republican Party Policy Reorganiza tion believes, according to one of its bulletins, that “the President’s post war program ... can be better ad ministered and put into execution by the Republican Party.”
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