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She Charlotte labor Journal VOL. XII—NO. 50 Endorted by the N. C. State Federation of Labor ==» ,i YOMd AOVBRTIMMINT IN THB JOURNAL l« INVUTNINT AND DIXIE FARM NEWS CHARLOTTE, N. C„ THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1943 Official Organ of Central Labor Union; Standing for the A. F. L. JOURNAL AOVRRTIRIRI OCRCftVC CONSIDERATION OR THI RKADKRfl 12 YEARS OF CONSTRUCTIVE SERVICE TO NORTH CAROLINA READERS $2.00 Per Y< Labor ts On the Job For Victory The ONLY REALLY INDEPENDENT WEEKLY In Mecklenburg Goaty l»'nMMFor * Weekly Its Readers Represent the LARGEST BUYING POWER in Charlotte “ORGANIZED LABOR FOR VICTORY RALLY,” CALLED FOR SUNDAY, 3 P.M. AT THE COUNTY COURT HOUSE All organized labor—the AFL, CIO, and Railroad Brother hoods—and the public throughout North Carolina have been in vited to an “Organized Labor for Victory Rally” Sunday after noon, May 9, at 3 P.M. at the Mecklenburg County Courthouse, said an announcement today by the Charlotte district agency, Of fice of Price Administration. Higtfeofficials of the Federal Government, including Robert R. Brooks, national director of OPA’s labor division in Washing ton, will address the meeting. Other speakers'will include regional representatives of the War Production Board and the War Labor Board in Atlanta. Plans for th rally ,which will be sponsored by OPA’s newly organized Labor Advisory Committee here, were completed at a meeting Monday at OPA headquarters in the Law Building. “The purpose of the rally,” the committee stated, “is to pro mote a better understanding among labor, Government and the public of the mechanics of oprating a nation at war, and to form a better mutual comprehension of the problems of both labor and management.” The gathering will be open to the public, and it will be known as “Organized Labor for Victory Rally.” The district advisory committee of the OPA comprises H. G. Fisher, Salisbury; J. A. Moore, Charlotte; Cy Chisholm, Winston Salem, American Federation of Labor; H. L. Beatty, Charlotte; O. L. Trigg, Greensboro, and H. A. Stalls, Charlotte, International Tpographical Union; J. H. Fullerton, Horace A. Bean and L. B. Holden, Charlotte, Congress of Industrial Organization; T. V. Griswold, Charlotte, Railway Trainmen ;-W. H. Holmes, Gastonia, Order of Railroad Telegraphers. LOCAL LEADERSHIP By RUTH TAYLOR Organized Labor is justifiably disturbed at the growing anti labor sentiment so vocally expressed in many quarters today. Labor, however, has not itself been entirely guiltless. Any advertising man, whether his media be newspaper, magazine or radio—or the local paper —can testify that unheralded mer chandise seldom gets repeat orders. The public must be continually re sold on the product. Organized Labor has neglected its re-selling job. The country was orig inally sold on Organized Labor ■ through a national campaign. But • the re-selling has to be done locally, Anti-labor legislation stems from the community. Legislators are not for anti-labor legislation when the people who elected them are sold on labor. It is the power of public opinion, not the legislators, that determines the vote on any measure. You can’t win consistently in a democracy without the support of pub lic opinion. Remember, fortunately or unfortunately, as the case may be, the kind of a member of Organized Labor you are, will determine what your neighbors in your community will think of Organized Labor. There fore, in order to maintain the right attitude toward Organized Labor in the community, the development of lUlcll UIUUII icaucisui|l VJl me IIIRUVOW order is essential. The workers must select as leaders only those men whose ideals are their ideals, who will be swayed by pride of power, by favoritism, by prejudices, and who will not put personal loyalties ah?ad of the common interest. The need today is for labor men who dare to act as the occasion de mands for the good of the community as a whole; whose eyes are on the road straight ahead—not on their personal ambitions; who have cour age to do a job without fear or favor; who once elected to office remember that their task is to represent all the members; who look not just on the immediate problem but at the ultimate goal. This is an hour fraught with oppor tunity—whether it be an opportunity to forge stronger the bulwarks of our democracy, or a crisis in which we face the weakening of our system of government; whether it be an occa sion to prove the worth of Organized Labor or an ambush threatening the whole Labor movement. Upon our local leadership rests the decision as to the path we will take. Let us look well to our leaders. Officers Nominated At I. T. U. Meeting Sunday Afternoon —V— At the regular monthly meeting of Charlotte Typo. Union No. 338 Sun day afternoon the following officers were nominated for the ensuing year: President—C. J. Pridgen. Vice-President—Claude L. Albea. Sec.-Treas.—O. N. Burgess. Rec. Sec.—Howard L. Beatty. Sgt.-at-Arms—J. C. Metcalf. Auditing Committee—C. R. Austin, R. L. Luna, L. H. Pickens. Allied Printing Trades Council—H. A. Stalls, Claude L. Albea, A. B. Furr, Howard L. Beatty, H. A. Lawing. Delegate to I. T. U. Convention— Claude L. Albea, J. B. Felmet. Delegate to Virginia-Carolinas Typographical Conference — h. H. Pickens, H. A. Stalls, J. T. Primm, O. N. Burgess. Election to be held May 19th. --V “Mary had a little watch; she swal lowed it—it’s gone. Now, everywhere that Mary walks—time marches on.” —Unknown. -V Subscribe For the Journal 9 f « “They Give Their Lives—You Lend Your Money” V. S. Treasury Department Courterp Kimg Feature* This Week, This World by Ted Friend■ NEVER LET IT BE SAID that the great State of Mississippi does not run true to form! Highest in Lynching and lowest in literacy, Mississippi manages to further higWight its unsavory civic picture by sending the redoubtable John E. Rankin to Wash ington as one of its representatives._ ..... „ . . The history of the United btat-s Congress records some choice examples of crackpots. Every session of the Congress has brought forth a few political throw-backs for its more sa gacious members to ponder over. B-it it is doubtful if the roll call of mountebanks, numbskulls, ward-heel ers and plain screwballs, has ever be trayed so nauseating an example >Jf legislative puerility as Rep. Rankin. Rankin has made a political jackals out of himself on numerous occasions but his most recent effusion, in sup port of his newly acquired colleagu ’, Col. Comrade Joseph Stalin of the Soviet State of Georgia, makes h.m out to be an even greater fool than most people had hitherto judged hi.n to be. . Rising with all the fury of a Mis sissippi Mudcat about to swallow a mouthful of debris, Rep. Rankin re cently said: “A short time ago Stalin caught a couple of these troublemak ers named Ehrlich and Alter, tried and convicted them of treason and ex ecuted both of them. I see a certain element of Communistic press now ringing with denunciation of Russia’s action in the matter!” Of course, it wasn’t the Communis tic press which denounced Communist Stalin at all! The Communistic press had neither the courage nor sense to do so. It was the anti-Communis tic press which denounced Stalin’s act of terror against labor leaders Ehr lich and Alter, who, incidentally, were not Russian but Polish citizens. Fur ther it was the American labor press, as well as high ranking officials of the American Federation of Labor, not to forget forthright American su'Ji as Mayor LaGuardia of New York, who rung out with denunciations against the Soviet deed. Regrettably, it will continue for a long time to be one of the manifesta tions of democracy that tin-horn statesmen of the caliber of Rankin, Dies, O’Daniel, Reynolds, Hoffman and Fish will worm their way into public life. Fortunately for the American people, however, these sad examples of electoral irresponsibility will always manage, if given the op portunity, to talk themselves into oblivion. Or failing that, into in effectuality. In spite of the backward Rep. John E. Rankin, of the backward State of Mississippi, America need not despair! * * * THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO i v^v/aVIEj . . . . roreign iniiuaici v»wn ther of Sweden will be replaced short ly by a pro-United Nations diplomat . . . Russia and China will soon enter into a deal which will bring Russian aid to the Chinese in their war with the Japs . . . July may be the “Zero Month” in Europe . . . The Balkan trio, Roumania, Bulgaria and Hun gary, will be the next to try a peace offensive for Hitler. * * * THAT THE LONGEST WAY around is sometimes the shortest way home is evidenced by the report that the United States is receiving ship ments of rubber from Russia which the Soviets are buying for American use from the Japs! * * * THE UNDERGROUND FRONT continues its ceaseless fight to the despair of the Axis! Belgian offi cials in London report armed, mask ed patriots raiding Pieton Station in Hainault Province. Ordering ev eryone to alight, including the loco motive driver and stoker, the train was restarted to crash into another train ahead. From Prague come re ports which reveal an explosion, fol lowed by a devastating fire, causing much damage to an armament fac tory in the Brno suburb of Durych. In France the mayor of Commune in Var is arrested with his staff for anti-Italian propaganda! In the Netherlands unknown patriots, dress ed in the uniforms of Amsterdam po licemen, raid the Amsterdam Popula tion Register BuildiBr, overpower the police and citizen grn rds, and set the building afire! In '•oland bridges are blown up, railways molished and station installations destroyed! Subjugated territory? Hitler wishes it were so! MRS. WITTER OPERATED ON AGAIN —V— A wire received from New York Wednesday informs The Journal that Mrs. W. M. Witter will un dergo another operation Thurs day (today). As yet no details have reached Charlotte as to the nature of the case. She was re ported as able to be up on Tues day A. M. Jou Can Do Something About PJs! F w ^ . 1 Tokio's Savagery Against Our Young Fliers Will Be Avenged You can help speed the day when we will bring the murderers of our boys to justice by buying War Bonds to the very limit of your ability. Every American has been stirred to burning anger, every American can do something about it today. Your War Bonds will become the bombs which the comrades of our martyred boys will unloose time and time again upon these Japanese fiends unt J thev beg f^r mercy. They Give Their Lives—You Lend Your Money. • V. S. Treasury Dtfai i ■ THE MARGIN BETWEEN FREEDOM AND SLAVERY FOR LABOR MAY BE TEN PERCENT CITIZENS’ TICKET (IRON DUKES) ELECTS 7 COUNCILMEN-PEOPLE’S TICKET (BLOCKS OF GRANITE) GETS FOUR ON COUNCIL AND MAYOR In one of the hardest fought local political battles in recent years the Citizens’ ticket (Iron Dukes) won a majority of Coun oilmen over the People’s ticket (Blocks of Granite)—7 to 4—with the mayor a member of the minority ticket. The vote in Tues day’s primary (unofficial) follows: A. Z. Price, 6,895. Charles H. Daughtry, 6,844. J. A. Baker, 6,670. L. H. Painter, 6,593. J. Murrey Atkins, 6,563. Lester W. Slye, 6,490. Joe Cope, 6,214. The above seven were Citizens’ candidates. Claude L. Albea, 6,179. John Ward, 6,000. W. Irving Bullard, 6,036. W. N. (Bub) Hovis, 5,776. The above four were People’s candidates. The votes of the eight candidates eliminated were: Ralph Hood, People’s 5,734; M. Luther Harkey, People’s 5,520; J. I. (Jimmie) Campbell, People’s 5,349; Joe S. Robinson, 1,018; J. B. Thomas, 751; William (Ed) Norton, 723; C. D. Brady, 621; and Abraham Homsy, 388, Independents. In the school board contest the four incumbents won. E. Lowell Mason, former _ Central high school and Duke university star football player, was eliminated. The vote was: Rev. Herbert Spaugh, 8,138; Marshall E. Lake, 5,880; J. E. Burnside, 5,790; Roy L. Smart, 5,568; and Mason 4,619. Mayor Baxter received 5,850 votes to elect him to head the city government for the next two years. He had eliminated Mayor Ernst McA. Currie in the primarv by a lead of 325 votes. MAYOR BAXTER MAKES STATEMENT: <<Now that the people have spoken, all members of the coun cil will consider the progress of Charlotte the one important thing. A united effort for harmony and good government will be the motto at the city hall. I am sure that the new city council will function with this single purpose in mind—the best interests of the city first, last and always—with each department striving to co-operate toward that end.” CHARLOTTE’S NEXT MAYOR HERBERT H. BAXTER Elected on the People’s Ticket
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