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.The Charlotte Labor Journal AND DIXIE FARM NEWS —j V tn.tUr September 11. 1SJ1. at the Poet Office at Charlotte, N. C. Ul* *«t of March J, 1*7*. 302 South College Street—Charlotte, 2, N. C. PHONE 3-3094 The Labor Journal is true to the American ideals of WAGE EARNERS; Ken and women spend your wages in the city where you live, always remem bering that “The Dollar That Goes the Farthest is the Dollar That Stays at tome. 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 - Sove 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, JULY 1, 1943 *'** * ..YiviYiYwinnnn-n_i\n_nj~Ln-n-nn.i~ii*i.i~inruvoi WEEKLY BIBLE QUOTATION “He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul: he that keepeth understanding shall find good. A false wit ness shall not be unpunished: and he that speaketh lies shall perish. Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.” — Proverbs 19 chap. WHY STAY ON FIRST BASE? By RUTH TAYLOR a man stays on first, he never gets home.” One of my baseball fan friends thus pointed a story he was telling me the other day. I forget what the story was—my mind stayed on that one sentence be cause it goes straight to the point of the labor problems as it exists today. Labor cannot play safe. It cannot cling now to the advantages it has so hardly won or fight for new ones. Organized Labor must be part of the whole game. It must take a chance on its skill to win. If it doesn t, the game wilPbe over and Labor will not have scored. It matters not whether Labor is right in most of the claims it is making and is asking for nothing more than its just dues. But—now is not the time to play safe. Now is the time to play as hard as we can that when the game is won. Labor will deserve praise for perfect team work, and can then claim without fear or favor the awards of its work. The leaders of Labor have been saying this over and over again. They have been protesting wild cat strikes, absenteeism, work stop pages, slow downs. But of themselves they can do little. What they need is the backing of all right minded members of the labor move ment—-who have just as great, if not a greater stake in this war than any other group in the country. Organized Labor has made sacrifices in this war—in the lives of its members, and of the sons and brothers of those members, in ad vantages set aside. in rights abrogated for the duration, in money invested in War Bonds, in a drop in its standard of living, in a ready response to all appeals for aid. But Organized Labor must not falter now. The game is not OV-T>r‘ *oug*les* l)art of the fight is just ahead, when every thing will depend on the backing given the boys who are going out'to fight and die for the preservation of our way of life, for the salvation of thoes freedoms without which democracy and unionism cannot live. Now is not the time to stay on first. Now is the time to take a chance on the future—and to win the game by playing as hard and daringly as we can! “LET’S GO U.S.A.-KEEP ’EM FLYING” FREE LABOR WILL WIN PATRONIZE JOURNAL ADVERTISERS WAY OUT FOR NEGROES Archibald Rutledge in the Saturday Evening Post on ‘The World's Biggest Negro Business” certainly offers something constructive to the Negro race. He points out if you go to Durham. North Carolina, you will see a handsome six-story building which houses the $60,000,000 North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company. He describes this business as the largest business enterprise in the world operated by and for Negroes. The company is 44 years old. It was founded by a barber, a physician and a dishwasher. Strange to say the dishwasher, now 68 years old, is presi dent and guiding spirit of the company. These inexperienced Negroes had to feel their way in the insurance business. Their first policyholder was insured for only $40. A while man, Washington Duke, the founder of the great Duke fortune, encouraged these Negroes in their business venture. The North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company has its own bonding company, its own bank. It has a beautiful clinic on the second floor, completely modern, headed by a graduate of the Harvard Medical School. TheVompany now has 700 agents, 375.000 outstanding policies. It holds $1,000,000 worth of government securities. Charles C. Spaulding, president, believes that the Negro does not know ii-ini-inr ri n - n~i-i--- - - —————— mtm how to save his money and believes that much economic welfare for the Negro race lies in thrift. This is an epic story and one deserving commendation. This Mutual Life Insurance Company points the way out for the Negro race in cooperating with one another 4.0 build great cooperative businesses so that they can be come respected for their virtues rather than unadmired for their faults. —The Journal of Electrical Workers and Operators. WSSnSSSSSSWVWWWWVeWWSWWSSSVWSSWISSMSSnSSSSMSSSMS WHETHER WE LIKE IT OR NOT! “Likewise with labor unions: whether we like it or not, collective bargaining: is here to stay. And once management accepts the fact of unionism, which would mean an end to anti-unionism, pressure for the closed shop should abate.” —From Fortune Magazine, representative of business. Army Calls Women For Special Radio Training As WAACS —V— The Army and Civil Service Com mission have sent out an urgent call for 120 women between the ages of 21 and 44, inclusive, to receive speci alized training as WAACs, the Char lotte Recruiting Station announced to day. These women are vitally need ed by the United States Army Signal Corps to serve as radio teelphone and Tadio teletype operators and repair men. Applicants must be high school graudates, meet WAAC requirements, and pass a Civil Service Examination. Accepted applicants will be placed in the Enlisted Reserve Corps of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps and will be sent to the Sjgnal Corps Radio School at Livingston, Alabama. They will take courses in radio operator, radio telephone and repair work. While learning, these trainees will be paid at the rate of $1020 a year for the first three months and at $1440 per year for the second three months. At the completion of their radio training, these women will be sent to WAAC basic training centers for a five week period and then be assigned to duty with the Signal Corps as specialists. In addition, these women are eligible for Officers’ training if they demonstrate leader ship ability. •" Applications and additional infor mation regarding these positions may be obtained from Lt. Dorothy E. Coop er, U. S. Army Recruiting Station, P. O. Building, Charlotte, N. C. FOOD COSTS IN CREASE 0.8 PGR CENT IN MAY —V— While the cost of items making up nearly 60 per cent of the family budg et remained practically unchanged in the month ended May 15, a rise of 1.7 per cent in food prices increased the total cost of living for city workers by 0.8 per cent, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins reported recently. “This increase of 0.8 per cent com pares with a rise of 1.5 per cent in the month ending March 15 and 1.1 per cent in the month ending April 15,” she said. “The largest increases in May food prices were for fresh fruits and vege tables, which were up 8 per cent. Prices of chickens continued to rise, with growing scarcity at the retail level in some cities. Sweet potatoes increased 40 per cent in the period, to three times their prices of a year ago. . ... “Aside from food, the principal in creases were in the cost of services, particularly medical care and barber and beauty shop services A MESSAGE TO EVERY AMERICAN FROM THE PRESIDENT THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON June 24, 1943 M7 dear lir. Secretary: Through you, as Secretary of the Treasury, I want to congratulate the American people on the nay in which they hare supported the volun tary payroll savings plan. I am proud of the fact that 27,000,000 patriotic Americans are regularly investing more than $420,000,000 a month to help pay the cost of the war. And since all of this money comes from wages and salaries — nearly 90 percent from people earning less than $5,000, and the bulk of it from those working in war plants — I do not hesi tate to say that the payroll savings plan is the greatest single factor we now have in protecting ourselves against inflationary spending. _ . ... This is a great record, both from the standpoint of curbing inflation and from the standpoint of financing the war. However, I heartily endorse your present drive to improve that record, and I agree it must be improved if we are to keep pace with the Increasing demands of the war. I therefore Join you in calling upon the American people — and upon labor and management particularly — to do still more. Addi tional people should be convinced of the necessity of participating. Everyone now on the payroll savings plan should materially Increase the amount of bonds he is buying. We originally asked for 10 percent, but now we need considerably more. I hope every American on a payroll will figure out for himself the extent to which he can curtail his spending, and will put every dollar of additional saving thus made into the payroll savings plan. Sincerely yours, She Honorable, The Secretary of the Treasury BACK UP THE BOYS t II , WHO ARC FIGHTING FOR YOU ALLEN OVERALL CO. 415 So. 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