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She Charlotte labor Journal Kndoreed by the N. C. State Federation ef Mir AND DIXIE FARM NEWS Official Oryw •/ Central Leber Union; Standing for the A. F. L. 13 YEARS OP CONSTRUCTIVE SERVICE TO NORTH CAROLINA READERS VOL. XIII—No. 29 M A CHARLOTTE, N. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2,1943 12.00 Per Y< Back Up The Boys On The Battlefield =~ tk OMIT KBALLT PfDKPKWPKWT WEEKLY hi Unrkkmkmg C—im awM» a W-fcfr IU Umitn Bipruwrt tk» LARGEST BUYING POWER fai Chartotto HOWARD BEATTY HEADS VA.-CAR. TPYO CONFERENCE AT 23RD ANNUAL MEET. HELD IN CHARLOTTE SUNDAY Howard Beatty of the Charlotte Observer composing room, was elected president of the Virginia Carolinas Typographical Conference at the Mecklenburg Sunday at the 23rd annual meet ing. A Urge representation from the three states and the District of Colombia were in attendance. Mr. Beatty succeeded O. S. Trigg of Greens boro. Other officers elected were O. W. Jones of Durham vice-president I. G. Tamsburg of Charleston, secretary-treasurer, and Tom So them of Danville, Va., labor commissioner. The convention consisted of three sessions, Saturday night, Sunday morning and a luncheon at 1 P. M. Sunday. C. J. Pridgen, president of the Charlotte local union, presided. Claude L. Albea welcomed the visitors. John P. White was toastmaster at the luncheon. Mayor H. H. Baxter brought greetings for the municipality and the Rev. J. G. Garth offered the prayer. The principal guest speaker was State Senator Joe E. Berry of Columbia. Others making short talks were P. H. Batte, Roy Lawrence, E. L. Williams, Henry Stalls, and E. L. Thayer of Florida, representative of the international president. The musical program consisted of songs by Misses Betty and Jean Beatty, daughters of the new president, accompanied by Mrs. Byron Luna. Typographer Hugh Sykes’ new, snappy war song, “Victory,” was sung with great success by Miss Martha Beam.—News, Monday, Nov. 26. DONATIONS BY AFL MEMBERSHIP IN WAR BOND CAMPAIGN SHOWS UNIONS RESPONDED IN LARGE WAY NEW YORK CITY.—An aU-time record for AFL contribu tions to war relief and community needs is well on the way, according to nation-wide reports on this year’s campaign in sup port of the National War Fund, now reaching the Labor League for Human Rights. In spite of the handicap of in creased taxes and the higher cost of living, many key cities from coast to coast have already reported AFL con tributions considerably in excess of those made in last year’s campaign, when organised labor was acknowl edged to be the largest single giver to Community Chests and war relief drives. One of the outstanding contribu tions so far made for any one plant is credited to the Consolidated Air craft'factory in San Diego, California, where AFL workers donated the rec ord-breaking sum of $151,000 in addi tion to management’s contribution of $100,000 to the campaign. AFL leaders in San Diego have declared their intention of returning to Con solidated Aircraft and continuing their campaign, and are confident that ad ditional contributions will carry the total employe collection from this plant to well over the $200,000 mark. Apart from the Consolidated figure, the average contribution to the cam paign by AFL members in the city of San Diego as a whole now stands at $14.62. AFL workers at the Navy shipyard in Charleston, S. C., have turned in a total of $77,273.48, more than three THIS WEEK— .. — times their quota of $25,000. The 1,900 employees of the Charleston Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, under contract to the AFL, have so far raised $12,500, exceeding their set goal by $6,500. The overall goal for the city of Charleston has been ex ceeded by $73,500, and H. W. Houke, chairman of the Charleston County United War Fund, has declared that labor was “very instrumental in the success of the campaign.” Other cities have come close to matching the spectacular achieve ments of San Diego and Charleston. Watertown, N. Y., with results re ported from only two unions, the Building Trades and the Machinists, has raised $13,000, an outstanding gain over last year’s total labor con tribution of $2,300. In Toledo, the iron workers took first place among the AFL unions of the city in the early days of the cam paign, with a contribution averaging $14 per capital. Elizabeth, N. J., now in the mid-point of its campaign, re ports a collection of $65,000, an in crease of more than $20,000 over 1942. AFL leaders in Elisabeth are confident that at least $10,000 will be added to that total before the close of the drive. Atu>> eg, ' I v 789 p > ’ •SHUCKS, si, it was simple solving my MANPOWER SHORTAGE. JUST CROSSED MY CORN WITH MEXICAN JUMPING BEAN AND POPCORN.* • “LET’S GO U.S.A.-KEEP ’EM FLYING” So long as we have held fast to voluntary principles - and have been actuated and inspired by the spirit of serv ice, we have sustained our forward progress and we have made our Labor Movement something to be respected and accorded a place in the councils of our Republic. . No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion. If we seek to force, we but tear apart that which otherwise, is invin cible.—Samuel Gompers. R. A. Scoggins Named Labor Member * Of Public Relations Panel In The “Home Front Pledge Campaign” > A program of enlisting the general public in a co-operative effort with the OPA in its rationing and price control work will be launched in Mecklenburg by the public relations panel, of which Charles H. Crutchfield is chairman, about December l, it was announced Monday. x ne anve win oe Known as w*« Home Front Pledge campaign and the object will be to have every consum er, retailer, wholesaler, and manufac turer join in a battle against price increases, and the many aspects of inflation, Mr. Crutchfield said. The public relations panel will at tempt to see that every information agency in the community is used to distribute full information about the vital importance of co-operating with the rationing and price control efforts of the various officials charged with handling the details of the programs. ine wnoie puipuse ui uw vrA w to see that available goods are dis tributed evenly with everybody get ting a fair share. The job is a Dig one, however, and only by completely co-ordinated efforts of everybody in the community can the objective be attained, it was said. Chairman Crutchfield yesterday ex plained that the panel members will include R. A. Scoggins, representative of labor, while Chairman Martin L. Cannon of the Civilian Defense com mittee will name a representative from his group.—Observer. WHEN THE NAZIS ARE DEFEATED A HUGE TASK WILL FACE US IN GIVING WARTORN EUROPE RELIEF 2. THE FRAMEWORK OF EUROPEAN RECONSTRUCTION. When the Nazis have been defeated, the first task will be to bring relief—food, medicine, clothing—to the starving people of Europe and help them begin reconstructing their houses, factories anil agriculture. The latter job will require help from abroad in the form of raw materials and equipment and, in many cases, managerial staff and skilled workmen. But the international agencies which will be charged with providing relief and reconstruction will also have to create a new economic framework in Europe. This framework will have to foster world prosperity through expanding markets and rising living standards. . . The task of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in this respect is no less important than its task in providing relief and re habilitation. It will have to make recommendations to the governments of the United Nations with regard to the general economic framework of Europe. It might even be charged with carrying out some of the general projects whose purpose is to create favorable conditions for economic security and economic expansion. What does this task consist of? The London Economist provides the “Hie various agencies which will presumably be set sounder the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration,” the Economist writes, “can become the growing points of stfeh regional services as transport, public utilities, public health. The ‘scrambling* of European industry under the Nasis can be used to maintain a number of key points—certain heavy Indus trie* perhaps—under some form of international responsible control. Fin ally, the investment policy of the Great Powers should be used wherever possible to initiate development projects—hydroelectric schemes, trunk roads, land reclamation—which cross national frontiers” Such activities would have a very important effect on world peace and world security, the Economist points out. . _ In the process'of building up a general economic framework for Europe, the economic activities of various European countries will be “mixed up in greater or less degree. In other words, they will be ‘internationalised. The Economist contends that the hope of taking the economic sting out of na tional frontiers will depend on the degree of “mixing up that can be achieved. Such “mixing up” will make it possible to “create common inter ests for the new generation of scientists, technicians and administrators and, most important of all, to find some way of allowing the defeated nations their chance of economic prosperity without thereby restoring their military hegemony,” the Economist writes. mssssmsssssssssssssw Free Labor Will Out-Produce Nazi Waves A Few Words About A Faithful Ally Editor Charlotte Labor Journal: Ever since the Italian attack on Greece on October 28, 1940, the people of that dauntless little country are doing their share forVic tory. True to their traditions, the Greeks are still fighting. They are giving their all to the cause championed by the United States. A practical appreciation of Greece’s record in this war, calls for the speedy feeding of her starving population and for the cession to her, as soon as she is liberated, of her national territories which are: the Dodecanese; Northern Epirus; Northern Thrace and the island of Cyprus. . , . . As an American who believes in justice and fairness, please help Greece by considering favorably her pressing needs and her rightful national aspirations. Thank you. CAVALOR,s 940 Queens Road. Charlotte, N. C. PATRONIZE JOURNAL ADVERTISERS Do Your Christmas Shopping Early I t’AI KONIZK JOURNAL ADVERTISERS PAY HIKE FOR RAIL WORKERS WINS APPROVAL OF SENATE COM. DESPITE PROTEST OF VINSON WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.—A congressional resolution grant ing an eight-cent-an-hour wage increase to 1,100,000 nonoperating railroad workers won the unanimous aproval of the Senate inter state commerce committee yesterday. The committee’s action—in the fac of protests by Stabilisation Di recto Fred M. Vinson—cleared the way fo Senate consideration of the proposal Vinson has countered with an offe of increases ranging from 4 cents fo higher paid workers to 10 cents fo lower brackets. A congressional orde for the flat eight cent boost woul crack the “Little Steel” formula— contention denied by the workers. Senator Truman, Democrat of Mon tana, sponsor of the resolution, sai he would call it up before the Senat “at the earliest opportunity.” It woul have the effect of validating an agree ment last August between the work ewmmiWMwwwwwvwww k 3 era and the railroads on the eight-cent r boost. r The 15 unions embracing the non operating employes, such as machin r ists, clerks, and others who do not run trains, have completed a strike r vote, but results have not been an r nounced. r Operating railroad workers — en ] ginemen, etc.—also are conducting a i strike vote in protest against a four cent an hour award. - The eight-cent increase for the non i operating workers originally was t recommended by a presidential board 1 but Vinson vetoed it. A second board - proposed the four-to-10-cent-an-hour - boost which he approved. 1 BUY MORE WAR BONDS WHO DARES NOT TO BUY? I have seen the hospitals with the mauled men, the legless and blind, the fingerless hands and the burned faces --all the destruction that steel and fire can do to a man’s body and mind. I have seen children hauled out of blasted building lumps of crushed, dirty meat in pinafores, and dead —boxed and buried carrion. In God’s name what is it for except to get this horrible thing over with as quickly and as thoroughly as possible? And if this is true, it should not be a matter of—Who will lend his money? But, Who dares not to?—John Steinbeck. WORK! Work! Thank God for the swing of it, For the clamoring, hammering ring of it. Passion of labor, daily hurled On the mighty anvils of the world. Oh, what is so fierce as the flame of it What is so huge as the aim of it? Thundering on through dearth and doubt. Calling the plan of the maker out. Work, the titan; work, the friend, Shaping the earth to a glorious end, Draining the swamps and blasting the hills. Doing whatever the spirit wills— To answer the dream in the Master’s heart, Thank God for a world where none may shirk, Thank God for the splendor of work! —Angela Morgan. *• -■■■■ -V . V % . % fc > MANS im \» M YOU* HKMCN O lO «Vt At A BAIT TO SPEED OUR BOYS HOME. Help shorten the war-save American ’*ves — with a precious kqhting weapon-FOOD San pnl ml |w Uf. hpli Am Ikp to A* km titm AMm Mi PRODUCE m Mdi Uod as pa putty <a? On tKc lam?. Q In ill* Victory Garden?.Q CONSERVE ywrfatt? i By was tiny nothiny—dconmj ill* plat*?..□ By prcserviny food in your horn*?.. ..□ By substitutiny plentiful for scare* foods?... Q By serviny the nyht foods far ttrenyth and health 7..O SHARE ye*r ltd? 6y sharing it willingly with out fighting men and fighting All,*,?.0 By accepting rationing chcer My?.□ By buying no more rationed food than you reafiy need?. Q PlAY SQUARE with food? By alway, turning in your stamp, when you buy rationed food,?...Q By paying no more than top legal price,?............. 0 food is the MICHT'EST u/FAPON of them all THE MARGIN BETWEEN FREEDOM AND SLAVERY FOR LABOR MAY BE TEN PERCENT
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