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She Charlotte labor Journal Endorsed, by the N. C. State Federation of Labor AND DIXIE FARM NEWS 13 YEARS OF CONSTRUCTIVE SERVICE TO NORTH CAROLINA READERS Offitkal Organ of Control Labor Union; Standing for the A. F. L. VOL. XIII—No. 31 YOU* AOVUTItIMINT IN TN« JOURNAL IS A INVltTHIMT CHARLOTTE, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1943 ▼Ml ItlAOBRR $2.00 Per Ye*r '■= Back Up The Boys On The Battlefield =m The ONLY REALLY INDEPENDENT WEEKLY In Mecklenburg County™™™ axd cohfiud m cmablottk ami, For a Weekly Its Renders Represent the LARGEST BUYING POWER In Chsrlotte --———iiiMLiiiMiifl county oi m A. F. OF L. TEXTILE WORKERS DELEGATES FROM N. C. AND S. C. LOCALS MEET IN ASHEVILLE ASHEVILLE, Dec. 12.—With some 250 in attendance a two day conference of delegates from various units of the United Textile Workers of America from North Carolina and South Caro lina opened with a banquet here Saturday night. The session was continued with an open meeting from 11 until 1 o’clock Sunday and followed by an executive business ses sion open only to members of the organization at 2 o clock. Speakers at the opening banquet included Howard. T. Colvin, southern director of the conciliation service of the United States Department of Labor; Francis J. Gorman, international vice presi dent of the United Textile Workers of America, an A. F. of L. affiliate; and Forrest Shuford, commissioner of labor for North Carolina. . , . Mr. Colvin urged the continued co-operation of management and labor in an all-out war effort and warned against any optimism which might tend to slow war production. He declared that pro duction is the only path to victory and that nothing must be al lowed to stand in the way of this. ...... ._ Mr. Gorman told of the part that organized labor is playing in the winnin gof the war and the winning of the peace. Mr. Shuford commended the representatives of the various local organizations to rthe splendid co-operation that has been achieved with industry. . . IT T w C. E. Earnhardt, international vice president of the U. I. w. A,, who makes his headquarters in Spartanburg, served as master of ceremonies. WNSTON-SALEM CO. IS ACCUSED OF VIOLATING FED. REGULATION —V— RALEIGH, Dec. 14 — A hearing will be held -in Winston-Salem be ginning tomorrow on charges by Sec retary of Labor Frances Perkms against the Dize Awning and Tent company of Winston-Salem and A. T. Dize and L. M. Dize, individually and as officers of the company, the State Ament said today. The Secretary of Labor’s coift plaint, the Labor department said, charges that in the performance of government contracts the respondents illegally employed home workers, il legally employed child labor, falsi fied and faied to keep records re quired by the regulations issued by the public contracts administrator, failed to pay required overtime com pensation, and violated a number of public safety and health regulations. The complaint also seeks the im position of the penalty of $10 a day for each child knowingly employed, the collection of overtime compen sation for affected employes, and asks the imposition of the blacklist penalty provided in the act, the La bor department said. The hearing will be presided over by E. West Parkinson of Washing ton, senior trial examiner of the pub lic contracts division of the United States Department of Labor. The government’s case will be presented by George A. Downing of Atlanta, Ga., regional attorney of the United States department, and D. Lacy Mc 15, of P.Vigh, State attorney for North Carolina. The defendants are represented by L. P. McLendon of Greensboro and Dallas McLennan of Winston-Salem. IT'S LABOR’S WAR — LETS FIGHT—WITH PAY DOLLARS IN 'war BONDS. 1. 4. 5. FOOD CONSERVATION QUIZ QUESTIONS The habit of week-end buying does not cause waste. True_False It is necessary to inspect packaged foods frequently. True- False-- • Nutritionists and medical authorities agree that our diets are weak est in fruits and vegetables. According to garbage studies, what percentage of food waste is made up of these two food groups? 50%_10%-28%.- over 50% — - . Fifty million meals a day are served in public eating places in the United States. The food scraped off the plates equals the amount of food needed for how many soldiers’ meals? 50.000_ 1,000.000_ 3,000,000- 5.000,000 - Think now before you answer. Hidden waste is garbage kept under cover. True_False Answers On Page Four I I THE MARCH OF LABOR -N MCW JERSEY IN 188* THt AVERAGE Aft AT WHICH CHILDREN WENT TO WORK WAS NtNG 1 GfT TMfc NAT UNION MSN vdtAA - MADS #T UNION LABOR! Insist on inis label in the nnt ***** > y undck 7MsoMi $MfiAtfpy ; MfLUCNCfc,C0M6ResSMi906 ^ f NACTCD A HOClMl WDftKMfftS OOMMMSAnON LAW C0VUHM6 FCPtftAL tMfLOYClS. N. C. EMPLOYMENT INCREASE OF 116,000 WORKERS, WITH A PAYROLL INCREASE 300 MILLION Over 10,000 employers in North Carolina show a war time employment increase of some 116,000 and a total war time payroll increase of $300,000,000, as the difference be tween their 1940 and 1942 wage reports to the Unemploy ment Compensation Commission, it was announced today by Wade H. Williams, Claims Deputy. For the state -as a whole, employers reported for 1942 an average of 474,872 workers who received $430,584,323 in 1940. In Mecklenburg County, an average of 46,397 workers who earned $692,200.72 were reported for 1942. This is in contrast to the 1940 report of 37,065 average em ployment and $421,643.90 wages paid. Such an increase in employment has given the Commis sion a much bigger job of record keeping, Mr. Williams said. While average employment indicates the number of jobs, because 3f labor turn-over, there are often twice as many individual workers for whom wages are reported. The Com mission keeps a separate earning account for each one of them. “PETE” TIFFOLI IS COMMISSIONED A LIEUTENANT —V— Peter V. Toffoli, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Toffoli Sr. of Belt Rd., Hoskins, has been commissioned a second lieu tenant in the U. S. Army Air Corps after completing the officers’ training course at the Army’s aviation techni cal school at Yale University, New Haven, Conn. Lt. Toffoli is a gradu ate of Thomasboro High School and of N. C. State College’s aeronautical engineering school. Immediately after being commissioned he was assigned to duty as assistant engineering offi cer at the Army Air Base, Lakeland, Pla. Mr. Tiffoli, Sr., is well known in A. F. of L. labor circles in Charlotte. Here Is Where They Smoked ’Em * New York—Showing where the cigarette* wefrs smoked in Africa, Sgt. Philip Cohen, who wai wounded in Africa and i* now convalescing in the U. S. A., thanks Matthew Woll, President of the Labor League for Human Rights (AFL), for the League’s gifts of free cigarettes to soldiers on the fighting fronts. Cigarettes reached his outfit while they were under fire, reported Sgt. Cohen, a member of the Cloak and Dres» P-ivers’ Union, Local 102 of the ILGWU. PATRONIZE JOURNAL ADVERTISERS Do Your C hristmas Shopping NOW PATRONIZE JOURNAL ADVERTISERS SOUTHERN RAILROADS DEFY EXECUTIVE ORDER AS TO RACE DISCRIMINATION WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.—The committee appointed by Presi dent Roosevelt to prevent discrimination against Negroes and other minority groups in war jobs was defied yesterday by 16 southern railroads, which termed its orders empty of authority. This agency, called the President’s Committee on Fair Employment Prac tice, disputed the railroads’ conten tion and followed up with another similar order, this one directing West coast shipyard unions to end alleged discrimination against Negro ship builders. • The 16 carriers wrote that they would not obey the FEPC order of November 24 (which was chiefly de signed to permit promotion of Negroes to better jobs on the rail roads) because, they said, the com mittee “is wholly without constitu tional and legal jurisdiction and pow er to issue directives, and for this reason the said directives are without legal effect.” Both the railroad and shipyard or ders were issued under an Executive order in which the Eresident-forbade any contractor doing business with the _ government to discriminate against employes or would-be employ es for racial or religious reasons. It is wholly impractical, the rail-' roads said in a joint letter to the FEPC, to attempt to handle delicate interracial problems in southern states by decree. Further, they argued that changes in relations be tween carriers and unions can be ac complished only under the railway labor act. They spoke of “disastrous results” resulting from, for instance, the promotion of Negroes to locomo tive engineers or train conductors which “would antagonize the travel ing and shipping public served by them.” Chairman Malcolm Ross of the FEPC, replying, said the engineer conductor idea wasn’t even at issue but that “the granting of over-due rights to Negro railroad men” aspir ing to jobs like fireman or brakeman, “far from being a cause for disorder, could be so managed as to improve service” and raise Negro morale. LITTLE CHANGE FELT IN N. C. FATHER DRAFT —V— RALEIGH, Dec. 14.—Recent con gressional passage of father-draft de ferment legislation will have prac tically no effect in North Carolina, because this state has been following the policies outlined in the bill since draft.ng of fathe,.s beffan 0etoter 1, yesterday 'Ve S6rVice officials said hfl«n /Sf*’ t5eyil.said- North Carolina fo,lo.wed ,the Policy of putting gathers at the bottom of the list since f,rst started in 1940. Officials stated that specific in structions were given all local selec tive service boards before October 1 he LiT ‘nLstance were fathers to repfamnent.thePe we,e a^ available By this procedure, they said borfathers h3"1"* U.P Pre-Pearl Har „ have exhausted all other Pacing them^'th^bJttom ofrte li" —-v APPROVE LABOR CONTRACT WASHINGTON. — Wage increases and provisions relating to vacations holidays, and overtime. for 500 em of° Atla°ntathGa °t<>r Carrier °Perators week hv VL jeru a?Proved last week by the ;War Labor board truck mg commission. ADD RATION STAMP AS PAY KITCHEN FATS —V— WASHINGTON. — The Office of Price Administration’s new program of paying brown ration stamps for salvaged kitchen fats started Mon day, December 13. Retailers will give housewives one ration point for each half pound of used fats turned in and will also con tinue payment of four cents a pound for the salvage. The points-for-fats program is in tended to spur collection of fats need ed for manufacture of glycerine and sulfa drugs. TOBACCO CR 0 P LIKELY TO BRING QUARTER BILLION —V— RALEIGH, N. C., Dec. 14.—North Carolina’s king of crops—tobacco— has been truly a golden leaf in more ways than color this year. Thus far in the season the crop has brought $223,376,176.55 to growers of the State. Most of the markets have already closed for the season, and only a few auction centers of the Middle and Old Belts will continue operations through the remainder of December. -V MAKE PAYDAY VICTORY DAY THE MARGIN BETWEEN FREEDOM AND SLAVERY FOR LABOR MAY BE TEN PERCENT j A GIFT HE'LL APPRECIATE!
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