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Che Charlotte labor Journal orood by tko N. C. State Federation of Labor AND DIXIE FARM NEWS Official Organ of Control Labor Union; Standing for tko A. F. L 13 YEARS OF CONSTRUCTIVE SERVICE TO NORTH * CAROLINA READERS VOL. XIII—No. 34 CHARLOTTE, N. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1944 JttwiH emtiBiutiM o* $2.00 Per Yew i Labor Laagoo . Dopt. Labor Library €* WIN THE IN *44” - 1 I JAN 17 1544 1 -A. F. OF L SLOGAN FOR 1944 ffci tWHT REALLY INDEPENDENT WEEKLY hi Mwklwlwn Co—ty jg"™*** » tt*iLwn a» a ^ ltd RiMirt it the LARGEST BUYING POWER hi Charlotte ROOSEVELT’S MESSAGE TO CONGRESS ONE OF HIS FINEST; EVEN CAPITAL LOUD IN ‘APPLAUSE’ OVER DRAFTING OF MEN AND WOMEN IN WAR WORK WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—President Roosevelt l. stunned Congress Tuesday with a request for legislation allowing the drafting of men and women for war work—key point in a broad program laid down in his annual message for winning the war and winning the peace. 8aying **efc a smirk would prevent ■trike*. Mr. Roosevelt expressed conviction that the American people woald welcome it and said it would give oar enemies “demoralising assurance that we mean business—that we, 130, 000AM Americans, are on the march to Rome, Berlin, and Tokyo,” There had been reports beforehand that the President might make such a request, but the legislators generally had discounted these and most were taken by surprise. Immediate reaction ranged from the tag “labor conscrip tion” applied by Senator Johnson, Democrat of Colorado, through coolness and caution to varm support, the latter chiefly from a small minority of members who already had advocated such a law themselves. There was general applause, however, for a presidential plea for na tional unity, and many administration followers indicated a trend on second thought toward swinging into line behind his request for a national service act. Chainaan May, Democrat of Kentucky, of the House military committee, after first saying he was “not hot for it,” later said he supposed his com mittee would report “some kind of national service legislation.” Chairman Reynolds, Democrat of North Carolina, of the Senate military committee " expressed outright opposition.' '*■ „ Because he still is not fully recovered from’the effects of grippe, the President sent his message to Congress rather than delivering it in person as has been his custom since he took office. It was read to Senate and House by clerks, but Mr. Roosevelt arranged to broadcast major portions of it to the public tonight. The message set forth a five-point program of wartime legislation, asked also for laws assuring that those in the armed services can vote in this year’s election, gave assurance that no secret treaties or political commitments were made at the Teheran and Cairo conferences, and outlined a post-war “bill of economic rights,” asking that Congress explore means for implementing it. KNOWLEDGE OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN “God grant that not only the love of liberty, bat a thor ough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere and say, This is my country*." —Benjamin Franklin. THE MARCH OF LABOR NMMMMMMMMAMM Ifci NATttMAt W*ft UROft MBMOlMX UMPWKMtfRRflP its prmcmss :• rut *h*t o* LMBO* 70 &N4fttX* f dll — NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC f THE CHARLOTTE LABOR JOURNAL it Hit only wookly published in the Piedmont section of h{prth Carolina representing the A. F. of L. It is endorsed by the North Caro lina Federation of Labor, Charlotte Central Labor Union and various locals. THE JOURNAL HAS A RECORD OF 13 YEARS , CONTINUOUS PUBLICATION AND SERV ICE IN THE LABOR MOVEMENT. RAILWAY AND STEAMSHIP CLERKS, FREIGHT HANDLERS, EXPRESS CLK&, STATION EMPLOYEES WIN RAISE G. A. Link, general chairman of the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express and Station Em ployees, Southern Railway System Lines, said Monday members of his organization had obtained time and one half pay concessions in arbitration under the National Railway Labor Act. The changes will affect approximately 8.000 employees of the Soothers Railway effective today. All employees represented by the brotherhood and employed by the Southern who are required to work oo Sunday or the seventh day of the week wi|l receive time and a half pay, under the new agreement. . - Moat of those employees are now required to work from 48 to 50 hours a week and in some cases as mock has 58 to 70 hours because of the heavy flow of Wartime traffic. Link said. They already receive time and a half pay for more than eight hours in any one day or for more than 48 hours in any one week. The brotherhood asked the railway for readjustments of their contract last February. Arbitration hearings were held in Washington in December and approval of the findings by the National Railway Labor Panel and by the War Department were obtained yesterday. Link said. The agreement, he added, in no way affects the present wage negotia* tions now being carried on between the carriers and the brotherhoods. TEAMSTERS UNION PURCHASES HOME FOR MOTHERS OF IN VALIDED SAILORS AT SEATTLE SEATTLE.—This city’s biggest end best Christmas present was given by the Joint Coaneil of Teamsters, headed by Dave Beck, to the mothers of American sailors invalided at local naval hospitals. It consisted of a large home Where the mothers of these boys may stay while visiting their wounded The gift, a former sorority house purchased by the union group for the use of the Navy Mothers Club at the nominal fee of $1 a year, will sleep thirty people and has spacious downstairs quarters where the mothers can entertain their boys. It has kitchen and dining room where, those mothers may fix their boys a home cooked meal, where coffee and a snack will always be available. It isn't fancy or ornate but it is homey and when the Seattle Nary Mothers’ Club gets through with It it will be even more so. Cliff Harrison, editor of the Seattle Star, suggested the idea to Mr. Beck and in a page-one editorial acclaimed the teamsters’ gift “Seattle’s biggest and best Christmas present.” DONNELLEY^ BLACKLIST A PRECISION INSTRUMENT OF THOUSANDS HIRED IN PAST 6 YEARS, NOT ONE BELONGS TO A PRINTING UNION “How to make enemies and influence organized labor against you” seems to be a favorite subject of R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company, the Chicago printing concern which produces Reader’s Digest, Time, Life, and catalogues for Sears-Roebuck, Montgom ery Ward and other mail-order houses. hired a former member of a printing Under questioning by attorneys for the National Labor Relations Board and Chicago Printing Trades Unions in a recent hearing, Donnelley’s wit nesses admitted that, though the com Cny masqueraded as an “open shop” tween 1907 and 1933, it absolutely refused to hire any member at a print ing-trades union. They claimed, how ever, that in 1933 the firm turned over a new leaf and ended its discrimina tion. Soon they were compelled to . idmit that as late as 1937 the com Ipany was openly checking on^possible union affiliations ! of a( plicants for work. f It was shown that the only “new deal” Donnelley established in 1933 was in the form of a willingness to hire renegade unionists who resigned or had been suspended or expelled from their unions. When in 1937 the company at last discontinued its open investigation of the union background Of applicants, said discontinuance was not for the purpose of belatedly open ing its doors to union printing work ers. For the company’s own evidence shows that since 1937 it has not even trades union. The company admitted that in 1938 H hired at least 282 employees. The next year the figure was 575. In. 1940 it hired 986. The number more than doubled in 1941, to 2,411. In the ! following year it redoubled, to 5,608. And in 1943 Donnelley’s broke all pre vious records, hiring 7,702 new hands up to Oct. 18. “ " . Printing is one of the most heavily unionised industries in America. Had the Donnelley employment depart ment observed the ratios prevailing in the printing industry as a whole, it would have .hired several thousand unionists in 1943. Had it even ob served the ratio prevailing for Amer ican industries generally, Donnelley’s would certainly nave hired more than a thousand. As it is, not a solitary member or ex-member of a printing union was hired last year—or, for j that matter, since 1937. Never was there such an air-tight blacklist as the one that R; R. Don-1 nelley A Sons Company maintains, says Executive Secretary N. M. Di Pietro, Chicago Printing Trades Unions. PRICE PANEL MEETING-JAN. 6,1944 Walptn’i Drug Store, represented by Mr. R. E. Fine, in accordance Panel given at the last meeting, reported over with directions from $he chargee amonnting to $103.M States Treasury. This amount will be paid into'the United Mr. George W. Dowdy representingBelk’s Dept. Store reported progress on a cheek of sales of durable goods. The work should be completed in two weeks and a final report will be made at the January 27th meeting. Mr. J. B. McLaughlin, representing HAM Grocery, was found to hare violated price ceilings, and the Regulations were found to have been disre garded almost entirely in the posting of prices and displaying on meats of the grades. He was ordered to put his store in order, and to report to the Panel at the next meeting the total amount of overcharges. Mr. R. C. Idol of the Mayfair Coffee Shop was found to have raised prices of several items offered. It was found in some instances there were errors in printing, but in other eases there were violations and a report will be made to the Panel at the next meeting, of the total amount of the over charges. ^ A SCoGGIN8, chairman. War Price and Rationing Board. .1.11 LIU MT|-~ --- THE SOLDIER’S PRALM —V The Sarge is my shepherd: I shall not want. He maketh me to pick up burnt matches: he leadeth me through mud puddles. He guideth me on the course of ob stacles for my health’s sake. Yea, though I walk through the val leys, I must climb up the hills. He anointeth my head with abuses: my cup runneth over. Surely cadence and K. P. will follow me all the days of my life. And I will dwell in the hair of my ser geant forever. PATRONIZE \ D V E R TIS E R > rOItRNAI <* U IT8 LABOR'S WAR — LETS FIGHT—WITH PAT DOLLARS IN WAR BONDS. A COUNTY-WIDE RATIONING AND PRICE CEILING CAMPAIGN WILL CONTNUE THREE WEEKS A county-wide campaign, stressing rationing and price ceil ings, designed to encourage co-operation between all citizens and the Government, has been launched by the Price Paiiel of the Mcklnburg War Price and Rationing Board. The campaign will continue three weeks and plans provide for the following mes sage to be carried to every home in the county: ' “I will pay no more than top legal prices.” *T will accept no rationed goods without giving up ration coupons.” 7 ' Citizens in all *walk* of life, organized labor, civic claim, Parent-Teacher troops. Homo Demonstration Clubs. Rural Community Leaders, Women's or ganization. press and radio are to take part, in addition to merchants and members of the Civilian Defense organization of the county. Charles Crutchfield is chairman of the panel; J. A. Scoggins, represents Labor; Mrs. John Newitt, P.-T. A.; Mrs. J. O. Brown, Women’s Clubs; Dr. William Powell, ministers; George W. Dowdy, merchants, and Miss Helen John Wright, rural citizens. During the three-week campaign, stress will be placed on telling citizens how price ceilings help fight inflation and keep prices from skyrocketing. Citizens will be urged to co-operate in rationing by surrendering coupons for all rationed goods purchased, using only what they need.fso that there will be ample supplies for the Armed Forces. Sunday. 148 ministers introduced the campaign by mentioning the effort to their congregations. Monday, merchants of the city began placing pamph lets in all outgoing packages and mail, outlining the purpose of the effort,' and William Parker, Junior Chamber of Commerce president, arranged for speakers to visit civic clubs and explain the effort. Merchants, too, began displaying placards in their show windows stress ing the central theme of the campaign—a pledge to pay no more than top legal prices or accept rationed goods without giving up ration coupons. ... The climax of the campaign will come on January 24 when pledge cards will be distributed to citizens generally asking that they make a signed promise to support the theme of the fight against inflation. Distribution of these pledge cards will be made through the schools and with Civilian Defense Workers calling at homes where there are no school children. The whole campaign, said J. A. Scoggins. Labor representative, and chairman of the Rationing Board, is to secure more wholehearted support of the rationing program; help fight inflation and bring the community to a deeper realisation that America has a war to fight and all citizens should do everything in their power to aid in on the home front, so the fighting front can keep up the mighty blows against the enemy. fLATE NEWS OF INTEREST WASHINGTON, Jan. 12. — The House Military committee yesterday approved legislation providing for mustering.-out pay of I3N for Men and woMen who serve more than 00 days in the arMed forces in this war. WASHINGTON. Jan. 12.—The Sen ate yesterday voted' to freese 1944’s social security taxes, spurning a pro test froM Majority Leader Barkley, Democrat of Kentucky, that the action was building up a tax burden for the future. CHICAGO. Jan. 12. — Republicans will choose their 1944 presidential candidate in Chicago the week begin ning June 29 in the same stadiuM where President Roosevelt was nomi nated for his first and third terms. MONTREAL. Jan. 12. — Striking Montreal Municipal white collar work-, ers voted overwhelmingly at a 'mass meeting Tuesday to continue their 22-day strike for higher wages. About 2,399 city workers are seeking wage increases up to $590 a year. ---V MORE TEA FOR CIVILIANS About 76 million pounds of tea will bo available to civilian consumers in 1944—wartime limitations On shipping space permitting. This is about 16 million pounds more than civilians got in 1943. WPB Salute to Labor Hails , Production WASHINGTON, D. C.—A new year’s salute to American labor was issued by the War Production Board, hailing labor’s history-male* ill ST accomplishment in achieving “an outtsanding record of war ma terial production in 1943.” “The flood of planes, ships, guns, tanks and ammunition, which came from our factories last year could not have been produced without the devoted and increasing application of the skills and know-how of our workers," the statement continued. “Day in and day out, with but few exceptions, they hade stayed on the Job. working long hours, learning new skills, meetidg production schedules—and in many instances exceeding them,” the statement said. “M” PENNANT IS GIVEN TO J. A. JONES CO. —V WASHINGTDN, Jan. II.—the Maritime commission yesterday announced that the “M” pennant for outstanding production of merchant ships had been awarded to the 1. A. Jones Construction company, Brunswick, Ga. Rear Admiral Howard L. Vick ery, deputy chairman of the Mari time commission, will present the award at ceremonies Saturday. mmmmmmammmmmmmmmmmammmmmmmmmmmm AMERICAN HEROES *• BY LEFF % —ji—Mari — ^ Pm me Raymond K. Judd, of Navarre, Ohio, volunteered to m*iiu the swollen and rapid Konombi River, Net* Guinea, in broad daylight, under heavy enemy fin. Armed only with a pistol and hand grenades, he ossiatedin towing a npe Id the "opposite bank to aid the etwning of the river by a platoon of infantry who secured a bridgehead *• tha opposite shore. He has been awarded the D. 9. C It’* up to ■’ to buy the Wm Bonds/ Give them for Christmas. U. 5. Tltswr*
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