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Che Charlotte labor Journal Nl,u. *** AND DIXIE FARM NEWS <w>“ o.,.. ^ tw~..■ *4 VEARS OF \ *UCTIVE ^ 'E TO T t -WA RE ^ERS CHARLOTTE, N. C„ THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1944 ri»«M Okiirvi eoMitn*Tio«i mm TNI WtADIM $2.00 Ptr Yni ▼o*i« *•«< • l WAY 8 -1944 ) -“WIN THE WAR IN ’44” ~ r r Free Labor Will Oat-Produce Nazi Slaves -rrr- —A. Iv'vV' • SLOGAN FOR 1944 _____ - _;_“ * ___ Tho ONLY REALLY INDEPENDENT WEEKLY In Mecklenburg County For a Weekly Its Readers Represent the LARGER TG POWER in Charlotte _mu——iMiimiT- i ■ — ,,11-r-n-—I i-1-—■ HECXURtBURG COliNTT IP ITS KNT1RCT> mmMKMmm*Bm*==:^a=ss=B==aBBsssk TWO YEAR EXTENSION OF OPA ASKED FOR BY PRES. WM. GREEN; WARNS POST WAR PRICE DANGERS A. F. OF L. CHIEF CONDEMNS PROFITEERS AND GOUGERS SEEKING TO WRECK PRICE CONTROL BY WEAKEN ING AMENDMENTS. WASHINGTON, D. C.—AFL President William Green urged Congress to extend the Emergency Price Control Act for two years to protect consumers from war profiteering and post-war inflation. Appearing before the Senate Committee on Banking and Cur rency, Mr. Green warned of a post-war “danger zone” in which prices for the necessities of life may shoot sky-high, as after the mat world war, unless strict Government controls are enforced. Unless this is done, he said, American workers now investing p hurge part of their savings in War Bonds will not receive full value, dollar for dollar, when the war ends and the bonds are Mr. Green offered tbe following program for enactment: 1— Extension of the Price Control Act without change for two yean after the war. 2— Congressional support of in creased appropriation for effective enforcement of price and rent con trol. 3— Provision of subsidies essential to continued price stability of key cost of living commodities. 4— —A restoration of the relation ships between prices and wages which existed September 15, 1942, as abso lutely essential to make the law work equitably and build the morale of American worken to the highest de gree of efficiency. The A PL chief continued: “The issue before Congress involv ing the future of price control is now drawn. Gigantic pressures are at work to secure the emasculation of ptiqe control and to permit wartime profit gains through price increases at the expense of consumers—workers in industry and trade, white collar workers, farm workers and wives and dependents of soldiers at the front. “The drive against continued Drice control does not take the form of open opposition to the price control itself. Every worker, every housewife, every soldier’s wife is so deeply convinced that price control is necessary to pro tect the budget on which rests their livelihood that no enemy of price con trol has dared come out and attack it openly. “Instead, the drive is on to make price control unworkable and inef fective through piecemeal technical chances, complicated enough to es cape the understanding of the ordi - nary man on the street. Ineffective price control is worse than no price control at all. Price control which l remains on the books but permits : creeping price increases, or price con trol which is impassible of enforce ment and understanding by every housewife and everv consumer, would be nothing short of a gigantic fraud. “It has been urged that price con trol would be broken up among a number of agencies in place of the single and coordinated controls now placed in the hands of OPA. This would breed chaos. “There is a growing awareness on the part of wag* earners throughout the nation that unimpaired continua tion 'of price control is a matter of foremost importance to every wage earner. Witnesses ftom communities in different parts of the country, from the midwest, south and north will testfiy here directly on behalf of la bor in their own cities and towns. These are not isolated examples and are not expressions of picked individ uals.” Mr. Green then delivered a smash ing attack upon the most flagrant war profiteers who have led the fight against continued and effective price control. He declared: “Reasonable profit on investment is essential to the operation of business enterprise. Confiscatory administra tion of price control which denies a manufacturer, wholesaler or retailer his reasonable return would be strong ly opposed by the American Federa THE MARCH OF LABOR Tub famous section 7a OF THE NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY ACT (NRA) WHICH LEGALLY RECOGNIZED THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT OF WORKERS : * EMPLOYEES SHALL HAVE THE RIGHT TO [organize and bargain 'collectively THROUGH REPRESENTATIVE i Of their OWN CHOOSING.0 \ This Pay pay" Bur Bonds; U * aam* THE NUMBER. OF SELF' EMPLOYED IN THE US DROPPED FROM 5,900,030 IN 1940 TO 5,500,000 IN 191$ Htc depression of 1929-32 saw A PROP Of IN INCOMB. P£R. CAPUA WHILE LIV'lNG costs WERE COT »Y ONLf 20%. NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC THE CHARLOTTE LABOR JOURNAL is the only weekly published in the Piedmont section of North 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 HA$ A RECORD OF 13 YEARS i CONTINUOUS PUBLICATION AND SERV- j ICE IN THE LABOR MOVEMENT. , LABOR’S PRODUCTION EFFORT IS CALLED “REMARKABLE” WILKES-BARRE, Pa.—The record of organized labor in the war effort ras called “remarkable” in an addresa by Chairman Sylvester Garrett of the ITiird Regional WLB before the Pennsylvania State Federation of Labor Convention here. \ “Many of ns Who have been interested in organised labor ever n period of years,” he said, “have observed n tendency in certain influential quarters to emphasise greatly the alleged shortcomings of labor and to minimise its virtues and accomplishments. “Those critics are fully refuted net only by the Truman Committee re port, bat also by the remarkable record of organised labor in the war effort,” lie continued. “The mountains of munitions, tanks and planes now stacked up in England awaiting the invasion of Nasi Europe were created by Amer ican labor, most of under the leadership and direction of organised labor.” UNBELIEVABLE MILK POURED DOWN DRAIN ATLANTA, May I. — The Seorgia Milk Producers Confed eration, Inc., has poured out 1.000 gallons of milk each Monday for the last three weeks, says Man iger James D. Gay, because of a Government regulation limiting ieliveries to six days weekly. Destrictions on milk deliveries were ordered by the Office of Defense Transportation last September to conserve gasoline, tires and equipment. As a re sult, said Gay yesterday, his firm has- had to pour its milk receipts for the last three Sun day—3,000 gallons—down the drain. Gay asserted the firm, a co operative agency handling milk for 160 farmers in nineteen coun ties, lacked both the storage space and equipment to deliver two days’ receipts in one day. Buddy Poppies Are Symbol Of Living Courage Wear a Buddy Poppy on Memorial Day! It ia not a new appeal! It it one which, to each and every Amer ican, has become continuinjdy fa miliar through the years—poignant tribute to our hero dead and to those living heroes who offer so gallantly their all on the high altar of patriot ism. No one of us need be reminded that these small scarlet blossoms are more than merely flowers to wear-on our lapel. They have a significance which reaches deep into our hearts. They are symbols of living courage. All the Buddy Poppies offered in this annual sale arc made by dis abled war veterans in government hospitals. Most of the poppy makers saw service in World War L But not all. There is, for example, the slim cheerful lad who tells you of hi* five months in Alaska — altogether two years served with the infantry, he says—and grins as he shows you the “neat job” he is turning out now in the way of poppies. Patronize Journal Advart tears N. C. COTTON TEXTILE INDUSTRY IN LIMELIGHT NOW, AS IT PREPARES FOR 48-HR. WEEK RALEIGH, May 3.—The cotton textile industry in North Carolina, one of the principal centers of the industry in the na tion, is in the limelight now as it prepares io comply with the nation-wide 48-hour work week order which becomes effective May 14, Dr. J. S. Dorton, State director of the War Manpower Cotton textiles are now of inch prime importance to the overall war effort that it has become necessary to invoke this order in an all-oat ef fort to step np individual production in an industry, some divisions of which are at the highest production peak. Employers and employees alike. Dr. Dorton states, should take just pride in that this industry now ranks with, and in some cases even surpasses in importance, those vital industries manufacturing munitions and armaments of war. It will re quire the combined efforts of both, working every hour possible, to meet the schedules that have been set for this year, he emphasises. All manufacturers of cotton textile products which contain more than 50 per cent cotton are expected, on or before May 14, to have scheduled each employee in each department on a full 48-hour work week, or to nave determined that it will require the releasing of some workers for work in other departments of their respec tive plants, or for work in other plants. — A release schedule, showing the numbers and occupations of theae employees and the dates they can be absorbed or released, is to be filed with and subject to acceptance by the United States Employment Service (USES) of the War Manpower Com mission (WMC). If an employer is unable to so schedule all employees for absorption or release, be should extend to all employees and depart ments the full 48-hours of work, or the maximum hours possible under 48 and file a request for exceptions for the remainder of the 48 hours with the USES or with the appro priate area director of WMC, Dr. Dorton advises. Navy Offers Movies To Local A F L Unions _ —V— WASHINGTON— D. C.—Official combat movies taken by Navy, Ma rine, Army and Coast Guard cam eramen and especially prepared for “restricted” showings to war workers and their families in plants and at union meetings are now available at a nominal charge to local unions. Among the notable films which can be obtained for sych showing's are “Battle For The Beaches,” picturing amphibious warfare from Dieppe to the Marshalls; “December Seventh,” which shows the bombing and re building of Peart Harbor, and “The I Life And Death of The Hornet,” a saga of a famous fighting ship. To obtain these films, secretaries of local unions are advised to write to the Industrial Incentive Division, U. S. Navy, 2118 Massachusetts Ave. N. W., Washington, D. C. -V Traffic Signals Are Life 8avera tion of Labor. With this in mind, I must say in all fairness that during recent months the most publicized and most violent claims of undue hard ship resulting from price ceilings have come from quarters in At profiteering was most flagrant. A* the same time specific instances indi cate that requests for just and proper relief have resulted in 8 .*”*****' isfactory adjustment of OPA proce dures and regulations. “Labor cannot be silent about braz en wartime profiteering in branch es of industry and trade which is passed over in knowmg silence in all public policy discussions °feconom.c stabilization. Has not the Senate In vestieating Committee headed by Sen ator ^Truman brought out the fact that while the bulk of war business has been given to, iOOcor^ratae®*, only 9 of these have been free of ex cessive profits in 1942? Has not the Truman Committee shown that for the remaining 91 corporations wa profits reached all the way. from 25 to 600 times normal peacetime prof ]t “These and other reports on profits of war contractors speak for them selves. They are being dealt with through "negotiation procedures. Far more important is the fact that ex cessive profits are rapidly if*1**®* the production and distribution of dvilian goods. When we consider the overall picture of corporate prof its—and I don’t mean, mind vou, profits before taxes. I mean profits after taxes—we can readily under stand why the Director °f Ec°*om'c Stabilization and other officials di recting top policy have decided as a standard procedure that all corporate profit information in the hands of the government should be kept from the Dublic through rigid censorship. P “It is a fact that reports on corpo rate profits compiled by the 8OV8™' ment for specific industries been withheld from publication. This in formation had) beer.gatheredl through public channels. The public is■ eer • ilv entitled to have access to it. ild it be that those, responsible for top'economic stabilization policies : that mere publication of t tnat mere .. — — is would challenge the fairness of overall economic stabilization l»l which leans so heavily on rigid 'ge control while evading many bas price and profit issues. Phe spokesman demanded full re gion of the rent control program part of the OPA. He denounced ,1 estate interests seeking to wreck B lnxormeu ee that the AFL, the CIO and av Brotherhoods had joined .in ng Congress to renew the Price rl Act without weakening ldments. . . her witnesses appearing at the ic hen ines for *he AFL.me uded * Shishkin, staff economist; Mrs. L-we, President cf the American .ration of Women’s Auxiliaries of ,r; Edward H. Weyter Secretary le Kentucky State Federation of »r, and Joseph J. McComb, of den, N. J., representing the Ke Cle- ks’ International Protective ciation. ^ *VO!’R SCR^CRIRTION ic IN ARREARS CFNTI IN A CHECK OUR 0 LOOK GOOD ENOUGH TO EAT—Hollywood, Calif.—One of tho moot attractive Victory Gardena of tho season will bo that in the film musical baaed on the life of Norah Bayes. Here Entity Smith appears as “Peas"_ _ T ALL AMERICA it whittling “I Go for a Man Who Weart an Adam Hat" with “Lanny and Ginger," the famoua jingle aingera. They are one of the beat known teama of ita kind, and thia ia the firet time a commercial Jingle .... up and down the country. I CALLI 1 in the I CALLING CARD—New York—WHil* action flare* in the South Pacific, Coact Guard patrol aub butt era keep a vigilant lookout for apring offensive* by -enemy U-boat* in the Atlantic. Here a depth targe la hurled from the deck of a Coaat Guard cutter. Mice America,” naturally. Here Rosemary LaPlanche, winner ef the beauty conteet at Atlantic City laet sum mer, refreshes with a “Coke” between scenes for her new picture, “Pretty Olrl.” Pretty girl, tee, isn't she? t. BUILT FOR HEAVY WORK—Thle big Fruehauf Carryall trailer, belonging to Hugh Govan of Port Angelea, Wash., waa one of aevoral that helped haul heavy equipment and euppliea to the road-bulldlng operatlona along the Alaakan highway.
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