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Hie Charlotte tabor Journal < Jv AND DIXIE FARM NEWS “ClT. «. ian. II. IMl. at the M OMtoa at M. C M2 South College Street—Charlotte. 2. N. C. PHONE S-M24 V Journal la true to tha Aaterkaa ideals of WAGE EARNERS; d ftau spend jour wages in the dtj where you Bra, always rtntn that ‘Tha Dollar That Get* the Farthest la the Dollar That Mays at The Labor Journal will not bo roapoo -ible for opinions o( correspondents. If yon do not got toui paper drop a postal a to tbe Editor and lie will m« that yon do. out We before in Aacrieu business and Awerteaa worsen. we aonere • fast share ot the profits which the workers help prodace shoald bo straw the worker, for withoot this benefit, bating prosperity cannot be aaanred. OUR POLICY - - - Work - Fight - Sort To create a better under standing between Labor, Industry and the Public. OUR AIM Work - Fight - Soyo To influence Public Opinion ftn favor of the Organised Labor Movement. W. M. Witter___Editor and Publisher Claude L. Albea_____...._-Associate Editor CHARLOTTE, N. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 29,1944 WEEKLY BIBLE QUOTATION "Lord, make me to know mine end, and the of my days, what H la; that I may know how frail I Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine are Is as nothing before thee: verity every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.”-^Psahnist. HATELERS’ PLATFORMS The hatetars hate the President, the New Deal, labor, the Negroes, and the alien-born. They hope that this campaign year wiU give them an opportunity to spread their poisoned philosophies and to realise their so-called political objectives. In some in stances, they try to nse the existing political parties for their pur poses; in other cases they form pseado-political organizations of their own in order to attract the gullible. Hatelers conceal their real aims in high sounding, super patriotic verbiage. One of their goals is the destruction of labor’s power. They propagandize against the "wisdom” of unions in a “republic”; exert political pressure for the enactment of restric tive legislation; and try to make the word “racket” synonymous with "union” in the public mind. Hatelers do this because they know that organized labor has always been, and will continue to be, a bulwark against the inroads of fascism. They want to destroy the power of labor but, of course, they are too shrewd to admit it; on the contrary, they profess an ostensible love for the “working man.” Senator Robert R. Reynolds, who recently declared his in tention not to run for the Senate in this year’s campaign, ob viously does not intend to deprive the American public of his nuisance value. Hb has organized an "American Nationalists’ Committee of Independent Voters.” In his monthly sheet, "The National Record,” he regularly publishes a column entitled, "Five Objectives.” One objective is the registration of all labor unions and labor organizations with the Secretary of Labor. Sen. Rey nolds’ real aim is to spread confusion and doubt hi labor’s ranks, and distrust for labor outside its ranks. Sen. Reynolds knows this Is a necessary prerequisite to the ultimate destruction of labor’s organiseyl structure. Senator Reynolds--from January I, 1945, onward he will be just plain "Robert Reynolds”—will not have a chance much longer to continue his destructive activities. There are others, however, who are only too anxious to take up the job where he will leave off. One of them is a utility president in Indianapolis by the of Carl H. Mote, who is running for the United States Sen Liliam Dudley PeDey, the leader of ale. It b significant that William the defunct Silver Shirts of America, who convicted for sedi tious activities and is now again on trial in Washington, publish . “ try 17, 1941, and June 16, 1941, od articles by Mote in the February issues of his hate magazine, "The Roll Call.” Mr. Mote offers what he calls "An American Political Platform” ("America Pre ferred,” April, 1944). Paragraph 5 of that platform demands the “repeal of the entire nauseous program of labor legislation born of an unholy alliance between political racketeers and labor racketeers...” In a way, Mr. Mote’s frankness is gratifying but he, like Reynolds and their ilk, will find out that the American people, labor, and all progressive forces in this country win reject their platforms of hate at the polls. Free Labor Will Out-Produce Nazi Slaves BUY WAR BONDS THE IBEW WINS ELECTION IN UTILITY UNIT % —V— . WASHINGTON, D. C. — Another Urge unit of a major midwest utility, the Commonwealth Edison Company at Illinois, was brought under the banner of the 'International Brother hood of Electrical Workers. The IBEW defeated a “company union” in the generating and substa tion departments at Chicago by a sweeping majority of 907 to 603. In ajiother unit the election ended in a stalemate, partly because some em ployes, ineligible to vote, were per mitted to cast ballots. As a result the National Labor Relations Board ordered a new vote in that unit. The Electrical Workers also an nounced that raises totaling over 1*0,000 annually, plus back wages running up to $300 per employe, had ^won for traffic, commercial and t department workers of the Vir ginia Telephone and Telegraph Com pany. The increases were approved by. the National War Labor Board «?er the stiff opposition of the com PRODUCE FOR VICTORY DeVONDE Synthetic Cl— w — Dyers Hattere — Ferrisrs 8mi Potato Why Wo Ate Om nf the South** Leodiug 8yuth*tk 1. «1im eritfaal "-and **to *. IwMfo Mhlr aB Obt eilS DeVONDE CAU. MW M4 M. Tim Sk. EXECUTORS NOTICE NORTH CAROUNA. MECKLENBURG COUNTY. Havin* qualified aa Executor of the Estate of Jeunlee ft Bentley, deaeaeed. late of Meek leabur* County. North Carolina, thi* la to notify all penona bavin* elaima against the eatete of aaid deceaaed to exhibit them to the unde re i*ned' at >14 Johnston Building, Char lotte, N. C.. oa or before the 22nd day of Jane. IMS. or thh notiee will he pleaded in bar of their recovery. AH penona indebted to aaid eatete will planar make immediate payment. Thia the 22nd day of June. 1*44. J. HARRISON DANIELS, of the Ehtate of Jennie* B. H—June 2-28. July 4-18. Tho Most Dangerous Mon in Amorico [From the Bradford, Pa. Union, winner of the Harry Fox Award for the best single editorial in a labor paper] We all paas through countless dangers every for itself or the moot dangerous sway tl section ---, day of oar lives and --, man in America does not necessarily — ovil or disaster bat merely implies a contingent power to bring aboat harm to the American people. In the midst of war-time hysteria and a thousand frantic alarms at " hoodlums ami crackpots, a man has quietly garnered the power to the thoughts and decisions of the most powerful and influential -1 of American opinion and in this power lies the weapon, for good or for evil, that makes him the most dangerous man in America. A great many will find H difficult to recognise or recollect the name —Henry R. Luce; for while welding a journalistic empire that barrages most of as with careful concocted news reporting, features, pictures, news reels and radio he has shunned the spot-light of personal publicity with a consistency that is almost alarming. Time—Life—Fortune—The March of Time, in your home, on your radio and at your theater—and now buying into the great radio networks. These are sense of the means of public communications that this com paratively obscure man could use to instill his thoughts into your convic tions. Let the crackpot newspaper chains win public derision and dis trust with personal fends or quixotic crusades his formula is top notch technicians in the gHbest style. Intelligent people everywhere enjoy the product and seldom identify it with the awn behind it. If an unflattering picture of a public figure is carefully selected or the brilliant writing somehow conveys to millions that another honest and sincere personage Is a bumbling fool—who would be the wiser or blame Mr. Luce when the results came in at the polls? - God, tbe American prerogative to become a great success in any field still exists. But when one quiet, clever man collects the weapons to formulate the minds of millions of his fellow citizens without their trrrjy? “■ *•—“ * *• aa SMALL BUSINESSMEN ARE GETTING RICH, BUT NOT WORKERS, SURVEY REVEALS WASHINGTON, D. Cv—Where are the war profits going? 'Who is getting the doughT A few weeks ago the Securities and Exchange Commission made public a surrey of 460,000 corporations which showed that their working capital had increased to 17 billion dollars—a rise. of nearly 70 per cent—between 1939 and 1944. wow the Department of Commerce publishes another analysis which in dicates that more than half of the in crease of eight billion dollars in de mand deposits of individuals in banks during the year was accounted for by owners of small, unincorporated busi The surrey also shows that de posits made by war workers, civilian goods workers and clerical employes registered a comparatively minor in crease during the year, amounting to only 600 million dollars for the whole country, half of which was accounted for by war workers. The analysis from which these sig nificant figures were obtained was prepared by Irwin Friend, of the Se curities and Exchange Commission. It showed that farmers had in creased their bank deposits by 800 million dollars. The relative increase for small business men and farmers was 70 per cent each. Another interesting disclosure was that owners of unincorporated retail stores, who have been squawking: loudest about price control, have been making: heavy bank deposits. This group accounts for 45 per cent of the total of 11 billion dollars in deposits of all small businessmen as of the end of the last fiscal year. Among individuals other than small businessmen and farmers two groups found important in terms of demand deposits were executives with 18 per cent of the deposits of this group and retired persons with 16 per cent of such deposits. Professional persons—doctors, den tists, engineers, lawyers, accountants and teachers — also held substantial amounts of demand deposits and to gether accounted for close to 22 per cent of the total deposits of individ uals other than small businessmen and farmers. Lawyers were the most important in this group and doctors second, with 9 and 6 per cent, re spectively. WITH THE U. S. ARMY OVERSEAS (Prepared by OW1 Rural Press Section) *®uay, s,« U. 8. soldiers are “T*!****. "triWa* or preparing *• winning blows against strike victory-*____ Germany and Japan by land, tbe sea, and in the air. • -BUY WAR BONDS The number of U. S. soldiers over face—«d *• ■«* than Are million men by the end of 1944. One year age, 1,4*0,000 -BUY WAR BONDS Approximately 2,357,000 men rvlng with the U- S. Army Air Forces, of whom fewer than one-half -e already overseas -BUY WAR BOND8 The U. a Army Air Forces has more than 75.000 airplanes of all types, of whkh approximately 34,000 are combat aircraft. More than 17, 000 of the combat planes are over -BUY WAR BONDS Approximately 025 U. a Army Air Forces bases have been established outside the continental United States, excluding bases on U. 8. territories. Oft** hasep, 750 are air fields. Others include radio and weather stations, hospitals, depots and storage bases. -BUY WAR BONDS Four of the AAF’s 10 combat Air Forces are striking at Germany from the United Kingdom and Italy, and six are striking at Japan from the Central. Sooth and Southwest Pacific, from the Aleutians, and from China, Buraia and India. -BUY WAR BONDS- „ The AAP has pore than 20$ heavy bombard Blent, medium bombardment, fighter and reconnaissance groups of which almost all are committed’ to «*tM» overseas and to continental de -BUY WAR BONDS In May, the Army Service ■oved a record of almost fonr mil Uoomeassrement tons of Amy cargo Th* P**h tonnage ta the last war was 829,000 m, *«Bt fa November, l*lg. -BUY WAR BONDS la April, the Amy Service F handled U,U»,4tS pieces of * Wd outgoing V-mail letters, the start of V-Mail, 514.M3.4P5 wwehandled by ASPs Amy Postal -BUY WAR BONDS c™? by the Amy Barvice Forces in overseas theatres of operation include the building of which Sarbor'SnSto^afl ^lTthe*?orld." —BUY WAR BONDS— More than one-half of all Amy Ground Forces personnel ployed for action JOURNAL READERS PATRONIZE JOURNAL ADVERTISERS I THE A. F. OF L. STANDS WITH AND FOR THE FLAG Honor Roll of THE CHARLOTTE LABOR JOURNAL Enplayoco of this paper in the sendees of their country. EDWIN A. WITTER U. a. Air Forces JESSE J. K1NLEY U. 8. Nary ROBERT E. BROWN U. & Mari dm JAMES (RED) E3NLEY 17. 8. Anay ROBERT KINLET U. S. Maria* C*rp* JOHN KINLET U. S. Amy FREE RIDES FOR UNION MEN ARE PROVIDED BY ST. CAR UNION —V— MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Deter mined to provide visiting servicemen with the hospitable courtesy of free streetcar and bus rides, union em ployees of the Twin City Rapid Tran sit Company have voted to pay for this service from their own pockets. Turned down in their proposal that the company permit soldiers, sailors and marines to ride free, the Street Railway 'and Motor Bus Employees’ Union, Division 1005, has named committees in every department of the St. Paul and Minneapolis plants to collect tokens purchased by com pany employees. The tokens will be turned over to the local Red Cross for issuance to the visitors. . -V TO WIN THE WAR SOONER LET US ALL WORK HARDER THERE ARE NO UNIONS OS ANY OTHER FREE INSTITUTIONS UNDER NAZI OR JAP RULE. EIGHT TRUCKS YIELD PARTS TO KEEP OLD NO. 41 SHAPE TO RUN —V— American youngsters who can tell the make of most automobiles at C glance would have some difficulty identifying some of the trucks used Sr the American Friends' Ambulance nit to transport medical supplies in China. One of the Unit's best trucks, Old No. 41, is a combination of eight different makes, American and Brit iah. -V- , THE JOURNAL has by far the largest city circulation of aay weakly pubHahed la Char latte. Year mi in The Journal will bring raaolta from the PRODUCE FOR VICTORY mhmmmammmmmmmmmmm lot Cream At Home Perhaps you cannot purchase as much Ice cream at the corner itore as you did before the war, but that does not necessitate an Ice cream shortage in your home. Alter all. the art of making Ice cream did not pass out with grand mother’s old crank freecer. In fact, modern refrigeration has probably doubled or tripled the amount of this delicacy prepared at home. Today, old crank freesers are being oiled and used, while electric refrigerators are humming a title as they freeze trays of Ice cream for the evening An ordinary household rennet tablet, some light (yes, light) iirsam. a little sugar, water and vanilla — that’s all you need M try the modern recipe below. Home mads Vanilla lee Cream (Automatic Refrigerator) 1 rennet tablet 1 tablespoon cold water S cups light cream K cup sugar H4 teaspoons vanilla t Dissolve rennet tablet by crush lug in cold water. 1 Mix .tght cream, sugar and vanilla. Warm slowly, stirring constantly. When COMFORTA BLY WARM. (110* F.) net het, remove at once from heat S. Add dissolved rennet tablet and stir quickly for a few seconds only. Poer at once, while still liquid, into refrigerator tray. Let stand at room .emperaturo until, set — about 10 minutes. 4. Place in (reeling -»mpartment Freese until Arm. Remove (ram tray to a bowl, ureak up with a fork and beat *ith electric or . rotary beater until (Tee (ram hard lumps but still a thick mush. Finish freezing. Trolley coach riders addicted to smoking seem to be unable to road the conspicuous “no smoking” sign at the entrance of the coach, just over the operator's bead, or they have no regard for law nor rules. —— -V Plastics is the coming industry. The greatest teacher Bitter Exper ience, shows folks what not to do. Convenient Terms PARKER-GARDNER CO. • T PU. aTV lie ZORIC Dry Ctoaning DOMESTIC LAUNDRY Phone 5178 1 —1 WORK - FIGHT - SAVE FREE LABOR WILL WIN Martin’s Department Store RELIABLE MERCHANDISE ALWAYS ~ AT LOW PRICES Shop at WjcudmA and $ojd& YOUR SUMMER NEEDS ^ AT CORNER TRADE AMD COLLEGE
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