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YEARS OP TRUCTIVE ICE TO .ORTH CAROLINA READERS VOL. XIV. NO. 8 TINVMT m VMS JMMU *• * CHARLOTTE. N. O, THURSDAY. JULY 6, 1944 $2.00 Pm Y« WIN THE WAR IN ’4H” — l m n-A. F. 0. ^'LOGAN FOR 1944 Free Labor WiU Out-Produce Nazi Slaves w "■jm> A > fte ONLY REALLY INDEPENDENT WEEKLY In MeeklenburX County rmitmo and coui-cup «» «*«u>rrs_ANi» For a Weekly Its Renders Represent the LARGEST 'C. - HKILSNItTM COUNTY IN IT* ENTTUCTI r -- vj POWER in Charlotte They’re Fighting: NOW—BacK Them Up: NOW—Buy War Bonds: NOW WAR BONDS Are A BARGAIN At Any Price NO-STRIKE PLEDGE TO END WITH WAR, BUT UNION PACTS CAN CAUSE REPLACEMENT WASHINGTON, D. C.—What la the fatnre of labor’s no-strike pledge? *d it be continued after the war ends? _If not, what provision can be to protect the reconversion program from damaging interruptions due to disagreementsi between management and labor? These questions were put to President .William Green of the American Federation of Labor bjr such divrgeat publications at the Wall Street Journal and the New Leader. His reply, which is indicative of labor’s policy on this important subject, follows: By WILLIAM GREEN • President, American Federation of Labor Labor's no-strike pledge was made for the duration of the war. It should be terminated immediately after victory is won. The controls to which labor has voluntarily subjected itself for the period of the war emergency constitute a form of regi mentation which must not be perpetuated in America. Thp exer cise of free and democratic relationships between labor and indus try, epitomized by collective bargaining, is essential to rapid and efficient restoration of normal peacetime production programs. Coercive legislation, such as the Connally-Smith Act, or wartime machinery, such as the National War Labor Board, would have an oppressive effect after the war and would only promote strikes and disputes instead of preventing them. The development of cooperative and peaceful relationships be tween labor and industry in the post-war period depend on exten sion of the processes of collective bargaining throughout all of in dustry and the mutual recognition 6y business and by organized labor of each others' rights. For many years, long before the war started, unions affiliated with the American Federation of Labor have negotiated contracts with employers under which strikes are banned for the duration of the agreement and a system of volun tary arbitration of disputes is set up. Agreements of this kind are the only real, substantial and effective insurance against strikes that can be maintained in time of peace. Wm- " ■» ■ Lui.pjj *w" When Um Aatricu Red Cram worker unlimbers the old movie •atfit. wounded and ranva!. . ,.:i r... at the Camp Youn*’. Calif., itatlm hospital crowd about, eager to ar*iat. Here the ward nurse, Lieut. Blanche Hawkins. Henderson t”?. N. C. (left center). uth Red Crors Amt. Field Director Dorothy Ewing, Berkeley, Calif., gets the 1C mile* ■•ter lias randy for Pfe. William F. Henry. Houston. Texas, in ru;: through the projector. Movies are also provided by the T d Cross lr~ •j ward patients. TRAVEL STICKERS OF 1944 J. A. MOORE ELECTED PRESIDENT CHAR. CENTRAL LABOR UNION At its regular Meting last Thursday night Charlotte Central Labor Union elected J. A. Moore president to succeed J. A. Scoggins, and selected a full slate of other officers. The other officers are vice-president J. J. Thomas, Secretary Chloie Conder, Treasurer R. R. Harris, Sergeant at Arms J. E. Hunter, Trustees P. P. Scoggins, T. D. Sutton, and S. F. Black welder. Delegates to the State Federation of Labor meeting are J. A. Scoggins and R. R. Harris. Delegates to the A. F. of L. convention is T. L. Conder. The new officers will be installed at the meeting tonight at the Labor Temple, on North McDowell street, with J. A. Scoggins, retiring president, presiding. 85 PER CENT OF WOMEN ON JOBS PLAN TO HOLD THEM —ALL SINGLE ML AND 68.7 PER CENT OF MARRIED WOMEN WANT TO WASHINGTON.—More than 85 per cent of the women em ployed in variops war plants plan to continue working outside their homes after the war if jobs are available, a survey made by UAW-CIO, and reported in the Department of Labor's Monthly Labor Review, discloses. Virtually all the single women, all of the widows and 68.7 per cent of the married women expressed a desire to continue working, in answer to a questionnaire sent by the UAW to a representative sample of women members. Twenty-six per cent of the women had been working in fac tories two years before. The balance had ben housewives, stu dents, or had held other types of jobs. , Almost 50 per cent of the women who had never been em ployed in a factory previous to the war said they would like to continue in shop work. Approximately 25 per cent preferred to j ■ return to former civilian jobs or take up other kind of work. Al most 10 per cent stated that “any type of job” would be satis factory, provided they could work. The remainder had decided to give up their jobs at the close of the war. WHERE BLOWS THE WIND? By RUTH TAYLOR Some time ago there waa a very striking cartoon in the London Daily Herald which was reprinted in the New York Tines. It # showed two Nasi soldiers on the way back to Germany, each bearing a big blag of loot. Behind then is a ruined city whose flaming buildings blase against the sky. With fear in his eyes, one soldier is crying to the other, “But the wind’s in this direction!” Where blows the wind? The holocaust started as a small blase. Japan moved into Manchuria. We shrugged our shoulders and said that the fire was on the other side of the world. Italy attacked Ethiopia and we said, “Isn’t it too bad?” Hie tyasis began their persecution of the Jews—and we shed crocodile tears and said, “We can do nothing—we don't interfere with the internal affairs of any nation.” Then Hitler’s legions started their re lentless march over Europe and we said: “It does seem as though Europe could clean its own house.” We should have known better—we who have had experience with forest fires, who know that a dropped match or a carelessly thrown sway cigar ette can bring devastation to acres of timberland, engulfing farms and vil lages as it spreads. WHERE BLOWS THE WIND? ASK THOSE WHO FIRST BOMBED CIVILIANS—ASK THEM AS THEY STAND IN THEIR RUINED CITIES WITH THEIR DEAD AROUND THEM. WHO STARTED ALL THIS? THE GERMAN PEOPLE CAN SUFFER AND COMPLAIN. BUT THEY HAD SURRENDERED THEIR BODIES AND S0UL8. EVEN BEFORE THE WAR BEGAN. AND THEY ARE NOW POWERLESS TO CONTROL THEIR DESTINY. WHERE BLOWS THE WIND? It is right to be merciful—but not right to be maudlin. Twice in a generation have these fires been lighted. We were not blameless in that we might hare used an ounce ef prevention but did not—but neither1 were we the ones who started the fire. The wind is blowing—the fires are biasing— and racing with the speed of demons back toward those who started the blase. They that sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind. IT IS A BREAKFIRE—THAT PROTECTION KNOWN TO THE PIONEERS. MANY OF OUR MINISTERS HAVE TOLD US WE MUST NOT EMULATE THE TACTICS OF THE ENEMY. WE ARE NOT'— BUT WE ARE TURNING THE WIND OF WRATH IN HIS DIRECTION—KEEPING THE FIRE FROM OUR OWN HOMES. SURELY OUR OWN PEOPLE ARE AS EN TITLED TO PROTECTION AS THOSE WHO EXULTED IN THE BOMBING OF COVENTRY? Net cruelty but Justice! Not vengeance but the immutable laws of life! The wind blows in their direction—may it sweep clean that free men with naught to fear, men of good will to all, may stand strong again and work to rebuild—not the old hatreds, but the new world of peace for all. AN ANSWER TO THOSE WHO DON'T LIKE F. D. R. “THE PRESIDENT IS A FASCIST” The theory of fascism is that the State if everything and the individual nothing but a cog in the State machine . . . Every act and intention of the President proves him com pletely free from the slightest trace of this kind of motive or thinking. The Congress, the Supreme Court, the churches, the schools and universities and the press, are operating with full liberty. All minorities are enjoying their rights under the protection of our laws.—Dr. Frank Kingdon, author of “That Man in the White House: You and Your President.” GOOGE RAPS WAR LABOR BOARD AT S. C. STATE FEDERATION LABOR MEET; GOV. COMMENDS WORKERS COLUMBIA, S. C„ July 2.—George W. Googe, southern repre sentative of the American Federation of Labor, criticised yester day the War Labor board for its refusal “to permit any wage ad justment based on equity.** Googe, speaking to the thirtieth annual convention of the State Federation of Labor, said that “southern labor is up in arms, as might well be expected.** Earle R. Britton, mechanical super intendent of The Columbia Record, was elected president of the State Federa tion, succeeding E. L. Herrington of Charleston. Britton has served for several years as chairman of the fed eration’s legislative committee and is a past president of the Columbia Fed eration of Trades. Googe told federation members that “I vigorously condemn the policy of the War Labor board and also the re striction placed thereton by War Mo bilization Director James Byrnes and Ecoonmic Stabilisation Director Fred Vinson. “The wage structure in the South is 26 per cent below the average of the nation as a whole,” he said and added that “the cost of living has advanced 15 per cent more in the South than in the nation as a whole. This gives wage earners a standard of 41 per cent low er in the South than the rest of the nation.” Although he personally indorsed a fourth term for President Roosevelt, Googe said the A. F. of L. was non partisan and would “present the, plat forms of both parties*’ to its members and let them “decide for theihselves.” Governor Olin D. Johnston com mended labor in South Carolina for its “no-strike record” and added that “we must (five credit to the labor lead ers for their co-operation with workers in keeping: strikes at an all-time low.”# The convention adopted a resolution asserting that it had been “only dur ing the last decade that labor fcp proaches attainment of its goal*? |o establish and maintain conditions of employment which would guarantee a standard of living of such nature that all laboring people would be benefited.” The resolution said labor’s advance had been made possible “because tof the national administration whofte leaders recognise the justice of laborVi hopes, aims and aspirations, and through the influence of the adminis tration, laws have been enacted which gave labor an opportunity for ad vancement in the present and protec tion in the future in the form of social | security laws.” President Roosevelt was commended {in the resolution for the “magnificent manner in which he has led the fight | to give labor great things of value i which we trust shall be a permanent and everlasting part of our economic life.” REPUBLICAN LABOR PLANK HELD * “DISAPPOINTING” BY PRES. GREEN; “PARTY MISSED AN OPPORTUNITY” CHICAGO.—“Disappointing” is the word for the Republican Party's labor stand as reflected in the plat form adopted by the national convention here, AFL President William Green declared. v “The Republican Party has missed a great oppor tunity,” the AFL leader commented dryly to newspaper men after reading the platform recommendations. He criticized the language of the G. O. P. labor recom mendations as “general in character and susceptible of varied interpretations.” Particularly regrettable, Mr. Greeen asid, was the party’s denial of labor’s request for repeal of the “notorious Connally-Smith Act.” Before returning to Washington, Mr. Green indicated American Federation of Labor leaders will examine care fully the statements made by the Republican Presidential nominee, Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York, dur ing the coming campaign for further light on what the Republican Party has to offer the workers of the nation. THE MARCH OF LABOR ! t t O 8t000,000 } WOMBM IM INDUSTRY '• M BRITAIN OMtV j 1,000,000 ARC V UNION MEMBERS. fVCRTTlME YOU IMS 1ST ON UNION* LABEL «OOM YOU HELP ALL OF LA tOR. 1MlSlltNlLA|ll«MKM IDENTIFIES A UNlON-MAOf MAT.
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