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.... <tharlottr labor Journal Endorsed by tks N. C. Stats Federation of Labor AND DIXIE FARM NEWS Official Organ of Control Labor Union; 'Standing far the A. V. L YEARS OF TUJCTIVE TO TH *NA IS VOL. XIV. NO. 10 CHARLOTTE, N. C-, THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1944 92.00 Per Y “WIN THE WAR IN ’41\” Free Labor Will Oat-Produce Nazi Slaves* 1944 —A. F. OF-.V* OGAN FOR 1944 «W ONLY REALLY INDEPENDENT WTEJ^ ^in Mecklenburg Comity m For a Weekly iu iu*d«» Represent the LARGEST Bl -- _ HMXUNBUIO COUNT i w rrs KNTIKrn..— - ■— ft OVV ER In Charlotte CONTRACT CLAUSES FOR WOMEN ARE SUGGESTED BY LABOR DEPT.; STANDARDS DRAWN UP BY WOMEN WASHINGTON.—To assist unions in phrasing contact pro visions relating to women workers so as to safeguard their wel fare, the Woihen’s Bureau of the Department of Labor has out lined six suggested clauses governing women workers for in clusion in union contracts. The suggested standards were drawn up in consultation with women representatives of AFL and CIO unions. First of the suggested standards is the general provision: “It is mutually agreed between the company and the union that no .discrimination based on sex or marital status shall be prac ticed or permitted.” Other provisions relate to wages, seniority, rest periods, lunch periods, and maternity leave. The Women’s Bureau recommends a wage clause which provides that wage rates be set by the job, not by the sex of the worker. It also would prohibit -designating jobs or depart ments "male” or “female” jobs or de partments and would provide the same starting rate for all inexperienced workers, regardless of sex. As to seniority, the suggested stand ard would specify that women shall accumulate seniority in the same man ner as male employes, and shall have the same rights of promotion or trans fer to other departments. Seniority status would be transferable to other departments, and hiring of a new em ploye, when a woman was available for upgrading, would be prohibited. Other provisions would authorize two 10-minute rest periods and a 30 minute lunch period, without loss of pay, and would permit a woman work er to take maternity leave of not less than '6 weeks before delivery and 2 months after without loss of seniority status. “Pregnancy shall not be grounds for dismissal of any woman employe,” this provision states. FORTY-SIX STATES HAVE WAGE PAYMENT LAWS TO PROTECT WORKERS AGAINST NON-PAYMT WASHINGTON.—Forty-six states and Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico have some sort of law dealing with payment of wages, the Department of Labor reports in the Monthly Labor Review. Only Delaware, Florida, and the District of Columbia have no such legislation. Ia moat states, laws on wage pay meat and wage collection protect workers against employers who fail to pay wages regularly or who do not pay ia fall or who do not pay at all. Most of the laws require employers' to maintain regular pay days for their employers. Fourteen states and Hawaii hare wage collection provisions authorizing the labor commissioner or other administrative agency to take assignments of workers’ claims for back wages. He may prosecute civil actions for their collection through the courts, without cost of the worker, if the claims are deemed valid and enforceable. SSMWNSSSSSMmSAMMMUSMWMIMMSMMSS«MMM#iMSMWMM “IDEAS FOR VICTORY” SAVE OUR GOVT. OVER 22 MILLION A YEAR WASHINGTON.—Civilian employes of the War Department through participation in the “Ideas for Victory” program saved the government an estimated $22,242,197 during the first 12 months of the program and were rewarded $230,714 for their prize-winning suggestions, the War Department announces. During the first year, employes submitted 109,011 suggestions. Of this total 9,804 were adopted. Cash awards ranged from $5.00 to $1,250 with three employes receiving the top reward. One suggest ed a method of doubling the load of boxed artillery on railroad cars effecting an annual savings of $1,000,000, while two other employes collaborated in devising a propeller straightening device which is now saving the government an estimated $1,300,000 annually. The program was inaugurated in June 1943 by the Honorable Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of War. WORK-FIGHT—SAVE N. C. Labor Is 100% Loyal - VNITID NATIONS 8 - - . * F*OM THE EOHEST TO THE SEA MHOIWW fftOM TMC fOWKTJ Of NICARAGUA It OttD fOR fMC MUU.S Of HARD-MI Tit NO V.T BOATS Of TM u.t huh / M/d 1 RUSH ORDER' — A WtiTiSH TaCTORt N0RKIN6 0* A «W INOUSfRY -UIUMAAABl* RlA#rr»C snc TACif uirttv- i» Ru*min4 rmoofcw m OtOIR TOR * *«U.tO» np* Th| IMS* Jtr*. ■■■■kiaHHS NOT/CE EOD DANES fMf INMMftOUND VMPtK f#f( A4Mfi WTO *M of MMitt Kftuw am billboard; YtSERVSB fan •fRMM MOflMANM.1 One of the eternal conflicts -out of which life is made up is that between the efforts of every man to get the most he can for his services and that of society to get his services for the least possible return.—Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. I. T. U. WILL REAFFILIATE WITH A. F. OF L. IN AUGUST WASHINGTON, D. C.—Arrangements have been com pleted for the formal reaffiliation of the International Typo graphical tnion with the American Federation of Labor in August. § The members of the union voted to return to the AFL fold in a recent referendum election. President-elect Ran dolph, of the ITU, notified AFL Secretary-Treasurer George Meany that 60 days must elapse before the union can act on the results of the referendum. He said that he would for ward a check for per capita tax on 64,000 members next month. This means the union will be represented at the AFL convention in November. TEXTILE WORKERS ARE FACING NEW CHALLENGE FOR GREATER PRODUCTION THAN EVER BEFORE WASHINGTON.—Workers in the already under-manned textile industry in this country now face an even "greater production challenge with the Army’s announcement that the amount of cotton duck in the various Quartermaster depots had been reduced to the lowest levels since Pearl Harbor as a result of requirements of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Maritime Commission during the last six months. In addition, the Army plans to procure 28,000,009 square yards of nylon fabrics, almost double the amount now under contract. ’ The War Department said much of the duck, which has been stored in Quartermaster Depots, was used for items needed by all services in the stepped-up offensive operations by our task forces. These items included tarpaulins, tents, truck covers, bunk bottoms. Virtually all American military strength in the Pacific is quarter ed under canvas. Throughout that area the life of canvas is much shorter than in temperate climates. THIS IS REALLY BOND BUYING HARTSVILLE, S. C. — Tracy Lee Brown, 26-year-old draft-exempt clerk in a Hartsville, S. C-, manufacturing plant, has invested his entire salary for the past 18 months in war bonds, the War Finance Division reports. Mrs. Brown, who works in the same plant with her husband, is spending half her weekly wages for bonds. The other half goes for necessities not raised on their farm and for clothing. S. D. ANTI - LABOR LAW IS PARTLY INVALIDATED —V— SIOUX FALLS, S. D.—The anti union law passed in South Dakota in 1943 through the efforts of the Christian American Association was partly outlawed in circuit court here when the State Federatioti of Labor contested its constitutionality. Judge Lucius J. Wall held uncon stitutional parts of the law which limit picketing, bar soliciting of dues and members on employers’ property, and would ban “interference with the free movement” of agricUlturaal prod utcs. Parts of the law requiring un ions to file annual statements of in come and expenditure were declared constitutional. HUDSON HOSIERY PETITIONS ARE DISMISSED HERE —V— The petitions and amended petition for certification of representatives of employes of Hudson Knitting Co., all of Charlotte, N. C., filed by the American Federation of Hosiery Workers, C.I.O., was ordered dismiss ed by the National Labor Relations board a few days ago. The petitions were dismissed be cause no collective bargaining repre sentative had been selected by a ma jority of the employes in the unit1 found appropriate in an election held June 23. --—V FLY A BOMB TO BERLIN- PUT I* PERCENT OF PAY IN WAR BONDS. LABOR JOURNAL IS THANKED FOR ITS PART IN THE RECENT INFANTILE PARALYSIS APPEAL THE NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR INFANTILE PARALYSIS (Incorporated) " 120 BROADWAY, NEW YORK 5. NEW YORK July 14, 1944 W. M. Witter, Editor Charlotte Labor Journal and Dixie Farm News 302 South College Street Charlotte, North Carolina. Dear Editor: While all reports are not yet in, we know now that our 1944 Fund-Raising Appeal was the most successful we have ever conducted. During this Appeal the labor press of the United States gave us particularly fine support. Undoubtedly the editors of the labor papers realized tht a large share of the benefits of the National Foundation’s work would return to the families of the men and women workers of America who are doing such a commendable job in America^ vital Production Army. Today, with infantile paralysis again on its summer march, I wanted to extend our sincere thanks to you on behalf of the thousands of children and adults who will be aided through your efforts and through the contributions from labor gen erally. Sincerely yours, : ; BASIL O’CONNOR, President. JOURNAL READERS PATRONIZE JOURNAL ADVERTISERS ONLY 11 PER CENT OF STRIKE LOSSES WERE DUE TO A. F. OF L WORKERS, SHOWN BY SURVEY INDEPENDENT UNIONS RESPONSIBLE FOR 71 PER CENT OF MAN-DAYS LOST, LABOR DEPT. FINDS • WASHINGTON, D. C.—Members of the American Federation of Labor have lived up to their no-strike pledge better than any other comparable group of workers in the country, according to an official report just made public by the Department of Labor. This report shows that while the AFL comprises more than half of the organized workers in the nation, its members accounted for only 11 per cent of the total man-days lost due to strikes dur ing 1943. Only 20 per cent of the total number of strikers were A. F. of L. workers. By contrast, the CIO with a far smaller membership, had 44 per cent of the total number of strikers and they accounted for 16 per cent of the man-days lost But tne most significant item in the report revealed that unions not affili ated with either the AFL or the CIO were responsible for 71 per cent of the total Idleness from strikes in 1943. The chief reason for this fact was the disastrous coal strike conducted by the United Mine Workers Union, which constituted the one big blot on labor’s war record during the year. Although the number of strikes by vli€ Labor Department reveals the ef fective work done by headers of both AFL and CIO unions in halting strikes once they started. Althought the number of strikes by affiliates was proportionately large, the time lost was almost infinitesimal because through the efforts of union leaders living up u> the no-strike pledge the men were persuaded to go back to work in a day or two in mo«t The nation did not receive similar cooperation from leaders of “inde pendent,” unaffiliated unions who, in several instances, openly flouted the no-strike pledge and ordered workers to remain off the job. One of the best records in 1943 was made by the railroad brotherhoods, most of which are AFL affiliates. They engaged in only seven strikes and accounted for only one-tenth of the total workers involved in strikes. Another interesting feature of the report shows that jurisdictional strikes have almost disappeared in war-time. A few AFL-CIO disputes cropped up to interfere with produc tion, but strikes caused by jurisdic tional troubles between two AFL af filiates were virtually non-axistent. Wages were the issue at stake in more than half the strikes—1,906 out of 3,734—the tabulation disclosed. Most of the wage strikes were de mands for increased rates. Many were protests against adjustments of time or piece rates which workers felt would result in lower eat uings; others were strikes over applicat'on of over time rates, incentive systems, etc. More than one-fourth of the total strikes resulted from disputes over working conditions and company poli cies such as seniority, disciplinary methods, racial questions, supervision or work loads. About 16.7 percent— or 585 strikes—arose from questions concerning union organization—in cluding recognition as bargaining agent, strengthenig of bargaining position, and closed or union shop recognition. Considerably more than half of the strikes involving union or ganization also concerned wage and hour issues. NOTICE TO EMPLOYERS AND WORKERS From now on all workers, male and female, must be hired under provision of the War Manpower Commission's Em ployment Stabilization Program. Under the new Priorities Referral Plan, all male workers, and all in-migrant female workers, must be hired through the local U. S. Employment Service offices. Free Labor Will Out-Produce Nazi Slaves “FIGHT - WORK - SAVE*’ ■■ £ THE MARCH OF LABOR Almost MAI# Of THI WMSOrtMftMSnnfSo, COftVMMO 16AIOUT OHH'fOUATM FoATMl BlffiftS COUNTRY. I In I9I<| UK US. * BqMD fotfNP ‘MATAFffft. m nuittiNMsrKrMi iipiidD w MbKcmf mom it ntmm, mi* doc? Morrfp Anver £& AttO IMiflf WEAS No INCMASI M fAflft fftlCCS. t SCMATf MM CDN1FACTS JMWItlllWM SUHAtfS MAT6,000,000 wo**ms mu m *n MUSS m*M mRomtvi CIASBS. CHARLOTTE LABOR JOURNAL 8TRIVING FOR THE RIGHTS OF THE WORKERS — AND A FAIR DEAL FOR THE EMPLOYERS
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