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fock 'em Cfp/ KIIPSIWMCIMUBOUDS Zhe CharlotlP labor Journal fry tt« N. C. AND DIXIE FABM VOL. XIV.—NO. IT CHARLOTTE, N. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7,1*44 mimmmi BUY MORE WAR BONDS Offimml Orrm •/ Cmfwl V*mi StmmUmg fmr tA« A. f. L 12.00 P«r Twv Labor League Dopt#Leber Library “WIN THE 99 Free Labor Will Out-Produce WAR1N ’44 -A. F. OF L SLOGAN FOR 1944 TW OMLT BEALLT DfDEPKNPPff WEEKLY In M»dU«alwrg Cwty LABOR’S BOX SCORE IN WAR SHOWN BY AN OFFICIAL WPB COMPILATION FOR FOUR YEARS (Extract* From an Official WPB Compilation) la the four years since July 1940, American Industry and workmen hare produced more than 130 billion dollars worth of planes, tanks, guns, ships, ammunition and accounted Bents. This gigantic feat was accomplished at the same time that our armed forces were expanded 9yi million fighting men. This total mobilisation was ac complished by brin|in( into the armed forces and into civilian em-, ployment 16,600,000 persons who were not employed in 1040. Between 1040 and 1048 women workers increased by more than 4,000,000; many older workers, part-time workers, and young people were added to the labor force. w Millions of persons left jobs, busi nesses or farms and migrated from their homes into war production cen ters to meet the vast production needs of a successful war. More than 10, 000,000 persons were trained in va rious public vocational training courses. The length of the work week was extended to increase production. The average output per war work er has risen steadily, and in April, 1044 was thirty to thirty-five per cent higher per worker than in De cember, 1942. Mass production meth- < ods, bettor utilisation of labor, and cooperation combined to accomplish such reductions as these: Flying Fortress (B-17), Boeing Seattle plant, reduced from 35,400 man hours to 18,700. Liberators (B-24), Consolidated Vultee, San Diego, reduced from 24, 800 man hours to 15,400. Liberty Ship, Oregon Shipyard, Portland, Oregon, reduced from 1, 146,511 man hours to 294,133. 2100-ton Navy Destroyers, Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, reduced from 1,675,000 man hours to 925,000. Motor Torpedo Boats, Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut reduced from 65,000 man hours to 35,000; Higgins Industries, Inc., New Orleans, to 25,000. In West Coast airplane plants, taken as a whole, the average output per worker has risen 514 per cent m the past three years, according to a Congressional Committee report. Women Are Most Affected In The Labor Cutbacks —V— MINNEAPOLIS-ST. PAUL, Minn. -r-When 7,642 workers were laid off in the area because of butbaclu, an estimated 1,600 women left the labor market completely, according to the Bureau of Employment Security of SSB. Most of the layoffs occurred at the Twin Cities Ordnance Plant where, of 6,249 workers laid off, 30 per cent were women. DES MOINES, Iowa. — Employ ment at the Des Moines Ordnance Plant, making small arms ammuni tion, reached a peak of nearly 18,000 in October, 1943, but this was later decreased by more than 10,000 as a result of production cutbacks. Actual layoffs at the plant totaled only about 3,000; a major part of the re duction in force was accomplished through normal turnover and decreas ing the number hired. LOS ANGELES. Calif. — In Los Angeles, the WMC reports that “thousands” of women released from employment in the aircraft industry JAP-AMERICAN UNION LEADER GIVEN HONOR —V— WASHINGTON—Described by his union as “a long time fighter against Japanese imperialism and fascism of any kind,” Sgt. Karl G. Yoneda, 38, formerly of San Francisco, is the first Japanese-American soldier of this war to be elected to the eVterans of Foreign Wars, the War Relocation Authority reports. Sgt. Yoneda, who volunteered for military service from the relocation center at Manzanar, Calif., is now have disappeared from the labor mar ket and nave apparently returned to their homes. The number of women withdrawing from the labor , market each month is larger than the num ber a year ago, according to WMC. EAU CLAIRE, Wis. — When the work force at the Eau Claire Ord nance Works was scaled down from 6,208 to 681 because of a cutback, 3,476 of the 5,525 employes let out were women. NAZI DEFEAT WILL CUT PRODUCTION 40 PER CENT AT ONCE, NELSON SAYS WASHINGTON, D. C.—War Production Board Chairman Donald M. Nelson estimated that the collapse of Nazi Germany would bring a 40 per cent slash in war production, making possible r 30 per cent increase in production of civilian goods—up to the level of 1939, which was Ma very good year.” Nelson cautioned a press conference that only simple items will be pro duced immediately, as a result of his order permitting civilian production where manpower, materials and facilities are available. However, as the labor picture eases, more production will be made possible, he said. The slash in war production after the defeat of Germany will bring a period of unemployment while industry is being reconverted, Nelson said, but the length of tne period of idleness will depend on the thoroughness with which WPB, other government agencies, and private industry plan for the changeover. Nelson expressed confidence that the War Manpower Commission would not place undue obstacles in the path of reconversion and cited a statement he issued jointly with Paul V. McNutt, chairman of the War Manpower Commission, as evidence that the two agencies were working together. War Mobiliaer James P. Byrnes, in a recent directive, author ized the War Manpower Commission to veto any proposals for a new civilian production if the manpower required was needed elsewhere. The McNutt-Nelson statement emphasized that “war production has first claim on the nation’s manpower,” but added: “That there should be the maximum resumption of civilian production consistent with war production needs; that therefore, wherever labor and materials are available which are not needed in, or cannot be made avail able for, war production, they should be employed in civilian production.” ARMY TO NOTIFY VETS’EMPLOYERS REGARDING VETS’ FORMER JOBS —V— WASHINGTON.—In order to as sist discharged military personnel In returning to civilian occupations, cards will be sent to previous em ployers notifying them of the man s separation from the Army, the War Department has announced. The cards will be used in every case where the -records of officers and enlisted men indicate that they left employment to enter military service. They will contain the name of the individual, date of separation, and date of birth. The last item is intended to provide a method of dif ferentiation between persons of the same name. -V-— Death rings down the curtain, but does not mark the end of the play. The scene is shifted and many step out on a far grander stage. fighting in Burma, according to let ters received by his wife, Mrs. Elaine Yoneda. He is a member of local 110 of the International Longshore men’s snd Warehousemen’s Union. HOW DEMOCRACY WORKS! Veterans Rights Are i Kignts Explained In Pamphlet —V— WASHINGTON.—Veterans of the present war can learn of their rights and benefits through a United States Government pamphlet, first of its kind prepared by the Retraining and Reemployment Administration of the Office of War Mobilisation. m Some 2,600,000 copies of the first edition of the booklet, “Your Rights and Your Benefits, a Handy Guide for Veterans of the Armed Forces and their Dependents,” will be dis tributed to veterans -by the armed forces, and bjr the local offices of Federal agencies. After copies of the booklet are put into circulation this month, all veterans will receive copies at Army and Navy discharge centers when they are discharged. -V A SUBMINIMUM WAGE RATE FOR MESSENGERS DENIED RALEIGH, N. C., Aug. 29.—West ern Union’s application for permis sion to pay messengers less than 40 cents an hour has been denied by the Wage and Hour Division, United States Department of Labor, it was announced today by Forrest H. Shu ford, State Commissioner of Labor, who is in charge of enforcement of the Federal Wage-Hour Law in North Carolina. _ Administrator L. Metcalfe Walling approved the recommendation of the presiding officer, made after a pub lic hearing that the applkatioin be denied, he said. It was found that it is not necessary, in order to pre vent curtailment of opportunities for employment, to allow payment of sub-minimum wage rates to messen gers delivering letters and telegrams, according to Commissioner Shuford. ONLY 41 CARS ALLOTED TO N. C. CIVILIANS —V— RALEIGH, Sept. 6.—T. S. John son, Raleigh district director of the Office of Price administration, said today that only 41 cars have been al loted North Carolina for distribution to civilians during September. This i is the lowest quota for any one month since the bebinning of the war, John son said, and still smaller quotas are predicted for the coming months. FOUR MILLION WILL GET LESS THAN 40c HOUR —V— Although a minimum wage of 40 cents an hour has been established for all the 21,000,000 workers pro tected by the Fair Labor Standards Act, over 4,000,000 of the workers outside its protection still are paid less than 40c an hour, L. Metcalfe Walling, Administrator of the Wage and Hour and Public Contracts Di visions, said today in a Labor Day statement. "Actually, there are more work ers without its protection than are covered by the Act," Mr. Walling said. “Parallel state legislation is needed to provide a similar bulwark against post-war wage slashing, de flation and consequent unemploy ment. Here is an opportunity for those who advocate state, rather than Federal, action to demonstrate the sincerity of their stand.” ■.---▼ ^ ■■ SEW and FEW are two contrary words as to rhyming. Anything that harts labor harts capital. . \ A.F. OF L $70,000,000 GIFT TO WAR RELIEF RAISES LABOR’S COMMUNITY STANDING NEW YORK CITY—Labor Day finds the organized labor movement's standing in the community higher than ever, despite a minority chorus of anti-labor complaints from the reactionary press, declared George Meany, honorary secretary of the Labor League for Human Rights, official relief arm of the American Federation of Labor. A good part of the credit lor thin achievement it doe to the AFL’a out standing: contribution to the cause of war relief, Mr. Meany said, since in the past two years AFL members have donated nearly $70,000,000 to Community War Chests and the Red Cross for relief work at home and abroad. Included in this $70,000,000 figure is the cost of maintaining labor’s own war relief program, a series of spe cial' projects for aid to workers in the Allied countries of Europe and Asia. In the past twelve months la bor’s own program, which is carried out in cooperation with the war re lief societies of the National War Fund, has included such prospects as feeding famine victims in India, es tablishing vocational schools, child welfare centers and workers’ rest houses in China, supplying medical equipment for the workers of Pales tine, both Jewish and Arab, and main taining merchant seamen’s homes in Britain for sailors of all tne united Nations. For the coming year, labor’s pro gram of relief orerseas has been broadened to cover aid to refugees of occupied countries including France, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Norway, Bel gium, Holland and Luxembourg. This aid will be extended under the gen eral supervision of outstanding rep resentatives of the free democratic trade union movements of the occu pied countries. A relief project for Italy is planned for the year begin ning October 1. The AFL’s campaigns in support of the Red Cross nave also beeii of outstanding value, Mr. Meany point ed out. In addition to contributing funds, AFL members have been of immense aid in helping to maintain the blood donor and other services of the Red Cross. Union members have purchased ambulances and other im portant equipment, and have donated their labor to repair radio equipment and furniture in many military hos pitals. PRES. WM. GREEN IN LABOR DAY TALK SEES ERA OF PROSPERITY BEGINNING AT END OF WAR JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Sept. 5.—With labor, man agement and the Government co-operating, the end of the war will signal the start of the greatest period of prosperity in the nation’s history, President William Green of the American Federation of Labor predicted in a Labor Day address here. He cautioned, however, that labor’s “enemies at home” must be overcome and that the nation aiast be prepared for temporary reverses and unemployment dur in the transition from wartime to peacetime economy. “The test period will come between the time war contracts are canceled and industry is able to complete its reconversion to peace production,” the AFL chieftain told a Labor Day lunch hour gathering of 20,000 workers at the St. John’s River Shipbuilding Co. here. "Obviously, the national interest demands that this transitional process be completed in the shortest time possible and with least suffering to disemployed war workers and demobilized servicemen. "Therefore, the AFL is pressing with all its power in Washington for the approval of plans for starting re conversion now, without waiting for the end of the war.” A. P. OF L. GREETS RETURN OP TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION WASHINGTON. — A hearty wel come is being accorded locals of the International Typographical Union as they re-enter local APL central bodies in cities and towns across the nation. In many cities, special cere monies of welcome are taking place, as the ITU formally returns to the APL. HE CAME TO UNDERSTAND ITALY.—When in American Rad Cross field man, newly assigned to a combat unit at the Italian fraaft, started to whistle, soldiers dived on* der tables, threw themselves flat on the ground. A sergeant explained: “When you whistle, the boys think it's a shell” Two hours later the Red Cross man learned what he meant—from a foxhole. ME MARCH OF LABOR IhtFtttT WDUimiALUH0H-m NtN IMUND ASCOCMfMM 0» PMMIRS Atfp MtCHAMCS WAS *©AM*0*MW7» M lfl« tMCM 0HMHN lAMPt NllUOM WtoRKWS C0VKMD •YecMMMMV(*MH riANft * Mfteut soars. DM lO-MOtftO* ** ISTAtUSHtO m AU. nwmuncrwmr m 1840.
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