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WEEKLY BIBLE QUOTATION
“Let the weeds
my heart, be acceptable
of my month, and the
In thy sight, O Lord,
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CHARLOTTE, N. G, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1*44
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ORGANIZED LABOR’S GOAL.
The labor movement of America demands far all our
people the fall benefit of the Mfe-ghring forces of oar
wages and improvement of working conditions and
through a reasonable and proper redaction in the hoars
of work.
The labor movement of America demands for the
wage earners and for all who serve usefully in any ca
pacity, a sound and just economic basis for life and free
dom in the fullest meaning of those terms. The labor
movement of America has ever had high regard for
the development of the ethical and spiritual in life, realiz
ing the right of all humanity to partake freely of the sat
isfaction that comes to enrich life as a result.
The labor movement of our country, recognizing the
fact that all freedom and all higher development of life,
rests upon first providing assurance of the essentials of
existence, has first demanded economic Justice as a basis
for other things.
But the labor movement has always taught that the
material is essential to something higher, and that the
inspiration of our movement has its deepest springs in
something above and beyond the material The labor
movement strives for economic improvement with unre
lenting zeal and fidelity because economic improvement
is the first fundamental requisite; but it holds out to all
mankind a flaming torch lighting the way to a greater
fullness of life, to complete realization of the finer
aspirations of the mind and souL
The labor movement fixes as its goal nothing less
than the complete richness of life, without limitations
of any kind, the attainment of the complete human ideal
in all of its economic, ethical and spiritual implications.
—From a Labor Day and Labor Sunday proclamation
suggested by the AFL convention, 1923.
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SOUND ADVICE FROM AN EDITOR
For many years—in fact, from the day it was founded—
LABOR has argued that the farmer and the industrial worker are
in the same boat, economically, and should not permit those who
gather wealth by exploiting both the farmer and the worker to
drive a wedge between them. Evidently the editor of the Grundy,
Iowa, “Register” agrees with us, for in a recent editorial he said:
“The few farmers who still have to employ labor can much
better afford to pay their hired man $100 a month with corn at
$1 a bushel than $20 a month when corn was 10 cents a bushel.
“Labor is the farmer’s best customer. If labor is well paid,
the farmer is well paid for the food he raises for them. They need
each other and they do well only when they pull together.
s . politicians who tell the farmers that labor is run
Government and that it is high time to make a change.
It is the politicians who will profit if they can bring a split be
tween the farmer-labor team. United, the team has been too
*?r the®1* Divided, the politicians have good hopes of get
ting back at the public feed trough again.”—LABOR.
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WARD THREATT
It was with deep regret that thousands of citizens in Char
lotte and vicinity, and throughout the state for that matter,
leaned on Tuesday morning of the sudden death of Ward Threatt,
a man known and loved for his sunny disposition, and a dispeller
of gloom for many weary and heavy-burdened souls, though at
times he was carrying within his own bosom a feeling of sorrow
and suffering. This writer knew him from young manhood and
is proud of the friendship that existed through these many years.
Ward was a man of the people, a mingler and a mixer, with a
heart of gold, bearing no ill-will or hatred against any man. He
brightened the pathway and helped lighten the burdens of life
for all our citizenry by his ready wit and homey philosophy, mi
ways looking on the brighter side, being likewise a keen observer
and a wholesome critic. We would like to have seen Ward live to
reach his retirement period from the postal service three years
hence, have had time to ruminate at leisure upon his event
ful career, and dispense more of his homespun wisdom and sound,
common-sense logic. But the Master willed differently and a man
that will be really missed has passed fmn our midst.
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INCOME HIGHER; INDIVIDUAL
EARNINGS IN SOUTHEAST ARE
STILL BELOW OTHER SECTIONS
ATLANTA, Ga. — Per capita income increases since 1941
have been larger in southeastern states but individual earnings
stm far short of other sections, U. S. Department figures indicate.
rer capita income lor the south
east as a whole increased 61.4 per
cent since 1941; 40.2 per cent in New
England; 37-2 per cent in middle east
ern states and 49.8 per cent in cen
tral states.
The department said government
pay rolls in the southeast expanded
four-fold from 1989 to 1943 while the
increase outside the southeast was
146 per cent. Expanded shipbuilding
and aircraft production were listed
■as major factors contributing to in
come increase in the south.
Per capita income in Georgia rose
from |389 in 1941 to 6647, an increase
of 66JJ per cent, the department said.
Latest figures on per capita incomes
for other states included Alabama
6603, North Carolina 6676, Tennessee
6649; Florida, 6874 and Virginia 6820.
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The greatest percentage of increase
for any state in the region was in
Mississippi with a rise of 71 per cent.
The state, however, with a per capita
income of $283 In 1941 stood at the
bottom of the nation’s list and al
though the percentage increase was
greatest. Mississippi still is the na
tional low at $484 per capita.
The department observed that
southeastern states have had rela
tively small proportions of heavy
goods industries and have been less
well equipped to participate in re-1
armament and war production pro
grams. Both war and nonwar pay
rolls rose at sharper rates in the re
gion than in the nation over the 1939
43 period, the department said, indi
cating fundamental growth in south
eastern industry since 1939.
FDR IS TO OPEN
CAMPAIGN AT
DINNER OF
TEAMSTERS
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WASHINGTON, D. C—President
Roosevelt announced he will deliver
his “first political speech” of the
campaign at a labor dinner arranged
by President Daniel J. Tobin of the
International Brotherhood of Team
sters on Sept. 23 at the Hotel Sutler
here. Most of the guesU at the dinner
will be officials of the union.
Pour years a^o the President sim
ilarly opened his political campaign
with an address delivered at a con
vention of the Teamsters Union in !
the nation’s eapiUL
The Executive Board of the Team
sters Union, meeting in Chicago, re
cently unanimously endorsed Presi
dent Roosevelt for re-election.
LABOR ¥ Prk>r !° “** independent of capital. Capital
ADUIV fa only the fruit of labor, and could never have
existed if labor had not first existed.
Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the
„ . A. LINCOLN,
FhHB Message to Congress, December 3, 1861
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EXECUTRIX'S NOTICE
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