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fack ewMpf affBiimmunps Che Charlotte labor Journal wrmmrm BUY MORE WAR BONDS Kndorooa by tko N. C. State •f Labor AND DIXIE FARM NEWS Official Organ of Control Labor Union; Standing for tbo A. F. L. VOL. XIV.—NO. 20. YOU IK ADVERTISEMENT IN THE JOURNAL IS A ' Investmint CHARLOTTE, N. C„ THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1944 Jounnal Advertisers observe consideration i yhs Readers $2.00 Per Test “WIN THE WAR IN ’frf Labor Wffl Out-Prodace Nazi Slaves--- THE A. F. OF L SLOGAN FOR 1944 Tht ONLY HEALEY INDEPENDENT WEEKLY ii Meckknlwrg Comity ~»tod fi*° For * <«» Komlora Reprewnt tbe LARGEST BUYING POWER iw ChoriotW A. F. OF L PUTS ON ELECTION DRIVE TO HOLD A. F. OF L. CONTRACTS WITH WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH CO. ATLANTA, Ga., Sept. 26.—Telegraph Employes Unions sub ordinate to the American Federation of Labor held a Southeastern Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, last Thursday and Friday. The conference was called by the American Federation of Labor and there were in attendance militant representatives of most of the A. F. of L. Western Union Employes locals from aU the cities in the Southeast. The conference was presided over by W. A. League, general president, from Richmond, Va., ably assisted by Hal R. Swann, general vice-president, Nashville, Tenn., and general secre tary-treasurer John C. Hemby, Nash ville, Tenn. Also taking a leading part in the conference was Inter national President W. L. Allen, of the Commercial Telegraphers Interna tional Union and George L. Googe, representing President Wm. Green of the American Federation of Labor. Plans were inaugurated and put in motion for the election drive that will be held in the near future by the Na tional. Labor Relations Board, on the petition of the American Federation for an election of all Western Union employes in America. The election has been bitterly opposed by the CIO, but to no avail. Ten months ago the Western Union Telegraph Co. having contracts with the American Federa tion of Labor covering’ all employes in the Southeastern states, bought out and absorbed the Postal Tele graph Co. The Postal Telegraph Co. several years ago signed a Company Union closed shop, check-off contract in New York City for all postal em ployes throughout the United States. The Western Union in absorbing the Postal Telegraph Co. also took over the CIO contract for all former Pos tal Telegraph Co. employes, making an intolerable situation with two unions and two contracts. There are about 1000 former Postal employes in the Western Union offices still en slaved under the CIO check-off con tract. There are 11,000 A. F. of L. Western Union employes with main tenance of membership contracts in the Southeast. The only way the A. F. of L. can eliminate the American Communica tions Association’s Communist Dom inated Slavery Contract was to force the NLRB to give us an election cov ering all Western Union employes. 1 The CIO, with the assistance ox the Central Committee of the Com munist party USA, has appropriated $100,000. to propagandise and spend in the election campaign in the South east against the loyal Americal Fed eration of Labor unions. The Ameri can Federation of Labor's member ship is ten to one greater than the CIO, but due to the tremendous turn over in the Western Union employes and the great expansion in the past year of the number of employes, the conference felt it necessary to put on a drive in the election campaign to keep the new employes properly in formed of the CIO Communist lies. The A. F. of L. Telegraph Employ es Unions in the Southeast are de termined to win this election so over whelmingly the Communist and their catspaw the CIO will be forever driv en out of the telegraph industry. With this purpose in mind, the Southeast ern conference and the American Federation of Labor is calling upon all organizations affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, their families and friends to take an active part in this election campaign and to marshall the forces of the A. F. of L. in support of our loyal Western Union locals and membership in their com munities in the Southeast. All Amer ican Federation of Labor organizers, Central Bodies and local unions are planning their local activities in the support of the Western Union em ployes. CONSTRUCTION UP TWO PER CENT WASHINGTON. — New construc tion in the U. S. in August amount ed to $316,000,000, a two per cent increase over the previous month’s level of $310,000,000 but less than half the $638,000,000 volume of Aug ist, 1943, WPB reports. SHARE THE RIDE. Conserve Tires And (jksolint SOUTHEASTERN FACTORY WORKERS WAGES RISE ALMOST SIX PER CENT IN PAST YEAR ATLANTA, Gau, September 28.—Basic wage rates of factory workers in the seven southeastern states rose 5.9 per cent between April, 1943 and April, 1944, Harris P. Dawson, Jr., Regional Di rector of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U. S. Department of Labor, announced today. During the same period wage rates in creased 13.8 per cent in non-manufacturing industries in this region. me wage changes in manuxactur ing industries in the Southeast close ly paralleled those in the United States as a whole for the same period, Mr. Dawson added, but wages of workers in non-manufacturing indus tries increased somewhat greater than those for the nation. For the "cftited States as a whole, factory wages rose 6.8 per cent, and wages in non-manufacturing industries rose 9.4 per cent during the year ending April, 194. In announcing the first results of a new study of wartime wage move ments by the Bureau of Labor Sta tistics, Dawson pointed out that there is now available for the first time a measure of basic wage rate changes which eliminates the effect of prem ium payments for overtime and extra shift work from hourly earnings. He also said that the new index of wage rate changes thus provides a more accurate measure of the effectiveness of wage stabilization than do the well Known indexes oi average hourly earnings previously published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Cities included in the study were, Savannah, Ga., Tampa, Fla., Atlanta, Ga., Columbia, S. C., Greenville, S. C., Winston-Salem, N. C., Raleigh, N. C., Memphis, Tenn., Birmingham, Ala., Knoxville, Tenn., and Jackson, Miss. “Although information on wage rate changes is not available for the Southeast prior to April, 1943, we do know that for the United States as a whole wage stabilization has been increasingly effective during the war,” Dawson said. “Prior to the Stabilization Act of 1942, factory wage rates had been rising 0.8 per cent per month for twenty-one months. During the year following the Stabilization Act, the increase averaged 0.6 per cent per month. For the period October 19 to April, 1944, the rate of increase dropped to a rate of 0.3 per cent per month.” * NON-UNION SAT. EVE. POST MAKES OUT A FINE CASE FOR WHAT THE LABOR UNIONS ARE FIGHTING FOR WASHINGTON.—The Saturday Evening Post, notoriously unfriendly to workers, in ita current issue unintentionally con firms organised labor’s contention that wages in the main are* too low to provide a decent living standard. It printed an article written by the wife of a college profeasor in a small northern Maine town graphically depicting how difficult it is for a family of five to get along on a salary of $2,000 a year. The author says that she has been able to keep out of debt only by the most heroic economies in food. Clothing and other essentials. She does all her own work, including the sewing of clothing for the “kiddies.” The purchase of new furniture is unheard of and old pieces are patched up, over and over again, she says. The professor owns one pair of shoes, resoling them himself until they’re beyond repairing. # That it has been possible to make ends meet, the writer says, is due entirely to the fact that a large portion of the family food is raised in their own garden, and very little is spent for clothing, entertainment, health and insurance. The article is intended to portray the plight of white-collar workers, but it neglected to say that millions of industrial workers, many getting leas than $2,000 a year, are experiencing the same heart-breaking privations. “JACK” MOORE, PRES. OF C. L U., HOME AGAIN —V— J. A. Moore, president of Charlotte Central Labor Union, who underwent an operation, and has been taking treatment at the Veterans’ Hospital, Columbia, S. C., the past few weeks has returned to his home, 525 Mc Donald Avenue, where he will spend the next moiith or two recuperating before resuming his duties. Brother Moore has been greatly missed at Central Body, over which he presides, and the boys are hoping to see him at the “Hall” during his recuperating period—and they will if he is able to get into an automo bile, for if there is any one thing more than another tnat “Jack” Moore despises it is inactivity. THE NEW RATION BOOKS WILL DEFY COUNTERFEITERS —V— WASHINGTON. — The new “A” basic gasoline ration books that mo torists outside the East Coast will soon be receiving are printed on a new type of government safety paper, which will be virtually impossible for counterfeiters to duplicate, OPA re T. L. CONDER Business Agent Carpenters Local, smmmmwmmmmmmmmamm ports. Also every coupon bears the serial number on the cover of the book, which is recorded by the issuing board. This will aid in spotting stol en coupons, said OPA. Subscribe for The JournaL CONDER RESIGNS AS BUSINESS MGR OF THE CARPENTERS’ LOCAL NO. 1469; WILL BE SUCCEEDED BY R S. TWITTY Charlotte Labor, and the Carpenters’ Local in particular, lost an active worker, when the announcement was made Monday that T. L. Conder, one of the most active workers in the local labor field, had resigned as business manager of the Carpenters and Joiners local, to enter business for himself. Having chosen real estate, with which he has dealt in a minor way, as his line of full time activity. Mr. Conder ku been one of the stalwarts in labor movement in Charlotte for over tea years, to oar knowledge, and he baa been a faithful worker in the A. F. of L. movement in and oat of season—through the dark days, the lean days, and in the better days we have been enjoying lately. He is re sponsible, in this writer’s opinion, more than stay one man for the acquiring of oar Labor Temple, on North McDowell Street, he having resurrected that oft-interred movement, when times were not so good with labor, and carried it on through many months, and years, until his dream became a realization, through co-operation of other locals comprising the Charlotte Central Labor Union, and when the clouds began to break away and a ray oT sunlight and hope came to the different locals, he saw it culminate in the acquiring of one of the finest homes for labor in the South, taking our population and membership into consideration, and the best part of it all is, that he was wise enough to see that this citadel has been paid for in fall. Mr. Conder is succeeded as Business Manager of the Carpenters by R. S. Twitty, one of the oldest members of his local in point of service, as well as one of the pioneers in the Labor Movement, another one of the boys who stuck by the ship when the going was hard, but who held fast to the faith that in due time labor would receive its just reward, and knowing Brother Twitty as we do. we venture to say that he will guide the business affairs of his organization, which U one of the largest labor bodies in the state, ably and well Brother Conder will not relinquish his membership in his local, or cease to take a part in labor activities as opportunity presents itself. Having gone down the line through the years with Brother Conder and Twitty in the labor movement in Charlotte, a fellow feeling exists that borders on the fraternal, and the writer hopes for both success in their new lines of activities. The officers of the U. B of C. and J. of A. Charlotte Local 14«9, are W. J. Merrill, president; P. A. Martin, treasurer; R. 8. Twitty. business manager and financial secretory (filling position made vacant by T. L. Con der), and John Lovett, recording secretory. High Point CLU Protests Change In Work Hours —V— HIGH POINT, Sept. 23.—A pro posed change in working hours for several thousand industrial employes here from 7 to 8 o’clock for the first shift to be put into operation on Octo ber 2, was vehemently opposed here today by leaders of labor groups. • Resolutions adopted by delegates to the High Point Central Labor Union (A. F. of L.) declared the act “high-handed, dictatorial and Fascist like.” The resolutions charged that the workers were not consulted that a change in working hours would mean added hardships for employes and their families, that it would mean parents would have less time with their children and that the change violates employes’ bargaining rights. THE MARCH OF LABOFt Host STRUCK •ecu* i*4 IHt Sr*tMG 4*40 SUMHtft MONTHS — MMCM IbcefflMMR* INIS IMAM IMS «MS 0* «« UOMV AcCIOfttfTS Aft* WUiO S?,t00 fOftCU 'AMD NJNI OlSAStiO Aj*0fiCO 9i REMODELING OF HOUSING AUTHORIZED —V— WASHINGTON.—To provide hous ing relief for congested ureas, WPB and the National Housing Agency have authorized the remodeling or conversion of apartment houses and other dwellings into smaller housing units in areas where NHA has de termined that an extreme housing shortage exists. Applications are to be filed with FHA. Other restric tions on construction will still apply. NEW SHOE STAMP COMING A new shoe stamp to become good November 1 was announced by the Of rice of Pri$e Adminis tration. The number of the shoe stamp will bo announced later. LABOR Producing' the Materials — At Home — « Their Sons Fighting' All Over the World c ICKES URGES i THE SAVING OF ^ SOLD) FUELS —V— WASHINGTON.—Solid Fuels Ad ministrator Harold L. Ickes, in a fuel-saving appeal to householders in the East, where coal is short, has urged them to delay starting their furnaces this fall until they, receive specially arranged cold weather fore casts from regional weather bureaus. Use of fire places, portable heaters lor putting on more clothes to ward off chill evenings and mornings, in stead of intermittent use of central heating plants, he pointed out, will save enough coal to go far toward making up for coal shortages. ' rrs LABOR’S WAR — LETS FIGHT—WITH PAT DOLLARS Df WAR BONDS.
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