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IHS Che Charlotte labor journalmmmm ISIbIMP1™™* EndF^ri^tofri^tatt and dixie farm news Official Organ of Control Labor Union; Standing ' for the A. F. L. ’ _ _^__ «*• VOL. XIYr—No. 35 *— - * •— CHARLOTTE, N. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1945 Dinmi co»«o«»tioi( or $2 00 PtT YOOV TOO OBAOOOO * * -—_ •. H_:_ • *____ Back Up The — With Bonds Th» ONLY REALLY INDEPENDENT WEEKLY hi Mtkknbwrf Ommij For * Wceklr lu ltepre—t th» LARGEST BUYING POWER hi Chari** THE CHARLOTTE LABOR JOURNAL ADVOCATES LOYALTY TO THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LAB^R; JAN 15 J PROMOTION OF INDUSTRIAL PROSPERITY, AND CO-OPERATION OF ALL WORKERS ALONG EVERY LINCt*rPT t;J-0^ J. A. SCOGGINS IS APPOINTED CEZEF CLERK COUNTY RATIONING BOARD, FROM VOLUNTEER POST J. A. Scoggins, chairman of the whole Mecklenburg county price and rationing organization, yesterday resigned his volun teer post with the control agency to become chief clerk, to which position he will be appointed this morning by Director L. W. Driscoll of the Charlotte OP A district. J. A. SCOGGINS The final details of the change ware worked oat late yesterday aft ernoon at a conference in the office at J. J. Kilroy, deputy director, with D. C. Goff, board organisation execu tive, Mr. Scoggins, and R. A. Throne burg present. Mr. Throneburg re signed as chief clerk two weeks ago to Join the staff of the district of fice as one of the group at board supervisors. The position which Mr. Scoggins will now assume is that of active head of the paid personnel of the Mecklenburg price control board and rationing organization. The post which he relinquishes is a non-paid one usually held by a public spirited citizen whose duties have to do with policy making and general supervi sion of the scores of other volunteers who make up the dozens of panels functioning in the price and ration of fices. MAY NAME DUDLEY The successor to Mr. Scoggins is expected to be named by Mr. Dris coll from among the general chair men of the panels in the various sub divisions of the organization with the name of E. B. Dudley x x x x Mr. Scoggins is one of the original members of the price and rationing board in Mecklenburg having helped launch the program January 5, 1942, when the whole organization consist ed of only three board members. He became board general chairman in October of 1942 and saw the program expand until the panel members numbered more than 100 and the staff increased accordingly. . As chairman of the central or con trol board to which the, panels are subordinate, Mr. Scoggins frequently was in sole executive and administra tive charge of the entire program in Mecklenburg since frequently there was no chief clerk personnel prob lems. He gave thousands of hours of his time gratis to aiding the work and seeing that everybody was served as best possible under the complica tions of the program. He is believed to know about as much or more about the problems of price and ra tioning work as any one individual in the county, aiid OPA authorities characterized him as being by far the best qualified man available for his new post.—Charlotte Observer, Tues-* day. [Mr. Scoggins is promi nent in Labor Circles in THE MARCH OF LABOR m - - - — ■ i m i •Hhe first cold vfc/REAlWMMWDtD flYIHe AURlTiMS COMMISSION WENT TO THE OR&SOAl S*ttP80ltf><N& CORF. OS PoftTLAMD.oftf., FOR 22 LIBERTY SNIP’S BoitT AaIC DELIVERED a USs THAN 105 DAYS. THi WORKERS SCUMS T0A.F«rl. MS.TM. TRADES UMKXS. foe THIS UWON LWKL MWTNArtOU , HELP TOt/RSEIf ANDONSAMIZEDlAaoR I I_ i . ‘ t I BY BUYIaIG products I WARlMSWecMOlKtAakl OVERTLIE WAGE CASE IS SETTLED BY GEORGIA CT. —V— ATLANTA, Jan. 8.—The Georgia Supreme Court held in a far-reaching opinion yesterday that an employe could recover overtime wages even if he had agreed in advance with his employer to violate terms of the na tional wage and hour act. In another phase of the opinion, the tribunal said the responsibility of keeping and preserving records of the hours worked by employes rested up on the employer and that uthe law places no duty upon the employes with reference to these matters.” BARGAINING ELECTION FOR MT. HOLLY 1015 —V— WASHINGTON.—The National La bor Relations Board has directed a bargaining election to be held by the production and maintenance employ ees of the American Yarn 4 Process ing Co.’s Adrian, Medora, Wood lawn, and American plants at Mount Holly, N. C„ before Feb. 1, 1945. The election is to determine wheth er the Textile Workers Union of America (CIO) or the United Textile Workers of America (AFL), or neith er union; will represent the AYP em ployees for collective bargaining. UNION BAITING WILL HURT BUSINESS SAYS FRANK FENTON AJF.L. ORGANIZATION DIRECTOR WASHINGTON, D. C.—Employers makng phuns to slash wages and smash unions after the war were warned by Frank Fenton, AFL director of organization, that by such methods they will be burying the system of Tree enterprise” which they now glorify. “If the initiative of private indus try is sufficient to provide jobs for all who want to work, well and rood,” he said. “The American worker pre fw* it that way. But if the initiative of spends itself in reducing its own at*. '*eta by competitive wage cutting and by any such ‘open shop’ drive as characterised the period aft er the last yar, then the workers will BETTER THAN CASH! it Greenbacks don’t grow in value—War Bonds do! ★ Both are promissory notes of your Government— both are guaranteed by your Government. ★ But when you turn your Bonds into cash, they cease to earn money for you. They also cease to work for Victory. ★ Cash in the pocket wins no wars! ★ That’s why 85 million Americans have bought Bonds. For Victory today—for security tomorrow— follow their lead! KEEP FAITH WITH OUR FIGHTERS— —Buy War Bonds for Keeps turn to tneir government—and de mand and get a program of govern ment-financed public works big enough to fill the gap." Fenton added that if employers return to the tactics they used after World War I then “the capitalistic system is in grave danger of crum bling." “Business has the responsibility of not only talking about free enter prise; it must also act as if it believes in free enterprise," he declared. “Bus iness statesmanship would require that it be in the forefront of the bat tle for a sound social security system and stable labor relations. Genuine free enterprise cannot really exist in our complicated industrial society without them. “Also, strong and responsible un ions are indispensable parts of free enterprise. Sound business leaders must recognize this fact immediate ly and not seek to destroy the labor movement—because to do so would be planting the seed of their own de struction. Fenton insisted this country cannot afford to leave the issue ef full em ployment to business alone. “We must learn to wage peace with the same vigor we have used in wag ing war," he asserted. Steps need to be taken now to give workers assurance they will have jobs after the war, Fenton maintain ed. “Speeches and synthetic morale building programs” won’t do the trick, he said; concrete moves must be r '^e to reduce the “hazards of unenttfb ment dislocation." i Among these moves, he coi should be a national system <u -Jb- 1 quate unemployment benefits; funds to pay for the relocation of stranded workers when war production tapers off; action by the War Production Board to permit reconversion of war plants to civilian.output at the earli est possible moment. Manufacturers were warned, too, that they will not save themselves by playing off veterans against workers. Fenton claimed that most servicemen understand their future security lies in safeguarding the labor movement, protecting seniority rights and fight ing for full employment. LITTLE CHANGE IN THE COST OF LIVING —V— WASHINGTON. —Average prices of living essentials showed little change between mid-October and mid November, Secretary of Labor Fran ces Perkins reports. ‘The family bill went up about one-tenth on one per cent," she said, “and there were scattered increases in prices of cloth ing and house furnishings as the de (mand for many lower-priced articles continued to exceed available sup plies." Charlotte, and the State, being a vice-president of the State Federation of Labor, a former president of Char lotte Central Labor Union, as well as his own organiza tion, an Electrical Workers Union (A. F. of L.). Mr. Scoggins was an employe of the Duke Power Co. while serving voluntarily for oyer two years on the rationing board as a member of the board and as chairman. His work has been efficient and valuable and his friends in the Labor Movement are proud of Mr. Scoggins for his volunteer patriotic pub lic service.—Ed.] -v AFL ALUMINUM UNION WINS IN PLANT ELECTION WASHINGTON, D. C.—The AFl Aluminum Workers Union won a sharply contested election at the United States Foil Plant, Hopewell Va. The AFL union received a deai majority of the workers’ ballots with a total of 328, while the CIO got onlj 196 and District 60 of the United Mine Workers a mere 12. MARCH OF DIMES GOAL FOR MECK. COUNTY IS $25,750 —V— Figures showing that the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis has spent more than $600,000 in North Carolina were announced yes terday by W. Frank Philips, chair man of the Mecklenburg county chap ter of the organisation, along with plans for the annual “March of Dimes” campaign. The Mecklenburg campaign will be conducted from January 20 to 31 with a goal of $26,760. Of themoneyraised in the various counties during the March of Dimes campaign, the coun ties keep half at home ami send the other half to the national organisa tion. Mr. Phillips’ figures show that in the six years since the National Foundation was incorporated, North Carolina has given a total of $172, 680.08 to the national organisation. Through November 21 of this year, the Natipnal Foundation had spent a total of $439,474.17 in North Caro lina. -_V-* Hadassah women’s Zionist organi sation in America, has set 400 thou sand dollars as the goal for the Jew ish national fund. YOUR UNCLE SAM NEEDS HELP BUY WAR BONDS ' € * KEN SILYESTRI y./ y V Jjty BIG LEAGUE BACK* \ STOP FOR E M.y. k VAWKS AND CHI - • F CAso wire so*, WAS UNDERSTUDYTb YANKS' BEL DICKEY !9fS9T. SILV6STRJ has seen stationed OUT IN DUTfcH New/ GUINEA -tfSLF RR/NS KEN AMP Mi BOMBS BACK ffOMB SOOVER BUY MORE i ..* ! Free Labor Will Out-Produce Nazi Slaves * r ’ • ^ £ ip&E
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