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THE CHARLOTTE LABOR JOURNAL AND DIXIE FARM NEWS _- *_■■■■« ««— *•»*•* ■■n.kir it. 1U1, tllkiM Ofto. •« CfcuMte. K. C, Tit ACS CS NiPCi S* I STS* LABOR JOURNAL PHONE—3-3094 v 302 Sovlli Collage Straat-CboHotta 2, N. C. **"M<*^^*^^“* ** ~ ** * ~^^~~nn~n~nnnj~LnrLrLru-.r ~nr i--- ■ Ik# Labor Joornal k fra* to the American ideak of WAGE EARNERS; ■«? —■.wo—” ®P*®d year wages in the city where yea Hr*. always reawai lavtag^that “Ik* Dollar That Gees the Farthest k the Dollar That Mays at Th* Labor Joaraal will not be respon sible for opinions of correspondents. If yea do sot get year paper drop s postal to the Editor and he will so* that yea de. We belier* la American hectare* and Aa-rican Workers. W* better* that a fast share of th* profits which th* workers kelp prodoc* shoold be giren the worker, for with oat thk benefit, lasting prosperity cannot b* aseared. -■ ■■■'-.1 OUR POLICY Work - Fight - Sort To create a better under standing between Labor, Industry and the Public. OUR AIM-'-. Work - Fight - Sava , To influence Public Opinion in favor of the Organised Labor Movement. W. M. Witter-Editor and Publisher Claud* L. Albra-----Associate Editor CHARLOTTE, N. C„ THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1945 AS TO N. C. WAGE-HOUR LEGISLATION Hie following editorial appeared in The Charlotte News mi January 9th, and it does not make bad reading, in The Journal’s opinion, for either capital or labor. We have pointed to the fact revealed in Section 2, many times in this publication and it is to be commended that a large daily in our midst will also make the revelation. The News editorial follows: WAGES A HOURS We don’t know what kind of wage and hour legislation North Carolina wants—and there is a good deal of disagreement as to the kind of legislation it needs. But it is beyond argument that it does need some, soon. This handful of facts should make that appar 1. North Carolina is one of the twelve leading industrial states. 2. Its average weekly wage is lower than that of any other state save South Carolina. , 2. It is 43rd fas per capita income. ^ 4. Some North Carolina workers earn as little as nine cents an 5. The average weekly payment of unemployment compensation (having risen daring the war to 913.53) is the lowest in the nation. In an answer to a News editorial on the subject of North Caro line’s terribly low wage levels. Commissioner of Labor Forrest Shu ford wrote, enclosing a proposed minimum wage and maximum hour law for the State. That was printed in full last week, and should have been of considerable importance to readers of all schools aad interests. It was a moderate proposal, setting a minimum wage of 33 cents an hour—but excepting salaried people earning 943 or more weekly, agricultural workers, fisherman, domestics, and employees of utili ties whose cases are reviewed by the Interstate Commerce Commis sion. It proposes overtime pay for male and female employees work ing in excess of eight hours a day, 43 hours a week. It proposes a Wage and Hour Beard, with authority to advance the minimum hourly wage as high as 43 cents, providing that Is found to bo ad vantageous to the people of the state as a whole. This proposal is not new, for Mr. ShufordSnd Capos Way nick, as the dissenting minority, advanced a similar one in a 1941 report of the Fair Labor Standards Act Commission. Nor is it going to and North Carolina’s problems. It is, you will note, much more moderate than the Federal legislation. For example, its minimum wage is ten , cents lower per hour. But it will, as Mr. Shuford says, quickly lift the living standards of the very lowest group which is now strug gling with sub-standard wages. Such a law would aid North Carolina employers hy ruling out . cut-wage competition, and by the added spending power the mini mum wage would bring. It would benefit the state’s economy by lightening the burden of public assistance for the lowest income groups. It may not stand as a model law because of the fields it does not invade; it ssay, if it is accepted by the Assembly, have to be broadened to eliminate discrimination. But as a start it is entire ' ly acceptable. It would be a direct attack on the basic problems of North Carolina’s poverty by an enlightened yet wholly deliberate State Government. As such, we wish it good speed through the leg islative mill. Free Labor Will Out-Produce Nazi Slaves MWOMMMllMMMMMMWMMWMMMMAMaMWlMMMMMMMMMIMMi SANITONE DRY CLEANING I KEEPS FABRICS BEAUTIFUL! Have JYou Tried It? 4SSSk Call U> Today CHARLOTTE LAUNDRY. Inc. Ill Km! 2nd St. _DM Hill "KNOW IK KE (BEAM YOU UT" . ’ on PLEDGE or QUALITY ON EACH PACKAGE vknM/««r ^ PVT DAIRY PRODUCTS CORP. "FIGHT - WORK - 8AVB" THE A. F. OF L. STANDS WITH AND FOR THE FLAG wommmmsasososssosasassosoMsA«mm*wwwmwmvwwvmww NUTTY VIEWS ON EMPLOYMENT SOME of the Mg fellows have mighty strange ideas about employment. For instance there is William O’Neil of Federal Tire and Rubber. He is opposed to full employment. In a public statement, he declares that if M million jobs are created so that there will be. work for all who want it, the i American home will vanish from the earth. He thinks the only way to keep • the Home is to aee that there are always lots of unemployed. Maybe he is thinking of the Poor House. Then there is another Mg-sbot in the rubber industry, quoted in a Washington, D. C.. newspaper, who says that he is afraid of full employment because of the manpower shortage it will create. He, too, is keen to have a few million jobless men on the market. Do you suppose either of these gentlemen really has in mind the fact that unem ployment tends to force wages down? Coaid be. • YANK TELLS 'EM (American Federathmist) A recent editorial in the Army weekly, Yank, asserting that “you can’t ignore figures,” pointed out that in the first 109 days of the in vasion of France 17,000,000 ship-tons of Allied vehicles and supplies were put ashore—more than twice the total received by Gen. Pershing through friendly ports in the entire months of U. S. participation in World War I. “Who do you think made that stuff—pixies 7” asked the editorial, the purpose of which was to combat propaganda designed to cause dis unity between soldiers and workers. “It is going to be tough enough re converting to full civilian production,” said Yank, “without starting a fight among the men who will do the producing. And if you begin by setting veteran-against civilian, you will end by setting Protestant against Cath olic, Catholic against Jew, white against Negroes—and you will wind up by having the very thing we are fighting the war to destroy.” MMAMAMWMMMMMWWtMMMMMMWMMMAMMMMMAAMM I WESTMINSTER 100% Wool SUITS —and— O'COATS 2950 • From America’s finest men’s wear workrooms come these fine suits and over coats in Spring weights, patterns and co’ors. Right for now, with a long Spring ahead. Regular, slims, shorts and stouts. Sizes 34 to 43. Other Nat'l Avd. • FASHION PARK • HYDE PARK • STYLE MART $35 to $65 AMERICA DOES NOT WANT MORE ORIENTAL ♦ IMMIGRATION A bill b now before Congress to encourage immigration of natives^ of India into the United 8tates with the right to acquire American citizenship. This bill should not pass. Neither should any other bill in any way relaxing the immigration restrictions. We will hare enough troubb pro viding Jobs for Americans after the war without inviting competition from foreigners. • —_ „ Above all, we do not want Orientals. i . The argument in behalf of the Indbn bill will be that it will «dmU only I a few.” The same argument was made in behalf of the repeal of the Chinese exclusion laws. \ _ __._ Labor has opposed that measure because we .foresaw it as the opening wedge to permit Oriental immigration. Congress passed that law to admit Mg few" Chine or Now up pops another law to admit “a few” Indians. This will be fol lowed by laws to admit “a few” of various other Oriental nations until the "few” have become a flood of cheap labor. Let your congressman know that your union does not approve any re laxation of the immigration taws until all Americans are gainfully employed at good wages. -- Newspaper Exec. With Employes To Support Fund SUPERIOR. Wise. —A sympathe tic employer joins with millions of AFL members in supporting impov erished trade unions in Allied na tions. Literature from the AFL’s Free Trade Union Committee was received by the general manager of a Su perior daily newspaper and he en thusiastlcally responded by volun teering to contribute an amount equal to the combined giving of mechani cal and editorial employes. Hilding Olson, Typographical Union member, quickly accepted General Manager Clough Gates’ offer and cir culate! a subscription list for the Free Trade Union Fund, and after adding up the total collected a similar amount from the Superior Evening Telegram executive. -V Illegitimate births are on the in crease in the United States. -_V Traffic Signals Are Life Savers I Fruit Candies Save Su9«r Point. I i ■in—Him . .—| i— i— si-:V'.'.'jVa By BETTY BARCLAY Do you like to thrill your family now and then by stirring up a batch of candy for them? Then these recipes for fruit candies to which oranges and lemons con tribute their pleasing flavors and healthful qualities, will help you keep your candy howl filled, despite wartime food restrictions. Fruit candies offer possibilities for sweets that spare sugar, that are practical to make at home and that are good to eat. These candies are Ideal for the children, because they are wholesome and may be eaten freely. They are so easy to do, the children can help with their making too. Fruit Caramels Offer a No Sugar Candy When the children want to make ~ ndy. let them prepare these Fruit C«.. imdls. 1 cup raisins 1 cup figs 1 cup pitted dates or prunes 1 cup nut meats, optional 1 tablespoon grated lemon peel , 2 to 4 tablespoons lemon Juice Put fruit and nuts through food chopper. Moisten to a paste with lemon Juice and add lemon peel. Form Into balls or cubes. Roll in powdered sugar, if desired. Candy bars for the lunch boxes of your worker or your children may be made from this fruit mix ture. Shape the ground fruit into a long roll or pack it into a milk carton. Chill in refrigerator until firm. Remove carton and wrap the confection roll in waxed paper. Slice as needed into “candy bars.’’ Orange Fruit Paste Is Different This candy recipe also spares sugar. It Is delicious and different. % cup ground unpeeled orange H cup orange Juice 2H cups apple sauce or cooked dried apricots % cup liquid pectin % cup light corn syrup * mwa sugar Cook oranges, orange Juice and cooked fruit for 20 minutes, stirring often. Use large kettle, preferably 4-quart slse. Add pectin, corn syrup and sugar. Cook about 30 minutes longer, stirring constantly. When mixture is consistency of a thick preserve, pour I inch deep Into shallow pan. When cold, cut into squares or other desired shapes. If wished, roll in powdered sugar. Recipe makes 2H pounds. Honey Extends 8uqar Points In This Candied Orange Peel Recipe Save the peels left after prepar ing that breakfast glass of orange Juice for candied peel in which honey spares sugar points. Peel from 0 orang** , 1 cup sugar 1 cup honey H cup water Boil orange peel with water to cover and 1 teaspoon salt for H hour. Drain. Cover again with water and boil until tender. Drain. Cut peel in strips. Bring sugar, honey and H cap water to boil. Cook peel in this gently until dear. Cool In syrup several houra. Re heat. Drain. Spread out on wire rack or waxed paper until syrup is absorbed. If peel is to ba kept for soma time, wrap In waxed paper. Store tat a tightly covered container tat a refrigerator or other cold place. If peel la to be used soon after making, coat with gran ulated sugar by shaking tat a paper bag containing S to 4 tablespoons granulated* sugar. Colored Reel — Add red or green vegetable food coloring to syrup to tint peel. Make Mock Candied Ginger With Orangs Peel Add a little ginger spice to syrup in which candied orange peel is cooked to make a Mock Candied Ginger. Date Dainties Are Colorful Stuff dates with strips •>{ re«* or green candled or»>— Jesus converted precept into ex ample. WarhtMr Spttott* Pimm. Convenient Term. PARKER-GARDNER CO. »• w Ton PV»«. OK Vm I AM DeVONDE Synthetic Cleaners — Dyers Hatters — Furriers 8eir«» PuinU Why Wo Ar. Uno of tfco South’ii Lolling fr/ntheti* . V*' Ckssora I. lotora •rtoOwl Imlmw .a epaffcte. *" f,•* *•«. tlnatoM * «*•"“••• *• •nt.4aUe.to .1 f.brto. I. 04 rim. tharmch elaanioo. *■ c.raento lUr clean lonrrr • Je«o retained toner. T. Sa4.ce. n.nlrafce .pkeap DeVONDE CALL t-tlu M4 N. Trmn Ot
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