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Che Charlotte labor Journal ™" Endoreed by the N. C. State AND DIXIE FARM NEWS Official Organ ef Central Labor Union; Standing 'UU'IIJ.*' j [iHii ’ Federation of Labor for the A. F. L. VOL. XIV.—No. 37 - CHAKLOTTfc, N. C, THIRSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1945 --r Ttm BacK Up The Boys — With .Bonds Th» ONLY REALLY INDEPENDENT WEEKLY hi Mtkkabgg CmmUj For * W-My lto »-*— B»>r»at LARGEST BUYING POWER <■ I T . WAR AID IS YARDSTICK FOR MEETING APPROVAL CONCERNING CONVENTIONS WASHINGTON.—Labor unions and other organizations plan ning to hold conventions, conferences or group meetings after February 1 “will have to show how the war effort would suffer if the meetings were not held,” CoL J. Monroe Johnson, chairman of the War Committee on Conventions, announces. Organizations planning group meet ings to be attended by more than 60 persons will have to fill out an ap plication form for the approval of the committee. This must show the nature of the planned meeting; its date and location and the name of hotels or other facilities to be used; attendance planned; previous fre quency of meetings; location and at tendance of last previous meeting; average attendance at similar meet ings before the war and during the war; from what area those attend ing are drawn; what steps have al ready been taken to curtail attend ance; why the objectives of the meet ing cannot be attained through “Con ventions by Mail”; why a group of 60 or less to whom powers are delegated cannot transact the necessary affairs of the organization and in what way and to what extent the war effort would suffer if the meeting were not held. - The committee also decided that: 1. Industrial, business, labor, fra ternal, professional, religious civic social and governmental organizations are included among tnose requiring permits. 2. The issuance of a special per mit to hold meetings of more than 50 does not guarantee transportation or hotel facilities or imply priorities for their use. 3. The fact that meetings of less than 50 people do not require special permit does not mean the committee approves the holding of such meet ings, which also impose a strain on transportation and housing facilities. Col. Johnson explained that the permit system had been decided on by the committee as a means of carry ing out Justice Byrnes’ instructions to curtail conventions in order “to relieve overburdened transportation and hotel facilities and to conserve desperately needed scarce materials and manpower.” Applications forms may be obtain ed from ODT regional and district offices, at most hotels and convention bureaus, and from the national ODT office in Washington. They should be sent directly to Secretary Clare, Room 7321, Interstate Commerce Building, Washington, 25, D. C. GREEN PRESENTS CHARTER TO OFFICE EMPLOYES CINCINNATI, O.—A. F. of L President William Green presents an I international Union charter to the newly established Office Employes’ Inter* national Union. Accepting the charter are J. Howard Hicks, Portland, Oregon, left, and Paal R. Hutchings, Washington, D. G, center, who were unanimously elected secretary-treasurer and president, respectively, of this newest International Union of the American Federation of Labor. I THE MARCH OF LABOR I 1 6,000,000mtncvt MMOCS MAN UNOBi r L-ffl! \ ^=1 &UKHMA A/.l. UNIONS SENT WflEJOS/< Mt SVlOMM ARISON tWNNHi»' IN NEUXNS, SMERT MEAL •***. CAWENTRY, BECTRIOIY. AND OMK. VM* TRADES. n^MTOARIbUftMCOMt. IMA ecifMiM KA1S • m* ME 8CAsM0tM UMiOAl lA8*A. mute ISA UMOM LABCi MATiMme ffties KtoU *V*T 1b fAV. ' 1 ' MANY BILLS OF IMPORTANCE TO LABOR ALREADY HAVE BEEN INTRODUCED IN CONGRESS WASHINGTON, D. C.—Already more than a thousand new bills have been introduced in the new session of Congress—many of them of direct and vital Interest to labor. It is significant that more than half of the measures deal with affairs of veterans of the present and past wars. Mostly they increase present benefits or propose new ones. Of special interest to labor is a bill by Rep. Ludlow of Indiana repealing the Smith-ConnaUy Act and another by Rep. Harless of Arizona repealing that section of the act which makes it unlawful for unions to contribute to political campaign funds. Congresswoman Mary Norton of New Jersey has a biU requiring pay ment to women of equal wages for equal work, and another for cooperation between the states and the Federal government in establishing and maintain ing safety regulations and proper working conditions. Rep. Woodruff of Michigan and Rep. Randolph of West Virginia would prevent aUeim from voting or holding office in trade unions. Rep. Hobbs of Alabama reintroduced his amendment to the antirack, steering law so as to make it apply to the activities of labor unions. u, JS "corc,°f *ore »•* higher old-age pensions, while Dingell of bHI for • compleU overhaul and liberalization of the Social Security system. This has the backing of the American Federation of Labor. t THE A. F. OF L. PRESENTS AT 1:15 P. BL, E.W.T. OVER NJB.C. Jan. 28.—Sunday—Vice-President Truman, Topic, “Next Four Years." Panel Members: Wm. Green, A. F. of L.; Enc Johnston, U. S. Chamber of Commerce; James G. Pat ton, National Farmers Union. “RETURNING VETS SURPRISE EMPLOYERS AS TO UNION ATTITUDE”—BUSINESS WEEK (American Federation ist) Those employers who have fondly imagined that returning serv icemen will let themselves be nsed as tools in a war against trade unionism are in for a rude awakening, says an editorial addressed . to top management in the December SO issue of Business Week. “A significant section of business believes, or likes to believe,” the editorial declares, “that there is a division of interests and out look between veterans and union members. Little concrete evidence is at hand to support this belief.” Business Week says “the facts are that in a number of cases where servicemen have returned to industry, they have immediately become the most militant spirits in union locals.” “Wild stories” about high wartime wages, inspired by labor’s enemies, are backfiring, says the editorial, as returning soldiers take Jobs in industry and find their pay envelopes considerably thinner than propaganda had led them to expect. Disappointed, these ex servicemen call upon their fellow workers to demand wage boosts, "backed by the threat of direct action,” the editorial adds. Business Week frankly confesses that many employers are de liberately trying to sow seeds of discord between veterans and or ganised labor, these efforts usually taking the form of “demanding the most liberal application of the law to providh super and super duper seniority for returning servicemen.” And the editorial closes with these words: “It is by no means certain that industry will reap any endur ing advantage from helping to divide the returning soldier and pre sent labor leadership. And undermining of established leadership, no matter how unsatisfactory that leadership may seem, is a revolu tionary act, the consequences of which are always unpredictable.” I Xyyy^yy^hdbd^>d^hd^bdhdbfhdbAdbdhdbdh«hdh<b<bdhdbshdhdh<hdhdhdhdhdhsbdadhsbfhdhdhdhfh^ C. A. FINK ASKS HIGHER PAY FOR STATE LEGISLA. -V— RALEIGH — When the State Fed eration of Labor last August went on record in favor of higher pay for members of the North Carolina Gen , AMERICA! - t5ny in a* Jje I Atji Da*Sunny JmY / s^SMs&i tWmtw iiwit I ^ ^ eral Assembly, the matter didn’t get much publicity. This week C. A. Fink, president of the Federation, issued a statement calling upon the As sembly to submit a Constitutional amendment increasing the pay to "at least $25 a day.” There is a general impression that members of the Legislature get ten dollars a day. Actually, there hasn't been a session since the present con stitutional provisions for pay amount ed to that much. The 1943 session lasted for 64 days and the members got $600—the same thing that mem bers^of^theML00j<idd day sessions in ■> session is estimated by many compe tent observers to last as long, per haps ten days longer, than the last one. That further cuts down the per diem rate, since the total cannot ex ceed $600. Present Constitutional provisions allow $8 per day for special sessions, not exceeding twenty days. In lieu of the Labor Federation proposal for 7“ $25 a day it has been suggested that the term salary be upped to about $1,200, with no extra pay for spe cial sessions, and that members be subject to special session calls with out extra compensation. a THE PLEDGE OF EVERY LOYAL A. F. OF L UNIONIST *T Pledge Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the Republic far which it stands —One Nation Indivisible, With Liberty and Justice for All!” -—— LABOR Producing the Materials — At Home - - Their 5ons Fighting All Over the World
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