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CllF ClWlOttf mmmm ' and dixie farm news Organ of Control Labor Union; Standing “ HP 1 ‘__ for tho A. F. L. ■ ■ t --. i i .. —Tr'rfrnjfrtrTft . VOL. XIV.—No. 42 MwwMBwniiTiii^ioinMi n * mm CHARLOTTE, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1945 * u«u.i»montov, oo.*,id«.atk>«ot •> M p w . TW« RlAOCM f**WV * W \ * •' ’ / . 9 •• m*m i _i H» ONLY EK4LLT INDEPENDENT WEEKLY h MicUrtu Codj ^SSmZSoS^^^lSSSJS9 For » *****lia *—*•" ■*—i th> LARGEST BUYING POWER In Ckarktta THE CHARLOTTE LABOR JOURNAL ADVOCATES LOYALTY TO THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR; PROMOTION OF INDUSTRIAL PROSPERITY, AND CO-OPERATION OF ALL WORKERS ALONG EVERY LINE. RAILWAY CLERKS TO ADMIT VETERANS UPON PAYMENT OF ONE MONTH’S DUES CINCINNATI—President George M. Harrison announced that the Broth erhood of Railway Clerks, by action of its executive council, has directed that no local lodge of the union can charge returning veterans more than the first month’s dues as an admission fee. This ruling applies to former members of the union now in the armed forces and to others seeking jobs in the brotherhood’s Jurisdiction. Applications for membership must be accompanied by photostat copy of the applicant’s honorable discharge from the armed forces and must be filed “within sixty days after the applicant has returned to or accepted em ployment.” The union directed local lodges to assist veterans to get such photostats ***** and offered to perform the service itself without charge to the veterans. “Any person honorably discharged from military service is entitled to become a member of the brotherhood upon payment of one month’s dues,” Mr. Harrison said in summarizing the council’s action. ......___ __^........ _ _ GIVE LIBERALLY TO THE RED CROSS “THE FELLOW TO BE PITIED IS THE ONE WHO HAS NO TAXES TO PAY” There is one sentence of Dan Tobin’s that has stack in my memory ever since I first heard it. "The fellow to be pitied in the tax game is the one who has no tax to pay.” Think of that when yoa try to figare oat what yoa still owe! Taxes are bat a cheap price for what we still enjoy. What are they bat the cost of oar liberty? No where else in the world are men as free as they are here. No where else are the demands apon the popl so light. And—THOSE DEMANDS WE SET OURSELVES. Each on thinks his problems are the greatest. Each one thinks that the carrent in which he lives is the whole ocean. It is well that we paase and remember the Batterings of oar brother workers overseas before we com plain of the demands laid apon as. Men who have lost everything have noth ing left with which to pay taxes. They are the ones to be pitied. Sorely we don’t any of as LIKE taxes. Bat this is OUR coantry. Slaves do not pay taxes. They work at the behest and for the benefit of others. Tim coaqeered do not pay taxes—they give tribate. Only free men are taxed. Only free amn can sapport the government that is their own. "Never king dropped oat of the deads.” No tyranny starts without someone paving the way. Taxes are oar insarance against tyranny. Taxes are what we the people pay for safety, for the rights of all men. A govern ment of the people, by the people—a government of freedom—needs th sap port of ALL the people. There are no privileged few when it comes to taxes. The right to pay for his own government is the right of every free born man. Freedom claims an active effort from each dtixen—we have no individaal *•'> rights that are not in some sense modified by the demand for collective might and victory. The saccess of the efforts of oar caase will be dependent more apon oar willingness to make sacrifices to back them ap than apon the perfection of any machinery. Taxes, freely and cheerfully paid—are proof of oar sincerity of purpose. msaasssNsssssivvvisssaswvvvvvvvvwvvvvvviwwvvvuvvwsNs GIVE LIBERALLY IN THIS DRIVE THE RED CROSS IS AT HIS SIDE JANUARY WAR CORN DOWN WASHINGTON.—U. S. war ex penditure* during January amounted to $7,820,000,000 a decrease of 4 per cent from the $7,835,000,000 expend ed during December, figure* compiled by the Treasury Department and re leased by WPB show. Average daily expenditures in January was 11.1 percent less than in December—$278, 500,000 against $313,400,000. From July 1,140, through January 31, 1945, the war expenditures by the Govern ment totaled $252,000,000,000. THE A. F. OF L PRESENTS AT 1:15 P. M„ E.W.T. OVER N.B.C. March 4—Sunday—Guest, Senator Mahoney. Topic: “Threat of Monopoly.” Panel Members: Boris Shishkin, A. F. of L.; Emer son P. Schmidt, U. S. Chamber of Commerce; Edward A. O’Neal, American Farm Bureau Federation. I EDITORIAL HIGHHANDED CITY CHARTER LEGISLATION! That was certainly a “hot one” the Mecklenburg delegation in the House of Representatives at Raleigh pulled (or tried to pull) on the majority of the voters of Charlotte Tuesday: reducing our City Council from 11 to 7 members, and doing away with the old Ward sys tem of representation. A few “top notchers” (mostly N politicians) are named as favoring the bill, but Mr. John Q. Citizen seems to have been utterly ignored, the scheme working silently and swiftly among a chosen few. The Journal is glad to note that Representative Vogler is kind of dubious about the motion, and he is showing his hand. If this isn’t a hot political move, one has never been pulled on the citizens of Charlotte, and The Labor Journal is surprised at our delegation for using such tactics. WIRE OR WRITE YOUR REPRESENTATIVES AT ONCE AGAINST THIS BOLD INVASION OF THE VOTERS’ RIGHTS WITHOUT BEING DULY CON SIDERED. GIVE LIBERALLY TO THE RED CROSS Western Union Election Is An Answer To Pegler NEW YORK. — "The completely false picture which Westbrook Pegler constantly tries to draw of unwilling workers being forced into labor an ions was deafly disproved by the Western Union employes’ recant vote in an NLRB election.” Alfred Baker Lewis, president, Trade Union Acci dent and Health Insurance Cb., charged in a letter to newspapers us ing Pegler’s column. The secret vote proves that work ers do not hate unions, as Pegler claims, because, “while the propor tion of votes for the AFL and the CIO differed somewhat in the differ ent districts, the significant thing is that the vote for no union was com pletely negligible, amounting to less . than one per cent of the total,” Lewis explained. The vote resulted in a ' sweeping victory for the Commercial Tele graphers Union and other AFL unions in 6 of the 7 election districts. ALL UNION-MADE PLANES PLASTER CITY OF RERUN WASHINGTON.—Union-made Fly ing Fortresses <B-17) of Lieut. Gen end James H. Doolittle’s Eighth U. S. Air Force, augmented by a few other type planes, have dropped 15,166 tons of bombs on Berlin since the first as sault on March 4, 1944, making it the most heavily bombed target in the world, the War Department announc es. These B-17s were rolled off final assembly lines by IAM-AFL mem bers at Boeing Aircraft, Seattle, Douglas Aircraft, Santa Monica, and Lockheed Aircraft, Burbank. Thous ands of other union members made their component parts. The most devastating attack of the 11-month campaign, that of February 3, dropped 2,266 tons on the Nasi capital, the Army says, and had as its aim not only the aggravation of German unrest and discouragement, but the blocking of any shift of troops to the Russian front on the Oder. -V-— PATRONIZE THOSE WHO ADVERTISE IN THE JOURNAL 5 w , r COuNCk .4 " » . ’ ' s‘ V CONVENTION APPLICATIONS ARE DENIED —V— WASHINGTON.—Out of 484 ap plications for approval of scheduled conventions or meetings that came in between February 1 and February 9, the War Committee on Conventions denied 469 applications, and approved only 18, ODT reports. The organi sations whose applications were de nied include among them technical and educational societies, medical, banking and bar associations, cham bers of commerce, fraternal bodies, trade associations, women’s clubs, youth organisations, veterans asso ciations, and agricultural, religious and labor groups. The list also in cluded a number of festivals, trade shows and market weeks. -—V Patronise Journal Advertiser* GREEN ASKS IFTU TO MEET IN U.SL, AND HITS AT SIDNEY HILLMAN’S DISRUPTIVE MOVES MIAMI—AFL President William Green expressed the hope that the International Federation of Trade Unions will hold its world-wide labor con gress next September in the United States. , Such a conference of the free and democratic trade anion organizations of the world “is vitally necessary,” Mr. Green said, "to lay the basis for fntnre international labor policy, to unify and strengthen labor’s voice with regard to post-war settlements and to map plans for the improvement of labor standards throughout the world when peace returns.” At the same time, Mr. Green reiterated that the AFL would have noth ing to do with the so-called world labor organization recently set up in Lon don, which he termed a “Communist labor front." Hitting at Sidney Hill man, CIO leader, who was a prize mover in the new and dual international group, Mr. Green declared: “Sidney Hillman has now extended his destructive and divisive influ ence, hitherto confined to labor and political fields in this country, to the in ternational labor sphere," Mr. Green said. “His sarcastic address the other day before the so-called World Labor Conference in London was typical of the man and his methods. “Again he has allied himself with his communistic friends in order to promote disruption and discord and plunge labor's economic objectives into the stormy sea of world politics. * “His sudden emergence with a plan for a new world trade union feder ation completely dominated by Soviet Russia and communistically minded labor organizations from other countries has placed the British Trades Union Congress in a distinctly embarrassing position. The British Trades Union Congress must now decide whether to maintain its cooperative and fraternal relationships with the other member organizations of the IFTU or to play second fiddle in Mr. Hillman’s new Communist labor front" , GIVE LIBERALLY Hi THIS DRIVE THE RED CROSS IS AT HIS SIDE ALL ANTI-LABOR BILLS FAIL TO GAIN IN STATES —V— WASHINGTON, D. C.—Forty-one state legislatures, now meeting, have wound up the first month of their 1945 sessions, but so far without fi nal enactment of any anti-labor meas ures. Bills designed to hamstring un ions have poured into the hoppers of many of the legislatures, but not at as great a rate as in the previous two years, a Department of Labor survey indicated. MATCHES are placed UNDER ALLOCATION WASHINGTON—Better distribu- . tion of matches is in prospect. To - ■ assure meeting increased military de mands, coupled with requirements for newly liberated areas, and to pre vent maldistribution for civilian needs, WPB has placed matches un der allocation control, WPB reported. The control will be exercised at the producer level, and will go into ef fect March 1. Up to this week, restrictive bills have made marked headway in only two states—South Dakota and Geor gia. Is this trip necessa ry ? / > How BADLY do you need the money you’d get by cashing in that War Bond? Bad enough to risk withdrawing your support... even momentarily . . . from the fight your soldier is in all the way up to his ringing ears? Bad enough to risk prolonging the war by even so much as SO thunderous sec onds? Bad enough to tamper dangerously with the life you’ve planned for your family and yourself when peace comes? If you need the money that badly, Mister, okay. But we hope you don’t. Keep faith with our fighters ' Buy War Bonds for keeps • ' i . * s
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