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r®““ Che Chaelotte lahoe Journalr^ I EndFS^Jt4offUb^tat* AND DIXIE FARM NEWS Official!** of Control Labor Union; Stomtov .I^Sj 4 __ * fOf* A• • Ij» VOL. XIV*—No. 44 »»«*• CHARLOTTE, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1945 **»««• °«»««*««• $2.00 Par Tm* Back U The Bo^s — ™ Tl asSALLY INDEPENDENT WEEKLY Ib Meekkabnrv Conty rsawp *w» oomwijp m ctaslott. and por m Weekly Its Readers Vewrmmt the LARGEST BUYING POWER in Chsrlette MSCKLSNBUSO OOUHTT IK RS ENTIUTY - - ■- ■ ||- ■ THE CHARLOTTE LABOR JOURNAL ADVOCATES LOYALTY TO THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR; PROMOTION QF INDUSTRIAL PROSPERITY, AND CO-OPERATION OF ALL WORKERS ALONG EVERY UNL LABOR’S BASTOGNE HEROES URGE UNION MEMBERS TO GREAT NEED OF INCREASED WAR PRODUCTION WASHINGTON, D. C.—The War Department haa brought three out standing AFL heroes back from the battlefronts of Germany to tell their fellow union members in this country how urgent is the need for increased war production. At the direction of Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson, these heroes will make a nation-wide tour of “critical” war plants to tell the work ers about their battle experience and appeal for greater effort on the pro duction line to back up the prmed forces. Their records, a* made, puonc oy the War Department, follow: Fifst Sat. Thaddeus Maslowski, of Lockport, N. Y., member of the Inter Workers, has taken part in battles national Brotherhood of Electrical in Normandy, Brittany, Luxembourg, Alsace and Belgium. He holds the Bronse Star and the Purple Heart. He was awarded the Purple Heart as the result of shrapnel wounds receiv ed from an enemy shell. His battalion participated in Gen. Patton’s break through in Brittany and later his outfit went to the rescue of the 101st Airborne Division at Bastogne. Technician 6th Grade Nicholas Forte, of Logansport, Ind., member of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, was one of that mem orable band of fighting men in the 101st Airborne Division who trium phantly withstood the seige of Bas togne. Serving in a Glider Infantry j Regiment, he helped to get food, med- ’ icai supplies ana ammunition to tne beleaguered troops by parachute. His toughest experience, he says, came in Holland, where his outpost was sur rounded by a hundred Nazis. Attack ing with tanks and mortar fire, Forte and his companions gilled forty of the enemy and captured twenty-seven. Sgt. James E. Colluci, of Niagara Falls, N. Y., member of the Hotel and Restaurant Employes Union, fought with the surrounded 101st Air borne Division throughout the “Bat tle of the Bulge.” He wears the Piir Cle Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster for is, two battle wounds. A paratroop squad leader, he made his first com bat jump in France six hours before American troops landed on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day. He made another jump near Eindhoven, Holland, where he and his men were completely surrounded by the enemy for several days before they fought their way hack to the Allied lines. , --wwww THE MARCH OF LABOR wmEL---1 41% Of FAMltlfS AND INtWIOuALS IN IHi ItSklMOMMOOMfOP | THAN $|OQO w A YtAC IN 1930, WHILE t.S* (2ECEIVE0AN 1 \^|NCOME EQUAL ID THAT Of ALL 4rW»» , &TMW* 1663 «*> tQ6b TkMMATtONAI. UNIONS NfUKXMP. J Jl AW4WX PtlVAYQ ] ot-ntsf%*su(zaveoc,i 4>HO*iA*trtbUlOf W. AMUUM Gl*V.' 1hc M m K*c* ■turn ia8a iMDe&f mnd —immoHttf ; THE A. F. OF L. PRESENTS AT 1:15 P. ftL, E.W.T. OVER NJ8.C. ‘March 18.—Sunday—Guest speaker: George Meany. Topic, "W«ge PolicyPanel members: Philip Pearl, A. F. of L.; Emer son P. Schmidt, U. S. Chamber of Commerce; Albert S. Goss, Na tional Grange. _^ SENATE KILLS FORCED LABOR SHOWDOWN COMING IN HOUSE; HOPE FOR PASSAGE VOL PLAN * i ii -.. WASHINGTON, D. C.—Haring «m a smashing victory in the Senate, the American Federation of Labor prepared for a show-down battle in the Honae against compulsory manpower legislation. Efforts will be made to induce the House to concur with the Senate bill which is satisfactory to labor. While the House passed a dangerous forced-labor bill, it was con sidered likely that a majority would now agree to go along with the Senate measure. One of the important factors in the situation was the overwhelming vote of 63 to 16 by which the Senate re jected the House-approved May-Bai ley Bill and adopted the O’Mahoney Kilgore substitute. The latter measure contains no pen alties against workers but provides fines and jail penalties for employers who willfully violate manpower ceil ings and other controls of the War Manpower Commission. The bill gives the WMC statutory authority for the first time to go into war plants and eliminate manpower waste and hoarding. Labor will be affected in this way: If the,War Manpower Commission de cides that the working staff of an employer is too high, it will set a lower ceiling, thus requiring the dis charge of a number of workers. These workers will then be directed by the WMC to take other and more vital war jobs. If they fail to acqept Jobs approved by the WMC, they will be denied certificates of availability and will be unable to get another job. In other words, displaced workers will have to take jobs approved by “the WMC or have no jobs. This arrangement was considered severe enough by organized labor but far preferable to the May-Bailey Bill which meant work or jail. Senator 0 Mahoney of Wyoming, one of the co-sponsors of the legisla tion passed by the Senate, said: “I want to congratulate the Senate for using, as it did, reason over emo tional appeal." Powerful forces, including the mili tary authorities and the White House, lined up against labor in the Senate fight on manpower legislation. These forces demanded the passage of the May-Bailey Bill or an equally forcible labor draft. Labor's opposition to such drastic legislation was supported by wnsaaananeaaaaaaaaanaaaww FLY A BOMB TO BERLIN- PUT 10 PERCENT OP PAT IN WAR HONDA. -V- ■ Commodities produced by low-paid foreign workers are a threat to American workers. Support the A. F. of L.’s Free Trade Union Fund and help rebuild labor organizations abroad. -V Has your Local contributed to the A. F. of L.’s Free Trade Union Fund? Support the A. F. of L.’s Free Trade Union Fund now! The need is urgent! Free labor organizations through out the world are the basis for de mocracy and lasting peace. Support the A. F. of L.’s Free Trade Union Fund. f. industry and, to a smaller extent, by farm organizations. One of the most treacherous deser tions from labor’s policy was perpe trated by the Communist-dominated onions of the CIO. Some of them openly and others secretly applied pressure in favor of a labor draft, thus betraying the official position of their own CIO organisation. These activities were ao pronounced that they drew condemnation from Milton Murray, president of the CIO Newspaper Guild, who wrote a news story in “PM” exposing the Com munists’ activities. For this story he was denounced by the New York City CIO Industrial Council, which fre quently follows the Communist line. Defending ^Murray, the executive board of the Guild adopted a resolu tion accusing the Communists and Rep. Marcantonio of New York of treachery to labor. TEXTILE \jNION TRIUMPHS IN BIG MILL ELECTION —V— LAWRENCE, MASS. — The United Textile Workers of Amer ica (AFL) overwhelmingly won an election in the Pacific Mills lJ»nt here. The plant employs 5.000 workers. Of the 3.707 votes cast In the election, the United Textile Work ers received 2,183 votes as against 1,137 for the company anion. The remainder of the votes were either challenged, void, or for no anion. -V “Smallpox, bubonic plague, yellow and typhoid fever, which once 4ook such heavy toll of human life, have been uprooted. Childhood disease, too, have been so mastered that no longer millions of babies die from these scourges.”—C. B. Riddle. TO WIN THE WAR SOONER LET US ALL WORK HARDER THERE ARE NO UNIONS OR ANT OTHER FREE INSTITUTIONS UNDER NAZI OR JAP RULE. THE MARGIN BETWEEN FREEDOM AND SLAVERY FOR LABOR MAY BE TEN PERCENT "'■ "■ V - " I"—' A BOOST IN WAGE RATE OF 11 Pet IS ASKED BY THE A. F. OF L IN REPORT TO PRES. ROOSEVELT NATIONAL WAR LA&OR BOARD MEMBERS INSIST RAISE IS JUS TIFIED BY THE INCREASE IN COST OF LIVING. WASHINGTON, D. C.—Appealing directly to President Roosevelt, AFL members of the National War Labor Board demanded a general wage in crease of 11 per cent immediately. “Since the war wage rates have increased by 19 per cent,” the AFL group declared, “the coot of living has increased— based upon official figures—by 30 per cent To correct the maladjustment between wages and the cost of living—when measured by the same standard that was used when the Little Steel Formula Was adopted—an adjustment of approximately 11 per cent is Justifiable.” The AFL petition charged that the {buying power determines the levels nubiic members of the board had ner- of nrnductinn and therefore national petrated a deception on labor and the nation by changing the “measuring rod” on wage rates when they recent ly reported to the President that no change in the Little Steel Formula was justified. Emphasizing the need of establish ing wage increases for the post-war period which would compensate work ers for the loss of overtime pay when war production ceases, the AFL mem bers urged the President to restore free collective bargaining six days after victory in Europe and provide that minimum pay be raised for work ers in those industries in which col lective bargaining was not restored. “We are not only sorely wearied and harassed by the expedints and formulas which have been substituted for the basic principle which guides collective bargaining,” the labor group said, “but we are appalled by the consequences of a policy to qripple us in solving the reconversion and post-war problems. “Wages are more than compensa tion for service rendered. They deter mine the kind of homes workers have, the way their lives will be conditioned, the opportunities their children will have, the provisions they can make against emergencies. Wages con tribute 75 per cent of the buying power to retail markets. The total of well-being.” George Meany and Matthew Woll and their alternates, Robert J. Watt and .James A. Brownlow, signed the report. They identified collective bargain ing with the retention of America’s free institutions, warning the Presi dent that the danger of the totali tarian states does not end with the war, but “here looms in the economic field.” In order to stem the trend toward totalitarianism, the report added: “Labor must be ready to enter re conversion and post-war periods with a wage rate that would assure ade quate purchasing power. We must have those rates established in ad vance.” Expressing the hope that employers would cooperate in this objective of labor, the APL members said they faced these alternatives: 1. Cooperation between manage ment and labor in returning to collec tive bargaining to establish now the wage rates that can undergird our re turn to civilian production; or, 2. Payment of higher taxes to gov workers, resulting in under-capacity ernment out of funds withheld from production, under-employment and reduced purchasing power so that the government must provide work. American Heroes --—..*y OULIAN OU.ENDOX7FF_____ _ y-x v- / k V V HILE rtconnoitering at night on the western front, Sergt. Arthur G. Volonte, New York Gty, stumbled into a German patrol consisting of an officer and seven men. Sergt. Volonte told the officer that they were surrounded and the Nazis followed him back to the American commander. The sergeant has been awarded a Silver Star for gallantry. Americana buy War Bonds to help men like that to , win this war. I V. S. Trta**n Dtpamumi J [JOURNAL READERS PATRONIZE JOURNAL ADVERTISERS ■nMHMSmSOOasnUNUnUUnansnBnaUBNnHnaplMPUMmiWSaWc iwww'w* , If. 5. Signal Cara* Phata Pfc. John E. Harter, Batter, lad., who lost both legs and right eye fighting in Italy, greets Comdr. Ceryden Wasael while Brig. Gen. James A. Bethea, commanding general, notches. War Bond lands are helping Harter prepare for useful career In two ways; building hie morale and fitting him to resume his place In soci ety. Bay and held mere Bonds to aid more wounded fighters. ■ ' II n a I I " - • - - y. S SitanJ Corn* POotn Famous blind Miss Bolen Keller (left) and her companion. Miss **°«y Thon»P»®«* A. C .Beal. Springfield, Mo.; Pvt. Douglass F. Magehee, Ardmore, Okla.. and Sgt. Wanes rowan Sent nel. Okla., youthful veterans who have lost nse of both legs in service. War Bond funds will help put them on “new” feet again, ease their plight and hnght-n their future needs as War Bond purchasers have been doing for other veterans as part ol their all out support of the war effort. „ \ U. A. signal corps rnvim War Bond funds fce'H restore Pfc. Joe Bouska to normal activity. He even plays golf ag»>. The San An gelo, Texas, man tees off on hospital grounds. Keep War Bonds for future requirements. t. &, 'l wutrs Uti^nmcmt . f LABOR OPENS DRIVE FOR POST WAR BAN ON CHILD LABOR —V— NEW YORK.—Action now to pro hibit employment of children under 16 years old is necessary to protect both children and adults after the war, according to the National Child Labor Committees. The organization has issued several thousand copies of a pamphlet, “The Case for Sixteen Year Employment Laws,” which de scribes current laws and points out that after the war cheap child labor may compete with adult employment. The pamphlet will be sent free to individuals and to national and local organizations for use in State cam paigns to raise the age limit for child labor in the post-war period . from 14 to 16 during school hours, according to Mrs. Gertrude Folks Zimand, executive secretary of the committee. -V Judge Mark W. Roades, juvenile court, Indianapolis, charges modem psychology for the lawlessness of the present generation.
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