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■ Bndorood by the N. C. State AND DIXIE FARM NEWS Official Organ cf Central Labor Union; Standing
| '■ Federation of Labor_ for tke A. F. L.
VOL. XIV—No. 52 r~ " ‘ CHARLOTTE, N. G, THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1945 ——■ «. J200 Ptf
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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.
HERE’S HOW IT HAPPENED:
SURRENDER OF NAZIS OCCURS
y IN LITTLEREDSCHOOL HOUSE
[An Associated Press article by Edward Kennedy, bearing date, Reiurn,
Prance, May 7, follows:]
Germany surrendered unconditionally to the western Allies
and Rf»e»io at 2:41 a. m. French time Monday. (This was at 8:41
p. m., eastern war time Sunday.) The surrender took place at a
little red schoolhouse which is the headquarters of General Eisen
hower. The surrender which brought the war in Europe to a
formal end after fire years, eight months, and six days of blood
shed and destruction was signed for Germany by Col. Gen. Gustav
Jodi. Jodi is the new chief of staff of the German Army.
H was signed for the Supreme Allied command by Lieut. Gen. Walter
Bedell Smith, chief of staff for General Eisenhower. . _
It was also signed by Gen. Ivan Susloparoff for Russia and by Gen.
Francois Saves for France. , . , , . ^ „ . .
General Eisenhower was not present at the signing, but immediately
after Jodi and his fellow delegate, Gen. Admiral Hans Georg Friedeburg,
were received by the supreme commander.
They were asked sternly if they understood the surrender terms im
posed upon Germany and if they would be carried out by Germany.
They answered yea.
Germany, which began the war with a ruthless attack upon Poland,
followed by sacceesive aggressions and brutality in internment camps,
surrendered with an appeal to the victors for mercy toward the German
people and armed forces.
After signing the full surrender, Jodi said ho wanted to speak and was
to 4o 80*
"With this signature," ho said in soft-spoken German, "the German
and anacd forces are for better or worse delivered Into the victors
"In this war, which has lasted more than five years, both have achieved
and suffered more than perhaps any ether people in the world."
POSTAL MEN
CANCEL STATE
CONVENTION
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The North Carolina division of the
National Association of Letter Car
riers canceled its snnusl convention
for this year, which had boon sche
duled for July 4 at High Point, ac
cording to an announcement Tuesday.
Gay H. Clonts of Charlotte is the
president. He reported that the
executive committee, meeting in High
Point, decided because of wartime
conditions to abandon convention
plana for this year. Officers who
I served this association during the
past year will hold over until the
1946 convention, it was explained.
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ALBERT BECK COMING
HOME FROM THE WEST
A card from Albert Beck, at We
natchee, Wash., tells us he is “finish
ing up” and will be home soon. He
has been on the Pacific coast about
two years now. Friend Beck is a
brickmason, a union man 100 per cent,
and an organizer of no mean ability.
FLT A BOMB TO BERLIN- PUT
10 PERCENT OF PAT IN WAR
PONDS.
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JOURNAL'S ANNIVERSARY EDITION
TO BE A WAR BOND EVENT
On May 17th The Lkbor Journal will celebrate its Fif
teenth Birthday of continuous publication, and instead of
usual run we have decided to devote it exclusively to promo
tion of the Seventh War Loan. Our many business friends
have co-operated with us in the past in celebrating our an
niversary, along with our local, State and National labor
leaders to great degree, and we thank them. But these are
crucial days, and while we have concluded one phase of our
struggle, we still have Japan upon our hands, and our coun
try is calling upon us for the necessary funds with which to
bring it to a victorious conclusion.
We thank those who have gone down the line with us,
in the past, and ask our friends for continued co-operation.
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CHARLOTTE TYPOS. NOMINATE
OFFICERS; FELMET WILL BE THE |
NEXT PRESIDENT; BOSTICK SEC.1
,T . AtJhe„I^Ur.mon‘h,y ,nee,inK of Charlotte Typographical
Union No. 338, Sunday afternoon the main feature was the nomi
nation of officers for the ensuing year. The union voted to pur
chase a memorial in Freedom Pnrk. President C. J. Pridgen, who
declined nomination has served the past four years. Howard L.
“fotty» again nominated for recording secretary will go into his
23rd consecutive term in that capacitv.
i?ude u Albe»* vice president; W.
M. Bostic, secretary; Howard L. Beat
ty (for twenty-third term), recording
secretary; H. B. Alexander and S. A.
Herrin, sergeants-at-aims; John P.
White, delegate to annual meeting of
International Typographical union,
with A. H. Lowthan as alternate; L.
H. Pickens, Roy Finch, and Hugh M.
Sykes, finance and auditing commit
tee; Claude L. Albea, Howard L. Beat
ty. S A. Herrin, L. H. Pickens, and
A. M. Jones, delegates to North
Carolina State Federation of Labor;
Claude L. Albea, E. D. Johnston, and
S. A. Herrin, delegates to Chaklotte
Central Labor union; Claude L. Albea,
H. H. Lawing, Howard L. Beatty, and
Charles McCready, delegates to Char
lotte Allied Printing Trades council.
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MATTHEW WOLL TELLS ANNUAL
CONFERENCE $120,000000 IS RAISED
FOR WAR-COMMUNITY FUNDS AND
THE RED CROSS SINCE YEAR 1942
NEW YORK.—The Labor League for Human Rights, official
relief arm of the American Federation of Labor, has risen to new
heights of service and prestige during the past twelve months.
This fact stood out in bold relief as reports of the League’s ac
tivities were given at the annual conference of the organization
held here, April 30 to May 5.
The A. F. of L. is now represented
on 836 War-Community Chest and
Red Cross Chapter Committees this
year, compared with «81 last year.
Mr. Woll emphasized three out
standing aims for the year ahead:
1. All-out support for the National
War Fund drive this fall and the
American Red Cross campaign next
spring.
2. Aid to the A. F. of L.’s veterans’
program through 600 Central Body
Labor League Committees.
3. Intensification of labor’s part in :
planning and administration of com- !
munity services.
The opening day heard addresses
by Abraham Bluestein, executive di-,
rector of the Labor League for Hu
man Rights; Joseph V. Tobin, assist
ant executive director; and, Paul Mil
lane, director of community services.
sixteen regional directors and ten
A. F. of L. Community Chest repre
sentatives were in attendance. They
met with the national staff to discuss
the important role the League will
play in veterans’ problems and com
munity welfare services. Top lead
ership of the National War Fund,
Community Chests and Councils, and
the American Red Cross addressed
the sessions.
President Matthew Woll reported
these outstanding achievements of the
League:
A. F. of L. members have con
tributed more than 1120,000,000 to
War-Community Chests and the
American Red Cross since 1942.
A. F. of L. volunteers serving on
local War-Community Chests and Red
Cross Committees increased from
2406 to 3,866 during the past year.
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1,250,000 NEW HOMES ARE
NEEDED EACH YEAR, SAYS THE
NATIONAL HOUSING AGENCY
WASHINGTON. — Construction of 12,600,000 non-farm
houses will be needed during the first 10 years of peace, John H
Blandford, Jr., administrator of the National Housing Agency,
toid a meeting of the National Council of American-Soviet Friend
ship, Inc., in New York recently.
More than 6,000,000 of these hous
es will be needed for returning serv
ice men, to take care of normal in
creases in families now sharing quart
ers with others, he said. The remaind
er will be needed to replace sub
standard houses, assuming a 20 year
program for complete replacement of
such structures.
The estimate, Blandford said, would
call for an average construction of
about 1,250,000 new homes a year, far
above any peak construction in the
past, and would result, he estimated,
in a total investment of about $7,000,
000,000 a year and jobs for 4,500,000
workers.
To achieve such a rate of produc
tion, Blandford continued, industry
would have to be stimulated to build
for the great mass of American fami
lies—tne wage-earner and white col
lar group—who before the war gen
erally were unable to afford new
houses.
Blandford told the meeting that
good housing certainly will be one of
the corner stones of a better world
to be built after victory by the Unit
ed Nations. He called post-war hous
ing "only one segment of the broad
post-war challenge in this country,
and of the still broader challenge at
world reconstruction and progress.”
"The subject of housing,” he said,
“or providing good shelter, is in a
sense symbolic of the whole range of
post-war goals, dedicated to raising
the conditions of living for the peo
ples of the world and to bringing to
bear on those conditions the full bene
fits of modern technology and indus
trial resources.”
PRESIDENT TRUMAN SIGNS BILL
AUTHORIZING FUNDS FOR 20,000
FAMILY UNITS AND TRAILERS
WASHINGTON,—An additional appropriation of $66,000,
000 for construction of publicly financed war housing has been
made available to the National Housing Agency in the First De
ficiency Appropriation Bill of 1945, just signed by President Tru
man, NHA reported. The funds will be used to erect temporary
housing in numbers of communities where it is still necessary for
war plants to recruit labor from other areas to meet production
programs.
It is expected that the funds will
provide about 20,000 family units,
1,600 trailers and 6,000 dormitory ac
commodations, NHA said.
The war housing program now in
cludes about 1.800,000 units of all
types, both publicly and privately fi
nanced. Of this number about 800,
000, the bulk of which are of tem
porary construction, have been built
with public funds aggregating about
$2,300,000,000.
rrivate 'enterprise has furnished
the rest, all permanent housing, at an
investment of about $4,000,000. Al
together some 4,000,000 war workers
and tbeir families, about' 9,000,000
persons all told, have been housed,
about half of them in quarters “mo
bilized” from the existing housing
supply, NHA said.
The new need for housing is im
portant to the stepped up operations
on the West Coast due to the increas
ing tempo of the war in the Pacific.
Charlotte Ticket
Wins In One Of
The “Weakest”
Elections Ever
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With no interest and less than one
tenth of the electorate voting the
Charlotte ticket was “swept” into of
fice with a high vote for the winning
ticket of 2356 and a low of 2,622.
The vote
T. A. Childs_ 2356
J. Sam Hinson _2.731
Henry . Newson_2,713
Fred H. McIntyre_2,687
J. H. Johnston __ 2353
Ross Puette _2,682
John P. White_2,622
The winners in the contest for the
school board:
Mrs. Francis O. Clarkson_ 2326
Brock Barkley_2,177
R. M. Mauldin_1,633
The votes for the defeated candi
dates for the Council were:
Manley R. Dunaway_ 340
S. W. Ellis___ 278
C. D. Hollingsworth _270
J. B. Thomas ..._...___211
W. J. Wonts who withdrew after
his name had been listed on the bal
lot, 186; and G. F. Rice, 176.
Defeated for the city school board
Courtney R. Mausy, 1375; Leon P.
Harris, Negro lawyer, Mi.
There are more than 43,000 regist
ered voters in Charlotte.
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LABOR WORKED
ON “V-E” DAY
WASHINGTON. —Labor bail
ed the V-E proclamation bet
noted that the lob ahead is tough.
Said AFL President William
Green: “V-E Day is cause for
deep rejoicing, but the workers
of Americs cannot relax their ef
forts yet. Half the job of win
ning the war—the most import
ant half—is now over, but a great
deal of hard fighting and nard
work still lies ahead before Japan
is conquered and world peace re
stored. American soldiers of
production cannot afford to pause
or falter until the entire job is
completed and final victory is
achieved.”
T**e AFL Executive Council:
“Labor will not pause or relax
until the entire job is completed
and final world-wide victory is
won.”
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