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Cte Cbatfotte JtatoF JouFtial»»» tndortad fry tJU W. C. State AND DIXIE FARM NEWS O/flUW <**■■ •/C»»^rf Xjfrw- Union; Standing VOL. XV. No. 11_«— ■■»■»■ ■ - * —»_CHARLOTTE, N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1945_yiftp»T» tvs toft. l*t+r Of ft— «f BacR Up The Boys - With BONDS tkm ONLY REALLY INDEPENDENT WEEKLY hi Mwfctoafcf C—fr f<r » w-*fr lUpr—rt U» L ARGB8T BUYING POWER to Ckarto— THE CHARLOTTE LABOR JOURNAL ADVOCATES LOYALTY TO 'rum A -- A Vjs PROMOTION OF INDUSTRIAL PROSPERITY, AND CO-OI -41945 - — -——-■— ' _ . a.. . . Iltf. V SURPRISE SHOWN IN WASHINGTON AT THE DEFEAT OF CHURCHILL BY LABOR CANDIDATE CLEMENT ATTLEE WASHINGTON,—Surprised at the magnitude of the defeat administered to Winston Churchill's government, Washington leaders predicted that it may spell major changes in Britain’s do mestic policy and watched closely for effects on international af fairs, including the Pacific war. Senator Barkley ol Kentucky, dem ocrat leader, commented that the elec tion hinged almost entirely on domes tic issues. Senator George, Democrat of Georgia, said he does not think the election will have any effect on the prosecution, of the war. He did say the coming of Clement Attlee to the prime ministership “will inject a cer tain amount of uncertainty" into for eign relations. -"u ■■airufrtysg whip « the Senate. Representative Wolcott, Republican of Michigan, called the election of the Labor government “an indication that England la going very much to the left* “I wouldn't think It would affect the conduct of the war,” Wolcott said, “but it probably will have a material effect on postwar economic plan nicLurchiU’s popularity hare was re flected in the remark by Senator Austin, Republican of Vermont, that “we hare grown to know Mr. Church ill well here and we like him.” Austin added the thought that Attlee would “carry -on the general policies and principles" of Churchill and perhaps improve some details. Austin noted that the British elec tion campaign centered on the La bor party's demand for national ownership of basic industries. Amer ica may expect something of the same in 1948 and 1948, he predicted. President William Green ef the American Federation of Labor called the election “an outcome ef the Insistent desire of British . workers to gain higher living •Uadards and a greater degree of economic and social security.” He said the same aspirations “are moving workers in our own conn try 99 Chairman Sidney Hillman of the CIO Political Action committee said at Ne wYork the election is an oc casion for rejoicing by “labor, lib eral, and progressive forces every where.” Also at New York, delegates to the national convention of the Com munist Political association smiled broadly at the news. , . „ JosephCurran, president of the Na tional Maritime union (CIO) said he welcomes the election turnover as a sign of “growing strength of the labor and progressive forces m building a postwar Europe of free Pe°P8enafer Aiken. Republican of Vermont, thought that perhaps the talk of American soldiers in Britain of living standards back home stirred discontent among the EngMA. Aiken said he expects “vast reper cussions” in India and indeed through out the world. The Labor party, he added, will not be so anxious as the old government to restore the Italian King to the throne." Senator Saltonstall. Republican of Massachusetts, commented that we must continue to co-operate with the English government, always re membering and supporting our own security and our own principles and ideals of government.” -V FLORIDA VERSUS UNITED STATES By JOSEPH A. PADWAY Counsel for the A. F. of L. The battle lines are now drawn be tween the State of Florida and the United States Government in a legal controversy which closely parallels the issues involved in the Civil War. In this controversy the basic ques tion is whether the laws of the nation or the laws of a state are supreme— whether the freedom granted to the American people by their constitution is nationwide or can be nullified by a state. The issue came to a head a few days ago when the National War Labor Board granted union se curity to American Federation of La bor unions in four Florida eases de spite a state constitutional amend ment, adopted last November, which forbids any form of union-shop agree ment between labor and management. Plight of White Collar Workers By BORIS SHISHKIN A. F. ef L. Economist White collar workers, who have been the slowest to obtain wage advances to match increased living costs dur ing the war, may be the first to feel the pinch if postwar unemployment becomes extensive. The reason is clear and simple—lack or organisation. NLRB ORDERS . HEARING IN ECUSTA CASE BREVARD.—The National Labor Relations board has ordered a hear ing to be held in the courthouse here Tuesday, Aug. 14, on charges of un fair labor practices made against the Ecusta Paper corporation and its two associated companies by the In ternational Brotherhood of Paper Makers, A. F. of L., it was learned Thursday. The complaint alleges that the com panies engaged in unfair labor prac tices by alleged discharge and re fusal to re-instate Charles L. Michael and by alleged refusal to reinstate approximately 80 workers who walk ed off of their jobs a few days after Michael quit or was discharged. The walkout too kplace on Satur day, April 21, about 11 o'clock in the morning. Most of the workers, is under stood, returned to the plant the next Saturday and were told that there was no work available for them. L. P. Williams, representative of the International Brotherhood of Paper Makers, stated that neither the international or local union had au thorised a walkout, which was said to have been caused by the quitting or discharge of Michael, a Brevard man who was a mechanic in the mainte NUN-RESIDENT ALIENS MAKING THEIR N LLIONS NEW YORK, July 27.—It’s esti mated that 260,000 wealthy European nonresident aliens are in the -United States; that their speculative activi ties in securities earned for them about $800,000,000; and, that they are also speculatively active in the com modities, fur, real estate and jewelry markets. Aprpos those estimates, expect that the nonresident aliens will be made subject to the capital gains tax law soon after Congress reconvenes early this autumn, and that the tax will be retroactive to January 1, 1940. The ways and means committee is collecting data to substantiate the capital gains tax revision. The New York Stock Exchange, Federal Re serve, Office of Price Administra tion, Treasury department and Se curities Exchange commission are co operating. Sewell Avery, union hating mail or der tycoon, received $100,850 in salary as chairman of Montgomery Ward for 1944. Stockholders complaining about the high cost of labor-busting must re member there’s a war on. , ^ .... ..—. “FIGHT - WORK - SAVE” OUT OF EVERY PAY ENVELOPE BUY WAR BONDS THE A. F. OF L STANDS WITH AND FOR THE FLAG THE NAVY SPEAKS TO LABOR BY REAR ADMIRAL E. G. ALLEN, UAN. I have just returned from a tour covering the Far Eastern fighting front, the Central and Southwest Pacific, the China-India supply lines and bases, and the industrial Navy Yards of Honolulu and the West Coast of the United States. It makes one proud to see the American combat industrial team at work. It is a competent, skilled team, getting ahead on a dirty job. American ingenuity, brawn and brains, getting things done in the mud and rain, working against tune, disease, infection and insects, while they root the Japs out of their foxholes and vaces. They are trying to shorten the war for us. — ; ^ Again this week our headlines have told us one of the most dramatic events of the war, a portent of the final act in the Pacific theater. The great battlewagons of our Navy stood five miles off the Japanese coast shelling its cities and industrial targets, unchallenged by sea. air or ground fire—Halsey spitting in Hirohito’s eye. This is a long way from December, 1941, when the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor laid low the major portion of aur battle strength. We have come back the long road on the way to victory, step by step, made possible by the sacrifices on our fighting men and the almost incredible accomplishments of American industry and Labor. We must remember that when our naval'ships go into enemy waters they take risks heavy casualties and damage; and in the recent combined opera tions around Okinawa, your Navy suffered heavy punishment. We were op posing at close range the ships and the shore-based aviation of an empire. We paid a heavy price. Many ships were damaged; and we must pay that price again on each invasion of territory that is vital to the Japanese. The Japanese are seriously weakened, but they are cunning, dangerous and tenacious fighters, but will resist invasion at all costs; and our ships will continue to be damaged, and American workers are the people who must 6 Idore1 any more, as the Fleet is immobilised in the shadow of the enemy’s borne islands in support of landings, our ships will be subject to attack from sir and undersea forces. Damaged ships mean loss of fighting power, with i temporary reduction in fleet efficiency. It is imperative that damaged vessels be returned to action expeditiously. ,, This battle for repairs has to be fought nere at home. It has to be fought by American Labor, working day in and day out around the clock in ship yards and repair plants on both coasts. The strain of that battle I have seen in the faces of workmen in our industrial plants; but Labor has to keep putting it out until we knock out the Japanese. The Fleet wants to know bow soon we can give them back their damaged ships. Every out-of-action ship means fewer anti-aircraft guns and fewer carrier planes in the air. A jelay in the return of those ships delays the end of the war. It is Labor s problem and responsibility, and I know they will meet it. The Japanese are like a boxer badly hit, hanging on hoping to be saved by the bell. They must be hit again and again and knocked out while they »re off balance. We must continue to keep all possible combat units in iction. The Navy asks you to make that your slogan and help us speed the rictory. CONGRESS BACKS AFL PLEAS ^^ FOR HIGHER WAGE RATES NOW PETITIONS PRESIDENT TRUMAN TO BREAK WAGE FREEZE AND WEIGHS HIGHER MINIMUM. WASHINGTON, D. C.—Congress moved in two major direc tions to correct the alarming shrinkage of take-home pay by lift ing the wage rates of American workers. Developments were: 1— Seventy members of the House of Representatives signed a petition asking President Truman to permit increases in hourly rates of pay at least 20 per cent higher than the present limits of the “Little Steer formula. 2- r-Legi8lation was introduced in both houses of Congress pro viding for an immediate hike in minimum wageft to 65 cents an hour with progressive increases up to 75-ceht floor in three years. Tnis legislation was sponsored by Representative Frank Hook, who said that other members of the House would undoubtedly join in attaching their names to the bill. The present floor for wages of workers engaged in interstate indus try is 60 cents an hour under the Fair Labor Standards Act, which the new bill seeks to amend. The House petition for general wage rate increase was announced by Rep. Hollified, of California, and right m line with Labor’s demands. Representative Holifield declared that the President would be asked "to revise” the present wage policy by executive order and "restore the original authority of the War Labor Board to approve or direct such wage adjustments as may be necessary and which will not substantially affect the cost of living.” "All the evidence of cutbacks, lay offs, loss of overtime pay and, in the case of merchant seamen, a di rect cut in the pay envelope, point to ecominic troubles right ahead un less the present national wage policy is revised to permit an increase of at least 20 per cent in the basic pay rate in order to keep up mass pur chasing power and avoid sowing the seeds of a distasrous depression in the immediate future," me asserted. "We urge all members of Congress to sign this petition.” The Wage-Hour amendments fall short of Labor’s policy because of a provision which would start over time pay after 44 hours in the first year,, 42 hours in the second year and 40 hours after that. Union lead ers could not see why the present standard 40-hour week should be thus set back. The wage provisionh of th t bill r The wage provisions of the bill were generally considered acceptable by Labor. While setting an imme diate rock-bottom floor of 66 cents an hour, the measure would permit industry committees operating under the Wage-Hour Division to increase the minimum up to the 75-cent level by voluntary action before the date set for general application, Sponsors of the bill in tne Senate included Senators Mead, Pepper, Wag ner, James Murray, Guffey, Kilgore, Elbert Thomas, Chaves, Magnuson and Francis J. Myers. -V Centrral Body Meets The Charlotte Central Labor Union held its regular Thursday evening, July 26th, at the Labor Temple. The meeting was opened by Presi dent Moore and invocation was given by Dr. Garland. The pledge of Alle giance to the flag was given. LABOR’S UNITED NATIONS RELIEF PROGRAM UPSET NEW YORK—Russian War Relief has withdrawn from the National War Fund. Henceforth separate aid for that country will be sought under a new name, American Society for Rus sian Relief, Inc. The move is the first break in la bor’s program of United Nations Re lief. “If any single agency receives un due encouragement in breaking away from the federation of war appeals, namely, the National War Fund, oth ers may follow. It is not difficult to imagine the confusion and friction de veloping from separate appeals. A statement from the A. F. of L.’s Labor League for Human Rights ex presses regret at Russian War Re lief’s action. “The American Federation of Labor was among the first organisations to pledge its aid to Russian War Relief in 1941. The A. F. of L.'s Labor Lea gue helped mobolise unions and their members to contribute generously. From 1941 until now, Russian War Relief has received all possible sup port. Russia was given the biggest allocation from the recent UNkRA Clothing Collection. “To preserve the federation of war appeals which has been such a great - advantage to labor, it is sincerely hoped that Russian War Relief re turns to the National War Fund and the UNRRA Clothing Collection.” The Labor League has advised A. F. of L. Central Bodies and local unions to weigh carefully separate war relief agency appeals. Navy Praises Labor For Aircraft Output Washington, D. C.—A tribute to naval airpower and to Labor and Industry, whose part made that power possible, is contained in a report by Assistant Secretary of the Navy for » Air Artemus L. Gates, who disclos ed that navy contractors turned out 29,113 aircraft in 1944, a figure which nearly equals the total previous pro duction since Pearl Harbor. Despite some manpower and crit ical material shortages, Mr.' Gates said, these contractors and their em ployees have managed to meet almost all their schedules “in a manner de serving of the greatest credit.” vrw JOE WORKER . new worn* in AYS!" : $ I m * ***** nrriMMU* H«w* MW mCOHVtOL. MAP IT Nor BASH WOK GAMVA* ' JOHN SMITH AMD TUA ABW LABOSAMS, ALL WOULD MMC BTAAVCO TO OCATU i • Ut SHOOK ISLAND rr WAS i OtrfSHtMT. HOOt* WILLIAMS 1 pBUBVAO IN A KBAL DEMO CRACY WHAMS ONLY THE WOK ' KJEK COUNTED, ANO DMA S Men * on. mack om mm* Dtp NOT MATT**. AAA MA * SULT SHOOK ISLAND KNPSfKM BO BEYOND ALL TKC CHUCK «1T PCTffrm BUT Me DID... FOB CAPTAIN SMITH HELD A BUM ON HIM.... m MV HAND'S BLISTERED I'LL REPORT VOU TO ENGL •«» THIS, CAPTAIN SMITH Zb\\ ALL MSN OF WHATEVER NAnon Atte weucotAS note. ADOffff LIAMS IS t -1 H6AR Y£! MBW ye! \ if THCtte am My \ NOON AMone ye, COMC TO TNT COUNCIL AMO ye SNAIL 0t FCD! - / pa» jS / J \ .C OO 'HOU HBAft \ that, nor \I1 DON’T HE KNOW ] _ m
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