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TO »AVE WA*Tt RAaea we «ecwe*T thatau m PORCMA8CS [ BC TAKEN > OUT UShe) AFL EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MEETS IN CHICAGO AUG. 6 CHICAGO — The AFL Executive Council will draft a special report to the seven million members of the American Federation of Labor at its quarterly meeting fhich opens here The report will deal with all the great national and international prob lems affecting the nation’s workers, emphasizing the measures necessary to attain full employment after vic tory over Japan. Because of the fact that there will be no annual AFL convention this year, due to wartime travel restric tions, the Executive Council will ad dress its report directly to the mem bership and seek to obtain the widest possible circulation of it. -V KING COTTON’S PLIGHT While there is a great, worldwide shortage of textile goods, cotton, one of the chief raw materials for tex tiles, is now overabundant. Fortune Magazine reports. No less than 50 million bales of cot ton will be available in the year 1945 46 from old and new crops, but the world’s demand for cotton in this year will be only a fraction of the enormous supply, the article states. The most the world has ever consum ed in one year, 1986-37, was 81 mil lion bales of cotton, it reminds us. Next year’s demand for cotton has been estimated at only 27 million bales. Almost one-fourth of the world’s cotton spindles were situated in Germany, Italy, Japan and occupied China, where a great part of them have been destroyed, the article re lates. Moreover, synthetic fibers too the place last year of more than 8 million bales of cotton; a third of the world’s crop, it observes. The United States government has already purchased 7 million bales of cotton, and there is a proposal in Congress that the government con tinue buying. But cotton is an international prob lem which cannot be satisfactorily settled by one country alone. The International Cotton Advisory Com mittee, which met recently in Wash ington, urged international collabor ation with a view to an ultimate agree ment both on export quotas for the major cotton exports countries and on measures to limit extreme fluct uations of cotton prices. The commit tee recognised that many govern ments now support cotton prices at levels that are a strong_ incentive to still greater output. Hence, prices fixed in an international agreement must not be so attractive as to in duce smaller producers to develop competition substantial enough to smash the agreement. Despite all the ills of cotton, the yorld’s biggest cotton merchant, An derson, Claton A Co., managed to make substantial profits in the cur rent year, the article says. King Cotton may be sick; cotton's king has suffered little, Fortune Magazine con rlu/lne -v PRINTING PRESSMAN MAKE GREAT GAINS IN THE SOUTH ATLANTA, Ga.—Local Union No. 8, Printing Pressmen’s and Assistant International Union has ©Mamed an increase in pay of ten and one-half cents an hour, paid holidays and one and two weeks vacation with pay for more than two hundred members em ployed in It commercial and tariff printing offices in Atlanta. The Pressmen’s Local unions throughout the South have experi enced great growth during the past year, which increased membership for the established locals ad the forma tion and chartering of numerous new local unions. George O. Baker, of At lanta, is district representative for the International Union. -V-— . UNION AND CONTRACTORS TRAINING CARPENTERS ATLANTA, Ga.—A system for Training Carpenters in the construc tion industry was inaugurated today by the Atlanta Carpenters Joint Ap~, prenticeship Committee. This com mittee is composed of six members representing tne Associated General Contractors and Carpenters Local Union No. 225. : LOVlLY LKISURK —Even the new housecoats have peplums and Vicki Vela, of NBC'a -Mr. Ole Sata* Ettnmntr 9V nkAhaaa Imnuu VTnit Mnvmwjrf CnBBBBB nvivy pink crape with black lace In a new Tula design. The lace, threaded with pink, haa tulle edge. CUTBACKS LESS THAN EXPECTED Washington, D. C.—The War Pro duction Board gave industry a mu nitions work-sheet calling for 1945 production to be gradually tapered down to 13,400,000,000 in December, 70 per cent of the March wartime Arms output in July is still run ning about 85 per cent of the March highwater mark, despite cutbacks, the WPB said. By the end of Au gust the level will be 80 per cent. The schedules are intended, the WPB said, as "an aid to manufac turers b youtlining roughly the sise of the job still to be done to achieve fin al victory.” Meanwhile J. W. Small, acting chairman of the War Production Board, told the Mead committee in vestigating the war effort that the agency, in handling the reconver sion phases of munitions plants, has dealt with 686 cases involving cuts of more than 3500,000 a month and 1,815 dealing with contracts between 3100,000 and $500,000 monthly. Almost 2,500 plants were affect ed, he said, adding that in only 40 eases was it necessary to shut off production without at least seven days’ notice to the producer. In these cases, he said, inventories on hand were enough for the Pacific war and the sole reason to continue the work would have beat to keep up employment. The reconversion act forbids production for this pur pose only;** -v EVAPORATED MILK IS PERMITTED TO SPOIL' Back in 1942 the Commodity Credit Corporation bought and stored in warehouses more than 10,000—per haps as many as 25,000 — cases of evaporated milk and then forgot all about it. The milk is still there, but is no longer fit for human consump tion. This was brought to the attention of the Senate by Senator Kenneth S. Wherry (R., Neb.), who said the milk is now being offered for sale for in dustrial use. “I call this maladministration, Wheny said. “We are helping create, day after day, unnecessary shortages of food which should be in the hands of housewives, food which should be consumed instead of being permitted to spoil.” ■JN BASEMENT Trousers for business wear and . $129 MEN’S SWIM TRUNKS The popular boxer type swim trunksr in cotton gabardine materials . . . built for speed and comfort These have fitted elas tic waist, coin and key pocket. Colors are white and tan. *1.98 MEN’S FABRIC HATS Lightweight Summer hats made of Zelan treated fabric (Wat-a-Tite processed). They’re water-repellent and wind resistant. Colors are natural, tan, brown. 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