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VOL. XV. No. U_ oooom»mmamnm Jommoo m » —»_CHARLOTTE, N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1945 TW
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.
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WELL DONE, GOOD AND FAITHFUL
WORKERS OF THE SOUTH, LET US
FACE THE FUTURE UNAFRAID
By GEORGE L. GOOGE.
ATLANTA, Ga.—Now that the task of conquering and de
stroying Dictatorship through defeat of the Axis Nation is an
accomplished fact* let us of the American Federation of Labor of
the South turn to the equally important task of winning the
peace in the same spirit of patriotic devotion which prompted you
to serve so loyally and faithfully in winning the war. Our first
act, of coarse, is to express our reverent gratitude to Almighty
God for the ending of this awful, cataclysmic war and its destine
UNEMPLOYMENT
COMMISSION SETS
HEARING DATE
OF LDY. WORKERS
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Hearings for approximately 500
Negro laundry workers in Charlotte
who have been on strike for almost
three months and have filed claims
with the North Carolina Unemploy
ment Compensation commission will
be held on Monday, Tuesday, and
Wednesday of next week, William
Heyward, commission claims deputy
for the Charlotte area, announced
Tuesday
The commission will be represent
ed by Bruce Billings, senior attorney
from state headquarters in Raleigh,
with Mr. Heyward presiding. E. L.
Abercrombie is international repre
sentative of the Laundry Workers
Union of America, AFL, which is rep
resenting the strikers
The hearings have been set for
the civil courtroom in the Mecklen
burg county courthouse, and Mr. Hey
ward said that he thought workers
for each laundry will be given sepa
rate hearings He will take testimony
which will oe transcribed, and, from
this, the UCC will render, a decision
on the claims for payment at its next
meeting, probably in early October.
UTW Wins Fine
• •’"'Contract In The
Bessemer Mills
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BESSEMER CITY, N. C—A con
tract was signed by the United Tex
tile Workers of America with the
Stevdan and Algodon Mills, winning
the workers a five cents general in
crease and 66 cents minimum, five
cents third shift differential and a
weeks vacation with par. These
gains are subject to WLB approval
and increases will be retroactive to
July 23rd. Further negotiations are
planned in the near future on wages
to institute the “peg points” estab
lished by WLB. The contract also
provides for maintenance of union
membership, check-off of union dues,
full job seniority, time and half for
overtime and holiday work and for
the sixth consecutive day work. In
addition, the agreement calls for three
hoars reporting time, reopening of
wage negotiations, work load control
and elimination of inequities and in
equalities. The U.T.W. was repre
sented in negotiations by Interna
tional Organiser Albert W. Cox, G.
T. Hoyle, President of the Local, and
Mrs. Winifred Luts, Secretary Treas
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ALA. ALUMINUM
WORKERS ARE
TIRED OF CIO
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MOBILE. Ala. — With Examiner
Whitaker of the NLRB conducting the
hearing, ample evidence was pre
sented, it is believed, by aluminum
workers employed by the Aluminum
Ore Company of this place to obtain
an election for a new bargaining
agency. The Steel Workers’ of the
CIO have been the bargaining righto
here for some time, and it was in evi
dence before Mr. Whitaker that the
workers are good and tired of what
they call “misrepresentation,” rather
than representation. If an election is
granted, it is believed that the alum
inum workers will vote overwhelm
ingly for the American Federation of
Labor . The Mobile Labor Movement
is baking the workers to the limit,
and the Mabile Labor Journal is lend
ing most valuable support to the
aluminum employees in their efforts
to throw off the burden of the CIO
yoke and get into the real Labor
Movement of this community.
Labor Commissioner
Is Member Of Union
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CHARLESTON, W. VA.—Charles
J. F. Sattler, native of Wheeling and
former president of the Ohio Valley
Trades Assembly has been reappoint
ed as State Labor Commissioner by
Governor Clarence W. Meadows. Mr.
• Sattler was originally appointed to
this important post by former Gov
ernor M. M. Neely in 1941, and has
held the position efficiently ever since
making money improvements in his
department. He has long been iden
tified with the A. F. of L. labor move
ment.
tion of human life.
We as Americans are grateful to
oar armed forces—the generals and
admirals, their subordinate officers,
and above all, to the rank and file
combat forces who made possible
glorious victory for world democracy
over the forces of evil whose main
objective was the enslavement of
mankind. We are grateful to our
national leaders, and to our great
Allies in the world conflict.
We are confident that they in turn,
are grateful to you who made their
achievement* in battle possible. The
great army of production, made up
in the South largely of members of
the American Federation of Labor,
without hesitation or quibbling suffer
ed all kinds of inconveniences and
hardships while making the essential
implements of war.
Let me say to you that although
there is little glamour in a suit of
overalls or coveralls, yet upon the
pages of the history soon to be writ
ten about this the greatest war of all
time, you will be given full recogni
tion for your matchless efforts dur
ing the past four years—efforts
which resulted in the establishment
of the greatest production record ever
made in history of mankind.
in tnis cnange irom a feverish war
time activity to a peacetime economy,1
let us face it undaunted and un
afraid. We, in co-operation with
management, must place the wetfare
of the returning veterans and the dis
other consideration. We must insist
upon standards for them in keeping
with a grateful peoples obligations
to them for their sacrifices in pre
serving freedom. We must establish
and maintain a united and peaceful
Southland. We must increase our
strength and influence and friendly
relations with all good citizens, to the
end that selfish men and selfish in
terests will be unable to impose upon
the workers of the South anti-labor
laws which would destroy the very
freedom of man for which our armed
forces have so valiantly fought to
preserve and perpetuate.
For our own sake and for the
sake of the South and of the Nation
as a whole, let us hope that manage
ment will continue its co-operation
with the American Federation of La
bor of union security clauses and
voluntary arbitration of all contro
versial issues, to the end that we
may continue our no-strike policy in
peace as in war.
As the representative of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor in the
South, I want to take this opportunity
to express sincere gratitude to each
and every officer and member of our
affiliated unions for their loyal and
patriotic and devoted services to our
country during the Nation’s trying
years of the war. Freedom remains
enthroned and reigns in the hearts
of men everywhere because of your
devotion to your country.
THE VICTORY IS OURS ,
THE A. F. OF L. STANDS WITH AND FOR THE FLAG
SECURITY OF MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST
ROOSEVELT SAID: "Among on objectives, I place the security
of the men. women and children of the Nation first,” To assist those
7*® «•**•* tawwance programs, the Social Security
Act provideu cash allowances for needy old people, dependent children
and needy blind. Through 1*44, the Federal government had contributed
well over $2A«*.*M,M* to the States for this program. Some 2MMM
old people, or about one elderly peraea in every five in our country, re
ceives this help. A quarter of a million families get a monthly chock for
dependent chihhen. 56.000 Mind men and women receive an average monthly
check oT «2».41 to help them meet their daily needs.
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THE BALL-BURTON-HATCH BILL
IS CONDEMNED IN ITS ENTIRETY
BY A. F. OF L C J^UTIVE COUNCIL
CHICAGO*—The AFL Executive Council launched an inten
se campaign here for the defeat of the anti-labor Ball-Burton
Hatch bill in its entirety. The council declared there was nothing
worth salvaging in the bill by the amendment process.
All local ATI* groups were directed
by the council to make personal calls
upon their Congressmen and Senators
during the congressional recess to 4c
Suaint them With labor’s opposition to
lie measure. The council also di
rected that the APL’s national repre
sentatives appear at public hearings
of congressional committees in the
Fall to express their opposition in
detail.
Text of the council’s declaration on
the subject follows:
“The executive council has deter
mined to mobilise all the forces of the
American Federation of Labor for the
defeat of the Ball-Burton-Hatch bill.
“After considering a careful analy
sis of the provisions of this bill, pre
sented by Joseph A. Padway. counsel
is of the unanimous opinion that
the measure is thoroughly obnoxious
from its first section down to the last
pangraph.
"Therefore, the executive council
has decided that the policy of the
American Federation of Labor will
be to defeat the bill as a whole. No
amendments will be offered. The ob
jectionable feature at this proposed
legislation are so numerous and so
closely interrelated that it would be
impossible to remove them by amend
ments.
“In effect, the Ball-Burton-Hatch
bill would destroy the fundamental
freedoms of the nation’s workers in
the postwar period and prevent the
progress of labor toward its goals of
the future.
“The American Federation of La
bor will organise its opposition to the
bill on two fronts.
“In the first place, the American
Federation of Labor’s local represen
tatives in every city and state of the
nation will make personal calls upon
their Congressmen and Senators dur
ing the congressional recess to let
them know how strongly labor resents
this measure.
“In the second place, national rep
resentatives of the American Federa
tion of Labor will appear at public
hearings before congressional com
mittees in the Fall to present in de
tail labor’s objections to the bill as •
whole and to all of its provisions."
AFJLTAKESSTEPS TO ASSIST VETS
IN GETTING FAIR BREAK WHEN
THEY RETURN FROM THE SERVICE
CHICAGO.—The American Federation of Labor adopted a
4-point program by which organized labor can aid war veterans—
and at the same time called upon the government to halt further
inductions into the armed forces and bring the boys in uniform
back home from overseas promptly.
Aiier careiui consideration, the
AFL Executive Council decided that
the^following steps belabor would
they want amTcteserve:
1— All central labor councils af
filiated with the American Federation
at Labor are hereby instructed to
set up special committees to aid vet
erans to obtain jobs.
2— All affiliated national and in
ternational unions are urged to seek
agreements with employers provid
ing for training and employment of
veterans on a fair and equitable
basis.
3— In order not to penalise vet
erans for the time they spent in the
nation’s service, it shall be the policy
of the American Fecjpration of Labor
to grant them accumulated senior
ity, just as though they had re
mained continuously in their former
jobs.
A—The American Federation of
Labor will support legislation to ac
cord veterans full opportunities for
education and training, to assist them
to buy homes or to start in business
and to provide them with the highest
practical standards of unemployment
compensation.
“America will welcome the return
ing veterans with open arms and a
deep sense of obligation. Labor pro
duced the weapons at war. The boys
who are to return won the war with
those weapons. They and we must
win the peace together.
“The stalwart and self-reliant men
who fought sgaint the enemy want
no special favors. All they ask and
expect is an even break and the op
portunity to make up for lost time.
Labor is determined that they shall
have it.”
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ROCKMART, Ga.—An agreement
has been entered into between Local
Union No. 90, United Textile Work
ers of America, A. F. of L. and Good
year's Rockmart Rubber plant The
union won an election here recently. -
and the agreement was obtained
through negotiations between the
committee and management. An in
crease of five cents an hour across
the board was obtained, together with
shift differentials. Paid holidays and
vacations also were included in the
agreement
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UTW Local In N.C
First To Win 10c
Third Shift Bonus
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BILTMOREj N. C.—In a trail bias
ing victory UTW Local 2598 at Sayles
Biltmore Bleachenes won a 10 cents
an hour third-shift bonus in nego
tiations with the management. Sayles
Bleachenes is the first textile mill of
this kind yi, the country to get a 10
cent bonus for the third shift. The
Union also won 6 cents an hour in
crease. Both the shift premium and
“*• gains have already been ap
proved by the regional WLB.
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