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AMERICA tt O i? AGA,N LAB0R VICTORIOUS Z nC IlCtl HASD0NE AGAIN /nion; Standing THE JOB "• * l4S lr*4*r*tian « ".■' "■. * *“ ; HZ —w—*2.00 Par Tw VOL. XV. No. 15 / “'"T,rmTLI ------* Of Hrwt«r 1945 — Victory Labor Day — 1945 _ _fHT*sssssssBssss=xacs==s=sssamBacs=s=sssaammmmmmmmm^mmmmsasssssss: ■ ■ ■ ■ —.'■■■ .■ i '■—■■"■——*-•■ » — At OWLY EBALLT INDEPENDENT WEEKLY hi Mifkiabi 0—ty For * Wtckly lu *—1*" R*prM—1 *** LARGE8T BUY1NG W™** *» Chart«t>< THE CHARLOTTE LABOrIBORNAL ADVOCATES LOYALTY TO THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR; PROMOTION OF INDUSTRIAL-PROSPERITY; AND COOPERATION OF ALL WORKER^ ALONG EVERY LINE._ LABOR DAY, 1945 BT WILLIAM GREEN President of the American Federation of Labor Thi* ia the first peacetime Labor Day in four years. It is a day for ssws—r SdT Lmetiorn sad dictatorship. jt |f our supreme purpose to attain the fruits of victory for which " rSU'tL? iSS^taMta* —rtd p— Air—ly Mm Drittd N.tion. t&& Ss "tt up to ua and to oB othiur jmace-loving nations to make that charter work **** naTvi must not our economic house in order. On an international basis, that means prosperity for the people of all countries. Here at home* it means a higher standard of living and security against depressions To "in the panes and tha fruits of peace will not be an easy teak. The difficult problem* ahead of ua demand intelligent planning and bold action. Already millions of Americans art caught in the economic trap of unemplo^nent. ^conversion in mime industries is proceeding with painful slowneML But we must not become discouraged. For if wo proceed with united determination to win the pence, economic hardships will be of short duration and the great promise of the future can be achhit— % _ One of the nation’s great assets during the war was its strong labor movement. The trade unions affiliated with the American Federation of Labo^^made tremendous contribution, to victory. Thi. fact is best fllue trated by their cooperation with the government to speed production of the atomic bomb. By use of this devastating weapon we were able to conquer Japan without a bloody invasion. And the War Department has officially testified to the vital role played by American Federation of Labor unions in producing these bombs in record time. .... The seven million members of the American Federation of Labor have come out of the war fortified in strength and spirit. They ara now better prepared than ever before to carry on the huge tasks of postwar reconstruc tion Through the American Federation of Labor, they aro exerting a pow erful influence over the nation’s affairs and guiding its policies along progressivepedermtk>n of L.bor calls upon the nation to establish maximum peacetime production, which will provide full employment and create steadily higher standards of living. To provide a ready market for increased production, the American Federation of Labor will bend all its efforts to obtain from management wage rates high enough to create an abundant pool of domestic purchas mK ftTorder to share equitably the benefits of scientific invention and new methods of production, the American Federation of Labor will renew its drive for the shorter work woek, thus spreading the available Jobs and giving all workers the opportunity for healthy recreation and educa tion which modern civilisation offers. _ . ... . On this Labor Day let us dadfcate <m»elvu*iteMB#r«wut pah rf peace. Let us never forget the supreme sacrifices mad by the^bmee Amrican boys who lost their live* on the battlefields of Africa. Europe and the Pacific and the unsung soldiers of production who were killed ^ at thier factotry machines. Our debt to them can never be repaid. But we can and must resolve that the dread holocaust of war shall never deso late mankind again, that our hard-won freedoms shall never be surrendered and that the sacrifices of our war heroes shall be redeemed by the estab lishment of a way of life which will bring happiness and security to hu manity in the future. BIRMINGHAM PRINTERS WIN EVERY DEMAND Birmingham, Ala.—With complete victory won, printer* employed by the three Birmingham daily newspapers, the Birmingham News, the Post and the Age-Herald, have returned to work after a 5 weeks’ strike. In statements published in their papers, James C. Chappell, president and general manager of The News and 'Hie Age-Herald, and James Mills, publisher of the Scripps-Howard Post, said that they had granted every de mand of Local 104 of the International Typographical Union as the only way of restoring trablication. Only two demands had been in dis pute. One was insisted upon by the union’s international officers after ne gotiations had been settled locally. This was that a clause be incorporat ed into the contract adopting the un ion’s 1945 by-laws, one of the pro visions of which is automatically in corporated into the contract. The pub lishers argued that this wrote “a blank check for the union.” The other demand was for medical examinations and certain conditions relating to the admission of appren tices. The publishers also granted hourly i pay increases of 10 cents to the day shut and 11 cents to the night shift, paid vacations for two weeks instead ! of one, time and a half for working on days off, regardless of whether 40 hours had been worked in a week, and double time for Sundays except when these are part of the regular shift and pay for four holidays. -V Occupation in Europe will take 400 thousand soldiers. WSMWWSSSSWISMWWIWWSWV j h, THE N6 Of E CE«TW*X. OuRwG A MEW OAiEANS STREET-CAR STRIKE, A WMOtfc COrlPANX Of MiLiTiA CAUtO Our -© PROTECT SCaS- ?fSCNPD ‘N A 8OOY. ■ 0 § Boy u.4. COYMNY 1&WN« «MER£ WORKERS HAvf MN COMPELLED It MAKE *£lR PURCHASES AT tMg Co^M«ARYRum BY THE COMPANY, WORK* ER3 crrtN RECEIVE AT WAGE PAYMENT A LIST op what They oh§ the COMPANY' A %^PHlPO CHgCK* . (TrtlBRE ARE STtLt WOMEN (N NEW YORK STATE 'W0RKIN6 POR |lO,»l2,ORf 15"A WEEK. — AND UNDER MINIMUM WAGE LAWS iT'3 LEGAL. ■t»*s is TRurDFsprrE -me fact TWAt&fjREce nt survey Of TMEtW- of LABOR SNOWS THAT ITS iMP&SSlBtE fbR A WOMAN YD GET ALONG ON iESSTNAN* 52.se. ^UPfORT UtoRS flfeHTtbRA WTTCR UWOUABGLQccXQ. » •this i< -me ua*on lawl uWDib i - H*WYiRY UNiOH-MADT HAT*. _ 4 F.H.SHUFORD ANNOUNCES THE APPOINTMENT OF ARBITRATORS —V— Forrest H. Shuford, Coauaissioner of Labor, today announced the ap pointment of the following seen to serre as arbitrators onfcr tAi Arbi tration Act enacted by the last legis lature and administered by the North Carolina Department of Labor: Fran cis O. Clarkson, Charlotte; John W. Darden, Plymouth; George D. Heaton, Jr., Charlotte; R. J. M. Hobbs, Chapel Hill; Raymond Jenkins, Salisbury; Al bert S. Keister, Greensboro; W. H. F. Millar, Waynesrille; J. J. Spongier, Durham; Capos Waynick, Raleigh; Harry D. Wolfe, Chapel Hill. “Our State, daring the period of the war, has been singularly free of major labor disturbances. During 1942, 1943 and 1944 one hundred and twenty eight strikes occurred in North Caro lina with a resulting 195,679 man-days of idleness, six one-hundredths of one markable record,” he added, “and is attributable to the fine relationship that has existed between management and labor in this State.” LABOR DAY MESSAGE Of GEORGE L. GOOGE Soothers RepmuUHre, Amrku Federation of Labor. Labor Day IMS Labor Day 1944 to Labor Day 1945 goes down in history as having been the most crucial year of the organised labor move ment South of the Mason Dixon line. Greater progress has been made by the American Federation of Labor Unions during this period than in any one year of our existence. Wages have reached a new all time high for this Southland, noted In years gono by as a low wage section. Hundreds of thousands of workers have en joyed vacations with pay, obtained through union contracts from - employers who never before had paid vacations, paid holidays have been inaugurated for tens of thousands who never before received pay when enjoying legal holidays. —m At the same time our movement has GOVERNOR CHERRY SENDS GREETINGS TO LABOR -—— -1 I • . f t » • STATE Or NORTH CAROLINA ooveRNORS orrice RALEIGH R. Greco Cherry August 22. 194$ COvCRMOR ~ i Mr. W. It. Witter Mditor 4 Puhliaher Charlotte Labor Journal c^ua.M.-e; Dear Mr. Witten Please permit me — on the eve of the annual observance of Labor Day — to extend, through tho ROdim of the Charlotte Leber Journal, greetings to labor in Worth Carolina. We are all happy that it can be said of our Old Worth State that it has been blessed with a minimum of labor troubles. This is also a good tine to take a look back at the aegaificant job that labor turned in here in Worth Carolina in eoMieetioa with the general war pro grew. Hostilities are now over, and a great portion of the credit for final victory i» to be laid at the door of labor — in this state end throughout the united States. • Please let me also take this opportunity to - fi—-» vou for your faithful efforts in behalf of the cause of labor in Worth Carolina during the half a century that you have been affiliated with organised labor and more especially during those y , years that you have so ably edited the Journal. With all good wishes, 1 m Sincerely yours, 9 R. Gregg Worry V RGC/n WHAT NEXT? By RUTH TAYLOR Amidst the exuberant rejoicings ut the end of the Second World War, amid the heartfelt prayers of gratitude over the Victory, there is one fact which is pre-eminent The atomic bomb that prefaced the final outcome marked the end not only of a war but of an era. “The old order changeth, yielding place to new; And God fulfills Himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.” So wrote Tennyson at the turn of the century. The devastation wrought by the atomic bomb, the revelation of the ter ror it can make of war, demands an equally great invention for the preser vation of peace, a thoughtful, purposeful meeting of a new way of life. V-J Day marks not merely the end of a period of destruction, but the be ginning of a period of construction. Like old buildings blasted away by bombings, so have old ideas, old prejudices, old misconceptions been blasted away under the spiritual bombings of war. Now we can begin to clear away the rubble and build not merely a new community but a new world. War has blasted a pathway uniting the peoples of the earth. We must level this pathway into a road upon which human beings of all creeds, all races, all tongues, even though they start at different places and move at different rates of progress, may march along, in the full stature and dignity of free men—to a goal of peace and security. It is time, not space that has shrivelled. We have learned that our world is but a succession of small communities, all linked together, all interde pendent, like parts of a great chain. We have learned that one cannot have peace and prosperity unless all have it. Peace can never be merely the ab sence of war. Victory does not guarantee lasting peace and prosperity. It only wins for us the right to work for these ends. There can be no peace unless justice is also uresent. It will take time to build the new world of UNITED nations, to forge a unity so strong in understanding that occasions for war cannot break it. It will take many steadfast men to build this world—men who will give to peace the same unselfed devotion they gave to the successful prosecution of war. It will need men who will "use the goods of God’s earth for the good of God’s people.” The pyramids of Egypt stretch for sixty miles along the west bank of the Nile river. -V Memory is the thing you forget with, especially unpleasant things. -V When a missed opportunity is fly ing away, it always appears bigger than when it came. “Victory Loan” Drive To Start On Oct. 29th WASHINGTON — Start ing date of the Eighth and last War Loan Drive is Oc tober 29. This will be a “Victory Loan” of $11,000,000,000, of which the Government wants four billions to come from individuals, half in “E” bonds. Secretary of the Treasury Vinson in announcing the | loan last night, said: “The cost of contract set tlements, bringing our forc es home, their mustering out pay, hospitalization, care and rehabilitation will be great and will require large sums for which we must plan now.” ---V MAY MAINTAIN SCHOOLS Chicago, Aug, 25.—The Executive Council of the American Federation of Teachers (AFL) recommended today that nursery schools, which the coun cil said “had proved so effective” dur ing the war, be further extended as a permanent part of the American school system. —--V It’s easy to make allowance, but for some it’s easier for them to spend it. Hope, Kans.; Charity, Mo.; Reform, Ala.; Sleepy Eye, Minn. iaceu greater omucm uian ever tm fore. Greater efforts have been made through State Legislatures to ham string and hogtie labor unions in the South daring this period than all ef forts of past pears combined. We are happy to report that in the face of this concerted opposition labor did its . best ioh before the Southern State Legislative bodies ever in our history. We have beat successful in over whelminglp defeating every piece of anti-labor legislation that was intro duced in all of the legislatures in the South in 1946 and in many statas an-, ti-labor bills that were recommended for passage bp legislative commit tees were almost unanimously defeat ed upon the floor. Dual organizations and independent or company unions have made desperate efforts to raid our unions. The dual movements have made but little efforts to organise the unorganised but have concentrat ed their nefarious activities in at tempts to raid American Federation of Labor unions without success. Vigilante committees have been formed in some communities in the South, however, only in some smaller industrial centers. Our organisers have been beat up, their automobiles damaged, as well as false paid adver tisements in local county newspapers by vtgilantes subsidized by tory in dust relists attempting to discredit our movement and incite hostility against - industrial democracy. Despite all of these difficulties, however, the Amer ican Federation of Labor unions have 1 {frown in numbers, membership and influence; numerous new local unions » have been organised, hundreds if new union contracts obtained and thous- / ands of old contracts renewed on a sound and permanent basis with in i creased gains to the wage earners. President William Green’s Labor Day address at Tampa in 1948 and again at Jacksonville in 1944, and broadcast to the nation have been largely responsible for off-setting the hysterical anti-labor propaganda pour ing from the press and subsidized ra dio commentators, and these address es were very instrumental in^ turning the tide of anti-labor legislation in the Southern state legislatures. Vicious anti-labor battles were waged during the year in Florda and Arkansas where constitutional amendments were voted upon in general elections outlawing all forms of union secur ity clauses in contracts between em ployers and unions. in Arkansas the anti-union security amendment in this agricultural state was adopted by the slim margin of seven thousand majority votes. Un der the Arkansas constitution before the anti-security amendment adopted to the constitution could have the force of the law it requires the pas sage of an enabeling Act by both houses of the Arkansas Legislature. The 1945 general assembly of Arkan sas, realizing the injustice to labor of this amendment, refused to pass an enabling Act. The Anti-union security amendment to the constitution of Florida was adopted by a twenty-two thousand vote majority, but its enforcement has been restrained in the courts until the U. S. Supreme Cour can pass upon our suit contesting its validity. The pen dulum of public sentiment in Florida became so aroused following the adop tion of this fascist constitutional amendment that the foes of labor were unable to get a single member of the Florida House of Representatives or State Senate to endorse a single anti labor bill in the 1945 regular session of the Florida legislature. The General Counsel for the Amer ican Federation of Labor has been devoting most of his time to combat ing these obnoxious constitutional amendments and the anti-labor laws passed in previous sessions of the Florida, Alabama and Texas legisla- *N tures, and has won a signal victory for organized labor before the Su preme Court wherein this court inval idated the Florida Act placing labor unions in straight jackets, the Su preme Court ruling for all time that the state law-making bodies could not pass valid legislation curtailing the rights of ciMfective bargaining estab lished by the' Congress of the United States. s We owe much to our State Federa tions of Labor, City Central Bodies, Building Trades, Metal Trades, Print- ' ing Trades Councils and Local Unions for their closely coordinated opposi tion to those enemies of progress who would destroy labor’s potency and general effectiveness in collective bar gaining. Our unions and membemhip spent freely of their time and re sources in this historic struggle against our native fascists, x x x • V 5 ;
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