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-- * . ■ JOURNAL’S POUCY 1— f a mwmim Jttkivm |i structWe eritieiem. Its object I 10 ■11 117 ^ If I IBSsffjStflfmSm® IJLaupp i J s | Wtwr<^ (AND DIXIE FARM NEWS) ] I "piTr^riln THE VOICE OF ALL A. F. OF L. MEMBERS IN CHARLOTTE AND I TW Journal a opinions , Official Organ of the Charlotte Central Labor Union and Endorsed by the llerth Carolina State Federation of Labor, --- * VOL. XV; MX IS PUBLISHED WEEKLY CHARLOTTE, N. C.. THl R8DAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1945 " I Average Worker’s Pay Has Decreased 9 Per Cent Since V-J Day; More Forecast * Gocdom H. O0U IN P. M. WASHINGTON. — Immediate prospect of aa $8,000,000,000 cat in American pay checks was enough today to provoke frem Sec retary of Commerce Henry Wallace a call for "prompt reconversion by business and vigorous government action" to prevent mounting pay roll deflation and unemployment. Wallace revealed that the Com merce Dept, indices forecast a cot of 9 par cent hi earnings of Ameri cans daring the smob^nU cf 1945. Some hint of what is behind the current flurry of employer-union disputes was indicated by W a 1 - lace's disclosure that most of the cut is coming out of the pay en velopes of workers in the war in dustries, or, as Wallace said it: "The decline in income payments will be largely a decline in the volume of wages paid in the manu facturing industries.” The Cold Facts Wallace made public a Commerce Dept, review of what is happening to national income payments since Victory Day. This review showed that two factors alone would cut manufac turers’ payrolls by about one-third: The shifts that are occurring from high-wage to low-wage indus tries. War industries' pay better than peace industries. The prewar work week is being restored. During the war, the 40 hour week gave way to something which, on average, was much closer to 48 hours. Then there are the outright lay offs—the reduction in total volume of employment in manufacturing industries which is offset only par* - Hally by expansion of employment tn the service trades. All in all, the Departmental re view concludes, "a sharp drop in income payments, centered in the manufacturing field, is under way. Hand-in-hand with this drop is coming a drop in military payrolls. Offsetting both, to some extent, will be expanded veterans’ benefits and unemployment compensation.” gelation to Inflation Wallace flatly denied that the deflated pay envelopes would elim inate “the immediate inflationary pressure.” He continued: “Some of the pressure still will be there, but that portion which remains will not be created by ris ing incomes; rather, it will grow out of production problems, and the way to relieve it will be through stimulating the required production of consumer goods, durable goods, and housing. “That meant that the big prob lem today is to get • production started and to taka care of the afteraatch of demobilising soldiers and war workers. While the im mediate curtailment of purchasing power will not be serious, prompt reconversion by business and vig orous Government action is needed to prevent mounting deflation and unemployment.” • Now Yh Know Tired of washing the raffled col lars attached to her husband's " shirts, Mrs. Hannah Montague, Troy, N.Y„ noticed the shirts did not need laundering as often as the collars. So she removed all the collars and hemmed the edges. In the same way she hemmed the edges of the shirt band and provided a way to attach the collar when required. The next step was to provide ex tra collars. The husband was de lighted. That was back in 1827. Without knowing it, Mrs. Mon tague laid the foundation of a big industry. A collar factory with 6, 000 employes is located in the city where Mrs. Montague invented the detached collar. Be noble-minded. Our own heart and not other men’s opinions of us, forms our true honor.— Schiller. .v . : ‘ * I Daylight Time Is Slated To End On. Sunday, September 30th WASHINGTON. — CongreM has voted to end war time at 1 A. H. September 30. The Senate paeeed a Henae-apprwved bill yeeterday and sent ft to President Truman far his expsctod signature. St. Louis aud Baltimore Printers Reach New Contract Agreements St. Louis, Mo.—Three St. Louis newspapers hare negoti ated a new two-year agreement, pending since the first of the year, with Typographical Union Local No. 8. These dailies are The Post-Dispatch, Globe-Democrat and Star Times. The contract which was submitted to the members of the Union last Sunday waa unanimously ratified by the members. It will be formally signed as noon ns corrections are made in the printed contract. The agreement was completed following the termination of the 22-day strike at these three dailies last Thursday by Paper Carriers Local 450, in affiliate of the Print ing Pressmen’s Union, whose mem bers refused to cross the Carriers’ picket line. As a result of this shut-down, almost 2000 members of the Typographical Union, the Stereotypers, the Mailers and the Newspaper Guild were locked out. The closing of this contract marks the 89th consecutive year that Typographical Union Local No. 8 has been negotiating con tracts with the local dailies with out ever resorting to a strike. This is a remarkable record of friendly labor relations, it was pointed out by William.J. (Cardinal) Gibbons, veteran president of the union. As usual, the general laws of the International Typographical Union were incorporated in the contract. The contract is for two years and expires on December 81, 1946. It calls for a weekly increase of $6.15 for day men and $6.18 for night shift workers, making the new scale $60.52 a week for day workers, and $64.68 for night men. The wage increases are retroactive to January 1, 1945. During the life of the contract about 400 printers employed by the four pa pers will received a total increase of about $255,000 above their prev ious earnings. Baltimore Signs Up. Baltimore typographers have also signed new contracts with the publishers, calling for from $1.56 to $1.73 per hour with 36 2-3 hours as the work week. WLB Win Keep Functioning Says Sec. of Labor WASHINGTON . —A swift guarantee of independence has saved the War Labor Board from The pledge came from Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach who theri by materially strengthened the jov* Reason: His own job of keeping industrial peace n as made easier by Urn M»uran« thatWLByi” ahead. tion of new walkouts by ClO-oil | M. i w LATE LABOR NEWS New York building service em ployes have gone on a strike that has stranded many thousand sky scraper employes in 1,875 buildings, including the Empire State build ing. The CIO oil workers strike in six states now involves over 80,000 workers, and is spreading. A meet ing between union members and employers is bn in Chicago, seeking a settlement. . I Ten thousand New York A. F. of L. painters returned to work Wed nesday after a strike which started September 18. A new two-year con tract was tjwon by the painters. Some 00,000 sawmill and lumber workers in 348 mills and camps are 6n strike in the Pacific Northwest for a $1.10 hourly wage and indus try-wide bargaining. Hie number of workers idle now due to strikes and other labor trou ble is nearly 875,000, as of Wed nesday, September 26. At a dinner, Voltaire, atheist, said he would sell his place in heaven for a dollar. A diner re torted that if Voltaire could prove his title to a place in heaven, he would buy it, for not one dol lar, but for ten thousand. Charlotte’s Laundry Strike Declared At An End Through Vote Of Strikers Charlotte’* four-month-old laun dry strike is officially at an end. J. S. Cherry, organiser for the Laundry Workers Union of Ameri ca, an AFL affiliate, made the an nouncement for the union. . Union members voted at the meeting: last Friday to discontinue promotion of the strike, Mr. Cherry disclosed. E. L. Albercrombie, Southern in ternational representative of the union, was reported to be in At ' I * lanta, Ga., but was expected to re turn here in a few days to resume direction of the union’s operations. Mr. Cherry indicated that the union, although it formally has sanctioned the end of the strike, will continue to further its Organi sation work in the city. The strike was called last May 30 for the pur pose of obtaining recognition of the union as bargaining agent, higher wages and better working condi tions. up at AtlantifcuyJ !To j vie for the honor of becom- g ing Mist America of 1945, which incidentally, was won i' by Bess Myerson, Miss New f; York City (see arrow). 1 POTS. PANS. IMS—This frag ment resistant vest, made of flexible aluminum alloy, pro duced by Alcoa, and nylon padded canvas, partly explains wartime shortages of alumi num pots. Infantry men, who tested it, were first foot soldiers to wear armor since the Crusades. 'a mm mama NOW IT CAN BE TOLD—This photo, just released by the Navy, shows rows of rocket-launchers, loaded with their deadly missiles on the deck of a Navy landing craft. ^ »» George Googe Issues Warning To Businessmen of Southeast The Labor Journal has received a statement from George L. Googe, Southern A. P. of L. representative, Atlanta headquarters, with refer ence to a campaign now being waged by high-pressure telephone advertising solicitors from New York, allegedly representing the American Federation of Labor through their publication, “Trade Union Courier,” of Nett York. Mr. Googe says this publication has been condemned and repudi ated by the New York Central La bor Union and therefore does not represent the A. F. of L. His state ment follows: “Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 25, 1945. “Statement by George L. Googe, Southern Representative American Federation of Labor: “The American Federation of Labor Southern Headquarters at Atlanta, Georgia, during the past few days has been flooded with in quiries from manufacturers and commercial businesses relative to solicitation for advertising funds by high pressure, long distance tele phone salesmen alleging to repre sent the American Federation of Labor in publishing a special edi tion of the “Trade Union Courier” an alleged Ameriaan Federation of Labor newspaperT The Trade Union Courier is a labor sheet with headquarters3 S, West 17th St., New York City. It is published by Maxwell C. Raddock, telephone Nos. Watkins 90544-80645-90546. They have a crew of high-pressure male telephone operators calling manu facturers long distance stating that the American Federation of Labor is getting out a special edition of the “Trade Union Courier” in co operation with the Victory Loan Drive and urging employers to co operate with the coming victory loan drive and the American Fed eration of Labor membership. They allege the publication goes to all seven and a half million members of American Federation of Labor and they are requesting' the em ployers to take an ad from $1,600.00 down to $100.00. “They are using a second racket, (Continued On Page 4) Hearing On Minimum Wage Scale In Senate WASHINGTON.—A three-week parade of cabinet members and labor and management officials started Tuesday when the Senate opened hearings on the proposed 65 cent minimum wage law. > The bill would raise the present minimum 25 cents an hour. It also wdbld extend the minimum level to include food processing workers and merchant seamen. It was intro duced by Senator Pepper (D., Fla.) and nine other Democrats. The witness schedule, announced today, included: Secretary of Labor Schwellen bach, Secretary of Commerce Wal lace, Price Administrator Chester Bowles, Mayor Ira B. Mosher of the National Association of Manu facturers, President William Green of the AFL, President Philip Mur ray of the CIO, Claudius T. Murchi son of the Cotton Textile institute, and Bishop John Oxnam of the Federal Council of Chui'ches. Wife: “What is an optimist?" Husband: “A fellow who looks at his shirt just back from the laundry, and says: “‘Oh, well, we needed lace curtains anyway.’ ” Doctor: Your husband, madam, is suffering from voluntary iner tia. Congressional Committee To Investigate Communist Activity In United States WASHINGTON. — A congressional investigation con fronted Communist tenders today as an aftermath of the reorganization of their party. The house committee on un-American activities will make the inquiry with the prime objective, members told a reporter, of ascertaining whether the Communists are conducting operations “dan gerous” to the nation. This ia the situation, as outlined by committeemen: Four top-ranking Communist leaders have been called to testify Wednesday regarding the party’s recent reorganisation. They are Earl Browder, former party chief; his successor, William Z. Foster; Ben jamin Davis, Negro vice president of the party; and Jack Stachel, pub licity director. Edward J. Loughlin, New York eity’s Tammany Hall leader, has been summoned to testify the same day regarding his group’s endorse ment—later withdrawn—of Davis as a city council candidate. Investigators are making further inquiry into reported communis tic activities on the west coast, particularly among the Hollywood film eoieay. One report already has been filed, but some members said it was “so hot” it hasn’t been made public . Committee Chairman Wood (D., Ga.), said in an interview Us group will meet Tuesday to decide whether the Wednesday session shall be open to newsmen and the public. **Wa plan to hear these witnesses to see what the Communists are doing and planning, but we haven’t decided yet if such testimony should be made public,” Wood asserted. Rep. Landis (D., Ind.), declared he favored “open hearings, to find out whether the Communists are still planning to destroy or overthrow the American system of government.” (Communists are defined by Webster as those advocating a system of social organization involving common ownership of the agents of production and some approach to equal distribution of the products, of industry.) Landis said he particularly wanted information about the August meeting of the party whan Foster replaced Browder as general secre tary. Rep. Rankin (D., Miss.), reported he'is specially interested in hearings on the west const situation. He told a reporter “alien elements are at work out there to overthrow our government by means of subtle propaganda in our movies.” Davis asserted in New York that his summons to appear before the house committee constituted an attack on “free political expression” in the metropolis, and aclded the effect of the committee’s action was to “sabotage” his campaign for re-election to the New York city council. Facts Yoti Want To _ , Know By Nellie Bobbitt Who manages the Community War Fund? It is managed by a Board of Di rectors made up of citizens repre sentative of the entire community. Do Board members, committee members, or campaign workers re ceive payment or expenses for their services? They do not! These people give many hours' service twelve months of the year because of their in terest in our community and the programs the Fund supports. Who decides how much money each agency receives? The Budget Committee of the Fund studies the budget requests of each local agency thoroughly be fore recommending an approved figure to the Board of Directors for final approval. The budgets of National War Fund agencies are determined by the Budget Com mittee of the National War Fund after clearing the UNKBA and a dozen other governmental agencies to see if some other organization could or would carry the burden and to eliminate any other possi bility of duplication. Both local agency budgets and National War Fund budgets are reviewed quar terly and adjusted according to needs. Erwin Cotton Mills Workers Vote Strike In an election at Erwin Cotton Mills of Durham, held last Satur day, 1,229 of the workers voted to strike as against 63 who wanted to remain at work under any circum stances. ' Issues involving the strike vote have remained a "secret" of both union aqd management to this date. It is understood, however, that Er win Mill employes, affiliated with a CIO local, are now working with out the benefit of any kind of con tract. Shuford Urges Back To School For Employed Boys And Girls r- w • Public and private organisetiona in every community in North Car olina today were urged by Com missioner of Labor Forrest H. Shuford to join with the Depart ment of Labor in “exerting every effort" to have all children now employed, leave the workshop and return to the school room. „ Citing the fact that 68,478 em ployment certificates were issued to minors 17 years of age or less last year and that more than 81, 000 were issued the first half of this year, 11,000 of them in June, which is about the same number as were issued in the entire year of 1040, Commissioner Shuford said: “The Government estimates that since "VJ Day” more than 16,000 people in North Carolina have been released from employment (Continued On Pace 4) t * Tydings Walks Out 4 Due To ‘Threats’ * WASHINGTON. — Senator Tyd ings, Democrat, Maryland, walked out of a Maryland congressional delegation’s conference with a CIO group recently, angrily declaring that he refused to be threatened. Boos and hisses came from the group of approximately 300 Mary land CIO members who came to Washington to urge enactment of President Truman's legislative pro gram. Tydings, who was acting as con ference chairman, stalked from the room after Robert Lamb, CIO na tional legislative representative, said that “any members of congress who don’t get on the bandwagon and vote for a 65-cent minimum wage are going to be sorry in 1946.” Tydings broke in to say that he would not stay in the room “unless your implied threats are discarded.” “I will be glad to listen to argu ments in favor of the legislation you want,” he said, “but I*dont in tend to sit here and be threatened by any damn person.” XMAS GIFTS TO GI*s MUST BE MAILED SOON It’s time to be thinking at mail ing Christmas packages overseas. Army postal officers remind the public that, even though hoetilities have ceased, there are still qaany thousands of American troops who will spend next Christmas in for eign lands. Regulations governing the mail ing at overseas Christmas gifts to Army personnel remain the same as those of last year: They must be posted between September 15 and October 16; one package a week may be sent (without a request) by any one person to the same service man; the usual restrictions on sise and weight apply—not more than 86 inches in length and girth com bined, and maximum weight five pounds. Most stores have a stock of box es approved by the War depart ment for overseas gift shipments. Manager: Come, come, Miss Jones. You waste too much time on your personal appearance. Miss Jones; I’m not wasting it, Mr. Brown. I’ve been here only two weeks and already I’ve had piopotals from the chief clerk and the cashier. The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it Is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.—Moliere.
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