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The Journal s opinions. v Endorsed by North Carolina State Federation of L*L r, Approved by American Federation of Labor
VOL XV; NO. 2S PUBLISHED WEEKLY CHARLOTTE. N. C.. THU^-M \Y. OCTOBER 28. 1»45 jj||
Green Broadcasts War
Fund Appeal In Behalf
Of Labor Organizations
A. F. of L. Chieftain Cites Need
ef Occupation Forces and
Unfortunates Abroad
New York—A nationwide radio
andionco board A. F. of L. Presi
dent William Green urge National
War Fond and Community Cheat
support on October 16.
Speaking over the network of
the American Broadcasting Com
pany, President Green was fea
tured in a half-hour program
which included labor and manage
ment spokesmen and nationally
known radio artists. The A. F. of
L/s Labor League for Human
Rights was a co-sponsor of the
presentation.
President Green said: “For the
boys patrolling the streets of Ber
lin and Tokio, the peace is not yet
won.
“For the millions of people in
Europe and Asia, threatened with
hunger and cold, the peace is not
yet won.
“Here at home, for our millions
of returned veterans and displaced |
war workers looking for secure
peacetime jobs, the peace is not
yet wen. Te win that peace will
take the same all-out effort, the
same community co-operation, the j
same planning that it took to win .
the war.
“We must make sure that our
allies in war remain our allies in
peace — that people all over the
world Who fought in underground
movements as our hidden allies are
not forgotten new. j
"The men we rescued from con
centration camps need our help if
they are not to become casualties
of hunger and famine.
"The need in our own communi
ties today is just as great, in some
cases greater, than during the
war. *
“Community agencies that plan
for better health, better housing,
better recreation programs must j
be supported. Through labor
representatives on community
boards and through our chests and
war funds we will continue our
work, our services, our giving for
the good of the whole emmunity.
“Support your Community War
Fuad and the National War Fund."
. 33 CARLOADS TEXTILES
ME OFFERED FOR SOLE
An offering of 33 carloads of
textiles, comprising over 47 mil
lion yards of jute burlap strips, is
currently being made by the Sur
plus Property Division of the Re
construction Finance Corporatino.
The burlap strips come in six
colors and were, used by the Army
for camouflage. It has been de
clared surplus to their needs, and
will be sold by RFC, a Disposal
Agency designated by the Surplus
Property Administration to handle
a portion of surplus textiles, on
the basis of informal written of
fers. Otters will be filed immed
iately. No sale will be concluded
until October 29, 1945.
NO HOOTCH TICKETS
NEEDED AFTER DECEMBER 1
According to announcement just
released by the State Alcoholic
Control Board, hootch will go off
the ration Hat at all North Caro
lina ABC stores effective Decem
ber 1. This means, at course, that
thirsty Derhamites will not be re
quired to make their annual No
vember track to some designated
registering place and there pay a
perfectly good quarter for whiskey
coupons which were quite often
no good.
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XFL MEMBERSHIP TOPS
ML PREVIOUS MMXS
Cincinnati—The average mem
bership of the American Federa
tion .of Labor during the fiscal
year ended August 31, reached the
all-time high of 6,938,000, Secre
tary-Treasurer George lfeany re
ported to the Executive Council.
President William Green con
firmed newspaper reports that the
International Association of Ma
chinists had failed to pay per
capita tax to the federation for
some months because of a dispute
on jurisdictional questions. Mr.
Green said he expected the future
status and policy of the Machinists
would be decided by the delegates
at the forthcoming convention of
the union to be held in New York
City.
Libor Parley Set
To Open On Nov. 5
Washington, D. C. — President
Truman’s labor-management con
ference wlil convene in Washing
ton November 5 and will be com
prised of “from 30 to BO" dele
gates, equally divided ' between
labor and business associations,
and presided over by a chairman,
representing the public interest,
Secretary of Labor Schfellenbach
announced.
The conference, which appears
to be the only tangible instrument
so far devised by the Administra
tion to meet the growing national
crisis in labor, trill bave employ#
representation drawn from the
AFL, CIO, United Mine Workers
and Railroad Brotherhoods, and
management conferees from
United States Chamber of Com
merce and the National Associa
tion of Manufacturers.
Schwellenbcah and Secretary of
Commerce Wallace will also sit
in the conference, but without
votes. The impartial chairman
has not yet been announced. Al
though Schwellenbach declared
that not decisions had yet been
reached on the agenda of the con
ference and accordingly declined
to indicate what issues it would
consider, it was taken for granted
that its prime concern was the
establishment of procedures to
deal with industrial disputes.
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MRS. TRUMAN ACCEPTS POST
WITH RED CROSS
Washington, D. C.—Mrs. Harry
S. Truman has acceptetd the hon
orary chairmanship of the Na
tional Committee on Volunteer
Service of the American Red Cross,
it was announced today.
The committee will hold its
next meeting November 6-9 to
consider postwar work of organ
ised Red Cross .volunteers. Mrs..
Mason Colt is chairman..
Mrs. Truman served as a volun
teer Motor Corps driver in the In
dependence branch, Kansas City,
(Mo.) chapter of the American
Red Cross before moving to. Wash*
ington, and as a member of the
Senate Ladies’ Surgical Dressings
Unit hi the District of Columbia,
chapter.
Mrs. Roosevelt to Speak Pto PAC
- New York (LPA).—Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt disclosed last week that
she would fill several speaking en
gagements for the CIO.- Political
Action Committee this fall. She de
clared that any group., "which
arouses citisens to a sense of their
responsibility in the government id
to bo commended.” Dates, of her
| appearances have not boon, decided.
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Fast Action Urged On
Wagner Housing Bill
Cincinnati. — Pointing out^hat
the only tangible proposal for the
creation of millions of new jobs
now before Congress is the Wag
ner Postwar Housing MU, the AFL
Executive Council demanded its
prompt enactment.
The MU sets up a comprehen
sive national housing policy and is ,
intended to encourage a construe- |
tion drive which wiU result in the
building of 1,500,000 new homes
each year during the next 10
years.
Text of the executive council’s
statement follows:
“Adoption of postwar Jiousing
legislation advocated by the Amer
ican Federation of Labor is a mat
ter of utmost national urgency
and can no longer be deferred.
“The executive council appeals
to Congress to consider immedi
ately and enact promptly a com
prehensive national housing policy
together with a set of unified long
range programs essential to carry
out such a policy.
“Homeless American families
will soon be a reality in thousands
of communities while dangerous
overcrowding will becomp wide
spread unless Congress recognises
the nation's need and acta to meet
them.
"Over 1,400,000 married veter
ans are already in immediate need
of homes. More than > 1,500,000
returning veterans are expected
to establish new homes within
the next year, but will: find no
place to set up new households.
America's housing need was ex
tremely acute before the wax. Dur
ing thh war years 27,000(000 per
sons took part in the vast shifts
of population set off by-waff’con*
ditions. As the reauife oi this* mi
gration, the already critical need
in manyvcommunitiee.s has been
greatly iittcnaiitad. This pressing
and continually grwwibg^naediieastv
pot bo met overnight. Only long
range pldaning designed tamahieve
clearly, and*. courageously, stated.
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housing objectives for the entire
nation will suffice to assure better
homes and better living conditions
for all Americans in cities and on
the farms.
“The American Federation of
Labor has always advocated the
adoption of a comprehensive hous
ing bill which will enable each
community, through its own local
initiative and with the fullest ex-1
ereise of local responsibility, to
reach the postwar housing objec- |
tives as rapidly as the great
wealth and resources of postwar j
America will make possible. The
most essential principle on which
the entire program must rest is
the necessity to bring new and
better housing within the finan
cial reach of all incomes. Ameri
ca’s postwar housing market is
a universal housing market which
can only be fully reached through
a comprehensive housing program.
Our failure to assure provision of
new homes to low-income families
as well as continued neglect of the
housing needs of families of mod
erate income can only spell dis
aster and unemployment.
Postwar housing is the only leg
islation now pending before Con
gress which would provide a tan
gible source of mass employment
opportunities and lay a broad and
firm basis for postwar redevelop
raen and reconstruction of the en
tire nation.”'
DUBINSKY IS ELECTED
AFL VICE PRESIDENT
Cincinnati — David Dubinsky,
president of the International
Ladies- Garment Workers Union,
eras elected unanimously thir
teenth .Visa President of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor by the
Executive Council at its meeting
here.
Mr. Dubinsky, who served on
the Executive Council, from 1984
to 1936, will fill the seat left va
cant by the death of Edward Flore,
late president of the Hotel and
Restaurant. Workers.
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Community Chest And War Fund Campaign
Opens October 25; Victory Bond Oct 29
Charlotte’s War and Com
munity Chest campaign will get
underway Friday morning. Or
ganisational meetings have been
held and the necessary divisions
and committees have boon sot
ap to conduct a vigorous cam
paign to raise the assigned quota
of I38MMJ5. with the Chest
Gifts Division assigned a quota
of I259.4M of this sum.
Henry Dockery, president of the
Chest, presided at a meeting of
the committees Thursday night at
the Chamber of Commerce to com
plete final details for opening the
Community Drive Friday morning
and also to hear Major General
Anthony McAuliffe deliver an ad
dress relative to the campaign. Dr.
J. A. Jones, pastor of the Myers
Park Presbyterian church, said the
invocation and Jack Farr led in the
singing. General McAuliffe was
introduced by Mayor Herbert H.
Baxter.
“Like General Patton and other
Army officers, I probably would do
better by confining my public
speaking to giving orders to the
troops in my command, but I am
so convinced of the necessity of
the work done by the War Chest
agencies that I am glad of an op
paign be given the most enthusi
astic support,” said General Mc
Auliffe. He said it is fine to be
back in North Carolina with its
wonderful weather, its fried chick
n, its ice cream, and its football.
In Europe, the people are going
to be hungry and cold this winter
—Europe is not a nice place to be,
he added.
“It is only a matter of human
decency to help the unfortunate
men, women and children of our
Allied countries,” he declared. The
relief work done by the agencies
of the War Fund, he said, likely
will mean more toward assuring
lasting peace than all the treaties
that are drawn up and conferences
that are held.
General McAuliffe S|*id the
American soldiers in the occupied
territories are bound to be suf
fering boredom and homesickness
that can be combatted in no better
way than through the work of the
USO and the USO-Camp Shows.
There was never need for worry
about the American fighting man •
while the war was on, he said. The !
American soldier was always
ready to close with the enemy,
was always full of courage, re
sourcefulness, and patience. But
with the fighting over, he needs
entertainment. That is why Gen
eral Eisenhower asked that the
work of the USO and the Camp
Shows be stepped up.
I think the USO and the Camp
Shows are military requirements
in any country which is being oc
cupied,” he decalerd.
"There were many heroes of
Bastogne but I was not one of
them,” General McAuliffe said.
The heroes were the privates, the
corporals, the sergeants and jun
ior officers, the infantry, the tank
men, the artillery men, the men
of the transport command, the
fighter pilots, the anti-aircraft
men, those of other branches of the
armed services, the wounded and
the dead.
"I wish that all who served with
me could be hare tonight to see
the welcome you have given me as
their representative,” he said.
At a meeting Wednesday the
quotas for majors in the special
gifts division were announced, as
follows: Mrs. Charles E. Bern
hardt, $6,400; Thomas H. Bern
hardt, Jr., $6,150; 1. D. Blumental,
$8,400; Jams? R. Bryant, $3,300;
W. I. Bullard, $8,000; Emmett
Crook, $2,400; W. R. Cuthbertson,
| $4,800; Georgs W. Dowdy, $5,000;
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John Durham, $4,325; H. H. Ever
ett, $5,260; Dr. Monroe Gilmour,
$7,425; Paul Guthery, $2,700; T.
E. Hemby, $22,000; Edwin L.
Jones, $8,950; Matthew Karree,
$2,000; H. F. Kincey, $13,200;
Charles E. Lambeth, $4,075; John
Mills, $4,200; Frank McCleneg
han, $2,975; Lewis Patton, $4,700;
John Pender. $8,000; M. E. Pier
son, $18,000 John Watlington, $9,
500; Clarence Street, $0,550; Mrs.
W. B. Sullivan, $11,500; Gresham
Thomas,, $4,950; Duncan P. Til
lett, $22,000; Ed Vosburgh, $2,
050; Paul Whitlock, $5,150; John
Wilkinson, $5,150; and Special
Special, $38,300.
The meeting was called by Earle
Whitton and Ivey Stewart, co
chairman of the division. Mr.
Whitton introduced a number of
Chest officials, including Henry
Dockery, president; Carl Mc^raw,
secretary and treasurer; Frfd L.
Huffman, Chest director, Miss
Kate Walker, assistant Chest di
rector; J. Norman Pease and
Henry Allison,. co-caihra
Henry Allison, co-chairmen of the
campaign, and members of the
budget committee.
Mr. Allison impressed upon the
members of the division their im- *
rfivtamt m tnw onvr as tl#y navfc
such a large percentage of the
money to raise. Approximately
250 of the 2,500 workers in the
drive are members of this division
and must raise more money than
all the other division put together.
To answer the questions of those
who feel that $388,694.95 may be
too much money to raise now that
the war is over and who may
wonder what is the need of all
this money, Mr. Allison said the.
National War Fund, which has
asked for $115,000,000 to carry on
its work for 15 months. Assum
ing that there will be an average
of 6,000,000 servicemen and women
in uniform over the next 15
months, he said that this will
mean that the USO, one of the
agencies of the War Fund, must
provide entertainment for 2,700,
000,000 man-days — leaving off
six days of the period in order
that the figuring may be less com- !
plicated. If the USO should get
all the money, it would have only
4.3 cents per day for each man. |
However, the money must take .
care of 28 other agencies, which
means that the U S 0;s part
amounts to only 2 1-3 cents per
day.
Getting close home he said that
Mecklenburg county has sent more
than 18,000 boys and girls into the
armed services. Assuming that
an average of 6,000 of these will
remain in uniform for the next 15 1
months, there would be 2,700,000
man-days for the USO to provide
entertainment for this county’s
boys alone. Divide that number
into the $388,000 goal and the
amount of 14 1-2 cents a day per
man is reached. But there are 36
agencies which must share in this
money and it all boils down to the
fact that there remains only less
than 3 cents a day for the USO
to spend on each Mecklenburg ser
viceman or woman. He spoke of
the work of the local agencies
which are supported by the funds
raised in the campaign and said
he is confident that the people of
this city and county will wish to
do their part to rebuild not only
for the devastated areas of the
world and for their own service
men and women but also for the
"eed? persons at home who must
be helped even though the war is
over.
VICTORY LOAN DRIVE
TO OPEN. MONDAY, »TH
The sum of $10,154,000 has been
set as the goal for Mecklenburg
cdunty in the Victory War Loan
campaign which opens Monday,
October 29. Of this quota $1,600,
000 is for Series E bonds. The
bond campaign will run through
December 31, according to R. E.
Kerr, chairman of the County War
Finance committee.
Mr. Kerr has called a metting of
leaden in war finance activities
to be held on Monday morning
when committee will be appointed
arid other details connected with
the campaign will be arranged.
There will be no special chair
man for this campaign. Instead,
Mr. Kerr has formed a committee
•f 11 prominent businessmen to
serve as the administrative com
mittee in the drive. This commit
tee is composed of M. L. Cannon,
H. F. Kincey, R. H, Johnston,
Frank Sherrill, William Barn
hardt, H. H. Everett, W. D. Flin
tom, H. H. Baxter, Sid McAden,
George W. Dowdy and C. O.
Kuester.
Information on the quota was
received by Mr. Kerr from C. T.
Leinback of Winston-Salem,* chair
man of the North Carolina War
Finance committee. Mr. Kerr ex
plained that all sales of E. F.
cral Reserve bank from October
29 through December 31 will
count in the drive. This means
that all orders the Federal Reserve
bank receives on October 29 and
through December 31 will be
counted and that the campaign
will have the advantage of the
month-end reports in October cov
ering pay roll deductions and other
similar purchases.
It also was announced that C. S.
Qoodrum of Davidson, who has
been named chairman of the Meck
lenburg County Druggists’ Victory
Bond committee, has begun work
and has addressed letters to all
his fellow druggists to urge that
they take active part in the com
ing campaign. , November 1 has
been selected as the North Caro
lina druggists’ special bond day
and the county organisation is
making big plans for that day.
UTW REPELS CIO RAIDS
ON FOUR TEXTILE MILLS
Washington, D. C.—The United
Textile Workers of America
smashed three attempts by the
CIO to raid textile and dye mills
in Tennessee, Mascachusetts and
South Carolina.
CIO invasions at the North
American Rayon Corporation and
American Bemberg Corporation in
Elisabethton, Tenn., were repelled
decisively by a vote of 4 to 1 in
favor of the UTW. Over 5,000
employes prere affected. The UTW
also defeated a CIO raid at the
Hoosac Mills in New Bedford,
Mass., by a vote of 3 to 1. There
are about 1,000 employes in that
plant. The fourth CIO attempt to
take over a UTW-AFL mill oc
curred at the Hartsville Print and
Dye Works at Hartsville, S. C.,
where the UTW won by a good
majority.
AFL OFFICIALS DEPART
FOR EUROPEAN SURVEY
Washington, D. C. — Irving
Brown, assistant to the AFL i%em
bers on the National War Labor .
Board, left by plane for an of
ficial visit to Norway, Sweden and
Denmark at the invitation of the
trade onion movements of those
countries.
Accompanying him on the trip
will be Charles S. Zimmerman, .
vcie president of the International *
Ladies Garment Workers, who is
representing the Jewish Labor
Committee on a survey of postwar
European conditions.
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