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N. C. Federation Meeting Changed To Durham Greetings To Labor FOR A SUCCESSFUL CONVENTION TURNER SIGN COMPANY Cor. Walker and Spring Sts. LARGEST NEON SIGN COMPANY IN THE SOUTHEASTERN STATES Dial 5004 or 3-1213 Greensboro, N. C. Send in Your Subscription Today. We Need Your Support. Greetings To Labor FOR A SUCCESSFUL CONVENTION NEW ERA CLEANERS CARL E. TATE, Owner and Manager 229 Summit Ave. Phone 2-2181 — 2-2182 Greeensboro, N. C. Greetings To Labor FOR A SUCCESSFUL CONVENTION Fred Ayers Music Company Fred Ayers, Prop. • ' COIN OPERATED PHONOGRAPHS t w—DIAL 6000— y 253 No. Greene St. Greensboro, N. C. THE LABOR JOURNAL IS A CHOICE ADVERTISING MEDIUM Greetings To Labor FOR A SUCCESSFUL CONVENTION Stop In At POP EARL’S CAFE STEAKS —- CHICKEN —SANDWICHES OF ALL KINDS— 2016 High Point Rond Greensboro, N. C. 24-HOUR SERVICE GREETINGS TO LABOR For A Successful Convention Geo. C. Brown & Company Manufacturers of ' ♦ AROMATIC, RED CEDAR CLOSET LINING CEDAR LUMBER — CEDAR VENEER GREENSBORO, N C. Send in Your Subscription Today. We Need Your Support. Greetings To Labor FOR A SUCCESSFUL CONVENTION Carolina Jack Service SERVICE ON ALL MAKES OF JACKS, ELECTRIC LIFTS AND HYDRAULIC PRESSES BY FACTORY TRAINED MEN PHONE 7108 1014 Weal Lee Grecneboro, N. C. MEETING PLACE CHANGED DUE TO INABILITY TO SECURE MEETING HALL SUFFICIENTLY LARGE TO ACCOMMODATE LARGE CROWD EXPECTED TO AT TEND MEETING. Announcement was made Tuesday by President C. A. Fink of the North Carolina Federation of Labor that the August 12 convention of the State Federation will be held in Durham instead of High Point. The change in meeting place was brought about due the the inability of the High Point enter tainment committee to find an auditorium in High Point suf ficiently large to accommodate the large gathering that offi cials expect to convene for this year's meeting. PRESIDENT FINK VISITS CHARLOTTE. President Fink was a visitor to Charlotte Tuesday of this week conferring with Southern Director George Googe and local labor officials relative to both the State Federation meeting and the Southern membership campaign of the AFL which is now getting into full swing throughout Dixie. Mr. Fink stated that he expects one of the largest gatherings of delegates and visitors and labor officials at the Durham meeting in the history of the North Carolina Federation of Labor. The sessions will be held at the Washington Duke hotel, which will be official headquarters. According to announcements all sections of the State will be represented and Charlotte is to have full quotas of dele gates on hand. AFL Assails Pulpwood Industry’s Drive To Weaken Wage-Hour Act Even in the high-wage, labor shortage. wartime year of 1943, wages of pulpwood cutters and loggers in the South ranged as low as five cents an hour, according to evidence plsced before Wage-Hour Administrator L. M. Walling by Boris Shishkin on behalf of the American Federation of Labor and the United Brotherhood of Car penter* and Joiners of America at a hearing held in New York. The AFL appeared in vigorous opposition to the proposed amend ment of the wage and hour regu lations, sought by employers in the pulpwood industry, which would shift responsibility for record keeping from employers to the em ployees. Mr. Shiskin warned that “the proposed amendment would not only nullify the minimum wage provisions of the Fair Labor Stan dards Act. but in the end, would destroy effective enforcement of all labor standards required by Federal as well a* State legisla tion enacted over a period of more than 50 years.” I "It was the purpose of the Fair Labor Standards Act to eliminate sub-standard wages in low-paid industries of which the pulpwood industry in the South is one of the lowest," Mr. Ssihkin said. “Adoption of the proposed amend ment to regulations would mean a complete abandonment of the min imum wage where it is most need ed. It would mean that the pulp produced for the manufacture of paper would be deliberately left to the very substandard conditions which the Wage and Hour Law was enacted by Congress to cor rect. If the amendment were adopted, the Fair Labor Standards Act ifself would no longer be worth the paper it is printed on." Pointing out that the employers who testified as proponents of the amendment to regulations came to make their plea "with unclean hands," Mr. Shiskin presented a long and detailed factual record of widespread wholesale violations of the Wage and Hour law which led not only to criminal convictions fcut also to large restitutions to pulpwood workers in the course of the Wage and Hour enforcement. "In February, 1943, a high-wage, if uor-shortage wartime year, over j 80,000 worker* in pulpwood lof • | King, lumber and related work le*« | than the legal minimum of 401 cent* an hour,’* he said. "Officially secured evidence shows that, even during the wsr, wages for the more skilled work ers fluctuated between 20 cents and SO cent* per hour, but in a number of instance* ranged as low ar 6 cents par hour, with the week ly earnings, even in summer months, often below $10 por week.” Plans* also wore entered in sup port of the AFL position against the amendment by the Interna tional Brotherhood of Pulp, Sul phite and Paper Mill workers of the United States and Canada and the International Ladies* 'Garment Worker* Union of America, both AFL affiliates. The Children’s Bu reau, the Women’* Bureau and the Division of Labor Standards of the U. S. Department of Labor pad the Department of Labor of Rhod^ Island likewise testified against j MOBILE TEAM8TERS WIN ELECTION Mobile, Aim.—Employes of the Hams Dmvift Packing Company of Mobile, who last week elected the American Federation of Labor to act aa their bargaining agency, have met and drawn up a contract for wages, hoars and working con* ditions. The contract has been submitted to management and ne gotiations will begin immediately by Teamsters and Chauffeurs Lo cal No. 991 and the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Work ers. MASSACHUSETTS’ JOBLESS AT PEAK OF PAY FOR IDLE Boston.—The Massachusetts Di vision of Employment Security re ports that the payment of $58,404, 856 in the first six months of this year, is an all-time high in unem ployment benefits. Approximately 62 per cent, or $35,917,531 of the total, went to war veterans as re adjustment allowances, and the Re maining 38 per cent constituted a new civilian peak. The high point for veterans was reached in March when 81,219 checks, totaling $1,619,049, were paid and peak benefits to civilians were reached in May when 52,984 checks, totaling $1,098,956, were distributed in a week. TROLLEYMEN GET RAISE Toledo.—Members of the Amal gamated Street Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employes accept ed a 12-ce<nt-an-hour increase to resume work after a 10-day walk out. Greetings To Labor FOR A SUCCESSFUL CONVENTION SHELL PRODUCTS Washing — Greasing — Tire Repairs Battery Service BRAXTON'S SERViCE STATION Phone 91S4 410 Walker Ave. Greensboro, N. C. LABOR’S BUSINESS APPRECIATED GREETINGS TO LABOR For A Successful Convention ■ ■ .. .. .v Greetings To Labor FOR A SUCCESSFUL CONVENTION McLEOD LEATHER t BELTIH6 COMPART GREENSBORO, N. C. Greetings To Labor FOR A SUCCESSFUL CONVENTION V. B. HIGGINS COMPANY ENGINEERING CONTRACTORS Jefferson Bldg. Greensboro, N. Ct _at Greetings To Labor FOR A SUCCESSFUL CONVENTION SOUTHERN WASTE PAPER COMPANY 202 Lee Street Telephone 2-1447 GREENSBORO, N. C. --- mmmmi Greetings To Labor For a Successful Convention ■ . f - For The Promotion of Better Labor-Management Relations EL MORO CIGAR COMPANY MANUFACTURERS OF EL MORO JOHN T. REES GREENSBORO, N. C. * \ v . MWrfl
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