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Section 3 Aug. 8,1946 Chf Charlotte labor Journal & CAROLINA JOURNAL OF LABOR On To Durham Flogging Victim’s Friends Vote Union Despite Klan Gordon, Ga.—Markins a notable victory in the AFL campaign to or ganize the South, employes of the Gordon Clay Co. voted 375 to 80 to join Local 233 of the Cement, Lime and Gypsum Workers’ Union in an election held by the National Labor Relations Board. The victory was especially grati fying to AFL organizers in view of the fact that the company had stoutly resisted efforts to unionize its workers. The anti-union activi ties came to a climax when one em ploye, Willie Dudley, Negro, was kidnapped and flogged recently by four men, who identified them selves as Klansmen, because he re fused to resign from the union. The incident evoked a scathing denunciation by AFL President Wil liam Green, who, terming it “cow ardly and unAmerican,” imme diately authorized George Googe, director of the AFL southern cam paign, to lodge a formal protest with Governor Arnall of Georgia, and intimated he would submit the matter to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for inquiry. Fast on the heels of Mr. Green’s protest, the company announced it would not further resist efforts of its workers to join the union and the drive for membership took on fresh impetus. The reports of the kidnaping and flogging, submitted to Mr. Green by William Schoenberg, president of the International Union, and Fe lix C. Jones, business representa tive of the Union’s District Council —~ -il i DROP-SIDE CRIBS *M50 ap Attractively finished drop side crib with decorated panel ends. Strongly con structed for long use. ALL-HARDWOOD HIGH-CHAIR 8^5 9.1 up Quality hardwood cons ruc tion with feeding tray. Sturdily braced legs. 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The board is composed of a j banker, a manufacturer and a bu- , reaucrat. It embraces no labor or i lonsumer representation. The mem bers are Roy L. Thompson, presi- j dent of the Federal Land Bank of New Orleans; Daniel W. Beil, Washington banker and former Acting Director of the Budget and Under-Secretary of the Treas ury; and George H. Mead of Day ton, Ohio, chairman of the board of the Mead Corporation, pulp and paper manufacturers, and a mem ber of the advisory board of the Office of War Mobilization and Re conversion. Shortly after the Senate acted, 1 Thompson, chairman of the new group, expressed confidence the 1 board will be able to do its job quickly. “The quicker we can find the j possibility of getting things out from under price controls, the soon er we can arrive at the situation we’re all looking for,” he said. “If we can get production going at its j proper rate, competitive forces can bring prices into proper relation ships and remove the necessity of Government controls." Meanwhile, the Bureau of Agri cultural Economics revealed the av. erage prices for farm products is the highest in 37 years of record. The list includes grain, meat ani mals, cotton, poultry, eggs and dairy products. In the month ended July 15, av erage farm prices made the great est monthly jump in history. The bureau report showed a gen eral increase in the month of 28 points in the parity level, to 244 No. 5„ said that on June 7 two employes of the company .identi fied as N. E. Kinchen and B. P. Humphries, visited Dudley at his home and demanded in vain that he sign a notarized , resignation 1 from the union. Early on the morning of June 9, he was taken from his work by four masked men who brandished pistols, handcuffed him, carried him away and beat him with rubber hose. j per cent of the 1909-141 average upon which priority is based. 15 crop report predicting the great est com and wheat crop in his tory, would indicate farm income this year will reach a level never before experienced in the United j States. j Prices of shirts, shorts and pa 1 .'amas were raised 11 per cent by OPA. Men’s and boys’ dress shirts and boys’ sport shirts costing less than $1.95 were upped 21 per cent. This means that a shirt selling pre viously at $1.80 was increased to $2.15. Officials were frank to ad mit further increases soon may he ordered and that the prospect for “reasonable” prices for cotton clothing is “awfully bad,” since they now are at record highs and still on the climb. ! Officials indicated also that ceil ings on flour, coffee and canned vegetables nrobably "will be in creased in the next few days to compensate for the loss of subsi dies. 19,000 In Brooklyn Navy Yard Be Cut From Payroll New York City—«The most dras tic layoff of civilian personnel in itiated in this area by the Navy was revealed by announcement of Rear Admiral F. E. Haeberle, command ant of the U. S. Navy Yard at Brooklyn, that 19,000 workers would be dropped from the pay roll between now and next June 30. Admiral Haeberle told The Ship worker, organ of the yard’s work irs, that official orders would com pel him to discharge 17,000 em ployes between now and Septem ber 30 and an. additional 2,000' cfore June 30, 1947, thus reducing the yard’s personnel from 23,000 to 9,000 by the latter date. Admiral Haeberle said that the provisions of his order required that the force's personnel be cut to 20,000 the first quarter of the current fiscal year, which began July 1, to "about” 11,000 during the second quarter, commencing October 1; to “about” 9,500 in the third quarter, starting March 1, and to “about” 9,000 during the final quarter. “It is obvious that the reduction in the force required to attain an average of 20,000 for the first (Continued on Page 2) GREETINGS TG LABOR FOR A SUCCESSFUL CONVENTION Welcome To Durham dTc. MAY CO. PAINTING AND PAPERING CONTRACTOR 314*31$ Morgan St. Phone J-5321 Durham. N. C. GREETINGS TO LABOR FOR A SUCCESSFUL CONVENTION Crawford Paint Company CONTRACTOR & DECORATOR DIAL 2-0298 1306 EL WELL Greeensboro, N. C. i-ii. i. .I i .. Send in Your Subscription Today. We Need Yoar Support. Greetings To Labor For a Successful Convention L. B. GALLIMORE General Contractor GREENSBORO, N. C.
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