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THE END OF THE LINE By Borin Shishkin AFL Economsit Suppose you opened your morn injj paper and read a story about a highway bandit who hijacked a motorist, took his money, stripped him of his clothes and drove off with his car, leaving him stark naked on the road. But before the holdup man drove off, accord ing to the story, he handed his terrified and shivering victim an GREETINGS TO LABOR For A Successful Convention HEDGECOCK’S Located 5 Miles Out on High Point Ro»d SANDWICHES —BARBECUE ICE CREAM —. BEVERAGES /Prompt Service in Comfortable Surroundings Winston-Salem, N. C. GREETINGS TO LABOR For A Successful Convention NEW DEAL CAFE Serving Good Food STEAKS — CHOPS — SEAFOOD with courteous service at reasonable prices 1030 South Main Street Winston-Salem, N. C. Greetings To Labor FOR A SUCCESSFUL CONVENTION A * : • STATE FINANCE COMPANY AUTO LOANS AND FINANCING $50 AND UP ? Corner of Main and 2nd Streets Telephone 2-0353 __. Winston-Salem, N. C. i i I GREETINGS TO LABOR For A Successful Convention V \ ♦ t ' MARIE BROADWAY SANDWICHES Telephone 3-2090 204 Crafton Winston-Salem, N. C. GREETINGS TO LABOR For A Successful Convention ■ MATTHEWS ESSO SERVICE STATION Complete Line of Esso Products — Washing — Lubrication — Polishing — Battery Recharging — Tire Repairing — Atlas Tires C. Odell Matthews, O. E. Dillon, Props. Telephone 9354 1190 South Main Winston-Salem, N. C. \ f GREETINGS TO LABOR For A Successful Convention SMITH’S SANDWICH SHOP WHOLESALE 1316 Ebert Street Telephone 3-3991 Winston-Salem, N. C. elaborate handbook on “How to Undress”! You wouldn’t believe such a story, would you? Yet this story is very much like the one you have been reading in the pa pers about the removal of OPA price control. The gentlemen who were out for easy profit at your expense did a thorough job. On the first of this momh, all controls wen; off. The price of your food, your rent and your new shirt sailed away up. And now the same gentlemen have bedeviled and coerced Con gress into writing a new APO law. But this new law, instead of show ing how OPA should, control prices, tells how OPA should take price controls off. Never mind that controls are already off, it says: take them off twice if you have to make sure they are off. The old OPA law said it was a crime for the merchant to charge more than the maximum price set by the government. The new OPA law is quite different. The new law says it is a crime for the government to set a maximum price on, say, a cotton shirt, Unless the price is high enough to cover the cost of everything, including the manufacturer's and the mer chant’s Havana cigars, plus a sure profit. Under the new law, there will he no price ceilings on most basic foods until August 21. After that, a new three-man decontrol hoard would have to decide what to do with prices of such products. This new board may set new price ceilings on other products and set them quite high. The law gives detailed instructions how not to set the price ceilings too low but gives little guidance on when price ceilings would be too high. Having let go of most food prices from the start, the law provides that price ceilings on all other com modities must be lifted in five months—at the end of this year— unless OPA makes a specific find ing that each removal will affect business costs or living costs. This half-revived OPA will re store rent control for one year. But whether its weakened admin istration is enough to bring rents back to where they left off at the end of June — and to hold them there more than a few months, while other prices are allowed to go up—is a big question. And don’t forget one other thing Con gress has renewed along with the Price Control Act but without say ing a word about it: wage control. That is at the heart of Congres sional action. You see, the now controls will have to accept most of the sharp price rises that have taken place in recent weeks. They will legal ise the black market prices. Other prices under the new law are tied to high-speed escalators which will shoot them right up. But wages will remain riveted to the same stationary rung at which they were held to the end of last June. Workers who have helped to hold the line for four years will now find themselves at the end of the line—holding the bag. That’s what workers wrH have to fight; and the A. F. of L. will help them fight it. ILO GROUP DRAFTS SAFETY STANDARDS San Francisco — A safety code for factories, with emphasis on prevention of accidents as indus trial rehabilitation gets underway in nations scarred by war, was completed here by technical ex perts of eight countries. It will be printed for a tripartite con ference of government, employer delegates meeting in 1947 under auspices of the International La bor Office. A statement issued following the sessions said in part: “The code covers conditions found in various factories through out the world and deals with many special industries, such as explo sives, magnesium manufacture, celluloid, handling‘of strong acids and other corrosive and harmful substances. “It not only covers the field with tegard to mechanical processes but to respiratory protective devices, clothing and other means which can be taken to prevent injuries during operations. “Primarily, our object was to set up standards whereby em ployes would not be unduly ex posed to harmful conditions but where it was appaiynt, due to the process involved, that there might be some exposure our task was to suggest some protection against such exposure.” After you have read The Journal pass it on to your neighbor. GARMENT WORKERS GIVE S75.0M — David Dubinaky ( right).' pmMnt of the International Ladies Garment Workers-A FL, turns over to Jarvis Croaiwrll, Greater New York Fond Campaign chair-, man. the union's gift of $7S.—> to the 1946 American Red Cross fund, 6REETM6S TO LABOR * FOR A SUCCESSFUL CONVENTION And for the Promotion of Better Labor-Management Relations • LANDINGHAM PLUMBING & HEATING CO. PLUMBING, HEATING AND VENTILATING CONTRACTORS 229 North Trade Telephone 2-0943 Winston-Salem, N. C. i GREETINGS TO LABOR FOR A SUCCESSFUL CONVENTION And for the Promotion of Better Labor-Management hii! Relations .^ COMPLIMENTS OF A FRIEND WintM-Salam, N. 0. : I I I I i GREETINGS TO LABOR For A Successful Convention AARON’S SEWING MACHINE SHOP ‘ SEWING MACHINES Electric Singers. Console and Portable. Singer Treadles. Also a variety of other makes reasonably priced. Machines for rent—Buttonhole Workers—Motor HUltffAtT We carry a full line of parts, attachments and supplies Complete Repair Service 207 West Third St. Phone 3-3030 Winston-Salem, N. C. GREETINGS TO LABOR For A Successful Convention • , RALPH BYERLY’S GROCERY East 14th Extension Telephone 8412 Winston-Salem, N. C. A FRIEND OF LABOR GREETINGS TO LABOR For A Successful Convention FORSYTH ASPHALT ROOFING CO. — ROOFING CONTRACTORS — Roofs for Every Type of Building Telephone 2-2151 2337 Oaklina Ave. Winston-Salem, N. C. GREETINGS TO LABOR For A Successful Convention FOREST INN Visit Forest Inn for DELICIOUS SOUTHERN FRIED CHICKEN and STEAKS Located out on Clemmons Road Winstott-Salem, N, C. V GREETINGS TO LABOR For A Successful Convention A FRIEND WIHSTOH-SUEM, VORTH UROLIM GREETINGS TO LABOR For A Successful Convention SMITH PHILLIPS LUMBER GO. West 17th Street Telephone 8167 Winston-Salem, N.* C. GREETINGS TO LABOR For A Successful Convention RAWLS DELICIOUS FOODS, INC. Maker of PEANUT BUTTER SANDWICHES Salted Peanuts r>c Cakes 5c Candies lc Candies 5c Goodie Pies Winston-Salem, N. C. GREETINGS TO LABOR For A Successful Convention SUPERIOR OIL COMPANY Distributors of ATLANTIC PRODUCTS 25 Brookstown Ave. Winston-Salem, N. C. GREETINGS TO LABOR For A Successful Convention GARRETT TRANSFER COMPANY W. T. Garrett, Manager Local and Long Distance Moving —EVERY LOAD INSUREDl Hauling — Reasonable — Reliable — Responsible 309 North Patterson Are. Dial 5|044 Winston-Salem, N. C.
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