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New Challenges To Labor Cited By Schwellenbach (The following Labor Day mes sage was issued by Secretary of Labor L. B. Schwellenbach): Labor day is an appropriate oc casion to examine the status of the wage earners of the country. It is a time to count the gains of the past and to list the needs of the future. A year ago, on this first Monday in September, hostilities just had ceased and we were facing a period of readjustment and rebuilding. It has been a period of strain and doubt to millions of wage earners and millions of men and women in the armed forces. Every one re alized that the physical task of shifting back to peacetime produc tion was tremendous. But uncer tainty prevailed as to We smooth ly and how quickly reeearversion would take place. Now meet of the job is near com pletion—and successfully. The out ' put of civilian goods and services has been lifted virtually to record j peacetime levels. This period of i reconversion has not been without j its serious aches and pains. There have been disputes and disagree ment which cannot be minimised. But it is good for all of us that labor has preserved its strength through this trying year. There should be nothing sur prising about this feat, for Ameri J can labor has always conquered ob GREETINGS TO LABOR MURRAY IRSTRIRUTING CO. Distributors of BORDEN’S CHEESE and MRS. FILBERTS PRODUCTS 1019 West Palmer 4-5034 GREETINGS TO LIBOR CAMPBELL FABRIC CORP. KNITTED FABRIC 1820 South Boulevard Dial 6623 Greetings To Labor SOUTHWEST CHAIR CO. 4-2002 INDEPENDENCE BLDG. GREETINGS TO LABOR WITH BEST WISHES FOR AMERICAN LABOR CLOVER SPINNING MILLS, Inc. CLOVER, S. C. GREETINGS TO LABOR Bent Wishes To Labor CAROLINA PACKERS Incorporated BEEF, PORK, SAUSAGE Smithfield, N. C. GREETINGS TO LABOR MILL POWER SUPPLY CO. 300 WEST FIRST STREET Phone 8521 6REETIN6S TO LABOR Now try AMERICAN STANDARD FLOUR 80 Per Cent Extraction. Under W.F.O.I. 44—At Your Favorite Grocer PHONE 2*3145 Interstate Milling Co* stacks successfully. The flTpt La bor Day celebration occurred in September 1882 under the leader ship of Peter 1. McGuire of the Carpenters’ International Union in New York City. Today after many battles, the wage earners’ right to organize and bargain collectively is protected by law and sanctioned by custom. It is guarded by the strength of ^ million union mem bers. These members and their leaders have made collective bar gaining one of the basic procedures of our democracy. This is a tremendous achieve ment, one which touches the lives of all within the ranks of labor. It carries much wider responsibilities than many of us realize. And like every gain that labor has won, this newly acquired right to speak for so many millions has not gone un challenged. More and more, as col lective bargaining and union agree ments determine the relationship between labor and management, critics are demanding that this right be curtailed. These critics say that organized labor’s motives are selfish, that its aims are not directed toward the common good. If I believed that charge I would not be Secretary of Labor. But it is you, the members and leaders of organized labor, who must meet this challenge by maintaining a Sen. Wagner Calls On Labor To Fight For Progressive Objectives It Seeks --1 - sense of responsibility to the needs and welfare of the country. Let your answer come from union halls and from the bargaining tabid*. Let it come from the mills and mines and factories where another great task of production and read justment remains to be schieved during the year ahead. You will be called upon to help meet the threat of spiralling prices. Make your answer an open invita tion to a period of industrial sta bility and peak production—with adequate price and rent controls. Such a policy will permit no sacri fice of gains already won and no abandonment of future cairns. It does call for wisdom and restraint in the crucial months ahead. Write your answer in the lan guage of responsible democracy by supporting your country and its freedom and its way of life. Write it so clearly that all who labor will recognise and share your lofty purpose. The home—your home—is the bulwark of the nation. MEETINGS TO LABOR J. N. Youngblood Truck Lines FAST DEPENDABLE FREIGHT SERVICE Cincinnati Terminal—1333 West 7th General Office—Fletcher, N. C. Terminal Telephones Charlotte, N. C.—4-40S4 Cincinnati. Ohio—Cherry 8441 Asheville, N. C.—8050 Spartanburg. S. C.—211 Greensboro, S. C.—1S61 Knoxville, Tenn.—S-1J63 LABOR DAY GREETINGS TO LABOR From Charlotte, N. C. WASHINGTON NATIONAL INSURANCE CO. 116 W. Third Charlotte, N. C. Phone 3*1393 INTERNATIONAL MOTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS LOCAL 379 Charlotte, N. C. SID Y. McADEN i Chairman, Mecklenburg Couonty Board of Commissioners PHONE S-7121 SUPERIOR MOTOR CO. HifhMt Cask Price* Paid for Your Car. We keep on hand a fine selection of used car* for sale and trade. We also have expert Mechanic*. 312-314-316 S. Church St. Phone 3-9607. MLWORTH 6AM6E 1176 SOUTH BOULEVARD PHONE 2-3774 ROYJIL COE m COKE COMPANY 1219 CENTRAL AVENUE PHONE 6164 AMERICAN DRY CLEANING 319 E. MOREHEAD PHONE 3-6111 MeEWEN FUNERAL SERVICE, IRC. 24-HOUR SERVICE (AMBULANCE) 727 E. Morehead St. Phone 4-6421 COLUMBUS OIL COMPANY FUEL OIL FOR ALL TYPES OF OIL BURNERS 2169 S. Boulevard * Phone 3-7SU B. F. GOODRICH STORES FOURTH AND BREVARD PHONE 3-4143 scon DRII6 COMPANY 112 SOUTH COLLEGE PHONE 3-3184 BARBECUE LODGE WilkiaMo Boulevard CHARLOTTE, N. C. Phone 9386 L A C. BUS LINES Busses to Derita and Concord—Huntersville—Davidson Statesville Rood Phone 4-2447 DIMMER GROCERY CO. 431 Hovis Circle Phone 2-2597 By ROBERT P. WAGNER, U. 8. Senator from New York The basic freedoms of democra cy have come to take on a now meaning in a modern industrial so ciety. They now include the right to security against economic mis fortunes as well as the right to se curity against physical mistreat ment. They include the new eco nomic bill of rights as well as the older political bill of rights. Much progress has been made, particularly since the last great depression, in securing and advahc ing these economic rights. But we are a long way from perfection. We need to make further efforts. These efforts should be shared in by all the people, but much ol the leadership should come from the Congress of the United States because it passes the basic lawi which set the pattern for economic advancement and social justice. Unfortunately, one cannot fairlj say that the Congress since the end of the war with Germany anc Japan has been fully alert to iti responsibilities. It has failed to act upon the long-range housing program em bodied in the Wagner-EUender Taft bill, which would have set us on the way to a 10-year program t0 clear the slums and to provide i decent home for every America! family. It has not acted upon the com prehensive program for health in surance and better medical care. I' has yielded rather to the lobby o: a highly organized, well-financec few. It has not acted satisfactoril; upon the temporary continuation o: price control, to protect the aver age American family from being victimised by inflation* It has not acted to prevent dis crimination in employmen. It has been at times irresponsive to the needs of the people, and re sponsive to the clamor of Teal es tate lobbies and other selfish in terests. My message to working people on Labor Day therefore, is that they continue and increase their in telligent Interest in public affairs and make it clear that they will not tolerate the neglect of the progres sive objectives which they legiti mately share with the country as a whole. We have in this country an abundance of all the things needed to provide job opportunities at good M|W for every willing work* or; to do • 100 per cent Job on social security rather than a BO per cent job; to build bouses that the average family can afford; to in crease our national income and our standards of living year by year without interruption; and to main tain the prosperity of our system of individual enterprise. These objectives require, under our democracy, a strong and pro gressive and humane government. The people of the country have, on numerous occasions in the past, demonstrated that they want and need that kind of government. If they continue to demonstrate this, their interests will he preserved and advanced. If they do not demon strate this, reaction will taka over. GREETINGS TO LABOR R. C. WILLIAMS & SONS, Inc. FURNITURE' 1725 South Main Street COLUMBIA, S. C. Greetings To Labor BANK OF LENOIR Organized 1894 Capital $100,000 Surplus $200,000 A PAR-CLEARANCE BANK Lenoir, North Carolina Greetings To Labor ON THIS IT’S NATIONAL HOLIDAY BASSICK-SACK Manufacturers of FINE FURNITURE—HARDWARE Wralker Road Winston-Salem, N. C. Greetings To Labor ON THIS irS NATIONAL HOLIDAY STANDARD BUILDING & LOAN ASSOCIATION HOME LOANS LONG OR SHORT TERMS We Sell U. S. Savings Ronds Dial 3-1069 236 N. Main St. E. L. PFOHL, Pres. Winston-Salem, N. C. Greetings To Labor ON THIS IT'S NATIONAL HOLIDAY 0 PIEDMONT FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION WINSTON-SALEM, N. C.
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