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CHARLOTTE LABOR JOURNAL JOURNAL OF ‘ Published Weekly at N. CAROLINA c. UI Communications to Post Office Box 1061 Telephone! 3-3094 and 4-5602 . jblication: 118 East Sixth Street, Charlotte, N. C. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: 12.00 per y 5c per < ADVERTISING RATES for conn B. A. Stalls, Editor and Publisher Entered as second-class mail matter Office at Charlotte, N. C., under the Aet>’ _ Official Organ of the Charlotte Central LabddgUnion and Approved by The American Federation of LSnor and the North Carolina Federation of Labor r, payable in advance or able. ; Associate Editor mTT at the Poet of March 8, 1879 The Labor Journal will not be responsible for opinions of corre spondents. but any erroneous reflecting upon the character, standing or reputation of any person, firm or corporation which may appear in the columns of The Labor Journal will be gladly corrected when called to the attention of the publisher. Correspondence and Open Forum opinions solicited. SOUTHERN AFL UNIONS SCORE GAINS Widespread gains in wages, hours and improved working conditions granted to AFT. unions throughout the South are reported by George L. Googe, chairman of the AFL Southern j campaign to enroll 1,000,000 new members. Reports pouring into his office in Atlanta, Ga., Googe said, show AFL unions throughout the entire area have been ne- ] gotiating improved contracts for higher pay, shorter hours - and other benefits, and in the vast majority of cases, without resort to governmental agencies. At the same time the Teamsters reported a new agreement; between the Houston Building and Construction Trades Coun-1 cil and the Associated General Contractors providing a closed shop in 90 days. In Chattanooga, Tenn., the Parks and Play grounds Department granted the Truck Drivers’ local a sub stantial wage increase, and in the same city the Truck Driv-.; era’ and Helpers’ local in the Sears Roebuck unit won an ! NLRB election to become the bargaining agency for Sears’ j shipping department workers, truck drivers, warehousemen! and helpers. From Dallas cam? word that the Southern Pacific has signed a new agreement with the Teamsters providing a wage increase of 10 cents an hour and new classifications of work ers not heretofore covered. Beneficiaries of the new agree ment include 745 in Dallas, 47 in Fort Worth, 393 in Beau mont, 652 in Corpus Christi, 657 in San Antonio. 968 in Hous ton, 565 in Waco, 940 in Galveston and 941 in El Pajio. Highlights of Mr. Googe’s report included the following: Coke plant of Sharon Steel Co.. Fairmont, W. Va., has se lected District 50, United Mine Workers, as bargaining agent in an NLRB election. District 50 also has won two Florida NLRB elections, covering employes in Smith Co. and Mer chants Fertilizer Co., both in Pensacola. District 50 won $60,000 in annual increased wages in contract with Barium Reduction Co., South Charleston, W. Va. Chattanooga Drivers of Street and Electric Amalgamated (AFL), w’on a new contract providing 20-cent increase, im proved vacation schedule and other benefits. AFL bus drivers in Mobile obtained, by arbitration, a $50, 000 back pay award averaging $200 for each worker. AFL dry cleaners in Birmingham, AUu, won an election at the Utopia Cleaning Co. by a wide majority. This is the largest pressing plant in Birmingham and the smaller shops are expected to follow Utopia, workers. , After a whirlwind campaign, workers of Southern Dairies in Atlanta came under the AFL Teamsters’ banner. Wage increases are from $4 to $12 a week, hours are reduced from 66 to 54, overtime after 40 hours and paid two-week vacations are provided after one year’s service. * LABOR TO LEAD CAMPAICfti TO INSURE PEACE Labor will spare no effort to maintain world peace and will, take the lead in a movement to outlaw the atomic bomb and “the whole dirty business of war.”'Reuben G. Soderstrom. president of the Illinois State Federation of Labor, told the delegates to the State Federation’s 64th convention here. Soderstrom’s plea for peace and his statement that “labor is better off without wars” brought cheers from the nearlv 1,200 delegates representing 750,000 Illinois American Fed eration of Labor members. Soderstrom said it appeared as easy to establish peaceful national habits “as it is to establish those that are warlike.” He added: “In the future the family of nations ought to spend as much time and as much money developing good will and friendliness between countries as the individual nations now do to maintain military departments, military equipment, and governmental occupational protectorates.” Discussing the workers’ share in production and profits, Soderstrom criticized “those who say we of labor encourage THE MARCH or LABOR CHIEF Justus \3SSL, A vtauM-m* •"lo 1to*Ciw *■- CaNCu-* c*n*i. -1,7 ^ *LABORUWtOMS ... WERE ORGANIZED OUT Of THE NECESSITIES Of tUl SlIUA TiON. A SINGLE employee WAS HELPLESS IN DEALING WITH AN EMPLOYER . HE WAS DEPENDENT ORDINARILY ON HIS DAILY WAGE- BOR THE MAINTENANCE Of HIMSELF AMP HE WAS NEVERTHELESS UNABLE 1£> LEAVE THE IMPLOy AHD-JtJ RESIST ARBITRARY AMD UNFAIR TREATMENT. UNION WAS ESSEAJTlALTcGtf laborers opportunity to VEAL OJ EQUALITY WITH THEiR. employer.* f, ^MDUSTRlAl (MiOMiSM MGR *AT BertMM<a?It15 START AMcWfi THE 1RA*JSft>«T woftKfRS. V&MfEAft.HAftSaRIHAi/ AP*U..ie&.MOVSrftlAL ACCtiXHVS ItC*.ATOLL CP *9,000WDftKCAS KILLED ON THE JOB • ■unf TEAre.MAfiXOF Ctn3ANISK> M8oR iSfMfiM/owiAMl. Ja«/9T»/TKe t/VON iA&l tiHCM e^YtMd "This 16 TH6 HAT (MUM MKt. loot ft* rr Mifcv ySvaiwt BoVAHatJ H I men and women not to produce a full day’s work. “The trouble with this-charge is—it is not true," Soder strom said. “We say to the employer, bring on your improved machinery, bring on your tools, we will use them, but... de mand our full share of the revenue which will come from the increased production through our toil.” RUTH TAYLOR SAYS: To the Editor: The following: arjicte grew out of a conversation I had with the Secretary of Commerce on my last trip to Washington. Mr. Wallace’s viewpoint on this subject was so interesting to me that I asked him to put it on paper for you, which he graciously consented to do. RUTH TAYLOR. ON GROWING UP By The Hon. Henry A. Wallace. Secretary of Commerce Miss Taylor has asked me what I think is the greatest need of the country today. I replied: "Our gr«atst need is to grow up.” She then asked: “What do you mean by growing up?” Wherefore this short statement on "maturity. A mature person is one who can carry responsibility not merely to day or tomorrow, nor next week nor next month, but month after month and year after year. But along with this sense of everlast ing responsibility must go a sense of forbearance, of tolerance. My father in speaking of certain farm leaders used to say, “They are the good old wheel horses,” In othur words they carried responsi bility year after year. They knew the common objective. Nobody needed to tell them what to do. When young they had early learned what field ought to be plowed and when. They carried this responsibility straight through the season and so as young men they came to be looked upon as mature people and after they be came farm owners the community placed responsibility on them. Today as regional, group and national conflicts multiply, we dis cover it is not sufficient merely, to carry responsibility year after year, but it is also essential to catch the, other fellow's point of view, A great German mathematician had carved on his tombstone the simple saying “One must turn things around.” The capacity to look at the problem from the other | man's point of view is perhaps the most needed quality in the world today. Tolerance need not make us wishy-washy. As a matter of fact any pecson who is used to carrying responsibility year after year, will never be wishy-washy. Ail of this means merely that we need now a widespread educational i program in certain character fun ! damentals—those character funda. ! mentals which will cause us to be . con-.a mature in an individual in a group and in a national sense. After every great war there is a widespread tendency to revert to I childish habits. A certain amount of this kind of thing may be for giveable in the first few months aftar a great war. In its extreme form it is found in the excesses of the peacetime celebration of the Day of Armistice. It is time now to put away these excesses which are characteristic of childhood. This education cannot come too soon if we are to save those Amer ican values which we want most today as we confront the possibil ity of the biggest boom and the most serious bust this nation has e\er seen. WORKING IT OUT By FRANCES PERKINS Any labor man who read the daily papers in recent weeks can not but be startled at the evidence of anti-Semitism and anti-Jewish prejudice in many parts of Europe. The sympathy of all right thinking decent people goes out to human beings who find their lives and opportunities devastated by preju dices over which they have no con trol and which spring out of base racial and religious reactions. One of the most immoral prac tices which men perpetrate against one another is the punishing, even the execution and imprisonment of, innocent people in retaliation for a crime or wrongdoing of another in dividual who^cannot be apprehend ed. Such was the destruction of Lidice and the assassination of all its inhabitants because some one unknown person had assassinated a German police administrator. And yet the newspapers continue to carry news frequently that "nine Jews have been seized and impris oned as reparation" for some of fense, imaginary or real, commit ted by an unknown person. One reads that Jewish people are driv en out of their homes, one reads that property seised by the Ger mans has not been returned to them. These are tragic and dra matic occurrences which indicate that there must be many other in dividual and almost intolerable suffering taking place not only among the displaced persons but tmong people who have no securi ty in their homes and in their occu pations. The sympathy which all Ameri cans feel for these people is very real but the British Foreign Minis ter, Mr. Bevin, recently put his fin ger on a defect in American sym pathy when he pointed out that although official and unofficial American groups are urging imme diate opening up of Palestine for the immigration of European Jews that there is no corresponding invi tation to European Jews who find life intolerable to come to the Unit ed States either freely or in super vised negotiated settlements. This is a point of conscience with Amer icans. We shall have to think about it. The Census Bureau says that 58.000,000 people are working for wages today, with 2,000,000 more in the army. And in moat parts of the country there is a shortage of labor. This is a period of full em ployment, temporary perhaps, but real. Is this perhaps the time to consider ways by which more ha rassed Jewish people can be given refuge in this country? MINE OPERATORS PAY MILLIONS INTO UMW WELFARE-PENSION FUND (Continued from Page 1) Morrell and Mr. Lewis will each name a trustee; then the two trus tees will select the third. Meanwhile, the UMW negotiat ing committee opened conferences here with coal operators, the first such sessions since the Govern ment seised the mines. The confer ences were called bf• Admiral Mo reell. There seemed litstte doubt that Mr. Lewis' minimum terms are those contained in tha Government contract. These called for an hourly pay increase of 181-2 cents for the 400,000 soft coal miners; the 5-cent royalty on each ton of coal for the miners’ welfare and retirement fund, and adoption of a Federal mine safety code. V SS *' CAFETERIAS ■ —»»cm . MMU . •MMO* . OtMUMOOa* . woivm . AltAMtA . KMNM WIRING : UGHTING FIXTURES : REPAIRS APPLIANCES G.E. and Birdseye Lamps * Fireplace Equipment [Fans ★ Phone 3-3749 ECONOMY ELECTRIC COMPIUIY 109 West Sixth Street Charlotte, N. 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