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Building TradesTo Meet In Wilmington The North Carolina Building: Trades Council will hold a meeting Sunday, September 22, at 10 o'clock at 107*4 North Third street in Wil mington, at wrhich time many im portant matters will come up for disusssion and disposal. Building tradesmen state that the meeting will be on$ of the most important to 6e held in the State in some time, due to the many building trades problems building tradesmen are facing today. Matters in connection with the current American Federation of Labor organization campaign will also come before the meeting, it is understood. The building trades men have taken the leading part in organization work during the campaign up to this stage and it is said that they are greatly interest ed in the progress of the campaign from a state-wide standpoint. Charlotte will be represented by a nice delegation which will in clude John Lovett, a local labor man who is also a vice president of the N. C. Federation of Labor, Claude Nolan of the Carpenters and. Joiners of America, J. E. Cuthbert son, president of the Charlotte Building Trades Council; E. L. Stitt, business agent and secretary of the Electrical Workers union, and others. Director Earl R. Brit ton of the Carolinas office of the American Federation of Labor, will also be a visitor and will ad dress the meeting. Most of the Charlotte delegation will leave for Wilmington Saturday. H. L. Rouse of Wilmington is president of the State organization, and H. C. Sawyer is secretary treasurer. * Support your Labor paper—pa tronize Journal Advertisers. 159,786 Workers To Be Cut From Federal Payroll Washington, D. C.—Under new orders of the Budget Bureau, 159, 786 persons on the Federal payroll will be dismissed by November 10. Revised figures set a ceiling of 12.350,709 for the Government’s working force after that date - an over-all cut of 1,290,060 since Fed eral employment hit its wartime peak with Japan's surrender little more than a year ago. The bureau said the decreases were -ordered to absorb partially the 14 per cent pay increase Con | gress voted last session for white collar Federal workers. The white-collar workers—p a r ticularly stenographers, secretaries and clerks—will be hardest hit by the reduction order. Congress, in voting the pay raise, set a ceiling of 528,975 for such workers during the third quarter and the Budget Bureau disclosed that this number will be cut further to 485,030 by the November 16 deadline. The bureau’s announcement that Government personnel ceilings are to be cut by 159,786 by November 16 replaces a previous report that the cut would be 104,400. PACKERS BEGIN LAYOFFS Chicago.—Major packing plants have begun to lay off thousands of workers due to the recent slump in receipts of livestock. Though pack eis here were unable to estimate the number to he affected, reports from Kansas City elated between 1,500 and 2,000 there were re leased in five days. Central Labor Union Notes The regular weekly meeting of Charlotte Central Labor Union was held Thursday night and al though the weather was inclem ent an enthnsiastie crowd was present to take part in the de liberations. President Sterling L. Hicks was back in the chair, following a 15-day visit to the West Coast where he attended the annual convention of the In ternational Brotherhood of Elec trical Workers, which was held in San Francisco. He reports having witnesed a Labor Day pa rade in San Francisco in which some 85,000 members of organ ized labor, both AFL and CIO, participated. Mr. Hicks brought back several San Francisco news papers in which appeared write ups and pictures of the parade. Secretary Efird was at his post and the meeting was called to order at 8 o’clock. The busines session got under way following the invo cation and pledge of allegiance to the flag by the officers and dele gates. Several communications were __•-—— read and acted upon and then came the roll call and reports of local unions. Under The head of good and welfare action was taken to stim ulate greater interest in the cur rent AFL membership drive, which has gotten off to an ex cellent start under the direction of Co-ordinator Earl Britton. It was thought by some of the dele gates that several more organ izers should be assigned to the North Carolina field to work out of Mr. Britton’s Charlotte office and a communication was order ed sent to the North Carolina Federation of Labor executive board outlining this viewpoint. The board will, no doubt, take the matter up with the proper American Federation of Labor ' officials. Plans also were discused for in stituting a pctertt program for the Charlotte Central Labor Union in the weeks ahead, in order that every possible local co-operation may be extended Mr. Britton and , his staff during the organization 1 campaign. i. 0VU W««l JOE VlORKER /nSraopy turn/ ■** 5tcu*try 2. acme A/to Houte ml. l.MMrs wrstve fO**K ^ « 4 sc-UOiut uemaMO uoo*. ** JV6QUA1* (£m/*6 S.am BUD w aatv9, auaetaoua. AAClAL. AMP fteu&OdS AKSUCACO 3.AOtAAOamCMmyOFUAOAHP 9«a/ a rm>o*A» /aMtrrgtw JOAT7A/M pur OMOAMtZAP LAPOt SA*s trCM M POHA If rue wwttes 0FA*emcA stick ro psTve*. puu. it*ermK. apd alum mo VM*Aea*o or hC9 70 SOW PtSCOMO AMP PmuM/TT AMOMS TMOA. AMP THUS PA/OPT TUtm Arre/tnoM mmom tmom GCAL. he > rf * 6iY£' 'LUSURt rue &CT A 9HOmER weuviiii3 yoovt . )ur TO 6£T WM THINGS NOANBTS • ) mu*t ee un/tso. . THAT Guy* A STOOLS Iter A mum UNION na * myiNG to oust us up with Avon ONi* mm U'H'Tt cmrnriAMS UNION' etur Truman Backs AFL Federal Workers In Opposing Indiscriminate Firing St. Paul, Minn.—Increased pay for employes of th'e Federal Gov ernment is one of the major goals of the legislative program drafted for the next Congress, James B. Burns, president of the American Federation of Government Employ es (AFL), told the opening session of that organization’s annual con vention here. At the same time the delegates were cheered by a message from President Truman expressing firm opposition to indiscriminate dis missals of Federal workers in the current program to slash the pay roll. » Conceding that reductions in Federal personnel “are an abso lute necessity,” Mr. Truman de clared, “yet, at the same time we must make sure that we distribute those reductions in such a way that none of the essential services are crippled.” Though he made no specific men tion of the Federal Pay Act of 1946, which requires Federal em ployment be reduced to 1,600,000, the President added that “we must see to it that we do not have any surplus personnel.” In conclusion, his message said: “Your convention is being held at a very important time. Never before in the peacetime history of this Nation have Government em ployes been called on to discharge as difficult and complex duties and responsibilities. Failure to dis charge them effectively would se riously undermine public confi dence in our form of government. We must therefore work together to strengthen our career public service.” Expressing gratification of the President’s message. Mr. Burns told the convention: “That’s exactly the same posi tion we have taken for months. We know that sharp personnel cuts must be made and we don’t want j excess baggage on the Federal pay j roll. But we contend that the arbi- j trary personnel ceiling system | works hardships on many agencies ! that can't operate efficiently with | less personnel. If we are to have j efficient government, we can’t slash our payrolls indiscriminately.” The legislative program placed before the delegates by Mr. Burns is aimed at the following objec tives: 1. An increase of pay commen surate with the real cost of living rise since 1941, including a boost for those now retired. 2. Extension of the Classifica ' tion Act’s benefits to all white-col lar clerical workers, including those in the field service. 3. Prevention of so-called “down grading” in order to cut salaries. 4. Establishment of seniority as a stronger factor in determining who shall be separated from the service and in determining promo tions. 5. Protection of the retirement system, with optional retirement at full annuity after 30 years’ service. 6. Six’ months’ half-pay for those dismissed from the service with five or more years’ service, and commensurate compensation for those with less tenure. Bums did not set a figure for the pay raise to be sought before Con gress this winter, but pointed out living costs from 1941 through last month had risen 45 per cent. “All this means but one thing,” he said, “that Government employ es are again piling up an aceumu BRADLEY ACTS TO ASSURE TRAINING FOR VETERANS Washington, D. C.—Gen. Omar N. Bradley, Administrator of Vet erans Affairs, announced special steps to make sure every disabled veteran seeking education can get into schools this full, regardless of crowded conditions. He has directed all branch and regional offices to use every possi ble resource for the admission of disabled veterans to courses they need to complete their vocational training. Leading all other courses among enrolled veterans was engineering, while mechanics was leading among ithose in job training. Aviation, banking and finance, chiropractic, communications and utilities train ing were the least sought for trades among veterans. NAIL SHORTAGE MORE ACUTE Washington, D. C.— Supplies of nails are still shrinking and whole salers report there is no imme diate prospect’of increasing their stocks. Some expressed belief that manufacturers were refusing to produce nails because they consid ered OPA ceilings too low to make it worth while. lated deficit which is represented by the gap between the purchasing value of their salaries and the nom inal values of the dollars they re ceive. Your national office will again be ready to wage another unrelenting campaign for salary legislation when Congress again convenes.” EXCHANGE STORE 129 S. C0UE9E p\tcts Ri»uC ,-Tiot*' -- *•**•*,"*** *' l*** li»t 4 »* **»l ^ v**nt*’ w^r P—*£ | T'*®** “ ©»«**** rfSi n“'rt' j ftoW ***L *e*. $2#*® e\Z4.» %\i& *11.* tdlrref 0#'5 ft**** I5KAIII.Kl \SKS l.rm.K HKJIS TO OIVE DISABLED BREAKS (Coni mut'd from PiK« 1) ani/ther half million were still to be discharged from the services anJ the hospitals anil almost 100,000 were fitting themselves to fill good jobs under opportunities offered by Public Law lfi, the general related. The employer, he said, should re member “one basic fact” when put ting a handicapped veteran on the pay roll: “The job should be fitted f*o his otmity, rainer tnan to ms aisami 4.v-”' Gen. Bradley was loudly ap plauded when he said the veteran doesn’t want the government to take care of him,” and added: ,fHe must be assisted to return, not to a life of pensions, and in validism, but to an active and pro ductive career among his working fellow Americans, as a self-reliant, self-supporting, self-respertimg nil ixen.” When you have read The Journal pass it on to your neighbor. i Boys Fingertip Warm and sturdy coats so wonderful for Fall and Winter Wear at school. These are made of heavy fleece fabric with quilted rayon lining. Colors are brown and blue. Sizes 10 to 22. Boys Reversible Coats: Fleece fab ric reversing to cotton gabardine. Sizes 12 to 20. 14.95 THE CAROLINASC LARGEST BOYS’ SHOP
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