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Editorial CHARLOTTE LABOR JOURNAL * DIXIE FARM NEWS __ Published Weekly at Charlotte, N. C. Address All Communications to Post Office Box 1061 Telephones 3-3004 and 4-5602 Office of Publication: 118 East Sixth Street, Charlotte, N. C. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (2.00 per year, payable in advance or 5c per copy. ADVERTISING RATES for commercial advertising reasonable. H. A. Stalls, Editor and Publisher W. M. Witter, Associate Editor Entered as second-class mail matter September 11, 19*1, at the Post Office at Charlotte, N. C., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1670 Official Organ of the Charlotte Central Labor Union and Approved by The American Federation of Labor and the ^_North Carolina Federation of Labor 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 m the columns of The Labor Journal will be gladly corrected when called to the attention of the publisher. Correspondence and Open Forum opinions solicited. TYPOGRAPHICAL GROUP LAUNCHES PROJECT FOR VETS’ HOMES Members of the Chicago Typographical Union, No. 16 (AFL), have organized for purchase of 164 acres here as the site for a 1,600-unit residential development for vet erans. It is a nonprofit organization and already the con tracts for the project have been signed. The land will be improved with 1,000 single family dwell ings and several apartment buildings and group houses to contain 600 units, all of which will be individually owned. Business buildings will be owned and operated by the as sociation, it was said. The ultimate total cost of the big privately owned vet erans’ housing project is expected to exceed $10,000,000, with an estimated eventual population of between 3,900 and 4,600. Ground is expected to be broken next spring. The project is only semi-cooperative. The association will own and operate the project as a whole, but each member will own and hold title to his own home, which he will acquire from the association. Economies effected through mass buying of materials, architectural services, construction costs, and financing will be passed along to members of the association. “One of the purposes of the association is to operate and maintain the community after the homes have been built,’f said Robert B. MacDonald, president. “Certain parts of the development, exclusive of the home sites, will remain the property of the association. These will include park and playground space, roads, utilities, shopping area, and other facilities. “Each home owner will own a proportionate share of as sociation property. The cost of maintaining, repairing, and operating the community property will be met out of dues or, where necessary, assessments.” GOOGE TELLS OF SOUTHERN GAINS Tremendous gains scored by the American Federation of Labor in its drive to add 1,000,000 members in 12 Southern States within a year were reported to the AFL Convention meeting in Chicago by George L. Googe, director of the southern campaign. Reviewing the drive up to this time, Mr. Googe told the convention that 614 new charters have been granted to local unions and more than 180,000 members have joined the ranks of the AFL. The campaign, he said, has faced and is overcoming the traditional southern opposition to trade unionism, but de spite difficulties placed in paths of organizers, more than 400,000 Negro workers have become union members. “Our campaign is based on a distinct understanding,” he told the cheering delegates, “that there will be no discrimi nation among workers based on race, color or creed. We in the South want for our workers just as high a pay scale as in any other part of our nation. “We resent the type of misrepresentation made in Con gress about our southern labor. More and more the tendency is spreading throughout the South to keep the reactionaries —the enemies of labor—at home, and to elect liberals who understand the problems faced by the workingman.” Mr. Googe told the delegates that the southern workers are up against three types of employers—the intelligent w'ho recognize the value of cooperation with unions, those who will deal with unions only if they see no other recourse, and those who “under no circumstances will accept collective bargaining.” Mr. Googe recited in detail. State by State and city by city, the gains registered by the AFL unions throughout the South since the opening of the southern compaign. New contracts have been negotiated, wages have been increased and working conditions have been improved generally. He recited to the convention a long list of locals in scattered cities, covering every branch of the AFL, which have scored important gains. LA mm AND MANAuEMENl JOIN DK1YE rUK H1 AN Eight leaders of American Federation of Labor unions have united with management of the restaurant industry in New York to raise a $30,000 fund for the Hebrew Shel tering and Immigrant Aid Society. This fund will be used to help HIAS continue and expand its assistance to the thousands of displaced and homeless Jews who are peeking to emigrate and reconstruct their lives outside the borders of Europe. Two years ago, the unions and management co-operated in a similar campaign on behalf of HIAS. Contributions amounted to $20,000. This year, they have increased their goal 50 per cent. The drive will culminate in a dinner to be held in the latter part of November. UNION LABEL SHOW PLANS RADIO BROADCAST Marking the opening of the AFL’a big Union Label and Industrial Exhibition here Tuesday, October 29, a nation wide broadcast will be presented from 12 to 12:30 noon on the opening day over the facilities of the National Broad casting Co. The show will be open through November 3. Among the speakers will be Gov. Phil M. Donnelly of Missouri; Mayor A. P. Kaufmann of St. Louis; AFL Presi dent William Green, AFL Secretary-Treasurer George Meany, and I. M. Omburn, director of the exhibition and Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL Union Label Trades De partment. The union label exhibition is one of the most important events in the history of Labor LIE INSISTS LABOR HAS VOICE IN WORLD PEACE Montreal. — me international Labor Organization haa hte right to a«k that the five major nations obtain an agreement aa quickly as possible, Trygve Lie, Secretary General of the United Nations, told delegates to the ILO Conference here. American labor is represented at the conference by Robert J. Watt, of the American Federation of La bor. With each of the “Big Five” holding the right of veto, Mr. Lie explained, the United Nations is powerless to act as referee between them. Agreement, therefore, is absolutely, vital and imposes on each of the permanent members of the Security Council an obligation to seek it among themselves^ he said. Mr. Lie had praise for the work of the ILO, which IS m process of becoming one of the affiliated or ganisations of the United Nations. In recent years, he said, the ILO had made % great contribution to ; ward solving wartime labor prob lems of the free nations and In preparing for peace based on so cial justice and social security. In pursuing its objective aa laid down in Article 65 of the United Nations Charter “to promote higher stand ards of living, full employment and conditions of economic progress and development,” the United Na tions will have to depend to a great extent on other bodies, and in me ilu ii nas an organization of proved efficiency in which em ployer* and worker* a* well aa Government* are represented, he remarked. , Increased prices and the necessi ty of higher wages to keep pace with rising living costs “will be checked only by economic collapse” Edward J. Phelan, newly elected director of the International Labor Office, advised the delegates. He warned particularly against “wage increases, arising from in flationary pressures, which are in effect agreements between employ er* and workers to increase their money incomes, the real effect of which will be wiped out by price increases, except to the xtent that either party can gain by squeezing the receivers of fixed incomes and those who are too weakly organ ized to share fully in the general advance.” Phelan distingu i s h e d between .this type of wage rise and “in , crease* arising, from increases in productivity and from agreed deci sions to increase the share going to labor at the expense of the share going to profit.” “It is essential,” he said, “both in equity and in order to maintain the level of demand necessary for full employment, that workers should share in increased produc tivity; the division of increased in dustrial returns is the proper sub ject of collectve bargaining and wage determnation.” ARMY AND NAVY ADOPT STRICT ECONOMY RULES Washington, U. U—New econo my moves by the Army and Navy, forced by recent Federal budgetary limitations, threaten wholesale dis missals of both official and civilian employes of both departments. It was estimated the slashes in personnel may affect the jobs of some 85,000 Army officers and { 40,000 Navy civilian employes— mostly shipyard workers. The I Army announced regulations which ' may speed the discharge of half of ^ its officers’ corps of approximate ly 170,000. The Navy, according to Rear Admrial Frederick G. Crisp, chief | of industrial relations, will be | forced to drop between 30,000 and 40,000 more civilian employes by; the end of the year. It is setting up provisions to recognize senior-1 ity in certain cases. SLEEPING CAR PORTERS ~ CONDEMN RED ACTIVITY Chicago—A strong stand con demning the Communist Party was taken by the delegates to the bi ennial convention of Sleeping Car Porters (AFL) in session here. The action came after AFL Pres ident William Green warned the porters that Red agents were out to exploit Negro workers in the belief that they were uneducated and could be led astray, The Communist Party’s program and practices, the porters’ resolu tion declared, were in conflict with the interests of thid country and were a threat t0 the trade un In announcing the program, tne Army said that "stringent budge tary limitations’* made a reduction in its officer corps “imperative,” the move also was prompted by the “desirability of having a complete ly volunteer officer corps." Sepa ration dates for many officers, in cluding Wacs, will be advanced by six months or more. The Navy outlined its economy plans in a circular letter to all Naval and Marine Corps activi ties, signed by Under-Secretary John L. Sullivan. The Department, he said, had been “very much dis turbed lately by the loss to the Navy of highly skilled mechanics and other valuable employes re sulting from the drastic reductions in force that have been necessary on account of lack of appropria tions." f ion movement and to the cause of the Negro. The convention also went on record against alliance with the World Federation of Trade Unions because of its acceptance of the Communist Trade Union Interna tionale. FOOD PROSPECTS GOOD Washington, D. C.—The U. S. Department of Agriculture claims that civilian food supply prospects for 1947 are as good as 1946 and estimates that the per capita con sumption is 10 per cent higher than before the war. THE MARCH OF LABOR i. 1 1 i CAN HAPPEN ne«e/ AN ie-14 WAGE iNC«ASE DEMAND B,’ we LWI1B? siteiwiTR*<eRs-cio cr 1WC BJPPAUP. N.y. <2ar uweei. co. oar - not ib^.4 But a 214 AN tkvft Raise T=bR we WORKERS. 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