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I Central Labor Union Notes Charlotte Central Labor Union held Ita regular weekly meeting Thursday night despite incle ment weather and considerable basinets was disposed of in the dray of acting upon communi cations and the hearing of re ports of delegates from affili ated unions. The tenor of these report# was that Charlotte un ions are pushing forward in ne gotiating contracts which call for increased wages and better working conditions. J. A. Scoggins reported that a new contract has Just hrea consummated with the Duke Fewer Company in behalf of the I, H. K. W. local, linemen and servicemen; and.Claude No lan reported for his Carpenters’ local, stating that new contracts ■re being signed with rentrac ton which call for increases. The Typgraphiea) anion report ed that contracts hare been negotiated with the com words 1 shops which are considerably better than the old agreements. A new board of trustees was nominated and elected for the new year, they being Brothers Pettus, Nolan and Sister Elrod. A lengthy communication was received from AFL President William Green informing local • labor about the many anti-labor proposals and bills now being put to Congress and Mr. Green urged that all North Carolina unions study these measures and lodge vigorous protests with ' their Congressmen in Washington. His request will Hi complied with. GREEN SCORES MEA8URE8 (Continued From Par* 1) feet onet. In developing the wider concept of free enterprise, some unions have made mistake* as have some managements.” Describing the union as “an es sentia] economic, social and polit ical agency in a democratic so ciety,” Mr. Green warned: "Its faults cannot be remedied t>y limiting its functions and, in addition, that course woud result n lower standards of living &for two-thirds of the populaj^gg^fc “The supreme test of democrat is statesmanship is to find how government may best serve our citizens and help private insti functions.” Send in your renewal to The Labor Jetetal today! PRINTERS TO MEET SUNDAY I The regular Monthly Meeting I of Charlotte Typographical Un I ion will he heM Sunday after* I noon at 2 o’clock in the Labor TeMple at 217 1-2 N. Tryou. DORIA TO GO ON AIR Milwaukee, Wia. — Anthony Doria, one of labor’* beet known orators, and International Secre tary-Treasurer of the UAW-AFL, appeared as labor’s principle representative on the Midwest Forum of the Air over radio station WIND, Sunday, January 26, at 8:00 p. m. -mfcjub.e, i was ‘.‘Would In Jus'ryWRr Ij^Q^ted by Changes in ' -the Watfne-r-Other participants in thWdP|Rjj^tsion were representatives of octIRrss. Send in your subscription to The Journal today! REDDY RATES m at the School Canteen By taking over chores at home he creates lei sure ... so that the older school giris don’t always have to hurry straight home from school to help Mother. s * t With Reddy’s help, Mother has her household task finished before canteen hours start. Chances are she will leave her dinner cooking in the automatic oven and enjoy some after noon recreation of her own I Why not make a check-up of electric facilities in your home as the first step in making Reddy serve you more fully in 1947 than ever before? ' AV NAT SCHACHN££ and JACK AlDIANIAH t mm Hircneo AfvoeoN rue MfONAN CAN. NO OCetH’T KNOW 10 9AUK 9H0WH9 /N9/P*. OK ***** 7vert* so wo... Out ns* on Ntfmoyf M4TIMMI lAtem M««M T Green Asks Mayors To Aid In {Settling Labor Disputes PUNITIVE LEGISLATION INDUCIVE TO STRIFE, HE TELLS MEETING Washington* D. C.—An appeal to civic leaders through* cut tjie Nation to demonstrate strong, constructive com munity leadership in supporting the medium of collective bargaining to avert strikes was sounded here by AFL Pres ident William Green. Addressing the Annual Conference of Mayors, represent ing 200 cities, Mr. Green declared: “I would like to see more emphasis placed upon the need for settling labor-management disputes locally, instead of in Washington. You, the Mayors of our great industrial cities, have a great opportunity now to promote the cause of industrial peace in this regard. MSome cities have managed to remain practically free of strikes because of constructive community leadership in preventing collective bargaining from breaking down. These cities have pioneered successfully in enlisting the services of outstanding representatives of management, labor and the public in the community for conciliation, mediation and voluntary arbitration. ~ "fcvery strike is settled even tually, one way or another. The interests of all concerned, in cluding: the public, are promoted when~ the dispute is settled be fore a strike occurs. This can be accomplished sucessfulty only by voluntary methods, not by compulsion. And I am convinced that such voluntary methods function more effectively at the local level, right at the scene of the dispute, than when the issues are transported for determina tion to some Federal bureau in Washington. Mr. Green lashed out vigorously at the large number of punitive labor bills introduced in the pres ent Congress. Such antilabor legislation, he told the Mayors, not only will fail to cure labor strife, but will tend only to in crease conflict. “Suppose we take some of the most highly advertised new leg islative proposals before Con gress and look them over," he said. “There are bills to abolish the so-called closed shop and all other forms of union secusity; bills to subject unions to court injunc tions; bflls to make unions liable to damage suits in the courts; bills to --prohibit - industrywide col lective bargaining; bills to pun ish unions for jurisdictional strikes amd secondary boycotts and bills subjecting unions to prosecution for alleged unfair labor practices. “In vetoing the old Case Bill last June, President Truman said he had considered whether it would -have prevented or short ened the strikes Which had oc curred in the preceding few months. ’Judged .solely from this standpoint, the President said, ‘I am sure any fair-minded man would have to admit that it would have failed completely.* ^ “I say to you now that the same verdict must be rendered on the new version* of the Case Bill and on the whole conglamor ation of wild and woolly, ill-con sidered and oppressive anti-labor bills now flooding the Congres sional hoppers. * “Each an every one of them •will fail completely to reduce or prevent strikes because they Ig nore the Hnaic reuses of strikes, and because they are directed primarily toward weakening, re .’-'A 1 stricting or punishing the trade union movement. “In hia annual message to Con* gress a few weeks ago, Presi dent Truman said: ‘We must re member, in reviewing the record of disputes in 1946, that manage ment shares with labor the re sponsibility for failure to reach agreements which would have averted strikes.’ “The trouble with the legisla tion we are reviewing here is that it deliberately forgets this im portant point. “In the name of labor peace, the most reactionary elements in our. economic life and their Con gressional supporters are attempt ing to suppress the democratic right of the nation’s workers tc band together through their trade unions for effective protection of their, economic freedom and I economic progress. “I predict that if such meas ures are enacted the result inev itably will be industrial warfare rather than peace.” The trade union movement, Mr. Green asserted, »* the instrument through which the Nation’s work ers exercise industrial democracy for the advancement of their way of life and “for the protection of human values against the crush ing impact of our gigantic ma chine age.” And, he added: “History will show that the free trade union movement hai ! helped considerably to make ' America and the American people as strong and as free as they are.” I ----- LABOR—USA (Continued From Page 1) reives a standard wage, without overtime and without regard to work hour. Senator Morse asserted that, where practical, in any particu lar business, “if the employer and the union, in good faith collective bargaining, reach a workable an I nual wage guarantee program, 1 think it will help remove one ol the great fears—-the fear of in security. I would like to givf yeo my conception of what ii required in the interest of nation jal welfare; and Oat is to set that no groups in this country I are permitted to exploit the mass j of our people for their own set Halt interests." SUPREME COURT 0 (Continued From Page jections before the District Court. Mr. Hopkins said he had, and went on to claim that even if he was wrong about the flaws in the charges, the fines were too high to be allowed to stand. He said they were the highest in history, that Mr. Lewis was fined twice what Congress provided as a punishment for a strike against the Government, and the UMW was fined 700 times the penalty set by Congress. Mr. Pad way took up the argu ment and addressed himself to the biggest issue in the case— fht? UMW contention that the Clayton and the Norris-La Guar dia Acts both say no court shall have power to issue a restrain ing order or injunction in any labor case, except under condi- j tions which were not met in the coal case. The Government maintains that these acts do not stop the Gov ernment from getting labor in junctions, when acting as a sov ereign to preserve the general welfare. Mr. Padway told the court that he was astounded to see that the ! Government relied strongly upon the Supreme Court decision in the famous Debs case, in which the noted Socialist leader ' was en joined 25 years ago. He recalled that thid case was a great scan dal which touched off years Jof protest against the abuse of pow er by Federal judges. Mr. Padway said Representa tive James A. Beck—once solici tor general—wanted to save the Government’s power to get labor injunctions, but that his amend ment was voted down, so that it was plain Congress did not mean the Government to be able to have courts order unions, not to strike. Mr. Padway said It was true that Representative La Guardia told the House the act would not apply to Government employes, but added that there was no such issue in the coal case. “Why r.ot?” asked Justice Frankfurter. Mr. Padway said it was because the Government expressly said the miners were not Government em ployes. The Government was only U possession of the mines, he went on—answering questions from Justices Vinson, Black, Douglas, Reed, Burton, Black and Frank furter—but the mine owners paid the taxes, paid the operating cost and got the profits. LABOR IS AROUSED (Continued FromPige 1) pendent railroad brotherhoods and other labor groups for an inten sive study of the potential ef fects. of proposed legislation la that State and of national scope. As these and similar other de velopments were being reported from various sections of the coun try Senators of opposing politi cal faiths were presenting widely different views on the solution of labor-management strife. They were in agreement, however, against granting the Government compulsory power in labor dis putes. I Senator James E. Murray, Dem ocrat, of Montana, appearing be fore the opening session of the newly constituted Senate Labor and Welfare Committee, proposed a “go-slow” approach. He sag* / «gestel creation of a temporary tabor relations commission along the lines frequently advocated by President Truman, a plan which, he said, hb believed would eschew compulsion and at th* same time preserve freedom and democracy. Senatb& JoSefhi H. Ball, Re publican, of Minnesota, author of a bill beariHt>hi^Jname, a meas ure closely followpfcthe pattern laid down in the vetoed Case Bill, dealt with the proposed creation of a federal mediation board, a 60-day waiting period in certain disputes, the outlawing of juris dictional strikes and those result ing from secondary boycotts, the banning of the ^aqnxer Act pro tection to foremenfejMgMhe regis tration of finacnes ana other mat ters by trade unions. Both wit nesses are members of the Senate Labor Committee. -si---..•■i ---- ■ WIRING : LIGHTING FIXTURES : REPAIRS APPLIANCES G.E. and Birdseye Lamps ★ Fireplace Equipment Fans ★ Phone 3-3749 ECONOMY ELECTRIC COMPANY 109 West Sixth Street Charlotte, N. C. /». C+njotf FOREMOST PASTEURIZED MILK Farm Fresh Milk—Foremost Ice Cream Foremost Farms, Inc. PHONES 7116 — 7117 Some of The Things We Lend Money on Diamonds Watches Jewelry Men’s nothin* Tools Silverware SkotGaaa Rifle* Pistol* Trank* la? 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