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CHARLOTTE LABOR JOURNAL A DIXIE FARM NEWS Published Weekly at Charlotte, V. C. Address AU Communications to Post Office Bo* 10«1 Telephones 3-3094 end 4-6602 Office of Publication: 118 Beet Sixth Street. Charlotte. N. C. A. Bulls, Editor end Publish^" W. M. Witter, Associate Editor ■»ter«d second-cUss meil matter Office at Charlotte, N. C.. under the Act* at the Poet March 3. 1079 Official' Orran of the Charlotte Central Labor Union amf Approved by The American. Federation of Labor and the Worth Carolina Federating at Ij*fr>r_ < t ■ • * — CLOSEDSHOPITIS CHANGES TO ANTICLOSEDSHOP ms Yea! A potent pill has been prescribed for North Caro lina Labor, dear reader, by Dr. North Carolina General Assembly, in the form of an anti-closed shop bill (piH>, The dose was administered last week byihurried action of Dr. North Carolina Senate. The bill <pifl) may have been concocted by the “doctors” for usage in a hurried effort to forestall an epidemic of coalstrikeitis, if one should break out in North Carolina, or some other “epidemic ; nobody seems to know. The patient hasn’t b*en hollering (very loudly) with the belly ach%, h^hasn t been running temperatures, nevertheless he has been pronounced ailing. The fact of the matter is the patient has been acting normally for over a half a century with the exception of a very few attacks of strikeitis which he has suffered during ail this time, and it is hard to understand why the physician would put him to bed when his health record and behavior have been far above the average. Several doctors had different diagnoses. One or two were fearful last coalstrikeitis would break out in the State about March 31; they were fgarful that the patient and all of his members would be contaminated by this ailment, when as a matter of fact there isn’t a coal mine infection pit in the entire State large enough to give a doodle-bug the slightest bit of trouble-' They, however, were not given much consolation favorable to their argu ment by the more experienced doctors (legislators); they were coldly ignored by the older physicians who would not go along with them on the coalstrikeitis theory, for the older physicians (legislators) by now had pronounced the patient suffering with closedshopitis. He was sick and needed treatment, they bellowed, and immediate treat ment he must have, they said. The patients’ (Labor’s) closedshopitis must be given drastic potions lest others afflicted with the milder form of openshopitis contract the closedshop form. Ah! No more closedshopitis in this State, they stormed out in arriving at the final decision. No more freedom for North Carolina Labor and North Caro lina Management in arriving at their own working agree ments through collective bargaining in a democratic man ner, they decided. No more labor and management closedsnopuis win r*? toieraieu in nwn v,»nmi», their voice vote to do away with this privilege of North Carolinians who sent them down to Raleigh to look after the best interests of all North Carolinians! It is not what the patient wants—we are the doctors who are prescribing the cure for closedshopitis in North Carolina. (This is what the doctor meant when he sealed the verdict for Labor, if The Journal sees the issue clearly.) Closedshopitis has been raging in Washington for more than 100 years. The printers and the publishers there have been infected with it all during this time, and it hasn't made any of them take to their beds yet. Josephus Daniels has been afflicted with it for a long, long time and he told the doctor that it hadn’t hurt him in the least! Frank Graham has seen it, been in it and experi enced its every phase and forn: and he told the doctor that it had never hurt him, neither had he seen anyone it had hurt, but to the contrary it had helped all workers and their employers alike; Capua Waynick advised against even prescribing for such a harmless symptom as closedshipitis; C. A. Fink of the North Carolina Federation of Labor said that cloaedahopitis has been prevalent here for a long time and that it had helped its victims rather than made them sick; and Roy Lawrence of the CIO Textile Workers Union told the doctor that they had better begin prescrib ing against Communismitis instead of against American closedshopitis. And we’ll be darned if the doctor didn’t order his pill to destroy closedshopitis or; unionitis instead of any of the other symptoms that had been suggested by those in position to know. Therefore, The Charlotte Labor Journal predicts that there will be a widespread scramble to change physicians as this new epidemic of antidosedahopitis begins affecting the ranks of organized and unorganised workers and man agement in this great State where American freedom was born within a stone’s-throw of The Journal office more than a century and a half ago. Ere long the doctor’s patients may grow sicker; the bellyaches may become more pronounced, the temperatures may rise to new highs, political storms may rise. Then new physicians may be called in and net until then will the patient pass through the crisis, unless the doctor de cides to change his pill by prescribing one that it not so caustic. . The head men over at Raleigh can do this by calling a special session of the General Assembly and making null and void the bitter potion they have pre scribed for North Carolina Labor, and perhaps Manage ment Forgotten Inventor i THADDEUSl 1796 -1886 Ill l830.r«/MVMi» m PLATFORM SCALE •mStTW£W€16MTS _I _MCCUMTUV A LANDMARK Vm comma... A f fttWHUTH \AMStUfR/ \ IS YEARS Of INVWTtNI touts OF AIL CmctT/fS f ...nn to nm&mmust BUILT THRIVING Businas... irmtaumc UtBASKttS/Stf Foaovtaioo yiAfisf BUY YOUR EXTRA U.S. SWINGS BOND, NOVA AFL Says Portal Pay Issue Being Misused Washington, D. C. — Charges that some members of Congress have seised upon the portal-to portal pay issue a* sn excuse to present legislation which would cram down the throats of the American people new laws which would shackle all labor and wipe out the gains scored by organised workmen over a long period of years were made before a House Judiciary Sub-committee. Walter J. Mason, a legislative spokesman for the American Fed eration of Labor, declared these anti-labor proposals go far beyond the question of travel time and would “nullify” the Wage-Hour Act as an effective national stand ard for minimum wages. “In our opinion,!* Mr. Mason told the sub-committee, “this sit uation is being used as an excuse to emasculate certain laws passed to improve the standards of work ers everywhere.” Mr. Mason told the group that the measures introduced by labor foes were aimed particularly at collective bargaining. He said they would pave the way to defi nitions less liberal than had been obtained by the unions themselves “in thousands of cases.” Mr. Mason contended that one pending, bill would destroy en forcement of the Wage-Hour Act; by freding employers of liability to violations unless it could be shown that they had not acted “in good faith.” “The enactment of the proposed legislation,” - he asserted, “would put the American workers hack several generations to the time when they were paid 91 per day, regardless of the number of hours they worked. “In the cue of existing agree ments, most anions felt that they were bound by the terms of un derstanding with employers reached in negotiations, and were therefore under obligation to honor such contractual terms for the period covered by these agree ments. This has been consistent with the long-established policy of the American Federation of Labor opposed to resorting to courts for the settlement of is sues which are proper subjects of collective bargaining.1* Discussing the portsd-to-portal pay iuue, Mr. Muon told the subcommittee that few suits faSued on this subject had been introduced by AFL unions. “Most AFL affiliates," hd said, “have preferred to present their claims directly to the employers concerned and to make every ef fort to reach an agreement over the definition of ‘time worked’ in collective bargaining, negotia tions." Summarzing the antilabor bills, Mr. Muon declared they are ob jectionable because they interfere with collective bargaining by, ex cluding “certain activities now considered u compenuble work ing time' in thousands of collec tive bargaining agreements” and endangers labor standards by re strictive defnition of compensable working time.” He added: j “I don’t think any portal pay legislation is needed. I thin\ the Supreme Court could handle this problem very well.” As the House hurried with its hearings, Senate Republican lead ers were arranging to bring a portal bill to the floor at the earliest opporiuhity. This was confirmed by Senator Taft of Ohio, chairman of the Senate Re publican Steering Committee. MORE OUTPUT BEST ANTIDOTE TO INFLATION, GREEN ASSERTS New York City. — "More and more production is the simple answer to the threat of infla tion,” AFL President William Green declared in an article is sued in the mid-March publication of Liberty Magazine. . “I Relieve this is the answer also * the threat of a serious recession in both business and in dustry,” the labor chieftain said. Inflation, the major threat of the moment, he added, would rob labor of its gains which have been reg istered over a long period of years. "I believe thoroughly in private enterprise, and in private enter prise for labor as well as man agement,” he said. "We welcome the removal of price controls, as permitting management and la bor to return to real collective bargaining. “The strike it a weapon which labor mutt keep for its own pro tection. but which should not be used except as a last resort. Within 12 months after V-J Day, the AFL had won more than a billion dollars* gain in yearly in come for American workers, en tirely without, a strike. A 30-hour week) is the goal of the AFL, Mr. Green pointed out, adding "labor looks forward to shorter hours and to better pay. American industry can afford to pay its workers nowadays more than workers get in any other country. “The way out of the present impasse in which America finds itself is voluntary co-operation,** Mr. Green concluded. “Only by working together can manage ment and labor produce the great est number, with the minimum of bureaucratic intervention.” N. Y. JOBS INCREASE Albany, N. Y.—December man ufacturing employment in New York reached 1398,977, according to estimates submitted to State' Industrial Commissioner Edward Corsi. This was an increase of 151,298 workers over the previous year. i LAWS ALONE CANNOT MAKE BARGAINING FULLY EFFEC TIVE, CED TOLD NATION Washington, D. C. — Warning that “legislation alone cannot make collective bargaining work,” the Committee for Economic De velopment, an organization of non - reactionary businessmen, called for the creation by law of a permanent national Labor Management Council to promote industrial peace. The CED proposal featured a report made public by Paul G. Hoffman and Eric Johnston after an eight-month’s study of labor relations problems. The report did not endorse such anti-labor legislation as banning the closed shop, industry-wide bargaining and secondary boycotts, which will be covered in a special study by the CED, The proposed Labor-Manage ment Council would be appointed by the President, subject to Sen ate confirmation, and would work with a greatly strengthened Fed eral Mediation Service, which the CED also recommended. Two other recommendation* were that no strike be called or strike vote taken until collective bargaining has had a chance to function and until the mediation service has had a chance to settle the dispute; and that differences arising from interpretation of the terms of collective bargaining contracts most be submitted to arbitration. “The recommendations in this report,” Mr. Hoffman said, “are based upon the premise that the public has a vested interest in in dustrial peace, that labor dis putes are no longer the sole con cern of management and labor and, in consequence, the general public, through government, has an obvious right to impose rules upon both management and labor which will promote peaceful bar gaining.” Re emphasised, however, that legislation alone will not make collective bargaining work. 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