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Local Printers To Build Typographical Home CENTRAL LABOR UNION CALLS UPON ALL LABOR MEN TO VOTE IN PRIMARY Charlotte Central Labor Union meetings during the past several weeks have been largely attended, due to interest created by the in* traduction of an anti-closed shop bill in the North Carolina Gener al Assembly several weeks ago and also to the battle waged by North Carolina Labor in its efforts to prevent passage of the anti-anion legislation. Local AFL officials have been extending every co-operation to the State AFL, headed by1 Presi dent C. A. Fink, who was present nil during the Legislature’s 1947 session. Many delegations have gone to Raleigh from Charlotte to be on hand for testifying be fore the various committees and the reports of these committees have been conning back before the local American Federat'on of La bor unions regarding the activi ties of the legislative committees and also the attitudes and actions 1 of individual members of the Gen eral Assembly. So, now, Charlotte Labor has a pretty good idea who its friends are and w&Pits ene mies are. At the last regular weekly meeting plans were made and put into effect to keep an active leg* ieltive committee listed in the reg-j ular order of business and no i doubt &is committee will have much to report to the regular weekly meetings of the Central Body henceforth. The legislative commitee, head ed by Dan Anderson of the Team sters and Chauffeurs Charlotte local, has already gone into ac tion and has prepared and had printed a pamphlet calling upon all members of organised Labor in Charlotte and vicinity to reg ister and vote in the future elec tions in Charlotte and Mecklea-1 burg county. Locations of the va rious city ward^, their respective registrars, addresses and phone numbers are shown on the pam phlet. A copy of the pamphlet is reproduced for the benefit of Journal readers on page two of this issue. Read it thoroughly and ascertain where your voting precinct is located and be sure to register for the current city pri mary election, if you have not al ready attended to this very im portant duty as a North Carolina citisen. The Central Labor Union legis lative committee has distributed several thousands of the pamph lets to members of the AFL lo cal unions and very shortly will have other information to trans mit to the unions. Keep yourself informed as to . what is going on politically and otherwise by send ing yoiir delegates to the Central Labor Union meetings regularly. Each Thursday night at 8 o’clock during the summer months is the time and the place is Labor Tem ple, 317 1-2 North Tryon street. ^ I i m >.r*. _ tUiSifK SHthBtUh “ It Pays To Trade With DOGGETT LUMBER CO. 211 E. Pirklf*. Pk« *17* Charlotte Typographical Union recently voted to lay plans- for the buying or building of a labor tem ple as the home for the union and plans toward this end were fur thered at the Sunday nieefng when plans to incorporate the project were formulated. A board of directors will be nominated and elected shortly and application for the charter will be made. The regular mohthly meeting of Charlotte Typographical Union was held Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock in Labor Temple with President Claude L. Aibea, Vice President CL 3. Pridgen and Sec retary O. N. Burgess at their posts. Considerably business was acted upon during the regular order of business and discussion of the recently-passed anti-closed shop biir by the North Carolina General Assembly was given a period for feports and discussion. As a result Charlotte Typos will offer every co-operation to the North Carolina Federation of La bor in its efforts to have this an ti-union piece of legislation re pealed or else have it held uncon j stitutional by the Supreme Court. It is the general belief of all or ganized labor that if the law is ever appealed to and heard by the the Supieme Court in a test case it will be declared null and void.. The matter of getting all mem bers to register and vote was also discussed arid Charlotte Typo graphical Union will co-operate | in every way with the Charlotte Central Labor Union in its cur rent campaign to get the votes out for the coming primary elec tion April 28. Nominations were made for delegates to the May meeting of the Virginia-Carolinas-Diatrict of Columbia Typographical confer ence which will be held in Wash ington, D. C. Paul White and J. T. Primm pulled these plums and | will represent ythe Charlotte local. Plan To Defeat Reds Proposed By President of AFL Waslrngton, D. C.—-Legislation to outlaw the Communist party in the United States would be un constitutional and would not prove a solution to combatting Red influences in this country, AFL President William Green declared at a public hearing be fore the House Committee on Un-American Activities. “TW American Federation of Labor believes that the objectives sought in these bills connot be achieved by this type of legis lation,” Mr. Cir*en said. "It is altogether alien to the spirit and letter of our Constitution to out law ideas. The Constitution of the United States bolds invio late the inalienable right of every American to believe what he will and to speak freely what he be lives. “Beliefs, be they political or religious, or, as in the case of Communism, a combination of both, may not be outlawed Free dom of Speech of or the press likewise may not be abridged by Congress. , “The very strength of dcmoc •racy lies in its unswerving ad herence to the rights of free speech, free inquiry and free in terchange of ideas. Democracy in America is ‘ready to meet and to best any alien doctrine with out fear and without cowering. “The very weakness of com munism or any other dictatorship is that it cannot survive the prac tice of these basic freedoms, that it must rely on the rule of force and the rule of fe-'r to cow the people it dominates into submis sion. To surrender an iota of our basic constitutional freedoms is to detract from the very strength that makes democracy unassailable and to confess of a weakness in the democratic .order which does not in reality exist. Totalitarian methods have 'no place in a democracy. Americans must reject their use, no matter how laudable the ends to which such methods may be' put. "Outlawing Communists would only drive them underground. Communism would bo helped, not hindered, by the enactment of laws making Communism illegal.” legal." I Mr. Green recommended crea tion of a national commission, with by-partisan representation in Congress and with representation from the executive and judicially branches, as well as from man agement, labor and agriculture, “to* restudjr thb Eternal and ex ternal security of cur democracy, and to recommend a comprehen sive programs consistent with the rights of libeaties guaranteed by the Constitution.’* • By far the most effective weap on against^Communist penetration and infiltration is “merciless pub lic exposure of the men and methods ut$red „* by. Communists to gain* infhrenee and control over | political, civic, social. and other organized activities in a com* munty.” Such a campaign, Mr. Green declared, would “accomplish more than a thousand criminal penalties directed solely against their formal political activities. The force of the Communist-in spired persuasion withers when brought out into the open. Our unswerving adherence to the free dom of speech and of the press, our ability to expose the true nature of Communirsm in open discussion and debate, will greatly strengthen the ability of Ameri cans to purge themselves of the false prophets of a phony Utopia.” Mr. Green proposed a require ment for public disclosure of the sources of funds received or spent in any political activity, whether by an organisation or an indi vidual. “Bring the sources of funds shpptied for a political purpose into the open and the sources of the subversive and seditious and political activity would promptly dry up,” he said. Communism can be combatted with equal force through a cam paign of education, Mr. Green said. The American press, churches, schools, organised labor, citizen groups, all share in re sponsibility “to bring home force fully to the average American the advantages and benefits of our private enterprise system and of our free institutions, he pointed out. “While there remains much to be done to advance the real in come and the standard of living of Americans, while they have not achieved the full standard of liv ing to which they are entitled,” Mr. Green said, “the fact remains that in no country in the world has the American standard been matched and in no country of the world do workers enjoy the same degree of industrial democracy as in America. The attainment by the people of the United States of the highest standard olj living in the world and their enjoyment of greater freedoms than are af forded in any other nation are not an historical accident. They are the product "of voluntarism and of the democratic way of life. Fuller knowledge and bet ter understanding of our ways and institutions are a powerful safeguard against the inroads of a foreign ideology.” ‘ ' PULP WORKERS GAIN Georgetown, S. C.—The Inter national Brotherhood of Palp, Sal ophite and Paper Mill Worhera (AFL) have signed an important contract in the Woodland’a De partment of the Southern Kraft Corporation here. The contract covers 2,000 newly . organized workers in outside pulpwood ope rations. Wage increases, .. paid holidays and vacation were se cured. Send in your renewal to ‘The Labor Journal today t 518 MIKES ORDERED . aOSED AFTER LEWIS TALKS BEFORE SENATE (Continued From Page 1) Hercules with a No. 12 shoe and size 8* hat.” Meanwhile, there appeared a question of whether the miners left idle by the widespread mine shutdown would be eligible f(jr unemployment compensation. Payment of jobless benefits is determined by each State, but most of them withhold compen sation when the workers arc made idle by a strike. Officials of the Department of the Interior privately expressed the opinion that the miners would be entitled to the benefits. *** •+»-fataiHi 11^ WWHmv JfWtiTi iwnoi I PARKER-GARDNER CO. ffhin 188* l lit W. Trail* PhMM 8217 PAPER WORKERS WIN RAISE Richmond, V*.—The Interna tional Brotherhood of Paper Makers here have negotiated an 8-cent-an-hour increase, with 2*4 cents additional on June 1, with the Manchester Board and Paper Co., and at Lufkin, Texas, this International has gained 8 cents | an hour, retroactive tq November 15. | Have you paid your subscription to The Labor Journal for the new I year? If not send it in today. Smokey Says: WHCWfl THERE GOES THAT wiuwiftc - no RfSPrcTER' kOf ANYEOOVS property; S OR RIGHTS/ md£. VL. «m»l Wild Art ia a traapaasar and thief that ataala crowing timber and keepe young tread from being born. Unrestrained Are robe the wood, land owner of hie foreat income. ^ 28 '4'. . 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