Editorial 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, linn or corporation which may appear in the columns of The Labor Journal will be gladly corrected when called to the attention of the publisher. Correspondence and Open Forum opinions solicited. _ ■ —l. iff 1 V SXULTUM FACIT FORTUNA QUEM VULT PERDERE ... Translated from the .Latin: “When Fortune wishes to ruin a man she makes him a fool.” This proverb could apply to any individual, or it could apply to any number of individuals, or it could apply to a nation, or going even farther it could apply. to Nations. Perhaps it applied to Germany, Japan, Italy, and to their satellites. Most Amer icans are able to fit the shoe to Dictators Hitler and Mus solini, Tojo, and others. But have most Americans taken time out to analyze some of the conditions prevalent in America today? Quite a large bite, to-be-sure, but it ap pears that the time is fast approaching when we Ameri cans must take the time out to study the results of some of our’actions since the closing of the war period. Perhaps there are many things in our way of life that could be untangled for the betterment of our countrymen mb a whole if we wqre to begin an immediate analysis of our conditions. But let us take one or two of the current problems and look st them for a moment. Runaway prices on the necessities of life, for instance, seems to be quite a problem with us, but the fact is we have high prices and sooner or late* we will be compelled to do something about them in one way or another. What caused high prices? Was it greed for gold, or shortages, or just a desire to raise the 'economic level for doing business in America? Not so long ago songs were being sung tq the tune of “Do Away With Price Controls and AJ1 Will Be Well Before Lbng.” So price controls were destroyed. The President had no other alternative. The lobbyists in Washington had the heat on Congress to the extent that they were going to do away with price controls, come what may. Immediately prices soared to new highs. Greed grabbed everything both in and out of its grasp. Even old fat back (God bless it) got up in society overnight when it demanded a 75c per pound fare for lugging it away from the fly counter in the butcher shop, flour soared to new highs, meal and lard kept pace, and on up and down the list of the necessary commodities the record shows that nothing remained anywhere near the same as before. Clothes, which had been withheld from the market for months and months, came hack at new highs, minus much of their former quality at that. By now Mr. and Mrs. America had real dislocated eco nomic problems on their hands. They thought and thought. They wrestled with this new trend in American economx from week to week. They finally came to the conclusion that perhaps something was wrong with the amount of take home pay they had been receiving and that maybe the “risen” prices would be all right if they could get a little more in the weekly pay envelope. A huge cry went up from all over the land. They had joined the higher ups (the greedy speculators and profiteers, the “hang overs” from the war days, if you please) in one mad scramble to meet the greatly increased cost of living. They demanded higher wages. But this was brought about to help them to survive, to live as they had been accustomed to living, to enjoying the best standards of living of any nation on earth, barring none. For their actions Mr. and Mrs. American Worker are experiencing the wrath of a greedy hell turned loose on them. They are being chastised beyond any sense of human reasoning; they are being exploited far beyond the imagination of any pre-war day; they are having the con trols socked to their ankles by Legislatures in many of the States, via anti-union legislation; and they are about to have some concoction cooked up for them in the National Congress that will set them back fdPvlOO years in their forward march from days of sweat shops, in the form of pernicious restrictive legislation that will break up their organizations through which they have worked to improve their living conditions in our America throughout the past century. The unfairness of restrictive legislation io curb the work ers of the land in their demands for sufficient wages to meet the high costs of living, while no curbs on high prices are given any attention by the legislative bodies of Con gress and the States today stands out as a carbuncle to1 retard the progress that America should have begun ex periencing soon after the cessation of hostilities abroad. • Let us not under the pretext of providing every man with a job become fools and enact laws that will throw our American workers to the mercy of the greedy barons who care naught for the lives of their servants, but for the material things that satisfy their own selfish desires. THE MARCH OF LABOR I JUWO-THIROSOF BERLIN ft WORKERS ARE WOMEN • ■ (THEY ARE BETTER ABLE \ 'TO WORK HARD ON THE. LOW RATIONS THAN MEN. _ federal [BbVERNMENT AGENCIES specify 35 AST)* MAXIMUM HIRING J^APS r—, as Wcu. as mats, bear « UNION LAgeL. INSIST ON rr,|N 7M| NEXT ONE *5U BUY. Members Of Organized Labor In CHARLOTTE Have YOU If not, your are urged to do do at once. It will coat you nothing to Register. Every Cit-» isen of North Carolina is allowed to vote, provided they have first Registered. We have reprinted an Election Calendar which has been com piled by the Elections Depart ment showing the Ward Number, the Precinct Numbei* and the lo cation of the Voting Precinct where the Registrar will be, be tween Sunrise and Sunset on Sat urday, April 5th, Saturday, April 12th, and Saturday, April 19th, to Register you and others. This list also gives the name and home address of the Reg istrar. If you find it impossible to get to the Polling Precinct home and Register. The Democratic' Primary elec tion will be held at Charlotte, N. C., on Tuesday, April 28th, to select a Mayor and your City Councilmen. These men will control your City Government for the next two years. We* should all Register, if you are not already Registered, and go to the Polls on April 28th and VOTE for your friends who will at least give the working people some ‘consideration. Your Central Labor Union does not have the right and would not try to force you to vote for any person or persona who are aspir ing for Public Office, but we will advise you as to the records and intentions of those who are run ning for office. Wo feel that all working people, their wives, children and friends, should exercise their rights as Citisens and vote at this and all other elections, which will guar antee that men or women are elected to all Public Offices who are beyond reproach and who will consider the working people, as well as others, when making de cisions affecting our Federal, State, County and City welfare. Pass this information on to your family and friends in your neighborhood. Insist that they Register and Vote. L We want a tremendous Vote 'on the Primary.Election on April 28th and again on the Regular Election on May 6th, 1947. Basic requirements for register ing: One year's residence in the State. Four month's residence in the precinct. No poll requirement. CHARLOTTE CENTRAL LABOR UNION. A. F. L. CITY PRIMARY AND EXTEN SION OF CITY LIMITS Vote in City and in extended limits beyond City. April 5 — First Registration Day. Registrars on duty at Poll IF YOU HdVERT RE6ISTERE in* place* from 9 A. M. to * un set, «:47 P. M. April 12—Second Registration Day, 9 A. M. to 6:53 P. M. April 19 — Last Registration Day, 9 A. M. to 6:59 P. M. April 26—Challenge Day. Reg istrars on doty at Polling places from 9 A. M. to 3 P. M. No registering permitted, bnt in formation available. April 28 — Primary (Monday) Polls open at 6:30 A. M.. Close 6:30 P. M. May 6 — Election (Tuesday) Polls open at 6:30 A. M. Gose 6:30 P. M. No Absentee Voting Below is given a list' of Reg istrars who will be on duty at the places indicated on the dates given above. The telephone num ber of the polling places is given so you may call and find out if you are properly registered. If you have moved and are not sure of -your voting r eplace call the Registrar in the Precin THE PRIMARY 01 APRS. 28 The Labor Journal fa a Choice Advert'-a* Medina A FRIENDLY CHURCH POTOUM MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH HIT SmUi Brntfarare * Worship Services 11:00 a. m. 7 JO p. m. Training Union •:00 p. Dr. William Harrison Williams, Pastor Far indigestion, Sour Stomach and Gas, Taka NA-CO TABLETS MONET BACK GUARANTEE SELWYN CUT RATE DRUG STORE NEXT TO POST OFFICE Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. Stl Bast Sixth Street Ph«H MW “KNOW THE ICE CREAM YOU EAT* OUR PLEDGE OF QUALITY ON EACH PACKAGE “a health food” PET DAIRY PRODUCTS CORP. 'IfandlsL - (i/eaUtsAi, TJtuiuaL JututkaL CLklocialion, Ambulance Service * 820 E. 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