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CHARLOTTE LABOR JOURNAL & DIXIE FARM NEWS Published Weekly at Charlotte, N. C._ H. A Stalls. EditoVand Publisher W. M. Witter, Associate Editor Entered as second-class mail matter September 11, 1931, at the P«Jt Office at Charlotte. N. C., under the Act of Concrete of March 3, 1879 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: *2 Oft per year, payable in advance or 6c per copy. , ADVERTISING RATES for commercial advertising reasonable. Official Organ of the Charlotte Central Labor Union and Approved by The American Federation of Labor and the North Carolina Federation of Labor Address All Communications to Post Office Boa 1061 Telephones 3-3094 and 4-6602 Office of Publication: 118 East Sixth Street, Charlotte. N. C. 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 in the columns of The Labor Journal will be gladly corrected when called to the attention of toe publisher. Correspondence and Open Forum opinions solicited. _- • __ TAFT ANTI-LABOR BILL IS “TROUBLE-MAKING AND UNFAIR” Branding the Taft anti-labor bill “untimely, trouble making, reactionary, unfair and unduly political,” Senator Robert 6. Wagner, Democrat, of New York, warned the Senate that such legislation would “commence to throw away our democracy while we still have our prosperity,” and urged President Truman to vetd it. “This bill seeks to repress, to reprove, to demoralize and to weaken the workers and organizations whose welfare is a part of the national welfare,” he declared. “If the intentions of this bill were carried out, they would result in an ever greater inequality between employers and work ers than exists now, or than existed before the National Labor Relations Act became law.” Discussing the general principles of the bill, as he saw them, the Senator said he would not go into a detailed analysis, because this had been done so frequently that he felt the public was fully informed of its general terms. He added, however, that it would cause great friction over interpretation and settlement of new and untried definitions of rights and duties, promote and instigate un necessary conflicts in courts and the collective bargaining process and “at the very time when we most need smooth ness and stability.” Regarding his charge that it is a "reactionary bill,” Sen ator Wagner declared that it seeks to strip workers “of hard-earned rights which are at the core of industrial free dom. With a few spectacular instances as pretext, the bill brands all of labor as a culprit. It diminishes the rights of all unions and labor leaders. Yet, experience shows that the exercise of these rights has resulted in a more productive, prosperous and just America.” Senator Wagner declared that the bill was unfais be cause it singles out workers “for harsh and punitive treat ment,” when other wrongs crying for attention in the na tional economy are being ignored. “It is based upon the idea that unions have acquired too much monopolistic power,” he said, “but the truth is that business monopoly—the concentration of economic power in finance and industry—is now, even more than before, the real evil. “Today the whole country realizes that workers, even with the help of their unions, cannot keep pace with the increasing-cost of living caused by excessive prices and ex orbitant profits. “Every member of the Congress knows that this: the working people of this counrty, through their organiza tions, have been the strongest and most consistent fight ing force for eoonomic progress and human betterment. Without their sustaining efforts, we would go hack in the dark era of the longer-day’s work for the shorter-day’s pay —back in the dark era of neglected unemployment, lower productivity, more widespread poverty, and much lower national income. “Today, it is these same workers who, through their organizations, are the strongest single fighting force for greater ecenomic stability, for a lower cost-of-living through curbing excessive prices, and for a better distribu tion of the national income to provide more buying power. In these efforts, the workers and their organizations are acting in the best interests of the whole American people. “Viewing the record, it is too much to expect that a ma jority of the present Congress will bury this bill. But I earnestly hope that the President vetoes it. Such a veto would. 1 believe, be sustained here. Certainly, it would be sustained by the liberty-loving, forward-looking, fair-deal ing American people.” THE MARCH OF LABOR "VJhE U.S. CoMGil IATioN SERVICE SETTLED 1,40® lA8oe-MAMA3EMetfTOiSrUTES •N vWWe.1^46' -1,095 oF WHICH WE«E ADJUSTED BEfORE THEY REACHfOTHE SfoPPAXSfAGE. luiMfe PBOSrtftouJ* 'ftAKS fUfcGt I92S( THE SOOTMERM , FARMER RICEiMcD 1 ANAMaMfiCGRSSS M**i»ka*<* . iieb-wMiuwi WFARMERS «*£ J&ffeR1Hft«>Wfc9r 7 A^RAGED^SZg TlU TblMO, THE CONGRESS OF UABANE3E INDUSTRIAL ONIONS, REPRESENTING 1.600,000 WbRKEfiS, HELD IIS FIRST CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION IN SEPTEM BER, 1946. THE CONSTITUTION ADOPTED aims at 7HB AO- HOOft WEEK, UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE, AND THE ELIMINATION OF COLONIAL* CONDITIONS. _M.___ fv-v-. _ IF 1WS UNION LABEL APPEARS IN YDUft MAT- UWDER THE SWEAT6AND - iOO CM) BE SURE THE HAT IS UN»CM-f*lADE. iKfSlSTOW IT] PATRONIZE JOURNAL ADVERTISERS w Broader National Health Is Aim of Liberal Senators Washington, D. C. — A broad national health insurance bill has been drafted by a liberal group of Senators, including Wagner of New York, Murray of Montana, and McGrath of Rhode Island, for early consideration at the cur rent session. The measure -r a:mcst identical with the Wagner-Murray-Dingell bill of 1M6 but contains a num ber of important improvements in corpora ted at the specific re quest of the American Federation of Labor. Among these are decentraliza tion of administrator, providing that the operation of the plan will be through State and local areas with a nrnimum of co-ordi nation .from Washington. The bill further makes explicate pro visions for continuation of vol untary health plans such as those developed in collective bargain ing agreement| by labor unions. Voluntary plans that meet the requirements of providing good medical care will continue to op erate as service agencies within the over-all plan. The new bill, like the old, provides protection to practically all wage earners ex j cepting those under the_ Rail road retirement act. Under this bill all needed pre ventive, diagnostic and curitive services by a family physician of the patients’ choice and services of specialties when required! lab oratory and x-ray services and other special services as required will be available to workers and members of their famil'es. Dental, home nursing and other auxil iary services will be available de pending on the adequacy of per sonnel. The National Health Insurance and Public Health Bill, as the new measure is called, guarantees full participation in policy mat ters by those who receive and pay for medical care. National, State and local policy committees are provided in the bill with the re quirement that a majority be composed of representatives of peoples organisations. Labor un ions would be assured of full par ticipation in the administration of the plan. Purely professional and technical matters are left, as they should be, in the hands of professionally trained personnel. ! The bill further provides aid to the State for the expansion and improvement of public health serv icesJ Hearings are scheduled to begin before a subcommittee of the Sen ate Education and Labor Commit tee May 19. These hearings will prove a battleground, in view of the fact that the bill introduced earlier by Senators Taft, Ball, Smith and Donnell will be con sidered at the same time. This bill proposes to make grants available from the Federal Treas ury to the State health agencies to enable them to pay the cost of medical care to the needy per , sons and their dependents. Ir is based on the chanty principle and to be eligible for its benefit*, persons would have to be certi fied as “medically indigent” by some welfare agency. Admini strative control of this program is lodged in the hands of the med ical societies. It is expected that officers of many national and international upions and State Federations of laibor will testify against the vicious Taft bill and in favor of health insurance at the hearings CALIFORNIA EMPLOYMENT EXPECTED TO INCREASE San Francisco, Calif.—The April isaup of the Bureau of Labor Sta tistics’ Monthly Labor Review re- ' veals the following informat on: The labor force on the entire West Coast is expected to increase 1 from 4,300,000 in 1940 to a total in the neighborhood of 5,800.000 in 1950, a 36 per cent expansion. The total civilian employment in the state at itd wartime peak was 3,712,000 in June, 1944. The postwar low was reached in Feb ruary, 1946, with 3,327,00 in ci vilian employment. It then climbed steadily to a seasonal high of 3,766,000 in, September, 1946, and in December, 1946, stood at 3,648,000. 600,000 TEACHERS QUIT Six hundred thousands teach ers have quit the nation's class rooms in the last seven years for better-paying jobs, the American Federation of Teachers (AFL) estimates. MISS FRANCIS AND WANA MAKER STARRED ON RADIO SHOW TO AID LABOR CAUSE —w o 1 New York City—With Arlene > Francis and Sam Wanamaker in leading roles, the Entertainment Union’s Committee, in co-opera tion with the AFL campaign against the Hartley-Taft anti-la- j bor bills, presented the second of its daytime radio serials plae- j ing before the nation a message' from its toiling millions on May 9.! Under the title of the well known serial: “The Best Things In Life,”, the broadcast was car ried over the entire ABS Na tional network. It is a drama Of American family life, authored I by William Morwood and directed by Anton M. Leader, both top- j ranking radio figures. Miss Francis is a popular ac- j tress on the legitimate stage and J has been a mistress of ceremonies on radio programs, notably “Blind Date” and “What’s My Name." Sam Wanamaker is the young actor who won plaudits for his brilliant performance as leading man for Ingrid Bergman in “Joan of Lorraine.” This presentation is in line with the AFL’s Entertainment Union’s Committee pledge to recruit the most popular stars of stage, screen, radio and the musical world in its drive to' educate the American public on conditions which will follow if anti-labor leg islation such as is pending in Congress is approved. The finest talent in the entertainment world has volunteered its services to bring this message to the Ameii people. In addition, members of the Radio Writers Guild of the Authors League of Ameriaa are writing the scripts. All partici pants in the programs are being1 paid for their services*© In addition to the daytime pro grams, the committee is sponsor ing several night-time gala va riety shows, which will include music, comedy and drama, and for the first time in radio history will carry pro-labor commercials, ir stead of the customary mer chandising commercials. M. S. Novik, fof many years program director of New York City’s WNYfc radio station, is co-ordi nator of the committee's activi ties and is acting as laison offi cer between the committee and the AFL. AFL RADIO MUSICIANS GET RAISES PUSHING WEEKLY SCALE HIGH AS $191 New York City.—Musicians em ployed in major stations of the four principal radio networks here will receive wage increases rang ing from 16 to 28 per cent under the term* of a contract reached by representatives of the net works and Local 802 of the Amer ican Federation of Muscians (AFL). Staff musicians on sustaining and commercial programs who formerly received from $126 to $165 a week will get $151 to $191 under the new scale. All these musicians work a five-day week, with some playing four hours out of eight each cay and others playing five hours out of eight. For musicians employ^ in in dividual programs the - rehearsal rate is raised from $6 to $7.50. Pay for half-hour broadcasts will go up from $14 to $19 and for cne-hour programs from $18 to $23. Ail the wage increases are retroactive to February 2, when the old contract expired. Richard McCann, president of the local, and Charles Iucci, its secretary, announced that the agreement provided for the first time in network broadcasting ex unless we dcr I///8 will die of GIVE TO CONQUER CANCER frKiV" is tra pajr for musicians who played more than one instrument. A payment of $3 :s made for the first “double” and $2 more for each additional instrument played, ac cording to the union leaders. A demand for vacations was dropped by the union after tho networks had refused to grant it. The agreement affects about 300 staff musk-ians employed at sta tions WNBC, WJC, WCBS and* WOR. In addition, several thou sand musicians will benefit from the higher scale for individual broadcasts, according to the un ion. Another contract on which agreement was reached last7 night will give pay increases averaging about J>.5 per cent to 460 techni cians and engineers employed by the National and American Broad casting Companies in this city, Chicago, Washington, Cleveland, Denver, San Francisco and Hol lywood. ILGWU PRESENTS 925.000 CHECK FOR INFIRMARY New York City.—David Dubm sky, President of the Interna tional Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (AFL), and Vice-President of the American Federation of Labor, presented a check for $25, 000 to Mrs. Harold E. Talbott, vice-president of the New York Infirmary, toward the $5,000,000 fund for a new building; for the hospital. Mrs. Talbott accepted the check in Mr. Dubinsky’s of fice at union headquarters. “We are a union with many women members,” Mr. Dubinsky said, “and it seemed that we had an obligation to encourage an in stitution whose staff is women, and where the patients are chief ly women, t hope the new hos pital will be able to take care of our needy members. They may not be needy now, but it is al ways possible for some one to have bad luck." Send in your subscription to the Labor Journal today! Uncle Sam Says What a inker, mm! 8* yea waat your Cade 8am to dice d a thick chunk af white meat far jrea, tea. What a Thanksgiving feast! 8a yon waat the Wlshlng-bane, Mary! Lets af falks will ha making a alien! wish an this great holiday. I’d like to make aa apen wish. 1 wish far all my nieces and nephews, yanng and old, long life, health, happiness and goad fortune. Yon caa help make my wish come true by bnilding a strong financial foun dation of V. 8. Savings Bonds far yanr home and every home. 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