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Central Labor Union Notes
The regular weekly meeting of
Charlotte Central Labor Union
last week was the largest at
tended and most interesting ses
sion held since the hot weather
days set in. Delegates kept their
handkerchiefs waving back and
forth between brow and pocket,
I but they never lost interest in
what was going on from start
I ing to dosing .time.
President Sterling Hicks opened
j the session and named Council
man Claude Albea to sit as sec
retary, due to the absence of Sec
retary Efirdi and Claude was'
worked overtime reading com- j
munications and jotting down
notes on the fast traveling ses- j
sion. Brothers, that’s a good
omen! Action is what we del
egates have been longing for and
we were worked fnto a lather by
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way of reports coining out of
i Washington as to how our North
Carolina Senators and Congress
men have fallen for the propa
ganda stuff of the NAM, Taft,
Hartley, and others, which has
resulted in their voting for the
anti-labor legislation which is de
signed to enslave all American
workers, be they organized or
unorganized.
Many of the delegates were
baffled during the last session
of the North Carolina General
Assembly when so many of our
; North Carolina Senators and Rep
! resentatives voted into being an
| anti-union labor law for this
I State, but they now are more
I aroused over the way the entire
I North Carolina delegation cast
| their ballot for a law which not
only denies Americans their free
dom to make agreements with
their employers, but goes so far j
as to deny the Labor press the
right to oppose candidates seek- [
ing Federal posts at, the expense j
of the American workers. One
delegate asked, “What the hell
is this—Hitler’s spirit come to \
life in America?” While another1
queried “Has Mussolini returned
to haunt our people?”
Of course, North Carolina
workers have always endeavored
to vote for sane, sensible repre
sentatives to represent them, both j
in the Nation’s Capital and in
the North Carolina General As-1
sembly, but' they say things have
gone haywire, and now they are
wondering who is sane and who
is sensible when men like Hoey
and U instead and others forsake
the trust that ha* been placed
in them by the workers and
hastily inform the workers back
home that they think the Taft
Hartley bill is a good bill and
that they will vote for it and will
also vote to sustain it over a
presidential veto, if that should
iwiipvn.
Your Scribe sat aghast and
listened more attentively than had
he been listening to Hoey’s silver
tongue flapping in favor of the
anti-union legislation which he
voted for. And what we gather
from last week’s Central Labor
Union meeting North Carolina’s
silver-tongued orator and Um
stead will be minus many, many
votes when they again seek to
represent the working people of
this State in any public capacity.
Moral: State your case to
President Truman. The bill is
now on his desk. Urge him to
veto it in the name of a free
America and for the welfare of
all of America’s citizens.
AFL ELECTRICAL WORKERS
GET 13-CENT RAISE IN .MO.
St. Louis, Mo.—Wage increases
of 13 cents an hour, retroactive
to January 1, were awarded to
2,400 AFL members employed by
the Union Electric Light and
Power Co. The original demand
of the four IBEW’ locals involved
was for a 25-cent increase. The
decision awarded the workers an
additional increase of 5 cents an
hour starting August 1.
Legal Notices
North Carolina,
Mecklenburg County.
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
Dorothy Bowling Gordon, Plain
tiff, Ti.
William D. Gordon. Defendant.
Notice of Service by Publication
The above named defendant,
William D. Gordon, will take
notice that an action entitled as
above has been commenced in the
Superior Court of Mecklenburg
County, North Carolina, by the
plaintiff to obtain an absolute di
vorce upon the grounds of two
years separation, and ' the de
fendant will further take notice
that he is required tq appear at
the office of the Clerk of Superior
Court of Mecklenburg County at
the Court House in Charlotte,
North Carolina within twenty
(20) days after the 10th dav of
July, 1947, which date is at least
seven days after the last publi
cation of this notice, and answer
or demur to the complaint in
said action, or the plaintiff will
apply to the Court for the relief
demanded in said complaint.
This the 9th day of June. 1947.
J. LESTER WOLFE,
Clerk of Superior Court.
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3 Former Labor Board Members Against Bill
By Frank P. Graham
Pres., Univ. of North Carolina
This bill will, at a critical
‘ime, tend to weaken the founda
ioris of free collective bartraining
ahd will impair the growing
values of the impartial umpire
mi of voluntary and binding ar
bitration.
This bill will tend to remove
he settlement of many industrial
disputes from management and
’*>hor and transfer them to law
yers. the Federal board and the
-otirts. Provisions in the bill will
•■nouire much clarification, num
berless rulings bv the board,
heavy litigation in the courts and
long delays in settlements, with
consequent confusion, loss of mo
rale and loss of production.
This h:l! will tend to weaken
the disciplinary power of unions
and cause as many headaches to
management as to wise and re
sponsible labor leadership.
Rome provisions in th's bill
will impair the equality of bar
gaining power, will unnecessarily
do damage to the growing values
of (a) the free and increasingly
responsible labor movement, (b)
free and more socially responsible
business enterprise, and (c) la
bor-management co-operation in
the American way for maximum
production.
By Wayne L. Morse.
U. S. Senator, Oregon
I voted against the Taft-Ives
Hartley Bill because in my judg
ment it is administratively un
workable. It weakens the Norris
LaGuardia Act, and it places in
the hands of many anti-labor em
ployers the opportunity to weaken
unions by keeping them involved
in litigation before the courts.
Many of the amendments
adopted by the conference com
mittee are cleverly designed to
enable employers through final
court action to secure injunctions
and also to dissipate the treas
uries of unions throughou court
action.
I am afraid, in order to avoid
ihe unjust features of the Taft
Ives-Hartley Bill, many unions
will decide to boycott the Na
I tional Labor Relations Board by
resorting in the first instance in
every labor dispute to direct eco
nomic action.
i
I predict that whenever labor
considers itself strong enough to
defeat an employer by striking,
a labor union will do so rather
than subject itself to the unjust
provisions of the Taft-Ives-Hart
ley Bill.
By .f.loyd K. Garrison, Attorney
The Taft-Hartley Bill looks to
the past and not to the future.
We have learned by experience
that the best labor relations are
the product of mature collective
bargaining and that government
intervention in the bargaining
process is the surest way to re
tard its devefopmet. But the
Taft-Hartley Bill adopts, in the
case of major disputes, the dis
credited Smith-Connolly techni
ques of compulsory waiting pe
riods and secret ballot votes cast
at government expense under
government auspices, with boards
of inquiry and injunctions thrown
in to boot. As experience has
jhown, nothing could be more cal
culated to hamstring collective
bargaining or to get the govern
| ment deeper int* the business of
J fixing wages and other terms of
I employment—the prelude to fix
| ing prices and profits.
The bill interferes with the
' freedom of employers and unions
to work out their own arrange
ments by prohibiting certain
tpyes of agreements no matter
how much they may be desired by
| the workers and the manage
I ment.
The hill goes beyond la'-'.t re
lations altogether in prohibiting
working people from making po
litical contributions through un
, ions, even when they specifically
authorize their money to be used
that way.
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