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Charlotte Typographical Union Round-Up 1 BY J. T. PRIMM i The Charlotte Typographical Union Association, Ink, has been making rapid strides in forming their plans for their new meeting hall and club house combined. The twelve directors signed the Chart er this week and it is off to Ra leigh for approval. The Association has held two meetings to date, discussing plans for either building * new heme or buying a suitable plaee that will take care of the 120 mem bers of the local Typographical Union. This local for the past several years has held their meet ings in the Central Labor, Union Kan. The officers of the Association are as follows: A. M. Farris, presi dent; H. E« Surles, vice-president and Paul E. Craft, treasurer. A secretary will he elected at the next meeting. Other members on the Board cf Directors are as fol lows: H. L. Beatty, J. P. White, t C. L. Albea, O. N. Burgesf, H. B. Alexander. E. G. Cleaver, C. J. Pridgen and J. T. Primm. The Charlotte Typpgraphical; Union lost one of Its most be- j loved members last Saturday j night when Buford L. fJohnny) j Green passed sway with* a para- i lytif strpke. Johnny su ■•*(« of I the * oldest members of tlifs" local, I having held a card for more than j 35 years. He had served as ma chinist for the Charlotte Observer for 35 years. Possessor of much inventive genius, he perfected the Serna- j graph, and automatic typeset ting device which operates a lino type machine. Mr. Green was better known to all his many friends as just “Johnny,” a nick name given! to him by an appren tice boy some 39 yiars ago the Observer. * . - He was a member of the First Methodist Church, of the Men's Bible Class of this church, and of the hoard of stewards of the church. He was buried in Ever green cemetery. Our deepest sympathy goes to his family and his friendly per sonality will be long remembered by his many friends. So we will say to you Johnny, Just Thirty. Let-\us take this opportunity to j congratulate Claude L. Albea, the j new President of the Charlotte ( Centra] Labor Union. Claude has long been a member of the Typo* j graphical Union and has served; as President of this local several* times with much success. He is also a member of the City Coun cil along with another of our members, Brother John P. White. Notes on the Cuff — Vacation time is here and the boys of vari ous chapels are taking advantage of several weeks rest touring the country. A. M. (Firpo) Jones just returned to work after •vis iting Norfolk, St, Petersbuig, Richmond and Washington, He sayS they tried to kidnap him in J every newspaper office that he visited. They are all crying fcr printers. H. B. (Little Alex) Alexander just blew in after sunning and taking life easy at Myrtle Beach for a week. R. B. (Big) Alex ander spent his two weeks with hig wife visiting her people in Colorado^ He says the climate ts wonderful tfiere this time of year. W. )t- (Rojt) Cashwell is back on the job oncf again after spending several Weeks in the hospital as a result of a fall at hig club. He had eighteen stitched taken, in bis “noggin* and at the present he is wearing a bra<;e on his bfuk that was badly sprained. R. F. (Bob) White is resting very'ccm fcjrt^blyj at home at this time, after winning a decision cvei major operation. He has not «n - turned to his machine as yet, bi t experts to very soon. Froji c Howard, one of our latest priit - ers to slug up _ came from Phi'll - delphia from the strike they hr I. there and hag gone to Florida \ o luring his . $*raply J»ek,wbei e they have been visiting the i folk* for the past month. Brotbt r Howard has purchased himself ‘a home here and expects to stay ‘m quite a spell. < <■' > > This will be enough cf,, this chatter for now, $o if you UVe it and wish to see mere in ycui Labor Journal, just drop ug a line and let us know. Arbitrator Awards Pay Boost To Dress fakers Philadelphia. Pa. — Mere than 12,000 ILGWU workers employed here in 300 dress shops and fac tories won wage awards totaling $2,500,000 annually in arbitration decision by Dr. George W. Tay lor. Impartial Chairman ol the iaduitfy. ' , > t J S The awarded 9 per cent in crease includes both wage in creases and a rise in the cm players’ eoijtribqtions to tj>e un ions unemployment fund. * Samuel Otto, ILGWU vtce-pres ident, annouaced the award which followed the union’s unsuccessful' efforts to obtain wage ,incr( ,v c;3. as a “striking and timely demon stration of the effectiveness cf collective bargaining as practiced unhampered by governmental re strictions.” He bail Taylor’s decision by American industry SIMP COOL , on sweltering nights _ __ i you Infll • CHEL _a Attic Pat TWo -tarn mrr MU drew in cool ni«ht dr Mid •Atnt hot. (tufly air. oocitmulotod la dajrtimo hour* *«tc ,iBitn-r or loarere. OKS COM PLETE CHAKOE OE AIR (VERY MINUTE THROUOH OUT THE ENTIRE HOUSE. Wt hov« in stock for immediott delivery fons to me«t your own individcd vsntilotion problems. Coll on us for estimates on com-' plot* installation Including nil/ •orpontry work. ** Easy Terms Pay As Law As r iWMQ. DIAL J J749 APL NATIONAL UNION HEADS PLEDGE VIGOROUS PIGHT TO REPEAL LABOR Act QCatotinucd From Pag* I) Hartlep Act to effectively destroy labor unions, is made crystal clear in this provision of it. The revision and reconstruction of the National Labor Relations Board has created confusion and uncertainty. Its real meaning will never be clearly understood until ft hag been defined by the courts. Employers an,d employes will vehemently differ as to the real meaning of the provisions ©f the revised and newly created Na tional Labor Relations Board. All of this will serve to promote strife between employers and em ployes—the expenditure of large sums of money in courts proceed ings and a woeful lack of co operation between management and labor. President Truman emphasized this fact in his veto message w^ien he stated: “J find that the National Labor Relations Act would be converted from an instrument' with the major purpose of protecting the rights of workers to organize and hargkin collectively into a maze of pitfalls and complex proced ures. As a result of these com plexities employers and workers would find new barriers to mutual understandings. "The bill time and again would remote the settlement1 of differ ences from the bargaining table to courts of law. Instead of learn ing to live together, employers and -.prions are invited to engage ,in costly, time-consuming litigation, inevitably embittering both par ties. . 1, Here the President set forth in Simple language the eVils of the new National Labor Relations Board, and the great dis-service of human relations in industry lyhich is bound td follow the en forcement of said amended Na tional Labor Relations Act. Be cause the amendments to the Na tional Labor Relationg Act, as set forth in the Taft-Hartley Bill, are susceptible to varied interpreta tions and are cbnfusing to' the highest degree, we would prefer to National Labor Relations Board than the National .Labor Relations Board with its administrative authority as set forth in the Taft Hartley Law. The Taft-Hartley Law ig filled with “Thou Shall Nots” and “Thou Must” to the officers and members of labor unions. The supporters of the Tpft-Hartley Law virtually declare “Labor Unions in the United States must be made weak and ineffective. Their ability to serve working peoplej to preserve economic freedom agd, to estab lish higher standards of living for the wage earners of the nation must be limited and defined.” ,The provision of the Taft-Hart l*y teill which prot^es that it shall be unlawful for any labor organization to make a contribu tion or expenditure ii^ connection with the election of members of t drtgiiess, strikes it! vital Wo* at freedom of speech and freedom of press. This section must be Interpreted as meaning that the importers of the Taft-Hartley I ill, sought to make it a crime tor labor to exercise the right 'of tlee^onx ^f, th* prpss and freedom of speech in order to prevent them from being re-elected to Congress. , The vicious feature of this sec? tion is reflected in the fact tif*t it provides any officer of a la bor organization or any labor or ganization who exercises the right of freedom of speech or freedom of the press in opposing a Mem ber of. Congress who voted for the Taft-Hartley Bill for re-elec tion. shall be guilty of a criminal offense punishable by a fine or imprisonment* er both. Here in this section is reflected the ha tred of Members of Congress toward la!>or unions and their bitter determination to destroy them if possible. The National Association of Manufacturers and other employ er organizations may function and serve their respective membership without any substantial interfer ence on the part of government. They are practically free from legislative restraints and limita tions. The attorneys who serve the National Association of Man ufacturers and who prepared and wrote the Taft-Hartley Bill aaw to it that their clients were ex empt trcfm many of the provisions of the Act to which unions and their members are subjetted. The Taft-Hartley Act is a strika and strife-provoking Act. It should be properly classified as such. It will serve to prevent the workers from agreeing to in* corporate a no-strike pledge ft Something Doing In Dixie 1 • Li- • . • written contracts. It means the end of sound labor-management relations and the substitution there-for of distrust, suspicion and class hatred. And now, we, the representa tives of seven millions, five hun dred thousand members of the American Federation of Labor, after giving solemn consideration to all the facts herein stated, the provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act and its legal arStysis pre pared by the Legal Department of the American Federation of | Labor, herewith declare that the following shall be our pledge and 'incompromising purpose: I. Because we believe many of the provisions of the Taft Hartley Bill are unconstitutional, we will challenge the validity of said sections in the courts. In doing so, we shall avail ourselves of the opportunity to appeal in accordance with court procedure to the Supreme Court of the United States. We shall exhaust every legal recourse at oun com mand in the efforts we put forth to test the validity of this act. 2., The repeal of this notorious legislation shall be our Axed ob jective. We shall never be recon ciled to the acceptance of this leg islation. We shall oppose it— fight it at every step and every opportunity—untjl we succeed 'in our efforts to bring about its re peal. Oulr action jn this .respect will* be baaed upon the falct that we regard the Taft-Hartley- iBiir as a slave measure, un-American, vicious' And.destructive of labor’s constitutional rights. 3. Wfewill organize, unite and concentrate opr effort* toward bringing about the defeat of every member of Congress for re-elec tion who voted in favor of final) enactment of the Taft-Hartley Bill. 4. To protect our organiza tions against possible suits for damages and other vexatious and desiruc^fve • litigation under this law, \ it is recommended that no strike' provisions be omited from „■ . t ail future agreements, written or oral. 5. In order that the workers of the Nation may be accorded a full and complete opportunity to vote in national elections, we rec ommend that our organizations set aside this day as a holiday to be devoted solely to election pur poses. 6. We recommend that the Ex ecutive Council of the American Federation of Labor give full and ^onfplete consideration to the declarations of this conference and in addition, prepare for the consideration of the next conven tion df the American Federation at Labor a program giving futl effect to these purposes. AFL NATIONAL UNION HEADS PLEDGE VIGOROUS FIcfolT TO REPEAL LABOR Act (Continued From Page 1) visions of the law banning union expenditures for political pur poses, stating flatly that this sec tion is unconstitutional. “The American Federation of labor hag violated that section already,” he said, “by printing the roll-call vote on the overrid ing of the President’* veto. I’m glad they did. This provision is patently unconstitutional and I don’t think it! can tie held other wise by the courts.” BULLETIN NO. I (Continued From Page 1) has a contract which expires, say, on August 24, 1947, it may be subjecte<f to the penalties de scribed above because it had not given timely notices to the em ployer and to government agen cies. Therefore, to be on the safe side, it is recommended that all unions having agreements that will expire within 59 days after August 1, 1947, regard the notice provisions of the law as though i they became effective immediately on June 23, 1947. This recom mendation should not"! confuse those unions having * agreements that will expire before August 22, 1947. As to such agreements, no notice whatever will be re quired, unless of course the agree ment itself provides for notice. (To be continued in later issu^jD AFL AUTOMOBILE WORKERS WIN BARGAINING ELECTION Carrollton, Ky. — The AFL’s United Automobile Workers won an important NLRB election when workers at the Carrollton Manu facturing Company here chose the AFL nnion as their bargaining agent An agreement has been secured with Public Senrice Company of North Carolina covering gas plant* at Raleigh-Durham, N. C., providing for two week* vacation and five holidays with pay.. A fifteen cent an hour increase was also secured. This group is or ganized under International Chem ical Workers. The Amalgamated Association of S. E. & M. C. E. have organ ized motor bus employes of the Alexandria Transit Company of Alexandria. Va. One hundred and thirty employes are involved and the Company has agreed to a consent election. . An NLRH election will be held amongr production, maintenance and construction employes of Knox Metal Products Company, Waynesboro, Ga. International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders and Helpers, AFL is the petitioning union. ' In a series of separate elec tions held May 29, the AFL Teamster Local 4 fid, won bargain ing rights for employes of the Distributors Association of the Norfolk, Va., area for drivers, salesman < and warehousemen. Brewery Workers, CIO,' Local 188. contested in all elections but the AFL Teamsters won all firms In volved. V The Seafarers International Un ion, AFL, won a signal victory among the unlicensed personnel In ' the deck engineering ^nd stewards departments of 86 ves sels operated by Isthmian Steam ship Company in 19 Atlantic, Gulf, Pacific and Honolulu Ports. The National Maratime Union, CIO received 813 votes and 89 votes were cast for no union. The winning Seafarers received 1266 votes. An election among employes of the fabricating shop of Continen tal Gin Company, Birmingham, Ala., was won by Bridge, Struc tural and Iron Workers Local 839 of Birmingham. There ere ap proximately 150 employes in the unit. United Lime, Cement and Gyp sum Workers, International Un-| • I ion, AFL has been certified for all employes of Southeastern Clay, Company of Aiken, S. C. Three AFL unions have been certified for employes of Heyden Chemiral Corporation, Morgan town, W. Va. The Plumbers Lo cal 152 will be bargaining agent tor pipefitters, pTumbers, welders and their helpers; Electrical Workers Local 425 for electri cians; and District 50, Chemica# Division Local 13200 for all re maining production and mainte nance ' employes. 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Nip^ly tailored models in handsome tbn shade or grey strip*. rayon suns ■ r l.l hi il ' i ’4 • 27.50 and 27.75 Brand new arrivals in single-breasted and double-breasted styles. Cool Summer • - • • rayons in solid shades of blue or tan . .. striped suits in grey or tan. fe MIN'S STORI—STRUT I
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