Editorial
charlotte Tabor journal * dixie farm news
Published Weekly at Charlotte. N. C.
H. A. Ktails. Editor and Publisher W. M. Witter, Associate Editor
Catered as secono-class mail matter September 11, 1881, at the
Office at Charlotte. N. C., under the Act of Congress of March 3. 187S
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RABBINICAL COUNCIL URGES REASONABLE ADMIN
ISTRATION OF TAFT-HARTLEY LAW
The Social Justice Commission of the Rabinnical Council
of America called for reasonable administration of the “am
biguous” Taft-Hartley law which “actually seeks to reverse
the course of progress in labor-management relations.”
On te occasion of the Jewish New Year, Dr. Manuel
Laderman, chairman of the commission, issued a statement
urging the American people to eliminate racial discrimina
tion, atid to co-operate with the Government in efforts to
bring down the high cost of living. He said:
“A change has taken place in our country with regard
to the rights of laboring men and women. A new hos
tility to their legitimate expectations of the right to work,
to be compensated adequately for their efforts, and to se
curity in their jobs of pressure have been applied to di
minish the gains which laboring people had painfully
achieved after years of struggle. Ambiguous legislation
has been approved, presumably intended to correct abuses,
which actually seeks, to reverse the course of progress in
labor-management relations* As religious leaders it is our
profund hope that in the administration of the new law
there will be a reasoned approach which will avoid aggra
vating a tense situation. We are more fortunately situ
uted in the United States than any other country on earth.
We dare not allow class friction to destroy the copious re
sources for a full life for all of our citizenry.
“Old sources of ill-will in the field of race relations, from
which Americans have too easily turned their eyes, are re
ceiving international attention. Those whose purpose it is
to maiign America use the discriminations against some of
our citizens as a brush to tar our country’s good name.
The noble intention of being helpful to the less fortunate
nations elsewhere is being obscured by revelations of the
inequalities that have existed unchallenged within our
borders. A more critical approach to our own age-old
deficiencies would lift American prestige everywhere and
would improve the democratic status of our people, it
must, therefore, become 'ohr duty to discourage the at
tempts to improve the lot of the Negro, to remove quotas j
in our colleges, to open up areas of employment, to elimi-.
nate restrictions on housing and the great hoot of discord^
which mar the Americah scene. > - •
“Our economy has been suffering because of the unin
telligent removal of barriers against high prices. The pres
sure to remove controls on production and prices was pre
dicted on the idea , that the unrestricted operation of supply
and demand would avoid runaway prices. So far that re
sult has not been accomplished. If we are to maintain our,
economic system there must be greater co-operation with
the government to bring the cost of living within the reach
rf most people.”
NICB PRICE INDEX AT PEAK; DOLLAR VALUE
DROPS BY 15 PER CENT
The National Industrial Conference Board, a private re
search organization, reported a drop of nearly one per cent
in the purchasing power of the dollar, measured in terms
of what it will buy in stores and markets, has dropped
14.4 per cent in value.
At the same time, the NICB said its consumers price in
dex rose to a new high of 126.5 during the month of July.
Base date for the index used by the NICB in its computa
tions is the year 1923, when prices were considered normal
at 100.
Over the 13-month period between June, 1946 and July,
1947, the weighted average of all items in the index
climbed 16.9 per cent. During the same period food rose
34.1 per cent, clothing went up 11.2 per cent, fuel and light
increased 5.2 per cent and sundries jumped 9.4 per cent.
Housing, due to the restraining effect of the wartime rent
control law remained unchanged.
Information upon which the price index is based is
gathered monthly by the NICB in 66 cities throughout the
nation. During July when the most recent survey was
made, prices rose in all but 2 of these cities.
Thus, the findings of the NICB bear out the fact pre
viously made clear by study of the consumers’ price index
prepared by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This fact is
that while prices maintain their steady upward climb, the
value of wage earners’ income has dropped in spite of in
creases in take-home pay.
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INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT SETS RECORD; LEVEL
IN AUGUST UP MORE THAN 400,000
Non-agricultural employment reached the highest em
ployment level in 1947 when 42,568,000 workers held jobs
in mid-August, according to a report prepared by the Bu
reau of Labor1 Statistics.
Ewan Clague, BLS head, said this was an increase of
more than 400,000 over the July level of employment in
Industry.
Mr. Clague declined to forecast how long the upward
tren<J of employment might continue. He did observe, how
iver, that "if the economy follows the experience of our
most recent prewar years gains in industrial activity should
continue until late in the fall.”
According to Mr. Clague, the late summer rise in indus
rvil employment began "on schedule” as employment re
bounded vigorously from the seasonal decline of the prev
ious few months.
The number of persons registering for unemployment
benefits indicated that the downward trend in unemploy
ment still persisted as of mid-September, said Mrj Clague.
He declared that the claims load of those applying for these
benefits was now at the lowest level since soon after the
end of the war.
While unemployment rolls have been declining in virtually
all areas, Mr. Clague indicated that the largest reductions
have been along the Eastern seaboard, where the apparel
and textile industries center, and in California, where the
canning industry has reached a seasonal high. ,
Mr. Clague said the 400,000 increase in employment for
August had been mainly among adult workers rather than
in the school-age group. '
He attributed the spurt in employment to the following
causes; (1) Stepped-up activity in the soft-goods manufac
turing fields, particularly apparel and food; (2) recall of
many workers who had been made temporarily idle by
material shortages and vacation shutdowns, and (3) the
continued expansion of construction.
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