Editorial CHARLOTTE LABOR JOURNAL & DIXIE FARM NEWS Published Weekly at Charlotte, N. C._‘ B. A. Stalls, Editor and Publisher W. M. Witter, Associate Editor Entered as second-class mail matter September 11, 1981, at the Post Office at Charlotte, N. C., under the Act of Concrete of March 3,1879 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: 12.00 per year, payable in advance or 5c per copy. ADVERTISING RATES for commercial advertising reasonable. Official Or^ran 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 Boy 10di Telephones 3-3084 and 4-5502 Office of Publication: 118 East Sixth Street, Charlotte. N. C. The Labor Journal will not be responsible for opinions of corre eiKir.oents. but any erroneous reflectinc upon the character, standinc 0T 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 the publisher. Correspondence end Open Forum opinions solicited. 380 UNIONS CO-OPERATING IN SETTING UP NEW APPRENTICE TRAINING PROGRAMS Over 380 unions are cooperating with contractors in the establishment of apprentice training programs for brick masons. Ray A. Shipley, president of the Structural Clay Products Institute, stated. The institute is a national as sociation of brick and tile# manufacturers. “The number of apprentices registered in the training programs has passed 8300,” Shipley said. “In Ohio alone, 732 employers and 44 local unions are co-operating in providing training for 1,056 apprentices. In Michigan, which ranks second in the number of em ployers and unions, there are 514 employers, 31 unions and 472 apprentices. Pennsylvania reports 274 employers and 20 local unions, with a total of 521 apprentices. Joint apprenticeship committees have been formed in all but five States, and 25 States have 100 or more appren tices in training. “The 10 to 20 per cent gain m construction volume fore cast for next year by the United States Department of Commerce will mean a substantial increase in the amount of masonry construction and will require a continued ex pansion in the mason training program. “It is estimated that fully 400 local communities in which no apprentice mason programs have been established to date will face shortages of skilled workers within the next year or so unless training is started soon. “The large backlog of housing and other construction off«rs attractive employment opportunities for a record breaking number of young men in bricklaying and other building trades during the yec.rs ahead in all sections of the country. “The United States Apprentice Training Service is as sisting the efforts of contractors, materials manufacturers and labor unions to provide training for new workers.” WASHBURN BlASfS EMPLOYER VIOLATIONS OF CHILD LABOR/ MINIMUM WAGE, HOUR LAWS Lester Washburn, International President of the AFL United Auto Workers, on the basis of a recent report made public by William R. McComb, Administrator of the Wage and Hour and Public Contracts Divisions of the U. S., lashed out at the record number of violations by manage ment of existing labor laws. Washburn, asking that immediate remedial steps be taken by labor and government to stop "the appalling up ward trend” of violations by companies against protective provisions for workers in the Fair labor Standards Act, the Public Contracts Act, the Wage and Hour, Child la bor, Minimum Wage and other laws, cited figures in McComb’s report that the $18,000,000 in wages had been illegally withheld by management from’ 811.236 employes. More than half of the 40.350 or 7 per cent of the cov ered establishments in the United States inspected during the year ending June 30 were found by the Wage and Hour an Public Contracts Divisions to have been in vio lation of the minimum wage, overtime or child labor pro visions, Washburn pointed out in referring to McComb’s recent survey. Failure to pay the minimum wage of 40 cents on hour Washburn called an “intolerable practice under the con stantly rising cost of living.” Yet, he said, failure to pay the minimum wage was involved in the cases of 2700 em ployers hiring 37.000 workers at less than the minimum wage. * Violations of the child labor provisions of the Public Contract Act were found in 185 establishments, Washburn said the McComb report showed, with substantial viola tions of the record-keeping regulations of the Fair Labor Standards Act uncovered in 14,000 companies. LABOR PRESS HAILED AS KEY AGENCY IN JOB OF KEEPING UNION MEMBERS INFORMED The labor press is the logical vehicle for the dissemina tion to union members of educational and informational material on political matters, according to Arthur G. McDowell, director of organization for the AFL’s Uphol sterers’ International Union. In an article appearing in the UIU Journal, McDowell called for intensified activity to rid the labor movement of Communists and laid down a three-point program de signed to “permanently transform our American political life for the better.” He said: “Our first job is to inform our members and build ma chinery to make that flow of information constant and re liable. That means education, of which the labor press is the first line. "Our second job is to organize our members as citizens in their unions and union activities. "Our third job is to bring to a jell the liberal elements to be found in the old parties and in every community and build for the perpetuation and advancement of our demo cratic Republic. “This can be done through building a larger society of farmers and workers and all their friends to permanently transform our American political life for the better, far beyond such a limited objective as removal of Taft, Hart ley and their kind from public life.” ^ 8 . CAftTtRIAS TUI TWO WHO MUCDfSSO " TONY, TUI 6ROCIR AMO KiOMAPPIO «AUV « ONI 01 THCM! LUCKILY 0P1KI DOISM'T eecooMia Joe in ws 055UI86 AS JOHN 001. I CRTAMU landed into fiOMETH'NO: JOHNNY DOE' DON’T HOBBY! l HE'S WITH US. AIN'T YOU, JOHNNY? E9-Z DON'T KNOW WMT YOU MIAN'. AW' VOU DON’T NKD 18 PQE’END: THE FOREMAN T.PPIO ME Off. AiNT vER A6.N UNIONS, AND AMERICAN PROM MAY BACK. JO* WORKER HAS REACHED FAST BAM AT LAST, BUT WON'T THE THUGS RECOGNIZE HIM? ORGANIZATION AI. UNITY CLOSER FOR TELEGRAPHERS Los Angeles. — The _ Western Un:or* Division^ of the AFL’s Commercial Telegraphers’ Union acted to bring about more direcf organizational affiliation with the parent union. A\ its 7th annual convention here, the Western Union Division recommended that its divisional headquarters in Kansas City. Mo., be eliminated and that every Western Union Ideal affiliate di rectly with the Commercial Tele graphers’ Union with headquar ters in Washington, D. C. The recommendation is subject to the approval of the convention of the international union. In other convention actions, the Western Union delegates voted for a resolution favoring govern ment ownership of the communi cations system and endorsed the continuation of the campaign against the Western Un'on Com pany** policy of "economic sui cide” in closing’offices and short ening business hours. ADMINISTRATRIX’S NOTICE Having qualified as Administra trix of the Estate of Marvin R. Beatty, Sr., deceased, late of Mecklenburg County, North Caro lina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said deceased to exhibit them to the undersigned at 214 John ston Building, -Charlotte. North Carolina, on or before the 27th day of October, 1948. or this no tice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons in debted to said estate will please make immediate payment. This the 27th day of October, 1947. ELIZABETH H. PEATTY, Administratrix of Estate of Marvin R. Beatty, Sr., 214 Johnston Building, Charlotte, North* Carolina. (10-M); 11-6,13,20-c) State of North Carolina, County of Mecklenburg. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT Blanche H. Shields, Plaintiff, vs. William L. Shields, Defendant. NOTICE SERVING SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION The above named defendant will take notice that an action as en titled above has been commenced in the Superior Court of Mecklen burg Countv, North Carolina, by the plaintiff to obtain an absolute divorce upon the grounds of two years separation; and the defen dant will further take notice that he is required to appear at the office oPthe Clerk of the Supe rior Court of Mecklenburg County at the Court House in Charlotte, North Carolina within twenty (20) days after the 20th day of Novem ber. 1947, and answer or demur tc the complaint in the said action, or the plaintiff will apply1 to the Court for the relief demanded in the said complaint. This the 23rd day of October, 1947. 3. LESTER WOLFE. 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LESTER WOLFE, Clerk of Superior Court. <10-23, 30; 11-6, 13-c) • STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF STATE PRELIMINARY CERTIFICATE OF DISSOLUTION To All to Whom These Presents May Come—Greeting: Whereas, It appears to my satis faction, by duly authenticated re cord of the proceedings for the voluntary dissolution thereof by the unanimous consent of all the stockholders, deposited in my of fice, that Presson, Corse and Keefer, Incorporated, a corpora tion of this State, whose principal office is situated in the City of Charlotte, County of Mecklenburg, State of North Carolina (T. S. Corse being the agent therein and in charge thereof, upon whom process may lie served!, has. com plied with the requirements of Chapter 55. General Statutes, en titled “Corporations,” preliminary to the issuing of this Certificate of Dissolution: t r*.. 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