AIRFORCE PLAN U S. Army a.id U. S. Air Force POST OFFICE BUILDING. CHARLOTTE, N. C. Located At MINERS' AVERAGE PAY SETS RECORD IN AUGUST Washington, D. C.—Reflecting new contract gains, average hour ly earnings of bituminous coal workers in August were $1,778, a rise of almost 20 per cent over June, the Bureau of Labor Sta tistics reported. Weekly earnings, at the record average of $71.49, increased by $4.40, or 6.6 per cent. Hourly earnings in anthracite mining also increased 8 per cent over the period. Weekly earn ing* were about $4 above June. The bureau’* revised figures for August showed that factory pro duction workers earned an aver age of $49.21 for an average week of 39.8 hours. This is prac tically unchanged from the July level. After reading The Journal, pass it aa to year neighbor! 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Sadden chilling each at planting into cold water on a very hot day shoald be avoided a* the sixth aad Inal health ho Oh io lane National Fe tile Paralysis eantions threegh Ms local chapter. ’’no"! GOOD BOY ITS (jjW.ICt / S\ Report Urges Ban On All forms yi uiscnmination Washington, D. C.—Presi-1 dent Truman’s committee on 1 civil rights called for the erasure of discrimination based upon race, color, creed and national origin and de clared the need for a perma nent nation-wide system of guardianship for the civil rights of American citizens. In a 178-page report submitted to Mr. Truman, the committee ■aid the “American ideal still awaits complete realizatiem ’ and made a total of 35 recom mendations for enhancing the dignity of the individual and bolstering his rights, and for sorting out the disloyal from tne loyal. The report advocated the legalized exposure of Communists and “native fascists.’’ The American Federation of Labor, through its representative on the committee, Boris Shiskin, AFL economist, participated in the preparation of the report. The report urged the President to create a permanent Federal commission on civil rights, and the 48 states were asked to do the same for themselves. Con gress was asked to create a standing committee on civil rights and the Department of Justice was advised to reorganize and enlarge its dvjl rights section. This was tne basic pattern of Federal and state machinery which the committee said it felt was necessary to advance Amer ican democracy. While focusing its attention on the bad side of the nation’s rec ord with respect to the civil rights of our citizens, the com mittee made special mention of the human progress made in this country. inis necessary emphasis upon our country’s failures should not be permitted to obsucre the real measure of its successes. No fqir-minded student of American history, or of world history, would deny to the United States a position of leadership in en larging the range of human lib erties and rights, In recognising and stating the ideals of free dom and equality, and in stead ily and loyally working to make those ideals a reality. “Whatever our failures in prac tice have been or may be,, there has never been a time when the American people have doubted the validity of those ideals. We still regard them Is vital to our dem ocratic system.” The 35 recommendations cov ered a wide range, including the following proposals: Affirmative work by Federal, state and congressional organs to improve civil liberties. Revisions of statutes protect ing individuals against encroach ment of theft- rights and against police brutality. An anti-lynching act. Prohibition of poll taxes as a voting requisite. „ . Abolition of white primaries. Laws to compel Communist and other subversive groups to dis close their sponsorship, aims and finances. , Federal action to end segrega tion of any kind which is based on race, color, creed and nation ality. A campaign to educate the people in a continuous program to strengthen civil rights to be conducted by the proposed Fed eral commission. Asserting that “the only aristoc* racy that is consistent with the free way of life is an aristoc racy of talent and achievement,” the committee briefly reviewed some affirmative factors. Among hose were the facts that Negroes lave been accepted in big league baseball and that high officials of the armed forces show an in creasing tendency to use more Negroes and other minority groups on a basis of equality with white units. ' Reviewing the right to vote, the committee said that the franchise is barred to some because of race, to others by institutions or pro cedures which impede free ac cess to the polls. Others were disfranchised by electoral irreg ularities or corrupt practices, and the permanent residents of the District of Columbia were ex cluded from political representa tion by “outmoded national tra ditions.” Most serious under this head ing, continued the committee, was the denial of suffrage to Negroes in most southern states, but it hailed recent “progress, limited and precarious, but nevertheless progress.” VOTERS LEAGUE HOPES TO RAISE $109,000 CHEST San Diego, Calif.—The newly created AFL Voters league of this city has given notice that it means business—and its first business is the defeat in 1948 of “Congresional enemies of labor.” The league has started raising a $100,000 war chest through contributions from the 5,000 mem bers of local AFL unions. Hail the money collected will go to the State AFL to assist its State wide political program. SEPTEMBER WEEKLY PAY UP FOR FACTORY WORKERS Washington, D. 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