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LABOR WINS UNION SHOPS; NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD CASE LOAD CLIMBS Washington, D. C.—Results of union shop elections conducted by the National Labor Relations Board as required by the Taft- ■ Hartley law show conclusively the , utter uselessness of that provision of the law. Statistics released by the NLRB for its operation during Novem- j her show that unions won every one of the 112 union shop elec tions held since enactment of the law. Of the total vote cast, 90 per cent favored the union shop. This is ample evidence that union members and their fellow* work ers have the utmost confidence in labor organizaions. The net effect of these 112 elec tions has been to waste the tax payers’ money, waste time, build up the backlog of cases awaiting action by the NLRB, and contrib ute to confusion and ill-feeling in labor-management relations. All this to suit the whimsy of the labor-baiters who prevailed in writing into the law this attempt to ham string labor and wreck the principle of union security. Union leaders predicted that the provision requiring union shop elections would serve no useful purpose and the rank and file have proven them right with their wholesale repudiation of the open shop adherents. It is doubly significant when one considers the neat, anti-democratic trick the law’s proponents used in requir ing that unions mast poll a ma jority of all eligible votes, not simply a majority of the votes actually cast, in order to gain the right to ask the employer for a union shop. Under this unfair restriction upon tire normal democratic meth od, even the 90 per cent of votes cast in favor of the union shop might not have been satisfactory to win the election. If only half of the eligible* parieipated in the •lection even the landslide vote in favor of the union would have gone for naught. The NLRB report showed ad ditional evidence of the growing strength and influence of unions. In the 151 collective bargaining elections held, £2 per cent of the voters favored a labor organiza tion as the bargaining agent. This compares with the 70 per cent recorded for the preceding month. In November 1,832 new cases were filed with the NLRB, in in crease of 41 percent over the pre ceding month, to bring the back log of case* pending before the board to a new record total of 5,219. Of these, 47 per cent were filed since August 22, the effective date of the Taft-Hartley law. After reading The Journal, pass it on to your neighbor! i 1 NO. STRIKES IN N. 1. STATE REPORTED LOWEST LEVEL IN FIFTY YEARS New York City.—The number of strikers involved in work stop pages in New York State is the I lowest in 50 years. Industrial i Commissioner Edward Corsi re- j ported. Citing the record of labor, man agement and government co-op eration in this state, the Com missioner said strike activity had been declining steadily since 1942 and that from 1940 through 1940 New York had fewer man-days lost, proportionately, because of strikes than any other large in dustrial state. Mr. Corsi said some of the rea sons for the postwar era of com parative industrial peace were the high employment and wages in the state, widespread union or ganization and acceptance by man agement of collective bargaining, and expansion of the state’s med iation services. Of 5,482,000 r.on-agricultural workers in the state, there were only 300.000 claimants for unem ployment insurance in November, 1 the lowest number since V-J Day, i the record showed. Factory wages I averaged $51.88 for men and ! women for the state generally'. . Steadily increasing use of the State Board of Mediation was noted by Mr, Corsi. He esti mated that 1,200 cases would be submitted for mediation to the Uncle Sam Says i How would you like to v.. 1c a chock for S3,498.94 to yourself dated New Year's Day 19.18? You can do exactly that hv signing your name any time in January to an authori?.i tion form at your bank which will permit them to take S1S.75 a month from the funds you have on deposit and buy one $25 Savings Bond lor you every month for the next 10 years. The Payroll Savings Plan— which is the partial payment way to buy Savings Bonds where you work —is equally powerful la producing a sizable nestegg out of regular sav ings. U, S. 7>#a»ry Dtpaitment board by the end of this year, compared with 643 in 11*46 and 431* in 1946. Arbitration cases submitted in the first three-quar ters of this year numbered 1,103, compared with 1,274 in all 1946 and 885 in all 1945. Strike activity in the post World War II penod has been much below that of the post— World War 1 period, Mr. Corsi ex plained. “During 1946-47,” he said, “an GREETINGS TO LABOR For The Promotion of Better Labor-Management Relations MANUFACTURERS OF • RELIABLE SHIRTS • PAJAMAS OF DISTINCTION SHERROD SHIRT COMPANY HIGH POIHT, H. C. Union Label PRINTING FOR LOCAL UNIONS 2<^g^fe2 > 2«£gu,2 2«qp»2 2«^k>2 240k2 We are in position to furnish you with high class stationery, by-laws, etc., on Union-Made Paper by Union Craftsmen. Our workmanship guaranteed to please. Dial 4-5502 H. A. STALLS ^PRINTING CO* 2 i P. O. Box 1061 118 East 6th Street Charlotte, North Carolina THE MARCH OF LABOR wfWE COLONIAL COURTS OF AMERICA STRICTLY ENFORCED LABOR CONTRAC-TSoF SERVANTS, AND INFLICTED HEAVY PENALTIES AS MUCH AS TEN DAYS fOREACH DAY'S ABSENCE. • J&N 1909 NEW YOR< STATE PASSED A LAW REQUIRING „ ONE DAY OF REST iN EACH SEVEN* ■ • ^Si>Y lWiOM-MADE HATS AMO CAPS &eST VALUES. LOOK, poft mis u/vion label m /vext time wov 8uV headgear. Torpor atio/nI PROPITS TOR 1946 WERe 203# HIGHER THAN/ AVERAGE ftfOFi1S TOR 1936-9. estimated 13,600,000 man days were lost because of strikes. Dur ing 1919-20 stoppages reported accounted for at least 21,966,000 man-days idle, although the total labor force was 2,000,000 less then than now.” After World War I about half the strikes were for higher wages and half for shorter work weeks. In the last two years the major ity of strikes were for higher wage* to meet inflationary living costs and only 6 per cent of man days lost were caused by demands for shorter hours. NEW MORTGAGE INSURANCE Washington, D. C.—The Senate and House passed a bill author izing the Federal Housing Agency to insure another $760,000,000 in housing mortgages. The House and Senate both ap proved a conference committee re port accepting a House amend ment under which only $250,000, 000 will be made available im mediately. The rest will be used at the discretion of the Presi dent. The housing agency recently exhausted its insurance authori sation, and officials said the con struction of thousands of veterans homes was thus imperiled. Under the act, the government insures housing mortagages up to 90 per cent of their value. AFL LABOR PRESS (Continued From Page 1) ity that to select a few would be unfair to the many. “Your co-operation made the success of this year’s Chest cam paigns possible. On behalf of the many who will benefit by the health and welfare services' made possible by these campaigns, we say “Thanks by millions.* ” CUT PRICKS AND PROFITS (Continurd From Page 1) by drawing together of those now at opposite extremes of the wage scale. Better balances of income among sections, groups and individuals must be attained.” I It Pays To Trade With DOGGETT LUMBER CO. ’ll K. I ark A*«. i’h.me 8179 l Wuriitzcr Spinette Pianos —Convenient Terms— PARKER-GARDNER CO. 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