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State of North Carolina, County of Mecklenburg. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT Sophie M. Waits, Plaintiff vs. Carl W. Waits, Defendant. Notice of Service by Publication The above - named defendant, Carl W. Waits, will take notice that an action as entitled above has been commenced in the Su perior Court of Mecklenburg County. North Carolina, by the plaintiff for an absolute divorce based upon statutory grounds and according to law in North Caro lina; and the defendant will further take notice that he is required to appear at the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Mecklenburg County at the Court House in Charlotte, North Carolina, within twenty days after the 29th day of April, 1948, which date 's at least seven days after the last publication of this notice, and answer or demur to the complaint in said action, or the plaintiff will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in said complaint. This the 1st day of April. 1948. J. LESTER WOLFE. Clerk of the Superior Court. 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Trade Phene 8257 WHERE DO YOU STAND? How do you regard the Taft-Hartley Act? Are you for it or against it? Recently, Senator Robert A. Taft and other sup-/ porters of this legislation have been making speeches trying to make the public believe that the Taft-Hart ley Act is opposed only by labor leaders and that the rank and file of labor union members are really in favor of it. We think the public ought to know the truth. That is why we are conducting this nation-wide poll. This is an entirely secret ballot. We want you to express your honest opinion with perfect freedom. All you have to do is to place a check in the box beside either of the two questions below and mail the clipping to Poll Department, American Federation of Labor, Washington, D. C. I am against the Taft-Hartley Act ( ) I am for the Tart-Hartley Act ( ) Please mark your ballot above and mail to Poll De partment, American Federation of Labor, Washington ton, D. C. EARLY RETURNS REFUTE CLAIM THAT WORKERS FAVOR MEASURE Washington, D. C.—By a ten to one margin, American wrokers are registering their opposition to the Taft-Hart ley Act in a nation-wide poll conducted by the American Federation of Labor through the labor press. First returns in the poll, including ballots from every state, indicate that the tide of labor’s resentment against the Taft-Hartley Act »s overwhelming. The tabulations were: Against tne law . For the law.588 Thus the contentions of Senator ( Robert A. Taft and other spon sors of the law that it is opposed only by union leaders and that the rank and file of labor union members really are in favor of it, are shattered. Special precautions were taken to conduct the poll on an entirely open and above-oard basis with secret ballots to shield those who registered their opinions from any hint or threat of intimidation. The ballot forms were drafted by the AFL Weekly News Service and made available to union mem bers through the labor press. Each individual worker had to clip the ballot from his union paper, ramk it according to his own views and mail it to the head quarters of the AFL, where the votes were tabulated by the staff of the AFL Weekly News Service. The poll will be continued until the total number of ballots re ceived reacehs at least 100,000, in order to obtain an unchal lengeable cross-section of the nation's workers. New reports on the results will be published from time to time as their significance mounts. At the same time, a special poll is being conducted, along the same lines as the general poll, among the members of a specific union, the Internationad Molders and ] Foundry Workers Union of North America. This was done at the request of the union’s President,! Harry Stevenson, in order to ob- j tain a full expression, from the, uion’s membership on their atti tude toward the Taft-Hartley Act. Results of the Molder’s poll will be published shortly. In later reports, efforts also will be made to break down the vote by states to see whether la bor’s opposition to the Taft-Hart ley Act is concentrated in any particular sections of the nation or -is general in character. AFL President William Green expressed gratification over the huge margin being rolled up by union members against the Taft Hartley Act. “The results so far confirm fully what we told Congress,” Mr. Green said. “We knew all along that labor union members solidly supported our position to tihs infamous law. Here is the proof. “I hope that a large number of labor union members respond to this free and unfettered oppor tunity to register their opinions on this vital issue. The higher the score, the more impressive will this test of union labor’s views become.” HOUSE TO VOTE ON OLEO TAX; REPEAL FORCES GAIN GROUND Washington.—Private dairy in terests took a licking in the latest round of their battle with the sponsors of legislation to repeal the discriminatory taxes on oleo margarine. Leaders of the group seeking repeal of the taxes announced that the required number of sig natures of Representatixes had been obtained on a petition to force legislation out of the House Agriculture Committee. The committee on March 1 passed by 16 to 10 a motion by Representative August H. An dresen, a leader of the dairy bloc, to table 18 seperate measures re pealing or amending teh margar ine tax laws.. The American Federation of Labor supported this drive to get the measure to the floor of the House where the full member ship could take final action on the controversial matter. Meantime an attack on another law discriminating against mar garine was underway before the House Armed Services Co/nmittee. Dr. John J. Carson, Chicago Uni versity physiologist, yesterday urged the laws phohibiting the Army and Navy to serve mar garine as a table spread, be re pealed, - The laws the repealers seek to repeal call for a tax of a quarter of a cent a- pound on uncolored margarine and 10 cents a pound on yellow margarine. They seek to repeal occupational taxes on margarine handlers, such as; manufacturers, $600 a year; wholesalers, $480 a year for col ored margarine and $200 for un colored; and retailers $48 a year for colored and $6 for uncolored margarine. 'The measure to be voted on now comes up on Ajril 26, when the House will vote on whether to discharge the committee, before it can act on any of the bills. AUTO WORKERS LOCAL NEGOTIATES NEW PACT Muskegon Heights, Mich.—Lo cal 644 of the AFL’s United Auto mobile Workers of America an nounced the signing of a new contract with the Shaw Box Crane Company here. The new pact contains many fine features, including an im proved grievance procedure and top seniority provisions. A 5 cents-an-hour blanket ' Increase plus six paid holidays are also part of the agreement. The com pany agreed to waive damage claims against the local union as contained in the Taft-Hartley act. It was also provided that the wage question may be reopened in May. should a national pattern of wage increases be established. CO-OP DEPARTMENT STORE IS FIRST IN UNITED STATES Arlington, Va.—The first co operatively owned and operated department store opened here re cently in a surburban area of the Nation’s Capital. 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