HARTMAN’S MARKET
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1406 W. More head St. Phone 6171
' HART GLEANERS
727 North Graham St. Phone 4*5196
INDUSTRIAL PIPIN6, INC.
1501 Dowd Road
Phone 4-4293
MARTIN'S TRANSFER & ST0RA6E
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WITH THE BIG BLUE TRUCKS
1138 North Caldwell Phone 4-1923
Box 1904
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STATE MEDIATION BOARD
STEPS UP ACTIVITIES
Albany, N. Y.—The New York
State Mediation Board disposed
of 81:$ cases during the first six
j months of 1948, Industrial Com
j missioner Edward Corsi, head of
the State I>abor Department, an
nounced. This total represents an
increase of 56 per cent over the
521 cases closed during the same
period of last year. The number
of cases on hand during the first
half of this year totaled 1.022.
More than half, approximately
58 per cent of the cases closed,
involved potential work stoppages
and 15 per cent were concerned
with actual work stoppages. In
the remainder of the cases strike
threats had been eliminated in
advance through agreements be
, tween the disputing parties.
Eagle Stores Co., Inc.
CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA
KINGS MOUNTAIN, MORGANTON, L1NCOLNTON, BELMONT
NEWTON, SYLVA, CANTON, WAYNESVILLE, FOREST CITY,
SHELBY, ASHEBORO, GASTONIA, LENOIR, WADESBORO,
WILLIAMSTON, CLINTON, STATESVILLE, ROANOKE RAPIDS.
HALF OF FIRMS INSPECT
ED GUILTY OF VIOLATING
FEDERAL LABOR STATUTES
Washington. — Despite continu
ance of the unprecedented busi
ness boom with its high profits,
more than half of the establish
ments investigated by Labor De
partment representatives in the
year ending June 30 were guilty
of violating the minimum wage,
overtime, and child-labor provi
sions of the Fair Labor Stand
ards Act and the Public Con
tracts Act.
This was brought out in the
annual report on investigations
made by William R. McComb, ad
ministrator of the Wage and Hour
and Public Contracts Divisions of
the Labor Department.
In his report for the 1948 fiscal
year, McComb pointed out that
• only 30,053 selected inspections
! wert> made. While 15,799 of the
j inspections showed violations of
| the three major provisions of the
two acts, McComb said this does
not necessarily mean that the
! non-complying employers had been
' revealed to be in durrent or pro
longed violation during the two
year period of activities covered
by the inspections.
Of the employers found In vio
lation, 9,582 arranged to make
restitution of $4,256,761 in back
wages to some 100,000 employes.
. About 90,000 of those employes
, were owed back wages because
I they had not received overtime
, compensation at the rate of time
snd one-half their regular rate
, °f pay for work beyond 40 hours
in a work-week. However ap
i proximately 12,000 were owed
back wages because their em
ployers had failed to pay them
at least 40 cents an hour at some
time during the past two year*.
NLRB JURISDICTION
EXTENDED TO RETAIL FIELD
Washington.-—Further evidence
of the expanding jurisdiction of
the National Labor Relations
Board appeared in a trial exam
iner's determination that a re
tail photographic store was sub
ject to the Taft-Hartley law. He
also found that a local union of
the AFL retail clerks had vio
lated the act by insisting on n
closed-shop contract tn that store.
The examiner, Isadore Green
berg, held that the purchase of
j T1 per cent of its merchandise
I outside California brought the
A-l Photo Service. San Pedro,
under the terms of the act.
The union, in demanding con
tinuation of a closed-shop clause
| "hich had been in contracts with
the firm since 1941, took the po
sition that the firm’s business,
j being entirely retail, did not "af
fect commerce’’ within the mean
ng of the act.
RISK IN CUN8UMER CREDIT
SETS NEW POSTWAR PEAK
Washington.—The expansion of
consumer credit is continuing and
i has reached another record high
of $14,149,000,000, according to
! reports of the Federal Reserve
Board.
Of the $331,000,000 increase
during June, about two-thirds was
attributable to further gains in
t installment buying.
The remainder of the increase
was due almost entirely to an in
crease in the amount outstand
ing on charge accounts.
The board report showed total
j installment credit at a record
high of its own, $7,192,000,000 at
the beginning 0t July.
This meant Americans had
gone $1,738,000,000 deeper into
i debt on the installment plan dur
1 ing the 8 months since time
I payment controls died last No
j vembcr 1.
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AFL PHOTO-ENGRAVERS
WIN 112 PAY INCREASE
Chicago.—Local 5 of the AFL’a
Photo-Engraver* Union here won
a |12 weekly pay boost under
terms of a new contract with the
Chicago Newspaper Publishers
Association.
The contract covers 275 en
gravers employed by the five
daily newspapers. It extends
from .Tuly 17, 1948, to January
17, 1950. No opening for wage
negotiations is provided during
this period.
FEDERAL LABOR UNION
WINS 7-CENT PAY HIKE
Manville, N. J— Nearly 3.000
employes, members of the AFL’s
Federal Labor Union 21626, won
a 7-cent hourly pay increase un
der terms of a new contract ne
gotiated with the Johns-Maneille
plant hen.
The agreement, which was rati
fied by the union’s membership,
provides doable time for the 7th
consecutive day of work, four
hoars instead of two hours cell*
in pay, and payroll deductions
: for union initiation fees.
COMPLIMENTS OF
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Milwaukeeans have known
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that Blatz is Milwaukee’s
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Southern Fruit Co.
Distributors - Phone 3-6181
419 W. 2nd St. Charlotte. N. C.
GREETINGS
Southern Construction Co.
RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL CONTRACTORS
Charlotte, North Carolina
205 East Bland Street Phone 3-9685
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