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( 85a By SCHACWER f Three of the 'secret , FOUR HAVE BEEN SAVED 1 BY JOE WORKER AND OAVE EPSTEIN.BUT GEORG/E BROW* IS IN THE RIVER, GAGGED. BOUND. ' ANO LOADED \ WITH ROCKS. NATKNUI USOR »YW I G'QEE, TOMMY f IT-IT’S ALL OVER WITH POOR GE0R6IE f f HE-HE *3 DEAD? THANK 600 YOU CAME IN TIME. MY FRIENDS f IF HE MUST Willett /s there, and so is SOMEONE £L3£'! American Labor In 1949 A New Year's Day Statement by Secretary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin The year 1949 finds the American wage earner better off than any other wage earner in the world, and assured tnat nis freedom win De pro tected and his economic ad vantages improved. Our standard of living has been mounting steadily for a century. Today an ordi nary worker’s hourly wage buys four times what his great grandfather’s hourly wage bought in 1847. His weekly wages repre sent a three-fold gain in pur chasing power over 100 years ago, for a workweek that has shrunk by one>* third. The quantity and qgglity of goods and services avail able to him beyond the basic reqiurements of living have contributed substantially to MAURICE J. TOBIN Secretary, U. S. Department of Labor ms well-being and enjoyment of life. They are the measure of the high standard of living which he enjoys. , There have been marked improvements also in his health and life expectancy, education, recreation and travel, civil and political rights. The growth of the labor movement has given him a greater participation in group eeondmic and political de cisions, and a more direct voice in his Government. Two factors have contributed to the constant improve ment of the purchasing power of his hourly and weekly wages: increased productivity and greater bargaining power. Increases in real wages, or purchasing power, have more nearly approximated increases in productivity in recent years when union strength was on the upswing and protection of the right of collective bargaining became a Government pc licy. The labor movement is 16 million strong today, and showing signs of continued vigorous growth. American wage-earners and their unions have contrib uted to the strength and welfare of the Nation. Productivity is again on the upswing as technological developments made during the war are adapted to peace time production. This will provide for further improvements in our stan dard of living if the workers are given their just share of the productivity increases. The future welfare of labor and the Nation depends on a free, democratic union movement that can bargain wisely and well with free management for a just balance be tween productivity, wages and prices. Government has its part to do, to improve the health and insurance facilities available to all the people, especially the unfortunate and weak, and to keep the economy strong. Those programs add up to a policy of programs and evo lution attained through a democratic Government and a democratic free people. We are going forward, the way we always have, under a system of justice and freedom to all our citizens. Much Work Remains To Be Done Aiding Handicapped Speaking for all labor, A. J. Hayes, General Vice Presi dent of the International Association of Machinists, has urged continuation of the President’s Committee on Na tional Employ the Physically Handicapped Week. As labor chairman for NEPH, Mr. Hayes reported to the President’s Committee at its meeting last week in Wash ington that “neither we nor representatives of other seg ments of society accomplished all we should have.” “We have made some progress in helping the physically handi capped find jobs for which they are suited” Mr. Hayes declared. “But we have only made a be ginning in the tremendous task of eliminating the apathy and in difference in the public mind whicn nas Deen tne principal stumbling block in rehabilitating our handicapped citizens.” As an example of the effective | participation of local labor groups j in NEPH week this year, Mr. | Hayes cited the activities of the , NEPH labor committee of Marion, Ohio. Business Paper Admits Failure Of T-H Law By Arnold Beichmun. New York Correspondent for AFL News Service New York. — Solemn obsequies over the Taft-Hartley law have been intoned by Business Week, a conservative publication whose potency helped sire this moribunJ antilabor law. Titling its current editorial, “Why the Taft - Hartley Law' Failed," this graveside sermon concedes that the law “went too far." Reversing the old Latin injunction that nothing except should be spoken about the dead. Business Week, with a candor which would have been far more refreshing had it been visible be fore Election Day, declares that “the Taft-Hartley Act conceivably could wreck the labor movement." Four provisions are signed out by Business Week as potential destroyers of the free trade un ion movement: “1. Picketing can be restrained by injunction. “2. Employers can petition for a collective bargaining election. “3. Strikers can be held in eligible to vote—while the strike replacements cast the only bal lots. “4. If the outcome of this is a ’no-union’ vote, the- government must certify and enforce it. “Anytime there is a surplus labor pool from which an em ployer can hire at least token strike replacements, these four provisions, linked together, pre sumably can destroy a union. “By going that far, the law de feated itself. It was more than a pendulum swing away from the Wagner Act. As a result, not only will the potentially destruc tive features of the law go, but also some of Its constructive aspects will be lost in the reac tion.” Although Business Week, whose pre-Nov. 2 liturgies to the Taft Hartley law lacked such mundane revelations as those cited above, is specific as to what provisions in the law are antiunion, it curi ously omits any citation of what are the T-H law's “constuctive aspects." The editorial attaches the act's failure to labor’s conviction that it "was an unjust and oppressive law. (Labor) was able to ex press its conviction politically.” Business Week argues that “as far as business was concerned, organised labor never made its case against the law,” although the four provisions cited by the enormously influential business magazine as examples of the T H law’s going “too far,” were precisely the bases of labor’s in dictment against the law. One of the most significant aspect of the editorial is its im plied warning to ultra-reactionary I businessmen that a law in a dem 1 ocratic society will fail unless it has the consent of the people. “Only the police state can en . force a law which is believed to HOW TO KlU « UNION 1. Don’t attend meetings. 2. If you go, go late. If the weather isn’t pleas ant, stay home. 4. Don’t accept any office: it’s easier to criticise. 6. Never approve anything your officers or committees do. 6. Don’t pay your dues until you have to. 7. Don’t bother recruiting new members. 8. Insist on official notices oeir.g sent you, but don’t pay any attention to them when you get them. 9. Don’t waste any courtesy at a meeting. It’s up to your officers to take it. 10. When you don’t like what’s going on say so, but under no circumtr.nces offer any constructive suggestions. 11. Devote most of your time talking; let someone else do the work. 12. If elected a delegate to a higher body or convention, don’t bother about attending meetings. 13. Then you can report when [ you get home that the or ganization is in the hands of a political gang and that there is no use trying to do j anything about it. 14. Look for hidden motives; don’t credit brother or sister ! members with any ideals. 15. Don’t co-operate with any * officer or committee; make them co-operate with you. \ 16. Jl^emember. that you know j more than anyone else about everything. If they don't j agree with you. they’re j wrong. (Reprint from Cleveland Citizen.) JOB RIGHTS OF DRAFTED STATE EMPLOYEES NOT COVERED BY SELECTIVE SERVICE LAW Washington. —■' The re-employ ment provisions of the Selective Service Act of 1948, like those of previous acts, cover employes of private employers and the federal government, but not em ployes of states and their politi cal subdivisions, Robert K. Sal yers, director of the Bureau of Veterans’ Re-omployment Rights, declared here. Both the old and the new re employment statutes declare it . to be the sense of Congress that states and municipalities should accord their employes reemploy ment rights similar to those given ex-servicemen by the federal statutes. Salyers pointed out, however, that such restoration is dependent upon state nvi. Many states adopted legislation or personnel policies insuring reem ployment of their employes who returned from the armed services, but in some instances, these stat utes have expired and must be reenacted if persons entering un der the Selective Service Act of 1948 are to be adequately pro tected. Field representatives of the Bu reau of Veterans’ Reemployment Rights have been instructed to ask state re-employment rights committess to bring this matter to the attention of appropriate ! state officials, since most state; legislatures will be in session in i 1949, Salyers said. TRUSTEE'S SALE OK REAL ESTATE: Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in that certain Deed of Trust exe cuted and delivered by Mrs. Odes sa Nance and her husband. J. F Nance, dated March 5, 1948, and recorded in the office of the Reg ister of Deeds for Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, in Book 11549, Page 600, and because of default of payment of the indebt edness thereby secured and fail ure to carry out and perform the stipulations and agreements therein contained, and pursuant to demand of the owner and hold er of the indebtedness secured by the said deed of trust, the un dersigned trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the high est bidder for cash at the County Courthouse of Mecklenburg Coun tv. in the City of Charlotte, North Carolina, at 12 o’clock noon on Monday the 10th day of Janu ary, 1949, all that certain lot or parcel of land situated, lying and being in Berryhill Township, Mecklenburg County, North Car olina and more particularly de scribed as follows: Beginning at an iron, I. W. McGunn’s or McGunn’s line, and runs with McGunns line South bS% deg., East 194 feet to an other iron in McGunn’s line; thence North 35 deg.. East with McGunn’s line 134 feet to an iron, a corner of McGunn’s and Grif fith’s line; thence South 66 deg., East 210 feet with Griffith’s line to a pine stump, a corner of Griffith’s and Weaver’s lines; thence with Weaver’s line South 4 ft., West 402 feet to a stake in the center of Walker’s Ferry road ;thence with the center of Walker’s Ferry road South 81U deg.. West 311.5 feet to a stake; thence with the center of said road North 89V* deg., West 163 feet to a stake, a corner of the J. Clyde Beatty lard; thence North • Bis deg.. East with the Beatty I land 535 feet to an iron (new) the beginning; containing 4.87 acres, as shown on map dated May 26, 1941. of survey made by J. B. Faires; and being a part of the land conveyed to O. P. Glover sind wife, Annie Glover, by Min nie Blair and others hv deed dated October 8th, 1921, recorded in Book 464, Page 78, of the of fice of Register of Deeds of Meck lenburg County, North Carolina. Being the same property deeded to Mrs. Odessa Nance, wife of J. F. Nance, dated July 15, 1946, and recorded in Book 1205, Page 138 in Office of Register of Dc-eds, Mecklenburg County, N. C. This Deed of Trust being given subject to two others; one being to Neal Y. Pharr, Trustee for Mrs. Annie Glover for 5500.00, due and payable July 15th, 1947, with interest from July 15th, 1946, and being recorded in Book 1194, Page 279, of the Mecklen burg County, N. C., Register of Deeds office. Also one for $2,500.00 to G. D. Aitken, Trustee for Citizens Bank and recorded in Register of Deeds office for Mecklenburg County, N. C., in Book 1194, Page 280. The exact amount of the bal ance of the two deeds of trust last mentioned will lie announced on date of sale. This saje will be made subject to the two last mentioned deeds of trust. The successful bidder will be required to deposit 10 per cent of his bid in cash or certified check with the trustee, said de posit will be refunded in case of a resale. This sale will be held open ten (10) days for upset bid as by law required. This 10th day of December, 1948. R. M. SANDERS, Trustee. American Crank Shaft Co. 510 West Morehead Tel. 2-1354 "The Best Equipped Shop in the South" CHARLOTTE. N. C. MAKE YOUR SHOP 219 North Tryon Street Charlotte. N. C. ROSS UNO WITHER. INC. “CARRIER' AIR CONDITIONING-HEATING AND REFRIGERATION • FIRER6LAS FOR INDUSTRIAL PURPOSES ENGINEERS AND C ONTRACTORS 1011 West Morhead Dial 3-6169 Charlotte. N. C. A The Concord Telephone Co. EXCHANGES AT ■ t Concord — Kannapolis — ML Pleasant — China Grove Main Office: Concord. N. C. The Albemarle Telephone Co. EXCHANGES AT: Albemarle — Rad in — Oak boro Main Office: Albemarle, N. C. MEN'S STORE Features... 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