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Oldest Bona Fide AFL Newspaper in North Carolina VOL. XVIII; NO. 45 CHARLOTTE. N. C.. THURSDAY, MARCH 24. 1949 Subscription Price 52.90 Year I Southern Labor Press To Meet In Atlanta Saturday ATLANTA. Ga.—Publish ers and editors of all bona fide Southern Labor publica tions have received notice that the Southern Labor Press association will meet in Atlanta on March 26-27 for the purpose of electing permanent officers for the ensuing term. Other details concerning the permanent organization of the association will be discussed at this meeting, Stanton Dann, editor of the Mobile Labor Journal and acting president of the asso ciation, said. L. B. Stanford, actinic secre tary-treasurer, stated in a letter to publishers that Matthew Woll, president of the International La bor Press association, had assured him and Editor Dann that he would make every effort to attend the Atlanta meeting. Lewis Hermann, secretary of the I. L. P., has given his assur ance that he will be on hand in Atlanta. Both Mr. Hermann and Mr. Woll have praised the efforts i of Southern Labor editors and' publishers in forming the associ ation. Others invited to attend in clude: W. J. Birthright, president of the Carpenters International Union and George Harrison, pres ident of the Railway Clerics. These international presidents along with Matthew Woll make up the A. F. L.-I. L. P. Labor Press committee. Lt. Col. George Creel, laison officer of the U. S. army, is also being invited, as well as officers of the Interna tional Labor Press of America. The two-day session in Atlanta will be held at the Piedmont ho tel opening at 10:00 a. m. on March 26. A banquet has been arranged for Saturday night. At the original meeting in Mi ami, Florida, on January 31. the following editors and publishers were present: Charles E. Silva, Florida La bor Advocate, Tampa. Fla.; S. L. (Continued on Page 3) FRANK MORRISON funeral Rites Held For Freak Morrison WASHINGTON, March 22.— Last rites for Frank Morrison, secretary emeritus of the Ameri can reaeration o? Labor, and for many years a champion of the rights of the working man, were held here. Led by AFL President William Green, a throng of over 400 labor leaders, government officials and friends attended services held in the Scottish Rite Temple. Fol lowing the impressive religious service interment was made in Cedar Hill cemetery. In a brief addres of eulogy, Mr. Green paid tribute to the memory of Mr. Morrison and characterised him as an exemp lary citizen and a distinguished pioneer in the American labor movement. Tributes testifying to the great respect and affection felt for Mr. Morrison poured into AFL head quarters here and to the family of the deceased. All signify and attest to the remarkable and de voted service rendered to the organized labor movement and to individual workers by Mr. Morri (Continued On Page 4) VOTING PLACES i CITY PRIMARY, APRIL 25. 1949 CITY ELECTION. MAY 3, 1949 Following is a list of the Voting: Precincts and their i locations, as furnished The Labor Journal by the office of Elections Chairman Brenizer: Precinct 1—Court House Precinct 2—501 S. Alexander St. Precinct 3—401 East 9th St. Precinct 4—1600 N. Brevard St. Precinct 5—601 North Graham St. Precinct 6—329 Irwin Ave. Precinct 7—825 Westbrook Drive Precinct 8—2000 North Allen St. Precinct 9—Y. M. C. A., E. 36th St. Precinct 10—3501 Plaza Road Precinct 11—1620 Club Road Precinct 12—Midwood School, Central Ave. Precinct 13—1400 Louise Ave. Precinct 14—1241 East 10th St. Pfecinct IS—537 Lamar Ave. Precinct 16—2539 Westmoreland Ave. Precinct 17—1028 Waterman Ave. Precinct 18—2701 East Seventh St. Precinct 19—Mint Museum, Eastover Precinct 20—500 Cherokee Road Precinct 21—111 Barnett Place. Off 1800 E. 4th St. Precinct 22—2108 Vail Ave. Precinct 23—1601 Park Drive * Precinct 24—2131 Raddiffe Ave. . Precinct 25—1026 Providence Road Precinct 26—Myers Park Club, Myers Park Precinct 27—Avondale Com. House, Avondale & Lilac Precinct 28—1612 Kenilworth Ave. Precinct 29—Dilworth School, 405 E. Park Ave. Precinct 30—1716 Lyndhurst Ave. Precinct 31—1927 Dilworth Rd., W. Precinct 32—1004 Poindexter Drive Precinct 33—Wilmore School 428 West Boulevard Precinct 34—Alexander Graham Jr. High School Precinct 35—Wesley Hts. School, 128 S. Summit Ave. Precinct 35—Seversville School. 1701 Sumter Ave. Precinct 38—2436 Wilkinson Bird. Precinct 39—West Charlotte High' School Precinct 40—Fairview Homes, 1026 Oaklawn Ave. Precinct 41—Hutchison School, 1400 Hutchison Ave. Precinct 42—1607 Statesville Ave. (Additional Data On Pace 3) ~ l'*T Copjrriffcl 1M( THI MACHINIST—tAM Everybody Depends On Biggest Customer Those dreaded words “layoff,” “short wee}' and “unemployment” are back in the daily newspapers again. So far the busi ness cutback has brought hardship, suf fering amt anxiety to relatively few Amer ican families. I.A.M. members are faring better than most. But all of us are watching the news uneasily. A layoff eats into family savings like a blowtorch on a cake of ice. Just the fear of layoff is enough to make most families tighten up on their spend ing and postpone every possible purchase. Labcr is still the biggest customer for manufactured goods and for farm prod ucts and it’s a serious moment for busi ness when its biggest customer begins to cut down on his spending. In this situation, Leon H. Keyserling, vice chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, has offered some advice to union members. Speaking at the recent convention of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters, he told the butchers that a general business recession could only be avoided by keeping purchasing power high. Here’s wha Dr. Keyserling said: “Nothing at this time would do more to accentuate the beginnings of a soft* ening-up that we have seen in a small way than to follow up price adjustments by wage reductions which would cancel out the consumers’ increased buying power. Softening up starts because consumers throughout the country do not have enough money to buy goods in amounts that will keep production and employment at a max imum.” Dr. Keyserling advised the butchers to keep plugging for higher wages. “I ask you to be good trade unionists,” he de clared, “to be militant trade unionists in the best sense of that word.” In other words, President Truman’s ec onomic adviser is saying that this is no time for union members to be timid or to sacrifice just demands. That would jeop ardize the prosperity of the entire coun try. Our job as union members is to make sure, in this year of all years, that the biggest customer has money enough to buy what is being produced on the farms and in the factories. —From The Machinists, I.A.M. House tabor Committee Votes To Uphold Anti-Closed Shop Law MECKLENBURG MEMBER OF COMMITTEE, MRS. JOE ERVIN VOTES AGAINST MODIFICATION Raleigh—Rep. Howard E. Parker of Barnett said this was how members of the House Committee on Manufac turing and Labor voted on a measure to modify the State’s antklosed shop act. Parker, a member of the committee, said he would draw un o mtnnritv rpnort Voting to modify the anti-1 closed shop law, according to Parker, wer: Representatives H. T. Baldwin of Richmond, Dan Edwards of j Durham, A. C. Edwards of Greene, Troy A. Fisher of Cum berland, E. R. Hanford of Ala-, mance, F. D. B. Harding of Yad kin, Robert Hayes of Randolph, Arthur Kirkman of Guilford, P. G. Powell of Rockingham, Fred Royster of Vance, Clyde Shreve!, of Guilford, W. C. Taylor of < Caswell and John Umstead of1 Orange. ! i Members present who opposed : giving the bill a favorable re- < port were: Hugh Alexander of i Cabarrus, Joseph Branch of Hali- < fax, Noah Burfoot of Pasquotank, : 9. C. Dungan of Rowan, Mrs. Joe Ervin of Mecklenburg, B. T. Falls of Cleveland, H. S. Gibb* of Carteret, F. L. Gobble of For lyth, R. L. Harris of Person, C. P. Hatha way, of Gates, Hal W. Little of Anosn, John Matheson >f Iredell, J. K. Powell of Co umbus, Leroy Scott of Beaufort, it. A. Shoemaker of Avery, W. Frank Taylor of Wayne, Harry ^anderlinden of Catawba, J. P. Wallace of Montgomery and Sam Worthington of Pitt. One of the above members did lot cast a vote. The thirty- j fourth member present at the , ommittee meeting was Chairman t iarry Greene of Hoke, who also < lid not vote tor or against the neasure. PRIDGEN RITES HELD TUESDAY AFTERNOON Funeral services for Mrs. C. Jack Pridgen, Sr., 52, of 1830 North Allen street, who died Monday morning: in * local hos pital after an illness of 15 months, were conducted Tuesday afternoon at 4 o’clock at McEwen :hapel on East Mo re head street. Rev. F. W. Hiker, pastor of Belmont Park Methodist church, and Rev. J. Walton Stewart of Plaza Presbyterian church offici ated. Interment was in Forest Lawn cemetery. Surviving Mrs. Pridgen are ler husband, a member of Char lotte Typographical Union, who ias been an emplyoe of The Charlotte News for about 25 fears; a daughter, Janice Prid <en; five sons, C. Jack Pridgen, Jr., and Marvin S. Pridgen, both >f The Charlotte News, Vernon 3.* Pridgen, student at a lino ype school in Tennessee, Wil >ur L. and Everett F. Pridgen >f the hoq»e; a sister. Miss Mag gie Farrior of Kenansville; and hree brothers, W. D. Farrior of Fayetteville, and Meredith L. and 1. D. Farrior of Kenansville. 4ppointment Surprise To Old Line Party Men RESIGNS AS PRESIDENT OF UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AND NAMING OF SUCCESSOR AROUSES SPECULATION; COLLEGE PROBABLY BE RUN BY CHANCELLORS AND COMPTROLLER FOR TIME BEING. CHAPEL Him N. C., March 23.—Dr. Frank P. Graham s scheduled to take the oath of office in Washington next Monday as North Carolina’s junior senator, following his ippointment by Governor W. Kerr Scott to succeed the ate J. Melville Broughton, who died suddenly in Wash* ngton on March 6. This was the information given out lere today. Governor Scott appointed Dr. Graham to the Moition at a dinner last Tuesday night in Chapel Hill after having received scores of requests that he appoint various North Carolinians to fill the place left vacant by Senator Broughton. The college president’s appointment was a surprise to most party leaders, although he had been rec ommended by many of his friends for the place. The Uovernor, in maxing me sppointmnt at the dinner here, said •‘It has become necessary to name another United States Sen ator I finally came to a con tusion and I just wanted to make the announcement that your next United States Senator, if your ex ecutive committee is willing, is Dr. Frank Graham.” After considerable applause, Dr. Graham responded: “It is the most difficult decis ion in my life to leave the place, the institution, the people—young and old—that have been such a deep and hajppy part of my life for over 40 years. God helping me, I will do my best to continue to serve them, my State, my Country in the new post to which the Governor of my State has has called me.” For a long time after the pinner eras over Dr. Graham was busy accepting congratulatory hand* ihakes. He serves only until 1950 because of a provisiiyj that di rects the selection of another Sen ator, after death, at the next general election. Broughon’s term would have ended in 1954. A month previously the Atomic Energy Commission gave clear ance to Dr. Graham as head of the Oak Ridge Institute of Nu clear Studies after overriding commission security officials. To that Dr. Graham said: “I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN OP POSED TO COMMUNISM AND ALL TOTALITARIAN DICTA TORSHIPS.” Dr. Graham served closely with President Roosevelt during the last World war. He was a mem ber of the 11-man Super-Media tion board which acted in labor disputes which threatened to im pede national defence production lie was on the National Railroad Mediation board, and, under Pres ident Truman, was a member of the three-man good offices com mission of the United Nations which was assigned the task of settling differences incident to the Indonesian-Dutch truce. The Board of Trustees’ Execu tive committee will meet Saturday in Raleigh to act on the resigna tion and to make arrangements for a new university head. Until se lection of a new president the college probably will be run by the three chancellors and Comp troller William Carmichael. Governor Scott revealed today he first asked Dr. Graham to ac cept a post as U. S. Senator “a week ago Saturday.” It was not until after a meet ing at the Governor's mansion Sunday night that the southern liberal accepted. Six persons, In cluding Governor Scott, were present at the meeting. The Governor said the first two times he asked Dr. Graham to accept the appointment the small, balding confidant of Pres idents flatly rejected it. Governor Scott declared Gra ham "finally consented if he passed a physical examination.” This he did. said the Governor, but again said no, stating that the -chancellors of the Greater university #“had censured him in a friendly way" for his Indonesian mission. Since then Graham had a “friendly pact" with the chan cellors. Scott said he then asked Gra ham if the chancellors agree will you.” Graham assented. Scott said he got them together Sunday night, “went over the whole story.” end asked each one to express himself. The following were present at the meeting in the mansion: Chancellors W. C. Jackson of the Woman’s college, R. B. House of North Carolina university, and John W. Harrelson of N. C. State college. Also present were comp troller W. D. Carmichael, Jr., of the Greater university, and Jona than Daniels, Democratic national committeeman. Agreement was easily reached during this meeting which ap proved Graham for the post. In Washington, Senator Clyde Hoey congratulated his new col league today and paved the way for almost a hundred North Carolina friends to have special ■pace in the Senate gallery to witness the oath taking ceremony Monday. He also offered Dr. Graham the use of his office until he is assigned space in the Sen ate office building. Senator Hoey continued: “Dr. Graham is an outstanding educational statesman and one of the most respected educators in the nation. He has had varied experiences in many public ca pacities and is eminently qualified to deal with vital problems, espec ially in regard to the internation al situation. His experience in this field should be valuable as we pass through this critical pe riod.” Later today Senator Hoey took the floor of the Senate to defend his new colleague after an attack by Senator Bricker, republican, of Ohio. He defended his loyalty to his Vountry and (laid Itim tribute for his integrity and gen eral public service. Representative Hamilton C. Jones said that Dr. Graham would “bring a store of knowl edge and experience” to his new position as United States Sen ator from that State. TO SUPPORT PRESIDENT Senator Graham is going to Washington as a staunch support er of President Truman’s pro (Continued on Page 3) 1 Charlotte, N. C., March 19, 1949. Charlotte Labor Journal, Charlotte, N. C. Gentlemen: As we are winding up our successful 1919 March of Dimes Campaign, before we can close our books on a job well done, we want you to know that your part in making our success possible was a very im portant one. To those like you who went out of your way to give us extra assistance, we are sincerely grateful, because without this kind of co-operation we know we couldn’t have accomplished the goal. Sincerely, (i J. E. SIZER, Campaign Chairman, W. M. PARKER, Campaign Director, W. F. PHILLIPS, County Chairman.
