NOTICE
State of North Carolina,
County of Morklenborp.
..lominf Brown Hamilton, Plain
tiff, vs. John William Hamil
taa. Defendant.
TV defendant above named
- -ariD take notice that a suit lot
mm absolute divorce haa been in
- stttnted in this Court upon thi«
the 16th day of March, A. D.,
1949; that because of tbe return
mt the Hi*h Sheriff to the effect
• the defendant is not to be
faond in the above named County,
asi the affidavit made by the
plaintiff to the effect that the
■aid defendant is not to be found
in the State of Norh Carolina;
the said defendant will therefore
take due notice of the existence
•f this suit in the office of the
Clerk of Superior Court for said
County, and call . there for hi*
, copy of the Summons, and com
plaint in this cause of action on
•r before the 28th day of April
A. D., 1949. or this plaintiff will
pray the Court for the relief
asked for in this complaint, filed
in this cause of action. This the
16th dav of March, A. D. 1949.
' J. LESTER WOLFE,
Clerk of Superior Court.
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Final Accord Reached In Rad
Dispute; Unions Benefit *
. By DAN SMYTH,
Chicago Correspondent For AFL News Service
Chicago.—The long dispute between the Nation’s major
railroads and 16 unions of 1,000,000 nonoperating employes
has ended with a signed agreement. The results:
1, For the first time, the railroad industry generally
will be put on a 5-day, 40-hour week, beginning September
1, 1949, with time and a half for overtime. Wage rates will
be revised so that 48 hours’ pay at the going rate will be
paid for 40 hours’ work.
| 2.‘ There will be a general 7
| cent hourly pay raise, retroactive
; to last October 1.
! 3. There will be some excep
tions to the 6-day week for
j monthly rated employes. Of the
monthly-rated employes, those
who now work 7 days a week
i will work 6 days for 7 days’ pay.
Those who worked 6 days will
work 6 for 6 days pay.
4. Another exception ’to the
general 6-day week will be the
yardmaaters. They will remain
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on a 48-hour week, but will re
| ceive * pay raise of 10 cents an
hour instead of 7 cents.
5. Most of the 1,000.000 work
ers involved will work a Monday
through-Friday week. Of those
who won’t, nearly all will have
consecutive days off, other than
Saturday and Sunday. Only
about 50,000 employes permitted
to accumulate days off to be
taken consecutively later.
The settlement ended 11 months
of negotiating, during which a
j fact-finding board appointed by
President Truman sat three
times, first as an investigating
board and twice later, as medi
ators, to clarify its own original
report.
Signing of the final agreement
ended a historic session in the
Union Station between representa
ives of the carriers and the un
ion committee, headed by (ieorge
Leighty, president of the Order
of Railroad Telegraphers.
It began at 9:30 a. m. March
19 and ended at 7 a. m., March
20. Leighty said the settlement
“brings to a successful conclusion
the most momentous wage and
hour movement in railroad his
tory, or, for that matter, in the
| history of American industry."
The carriers’ representatives
estimated the reduction in the
work-week, superimposed on he
retroactive wage increase, would
j result in an over-all average in
crease in wage rates per hour of
about 25,9 per cent.
Railroad unions have been try
ing to win the 40-hour week since
1938 when the Fair Labor Stand
ards Act gave it to all other in
dustries in interstate commerce.
The fact-finding board recom
mended the 40-hour week and the
retroactive 7-cent raise in a re
port to President Truman on De
cember 17. But a new dispute
then arose over the methods to
be used in putting the 40-hour
week into effect.
The railroads contended the
board's recommendation would
allow them to stretch the 40
hours work per week over 6 or
7 days without payment of pre
mium pay. The board reassem
beled as a mediation board and
issued a clarification, explaining
the repoK had meant employes
should have two days’ rest each
week, and the days off should be
consecutive so far as possible.
Still other points of dispute
arose, which were settled by sub-1
mining the issues ag*ln to the
board for arbitration. After the
board’s third formal decision, the
only Issues remaining were the
yardmasters’ work-week and the
woyk-weck of monthly-rated em
ployes. Those issues were set
tled by negotiation.
Leigthy said the agreement
could have been reached two
months earlier if the railroads
had accepted the board’s origi
nal report wholeheartedly, in
spirit as in letter.
Cl A I, V IN TAKES OATH
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American Federation of Labor,
who was accompanied to the
ceremony by George Meany, AFL
secretary-treasurer.
In a 3-minute talk to those at
tending the ceremony, Galvin
said that he came to the Depart
ment of tabor expecting and
prepared to work hard, many
hours a day and, if necessary, 7
days a week. He would strive
constantly, he pledged, to for
ward the legitimate functions of
the Department of tabor. Prom
inent among these he listed the
promotion of co-operaion between
employers anl labor unions.
Galvin is a former Boston at
torney and wartime Operations
Chief of General George S. Pat
ton, Jr.’s 6th Armored Division.
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telligence Chief for IS months
with the same Division. With
General Patton’s forces he earned
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