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VOL. XVIII; NO «f CHARLOTTE. M. C„ THURSDAY, APRIL 14. 1949 Oldest Bona Fide AFL Newspaper « in North Carolina Subscription Price $2.00 Year THOMAS BILL WOULD RESTORE WAGNER ACT AFL Analyzes Thomas Measure The Thomas bill restores the Wagner Act as it was originally passed except that the board is enlarged to five members instead of three, with increased salaries. In addition, the bill specifies several unfair practices on the part of unions which serve to prohibit union ac tain types of secondary boy cotts and in connection with jurisdictional strikes. These will be explained more fully ' later. A provivsion requir ing the giving of a 30-day notice of termination or mod ification of existing contracts is aso included as an unfair labor practice for both un ions and employers. Further, the Thomas bill re stores the Conciliation Service to the Department of Labor. A new method for dealing with national emergency strikes is also provid ed, the provisions of which are patterned after hte Railway La bor Act. In national emergency situations an “Emergency Board” may be appointed by presidential proclamation and empowered to investigate the dispute and make findings and recommendations to the President and to the public. A “coolidgi-oir” period of 80 days j* provided Jot dujiog the period of investigation. Like the Rail way Labor Act, no injunctive re lief is provded for. Finally, the Thomas bill makes it a matter of national public policy that collective bargaining agreements contain provisions providing for arbitration of dis putes arising out of interpretation and application of the agreement, and it is made “the duty "of em ployers and unions to exert every effort to make agreements for definite periods of time concern ing hours and wages, which agreements should provide for no tice of desire to terminate or change the agreement, contain no-strike and no-lockout provis ions, and provide procedures for arDuraiion. All provisions of the Taft-Hart ley Act, Title I through Title IV, are repealed; the Thomas bill re places Taft-Hartley in its en tirety. More specifically, the following provisions of Jhe Taft-Hartley Act are repealed or modified by the Thomas bill as indicated. I. Disenfranchisement of eco nomic strikers—repealed. 2/ Blanket prohibitions on re straint or coercion by unions— repealed. 3. Broad prohibition on second ary boycotting—limited severely so as to prohibit unions from secondary boycotting only (a) to force employer to recognize one union when employer already obliged by law to deal with an other union, and (b) in further ance of jurisdictional dispute in disregard of award made under act. Prohibition enforced by cease and desist order rather than by injunction. 4. Prohibition against continu ing jurisdctional dsputes contrary to an award already made—re tained (with slight modifications respecting manner of resolving disupte and making award). En forced by cease and desist order instead of injunction. 5. Ban on closed shop and re strictions on union shop—repeal ed, and federal policy respecting union security agreements specif ically mpde to supersede state laws. 6. Exclusion of supervisors from all protection against em ployer discrimination—repealed. 7. The proviso for employer free speech if no threat of repri sal—repealed. 8. Noncommunist affidavit and (Centime* e> Page « Greater Charlotte Group Drafts Jim Vogler Chairman JAMES B. VOGLER Announcement has been made by the Greater Charlotte Council Slate of candidates that James B. Vogler has been drafted to serve as chairman of the group to pro mote their campaign. Mr. Vogler, who is a former representative in the State Legislature from Meck lenburg, is a see: political campaigner. He long has been executive secretary of the North Carolina Independent Food Deal ers association. Campaign headquarters for this group of candidates for the six council seats is in Room 224 of the Piedmont building, and from there the drive for votes will be directed. The candidates on the Greater Charlotte ticket are: Claude L. Albea, now complet ing his eighth term as a member of the council; Sandy R. Jordan, young insur ance executive who Is seeking re election to a second term on the governing body; Joe Murnick, local paint manu facturer and sports enthusiast; Tom S. Rogers, finance com pany manager and active member various club and civic organi zations; J. H. Saxon, president of Sax on's, Inc., and a member of the Charlotte zoning commission; | D. C. Staton, North Charlotte grocer and community leader. Mr. Vogler, in discussing plans (Continued on Page 4) l rWhot monster is this on the screen?1. A nightmare grotesque and obscene. Tie the child off the Gops and the Byrds, my dear. That keeps trying to go where it's been. Questions And Answers On New. Rent Control Law Can my landlord raise my rent ■■ \ under the new rent control law of 1949? i Not unless he has been given permission by the area rent of-. fice of the government. How will I know whether he has really received permission to raise my rent? As a tenant you will receive ' formal notice through the mails of any increase in your rent. Can my landlord ask me to sign ‘ a new lease raising the rent IS per cent? No, such leases are illegal un-, der law. If you already have a i lease in which you agreed to pay j a IS per cent increase, you will' have to continue to pay it. Suppose my landlord has been making me pay extra for janitor, or elevator service, or charging ! more than the ceiling? You can file a complaint with the Area Rent Office. The Hous | ing expediter now has plenty of j power to deal with this kind of black market in rents. Can I recover overcharges that I have already paid? i6,423 UNION OFFICER8 FILE NON-RED AFFIDAVITS WASHINGTON. — National Labor Relation* Hoard reported that 76.423 union officials had filed non-Communist affidavits under ihe Taft-Hartley law aa of Feb. 28. That is 428 fewer than on Dec. 31, and 42,847 more than on Feb. 29, 1948. The board said 173 national and 7,628 local union* had qual ified to use board services by filing these affidavits and finan cial 'statements. Yes, you can sue in court for as much as three times the amount of overcharge you have paid. You have to decide for yourself whether this would be wise. What if my landlord threatens to evict me? The new law is very strict about evictions. So long as you pay your rent promptly, do not commit a nuisance or do any thing illegal in the house, you can only be evicted on order of the Area Rent Office. nm « nave auvance noire* «• such an eviction? Under the new law, no tenant can be evicted until proper writ ten notice statins: the grounds for eviction has been sent by the land lord to the tenant and to the Rent ■ffice. If the Rent Office decides the grounds for eviction are not adequate, or that the notice of eviction is being used aa a threat, the Government can stop the evic tion. Suppose the landlord says he wants to move into the place him self? Then he can evict you after three months notice. But the Gov ernment will check to make sure that he really does move in. Suppose he sells the place to someone else who wants to move in? Then you have to move three month? after you receive n eviction notice. What if the landlord says he wants to remodel the property? You can be evicted on three months notice, but again the Government will check to make sure he does the remodeling. Tobin Backs New Social Security Bill Mrs. Alexander Of Typo Auxiliary Gets High Post MRS. R. B. Al.KXANDKIt The following item appeared in the April issue of the South Carolina I«abor News in the aux iliary department of that paper which is conducted by Mrs. Karl R. Britton of Columbia, wife of President Britton of ttys South Carolina Federation of Labor: “Of State-wide interest is the announcement of the appointment of Mrs. Mabel B. Alexander of Charlotte, N. C., as vice chairman of the Label Department fo the Women’s International Auxiliary for North and South Carolina. “Mrs. Alexander will have un der her supervision the four aux iliaries of South Carolina which are. Charleston, Greenville, Spar tanburg, and Columbia, and Charlotte, Durham, Raleigh and Winston-Salem. North Carolina. “Mrs. Alexander is a member of the Charlotte Typographical Auxiliary, and is the wife of R. B. Alexander of the Charlotte Typographical Union. “On learning of the important appointment I (Mrs. Britton) wrote Mrs. Alexander and aBked her to give us some ideas of her plans for promoting the Union Label. “She writes: “First of all we plan a member ship drive, this being important from the str^gdpoint that the more that take an interest, the less divided the group becomes (Continued on Page 4) WASHINGTON. Modern in dustrial life enhances personal in security: and one of the greatest’ obligations of the nation must be to enable its citizens to insure the risks of unemployment and poverty. Secretary of Labor Mau rice J. Tobin told the House Ways and Means Committeen^are. He testified before the commit tee in support of a Mil (H.R. iWb-'t), which has AKL harking, to provide more adequate old age and survivor’s insurance and dis utility insurance. Reviewing the Social Security Act of 1935, the Secretary poined out that its pro tection was inadequate and that it* social insurance program made no provision against the economic hazards of illness and disabilty. The Secretary then outlned some of the specific proposals of H. R. 2H9.1. “I believe, in the first place, that coverage under the Old Age and Survivor’s Insurance program should be extended at me clinical practicable date, he said. *‘l strongly endorse the provisions which will extend such a program to some 20.0<Mt.0O0 ad ditional workers, including agri cultural workers, domestic work ers, the self-employed, certain federal government employes not covered by the existing federal i-etirement system, employes of nonprofit institutions, and serv ice within the armed forces of the United States.” Tobin then called attention to the report of the Advisory Coun cil on Social Security submitted to the Senate Committee on Fi nance, I>eeember 31, 1948, which stated that only 3 out of every 6 jobs are covered by the pres ent Social Security law and be cause of restrictive eligibility re quirements, only 20 per cent of those aged 65 or over are either insured or receiving benefits un der the program. He also emphasized the prob lem of raring for dependent re tired workers since tl»e number of persons over 65 years of aga in this country has increased from approximately 3.000,000 per sons in 1900 to more than 10,. 500,000 in 1948. ‘‘It is estimated that by the year 2000 there will lie more than 21,000,000 persons 65 years and over in the United States,” he added. Another provision of H.R. 2893 that Tobin mentioned was the sec tion which would modify certain definitions in the present act to include on a more equitable basis (Continued On Page 4) A 100 Per Cent Union Constructed Job SEARS' HUGE NEW STORE NEARS COMPLETION 4* Pictured here is tremendous retoil shopping center of , Sears, Roebuck & Co., now in advanced stoge of construc tion on site covering nearly one block on N. Tryon St. be tween E. 11th St. ond Phifer Ave. Representing invest ment of more than $1,750,000, the store, which will hove three selling floors, is tentatively scheduled for opening in May. This establishment will be one of the lorgeet of the Sears organization's numerous great department stores in the South. Expansion of the company's facilities here for serving the Charlotte area shopping public reflects highly favoroble estimates of future development of this already rich consumer market. W. S. Lupo is the Sears store monoger here. Entirety modem in every respect of con struction, the new Sears store will be supplemented by a $140,000 warehouse being constructed ot 2701 N. David son St. to provide storage for reserve supplies of merchan dise. PHOTO AND CAPTION UNES THROUGH COURTESY OF CHARLOTTE NEWS
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