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Anniversary Greetings E. H. JACOBS Southern Division of » BULLARD CLARK CO 3600 So. Blvd. Ext. Charlotte, North Carolina Phone 3 8745 Anniversary Greetings BEST BRANDS, INC. MILLER HIGH LIFE and HUDEPHOL BEER 525 No. Smith Tel. 2 2795 Charlotte, N. C. WILLIAMS & SHELTON CO., INC. Importers, Wholesalers, Mill Agents MY GOODS, NOTIONS, HOSIERY, FURNISHINGS 420 South Tryon Street Phone 2-1194 Anniversary Greetings SOUTHERN PIPING & ENGINEERING CO, INC. HOI East Trade Street Telephone 4 2608 Charlotte, N. C. Anniversary Greetings t MINCEY FURNITURE CO. INC. 3204 North Caldwell Tel: 3-6892 and 5-5848 Charlotte, N. C. Anniversary Greetings LEONARD'S CONSTRUCTION COMPANY 225 W«t BUd TckpWc 4 4723 Charlotte, N. C. Anniversary Greetings A. R. LANKFORD PAINTING and DECORATING CONTRACTOR 1709 Pecan Ave. Tel. 4-2171 Charlotte, N. C. See FRANK HEGLER el HEGLER SERVICE Tire ond Battery Service—Washing—Lubrication—Shell Gas and Oil—New Tires and Batteries—Goodyear Tires and Batteries 601 East Trade St. Dial 4-1267 Charlotte, N. C. Anniversary Greetings COLONIAL FIXTURE MFG. COMPANY, INC. 2133 South Boulevard Telephone 4-3151 Charlotte, N. C. THE ANDERSON RESTAURANT "OUR FINE FOODS, FINDS FRIENDS" 1617 Elizabeth Avenue _ I Legislative Program The American Federation of Labor will concentrate its efforts in the current session of Congress on obtaining re peal of the obnoxious Taft-Ilartley Act, but this should not I obscure the fact that there are many other major planks in the Federation’s legislative program which vitally affect the interests of American workers and for which we will fight unceasingly. - -- Therefore the Executive Council finds it advisable to make public at this time a summary of the outstanding measures included in the AFL's'legislative objectives: 1. TAFT-HAHTLEY ACT —We favor outright repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act with simultaneous reenactment of the National Labor Relations Act. We also urge Congress to repeaL the Hobbs Act and the Lea Act. 2. HOUSING—We seek enactment of a comprehensive housing program. This includes rent control. 3. FOREIGN POLICY—We endorse the President’s firm policy toward Russia as the only practical way to attain eventual world peace. We want Congress to appropriate sufficient funds to permit the ECA to carry on its work to a successful conclusion. 4. INFLATION CONTROL—We prefer voluntary meth ods to resumption of price controls, which should be em ployed 'only as a last resort. If taxes should be increased, the burden should be placed upon those best able to pay. Taxes in low-income groups, who w'ere given the least mea sure of relief in the last tax law, should not be raised. 5. SOCIAL JUSTICE PROGRAM—The Executive Coun cil favora broad improvements in the social security sys tem, a national health program, disability insurance, a na tionalized unemployment compensation system, increase of the minimum wage to $1 an hour with broader coverage of the Fair Labor Standards Act, an effective billion-dollar program of Federal aid to education and continuation of the school lunch program. Also we call upon Congress to adopt the President’s Civil Rights program. 6. NATIONAL DEFENSE — The Executive Council pledges full support of a truly adequate national defense program for all branches of the armed services. We feel also that Congress should give attetnion to the need for an expanded merchant ship construction program and the safeguarding of a strong American merchant marine by subsidies. This ship construction program should be fairly distributed in the varous areas of the country. 7. NATURAL RESOURCES—As part of our natonai de fense program and as an essential step toward an expand ing American economy, a constructive program for the de velopment and protection of our natural resources should be adopted by Congress. This includes power develop ment, soil conservation and reclamation, irrigation and flood control. We favor creation of river valley authorities, smilar to the outstandingly successful TVA, to do this job. We also call upon Congress to encourage development of research for the harnessing of atomic energy to industrial productive uses. 8. GOVERNMENT EMPLOYE LEGISLATION — Thh AFL will support legislation to raise the standards and improve the conditions of government employes. 9. LABOR DEPARTMENT—We favor transfer to this department of the functions and agencies which properly belong to it, to the end that the Department of Labor may once more become an effective instrument for the protec tion of the wage earners of the Nation. 10. There are any number of additional measures and proposals in which the Federation takes an active interest for or against. For instance, we will urge liberalization of the Displaced Persons Act, support the establishment of a National Science Foundation, etc. Therefore, the omission of any particular measure from this summary of major legislative objectives, should not and does jiot imply any. lack of interest on our part. “The difference between ■ pre judice and a conviction is that you can explain a conviction with out fettinc mad.” Anniversary Greetings SIMMERSON'S GROCERY 517 Na. Brevard Tel. 9251 CHARLOTTE, N. C PARK AYE. BARBER & BEAUTY SHOP 123-125 E. Park Ava. Tel. 4-4527 CHARLOTTE, N. C. Anniversary Greetings JEWELL SWEET SHOP 901 East 7Hi St. Labors Business Appreciated Housing Starts Decline Below That Of Year ’48 WASHINGTON. — Cons truction of new homes in the first quarter of 1949 showed a drop of 12 per cent below the number of units started last year, according to re ports prepared‘by the Bu reau of Labor Statistics. At the same time, the BLS said, expenditures for new con struction, Totlaing $3,500, 000,000, represented a gain of 5 per cent over the 1948 figures. In the employment field, the re port showed 1,824,000 workers employed on contract construc tion projects as of the middle of March, a rain of 19,000 over the similar month a year aro. , For the month of March alone, the BLS said that new home con struction spurted seasonally but Anniversary Greetings ROBINSONS MARKET 113 So. Brevard Telephone 4-7615 CHARLOTTE, N C. failed to equal the upturn noted in 1948. During the month, build ers started 62.000 nonfarm dwel ling units, a gain of 35 per cent over February but 19 per cent be low the number started av year! ago. Against this disappointing showing for 1949, while the hous ing shortage remains acute, the BLS reported that the year 1948 was a near-record one for hous ing activity. Complete reports of housing starts- boosted the year's total to 931,300 units. This is a 23-year record in housing activity, and is only 5,000 units below the all-time peak reached in 1925. Reporting on other long-term developments, the BLS said: “In the three full years since the end of the war, close to two and one-half million new perma nent nonfarm dwelling units have be^n put under construction. The acceleration in housing activity during this period has been more pronounced in rural nonfarm housing, as shown by a 52 per cent increase in rural nonfarm starts between 1946 and V. 1948 compared with a 30 per cent in-; crease in urban starts. In both 1947 and 1948, rural nonfarm housing accounted for 44 per cent of all new units put under con struction. “The average construction cost, excluding land colts and builders’ profits, of all privately financed one-family houses rose 43 per cent between 1946 and 1948 to $7,875. This increase takes into account not only the rise in costs of materials, labor and other building costs, but also changes in the typo of housing being built" tkhSIgm Stkiatmttlr Anniversary Greetings SUMMEY'S FOOD STORE 533 last 18th St. Tel. 9812 CHARLOTTE. N. C. Anniversary Greetings LINCOLN'S SODA AND 6RILL 1209 East 7th St. Labors Patronage Appreciated If You've Been Looking for a Place To Sat Where the Food Is Really Good and the Price ts Right ... Try the New NEW YORKER RESTAURANT 125 W. Trode St. % Anniversary Greetings NATIONAL CLEANERS & DYERS .1115 Elizabeth Are Phone 3-2108 Charlotte, N. C MdLROY GROCERY STORE 500 North Brevard Street Charlotte, N. C FINE MEATS ind VEGETABLES Phone 9149 e Anniversary Greetings HOOD-GARDNER HOTEL SUPPLY CORP. 51l'i5o. Try on St. Tel. 31600 Charlotte, N. C. Anniversary Greetings H & S LUMBER CO. 520 Dowd ltd. Tel. 2-5191 Cherlotte, N. C. Anniversary Greetings DIAMOND POINT GROCERY and SERVICE STATION Pmeville Rood Tel: 9512 - 3-1011 Cherlotte, N. C. Subscription to Charlotte Labor Journal, $2.00 Annually Congratulations to The Labor Journal We extend Greeting* t» The Charlotte Labor Journal and jlf » - to 19th birthday and • .vFV'S v/isVies to Once aga»n . . *»■* ** - -C' support and patronage IVEYS
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