ANNIVERSARY GREETINGS
KISER HARDWARE CO.
Complete Line of Hordwore
2408 Wilkinson Bhrd.
Telephone 4-8200
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
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J. M. HERLOCKER
Painting Contractor
112 North Myers Tel. 2-5766
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
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CHARLOTTE RENTAL CO.
120 East Third St. Tel. 2-3184
CHARLOTTE. N. C
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FREDRICKSON MOTOR
EXPRESS CORPORATION
Telephone 2-3118
2109 Hutchison Avenue
CHARLOTTE, N. C. .
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H. A. HODGE CO.
Radiant Hooting
116 1-2 South Church Tel. 5-5498
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
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Charlotte, N. C.
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MARIETTA CONCRETE CORP.
Manufacturers af
Marietta Concrete Silos
BUILD TO ENDURE
3100 Hutchison Avenue P. 0. Bo* 1575
Talapliana 5-6846
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
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MACK TRUCK & BUS FACTORY
228 Dolton Avmdb
Telephone 5-2571
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
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KIRK COUSART & ASSOCIATES
M—Ixfww Rop»—wfUr—
Hooting and Power Plant Equipment
304-305 Builders Bld«. Tol. 3-4431
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
Ignition Service by Ignition Specialists
We Trace and Solve Year Trouble
DRIVE IN FOR A CHECK-UP
, We are fully equipped to restore your motor to full
operating efficiency
CARBURETOR, MAGNETO AND
ELECTRIC CO.
2401-A W. Morehead St. Phone 3-9012
Charlotte, N. C.
A Recent Monthly Meeting of the Allied Printing Trades Council
DEMOCRATIC UNIONS ASK
AID OF EUROPEAN BUREAU
By ADRIENNE TA8SLER
European Correspondent for the
AFL News Service
Brussels.—Leaders of hundreds
free trade unions in Europe look
to the AFL’s European Bureau in
Brussels, Belgium, for encourage
ment, advice—and, at times, assis
tance.
Hungry for news about the
United States and eepecially its la
bor movement, unionists from'
Greece to Finland consistently
pour information-seeking letters
into the bureau at 33 Avenue de
L’Armee. They write in German,
Dutch, Flemish, Hungarian, French
and Italian.
Most often they seek news about
American labor, heretofore ex
tremely limited—although propo
ganda about Russia has flooded the
continent. They ask for the “News
Letter,” ■ mimeographed informa
tion bulletin released by the AFL
here, for pamphlets on typical
American trade unionists, for sta
tistics on wages and prices in the
U. S.
Each month dozens of requests
arrive for Irving Brown, the AFL’s
European representative, to ad
dress union meetings. He has
I spoken in 'virtually every European
| country except Spain. And he has
Compliments of
Drop In
Record Shop
231 I. Trade
Tel. 4-7182
Charlotte, N. C.
Anniversary Greetings
U. S. Casualty Co.
Liberty Life Bldg.
Tel. 3-7747
Charlotte, N. C.
Anniversary Greetings
Warwick Cabinet
Shop
418 Arlington Ave.
Tel. 2-0306
Charlotte, N. C.
been asked by scores of newspa
pers and magazine publishers here
to supply them with articles on
trade unionism in America._
An official of the Federation of
Finnish Trade Unions, for example,
wrote:
“In view of the fact that the
writer has no other contacts with
the American trade union move
ment, I have ventured to approach
you with certain information and
certain wishes on my own part. .
A spokesman for the Greek
Federation of Labor wrote:
“We have had the chance to read
a very interesting pamphlet writ
ten by you, entitled ‘The Amer
ican Syndicates and the Interna
tional Problems' and we avail our
selves to the opportunity to re
quest you to obligingly forward to
us your pamphlets so as to be
able to follow your movement.
“We should also be obliged to be
informed if we could have your
permission to translate and publish
the chief chapters of the above
named book so that your ideas may
be followed by a greater number
of Greek syndicalists. ... It would,
also, be very conforting to us to
be advised of the good intentions
of the American syndicates for the
amelioration, on a European and
! international scale, of the Greek
syndicalist position.
A Belgian lawyer asked:
“Could you send me the full
text of President Truman’s mes
sage to the AFL annual conven
tion? . .
The secretary general of the
Metal Workers Union, affiliated
with Force Ourvriere, a free
French trade union, wrote to thank
Brown for 6 typewriters “put at
our disposal by the AFL. ...”
Austrian workers appealed to the
European bureau for financial as
sistance to rebuild a rest home
which was destroyed during the
war. One of them wrote:
“We know there are more im
portant matters in the world than
this relatively little one . . . but
it means not little for these peo
ple who have resisted Russian ag
gression and infiltration with ad
mirable tenacity. ...”
Do You Know. •. ?
—That, throughout its 67-year
history, the American Federation
of Labor has been the most power
ful, the meet consistent foe of
Communism in America?
That before the turn of the cen
tury, Samuel Gompers, founder of
the AFL, resisted all Red encroach
ment efforts?
That, in 1920, the AFL monthly
magazine ran a cartoon showing
“Commies” being booted out of a
building labeled HA.F. of L."?
That, in 1933, the Federation of
ficially opposed American recog
nition of Soviet Russia as a dic
tatorship with slave labor, as the
antithesis of all that America
cherishes (and long before World
War II, recognised and disclosed
the Hitler menace, and opposed
shipment of scrap iron to Japan) ?
That William Green, president
of the AFL, recently said: “Com
munism is a curse upon humanity
which degrades the citizen into the
status of a slave and makes the
state his master.”
That credentials committees at
AFL conventions carefully search
out any Communists who have
evaded detection, and refuse to
seat them?
The Golden Rule of t rade Un
ionism is to buy Union Label
goods from others aa you would
have them pay Union wages unto
you!
FOREIGN AID BUYING
TOPS 5 BILLION LEVEL
Washington.—Foreign aid pur
chase* totaling $5,498,187,(MO have
been authorised under the Marshall
Plan, the Economic Cooperation
Administration announced.
Some $306,067,000 in procure
ment authorizations were granted
during the week for finished goods
and such raw materials as metals,
oil, chemicals, machinery and food
stuffs. These recent buying-order
approvals were issued to Austria,
Belgium, Luxembourg, the Amer
ican, British and French zones of
Germany; Denmark, France,
Greece, Italy, Indonesia, Holland,
Norway, Trieste and Britain.
U. S. HOMES STILL LACKING
IN MODERN CONVENIENCES
Washington.—Despite the na
tion’s high standard of living, about
one-third of the homes in the
United States lack either cooking
equipment, a kitchen sink, or a
bathtub-shower, the Census Bureau
reported.
In cities, only 2 out of 10 living
quarters lack all 3 conveniences,
the bureau said. In rural nonfarm
areas, the ratio is 4 out of 10, and
in farm areas 7 out of 10.
Labor'* Businas*
Appreciated
N. J. Covington
Grocery
1125 Belmont
Tel. 3-2197
Charlotte, N. C.
Anniversary Greetings
Carolina Heating &
Appliance Co.
319 E. Fifth St.
Tal. 4-9741
Charlotte, N. C.
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Garrison & Hopkins
Company
Fhimbing and Heating
1501 So. Try on
Tal. 3-6604
Charlotte, N. C
ANNIVERSARY GREETINGS
From Congressman
Hamilton C. Jones
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CHAPMAN fir WILHELM CO.
Electric Appliances
Liberty Life Building
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
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WASHINGTON NATIONAL
INSURANCE CO.
Hoyt W. Shore, General Afent
HOSPITAL, HEALTH, ACCIDENT, LIFE INSURANCE
BOTH INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP
116 West Third St. TeL 3.1393
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
"FOR YOUR FURNITURE NEEDS LOWDER LEADS"
LOWDER FURNITURE CO.
208 Soutfi College St. Tel. 3-1412
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
ANNIVERSARY greetings
L. HARTSELL
General Contractor
1516 Belvedere Av«. T«l. 2-5436
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
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GITTLIN CHARLOTTE BAG CO.
112 1-2 East Fourth St.
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
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BARNES FOOD EXPRESS
1601 Not* Try on
TdL 3-5722
CHARLOTTE. N. C.
i
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CAPTAIN JAMES H. PROUT
City Commander
THE SALVATION ARMY
an -> ■ « —
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
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LEO H. PHELAN, JR.
Reo Itor—I nsuror
418 Piedmont Bldg. Telephone 8774
CHARLOTTE, N. C.