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Charlotte Sears*Roebuck Store Built By All Union Labor -yr-— ■« Anniversary Greetings Gaston Body Shop We Rebuild & Paint Bodi 214 No. Chester Tel. 5-0881 GASTONIA, N. C. Anniversary Greetings Jolly Hotel Coffee Shop 14 Mill Street Tel. 325 BELMONT, N. C. . ANNIVERSARY GREETINGS TILLEY ELECTRIC COMPANY 1109 Battleground Avenue Phone 9834 GREENSBORO, N. C. ANNIVERSARY GREETINGS mm STATE HATCHERY 1223 West Lee Street Phone 2-1653 GREENSBORO, N. C. ANNIVERSARY GREETINGS NEW EM GLEANERS CARL E. TATE, Owner & Mgr. Summit St. Phone 2-2181 GREENSBORO, N. C. YOUR BUSINESS APPRECIATED Anniversary Greetings C. P. Neal 6ENERAL CONTRACTOR Phone 3636 FOREST CITY, NORTH CAROUNA ANNIVERSARY GREETINGS Valdese Manufacturing Co. Incorporated VALDESE, NORTH GAROUNA Green Charges Rent Increase Ruling Go Far Beyond Intent of Congress Washington. — AFL President William Green charged that Tighe E. Woods, Federal Rent Control Administrator, has acted to grant rent increases which go far beyond the intent of Congress in writing into the law a '‘fair net operating income” provision for landlords. Commenting on the recent rent regulations authorizing landlords a return on their gross income ranging from 25 to 30 percent. Hr Green said this increase “will mean substantial boosts in rents just at a time when many tenants are fac ing actual or threatened unemploy ment.” Meanwhile, reports from all sec tions of the country showed that thousands of requests for the new forms which landlords must file to qualify for the rent boosts are pouring into federal regional hous ing offices. In New York City - alone, more than 12,000 forms have been requested by increase-happy landlords. Mr. Green urged ail tenants to be on the alert to use all the pro tections afforded them in protest ing increases and in requiring land lords to prove that they are gen uinely entitled to lift rents under the new procedure. His statement follows: “Although Congress did not de . fine what it meant by ‘fair net operating income,’ it did lay down certain standards to be used by the administrator. The clear lang uage of these standards is to sug gest that a landlord’s income is to be judged in accordance with his own income during previous years. However, Mr. Woods has adopted instead, as his criterion of ‘fair income’ a specific average figure which may have no relation what soever to the previous income ex perience of a particular landlord. I see no reason why a landlord who has been satisfied in the past with a net operating income of only 10 to 16 percent should now be en titled to claim 26 to 30 percent. “Mr. W’oods, in his statement, asks the nation's tenants to accept bis word that landlords are entitled to a net operating income equal to 25 or 30 percent of their gross income. It is difficult to see how Mr. Woods arrives at this figure. While he mentions certain OPA statistics covering the years 1939 1946, he does not mention that because of the very Small vacancy rate and reduced expenses, these years were extremely profitable ones for the nation’s landlords. Mr. Woods has, in effect decided that the abnormal profits of this period were normal. “With no justification whatso I ever, Mr. Woods has, in effect, made his ‘average’ the floor for landlords’ income. This automatic ally means that approvimately one half the landlords in the country will be entitled to an increase in rents. A parallel would be to im mediately set the minimum wage for factory workers at $1.37, the current average level. "In addition, Mr. Woods seems to have decided what is ‘fair’ with out making any attempt to find out how his definition would affect the rents paid by the nation’s tenants. There are no figures in his statement indicating the ex pected rise in rents. Preliminary estimate by the AFL indicate that many landlords will now be able to obtain a net income far beyond what they have obtained in the past. This increase in income will mean substantial boosts in rents just at a time when many tenants are facing actual or threatened un employment. “I urge all tenants faced with a rent increase under this regula tion to utilise the procedures un der the new rent control law and require their landlord to prove, by specific figures, that he is gen uinely entitled to an increase.” Stabilise Wages In Massachusetts Bouton—An agreement f reexin* the wages of laborers on heavy * construction and highway projects on a statewide basis until August, 1960, was filed with John J. Del Monte, the Commissioner of Labor and Industries. Hailed as “a milestone in labor management relations” by Mr. Del Monte, the agreement was reached between the AFL’s International Hod Carriers, Building and Com mon Laborers Union of America, and the New England Road Build ers Association, an employer group of some 50 contractors. The greater Boston scale for the laborers remains at $1.66 an hour, the highest in the state. The exist ing scales in other areas will re main at their present levels, which range from $1.16 in Pittsfield up ward. Vincent DiNunno, New England regional director for the union, said the agreement resulted from 2 years of meetings and conferences. The state-wide terms, he added, were “a step forward in labor-man agement relations that could be followed successfully by other in dustries." The first book printed on the North American continent was a hymnal, produced on a printing press brought across the Atlantic by the Puritans. The book was entitled "Bay Song Book.” The population of Cairo, Egypt, is made up of people following so many different religions that ev ery day is “the Sabbath” for some one. Anniversary Greetings BARGER CONSTRUCTION COMPANY Incorporated MOORESVILLE, NORTH CAROUNA
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