VOL. XIX; NO. 13
CHARLOTTE, N. C.. THURSDAY. AUGUST 4. 1919
Subscription Price $2.00 Year
Addresses Ot Scott And
Graham Begin At 4:00
Shuford, Rhodes And
Googe Will Make Talks
Governor R. Kerr Scott and Senator Frank P. Graham
will head the list of prominent speakers who will address
the 1949 convention of the North Carolina Federation of
Labor which opens its three-day sessions at 9:30 Monday
morning, August 8, at Hotel Charlotte. Governor Scott
and Senator Graham will address the convention in the
afternoon, while North Carolina Commissioner of Labor
Forrest H. Shuford will deliver the initial address Monday
morning at 11:15 o’clock.
Mayor Victor Shaw will wel
come the delegates and visitors
to Charlotte shortly after the
convention is called to order by
Walter Hooker, president of
Charlotte Central Labor Union.
Mr. Hooker will welcome the
delegates and visitors in behalf
of the AFL unions of Charlotte
and Mayor Shaw and Police
Chief Frank Littlejohn will wel
come the visitors and delegates
to Charlotte in behalf of the City
of Charlotte.
J. IT Rhodes, southern AFL
director, is also scheduled to ad
dress the convention on Mon
day, and George L. Googe, former
southern AFL director, but who
is now first vice president of the
- PrtsstiinVi,
Union, will address the conven
1 tion on Tuesday.
John Lovett, Central Labor
* Union committee on arrange
ments, announces this week that
| all details have been completed
for holding one of the best con
ventions ever held by organized,
labor on Charlotte. Mr. Lov- j
ettt and his committee have left |
nothing undone to provide enter
tainment for the delegates and
visitors while they are not at
tending the convention sessions.
A banquet and dance has been
scheduled for Tuesday evening
at 7:30 o’clock for both white and
colored delegates. The program
for these events for the white
delegates will be held in Hotel
Charlotte, while the banquet and
dance for the colored delegates
■war oe held at "Hotel Alexander.
Convention Program
HOTEL CHARLOTTE
Monday Morning. August 8. 1949
Convention called to order 9:30
A. M. by Walter Hooker, Presi
dent Charlotte Central Labor
Union,
Invocation — Nathaniel Curtis
White, pastor Little Church on
Lane.
Pledge of allegiance to the flag
of the United States of America,
by all delegates present.
National anthem—Fred Kirby.
Address of welcome — Mayor
Victor Shaw, mayor of Charlotte.
Address of welcome—Chief of
Police Frank Littlejohn.
Response—A. E. Brown. A. F.
of L. representative
Presentation of gavel to C. A.
Fink, President of the North Car
olina State Federation of Labor,
and the president’s opening ad
dress.
Convention duly opened for the
consideration and transaction of
business.
Appointment of committee on
credentials and committee on
rules of order.
Address—11:15 A. M.—Forrest
H. Shuford, North Carolina Com
missioner of Labor.
Monday Afternoon
Address—Hon. W. Kerr Scott,
Governor of North Carolina.
Address — Senator Frank P.
Graham.
Report of credentials commit
tee, obligation and seating of j
delegatee.
Address—J. L. Rhodes. South
ern Director of the A. F. of L.
Old Fashion Community Sing—
Fred Kirby.
Introduction of visitors — Re
port of rules committee.
Appointment of committees —
announcements — adjournment.
Tuesday, August 9, 9:00 A. M.
Invocation—A. E. Brown.
Introduction of International
Representatives.
Address—11:00 A. M.—H. T.
Calvin, federal conciliation serv
ice.
Tuesday Afternoon, 2:00 o’clock
Address — 2:00 P. M. — John
O'Hare. President Tobacco Y> ork-;
ers International Union.
Address — 3:00 P. M. — Joseph
Jacobs, Southern Director Textile i
Workers International Union.
Address—4:00 P. M.—Edward
Weyler, Secretary-Treasurer Ken
tucky State Federation of Labor.
Address — Harry O’Riley, Di
rector of Organization, American
Federation of Labor.
Address—George L. Googe. 1st
Vice President Pressmen's Inter
national Union.
Nomination of officers.
Tuesday Evening, 7:00 o'clock
White Delegates—Banquet and |
Dance — Ball Room, Charlotte
Hotel.
Colored Delegates — Banquet
and Dance—Alexander Hotel.
Wednesday, August 10, 9 P. M.
Invocation—A. E. Brown.
Report of resolutions commit
tee.
Report of other committees.
Unfinished business.
Wednesday Afternoon, 2 o'Cloek
Committee Final Reports —
Election of officers.
Selection of convention city —
Installation of officers.
Adjournment sine die.
GREEN PLANS ADDRESS
AT SAN DIEGO RALLY
Washington. — AFL President
William Green plans to deliver
the principal address at a gi
gantic Labor Day celebration in
San Diego. Calif.
In addition to his Labor Day
address, which will mark the first
time that Mr. Green has attended
a West Coast rally, he is ex
pected to talk before the annual
convention of the California State
Federation of Labor meeting thisj
year in Los Angeles.
Mr. Green’s Labor Day mes
sage will be broadcast over the
network of the National Broad
casting Co. The exact time of
the broadcast will be announced
when final plans have been com
pleted.
Gov. Scott And Sqn. Graham To Address Convention Monday
V. s. SENATOR FRANK P. GRAHAM
The Convention is honored to ha\e U. S. ornator i r: .i\ I*. Gra.am
to address the meeting Monday. Senator Graham's address will
follow one by Governor W. Kerr Scott at 4 P. M. on the opening day.
WILLIAM GREEN,
President A. F. of L.
GEOKGE MEANT,
Secretary-Treasurer, A. F. of I.
J. L. RHODES.
Southern A. F. of L. Director
T
. C. A. FINK.
President N. C. Federation
As We See It...
The following is excerpted from an interview by
News Commentator James G. Crowley with Senator
James Murray of Montana on the AFL’s “As We See
It” radio program broadcast over the American Broad
casting System:
MR, CROWLEY: It is curious, ladies and gentlemen,
how things fit together.
Jess Larson, general services administrator, issued a
statement pointing out how essential to the national wel
fare it is that we have at hand, ready for use when needed,
a large backlog or shelf of plans for public works: bridges,
highways, new schools, and so forth, so that there be no
waste motion, no lost earning |>ower, no lost productivity
when, as, and if the number of unemployed in this country
reaches a level that demands all-out action. He pointed
that we do not have such a shelf—no congressional pro
vision for one.
At the same time, Gov. Bowles of Connecticut announced
that now—right now—20 per cent of his state’s working
force is unemployed.
Gov. Dever of Massachusetts, at the same time, an
nounced that unemployment in his state has reached the
critical level, the state of affairs which he said threatens
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KERR SCOTT
GEORGE L. GOOGE.
Former Southern A.F.L. Direetoi
Meany Denounces GOP,
Dixiecrats In IV. Y. Talk
AFL OFFICIAL ASSAILS RECORD OF TORIES
IN BLUNT TALK
Syracuse, N. Y,—In a slashing attack upon the reaction
aries from both parties responsible for retention of the
Taft-Hartley Act, AFL Secretary-Treasurer George Meany
denounced Dixieerat Senators “as weaves in sheep’s cloth
ling” and the Republican Party leadership as “the tool of
ithe small number of individuals who control and direct the
I most powerful corporations.”
Thi-se reactionaries are due
| for a sharp surprise in 1950, Mr.
I Meany predicted, if the mem
I bers of organized labor and their
families and friends make cer
tain to register and vote, “be
cause the American worker to
day doesn’t vote the way the cor
poration-owned newspapers ad
vise him to vote.”
Mr. Meany’s blunt political
charges against the enemies of
labor were contained in an ad
dress scheduled for delivery at
the convention of the New YorK
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Iii order that Governor Scott may feel at home—-and at ease—The Labor Journal has moved tas
tome, the State Capitol Building down to Charlotte for the occasion of his visit here nest Monday,