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Economic Power Held A Basis |For Labor Progress St. Paul.—The menace of a totalitarian Communist party and the trend toward regimentation of the lives of indi viduals were singled out as the chief threats to the princi ples of the American Federation of Labor in the Executive Council’s report to the 68th AFL convention meeting here. The council called for a resurgence of “devotion and ded ication to the cause of labor that characterized the work of the pioneers who founded our movement” as the best defense against these twin evils. •Urging greater self-reliance and initiative, the report declared that the baais for all labor prog ress “rests on organised, disci plined economic power.” The council said: J'~ Sometimes in our eagerness for results we forget that some achievements can only grow out of our own initiative and re sourcefulness in using our eco nomic power. The larger the number in our labor movement as will as in the nation that remain Polio Precautions LABOR produce* all our goods, And delivers them everywhere; Labor services all our needs— And demands an honest share. SWWSMIM BOGGETT Sll K. Park Ave. Phcaa 1171 LUMBER CO. It Pays To Trade With | nce won* 6129 START <*u NOW THE COMMERCIAL NATIONAL BANK Charlotte, N. C. New and Reconditioned PIANOS For the best value in NEW or reconditioned pianos, select yours from our stock at nearly 100 instruments. Setinway, Mathusbek, Winter, Howard, I and many others. Prices to suit everyone. ANDREWS MUSIC CO. "Our Mth Tear" self-directing and responsible, the more dynamic and constructive we become. “During the past two years a considerable body of labor legis lation has been enacted which was intended to underwrite and supplement economic organization and collective bargaining. We believe it would be wise to con sider the effects of this legislation upon trade unions and their re sponsibilities and functions, as a basis for future policy. “We should evaluate our ex perience to distinguish between the type of problems which lend themselves to legislative action and those problems for which economic action is best. “We should review our various objections to determine whether they are outdated or unwise. Our guide in this study should be the effect of the method or objective and its administration on human character and progress.” In the introduction to its de tailed report on legislative and economic affairs at home and abroad, the council summed up the situation as follows: “Nationally as well as inter nationally the past year has been one of important struggles for standards without immediate de cisive gains. At home, labor’s major struggle has been to re peal the Taft-Hartley Act with its u n-American discrimination against wage earners as a group of citizens and its restrictions upon their right of free contract to promote their economic wel fare. "Although the party whose platform committed it to repeaf of the Taft-Hartley Act, won the election, members of that party joined with the Republican party to defeat the Democratic party’s pledge to make good on its com mitment. “Our economy is only now ad justing to more normal produc tion orders with competition de veloping in buyers’ markets be cause buyers refuse to buy over priced commodities. The process of reducing costs to facilitate price declines makes for better management and more economical production with co-operation be tween management and labor. “Profits are still at high levels, some prices have dropped; wages, rates and earnings have remained at high levels and the employed labor force is still close to 60,000. 000. Our union membership is at peak levels and a new aggres siveness promises to regain free dom of contract. There is every where a deeper realization of the need to rely primarily on econom ic power and to seek information on how to use that power most effectively. “In the internat’onal field the ideological conflict continues una bated. To territorial and eco nomic aggression has been added war on religion aimed primarily at fhe Roman Catholic church, which has directed a world wide attack on the material:3tic and godless principles of Communism. The Kremlin has developed new techniques for its inquisition to which priests and other dissent ers are submitted to the process of so-called trials. “The democracies of the world have blocked Soviet aggression in Europe primarily as a result of economic reconstruction and because Communist despotism can no longer conceal its ultimate Some of The Things We Lend Money on Watches Jewelry Mn'i Clothing Tools Silverware Shot Gum Rifleo Pistole Trunks Adding Machines Baft Bait Cm** Mimical Inatraaeata Kodak* Typewriter* All Business Strictly Confidential. When tn ween of Money We Never Fail Yon. 8c« as for bargain la diamonds. watches. Jewelry. clothing. oU. RELIABLE LOAN CO. Ml EAST TRADE STREET Vic Vet fayj foNLY VETERANS WfTU 8RVItf CONNECTED DISABILITIES MAY BE TREATED BY PRIVATE DOCTORS AT GOVERNMENT EXPENSE... AND IbEN ONLY W1TM V-AS PRIOR APPROVAL. Im-,72 l or fall lnforrv't*on contact yowr nonrnl VETERANS ADMINISTRATION office • Metal Trades DepL Votes Vigorous T-H Repeal Drive St.. Paul.—An all-out campaign for repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act was enthusiastically voted by the delegates at the annual con vention of the AFL Metal Trades Department just concluded here. “This buzzsaw has just begun to cut into the flesh of labor,” said President John P. Frey. “It will dig much deeper and hurt a great deal mere unless it is re pealed soon.” Whole-hearted support from the Truman Administration in the re peal fight was pledged by As sistant Secretary of Labor Ralph Wright. He told the delegates: "President Truman and Secre tary of Labor Tobin are resolute ly determined to continue to work for Taft-Hartley repeal until that law is erased from the statute books.” Wright charged that enemies of labor have spent $100,000,000 on propaganda first to enact the Taft-Hartley law and then to pre vent its repeal. The convention went on record in favor of a long-range ship building program to strengthen national defenses. It demanded that a fair share of the govern ment’s existing construction con tracts be alloted to West Coast shipyards. ; President Charles J. McGowan of the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers charged that the steel trust, vhich dominates the Atlantic yards is responsible for the present discrimination against Pacific yards. “Monopoly rules the roost in the shipbuilding industry,” he declared. Other resolutions adopted by the delegates urged improvements in working conditions in the navy yards, adjustment of inequities suffered by workers in the Canal Zone, enactment of legislation providing unemployment insur ance for laid-oflf federal workers and the inclusion of disability benefits in the social security laws. All incumbent officers of the department were re-elected with out opposition, including President Frey, Secretary-Treasurer James A. Brownlow and the members of the executive council. LABOR DEPT. READY TO AID RESERVES REGAIN OLD JOBS Washington. — The Labor De partment said it will make every , effort to regain civilian jobs for , the 12,000 reserve officers soon ' to fall under the Defense Depart ment's economy axe. Secretary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin wrote the Reserve Officers Association that the discharged officers will have the “full co operation” of the 17 field officers of the department’s Bureau of Veterans Re-employment rights. Brig. Gen. E. A. Evans, ROA executive director, had asked Sec retar Tobin to help the reservists return to their former jobs. Gen eral Evans said many are not aware they have reemployment rights to the jobs they left to enter sin-vice. WINS NEW WAGE GAIN8 Cincinnati—The 6-day-old stero typers’ strike against the three daily Cincinnati news pi-per ended under a compromise wage settle ment. purpose. On tne other hand Communism has made extraordi nary gains in As'a, with Northeri Chins under its control and th> road to Southeast Asia gravel threatened, while Communist a i tators are busy hoping to control of the rich natural i« sources of Malaya, Indon | French Indo-China and Thailand ' ARK THKSK YOUR CHILDRENT H you vale* Hi* Ilf* of your teen age children, don’t let them ride or drive around in a jalopy. Fint, be* cause it it dangerous for them and second, because it is a menace to other drivers and pedestrians. B« Careful—the life you save may be your own I This advertisement b published In the public interset by SPONSOR’S NAME ALKH KUL.ES KMPLOl KK VIOLATED TAFT-H VRTLEY Washington.- The National La bor Relations Poard ruled 2 to 1 that an employer violated the Taft-Hartley law when he asked three employes to comment on his" speech supporting an inde pendent union against the AFL's Teamster Union. John M. Houston and James J. t Reynolds. Jr., ordered Trans-Oil i Co., Baltimore, to cease and de sist from asking its workers about their membership and ac tivities in behalf of Local 355 of the^ Teamsters Union. They overruled Trial Examiner William F. Schnarikow, who rec ommended dismissal of the team sters’ complaint. For Indigestion, Sour Stomach and Gas, Taka NA-CO TABLETS MONEY BACK GUARANTEE SELWYN CUT RATE DRUG STORE NEXT TO TOST OFFICE A Bird You Want To Know IS I Proudly we present the CS ROOSTER - the new emblem of Coloniel Store*. The CS Rooster l« i new way of Identifying Big Star and Little Star Stores, and above all — A MARK OF QUALITY FOOD!, loin the thousand* shopping the sign of the CS ROOST today — you'll be glad that did! COLONIAL STORES INCOKPOIATID AUTO REPAIRS BOB ROBINSON’S AUTO SERVICE Any Repair to Any Car or Truck — Brakes. Ignition and Body Repairs Skilled Mechanics Modern Equipment 701 E. Trade Phone 4-5091 ' Opposite Court House AUTO SPRIN6S— SALEM SPRING CO., INC. Manufacturing and Re A Bering Repairing of Auto Track and Bus Springs 2215 Berry hill Road (Intersection of West Morehead and Wilkinson Boulevard) Phone 4-5901 BOTTLERS— - - SUN CREST R0TTUN6 COMPANY Bottlers of SUN CREST ORANGE NU GRAPE 1207 West Morehead Phone 4-2193 KISER DRUG COMPANY “The Home of Purity and Accuracy” 2400 Wilkinson Boulevard Phone 4-0819 Charlotte. N. C. BRICK CONTRACTOR— W. L. JENKINS Contractor BRICK MASON Any Stvle Brick and Concrete Work 325 Turksseege Road Phone 2-3652 Charlotte, N. C. BUILDING MATERIALS— McCLURE LUMBER GO. LUMBER AND BUILD ING MATERIALS Line, Cement. Suit and Doors “Everything To Baild With” Box 415-C Route C. ML Holly Rood Charlotte. N. C. CLEANERS— HART’S CLEANERS, INC. A COMPLETE CLEANING SERVICE ON ALL TYPES OF GARMENTS 727 North Graham Street Phone 4-51M Charlotte, N. C. LEANING & PRESSING— SEGREST CLEANERS One Day Service on Request Cleaning and Pressing Ladies, Men’s and Children Clothes Pick Up and Delivery 2701 Tuckaseege Road Phone 4-6SJ93 Buyers’ Guide and Business Directory These Firms And Business Houses Have Supported Your Labor Paper And Solicit Your Patronage. DRY CLEANING— I ALEXANDER ST. CLEANERS Clayton Black, Prop. Complete Dry Cleaning Service Ladies* and Men's Garments Pick-Up and Delivery 522 South Alexander Phone 9166 ESSO SERVICE— WELCH’S ESSO SERVICE TIRE RECAPPING ESSO GAS AND OIL AUTO ACCESSORIES BATTERIES 401 East Seventh St. Dial 9542 FLOOR C0VERIN6S— I BIVENS FLOORS AND CABINETS, INC. Linoleum and Linoleum Tile Asphalt and Rubber Tile Cabinet Tops Venetian Blinds Made To Order 2035 Shenandoah Ave. . Phone 3-0007 Charlotte, N. C. FLOOR COVERINGS— HILL’S, IRC. “Home oT Quality Floor Coverings” • Wall To Wall Coverings. • Rubber Tile. • Inlaid Linoleum. ' • Asphalt Tile. • Venetian Blinds. • Wool Carpets and Carpeting. Estimates Without Cost 1520 Providence Road Phone 5-4449 Charlotte, N. C. FORD SERVICE HEATH MOTOR CO. Your Authorized FORD DEALER Sales and Service Repairs By Expert Mechanics . 318 West Fifth Street PhoM f II3Q Charlotte, N. C. IROCERIES— BENSON GROCERY “Your Friendly Store” . Quality Meats Groceries, Fruits, Vegetables Neighborhood Delivery 641 East First St. Phone 9736 MtOCERIES— MOODY'S GROCERY The Right Place GROCERIES. FRUITS. VEGETABLES The Beat In Freak Meat* Deliver? Service 2817 S. Tryon Phone 9219 IROCERIES & MEATS— POTTS GROCERY Staple and Fancy Groceries FRESH MEATS. FRUITS, AND VEGETABLES Neighborhood Delivery 1023 Beattys Ford Road Phone 4-8619 IROCERIES & MEATS— C. R. FITE’S GROCERY 921 Oak lawn Ava. 2022 Vanderbilt Rand Quality Freeh Meats Staple and Fancy Groceries Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Call 4-7024 For Delivery JUMRY & CLEANING— WATSON’S 30-MINUTE LAUNDRY 45 WASHING MACHINES 5 LARGE DRYERS DRY CLEANING 100 West Park Avenue Phone 4-3921 MARBLE ADD TILE— ATURTIC MARBLE & TILE COMPANY • INTERIOR MARBLE TILE AND TERRAZZO 227 8onth Mint 84. N. C RESTAURANT— ^GrientaC ' RESTAURANT CHINESE DISHES - CHOP SUEY STEAKS, CHOPS AND SEA FOODS 126 West Trade Street (Near the Square) GAS, OIL & ACCESSORIES— ALLEN’S SHELL SERVICE SheH Products Washing and Lubrication Polishing, Waxing Urea and Auto Accessories Cara called for and delivered 750 W. Trade Phone 9S02 OIL BURNERS— S. H. DUNCAN & CO. • Distributor for Amen Oil Fired Burner Automatic Oil Fired Idea] for Dairies, Food Lockers, . Canneries, Meat Processing Plants • 218 West First Street Dial 3-8144 Charlotte, N. C. RESTAURANT AIR CONDITIONED BOTANY'S RESTAURANT Steaks, Chops, Chickea,_8ea Foods, Beef or Pot .... Curb Opea 7:00 A.M. to 12. PJf. 0 A.M. to 12 P.M. " ‘ 240# N. Trjroa Street Acrooa from Alamo Plasa Tourist Court R00HN6— GEO. E. NORMAN ROOFING CO. Carey Roofing Industrial, Residential Commercial Serving the Caro lisas Sisco 1*11 Estimates Furnished Dial 3-7538 520 Elliott SC SAW SHMPBUK CHAMTTE SAW W. By Expart Filia* 4M Weat Pifaur Mnd Pheae 4-0410 Charlotte, N. C. SERVICE STATION— HELMS TEXACO SERVICE Open 7 A.M. Close 10 P.M. Seven Daya a Week Firestone Tires and Tubes Texaco Products Washing, Greasing Road Service Tel. 9537 1021 Belmont Are.
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