SEASON'S GREETINGS
MOSKIN'S
CREDIT CLOTHING COMPANY
135 So. Tryon St.
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
GREETINGS
N. C. MERCANTILE CO.
Phone 4-4004
301 North Brevard St.
CHARLOTTE, N.
C.
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NATIONAL DISTRIBUTING CO.
Distributors of
HOSTESS RESERVE WINES, VIRGINIA DARE
.WINES, CARLING RED TOP ALE AND
BRAUMAISTER BEER
1217 Thomas Ava. , Tol. 4-2415
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
. SEASON'S GREETINGS
NEW WAY LAUNDRY & CLEANERS
INCORPORATED
Tol. 3-3721 935 East Ninth St.
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
SEASON'S GREETINGS
NORMAN'S MARKET
2749 Rozzells Ferry Road
Telephone 9630
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
SEASON'S GREETINGS
PAYNE FURNITURE CO., INC.
116 South Collie St. , Phon, 8483
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
L. B. PRICE MERCANTILE CO.
511 West Fourth St. Telephone 3-1471
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
SEASON’S GREETINGS
Powdrell & Alexander, Inc
CURJAINS
314 East Sixth St. Charlotte, N. C.
503
ROSS ELECTRIC CO.
ELECTRICAL CONTRACTING AND REPAIRS
East Trod# St. _ TeL 4-2844
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
U.'S. Begins Revising
Cost Of Living Index
Washington. — The government
began a long-overdue revision of
its cost-of-living index which has
consistently understated workers’
difficulties in making the pay check
meet their needs.
AFL officials welcomed the ac
tion and urged trade unionists to
remind their Congressmen to ap
prove additional funds to complete
the 3-year, $4,000,000 project. The
first session of the 81st Congress
appropriated only $1,126,000 for
the first year’s work.
“We’ve been pressing for this
GREETINGS
F. C. ABBOTT
REAL ESTATE
Room 1105
Johnston Bldg.
Telephone 7785
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
GREETINGS
Barnhardt Bros. Co.
YARNS
Commercial Bank Bldg.
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
GREETINGS *
Belmont Upholster
ing and Furniture
Manufacturers
1733 Pegram Street
Telephone 4-2506
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
GREETINGS
Best Brands, Inc.
MILLER HIGH LIFE
717 North Smith St.
Telephone 2-2795
CHARLOTTE. N. C.
GREETINGS
Beatty Bros.
Service Station
900 So. Graham St.
Telephone 2-4495
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
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revision for a long time," George
Brooks mid. Mr. Brooks is research
director of the Pulp, Sulphite and
Pnper Mill Workers and chairman
ot the AFL advisory committee to
the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statis
tics.
"The revision should have been
undertaken a long time ago," he
said. “The index has consistently
understated workers' cost of living
largely because of the bias in the
rent component.”
Another AFL official described
the change as one which will show
the "relatively greater importance
of meat in the workers’ buying hab
its now and the much less im
portance of potatoes." He said this
reflects the change to the higher
standard of living now prevailing
compared to the depression stand
ard of 1935 when the present index
was constructed.
AFL Secretary -Treasurer
George Meany led a powerful fight
during the war to revise the cost
of-living index to reflect higher'
prices, cheaper qualities, scarcity
of products. The campaign succeed
ed in having some concession made
for the deterioration of quality but
the government refused to grapple
with the basic problem of correct
ing the lopsided bias against the
workers. I
The revision is expected to give
a truer picture but will not com- j
pietely eliminate the bias because
the new survey is getting under
way as prices have started down
ward-and wjll reflect this spiral.
The index is a monthly compila
tion of prices on more than 1,500
items and services purchased by
moderate-income ($,‘{,000 a year)
families in urban areas. Prices in
clude those for food, clothing, rent,
housefurnishing.s fuel, electricity
and gas, miscellaneous goods and
services. *
Ewan Clague, commissioner of
the Bureau of Labor Statistics, said
that the index must be brought up
to date to reflect such household
purchases as frozen foods and tele
vision sets, electric refrigerators
and frying chickens.
He said the survey will cover 34
cities, work to be started in 11 of
them by November 14. It callis for
information £n characteristics of
about 500,000 dwellings, detailed
spending data from more than
20,000 families and collection of
more than 600,000 price quotations
from thousands of retail stores and
service establishments.
The new index is expected to be
available for use in 1952.
Mr. Brooks said the AFL is. espe
cially interested in getting the rent
component corrected. He said it is
seriously prejudiced against work
ers because it fails to cover the
tremendous amout of new housing,
uncontrolled by rent or price ceil
ing, which has been constructed
since the war, not does it reflect
the higher costs of home owner
ship for holders of old as well as
new property. Neither does it take
into account the increasing propor
tion of home owners among work
ing families, many of whom have
been forced to buy homes because
satisfactory rental quarters are not
available.
Meanwhile the cost-of-living in
dex is rising. It jumped one-half of
1 percent in September and is now
27 percent higher than in June,
1946, when price controls lapsed
and 72 percent above August, 1939.
It is only 3 percent below a year
ago.
Ford Thanks
I Green for Support
Washington. — AFL President
Wiliam Green received thanks from
Henry Ford 2d, chairman of the
1049 Community Chest Drives, for
the American Federation of La
bor’s endorsement of these local
campaigns.
“Your cooperation and that of
the members of the American Fed
eration of Labor in highly valued
by Community Chests throughout
' the nation,” Mr. Ford said.
Hundreds of AFL members serv
ed in local Chest campaign offices
F fir E Checkwriter
Com pony
436 Piedmont Bldg.
Phone 4-6704
CHARLOTTE, N. C
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this year. Most of the drives are
now nearing completion. There is
time to make a contribution to your
local Chest whieh supports Boy
and Girl Scouts, hospitals, Salva
tion Army, clinics, family services
and other agencies. *
VENDING MACHINE
WORKERS ORGANIZE
Knoxville. Tenn. — Organizer
Maynard K. Baird, of the American
Federation of Labor, announces the
formation of a union of vending
machine service men. The charter j
has been ordered and will be in
stalled upon receipt.
A. F. of L. Gompers Memorial
1,000,000 new members in 1950.”
GREETINGS
Cunningham
Wholesale Co., Inc. j
Distributor of
SCHLITZ BEER
1424 No. Tryon St.
Telephone 3-1 306
CHARLOTTE. N. C.
GREETINGS
DUB'S GRILL
1 10 No. Graham St
Telephone 5;9263
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
GREETINGS
E. S. DeLaney
REAL ESTATE
117 E. Third St.
Phone 4-7724
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
GREETINGS
Edwards Lumber Co.
LUMBER
BUILDING MATERIALS
2825 Wilkiinon Bird.
Tel. 4-6959
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
Elam Electric
Co., Inc.
Appliencm — Connecting
114 No. Myer*
Tel. 4-7269
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
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ROBINSON ELECTRIC CO., INC.
129 We*t Fourth St. Phone 8555
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
SEASON'S GREETINGS
Pritchard Paint
& Glass Co.
112 West Fifth Street Tel. 2-6148
_CHARLOTTE. N. C._
HOLIDAY GREETINGS
ROYAL COAL & COKE CO.
1219 Control Are. Tel. 2-6104
CHARLOTTE, H. C.
SEASON'S GREETINGS
ROSS AND WITMER, INC.
AIR CONDITIONING AND HEATING
1614 W. Morehead Tel. 5-3374
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
SEASON'S GREETINGS
CAROLINA AUTO SERVICE
GENERAL AUTO REPAIRS
All Mokes
ALIGNMENT SERVICE
25)4 No. Davidson Telephone 4-3310
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
SEASON'S GREETINGS
Rex Recreation O Bowling Cantor
"Where Union Men Meet"
YEAR ROUND AIR CONDITIONED
125-127 Se. Tryon St. Telephone S730
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
SEASON'S GREETINGS
SHAW MANUFACTURING CO.
Manufacturers of
Upholstered Furniture
107 E. Kingston Ave. Telephone 5-3371
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
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Season's Greetings
REA
Construction
Company
PINEVILLE ROAD
P. O. BOX 2015
CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA