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THOMAS CADILLAC OLDSMOBILE COMPANY 214 North Church St. Telephone 4-6927 CHARLOTTE, N. C. SCHACHNER LEATHER & BELTING CO. 1124 South Mint Street CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA HOLIDAY GREETINGS SHERWIN-WILLIAMS CO. RETAIL STORE World Famous Points, Varnishes, Enamels, Lacquers and special products of Sherwin-Williams Research. KEM-GLO, KEM-TONE MIRACLE WALL FINISH 309 No. Tryon St. Telephone 3-1103 CHARLOTTE, N. C. SOUTHERN WAREHOUSE AND DISTRIBUTING CORPORATION P. 0. Box 1282 934 North Poplar Ph. 5-2531 CHARLOTTE, N. C. THE SHUMAN CO. YORK AIR CONDITIONING AND REFRIGERATION , SHEET METAL WORK CUSTOM BUILT STAINLESS STEEL 126 W. Tremont Ave. - Telephone 3-5101 CHARLOTTE, N. C. SEASON’S GREETINGS ONB OP THE SOUTH'S FINER STORES 126 So. Tryon Sf. Tel. 3-7161 CHARLOTTE, N. C. SEASON’S GREETINGS F. N. Thompson General Contractor Pineville Rood CHARLOTTE, N, C. TOOMEY BROTHERS PLUMBING AND HEATING CO. 724 West Twmoirt O'*1 2-*24» CHARLOTTE, N. C. SEASON’S GREETINGS TURNER'S USED PIANOS 309 E. Trade St. Telephone 3-4125 CHARLOTTE, N. C. SEASON'S GREETINGS THOMAS & HOWARD CO. WHOLESALE GROCERS 411 South College St. CHARLOTTE, N. C. Chicago Unions Build $8,000 Fireproof House BY DAN SMYTH Chicago Correspondent for AFL News Service Chciago. — Patrick F. Sullivan, president of the Chicago and Cook County Building Trades Council j for 25 years, was honored at a testimonial banquet to celebrate the anniversary. Proceeds of the dinner in Chica go’s Stevens Hotel were sent to the City of Hope, a hospital at Duarte, Calif., supported by AFL unions for treatment of low-in come sufferers from tuberculosis, cancer and other major diseases. Sullivan was bom March 2, 1878, \ in a cottage which still stands in the “Back of the Yards” district j on Chicago’s South Side. He was only 13 when he went to work. He attended night schol, while em ployed daytimes as an apprentice electrician. He was a charter member of Electricians’ Local No. 288. In 1904 GREETINGS U. S. Casualty Co. Liberty Life Bldg. Tel. 3-7747 CHARLOTTE, N. C. GREETINGS United Candy Co., Inc. 2016 W. Morehead ' CHARLOTTE, N. C. GREETINGS Victory Cob Co., Inc. Phone 5-2561 400 East Fourth St. CHARLOTTE, N. C. GREETINGS I. G. Wallace & Son COAL AND OIL Phone 3-9338 Route f, Matthews he transferred to Local 134, of which he has been a member ever1 since. He was recording secretary of Local 134 from 1905 to 1009, and president in 1909. Under his leadership, the build ing trades-council recovered fiom the effects of the infamous Landis Award decision, of. Sept. 7, 1921, and became a powerful influence in the progress of the city, as well as representative authoi ity for the building trades. Currently, the council under Sul livan's leadership is resisting at tempts to relax the Chicago build ing code to permit use of com bustible materials on walls and ceil ings. Building tradesmen are or ganising committees to visit mem bers of the Chicago City Council to urge them to vote for safe con struction. The Building Trades Council is fighting for a code that will require use of materials which will resist fire long enough to allow occu pants of a dwelling to escape and let the firemen in if a fire starts. A proposed new code now before the City Council would permit use of a vegetable fibre product which .was an important factor in the Ef fingham, ni„ hospital fire of last April in which 74 lives were lest. The National Fire Protection As sociation found the LaSalle Hotel fire in Chicago, with another tre mendous loss of life, also resulted largely from the same cause — a highly combustible interior finish. The AFL building trades unions, in cooperation with the National Association of Real Etate Boards, are building a demonstration house in Chicago to prove safety need not be sacrificed to bring''Tiome construction within reach of work ing people’s means. Byron Dalton, business manager of the Chicago plasterers' union, is representing the building trades in the project. He is leading the battle against relaxation of the city building code to permit greater use of substitutes for plaster in ceiling and wall construction. Though not intended as the an swer to the atom bomb, the dem onstration home will be better equipped than any other to resist fire or explosion, Dalton said. There will be no loose or projecting orna ments that would become project iles if an explosion occurred near- * by. ' “And ypu couldn’t set it on fire with a flame thrower,” said Dalton. The house is designed for the $8,000 market. When the demon-1 strut ion is finished the house will be sold at auction, and the pro cecds given to the Chicago Com munity Fund, a charity organisa tion. The real estate group is sup plying the site and a guarantee policy. The unions will furnish labor and materials. The house will have three bed rooms, and will stand on a lot 45 by 124 feet. It will be built of ce ment blocks, with a concrete floor. SEASON'S GREETINGS C. D. SPANGLER CONSTRUCTION CO. HOME BUILDERS — DEVELOPERS REALTORS 1933 South Boulevard Telephone 5-3736 CHARLOTTE. N. C. T Greetings To Labor Young Construction Company Leon R. Young Ed. G. Young % P. O. Box 1644 Phono 4-1475 CHARLOTTE, N. C. • ROCK HILL, S. C. 966 West Main Street WioBe 2344 x IBEW Loco I 3 Buys , Long Island Estate (Special Correspondence.) New York City.—This area’* electrical workers, already bene ficiaries of a noncontributory pen sion and welfare system, are own er* of a beautiful 300-acre estate in ritzy Southampton, Long Island, which is going to be transformed by next spring into a convalescent home for union members. Purchased for $125,000 to bene fit Local 3, International Brother-1 hood of Electrical Workers, the1 estate and a luxurious 31 room resi-| dence as well as cottages,'once be-: longed to former Secretary of Wat Dwight W. Davis. It overlooks Long Island Sound i and has several miles of private! beaches. Formal purchase was! made by .the Joint Industry Board ! of the Electrical Industry, labor- ! management group in the metro- I politan area.. The outside walls and the roof will be covered with a Portland cement peprlite plaster mixture, applied with a new machine, a plaster pump. The machine is a big hopper on four little wheels, with a three inch hose, through which the ce ment and plaster mixture is fed. The same machine will be used to plaster the inside walls. It has been 1 used on a large government-spon sored housing project in Chicago but this will be the first use in small residence building. Use of the machine- is speedier and less expensive than the old fashioned method of slapping the plaster on with a trowel. While one workman throws the mixture on the wall with the hose, another walks beside him with a long rod, smoothing it out. It is cleaner than old-fashioned plastering methods too. The big mixer can be left out side, while the hose brings the plaster into the room to be finished. ’’This ought to satisfy people who complain that plasterers are trying to make extra jobs,” said Dalton. “If technological advances and improved methods can speed up plastering work, the plasterer* are glad to have them. But we will fight forever to save the American people from firetraps.” TEXTILE UNION WINS 1H°;„ Elizabethton, Tenn.— Employe* of Franklin Mills, a small textile mill at Elixabethton, voted 100 per cent in an NLRB election for the United Textile Workers of Amer ica. I GREETINGS Wanco Hosiery Mill, Inc. 604 W. Moreheod St. Phone 4-1523 CHARLOTTE. N. C. GREETINGS J. Lester Wolfe Court House Mecklenburg County GREETINGS White Star Body Works 919 W. Moreheod Phone 2-2398 CHARLOTTE, N. C. WRIGHT CLEANING CO. Main Office 1414 SO. TRYON.2-3144 Branches Phone* 1228 (Jordon 4-3777 207 E. Park Ave. 3-0215 509 South Tryon 4-7515 1412 E. Morehead 5-2577 1831 S. Boulevard .... . ' 2-6095 1123 Belmont Ave. 4-0549 2220 W. Morehead 6-3264 HOLIDAY GREETINGS YELLOW CAB CO. Phone 2-6161 * 317 South Poplar Street CHARLOTTE. N. C. SEASON'S GREETINGS WINCHESTER Surgical Supply Company Elastic Stockings, Abdominal, Sacra Iliac, Lumbo Sacral and Ptosis Supports, Trusses, Shoulder Broca* and Supports. Both Ladies' and Men's Fitters in Attendance. Consult Your Physician 119 East Seventh St. Telephone 2-4109 CHARLOTTE, N. C. HOLIDAY GREETINGS CORNELIUS ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION A RURAL ELECTRIFICATION CO-OPERATIVE “ELECTRICITY AT COST" Catawba Avanua Phone 2631 CORNELIUS, N. C. HERMAN SIRE & CO GENERAL CONTRACTING CONOVER, N. C. HI-HEAT FUEL OIL For All Types of Oil Burners ..COLUMBUS OIL COMPANY^**. Quality Petroleum Products SINCE 1K4 < tit* SMth B*«lev»r4 Phane S-WII j "IT'S ALL OVER TOWN” M'tff 8rrvltt — Prompt Delivery Xh»rt« te« rwktu F«cl Oil Ub u au l •iumuuB
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