SEASON'S GREETINGS
JOHN ECK
GASTONIA, N. C.
MMIR6T0N HOTa
2M West Airline Are. Geetenie, N. C.
SEASON'S GREETINGS
ROY HAMILTON PLUMBING &
GASTONIA, N. C.
CAROLINA CLEANERS
All Artie let Insured Against Fire and Theft
ONE DAY SERVICE
Dial 5-5041 209 Firestone St.
GASTONIA, N. C.
MATTHEWS-BELK COMPANY
GASTONIA'S LARGEST DEPARTMENT STORE
West Main Ave. Tel. 7241
GASTONIA, N. C.
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COMPLIMENTS OF
6JIST0NM CONCRETE PRODUCTS CO.
523 W. Airline Are., Gastonia, N. C.
Office: 523 W. Airline Are., Phone 5-5461
Plant: 533 N. Broad St., Phone 6981
STERCHI'S
BETTER YOUR HOME — BETTER YOUR LIVING
WITH FURNITURE FROM STERCHI’S
174-180 South St. * T#l. 5-1266
GASTONIA, N. C.
COMPLIMENTS OF
RANKIN & ARMSTRONG
"One of the Oldest—Established Over 46 Years”
124 S. Marietta St. Phone 5-0611 Gastonia, N. C.
SEASON'S GREETINGS
WILSON-LEOFORD CONSTRUCTION CO.
Ml Smith Columbia GoMomo. N. C.
SEASON'S GREETINGS
PANTHER’S GARAGE
1M1 West Airline Avenue
GASTONIA, N. C
SEASON'S GREETINGS
WOOD REALTY COMPANY, INC.
S14 Realty BuiUinc
5-4541
GASTONIA, N. C.
Unions Play
Santa Claus
BY ARNOLD BEICHMAN
New York Correspondent for AFL
News Service
New York.—A few yearn ago,
a New York newspaperman, Ted
Poston, came down with double
pneumonia. He had to stop working
and with his wife he went down
to the Virgin Islands to convalesce.
While the Postons were there,
they saw the poveity and lack of
opportunity for the islanders, al
most 100 percent Negro. They were
particularly moved by the plight of
the children. Mrs. Poston, Marie,
! a field examiner here with the Na
| tionai Labor Relations Board, was
particularly determined that when
her husband, now a star reporter
on the New York Post Home News,
got better, she would devote her
spare time to helping the children
of this Caribbean island possession.
Marie and Ted Poston returned
to New York and they began to
corrmll contributions in goods from
their friends, and their friends’
friends. Success didn’t come how
ever, until they enlisted the co
operation of New York’t trade un
ions and particularly the AFL.
In 1948, there was organized an
athletic league for these underpri
vileged children and they had their
first real Christmas party with
more than 3,000 in attendance.
It was a success; it was a success
because New York’s trade unions
were interested by Marie Poston in
the Virgin Islands’ kids and here’s
what happened:
Local 413, International Brother
hood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper
Mill Workers of the AFL and Play
things and Novelty Workers of the
CIO talked to employers who con
tributed toys, children’s books and
Christmas wrapping paper.
Local 550, Candy and Confec
tionery Workers Union of the AFL
got a candy company to contribute
hundreds of ponnds of candy.
Local 105, International Ladies
Garment Workers Union of the
AFL was able to obtain clothing
for several hundred babies and
older children.
Locals 282 and 814 of the AFL
Brotherhood of Teamsters crated
the packages, picked them up at
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Herzog NLRB Vote
Upholds Teamsters
Washington. — Chairman Paul
M. Herzog cast the deciding vote
upholding the right of the AFL
Teamsters Union 807 to picket a
company's trucks at the premises
of a customer in an important Na
tional Labor Relations Board de
cision. The Teamsters’ right to
picket was supported by a 3-2 vote
of the board.
The board thus reversed a find
ing by a trial examiner that the
New York City Teamsters' local
had violated the secondary boy
cott ban of the Taft-Tartley law
by such picketing.
The union began picketing trucks
of Schultz Refrigerated Service
Co. after the company locked out
Its drivers by moving its terminal
from New York City to Slackwood,
N. J., near Trenton.
Charges against the union were
made after the picketing of Schultz
trucks at plants of several New
York city firms. The pickets fol
lowed the trucks to the plant loud
ing dockets and then formed a lint
around the truck. General Coun.se.
Robert N. Denham contended that
this was a secondary boycott pro
hibited by the Taft-Hartley law
but he was over-ruled by the board
by the narrowest of margins.
the Chelsea warehouse and deliv
ered them to the boats and La
Guardia Airport for shipment, free.
Oiher local unions who have come
in this year include Local 22030,
Wholesale Candy and. Tobacco
Salesman’s Union, and Local 452,
Candy and Confectionery Workers
Union of the AFL.
The gifts for the Virgin Island
kids are piling up in the Chelsea
warehoue and thanks to our trade
unions and the Santa Claus .Pos
tons, the kids will have a real
Christmas next month.
GREETINGS
F. C. TODD, Inc.
Textile Machinery
and Supplies
GASTONIA. N. C.
SEASON'S GREETINGS
CHARLES STORE COMPANY
158 W. Main Avenue Telephone 7921
GASTONIA, N. C.
Mill and Marine
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Electric, Inc.
ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS
Wiring — Lighting — Repairing
137 So. Marietta Telephone 5-1311
GASTONIA, N. C.
SEASON'S GREETINGS
SUNRISE DAIRY
Gwdi "A" Pasteurised
DAIRY PRODUCTS
509 W. Franklin Are.
Tel, 6354
Gompers Solicitation
Unauthorized By AFL
Washington.'—The AFL has not
authorized any solicitations for
contributions or advertising for
any Samuel Gompers’ memorial
book or any other promotional
scheme in connection with next
yeai's Gompers’ Centennial.
Pennsylvania Federation of
Labor officials reported that “some
bird had sounded out possible con
tributors in that state on a “Gornp
|ers Memorial Book, project.
International unions, state fed
erations and other affiliated bod
ies are uiged to be on guard
against any and all attempts to
use the good name of the American
Federation of Labor for unauthor
ized money-raising schemes.
SET CONVENTION DATE
Washington. — The executive
committee of the AFL National
Fedeiation of Insurance Agents'
Council seleceted Washington for
its annual convention during the
week of May 15 1950.
GREETINGS
PIEDMONT MILLS,
Inc.
North Morietto Street
GASTONIA, N. C.
GREETINGS
Gastonia Brush Co.
BRUSHES FOR THE
TEXTILE TRADE
301 So. Linwood
Tol. 5-2422
GASTONIA, N. C.
GREETINGS
Gastonia Radiator
Shop
A Complete Radiator Service
165 E. Franklin Ave.
Tol. 5-1211
GASTONIA, N. C.
McLEXN & SON FUNERAL HOME
206 South Uroad Street
Phon* 5-3431
Gaxtonia, >f. C.
HOLIDAY GREETINGS
SMITH BROS. TEXTILE MACHINERY
718 E. Airline A re. y#l 5-4292
GASTONIA, N, C.
GREETINGS TO LABOR
D. GLENN STROUPE
GENERAL CONTRACTOR
111 Oakdale Tel. 5.3822
GASTONIA, N; C.
McCLUNEY'S, INC.
QUALITY APPAREL FOR MEN
Home of Leo Hats
269 W. Main Ave. Phone 5.393 j
GASTONIA. N. C.
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GASTONIA. N. C.
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