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SEASON'S GREETINGS > Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. 201 East Sixth St. Phone 3-6624 CHARLOTTE, N. C. SEASON'S GREETINGS PNEUMAFU CORPORATION 2516 Wilkinson BU. CHARLOTTE, N. C. HOLIDAY GREETINGS . PURITY MARKET AND GROCERY MEATS, GROCERIES, FRUITS AND VEGETABLES 202 Eost Trade St. Tel. 3-9787 CHARLOTTE, N. C UuwyiwAiL I FROM THE OLD MILL STREAM Moat of the industry to oui Piedmont Carolina* on “down by tha Old Mill Stream** when thu century began The raina came, ano ■lometimes tha tittle riverside plant went out with the flood Then adventuresome oiijji neers began to turn power wasting at falls and shoals into electricity They trsnumiitHi it to sites located a sate dis lance from the rivers These sites rapidly grew into towns Factory loss by flood ended Such river sites as could be reached and profitably de veloped were “used up" Too It was found that In time of drought, streams proved m adequate to power needs tn the awakened Piedmont By 1920, facilities for steam generation were begun and have con linucd steadily until today they provide most of the power deliver ed by the Duke System One plant now under construction ’V third tn our present expansion progiam. will produce more than •lie-sixth as much power as was used last year in ail the territory served by the Duke Tower Company. DUKE POWER COMPANY Textile Workers Win ' , Enka Plant Electipn f HEY, BOSS! New York. — The American worker’* high production is due largely to the fact that he actu ally uses more minutes of every hour he is on the Job than is the case in the United Kingdom. That is the impression gained by Francis G. Mulligan, tailor's presser of Coop A Co. of Wigans, Lancs., following his 6 weeks’ tour of the United States with a United Kingdom productivity team. Tennessee Women Form Auxiliary Nashville, Tenn.—The Tennessee Federation of Women's Auxiliaries of Labor, the state branch of the National Organisation, the Amer ican Federation of Women’s Aux iliaries of Labor, came into exist ence in a statewide conference November 15, at Nashville, Ten nessee, when Mrs. Herman H. Lowe called together the representatives of the women's o. gan nations of labor in the state and arranged such a program. The organization was attended by many groups of ladies together with representatives from the Union Label Trades Department of the American Federation of Labor, representatives from the Nashville Trades and Labor Council, the Tennessee Federation of Labor and representatives from the American Federation of Labor. The Tennes see Federation of Women's Auxil iaries of Labor will assist in spon soring closer relationship between the Women’s Auxiliaries in Tennes see and will assist in educational work toward organization of the unorganized hnd sponsorship of registering and qualifying for vot ing and conducting of educational campaigns in support of the Union label. The American Federation of Women’s Auxiliaries of Labor is sponsored by the Union Label Trades Department of the Ameri can Federation of Labor and the creation of the Tennessee State branch adds a strong and support ing link in the national chain of Women’s Auxiliaries in developing purchasing power of the wage earners through dedication of mon ey spent for purchases of products manufactured under union condi tions. v The American Federation of Women’s Auxiliaries assisted ma terially in sponsoring the National Union Label Shojy of the Union Label Trades Department. Mrs. Herman H. Lowe is its national President. Home Building Sets New Record Washington.—AU previous hous ing records were broken in Novem- j ber, when 93,000 new nonfarm dwelling units were started. November starts brought the total thus far in 1949 to 937,100, according to preliminary estimates 1 of the U. S. Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics. This j 11-month total surpasses the 937, 000 units begun in all of 1925, the' former peak year in homebuilding.1 There is little doubt now that the ; total number of new units started this year will exceed a million. November housing activity marks the fifth consecutice month during which previously existing records for the month were shattered. The sharp seasonal drop usually char acteristic of this time of the year has failed to materialize in 1949. Gains in both privately and pub licly financed housing have con tributed to the increased volume of homebuilding activity in 1949 compared with 1948. Queen City Trail ways Asheville, N. C.—The AFL Unit ed Textile Worker* trounced the CIO by a 4-to-one vote for 8,000 employes at the American Enka Corp. as the climax to an abortive CIO raid. The United Textile Workers re ceive 2,015 votes, 77 percent of those cast, while the CIO polled only 530. The CIO total was less than one-half the number of cards shown National Labor Relations Board field agent*. The company, pending outcome of the election, stalled negotiations on a new contract with the AFL. Hard-hitting machenry set up by United Textile Workers Local 2598 officers, hop and chief stew ; aids, rank and file members and international representatives car ried the AFL to victory. In urging a vote for the AFL, Textile Workers President Anthony iValente told the workers in a pre election statement: “You can protect your AFL sen iority rights, the wages which we ,have won, the AFL paid holidays, the years of work and achievement which today places the Enka work er in the forefront of all rayon I workers." I Throughout the campaign, AFL I officers insisted that terms of the i contract then in effect must be ad hered to and that* neither the com pany nor the CIO would be allow ed to tear down the conditions built for Enka workers over the past 10 years. KEEPS KALAMAZOO CONTROL Washington.—A proposal by the Kalamazoo, Mich., rent advisory board to decontrol the city and county of Kalamazoo has been dis approved by Housing Kxpditer Tighe E. Woods because the evi dence submitted by the board “is not sufficient to show that the de mand for rental housing has been reasonably met.” Data on Kal amazoo indicates there is still a housing shortage. tkitSign WUBB JtkhMttfa GREETINGS Crouch Brothers House Moving Co. 2312 Beattys Ford Rd. Telephone 73-3281 CHARLOTTE, N. C. GREETINGS CENTRAL LUMBER CO. 300 So. Brevard St. Dial 3-5145 CHARLOTTE, N. C. f* WuruTzer lanos Californio LIFE Soft Spring Moot Son Francisco.—The California State Federation of Labor has called a state convention of Cali* fornia’s Labor’s League for Politi cal Education immediately after MarcS 29, closing date of the pri mary filing period. Each local, council and labor league affiliate wiU be entitled to one delegate. The federation selected the week of October 9, 1950, for the annual convention to be held in Santa Barbara. Clerks Poet Speeds Shopping; Praised San Francisco. — A strikeless wage negotiation which enabled Christmas shopping to proceed un interruptedly was negotiated by the AFL Retail Clerks Local 1100 for 6 500 members in large down town department stores. The agreement provides $2.50 weekly increase for nonselling em | ployes; establishment of a $15 min ■ imum guaranteed commission on top of regular wages each month, and a greater measure of union se curity. The 6-year contract may be BOGGETT 111 E. Park Ave. Fhoao $179 LUMBER CO. It Pays To Trade Wltk ! —. START A SuiM+Uji CC(Ui+iJi NOW THE COMMERCIAL NATIONAL BANK Charlotte, N, C. reopened on wages, hours and wel fare benefits. The San Francisco Call-Bulle tin editorialized: “San Francisco downtown de partment stores and the AFL Clerks union hare added a refresh ing and, indeed, exemplary note to local labor-management relations Compliments off Credit Co., Inc. 534 So. Tryon St. Telephone 3-7141 CHARLOTTE, N. C. . . . there was no hot headed re criminations, no hurling of strike threats and no angry exchanges. “Let's hope that the methods in this case, methods whose effective ness has been proven by results, will set the pattern for aQ of our labor-management discussions in the future.” GREETINGS Confection Vending Co. 220 W. Sixth St. Tel. 3-1 «16 CHARLOTTE, N. C. Favors For Your Christmas and New Year's Parties Some of The Things We Lend Money on Diamond* Welches Jewelry Mn’i Clothiag loots Silverware Shot Gaaa Rifle* Pie tola Trunks Addins Machines Muni cal fawtra K;xlaka Typewriter* All Boring— Strictly Confidential. When In Need of Money We Never Fail Yon. 8m m for bargain In diamonds, watches. 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