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RED FRONT GLEANERS GASTONIA’S PREDOMINATING CLEANERS S. Cheater 8t. Gastonia. N. C. Phone 5-4531 Branch: 275 W. Main Street. Phone 5-4331 RAYLASS DEPARTMENT STORE EVERYTHING TO WEAR FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY Phoner5-599r ~ “ TOO W Main GASTONIA, N. C. PARKDALE MILLS, Inc. GASTONIA, N. C. — 1 I ■ Orange Crush Double-Cola Bottling Co. GASTONIA, N. C. NEAL HAWKINS - • ..... • P. O BOX 548 Phone 5-1281 E. Main & So. Avon Sts. GASTONIA, N. C. i • • ■ GASTONIA CONCRETE PRODUCTS CO. r * ACROSS FROM HOLLYWOOD CEMETERY Phone 6981 534 N. Broad GASTONIA, N. C. Compliments of e North Carolina Bottlers of Coca-Cola GUTHRIE MACHINE SHOP METALIZING — QUALITY REPAIRS Phone 5-5434 * ' . 415 Bessemer City Road 4 GASTONIA, N. C. GREETINGS FROM I FRIEND SAMUEL GOMPERS 3* *' Washington.—Postmaster General Jeaae M. Donaldson announced that the new commemorative postage atamp in honor of ftamuel Gompers, founder and flrat president of the American Federation of Labor, will be in three-rents denomination, purple. wiH carry a like aew of Mr. Gompers and will be one of the “Famous Americans" series. Plana are to put the new stamp on sale here on the lbbth anniversary of Mr. Gompers’ birth. Jan. 27. l»5b. Issuance of the stamp is one of the events marking the centenary of Mr. Gompura’ birth to be carried so by the AFL throughout 195b. Hare's How To Get Gompers’ Stamp Washington—AFL kUmp col lector!! and members who want copies of the new Samuel Com pel* commemorative issue can obtain them by writing to the Pont m a t te r, Washinglon, D. C. The postoffice department an nounced that arypne desiring first-day cancellations of this new stamp may send as many as 10 self-addressed stamped envelopes to .the postmaster at Washington. I). C., together with money order or postal note re mittance to cover the cost of the stamps to be affixed. The stamp honoring the AFL's founder and first president will be purple and printed in sheets of 70. It will be placed on sale for the first time on the tOOth anniversary of Mr. (tampers' birth on January 27, 1950. The stamp is 0.95 by 0.98 inches (Famous American size) in dimensions, arranged verti cally. The central, design is a portrait of Mr. Gompers, framed hy a border of colonial design • with a spray of laurel, leaves over the lower left portion. Below the portrait Is the name “Samuel Gompers” in white Gothic on a dark background. The denomination "3 c" in the same atyle appears in the lower right corner. Above the pot-"" trait in dark Gothic is the wording "United States Post age.” BAUMGARDNER BODY SHOP 102 Eost Long * Tel 7942 GASTONU, N. C. AFL SAYS WORKERS NEED RAISE IN 1950 (Continued From Pair* 1) May or June of 1950. But this will not be enough to expand produc tion and1 create jobs for new work ers. so unemployment in the first half year will edge upward, ex ceeding 1949 by perhaps a million. A down trend is likely in the second half of 1950. The prospective business decline after mid-1950 is a challenge to management and labor to find a solution without an increase in gov ernment spending. It . will test the ability of our free enterprise sys tem to maintain “full" production and employment Our economy is strong and healthy. Reserves of buying power are large, in person al savings, and undistributed prof its of the corporations;, business working capital is strong. We face in 1950 not a depression, but another business readjustment which need not be disruptive if we take the right steps to meet it. Sev eral constructive developments are possible. A gradual price decline will release more buying power; continued spending by business to' improve equipment would main Gostonia Radiator Shop A Complete Radiator Service Phone 5-1211 -rr165 E. Franklin Ave. GASTONIA, N. C. * Silverstain's, Inc. 102-104 East Main St. GASTONIA, N. C. ^ J. R. KAYLOR GENERAL CONTRACTOR ROUTE NO. 1 GASTONIA, N. C. tain employment and increase pro due-ivity; redaction in the many taxes paid by consumers would enable them to buy more of the dur able goods they want and need. We do not attempt here to list out er proposals. A constructive pro gram could only be worked out by competent representatives of man agement, labor; and other groups. We, do, however, make the follow ing suggestion to our own member ship: A large increase in workers’ buy ing Vv ill be essential in 1950. If ev ery worker in the U. S. could re ceive a 10-cent wage increase, some $8,00 ),0C0,000 would be added to consumer buying power, nearly all of which would immediately be spent for living necessities. This would be enough to reverse the prospective downward trend of bus iness and start a rise. But with lower profits in prospect foh 1950, many companies would hesitate to give such increases unless earned by reducing costs. Most American managements have never seriously tried to co operate with unions by submitting cost data and assuring union mem bers of a fair share in the saving that could be made by joint effort to reduce costs. Some amazing re sults could be accomplished if work ers were given week by week cost records, so they could aee,.the re sults of their effortsr and man agement agreed to share the sav ings with them, determining the just wage. increase by collective bargaining negotiations. At least a goal could be set of 7, 10 or 15 cents more in wages through cost reduction If man agement recognized the need for an immediate increase in workers’ buying power and agreed to such a program of cooperative effort to raise wages, the battle against bus iness recession would be well on the way to victory. It is clear of course that wages must be raised without causing a general increase in living costs. DUTCH UNIONS ASK A UNITED EUROPE, New York.—Dutch trade union ists endorsed a United States of Europe or, at least, an economic union of the nations of western Europe to promote industrial re covery there. Kennedy's Drug Store Prescriptions * ' Carefully Compounded Free fast City Delivery Ed. C. Adorns, Prop. 213 W. Main Ave. Telephone 5-3401 ; GASTONIA, N. C. Spencer-Rhyne Book Company 251 W. Main St. Phone 265 GASTONIA, N. C. feted at a luncheon by national AFL officials in Washington and entertained by other AFL groups in Pittsburgh, Detroit, New York, Chicago and elsewhere. D. W. Ormel, secretary of the Christian National Trade Union, told reporters that all Europe must be integrated economically so that products might be as freely ex* changed among the nations there as among the states in America, without tariffs or quotas. His col leagues agreed. i SPENCER MOUNTAIN MILLS , f COTTON MANUFACTURERS ESTABLISHED 1874 # Gastonia, North Carolina 1 .— 1 ' SPENCER MACHINERY fir SUPPLY CO. BOBBINS, SPOOLS AND SKEWERS —REFINISHING A SPECIALTY— Phone 5-0351 527-29 N. Broad GASTONIA, N. C. GROCERS BAKING COMPANY C. WWW Gaston County Dyeing Machine Company Stanley, N. C. 9 >
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