Devoted to the Interests of the A. F. of L. and the Working Man State-wide Labor Weekly, Presenting Labor News and Views Without Fear and Without Favor —i Dedicated to the Continued Industrial Growth ef North Carotins VOL. XIX; NO. 45 CHARLOTTE. N. €.. THURSDAY, MARCH 10. ttt>0 Subscription Price $2.00 Y Census Questions Begin On April 1 Washington.—Uncle Sam is gett ing ready to ring your doorbell. Armed with questions, pencils and tact, the , census-takers will start out April 1 to make the l every-l'O-years count of population, j houses and farms. The enumerators will count about 150 million people and gather 6 billion facts. The nose counting) will take 3 weeks in thie cities, j twice as long in rural sections. It j will take 2 years to tabulate all i the results. The cenul-takers will find the! nation has nearly 20 million more i people than 10 years ago. For the j first time in history women will1 outnumber the men. , The census will show the nation! has just completed its movingest 1 decade. Some 70 million people’ have changed residence since 1040. That probably will mean some west ern states will get additional legis lators in Congress—and some east ern states will get a cut in their representation. Every person in the United States, citizen or aiken, will become a record to be filed away at the Census Bureau’s headquarters in Suitland, Md., outside Washing ton. Babies born after April 1 won’t count even if they arrive before the census-taker. People who die while the census is in progress will be counted if they were living on April 1. •The Census Bureau will hire 140,000 bell-rongers to bring the nation’s vital statistics up to date. The 1950 census-takers — like those of 1940 will be butted by proposals and will aibttsaUftmi ly quarrels. They will visit flop houses, brothels and hobo “jung les.” V.n igloos will be covered by dog sled. Hawaiian Island by motor launch and Louisiana bayous by row boat. One sturdy male enumerator act ed as a dress-makiag dummy while he questioned a Manhattan house wife in 1920. A South Dakota woman inter viewer was greeted with a shot gun and then offered a job as coun try school teacher. A Virginia poll ster was told, “Mama’s down at the still.” The census-taker may call in the cops if you balk at his questions. It’s a criminal offense to refuse to answer. But once you’ve told, no one will ever know the informa tion but you and the Census Bu , reau. Not even the FBI or federal tax collectors have a look a^ the confidential information collected by the census. It all comes out in impersonal charts and tables. : The 1950 enumerators will be better paid than they were 10 a years ago. They’ll earn $8 to $10 a day compared to about $1 in 1940. Ihe numerators will not want to know about your operation or the name of your dog. But they will ask one person in five if he has a television set. All told, there are some 81 queries on the census questionnaries. But no one per son will bd asked all of them. New AFL V-P Tobin Endorses Red Cross Drive Washington. — Adding his en dorsement of the March Red 'Cross fund appeal for $67,QOO,OOQ to those of top labor leaders, Secre tary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin said “Your Red Cross contribu tion means a safer, stronger, and happier America.” “To me,” Secretary Tobin said, “the American Red Cross has al ways been the symbol of; service to humanity. When disaster strikes, the Red Cross is there to feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, and care for the injured. To veterans and men in the armed forces, the Red Cross is the hand which helps in time of personal trouble or family crisis.” Labor leaders urging support of the fund campaign urging support of the fund campaign include AFL President William Green. AFL Vice President George M. Harrison, grand president of the Brother hood of Railway and Steamship dirks; A. E. Lyon, executive secretary of the Railway Labor Executives’ Association; and D. B. Robertson, president of the Broth erhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. Stating that “need on the part of any of our people is our joint re sponsibility,” Mr. Green said that “the accepted agency of the Amer ican people to meet these needs is the American National Red Cross.” Upholsterers Get Pensions for 3,000 Chicago—Agreement in principle on a new employer-paid pension ?,an was announced by the Kroeh Wr Manufacturing Company and 3a) B. Hoffmann, president of the AFL Upholsterers International Union of North America. Mr. Hoffmann said the union’s negotiating committee would rec ommend that its 3,000 members em ployed in Kroehler plants ratify the plan. H* said the union hoped eventually to apply it to some 50, 000 members and 3,000 employers in all phases of the furnishings in dustry. The union president said the plan called for contributions of a fixed percentage of the employers’ pay rolls into a single fund to be ad ministered by, 5 union and 5 em ployer trustees. , Employes, although not contribu ting to the private pension fund, would continue to take part in the federal social security program. "Pension benefits to be paid from the fund will be the maximum al lowable under established actuarial risk calculations,” Mr. Hoffmann said. “The only thing fixed about it is the payroll percentage of em ployer premiums.” Mr. Hoffmann said that Jhe Kroehler company agreed upon the percentage of its payroll which would be turned into the pension fund. V Hie Kroehler company employes UIU member in Naperville, HI.; Binghamton, N. Y.; Kankakee, I1L; Cleveland, O. Hie union plan establishes a single pension fund which v^ill be national in scope and will pay a uniform rate of benefits for work ers in the 5 major UIU industries consisting of the upholstered furni ture, wood furniture, mattress and bedding, casket, and canvas and aiming industries Safest Period, Yet— 400 Workers Washington.—It was safer in manufacturing in fourth quarter of IMS than in 7 years, the Bureau Statistics reported. About 78,000 workers lost ’ more days of work becaua injuries on the job, the report -about 7,700 below the The injured workers loot 1,570, i ami about 9l«4NKMm te addition to their and future injuries. ' sisJ alls ran Sourest 1949 Start* Etaettm lam 1 Is A life Worth More Than Dock? BY DAN SMYTH * j Chicago CtfrupniMt of AST. News Service Chicago.—John Fewkes, presi t your UniG* Social Stcufitn LOrV'Vfti.Ci.' ne Nt!dfest Social SecunLi QlftCe.. Hamilton C. Jones Announces For Re-election HAMILTON C. JONES Philly AFL Local Helps Form Union Philadelphia.—Local 286 of the AFL International Brotherhood of Pulp. Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers raised 81163.30 to con tribute to the organizing drive of the AFL National Farm Labor Union as part of the Samuel Gotnp ers Centennial Organizing Cam paign for 1,000,000 new members in 1950. AFL President William Green thanked the Philly local “for the excellent work rendered in t*?half of the National Farm Labor Union.” “This organisation," Mr. Green wrote, “is working in an import ant field. It is attempting to help oppressed workers whose wages are exceedingly low and whose conditions of employment are in tolerable. The excellent a^priee which you rendered will be trem endously helpful.” He sent hia thanks to Joseph Si mone and Henry Segel, internation al representatives of the Paper Mill Workers. Mr. Simone and Mr. Segal said that the fund-raising drive was conducted after International Pres ident John P. Burkes called for lo cals to send assistance to the Na tional Farm Labor Union. Mr. Burke acted upon hearing the farm union’s plea for assistance at the 1949 AFL convention when the Gompers organising drive was ini tiated. “We cave our member* employed in paper converting plant* the atory of the conditions American workers are confronted with in 1950,” Mr. Simone and Mr. Segal said. “We have been able to raise $1,183.50 and have forwarded this money to our international office to be turned over to the farm work ers union.” Plan ApprtnHci Training Mnts Washington.—James A. Brown low, secretary-treasurer of tW* AFL Metal Trade* Department, urges member* and other interest ed in apprentice training to attend one of a aerie* of three conference* scheduled in May ai^dl June. Mr. Brownlow said the confer ences, sponsored, by the Federal Bureau of Apprenticesship, are held to inter*t more people from labor and management in sound apprenticeship. The conference* will be held May 3-5, Miami, Fla., for Southern States; May 22-25, Seaside, Ore., covering 11 western states; June 8-10, Poland Springs, Me., covering the northeast section. "These conferences,” Mr. Brown low said, "are open for participa tion by anyone interested in ap prenticeship and should be widely attended as the considerations and results directly affect every ap prenticeable craft within the AFL.” PLAN CONFERENCES. Washington.—A national confer ence on workmen's compensation and rehabilitation will meet here March 22 and 23. William Connol ly, director of the Labor Depart ment’s Bureau of Labor Standards, heads a planing committee repre senting various interested groups. Members of this committee include Lewis 0. Bines, of tho American Federation of Labor. Hamilton C. iones, N; C. Con* (msman from the Tenth Dis trict, while in Charlotte lent week-end, announced hie candi dacy for re-election to succeed himself. He had the following to say th The Journal reporter: I am today announcing my candidacy to secure the Demo cratic nomination as the repre sentative in the Congress for the Tenth Congressional District in the primary to be held on May 27. I have also died with the State Board of Elections aa of to day and paid the required filing fee. It has been my privilege to represent the Tenth Congressional District of North Carolina during the full sessions of the 80th Con gress and the sessions of the 81st Congress to date and I have at all times endeavored to represent it to the very best of my ability and given to the'discharge of my duties the necessary diligence and judgment that it required. It is my conviction- that the Congressman owes to his constitu ents the duty of keeping in close contact with the sessions of Con gress and meetings of the Com | mittee on which he serves at all ! times. Without this close contact, he cannot really be informed proper ly on the many inportant mat ters that come before the Con gress and cast an intelligent and informed vote that the public has the right to expect of him. I My attendance record proves that in carrying out this thought I have kept in very cloee contact ' with the sessions of Congress at all times during the atm and 8tM j Congresses and aw record during these terms will further show by examination of the roll call setae my general views on impectaat questions, both foreign and do mestic. The Congress is confronted with many complicated and important problems which extend far beyond the limits of nay Congressional District. It is, therefore, neces sary that the Congressman keep fully informed on foreign and domestic affairs, and be ever con scious of the responsibilities and duties he owes to the people of his District who have honored him by choosing him ns their rep resentative. In the continuation of my fu ture services to tbo District, I shall work and vote for an early and permanent settlement of our affairs with all nations with the hope that permanent peace any coast to the people of the world, for a strong and adequate eyeless of national defense so that our com* bined armed forces will be adequate | to protect our nation against As aggression of any nation or is* tiona of the world, for an eee nemical and balanced domestic program which means so much to the people of the nation, for a program of economy and efficiency in the operation of the Federal Government, and for such other measures as will tend to bring to our nation and the people of the world happiness and enduring I have endeavored to verve the District with flue view of the sit uation and will continue to do M if favored bjr the electorate to choodnf. me agate to npruwi the important Tenth Congression al District of the State ot North Carolina to the Congress. I feel that my snperlsnre to the Congress should better quali fy me to represent the District and I assure the citizens of the District that I shall endeavor to use this oxporisnco as an aid to determining the very Important and difficult decisions that Us be fore the House af Representatives in the 82nd Congress, May I conclude by thanking the voters of the Tenth Con gressional District tm tbo sup port that they have given am to the past elections and state that their support in this primary will likewise be very deep appreciated.