Editorial
tin CBAturre labor annul
and dixie farm news
Published at Charlotte, North Carolina
OLPE8T LABOR PUBLICATION IN THE TWO CAROL1NA8
A. Stans, Editor and Publisher W. M. Witter. Associate Editor
Entered as second-class mail matter September 11, 1931, at the
Post Office at Charlotte, N. C., under the Act ef Congress of
Match 3, 1879.• .*_
Endorsed by Charlotte Typographical Union, Number 338, An Af
filiate of Charlotte Central Labor Union and the North Carolina Fed
eration of Labor.' _ __' _
News Services: American Fed erst on of Labor, U. S. and North.
Carolina Departments of Labor, and Southern LAbor Prea Associa
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Working People Will
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FRANK GRAHAM THE AMERICAN
, No State in the United States haa been more greatly
blessed than has North Carolina by having in Congress a
man who has had so many honors conferral upon him.
* Thj Labor Journal is speaking of Dr* Frank P. Graham.
Frank Graham is too well known by the people of this State
for his character to be damaged to any great extent by the
MuuWmonttfi wno in me i... L',Z 2l
paign are "throwing the book”,at him in, th<iil fever Isa if
forts to unseat him as United States Senator from this com
monwealth. . fw-f d
Like many other great Americans who have fought for
the things that have made this nation great, Frank Graham
has chalked up a record for himself many men will never
acquire. His life’s activities have been devoted to the up
bulding of North Carolina and the Nation. An educator of
world renown, he has had many honors conferred upon him
for his achievments. As a presidential adviser and diplo
mat he has very few if any equals. As a United States
Senator his great influence has brought signal honors to the
State in the brief time he has been in Congress.
Looking out upon the waters The I^bor Journal sees no
other senatorial candidate in the running whose past record
looks anywhere near as good as that of Mr. Graham.
The next few days will give the people their final oppor
tunity to hear the mudslinging by Mr. Graham’s opponents.
But regardless of all the dirty, work that has been resorted
to in the past and also which will be used against a dis
tinguished North Carolinian The Journal feels that Frank
Graham will weather the storm and that the voters will
, bury his unjust accusers beneath sufficient votes to sttt
their accusations against a man who deserves to be given a
Dill teftn in the United States Senate, if we are to base our
action upon his past achievements.
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Frank Grahap’s Record
Among Nation’s Highest
Charlotte - reared Frank
Porter Graham, U. S. Sena-j
tor from North Carolina, who
is seeking re-election to suc
ceed himself against two
other opponents, has an im
pressive record in the U. S.
Senate considering the brief
period he has been there and
also his record as a citizen
of our commonwealth is per
haps unequaled by any other
native son.
Born Fayetteville, N. C., Oc
tober 14, 1886, son of Alexander
and Katherine (Sloan) Graham.
His father, a native of Fayette
ville, served in the Confederate
Army during the Civil War,. Is
■ailed father of the graded school
system in North Carolina, was
ounder of the public schools of
Fayetteville, and head of the
schools at Charlotte from 1888 to
1913.
The son graduated from the
Charlotte High School, and from
the University of North Carolina
A. B. 1909). He spent an addi
tional year in the Law School of
the University of North Carolina
■uid received his license to prac
tice from the State Supreme
Court in 1910. He taught in the
Raleigh High School for two
years, then returned to the Uni
versity as Secretary of lta Y. M.
3. A. where in 1914 he vjras ap
pointed instructor in history. In
1916 he took his master’s degree
it Columbia University.
When the United States en
tered the World W’ar, Dr. Gra
lam enlisted as a private in the
Marine Corps and rose to the
rank 1»f first lieutenant before he
'was mustered out in July, 1919.
He returned to the University
of North Carolina as Assistant
Professor of History and for one
year held the position of Dean of
Students. In 1921 he was made
Associate Professor and the fol
lowing year was spent in graduate
study at the University of Chica
go. where he ■nn the twn.vear
Amherst Memorial Fellowship.
After a year ha Washington, D.
C., studying at Brookings Insti
tute and the library of Congress,
he went abroad to pursue research j
at the British “ vr
at ***• -....rtum and the|
London School of Economics and
to attend sessions for the League
of Nations in Geneva. He re
turned to North Carolina in 1925,
and two years later became a full
professor. In June, 1930, he was
elected as the eleventh President
of the University of North Caro
lina.
The following colleges and uni
versities have conferred honorary
degrees upon Senator Graham:
Columbia University .1931
Catawba College .1931
Davidson College .. 1931
Birmingham-Southern . 1931
Duke University .1931
William and Mary__ 1938
Wake Forest College ..1940
Temple University . 1940
Amherst College ........1940
Harvard University .. 1946
Princeton University 1946
University of Louisville .1948
Dartmouth College ..1948
He was married July 21, 1932,
to Marian Drane, daughter of the
Reverend Robert Brent Drane of
Edenton, North Carolina.
Among his activities have bean
the following:
Vice-Chairman of the Consum
ers Board of the National Recov
ery Administration and in the
fall of 1934 wds appointed Chair
man of the National Advisory
Council to the Csbinet 'Committee
on Economic Security.
Twice President of the North
Carolina Conference of Social
Service which prepared and spon
sored the first workman’s com
pensation act in North Carolina,
still considered the best in the
Southern States.
Founded the Citizens Library
Movement, the first in the United
States, which seeks to expand the
library facilities of every North
Carolina community.
Member of the President’s Com
mittee on Education.
In 1920-21 in charge of the
statewide campaign for $20,000,
000.00 building program for state
institutions.
Member of the U. S. Commis
sion to study University of Puer
tosjtico as a possible inter-Ameri
cair University.
Given the responsibility by the
Board of Trustees for writing the
plan for tha consolidation of the
hrdt institutions of higher learn- j
FRANK PORTER GRAHAM
United States Senator from
North Carolina
ihg which now constitute the
University of North Carolina.
President of Sit#* Epsilon,
national intercollegiate literary
society.
President of National Associ
ation of College Writing Groups.
Vice-President of Tau Kappa
Alpha, national intercollegiate de
bating fraternity.
Chairman of the Industries
Committee of American Railroads.
Member of the National De
fense Mediation Board, 1941-42.
Public Member of the Nat.onal
War Labor Board, 1942-1946.
Member of the Maritime War
Emergency Board. 1942-1946.
Chairman of the Public Hear
ings Committee of the President’s
Labor - Management Conference,
1945.
Chairman cf the Oil F_ncl of
the President’s Labor-Management
Conference, 1945-1946.
Member of the Phi Beta Kappa
Senate, 1946.
Member of the President’s Com
mittee on Civil Rights, 1946-47.
Member of the Central Commit
tee of the American National Red
Cross, 1946-47, and sleeted to the
newly-formed Board of Gover
nors of the American National Red
Cr*st to serve from 1947-1950.
One of the organizers and first
yResident of the Oak Ridge Insti
-ute of Nuclear studfei a!
Ridge, Tennessee, 1946*1949.
President of Ih* National As
sociation of State Universities,
1947-48.
President of the North Carolina
Historical and Literary Society.
Secretary of the Board of Trus
tees of the Carnegie Foundation
for Advancement of teaching,
1947; elected Vice-Chairman of
the Board, 1947-48.
Appointed by the President to
serve as the United States Repre
sentative on the Good Offices
Committee of the Security Coun
cil of the United Nations on In
donesia, 1947-48.
Appointed by the President t«
serve as Advisor to the Secretary
of State with regard to Indonesia,
February, 1948.
Appointed by Governor W. Kerr
Scott as United States Senator on
¥»reh 22, 1949, to succeed the
late J. Melville Broughton.
Sworn in as United States Sen
ator from North Carolina on
March 29, 1949.
Appointed to the Senate Com
mittee on the Judiciary and the
Senate Committee on Rules and
Administration.
Arthur Goodman will seek a
second term in the State House
of Representatives when Meek*
lenburg citisens go to the polls
May 2. Mr. Goodman, eminent
Charlotte attorney, will fight for
state tax cuts to ease the tax
burden of the people. Friends of
Mr. Goodman have painted out
that he is a consistent, hard |
woiker who represents no private j
interests. —Political Adv. .
LABOR WONT QUIT POLITICAL FIGHT
AFL President William Green told the AFL United Hat
ters convention that “labor will not be counted out or
knocked out in this campaign” to elect a liberal Congress
in 1950.
“We are in this political fight to the finish,” Mr. Green
said. “And we don’t know the meaning of the word ‘de
feat/ We are determined as never before to organize, to
work and to fight until this crucial battle of the ballots
is won.
“Labor’s program for increasing mass purchasing pow
er, for widening and improving social seccurity and for
raising the living standards of all Amreican citizens is at
stake in the congressional election of November 7.
“In fighting for a progressive legislative program and in
fighting for release from the oppressive effects of the Taft
Hartley Act, the organized workers of this country feel
they are doing their patriotic duty. In the American tra
dition we are going to the people in the congressional elec
tions this year for their verdict.
HARDER WORK
Organ: zed labor is one vote farther away from repeal of
the Taft-Hartley law than ever as result of the defeat of
Senator Claude Pepper in the Florida primary election on
May 2.
Senator Pepper’s defeat means that labor must redouble
Its efforts not only to get voters registered and out to the
polls but to see that non-labor voters understand the issues
and are convinced of the soundness of labor’s position.
There is no reason to underestimate the magnitude of
Senator Pepper’s defeat. In 1948, organized labor did not
lese a single favorable vote and picked up a number in the
Senate. The 1950 job was to hold all the favorable seats
and gain at least five more to assure Taft-Hartley repeal
m that chamber.
Humphrey Wants Byrd CommiUee
Killed As Waster Of Federal Foods
Washington.—Sen. Hubert H. j
Humphrey is carrying his fight to'
the people to abolish the Congres
sional Joint Committee on Reduc-1
tion of Nonessential Federal Ex-;
penditures headed by Dixiecrat Sen.
Harry Byrd.
Byrd, who parades as a propon
ent of economy in federal govern
ment, doesn’t practice what he
preaches when he insists that this
committee be kept alive.
Senator Humphrey told the Sen
ate that the Byrd committee vio
lates the Legislative Reorganiza
tion Act of 1946 which gave the
functions of the Byrd committee
to the standing House and Senate1
Committees on Expenditures in the
Executive Departments.
“In spite of this,” Senator
Humphrey said, “the Congress has
continued to appropriate funds to
•ustaln the Byrd committee. These
funds have been used to maintain
a staff which has been issuing press
releases based on statistical infor
mation which it has received from
the government agencies^ ^
“Tn performing tills Junction, it
is not only duplicating the work
of the standing Committees on Ex
penditures in the Executive Depart
ments, but also, insofar as person
nel statistics are concerned, is du
plicating the work of the Civil
Service Commission and the Bureau
of the Budget.
“Those who rally to the defense
of the Byrd committee do so ap
parently out of their desire to see
•economy in government. I share
that desire. Economy in govern
ment is in part obtained by the
elimination of duplicating services
and the reduction of duplicating
staffs. Surely there is no economy
in maintaining two separate sets
of congressional committees or ad
ministrative agencies to do the
same work.
“It is in. this spirit, therefore,
that I oppose the existence of the
Byrd Committee. It is I violation
of the intent and purpose of the
Legislative Reorganizaton Act and
is a brazen example of the. con
tinuance of overlapping functions
and duplication of services in a
government agency.”
3,300 Workers Gain
71-2 Cants On Coast
San Francisco.—The California
State Federation of Labor reports
that 3,300 workers gained increases
of 7*4 cents an hour in wage set
tlements during January as the
1950 wage drive picked up mo
mentum.
Plans are benig laid for major
negotiations during the coming
months.
Collective bargaining proposals
were formulated by several major
groups during the past month:
.The State Council of Machinists
urged a 15 cents an hour increase
in pay and a uniform employer-paid
health and welfare plan for the
100,000 members in its 100, af
filiated lodges.
The 15,000 Bay Area machinists
will also press for joint admini
stration of their present plan and
for the payment of any refunds
to employes rather than to em
ployers.
The Pacific Coast Metal Trades
decided tb retain tfcf Status quo
on master shipyard' contracts, to
raise manufgptyring pnd produc
tion shop wage stales jn uptown
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districts, and to continue the fight
For the 7-hour day.
The Sheet Metal Workers of
northern California will seek an
irea-wide employer-paid health and
welfare plan, plus wag* increases
negotiated on an andividual local
basis.
71m Northwest Council of Lim
ber and Sawmill Workers in study
ing a pension plan, pins wage in
creases by individual locafs.
Rried fruit workers throughout
the state are asking a 10 pefeent
wage increase and 3 additional
paid holidays.
This survey is bssed on union
reports submitted in the California
labor press.
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an injury and one in every
22 pedestrians injured dies.
Don’t give yourself a bum
steer—Cross only when the —■*~
way is clear!
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