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Editorial THE CHARLOTTE LABOR JOURNAL AND DIXIE FARM NEW8 Published It Charlotte. North Carolina OLDEST LABOR PUBLIC ATION IN THE TWO CAROLIS AS ■. A. Sulla, Editor and Publisher W. M. Witter, Associate Editor Entered aa second-class mail matter September 11, WSl. *l flat Office at Charlotte, N. C„ under the Act of Concrete o! March 8. 1879.___ Endorsed by Charlotte T.vporriph.cal Uni on Number 3S8. AnAf ttate of Charlotte Cential Labor Lnion and the Norti* Carolina •ration of Labor. _____ News Services: American Federa ton of Ul±ndjJ£S£ Carolina Department* of Labor, and Southern labor Pre» As o< » ” " imPr _4_ NORTH CAROLINA SENATORIAL CAMPAIGNS A BATTLE OF IDEOLOGIES As the North Carolina political campaign enters the final week before the primary election, the spo.lighw c pu interest is definitely centered upon the turnu contest t>emg waged to wrest the office of United State^enator from the capable hands of Dr. Frank Graham, incumbent. Adhering to the current reactionary campaign strategy which was introduced by John Foster Dulles in unsuc cessful campaign against ex-Governor Herbert Lehman o New York, there has been little variation in the attack to which all progressive candidates are subjected by the dis ciples of reaction. Regardless of an individual’s record of patriotic loyalty and devotion to the ideals, principles and philosophies, enun ciated in the declaration of indepedence and implemented by the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights, every candidate for public office is branded as a convert to & the Godless doctrine of Communism, or at least a fellow traveler of the Reds. This vicious villification of character, plus an appeal 10 bigotry, ignorance and intolerance, in reality follows the Communistic theory of hurling accusations, regardless of truth, to keep the opponent on the defensive and to enec tively camouflage the real issues involved in any campaign. The irresponsible tirade of Senator McCarthy, who works behind the screen of congressional immunity, hurting a con tinuous barrage of unsupported and unproved charges, im pugning the patriotism of some of our leading public offi cials, with a shocking disregard for the truth, is definitely connected with the congressional campaigns of 1950. Apparently any person seeking public office, who mani fests a genuine interest in the welfare of all of the people and who subscribes to the belief that our strong national economy, depends upon national prosperity, and consequent ly upon a high wage level for the wage earners, our consum ing public, automatically becomes a dangerous citizen, con spiring to lead our unsuspecting people^“down fhe last mile to Socialism, Communism and disaster.'* * ' f Fortunately, the American people can not he deluded all of the time. Most of the present generatiqn remember with painful clarity the dark days of industrial depression, the suffering, hunger and abject misery, resulting from the abuse of power and the betrayal of trust and (Confidence of the Harding, Coolidge and Hoover administrations and the drastic remedies necessary under the leadership of the im mortal Franklin D. Roosevelt to save our nation from com plete collapse, dislocation and chpos. Who knows where the nation would lie today had we been denied the leadershp of a Woodrow Wlson and, later, a Franklin Roosevelt ? The hope of mankind throughout the civilised world de pends upon the preservation and perpetuation of our demo cratic ideals and institutions. As a nation we cannot evade or ignore the responsibility which is ours because of our po sition as the leading nation of the world, a position made possible by the freedom bequeathed us by our revered an cestors whose foresight, courage and spiritual belief created the foundation upon which our cherished democracy was built. It is difficult to conceive anything more repugnant to tile code of political integrity and common decency, than to infer that FYank Graham, a distinguished North Carolinian and a sincere American, is, or ever has been, disloyal to hi* Country. On the contrary, his magnificent record of achiev —ment stands out to challenge the admiration of his fellow Americans. - j The voters are confronted with the selection of an ideol —ogy, rather than a personality. The choice is between the progress and prosperity advocated by Frank Graham, or a return to the old order of jungle law-survival of the fittest, represented by the reactionary opposition. There can be no threat to our national security, no danger of the infiltration of alien political philosophies, no "Red Menace** overshadowing our institutions so long as we ban ish fear, insecurity, doubt and impoverishment. _ Contented, happy, fear-free homes, are our strongest na tional bulwark. The forgotten man, remembered by the Roosevelt idealistic philosophy, will not forget! UNION MAID" _ Frank Grahan’s Record Among Nation’s Highest Ckirlotte - reared Frank ?ort<r Graham, U. S. Seni or from North Carolina, who s seeking re-election to auc eed himself aga nst two »ther (pponenta, has an im treat ive record in the U. S. -ena'.e considering the brief >eriod he has been there and •Iso his record as a citizen >f our commonwealth is per haps umqualeo by any other lative son. B«:n Fayetteville, N. C., Oc tober 14, 18Sj, ton of Ale; nde and Katherine (Sloan) Graham Hia father, a native of Fayette ville, r served in the Confeitrut Army during the Civil War, is called father of the graded s hool system in North Carolina, was founder of the public schools of Fayetteville, and head of the schools at Charlotte from 1888 to 1913. The son graduated from the Charlotte High Scliool, 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 and 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 its Y. M. C. A. where in 1914 he was ap Dointed instructor in history. In 1916 he took his master’s degree at Columbia University. When the United States en tered the World War, Dr. Gra ham enlisted as a private in the Marine Corps and rose to the rank of first lieutenant before he was mustered out in July, 1919. ne rerurnca 10 rne university of North Carolina as Assistant Professor of History and for one year helJ the position of Dean of Students. In 1921 he was made I Associate Professor and the fol j low ing year was spent in graduate study at the University of Chica Igo. where he won the two-year Amherst Memorial Fellowship. After a year in Washington, D. C., studying at Brookings Insti tute and the Library of Congress, he went abroad to pursue research ;at the British museum 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 . 1946 Amherst College . 1946 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 been the following: Vice-Chairman of the Consum ers Board of the National Recov ery Administration and in the fall of 1934 was appointed Chair man of the National Advisory Council to the Cabinet 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 Citisens 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 oq' Education. In 1920-21 in charge of the statewide . campaign for 120,000, 000.00 building program for state institutions. Member of the U. S. Commis sion to study University of Puer to Rico as a possible inter-Ameri can University. Given the responsibility by the Board of Trustees for writing the plan for the consolidation of the hree institutions of higher lean- j I-RANK PORTER GRAHAM United State* Senator from North Carolina ing which now constitute the I University of North Carolina. President of Sigma 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. 1 Chairman of the Industries Committee of American Railroads. ! Member of the National De fense Mediation Board, 1941-42. * Public Member of the Natonal War Labor Board, 1942-1346. ! Member of the Maritime War Emergency Board. 1942-1946. ( Chairman of the Public Hear ings Committee of the President's Labor - Management Conference, 1945. i cnairman of the Oil Panel of ' the President's Labor-Management 'Conference. 1945-1946. ' Member of the Phi Beta Kappa Senate, 1946. Member of the President's Com I mittee on Civil Rights, 1946-47. ( Member of the Central Commit tee of the American National Red Cross, 1946-47, and elected to the newly-formed Board of Gover nors of the American National Red Cross to serve from 1947-1950. | One of the organisers and first president of the Oak Ridge Insti tute of Nuclear studies *t Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 1946-1949. j President of the National Aa , 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 to 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 March 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 Meck lenburg ^itisens go to the polls j May 2. Mr. Goodman, eminent j Charlotte attorney, will fight for state tax cots to ease the tax burden of the people. Friends of Mr. Goodman have painted out that he is a consistent, hard wotker who represents no private, interests. —Political Adv. . *■ "" r.: , 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 seccuritv and fo 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 fesl thev 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 Organized labor is one vote farther away from repeal or the Taft-Hartley law than ever as result of the defeat o' Senator Claude Pepper in the Florida primary election op 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 lose a single favorable v6te 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 in that chamber. Humphrey Wants Byrd Committee Killed As Waster Of Federal Funds I Washington.—Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey is carrying his fight to the people to abolish the Congres sional Joint Committee on Reduc tion of Nonessential Federal Ex penditures headed by Dixiecrat Sen. Harry Byrd. j Byrd, who parades as a propon ent of economy in federal govern ment. doesn’t practice what he preaches when he insists that this t 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 Senate Committees on Expenditures in the Executive Departments. "In spite of this,” Senator Humphrey said, “the Congress has continued to appropriate funds to sustain the Byrd committee. These funds have been used to maintain a staff which has been issuing press releasee based on statistical infor < mation which it has received from the government agencies. “In performing this function, 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 a violation of the intent and purpose of the Legislative Reorganisaton 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 7 1-2 Cants On Coast San Francisco.—The California State Federation of Labor reports that 3,300 workers gained increases of 7!i 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 proposal; 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 refund; to employes rather than to em ployers. The Pacific Coast Metal Trades decided to retain the status quc on master shipyard contracts, tc raise manufacturing and produc tion shop wage scales in uptown ■ ■ ■ ' . - -- — district*, and to continue the fight far th* 7-hour day. , f j The Sheet Metal Worker* of northern California will reek an - area-wide employer-paid health and welfare plan, plus wage increase* negotiated on an andividual local basis. The Northwest Council of Lum ber and Sawmill Workers m «uoy ing a pension plan, plus wage in creases by individual locals. ■ Rried fruit workers throughout the state are asking a 10 percent wage increase and 3 additional paid holidays. This survey is based on union reports submitted in the California labor press. I Pedestrian Protection I I Don't Jump to Yowr Coaclasica | | ff* iiiB POGO STICKS OK SPRINGS MAY BE FUN TO PLAY WITH, but cross* ing a street is a deadly ser ious business. Almost every pedestrian crash involves an injury and one in every 22 pedestrians injured dies. Don’t give yourself a bum steer-Cross only when the way is clear! —AAA Safety Featuret amw*m VBHBV tr- . - - I CeapiaMti McLEAN TRUCKING COMPANY WINSTON-SALEM, N. C '• - H " f ' v ^ •« j# Goode Construction Corporation • ^ JOHNSTON BUILDING / ■ ■ Telephone 8559 f CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA
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