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VOL. XX; NO. 23 CHARLOTTE, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1050 Subscription Price, $2.00 Per Yeas 1 SUMMARY SHOWS WORK INJURIES DECLINING Washington, D. C.—Work-in jury ratas in manufacturing and nonmanufacturing continued to de cline during 1949, according to fi nal summaries released by the U. S. Labor Department’s Bu reau of Labor Statistics. The average injury-frequency rate for all manufacturing de creased 12.8 per cent, from 17.2 injuries per million man-hour* in . 1948 to 15.0 in 1949. This rate is one of he lowest recorded in the Bureau’s 24-year injury-rate aeries, and represents a return to the low level of the years imme diately before-World War II. Rates for those years were 15.1 for 1938, 14.9 for 1939, and 15.3 for 1940. Non - manufacturing Industrie* ■bowed less improvement then manufacturing in, tjieir injury rec ord from I*** t* 1949. Of ths 78 separate mining and other manufacturing classification! for which comparable data ware available, 35 reported significant decreases, 21 recorded increases, and 20 showed little change. Only 8 of the 149 individual manufacturing industries had sig nificantly higher injury-frequency rates in 1949 than in 1948, 28 re corded little change, and 11S re ported decreases of one or more frequency-rate points. Of the lat ter group, 22 showed decreases of v* er more points. Among the industry groups, iron and steel products showed the greatest improvement—a drop of 3.9 frequency-rats paints from 1*1* to 1M9 individual indue-! • trie* within tills group. reporting the greatest improvement mere iron foundries, with a deeredse from 39.7 in juries per million man hours in 1948 to 29.0 in 1949; vitreous-ensmeled products, from 26.1 to 16.8; piste fabrication and boiler-shop products, from 33.4 to 25.1; stamped and pressed metal products, from 216 to 14.0; steel foundries, from 30.5 to 23.1; and steel springs, from 20.8 to 13.6. Manufacturing industries with the best safety records in 1949 were explosives, with an injury frequency rate of 1.8; synthetic rubber, 2.3; synthetic textile fi bers, 3.6; electric lamps (bulbs), 3.7; millinery, 3.8; women’s and children’s clothing, 4.1; radios and phonographs, 4.4; communication equipment, other than radio, 4.7; and plastic materials, other than ruooer, s.o. High-rate industries hrmanu facturing were logging' (with a rate of 92^ injuries per million man-hours), sawmills (55.6), in tegrated saw and planing mills j47.6), planing mills operated separately from sawmills (38.1), structural clay products (36.8) cut stone and cut-atone products (36.6) and wooden containers (35.6) . The highest injury-frequency rates in nonmanufacturing were found among the mining indus tries. Goldailver mining had the highest rate of any induatry re corded for 1949 (93.8 injuries per million man hours)., Lead-zinc mines reported a rate of 88.5; anthracite mines. 76.0; miscel laneous metal mines, 71.8; bitum inous mines, 55.6. Although the majority of in dustries showed a substantial de crease in the frequency of work injuries this was offset in many cases by an increase in the av erage number of days of disabil ity per ease. As a result the se verity rate showed only a moder ate decline. The average days lost (or charged) per case in manufacturing innereased from 83 in 1948 to 93 in 1949. The se verity rate declined only slightly, from 1.5 days lost for ea.ch thou sand hours worked in 1948 to 1.4 in 1949. Declare your independence by buying Independence Bonds. By rotiy EDISON for LIRE. NEW SOCIAL SECURITY. Almost everybody who works for wages will be under social security when the new law goes into effect in January. And near ly all other workers who want to be. Mainly, the groups not cov ered are fanners—who for the most part made no effort to get in—professional persons such as doctors, who didn’t want in, and various government employes groups who have retirement funds of their own. Of special interest to women, the new law—in addition to bringing more people in and rais ing payments so they are more in line with living costa—includes the following changes: 1. A wife of any age may get benefits if she has dependent children and her husband was a covered worker. If she is only 30 when her husband dies, for in stance, she starts to receive monthly checks. Up to now, only the children got monthly checks and the wife did not—until she was 68. The change will enable more widows to keep their fam ilies together. 2. A husband may receive ben efits at 66 on his wife’s social security aeootnt if he is depend fully insured when she retires at 66 or when she died before that 3. A divorced wrife, if she is caring for the insured worker’s children, is entitled to benefits in some instances. 4. A retired worker, his wife or widow, and minor children may qualify for benefits without regard tq their financial resources such as savings, property or other in surance. Husbands, widowers, and parents, however, must estab lish that the worker had ‘been furnishing at least half their sup port. BABY SITTERS AND COOKS. Regularly employed hired help around the home—be they baby sitter, cook or practical nurse— come under the system if they make $50 during a quarter, and work full or part time on 24 dd|ra of that three-months period. Housewives, or whoever is boss in the family, must pay 1 1-2 per cent of their hired help’s salary into social security and see that the help pays the same. Whoever works for the house wife on a ' regular basis and meets the above requirements must have a social security num ber—and the housewife must see that the taxes are paid. No group needs social security more than domestic help and we can’t be lieve that any housewife will mind the extra bookkeeping. The Treasury is going to make the system as simple for her as pos sible, and social security admin 1 istration workers of your area will gladly ulplaln it to you. HOW COSTLY. The increased benefits now due you will cost a little more, if you make $3,600 a year or more. The tax rate paid remains the same for next year—or 1 1-2 per cent—but it will be collected on $3,600 of a person's wages rather tfiaft on just $3,000 as now. If the wage is exactly $3,600 a year, the tax now will be $54 a year for the worker and a like amount for the employer This means $108 into that workOf'i ac count during the year. That’s as much as anyone pays, for the tax is not collected on anything above. $3,600. The tax is less, of course, if the wages is lees than $3,600. WHAT COMES BACK? Most people get back more than they pay into social secur ity, but everybody should remem ber that they are paying into a social insurance system and net into a savings account. Mo one draws out of social security like | they would out of a bank account. The idea is not that you get back exactly what you pay. Everyone covered pays in at the same rate —1 1-2 per cent—but payments are made on a common welfare basis. A working wife, for instance, might never get anything on her own account. She is entitled to hers, if she wants it, but she can select benefits on her husband’s account—if that is larger. She cannot get both. A worker who leaves several dependent children gets more back than a bachelor would. A worker who lives to be a hundred probably gets back much more than' he paid, while one who dies at 66 gets very little. ITS CHEAP When you pay social security tax you not only are contributing to an old-age pension for your self but you are paying into a fund which helps dependent chil dren. widows, the blind, and the destitute. In no other insurance system operating in the country could you get so much for so little and help so many other j people at the same time. IS IT PERFECT? No. It helps you in old age, helps bury you, helps keep your family together if you die, helps (Continued On Page 4) "UNION MAID" / 1 [V r-mmn “Believe me, girl*. collective bargaining » the only to deal with the bot»r Red Feather Quiz (Fourth in a ddries of qumtions answered by Ideal labor leaders which la a feature designed to enlighten the Meeeklen burg Community concerning the Community Chest and its Red Feather Services.) QUESTION: Are campaign solicitors for the Mecklenburg County Red Feather Campaign paid? ANSWER: Paul Craft, Secretary-Treasurer, Typographical Un ion, stated: “No. None of the solicitors in the Char lotte Red Feather Campaign are paid. The work is done by some volunteers who last year, serving as solicitors as well as auditors, speakers and committee member, gave approximately 24,000 hours of their time. All of these workers give generously not only of their money but of their time to help further the work of the Community Chest and its Red Feather Services.” CHARLOTTE AND MECKLENBURG COUNTY COMMUNITY CHEST _ —— RED FEATHER INFORMATION Columnist Tabs Taft Jerk” For Attacking Gen. G4o. Marshall One of the most widely-read newspaper writers in Amer ica has decided that Senator Robert A. Taft (R., O.) is a “jerk”—and has said so. i He is Henry MeLemore, whose column appears in more than 200 daily papas. Part of his comments on Taft are printed baleen * *»*:•• Xi/.'V. >. McLemore is not a political columnist He generally Writes in a humorous manner on the lighter topics of the day. Occasionally, a more serious subject makes his blood boiL Taft’s recent attack on General Marshall did that. • • • McLemore is no “wild-eyed” liberal. Born and reared In rural Georgia, McLemore is the son of a Methodist min ister. He did such a good job as a sports writer for the United Press, the McNaught Syndicate hired him to com ment on events in general. Here is what he wrote in London—where he was on a special assignment—about Taft: “Senator Taft came to my mind about an hour ago when I noticed a story under a Washington date-line that in formed me that Senator Taft was against President Tru man’s appointment of General George Marshall as Secre tary of Defense.. • * * “My first reaction to the story was that Senator Taft finally had reached rock bottom. My second, third and fourth reactions were the same. _______ “I am sure that one can’t call a Senator a jerk and still maintain dignity, so I am going to waive dignity and call Mr. Taft a jerk. Not a bench-sitting jerk. Not a utility jerk. Not a jerk who has run in to kick a field goal. No, I am going to call him—from thousands of waves away— a starting, first-string varsity jerk. “Give him Ruth’s old number, Gehrig’s old number and Grange’s old number. Place him on a pedestal as the one man who, without having to go to the trouble of thinking, hits the wrong thing on the head every time. “Senator Taft objects to Marshall. Just think of that. “The man of Ohio carries enough nonsense in his head to attack a man who, in the pages of history yet to be written, will emerge as one of the great Americans of all time. . “It is like a Piper Cub attacking a B-29. It is the mouse slapping the cat, the lamb trading haymakers with the lion. « *. “The Senator says his reason for trying to block Mar shall’s appointment is because it would strengthen Secre tary of State Acheaon’g hand. In other words, the Sena tor’s dislike for Acheson is stronger than his like for his country. • • • “Who did more than any one else to make this country victorious in World War II? Marshall. “Who saw the needs and fought with hack politicians to get them? Marshall. “My consolation here in London-is the knowledge that my countrymen will ignore the Senator from Ohio and go ahead and put the best man in the job. “One of these days—it may not come until a Russian throws a hand grenade through his living room window— Senator Taft is going to realize that the United States is now fighting for survival, not Ohio votes.” FREEDOM BELL’S FIRST PEAL FROM BERLIN WILL TOUCH OFF BELL - RINGING ALL OVER THE UNITED STATES. To climax the nation-wide Cru sade For Freedom as a “spiritual airlift” for the world, General Lucius D. Clay, organiser of the Berlin airlift and national Cru sade chairman, is sailing on ev ery man, woman and child in America to “ring a bell with the Freedom Bell” and offer prayers for world peace through the United Nations on United Na tions Day, Tuesday. October 24 at 12:03 p. m.. EST. At three minutes past noon on that day, the giant World Free dom Bell, symbol of the Crusade, will peal out for th« first time its message of hope from Berlin’s City Hall in the very shadow of the Iron Curtain. Starting at noon and immediately preceding the Bell’s first tones will be a dedication ceremony permanently enshrining the Freedom Bell in the Rathaus Tower, together with the millions of American signa tures on Freedom Scrolls reaf Arming each signer* faith in freedom. These signatures have been collected during the Crusade which was launched by General Eisenhower in a speech on Labor Day in Denver, Colorado. The first notes of the Freedom Bell, as a call for the rebirth of faith, friendship and freedom for the world, will touch off what may prove to be the most dra matic bell-ringing in history, ac cording to General Clay. WILL RING FOR F1TERDOM. Millions of freqdom-loving peo ple throughout America, in West ern Europe, and it M Jwpsd. be hind the Iroa Curtate, will ring “bells for freedom?* tn unison with the first sonorous tones of the 10-ton bronze Freedom Bell to be broedcsst from Berlin to this country as well as Burope. Major radio networks ia America (NBC, CBS. ABC) will carry the dedication ceremony and the Bell’s first pealing to Americans from cosat to coast, in Hurope, it will be broadcast by the Stats Department’s Voice of America and by Radio Free Europe, the American people’s new “freedom station’’ ia Western Germany. With the first ringing of the Freedom Bell, bells throughout America will peal out, echoing the message of freedom. Church bells, school bells, fire and police Dells, ship bells, trolley bells and other bell# of all description will “make freedom ring." Individual citizens are urged to have dinner belts or other household bells at hand to join in public rallies or neighborhood ceremonies as the voice of the Freedom Bell rolls across the seas, General Clay aaid. In countriea behind the Iron Cur tain it ia expected that patriots will scrawl outlines of the Free dom Bell on walls and sidewalks, similar to the “V” signs of the last war. BERLIN CEREMONY. Participating in the bell’e dedi cation ceremonies in Berlin, in addition to General Clay, will be John J. McCloy, U. S. High Com missioner for Germany; General Maxwell Taylor, head of Ameri can forces in Berlin; and Ernest Reuter, Mayor of Berlin, who will accept on behalf of his city the custodianship of the Bell. Approximately 100,000 persons are expected to be present in Berlin’s City Hall Square for the ceremony, and it is hoped that they will ring “bells for free dom.” Arrangements are being made to have the program trans lated into German and broadcast to the assembled spectators over a public address system. BELL TOURED U. 8. The Freedom Bell sailed from New York City Tuesday, October 10, enroute to Berlin, after a na tion-wide tour of the Unite! States in which it was honored in special ceremonies in 26 Ameri can cities. In Philadelpha, the Freedom Bell “met” the Liberty Bell, historic symbol of the birth of America independence. The tour of the Freedom Bell, as a dramatic highlight of the Cru sade For Freedom, served to en list the support of millions of Americans in this great civilian drive to combat “the Big Lie of Communist propaganda” with a mighty reaffirmation of belief in iieedom. Ihe Crusade • For . Freedom which was officially launched by general Dwight Eisenhower on oabor Day, has two objectives: tl) to give every man, woman and child in the United States the opportunity to sign a Free uom Scroll and thus declare his oelief in human freedom as a M sia for world peace; and (2)^ to let every signer of the Scroll make a voluntary contribution to help Radio Free Europe, the non government “freedom statio^’ in Western Germany, whoso daily news broadcasts' to Irea Curtain countries ansa r Communist lies. In urging all Americana to join the Crusade, General Clay said: “Now of us can toko our free dom for granted in the preaent world battle for men’s minds f"d loyalties. Each of us has a per* sonai responsibility which may seem small and futile in the face of so yreat an emergency. But, if all of us join in the fellow ship of the Crusade For Freedom, each of us can feel that his per sonality really counts in this cru cial battle for men’s minds.** CROSS SECTION OF NATION. During the first seven weeks of the campaign, groups from _ oat of American life fiat, joined t£et£rrW. we Crusade one of the greatest ex amples of mass co-operation ever wen. Churches, schools, rail roads, airlines, manufacturers, distributors and retailers volun teered their serview. TTeWraa, fraternal, medical, a|i trade groups called on their members to support the drive. The top leaders of the American Federa tion of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organisations asked the country’s union members to join the Crusade. Many of the country s women’s clubs volun teered as a group to staff en rollment booths and to collect contributions. The voluntary contributions given by the signers of the Scrolls will be used to help Ra dio Free Europe expand from one station, which is now operating from a strategic site in Western Germany, to a network of from five to eight stations. The Crusade For Freedom ia sponsored by the National Com mittee for a Free Europe, Inc., which operates Radio Free Eu rope. It has the specific endorse ment of the President of the Unit ed States and the active partici pation of Members of Congress, State Governors and religious, ed ucational, business, farm, labor and civic leaders throughout the United States. Headquarters art in the Empire Stats Building, New York 1, N. Y. UNION SCORES MISS LAYOFFS IN N. J. Camden, N. J.—Six thousand New York shipbuilding corpora tion workers recently protested mass layoffs with a sitdown dem onstration. Thomas Saul, secretary of Lo cal 1, Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers (AFL) used a sound truck to till the men reporting for duty. “Go in and punch your time clocks, but do not work. Don't leave the plant. If you get a pink slip, forget it. “This is not a strike. This i% a work stoppage and protest"
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