LABOR SECRETARY HITS
AT JOB DISCRIMIHATIOR
WASHINGTON, V. c.—secre
tary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin
said it is unpatriotic to discrimi
nate in employment because of a
person’s liability for military
service as a reservist or under
the Selective. Service Act.
Programs for the employment
of veterans, through the Veterans
Employment Service, and for the
Te-employment of v et e r a n s,
through the Bureau of Veterans*
,y Re-employment Rights, are apart
• of the U, S. Labor Department’s
manpower program. The Secre
tary stated he is receiving many
complaints that members of re
serve components and persons
subject to selective service are
being refused employment or pro
motions and, in some cases, dis
charges due to their possible lia
bility for military service.
“Such
is net
only manifestly unfair and un
patriotic,” the Secretary said,
“but tends to deny the country
the services of such individuals
at a time when all of our man
power resources are needed.”
Maintenance of the armed
strength necessary for the de
fense of the country requires a
strong reserve force, and the dif
ficulty faced by employers in ad
justing personnel programs to
meet the problems of those
called to active duty is small
compared with the sacrifice such
persons may be called upon to
make, Secrtary Tobin pointed out
“The Department of Labor is
cognizant of the problem and
will take all possible steps to
meet promptly the need for re
placement of persons called into
the military service,” the Secre
tary declared.
REM FOOD PRICES IN
WINSTON-SALEM LEVa OFF
Retail food prices in Winston
Salem leveled off during Septem
ber, after rising sharply for four
- consecutive months, accor<Jjng to
Brunswick A. Bagdon, regional
director of the U. S. Department {
of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Sta-1
tistics in the South. The Retail
Food Price Index for Winston- j
Salem rose 0.4 per cent during j
September to a level of 207.2!
(June 1940 prices, equating 100), !
3.3 per. dpt’above prices one year i
ago an<J#12.6 per cent higher than 1
June 19*6. v T'-l
dgm# .i0»W« changes' in re- -
prices in southern cities
varied from a decline of 1.0 per
cent in Savannah and New Or
leans to an advance of 0.7 per
eent in Houston.
five of the major food ,groups
priced in Winston-Salem during
September reported price in
creases, led by cereals and bak
ery products which rose per
cent. Eggs followed with an ad
vance of 1.3 per ceni Meats,
poultry and fish, as a group, rose
0.7 per cen| with , fish 'prices up
65 per cent. Chicken prices de
creased 2 3 fyer,, cent and lamb
prices were down 2.0 per cent
Dairy products and beverages rose
down-2.0 per cent. Dalrj) Prod
ucts and beverages advanced
fractionally. Fruits and vege
tables reported a decline df 1.3
per cent. Fresh varieties drop
% ped 1.7 per cent in price and
P canned varieties were dowrtl 0.6
per cent. ^ Fractionally ‘ lower
prices were reported during the
month for fats and oils, and sug
ar and sweetp.
In the national wholesale mar
ket, average primary "market
prices declined 0.8 per cent In the
week ended October 10, 1960.
— The all commodities index was
168.3 per cent of the 1926 av
erage, 0.5 per cent below 4
weeks ago, 7.1 per cent? above
June 20, 1950 and 10.7 per cent
above the comparable week in
1949, All commodities other than
farm products and foods advanced
0.5 per cent to another postwar
high, 8.4 per cent above the pre
Korea (June 20, I960;) level.
LABEL AND SHOP CARD
EFFECTIVE INSTRUMENTS
MR ROSE
Alex Rose, president, United
. Hatters, Cwp^andMiittnHT Work
ers’ International Union, says:
“That the Union Label, Shop
Card and Button can be labor’s
most effective instruments for
the improvement of the economic
conditions of wage earners and
for the strengthening of labor or
ganizations is no longer open to
question. The effectiveness of;
those weapons of trade union ac
tivity has been impressively dem
onstrated. Our own organization
can testify to it on the basis of
its own experience.
“In/the earlier years of the
history of our International Un
ion the Union Label proved it
self. In those years no manufac
turer would be interested in en
tering bur field unless he w
first assured that he * could do so
under labor conditions that would
entitle him to the use of onr
Union Label. Because of this,
when the open shoppers launched
their first major assault against
our union in hat, cap and mil
linery industries, they concentrat
ed their attack on our Union La
bel and used it as a basis for
the historic Danbury Hatters’
case.
“If the Union Label could be
that helpful to labor in further
ing its objectives in the days
when the labor movement was
much smaller and weaker than it
is today and when there were
not nearly as many millions of
workers to whom we could ad
dress our appeal for co-operation,
it should be possible to do in
finitely better now. If the IS,
members of organized la
or even any major fraction
of them, could be made to see
the power behind the use of
their patronage diverted to prod
ucts and services designated by
our union insignia, no force that
•^r J^jtnti-union idustrialist or
merchant v could bring to bear
against us would be strong
enough to prevail. If that were
not in and of itself sufficient to
compel an anti-union employer
to meet the legitimate demands
of his employes, it would surely j
be a vital factor, along with
whatever else we might do, to
make him listen to reason.
“In..the long-run, it would be
better for labor to depend on
such measures that it can initi
ate and put into effect itself than
to count, as is sometimes done
now, on legislation which is de
signed to help labor in its organ
ization work. Such legislation is
subject to the passing and chang
ing whims of legislatures. Very
often such legislation is adminis- i
tered by persons who are unsym- ;
pathetic to labor and laws, en- j
acted by legislatures sympathet
ic to labor are perverted by their
administration into weapons to
be used agalaii labor.
“There are many ways in which
legislation such as the Taft-!
Hartley law can be fought by la- ,
ber. Political action is one of
them and organised labor is
availing itself
a degree
But, if the
Senator Connally Writes Foreign Policy Review
Showing Progress Toward Goal Of World Peace
Senator Tom Connolly (D., Tex.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, confer*
with leading foreign affairs experts (L to r.) Secretary of State Dean Arhenon, Ambnsador-at-large
Philip Jessup and Senator Arthur Vandenborg CR, Mich.). Such meetings have been frequent as th«
Administration follows its program of calling in Republican foreign affairs leaders in shaping am)
carrying out the nation's bi-partisan foreign policy.
FACTS ABOUT KOREA
AND AID TO CHINA
ARE CITED IN STUDY
Recent developments in the na
tion’s foreign relations, including
military successes in Korea, and
the move to strengthen the Uni
ted Nations General Assembly
as a counter to Soviet use of
mrimruti see S"» results oT
the manner in which the Demo
cratic Administration has con
sistently promoted a strong, con
structive, bi-partisan foreign pol
icy.
This policy has been reviewed
in a comprehensive historical
analysis by Chairman Tom Con
nally of the Senate Foreign Re
lations Committee.
The fundamental element of
the bi-partisan policy, Senator
Connally emphasized, is that war
with the Soviet can be avoided
May Face Sabotage
“We may,” he said, “be in for
a long period of communist sub
version, intrigue, sabotage and,
in peripheral areas like Korea,
even armed aggression. But if
we pursue the course we are now
embarked upon with determina
tion and vigor, we may be able
to convince the Kremlin that open
hostilities with the west would
be a tragic mistake.*
•Senator Connally discussed Far
Eastern policy at length, noting
that “certain critics have been
raising strident cries to voice
their dissatisfaction with the
course of events in that part of
the world.”
In outlining events in Korea,
Senator Connally recalled the
American elections, and our with
drawals of occupation troops as
see the advantage of strengthen
ing the demand for Union Label
goods and Union services, a tre
medous force can be created
against which all anti-labor leg
islation would work in vain The
Union Label, Shop Card and Un
ion Button are not labor’s exclu
sive weapons in the struggle of
labor for a better day and great
ei freedom but they can be made
the most effective in labor’s ar
senal”
For further information regard
ing the Union Label, Shop Card
and Button write to:
Raymond F. Leheney, Sec.-Treas.,
Union Label Trades Department,
American Federation of Labor,
Washington 1, D. C.
Mgr
a means of furthering Korean ef
forts to ready themselves for
-elf-government..
'ites Military Aid
To charges that Korea was not
?iven aid, Senator Connally re
plied that the record shows we
gave arms valued at $57 million,
transport, power and medical
equipment valued at $87 million,
and nearly $470. jpUlion in eco
| nomic aid. This, be added, was
! done despite - the fact that, at
the same time, we had heavy aid
committments to Greece, Turkey
and western Europe.
That we had to send troops
back to Korea, he added was not
due to any flaw in our foreign
policy, but to the fact that com
munist aggression constituted a
violation of the United Nations
Charter, to which we subscribe,
and “created a real and present
danger to the security of every
nation."
Analyzing criticism of policy
toward China, Senator Connally
declared that the charge that
Chaing Kai-shek was “sold down
the river” ignores the realities
of the Far Eastern situation
Recalls Marshall Statement
“The concept which pictures
the TJiiitad States as giving China
to the Communists,” he said,
“is an absurdity. Obviously,
China was not ours to give, and
; furthermore the power to prevent
| a communist take-over was great
i ly in excess %of the limited in
fluence that we could exert in
the Far East."
He recalled General Marshall's
: statement that the alternatives
I in China were either taking the
I situation over completely which
would have led to a drastic drain
on our economy, or of sending
: aid to China and trying to con
j vinee the Nationalist government
to use it as efficiently as possible.
Cites Aid Given Chaing Kai-shek
Senator Connally cited the $2
billion in economic and military
aid the United States gave
Chiang’s government. He also
recalled the fact that the United
States through an extensive air
lift, carried more than 400,000
Nationalist troops to Shanghai
and the north immediatly after
the war ended, so they could
take immediate control of these
vital areas.
Such extensive aid in materials
and services. Senator Connally
added, should have been enough
to let the Nationalist government
take and keep control of China.
1 BLOODSHEfl 80XSC0RE
Killed Oct $1 thru Nov. 2 ' 8
Injured Oct. $1 thru Nav. 2 99
Killed thru Nev. 2, this year 748
Killed thru Nev 2. 1948 „ 892
Injured thru Nev. 2. 1959 19.005
Injured thru lUv. 2, 1940 .. 7,945
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Yet, he pointed out, only four
years after the end of the war,
the communists had driven
Chiang’s government off the
mainland.
; Official Report Quoted
Chiang’s failure, the Senator
declared, was the result of what
a U. S. Army Major General, in
an official report described as
::th?. worW> mi.
and many of the morale-destroy
ing factors leading to a complete
loss of will to light.”
Senator Connally recalled the
unsuccessful effort to induce the
Nationalist government to correct
fatal weaknesses in its adminis
tration, and concluded, “The in
fluence of American policy in
China was incapable of overcom
ing these shortcomings We took
a calculated risk in extending
to that government the maximum
practical aid and technical coun
sel. Through no fault of Amer
ican policy, Chiang misused the
aid, ignored the advice. The Na
tionalist cause collapsed through
its own incompetence.”
U. S. Has Moral Leadership
Concluding his discussion of
foreign policy, Senator Connally
declared the the American people
“know that their government has
made and is continuing to make
every effort for peace. —--—
“Our work with the United Na
tions," he added, “ has won us a
vital position of moral leadership
of the free world. We are now
placed so that we can go forward
with the immediate task of
stengthening the free world
against the forces of aggression
until such time as the Soviet Un
ion chooses to abandon its role
as a disturber of the peace and
returns to the principles of the
United Nations Charter."
Why waste your time looking
for flying saucers when you can
make it worthwhile looking for
Union Labels?
ROBERT T. CREASEY SWORN
IN AS ASST. LABOR SECT
WASHINGTON, D. C. — Rob
ert T. Creiwy w»s sworn in aa
Assistant Secretary of Labor
October 3 in the office of Secre
tary Maurice J. Tobin. The oath
of office was administered by
Supreme Court j Justice Tom C.
Clark, who, like Creasey, comes
from Texas. Present were Sec
retary Tobin, many Labor De
partment and other governmental
officials, and Mrs Creaaey.
The new Assistant Secretary
was president of the Long Lines
division (Bell Telephone System)
of the Communications Workers
of America (Congress of Indus
trial Organisations) and suc
ceeds John W. Gibson, who re
signed from the U. S. Labor De
partment August 31.
Born in Hobart, Okla., May 17,
1912, Creasey’s family moved to
Dallas, Tex., when he was three
months old. The Texas metro
he# t*eq hjs. home,
Creaaey has been active in the
labor movement since 1936, when
he helped form a union of em
ployees of the Long Lines De
partment of American Telephone
and Telegraph Co. He has held
a number of offices in that union,
including chief negotiator, vice
president, and president. During
the war Creasey served as labor
member of tripartite panels in
cases involving the telephone in
dustry under the wage stabilisa
tion program.
You’ll vote every day for
American living standards when
you patronise firms wnjch display
the Union Label, Shop Card and
Union Button.
Smokey Says
Put your idi« land to work!
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MANUFACTURING EMPLOY
MENT UP 3.9 PER CENT
OVER MONTH— HOURS OF
WORK RISE 3.5 PER CENT—
EARNINGS GO UP 4.4 PER
CENT.
•
RALEIGH, — Factories in th«
Charlotte area hired some 800
additional employees during the
| month from mid-July to mid
August and chalked up substan
tial gains in working hours and
employee earnings, the State De
partment of Ijibor reports.
Stimulated by war orders and
the current good business outlook
generally, factory employment in
Mecklenburg County increased
from 20,300 in July to 21,100 in
August for a net gain of 3.9
per cent, according to C. H.
Pritchard, director of the State
Labor Department's division of
Statistics. - _ ■" „
About half of the month's em
! ployment .gains occurred in Meck
lenburg textile mills, which hired
; more than 400 employes, Pritchard
said.
Yarn and thread mills took on
more than 200 workers and
stepped up the work week 21.5
per cent to an average of 86.2
hours. Weekly earnings of yarn
and thread employees jumped 24.
7 per cent to an averago of
$38 47.
Knitting mills hired more than
100 workers and increased work
ing time 6.7 per cent to an aver
age of 39.6 hours a week. Earn
ings of knitting mill employeaa
increased 5.5 per cent to an av
erage of $54.29 a week.
Employment in broad woygn
fabrics mtUs remained firm over
the month. Working time Wat
hiked 2.9 per cent for an aver
age of 38.5 hours a week. Em
ployee wages increased 4.2 per
cent, averaging $46.24 a week.
Several other industries also
reported increased activity. Ma
chinery manufacturing establish
ments contributed to the month's
employment gains by hiring mora
than 100 additional workers. Pro
duction time was increased 7.2
per cent to an average of 44.5
hours a week. Employee earn
ings, including considerable over
time pay, jumped 11.8 per cent
to a weekly average of $51.89,
Employment also held firm at
a high level in printing and pub
lishing firms and metal products
concerns. The printing and pub
lishing business increased work
ing hours 6.6 per cent to an av
erage of 39 hours a week. Em
ployee wages rose 4.8 per cent to
average $61.38.
Metal products industries re
ported no change in the work
week, which held firm at 43.7
hours, but registered a gain of
1.3 per cent in weekly earningg
which averaged $63.49. Reason
for the rise was a slight in
crease in hourly earnings.
More than 300 additional work
ers were taken on by a dozen
smaller industries in the Char
lotte area from mid-july to mid
August. «•
The only industry which re
ported decreased hours and earn
ings was food products, in which
working time dropped 15 per
cent to average 40.2 hours a
week. Wages showed only a
fractional decline, averaging $38.
65. Employment in the food
plants was firm.
Employment and average hour
ly earnings in Mecklenburg in
dustries, as of the workweek
nearest August 15, were as fol
lows:
AH Manufacturing 21,100 114.9
Textiles . 9,000 120.4
Yarn and Thread 1,000 106.4
Broadwoven
Fabrics ...._... 3,900 120.1
Knitting.™r..^.. 3,000 1369
Food Products . 3,400 96.0
Machinery . 1,900 116.5
Printing A
Publishing .. 1,300 167.3
Metal Products .... 1,100 122.3
All other industries 4,400 —.