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i - The Two-Gun Peace Officer * I *11 “ from The LouierUle Courier Jotraal • — ■ - - V .—— -»'—■ MOTORISTS OF 1947 WILL BE REQUIRED TO GET NEW LICENSES IN FEW MONTHS . RALEIGH, N. C. — Motorists who obtained renewal of the’r driver’s licenses in 1947 under the re-issuance program and whose birthdays fall early in 1951 will be required to obtain second renewals in the next few months, the Department of Motor Vehicles reminded persons in this category today. ■* *~re ttttcwtahi about the expiration date of their licenses should refer to the lower right hand corner of their pres ent license cards. These motorists will be permitted to seek second renewal 30 days in advance or the expiration date, which falls on their birth date. The ma jority will have surnames begin ning with A or B, but a few will fall in other alphabetical groups Under the driver’s licensing program, licenses expire on the birthday of the motorist four j years after re-issuance. Since j the re-issuance program began j July 1, 1947, some motorists wiii not have held their licenses quite four years, the Department pointed out, but in setting up the re-issuance schedule, it was nec essary to place the expiration date on the birthday nearest July 1. Expiration date in 1955 for those motorists will fall on their birthdays exactly four year j from the 1951 renewal. The Department requested that motorists seeking second renewal bring their present licenses with them to their examining stations. The license will be accepted as evidence that the applicant has passed the road test and he will be required to take only the rules of the road, eye and road signs phases of the examination. The number on his present driver's license will be his permanent li cense number. A space will be provided on the new license cards for blood type, which will be placed on the card upon presentation of evid ence of blood type. Since inclu sion of this information is a pub lic service and voluntary with the applicant, failure to present Oils evidence will not be reason to deny issuance 6f the license, the Department stressed. ; BLOODSHED BOXSCBBE Killed Nor 10 thru Not .13 12 Injand No?. - No*. II 131 Killed thro Nor. IS, MM.' 820 Killed thro Nor. IS, 1040 T18 Injored thro Nor. IS, 1050 10,432 Injured thr* Noe. IS. 1040 M* AFL AUTO WORKERS WIN BARGAINING RIGHTS AT TIMKEN-AXLE IN KENTON KENTON, O. — Climaxing a campaign of several months, the AFL Auto Workers captured an other plant in a NLRB victory at the Timken^Axle company of this city recently. Victim to the drive j of the Auto Workers was the In- j ternational Association of Ma chinists, which came out second best in the battle of ballots. The plant, which manufactures gear assemblies for automobiles, em jSlrys 'tiore X'Ma 500 workers. INDUSTRIES SHOW TO 60 TO CHICAGO IN 1951 CHICAGO. — This industrial center of the nation has been | chosen as the site for the 1951 j AFL Union Industries Show. Raymond F. Leheney, secre tary-treasurer AFL Union Label Trades department and director j of the show, announced that the j world's greatest labor-manage ment exposition will be held in j Chicago’s mammoth Soldiers’ | Field beginning May 18 and con tinuing through May 26. The 1951 Union Industries | Show will be the largest ye: staged, with 150,000 square feet of exhibition space available to AFL unions and union employ ers. In addition, a giant stage will be erected outdoors, in the field’s semi-circle, for staging star-stud ded vaudeville, radio and televis ion shows. More than 25,000 seats will be available to spec tators watching these stage shows. “Officials of AFL international and local unions in the Chicago j area have already begun to go j ‘all-out’ to insure the show’s sue- j cess," Mr. Leheney said. “This show is the largest of its hind anywhere in the world to show how free union labor produces j under our free enterprise sys tem.” The 5 previous shows held by the AFL in Cincinnati, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Cleveland aitd Phila delphia have attracted over 2 million visitors. The 1951 show j promises to be an even greats. success, with more than $5 mil lion worth of equipment sched uled to be shown by manufactur ers who employ AFL members. In view of the many requests of AFL international unions throughout the country, the show was moved to Chicago for 1951 j instead of St. Louis, as earlier announced. They pointed out that St. Louis, had been the site of the show in 1946 and that the giant exposition be shifted to one | of the many other cities who havj requested the show. Pursuant to action taken at the Label Trades Department’s Convention in Hous ton, Director Leheney proceeded to complete arrangements for bringing the show into Chicago. "RETAIL” EXEMPTION INTERPRETED IN NEW WAGE-HOUR BULLETIN WASHINGTON, D. C.—A new wage-hour bulletin tells how the “retail or service establishment" exemption will be applied under the amended Fair Labor Stan dards Act. Issued by the United States Labor Department’s Wage and Hour and Public Contracts Di visions, the bulletin is intended'as “a practical guide to employers and employees.” Administrator Wm. R McComb reported to Sec retary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin that full text of the publication appears in the October 28 Fed eral Register. The bulletin is identified as Part 779 (of the Code of Fed eral Regulations) and is titled “Retail and Service Establish? ,ment and Related Exemptions.' Copies are available without charge at the Divisions’ national office in Washington and at re gional and field offices in the var ious States. Although a part of the origi nal wage-hour law* in effect since 1938, the provisions of the “re tail or service establishment” ex emption (sec. 13 (a) (2) of the act) are now more specifically set forth by the Fair Labor Stan dards Amendments of 1949, ef fective January 25, 1950. When applicable, the exemption relieves employers from adhering to the minimum-wage and overtimerPpy requirements of the wage-hour law with respect to all employees employed by an exempt retail or service establishment. The bulletin points out that in keeping with the intention of the original exempton of the wage hour law for such establishments, the amendments continue to ex empt “the various local retail businesses selling goods or serv ices at retail.” To take the ex emption for his employees, the bulletin states, the employer must “show affirmatively” that his establishment meets the spe cific tests 'of the exemption as set forth by the amendments. Summarized, these are the tests of the sec. 13(a)(2) “retail or service establishment” exemp tion — and the employer must meet all of them: (1) The establishment must be engaged in making sales of goods or of services, or of both. (2) The establishment’s total annual dollar volume of sales of such goods (if it sells goods only) or of such services (if it sells services only) or of both (if it sells both goods and serv ices) must meet the following tests: (1) At least 75 per cent must be from sales of goods or services which are both (A) rec ognized as retail sales or serv ices in the particular industry and <B) not for resale; (ii) more than 50 per cent must be from sales of goods or services which are made within the State in which the establishment is lo cated. According to the bulletin, these test# have the effect of exempting, only employees vho are employed by such typically local retail or service establish ments as 1 grocery stores, hard ware store*, clothing stores, dry goods stofee, stationery stores, farm implement dealers, coal deal ers, paint stores, automobile deal ers, furniture stores, restaur ants, hotels, repair garages, watcn repair establishments, beauty par lors, barber shops, typewriter re pair shops, extesminator service companies, and other “such local establishments.** The bulletin lists types of establishment* whose seles or services may be recognised as retail and also those which ere not recognised as such. 1 Also discussed are the Wsge (Continued On Page 4), The Christian Rural Overseas Program (CROP) officially opened it 1960 harvest appeal to rural Americans to help underprivileged and hungry people overseas with relief in kind by dedicating an entire shipload of foodstuffs on United Nations Day in Chicago. The cargo was made up of advance contributions from 17 states where CROP this year operates and government surplus of powdered eggs and dried milk. Participating in the colorful ceremony were DP children seen above in Ukran ian national costumes who sang “America’* in English and in the Ukranian tongue. Some of the gov emment surplus is seen in the inset during loading ceremonies flanked by Walter Parr .(left) and Cart Kev frieht). CROP'S Regional Field Directors. Trainmen Give Printers Real Support At Miami The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, a labor union 213,003 members strong, was 07 years old September 23. ^ Their long and Illustrious his tory in the annals of American union labor is one they are justly proud of and it sets a fine exam ple for the rest of organized la bor in the accomplishment of their aims and purposes. Between 1,100 and 1,200 dele gates of the BRT are assembled in Miami Beach attending a six week convention of their organi zation. In line with their fine Union principles these delegates are re fusing to buy or read either of the Miami rat-produced papers. They refused to allow Herald or News reporters and photograph ers to “cover” the convention or take pictures. A member of the striking printers’ speaking committee was invited to address the conven tion after delegates, themselves, had distributed The Union Print er to the body. The Brotherhood all-out sup , port ©f Miami’s striking and lecked-out Union printers has i been a refreshing inspiration ami htart-wkrnrtlng Tnorale builder in our 22-moath-long battle. Every member of Miami Typographical Union No. 430 is deeply grateful to the Brotherhood for ail they have done, and are doing, for us. Particularly since members of organised labor in our own city, with few exceptions, not only have ignored our desperate tight, t but in some cases have deliber | ately given aid and comfort to our enemies. When these hundreds of dele gates return to their homes the | story of Miami** striking printers I will go with them. I A Herald story about President Kennedy of the BRT, which car ried the head “Giant Railroad Union Being Run From Behind Card Table," isn’t going to please j the Brotherhood. The story makes it clear Pres-! ident Kennedy merely uses a card table a* hi* desk, hut gam- | bling conscious Miami wouldn’t get that impression from the head.—Miami Union Printer. VOtVT NEW s< >< IAI. SK< I HITV permits more earnings $ \ while you receive benefits tmfwr* MW taw •fMr MW taw *i J* mt hw NEW t KIT pays larger benefits. 4 HALF EX-GI’S BUYING HOMES PAID NOTHING DOWN DURING 1949 WASHINGTON, D. C—Nearly 40 per cent the mortgage financed new one-family houses were bought with no down pay ment in nine large-city areas daring the latter half of 1049. Preliminary results of the U. S. Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics survey of finaa cing, prices, and rentals of new housing also revealed that an even larger proportion (almost half) of the veterans, who made up 75 per cent of the purchasers, paid nothing down. The findings in the report, the Bureau warned, are indicative only of conditions in large metro politan areas, and custom built houses were excluded from the preliminary study. The nine metropolitan areas, in which about a fifth of all non farm one-family homes were started last year, are* Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, Los Angeles, Mi ami. Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Se attle, and Washington, D. C. Most of the veterans in the survey (7 in 10) made down pay ments of 5 per cent or less. In contrast, most non-veterans (7 in 10) paid over 15 per cent down. On the whole, veterans bought less expensive houses than non veterans. although the modDtt home was predominant in both groups. Most of the homes (around 60 per cent) were in the price brackets from $7,000 to $10,000. Only a fourth of the vet erans but half the non-veteranj bought houses selling at $10,00b or more. Only about 15 per cent of the houses were bought without Gov-1 ernment-aided financing. A third I had both an FHA-insured 1st mart- i gage and VA-guaranteed secondj mortgage. The remainder were about equally divided between those receiving VA-guaranteed financing (30 per cant) and those with FHA • insured mortgages (24 per cent). Few houses had a second mortgage that was not VA-guaranteed. The 85 per cent of one-family houses in the nine metropolitan areas with Govern ment-aided loans is roughly twice the proportion for the country as a whole during the July to December, 1949, period. This reflects concentration of FHA and VA financing in met ropolitan and urban centers The current regulations for GI loans require down payments of not more than 5 per cent in the low price range and increase progressively to 45 per cent at (Coatinasd On Pag* S) STOPPAGES IN SEPTEMBER OF LOCAL CHARACTER WASHINGTON, D. C, — The number of work stoppages, whilo declining, continued at high lev els during September, according to preliminary estimates of the IT. S, Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. A few pro longed disputes, however, brought total idleness up about 20 per cent from 2,900,000 to 3,500,000 man-days. In the main, Septem ber stoppages were of brief and local character, following the pattern oAugust strikes. The number of new stoppages declined from 500 in August to 526 in September. The number of workers involved in new stop pages also declined—from 350, 000 in August to 275,000. All stoppages in effect in September numbered 800 and involved 460, 000 workers. The largest stoppages involved about 50,000 International Har vester employees and 40,000 Gen eral Electric Workers, fhe In ternational Harvester strike be gan August 17; the number of idle workers was reduced to ap proximately 23,000 on September | 18 when a settlement was reach ed with one of the striking un ions. The GE strike began in late August and was completely terminated about September 23. Other strikes involved 12,000 John Deere Co. workers were out the entire month of 12,000 glass j workers idle for over two weeks. The number of new strike* nhnrinr tkr ninr nwntks *f corresponding period of any year since 1946. In terms of workers involved and strike idleness, strike hctivity during this period of 1950 occupied a high position in the range for comparable per iods since 1946. FACTORY HIRINGS SHOW DROP IN SEPTEMBER _ WASHINGTON, D. C., — The | Nation's factories slackened their rate of hiring in September fol lowing the record expansion of employment in August, the U. S. Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics announced. The factory hiring rate was down to 68 per 1,000 workers on payrolls in September from 66 per 1,000 in August. Nevertheless, the September rate was higher than in any other " month since Sep tember, 1047, excluding this Aug* ust; I 7 " • Expanding job opportunities have apparently stimulated work ers to look for higher-paying and better jobs, the Bureau reported. The factory quit rate advanced to 35 per 1,000 workers on the payroll in September from 29 per 1.000 in August, continuing the rise begun with the upturn in employment early in the year. The lay-off rate—7 per 1,000— was lower than in any September since 1944. Why waste your time looking for flying saucers when you can make it worthwhile looking for Union Labels? CARELESSNESS! • m ~ : ki. ■ " —,—'i*S
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