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VOL. XX; NO. 30 CHARLOTTE. N. C., THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 30. 1950 Subscription Price, $2.00 Per Yesr Nearly All North Carolina Industries Report Wage Cains For Month October RALEIGH, Nov. 29.—Pockets of Tar Heel wage earners jingled with extra spending money last month as pay boosts became effective in nearly all major industries. Hourly wage gains were chalked. up by every North Carolina manufacturing industry except tobacco and chem icals, according to State Labor Department statistician C. H. Pritchard. _ _^ In the non-manuiactunng field, wage hikea were reported by all industries except public utilities, variety stores and service indus tries, Pritchard said. Seasonal employment decreases in food, tobacco, construction and service industries caused the State’s total non-agricultural em ployment t figure to drop 1,500 from September to October, but employment remained at a hlgn level, totaling 906,600 in all non farm activities. Bffegest October wage increase went to workers in the small "primary metals” industry, which, employs some 2,600 wage earners. A pay hike of 12 cents an hour raised their hourly earnings to an average of $139 and jumped their weekly pay checks $5.24 to an average of $58.88. Employment in the busy tex tile industry soared to 234,700 workers as 1,200 additional em ployees were hired. Textile workers also gained the month's second largest wage increase of seven cents an hoar, which raised tfciur hourly pay |o $3-32* »ad nude their weekly pa> checks $2.76 bigger, averaging $48.63. Both employment and wage boosts were reported by all maj or divisions of the textile indus try, including yam and thread mills, broadwoven fabrics, fall fashioned hosiery and seamless hosiery. Hourly wage gains av eraged eight cents in broad wov en fabrics, seven cents in yarn and thread, five cents in full fashioned hosiery and four cent! in seamless hosiery Hie textile workweek increased fractionally »o an average of xactly *" ira. Other Industries reporting hour ly wage gains were: machinery, up three cents; fabricated metals, up three cents; lumber and tim ber, up one cent; furniture, up one cent; stone, clay and glass, up two cents; transportation equipment, electrical machinery and instruments, up one cent; ap parel, up two cents; food prod ucts, up two cents; pulp and pa per, up one cent; printing and publishing, up three cents; min ing, up one cent; wholesale trade, up two cents; and retail trade, up one cent. Wages in all manufacturing were up an average of four cents to $1.14. The average Tar Heel factory worker put in 40.8 hours a week during October and earned $46.50 for his labor. This was $1.77 above his previous month’s earnings. Stemmeries and redrying plants laid off 2,200 seasonal workers during the month following Sep tember peak of tobacco process* ing activity. Cigarette factory employment dropped 200 to total of 12,300 workers in mid-October. Other marked employment de creases were reported by trans portation industries, down 900; contract construction, down 500; food products, down 300; and service industries, down 2,500. Employment in the construction industry totaled 48,600 in mid October. Analysis of the total non-agri cultural employment figure for October show that 432,000 Tar Heel wage earners are employed in factories and 474.400 others work in the various non-manu facturing activities, statistician Pritchard pointed out In percen tages, the proportion are; fac tory employment, 47.7 per cent tivities (except agriculture), 62.3 per cent of total. * Employment in October was 47,000 higher than in the same month last year—a gain of 6.2 per cent. Average hourly earnings of the 4324100 factory workers last month were ten cents higher than in October, 1949. Their average weekly earnings were $4.58 higher. Highest weekly earnings were received by workers in pulp, pa per and paperboard mills, who averaged $77.46. The lowest weekly wage was paid in stem meries and redrying plants, where workers averaged $36.91. A ma jority of these seasonal tobacco workers are paid the federal minimum wage of 75 cents an hour. Working hours dropped fraction ally in all reporting divisions of wholesale and retail trade dur ing October. The workweek av eraged 40.5 hours in trade, rang ing from • low of 27.7 hours in tkliftjr stores to t high of 44J hours in wholesale firms. The 11,700 employees of va riety stores earned an average of 48 cents an hour during the month. Their weekly earnings, which were by far the lowest of any group of non-agrkultural workers, averaged $13.22. Hotel employees, who averaged 46 cents an hour in wages, earned $20.22 for a work-week of 44 hours. Employees of laundries and dry cleaning establishments, who av eraged 60 cents an hour, received $26.30 for a workweek of 42.1 hours. Wages of the 36,100 workers in retail general merchandise stores averaged 65 cents an hour and $22.04 for a workweek of 33.7 hours. Department stores em ployees received 74 cents an hour, or $25.55 for a 34.8-hour work week. Purchase Union Label gifts and make it a very Merry Christ mas. -. BUSH Wm:K IT MAY- OR MAY NOT- BE POLIO a CALL YOUR DOCTOR PROMPTLY 11 ii is Polio qel in to Uc h ■ w i l h your Id c a I c h a p t c r o I FIGHT INvANTIU PA UAH f.l!i THE NATIONAL FOUNDATION f 0 R INFANTILE PARALYSIS I HERE ARE SYMPTOMS OF POLIO listed by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. They may—or may not—mean polio. Call your doctor and then, if help is needed, contact your local chapter of the National Foundation. When polio is around, these precautions are recom mended : Keep children with their own friends and away from people they have not been with right along. Don't become exhausted through work or hard play. Don't stay in cold water too long or sit around in wet clothes. Avoid becoming chilled. Always wash hands before eating. Southern Man Receives D. C. Appointment President William Green at the American Federation of Labor na*‘announced the appointment of william A, Calvin, former Secretary of the Metal Trades Department of the American Federation of Labor, as Acting Director of the Social Insurance Activities Department. Mr. Nelson Cruikshank Direc tor of the Department, has been granted a leave of absence tn order te work with the Econom ic Co-operation Administration in Paris, which is extended at this time for one year. Bill Calvin, formerly attached to the outhern Organising Staff of the American Federation of Labor, is well known throughout the South, having originally worked as boilermaker in the' Seaboard Airline Railway Shop at Jacksonville, Florida, and from there, going to the Vice Presi dency of the International Broth erhood of Boiler Makers, Iron Ship Builders and Helpers of America and Secretary of the Metal Trades Department of the American Federation of Labor, where he acted, in addition to WHILE YOU'RE CONSIDERING MY DISABILITIES' DON'T* OVERLOOK My ABILITIES II C 1 A_U U-If-J Mi. f_I_« i/oii r w memany now tu coppeif/ tM/ueyen EMPLOY PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED ■MU his normal duties, as Legislative Representative on Capitol Hill for a period of Id years. J. Lew Rhodes, Southern Di rector of Organisation for the American Federation of Labor, said “It is gratifying to know that men of Bill Calvin’s caliber from the South receive recogni tion in the national positions of importance in the American Fed eration of Labor. Mr. Calvin’s association with the Southern Staff of Organisers for slightly more than a year was looked up on as an enhancement to the or ganising forces and we regret to lose him from the Southern territory, though we congratulate him upon achieving progress.” Mr. Calvin will make his home in Silver Spring, Md.. which is adjacent to Washington. Hi* of fices will be maintained in the American Federation of Labor Building, Ninth Avenue and Massachusetts Street. Bill Calvin has visited Char* iotte several tines daring the past year and his many friends he made here wish him well in his latest assignment He had just returned to Charlotte from several months spent on the West Coast when notified of his new appointment FOUR CITIES VOTED FOR PUPLIC HOUSING Public housing came off pretty well in the November elections. The question was on the ballot in six cities. In four of them, Arkadelphia, Ark,, Bay City Mich.; Edinburgh, Texas, and Newark, voters approved public housing. In the other turn, Ken osha, Wis., and Madison, Wis., public housing lost BLOODSHED BOXSCORE killed Nov. 28 thro Nov. 30 3 Injured Nov. 23 thru Nov. 30 52 Killed thru Nov. 30 thu yitr ..308 Killed thru Nov. 30. 1843 704 Injured thro Nov. 30 this your ' 10,008 Injured thro Nov 30, 1040 8,802 A NEW BOOKLET “SURVIVAL UNDER ATOMIC ATTACK" The National Security Re* sources Board has released the first of its series of Official Civil Defense Booklets fdr the general public entitled “Survival Under Atomic Attack.” The 32-page booklet was prepared in consulta tion with other Agencies of the Government. Copies are being distributed to State and Local Civil Defense Officials, Members of the Congress, press, radio, and magazines, various Public Groups and Organizations, and Agencies of the Federal Government. In the letter of transmittal ac companying the booklets to each Governor, James J. Wadsworth, Acting Director of the Civil De fense Office, said: “The combined efforts of the Federal, State, and Local Government and many Pri vate Groups will be needed to gei this booklet and the information in it into every home in the Na tion." Individual copies may be pur chased from the Superintendent of Documents, Washington 25, D. C., at 10 cents each; bulk copies may be purchased at a 25 per cent discount for orders in excess of 100. 119 Die As Result Auto Accidents In N. C. During October RALEIGH, N. C.—Motor ve hicle traffic accidents brought death to 119 persons during Oc tober. the highest figure for any month since 1941, the North Car olina Department of Motor Ve ! hides reported today. One hundred and fifty-two per sons were killed in October of 1941. October, 1960, also marked the first time the fatality figure has I passed the one hundred mark | since 1946, when January of that | year saw 101 killed and Decem ber, 103 October of this year listed 1, 174 person injured In 2,660 re- j ported accidents. This marks an increase of 20 per cent in in jured and 16 per cent in reported accidents over October, 1949. Collisions netween motoj »er hides and with fixed objects and motor vehicles running off road way accounted for most of the increase in injuries and reported accidents. Collisions of motor vehicles showed an increase of 715 as compared with October of last year. Deaths from this type of accident reached an all time high of 53 during October, 1960. Six persons were killed when their motor vehicles struck fixed 1 objects. During the same period last year, no fatalities resulted | from this type of accident. Fa i talities resulting from motor ve hicles running off load way in creased 26 per cent ever the same period of 1949. More than half of the drivers involved in accidents were guilty of at least one violation. Of the 4,547 drivers involved in acci dents, 164 were driving intoxi cated at the time of the acci dents. Driving on the wrong side of the road accounted for 513 accidents while 397 drivers were guilty of speed violations. During October, 23 pedestrians were killed and 103 injured in 118 accidents involving psdestri ans. This is an increase of 44 per cent over the corresponding month of last year when 16 pe destrians were killed. Nine pedestrians were killed In urban areas and 14 in rural areas. Cities and towns reporting pe destrian fatalities ware: Gates ville. one; Greensboro, one; Stone ville, one; Turkey, one; Raleigh, two, Warrenton, one; Weldon, one and Stantonsburg, one. The following counties reported one pedestrian fatality each: Ca barrus, Chowan. Cleveland, Dup lin, Durham, Franklin, Gates, Guilford, Iredell, Macklenburg, Orange. Pitt, Polk, Sampson, Tyr rell, Warren, Wayne and Wilson. Wake reported three pedestrian fatalities and Halifax, two. There were no bicycle fatalities j reported during October. Last j year, during the same month, two | bicyclists were ki)led. Wske County had the highest (Continued On Pars 4) WAGES, HOURS AND EM PLOYMENT REGISTER GAINS IX CHARLOTTE AREA MANU FACTURING DURING OCTOBER RALEIGH, Nov. 23.—Factory employment in the Charlotte area increased 300 last month, rising from 21,900 in mid-September to 22,200 in mid-October, the North Carolina Department of Labor re ported today. Substantial gains in hourly earnings of workers production time and weekly paychecks were reported by most Charlotte indus tries, during the month, according to C. H. Pritchard, Labor Depart ment statistician. Employment increase* m tex tiles, machinery and miscellane ous industries boosted total fac tory employment to a level 10.4 per cent above the total of Oc tober, 1949, The month’s rains in wage* and working hours were more impressive than the employment increases. All reporting indus tries registered hourly pay boosts. Average increase for all manu facturing- amounted to five cents an hour, raising the average hourly wage to an all-time high of $1.21. The workweek increased fractionally to an average of 41.4 hours. Weekly earnings of the 22,200 workers soared to a record high of $60.02. t Biggest increase was an aver age hike oflS ceata an hour Ik 4,000 workers in broadwoven fab rics *011% Yarn *a4 thread and knitting mills reported increases averaging six cents. The over all increase for 9,600 textile work ers averaged 10 cents an hour. Other increases were: metal products, up eight cents; ma chinery, up three cents; food products, up on* cent; printing and publishing, up one cent. Hourly earnings of workers av veraged 99 cents in food prod ucts, $1.31 in nil textiles, $1.16 in yarn and thread mills, $1.33 in broadwoven fabrics, $1.47 in knitting mills, $1.22 in machin ery manufacturing, $1.60 in print ing and publishing, and $1.30 ia metal products firms. Weekly earnings exceeded $46 in all in dustries except food products, where they averaged $40.03. All branches of the'Te'xtiie In dustry reported/ b»creas*d\ work ing hour*. The. workweek ^near est October 16 in yarn \ and thread mills was 1.7 hours longer than a month previously, 1.6 hours longer in broadwoven fab- - rics, and 1.1 hours longer in knif ing mills. Machinery manufac turing firms reported an increase of 1.2 hours in the workweek. Hourly earnings of workers in all reporting Charlotte industries were substantially higher than the State average of earnings ia the same industries. Mecklen burg's all-industry average of 31.21 was seven cents above the State average. Textiles exceeded the State average by nine cents. Yarn and thread mills were three cents above the State average; broadwoven fabrics, six cents; knitting mills, 24 cents; foodK products, seven cents; machinery, three cents; printing and pub lishing, five cents; metal products, 15 cents. Weekly earnings also exceeded the State average in each of these industries. Mr. Union Label says, "We have the quality and craftsman* ship in our products!”
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