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Unionists Want Million To Attend AFL Show By DAN SMYTH. Chicago Cor respondent AFL New* Service CHICAGO. — The 1951 Union Industries show, opening May 18 at Soldier Field, will be the big* gest of all time, says William A. j Lee, president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, the host un ion. "We aim to break ail records,” said Mr. Lee. He expects at least { a million visitors during the show’s 9-day run. In the great stadium where Gene Tunney rose after a count of 14 to retain his heavyweight championship of the world there will be seats for 100,000 specta tors at nightly pageantry and outdoor displays. Under the stands will be a mile of exhibition booths showing the skills and products of American labor — tacks, trailers, pottery, cakes, clothing, furniture, radios, wallpaper, tobacco, candy, beer— the works. The Chicago Building Trades Council has reserved the entire east exhibit hall for displays of the bricklaying, plumbing, steam fitting, carpentry, electricity, plas tering, painting and other con struction skills. In aether section, a complete laundry will be running (wash your shirt while you wait if you don’t mind standing around without it.) The Stove Mounters will give away 100 stoves. The Bakers will give away bread, cakes and biscuits, made before your eyes. Visitors may enter free con tests and win possibly a pound of strictly union-made nails or a $1,000 gold-trimmed bicycle. Cooperation between labor and management in the mobilisation effort will be stressed. Gen. George C. Marshall, U. S. Secretary of Defense, has arranged for a dis play of some of the weapons now being used in Korea. The Army, Navy and Air Forces all will have their own displays. Petdr J. Bockstahler, president of the Chicago Trades Union Label League, said thg league's delegates are ready to pour it on for the big show. Committee will help distribute tickets, furnish speakers at logs! union rallies and help out at Soldier Field, he said. The Na tional Tea Co., has asked for 600,000 tickets. Laundry workers plan to put tickets into each laundry bundle. “We do things on the grand scale around here,” said Bock stahler. GET THIS BOOK ON BOWLING <ON THE CUFF New York. — Glass Bottle Blowers Association (AFL) is giving away a 20-page record book for bowlers. In addition to space for recording 120 games, it contains information for begin-1 ners, and a page of accurately de fined bowling terms. A free copy of the book can be obtained by sending a stamped, self-addressed envelope to the association, 12 South 12th Street, Philadelphia 7, Pa. PLENTY OF SHIP BUILDING .v Wash.—Ship building employed 1.722.000 workers at peak of, World War II, but slumped to 150.000 at outbreak of the Ko-; rean War. Today the trend of shipyard employment is upward, Robert C. Goodwin, ex. dir., Of fice of Defense Manpower, re ported to Labor Secretary Tobin. Shipyards will expand their forces 16 per cent by February, and another 4 pgr cent during March. _ . NOTICE North Carolina. Mecklenburg County. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT Before the Clerk Henrietta Sims Faria. Plaintiff, vs. M. G. Faria, Defendant. The defendant, M. G. Faria, will take notice that an action en titled aa above has been com menced in the Superior Court of Mecklenburg, County, North Car olina. to obtain absolute divorce; and the said defendant will farth er take notice that he ia required to appear at the Office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of ■oid county in the courthouse in Charlotte, North Carolina, within twenty days after the completion of service by publication, and answer or demur to the Com plaint in said action, or the plain tiff will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in said Com plaint. This the eighth day of Feb ruary, 1951. W. M. MOORE, Assistant Clerk of Superio r Court, Mecklenburg County. (3-22, 29; 4-5, 12-c) OFF THE BEAM Life b Like That You usually hear about the man who hit the jackpot, but the’ fellows who built up the pot are unknown. . Take Care Two Rumanian workers were walking along side by side, their heads bent low, their faces sad and drawn. They were not talk ing to each other. Suddenly one of them spat on the ground and the other immediately did the same. “That's enough,” said the first. “If we continue, they'll think we are dicussing politics.” Accommodating Into a busy telegraph office bustled a smiling matron. * She sat down at a writing table and after much pencil-chewing pro duced a message. Handing it on to the clerk, she asked as- an afterthought ‘Will it cost me any thing to underscore the words ‘perfectly lovely’?” “Not a cent, madam,” the clerk replied. Whereupon the cheerful lady recalled the message, drew a line under the two words, and depart ed happily. — HENNINGS EXPOSES MD. ELECTION FACTS — Sen. Tom Hennmgs (D., Mo.) deserves a pat on the back from trade unionists. Hennings is a member of the Senate Elections subcommittee investigating the campaign of Sen. John M. But ler (R., Md.) last fall. The investigation is showing how Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R., Wis.) and Col. Robert McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune, picked Butler and defeated former Sen. Millard Tydings (D., Md.) In questioning witnesses Hen nings has done more than any other subcommittee member to bring out' the facts of the Mary land campaign. Hia work has been outstanding. Hennings last fall defeated for mer Sen. Forrest Donnell (R., Mo.) one of the worst enemies of workingmen ever to sit in the Senate. Hennings had full labor support. THIS COULD WORK HERE New York.—Edward R. Mur row, Columbia Broadcasting Sys tem commentator, discussing the United Labor Policy Committee’s withdrawal from the bogged down Big Business defense mo bilization setup, said: “Labor’s complaint, as I under stand it, is not against controls; not against labor making its fair share of sacrifices; but rather that organized labor is not ade quately represented in the plan ning and issuances of the de crees. uurmg me iasi war, onuiin 8 economy was mucn more tightly controlled and carefully managed than ours, because their situation was more desperate and they were nearer the fire., “It was then that Ernest Bevin, Secretary of Labor in a Coalition Government, made a contribution to victory fully as great as that of Mr. Churchill. For the men and women who worked with their hands, respected and had confidence in that veteran trade union leader—gave up voluntarily their hard-won rights and privi leges in the common cause, con fident that those rights would be returned when victory had been achieved. “Many of those who spent the night in air-raid shelters, got up and went to work in the morning with the grease still under their fingernails, knew little enough of government policy on ground strategy. But they were constant ly conscious that their own rep resentatives were sitting in the cabinet, participating in decisions, protecting their interests, seeing to it that they got their fair share of what little the traffic would bear. “That’s full partnership with labor worked in Britain in tough er times than these. Maybe it would work here.” Washington.—The AFL Nation al Federation of Post Office Clerks began its annual Bring-a-Brother Campaign January IB with a goal of 125,000 new members and 5, 000 locals by May 15. The clerks now have 4,796 locals. MOTOR VEHICLE BUREAU ISSUES DRIVERS' HANDBOOK The Department of Motor Ve hicles this week was distributing the first shipment of its new “Driver’s Handbooks” to its 100 driver’s license examiners thru out the State. Designed as a textbook on safe driving, the handbook gives the beginning driver and the driver who is obtaining renewal of Us license all the information neces sary to enable him to pass the rules of the road and road signs phases of the driver’s license ex amination. The handbook, which is printed in three colors and black, will re place the “Driver Manual,", when the present supply of that publi cation is exhausted. One section of the handbook is devoted to highway safety, giving the driver the essential do*s and don’ts of safe driving. In addt-; tion, the handbook gives informa- i tion on applying for a driver’s li cense, procedure in case of an ac cident, violations which bring rev ocation or suspension of license 1 and required equipment on motor vehicles. Bicycle and pedestrian safety also are stressed. The *new publication is illus trated with diagrams of hasarn ous traffic situations and how to avoid them and shows all the road : signs used in the State. The es THE DIFFERENCE “Organized Labor note* the difference between this mobiliza tion and the Roosevelt mobillza- ‘ tion. In that other case, the La bor Unions were represented at every level. Sidney Hillman was as important a man in th^ Coun cils on Domestic Planning as any- J one from the industrial or busi ness side of the home front. “But this time there is no such person from the ranks of Organ ised Labor in the top levels of control."—Washington Columnist Joseph Harsch in The Christian Science Monitor. LABOR'S VOICE NEEDED Representative Ray Madden (D., Ind.) points out labor must be •riven “a seat in mobilization councils” to make the defense program work. "In World War II America per formed a production miracle be cause labor's representatives sat side by side with industry and business in an effort to solve equi table price control and wage prob lems,” Madden told the House, j sential features of each drawing j are printed in yellow. The cover ! is printed in two colors and car ries a typical highway scene. I The Department has received 39,000 copies of the handbook to date. A total of 161,000 more are on order. 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