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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three presents in seventeen years.
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