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CHARLOTTE LABOR JOURNAL AND DIXIE FARM NEWS ▼OL. XXI NO. 7 CHARLOTTE, N. C, THURSDAY, JUNE *1, 1H1 Subscription Pne* UN Per Tear VINTAGE I 'But whtrt'i th# UNION LABEL? UAL REPORTER sdL*Zl MV»rA#M > " RALEIGH. — Building road* means trouble. Seems you just can’t please folks, when it comes to their roads. Even the folks over in Ala mance County—home of .Governor Scott — squawk about the road building, or lack of it. Now a lot of folks would think that Alamance would be well tak en care of under the better roads pvogram. After all, it’s the Gov ernor's home county and he's the boy that fought for and got the $£00,000,000 road building pro gram across. But from Alamance way comes word that it ain’t so. In fact, some of the Haw River dairy man's neighbors ar pretty het under the collar at the# high way commissioner, Jim Barnwell. They aay that Jim—who hap pens to be n trucker—isn’t inter ested in building anything but truck routes. They say that when he does build farm-to-market roads that he “favors all the folk* who were and are against the Governor." And they claim that Jim’s not building enough roads. Alamance probably is getting its full share of the road bond money and new paving, hot folks down that way should remember that the road past Governor Brough ton’s farm wasn’t paved until ho had left office, and that a lot of work in Gaston County — Gov ernor Cherry’s home—wasn’t dona until tha Gastonia lawyer had left the Mansion. Those Cara Again The attempt by the Highway Patrol—through Motor Vehicles Commissioner Landon Rosser—to get bigger and better cars for its 'officers has put the high-priced car question squarely before the Council of State. The law says that the State can’t pay more than f 1,500 for a car, except the Governor’s, with out the approval of the Council of State. Rosser recently got an exemption from this rule for 200 cars, when the Council of State got tiie idea that no can could be bought for less than $1,500 in these inflation-ridden times. But that wasn’t so. Cars were bought in December for some $f4M8 for the patrol. The other day bids ran as low as $1,101 on cars for other departments, Even with the heavy duty equipment, ft is not likely that new bids tor Highway Patrol can will run any higher—and they may not be as high. But now the argument has come up that a man in a higher position should be given a bet ter car to drive around on State business. Gives the boys some thing to_ shoot at, they say—adds to their prestige. If they’re too good to ride around in a car that costs more than $1,500, then let ’em buy the car themselves. The only three jobs in the State now carrying cars above (Coatfasned On Pago $) Her* Is a table develavari by Dr. Richard Murphy of the varsity of Illinois to determine bow good a uaien Meeting is T? WAS IT A GOOD UNION MEETING ?? (Check Yes or Nat) U«i Ne 1. Did the meeting: begin promptly?-. 2. Did the meeting adjourn in reasonable time?.. 3. Were all reports of officers, committees, etc. ready and presented in good order? 4. Was an agenda followed? . -. 5. Were the Constitution, By-Laws, and rales of order followed ?----.... — 6. Were proposals for action put in specific motions? .....:....—.—. 7. Did the discussion reflect the various opinions and interests of the members? ...—_. 8. Was there ENOUGH discussion to show what the membership really thought? —.... 9. Whs the discussion good tempered?. ....... 1A. Could everybody hear what was said?.. II. Were the members interested in the proceedings? .......... 11 Was necessary business transacted? ......... 11 Were irrelevant matters excluded?_..... i'4. When work had to be done outside the meeting, ware committees or persons assigned to job?. It. Was the meeting held together (no little groups here and there in the hall having their own meeting*? ..._______ It. Did the presiding officer guard against ‘'railroading'’? ......_.. .... IT. Did the officers conduct the meeting with meaning and dignity? ______ ... 18. Was there an atmosphere of freedom—of give sad take? ., ’ ___ II Was your faith in your union strcngthaned by what went on at the meeting?____ 3A. Waa I glad I came to meeting?______ Totals.—_____ ■ ..leak an laat pngs to ana what Johnston Says Beef Rollback Is Fair Economic Stabilizer Eric John ston told the House Agriculture committee the beef price rollback was “fair.” “If it’s such a terrific hardship, if they’re in such dire distress, why don’t they come to see me.” Johnston said about cattlemen who complain the rollback hurts them. “Their argument seems to me to be not that they can’t make profits at 126 or 135 per cent of parity, but that they don’t want controls at all,” he declared. He said the meat industry promised last January that If it was left uncontrolled there would! ba no rise in prices. Instead, he said, prices “rose precipitously and something had to be done.” » ‘fi t.nrfhh aiti - iRa ■iiiarnmaflt' had no intention of rolling back prices that would destroy busi ness. DiSalle Says Price Ceilings ArOf June 18 Price Administrator Michael Di Salle told the United Labor Pol icy committee in • personal ap pearance that he plans within 30 days to put dollars-and-centa ceil ing prices on IS or 20 food items in a Community-by-Community Program modeled after the war time Office of Price Administra tion. Mr. DiSalle outlined the ULPC what he has attempted to do thus far aad his immediate future plana. ULPC haa been serenely critical of the failure to halt the rise in prices since controls wen put into effect last January. The A. P. of L. Executive Coun cil at its Chicago meeting called “the kind of price control we have thus far experienced largely a sham and deception of the pub lic.” Mr. DiSalle said that under his proposed new step prices would have to vary by communities across the country because pro ducts could be obtained cheaper in some areas than in others. That was the way OPA con trolled prices during World War II. instead of having a nation wide ceiling. DiSalle said that ceiling prices I on beef will be listed in butcher shops beginning June 18 as the first move in his fight to hold down food costs. DiSalle indicated that veal woold .he another of the meat items to be placed under ceiling lists, but said pork Is now selling below parity prices. DiSalle argued that the cost of living is “pretty dose to being stabilised right now.** RUINS RECORD Kankankee, 111.—Ob the night that William NolU, fmM«» of tha local Lion** (Safe, wna to honor Paul Sweeney for hie for fort attendance for the' yeor, SndKSrWUbahitr Labor League Plans To Drive For A Liberal Majority In Congress i Frank Edwards Savs: Peonage—USA . . . A Senate Committee will inves tigate reports of peonage in Geor gia. Here’s the way it works: Police round up men on Monday mornings and arrest them on fake charges . . . Labor Contract ors come in and pay their fines . . . the prisoners are paroled to the Contractors. They work all week to pay the fine, which they didn’t owe in the first place. Phony Housing Bill ... After months the Senate passed the Defense Housing bill. But it’s a complete phony ... it is so full of loopholes and escape hatch es that it means nothing as far as actual home construction is concerned. Senators Douglas of Illinois and Long of Louisiana de serve credit for tacking on a cou ple of amendments, but the grab boys delivered just the same. Personal Message . .. Every Monday through Friday, coast-to-coast on the Mutual; Broadcasting System, I have beet urging housewives to buy only what is needed. Top off yourj friends ... no scare buying . . . sit this one out and you will profit Sugar-Cotton Planters Win . . . The deal cooked up between sugar and cotton planters acting through Democrats EUender ol Louisiana and Poage of Texas won out on the Senate floor. By a voice vote, the Senate legalizes the importation of hundreds of thousands of destitute Mexicans to be exploited by the cotton farmers of the Southwest. Not only does it make it possible for the big farm operators to bring in these impoverished Mexicans, but it gives them no protection in the matter of pay . . . they have to take whatever they get. Blueprints But No Money . . « One Governor at the Federal Civil Defense Conference in Wash ington last week, remarked, “We’ve got the blue prints, the support of the people, but what good is that going to do, when Congress has cut the money, mak ing it impossible to secure equip ment and stockpile medical and other supplies.” Building Trades Hamstrung In 3 Supreme Court Decisions The Supreme Court has fast* ened the Taft-Hartley law oa A. tt af fc Mffi»g and Construc tion Trades with such tight crews that Union operations are seri ously affected. The court voted 6 to 8 that the restrictive and punitive law applied to the Construction In* dustry. It brushed aside A. P. of L. contentions and those of Lower Courts that the Building Industry was not interstate com* merce and therefore not subject to the act. The Court ignored the specific provisions in the Taft-Hartley act that its provisions should not be applied to disputes which have lit* tie effect upon interstate com merce. It disregarded a state ment by Sen. Robert A. Taft, co author of the law, that the act was not intended to cover the Construction Industry. (Senator Taft meanwhile shed tears in the Senate that President Truman's Administration won’t ge along with him on changing his monstrosity because the Adminis tration prefers repeal. The gist of his speech was typically Taft, that those who don’t agree with him are wrong. The court held that the law’s ban on secondary boycotts pre vented the picketing of a General Contractor to force him to dis continue his association with a Sub-Contractor who employed Non-Union Labor. Justices Stanley P. Reed and William O. Douglas dissented. They contended that the Unions involved were maintaining their historic attitude of refusing i* work along aide Non-Union men. They said that a strike against the General Contractor would have been legal if he were the agent who had put Non-Union men on the Job. They did not agree that the presence of a Sub Contractor changed the realities of the situation. They argued that the prohibi tion of the secondary boycott should apply only “where an in dustrial disputa spreads from the job to aaothet front. Justice Robert H. Jackson cast the third dissenting vote. Associate Justice Harold H. the majority wire Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson sol Associate ■ _ <11 I' • IT Ml ti re.-_ i usuc* rnu rmixwwr, iwy® L. Black, Tom C. Clark and and Sherman Minton. In the primary ease, involving the National L*ber Belatiens Board and the Denver Building and Construction Trade* Council, the court held that the A. F. of L. Union had committed an unfair practice in January, 1&48, when it picketed the General Contracting Firm of Dooee and Liatner. The Arm. then erection a commercial building in Denver, was picketed because it had awarded a sub contract for electrioal work to a Sub-Contractor erhe employed Non-Union Labor. Such action, the Court held, vi olated the baa on a strike with the object of format an Employer to cense doing- business with an other person. The majority held that the ac tivities of the Sub-Contractor did affect interstate commerce, and therefore came under the provisi ons of the Taft-Hartley net. In another of the cases, involv int the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the NLRB, the Court euetniaed an ap plication of the law to a $15,200 private dwelling construction proj ect at Greenwich, Conn. It made the same general find ing in a case involving Local 74 of the United Brotherhood of Car penters and Joinersy' which had picketed a general retail store in Chattanooga, Term. In one of the cases, however, in volving the International Rice Milling Company and the Interna tional Brotherhood of Tesauters, the Court upheld the NLRB’s find ing that the Union’s picketing ac tivities—in so far ns they affected Employes of neutral concerns— were not sufficiently widespread to come within the Taft-Hartley set’s baa on secondary boycotts. TRAVELERS During: 1980 tom* 320,000 Ameri cans want to Europe on an aver age two-month trip aad spent $228,000,000 for transportation, fun, food, sights aad lodging, ac cording to the Commerce Depart meat. This was the seeoad hig gset traveling year for Aassri cans. The biggeet year teas in 1929, when 380,000 Aasarioans By JOSEPH D. KEENAN, Director, Labor’s League for Political Education Labor's League for Political Education is planning a fall-scale coun terattack in 1952. LLPE’s Administrative Committee urges Local and State Leagues to start their plans immediately. National Headquarters Staff Members will do everything possible to attend every State Convention to get the ball rolling. MAURICE J. TOBIN ( Itcntarr. U. I. Dutftatit *f Uk« Tobin Lands Seamen Secretary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin sainted the achievements of the American Merchant Marine in a National Maritime Day stater ment issued May 22. He said the record of these seamen both in times of stress and in peacetime “will remain forever indelibly im printed in the minds of free, peace-loving and brave men." Tobin’s statement follows: "When the record of the cur* “The heroism of the Sailors who man oar merchant ships hat htaa exemplified oa mere thaa one ae* casion during the past year. Thou sands of refugees sad troops have been evacuated from battle-torn sectors in Korea by the gallant man who again met the challenge of an emergency end did their job well aad nobly ia the face of enemy Are. "the American Merchant Ma rina is a salient part of oar her itage and oar history. It has had a vital offset oa our country’s economy: the United States had to have a strong Merchant Ma rine to emerge as the moat pow erful and democratic nation in the world. It ia a privitage on National Maritime Day to salute the men of the vast merchant fleet for their splendid achievements of the past. Their record in times of stress as well as in peacetime will remain forever indelibly imprint ed in the minds of free, peace-lov ing and brave men.’' ’ many union members ana uni* cers were disappointed by the 1950 elections. Some are worried that we won’t get the crumbs that are usually thrown to us by a re actionary Congress. Some are ready to withdraw from the po litical field. But you can't win a fight unless you are in ifc We have learned enough from seasoned politicians and experi ence to know that as long as we are in a fight there is always a chance of ’winning it. The sure way to lose a fight—and never get anything but crumbs from the table—is to stay out of it. We worked hard in the last elec tion, yet a lot of our friends lost. Those are the breaks of the game. The history of progress is a series of disappointments. Every step was fought for. Gains were won, lost, won again. That is also true of politics. There is no magic way to win quick, easy PERMANENT vic tories. Let’s remember that the life-blood of politics in a democ racy is competition. Yon can’t win . one election and dose up shop. We can expect to take more lickings, along with our victories, in yean ahead. The main thing is to keep trying. In time we will U. 8. polities. A let of people felt bad be cause we didn’t win hi Ohio lent pear. Actually it was On ease of Robert Taft’s victory coat mere money than that of mqr ether Senator in history. Every trick in the beek wee Even relig ious hatred against Cathaiics wan used by onr opponents in the Unfc week—after they hed spent many > months working the other aide of the street by flattering prominent Catholics. Hew do we wiwini Chin do* feet and go on to victories t By giving up—or by staying with this program until we have good political know-how and‘the ender ■tanding of the people? Giving up is Just not part of the Trade Union tradition. I re member the 1921 Steel strike. I remember the 1921 Packinghouse strike. I remember hew the Un ions were destroyed completely la those strikes. But did the greet Union lenders give up? Of coarse not. And today ia both steel and meatpacking you will And the strongest of Unions and the best (Cantiaaed On Page f) % V, '■■ 1 0m WM-t '-J&k Put On the Heat.../ ! _
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