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4i f AND DIXIE FARM NEWS VOL. XXI; NO. 15 CHARLOTTE, N. C„ THURSDAY. AUGUST 16. 1651 Subscription Price |tH Per Year WASHINGTON WEEKLY COLUMN Food For Thought ' "If wo let inflation run away the Russians will hare won the cold war without having flred a ghot,” That’s what President Truman told Congressional lead ers in a private talk recently. Exempt Industries Takes Lots of Budget AFL President William Green told Congress the Defense Pro duction Act exempts from price controls industries which account for 14.« per cent of the budget expenditures of moderate-income families. They include gas, telephone, transportation, professional serv ices, motion picture admissions and newspapers. *'A 10 per cent increase in the j cost of these items will be equiva lent to a 2 cents an hour reduc tion in pay to the average factory worker,” Green said. High Prices Hurting 95 Per t ent Of Families A survey shows how high prices ere hurting the American people. The Homemakers Guild of Amer ica, a private public opinion poll ing group, reports: Ninety-five per cent or the na tion’s families are “economizing” because of high prices. Eighty-two per cent of the fam ilies are buying less food; 73 per cent less clothing, and 61 per cent fewer household items. Fam’lies also are cutting down on enter tainment and laundry services. Sixty-six per cent are buying less meat—especially fresh meat. Senator Morse Wants Propaganda Controls Sen. Wayne Morse (R., Oreg.) thinks Congress should do some thing about “vicious” propaganda that “takes the electorate for a ride.” Morse told the Senate Expendi tures Committee that if Congress fails to stop “smear propaganda” ft will “play into the hands of a new type of political racketeer developing in this country in smear campaigns.” Morse obMously had in mind the campaign of Sen. Joseph Mc Carthy (R., Wis.) and Col. Robert McCormick, publisher of the Chi cago Tribune, made in Maryland last year against formre Senator Millard Tydings. McCarthy and McCormick elected Sen. John But ler (R„ Md.). Georgian Repeats Claim of Labor Rep. Paul Brown (D., Ga.> is no special friend of the working man. He has a consistently bad voting record on bills affecting trade unionists. But in opposing the Cooley (D., N. C.) amendment to the price control bill which would have in creased the price of meat in the grocery store by 10 per cent. Brown said: "You cannot control wages un less you control prices.” That’s what labor has said over and over again. PRIVATE HOMEBUILDING SHOWS DECLINE WASHINGTON, D. C. — The Naion’s homebuilders started 87, 700 new private dwelling units in June, a 7 per cent drop from the 92,800 private dwellings be gun in May, according to prelim iary estimates of the U. S. La bor Department’s Bureau of La bor Statistics. The Bureau said this decline in private hous:ng volume compares with the June decreases of less than 5 per cent in 1948-50. Tie 42,300 public units author ised by notice-to-proceed orders issued by the Public Housing Ad ministration brought the total number of units started during the month to 130,000. “The doc says I’ve been work ing too hard lately—says I need • little sun and Air.** “But Honey, didn't you tell him we cant afford one yet?” ITU Plans Nine New Daily Papers WASHINGTON. — Nine new daily newspapers sponsored by the AFL International Typo graphical Union will begin pub lication ii» the next few months. The nine papers will be pub lished in Allentown, Pa., Monroe, La.; Texarkana, Ark.; Springrfield, Mo.; Meriden, Conn.; Lorain. Ohio; Huntington, Beckley and Charleston, W. Va. The step is a landmark in American journalism and may bring a new area of journalism in the interest of all the people. The papers have been created to provide competition in com munities where newspaper mon opolies exist and to insure main tainance of union working condi tions. New techniques have been de veloped to give readers an easy to-read easy-to-handle newspaper with an honest and responsible report on news and opinion. A smooth and efficient produc tion system geared to standard printing processes has been de veloped to give the papers’ read ers the best in a daily newspaper. Publication of the papers, to be called the Daily News-Digest, will be under the control of Dale Byrne, who brings wide and rounded experience to the job of launching daily papers. They will be supplied from their own Washington bureau, i New Newspaper Service, directed by Saul Miller. Tight writing and editing will give the papers more news in their easy-to-handle tabloid-size pages than most papers carry in their larger columns. New ideas in makeup and ty pography have been worked out for the papers in line with the compactness and terseness of their controls. Election day this year in sev eral states and cities will be November 6. ‘No Disappointment! !>t ste-fit* ptrformiD.e of hr» uount Pic*Ns Star Jan S’crVoi la Art in the Ho!*" won't disappoint vou—and neither will the lUVey anil Cor feet onery Workers’ Union label, found only on quality products. Congress Hits Consumer As It Guarantees High Profits, Prices You—along: with millions of other consumers—are the forgot ten man in this Congress. After weeks of debate on price controls in the Senate and House, most Senators and Representa tives show they are doing what Big Business lobbyists tell them to do. Fortunately, you can do some thing about this disgraceful situa tion. You can go to the polls November 4, 1952, and elect Sen ators ana Representatives who will look after your needs—in stead of those of the million-dol lar lobbies. Price controls will be a big po litical issue next year. So you should know the details of the phony legislation Congress passed. The story of the Senate price controls debate is in the July 15 League Reporter. Here are some of the details of the pro-lobbyist, anti-consumer price controls bill the House passed July 21: High Food Prices Big meat packers, large food processors, black market opera tors and food gamblers were tak en care of. The housewife? The House didn’t give her a thought—she doesnt’ operate a million - dollar lobby. The House voted to kill the meat price rollbacks planned for August and October. These would have meant a decrease of 10 cents a pound in meat price*. The House also killed any sub stantial future rollbacks on food prices. The most the price of snv food could be cut would be 10 per cent under May 19 prices. Such reductions would mean lit tle difference in your grocery bills. A black-market meat amend ment was approved. This would prevent slaughtering quotas on livestock. If each meat slaugter er or packer is allowed only so much cattle each month, the Gov ernment can keep track of all cattle and prevent any animals from going into the black market. Finally, the House gave the commodity speculators a break. A majority of Congressmen said it was fine for gamblers to go into the commodity exchanges and bid up the prices of wheat, corn soy beans, sugar,, butter and other foods. Such gamblers also help to increase your grocery bills. Guaranteed Profits Congressmen rushed to write profit - guaranteeing amendments into the price control bill. But there was no rush to guarantee that your dollar will buy as much a year from now as it does today. You don’t have a million-dollar lobby. After trying several times to guarantee profits, the House finally decided the best way would be to assure businessmen exactly the same profit margins as those they had from May 24 to June 24, 1950. Rent Control The real estate lobby got its way. Most Congressmen acted as if they had never heard of ten ants. Renters, of course, have no million-dollar lobby. The House voted for rent in creases of up to 20 per cent oveg' June, 1947, rents. The Repre sentatives also let cities and towns that have decontrolled rents veto any Federal plan to put controls back on. Many cities need controls again because of defense plants being built or Army camps reopening in the area. _ _, Finally, thf House told land AT A CONSTANT SPEED OF 45 m.puh. 55 m.p.h. 65 ntp.h. YOU CAN DRIVE 400 MILES IN 8 hr*. 54 min. 7 hr*. 18 min. 6 hr*. 10 min. YOU HAVE AN INJURY ACC1PWUK RE1N6 KILLED ARE 1 in 16 1 in 12 11«* 6 NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL lords in areas where rent con trols whatever they were gettmg before the controls went into ef fect. The- Heuse approved that amendment the very next day aft er the nation was shocked by a Senate report on the shocking housing: conditions around Army camp3. The House amendment means the man who is renting a chicken coop for $27.50 a month to a soldier near Camp Breckinridge, Ky., can keep right on charging $27.50 a month for the coop even if rent controls go into effect in the area. Defense Plants The House said the Government must build defense plants on the most costly terms possible. Those terms involve tax handouts to Big Business. Million-dollar Big Bus iness lobbies saw to it the House approved such a set-up. To get businessmen to build needed plants the Government of fers them special tax favors on new plants. This means lower taxes for Big Business and higtoer taxes for the rest of the people meaning you. Enforcement To enforce price controls the Government should issue licenses to businesses as a matter of right. Then when a businessman violates the price control law, the Government can suspend his li cense.. That’s the way price controls were enforced during World War II. But the million-dollar Big Business lobbies said: No! So did the House. LABOR DEPARTMENT LAUNCHES NEW SAFETY PERIODICAL WASHINGTON, D. C. — The first issue of Safety Standn-ds, new Federal monthly magazine of safety, will be published by the U. S. Labor Department’s Bu reau of Labor Standards some time this month. The magazine will cover Federal and maritime safety and will publish news and feature articles on the activities of the President's Conference on Industrial Safety, regular safety programs of the States and! the Bureaus, and special public ani private programs for safety in defense production. There are 18,419,000 women in the civilian labor force, according to the Census Bureau. Louisiana Fruit Aid Vegetable Producers Chartered By AFL Hammond, La.—In co-operation with the Louisiana State Feder ation of Labor, the Southern Organizing Staff of the American Federation of Labor is assisting in organising a large number of strawberry farmers in the area of Louisiana, just north of Lake Pontchitrain, according to reports sumbitted by J. L. Rhodes, South ern Regional Director for the American Federation of Labor in Atlanta, Ga. Mr. E. H. Williams, President of the Louisiana State Federation of Labor, has given active assistance in the organis ing campaign along with A. F. of L. Mr. Gourley reports as and T. L. Carlton. Organizer Gourley submits a special report pertaining to the organization of these vegetable producing farmers into the Na tional Farm Labor Union, A. F. j of L. Mr. Gouurley reports a. follows: HIn southeast Louisiana, some fifty miles north of New Orleans, lies the land of strawberries. The City of Hammond, Louisiana, is known as the “Strawberry Capi tol” of the world. This once hum ming town was built around the strawberry and is the principal shipping point for tne entire area. In a radius of fifty miles, several years ago, 8,000 to 10,000 fann ers depended on the strawberry for their livelihood, but in recent years this figure has dwindled to the approximate figure of 8,000 | farmers.- u many Torsions exisr as xo what has happened to this once (Treat industry, but no solution has been tried. The farmer’s version is that year after year the farmer has been getting less and less money though there is a profitable market for his pro duct. In the season just ended no profit was made by the farm er. Many lost money spent for fertilizer and other necessitie* that are required to complete the crop. “Like many other people wno toil for a living, as long as there was money to be made and the “sky was blue,” they believed there was no need to prepare for that “rainy' day:”; something, some miracle, would happen <ind everyone would be happy and prosperous again. Now, the farm ers in this area see that some thing must be done or they will have to quit farming. A very peculiar condition exists in this area that is not tound in any other part of the world. Over a period of years, farms have been divided among the succeeding generations until some berry farms are hardly more than a large garden. Very few farmers (Continued On Page X) C. A. FINK RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT: R. a ROBERT SON, FIRST VICE PRESIDENT, AND J. W. LAZEN BY, SECRETARY-TREASURER. ALL OF VICE PRESIDENTS RE-ELECTED EXCEPT SEVEN — PASSAGE OF MANY RESOLUTIONS MARKS CLOSING DAY OF ASHEVILLE MEETING. Durham was named as the city to entertain the 1962 convention of the North Carolina Federation of Labor, which will meet in August of next year. C. A. Fink of Spencer, incumbent since 1937, was re-elected president: R. B. Robertson of Asheville, first vice president, and J. W. Lazenby of Salisbury, secretary-treasurer. ITU Convention Opens Saturday In Atlanta, Ga. Local delegates and other mem bers of Charlotte Typographical Union will leave Friday to attend the 93rd Annual Convention of the International Typographical Union, which will be held in At lanta, August 18-24. Charlotte delegates are, Arnold Jones and J. T. Primra, president. Others who are attending are J. P. White, Mr, and Mrs. H. I* Beatty and two daughters, Mr and Mrs. Ray Nixon, and Mr. and Mrs. Hugh M. Sykes. The Beatty family will go from Atlanta to Jacksonville, Florida, and back to Augusta for a brief visit wiA Mrs. Beatty's sister. After leav ing Augusta they will visit in South Carolina for a few days with Mrs. Beatty’s relatives. Many delegates from the north and elsewhere have been passing through Charlotte for the past severs) days en route to Atlanta. Convention headquarters will oe | at the Atlanta Biltmore Hotel. I WORE INFLATION WOULD AGAIN HEAT UP PRICES “The next round of inflation wo could expect would tend coffee prices not to $1 but to $1.25. It would send bacon not to 70 cents or so but to 90 or 95. “It would give us the 20- and 25-cent loaf of bread, the 30-csnt quart of milk. And the $35 rent would be $70. ... “Is that the wish of Congress?” —Rep. Hugh Addonisio <D.) of Newark in House speech July 5. OSLO — The Norwegian Co ordination Council’s recommenda tion for dealing with cost-of-Uv ing and wage-price stabilisation is an interim allowance for chil dren under 16 years of age, under which it is expected the govern ment will pay compensation for an 8-point rise in the cost of liv ing index. Election day this year in sev eral states and cities will be November 6. Put On the Heat • . ./ t I UNION LABEL WEEK—SEPT. 2-8 The following etc* presidents from all sections of the state, seven of whom are new official* on the executive board, wer* elected: Wade A. Elliott, Ashe ville; J. A. Scoggins, Charlotte; W. M. Barbee, Durham; G. B. Huss, Gastonia; R. D. Apple, Greensboro, Marion N. Lucado, Goldsboro; S. H. Robertson, High Point; W. Horace Petty, Pitts boro; Harvey Hobbs, Plymouth; J. A. Morris, Raleigh; J. C. Gu lespie, Jr., Reidsville; A. H. Thompson Rocky Mount; F. N. Cuddihy, Salisbury; William Glas brook, Morganton; Luther W. Hardee, Jr, Kinston; C. B. Kor negay, Wilmington; and C. F. Weir, Winston-Salem. Guy Masyck of Durham and Jesse Armistead of Plymouth were elected vice president* at large. H. G. Fisher of Salisbury was named chaplain. AH officers were re-elected ex cept Hobbs Barbee, Apple, Har dee, Xornegay, Masyck and Arroi Ftead. Durham was chosen as site for ayenr*S convention. • letter to Vice President , e* and Ranee Speaker Sam Raybtim, the federation expressed its opposition to reinstatement of Dr. Ralph Brimley as a member of a mission of American educa tors to Japan. woions cited The letter said that Senators Clyde R. Hoey and Willis Smith and Representative Graham Bar den of the North Carolina Tenth district were seeking to have Brimley, superintendent of For syth county schools, renamed to the mission. Brimley was removed from the mission by the Defense depart ment after the American Feder ation of Labor objected to Brim ley’s stand on unionisation of teachers. Hoey, Smith and Barden were accused in the letter of making "misleading and erroneous state ments” on the withdrawal of the invitation to Brimley to partici pate in the mission. The federation urged Governor Scott to call a special session of the Legislature to errant salary increases to public school teach ers. In other resolutions, the feder ation: Freese Removal Asked 1. Asked the Wage Stabiliser tion board to take off the wage free for building tradesmen in the southeastern states "until these several states are given a chance to equal the national average wage rates." 2. Urged enactment of "legis tion to provide democratic and efficient teaching conditions in the state." (This apparently re ferred to better Negro facilities.) Convention delegates included ap proximately 20 Negroes. 3. Supported the proposal of Senator Lister Hill (D., Ala.) to use money from tidelands oil production to further public edu cation. 4. Endorsed the International Typographcai union program of establishing daily newspapers in “cities where its members have been locked out or where strikes have occurred and where no com petitive papers are located due to :onsolidation." 5. Endorsed Federal aid to ed Jcation. . 8. Decided to start publication >f a weekly newspaper as the or ri»n of the State Federation to be edited by the president of the organisation.
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