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' Labor Day Greetings Metol Fabricators, * Inc. 9*21 CAMDEN K#AD Phone 4-9020 CHARLOTTE, N. C MOORE'S New Home, Sew Gem, Singer and Necchi, Davis Rotary and other makes of Sewing .Mochines. Button Hole At tachments, Motors and Lights. Service end Repairs 403 E. Trade St. Tel. 4-4805 CHARLOTTE, N. C. Chat. R. McArn INSURANCE AGENCY Are you fully protected? Save and bo aafe by inwurine your property and automobile* with ■. Inquiries invited on all type* dee, theft and caouaKy insurance. 513 S. Try on St. Phone 5-2387 CHARLOTTE, N. C. i Southern 5c and 10c | Stores CHARLOTTE STORES: 3205 N. Caldwell Ave. 1504 Central Ave. 1621 Elizabeth Ave. 129 H Park Avenue 828 W. Trade Street Also Stores in f DAVIDSON. PINEVILLE AND STANLEY. N. C. GREETINGS Textile Mill Supply Company 1300 So. Mint. St. Tol. 5-3326 CHARLOTTE, N. C. Tucker Kirby Co. Incorporated Builders* Supplies and Coni 520 W. Pointer St. T.tO. Box 1086—Phono 6-1585 Charlotte l, N. C. GREETINGS Tabriz Rug Co. RUG CLEANERS O. S. Cholebie, Owner 501 E. Trade St. JNol 2-3287 CHARLOTTE, N. C. GREETINGS * Southern Electrical Equipment Co. Established 1920 | Electric Power Switching Equipment Disconnects, Bus Supports, Connectors, Coble Clamps, Sub Stations, Switchboards, Brass, Bronze and Aluminum Costings 308 W. Blond St. Rhone 3-2554 CHARLOTTE, N. C Communists Outwitted By New Zealand Unions 833 South Flower Street, Loe Angeles 17, California, August 16, 1951. H. A. SUlls Editor, Charlotte Labor Journal! Behind the recent news of the settlement of the twenty weeks' strike on the New Zealand water fronts, lies the exciting story of Cominform tactics meeting a su perior strategy through the cook bined teamwork and action of Scottish, English and New Zea land dock workers. The two principals in the story are the chairman of the Scottish longshoremen, Tom Christie, and the national secreUry of the New Zealand Harbor Board Workers, Bob Freeland. They were un known to one another, until meet ing at the World Assembly foi Moral Re-armament at Caux in SwiUerland last year. These two men put their ideological train ing into action this year and by so doing strengthened the hand of the democracies in the Atlantic and the Pacific by frustrating Cominform plans to cripple their countries’ economies. Ideological Strike Last February when the offi cials of the New Zealand Water side Workers’ Union (then af filiated to the martime section of the Moscow-directed World Federation of Trade Unions) pulled a strike, it was not gen erally known by their rank and GREETINGS Honline Poultry Co. Live and Dratted Poultry 1010 East 7th St. .Tel. 5-5719 CHARLOTTE, N. C. GREETINGS R. L PITTS ST0RA6E & SERVICE COMPANY Midtown Storage 219 W. 4th St. Tel. 4-1738 CHARLOTTE, N. C. McGinn Upholstering Shop Upholstering — Refinishing Repoiring Dealers in Antiques 720 E. 7th St. Ph. 3-6480 CHARLOTTE, N. C. GREETINGS Spoos Company 2921 North Try** CHARLOTTE, N. C GREETINGS Smith Book Store We Frame Pictures 402 West Trade St. Tel. 2-0070 Charlotte, N. C. A. B. MORGAN FIXTURE COMPANY 307 West Worthington Phone 7237 CHARLOTTE, N. C. LIBERTY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA Life, HenJth, Accident, Hospitalization and Surgical HOME OFFICE: 121>123-125 E. Fourth St. Phone 3-7392 CHARLOTTE, N. C. file that their action would mean additional severe hardship for the British people. It Was just then that Britain was also facing dif ficulties in her meat negotiations with the Argentine. The end re sult would mean cutting down their already meager ration of 8 cents worth per week. Although the strike was de scribed by the waterside workers’ officials as a "wage dispute,” they refused to negotiate accord : ing to existing legislation already laid down by the former Labor Government and as recommended by the official national trade un ion body, the New Zealand Fed eration of Labor. It was one more case of an Ideological at tack hung on an economic peg. The Cominform inspirers of the strike had no illusions as to their own objectives of bringing down the New Zealand government and crippling Britain’s economy. In the light of these facts the ( government of New Zealand had j no alternative but to authorize the army and navy to load the I ships with the meat so badly \ needed in Britain. (Freeland’s Harbor Board Union which operates all the cranes and j mechanical equipment on the New : Zealand docks, decided to stay on the job and help get the ships unloaded. “The Ships Will Be Unloaded” Christie of Scotland sent an in quiry to his friend Freeland in New Zealand for the true facts; on the strike, as he had been urged by Communist elements to refuse to unload the New Zealand meat ships because of the New Zealand strike. I On having the true facts fur-' nished by a man whom he could trust, Christie at once sent this' message to the New Zealand waterside workers: “The ships will be unloaded. Leave them to ! us and send us more of y great meat. We need it desp ately/’ The London longshorem many of whom had participa in Britain's last disastrous di strike which cost the country ! mi Ilian pounds, agreed w Christie of Scotland, and five sh b™|jing 67,000 tons of meat the feritish people were unload Speaking of his union’s part in keeping supplies flowing, Rob ert Freeland stated, “I believe it is due to the rank and file of my union that we are in the favor able position we are in today on the waterfront. It would have been a popular decision if ou» union had gone on strike too. It called upon many people to deter mine where they stood and also to make decisions which were extremely hard. It was a difficult thing for the members of my un ion Jo stand on one side and say, ‘We do not believe there is any right in this cause.’ ” Longshoremen Unite On MRA Collective Bargainimg What War All Is About Past L. Styles, aew—t Her of the National Labor Re lations Beard, a poke last week at tbe Hosiery Workers con* vention in Philadelphia. What he had to say vas so important that we are passing along this summary for the iaforma|ion of every union asember. In these days, when we are en gaged in a world contest that i sometimes seems to dwarf tbe great holocaust of World War II, we hear quite a bit of talk that seems to suggest that collective bargaining should be temporarily side-tracked, that it is a luxury we cannot afford in such times of crisis. This talk, even when it comes from the uninformed or the misinformed, is cause for alarm. Essentially, there are only four ways in which terms and conditions of employment can be determined: (1) They can be fixed by the employer; (2) They can be imposed by the union. (3) They can be ordered by government decree; and (4) They can be de termined by collective bargaining. Our history has made it clear: that the first two methods—in-1 volving absolute unilateral action by the employer or the union— are incompatible with our system of free enterprise. The third course—in which the government dictates every single detail of the conditions under which enterprises shall operate and free men shall work — is The president of Freeland’s un ion, Walter McNeil told how they i had asked union members to make a decision on the basis of their own consciences and to be guided by what was right. “If Communinsts had their way this country would be under their control and under martial law,” said McNeil. “The reason this is not so is that some people saw what was right and fought for it.” Freeland said it was meeting British dockers’ leaders at the MRA World Assembly at Caux, which had shown him the right course to !take. There he had heard former Communists on the London docks, who had been (hanged over the last year by MRA, state that" they would never again take part in another strike without first deciding what was morally right. These men had been the leaders in all the British dock strikes since 1945. A supporting cable to the New Zealand dock workers came from executive officials of the British National Amalgamated Steve dores A Dockers’ Union: “The dockers’ traditional* international brotherhood finds its fullest ex pression through Moral Re-Arma ment. We wholeheartedly support your courageous fight for what is right.” T. G., Los Angeles, Calif. Aug. 1«, 1951. Give tlu a LANE CNEST MOll f ♦ No. J«M-tWricw* modtra\cT. in blond* oak.Tray Mu with lid. Sun d*«l«n >• »il**« gray valnat. t)99i No.H)l*linmt>*id Waterfall la %alaui tad paidao. ball-ttung way. r » No. M01-hiWM»ko|iMi tcll riiui U» l» >*. oterchis Exchange Stare 12» South CoUccc St. CHARLOTTE, N. C. what the fighting is all about. Shall we, at home, adopt the very measures which we abhor, and thereby give impetus to those forces of centralised government control that we are pitted against all over the world? The fourth course — collective bargaining between the chosen representatives of management and labor—may not be the per fect system, but it is the best ever devised by men jealous of their liberties. It is just 25 years ago this month that Congress first adopted as a national policy the require (Continued On Page 8) COMMONWEALTH GROCERY T. H. Fonder burke, Owner FANCY AND STAPLE GROCERIES 346# Commonwealth Avenue Phone 3-7623 CHARLOTTE, N. C. GREETINGS MERITA GRILL GOOD FOOD Courteous\ Service Reasonable Prices 1343 West Trode St. CHARLOTTE, N. C. Labor Day Greetings Snook Brothers, Inc. Charlotte's Largest Appliance Store * * Tel. 3-8686 1020 Central Ave. CHARLOTTE, N. C. GREETINGS Scott Drug Co. WHOLESALE 112 Sa. College St. Tel. 3-3184 CHARLOTTE, N. C. 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