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Yon can’t go wrong with the right combination. Collective bar gaining and Union-Label buying are the workers’ salvation. Every increase in prices is a cut in wages except when Union people bay Union-made goods and ose Union services. RIN6SIDE GRILL AND SODA 1431 E. Fourth Street Telephone 9825 CHARLOTTE, N. C. GREETINGS ROBINSON ELECTRIC CO., INC. 316 South Poplar Street Phone 8555 CHARLOTTE, N. C. GREETINGS TO LABOR SELWYN HOTEL CHARLOTTE. N. C. LABOR DAY GREETINGS • • THE NATION’S LARGEST AUTOMOBILE . AUCTION SALE IS HELD AT E. M STAFFORD, INC. * ★ 2615 Wilkinson Boulevard Telephone 2-5298 _CHARLOTTE, N. C._ Southern Construction Co. Of Charlotte, Inc. GENERAL CONTRACTORS Post Office Box 1392 Phone 3-9685 CHARLOTTE, N. C. LABOR DAY GREETINGS SOUTHEASTERN GARMENT COMPANY 122 1-2 East Fourth Street CHARLOTTE, N. C. GET A SCOGGINS MONUMENT For on everlasting memory stone SCOGGINS MEMORIAL ART SHOP 730 West Sixth St. • 2-4354 CHARLOTTE, N. C. LABOR DAY GREETINGS SMITH FLOOR FINISHING COMPANY J. L. Smith, Owner RESURFACING — REFINISHING CONTRACT BIDS SUBMITTED Beautiful, Reliable Work 1820 Mecklenburg Ave. Dial 2-3900 CHARLOTTE, N. C. m LABOR DAY GREETINGS TO THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR THE LABEL OF DISTINCTION Basil O’Connor Disagrees With Red Cross Board Statement of Baal! O’Connor, president of the National Fonn datiom tor Infantile Paralysis and for Ire years head of the American Red Cross. “I am making this statement in response to a request form the press that I express my opinion on the action taken by the Board of Governors of the American Red Cross at its meeting in Washington, D. C., on August 13, 1951', with respect to Red Cross chapters participating in joint employee collections. “I do this only because I have a sincere interest in the welfare of Red Cross and honestly be lieve that the new policy adopted by the Board of Governors has within it very real financial dan gers for Red Cross which do not meet the eye of those not familiar with fund-raising. “Reduced to simple language, the new policy adopted by the Board of Governors means that the American Red Cross has finally succumbed to the pressure of the advocates of joint fund raising and now permits its chap ters to participate in joint em ployees collections which invari ably take the form of payroll deductions. “Simple logic seems to lead one to the conclusion that if it is proper for American Red Cross chapters to participate in joint industrial collections, it would be equally valid for them to partici GREETINGS Todds Flowers 1504 Central Art. Tel. 8129 CHARLOTTE, N. C. GREETINGS i. E. Templeton GENERAL CONTRACTOR 2300 Over hi II Road Phone 3-2254 CHARLOTTE, N. C. I GREETINGS Unde Sam's Loan Office 205 E. Trade St. Tat 8276 CHARLOTTE, N. C. GREETINGS Victory Cab Co., Inc. Rida In Safety Rhone 5-2561 400 East Fourth St. CHARLOTTE, N. C. GREETINGS Villa Heights Hardware & Seed Store Phone 4-1853 1203 PARKWOOD AVEL Charlotte, N. C. GREETINGS Wilder Soda Shop 241 South Try on St. Wilder Bldf. Phone 2-6177 CHARLOTTE, N. C. pate in joint community collec tion# such as those conducted by Community Chests. If this oc curred to any great extent Red Cross would again find itself in position it was in 1929 when to raise sufficient funds, it was forced to withdraw 400 Red Cross chapters from this kind of fund raising. Ther new policy adopted by the Board of Governosr would obviously make it difficult, if not impossible, now to compel such chapters to withdraw. “The acceptance by the joint fund raisers of American Red Cross as a participant in joint 1 employee1 collections while at the same time ‘permitting* Red Cross to carry on its regular overall drive in March indicates clearly a radical change in the funda mental philosophy of the propon- : ents of joint fund-raising. Their slogans ‘Too Many Drives’ and ‘Give One For All* must now be abandoned since the public will be giving to Red Cross in the joint employee drive in October and again in the general Drive of the Red Cross in March." Asked about the position of the National Foundation for Infantile Paraylsis with respect to em-' ployee collections for the March ’ of Dimes, Mr. O’Connor said: j "The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis does not seek to participate in industrial col lections from labor, whether joint' or otherwise. The National Foun dation is a voluntary association manned and operated by volun teers and seeking only vofcmtary contribution*. ‘ - “While the slogan of joint fund raising is ‘Give Once For All,’ the motto of the National Foun dation is “Give Voluntarily Qr Not At All.” "Industrial collections from em ployees invariably take the form of pay-roll deductions. To say that such payroll deductions, no matter how 'dressed up,’ are not compulsory assessments on em ployees for health and welfare ac tivities is to evidence a total lack of knowledge as to how this pro cess actually operates. “It is difficult to under stand why employees should be singled out as a class in this particular way or why labor leaders permit their members so to be assessed when others are not. “If funds for health and wel fare are to be obtained by as sessment, then the proper mech anism to use is obviously the power of taxation where the burden falls on all and not just on labor. “If the public will not volun tarily support voluntary associa tions for health and welfare, the indication is that the public be lieves such associations should no longer exist and that health and welfare should be totally a mat ter of governmental operation.. That seventy million people an nually support the March of Dimes shows clearly that the public has reached no such de cision. “Such being the case, the Na tional Foundation through its March of Dimes will continue fo go to all the people of this coun try urging them to 'Give Volun tarily Or Not At All’.* SOUTHERN TEACHERS’ _ SALARIES DOUBLED (Continued From Pi*» 1) • ers have closely parelleled one another in the last ten years— the increases since 1939 were 63 and 60 per cent, respectively, a development which can be attrib uted partly to the increasing im portance of the single salary schedule. By 1949, this type of schedule which bases the teach ers’ pay on amount of training without regard to position had been adopted by more than 90 per cent of the school systems In cities of over 60,000. Over the entire period 1928 to 1949 the average salary of elementary school teachers increased 90 per ■cent as compared with 78 per gent for secondary school teach ers. From 1925 to 1949 teachers’ salaries rose proportionately less in cities of 600,000 or more than in the smaller cities. The rise in the largest cities averaged 70 per cent compared with 92 to 106 per cent increases in the three groups of smaller cities. Most of the divergence in salary trends occurred between 1939 and. 1949; it was particularly marked be in dollar rather than in percen tage terms, there was less spread between the largest cities and the other cities studied, but even in dollars terms the differential in salaries between large and small cities narrowed between 19?9 and 1949. Teachers in the biggest cities received an average in crease of $1,100 to $1,200 during this decade. In the smaller cities average increases varied from $1,300 to $1,400 for the 50,000 to 100,000 group, to $1,500 to $1,600 for the other two groups. The averages for groups of c:*!es, however, do not adequately por tray the wide variations among individual communities. Salary increases between 1939 and 1949 varied among individual cities from 20 to 160 per cent. In dol lar terms, the. range was f:cm $500 to $2,600. Salary indexes point to sharp differences in the rate of change among the nine geographic regions into which the cities were classi fied. From 1925 to 1949 the sal aries in four regions — Border, Southeast, Southwest and Pacific —rose from 111 to 114 per cent; at the same time, the increase In the middle Atlantic states was 65 per cent. The rise in the other regions varied between 80 and 88 per cent. The most marked re gional differences occurred from 1939 to 1949 during which time the middle Atlantic states had the smallest rise—39 per cent: sal aries in the Southeast more than doubled, and in the Southwest, almost doubled. All indexes used in this report are based on salary data for public school classroom teachers employed in cities of 60,000 ot Labor Day Greetings ROY MORRIS, IRC. “The Home of Furniture Values” 217 South Tryon St. Phone 4-3095 CHARLOTTE, N. C. Labor Day Greetings STOCKTON MOTOR CO. AUTOMOBILE REPAIR SERVICE ALL MAKES 1525 South Mint St. Phone 4-5589 CHARLOTTE, N. C. QUEEN CITY LUMBER & SUPPLY COMPANY I LUMBER AND BUILDING MATERIAL. 2501 Weddingrton Ave. Phone 3-4136 CHARLOTTE, N. C. Labor Day Greetings L. S. KELBIU6H & SON Welding Shop Over 25 Yean Experience. WELDING Portable and Stationary - Equipment 415 I. 7th St. Tel. 2-0203 CHARLOTTE, N. C H. A. HOUSE HEATING COMPANY BUILDERS BLDG. TBL. 5-54W CHARLOTTE, N. C. UNITED SELECT FOODS, IRC. 2016 West Morehead CHARLOTTE, N. C. EACH DAY’S WORK givM satisfaction to the man of labor who boss In his wages payment for his skill —the chance to enjoy in this country the highest standard •' of living in the world—an opportunity through saving to build a back-log to sustain himsoli and his family in illnosa. omorgoncy. • •' • ’ • f * , and old ago. Each day's work moans moro monoy. mors clothing, asoro homos, moro automobilos. moro of ovorything lor ovoryono. Labor has boon a dominant factor in making production a tradition in our country—production through which ovoryono who contributes I CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA
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