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AND DIXIE FARM NEWS VOL. XXI; NO. 18 CHARLOTTE, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER «, 1951 Subscription Pries, *2.90 Per Ti CHEST BOARD OF DIRECTORS ADOPTS BUDGET COMMITTEES RECOMMENDATIONS AT WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON MEETING It’s a bigger Red Feather this year as Charlotte an<i Mecklenburg County’s Community Chest will seek a goal of $386,500 to meet the minimum needs of its more than 21 Red Feather Services in the coming year, John F. Watlington, Jr., Chest president, announced this week. The recommendations of the Budget Committee were pre sented by Julian J. Clark, vice-chairman, in the absence of Robert L. Cherry, chairman, and approved by the Chest Board of Directors at their meeting Wednesday afternoon. In announcing the goal, John F. Waltington, Jr., Chest president, explained that it is an increase of 15 per cent over last year’s and is about 10 per cent more than the amount subscribed last year. The goal includes an increase of $42,187 over the amount allocated to the services for the current year. Of this sum, $14,187 is for additional programs for the United Defense Fund, and $28,000 is to local services and offsetting higher operational costs which all Red Feather services are facing. The United Defense Fund in cludes the USO and USO Camp Shows, Emergency Lie flense Serv ices, and Clothes for Korea. LSO • serves men and women in uni from through spiritual, recrea tional and welfare programs in off-post lounges and clubs adja cent to military centers all over the world. USO Camp Shows for troops in the field sponsored two out standing shows laBt spring on tours to Alaska, Hawaii, Japah and Korea. Clothes for Korea will provide for the processing and mailing of wearing apparel collected in this country for the several mil lion refugees in Korea. Emergency Defense Services gives help in establishing much needed health, welfare and rec reation programs in mobilization affected areas throughout the United States. The total amount asked for the United Defense Fund .for the coming year is $23, 187. Charles M. Lowe, general cam paign chairman, explained that three factors justify a greater in vestment in Red Feather service* for 1952—the enlarged program of the Uni \ **nse Fund, the strengthens J number of essential loc es, and the effects of inti.. >n the serv • ices’ operating costs. These have combined, he said, to push the goal to the level of 1945, • war year. “However.” he added, “Meek* lenburg has grown considerably in the last several years, and re ports from other North Carolina communities indicate that their current goals will substantially exceed the amounts raised in 1946.” Mr. Watlington said at the meeting that: “If individuals and firms in Charlotte and Mecklen burg county will add the amount which reflects their increased earnings since they established their standard of giving to the Chest, we can count upon a satis factory outcome of this year's campaign. Our campaign slogan, “What you give makes the dif ference,” emphasises giving gw~ erously and thoughtfully. Current investments in pro grams of Red Feather services include: Charlotte Day Nursery, $11', 156.96; Charlotte Day Nursery (Negro), $5,600; Community Coun cil, $12,635; Family and Children’s Service, $51,688.50; Girl Scouts. $13,002.18; Mecklenburg Associa tion for the Blind, $10,855.62; Mental Hygiene Clinic, $22,337; Salvation Hygiene Clinic, $22,337; cial Service Exchange, $930; Travelers Aid Society, $13,080.23; Y. M. C. A. (Central). $18,567.92; Y. M. C. A. (Negro), $13,460.34; M. C. A. (North Charlotte), $10,069.86; Y. W. C. A. (Cental), $36,813.74; Y. W. C. A. (Negro), $11,153.64; Mecklenburg Associa tion for Handicapped Children, $4,240; N. C. Children’s Home. $4,197.60; United Defense Fund, $8,996; National Social Welfare Assembly, $199 23. Growing Attacks On Public Education Reported At Teachers Convention Grand Rapids. Mich. (ILNSi.— Public education is under increas ing attack, it was charged in re ports presented at the opening here of the 34th annual conven tion of the American Federat'c-n of Teachers, AFT>. A feature of the initial session was a message from President Truman calling for the United States and other free nations of the world to guard their liberties from attacks by internal enemies while strengthening collective de fenses against external aggres sion. Five hundred delegates repre senting a membership of 8,000 teachers attended the convention, which was scheduled to consider such problems as loyalty oaths, academic freedom, federal aid to education and the improvement of working conditions in the na tion’s schools. In his message, President Tru man emphasised building of de-^ fensive military, economic and in dustrial strength and said: “We in the free world must also make sure that, in defending freedom against external attack, we promote it* strength against internal subversion or disintegra tion. Peace and freedom depend on collective measures of this sort. “A special sense of urgency at taches to the meetings of the America Federation of Teachers as it considers ‘education for se curity and international peace,’ Only as American adults, youths and children fully understand the necessities of world co-opera tion and international friendship; only as all of us are ready to sacrifice personal comfort and sel fish advantage for the common purposes of peace and friendship, can we expect to win.” John M. Eklund. president of the federation, reviewed some of the most controversial develop ments of the last academic year in his annual report. A public school teacher of Denver, Colo., he asserted that there had been “a tightening of the noose around the neck of free education as textbooks have been banned, cur ricula mutilated and teaching ma terials subjected to the most re actionary scrutiny.” Cities “Vicious Firing” Eklund said the year had S'-cn “an epidemic of vicious unwar ranted firing of teachers,” in (Continued On Page <) Typographical Union Reports Success In Establishing Its Own Newspapers ATLANTA (ILNS). — The International Typographical Union has been successful in establishing newspapers to give employment to printers in “monopoly” cities. President Woodruff Randolph reported to the union’s 93rd annual convention. President Randolph made a vig orous defense of the use of union funds in establishing newspapers and in fighting strikes and lock j outs. He dealt only briefly with the starting of ITU newspapers but referred delegates to a print ed report of the union’s executive I committae, “The Story of Uni typo.” Unitypo, Inc., is a cor poration organized by ITU through which new newspapers are es tablished. The printed report shows Uni typo is publishing Daily News Di gests in Allentown, Pa., Meriden, Conn., Monroe, La., and Texar kana, Ark., and is installing plants to begin publication in Charleston, W. Va., and Spring field, Mo. Roth Randolph and the printed leport said that financial aid also has been given to assist friendly publishers in esiallishing news papers in cities where existing newspapers are non-union. Randolph declared that despite critics within and without ITU details of such financial aid would not be disclosed, as it would sub ject such publishers to attempted boycotts. Although all details of ITU aid to newspapers was not disclosed, “The Story of Unitypo” reports (Continued On Page 4) Building Trades Support Change In Taft-Hartley Act ATLANTA, GA.—J. L. Rhodes. Southern Director of Organize* tion, American Federation of.La bor, announces this week that for the first time the Building Trades Unions of the Nation had an op portunity to support an amend ment to the Taft-Hartley Law on behalf of the Building Trades or ganizations. Senate Bill No. 1973 has been introduced in the Senate, which reads as follows: “To amend the National Labor Relations Act, as amended with reference tp the building and con struction industry, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and Mouse of Representa tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, (Coatiaoed On Page 4) SOME INDUSTRIES REPORT EMPLOYMENT 200 Df MID-JULY—AVERAGE HOURLY EARNINGS REMAINS UNCHANGED RALEIGH, Sept. 6.—Industrial employment in the Char lotte area dropped slightly from mid-June to mid-July, the State Department of Labor reported today. Factory employment in the area, which totaled 22,200 during the week nearest July 15, was down about 200 front the previous month’s level due to small decreases in the chemical and stone, clay and glass industries. These woe the only manufacturing industries which reported anjr changes in employment during the month, according to bor Department statistician C. H. Pritchard. SAFETY ENGINEERS TO MEET ON SEPTEMBER 12 The North Carolina Society of Safety Engineers will hold its fall meeting September 12 at Pis* gah Forest. The 200 member group of safety industrial safety experts will be guests of the Ecusta Paper Corporation, said H. E. Newbury, president of NCSSE. A business meeting is planned following guided tours through Ecusta’s giant paper and cellophane plants. Peace is for the strong! Buy V. 5. Defense Bonds! And always remember U. S. Defense Bonds are the best investment in the world today. For Defense Bonds are as safe as Amerjpa. Employment in textiles totaled 9,700, in food products, 3,400, w*m~ chinery 1,900, printing1 and pub lishing 1,200, metal products t,~ 200, apparel 500, chemicals 900j, stone, day and glass 1,099, am# miscellaneous other manufacture int industries 2.600. Contract construction firms rm* ported a drop of 200 during the month. Also down 200 below thsr previous month was the tranepop tation, communication and public utility field. Wholesale trad* was up 100 and retail trade -wan down 100. Average hourly earnings of factory workers in the Chariot!* area remained unchanged at |LM during July. The average work week in manufacturing area re mained unchanged at $1.24 daring July. The average workweek i* m a n u f a during establishment* dropped nearly an hour, averag 39.9 hours. Average mr~ which amounted to $49.38, down $1.15 from the month. Hourly earnings increased threw cents in the apparel industry, twin cents in metal products and m penny in atone, clay and glass products. Decreases of two cents were reported by machinery firms and broadwoven fabrics industries Decreases of one cent were re ported by food products and the textile industry as a whole. UNION IS ORDERED TO ADMIT NEGRO I Hartford, Conn. (ILNS). — Am order directing Local 35, Interna tional Brotherhood of Electrifeaf' Workers, to admit two negroes te membership has been issued bt the Connecticut Commission om Civil Rights. The commiaafaafc charged that the union discrim inated against the applicant bjf refusing admittance to thetSL A 3-man tribunal began hear* lags on the case in March. Under the law, the union may appeal ‘ the findings to the superior court The complaints against the US' ion were brought by Mansfield T. Tilley and Warren B. Stewart, both of Hartford. More than 1, 400 pages of testimony were taken during the hearings. The com mission issued a finding directing that the union “cease and desist from excluding" the complainants from “full membership because of race.” "The history of the union shows. • pattern of discrimination against1 negroes,” the finding said, "(for » negroes hare ever been admitted ' into the union. The union ad mits that the complainants wer«- - excluded but claims that their ex clusion was justified. It contends: that the complainants did notr ‘ meet the eligibility requirements -• established by the local union tom their admission as apprentice*^ first, because they were to* oJ<fi» second, because they were no# sponsored by an employer.* The tribunal rejected the claims of the union. “The union has given prefer ence to sons and other relatives of members,” it added. "The in breeding which such nepotism nurtures may discriminate agalnav some white persona bat negroes are thereby excluded from mem bership absolutely.” The finding went on to say that "the union did not set” on the applications of the two migrows ■
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