THE CHARLOTTE LABOR JOURNAL
AND DIXIE FARM NEWS
_ ESTABLISHED* MAY 12. 1»31
Published each week, on Thursday, at 118 East
Sixth Street, Charlotte, North Carolina.
h A gTALLS Mito|r >nd pabllsher
Entered as second-class mail matter September
11, 1931, at the post office at Charlotte, North
Carolina under act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
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RED FEATHER IS A BIGGER RED
FEATHER THIS YEAR
October is Red Feather month and in cit
ies and towns all over America united Red
Feather campaigns are in full swing. That’s
traditional ... it happens every fall.
But this year there’s a difference. The
Red Feather is a BIGGER Red Feather.
Symbol of more than 15,000 health, recre
ation, and welfare services that combine
their annual appeals once a year in more
than 1,300 local Community Chest cam
paigns, the Red Feather this year has an
added assignment: the UNITED DEFENSE
FUND.
* William Green, president of the American
Federation of Labor, has endorsed , this
phase of the Chest activities this year as
being most worthy and very essential. Our
mobilization for the defense of democracy
demands efficiency, economy, and wise plan
ning in health and welfare services just as
it does in industry. The United Defense
Fund answers that demand, for it finances
the combined strength and know-how of na
tional health, recreation and welfare serv
ices working together to meet the human
problems growing out of the national
emergency.
Included in the United Defense Fund are
USO and USO Camp Shows, Emergency De
fense Sendees and American Relief for Ko
rea (clothing, blankets, and sewing materi
als).
When you contribute with generosity to
Charlotte and Mecklenburg County’s cam
paig, you are helping to strengthen and der
fend our democracy.
The local campaign gets under way next
Tuesday! GIVE GENEROUSLY!
PROTECTS RIGHTS OF MARRIED
WOMEN WORKERS
A question of some social significance has
been decided in the State of Connecticut,
where Unemployment Commissioner Edward
A. Connell recently upheld a woman war
worker in her unwillingness to accept a job
which required her to work later than five
p. m.
It seems that the lady, married and the
mother of a child, was receiving unemploy
ment benefits. She was offered a job to
work until six p. m. but refused it on the
grounds that she should be home with her
daughter. The lady was perfectly willing
td work nine hours a day if she could start
at seven in the morning.
The Commissioner ruled that she was still
entitled to unemployment compensation un
til she found suitable employment. He held
that to disqualify her would be to nullify
the liberal social objectives and to work at
cross purposes to the national defense pro
gram and deprive the American home and
family of the protection to which it was
entitled. He considered the period from five
p. m. to seven p. m. a critical one in the av
erage American household and. particularly
so, where both husband and wife are em
ployed.
DEMOCRACY IS SCARCE AMONG THE
, NATIONS
The United States, according to John
Cowles, prominent newspaper and magazine
publisher, just returned from a trip to the
Near East and Asiatic countries, has made
a mistake in talking about “democracy” in
stead of talking about peace.
Mr. Cowles makes the point that "aside
from the British Commonwealth and a few
countries in Northwestern Europe, those
concepts have little popular appeal,” and
that most people, “especially in the Near
East and Asia, have no idea what the words
even mean.**
Mr. Cowles also makes a valid criticism,
we think, when he complains that the
United States keeps “talking about the vir
tues of private capitalism and free enter
prise,” forgetting that, excluding in some
degree the British Commonwealth and a
handful of small countries, capitalism as
practiced in the rest of the world has meant
the exploitation of the masses by a few
rich people.
What the publisher wants is the constant
proclamation, at every opportunity, that
“we favor universal disarmament, under ef
fective international control, and continuous
United Nations inspections.” F« admits
that there is not “one chance in a thousand”
that Russia would agree to such control, but
he thinks our affirmations would greatly
strengthen our psychological position all
over the world.
PROPER RESTRICTIONS WOULD END
SCANDALS
There is much talk at the present time
about the “greed for sate receipts” that is
exhibited by collegiate athletic enterprises,
■which means football, and various sugges
tions that, in the opinion of the authors,
would solve the problem and eliminate the
scandals in recent months.
While The Labor Journal would not ad
vise any young man to, participate in collegi
ate football, because of the chance of seri
ous injury and consequent disability, there
is little to be gained by abolishing the sport,
either from an intercollegiate or an intra
mural standpoint. The quest for promising
football “prospects” and a winning team
has led to some strange developments in re
cent years. The football eleven of few in
stitutions of learning represents a cross
sedtion of the football skill of those who
would normally attend such colleges or uni
versities. Very often they represent some
thing like professionalism on a so-called
amateur basis.
The Labor Journal thinks many o: me
abuses of intercollegiate foolball would be
ended if proper restrictions were placed
around those who played on the elevens rep
resenting any institution. Certainly, any
college or university has an area from which
it draws a normal number of students. This
is the actual opearating radius of the insti
tution and its football team should be re
stricted to those who reside in it. Naturally
there are great institutions with radii that
extend for unlimited distances but most of
the colleges in the nation have a radius that
can be clearly determined.
Our idea is that College X, which draws
most of its students from State X, should
not be permitted to play any students ex
cept those who come from its well-defined
supporting area. We do not see much diffi
culty involved in the determination of ade
quate radii for the various colleges and,
when the time comes to schedule games, the
colleges could compete on the basis of their
comparable radii.
Imagine a college in North Carolina for
example, with a football team made up very
largely of players who come from other
States, some 500 or more miles from the in
stitution of learning. Nobody suspects that
these players represent students from the
radius in which the influence of the college
operates. What they represent is good foot
ball “prospects,” who receive an athletic
scholarship and possibly other financial con
siderations, for leaving their homes and
journeying to a far place in order to play
football under profitable conditions.
TITO SAYS RUSSIA MASSING BOMBERS
TO ATTACK HIS NATION
"What good would houses and railways
and factories be if we had to Hve under a
Soviet governor?”
This is the question that Premier Mar
shal Tito asked the people of Yugoslavia,
after telling them that the Soviet Union is
massing bombers in Hungary and other
neighboring lands to attack Yugoslavia.
In a strong attack on the Soviet Union,
which he accused of having “imperalist
aims” and of wanting “to dominate all na
tions,” the Yugoslavian leader gave praise
to the Western nations. Declaring that
Yugoslavia had turned to the West for sal
vation, Marsha] Tito said that “they did give
us help and they did not try to dominate
us.”
Declaring that “we are arming ourselves
and we are on the alert,” the Premier ac
cused Soviet Premeir Joseph Stalin of “be
ing bent on an imperialist campaign of con
quest in the Balkans unrivaled by even old
Czarist Russia.”
A SINCERE WELCOME AWAITS ROYAL
ENGLISH COUSINS
The Labor Journal is quite sure that
the people of the United States will wel
come Princess Elizabeth of the British Em
pire and her husband, the Duke of Edin
burgh, when they arrive in this country in
the latter part of this month.
Because of the close cultural ties which
exist between the English-speaking nations
and the bonds of friendship, forged in two
world wars, the reception accorded the royal
pair will be exceptionally warm. Neverthe
less, there is no reason for Americans to
forego their republican ideas or to forget
that, after all, this country is not inclined
to ttach great importance to positions ac
quired by the accident of birth.
No doubt many newspaper editors, radio
commentators and other speakers will blow
their tops but, after all, the young lady and
her husband represent no more than the
average couple, trying* to fulfill the onerous
obligations of life in a satisfactory and cred
itable manner.
HOW THINGS DO HAPPEN!
“Gosh, what a war!” declares Mrs. Janet
Mullin, of Mt. Ephraim, N. J. “Y.our hus
band gets shot on the other side of the
world one day and the next he's calling from
his hospital room to tell you about it.”
The lady had just received a telephone
message from her husband in a hospital in
Pusan. He had been hit and hospitalized
twice before, but, she reports, “He sounded
just as if he had been calling from Atlantic
City to say he was about to go swimming.”
The incident emphasizes not only the pro
gress that has been made in the treatment
of wounded servicemen, but the great pro
gress that has been made in communica
tions throughout the world. It is not only
“what a war,” as this wife exclaims, you
might also say, “What a world!”
135,000 WORKERS IN
SOUTH GET RAISES
DURING SEPTEMBER
Approximately 135,000 workers
in the South shared in more than
175 wa^e settlements which were j
made during past month, ac- j
cording to Brunswick A. Bagdon,
Southern Regional Director of the
U. S. Department of Labor’s Bu
reau of Labor Statistics. This
represents a sharp drop of 180,000
workers affected as compared with
a month ago and about 22 per
cent from the number of settle
ments reported last month.*
About 75 per cent of the Sep
tember settlements involved wage
increases only; more than 20 per
cent included both wage and
fringe benefits; and about two per
cent provided for additional fringe
benefits only. Agreement exten
sions with no changes in wages or
supplementary benefits were made
si about three per cent of the set
tlements.
Wage increases of 5 cents to 10
cents an hour accounted for ap
proximately 50 per cent of the
changes. Increases of over 10
cents and up to 20 cents an hour
accounted for more than 20 per
cent, while increases of less than
5 cents were granted in about 20
per cent of the settlements. Only
5 per cent of the changes were for
over 20 cents an hour. No attempt
has been made to determine whe
ther these wage changes are per
missible under existing Wage Sta
bilization Board regulations, but
over 10 per cent ot these settle
ments are known to require WSB
approval.
The greatest wage change ac
tivity during this period occurred
I in Construction, Foods, Govern
j ment (non-federal), and Metal
Products. About 8,000 employes of
food establishments received in
creases of from 2 cents to 10
cents an hour. More than 10,000
building trades employes received
raises of 10 to 15 cents an hour.
Over 40,000 workers in the metal
products industries were granted
pay boosts ranging from 1 cent to
9 cents an hour.
Salary or wage increases for
| State, county and municipal em
ployes accounted for about 20 per
cent of all wage changes during
September. Many of the changes
involved small municipalities af
fecting only 10 to 5# employes m
each case. The amounts varied
from $10 to $25 per month.
'Information was compiled
from direct reports, newspapers,
union and trade journals and oth
er sources.
OISALLE DENOUNCES
PRICE CHISELERS AND
PRAISES AFl UNIONS
San Francisco (ILNS).‘—Price
Stabilizer Michael V. DiSalle, ad
dressing the American Federation
of Labor convention here, de
nounced the “chiselers and jack
als who seek to make personal
financial gains from the national
emergency” by gouging the public
on prices.
“When Communist aggression
brought heavy military spending
‘defense-prosperity,some people
saw it as an opportunity to ex
ploit the emergency and pluck
their fellow citizens,” DiSalle de
clared.
“The willingness to exploit the
emergency,” he added, “wu not
confined to any particular segment
of our population. In all walks
of life we found individuals who
considered it smart to make the
nation’s welfare secondary to
their own selfishness.”
But, he said, price and wage
controls have had a powerful ef
fect against inflation. He said
the cost of living, which rose 8
per cent from June, 1950, to Feb
ruary this year, has risen less
than 1 per cent since February,
when price control took effect.
DiSalle said that too much
could not be expected from price
controls in and of themselves. The
fight to hold the price line was
far from over, he asserted, but
said that “we are not giving up
the fight.”
Praisee AFL War Record
In •* tribute to the AFL, Di
Salle said:
“We know the public-spirited
support of the AFL has given
measures for the advancement
and welfare of all our people. We
know the federation’s patriotic
record of long hours, back-break
ing toil, and record production
that did so much to speed victory
in World War II.
“I am confident that you will
meet any new challenge—of in
flation. at home, of an aggressor
abroad—with the same patriotism
fnd sacrifice.”
FOURTH RE6KM WSB ,
NAMES ENFORCEMENT .
OFFICIALS, ALTERRATES
The Fourth Regional Watte
Stabilization Board has announced
appointment of its Regional En
forcement Commission composed
of three regular members and one
alternate, all representing the
general public. The Enforcement
Commission members of the
Fourth Regional Board with head
quarters at 21 East Broad Street,
Richmond, Virginia, are:
Francis J. Kelly, Chairman, of
Washington. D. C., attorney and
arbitrator, general counsel of the
American Roadbuilders Associa
tion, general counsel of the Con
struction Contractors Council, and
formerly an industry member of
the National War Labor Board
Appeals and Review Committee.
Sam B. Witt, Attorney of
Richmond, Virginia, Commission
er in Chancery and formerly
member of special panel of the
OPA during World War II on,
violations of regulations in the
use of gasoline rationing.
McDonald Wellford, Attorney
of Richmond, Virginia, formerly
a staff attorney for the OPA,
formerly District Rent Executive
and Chairrlan of the District Co
ordinating Staff.
George T. Starnes, Alternate,
arbitrator and labor economics J
professor at the University of
Virginia. Author of numerous
1 »ooks on labor economics, former
ly panel chairman of the Rich
mond Regional War Labor Board
during World War II.
The WSB’s Regional Enforce
ment Commissions will hear cases
of violations of wage stabilization
regulations brought to them by
the enforcement attorneys of the
regional general counsel’s staff.
Many investigations of reported
violations are already being
(Checked by the inspectors of the
regional staffs of the Wage and
Hour Division of the U. S. De
partment of Labor and their re
ports will be examined by the
enforcement attorneys of the WSB
regional offices.
The Regional Enforcement Com
missions, as well as the National
Enforcement Commission of the
WSB in Washington, are being
formed of all public members, as
differentiated from the tripartite
labor-industry-public, nature of the
WSB itself and the WSB regional
boards. Members of the Regional
Enforcement Commission^ will
serve on a part-time basis, when
ever they are actually needed to
hear cases, and alternates are
also being appointed to assure
full commissions when necessary.
FALL FROM CAR FATAL
OAKLAND, Cal.—While out
riding: with her grandfather, Wil
liam Russell, 72, little Kathleen
Sullivan. 6, climbed into the back
seat to open a window. She
grasped the wrong: handle, opened
the door and fell out. She was
fatally injured.
BIBLE VERSE TO STUDY
“The sen shall net bear the in
iquity of the father, neither shall
the father bear the iniquity of the
son: the righteousness of the
righteous shall be upon him, and
the wickedness of the wicked shall
be upon him.”
• • •
1. Where are those words found
in the Bible?
2. Who spoke them?
3. What was the role of the
writer?
4. Do you recall another verse
about the “iniquity of the fath
ers?”
(Answers On Pags5 4)
1. What is the highest peak
east of the Mississippi?
2. Where is the largest dam io
Eastern America located?
3. Name the world’s longest
railroad tunnel.
4. What is the average depth
of the Pacific Ocean?
5. For what is the Diligentl
family of Argentina best known?
6. What is the population of
Canada?
7. Who said: ‘Three things are
men most likely to be cheated in:
a horse, a wig, and a wife?”
8. Who discovered the Pacific
Ocean? >
9. Name the 13 original United
States.
10. Was Norman Rockwell, the
artist, born in the U. S.?
(See “The Answers” On Page 4)
WISE AND OTHERWISE
Candid Comment
All too often the clever girl who
knows all the answers is never
asked.—Wall Street Journal.
* * *
Times Change
Red tape used to be the issue
in government. Now it is Red in
fluence.—Dothan (Ala.) Eagle.
• * *
Probably So
When a sailor breaks a date,
it’s usually because he has to;
when a girl breaks a date, it’s
usually because she has two.—U.
S. Coast Guard Magazine.
• • •
The Vanished Quagga
The last quagga died in 1872 in
the gardens of the Zoological So
ciety of London. The quagga be
longs to the horse genus and re
sembled the zebra.—Pleasures of
Publishing.
• • •
Distinction
Dispatch says the Reds have
“expressed disgust” at the Amer
ican practice of handing candy to
the kids at Kaesong. Adult Reds,
that is.—Little Rock (Ark.) Ga
zette.
• • •
Feathered Fun
Who knows with what quiet
amusement the lower forms of
animal life observe their betters.
Crows, for example. It is our
impression that they organize in
groups of people-watchers.—Ricn
mond Times-Dispatch.
• • •
Ironical Note
The people who spend large
sums in an attempt to grow slen
der are among the first to set up
a howl over a reduction in butter
supplies.—Christian Science Mon
itor.
• a •
Definition
A professor is a man whose job
is to tell students how to solve
the problems of life which he him
self has tried to avoid by be
coming a professor.—A. M. A.
Journal.
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• •
•Oh, Sue, he's a dell I He's tall
and he's cute, and his father gives
lust heaps to the Coianunity Chest.*
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TMiTmt!
Something New
(The long-winded lecturer had
been holding forth for over an
hour, except for brief pauses from
time to time to gulp a hasty
drink of water.
Finally, during one such pause,
an old farmer in the audience
leaned toward his neighbor and
! announced in a loud whisper:
I “First time I ever saw a wind
mill run by water.”
* * •
Terrific Speed
A jet plane pilot had the job of
carrying a Very Important Person
to New York City. After a short
time in the air he turned to the
big shot: “We missed New York,
sir. Well have to circle back.”
“How could you possibly miss a
huge city like New York?” blus
tered the VIP.
The pilot confessed: “I blinked.”
* * •
Ideal Set-Up
Two men were discussing the
coming marriage of their buddy.
“He is getting a wonderfully
accomplished girl,” said one. “She
can swim, ride, drive a car, and
i pilot a plane. A real all-around
j girl.”
“They ought to get along,” ob
served the other. “He learned to
cook in the army.”
• • *
Curious
“Any questions about Washing
ton ?” asked the teacher.
“Yes’m,” replied the little boy
with freckles. “Did the G-man
let the camera boys take his pic
ture in the middle of the Dela
ware?”
“And was that real snow or
confetti ?”
* * *
Silly Question
Scene: Courtroom. Prosecutor
turns to defendant. “Madam, on
the day of the crime, while walk
ing your dog, did you stop any
j where?”
The spectators sat tensely while
I she replied: “Sir, did you ever
walk a dog?”
• • •
Public Property
A soldier parked an army jeep
and started walking down the
! street. A policeman called after
him: “Hey, buddy, drop a nickel
in that parking meter.”
“Put it in yourself,” the GT
yelled back. “That jeep belongs
to you as much as it does to me.”
* * *
Short Time
A social observer says that to
be a caddy is bad for a young
man because caddies get their
money easily.
A caddy of our acquaintance in
dignantly denies this: he says
that watching some of the peo
ple he had gone around with has
undoubtedly shortened his life.
• • •
Buried Treasure: The first hus
band a woman is always bragging
about to her second.
60L0EN GLEAMS
He who lives without commit
ting any folly is not so wise as
he thinks.—La Rochefoucaul.
It is pleasant at times to play
the madman.—Seneca.
• • •
Foolery, sir, does walk about
the world like the sun, it shines
everywhere.-Shakespeare.
„ • • •
Men are so necessarily fools
that it would be being a fool in
* higher strain of folly not to be
s fool.—Pascal.
• • •
How much folly there is in hu
man affairs.—Persius.
* * •
A little nonsense now and then
Is relished by the wisest men.
—Anonymous.
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Live your own life, for you wiH
;;; your ow» death._Utin Prov