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The Charlotte Labor Journal ■ ' - '*■* Presenting Labor News and Views Without Fear and Without Favor VOL XXII; NO. 2 CHARLOTTE, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1952 Subscription Price $2.00 Per Year Primary Election Campaign Grows Lively Two-Day Typographical Meeting Opens Saturday honored Guest HAROLD H. CLARK, Vice-President International Typographical Union » Indianapolis, Indiana County Candidates Move Fast As The May 31st Primary Date Draws Nigh The unusually large list of candidates seeking public of fice in Mecklenburg County are moving about at lively gaits during the remaining days before the Democratic Primary election in efforts to contact as many voters as possible before the polls open on Saturday morning, May 31. at sunrise. In the races for members of the Board of County Commission ers the campaigning has been go ing on for several weeks, with the issue regarding last year's revaluation of Mecklenburg prop erty taking topmost place. The “ins” believe they have done the right thing in bringing about this revaluation. They . say that it will result in a lower tax rate on the $100 valuation of county property and also place the coun ty in a more favorable position in disposing of its bonds, etc. The “outs” say they are repre senting a thought almost univer sal throughout the county which has opposed both the manner in which the revaluation was ob tained and the necessity for it. So the various candidates go forth to do battle for the ballots. Three candidates are running for Chairman of the Board of County Commissions, while 13 seek membership on the Board, four to be elected. The Senate race finds four candidates seeking this highly im portant office, one to be elected, and seven candidates are running for membership in the State House of Representatives, four to be elected. Two seek the office of Register of Deeds, and six are running for the County School Board, two to be elected. For Constable in Charlotte Township, two are running, and likewise, two are seeking the of fices of constable in the Crab Orchard and Morning Star Town ships. The last week of the campaign 4 ing is expected to grow hotter and only the voters themselves know whom they will support and vote for. In the race for Governor, one Charlotte man, Manley R. Duna way, seeks this top office, while Wiliam B. Umstead of Durham and Hubert E. Olive of Lexing ton, are the other candidates. For Lieutenant Governor: Four seek this office, they being Luther H. Hodges, Ben J. Mc Donald, Marshall C. Kurfees^tfnd Roye Rowe. For Commissioner of Insur ance John N. Frederick of Char lotte has cast his hat into the ring against the incumbent, Waldo C. Cheek. R. Hunt Parker, William H. Bobbitt, Itimous T. Valentine and Oscar O. Efird are running for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, short term, one to be elect ed. For Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, regular term, the Please Turn to Page 4 Convention Headquarters To Be At Hotel Charlotte The 1952 Virginia-Carolinas, District of Columbia, Mary land and Tennessee Typographical Conference will open its two-day sessions here Saturday, May 24, at Hotel Charlotte. Delegates and visitors from the several States will begin arriving Friday. Jhe May 24-25 meeting1 will be the 32nd session of the conference since it was first organized in January, 1926, in Charlotte. This 1952 meeting is to be celebrated as the Silver Anniversary of the Conference and local Typograph ical Union officers and commit tees have been busy for several months making plans for enter taning the visiting delegates and other visitors at this Silver Jub ilee get-together. A number of prominent speak ers will be on hand to address the sessions, among whom will be Vice President Harold H. Clark of the International Typographi cal Union. Woodruff Randolph, ITU president, and Don Hurd, ITU secretary, were invited but previous engagements made it impossible for them to accept. Vice President Clark is expected to arrive Friday afternoon. He will be at the Hotel Charlotte. The conference will officially open at 10:00 a. m. Saturday with registration of delegates and vis itors. At 2:00 p.m. the conference will be called to order in the Kuester room by J. T. Primm, president of Charlotte Typograph ical Union. Invocation will be said by Rev. Robt. H. Stamey, pastor of Commonwealth Method ist church, followed by a brief welcome from John P. White, 53 year member of the International Typographical Union. Mayor Victor Shaw will make the address of welcome to the conference, followed by Chief of Police Littlejohn of the Charlotte Police department. Following the addresses of welcome the conven tion will then be officially called to order by President E. M. Hath away of Richmond. At 4:00 p. m. tea for the dele gates and guests will be served by the Ladies Auxiliary of the Virginia-Carolinas Typographical Conference in Parlors E & F on the Mezzanine floor. This will ! be sponsored by the Ladies Auxil iary of Charlotte. Mrs. Radford B. Alexander, conference auxili ary president, will preside. Mrs. Sam F. Blackwelder, secretary of local 375, Post Office Clerks, will be a guest speaker for this oc casion. At 9:00 p. m. a dance will be gin in the4 ball room, the music to be furnished by Gibb Todd’s orchestra. Sunday Events 9:00 A. M.—Business session in the Kuester Room. 9:30 A. M.—Business session of Ladies Auxiliary in Tryon Room. During this session judging of ) various posters and articles will take place, the awards tp be made by five judges picked at random from the conference membership. Banquet and Speakers At 1:30 p. m. the banquet will begin in the ball room, presided over by John P. White as toast master. Mr. White is a 63-year member, retired mechanical sup ; erintendent of The Observer and | former city councilman. At the banquet session the in vocation will be given by Dr. Charles G. McClure, pastor of ; Caldwell Memorial Presbyterian church and speakers will be Vice President Harold H. Clark of the International Typographical Un ion; Ralph Nicholson, publisher of The Charlotte Observer and by Thomas L. Robinson, publisher of The Charlotte News. The honor guests, besides Mr. Clark, will be J. Ed Dowd, gen eral manager of The Charlotte News; H. A. Allen, business man ager of The Charlotte Observer; C. A. Fink, president of the North Carolina Federation of Labor; Hubert E. Olive, candidate for Governor of North Carolina; May Victor H. Shaw; Jord H. Jordan of the Herald Press; and Giles C. Courtney, first secretary treasurer and one of the original founders of the conference 25 years ago. Smith Bill Is Branded / Usurper Of Rights “Totalitarianism at its worst could do sno more to usurp indi vidual rights, both civil and prop erty. In all my years of service as president of the American Federation of Labor I have sel dom seen a more shocking: pro posal than that contained in the Smith bill.” With such statements William Green, AFL president, denounced H. R. 7647, a measure introduced by Rep. Howard W. Smith (D., Va.) to amend the Universal Mil itary Training: and Service Act. The AFL president pointed out to the House Committee on Armed Services, in testimony pre sented by Herbert Thatcher, as sociate counsel for the AFL, that the means suggested by Smith for handling an industrial dispute “which would in any way imperil the national defense and to as sure continuous production" would act drastically against the rights of workers, and in no way affect rights, profits or operation of employers. Injunction Settles Nothing The Smith bill would direct the Attorney General to ask the courts for an injunction. The injunction process, Green declared, could be used indiscriminately against the labor organisation in* volyed. Please Turn to Page 3
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