HE CHARLOTTE LABOR JOURNAL - AND DIXIE FARM NEWS Oldest continuously p« Mis hod Labor Publication in the two Carolina*. Published each week, on Thursday, at 1783 Statesville Avoaue, Charlotte, North Carolina. H- A. STALLS. Editor and Publisher Entered a» second-class mail matter September 11, 1981, at the post office at Charlotte, North Carolina, under act of Congress at March 3, 1879. Endorsed by Charlotte Typogr-pnical Union No. 388, an affiliate of Charlotte Central Labor Union and the North Carolina Federation of Labor. Subscription price $2,00 per year. Advertising rates made known upon application. Special rates on legal notices. Careful attention given same. The Charlotee Labor Journal welcomes Open Forum opinions and other correspondence, but reserves the right to edit and/or reject libelous reading matter and questionable advertising. THE CHARLOTTE LABOR JOURNAL P. O. Box 1M1 Charlotte, N. C. MORE HANDCUFFS? More handcuffs will be put on trade unions if reaction aries win the elections next November. That’s the plain warning of none other than the Wall Street Journal. In its lead story recently, The Journal reported, ‘Influen tial Republicans and Southern Democrats are mulling over such schemes as puttinig labor under antitrust laws, or sim ply breaking up nation-wide unions.” The Journal said Sen. Robert Taft (R., Ohio) wants to put through what he calls “an anti-labor-monopoly law.’* “Industry-wide bargaining.” The Journal reported, “would be outlawed in most industries by requiring the employes In each separate company to choose their own bargaining agent. No union official would be entitled to negotiate labor contracts for the employes of more than one company.” It said that Taft now thinks this ban on industry-wide bargaining should have been written into the Taft-Hartley Act. The Journal comments, “This November’s elections hold the key to what happens. It’s a good bet that Congress will wait for a clue from the voters this fall before embark ing on a drive against industry-wide bargaining.” The job ahead for trade unionists and their friends is clear: Whether they will wear more legislative sfflfekles, or, in some cases, lose union protection altogether, depends on their going to the polls. Are you registered to vote? AMA’a POLITICAL PILLS / John McCormack (D., Mans.), the floor leader of the House, hsa served in Congress for 24 years. He therefore, knows what lobbyinig pressure means. But it took the American Medical Association to put on what McCormack called “the greatest exhibition of pres sure” he had ever seen when it succeeded in getting the House to kill a measure to improve the Social Security Law. “We hear all this talk about pressure groups working on Congress,” McCormack said. “In this case, within the twinkling of an eye, through one telegram, the AMA per suaded 140 members of the House to vote differently from the way they had intended to vote/' The AMA raised the old cry of "Socialism” against the bill because it provided for representatives of the Federal government to check on examinations of disabled persons made by private physicians, just as in cases of veterans who claim disability benefits. The AMA reported spending more than $69,000 on 'Ub?' ing during the first 3 months of this year—more than any other group except the National Association of Electric Companies. --—-- \ CHURCHES AND SOCIALISM Amid cries that America is headed toward “Socialism” comes the report that the income of Protestant churches is running at record levels. According* to Dr. Albert M. Conover, director of the Bu reau of Church Building and Architecture of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U. S., Protestant churcn Income now amounts to $1.2 billion a year, or $400 million more than the churches received in 1929, and $800 million more than their income during the depression years. More than $1 billion worth of work on Protestant church building^ alone are in architects’ offices awaiting construc tion starts. And experts predict that church construction this year will exceed the 3,726 churches built at a cost of $260 million in 1950. The Year Rook of American Churches reported that churches of all faiths own more than $7 billion in property of all kinds. Socialism ? Some of The Things We Lend Money on Diamond* Watchm Jewelry Mena Clot king Tool* Silverware Shot Gann Rifle* Pistole Trunks Adding Mar Hines Bags Sait Com* Maaical Instruments Kodak* Typewriter* All Business Strictly Confidential. When in Need of Money We Never Fail Yon. See u for kirfda la dtamoadn. w at rhea. jewelry, elauuag. eta RELIABLE LOAN CO Ml BAST TRAOR STMRRT ! SERVING THE SOUTH WITH GREATER FOOD VALUES! Shop And Save At The Sign Of The CS Rooster Colonial Stores ._;_ Minimum Standards Set To Bar Inferior Bread By BERT SEIDMAN The Food and Drug Administration has announced mini mum standards for five leading kinds of bread: white, en riched, milk, raisin, and whole wheat. Unfortunately, FDA decided to set maximum standards for bread at the same time it was putting a floor under quality. Apparently FDA feels that the housewife is not entitled to the best bread she can get. The main effect of the minimum standards is to limit to 38 per cent the, amount of moisture that j bread can contain. The re maining 62 per cent must be edible. Another important decision was to exclude from the list: of permitted ingredients chemical “softeners” which have the effect of making bread appear fresh even when it is actually stale. The FDA said that such soften ers have not proved to be safe for human consumption.; In setting maximum stand ards, the FDA said that the McKay Formula bread de veloped at Cornell University which contains more of the nutritious milk solids, soy flour, and wheat germs than FDA's maximum standards for white bread cannot be called white bread. The FDA claimed that consumers would be confused if the Cornell-developed bread were sold under the white bread label—this despite the fact that over 500,000 loaves a day are sold. rood Buys Moat markets'will be bulg ing with broilers and fryers in June. Eggs and oranges also will be plentiful. All of these items are expected to bo reasonably, priced. \ ou will also find good supplies of canned and froz en citrus products, lots of leaf and head lettuce, and many early summer vege tables, including asparagus, grlen beans, spinach and other greens, and carrots. There should also be plenty of canned peas. Don’t throw away celery leaves. The tender, inner leaves should be eaten along with the stalk or cut up in salad; outer, less tender leaves may be cooked or used in soup or Stuffing. When cooking meat re member that moderate heat keeps losses low—that means more meat left to serve for each pound purchased. The Department of Agri culture has established three grades for ready - to - cook poultry. A Grade poultry is lim ited to high quality birds with no deformities, well fleshed, and with fat well dis tributed under the skin. B Grade birds will be those falling short of these stand ards, and the C quality is of still lower quality. Government - graded birds will carry a label in the shape of a shield and carry the words, “U. S. Grade A” or whatever quality the bird may be. You may not remember all the things you want to buy if you don’t carry a shopping list, but you can always re member to look for the union label on all your purchases. FATE OF TIDRLANDS (Continued From Page 1) candidate. Party leaden who want preferred treatment were warned they'd better get on the bandwagon before itfe too late. Following the election of solid blocks of delegates in Oregon and Vermont, supporters of Gen. Dwight Eisenhower claimed 642 first ballot votes, with victory on the second ballot. A majority of California’s 70 votes, switching from Gov. Warren, or a majority of the votes from Pennsylvania and Michigan, will get more than the 604 needed to nominate, said Ike’s backers. V Many believe that South Da kota’s last-in-the-nation June 3 primary, with only 14 delegates at stake, may be just as crucial as' the New Hampshire first-in-the nation primary, which also in volved only 14 delegates. , DEVER TO KEYNOTE Gov. Paul A. Dover of Massa chusetts will be keynoter and House Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas will be permanent chair man at the Chicago Democratic national convention July 21. Rep. ‘ John McCormack (Mass.) will be chairman of a preliminary plat- j form drafting committee, in which 1 civil rights again will be an ex-! plosive issue. Getting 12 votes in the Oregon primary, Sen. Ke fauver was estimated by the As sociated Press to have 114 dele gates so far. He claimed 127. Ayerell Harriman, next was esti mated to have 92 1-2. AFL WINS TWO PLANTS (Continued From Page 1> to 14 employes. Among the cease-and-desist items was one against “requiring employes to be Frank Edwards Says: IGNORING THE CONSUMER . . . The Senate Banking Committee has voted to extend the weak price control program only until next March 1. Two Democratic committee members warned this action would weaken the dikes against inflation. They criticized the | committee for not adopting a single amendment favoring i the consuming public. The committee also voted to strip the Wage Stabilization Board of its authority to settle la bor disputes and proposed leaving only public members on the board. Previously, when former Mobilization Chief Charles Wilson was asked who these public members might be. he replied: “Businessmen.” TAKING THE WRAPS OFF . . . _ Another move toward runaway inflation came when the rederal Reserve Board lifted all restrictions on installment! buying. \\ arehouses are stuffed with merchandise bought j largely with borrowed money. If the public buys this mer chandise, banks will get their loans repaid, merchants will I pay off their inventory loans, and the public will have ad ditional billions of dollars in installment payments to pay off . . . if it can. JOE GOT YOUR MONEY . . . The Senate group investigating the fitness of Seen. Joe | McCarthy