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CHARLOTTE, N. C.
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CHARLOTTE, N. C.
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Charlotte, N. C.
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CHARLOTTE, N. C.
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WIRING AND LIGHTING CONTRACTORS
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303 South Mint S. Phone 3-4834
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CHARLOTTE, N. C.
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CHARLOTTE, N. C.
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FIRST AFL CONVENTION
IN OVER 28 YEARS
WITHOUT GREEN IN CHAIR
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which the companies cheated the
miners out of pay of coal that
went through the screen, even
though this coal was sold. One
of Green's first acts when he be
came a state senatpr some years
later was to introduce and nurse
to passage a bill outlawing the
hated mine screen.
By the time Green was 18, he
was secretary of his local and for
the next 17 years he served his
union in one capacity or another
while working in the mines. In
1900, he was elected UMW sub
district head and in 1906 Ohio
district president. He ran un
successfully for UMW president
it 1908, but was appointed stati
stician.
That same year he was elected
tc the state senate where he
served two years. In addition to
the mine screen law, he won pas
sage of a model workmen's com
pensation law to protect families'
of workers from the starvation
that followed industrial accidents.
As unions in other states pressed
for similar laws, Green traveled
throughout the nation leading the
campaign.
Returning to his union work.
• Green in 1912 was elected UMW
j secretary-treasurer, a post he was
I to fill for 12 years, and in 1913
he also became a UMW vice
[ president. When Samuel Gompers
died in December, 1924, he was
elected AFL president by the fed
eration executive council. Only a
few weeks previously, he had been
elected third vice president after
being nominated by his UMW
chief, John L. Lewis.
Green for many years had been
a firm believer in social progress
through legislation and he now
turned the AFL’s path in that
direction. The Administration of
Franklin D. Roosevelt finally
brought the passage of law*
Green had urged for many years.
But the depression years were
:ifficult ones for the labor move
ment. By 1933, AFL membership
had sunk to pre-war levels and
its leadership was splif between
proponents of craft and industrial
unionism. Green himself favored
the latter, but, voted down at the
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Fruits —Produce —- Eggs
Butter — Cheese
501 South College
Phone 2-3137
Charlotte, N. C.
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PRESIDENT MEANY’8
I ABOR DAY ADDRESS
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recovered partially from their
flight and surprise and ordered
mass arrests and executions, the
uprisings continued. The spirit of
free workers cannot be stamped
out. It is the great weakness of
the Soviet armor.
Historically, working men have
always earned their freedom and
their progress by struggle and by
sacrifice. That is the tradition
we honor on Labor Day. We are
proud but not surprised that the
workers of eastern Europe are
marching in the front ranks of
this battle today.
AFL SALUTES FIGHTERS
W’e of the American Federation
of Labor salute the fighters for
freedom overseas. Let me as^
sure them that they do not fight
alone. Food has gone forward.
Relief for the families of mar
tyred workers is being provided.
The American trade union move
ment has contributed the relief
fund being raised by the Interna
tional Confederation of Free
Trade Unions to assist refugees
and to provide whatever further
aid circumstances permit.
We are committed with ail our
resources to the cause of free
trade unionism, which is the only
practical road to peace, democracy
and higher standards for the un
derprivileged. We believe that
the most effective way to combat
dictatorship of any stripe is to
make democracy work and to im
prove the economic, social and
political conditions of men and
women everywhere.
Let me assure you on this La-,
bor Day of the constant friendship
and the fraternal co-operation of
the American Federation of La
bor in seeking our common goals
af peace, freedom and prosperity.
convention, he followed th« man
date.
That same year, eight unions,
l. d by Lewis, left the AFL and
Inter formed the CIO. Green re
garded this as the greatest blow
t< the labor movement in his life
time anl never gave up attempts
to bring the two groups together
He was overjoyed when the In
ternational Ladies’Garment Work
er’s returned to the AFL in 1940
The l MW also returned later,
only to leave again.
Greer’s years in office saw the
\FL gile unstinting support to
the Wot Id War II effort in spite
of severe restriction on labor,
branch out nto strong political
action after passage of Taft
Hartley, extend its contacts with
and help to free labor throueh
aut the world and destroy com
munist attemj ts tb infiltrate the
federation.
Green himself served on numer
ous federal hoards both in v%r
and peace and found time to give
his suppoit to numerous humani
taiian causes. The honors and
awards he un ited for those aerv
ues wen. n merous.
Green cor.tl-.ued to handle his !
AFL dutie- utmost until the very
end. even though it was obvious»
at the AFL < envention two moot's
before h;s death that he was
working t.- s r jjreat strain.
Sun-.mu - Green’s years in
the labor \ement in a biogra
phy d st . , d at that conven
t.on, Max Punish said: “Above all
else, even » casual examination of
the career t-.f William Green helps
to reveal the refreshingly domi
nant fact that he Has never en
visaged the top spot in America’s
labor movement, which he oc
cupies, as a mandate for personal
power but as an opportunity for
service to :ne millions of his fel
low tradi unionists and to his
country—a task to which he has
wen happy t0 ^ his alL”
BIRTH OF LABOR DAT
fCoatinned on Page 7)
should get As many tickets as It
desired to sell; the more sold the
greater would be the profits to
the society selling them. Each
society should be allowed to keep
all the money realised by sale of
tickets through its members. In
the end each of the bodies par
ticipating should contribute to the
expenses in proportion to its
nembership.
It was further argued* Labor
Day should be observed as one
festal day in the year for public
tribute to the genius of Ameri
can industry. There were other
vortjy holidays representative of
the religious, civil and military
spirit.. But none representative
of the industrial spirit—the great
vital force of every nation. He
suggested the first Monday in
September of every year for such
a holiday, as it would come at
tl.e most pleasant season of the
year, nearly midway between the
Fourth of July and Thanksgiving,
and would fill a wide gap in tho
chronology of legal holidays.
Many were the cogent reasons he
advanced, and at once the idea
was enthusiastically embraced.
The first Labor Day parade and
festival of the Central Labor Un
ion of New York City on Septem
ber 5, 1882, was simply an im
posing success. From that day
on, it became a fixed institution
in the United States, observed to
day in every city df the land. The
plan was next endorsed by the
Annual Convention of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor and the
Gtneral Assembly of the Knights
of Labor. It spread rapidly from
city to city, and from town to
town. City councils and State
legislatures took it up and made
it a legal holiday, until finally on
June 28, 1894, it became a Na
tional holiday, by act of Congress.
I here was a time, and it w not
many years ago, when the trade
union and the labor movement of
America were too insignificant
for Presidents, Governors, Mayor*,
City Councilmen or public men to
consider, much less honor. Trade
unions were of no consequence;
tiade unionists were harmless
fanatics. Now, they are of more
weight, more influential, more
powerful. No longer can they
be sneered down or cajoled; they
must be met, they must be recog -
nized. What mighty portent is
in their movement! In their
hands rest the weal of the work
er, his welfare and improvement.
With hands and hearts togeth
er, with united funds and united
interests, to stand for one another,
day after day, year in and year
out, in good times and in bad,
v ho dare say what can they not
accomplish: In the work-shop
and on the forum, at the ballot
bex and in every field of endeavor,
they can right every wrong, and
eradicate every evil oppressive to
the working people.
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816 S. Tryon St.
Telephone 2-4101
Charlotte, N. C.
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CHARLOTTE, N. C.
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3329 Wilkinson Bird. r* Phono 2-7759
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
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CHARLOTTE, N. C.
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