Aptitude Tests Successful b Indicating Latent Skills b Apprentices WASHINGTON (LPA)—Use of aptitude teats in selecting appli cants for apprenticeship in the skilled traders has expanded rapid* ly in recent years, a survey con ducted recently by the Labor De partment’* Bureau of Employ ment Security shows. The survey, which covered half the States, show that an increas ing number of candidates for ap prenticeship are being given apti tude tests at public employment offices to measure their oportuni jties for success in specific occupa tions. BIST WISHES LABOR DAY WM. RHODES COMPANY AIR CONDITIONING 5314 Wilkinson Bird. Phono 4-4514 CHARLOTTE, N. C. LABOR DAY GREETINGS TO MEMBERS OF ORGANIZED LABOR From SHAW MANUFACTURING COMPANY MANUFACTURERS OF UPHOLSTERED FURNITURE 107 East Kingston Avo. Phono 5-3371 CHARLOTTE, N. C. SOUTHERN FLOORING AND L ACCOUSTICAL CO. "SU PIRIOR INSTALLATIONS" 931 last Morohood Stmt Phonos 6-3045 — 5-7568 CHARLOTTE, N. C. LABOR DAY GRESTINGS From SOUTHEASTERN WAREHOUSE & DISTRIBUTING CORPORATION 934 North Poplar St. Phono 5-2531 CHARLOTTE, N. C. . . * i* «. •' LABOR DAY GREETINGS SCANDINAVIA BELTING CO. 112 Koowick Avo. Phono 3-1152 CHARLOTTE, N. C. LABOR DAY GREETINGS FROM SOUTHERN ENGINEERING COMPANY "LITTLE PITTSBURG" ' T Phone 5-7761 • CHARLOTTE, N. C. LABOR DAY GREETINGS FROM Colonial Stores 8ERVING THE SOUTH WITH GREATER * FOOD VALUES! Shop And Some At Hm SifB Of GS BoomUr -—--- ■ -. -. “The Black Hole Of Ludlow” A great procession of bitter, grieving coal miners accompanied this and ether horse-drawn hearses which carried the caskets of the 19 victims of the April 29. 1*14, Ludlow (Cele.) Massacre to their Inal resting place. Fire men and a boy were shot when state troopers, many of them professional strikebreakers and company thugs. made an unprovoked attack on the tent homes of evicted miners on strike arainst the feudal working conditions of the Rockefeller interests. Two women and 11 children were burned to death so suffocated when the troop rs set fire to the tents. (LPA). Reign Or Terror At Ludlow, Colo., Only Helped Strengthen Miners LUDLOW, Colo., (LPA.)—The charred remnants of a tent colony that had been the home of 1200 people presented a ghastly sight in the morning sun of April 21, 1914. In a hole under one of the tents —“The Black Hole of Ludlow”— were 13 bodies, two of women, 11! of children, the youngest a three-' month-old baby. The fire had been no accident. It had been set deliberately the Bight before by the Colorado state militia—the climax of a day of slaughter and terror inflicted upon striking United Mine Workers and their families. . The strike, against the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, a Rocke feller property, had been going on intermittently for about three years. The tent colony had replac ed the homes from which the miners had been evicted. The issues which had brought on the strike were many and had become increasingly unbearable. In violation of the laws, the min ers were denied the eight-hour day, paid in scrip, forced to trade at company stores, cheated in their pay and refused safety devices in the mines. Hundreds met death in mine accidents, but nothing ever was done about It because the mine owners controlled the legal and political machinery of the state, as well as the militia. wn me morning vi April strike in an effort to im prove the conditions of life for themselves, their women and chil dren, and to secure for tfcemeslves ■ a larger measure of freedom from ' arbitrary power." But the miners were not to be intimidated by the April 20 reign of terror. Edward Keating, who only recently retired after 88 years as editor of Labor, weekly newspa per of the rail brotherhoods, was then a Colorado Congressman. I He got a Congressional investi gation of the Ludlow Massacre by persuading Democratic members of the House to override the powerful j Rules Committee, which opposed the probe. It was the only time the House ever took such action. The J widespread publicity on the battle 'helped in the strong organisation of the southern Colorado miners which followed. L. L. P. E supports candidates on the basis of their record . . . pot their party label. L. L. P. E. conducts a year round educational program to ac quaint AFL members and the public with the political issues and the record of public office holders. LABOR DAY GREETINGS TENNESSEE-CAROLINA TRANSPORTATION, INC. 200 AMU* Avenue 0M 6-2401 CHARLOTTI, N. C. Safety how-law Faaled Tkrosgh Tbe Ratkeil State CaafeRRce More worker* and their fami lies will enjoy Labor Day thia year because of the President'* Conference on Occupational Safe ty, recently ordered by President Eisenhower to intensify its work. There top leaders of labor, man agement, insurance companies. State and Federal agencies, edu cators and private safety organi sations meet in conference and committee to alert the Nation to changing job hazards and to pro mote the use of tested safety techniques at the workplaces of America. Organized in 1M8 by President Truman, the Conference gave a I needed shot in the arm to a na tional safety movement which, despite earlier spectacular gains, had settled doom to a stubborn annua] toll of some 16,000 job fatalities and 2 million work in juries. Greater attention to safe ty by all concerned has brought manufacturing injury frequency rates to the lowest on record for the first quarter of 1963, according to the latest report of the Buearo of Labor Statistics. But the Bu reau warns that the trend may be moving to higher levels already. When President Eisenhower asked the Secretary of Labor, Martin P. Durkin, to intensify the work of the Conference he said: “Management, labor, and public and private agencies share an obligation to safeguard their fellow workers employed in the work places of the Nation. It is sppropriate.that the Federal Gov ernment provide a means of bring ing together these vast resources to curb accidents to workers." Immediately upon this request flora the President the new labor members of the Co-ordinating Committee of the Conference joined with others to plan the next big annual Conference. The new labor members are George Meany, President of A. F. of L. and Walter Reuther, Presi dent of the CIO. Mr. Meany’s alternates are Boris Shishkin, Di rector of Social Insurance Activi ties and James Brownlow, Presi dent of the Metal Trades .Depart ment. Mr. Reuther’s alternates are Michael Quill, Transport Workers, and Harry Read. Exe cutive Assistant to the Secretary Treasurer, CIO. The main purpose of the Presi dent’s Conference on Occupational Safety is to pool the best safety knowledge available in the Nation and art it out to the workbenches where accidents occur, to quicken snd stimulate the States to treat er safety activity, snd to provide a non-partisan forum for all in terests in the Held of accident prevention and control. The aim to offer aid and assist ance to the States when requested has borne fruit in 22 Governor's Conferences and the full eo-opar ation of States with safety con ferences already in existence Most of the Governor’s Confer ences have held one or more an nual mss thus and have, threat* their technical committees, pro dueed recommendations to redum and control accidents. Many oi these recomssendntiou call foi strengthening of safety laws am | cedes. In the last four years [ twenty-six States and Territories have strengthened their safety lews. A' total of 111 safety codes having the force and effect of law have been issued, amended or re vised. The teaching of safety in ele mentary, secondary schools and colleges and universities is another activity encouraged by the Con ference with special emphasis placed on training tomorrow’s engineers in safe design of ma chinery. The Research Committee oi the Conference has prepared a technical report on the role of human behavior in accident pre vention and is carrying out other special research projects. The Engineering Committee has rec ommended many safety efforts of consequence and the Coramittea on Labor - Management adopted and publicized a series' of prin ciples for better safety co-opera tion between management and la bor. Other Conference Committees are active in every field which will contribute to better accident prevention in the work places of the Nation. Labor’s League for Political Education was formed by the American Federation of Labor to carry out the non-partisan politi cal program of the AFL. L. L. P. E. membership is vol untary and open to all AFL mem bers upon whose individual con tributions all of the L. L. P. E. election activities depend. GREETINGS TO'LABOR SCHACHNER LEATHER fir BELTING CO. 1124 South Mint S*tm* Mkmm 4-1131 CHARLOTTE, N. C. E. M. STAFFORD'S DRIVE-IN RESTAURANT Oi Wllklwotl Boulevard MAM tfhfA S Ram arn^M I* aIiMAMA •" wipor wy vre is always rtoay vo el DONT FORGET! .DRIVE CAREFULLY! LABOR DAY GRCITINGS L. E. SMALL PLASTERING CONTRACTOR PLASTERING — WATERPROOFING — STUCCO NEW AND REPAIR WORK MODERN EQUIPMENT — EXPERT WORKMANSHIP 2613 Dm St. Phone 3 8753 CHARLOTTE, N. C. GREETINGS TO LABOR Industrial Piping, Inc. STEAM IMPS, VALUES, ETC. COUTBACTORS ADO SUPPLIES 1S01 DOWD BOAD PHONES S-3M1 * UNi M c ?? CHARLOTTE,». C.