Serviceman
Sends $10 To Red Cro??
Chapter Here
Although the 1946 fund-rais
ing campaign of the Red Cross
has not yet been launched, the
Macon county chapter already
is receiving donations.
Bob <R S i Sloan, campaign
chairman, this week made pub
lic a letter from a Macon coun
ty serviceman, in which a
money order for $10 was in
closed.
The serviceman, Tom Turpin,
whose le'ter came from the
Fleet Post Office, San Fran
cisco, wrote:
"Enclosed you will find $10,
which I hope will help the
chapter in Franklin to meet
their 1946 quota.
"The Red Cross was really
swell to us while on duty in the
Pacific during the past IS
months. I don't think that the
people realize what a wonder
ful organization it really is. I
know that a great number of
our people give charity to all
types of organizations, but
whenever you give to the Red
Cross, you can surply feel
proud of what you are doing,
and giving for, as they are do
ing a very fine job."
Carl Andersons'
6-Months Old Son
Claimed By Death
Turner Clarence Anderson,
six-months old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Carl Anderson, died at the
home of his parents In the Car
toogechaye section Monday
morning at 2:15 o'clock, follow
ing a serious illness of only a
few days. Death was caused by
pneumonia.
Funeral services were held at
the home Monday afternoon at
3 o'clock, with the Rev. William
L. Sorrells. pastor of the Mt.
Hope Baptist church. Cartooge
chaye, officiating. BurLal was
held in the Mt. Zion cemetery.
Surviving, in addition to the
parents, are two .brothers, Bob
by and Bronce Anderson, of the
home, and the grandparents, the
Rev. and Mrs. Lester Williams,
of Cartoogechaye.
The funeral arrangements
were under the direction of the
Bryant funeral directors.
Prentiss
Rev. Lester Williams filled
bis regular appointment at
Pleasant Hill the fourth Sun
day in January.
Doyle B. Sanders is spending
his furlough with his father
and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Jess
Sanders.
Mr. and Mrs. Jud Tallent vis
ited Mrs. Tallent's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Lum Sanders, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Mason vis
ited Mr. Mason's brother and
sister, Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Mason, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Chastain
visited Mr. Chastain's parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Ira Chastain, at
Dillard, Ga., Sunday.
Mrs. Frank Carpenter visited
Mrs. Leo Sanders Sunday after
noon.
CHAPEL P. T. A. TO MEET
The Chapel (Negro I School
P. T. A. will hold its monthly
meeting Tuesday, February 5. at
7 p. m. Parents and friends
are urged to attend.
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West's Mill
8ft. Rex Meadow* from fc
camp in California ipent a sev
eral days furlough with rela
tives here recently.
Miss Dorothy Brogden visited
relatives in Asheville last week.
Ralph Peek, who has been dis
j charged from the navy, is at
home
Rogers Rickman from the
navy entered State college in
Raleigh January 1 to study
forestry.
Cpl. Frank Bryson who has
been in France for several
i months, is at home on a fur
j lough.
Cpl. Dorsey Matlock from
overseas spent several days
with relatives here 'recently.
j Thad McCoy, of Pontiac, Mich.,
is visiting relatives here.
Mr. and Mrs, Charles Owens
and small daughter, Debora Ann,
i are visiting relatives in Win
ston-Salem this week.
Shirley Childers, who has
been in the European Theater
for 20 months, is at home on
a furlough.
Pfc. Charles Peek, who has
been overseas for more than
j two years, is visiting his broth
er, Ralph Peek, and Mrs. Peek
j and family.
Mill Vonnli Weit of thi 8ry
ion City whool faculty, ip?nt
the week-end with home folki.
Mr. and Mri. Harold Dillard,
of Bryson City, ipent the week
end with relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Wilen, of
St. Paul, Minn., visited relatives
here Sunday.
Mrs. L. J. Smith and daugh
ter, Rebecca, of Cullowhee,
spent Sunday with relatives
here.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Brogden
recently went to Bryson City to
visit their son, BUI Brogden.
who has just returned from
overseas duty.
Cpl. Perry, Jay and Dorsey
Matlock, who have been recent
ly. discharged from the army,
returned to their places of busi
ness employment In Atlanta and
Marietta, Ga., Thursday.
The box supper held at the
school building here last Fri
day night was a success. More
than $100 was raised. The pro
ceed* go for the benefit of the
Infantile Paralysis fund.
6 Maccn Men Among
8 From This Area
Enlisting In Army
Eight t men from this area
were sent to Fort Bragg for
enlistment in the regular army,
between January 21 and Janu
ary 28. It was announced this
wMk by l?t. Blaiiw LWingnon,
who U In chtrg* of the recruit
ing station nere.
Those enlisting art:
Cecil Arthur Morgan, 18. son
Of Mrs. Lottie Morgan, of Flats;
David Walter 8hields, 18, of
Flats; Cecil Earl Owenby, 18,
son of Mrs. Lena Kate Owenby,
of Nantahala; Doyle Lee Grant,
son 6f Mrs. Ella Grant, of
Flats; Clarence Conard, son of
Mrs. Vinne Conard, of Hazel
wood; George W. Lance, son of
Mrs. Luth Lance, of Hazel wood;
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At the peak training load in
the seven southeastern states,
the Signal corps, Fourth Service
command, handled an average
of 10,000 radiograms and tele
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A Letter to the President
of the United States
January 18, 1946
Hon. Harry S. Truman
President of the United States
The White House
Washington, D. G.
Dear Mr. President:
Your proposal to me in Washington last
evening that the wage demand of the United
Steelworkers of America-CIO be settled on
the basis of a wage increase of 1814 cents
an hour, retroactive to January 1, 1946, can
not, I regret to say, be accepted by the
United States Steel Corporation for the rea
sons set forth below.
As you must be aware, your proposal is
almost equivalent to granting in full the
Union's revised demand of a wage increase
of 19Vz cents an hour, which was advanced
by Philip Murray, the President of the
Union, at our collective bargaining confer
ence with the Union in New York a week
ago today. In our opinion, there is no just
basis from any point of view for a wage in
crease to our steel workers of the large size
you have proposed, which, if put into effect,
is certain to result in great financial harm
not only to this Corporation but also to
users of steel in general.
As I have tried to make clear to you and
other Government officials during our con
ferences in Washington over the past few
days, there is a limit in the extent to which
the Union wage demands can be met by us.
We reached that limit when- we raised our
offer to the Union last Friday from a wage
increase of 12Vi cents an hour to one of 15
cents an hour. This would constitute the
highest single wage increase ever made by
our steel-making subsidiaries. Our offer of
15 cents was equivalent to meeting 60% of
the Union's original excessive demand of a
$2 a day general wage increase. Our offer
met 75% of the Union's final proposal of a
wage increase of 19'/2 cents an hour. A wage
increase of 15 cents an hour, such as we of
fered, would increase the direct labor costs
of our manufacturing subsidiaries by ap
proximately $60,000,000 a year. That is a
most substantial sum, and does not take into
account the higher costs we shall have to pay
for purchased goods and services, when
large wage increases generally become ef
fective throughout American industry, as is
inevitable after a substantial increase in
steel wages.
As yoa know, collective bargaining nego
tiations with the Union broke down at the
White House yesterday afternoon, because
Mr. Murray then refused to budge from his
position that a country-wide steel strike
must take place, unless steel workers are
granted a general wage increase of 19&
cents an hour. Our offer of a wage increase
of 15 cents an hour was again rejected by
the Union.
The Union threatened to go ahead with
its program for a national steel strike at
midnight next Sunday, although such a
strike will be a clear violation of the no
strike provision contained in our labor con
tracts with the Union, which continue by
their terms until October 15, 1946. ,
From the outset, we have recognized how
injurious a steel strike will be to reconver
sion and to the economy of this whole coun
try. Most industries are dependent upon a
supply of steel for their continued opera
tions. We have done everything reasonably
within our power to avert such a strike. If
a strike occurs, the responsibility rests with
the Union.
When the Government at the eleventh
hour informed us about a week ago of its
willingness to sanction an increase in steel
ceiling prices, we at once resumed collective
bargaining negotiations with the Union. Such
price action by the Government was a rec
ognition by it of the right of the steel in
dustry to receive price relief because of past
heavy increases in costs, something which
the steel industry for many months has un
successfully sought to establish with OPA.
I should like again to point out some per
tinent facts relative to the wages of our ?
steel workers. /
Since January, 1941, the average straight
time hourly pay, without overtime, of our
steel workers has increased more than the
33% increase in the cost of living during
that period, recently computed by Govern
ment authorities. Steel worker?' wages have
kept pace with, increased living costs. Such
average straight-time pay in our steel-pro
ducing subsidiaries was $1.14 an hour in
each of the months of September, October
and November 1946, excluding any overtime
premium and any amount for correction of
possible wage inequities. An incr?au of 15
cents, in accordance with our offer, would
raise such average straight-time pay to $1.29
an hour, placing such pay among the high
est today in all of American industry.
Under our offer of a 15 cent increase, the
average weekly take-home pay of our steel
workers for a forty-hour week would amount
to 851.60, assuming that no overtime is in
volved. This figure is only $4.54 less than
the actual average weekly earnings of these
employees, including overtime, in the last
full war year of 1944, when the average
work week was 46.1 hours. The difference
is really less, because we will undoubtedly
continue to have overtime in the future, just
as we have at the present time. In Novem
ber, 1945, overtime premiums to our steel
workers aggregated more than $1,300,000.
Such reduction of $4.54 in weekly take-home
pay is the natural consequence of a shorter
work week of forty hours, and therefore one
of lower production.
Much as we desire to avoid a steel strike,
we cannot overlook the effect both on this
Corporation and on our customers and
American business in general, of the 18V4
cent an hour wage increase, which you have
proposed. Such a wage increase must result
in higher prices for steel than have pre
viously been proposed to us by the Govern
ment. Great financial harm would soon fol
low for all users of steel who would be ob
liged to pay higher prices for their steel,
higher wages to their employees, and still
have the prices for their own products sub
ject to OPA control. Such a high and unjus
tified wage scale might well spell financial
disaster for many of the smaller steel com
panies and for a large number of steel fab
racators and processors. The nation needs the
output of these companies. Increased wages
and increased prices which force companies
out of business can only result in irrepar
able damage to the American people.
In our judgment, it is .distinctly in the
public interest to take into account the in
jurious effect upon American industry of an
unjustified wage increase in the steel in
dustry.
After a full and cartful consideration of
your proposal, we have reached the conclu
sion above stated.
Respectfully yours,
Benjimin F. Fairless,
Preiident, United States Steel
Corporation
United States Steel Corporation