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9 Friday, December 21, 1945 THE PILOT. Southern Pines, North Carolina Page Fiv6 Patman Attacks Opponents of Full Employment Bill We send you every good wish for a MERRY CHRISTMAS and for health, happiness and prosperity in 1946. It has been a pleasure to serve you, and we greatly appreciate your loyalty to us. McGILL ESSO SERVICE Hwy. 1 D. H. McGill > Vass, N. C. The Village Inn Presents An All Star Floor Show Every night from December 21st, to New Year’s Eve . . . Featuring these Artists Harmonica Harry Direct from an extended engagement at Hel ene Curtiss Lounge, Charleston, S. C. Presenting Harmonica "as you like it" Diane Murray Direct from New York’s Finer Nite Spots "Your Favorite Dancing Moods" Jimmy Riley, M. C. /Popular Songs and Fun" —^Plus— The Harry Roth Trio Coming to you from the East’s best Clubs "People like them, you will too" DINNER AT THE VILLAGE INN to break the monotony of household duties and to pro vide an evening of fun for the whole family Luxury Dishes Not Found On Other Menus, Including Sea Foods — Steaks — Chicken Congressman Wright Patman, Democrat of Texas, this month blasted the “Fascists” who op pose the Full Employment Bill. Patman, holding that every “Fascist” in America is against the bill, said: “The Committee for Constitutional Government rep resents a lot of them.” He cited specifically such C.C.G. bigshots i as Frank Gannett, “a' big chain newspaper publisher;” Gannett’s “working partner,” Samuel Pet- tengill; S. E. McClure, “who' spent two years in Italy studying Fascism under Mussolini;” and Edward Rumley, “who was con victed for dealing with enemy Germany in World War 1.” The Committee for Constitu tional Government has been putting the full strength of its or ganization and mailing list behind the campaign to defeat the Full Employment bill. Besides its own literature, it has been circulating a condensed version of a speech, ‘Full Employment and Freedom in America,” delivered last April by Virgil Jordan, president of the National Industrial Conference Board. Jordan, although not cited by Patman, for some years has been following a propaganda line simi lar to that of the Committee for Constitutional Government. Like the C.C.G., he has been quoted frequently by the vermin press. As far back as 1937 William Dud ley Pelley, now in jail for sedi tion, printed a speech by Jordan in hig magazine, “Liberation.” Meanwhile, less pretentious campaigns against Full Employ ment are being carried on by Up ton Close, who is becoming in creasingly popular with the ver min press, and by “Southerp Out look,” the anti-Negro, anti-Sem itic, anti-union paper published in Clanton, Alabama. LUMBER PRICE ADJUSTMENT OPA’s recent upward adjust ment in the ceiling price for Sou thern Pine lumber is the first step in a plan to secure general compliance with ceiling prices, Theodore S. Johnson, OPA dis trict director, said today. This is the season of good I will, and, looking down the | long list of names of those who hove shown their good will towards us in 1945, we come to yours. We want to thank you for this good will on your part, cmd to send just the friend liest of wishes for yoirr happiness and cheer at Christmastime. We Extend Our Heartfelt Greeting For a MERRY CHRISTMAS that will light the way to a HAPPY NEW YEAR REX BILLIARD ROOM Shaw Paint & Wallpaper Co. J. A. SMITH (Established 1922) GEORGE R. STRAKA Broad Street Southern Pinesjf DANCING Village Inn 5:30 to 8:30 P. M. Dinner Hours COUPLES ONLY DON’T FORGET YOUR CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR RESERVATIONS. U. S. Highway South Southern Pines For Reservations Telephone 6632 or 8122 WILL THERE BE A STEEL STRIKE? Not if the CIO abides by its pledged word, given only last spring. Question: What would be the general effect on the country of a steel strike? Answer: Over 40 percent of all the factory workers in the country earn their living by making steel into useful pro ducts for American life. A shut-down of the steel industry would be a disastrous blow to reconversion and would cause a serious loss in both wages and industrial produc tion at a time when they were most needed. Question: Why did they want a long-term contract? Answer: In the Union’s own words before the War Labor Board, “The Union’s request for a termination date of Oc tober, 1946, is not made capriciously or pressed here for bargaining purposes. It represents the considered view of the Union that only such a term will adequately serve the needs of stability.” Question: Is it true that the Steelworkers Union has pledged itself not to strike? Answer: Yes. Every contract which the Union has signed this year with the various steel companies has a clause wherein the Union agrees not to strike during the life of the contract. Question: Did the recent strike vote violate the contracts? Answer: No. Only an actual strike would violate them. Question: Are those contracts still in effect? Answer: Yes. They were signed in the spring of 1945 to run until October, 1946. Question: Haven’t there been strikes already during the life of the contracts? Answer: Yes. There were 998 strikes in steel plants'during the past year alone. They were mostly local strikes which the Union characterizes as “wildcat,” but they meant a big loss in production. Question: Who signed for the Union? Answer: Its international officials—^Philip Murray, Van Bitt ner, Clinton Golden and others—and the local Union heads at the various plants. Question:: Does the end of the war justify changing the con tracts? Answer: No. The bond was ;?ealed on both sides and should be kept whether times be good or bad. The steel companies are continuing to live up to these agreements. If a strike is called, it will be in clear violation of the existing contracts. Question: Is there no “escape clause”, by which either side could end the agreements? ♦ Answer: No. The Union demanded a fixed, long-term con tract and got it. A strike in the face of existing contracts would ah attar ,^^]Y__££f^Hj^][^££__hi^_ihe_validitY_^of union agreements in the steel industry. American Iron and Steel Institute 350 Fifth Avenue, New York 1, N. Y, OUR COMPANY MEMBERS EMPLOY 35 PER CENT OF THE WORKERS IN THE STEEL INDUSTRY
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