Chief of the Local
U.S. Labor and Employment Service Bureau Enforcing “Work or Fight” Law
Charlotte—The “raid” made on certain East Trade street pool
rooms, restaurants and barbershops by the police during which 20 negro loafers
were taken in tow and told that they must either become acquainted with some
essential work at Camp Greene or elsewhere at once or have warrants sworn out
for their arrest, apparently has had its effect on the “loafers” in that
section of the city.
E.N. Farris, chairman of the community labor board, and V.J.
Brawley, chief of the local United States labor and employment service bureau,
were both strong in their denunciations of the “slacking loafers” of Charlotte
and stated that the raid was only the beginning of the fight to make, with
force if necessary, this class of citizens do their share toward the winning of
the war.
Mr. Farris said, “There is an immediate and imperative
demand for laborers at both Camp Greene and Camp Bragg, at Fayetteville, and it
is the patriotic duty of all men, knowing themselves to be at work in
non-essential industries, to offer their services to Uncle Sam for government
work.
“Ample warning has been given both employers and employes of
non-essential industries and the time has come when action must be taken to awaken
the ‘loafers’ to the fact that they must go to work as the war industries are
actually suffering and war work being delayed because of the lack of labor.
“It is obviously wrong to have able-bodied men continuing to
sell candies and cigars, serve drinks in soda dispensaries, shine shoes, cook
in private families, working in bowling alleys, pool rooms, dance academies,
etc., when there is real men’s work to be done. In most of the cases I have
mentioned women can do the work as well as men and the time has come when it is
up to the employer to so arrange his business, in conformity to the essential
employment regulations, as quickly as possible before information is filed with
the war labor policies board.”
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