2 , Tht News-Review, Roseburg, Ore Wed., F.b. 22, 1950
Ltwli May Re Drawn
Into Contempt Action
(Continued from page One)
plaint against the 370,000-member
i union. Now, he said, more specific
rhargei may be lodged.
FBI Gathering fvidence
This dovetailed with reports
from both union and industry
source! that Federal Bureau of
Investigation agents have been
busy in the coal fields, assembling
evidence on the union's effort or
lack of effort to comply with '.he
court s back-to-work order.
Lewis, who has twice wired hit
(tenant men to resume digging,
smiled gently ai be left each bar
Raining session, and ssid not a
word.
As (or legislation authorizing a
seizure of the mines, the White
House obviously regarded sucn a
step as a last resort, to be taken
only if ail other efforts fail.
Senator Morse (R-Ore) believes
the time hss come. Morse, a mem
ber of the labor committee, told a
reporter the government should
take over the mines and run them
until both sides "develop some
common sense." and settle.
Administration leaders in Con
gress were said to be waiting on
the White House. And the last word
from the White House was: Mr,
Truman neither has nor wants sei
zure power.
Reports of spreading unemploy
ment, closing schools, hsrdship and
violence nuut up tne tension here,
Independents Join Strike
Ten thousand members of the
Independent Progressive Mine
Workers union went on strike in
Illinois today. Negotiations, pursu
ed sporadically since last summer,
collapsed finally last night. -
The PMW has been producing
most of Illinois' coal supply since
Lewis' much larger UMW went on
strike. Simultaneously with the new
blow, Rockford, 111., closed its pub
lic scnoois lor me rest ol tne week
The state capital. Springfield, fol
lowed New York's lead and be
gan a "brownout."
Cleveland turned off almost 4.000
street lights. Pittsburgh suspended
all night school classes, as Wash
ington, D C, did yesterday.
The Indiana Public Service com
mission authorized the state's elec
tric utilities to cut service as much
as 25 percent, upon a showing of
emergency.
Idleness in the steel mills and
other coal-fueled industries total
ed 55,500. Another 23,000 steel work
ers were due for furlough tonight.
State police in Pennsylvania re
ported that about 2,000 pickets were
roving In the rich bituminous area
northeast of Pittsburgh, trying to
close down all non-union mines.
It was in this area that a fire-
fighting comoany yesterday smash
ed through a road blockade and
a barrage of stones to put out a
fire at a mine tipple. Police said
the blaze was started By miners
pickets.
Dewev Plans Seliure
In Albany, Governor Thomas E,
Dewey asked the New York state
legislature for power to seize coal
in "non-essential" private stocks.
Saying the coal shortage is reach-
me aesperaie siage in ine siaie,
he also sought authority to put
price ceilings on the dwindling sup
plies.
A vice-president of the United
States Chamber of Commerce ac
cused UMW President Lewis of us.
ing "tactics which are little more
than legalized blackmail" to bring
about a crisis in the coal industry.
The official, Thomas R. Reed of
Baltimore, made his accusation in
a statement prepared for a Senate
judiciary subcommittee's hearing
on a bill to apply anti-trust laws
to unions, need said Lewis has suc
ceeded because he holds "mono
polistic power over an essential industry."
There was no sign from the coal
fields that the miners were im
pressed either by the government's
orders or by angry denunciations
Their unfailing reply to question
er! was: "No contract, no work."
One Pennsylvania coal digger add
ed:
"If some people are going with
out heat, remember our kids are a
little short on food.
British Election Rtsult
Regarded As Tossup
(Continued from page One)
will be chosen from the party
with the majority in this dominant
body of psrliament. Though Attlee
and Churchill head their parties
their names will appear only on
ballots in the district in which
each is a candidate for election to
the Commons.
100 Red Candidates
The full list of candidates totals
1.868. with 621 running for Labor.
620 for the Tories, 474 for the
libersls, 100 for the Communists
and the rest scattered among in
dependent and minor local parties.
ine main issues Britons are be
ing asked to decide are socialism,
taxes, housing, Britain's dollar
shortare and the cold war.
Labor is for more government
ownership of industry. The Con
servatives promise less.
ine conservatives claim they can
cut taxes and still maintain social
benefits by trimming government
expenses. Although they are avow
ed anti-socialists, they do not pro
pose to do away with the wel
fare state but only promise to run
it more efficiently.
Telephone Strike Now
Appears Inevitable
(Continued from page One)
tiate only in New York, where
it has been meeting for weeks
in fruitless bargaining sessions
with the union.
The union representatives, who
stood by all day yesterday while
Ching argued with company offi
cials to sit down with the union
in his office, refused to return
to New York for talks there.
The last countrywide 'phone
strike was in 1947, by the same
union, then the National Federa
tion of Telephone Workers, an in
dependent organization.
Now the union, under the leader
ship of Beirne, is affiliated with
the CIO. It has solicited the coop
eration of the CIO's 6,000,000 mem
bers in its effort to make the strike
ss effective as possible.
The Western Electric employes
are the key groups in the strike
plans, because Western Electric
installation and salea divisisions
operate in nearly every major tele
phone exchange across the na
tion. Their pickets will be counted
on by CWA leaders to keep tele
phone operators from taking their
posts alter Friday. -What
Union Demands
The CWA's uniform demands are
for a lS-cent hourly boost in a
"package" including higher wag
es, shorter hours, and shorter train
ing periods. The company insists
the union is not entitled to any
increase, but that each unit of the
parent American Telephone and
Telegraph company should bargain
locally. It has opposed arbitration.
ine Western tlectric company
said in a atatement issued last
night in New York:
'The company wants to bargain
where it can do so most effectively.
It hsd an opportunity to bargain
less than two hours on the union's
demand for a 15-centan-hour
package increase when adjourn
ment was occasioned by the re
ceipt of Cyrus Clung t invitation.
As explained to Mr. Clung, the
company believes that progress to-
wsrd a peaceful settlement of the
dispute can be most easily and
quickly faciliated in New York
The Weather
U. t. Weather luraau Offlo
Reseburg, Oregon
Partly cloudy today and Thurs
day, Little chant In temperature.
Highest temp, any Feb. 7
Lowest temp, far any Fob. .. 1
Highest temp, yesterday it
Lowest temp, last 24 hrs. 15
Precipitation last 14 hrs. (
Precipitation from Fob. 1 .... 1)1
Precipitation from Sept. I ..24.44
Deficiency from Fob. I 1.17
Terror. Death System
Used In Bulgaria
(Continued from page One)
City, where all of Its records, per
sonnel and other essential facilities
for the careful consideration of the
union's demanda are immediately
available."
PORTLAND. Ore.. Feb. 22.-IJP)
The Oregon telephone union will
join the projected nationwide phone
strike at 6 a. m. Friday if earlier
settlement is not reached.
C. H. Wright, head of the Ore
gon union which is affiliated with
the CIO Communications Workers,
said the effect would be to tie up
all long lines and all Oregon ex
changes of the Pacific Telephone
ii Telegraph Co. West Coast Tele
phone company and the several
smaller independents will not be
affected, Wright said.
The union s locals are located
at Portland, Baker, Pendleton, The
Dalles, Bend, Klamath Falls, Med
ford, Ashland, Roseburg. Eugene.
Corvallis-Albany, Newport, Salem,
Tillamook and Astoria. There are
also a number of sub-locals, auch
as Milton-Freewater and Hermis
ton, under Pendleton, and St. Hel
ens, under Portland, blanketing the
ri&r operations, Wright said.
The National GeoiraDhie So
ciety says that, contrary to general
belief, only two Important areas
of Holland were flooded during
me war.
in Hungary of "political persecu
tion and acta of injustice te citi
zens of foreign nationality."
Trie "Tortured, Killed"
About the same time at the blast
at Hungary waa issued, the state
department disclosed the secret de
tails of American effort! to protect
ita last Bulgarian translator at tne
American legation at Sofia against
probable death at the hands of the
Communist authorities. Apparently
efforts to save the life of this man,
Michael Shipkov, had delayed ac
tion on the actual break until yes
terday. Last summer the Bulgarian po
lice, according to State department
disclosure, seized three Bulgarian
employee of the legation on charges
of spying. The Bulgarian govern
ment, the State department aaid,
"permitted the torture and killing
of these three men.
Shortly thereafter, In August,
Shipkov was arrested when efforts
of American Minister Donsld R.
Heath to obtain an exit permit fir
Shipkov and his wife and child fell
through. '
The State department story con
tinued :
Shipkov was questioned for thirty-two
hours continuously and then
tortured into making false confes
sions of sabotage and espionage
and implicating personal friends
and officials of the American lega
tion. He was threatened with deatr
but was released after signing an
agreement to return to the Ameri
can legation as a police spy.
Treatment Expo tad
Instead of spying, however. Ship
kov disclosed his position and the
police tortures to the legation.
Heath, in order to protect him, per
mitted him to live in the American
chancery where he was relatively
safe from arrest.
Subsequently Foreign Minister
Poptomov deplored the police
treatment of Shipkov, indicated re
sponsible officials would be pun
ished and also indicated such ac
tion would not recur. The Ameri
can government held to its hope
that the Shipkovs could leave Bul
garia. On Jan. 12 the foreign office sent
Minister Heath a formal request
for Shipkov, saying that he was
wanted in connection with act!
against the Bulgarian state.
The American envoy declined to
release him "in the light of Ship
kov'a loyalty and the Bulgarian
record of ruthlessnesi and injus
tice." He remained at the legation un
til recently, when ho left to seek
"a more permanent refuge." Yes
terday word came that he had been
eeized by Bulgarian authorities in
another of "the long chain of trage
dies which have overwhelmed de
cent, freedom loving Bulgarians
It was against the then secret
background of what had happened
to Shipkov and the other Bulgarian
employes of the legation and also
in view of "intolerable restrictions
placed on American officials, that
the United States government de
cided to sever diplomatic contacts
with the Russian satellite country.
The specific incident which
caused the break was a Bulgarian
demand last Jan. 19 for recall of
Heath on the grounds that he had
plotted for the overthrow of the
Bulgarian government. The United
States said this charge was utterly
taise.
Atom Control Stand
Taken By President
(Continued from page One)
ACTIVI CLUB DATED
The Roseburg Active club will
meet Thursday at 7 a.m. in the
Shalimar for breakfast. Each mem
ber is asked to bring a guest.
stroy them. The most aggressive
of these enemies today is Commu
nism. "Communism seeks to induce
men to surrender their freedom by
false promises of a better life, but
the great danger of Communism
does not lie in its false promises.
It lies in the fact that it is a in
strument of an armed imperial
ism which seeks to extend its in
fluence by force."
Peace Desire Paramount
When he turned to discussion of
atomic weapons, the President re-
Iterated his support of the Baruch
control plan involving international
inspection of atomic planta but de
clared "the stakes are too large
to let ua, or any nation, atand on
pride ot authorship."
"We asked only for a plan that
provides an effective, workable sys
tem anything less would be a
sham agreement" he said.
Asserting that the United States
must make Democracy work and
we must defend it against its ene
mies," the President declared:
"While the free nations stand pre
pared to resist aggression, they
are doing their utmost to find
peaceful means for settling inter
national disputes. They know that
another great war could destroy
victor and vanquished alike."
The United States, he said, will
continue "to do all that liea within
our power to prevent the horror
of another war."
He ssid that this country is work
ing for reduction of armament!
and control of weapons of mass
destruction.
He applauded the North Atlantic
treaty and the mutual defense as
sistance program and asserted:
"We shall continue to work with
the other free nations associated
with us in the common defense
High School Society Trial
Reaches Yawning Stage
(Continued on page Two)
Dal II. King of Coquille, Isn't i bit
interesting. In fact, it has been so
dull, monotonous and repetitious
that Judg King hai been pleading
for the boys' attorneys to speed
things up.
At first, the boys' lawyers
planned to claim the 1909 law ia
unconstitutional, but they dropped
this line of attack. Now they are
trying to prove that the fraternity
is not secret, and thus legal.
Secrecy Is Denied
The boys and their parent! have
testified that their meetings were
wide open. They said they talked
business at the meetings, and
drsnk coffee and milk, and ate
fudge, cookies and banana jello.
The defense also tried to prove
that school board members were
not interested in the parent's aide
of the case. The parents testified
that, before the boys were tossed
out of school, the school board held
a hearing for the parents, and that
some school board members and
school officials went sound asleep
while the parents talked.
During this aleeping testimony
Attorney Moody fell asleep and
tipped his chair partly over with a
loud thump. Even Judge King had
to laugh ai that one.
for our defense is theirs, and their
defense ia ours."
Americans. Mr. Truman contin
ued must "be no less firm, no less
resolute, no less steadfast" than
George Washington was.
While the stage is larger todav
than in Washington's time, funda
mentally the problem is the same
"to make Democracy work and
defend it from ita enemies."
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