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Rntered an Second Clana Mattor at the Pnat Office of
La Grande, Oregon Under the Act of March 8, 181
Labor Reform Laws
; The United States badly needs new laws aimed at
labor union reforms. But the indications now are
that in 1958, as in 1957, it will not get them.
A month and a half ago the Senate passed the Ken-nedy-Ives
bill, a moderate measure dirttcted toward
compelling full disclosure of union financial affairs,
curbing racketeer control and producing democratically
chosen leadership in labor organizations.
, Evidently that is the end of the line. For a long
time the bill hung in the air while House leaders tried
to decide what to do with it. In view of the lateness
of the day, its only hope for passage lay in suspending
normal rules and bringing it to a vote on the House
floor. Speaker llayburn chose instead to assign it to
the House Labor Committee. There it is expected to
die.
Senator Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, says
heavy lobbying pressures from the National Associa
tion' of Manufacturers, the U. S. Chamber of Com
merce and the American Retail Federation beat the
measure.
These organizations at the national, state and local
levol unquestionably banged the cymbols hard against
the bill. They charged it was full of "booby-traps" for
business.
It is not clear what merit there was in this claim'
nor is it exactly plain to what extent the House lead
ership and rank and file have been affected by the
" barrage from the business organizations.
What -is clear is that the members of Congress are
under no compulsion to respond to lobbying pressures
if they think they are bad or unwise. It is they alone .
who in the end decide whether it is right or important
in a particular instance to do so.
J When the Senate passed this bill, it was the consen
8U8 of many observers that it would never emerge from
.the House. The argument was made that the labor
committee is hopelessly torn between conservatives and
i liberals and could not agree on 'a satisfactory measure.
Prospects of bypassing the 'group were rated slim, and
llayburn now has dashed them.
j .Kennedy properly took note of this difficulty when
f he declared that an "extremist attitude" on the part of
i both management and labor (reflected in the House
f committee split) has prevented any substantial labor
legislation from getting anywhere for the past decade.
The pressures are there, no doubt of it. But men
fit to govern this nation are expected to be able when
! the circumstances demand, to rise above such influ-
J ence and give trie people the laws tney need.
I The racketeering and other flagrant abuse that af
1 flict some labor unions present the Congress with such
a challenge. The House of Representatives, '135 mem
bers strong, has failed totally in this duty.
Into the -Wild Blue Yonder
NEA Service, lie.
Poll Taking In Russia Is Cinch
By ROBERT MUSEL
United Press International .
MOSCOW (UPI) - It's easy to
put your finger on the pulse of
the public in Moscow. What one
man in the street thinks, every
one thinks.
As a result, life is much sim
pler for journalistic poll-takers in
the Soviet Union than it is in the
West.
For many years, every time
there has been an international
crisis, I've dashed out into Broad
way, the Rue de la Paix, Picca
dilly or St. Peter's Square to re
cord the reaction of the average
man. . . .
Frankly, in the West this is a
headache job. The Westerner is
disputations and opinionated and
apt to take a contrary view sim
ply because he's cussed or sim
ply because he believes in it. You
always wind up with a notebook
fill ed with conflicting views.
Not so in this strong and bus
tling capital of Russia.
I've spoken to a number of Rus
sians in the past few days about
the summit conference and inter
national tension and the results
always have been the same.
The first man I talked to was
standing in front of the squat
mausoleum where thousands
queue daily to see Lenin and Sta
lin eternally lying in state. .
Market Surmounts Hurdle
Of Increased . Stock Margins
By ELMER C. WALZER
UPI Financial Editor
NEW YORK (UPI) The stock
market surmounted a- hurdle of
increased margins during the past
week and scored small gains on
average with the close near the
highs for a year.
the margin rise was a steep
one, amounting to 40 per cent. It
came after the close on Monday
after 4,000,000 shares of turnover
had left the market at new highs
since July 28, 1957. The Federal
Getting the Message Over
A survey just taken .shows that most drivers think
their own skills at the wheel are superior. The safety
warnings are for the "other guy," in their minds. How
can we promote safety by showing them they're the
other guy to the other guy?
Side Glances
is jW(U
a. . m. eT &5 ''"
("Don't tell my daughter, but I'm not really losing my
hearing it's just that I wear ear plug when
I'm here at her house!"
Quotes
From The
News
(Reg. U.S. Pat. Off.)
United Press International
LONDON Bishop Henry Knox
Sherill of the United Slates, urg
ing the Lambeth Conference of Ihc
Anglican Church to luivc-.faith in
the common man:
"There Is often a blessed com
mon sense possessed by ordinary,
it uninformed, men and women,
which leads them almost uncon
sciously to discern between Hie
vital and the secondary."
DETROIT United Auto Work
ers president Walter Reuthcr. on
his union's preparedness in the
face of any industry recalcitrance:
"We have now cleared the decks
of all the preliminary steps need
ed to call a strike and when we
decide it is to the advantage of
the union, we will move quickly
to authorize a strike."
KUIBYSHEV. Soviet Union
Premier Nikita Khrushchev, at
dedication ceremonies of a new
huoo hvdro-clcctric Dlant. on Rus
sia's foreign policy for "peace:"
"If t hoy (the West) disregard
nmmnn .srn.nnd ItPL'in nmv
war wo shall do everything to
rout the aggressors and establish
good pence on earth."
DAAt DITIf I nKllllnll n.,l,nl
leader Sabri Hnmadi, differcnti-
ling OCIWUIIII pviauiuu IITUIIIIA
and political expediency:
"I like Americans very much.
Mile to n hnri Unit, tiw tlinoi
uvu una .....x. .... ...v.,,
to be here,. They must go from
my country until it knows peace
again,"
iiiictllMPinU A If..,,.... .,l.
commUtee. indicating how Ameri
cans arc being bilked of I BO mil
lion dollars a year:
"Candy wafers, machines, appe
tite satients and appetite-curbiiiB
A,it am crimp nf lllp mn.inc
UIU0
which unscrupulous hucksters of
the lose-weight cult use to lure us
to an earthy slenderized Valhalla."
Reserve sot the margin at 70 per
cent which means one must put
up $70 on each $100 of stock
bought, at least if he wishes (o
trade on margin.
This brought a moderate decline
on Tuesday 'on 4.400,000 shares
Then on Wednesday when the
effects of the margin rise seemed
to be wearing off President Eisen
howcr frightened the market into
a decline when he talked against
rises.
The market got over that too
and it rose on Thursday and again
on Friday. The Friday market
would have set new highs, it is
believed, except for a bit of dis
appointment over the announce
ment from Washington on the
Nautilus' trip under the ice at
the north pole.
Wall Street didn't mean to beli
tle the" Nautilus accomplishment.
It simply had built up too much
in the way of rumor on what was
to come and when the actual an
nouncement didn't talk of shooting
the moon some traders took prof
its. Industrials 'closed with a rise
of more than, 4 points but rails
eased. .
In the Monday market when
prices were spurting to new tops
the best performance was turned
in by the industries which recent
ly had raised prices on steel, alum
inum and copper. Copper prices
wavered later in the week and
there was considerable selling of
the group but they managed to
close the week with gains.
Business news contained a long
list of favdrablc items with state
ments by economic experts that
the recovery movement was gain
ing steam faster than had been
anticipated. Practically every ma
jor industry but coals showed a
gain for the week but just about
every - one slipped off from a
year ago except electricity output
which set a new high record.
When the toll was taken of the
market on Friday, it aws found
that of (he 1.3!4 issues traded. 732
had advanced, while 4!M declined
and 168 held unchanged. A total
of 427 issues made new highs and
14 new lows.
' Stiles for - the week past la
million shares for the third week
in a row. They totaled 1B.523.120
shares, a daily average of 3,704,
B22 shares. That compared with
18.7B0.460 shares or a daily aver
age of 3,772.082 in the previous
week and 18.581,325 and 3.716.265
two weeks ago.
The Dow Jones Industrial Aver
age closed Friday at 510.13 up
4.70 points on the week and down
only 0.20 point from the high. The
rail average was at 133.61 up 1.14;
utility 79.41 off 0.36; and 65 stocks
175.73 up 1.13.
The kagu is a bird extant on the
Pacific island of New Caledonia.
He said he learned his English
in th hotel where he is mployed
As we strolled down wide Gorki
Street, with women street clean
ers busy on the sidewalks, he sud
denly said, "Tell me.why do you
want war?"
I said I didn't want war and
furthermore I didn't know any
American who did.
"But you are ringing us with
air bases," he said. "And every
body knows air bases can only be
for aggression."
I tried to explain the American
attitude to him but he was my
first Russian man in the street
and so I can be . forgiven the
waste of time.
My second Moscow pulse inter
rupted my dinner at the skyscrap
per Hotel Ukraina, which stocks
71 wines, champagnes, liquers and
liquors and serves such delicacies
as hazel grouse in sour cream,
roast duck stuffed with apples,
beef stroganoff and chicken ala
Kiev.
He was a Russian at the next
table who introduced himself as
a. wartime merchant mariner who
had fallen in love with San Fran
cisco. "I hope you do not approve of
your country's interventionist pol
icy in Lebanon," he said. "Let us
drink a toast, 'hands off the Mid
dle East'."
I solicited a conversation with
another Russian at the Prague
Restaurant who asked, "Why did
your president make such difficult
conditions for a summit meet
ing?" The conversation then fol
lowed the eventual course, ending
in agreement to disagree.
1 I must say that every Russian
I have spoken to was friendly.
curious, helpful and at least su
perficially sincere, and he was no
exception.
However, he felt I was ill' in-
informed because I obviously did
n't get straighforward facts from
United States papers as ho did
from Pravda, Izvcstia and Mos
cow Radio.
By now, my Western notebook
would have had a dozen points of
view and I d have had to shuffle
them around to. get a consensus.
No such problem here.
When it comes to serious inter
national matters of high policy
nearly all Russians close ranks
behind Premier Nikita Khrushchev.
When you've talked to one about
politics, you've talked to them all.
Animosities Blamed For Admiral's
Absence At Nautilus Ceremonies
WASHINGTON (UPI) Rear
Adm. Hyman G. Rickover's ab
sence from White House cere
monies announcing the Nautilus
had conquered the North Pole has
been attributed by many quarters
to his zeal and outspoken
comments which, ironically, led
to development of the world s
first atomic - powered vessel.
"Old Navy animosities" and
Rickover's dislike for red tape
were cited as reasons why the
man regarded as mainly responsi
ble for the construction of the
Nautilus was not invited to the
dramatic ceremony surrounding
the White House announcement.
For Rickover. the "snub" was
the latest in a scries tracing
back to his early entreaties that
the Navy accelerate its nuclear
submarine program.
White House sources refused to
concede Rickover had been
'passed over" in the invitations.
They attributed his absence to a
decision to invite only "top brass"
with no exceptions, to the affair
at which President Eisenhower
pinned the Legion of Merit on
Navy Cmdr. William R. Ander-
Radio Peiping .
Says Reds Building
A-Accelerator
TOKYO (UPI) Radio Peiping
said today the Soviet Union is
building the world's biggest atom
ic accelerator, with maximum en
ergy of fifty billion electron volts
and an electric magnet one-third
of a mile in diameter.
An accelerator is used in the
atomic fission process to speed up
the motion of elementary particles
such as protons and prepare them
for splitting.
According to Radio Peiping, the
new accelerator will be five times
more powerful than the world's
largest, which alsm was built by
son for piloting the vessel under
the polar ice cap.
According to one source, White
House advisers' made three tele
phone, calls . to top Navy leaders
asking that Rickover be added to
the invitation list. This source
said the Navy flatly refused.
A Navy spokesman, however,
contended the Navy had nothing
to do wiih issuing the invitations.
Rickover, in Washington at the
Missionary Talks
To Rotary Group
Miss Goldie Ruth Wells addres
sed the Rotary club Tuesday, on
experience as a missionary and
teacher in Belgian Congo, Africa.
She described the progress made
over the years by the natives of
Belgian Congo as a result of im
proved educational facilities.
Guests were Don Demsey of
La Grande and Dr. Glen . (Poo)
Cayler, former La Grande high
school football coach, now resid
ing in Los Angeles.
The Rev. Gene Robinson was
program chairman.
Economists
Predict
Fail Upturn
WASHINGTON (UPDTTop level
administration economists have
stuck by their predictions of a def
inite but gradual business upturn
in the Autumn despite the indit
fcrent showing of July employ
ment and unemployment figures.
As reported Friday by the Com
merce and Labor Departments,
employment rose and unemploy
ment dipped, but both changes
were less than would have been
normal on the basis of the custo
mary seasonal pattern.
One highly placed economist told
United Press International the em
ployment report showed a "pic
ture of transition" with usual mid
summer doldrums holding down
upward forces that were clearly
evident in May and June.
Commenting that he had held
no dramatic expectations for July
or August" the economist ex
pressed confidence that September
would bring improvements in em
ployment and the business situa
tion in general.
In other reports on the economic
front, the government said, that:
Retail sales in July held to
the June level of about $16,400,-
000,000.
Exports totaled $1,400,000,000
in June, a drop of 14 per cent
from May arid of 21 per cent from
June 1957.
Unemployment among work
ers protected under the Federal
State Insurance system dropped
by 132,600 in the week ended July
26 to a 1958 low of 2,422,800. The
drop was the biggest for any
week this year. But the number
of workers drawing jobless bene
fits was still more than double
the total a year ago.
WILL MOVE AIR BASE
LONDON (UPI) The U. S.
Air Force said that it would
move the U. S. Military Ait
Transport terminal from Burton
wood in mkUEngland to Milden
hall, 50 miles from London, some
time next year.
time of the ceremony, left three
hours later for New London,
Conn., to direct final tests of the
nuclear submarine "Triton,"
which is to be launched Aug. 16.
Before he left, however, Rick
over was visited by Commander
Anderson, who went from t h e
White House to Rickover's office
in the Navy Building to pay his
respects to "the father of the
nuclear-powered submarine."
Rickover has. now failed' twice
to be selected for promotion lu
vice admiral. He will be retired
from the Navy next year( unless
the promotion is granted.
Red, U.S.
Crew For Space
Ship Discussed
MOSCOW UPD Scientists
meeting here have discussed a
U. S. proposal which could put
Americans and Russians side by
side in the first ship that carries
a crew into outer space, it was
reported Thursday.
American sources said the plan,
proposing cooperation rather than
competition in some areas of
space research, was mentioned
but not formally submitted to
the resolutions committee of the
International Geophysical Year
Assembly at a meeting Wednes
day.' ' .
They explained the proposal will
not be introduced formally here
because it is already pending be
fore the International Council of
Scientific Unions.
Foreign delegates expressed
some interest in the plan.
"The United States appears lo
think there are certain spheres of
space research where there should
be international cooperation rath
er than competition," one foreign
er said. ' .
"I have the impression this
would extend even to the first .
space flights."
No Soviet comment could be ob
tained immediately, but some for
eign observers pointed out Rus
sian space pioneer Konstantin Tsi
olkovsky urged years ago that the
first space ship should carry sci
entists of all nations.
The Russians already have reg
istered their willingness to coop-
crate in a continued exchange of
scientific information after the In
ternational Geophysical Year for
mally ends on Dec. 31.
The resolutions committee voted
Wednesday to extend the scientific
exchange for at least a year, un
der the name of "International
Geophysical Cooperation 1959.!'
Senator Seeks
Series Of World
Conferences
WASHINGTON (UPI) Acting
Senate Democratic Leader Mike
Mansfield, Mont., has called on
the United States to arrange a
scries of world conferences to
create a "constructive Middle
East policy."
He charged that the Adminis
tration has been following a
headless policy with many tails
in the Middle East, based on the
Eisenhower Doctrine which he
called a "feeble cocoon. ..(which)
did not protect anyone from anything."
Mansfield levelled his criticisms
Friday during a Senate debate on
foreign policy in which Democrats
generally critized and Republi
can defended administration mid-
east actions.
Sen. Jlomer Capehart(R-Ind.).
a member of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, and others
chided Democrats for denouncing
U.S. policies on the eve of the
U.N. General Assembly emergen
cy meeting on the Middle East
crisis. Capchart said Mansfield
preented no "constructive" ideas.
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