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WC3 TITLE! l.v The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem. Oregon. Thursday Morning; May 23. 1941 AFL Directs All Affiliates to Refrain From Striking Until Mediation Efforts Exha Move up in Army Promotions usted . i (By The Associated Press) The American federation of Labor directed all Us affiliates Wednesday night to refrain from striking against defense indus tries until all Dossibilities of mediation had been exhausted. i It called upon the international unions to discipline any locals which strike before j government agencies have an opportunity to adjust the disputes peacefully and promised ' similar action itself against federal unions which -do so. In a statement, issued in Washington, .; the federation'! executive council called atten tion to President j Roosevelt's fireside appeal of Tuesday that labor utilize the government's conciliation and mediation ma chinery to avoid stoppage of de fense production.; r We must do this,? the council said. "We can. do this. And we pledge our faith as Americans to the president that we will do it." v. In another Washington state ment, Sidney Hillman said that Harvey W. Brown, president of the AFL International Association of Machinists, was "completely in error" when he told a senate com mittee Tuesday that Hillman had sent a man to California to "'stim ulate" a strike at the Vultee air craft plant. niUman wrote Senator Tru man (D-Mo.), chairman of the defense Investifatinr commit tee, that no one had been sent by him, on his behalf or by his division before the strike was called. Hillman is co-director f the Office of Production manarement, but j when the strike was called in November, 1940, he was a member of the defense commission. An official of an AFL ma chinist union told a senate com mittee in Washington Wednesday that he would accept the "dic tates" of President Roosevelt if the chief executive should demand that striking shipyard machinists return to their jobs i in the San Francisco . bay area, j ! He was Harry S. Hook, a busi ness agent After he had testi fied, Committee Chairman Tru man (D-Mo.) expressed the opin ion to newspapermen that "noth ing" had been accomplished to ward ending the machinists' strike which has tied up $500,000,000 of navy contracts. . ! i R. J. Thomas, president of the , CIO United Automobile Work " ers, told a senate labor subcom mittee that enactment of legis lation providing a compulsory "cooling off" period before strikes would "embitter" work ers and "produce more strikes than we have now."! Also in Washington a leader of the Appalachian-soft! coal opera tors said that under the presi dent's proclamation there could be no shutdown of vital defense in dustries, including the soft 'coal mines. . .-!'.'' " Operators of the southern Ap paiacnian area nave rejected a new contract demand of the CIO United Mine Workers calling for an increase in wages from $5.60 . to $7 a day. The dispute is before the defense mediation board and the miners have agreed to con unue work pending j the board's announcement of its recommenda- lions. . j. "Without conceding one single contention that has been held out - for by southern operators and the . United Mine Workers," the mine spokesman said, "It would seem to me the proclamation forbids the closing down of any industry vital to national defense." He asked that his name not be used, f employes tied up $300,000 in na tional defense and British export contracts. , : , The strike, said . by Dixon to be based on a demand by the AFL Lumber and Sawmill Workers union for a general wage Increase of It cents an hoar, was Spokane's first ex perience with a labor dispute affecting the national defense program. j f The company was , producing shell and ammunition boxes, held lumber contracts for defense hous ing in Kansas, Michigan, Texas and Oklahoma, land contracts for export cases for 'the British trades commission, Dixon said.' "Wage increases of 5 cents an hour were granted in March, at which time there was a verbal understanding there would be ho more demands in the . immediate future," Dixon said. "Upon this assurance by the union the company contracted heavily for defense industry ma terials. More than 60 per cent of the company output is in fulfill ment of these contracts. UiL Moved up in the new army promotions are MaJ. Gen. George Howard Brett (left), designated chief of the air corns, and Brisr. Gen. Courtnev Hicks Hodges (right), designated chief of Infantry. Gen. Brett suc ceeds ben. H. H. Arnold, present deputy chief of staff for air. World. Outside of British, See little New in Position Taken By President in Address . -, (By The; Associated Press) President Roosevelt's speech was hailed in London Wednes day night as "an iron pact between allies" and evidence that the United States means war if need be; but in the axis capitals un official commentators professed to see nothing particularly new in it .(;; i 'J , Italian newspapers published only a 75-word summary of: the speech, and the newspaper ,Tr buna summed up fascist reaction with: ,,t i ' fWe know what we knew e fore; namely, where Roosevelt wants to go. But the position of the United States remain! internationally turgid and per haps even more equivocal Uuu "before." j jj . In Japan the influential news paper Nichi Nichi termed it f one step nearer to participation In the High Students Get Annuals Portland, May ,28-(VDis solution of the Industrial Employ ers Union, Inc., was announced Wednesday by E. N. Wightman, treasurer. The , board of directors recom mended that its 6000 lumber- worker members in the Willa mette valley and western pine regions- join the AFL Lumber and Sawmill Workers' unions. Wightman said that the CIO In ternational Woodworkers of America had through the national labor rela tions board for a series of elec tions with ballots providing only ior a choice of CIO or no union, The probability that workers would accept CIO rather than no representation prompted the dis cussion, he said. Approximately 1000 IEU mem bers have now switched to AFL, Wightman said. The IEU was established April 29, 1937 after dissolution of the Loyal Legion of Loggers j SEATTLE, May 28P)-A mid night strike by drivers of the Washington Motor Coach system, which operates the main cross state bus routes, appeared immin ent . Wednesday -flight after Dreaxaown in negotiations over wage increase demands. ! F. A. Hoover, international rep resentative of the. Motor Coach Drivers' union (AFL), and Presi dent C. B. Fitzgerald of the com pany agreed that the strike ap peared inevitable. SPOKANE, ,Wash- May 28- -Grant Dixon, president of the Western Pine Manufacturing com pany, said Wednesday a walkout at 2 p.m. by the company's flJO Clarion annuals for 1941 are to be distributed this afternoon to Salem high school students. May Oye, editor, said Wednesday Miss Oye was assisted by Pat Chapman and John Carlson. The manager and his assistants were Gordon Murdoch and Audrey Holt, ; Clyde Christman, Roger Wagner, Dick Gahlsdorf and Les lie Klampe. Helping in editing the various sections of the book were: Administration Janice Patter son, Lucy Carver. - Seniors Ronagene Beilke, Jerry Wolfe, Frances Kelly, VickJ Smothers, Mabel Fox. ' Juniors Donna Upjohn, Veda Smith. Sophomores ; Phyllis Ryan, Norma Wooton. Activities Marion Horn, John Brown, Pat Chapman. Organizations Barbara Hath away, Allan voigt, Cameron Mc Donald, Cleona Naderman. SDorts Otis Wilson. Bill Ud- maneuverecr john. Girls' sports Anne Huston. Features Vicki Smothers, Frances Kelly. Snapshots Aileen Hutchinson, Bud Wolfe. Humor Allen Voigt, John Carl son. Art Lucy Carver. i Typist Lorene Cross. ploymeht commission representa tives a a result of these records will be in force for two benefit years, 1942 and 1943. Meetings tentatively arranged by the state employment offices within !the area? served are in cluded.1 . Portland, June 30, Clackamas, Washington, Columbia, Yamhill and Multnomah. Diet Experts Loyal Legion of Loggers and T 71 T? A HP Lumbermen (4-L) with the ad- ilCttttY EjA.1 - vent of federal legislation outlaw- . mg employer-employe tions. combine- Court Proposes Appraisals on Silverton Road Armed with appraisals provided by the appraisal committee of the Salem realty board, Marion county court . proposes shortly to inter view persons who own lands along the Silverton road needed for new right-of-way require ments of the road widening and realignment project there, com missioners of the court indicated Wednesday. Seven such persons have not yet made deals with the court Appraisals, accompanied by de scriptions, of the property and explanations of the values - Set were presented to the court Wednesday afternoon by I the realty organization's president, J. F. Ulrich. WASHINGTON, May 29--: Delegates to a conference on Im proving the nation's diet sat down to lunch Wednesday and here Is what some of them ate: John St. John Perrott, secre tary of the conference nothing. Paul V. McNutt, federal secur ity administrator Vegetable soup, crabmeat salad, a pint of buttermilk and what looked like a quart of strawberries. Paul Cornell, New York ex pert Three glasses of beer. Vice President Wallace- Cheese sandwich, glass of milk and ice cream. Boys Expelled From School PORTLAND, May 28.-jP)-Two boys in the Parkrose grade school, just east of Portland, have been expelled because they refused to salute the United States flag. The school board withheld the boys' names but Norman Larson of Jehovah's Witnesses said they were Robert Woodruff, sixth Igrade, and Wilford Woodruff, fifth grade, brothers. Parley Slated For Employers Approximately 900 employers whose payroll records indicate sea sonal letdowns are being called to conferences throughout the state during June by the state unem ployment compensation commis sion. Weekly wage reports for the four-year period, 1937-40, will be requested of these employers in an effort to determine whether they are "seasonal" within, the meaning of the law as amended by the 1941 legislature. Seasonal firms must have been shut down during the same consecutive 12 week period for each of the four years. This shutdown is defined as less than 45 per cent of the three highest four-week payrolls during that year. fj Determinations made by unem- war;" "but most issues on the Tok yo stock market moved upward, apparently due to a belief in fi nancial quarters that the speech contained little ' to upset J apan- In Buenos Aires, acting pres ident Ramon Castillo inaugurated Argentina's 1941 congress ; by pledging his country to strict Neu trality in the war. Castillo, who had listened to president Roose velt's speech, reaffirmed the I Ar gentine doctrine of self-determin ation of peoples, non-intervention and reciprocal respect for sover eignties involved in ' any interna tional system, such as that en visaged by proposed hemisphere defense talks. ; In Germany the : press late Wednesday had not yet I pnb . llshed any report of the speech, but the authoritative commen tary news service Dienst Aus Dcutsehland said the presi dent's arguments "apparently do not differ front numerous earlier American, declarations." The German radio, in a broad cast for foreign consumption, ac cused the president of aiming at "nothing short of unlimited con trol by Washington of the world's sea lanes," and argued that it was not Germany bur "certain circles in the United States' which constitute an imperialistic threat to the world, j In Vichy, the semi-official reaction to the president's men- . tion of French 'North Africa and .Dakar was that It failed to change ! the situation between j France land the United States; as for the rest of the speech. It was j regarded as an affair strictly j between the United States ind Germany. -In Mexico; the comment was generally j favorable. : In Brazil the Rio ? de Janeiro , newspaper Correio da Manha; pro-ally, said the speech showed "the cause of the United States was identified with humanity itself." In Germ an -dominated Bulgaria the official radio spokesman saw "no dangerous surprises," . in the speech, and interpreted it to mean there ' would be no ., war unless Germany. undertakes . an attack against the United .States. Australia approved the speech in official and unofficial com ments. The labor leader John Curtin said: "Every Britisher and Australian who is a democrat and lover of freedom must offer 'a prayer of gratitude for all the speech says and involves." The London Times, which printed the foil text, said "ex pectations with which the ad dress was awaited have been amply fulfilled. President Roosevelt has not declared war on axis '. powers; but , by bis proclamation he Is mobilizing the whole resources of the American nation to resist all their attempts to frustrate the policy which he has laid down." "Short of an actual delcaration of war,"i the Telegraph said, "the president went to the farthest limit of! pledging increasing and ; utmost assistance to Britain." LumberBom Is Expert at Crocheting FREDONIA, NY, MaJ IHfl3) Lumber mill Foreman Randall T, Geiger claimed the'world'f cham pionship in crocheting dainty: handkerchiefs. ...... .... The 57-year-old needle artist, who specializes in colored designs, announced he has completed 380 hand-edged hankies no two alike in design and made in 127 differ ent hues. ; .' ' ' - "Mother taught me when I was IS while recovering from typhoid," he explained.' "Cro cheting has been my hobby ever I since. "Lots of people can hardly be ! lieve It until I show 'em." ! During his ' daytime hours, Gei ger, 5 feet 10 inches tall and well built, supervises rough lumber work. At night he goes to work With "tatting thread No. 17 Which is very fine." 1 Until around Christmas, 1938, Geiger ' concentrated on making Intricate centerpiece patterns and working out stitch sequences. 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