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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (June 15, 1955)
British' Railway Walkout Settled otiators By Nee LONDON (UP) The govern ment and union negotiators settled the nation's costly 17-day-old rail way strike Tpesday. ; The agreement will start trains moving soon, but officials said it will require days to restore the normal, because of mountainous backlogs of freight Tuesday's settlement, ending the Tax Inequities Fire From Official - LOS ANGELES UB "Tax in equities" between governirient owned and investor-owned power companies were attacked Monday by the president of the Edison Electric Institute. "The average utility company is now navine 22.8 per cent of its gross revenue in federal, state ana local taxes and has been doing so for the past several years," Har old Quinton told men charged with supplying the nation's electricity. He said the government's Ten nessee Valley Authority, on the other hand, "is paying 2.7 per cent of its gross revenue in lieu of local taxes. Consider the cumulative ef fect of such a differential." Quinton. who is also president of the Southern California Edison Co., addressed the annual conven tion of the institute. 2.0M Attead An estimated 2.000 representa tives of utilities and manufacturers are attending the convention. Quinton said tax inequalities and exemption of government busi nesses from taxation have led un informed, people to assume be cause governmental businesses sell their products at lower prices that a government - operated sys tem is better than an investor Owned system. -Cast of Liviag Therefore, he said, they think the government should go further into business as a means of hold ing down, the cost of living. Taxa tion drives the average family to demand' that the government do more and more things for it, Quin ton asserted. Thus taxation, he said, creates pressure to push the government deeper into all business, including electric power, though the cost of 1 1 " 1 A eiecincuy represents dui one per cent of the cost of living. Too few persons realize, he as serted, that a 4 per cent tax cut would save the average family more than the cost of its entire electric bill. ' " disastrous transport chaos, was negotiated between the govern ment's Transport Commission, which operates the nationalized railways, and union representa tives. : Government and industrial lead ers said it will be months before the full economic loss from the strike can be computed. Many Out of Work The strike forced many of Brit ain's key industrial plants to close. put nearly one million men onto the nation s unemployment rolls and seriously weakened the na tion's drfte to balance its imports with exports. Losses to the nationalized rail ways alone approximate 42 million dollars. With the announcement that the long dispute over wage differen tials had been settled, there was tired jubilation in the ranks of the 70.000 striking members of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen. The strike left the new govern ment of Prime Minister Anthony Eden a major political headache. The opposition Labor Party is attempting to label Eden as the anti-union proponent of a restric tive "new doctrine" that strikes must end before negotiations can begin. Wage Increases Studied The settlement assures the strik ing engineers and ' firemen that their demands for wage increases will be considered. The ASLEF demanded increas es that would raise enginemen's top wages to $28.07 per week. They now average between $24.50 to $23.90 per week. ASLEF strikers went home to their families and started living on weekly union fund grants of $5.60 per week, plus 56 cents extra for each child, until settlement could be reached. . The way for the settlement was paved by a joint meeting of the ASLEF with the National Union of Railway Men., representing the less skilled rail enfployes. The NUR has demanded consideration of its demands for increases in line with those , granted ASLEF when 1 a final settlement is reached. - Prospects for Oregon Crops Said Better PORTLAND UH Crop prospects for Oregon have improved over the outlook earlier in the spring, but the season suH is running behind schedule, the federal Crop Report ing Service said Tuesday. An above average crop I s expected in tret fruits. The best peach crop since 1949 is expected. The harvest prediction is for 676, 000 boxes. The Bartlett pear crop i s expected to total 69,800 tons,- nearly double last year's slim harvest The winter pear harvest is ex pected to be 4,400,000 boxes, com pared with 2,565,000 last year. The sweet cherry crop is expected to be one of the largest on record, totaling 35,600 tons, an increase of 10,000 tons from last year. The strawberry crop is forecast is 73,260,000 pounds, an all-time record, up about 12 million pounds from last year. The wheat forecast is for 23,153,' 000 bushels, down about two miUion from last year because of reduced acreage. The hay crop was flisted at 83 per cent of normal. .Wheat price support loan rates were announced for Oregon coun ties. The- rates average about 20 cents a bushel under last year. The rate wUl be $2.08 a bushel in Linn County, $2.10 in Marion, $2.07 in uenton, $2.11 in uacxamas and. Yamhill. lU. S. Steel to Meet Monday With Union PITTSBURGH ( U.S. Steel Corp. and the CIO United Steel workers Tuesday scheduled a new round of wage negotiations for next Monday. The union indirectly has warned it is not interested in a "nickels and dimes" settlement. The wage talks between big steel and the union were recessed last Thursday after the union pri vately spelled out .its demands for a substantial pay increase. Union president David J. McDon ald is reported to have told union negotiators in a closed meeting that he expected the company to submit a wage increase offer of 7 cents an hour. He was quoted as telling the ne . gotiators: ' "We are not interested m a nick els and dimes settlement We want a substantial wage increase.' McDonald has never said pub licly what he would consider as a substantial wage hike. Many steel observers predict he will set tle for an hourly wage hike of be tween 12 and IS cents. . The union has or is in the process of presenting its de mands for a pay increase to 95 other .basic steel companies. Con tracts with most of the firms ex pire at midnight June 30 the strike deadline. Official Backs Partnership Power Policy LOS ANGELES m ' . Kinsey Robinson, chairman of the board and president of the Washington Water Power Co.. Spokane, lauded President Eisenhower's "partner- uip yvm. tut )ww 5twt ment Tuesday. Speaking before the 23rd animal convention of the Edison Electric Institute, the principal trade asso ciation of U.S. electric companies, Robinson said the partnership pol icy in the field of electric power actively encourages , the develop ment of the natural resources of the country." Robinson cited the proposal now before Congress to authorize . the JohnPay Dam on the Columbia River. "Though the U government would retain title to the develop ment and Army Engineers do the actual construction," he said, il is proposed that three private pow er companies and any others, il they care to participate, win ad vance -273 million dollars of the total estimated cost of 310 million. We believe the bffl offers a sensi ble, definite and practical way to get new projects under construc tion without loss of tune. Plane Search Unsuccessful SEATTLE (JB Air searchers reported no results Tuesday night as the quest for a plane missing since Sunday with two Kirkland men aboard continued. Bob Nuber, assistant director of the State Aeronautics Commission, reported 30 aircraft searched both the west And east sides of the Cas cades Tuesday as far up as Lake Dorothy. Clouds limited operations at the tops of the mountains. ' Nuber said the weather was not encouraging. He said two Air Force jets Sun day recorded a plane violating the Hanford area that may have been the missing Cessna 170 with K.D. Simpson and Lawrence R. Nelson aboard. The search started Monday when the plane failed to arrive at Belle- vue, near Seattle, from Pasco. Opposition to Dog Racing Mounts In Ashland Area ASHLAND Wl The Retan Trade Committee of the Ashland Cham ber of Commerce has joined the town's ministeral association in opposing a proposed dog racing track near here. The Jackson County Court' i s expected to announce this week whether it wilt recommend licensing the track. A firm made up of two men from Medford and three from Ashland has applied for a license, urday GoodwiUDrive Being Planned By Molotov UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. tfl Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov is taking the largest dele gation to the U. N. birthday party in San Francisco. ; He apparently intends to spread good wUl as far as possible, say veteran U. N. diplomats who have been muUing over the roster of more than 80 Russians who win back up Molotov at the U. N.'s 10th anniversary celebrations. The U. S. delegation of 71 per sons wiU be second largest Molotov will arrive in New York aboard the liner Queen Elizabeth Wednesday, bringing a party of 46 from Moscow, including experts on practically all areas of the world. He will join other Rus sians here and leave Wednesday night with them in special -cars of the New York Central Railroad He is to reach San Francisco Sat 5 NOW AT Foreman's Cleaners 1070 S. 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' What happened, it developed. was that the Kemlin had failed to notify the East German govern ment and East German Commu nist party in advance that their arch-enemy s favor was to be courted. Leaders Worried This means that the East Ger man leaders have good! reason to be worried. ! They undoubtedly have, as com panions in misery, the Polish Com munists. ' i It was suggested three weeks before . the Kremlin invitation to Moscow that the Polish Reds were a worried bunch of people. They must be more worried to day. ! There can be no doubt that the Soviet . government would betray both the East German Commu nists and the Polish Communists if necessary to make a deal with Adenauer. . That betrayal would involve the unification of Germany and the restoration , to Germany ; of the more than 40,000 square miles of its eastern territory which Red Poland now occupies, j , Russia has -almost got to make some kind of agreement with Ad enauer, if only a face-saving one, for its own good.- ; It is inconceivable that Adenauer would agree to make Germany a neutral nation, as the Kremlin de sires. Even u Adenauer did agree to such an incredible concept, the facts of life would prove too strong to permit, its consummation. Germaiy is World Power Germany is a world power, as much of a world power as Russia is. It can not be relegated to the status of a minor nation As long as Adenauer is chancel lor, its alignment with the West seems certain. Wilhelm Pieck, Otto Grotewohl Recently Chancellor Welcomed to U.S. r V ( A h IT' .t " f t Statesman,' Salem, Oregon, We'ct, June K, 1 95MSec 2-3 Court Rules For Newsboy JACKSON, Miss. (JFi Missis sippi's supreme court upheld a circuit judge's opinion that tossed out the "little merchant" theory that a newspaper delivery boy is an independent contractor. The unprecedented decision in cluded newspaper delivery boys under the . Workmen's Compensa tion Act. Circuit Judge Burkitt Collins held that 15-year-old Barney Leon James was an employe, of the Laurel Leader-Call when he was injured and therefore eligible for workmen's compensation. The' supreme court uphold the decision 5-4, stated: . . For the greater portion of its income, the paper depends upon advertising, and the rates for advertising are governed by the papers circulation. Circulation is necessary for success. ! WASHINGTON U. S. Undersecretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr. greets West Germany's ChanceUor Conrad Adenauer upon his arrival in the United States to confer with Secretary of State uuiies ana president Eisenhower. ((A3) Wirepboto (Story page one.) -j : on and Walter Ulbricht, the East German big three, must be think ing of these things with some bit terness today, while Adenauer is in Washington. : They are puppets and lackeys of the Kremlin while Adenauer is the head of a sovereign nation and the honored guest of President Eisen hower. Pieck is the president of the so called German Democratic Repub- lic.,He is a figurehead. Grotewohl, as premier, heads the govern ment Ulbricht the most hated man in Germany, is the head of the Communist party and the real boss. i Berlin advices suggest that afl three Red leaders may go to Mos cow soon to find just what the out look it. It seems hardly likely that any news they get wul be good. Mexico produced 3,900,000,000 pounds of milk in 1934, but milk consumption decreased slightly because of restrictions on imports of powdered nunc. 1 - Wondering and Worrying wont help you FIND THE CAUSE! 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