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Vi I TMIE WOMB IM WEEK I i nA LjF I! zrm t j I v t l J : x a mm.,. . a. i k . 1 , I ' Union Merger May Change Structure of U.S. Politics West Not Hitting Back at Russians By WILLIAM L. RYAN Auorialpd Pre$ Form fit AVirs Analyst THE free world seems to be responding with weakness to a well planned series of economic-political squeeze plays by the Soviet Union in those lands of Asia and the Middle East which have come to be known as "uncommit ted areas" of the Cold War. With the lessons of the Geneva foreign ministers con ference o fresh in memory, it : : would seem hardly the time for1 Communists know how to use, Western spokesmen to be think- jor that Soviet politics! aggres ing up excuses for Soviet ac- sion thrpugh iron domination of tions, much in the manner of world Communist parties never indulgent uncles explaining the cesses. , behavior of a bad-tempered I The Soviet sortie into India Show of Force child who is about to burn down obviously isised the curtain on, 0(J Min vinter fl.xed hi, .u. ., e;. e"rly Ma,on muscle thia week. Quote Sen. M'atkins (R-l'Uh).ln scolding fellow Republicans for what he called their failure to help defend the administration's farm pro gram: "We can't leave to a few Cabinet members and mostly Benson himself the job of backing up this farm program. Secretary Benson keeps slugging for his program, but he is slug ging alone. If they believe in it, some other Republi cans have got to help." U.S. Labor Reaches Historic Milestone gVf of Q Ldbot 16T : ; Weathei the house. By implica tion, both Ni kita S. Khru shchev, thi reigning boss of world com munism, and Premier Niko lai A. Bulgan in, the head of the Soviet government, have accused the United 1 Tiff i a .t -Wu,"' 1 assaulting the eastern part of the nation with record cold and para- the "uncommitted" areas. Signs were plentiful: fVl ! A law Russians are onering vq !.: take Burma's rice off her hands, I , ,,. A . and Red Czechoslovakia is offer- ,0: ro,n ou irom ing to barter cottor yarn for u l Tl , rie and to give the Burmese J Michigan and the sprawling technical help and machine tools to boot. Buffalo. N. ., industrial area wallowing under a heavy white b'"nket. Payoff Coming Thousands were stranded In; Moscow ii dangling the lure Buffalo on their way to work of extensive economic and tech- when the swirling snow halted nical aid to India and already busses and marooned cars. Oc- States and Britain of the worst huc f w,y ant I?" fr"? kind of hypocrisy-of talking of : A" l???LA"t " " tJ..L'llt 1 fiwm f0RCE 7 : i : ! : : i ! ; : : I milion !;:!!'!::: I?- 4 I I i- ---t" --t--ft--4-4-- --4-- ! - union ; i i : i i : i ; ! ' ! 10 " n MBERS X t-'"T-t"t-T"tr 'V't'T" ! il 1 772 !;::!!! jf ! ! 1 ! i a ' vS' EES: ! i '5.2 ; j T v ' i i ! i i i 1 ' 1 i i i ' ' ' fc1' ! I I ! j i ! I j j j ! i I j I ! ! r Jiii.U4ii.i.U4!!sUi-i-iii-L IIMTUfcHIMl! : ! ! ! I i hn ! ' i i : i " : i i i ; ao i ' ' ' 1 1 1 1 1 ! ' 1 ' ' ' Party Is Possible ', ' y J. M. ROBKRTS Amot inled Pre$ .Veir Analyst THE American labor movement is in transition this week-rnd-a transition full of portent not only for labor, but for the future of the American political system. The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations are uniting, after 18 years of division. Nearly fifteen and a half million unicm members -will now be guided bv an inter- - ot ,hP ,00 vet fully agreed as to the forms .locking d.rectorate at the top eventually, .comprised of all the prccnt of- ' ficeri of both organizations. ....... v -.---j "L i . ;rfpmrn was announreri. lead auto inis inp cuiiiiuaiiu - - Amaricans everywhere won- such groups as l.iJ!.uuu ""I" rfpj jf the United States was to workers; 1.231,000 teamjiter.s. see lhc development of a labor 'mostly coriorcted with trucking, parlv ajon. British lines. The despite their name; 1,194, 0 0 0 steel workers: 864, 000 machin ist s ; m o re than 800,000 carpenters ; more than 600,000 elec trical work ers. ' The two organize- i o n s held m Robtrtt leaders have said no, but the sum total of their objectives srems to amount to very much the same thing. At least for the immediate future, there will be no "labor'' conventions nominating candi dates for public office. No Rapid Changes At least for the immediate future, labor leaders are; expect ed to confine tl ?mselves to po litical support of labor's friends in both of the regular political their last individual conventions parties, depending on local con- -dill' ill I 1936 1940 1945 1950 1955 - rw7r o?exPguo ihernatura! Sources" QBl.Si.?K NEXT WEEK Y.rk, five .illi b.rs of ,h. Con9r.M of .ndus.riol Orgoniso.ion. this week. .ndwjH hold a united diti will iain with 10 millian mtmliiri af lha American Fsdsration at Labor la farm a final one beginning Monaa. k j Th hmv dona mora than "" " J"" . " . v"' " ". , . , . . 7. .. . ' . " .. crats because it is tne Uemocrats POLITICS: GOP Hopeful i urT jihvv uuiib .iiui v Hi. . . , i . i j . . , I I - ' . vi I i L- .1 r i . . .1 . i n ( . t. . - whilln flh icomPny; nomania, on proauc- Kiorvs ana auwniuwn ousintssri. mw ioof organization, i nm cnon invwi ino union mmnrinip niHivgirani bp iv inpini. rrooirms ivcmaia . -who have made the" Creat Dlay that, in tneir iree-wneenng nsn-, . -..,:,. .nj ,.hni-oi t u i ' ui . . .' ..... ... - - urir iiunwuuu, m.cn., io mere irt sun mnv uiuuiciiu or lanor siiDDori in me cast to be worked out. But months 20 years. ano, when Walter Reuther, head n ,ne )()ng run if the hw of the flve-million-man CIO, Pad(.ls Ci)n realv produce a agreed to submerge his personal coheslve poliiical force such as ambitions in favor of a unified ... h t , ahp tn H 4n. trl Rnuth A.ta thev have " "."'"' iear J .f.nrt :0 t' ... help; Hungary, machine tools, inches of snow fell in 24 hours. kU. M MotlaifiaM In an r iiaiqinai. mt . u r ihii assii nj 9 . area which hates the ver word, Free Asian nations are bound became impassable. Hall Reports . ,h PresicU nt whether he .their messages fall on willing to feel the pinch of this sort of Out on windswept Lake Michi- The burning question of 1956 ' ' n iiV"li' Zi t r,ir.n.;v. Kfnr. inn imnn ... .v,. rn.t n..rA ,..-r c, ,r, ..... - not oner, direct I v, to tell him ' - - - , . ( . . . , - -- t i ywilJCS - ' 111 I ir.ill,lll blSCll Yet the Soviet dew was called to" break' bit whether he had made up his He said the President a m ... .k . Tli.iik tint ! Janin uhlrh fare thr ' Mnnmln Mich in thf l. .1.:' 1. -. - 1 CIKU VUUKIV WUCU " - - 1 1 U 1 1 1 1 WCTA VUCI VUlliri . , 1 ; J , , . J I , itrnL. ..v-.m. .-. threat of a cut-throal tvte of frihlpr F.mnrv I. Ford could v.... ' .v, dldn 1 sa es and he dlln 1 " fl vtii Willi- Bvnv!!'"" . " j lit uriivsuui " 11 gested that Bulganin's statements competition in Asia Irom tne get out after delivering the sea- president anJ Leonard Hall, na in India, when stacked up againstwhole Communist bloc. ton's last load of coal there. tional chairman of the COP. v hile divided,, it is not hard to envision a Democratic party Soviet performance at Geneva, added up to hypocrisy, Brttlsk Back Dowa The British response to this Soviet objection and the Brit lsh do not seem labor movement under George Meany, head of the 10-million man AFL, the merger became a bounc s0 tjjht!y ,0 abor t0 viuuai lacu gjve tne unjons virtual control. In a farewell report as CIO whether they officer the party cr president, Reuther declared that no. unity would giv. unions "great, Wnle ,ahor WM divided,' there new opportunities for service to WM nUvavs undorcuttin(j gom our nation and all its people. QU S01)icwhcre( thus icsscninK Unified political action is the the real power of its leaders in prime objective of the merger, politics. The divergent interests although even the leaders are not of both large and small groups I within the two organizations jhave prevented anythinglike a j united political front. Union imenibers sometimes have voted taken back on as sipn as possible. ns blocs, and there is no question MazeV said the Union "did all of thn.r nunwil ntlarhmpnl tn T T I , fir . .' . . itnrirl .nrt Vn hlninV Although the. prognosfjeators ident will run again. I wouldn't' k . " could t0 try 10 Rel ' union he Democratic party, which they t f I" .1"?!. u. instantly pointed out that this J any martVnsk his health "n'ted Auto Worker, oflic.a Is, shop ,nd a Uyoft pay pan for cali thc more liberal, although no as to whether he w the ticket next year. WlXili in In conditions like this, efforts! Temperatiret plunged to the ., ., , cJuamg trie important n ne reeis to keep alive the dying dove of freezing mark at far south as h "'"V" ""l " "tV ?e ls aDlc Jua'lnrlallor- 10 Genevi can prove an expensive northern Florida, the Gulf Coast "'lu1 f , fnSW" V ,he b'K qS"n induleence. land southern Texas ' publican party policy, the aii iater in the press conference indulgence. iana soutnern lexas. rf,.mi.inn lOCiH nim,i ,.. ... i - - - .Ndiu itdiiv, idi as i am iuii- " nKiH . knnu'i u'hat tbcH . - . i . . i ana the Brit- a . rx. f I J , ranra. nine js ou uiiiit idii- to be alone in;T TO . NpW AimC )ctmtri 'ween the,tw men butw'th dlrf,(' " ' this attitudetruck many ani ' ,w - w . w proaa imiie cnairman nan 01- i a typical response to the bserver as one of "Don't let's'-. rn,nm., r, , For Yugoslavia however Tito Ierea U1, personal opinion at HaU press conference, Sen. Allot be beastly to the Russians." The(r Consumer Goods 1 " a press conference immediately (R.Colo)-wno Wa elected in bluntly candid Foreign Office! Communist Yugoslavia has pa 11 " n ow e 'Xrprises aft" the "T1 2 with Eisenhower s strong reDreacntativs who pinned the embarked on a program which) J h ... ). . p. . wi 1 run again "if he feels he is bS, king-happily said: hypocriay Ubel on Bulganin was ' li"ly to heighten the contrast, Jn !' vin- Mthe livinf b"- - "This makes it appyar the Pres- . nnhMl asirJaas Britain's ror- between Marshal Tito's "home. , ... ' , J,. Although the . prognosficators ident will run again. I wouldn't eicn Office spokesman. It can be controlled" Communist economy ..n ,," H instantly pointed out that this a. any Dates Wednesday, 'Dee. 7 Anniversary (Mth) of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Thursday, Dee. I Secretary of. State Dulles addresses the Illinois Man ufacture! s Assn., Chicago. Monday, Dee. 12 Nuclear congress and atom ic exposition opens at Cleveland. STRIKE: Dispute Ended Narrow Margin inferred, therefore, by the restnd that of the Russian satellite ?j;Zi'r'Zrita nothing substantial to the in the political campaign and for .p" " ' .u ! "ndy .workerg-.. F"f. now enough liberal of the world, that BriUln of- nations. " "",,." uZiT,". speculation that has been going a long time I felt that the Pres- " 'J. J;" Circle s refusal w meet me uaw Republican leaders to be fight flcislly deplores the suggestion Only time will tell whether of Soviet hvDocrisy. any substantial erred on tne re- Hinr,mn t t..v. i,,.tr -Some-responsible- American iations . between the satellites h r..chcd Urh. a level "that optimism served to make GOP will make Americans as a whole annkaaman hava bean ttudiouslYiand Moscow will follow, but . ..,. hopes' "soar." ;happy because Eisenhower is that trying to keep alive the idea mat me move is apt to tause tne we can continue building at a there is real substance behind Kremlin, some discomfort. jslower pace and more easily." the "spirit of Geneva." Among ln a speech this week, Tito' Acknowledging that Yugoslavs these ha been Defense Secre- outlined the basic principles of have had to carry a heavy bur tary Wilson, whose stated opin-(a drastic new economic course den up to now, he promised "as ion was that the Geneva stand-j designee to provide Yugoslavia soon as possible as many con off would not result in intensi-jwith more food, more consumerumer goods as possible will be fication of thi Cold War. Yet soodt and a hieher livinc stand-made available." even while he spoke, the Cold ard. Heavy industry will be de-! Ever since the Kremlin patched the wife of one of them, were New Strength It. is iiuite possible that the most encctive lorm oi political r 5.VA, .nH V.TtfV;;. . . on ever since the President was ident probably would not run. " J, V V u w "", demand lor a union snop was jnj! tor control against -:HeinnmiTi nt h..vv inrtn.Trv stricken. Hall's air of buoyant "But I think Hall s statement "7 u,wujr -'-the big oostacie to a seuicmeni party', Old Guard. - " - j j '- j i hi ...ti I. . a : vui. ihrntionniil tn tt Pi U n Glum local union officials who had led the strike came out of " ... the two-hour ratification meetini! In Nflrtrf with little comment, but leaving action by the centralized labor !no doubt they were unhappy Vrged: By Secretary of State 'leadership will be its new strength about the settlement. It was ap- Dulles, that Republicans and in the lobbies of Congress and 'An American protest, based proved by the narrow margin of Democrats limit their foreign, legislatures, where some on the fact the four power 86 to 72 and provides a total of 17 policy debate in the 1956 polit-!may still suspect But none will asreement in divided Berlin rjuts cents an hour in wage increase., ical campaign "in such a man- be able to outrightly deny their Hall admitted that he did not, needed for President.'' BERLIN: Trouble Ahead Rules Discarded A party of Americans, includ ing two U.S. congressmen and , ., .,nA0. cnvi4t illpi. . v.in.i r..rA t. i nnn net as not to endanaer our na-'F " i! power. The ability to War was stepped up by the So-,emDhasized. ud its ouarrel with Tito. diDlo- hM at tfunnnint in Fact Rjrltn viet bloc ventures into the Middle The policy shift is in marked matic observers have predicted for four hours this week. East with arms aeais ana me contrast to the situation in the that the. new Russian friendship bovier campaign 10 convince, soviet bloc. There the replace- lor Yugoslavia mieht boom diction, not East German met stro . was sent to New Castle tion." ImnKiliv I'.et mt in ft Vtlm urill iiiuuii,M . . ' . . . . i u.ulj nil. with a rebuff. Maj. Gen. Charles after a riot .n Oct. 5 when eight , Detected: Radioactive fallout oe siow--oi proor. L Dasher. U.S. commandant in Dersons were wounded durine an from the largest nuclear weapon! The major objective irom the Although the incident itself Berlm. said it is how clear the exchange of shots as the ynion so far exploded by the Soviet beginning, however, will center Astern oeoDles that th United m-nt of Soviet Premier GeorpiVrnr inre th- iii.htiv iv.imH "5 "ul lun5'arrca Brl ,ou' r vr" Soviets consider East Berlin a demonstrated at the foundry union, oy atmospnenc tests in crouna -opposuioi 10 ponucai .S! . Krin. members of the U.S. Dai( of Communist East Cer-nates. . the United States. The ARC had ei.cmies rnd support of political o"11' .. ... muiriiivuv uj iiiKuiai ouizauui naitriiur: win nave iwiure inem u.. d.. .. . .. . ... . , . ti wai s-. i ... i .u. ' 4-1. i- .u """c ui miJivjuimiKj ""vmany ana suoject to tasi uer- Fmil Miv n. r.trni' ttAW announcea on nov. inai T.ne,irn-nus vi woor. down on their heads. That was it February and the move tolan appetizing example of the e7 iMoiVc-tions were ""i the menace Buleanin broueht ih. fmn. nf rmmn! n.r.v'fmii.Ti (n.---t inoled- il implications w ere ,,,, iaw. secretary-treasurer w ho explain- R, fls had stt "ch bomb. The coordinatea labor leader the meseaee BUISanin DrOUCni the front nf f'nmmnnitt nnrtv fruit, nf lnriininHn,.4 ' ff Titn to India. j boss Nikita Khrushchev wa . ac-lis successful in materially rais- CX ne y SraU'' ' This is a violation of the four ed the new contract to the strik-i Resigned: The entire 16-mcm- ship plans intensive educational Ne Warning compnnied by abandonment of ing the Yugoslav standard of 'Tlm 15 what haPPcned: power agreements which has ers, said the vote on its approval ber Cabinet of Turkish Premier;campaigns to convince the rank Ne official Western voice was Malenkov's policy of more con-lliving with abandonment of the ReP- Harold C. Ostertag Hire implications for the future, was close because the agreement Adnan Mendcres, in protet to and file that, through bloc vot. heard at the moment in protest, sumr goods. . 'heavy industry program which '(R-NY) and his wife and Rep. Many observers exp-ct Kast did not provide for automatic the Premier's economic policies., in,;, it has a power which it will No candid voice was raised to! The satellite countries were 'has become the hallmark of Edward P. Boland (D-Mass) vis- Germany now will step up its reinstatement of all 37 workers Named: Dr. E. Itojjer Samuel, be foolish not to use. ttll the Asians it was Soviet co-!quick to follow the Kremlin'siRussian communism, the pres- i,ed tne Soviet memorial ceme- harassment of Allied movements, who had been fired on strike 06, of Mt. Carmel, Pa., as "Earn-! When fiat campaign has done lonialism which prevented agree-! lead in renewing" the predoml- sure in the satellitei for a lessen- tery in East Berin in an Army prrhaps even rcimposing a Ber- misconduct charges. ily Doctor of the Year." The se- its work perhaps some years ment at Geneva, that economic' nance of heavy industry, includ- ing of Moscow control can be car wiln an Army officer escort, lin blockade, to force the West Loctl President Carl Batch-' lection was made by the Amer- from now as labor's relationship penetration is a weapon the, ing arms production. expected to mount ,M51 merman ponce aeiainea tne to recognize me sovereignty n fleid was one of seven whose re- lcan ieaicai assh. to tne national economy and to pan;, ucciaiing mc jaws oi vie claims. instatement goes to arbitration, svmeo: ai leasi a aozen per- management grows more ana East German Republic against fne aim would be to get He told reporter, he doubts that sons, most of them civilians, as more complex labor can surely two-way radio in foreign cars East Germany equal diplomatic he'll get his job back. Eight oth- an Air Force jet fighter crashed be expected to reach for power had been violated. The Russian status wjtn West Germany, pav- ers will be made to wait 30 days into a row of houses near Eiel-iwithin the government equal to deputy commandant of Berlin in. the wsv for unification talks before bcine oermitted to return son Air Force Base at Fairbanks, tie pressurt rhir. from now on FRANCE: Faure Cabinet Finally Falls Exit the 2 ht The 21st French government aince the end of World War II was voted out of office this week. The Cabinet of Premien Edgar Fstire, which has lasted nine months and a week, was defeated 118 to 218 on a vote- of conn dence. It grew out of Faure's de mand that the Assembly cut its life short by six months and pre sent France with an early gen eral election. However, Fsure's foes got themselves in difficulty by the size of their victory. Since the hostile vote went over the con ftitutional majority of 312, half the Assembly membership, it was possible for Faure to move for dissolution of both Cabinet and Assembly under a constitu tional provision last used in 1877. This provision says that when iwo guveiunicni iiu wunin an ll-month period by votes of inere than half the Assembly membership, new general elec- f " ' " ' : I ; afi- 1 eral months with no immediate prospect of agreement . j w.j v. lice. The party was detained at foreseeaf.. since early October P'to1 "! h car for 24 when he ousUd four Gaulli. hu"' lr !ft"ed to minister, from hi. Cabinet for fard ,hck unndct the .urve.l- supported the East German po- am0ng the Germans themselves.'to work. The other 22 will be Alaska. 'will be e rted from without. tommygunner. After I pol another hour and leased. a half, they were re- Sidelights The West Virginia deer sea-: EDGAR FAURI . . . Hia Cabinet Distoived . , , The opposition to Faure is led by ex-Premier Mendes-France, a member of Faure's own Rad ical Socialist party. Mendes-Hheir support. policies, Since that time he had sur vived four confidence votes in six weeks on North African poli cies and the early election issue janly through makeshift majori ties on each separate question. ilia luufttH rr,nc irlurul.l.r Ini.n.M than most observers expected. ison Mdt h" ,w.tek?d J In this week's vote he h.d man finn UJ of fi"1 sht5 against him the Communists, i?n opJmn dsy,wVnd up .be" Socialists, Gaullists, a consider 'ore M'g'Slr,a,fT D' JTC"nning' able part of his own Radical 3o- m.0' .V"10. ?' cialist party, the .mall leftist iS , , . , . . Union of Democratic and Social- J,.' ra re,yoKea nis i. w..i.(.n.. .a k;- ..i..:hunung license for five years of the right wing Independents :;"rLred him t0 p'y f ft" and Peasants, ,$320. The esger hunter had The Communists en.bledriure .oprnfT u ,"50n Dy m,!Ulln tc win on the last two votes!,w" " m"UM IW acT rr of confidence, but deserted him In Detroit, grocery owner this week. He had not asked George Jacob gave chase when . i !a man armed with a knife Ironically, Faure's Cabinet was robbed his store of $258, But then same either a gust of wird or the uons nuy ot cauea w lorm a i. .:.. 4. . ,, . II Lull M4tia; 4W 1CVJ g1', .1 VIII1.IIJ;, f 4UI T I V4U1III new assembly. Pierre Mendes- tht Radic,i socialisU and want- voted out of office on the ' T ..f J. ! 1 , . r time to get ready for day France ended its walkout in cleverness of the thief caused JrL Tlw . . ! . . . m,'or"y ;the elections. the United Nations General A.about $80 in bill, to float away ' t i n 1 Ure i' Mendes-France ako is fighting sembly In New York. The French from the fleeing robber', hand, ignea to xoresuii early general for , djstrict voUng system, si'm- delegation iiad been absent since Jacob stopped to retrieve his elect on, unintentionally fave;,iir to the U.S. system, to re- the U.N.: Assembly voted to de- money. So did passersby. Jacob I . 1 n f t0(pre" fortPlr France's present 'modified bate the Algerian question Sept salvaged $38, p4sersby scam-1 jus goal on a new ironu 'form of proportional represen-, 30. Last week tlii. item was pcred off into the darkness with1 ' tation. The Assembly has been dropped from the agenda of the something like $4u, and the thief MuavkMStaMrveS.ArActMftaiiiradebating this proposal for aev-;present Se.jion. . jescaped with the rest, I h' 'Wv-VV Ti W J YOU CAN'T HAVI ONE. WITHOUT THI OTHER ateiaWw, ,). Ia Sulltlal THE FARM IELT aaarwm f a , i , m Tl u-t - -1 1 V " ' I r A- t 1 79 : I ) J r A- , -r