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EUGENE, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1947
NO. 80
.' .mn Favors
Cded Rent Control
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t In cat taxes,
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" J" in.
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ntU ion
;,to were these develop-
U limy congressional
nrnnoseu iui"'"
..jmpnt to limit Presi-
iU two lour year terms. The
,ote was 81 to 29.
Jwithi of the states now
t, ntifr the amendment to
h effective.
Un Pollw-Actlng Secre-
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State Dean Acneauu iv
miuMm invwnere inreai-
Kecurity. Urging approval
I Greei-Tunusn aio pro
hi said if Greece. collapses,
Lmunlitj will take over at
Mriiilona The House
kiittoni Committee voted
Clalary payments to U. S.
tiUon Director Edgar L.
tsd 100 of his subordl-
Kemberj said Warren once
pi to two Communist
I mow and was "radical."
M Bu" Eeonotnlca Chair-
llmeni D. Millikln of the
Financi Committee aired
tat that the State Depart'
to offering "feed bag" fi
ll aid to lure ether nation.
Ibi International Trade Or
is. The State Department
Iwai trying to establish eco-
WMom on a world-wide
4m to Rniala Sen. James
m (R-Mo) demanded that
t of tractors to Russia be
id. Hi' tald V. S. farmers
ill be deprived of needed
o to help "Russia and her
its." ' -
We laterprbe W. E. Bad-
Knoxville. Tenn.. com-
pto Sen. Kenneth McKel
Wa) that the Atomic
Commission under Chair
HsjWrte. David Lilienthal
Wl to take over nrivnt
Pin in the ttcinity of the
mjv ienn, atomic power
O TAX BILL
Mffl-mTh. Senate
7 Committee Friday re-
te I passage of
E'-mva te tax timber 10
l thouud feet to build
"Jul 1500,000 forestry
r. , " reearch fund.
wwui consider the bill
SIMULTANEOUS actions by
communists in countries all over
the world occur too frequently
to be mere coincidences, Under
secretary of State Dean Ache
son told the Bouse Foreign
Affairs Committee.
Turkey Under Pressure -
Acheson Says Communistic
Nations Are Threat to US
WASHINGTON (UP) Actine Secretary of Stat non
Acheson said Friday that it is "dangerous to the security of
the United States 'to have Communist-dominated govern-
Acheson was asked by a mem
ber of the House Foreign Affairs
Committee whether It would not
be dangerous to have Communist
dominated governments in the Pa
cific. He replied:
"It is dangerous to the security
of the United States to have Com
m u n i s t -dominated governments
anywhere."
Reasons for Need
Acheson also told the commit
tee which Is holding hearings on
the administration's proposed
$400,000,000 aid to Turkey and
Greece that Turkey needs Amer
ican aid to resist Soviet demands
for a share in the control of The
Dardanelles. The strategic straits
are the gateway between The
Mediterranean and oil-rich lands
bordering the Black Sea.
Acheson said the government's
new foreign policy was not aimed
at any "country or any ideology."
But then in answer to a question
he made this statement on the
threat of Communist-dominated
government to us.
Acheson told Kep. waiter M.
Judd (R-Mlnn) that "Communist
organisations throughout' the
world appear to act with a high
degree of discipline and unanim
ity at the same time."
"Beyond the probability of co
incidence?" Judd asked.
"Beyond the probability of co
incidence," Acheson agreed.
Rep. Chester E. Merrow (R-NH)
said he was strongly in favor of
aid to Greece and Turkey. He
asked whether failure to approve it
would not be interpreted as a
resignation of the United States
from its position of world leader
ship. . ..
"World Watching" .
"If the. United States will not
accede to the requests made upon
it," Acheson said, "there will be a
very strong conviction in the Mid
dle East and throughout the world
that a great deal of our professions
are merely words and we will not
exert any efforts to maintain in
stitutions which we wish to see
survive."
He said that the position of the
United States "as the defender of
certain views stated in our Con
stitution and stated in the United
Nations Charter". will be "greatly
weakened" in the event Congress
refuses to approve the program.
Merrow said that "Mr. Stalin
and his associates will not stop
their aggressive policies of ex-'
panslon unless the United States
takes a firm stand." He said he
was "In favor of a showdown
now."
Acheson repeatedly assured the
Congressmen that the administra-
tion's foreign policy is not aimed
at any particular nation.
He told Rep. Karl E. Mundt (R
SD) that the Turkish armies have
had to remain In a state of semi-
mobilization for several years.
inis, ne said, has been a severe
"budgetary strain" on the govern,
ment.
The Turks are not worried
about "internal bands of guerillas"
ne said. Their worries stem entire
ly from "external pressures."
iese Reds May Establish
Capital in Manchuria
Cross Nearing
Dal Fund Goals
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ta(,C;Un?'Dutnnot Side It ? Ulerefore is
W in collections
Nil dltM.4- v '
'"Prevtai.. "wen-i
tharLtoun. Thursday
"Wcts had topped
4 IU continue through
assists. day signed a
SC ."id the
WPml 8 American
.teSen?5Dled forces.
t Provides for an
Mi'UngoVer
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'orfiv. ,"
SHANGHAI UR) Speculation
grew Friday that with the fall of
Yenan the Chinese Communists
may seek to develop northern
Manchuria as a major base of op
erations while continuing small
scale guerilla warfare from iso'
lated pockets within China proper.
mere was no certain indica
tion where the Communists might
place their main base but it was
believed it might be Kiamusze, an
old fur trading center 250 miles
west northwest of Harbin and only
about 70 miles from the Soviet,
border.
City Described
Kiamusze is isolated but little
more so than Yenan. Compared to
Yenan's single, narrow tricky
river and one serviceable highway
Kiamusze -has-much better com
munications. It is on the banks
of the Sungari River which flows
to the Amur, skirting the Man
churian border and is the center
of a network of short-line railroads.
Harbin was believed to be an
alternate Communist site. It is
the most highly developed city
controlled by the Communists and
because of its large Russian col
ony is believed to be safe from
Nationalist bombing or ground at
tack at least for the time. being.
waders 'Missing'
It was doubted that the Russians
would object to the construction
of a strong Communist state along
ineir frontiers.
The whereabouts of the top
ranking Communist leaders is not
yet known but it was believed they
would have little difficulty in cov
ering the 1200-mile march from
Yenan to Harbin and thence to
Kiamusze.
Young Couple
Not Yet Charged
SANTA ANA, Calif. OP)
Sheriff James Musick said Friday
he believes Financier Walter
Overell and his wife, Beulah, were
slain with a ball peen hammer be
fore their yacht exploded in New
port Bay last Saturday night. But
the district court attorney an
nounced he was not yet ready to
file murder charges against the
couple's daughter and her boy
friend.
Sheriff Musick retorted -that,' In
the absence of action by District
Attorney James L. Davis,'he would
ask a grand jury indictment of
Louise Overell, 17-year-old heiress
to a reported $600,000 ' fortune,
and George R. Collum, 21, her
husky fiance.
'It sufficient evidence has not
been presented by this afternoon
and charges have not been filed,
I have no choice but to entertain
defense demands for writs of
habeas corpus'," Davis said.
Attorneys for the couple Indi
cated Thursday that such action
would be forthcoming, . : . v
Other developments in the
strange case Friday included:
Disclosure by an autopsy that
there was not water in the lungs
of the Overalls, socialites of ex
clusive Flintridge, indicating that
they were dead before the blasted
craft sank at its mooring. -
Thousands Throng
To Spring Opening
Thousands of Lane "County
shoppers milled up and down Wil
lamette St. Thursday night as
weather remained, -warm and
balmy for Eugene's first post-war
spring opening. "
Merchants unveiled their
brightly decorated windows
promptly at 8 p.m. to reveal the
latest spring ensembles from east
ern and California style centers.
Freshly cut spring blossoms ap
peared on several window trims.
The 35-piece Eagles Band, un
der management of Sam Ruben-
stein, played from 8 to 10 p.m. on
the corner of Eighth and Willam
ette Sts.; Ellis Hoyt directed the
band in a mixed program- oi
martial music and ballad num
bers.
Jaywalking in the . downtown
area was ruled legal for the eve
ning through the courtesy of the
Eugene Police , Department,
State Revenue
Planners Seek
Additional Taxes
SALEMr-M') The joint legisla
tive Ways and Means Committee,
which must decide quickly wheth
er to make a drastic cut in all
appropriations or whether to have
a deficit of more than $6,000,000
for the next biennium, voted 6 to
5 Friday to ask the House Tax
Committee to bring in the bill to
levy a 30 per cent tax on slot ma
chines, pinball games and punch
boards. The tax committee has tabled
the bill, which would bring in
about $4,000,000.
The Ways and Means Committee
took the action after Rep. Robert
C. Gile, Roseburg, chairman of the
House Tax Committee, told the
ways and means group that his
committee has finished its work.
The committee's program includes
the cigaret tax of 2 cents a pack
age, wmcn would bring in $4,000,
000. -Sales
Tax Ne Help
The 3 per cent sales tax bill,
which was passed 38 to 22 late
Thursday by the House and sent
to the Senate, would not help the
deficit, since it must go to the
people. ,'
C. C. Chapman, chairman of the
Ways and Means Subcommittee on
Finance, suggested to the commit
tee that one way out would be to
have the deficit, and authorize the
State Tax Commission, on July 1,
law, to call a special election to
levy a property tax to make un
whatever deficit exists, at that
time". The property tax then prob-
aoiy would be onset by income
taxes.
Economy Measures ' .
The committee also voted Fri
day to make relief payments a
lien against the estates of persons
receiving the payments, thus re
storing a provision of the law that
was eliminated in 1941.
The committee also is faced with
having to make a 20 per cent cut
in old age assistance.
The committee voted to kill bills
to permit counties and cities to
operate boys' camps with state
aid, conduct aviation education in
the schools, and to acquire 1000
acres for the site of a new peni-
wrnuai jr near oaiem.
Senate May Alter r
Sales Tax Measure
SALEMt-W) The Oreeon Sen
ate, with only a week or so left
to work on it, got the 3 per cent
sales tax bill from the i.Vjse Fri
day amid predictions by House
leaders that the bill would be al
most unrecognizable . by the time
the Senate's Assessment and Tax
ation Committee works it over.
: The House passed the measure
Thursday 38 to 22, concluding
three hours of the most bitter de
bate during the first 67 days of
the legislature. The bill would
be referred to the people at a spe
cial election June 24, the people
already having beaten five sales
tax proposals.
The -Senate Tax Committee will
begin work Monday on the bill.
There is some talk that it might
reduce the rate to 2 per cent, and
drastically change the distribution
of the $24,000,000 annual revenue.
Marshall, Bevin Suggest
Plans tor ISew Liermany
U S and Britain
Seven Workmen Hurt
As Part of Plant Falls
PHILADELPHIA OP) A sec
tion of a hew rotogravure plant
being constructed by the Philadel
phia Inquirer collapsed Friday,
injuring at least seven workmen.
A section of the fourth floor, meas-
urine about 100 by 150 feet, fell
through, carrying a number oi
workmen with It. The men were
said to be pouring fresh concrete
at the time.
AIR RATE BOOSTED
WASHINGTON UP) The
Civilian Aeronautics Board Fri
day approved an agreement
among 16 airlines for a 10 per
cent increase in passenger fares,
This raises the average rate from
about 4.6 cents a mile to slightly
more than five cents a mile,
CENTENNIAL PLANNED
DALLAS C Plans for
celebration of the centennial of
Polk' County will be drafted by
committees next week. The eele
liiratton jg planned foe mbbmc.
Rainman Plays
Familiar Tune
That gloomy weatherman to
at it again. Friday was - the
first day of spring, but did that
change things in the Willam
ette Valley? No.
With, no doubt, a mocking
taunt on his lips, the weather
man overlooked the confident
girls in bright dresses and tossed
off the prediction that Friday
night and Saturday . will see
cloudy skies, cooler tempera
tures and, you hit it, "light
rain."
Spring flounced in officially
at 3:13 a.m. By 10 a.m. the
weatherman had succeeded in
discounting the new : season
slight hope for clear skies in the
next five days, he said.
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Labor, Business
Given Warning
BERKELEY, Calif. JP) Sec
retary of Labor L. B. Schwellen-
bach, in a speech before the Cali
fornia Institute of Industrial Re
lations, declared Thursday night
that unless industry stops' boost
ing prices and labor stops asking
wage Increases, "they together
are going to price the products
out . of the market which will be
a disaster not only to each of
them but to our whole national
economy."
Discussing various labor bills
pending in Congress, he vigorous
ly opposed any ban on the closed
shop (in which only union men
may be hired) "and kindred forms
of union security," because, "ne
glecting other considerations, . it
is plain such proposals- would
open the doors to prolonged in
dustrial chaos in America."
Union security, he said, "is the
very heart", of. contracts' which
cover 77 per cent of all union
workers, and T "in " many cases
these security provisions were won
after long struggles . . , against
the bitterest opposition.' Given
this historical background, and the
undeniable fact that some em
ployers still are anxious to get
rid of unions, I do not see how. a
ban. on union security could fail
to provoke industrial strife.".
The secretary favored:
. Banning - jurisdictional' . strife
between unions, since "certainly
the employer and the public
should not be penalized by . in
ability of labor unions to agree
as to which union- has jurisdic
tion in a certain-plant."
Making union financial trans
actions public; "as a matter of
fact, most of the unions do this
already." (17 of the 25 AFL
internationals and 31 of the 36
CIO internationals do, he said).
Making unions subject to suit in
event they violate contracts.
Lie to Speak
On American
Anti-Red Policy
WASHINGTON U,R Presi
dent Truman haa prepared a
letter to the United Nations ex
plaining this country's program
to aid Greece and Turkey, It
was announced here Friday.
LAKE SUCCESS, W. Y. OAR)
United Nations Secretary-General
Trygve Lie is preparing "an im
portant statement" on the effect
of the United States' new anti-
Communism policy on the UN, it
was learned Friday.
The portly chief of the UN will
reveal the position of the 15,
months-old world organization
when the Trusteeship Council
convenes for the first time next
Wednesday. .
The speech also may touch on
other big problems, including Pal
estine and possibly Franco Spain.
UN officials carefully refrained
from indicating what Lie would
say, but from several sources it
was learned that his welcoming
speech to Trusteeship Council del
egates will touch the situation
raised by President Truman's plan
to fight Communist expansion
with $400,000,000 in military and
economic aid into Greece and
Turkey.
Initial Jolt
Lie was jolted by the President's
decision to take that important
step, Congress willing, without re
lying on or consulting with the
United Nations.
As a man who must please the
governments of 55 countries, and
particularly those of the Umted
States and Soviet Russia, Lie s de
cision to speak out on the present
Man-in-Moon's
Eyeview Copied
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A
political status of the UN was
considered important.- "
BilllaF"
Sessions Favored
SALEM OP) The House State
and- Federal , Affairs Committee
Friday recommended passage of
a proposed constitutional amend
ment which would limit the length
of a legislative session to 60 days,
and pay legislators $10 for each
day of the session.
There now is no limit. The
lawmakers now get $8 a day for
the first 50 days,- and work for
nothing after that.
The measure was introduced by
Rep. E. W: Kimberling, Prairie
City, and 51 other members of the
60-fnember House.
Saturday will be the 69th day
of the session, which will last a
week or so longer. .
This session will be the longest
in history, the 1945 69-day session
having been the previous longest
one. .
Reps. Giles L. French, . Moro,
and WiUiam Niskanen, Bend, did
not concur in the committee s rec
ommendation. '
The measure would be submit
ted to the people in November. .
. '.
Four-Alarm Fire Hits
Crowded Boston Area
BOSTON (U.R A four-
alarm, fire swept a combination
business and tenement block in
Boston's congested North End
Friday and a deputy fire chief
said he believed, five or six per
sons had perished.
The blaze, In a five-story brick
building at Hanover 'and. Union
Sts. in one of the city's ' oldest
sections, ' was- believed to have
started on the top floor.
Heavy smoke-poured from the
top floor of the building and it
was believed this had felled oc
cupants who were unable to reach
the stairs.
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JAPAN HAS BLIZZARD
HAKODATE, Japan OP)
The worst .blizzard since 1934
struck Hakodate Friday,, disrupt
ing train and ferry service and
communications. Kyodo news
agency said many houses were be
lieved to have been blown down.
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WASHINGTON (U,R) Now
you can get a small-scale idea
of how the earth looks to the
man in the moon.
. The Navy, with the aid of a
special camera and a V-2 rocket,
has come up with a picture of
the earth from an altitude of
100 miles, highest ever reached
by the camera's eye.
If you're doubtful about the
shape of the earth, the picture
will present visible proof that
it's round.
. The rocket, with the camera
in the tail, was fired towards
the moon from the White Sands,
N. M., proving grounds on March
7. The camera began grinding
away at the peak altitude and
then was blown clear in the
descent.
The picture shows 200,000
square miles of the southwest
ern United States and Mexico.
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Joint Bargaining
Wins Approval
PORTLAND UP) Unionists'
long-standing ambition of industry-wide
negotiations in the lum
ber - industry appeared a step
nearer fulfillment Friday.
The lumbermen's Industrial Re-
lations Committee, Willamette
valley Lumber Operators' Assn.,
and the Oregon Coast Operators
Assn. agreed to form a joint com
mittee to negotiate with the CIO
International Woodworkers of
America. The three associations
represent the major part of Ore
gon's and Washington's fir indus
try. I
Meetings are o begin next Wed
nesday. On the same day the
CIO-IWA.will begin its first ma
jor pine negotiations, meeting at
Kiamatn J ails with tne pine In
dustrial Relations Committee. The
negotiations will -cover., the. pine
Industry In the Klamath basin and
northern California "."j i, '
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Senate Rejects Mild
Portal Pay Suit Ban
WASHINGTON U.B The
Senate Friday approved Repub-llcaa-sponsored
legislation out
lawing portal pay claims, .
WASHINGTON (IP) Clear
ing the way for a final vote, the
Senate Friday rejected a proposal
by Democrats to' substitute a
milder bill for GOP-sponsored
legislation to outlaw virtually all
portal pay suits.
The vote was 53 to 35.
The defeated substitute called
for a ban on existing portal suits
for nearly $6,000,000,000, but
would have left future claims to
collective bargaining or court set
tlement.
Senatora McCarran . (D-Nev)
and McGrath "(D-RI), sponsors of
the measure, had urged its adop
tion on the ground it would keep
the wage-hour act intact. They
contended that the Republican-
backed bill approved by the
Senate Judiciary Committee
would "emasculate" that mini
mum wage statute, under which
nearly all portal suits have been
brought
Defeat of the substitute cleared
the decks for a final vote on the
GOP-sponsored bill voiding near
ly all pending and future claims
except those covered by wage
contract or Industry custom. '
Ask Immediate
Start on Problem
Austria Invited
To Moscow Sessions
MOSCOW (AP) IT. S.
Secretary Marshall called on
the Council of Foreign Minis
ters Friday to set plans for the
creation of a German govern
ment in motion at once and
both he and Britain's Ernest
Bevin presented programs for
the organization of a federal
ized German nation.
The council, in a brief session,
agreed to invite representatives
of the Austrian- government here
immediately for discussion of the .
Austrian peace treaty,
Molotov Willing.
V. M. Molotov,- Soviet foreign
minister, said he already had as
sured Foreign Minister Karl .
Gruber, of Austria, that visas
would be issued for the Austrian!
assigned to come to Moscow.
The action on Austria came at- .
ter Marshall had urged the coun
cil to break the Austrian treaty
impasse on what constitutes Ger
man assets in that country and
had expressed hope that the
treaty would be completed in the
Moscow meeting.
He said that it was for this pur
pose completing the treaty that
the Austrian government repre
sentatives should be, called into
consultation.
Bevin laid before the council
a six-step plan for the creation
of a federalized government
structure intended to make Ger
many a self-governing, demo
cratic state.
How far the British and Ameri
can Ideas will go in agreeing with
Soviet and French ideas for Gar
many was not at once dear. Mo
lotov and French Foreign Minister
Georges Bidault will introduce ,
their'. plans Saturday,
Marshall's Plan
Marshall - laid down a teres-
point plan of procedure for setting
UP a German government.. - .
First, he said, there should bo
"establishment of a provisional
German government composed of
the heads of the governments of
the now existing states and la end-
era, including Berlin, and clothed
with necessary powers to create
and operate central administrative
agencies."
To th'.s end, he said, the bender
or state governments - should be
completed "throughout Germany
at an early date."
Second, Marshall called for "a
drafting and acceptance of a con
stitution which shall be German in
origin and which shall be consis
tent with democratic principle!
and the decentralization of govern
ment authority." All powers not
assigned the central government
would remain in the state govern
ments. Third, Marshall said, there
should be the assumption of the
governmental authority . by the
central government created by the
constitution and by the state au
thority recognized by the consti
tution. '
Britain's views on the govern
ment structure for Germany were
set forth in a 600-word paper.
It called for creation of a two
house legislative along the lines of
the U. S. Senate and House of
Representatives, a president with
out executive powers and strong
state rights.
Pay Hike Demanded of GM;
Other Unions Set to Strike
SCOTS GUARDS WADE THROUGH FLOOD WATERS to
truck marooned at Datchet, England, Destruction, already wide
spread through England and Wales, may increase witMnew gales in
prospect (AP Wirephoto). , .
Ne w Gales May Increase
England's Flood Troubles
LONDON VP) Gale warnings
went up throughout Britain Fri
day and "worsening conditions"
were reported in the nation's two
most critical flood areas the Fen-
land region in the east and the
northern mining town of Bentley.
Rivers were reported receding
in virtually all other areas, how
ever, after the nation's worst flood
disaster in living memory.
British soldiers and volunteers
stacked more sandbags on a 12
mile long, seven-foot high dike
Uwldins back th swollen Viiw
Weather
River in the Fenlands, where en
ure communities and no square
miles of rich farm land already
were under water.
Trucks piled high with sand
were dashing to the danger spots
along roads dotted with fleeing
flood-refugees. RAF planes ranged
over the region reporting the
spread of ever-widening waters.
Two army amphibians sped the
work of rescuing hundreds of
families marooned in Bentley,
ringed by churning waters and in-
undated up to a depth tt tlx Imu
U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast:
Eugene and vicinity, cloudy Fri
day night and Saturday with light
showers tonight and Saturday,
Slightly cooler ' Saturday. Oregon,
cloudy Friday with light rain in
northwest interior Saturday. Mod
erate southerly winds off coast
becoming westerly Saturday.
Local Statistics: Highest tern-
erature Thursday, 63 degrees; low
Friday, 40 degrees; no rainfall in
24 hours ending 10:80 a.m., total
for month, 3.36 inches; normal for
I month, 3.90 inches; stage of Wll
iinH.A, D i.. t n-on . n p-i j
minus 30 feet; wind at 11:30 a.m.,
soutn - ; : prevailing Thursday,
SW 8.
Sunrise and Sunset (PST);
Saturday, 6:12 a.m. and 6:27 p.m.
Sunday, e:io a.m. and 6:28 p.m.
SIUHLAW TIDES
LOUISVILLE, Ky. ( Thel
CIO United Auto Workers Friday
formally asked General Motors
Corp. for a 23V4 cent hourly wage
increase for an estimated 225,000
GM production workers.
Union spokesmen said the pro
posed boost would bring the aver
age wage of the company's pro
duction workers to $1.56 an hour
and would cost GM about $2,115,,
ooo a week.
UAW sources based their com
putation on reports that GM
rarkers now average $1.33 an
our. Some other sources set the
earnings at $1.31.
GM was asked to grant the wage
increase effective as of March 10,
although the UAW-GM contract
provides that no wage increase
can be put into effect before May
without mutual consent of the two
parties,
NEW YORK UP) The United
Financial Employes (AFL) noti
fied the New York Stock Ex
change and the Curb Exchange
Friday it would cancel its labor
contracts effective Monday, April
The 30-day cancellation notices
developed from a union dispute
with A. M. Kidder and Co.. a
brokerage house.
appeared slim Friday that the Na
tional Federation of Telephone
Workers would accept voluntary
arbitration of their wage dispute
to avert a nationwide telephone
strike next month.
Government labor experts were
considering calling a last-minute
New York or Washington -conference
of top union and industry of
ficials to attempt to settle the dispute.
Union President Joseph A.
Beirne agreed to present person
ally to his top policy committee
a proposal by Sen. Wayne Morse
(R-Ore) that the union accept vol
untary arbitration of its demands
for higher wages and improved
working conditions.
AKRON, 0.P Union and
company officials of the "big four"
producers of the nation's rubber
hinted strongly Friday that there
was still a fair chance of averting
a strike set for Sunday midnight.
Leaders of the ClO-United Rub
ber Workers disclosed that they
hadn't given up on the idea of a
peaceful settlement of the wage
controversy by scheduling a meet
ing in Cleveland Saturday..
And L. M. Buckingham, attorney
representing the fqur giant rub
ber producers, said at the Sams
time: VI am hopeful that the i
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