Eugene register-guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1930-1983, August 13, 1954, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextRegister-Guard, Eugene, Ore. 2A Fri., Aug. 13, 1954 Senate to Pay Attorney's Fee McCarthy to Get Counsel for Probe WASHINGTON Wl Sen. Mc Carthy (R-Wis) won Friday in his appeal for the Senate to pay the salary of an attorney to rep resent him in an investigation of his official conduct. Sen. Watkins (R-Utah), chair man of the special committee which will conduct hearings on a censure move aimed at McCar thy, announced the decision. He said McCarthy will be allowed to select the lawyer. Watkins said the arrangement has the approval of Sen. Know land of California, the Senate Re publican leader; Sen. Lyndon B, Johnson of Texas, the Senate Democratic leader, and Sen. Jen ner (R-Ind), chairman of the Senate Rules Committee. REPORT DRAFTED The development came as members of the subcommittee which investigated McCarthy's bitter row with high Army offi cials said they hoped to release their report next Wednesday or Thursday. Sen. Mundt (R-SD), who pre sided over those 36-day hearings, and Senators Jackson (D-Wash) and Dirksen (R-Ill), who are serving as a committee to draft a tentative report of findings, declined to give any hint of the "verdict." Meanwhile it was learned Mc Carthy has been gathering am munition for a resumption of his Investigations of the Army, as soon as he can get them started. Informants said this will be after the Mundt subcommittee reports and Watkins six-man committee get through with its hearings, due to start Aug. 20. SOME PRECEDENT McCarthy had announced he was asking the legislative refer ence service to survey prece dents for his appeal to the Wat kins committee to provide him with counsel. Watkins said the house often provides counsel for a member involved in an election contest, and that he believes there is some Senate precedent in con tests against the seating of - an elected senator. The Senate Wednesday voted Watkins' committee a $30,000 fund to finance its Inquiry, and Watkins said the committee was "in agreement" that part of the money should be spent to hire a lawyer to be named by McCar thy. Strike Closes Rubber Plants CLEVELAND AV-The rubber Industry's second major strike erupted across the nation Friday as 25,500 CIO United Rubber Workers walked off their jobs at Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. plants in eight cities. Union officials, who called a strike of 23,000 Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. workers last July 7, triggered the action against Fire stone to coincide with their con tract's midnight deadline. Together the two actions put more lhan 48,000 rubber workers a third of the industry's union members on strike. Talks between company and union negotiators continued until almost the last minute. -The union posted pickets around entrances to Firestone plants in Akron, Los Angeles, Noblesville and New Castle, Ind., Fall River, Mass., Memphis, Des Moines and Pottstown, Pa. BEGISTEKGUARD WANT ADS BRING RESULTS 7 V SALLY WED At Las Vegas, Nev., Sally Rand of the fans, whose estimated age is 52, wed Fred Lalla, 35, Los Angeles contractor. (NEA) Studebaker Worker Thinks He Can Plant Flowers Now By RELMAN MORIN SOUTH BEND, Ind. UB Rob ert Milner thinks he can afford to put in the flower beds now. Robert Milner is a Studebaker automotive worker. He is one of the 5,300-odd em ployes who voted Thursday to ac cept a cut in his hourly wages. Along with more than 7,000 other workers he went to a high school football stadium in South Bend, heard the arguments on both sides, and then made his deci sion. UNIQUE EVENT It was a unique event in the history of industrial relations in America. People in South Bend like to noint out that the first sit-down strike took place here more than 20 years ago. They say that the result Thursday also sets a prece dent Local 5 of the CIO United Auto Workers agreed by an over whelming 8-1 vote to accept the wage reductions in order to put Studebaker in a better competi- Daredevil Airman Still in Doghouse LONDON W The aerial ex ploits along the Thames of a dare-devil Texan apparently AFL Irons Out No-Raid Pact NEW YORK Ml AFL Presi dent George Meany Friday an nounced completion of the final draft of a no-raiding pact design ed to end jurisdictional disputes among AFL unions. Meany said he expected over whelming approval when the pact is submitted to delegates at the AFL annual convention in Los Angeles, beginning Aug. 20. EXECUTIVE SESSIONS The draft, with a few minor ex ceptions, is the one proposed by the AFL executive council at its mteting in Chicago a year ago. Meaay's announcement of comple tion of tho final draft came after the councii concluded four days of executive sessions here Thurs day. The plan becomes effective as individual unions subscribe to it on a voluntary basis. In addition to the no-raiding pledge it in cludes specific steps for settle ment of any disputes that may arise. In reply to a question, Meany said one of the largest AFL unions involved in jurisdictional disputes the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, head ed by Dave Beck had not chang ed its decision against signing the pact. He said only Beck failed to approve the draft at the ex ecutive council sessions. JOINT CONFERENCE The plan provides that parties involved in jurisdictional disputes Miiiu uumur juiuuY 111 nil eiiuii iu reach agreement. Should that fail, either party is to call on the AFL president to appoint a federation representative to try to reach a settlement If the mater still is unsettled 10 days after the AFL represen- taive enters the case unless the lime limit is extended the par ties to the dispute shall submit to binding arbitration. The arbitra tor, who would rule only on the particular dispute submitted to him, would be named by the AFL president from a panel of impar tial and disinterested persons ap proved in advance by the federa tion's executive council. haven't smoothed his troubled path toward romance. Gene Thompson, the 6 foot 3 crop-duster from Lubbock who flew under two London bridges Wednesday in a bid for the hand of hometowner Helen Brown, radioed a tale of woe to The London Daily Express by ship-to-shore telephone from the lin er Atlantic on which he is re turning home. Thompson said his girl friend "is mad as hell at me." He said Helen, also from Lub bock, seems to be somewhat put out because he broke a luncheon date with her Wednes day in order to fly a light plane under the Tower Bridge and London Bridge spanning the River Thames. Thompson declared he found this somewhat confusing, since he .thought she had agreed to marry him if he pulled the stunt "Maybe I'll fly under the Eif fel Tower if that'll turn the trick," he said. "Right now, Helen isn't even speaking to me, but I hope to bring her around before we get to Quebec." Thompson, 6-foot-3 pilot, met Helen on a student tour of Eur ope. They boarded the Atlantic Wednesday night at Southamp ton for the homeward voyage. Thompson left behind at the Express a "confession" that he was the mystery pilot who thrilled and scared London lunch time crowds with the daring skim under the ancient bridges. In a radiogram from the ship, Thompson expressed gratitude to the Express for making his story public, especially the part about "lovely Helen Brown." S& H GREEN rn. stamps WITH YOUR FRIGIDAIRE HOME APPLIANCE PURCHASES AT APPLIANCE CO. 2053 MAIN SPRINGFIELD SATURDAY SUNDAY & MONDAY s.. TjjlJl f t.j j? LOOK for NEW Special Each Week! -j' I FOR RUGGED OUTDOOR USE J tUZ'ti' ' ' K I SLEEPING BAGS fj2JB H oT,,,, T. A GOOD &.y , " SUN. 10 TO 4 P.M. VBUYl r T- tive position by lowering produc tion costs. The company has reported a loss of nearly nine million dol lars for the first six months of 1954. Its sales dropped from 349 million dollars in the first half of last year to 121 million this year. WAGE SCALE HIGH Its wage scale, an executive said, was more than 30 cents an hour above the rest of the indus try. Officials told the union the company could no longer pay such wages. The pinch began to be felt some nine months ago. This is what it meant to Robert Milner. He is 28, married, with two small children a son, Wayne, 4, and a daughter, Jan, 10 months. When he got out of the Navy in 1946 he went to work in the Studebaker plant At his peak, as a metal fin isher, his take-home pay was $350 a month. A year later he married the girl he has known since his high school days. BUILT A HOME They built a handsome, five- room house, and bought a new oar every year. It was a Stude-I baker. They also bought a TV, set, an expensive refrigerator, and good furnishings for their home. Robert Milner went. In debt, but he didn't mind. There were no clouds that he couldn't brush away with his own hands. Then the change came. These things happened: The automobile market State Jobless Funds Shrink SALEM W Oregon's unemploy ment compensation trust fund, out of which benefits to the jobless are paid, is shrinking under the heavy impact of unemployment. The fund now totals 62 million dollars, compared with the all time high of 86 millions six years ago. By the time the Legislature meets next January, it probably will be down to around 50 mil ions. The fund Is shrinking because the amount of benefits is running about double the amount being paid in through payroll taxes on employers. Last year, the Unemployment Compensation Commission paid out $19,275,204 in jobless benefits, and took in only $10,901,355 in payroll taxes. Benefit payments this year are expected to be at an all-time high. The previous record of $20,427,106 was set in 1950. The payroll tax payments are dropping. Last year's receipts from this source were $2,100,000 less than in 1951. ' changed to a "buyer's market" People began shopping for bargains. A fierce, claw-and fang sales war opened between Studebaker s principal competitors. The com pany was caught in tha middle. Defense contracts leveled off so that government millions no longer offset operational costs. The "eost plus" contracts began to disappear. Almost over night Robert Mil ner found himself working an average of e ight days a month. His take-home pay dropped to $120 a month. Even with $27 a week in unemployment compen sation, he began going into debt The payments on the mortgage on his home, plus the monthly bills for groceries takes up his total earned income and his un employment compensation. He sold his car and bought an 8- year-old car so that he can get to work. He said that neither he nor his wife have bought any clothes in more than a year. They never go out of the house at night. DIDN'T PLAN TO QUIT Milner said, however, he has not considered leaving the com pany. "I never thought things would go as bad as they did so quickly. nut I like the work there and I like the people and I like the product." The new wage scale, for which he voted, will mean a potential loss of $14.40 a week in his earn ings. But if I get steady work, as they say we will, I'm going to be ahead in the long run," he said. "I'll be tickled to pieces with a steady 40 hours a week even if I don't get so much per hour. 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