Register-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.
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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
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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."
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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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