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Nations Vast Steel Industry Shut Down by Strike of 750,000
Capital
Truman's Budget Message Cuis
Journal
Strike Idle in
Country Total
Over 1,600,000
Steel Production Cut to
Trickle; Seizure of Meat
Packing Plants Looms
Government Spending in Half
And Urges General Wage Increase
Opposes Further Tax Reduction; Asks Extension
Office Control; Warns Against Inflation and Calls
For Collective Bargaining of Wage Disputes
58th Year, No. 18
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Salem, Oregon, Monday, January 21, 1946
it Price Five Cents
Washington, Jan. 21 (U.R) President Truman sent to congress
today a message proposing to cut government spending almost in
half in the 1947 fiscal year and urging general industrial wage
increases.
He opposed further tax reduction at this session. He asked for
emergency extension of price control authority and urged that
it be expanded to put a ceiling on sales prices of old and new
houses.
The president said the armed services even, a year from now
must total 2,000,000 men. The selective service law must.be
continued beyond its May 16 expiration date if voluntary enlist
ments are inadequate, Mr. Truman said. He asked for a decision
on selective service extension in March.
The president deplored work stoppages and called for collective
bargaining adjustment of disputes. He said long continuation of
HQ Million
'For Irriqation
Washington, Jan. 21 VP) A
$139,000,000 reclamation bureau
construction program for the
fiscal year beginning July 1 is
proposed in the president's bud
get message to congress today.
The total amount asked for
the bureau is $163,554,055,
funds appropriated for the bu
reau for the 1946 fiscal year to
taled only $116,816,150.
The fiscal 1947 program con
templates construction work on
more than a score of projects
the greatest number of which
were closed down during the
war emergency.
Major items in the program
were listed as follows:
Columbia river basin $30,
000,000. Central Valley of California
825,000,000.
Colorado-Big Thompson proj-.
ect (Colorado) $15,000,000.
Davis Dam (Arizona) $15,
000.000. Missouri River Basin $23,
783,600. The reclamation bureau bud
get includes $11,000,000 for gen
eral investigations a type of
work for which congress ap
propriated but $3,250,000 dur
ing the present fiscal year.
Besides the five major pro
jects, construction items listed
in the new budget (amounts ap
propriated during the 1946 fis
cal year are shown in brackets.'
included:
Klamath project, Ore.-Calif.,
$500,000 ($1,000,000); Yakima
river project, Wash., Roza divis
ion, $1,440,600 ($1,650,000).
$80 Million For
Power Agencies
Washington, Jan. 21 (IP) For
further utilization of the na
tion's power facilities, President
Truman recommends the appro
priation of about $80,000,000
to three big power agencies.
His budget message, sent to
congress today, allocates $19,
701,000 for the Bonneville
Power administration and $23,
323,000 for Southwestern Power
administration.
Passage on the law requiring
all government corporations to
submit a budget came too late
to permit the inclusion of de
tailed estimates for the Tennes
see valley authority but its ex
penditures for 1947 are estimat
ed at $27,000,000 and an appro
priation of $36,572,000 is recom
mended. Bonnville's revenues from the
two Columbia river plants to
taled $22,903,282 for 1945,
dropped to an estimated $18,
197,000 for the current fiscal
year and are expected to be
about $16,148,000 for 1947, re
flecting, the president says, "the
adjustment of loads from a war
to a peacetime basis."
The new funds are intended
to build 600 miles of transmis
sion lines and 14 substations,
giving Bonneville 3,600 miles of
lines and 82 sub-stations
25 Tons Clothing
Collected by Scouts
Approximately 25 tons of
serviceable clothing and shoes
were collected in the city-wide
drive over the week-end with
600 boxes and bundles wrapped,
packed and labeled clothing
shipped. The house to house
pick-up Sunday was estimated
at three times that made at the
schools and fire stations Fri
day. An additional pickup was
made Monday at some of the
outlying school buildings and
churches.
Between 150 and 200 persons
were engaged in the clothing
drive Sunday, there being 30
trucks and drivers on duty each
with a crew of four Boy Scouts
with a large group of men at
the receiving deDOt to sort and
.'upack the contributions as they
were unloaded from the trucks.
major strikes would heavily
check the reconversion program.
But he gave no plans to cope
with labor problems other than
collective bargaining, fact-finding
boards and a general upward
wage trend.
Full employment and in
creased production, Mr. Tru
man said, are the only safe
guards against the disaster of
inflation and consequent de
pression. He unqualifiedly en
dorsed the senate version of his
full employment bill and asked
again for enactment.
Warns of Depression
The president warned that se
rious depression in the United
States could disrupt world econ
omy. The communication to con
gress was a combination budget
and annual message on the state
of the nation. It contained up
ward of 30,000 words. It was
read to house and senate by
clerks. The budget proposals
were for the fiscal year 1947
beginning July 1 this year and
ending June 30, 1947. The
legislative proposals were for.
immediate attention.
The president estimated fis
cal 1947 expenditures at $35,
860.000,000 compared with $67,
229.000,000 in the current fiscal
year and a wartime top of $100,
000 000,000. Receipts in fiscal
1947 will be $31,513,000,000
compared with $38,609,000,000.
The 1947 deficit of $4,347,000,
000 will be covered by drawing
on treasury reserves instead of
by borrowing. The current
year's deficit was estimated at
$28,620,000,000.
Reduction in Debt
Mr. Truman said that during
the next fiscal year he would
reduce the national debt from
$275,000,000,000 as of June 30,
1946, to $271,000,000,000, also
by drawing on treasury reserves.
That would be the first down in
the national debt over a 12
month period since the fiscal
year 1930. Treasury reserves
will be reduced in the foregoing
process f r o m approximately
$26,000,000,000 to $3,200,000,
000. In discussing work stoppages,
Mr. Truman said that disputes
must be settled by collective
bargaining and with government
assistance, but not by govern
ment compulsion.
Business a Public Trust
"Private capital and private
management," he continued,
"are entitled to adequate re
ward for efficiency, but business
must recognize that its reward
results from the employment of
the resources of the nation. Bus
iness is a public trust and must
adhere to national standards in
the conduct of its affairs. These
standards include as a minimum
the establishment of fair wages
and fair employment practices.
"Labor also has its own
new peacetime responsibilities.
Under our collective bargain
ing system, which must become
progressively more secure, la
bor attains increasing political
as well as economic power, and
this, as with all power, means
increased responsibility."
The message outlined elabor
ate plans for small business and
for action to break monopolies.
(Concluded on Page 11 Column 1)
French Reds Seek to Elect
Successor to De Gaulle
Paris, Jan. 21 MP) The communist party launched a drive today
to name a communist as the successor to Gen. Charles de Gaulle,
who resigned the provisional presidency of France last night
following a cabinet crisis.
De Gaulle stepped down from
the presidency with an an
nouncement that he considered
he had completed the task of
"leading the country toward lib
eration, victory and sovereign
ty." In a letter of resignation ad
dressed to Felix Gouin, presi
dent of the constituent assembly,
he said:
"If I agreed to remain at this
government post after Nov. 13,
1945, it was to respond to the
unanimity with which the nat
ional constituent assembly ad
dressed itself to me to take care
of a necessary transition. To
day that transition has been ef
fected. Besides, France, after
great trials, no longer is in an
alarming situation . ."
Snyder Stresses
Growing Threat
01 Inflation
Washington, Jan. 21 VP) Re
conversion Director John W.
Snyder declared today the
threat of inflation must be met
by price controls and rising pro
duction to head off an "economic
Pearl Harbor."
Production for civilian use
already is at an annual rate of
$20,000,000,000 greater than
four months ago, Snyder said
in a year-end report to the pres
ident and congress. But the
time cannot be foretold now
when industry will come abreast
of the soaring public demand
for goods, he added.
Expect Price Control
Snyder urged strongly that
the price control act be extend
ed beyond its scheduled mid
year expiration date, saying:
"It would be foolhardy not to
recognize that the excess of de
mand over supply throughout
the economic system may con
tinue far beyond June 30."
Unemployment and inflation
ary pressure may hit their peak
simultaneously early this spring,
Snyder said. However, jobless
ness will be below former esti
mates. It now is around 3,000,
000, compared with the 5,000,
000 or 6,000,000 government
agencies had expected.
Production Needed
"The basic need at this par
ticular time to meet both situa
tions is more production," the
reconversion director declared.
"We must race to expand our
output. We must smother infla
tion with a steady stream of
goods. We must speed up the
wheels of industry to create the
jobs our workers and veterans
need."
Labor strife delayed the start
of some important production
lines, he said, but high output
of cars, refrigerators, washing
machines and other durable
goods "could not have been
achieved by this time, in any
case."
1946 Forecasts
In 73 pages the report fore
cast what 1946 should bring in
these vital fields:
Food Americans may eat
more than in the record year
1944, when consumption was 11
percent above the pre-war aver
age. Housing "Our most serious
shortage." Private building will
start "the fastest upswing in
its history." But demand will
be several times greater than
the new construction supplied.
Jobs Business cannot expand
quickly enough to absorb in the
near future the 4,500,000 veter
ans to be freed in the next half
year, along with newly dis
charged government and war
plant workers.
Coal "Supply prospects are
fair."
Clothing shortages persist.
Demand for cotton goods will
top supply by 20 to 50 percent.
Trade May double the 1939
total of $40,000,000,000 in sales,
and thus far exceed the 1945
record.
Automobiles The industry
expected "before the strike" to
make 4,000,000 cars this year,
and has laid the physical basis
for such a volume, topped only
in 1929.
Agriculture To safeguard
farm income, congress should
authorize "direct payments to
farmers where necessary" in
stead of the present method of
supporting prices.
More food will be available
this year than last, but short
ages will persist through the
early months at least on butter,
sugar, pork, canned fish and bet
ter grades of beef and veal.
Party leaders met in a special
conference and were expected
to call the assembly into session
either later today or tomorrow.
De Gaulle cancelled a radio
talk to the nation that he had
scheduled for tonight, and re
portedly left Paris, presumably
for seclusion in the country
while he waited for the constit
uent assembly to act on his res
ignation. Although his secretary said
the resignation was "irrevoc
able," some political sources pre
dicted De Gaulle might be pre
vailed upon to form a new gov
ernment or to reconsider his
resignation. The latter sources
said the announcement he would
retire from public life had been
"a political gaffe (blunder)."
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Steel Plant Picketed Ahead of Schedule VP) Pickets of the
United Steel workers (CIO) gather at the entrance to the Co
lumbia Steel company's Pittsburg, Calif., plant as a strike gets
under way some 48 hours ahead of the scheduled nationwide
steel industry walkout. Some 2500 workers in the California
plant are affected.
Flood Control Projects
Favored by President
Washington, Jan. 21 VP) Appropriation of nearly a third of
a billion dollars for flood control and rivers and harbors projects
was recommended to congress today by President Truman. In
his 1947 budget message, the
engineers be given $zl2,7ZU,Uuu
S
Desert Fox
Died By Poison
Nuernberg, Jan. 21 U.R) Field
Marshal Erwin Rommel, Ger
many's "desert fox," drank poi
son as an alternative to trial for
plotting against Adolf Hitler's
life, documents in allied hands
disclosed today.
Hitler personally ordered
Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel
to arrest Rommel for complicity
in the July 20, 1944, bomb plot
against Hitler.
Keitel, a defendant in the war
crimes trial, sent two gererais
to make the arrest after Hitler
decided Rommel must commit
suicide or face trial by the nazi's
dreaded "people's court" as a
bomb plotter, the document said.
Hitler was "extremely reluc
tant" to order Rommel's death,
and he told associates, including
former Reischmarshal Hermann
Goering, that Rommel had died
of "bleeding in the brain" as
result of skull injuries suffered
during an allied strafing, the
documents state.
Food Subsidies
Still Favored
Washington, Jan. 21 (IP)
President Truman called
on
congress today to retain food
subsidies as one means of com
bating inflation and a possible
8 percent jump in the cost of
living index for food.
This request, made in the
chief executive's state of the
union and budget message, rep
resents an about face by the ad
ministration on subsidies. It
had planned to end most of them
by their June 30 expiration date.
Started early in the war to
keep food prices stable, the
subsidies have been costing the
government about $1,750,000,
000 a year.
Mr. Truman said that unless
the subsidies are continued "it
would become extremely dif
ficult for us to control the forc
es of inflation."
More specifically, he estimat
ed that withdrawal of the sub
sidies would force increases of
from three to five cents a pound
in average prices of meat; at
least 12 cents a pound for but
ter, in addition to a five cent
increase allowed last fall; one
to two cents a quart for milk;
one cent a loaf for bread, more
than a cent a pound for sugar,
and eight cents a pound for
cheese, in addition to a sched
uled increase of four cents on
February 1.
The president also asked the
lawmakers for appropriations
which, together with funds al
ready available, would permit
the agriculture department to
spend about $3,435,500,000 for
subsidies, farm programs, re
search and foreign relief opera
tions during the fiscal year be
ginning July 1.
Cobhs and Mitchell Election
Washington, .Jan. 21 VP) The
national labor relations board
today ordered Cobbs and Mitch
ell company, lumber firm at
Valsetz, Ore., to hold a collec
tive bargaining election by Feb
ruary 15. The election was
asked by the CIO International
Woodworker of America.
president asked that the armyj
for rivers and harbors projects
and $110,000,008 for flood con
trol. The appropriations for
the 1946 fiscal year were $191,-
489,600 and $118,299,600 respec
tively.
In addition, he proposed that
$4,815,000 be alloted for plan
ning river and harbor projects
and $8,000,000 for flood con
trol planning.
The rivers and harbors mon
ey, he said, will permit a start
on the Florida barge canal, and
construction on the Atlantic,
Pacific and Gulf coasts and the
Great Lakes. The planning
funds will provide detailed
specifications for the McNary
dam on the Columbia river and
a series of navigation dams on
the Snake river in Oregon,
Washington and Idaho.
The program for the fiscal
year beginning next July 1, he
said, also provides for planning
of additional flood control proj
ects, including some multiple
purpose features such as the
reservoir projects in the central
valley of California.
In addition to the general
flood control appropriations, an
appropriation of $35,000,000 is
recommended for continuation
of construction in the Missis
sippi valley, plus $500,000 for
emergency expenditures on the
river and its tributaries.
For further flood control con
struction on the Sacramento
river in California $2,000,000
would be provided, and $1,505,
000 is recommended to complete
installation of hydro-electrie
power power plant at Fort Peck
dam in Montana.
Leftists Win
In Rhineland
Frankfurt, Jan. 21 (U.R) A
final tally on Germany's first
free elections since 1933 re
vealed today that the left-wing
social democratic party scored
a thrce-to-two popular victory
yesterday over the Tightest
Christian democrats in the heav
ily Catholic Rhineland.
Early returns put the Chris
tian democrats well out in front
in the 17 Hessian countries
where township councilman
were being elected in communi
ties with populations of 5,000
or less. '
The social democrats came
back strongly in the late bal
loting, however, and finished
up with a popular vote of 146,
598 against 99,591 for their
principal opponents. The com
munists trailed badly in third
place with 16,608 votes, al
though they held a thrce-to-one
margin over the extreme right
wing liberal democrats who tal
lied 5,662 votes.
The final count showed that
83 percent of the electorate vot
ed in the counties where ballot
ing was scheduled.
. The Weather
(Released by the United States
Weather Bureau)
Forecast for Salem and vicin
ity: Cloudy with occasional rain
and light to moderate winds to
night and Tuesday. No appreci
able change in temperature.
Lowest tonight 42. Max. yes
terday 50. Min. today, 41. Mean
temperature yesterday, 46. which
was 6 above normal. Total 24
hour precipitation to 11:30 8.m.
today, .17. Total precipitation
for the month, 3.37. which Is .24
Inches below normal. Willam
ette river height, 2.6. ft.
JapW-
Se
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As Reparations
Tokyo, Jan. 21 MVWar plants
which equipped Japan's losing
bid for conquest were seized and
placed under guard today by
General MacArthur, who indi
cated many of the factories
would go to allied nations as
reparations.
The allied command took ever
394 Jap aircraft plants, army
and navy arsenals and war lab
oratories. Among these were 265
aircraft and parts plants listed
by the allied reparations com
mission as "first priority mater
ial for removal to other na
tions.
Permits Cancelled
MacArthur ordered cancella
tion of any previous permits to
the designated installations for
conversion to peacetime produc
tion, unless the installations
were "immediately and abso
lutely essential to the civil eco
nomy." Commanders given custody of
the installations were told to
consider the "probability that
these plants will be taken as rep
arations and consequently should
ot be allowed to acquire im
portance in the Japanese econ
omy." The directive disclosed that In
some instances the Japs had re
moved machinery from plants
and that equipment valued at
millions of dollars had been al
lowed to deteriorate. The Jap
anese government was ordered
to cease removals immediately
and place guards around the
buildings.
Material Destroyed
(The amount and extent of
the indemnity Japan is to pay
are to be established soon, H. D.
Maxwell of Tacoma, deputy
chief of the American repara
tions commission, said on arriv
ing at Hamilton Field, Calif.,
from Japan. Maxwell, returning
with 10 other members of the
commission, said Japan has
surplus in industrial capacitj
despite air raid damage and can
pay "more than we expected").
As part of the allied program
to restore Japan to peacetime
pursuits, Sixth army troops,
now consolidated with the 8th
army, were estimated to have
eliminated more than one-third
of Japanese war materiel on sou
thern Honshu, Kyushu and Shi
koku in three months.
Iran Premier
Resigns Office
Tehran, Jan. 21 (IP) Premier
Ibrahim Hakimi resigned last
night after asserting his efforts
to negotiate with the Russians
over Azerbaijan had failed.
Hakimi's fall was foreshad
owed last week when he told
parliament that his foreign pol
icy had failed. He said efforts
to negotiate with the Russians
were unavailing and that he
proposed to present the case to
the United Nations organization.
Today Hakimi said he had
told the Shah he had "succeed
ed in placing Iran's case before
the United Nations organization
and I am now ready to step
down.
Many observers expressed the
opinion that Mohammed Roza
Pahlavi would ask Hakimi to
form a new government.
However, three other men
have been mentioned as his pos
sible successors. They are form
er Premier Qavan Ahmad Sul
taneh; AH Khan Mansur, gover
nor of Kohrassan; and former
Premier Pirnea.
Martial Law in Greece
To Curb Royalists
Athens, Jan. 21 (U.R) The Greek government imposed rigid
martial law in the southern Peloponnesus cities of Kalamata and
Sparta today and dispatched motorized forces to subdue an
uprising by the monarchist "X"
organization that has cost 60
lives.
Prime Minister Themistoclcs
Sophoulis ordered establishment
of courts martial with powers
to carry out sentences immed
iately. Arrest of the "X" leaders
in the two cities was expected.
The royalist forces have been,
rampaiging since Saturday,
when they killed 30 left-wing
supporters in a cafe fight, then
attacked the Kalamata police
station and freed 30 of their own
men who had been arrested.
Former members of Eias, the
military force of the left-wing
EAM movement, were fighting
beside the police against the
royalists. Police and soldiers
UNO Approves
Atomic Energy
Control Board
London, Jan. 21 VP) Creation
of a special commission to devise
controls for atomic energy was
approved by the political secur
ity committee of the United Na
tions' assembly today, after only
30 minute discussion.
The action was taken after
Senator Tom Connally (D.,
Tex.), of the American delega
tion said the commission will
not have power to make any
country give up any atomic
secrets or take any other action.
The commission will be able
only to make recommendations,
he explained.
Unanimous Action
Forty-six votes were cast for
the resolution approving crea
tion of the commission, Chair
man Dmitri Maniulsky of the
Ukraine delegation said that the
action was unanimous. How
ever, the delegate from the Phil
ippines, Thomas Gabili, abstain
ed after he had protested against
what he called an effort to "rail
road" the resolution through the
committee.
Andrei Gromyko, soviet dele
gate, Ernest Bcvin, British for
eign secretary, and Connally
urged the committee to act im
mediately, and Bevin repeated
ly arose to demand an approving
vote.
Assembly to Act
Just before the vole Zygmunt
Modziclewski of Poland said
there must be "solemn and con
crete assurances that atomic
energy would never be used for
destruction, but on the con
trary would be used always for
peaceful development of the
world's economy and raising the
standard of human lives."
The meeting of the political
and security committee was the
first of a long series of com
mittee sessions today as the
UNO moved into a new phase of
its organizational work follow
ing six days of oratory.
Marines to Be
Kept in China
Tientsin, Jan. 21 (IP) Amer
ican marines probably will be
kept In North China as a "sta
bilizing force" now that the re
patriation of the Japanese has
been turned over to the Chin
ese, Rep. Bales (R. Mass.), a
member of the house naval af
fairs sub-committee, said here
today. Bates is in Tientsin with
a naval affairs sub-committee.
"The marines may be kept
here some time longer as a sta
bilizing force while the good
offices of the United States gov
ernment is being used to recon
cile. the two Chinese forces into
peaceful settlement," he said.
'"We are interested in a perm
anent world peace. We are of
the conviction that unless we
lend a hand, another world con
flagration may bo in the mak
ing." The committee of which he is
a part is interested, he said, in
four main problems: (1) Dis
posal of surplus naval material,
(2) Inspection of navy installa
tions in the Pacific, (3) demo
bilization of the armed forces,
and (4) general conditions in the
Pacific areas captured or re
taken from the Japanese.
"Now that China is being
freed of the Japanese," he said,
"we want to lay the foundations
of a new government in China.
We don't want to interfere in
Chinese affairs, only insofar as
those internal affairs of China
concern world peace."
guarded the prison where many
Elas men who fought in the
1944 civil war arc detained.
At least one attack against
the prizon by X men bearing
tnmmyguns was rep ulscd.
Troops guarded the courthouse
against a possible royalist at
tempt to destroy records show
ing names of men who collab
orated with the Germans.
There was virtual civil war
in the adjoining cities of Kala
mata and Sparta. Royalists were
reported in control of all Kala
mata except an area surround
ing the prison and police head
quarters. A force of 2.000 royal
ists armed with automatic weap
oris was concentrated outside
Kalamata, dispatches said.
(Br th AuoclRtfd Pre.u)
Production of steel back
bone of America's' industry
was cut to a trickle by a nation-wide
strike of 750,000 steel
workers today which CIO Presi
dent '.Philip Murray declared
would continue until the steel
industry "accepts the decision
of the president and the United
States."
Referring to President Tru
man's proposal for an 18 ',4 cents
hourly wage increase, which the
steel workers' union accepted
and the U.S. Sleel Corporation
rejected, Murray told newsmen
at a press conference In Pitts
burgh:
If reconversion has been hin
dered and thousands of people
have been thrown out of work.
If disaster overtakes our
nation ... it is because indus
try has said 'no' to the president
of the United Stales."
No Government Action
President Truman, at the
same time, conferred with con
gressional leaders on the strike
situation and called in his steel
fact-finding board, but White
House Press Secretary Charles
G. Ross said no immediate gov
ernment action was contemplat
ed. However, one high adminis
tration official said he could not
see how government seizure on
strike-bound meat packing
plants could be avoided and
added he was recommending
that step.
Although concurrence in this
view was expressed by some
other White House advisers, who
also could not be named, they
added there was little likelihood
of seizure of the steel Industry
at least until the strike had
been under way a few days.
Another 30,000 joined the na
tion's ranks of strike-idle when
the CIO farm equipment work
ers' union quit work in 10 In
ternational Harvester company
plants in a dispute over a 30
percent wage increase demand.
The plants are in Chicago, Rok
Island, East Mollne and Rock
Falls, IlU Richmond, Ind.j and
Auburn, N.Y.
The steel and Harvester com
pany strikes boosted the num
ber idle in strikes across the
nation to 1,622,000, highest since
the mass work stoppages follow
ing the first world war.
The country's reconversion
program was brought to a cris
is by the greatest strike in the
history of American labor.
A large segment of industry.
and millions of potential con
sumers of everything from auto
mobiles to razor blades, were
bound to be affected.
The civilian production ad
ministration predicted steel
starvation will be "closing one
factory after another within
two or three weeks.
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CIO Picketing
Compulsory
Homestead, Pa., Jan. 21 (IP)
"We're going to stay out 'til we
get that raise . . ."
In those words a steel strike
captain summed his view as we
stood together in a raging snow
storm early today outside the
darkened homestead works of
Carnegie-Illinois Steel corpora
tion. A dozen men slowly trudged
a long oval pattern in the snow,
picketing the plant entrance.
Some wore boots and hunting
clothes as protection against the
wet and cold.
One by one they took turns
toasting hands and feet at a
flaming coal fire built In an
empty oil drum, a "salamander.'.
The strike captain, Barney
Shields, was enthusiastic.
"We have about a thousand
men picketing I guess," he said.
"We have about 8,000 members
in all here, including about 800
women, and every one will get
a postcard telling when and
where to report for strike duty.
"Each will picket one day a
week. On that day he'll picket
two hours, go off for two hours,
then picket two hours more.
"A man has got to have a good
excuse, a very good one, not
to report for picket work. If
he fails to show up he gets fin
ed $5. If he refuses to show
up .he gets fined $10 and he
won't be able to hold any union
office for two years. I don't
think we'll have any refusals
or any failures."
Small Craft Warnings
Portland, Ore., Jan. 20 (U.R)
The U.S. weather bureau today
announced small craft warnings
at the mouth of the Columbia on
the Oregon coast south of Col
umbia river to include Coos
Bay, Ore., for fresh to occasion
ally strong southerly winds.
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