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TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday. March 29, 1950 British Labor Backers Accuse Socialists of Unfair Practice By Lyle C. Wilion United Press Correspondent London, Mar. 20 (U.R) Great Britain's socialist government is under fire today from its organ ized labor supporters on charges of enforcing an unfair wage freeze during a, period of rising prices. Nearly five million organized British workers are bucking for wage hikes. Socialists and tories alike agree that a general break through the wage freeze would disrupt and perhaps wreck the socialist planned economy pro gram. Some trades union leaders are threatening to break with the government on the wage freeze issue. Others warn that their members mav refuse to do fur ther overtime work unless pay is adjusted. Manpower Tight The manpower situation here is so tignl inai overiime is neces sary to maintain scheduled oper ations of such vital industries as shipping and railway transporta tion. Rank and file rebels among dock workers are capitalizing labor unrest by proposing a ban on overtime. Without overtime work, the turn-around time for merchant ships in British ports would be doubled, or worse. Leaders of the Dockers union oppose this slowdown, but the National Union of Railwaymcn spokesmen openly threaten to stop overtime work unless wages are adjusted. Representatives of the British Trades Union congress met last night with Sir Stafford Cripps to protest the wage freeze and the rising cost of living. The TUC is the overall outfit of Brit ish organized labor. Cripps in the British government is chan cellor of the exchequer, cor responding to our secretary of the treasury. But a British chancellor of the exchequer has as much authority in determining the British bud get as a president of the United States has in Washington. Few Get Look Only Prime Minister Clement Attlee and two or three senior cabinet ministers will have any Information about the 1H3U bud set before Crinos presents it in the house of commons on April 18. His budget program will re veal whether burdensome sales taxes can be eased and the wage freeze lifted somewhat. Widespread objection to the wage freeze puts Cripps in a bad spot. Organized labor voters are the backbone of socialist power here. Without them the present government would not be in of fice. Even with labor's support the socinlists barely squeezed in last month. Since the February general election death has cre ated several house of commons vacancies among labor scats. The government margin in commons today is a scant three votes. Many socialist members of commons side with the unions In the wage freeze dispute. It goes back to last September's devaluation of the British pound sterling from $4.03 to $2.80. The effect of devaluation is Just now beginning to be felt by housewives and olher purchas ers of taxed, goods in British shops. Prices May Go Higher There is general agreement that prices are likely to go high er here as the effect of devalua tion becomes general. The "New Statesman and Nation" a maga zine friendly to the government, reports "there are many indica tions that purchasing power, es pecially of lower paid workers, nas been driven down to a dan gerously low level." British imports of raw mate rials in February, paid for with the devalued pound sterling, cost 38 per cent more than imports In the corresponding month of 1937. The Impact of that upward spiral of cost shortly will be hit ting British home markets. Econ omists argue that piling wage in creases on top of rising raw ma terial costs would so inflate the price of British goods that the export market would collapse. Would Be Fatal That would be fatal to a na tlon which has been warned by its government that it must ex port or die. Cripps' difficult de cision will be whetner to risk pricing British goods out of for- Incident eDfails Given by Witness To Near-Drowning Further details of the incident In which a 13-year-old . Rogue River boy was saved from drowning last week in the Med ford YMCA pool were given to day by an eyewitness to me event, and Boy scout and "Y" officials, who said that great credit for prompt life-saving ac tion goes to Boy scout rvorman Bean, who administered ariin cial respiration to the boy. The youngster was Bobby Hoo ver. According to Herb bampen scoutmaster of Troop 4 in Med- ford who was in the pool at the time, young Hoover was not un der the water more than a min ute or a minute and a half. He was dragged out by Bean, who immediately began to administer artificial respiration, coached and assisted by hamperi. Manv Bovs There There were about 30 or 35 hovs in the Dool at the time Sampert said. Three other adults were present, but Sampert was the only one in the pool. He emphasized that the youngster, who renortedlv suffered a cramp, was spotted and pulled from the water soon after he had gone down, and was brought around in about a minute. As a result of the incident, a set of swimming safety rules for scouts, even stricter than those in force at that time, have been placed in effect, according to Cliff Hanson, scout executive here. He also pointed out that the swimming that evening was nnrl nf the Scout Drocram. and was not a "Y" swim, which is usually for older boys and girls. Tonv Manno. YMCA presi dent, pointed out that all safety precautions possible are in effect when the pool is used by YMCA members. Labor Leaders Speak On Radio Programs A series of radio talks by Jackson county labor leaders is being broadcast each triday at 12:40 o. m. over radio station KYJC in cooperation with the United States savings bond pro gram in Oregon, according to Thomas P. Gucrin. Portland, state deputy director for the program. Speakers to be heard during the next four broadcasts are Ed win R. Olson and Paul W. Elgin, International Association of Ma chinists: R. R. Morrow, Congress of Industrial Organizations, and Robert Rucker, American Feder ation of Labor, all of Medford. Judge L. Peers Wilmcth, Ash land, railroad brotherhoods, spoke last week. Red Bluff. Cel., Mar. 29 (U.R) Funeral services were pending here today for soven-months-old Garry Duand Borlak who died of burns when hot cottee from an electric percolator spilled on his head. Salem. Ore., Mar. 29 (U.R) The Oregon Statesman, second oldest newspaper published on the Pacific coast, observed its Bllth birthday today. It was founded Mar. 28, 1851, by Asa- hcl Bush. elgn markets by agreeing to higher wages or to hold the wage freeze line against the angry pro tests of socialist government's or ganized labor supporters. The latter course of action could not fail to cause serious friction between the labor gov ernment's cabinet of socialist planners and the rank and file of the labor movement itself. The government's house of commons margin is too slender to sustain a bolt of even a hand ful of back benchers. The gov ernment's hold on public sup port as recorded in last month s general election, is not great enough to survive significant op position among organized work ers. SOC Library Bids Due in Portland Before April 25 Portland, Mar. 29 Bids for the construction of a new library and classroom building at South ern Oregon college, Ashland, will be received until 9 a. m., April 25, when they will be onened at Room 203, Benson hotel, Port land, according to C. Howard Kable, architect for the project. Contracts will be awarded separately for general, mechani cal and electrical work. The ap propriation for the building is ajuo.uuu. Large Structure The first building to be erected at Southern Oregon college in a numDer oi years, the structure win be 6B by 203 feet with two stories ana a partial basement. exterior walls and floors are to be of concrete. Plans and specifications and other information may be ob tained from Kable at 1204 Yeon building, Portland 4. Pre-quali- ncaiion is required. Offers for general repair and mechanical work on Churchill hall at the college also will be opened April 25, Kable said. Mechanical work Includes addi tions to the heating plant. Bid ding on the Churchill project is optional for those bidding on the library and classroom building. Salem. Ore.. Mar 20 (IIP! Dr. Raymond A. WithSy, dean of students at Willnmittn ITni sity, has been appointed dean of oroiners college, urew univer siay, effective July 1. Berkeley. Cal.. 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