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Hungarian Premier May Join In Political Mai enkov By CHARLES M. McCANM United Presi Foreign Analyst Russia's Georgi M. Malenkov may soon have a companion in political misery. Dis patches from Budapest indicate that Premier Imre Nagy of Com munist Hunt gary is most likely to loje his job. If that hap pens, Nagy, like Malenkov will be a vic- . Charles McCann tim of t h' e Kremlin's decision to . concen trate on heavy industry again at the expense of consumer goods. Nagy was made Premier oi Hungary in July, 1953. He an nounced a "new course" policy of improved living conditions. Hungarians would get more food and more comforts," he promised, and there would be less "exaggerated industrializa tion. - Malenkov made approximate ly the same announcement about one month later. Industry First For some reason, which never has been clearly explained, the Kremlin had decided back in 1950 that agricultural Hungary should go in for intensive indus trialization. , ' The country 1' went under a five-year plan designed, it was announced, , to transform it "from." an agrarian industrial country into an industrial agrar nan country" that . is, tg put industry first. .... - The program bogged down from'the start. Nagy took over the prime ministry from Matyas Kakosi, Hungary's No. 1 Com munist. Rakosi was not .purged. He concentrated on his post of first secretary of the Hungarian Com munist party, while Nagy took responsibility for the "new course'' program. But the "new course" pro gram did not work out either. The agricultural situation, which had been bad, got worse. Conces sions mads to farmers, to en courage increased production served only to increase their re sistance to government controls. Industrial workers, who had been promised more and cheap er food, failed to get it. Shift in Moscow Nevertheless, as late as last Dec. 21, Rakosi went out of his way in a speech to praise Nagy's "new course" policy. - He ex pressed conviction that the pol icy would succeed. ' . Then came the disclosure from Moscow that Malenkov's consumer goods policy had been declared ka failure. Rakosi, in a complete reversal of his position, announced on, Jan. 25 that because of German Misery armament and "a war threat from the West" Hungary must concentrate again on heavy industry. This reversal was confirmed Sunday night at a meeting in Budapest of high ranking gov ernment and Communist party leaders. Dispatches from Budapest said that Nagy . did not attend the meeting. . They . added that he might be. "on leave." Engineers Open -All-Out Campaign For Wage Increase Cleveland, O. (U.R) The Brotherhood of Locomotive En gineers opened its all-out cam paign today for a 22.5 per cent wage boost by notifying every major railroad in the United States its demands. v Guy L. Brown, grand chief engineer of the BLE, indicated the union expected a stiff fight by saying," we mean business this time and if necessary are ready to rely wholly and quickly upon application of our economic strength." Brown said the union was pre pared "to disagree at our first conference with rail manage ment" because "we expect no more consideration of this de mand by the carriers than we re ceived a , year :: ago." He added that by being ready to disagree "we shall cause less expense to ourselves and less irritation to the public." . The wage demand will be for "skill differentials" and will af fect' "daily rate, arbitraries, miscellaneous rates, special al lowances and monthly and daily guarantees' now received by en gineers, said Brown. - ; Differentials Worsened He said a five cent hourly in crease in daily rates granted en gineers Aug. 13, 1954, "worsened rather . than .bettered differen tials for. skill as we predicted it would at the time." Brown quoted late Interstate Commerce -. Commission figures as showing . firemen's monthly earnings last ; August were $557.25, whereas they made only $460.72 when promoted to engineers.-. " ' : - Marge Champion Undergoes Surgery Hollywood U.R) Dancer Marge Champion was reported in good condition in Cedars of Lebanon hospital today after un dergoing an emergency appen dectomy. ; Mrs. Champion, who teams with her husband, Gower, was rushed to the hospital yesterday. BUSY SIERRA Sierra National Forest, Calif. (U.R) A record 270,000 vis itors vacationed here last season and another 730,000 traveled through the forest area either on sightseeing trips or en route to' other areas. Forest Supervisor Leon R. Thomas said improved campgrounds in the area, were used 730,000 visitor days, com pared with 510,000 in the 1953 season.-'' ' "; - San Francisco To Invite Republicans For Convention San Francisco (U.R) The San Francisco Board of Super visors has voted to invite the Republicans to hold their 1956 national convention in San Francisco. The board also pledged $100, 000 toward defraying conven tion expenses. At the same time, local business groups named H. D. Collier, retired president of the Standard Oil Company of California, to head a drive to raise an additional $150,000 for the convention. Big Thing for. West . "Bringing this convention to San Francisco would be a big thing, not only for the city, but also for California and the west," Collier said. Leonard Hall, Republican na tional chairman, will submit the bids of San Francisco and two other cities, Chicago and Phila delphia, to a GOP site commit tee, which meets tomorrow in Washington. . Rooms Guaranteed Mayor Elmer E. Robinson notified the GOP national com mittee that San Francisco can guarantee 10,000 hotel accom modations and the use of the 17,000 seat Cow Palace for any date in either July or August, He also pointed . out , that sea breezes and fogs keep San Francisco cool in mid-summer, Thomas Gray, secretary: .of the Downtown Association, flew to Washington last night to pre sent the city's invitation to the site committee. Washington House OKs Vancouver Toll Bridge Olympia (U.R) The House passed a bill yesterday authoriz ing the construction of an addi tional interstate toll bridge at Vancouver Wash. The bill now goes to the Senate. The measure, which received no dissenting votes in the lower chamber, provides for repair of the. present . 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