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Three-Way Program at State Level Seen as Labor's Toughest Job By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Corespondent Washington (U.R) Organ fated labor's political operators now are coming up to their most evere test, well heeled, confi dent and aggressive despite the Taft-Hartley Act which seems not to have made them slaves after all. On top of next year's effort to nominate a satisfactory Dem ocratic presidential candidate and to elect him, labor has a three-way program at the state level. . For a number of reasons, most of which not only are debatable but angrily controversial as well, many state legislatures are more difficult for labor to han dle than are the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. The three legislative matters which labor leaders must force upon the attention of the states are: 1. Repeal or defeat of so-called ritlit-to-work laws 2. Repudiation or defeat of legislative resolutions seeking a constitutional limitation on the federal graduated income tax. 3. Affirmative legislation af fecting the lay-off pay plans which now have been written into the labor contracts of Gen eral Motors and Ford. The battle on issues No. 1 and 2 already is well under way. At least 19 states have enacted right-to-work laws which have the ef fect of banning union shop' con tracts. But organized labor, sparked chiefly by the Ameri can Federation of Labor, under took a fiery counter-offensive. Maryland and Missouri legisla tures rejected right-to-work bills this year. Gov. Fred Hall vetoed auch a bill passed by the Kansas Legislature. The AFL plastered the daily and weekly press of Kansas with big advertisements when that contest was on. The importance accorded the rlght-to-work law movement among the states was indicated last February when the Ameri can Federation of Labor Execu tive Committee, meeting at Mi ami Beach, made it the top proj ect for 1955, even preceding the f 1.25 hourly minimum wage. Labor may have checked or turned the trend on right-to-work. But the campaign for a constitutional limitation on the graduated income tax got away from the labor leaders. It was moving fast before they became aware of it. Their efforts now have - helped persuade states to repudiate previous pe titions to Congress to summon constitutional convention. Supporters of the movement claim that Oklahoma became the 30th petitioning state by legis lative action last month and that only two more are needed to make the petitions effective. There is dispute and doubt, how ever, about the validity of those petitions which legislatures sub sequently sought to recall. The lay-off pay plan was a substitute for and, possibly a long start toward, the guaran teed annual wage program which CIO President Walter Reuther sought to impose on the automobile industry. Lay-off pay would require industry pay ments supplemental to unem ployment insurance payments to workers laid off. State unem ployment insurance laws will have to be amended in most states to permit industry contri butions. inose amendments labor is now seeking to bring about. For what it may be worth at the state level, labor probably can count upon the friendly support of the Eisenhower administra tion which has been committed to the lay-off pay plan by Vice- President Richard M. Nixon. But, anyway you slice it, the labor lobbyists have a big, tough year ahead. Trainmaster Here Earns Promotion R. B. Gibson, Southern Pacific Trainmaster here for the past several years, has been promoted to assistant superintendent of the Rio Grande division with headquarters at El Paso, Tex., it was announced today. The ap pointment is effective July 1. Employees of the Southern Pacific had a fellowship hour for Mr. and Mrs. Gibson Tuesday afternoon and presented him with a gift. 1 Gibson is well known through out southern Oregon and has been directly in charge of opera tions for the Southern Pacific in the territory from Ashland to Glendale. He will be suc ceeded in Medford by George M. Joyce, who is being promoted from trainmaster of the Salt Lake division of Ogden, Utah. Joyce worked in Medford as as sistant trainmaster shortly after severainVorld"V7ar H. buys a when Mom rvn nr,o I III III "I In 13 OfT.souor. ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL Giant 124 LB. FREEZER CHEST SAVE 5 ,w mm mm Oft this 1955 NOROI 2 -door Cvstomatte Small Monthly Payments Your Old Refrigerator May Be Used As Down Payment OPEN WEDNESDAY NIGHTS TIL 9 HAL KRUEGER and AL THOMPSON Norge Appliances 237 E. Llain PHONE 2-245S Medford United Pri Full Leased Wire Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1955 Pages 1-6 WINNING over 19 other con testants, Barbara Harris, Wat sonville, la named "Miss Cali fornia" before 30,000 spectators at Santa Cruz. (International) Two Peruvian Plants Could Provide Food For Large Share of World's Population By DELOS SMITH United Press Science Editor New York (U.RIn the con tinuing argument between food chemists and populated scien tists over the future of the hu man race. The chemists have just played an ace by revealing a cheerful fact concerning Quinua and Canihua. Those two are plants which grow in the high Andes Moun tains at 8000 feet or higher. The cheerful new fact about them is that as things which people can eat with profit, they're as nour ishing or more nourishing than wheat, oats, or whole dried milk. Every time the population scientists foresee man starving himself into extinction someday by multiplying his numbers faster than his food supply, the food chemists are riled. Man hasn't even started to make the most of the foods available to him, they. say. Could Feed Many Now, take Quinua and Cani hua. Who ever heard of them ex cept the Indians of the Peruvian Mountains where they have been feeding Indians since time immemorable, even beyond the days of the Incas empire? The inference of the food chemists was that they could be cultivated in high mountains anywhere and could, in a pinch, feed vast num bers of people. . They're stock plants which grow to heights of six to eight feet and flower into great clus- Unordered Package Scheme Described Portland Lyle Janz, general manager of the Portland Better Business Bureau, has described a C.O.D. "unordered package" scheme which has been used in Oregon.' 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