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
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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.'
The method of operation is
this: A mysterious C.O.D. pack
age arrives for you at your of
fice while you are on vacation.
The package is accepted and
paid for. When you return, you
are presented with it and find
some neatly wapped "old news
papers." The same principle is applied
when an accommodating house
wife is tricked into accepting a
C.O.D. package for a vacation
ing neighbor.
ters of seeds which are quite
wonderful as sources of proteins
and vitamins, according to a
team of U.S. and Peruvian chem
issts which has analyzed them
from A to Z.
Chemical analysis showed
that the seeds contained approx
imately as much or more of 10
essential amino acids as whole
wheat Amino acids are the
"building blocks" of proteins
and proteins are the very es
sence of diet without them,
there is no nourishment.
High Quality Protein
Through nutritional tests with
laboratory rats, the chemists
demonstrated that these seed
proteins were of high quality,
comparable to the proteins of
whole dried milk. Furthermore,
their contents of such vitamins
as Thiamine,. Riboflavin, and
Niacin and of such minerals as
Calcium, Phosphorus, and Iron
were comparable to those of the
cereal grains which feed a size
able portion of the human race.
- The plants now are cultivated
bv Drimitive means and the
vield Der acre is from 440 to 800
pounds. However, experimental
cultivation by Peruvian agricul
ture scientists have produced
yields of 4,400 pounds an acre.
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