Steel Strike Results
Alleviated by Large
Stocks; Costs Listed
w asrungton The seriousness
of a steel strike in an election
year is only slightly alleviated
by the comfortably large inven
tories in industry in general. The
Department of Commerce al
ready has ordered steel ware
houses to ship certain types of
the metal product only to defense
contractors. Some 650,000 steel
workers have been made idle,
and the steel work stoppage has
caused many lay-offs in other
industries.
The most recent prolonged
strike was in the election year
1952. The 54-day walk-out in
volved only 600,000 strikers, but
another 1,400,000 workers in
steel-using industries were
thrown out of work. The strikers
lost more than S350 million in
wages. The total cost of the strike
was estimated at $4 billion.
Output Drops
The total loss of steel was esti
mated at 19 to 21 million tons.
The Federal Reserve Board said
that during the strike the nation s
industrial output dropped to the
lowest point since the Korean
hostilities had begun.
The strike settlement provided
for a modified union shop. Work
ed out at a White House confer
ence, the agreement gave union
members a wage increase of 16
cents an hour, plus fringe bene
fits estimated at 5.4 cents hourly.
The steel industry got a S5.65-a-ton
increase, average, in steel
ceiling prices.
President Truman's seizure of
the industry had been struck
down by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Congress had refused to vote the
President seizure power. Instead,
Congress had urged the Presi
dent to use the injunction pow
ers of the Taft-Hartley Act,
which Truman rejected.
Cost Production
On the eve of the 1956 strike,
the editors of the weekly maga
zine Steel predicted that steel
making costs would go up about
40 cents a ton for every penny
per hour in higher wage costs.
Steel went up $7.35 a ton in
1955 after a 15 cents-an-hour
wage boost gained in a 12-hour
strike. The price rise in 1954
was $3 a ton, after a 12 cents-an-hour
hike in wages. Steelmakers
traditionally pass on increases in
labor costs to users of steel.
Until this year there have been
seven major work stoppages in j
steel since the turn of the cen-'
tury. The unions failed to gain
recognition in industry-wide
strikes in 1901, 1919. and 1937.
Strikes in 1943, 1946, and 1949
were for higher wages and other
benefits. The key issue in the
1952 strike was the union shop.
The Republican platform in
1952 urged "the retention of the
Taft-Hartley Act'' with the
"adoption of such amendments"
as "time and experience show
to be desirable, and which fur
ther protect the rights of labor,
management and the public." As
for President Truman's action
in the steel strike, the platform
stated: "We condemn the Presi
dent's seizure of plants and in
dustries to force the settlement
of labor disputes by claims of
inherent Constitutional Powers."
In Washington it is generally
considered that the strike will
not become acute to the extent
of causing the government to re
sort to Taft-Hartley until after
30 days. Attorney General Her
bert Brownell Jr. on July 4 said
that as far as he knew, nothing
was being done toward invok
ing the law. But the United
Press on the same date quoted
an "informed source" in Wash
ington to the effect that a Taft-
Hartley injunction had not been
ruled out.
Editorial Research Reports.
Air Control System
Blamed for Crash
Grand Canyon Village, Ariz.
'U.R) The nation's air-traffic con
trol system was under fire today
in the wake of history's worst
commercial plane disaster, now
under congressional and Civil
Aeronautics scrutiny.
David Halperin, chairman of
the TWA Central Air Safety
Committee of the Airline Pilots
association, said his group was
"fully aware that the basic cause
of this accident is directly at
tributal to the completely inade
quate and obsolete air traffic
control system."
The apparent collision between
a TWA Super Constellation and
a United Air Lines DC7 high
above scenic rugged Grand Can
yon June 30 cost 128 lives.
Funeral services were sched
uled today at Flagstaff, Ariz.,
for 67 of the 70 persons killed
in the crash of the TWA plane.
Judge Hulen's Death
Under Investigation
St. Louis U.R) An inquest
opened today into the death of
U.S. District Judge Rubey M.
Hulen who presided at the re
cent tax fraud trial of two Tru
man administration officials.
Hulen, 62, was mortally
wounded while in the back yard
of his home here Saturday.
A coroner's jury was asked to
decide whether the gunshot
wound, inflicted by a .32 caliber
revolver in the right temple,
was an accident or intentional.
A .32 caliber revolver was found
near the body.
Police in suburban Clayton
said there was no evidence of
foul play. .
Hulen presided at the trial of
Matthew J. Connelly, appoint
ments secretary to former Presi
dent Harry S. Truman, and T.
Lamar Caudle, former chief of
the Justice department's tax di
vision. Both men were convicted
of conspiring to defraud the
government in a tax case.
Interior To Sit in
On Columbia Hearings
Washington (U.R) Secre
tary of the Interior Fred A. Sea
ton has announced that four bu
reaus of the department would
participate in public hearings
on Columbia river and tributar
ies being held in the Pacific
Northwest by the Army Corps of
Engineers. The hearings were
scheduled to open today at Mis
soula, Mont.
Principal contribution to the
hearings by the Department of
Interior will be made by Bureau
of Reclamation officials. Other
participating bureaus are the
National Park service, Fish and
Wildlife service, and Bonne
ville Power administration.
The hearings are scheduled
for Missoula today, Spokane to
morrow, then follow on succes
sive dates at Lewiston, Ida.,
Boise, Ida., and Portland.
Russians Plan Joint
North Pole Venture
Moscow (U.R) The Soviet
Union is planning a joint ex
pedition to the North Pole with
scientists from Sweden and
Norwary, Capt. Ivan Mann an
nounced yesterday.
Mann, commander of the
USSR's Antarctic expendition
flagship, newly returned to
Leningrad, said the Soviet,
Swedish, Norwegian expendition
will leave for the North Pole
Aug. 1. ,
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The Family Council
Editor's Note: The Family Council consists ot a Judce. a psychiatrist, a
newspaper editor, a women's page-editor and two newspaper writers. These
consult with clergymen ot all faiths and denominations. All letters axa held
In complete confidence.
I Monday, July 9. 1956
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBU9TS ftXYK
LAURA My husband is drift
ing dangerously.
PAUL I'm just not a con
ventional person.
LAURA My husband, Paul,
har been drifting into a situa
tion that is causing me great
embarrassment and concern, but
he refuses to admit that I have
any cause for complaint.
Several years ago we became
friendly with another family
that had recently moved into
our neighborhood. We all seem
ed to hit it off well, made a
number of brief vacation trips
together and soon fitted into
each other's social circle.
I thought that the two women
and the two men would be close
friends, but I was not at all pre
pared for the turn that this re
lationship appears to have taken.
Gradually, I found that my hus
band was doing little errands
for the other lady, such as help
ing her with some garden prob
lems, while she was giving my
husband lifts in her car.
I am not jealous, because I
know that my husband and this
woman have real interests in
common that would draw them
together, such as gardening and
stamp collecting. What bothers
me most is that people are talk
ing, and even saying things to
me.
My husband resents any sug
gestions that I am embarrassed.
He simply says that he has nev
er been a conventional person
and , that his and my friends
know him too well to suspect
him. I feel that this has gone
so far as to destroy my social
life and that it may reach tragic
proportions, but my husband
acts as if I am the only person
being unreasonable.
PAUL My wife has sudden
ly turned conventional and small
town one me. She has known
that I have always made my
friendships regardless of sex and
that I am not a Don Juan char
acter. I have, it is true, done some
work in her garden. We are
bofh very interested in garden
ing and we have learned from
each other. My wife is also a
good gardener, and there is no
reason except her own touch
iness why she should not par
ticipate in all this.
THE COUNCIL: Paul's glib
explanation that he is not a
conventional person falls very
far short of clearing up this
scribed above, he should not
problem. If he intends to be as
unconventional as has been de
scribed above, he should not
live, as he does, in a conven
tional neighborhood, but should,
seek a bohemia, if such exists,
where his behavior would not
be considered noteworthy.
Laura does not help matters
when she says she is not jealous.
A wife has every right to be
jealous when a husband insists
cn sharing his hobbies with
another woman. By disavowing
Honeymooning Pair
To Fly To England
Roxbury, Conn. (U.R) Ar
thur Miller and Marilyn Monroe
fly to England Friday on a com
bined honeymoon and business
trie.
The newlyweds said Sunday
they will live in a house on the
outskirts of London while Miss
Monroe films "The Sleeping
Prince," costarring with Laur
ence Olivier.
Miller will work on a new
three-act version of his play "A
View From the Bridge," which
appeared on Broadway last fall
as a long one-act drama.
Once they finish their work,
Miller said, they plan to tour
France and Italy. He was grant
ed a six-month passport to make
the trip, after the State depart-
jealousy,' Laura has put herself
in a weak position, denying her
husband an innocent and per
fectly proper association merely
because a few tongues are wag
ging. Laura has a right to be jeal
ous of her husband's time and
company, and should not con
cede that everything goes, if
only short of outright physical
infidelity. Jealousy, of course,
is a poor word for assertion of
rights because it usualy denotes
an irrational attitude. Irrational
jealousy is a dangerous extreme,
but so is an attitude that per
mits a husband to choose anoth
er woman for his best friend.
(COPYRIGHT 1956,
GENERAL FEATURES CORP.)
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