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Washington -CPII President
Eisenhower has available a
powerful weapon to halt the
steel strike if it gets to the
point, where the nation's wel
fare "is threatened.
In that case, the President
could seek an injunction un
der the Taft-Hartley Law to
bar the walkout for SO days.
But informed sources said
today that t" e President will
defer a decision on whether, to
use the broad emergency au
thority of the labor law. They
gave two reasons:
Supplies High
It will take several weeks
at least for a steel shortage to
develop that would threaten
the nation's welfare. Steel
supplies are high.
Top federal mediators gen
erally feel that the 80-day in
terval provided by the injunc
tion serves as a warming up
period instead of a cooling-off
period as it is generally de
scribed. However, if a strike drags
on through the summer, the
President may invoke the
Taft-H a r 1 1 e y procedure. It
would be the seventh time in
seven years.
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If the President decides that
a "threatened or actual strike
or lockout affecting an entire
industry or a substantial part
thereof . . . will . . . imperil
the national health or safety,"
he can name an emergency
fact-finding .board.
No Recommendations
This board usually holds
hearings for a few days, and
then reports the position of
both company and union rep
resentatives to the White
House. It makes no recommen
dations. , '
Once the report is filed, the
President may order the at
torney general to go into any
U.S. District Court and seek
an injunction forbidding a
strike or lockout while nego
tiations continue. No court has
ever refused such a request.
If no agreement is reached
after 6Q days, the fact-finders
report again on each side's
position and also relay the
employers' "final bffer" to
settle the dispute.
' During the next 15 days, the
National Labor Relations
Board conducts a secret bal
lot vote of the workers in
volved to see if they wish to
accept the final offer. It usual
ly is rejected.
Must Certify Results -
The NLRB must certify the
results to the attorney general
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and Leo A. Hoegh, director of
Civil Defense mobilization.
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within five days after the bal
loting is concluded.
At the end of the 80th day,
the government must ask the
court to dissolve the injunc
tion and the workers are free
to strike again. .
The President is required to
submit a report of the dispute
to Congress together with any
recommendations he cares to
make for legislation.
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to "reimburse the state i in
full." '
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New York-flJPD-The- United
Steelworkers Union today
urged the steel industry to
join with it in forming a fact
finding board to study the
issues involved in the strike
and help bring about an early
settlement.
In a letter to the industry's
fourman bargaining team,
Union President David J. Mc
Donald said a three-man fact
finding committee should look
into economic and non-economic
matters in dispute and
make recommendations to
both parties aimed at halting
the strike.
McDonald said the industry
and union each would name
one man to the committee and
Chief Justice Earl Warren
would be asked .to name a
third, impartial member.
Basis for Negotiations
The union chief said the
findings of the board would
not be binding but "we are
confident that they would
provide a basis for negotia
tions and facilitate quick set
tlement by the parties."
In the union's statement,
McDonald noted that Presi
dent Eisenhower refused to
set up a government fact find
ing board to study the eco
nomic issues involved in the
dispute.
He also pointed out the
companies refused to join
with the union in forming a
committee to study the dead
lock over plant working con
ditions. "While the President felt
it inappropriate to appoint a
fact finding board as request
ed by the union," McDonald
said, "there is certainly no
inhibition on the companies
and the union mutually agree
ing to establishing their own
fact finding board."
Blames Steel Companies
McDonald said now that the
strike has begun it is "incum
bent on both parties to do
everything in their power to
reach an expeditious settle
ment and avert a prolonged
stoppage." He again blamed
the strike on the steel com
panies and accused them of
spurning "every effort and
proposal of the union to reach
a settlement."
.Industry and labor had sep
arate meetings scheduled this
afternoon with the chief of
the Federal Mediation Serv
ice. Each side bitterly blamed
the other for the strike which
punctuated their failure to
write a new wage contract
for the industry's half mil
lion workers.
Pendleton Barn
Destroyed by Fire
Pendleton (UPD Fire de
stroyed a large tack barn con
taining 40 stalls at the Round
up stadium here Tuesday
afternoon.
John E. Bauer, Pendleton
Roundup president, said the
flames apparently spread to
the structure as weeds were
being burned nearby.
Firemen prevented, the
blaze from reaching the live
stock pavilion and stock pens.
The blaze started about 1:50
p.m. and was contained by
2:20 p.m.
Dauer said the stalls, used
for show horses and other pa
rede animals, probably would
be rebuilt for the next Round
up, next September.
No stock or equipment were
in the stalls at the time of the
fire. A damage estimate was
not immediately available.
Bauer said the burning of
the stalls would not hamper
opening of the National In
dian Encampment at the
Roundup grounds Friday.
Governor Names
Tax Commissioner
Salem-(UPB-Gov. Mark Hat
field today named Fred H. W.
Hoefke, Portland, a former
special agent of the Internal
Revenue Service, to replace
Carl W. Chambers on - the
State Tax Commission.
The appointment is effec
tive Aug. 1.
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By United Press International
The steel strike at a glance:
THE UNION: The United
Steelworkers of America, with
500,000 members in steel
mills, iron ore mines, Great
Lakes ore carriers and other
operations.
THE COMPANIES: Twenty
eight steel producers, includ
ing the 12 biggest who partici
pated in pre-strike negotia
tions. Included are the U. S.
Steel Corporation, Bethlehem
Steel and Republic Steel,
which represent 55 per cent
of total national steel capac
ity. DIRECT DAILY COST OF
THE STRIKE: Approximately
$50 million, with steel produc
tion losses estimated at $40
million and union wage losses
at $10 million. The union has
no strike fund.
LOSSES: About 300,000
tons daily at pre-strike rates
of production.
ISSUES: Union is seeking
package wage increase esti
mated at more than 15 cents
an hour. Also seeks extension
of cost - of - living escalator
clause contained in three-year
contract which expired June
30. Pre-strike steel wages
averaged $3.10 an hour. In
dustry has proposed one-year
wage freeze and elimination
of escalator clause. However,
Sixth Industry-Wide
Strike in History
Of Steel Union
Pittsburgh -(DPD-The strike
of United Steelworkers is the
sixth industry-wide walkout
in the 23-year history of the
union, all after World War II.
The previous walkouts and
the settlements:
1956-34 days. A three-year
contract which resulted in
benefits estimated at 45.6
cents per hour per worker
during the life of the agree
ment. 1955-12 hours. Wage in
creases averaging slightly
more than 15 cents per hour.
1952-56 days. Wage increas
es averaging 16 cents per
hour; a modified union shop
and elimination of geographi
cal differentials at a cost of
about 5 cents per hour. -Pension
Won
1949 - 30 to 42 days. Com
pany-financed pension and in
surance programs, but no
wage increase.
1946-29 days. A wage in?
crease of I8V2 cents per hour.
The steel industry estimat
ed that these walkouts cost
the nation 55 million tons of
steel production. The current
walkout will mean the loss of
about 2 million tons for
each week it continues.
The first major strike called
by the USW, then the Steel
workers Organizing , Commit
tee, was against Jones and
Laughlin Steel Corp. in Iay,
1937. The n e w 1 y - founded
union already had won con
tracts with 110 companies, in
cluding giant U. S. Steel
Corp., without a walkout.
Union Wins Vote
The strike ended after 36
hours when J&L agreed to
sign a contract if its em
ployees voted for the union in
a National .Labor Relations
Board election. The union
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proved pensions and insur
ance benefits this year and a
modest pay increase next year
if the union agrees to in
creased efficiency in steel
plants. Industry says wage in
crease would necessitate in
crease in steel prices and
trigger new inflationary
spiral. Union maintains that
industry's profits and pro
ductivity are high enough to
warrant wage increase with
out forcing increase in steel
prices.
STRIKE HISTORY: Sixth
nationwide steel strike since
World War II. Last strike,, in
1956, lasted 34 days, costing
approximately $2 billion in
productions and . lost wages.
Wages increased total of 62
cents an hour, including 17
cents provided by escalator
clause. Steel prices since have
increased an average of $34
per ton..
EXPECTED EFFECT: Steel
consumers have supplies suf
ficient for from 30 to 120
days. Agreement, when
reached, will set pattern for
contract talks in aluminum,
copper, canning and railroads.
Also will have important ef
fect on wage increases in
variety of industries, ranging
from autos to missiles.
won 17,028 to 7,207.
But other large independent
firms refused to deal with the
union. Within a week, the late
Philip Murray, then president
of the steel union, had called
J-walkouts against Bethlehem,
Republic, Inland and Youngs
town Sheet & Tube. At its
peak, the walkout idled 90,000
workers.
The violence-marked strike
continued into the fall, but
eventually most of the men
went back to work and the
union had failed to win con
tracts. But in 1941, after
strikes flared at a half-dozen
Bethlehem mills, the company
agreed to NLRB elections.
Again the union won, and the
four companies of so-called
"little steel" came to terms in
August.
Other Strikes
Other major strikes in the
steel- industry occurred in
1889, 1892, 1909 and 1919, but
they involved predecessor
unions of the United Steel
workers. The most noted walkout of
the past was the 1892 strike
against steel king Andrew
Carnegie's Homestead, Pa.,
mill. On July 6 of that year
strikers and company - hired
Pinkerton detectives clashed
in a pitched battle. Seven
strikers and three Pinkertons
were killed in a gun battle on !
the bank of the Monongahela
river as the detectives sought
to enter the mill from barges, j
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Los Angeles- (DPD -A man
walked into a Salvation Army
store Tuesday, showed a gun
and said: "I've donated to the
Salvation Army many times.
Now give me all the bills you
have." He left with $17.
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Aid Available
For Strikers
Pittsburgh-flJPD-The nation's
striking steelworkers will be
ineligible for state unemploy
ment benefits and will receive
no financial aid from then
national union during the
strike.
The United Steelworkers
Union has no strike fund from
which it could make strike
payments. However, a union
spokesman said each local
will form a strike welfare
committee which will make
financial aid available to
"hardship" cases.
Officials Unpaid
Top union officials, includ
ing President David J. Mc
Donald, who draws an annual
salary of $50,000, also will go
without pay during the strike.
Their pay was suspended auto
matically at the strike's outset
in accordance with a 20-year
tradition. Secretarial and
clerical employees in union
headquarters, however, will
continue to work and draw
salaries. ,
Retail stores in key steel
centers have put signs in their
windows informing steelwork
ers that they can buy now
and pay after the strike. Local
food stores also have made a
practice of extending credit
to steelworkers during strikes.
Since most steel companies
pay on a two week basis, some
workers will still receive full
pay checks , two weeks hence.
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Florence, Ore.- (OPT) -Nicholas
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while visiting Oregon's coast
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here.
Authorities said he fell
from an observation point lo
cated on a cliff above the
caves.
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