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Legal Moves Could Strike as Illegal Teamster Contracts Washington PD - Legal moves here underway today which could strike down as illegal teamsters contracts covering thousands of truck drivers in 11 .western states. General counsel Stuart Rothman of the National La bor Relations Board took the first step when he signed a complaint Wednesday night challenging the legality of the contracts. The complaint was filed by three union members. The complaint- is against the Western Conference of Teamsters, 105 of its affiliated local unions, and eight big employer associations It ac cuses them of enforcing illegal union shop contracts. The complaint hinges on whether the Western Confer ence is a "labor organization" under the Taft-Hartley Act and therefore must file with the NLRB financial reports and non-Communist affidavits by its officers. The confer ence has not submitted such data in the past. Rothman said the contracts contain a provision requiring drivers to join a teamsters' local within 30 days after they are hired or lose, their jobs. The union ship is per mitted by the Taft-Hartley Act only if the labor organ izations involved have filed the required data. Contracts Illegal Rothman said the contracts also were illegal because they permitted the employers to give encouragement to the union. He said the firms rec ommended that new workers become members of the union and "referred them to union agents. The contracts cannot be de clared illegal, however, until a hearing is held and a trial examiner's report is submitted to the board. Either side can appeal the examiner's ruling to the five-member board and its decision can be reviewed by the courts. The entire pro cedure could take as long as two years. .- . . Joint Negotiating Sessions Enter 4th Day; No Break Seen . New York-TOPD-The langest consecutive joint negotiating sessions since the beginning of the 24-day-old nationwide steel strike went into tu ;ir fourth day today, A secret meeting also was held be tween top union and industry spokesmen Wednesday. Federal Mediation Director Joseph F. Finnegan said there was no sign of an immediate break in the e-onomic dead lock but he believed contract issues were beinp discussed "in a more workmanlike way." While negotiating subcom mittees discussed specific contract terms Wednesday, United Steelworkers of Amer ice (USW) President DavicT J. McDonald and the head of the industry bargaining team, R. Conrad Cooper, met separate ly, it was disclosed Wednes day night. The four -man bargaining teams began negotiations for new industry-wide contracts on May 11 and broke off talks July 14 after a two-week con tract extension failed to pro duce any, change in the posi tion of eithe- side. Finnegan brought them to gether July 27 fo-- their first meeting sin-e the strike be gan at midnigb July 14. They have met daily since Monday, Aug. 3. At issue in the dispute, which is costing the idle in dustry and the strikers an es timated $29 million a day, is the industry's insistence on a wage and price freeze to com bat inflation, countered by the union's assertion that the profits are high enough to permit a 15-cert package in crease without raising prices. In Washington Rep. Ches ter A. Bowles (D-Conn.) who was head of the wartime Of fice of Price Administration, suggested the industry cut prices by $10 a ton and the union forego a raise. Steel prices presently average $150 a ton. Wages average $3.10 an hour. ' ' Business Research Is Meeting Topic Most important thing about a sample in business research is its representativeness, Dr. Kenneth Baker informed members of Medford Kiwanis club yesterday. Baker, vice president and director of research for Cali fornia Oregon Television, ad dressed the Kiwanis luncheon at Rogue Valley Country club on "Research in Modern Busi ness." He stressed that a sample must be properly drawn and that its representativeness de termines whether it yields use ful information. Baker men tioned that probably the least important thing about a sam pling is its size. Marketing research devel oped as a result of an increase in unit cost distribution of products and is an attempt to take part of the guesswork out of the selling function, Baker reported. He stated that there is enormous and pow erful interest in this activity and that it gained its greatest impetus during depression years. Repurchase Important . Baker mentioned motiva tional research, an attempt to get away from numbers. He described findings of such study as stimulating but said they should be tested before they are accepted. Repurchase of an item, rather than introductory sale, is the measure of whether a product is successful, Baker pointed out. He brought out that changes in the way of Motorcyclist Killed In Portland Crash Portland (UPD A motor cyclist was fatally injured in a Wednesday night car-cycle crash in southwest Portland. Dead was Richard Reimer, 27, of Portland. He died at a Portland hospitall shortly aft er midnight from injuries suffered in the collision. Driver of the auto, Ronald E. Dunham, 23, Portland was reported in good condition at Portland Sanitarium. . HELP US! W Need Clothing. Shoes. Dishes, Furniture. We Pick Up. , HELP OTHERS! The Salvation Army, SPriiig 3-7335 life bring new products and new needs. The research man said that in the not too distant future kitchens may be oven freezer combinations with meals made ready by push button, a labor-saving opera tion which could send house wives into the labor market. Before coming here Baker had served as research direc tor of the National Associa tion of Broadcasters, president of the Broadcast Measuring bureau and vice president of the Market Research Corpora tion of America. Doug Phillips and Neil Running were introduced yes terday as new Medford Ki wanis members. Annual Ki wanis picnic will be held Wed nesday, Aug. 12, at McKee bridge. . " Nixon Not Disclosing Strategy On How to Handle Red Premier Editor's note: The follow ing dispatch is by the United Press International reporter who accompanied Vice President Nixon on his lour of the Soviet Union and Poland. Nixon flew part way back from Poland on the press plane. Candidates Look To Runoff Vote Jackson, Miss.-fllTO-Lt. Gov. Carroll Gartin and Jackson Attorney Ross Barnett, facing a runoff for governor Aug. 25, looked hungrily today at an estimated 120,000 votes in the column of a surprising newcomer, to Mississippi politics. While each mapped plans for capturing Charles Sulli van's losing ballots in Tues day's Democratic primary, it remained underteTmined which actually would claim the lead in final, tabulations of the initial vote. ' With 96 of 1,855 precincts unreported, Barnett had 140, 023 votes to 136,213 for Gar tin. Sullivan had 120,785 and Robert F. Mason, a welder who received more laughs than votes, attracted 2,565 ballots. SELF-EMPLOYED JUSTICE Garden City, Ala. -ttJPB- Po lice Chief Ernest Johnson has been fired, it was disclosed today, after confessing that he posed as a highway patrol man during his spare time, fining motorists to supplement his city income. We Give 4&L GREEN STAMPS CENTRAL REXALl DRUG Main and Central By ERNEST BARCELLA United Press International . Washington-fUPD-W h a t is the most effective way of dealing with Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev? How is his health? What, if anything, will his September visit to the United States accomplish? ' What manner of man is the Soviet boss? ' How is the Communist "hate America" campaign faring? Why didn't Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski of Poland get together while Nixon was in Warsaw? These and similar questions are to the fore now that Nixqn has returned from his historic journey to thee Soviet Union and Poland, and President Eisenhower will play host to Khrushchev next month before going to Russia himself. Nixon presumably brought back with him some up-to-date tips for the President on how to deal with Khru shchev. Wasn't Disclosing Strategy The vice president, who picked up valuable exper ience on that count in his now-famous "kitchen meet ing with Khrushchev, was not disclosing any strategy. However the consensus is that, as far as the Russian leaders are concerned, Ameri can leaders must get across to . them the fact that the United States is - strong and that it has the will to use that strength. One school of thought is that the sweetness-and-light-and-sugar approach does not help in dealing with the Rus sians. This group feels that while tough talk should be answered with talk just as tough, sometimes the situa tion calls for finessing ' a point. For example, this view is that American officials should finesse Khrushchev off whenever he flexes his missiles." That view can be stated as follows: 8 THE NATION'S 4 EXPOSITION 4 NOW Till Aug. 14 SAM SNYDER'S 0 An Exciting Musical Revue in Water and on Stage Spectacular World Champion Divers Famous Stage Acts Water & Stage Ballet Diving & Water . ", Clowns MATINEES: 2:30 Aug. 78 1:30 Aug. 9 EVENINGS: 8:15 Mon.-Sat. 5:30 Sunday, Aug. 9 COMING AUG. 15 RICKY NELSON i. Percon On, Night Only! AUGUST 16 SPIKE JONES i BIGGEST FAMILY FUN-TIME . ATTRACTION IN OREGON'S HISTORY 4 There' is no point in argu ing about detail if Khrush chev says he can destroy London with four missiles and New York with six. The best answer is to smile and say "Fine, we are not going to argue or question that: but a we are strong, too," and neither you nor we are strong enough to knock the other out. But whoever starts any thing is going to get the hell kicked out of him, too. It will be suicide for the one who starts it. It will . be a double knockout." This school also holds that, as to military position, "there is nothing wnrsp -nit rnn in than shiver and shake and say we are worried; we must not only assume that he (Khrushchev) has strength but the will to use it. If we don't go to the bargaining table with the same strength he'll kick hell out of us at the bargaining table." Observers who saw Khru shchev at close quarters pub licly and some who saw him in private conversations came to the same general con clusion he seemed full of rugged stamina, alert and in fine form. Some observers thought that he was ready to "blow his stack." At 64, Khru shchev drives himself un mercifully, and the . pace sometimes shows, especially at the end of a long day. Some of those who com pare Khrushchev to Stalin, say that whereas Communism was a means of power for Stalin, it is a religion with Khrushchev. As such one view is that regardless of what he sees in the United States he will see it through Communist eyes and magnify, distort and compress what he MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford Or. Thursday, August 6, 1959 - 3 sees to suit the purpose of his Communist training. American officials realize that they are not going to change his idea of capitalism -the idea that American workers are ODDressed. that there is widespread unem ployment and that American workers can't buy the houses mat American officials say they can. The main thine to American officials is the sub tle effect that the visit could have over the long run. PRICES EFFECTIVE WHILE QUANTITIES LAST! USE WEISFIELD'S SIMPLIFIED CREDIT BUY NOW PAY LATER! 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