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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1953)
THURSDAY, AUGUST 13. 1953 French Premier Laniel Stands Firm As Labor Calls Out More Workers HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON FAGS NINB Bf JOHN RODERICK -' PARIS W French organized la bor (hook a big list under Pre mier Joseph Lanlel's nose today, calling out upwards of our million trlkers to underline Its protest against the government's economy program. Most of the workers were or dered to walk out lor only 24 or 28 hours. But bard core of more than million already Is commit ted to stay out until the Premier backs down, tying un the nation's mines, railways, gas and electri city works, puBllc health services and postal, telegraph and telephone systems. in the ninth day of the strike wave, Laniel, a multimillionaire textile Industrialist who learned to fight In the wartime French un derground, stuck his chin out and said he would not yield. in a lighting speech to the na tion last nignt, ine et-year-oid pre mier exclaimed: - "I say not to strike. I say no to pressure moves, direct or indirect, which have been imposed on the government." . AU factions of French labor were pressing him. The first walkouts last week were called by the So cialist workers' Force (FO), but the Communist-led Qeneral Peder ! atlon of Labor (COT) and the Christian Catholic Trades Union FCTC) quickly Joined In. Laniel declared It was the duty of the government of a democratic state to oppose the strike. He as erted the quicker workers realised the strike would end sooner or lat er, the quicker the nation could . buckle down to carrying out the "generous social program" he said be has in mind. The wave of walkouts was sparked by disclosure that the gov ernment's program for rescuing . the nation's treasury from near- bankruptcy inciuaea lopping some employes off publio" payrolls and tipping the retirement age for civil servants. . Workers also were angered that Lanlel's plan did not put a heavier tax bite on the nation's wealthy. ' And the Communists chimed In with calls for a general wage boost. The Premier declared that "de fective services" would be re placed. The government has put policemen, soldiers and convicts to work delivering mall, driving buses and collecting rubbish. It also has Issued requisition orders to rail road workers. Defiance of the orders could re sult in loss of Jobs or even im prisonment. Several thousand rail way employes returned to their I Jobs last night, putting a few ex- .oo ubvis oacic into service. Postal, telegraph and telephone workers have largely Ignored sim ilar requisition orders. There was no Immediately offi cial response from the unions to uiS1'? t0UB!1 talk- Today's strike called for walkouts In nearly every public and private enterprise in the nation. The only industries not af fected thus are are chemicals, tex tiles, hotels and theaters. . Disgusted tourists fled the strike buses halted, every outgoing plane was Jammed. Shipping lines scur ried for special buses to take their passengers to channel ports, and to collect arrivals. . The American Express and Cook's travel agenoy were be sieged with travel applicants, all wanting out. Many vacationers were running out of money; the communications strike kept them from getting more from home.' Foreigners planning to visit France soon rearranged their itineraries, other West European countries got ready for a bonanza of unexpected business. France's tourist Industry faced huge losses. Officials talked themselves hoarse, trying to convince union leaders their' fears of the proposed government decrees were unfound ed. To all indications the unionists were unconvinced, and the strikes were expected to spread. The government called on troops to man trucks and buses to heln with the transportation crisis, and TOWER TALK '(Continued from page 6) flu and asked to have someone fill her shift for her the next morning. Friday morning June B, when I had not heard from her, I as sumed she was well, but shortly before 8 a.m., she called and said she would be unable to take her shift at 8. She was still a very alck woman but had planned on going to the post anyway. The, fol lowing Wednesday morning, she died of complications following the flu. We pay homage to Mrs. Keating and wish there were more people as faithful and willing to serve as she. If there were, we would have no trouble manning any of our posts. Chief Observer, Ashland, Ore. , We know there are a great many people In Klamath who are In good health and could help, so how much longer are you going to keep tossing those feeble excuses round before you volunteer for the GOO. Your problems arent any bigger than a lot of the members who are putting In your shift for you and their own too. Call 5140. Hall Relates Policy Shifts By RUTH KINO 1 The keystone Is the shift of America's foreign policy from the Truman - Atcheson administration to the present Elsenhower Dulles policy, the withdrawal of the Sev enth Fleet lrom Formosa waters, the reasons for the first cracks In the Iron Curtain, the truce and the finances of the federal govern ment were presented at the re cent finance dinner In Portland, sponsored by the Republican State Central Committee of Oregon by Leonard W. Hall, National Chair man, The $100-a-plate dinner was held In the Multnomah Hotel, Aug. 8. Kali also spoke on the progress made by the president dwlng his first six months In office, during the Picnic the following day In Laurelhurst. ( The widely-ttended dinner, plc nlc and reception honored Mr. and Mrs. Hall, Sen. Ouy Cordon, U. S. Representatives Sam Coon, Walter Norblad, Homer Angell, Harris Ellsworth and Gov. and Mrs. Paul Patterson of Oregon. Mrs. Hall and Mrs. Patterson were honored at a luncheon Satur day afternoon at the Multnomah with places marked for the honor guests, Mrs. James Mott and Mrs.. Victor MacKenzie Salem: Mrs. Bo chard von Lubken, Hood River, Mrs. Roy Young, Roseburg; Mrs. W. F. Young, Mrs. Roy Bishop, Mrs. Wil liam Burns, Portland, Mrs. Olive Cornett, Republican National Com mitteewoman from Oregon, Mrs. Geneva Duncan, vice-chairman of the Klamath County Central Com mittee and Mrs. Jo Klttredge, all of Klamath Falls. ' Also from here were Mayor Paul Landry, Mr. and Mrs. Casper Moty Mrs. Jensen, Nelson Reed, end Bill Lorenz, Chlloquin. HOTELS OSBURN HOLLAND IUGENE, ORE. MIDCORD Thoroughly Modern i Mrs. J. K. Early and Joe Early Proprietors some troops -also worked on the piled-up malls. All of them made little headway against the confu sion. The strike wave began last week when non-Communist postal, tele phone and telegraph employes quit, saying they would stay out until Laniel abandoned his then only rumored retrenchment plans. The Socialist FO, backed by the Communist controlled COT (Gen eral Confederation of .Labor) and the Christian Trades Federation brought the striking: total to two million with a 24 to 48-hour walk out last Frldav and Baturdav. The Red COT called this week's outbreak, tacking on demands for general salary Increases and the ouster of what It termed Lanlel's "reactionary" Cabinet.. Nou-Com- munlst unions were quick to sup port tne strike cans. Both Communists and Socialists urged . the recall of Parliament, now vacationing: until October. That Is a long procedure, calling for signed letters from 209 depu ties, one third of the National As sembly. . ' To further- add to Lanlel's harassment, the wine growers of southern France announced plans for their third widespread barri cading of highways in their section for 12 hours on Friday. Demand ing that the government by their huge surplus of wine, they have already blockaded traffic in the region twice, for four hours two weeks ago and for six last week. i l sr". CPL JANICE WILLARD. 315 Grant, is the only WAC with the 104th Infantry Division at Fort Lewis, Wash. The 22-year-old University of Ore gon sophomore is an official Army photographer with the 1 04th Signal Company. She served three years on active duty in the WACs at a pho tographer before joining the 104th. Her only lady compan ion at Fort Lewis is a nurse, Helen A. Holbrook. Portland. Klamath fJlEAT Cent 710 PINE YMCA BLDG. DON STROUD er Telephone 2-3322 O WALT COOL Editors Split On McCarthy Press Freedom Controversy WASHINGTON (JU. Did Sen. McCarthy (R-Wls) pose a threat to the freedom of the American press by his closed-door questioning of James A. Wechsler, editor of the New York Post?. A special committee of the Amur. lean Society of Newsoaner Editor ASNE spent mora than ton months studying this ouextian- JAPS 8TBIKE ' IUB.UHAMA W C.S. Army forces In Japan, hit by a nation wide strike of Japanese garrison workers, carried on as usual Wednesday with only a slight dip In efficiency, the Army announced. The 48-hour strike was called to Protest rejection of demand, for vuuiraoi . revisions. and failed to agree on a yes or no answer, . . a. The committee's renoiL' made Public last night, shows 4 of the 11 members called McCarthy's two day interrogation of the editor " Peru to American freedom." Opinion amoig the -others, the report said, ranged thrash vri. ous degrees of concern all the way m un viewpoint mat McCarthy's usuries am no damage to press MCCUyin. . ... nw special committee, headed by J. Russell Wiggins of the Wash ington Post, was set up at Wech sler's request after the editor was questioned in detail about his past Politics and other matters April 24 iu amy o oy the Senate investi gating subcommittee. Wechsler contended the tran script, later made public, would show McCarthy, as chairman of the subcommittee was trying to intimidate an editor whose news paper had criticised him. McCarthy denied any such Inten tion. He said the questioning was Justified because Wechsler had written a book circulated by the State Department in .one of Its overseas libraries, which the sub committee was Investigating. Wechsler Is an acknowledged ex Communlst. He told the senators he quit the Communist party In tt at the age of 33 and has eo posed it actively smea then. : In New York, McCarthy aauL im an interview yesterday . he was pleased that the ASNE committee has urged all editor to read the hearing transcript. People DO Read SPOT ADS V -you are! 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