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
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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.
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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
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YMCA BLDG.
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er
Telephone
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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
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