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VOlTsO-—NO- 271— ~~ ~ WILMINGTON, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1947 ESTABLISHED 18«f
House Passes
River Funds
gill Including $100,000
For Cape Fear Deepen
ing Goes To Senate
frank van der linden
Morning Star Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, July 2.—The bill
'dine a 7100,000 appropriation
2 Snuing the work on the
rape lea- river at Wilmington was
oas'ed by the House today and
sen; to the Senate.
The War Department civil func
appropriations bill also in
cluded an appropriation of $85,200
t0„ a flood control project on the
Neuse "river at Gldsboro.
" The $100,000 appropriation is
one-third of the amount the U. S.
engineers have requested for car
r. ng on and completing the proj
ect of depening the Cape Fear
*,ver channel from 30 to 32 fet
tnd widening it from 300 to 400
feet.
The $85,200 will cover all the
cost of cutting off a Neuse river
.•elbow' which has been backing
water and causing floods be
tween Goldsboro and New Bern.
With a chorus of “No’s’ , the
house defeated an' effort, inspired
by private utilities, to kill a $3,
800 000 appropriation for continu
ing construction of the $57,000,000
Buggs island darn on the Roanoke
river in North Carolina and Vir
fbiia. .. --
Representative uonaero oi
Michigan, the public works com
mittee chairman, led the attack
on Buggs island.
He claimed the dam wmuld ruin
a million-dollar tungsten mine
which produces a strategic miner
al in large quantities, but Rep.
John Kerr of Warrenton, cited a
letter from the chief oi engineers
to the late Sen. Josiah Bailey,
which said the value of the tung
s;en ore which would be affected
tv the Buggs island reservoir “is
zero”. .
Challenging Dondero's claim
that the dam would aid little in
flood control, Kerr said it would
protect 227,500 acres of land and
eliminate an annual loss of $325,
000.
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WRECKS BUILDING
Four Boatbuilders Escape
Injury In Blast At Mary
land Town
ST. MICHAEL’S, MD., July2—
_(,!P)_Four men escaped injury to
day when a small bomb, believed
accidentally dropped from an un
identified plane, hit a boatyard
ihop at Wittman and demolished
one end of the building, state
police reported.
A second bomb exploded in a
field about 50 yards away, digging
• large crater.
J. Walter Jones, proprietor of
the shop located three miles from
here,told police he and thre help
ers were in the one-story frame
building when they heard a plane
pass overhead.
A few seconds later there was
a terrific explosion, and one end
of the structure collapsed, pepper
ing the men with debris. All were
momentarily . tunned, but other
wise unhurt.
Whittman is about 40 airline
miles Southeast of Baltimore,
across Chesapeake Bay.
Police Puzzled
Slate police at Easton were un
able to determine the origin or
destination of the plane. There is
considerable non-commercial fly'
tag in the area, but no aviation
training centers of the armed
forces are in the immediate vi
cinity, they said.
In Washington, both the army
and navy, on the basis of pre
liminary investigation, said they
had no bomb-carrying planes in
the vicinity at the time.
Police said they found a bomb
fragment to which a broken piece
°f a bomb shackle was attached.
The shackle is used to hold the
missiles under the plane fuselage
and police believed it broke and
treed the bombs.
State police said the bomb, de
athbed as small apparently
grazed the building and landed
beside a concrete foundation, which
was lifted out of the ground. A
‘0-foot boat upon which the four
men were working was wrecked.
f-h W. Banning of Whittman said
the hole caused by the second
bomb was large enough to hold
a locomotive.
The Weather
FORECAST:
*°rth and South Carolina—Clear to
Pdrt)y cloudy and moderate temperatures
ftursday and Friday.
(Eastern Standard Time)
v 'tty u. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the 24 hours
' !ng 7;30 p. m. yesterday.
TEMPERATURES
7 1 M a- m. 76; 7:30 a. m. 79. 1:30 p. m.
7 ;30 p. m. 77; Maximum 83; Mini
m 74; Mean 80; Normal 79.
. HUMIDITY
ft."M.a m- 7:30 a. m. 82; 1:30 p. m.
‘ ;3° P m. 81.
PRECIPITATION
otal for 24 hours ending 7:30 p m.
1 inches.
Total since the first of the month
,17 inches.
tides FOR TODAY
t. ^ the Tide Tables published by
Coast and Geodetic Survey).
Yni . HIGH LOW
Kington - 9:45 a.m. 4:43 a.m.
10:13 p.m. 4:43 p.m.
Onb°ro Inlet _ 7:27 a.m. 1:41 a.m.
s.ln . 7:59 p.m. 1:32 p.m.
Bovnse 5:05; Sunset 7:27; Moonrise
Mocnset 4:52a.
8 , er staEe at Fayeetteville, N. C. at
*• m Wed. - feet.
*,M* WEATHEE On Ftfi Xw»
ACTING Minister of Informa
tion Krnoe Mihalyfi has announced
In Budapest a new policy for news
men to go into effect after the ra
tification of the peac treaty with
Hungary. British and U. S. news
correspondents, and all other jour
nolists, foreign and domestic, work
ing in Hungary, will be liable to
punishment, including the death
sentence, for publishing “reports
which would harm the reputation
at .home or abroad of the new
Hungarian government.’’—(Inter
national).
GOP WILL PUSH
TAX SLASH BILL
Congressional Majority
Now See Enough Votes
To Override Veto
WASHINGTON. July 2—(U.PJ—Ap
parently assured of enough votes
to override a Presidential veto,
House and Senate Republican
leaders decided today to make an
other attempt to pass an indivi
dual income tax reduction bill at
this session of congress.
The new GOP plan is to make
the tax cut effective Jan. 1. In
other respects the bill is the same
as the one which President Tru
man vetoed, with the House sus
taining his decision by two votes.
The previous bill would have been
effective yesterday.
The measure would cut person
al income taxes by 10.5 to 30 per
cent, for a total of about $4,000,
000. 000 a year.
Up Next Week
It will be considered in both
the House and Senate next week.
The decision to push the meas
ure at this session was reached
by the Republican leaders at a j
meeting called to draft a legisla
tive program to be considered be
fore Congress adjourns July 26.
Republicans in both houses have
been making a poll to determine
whether tney now cab get the two
thirds votes necessary to override
another veto. Their decision to
press for action was taken to
mean what they believed they had
sufficient support.
Several leading Democrats re
portedly have changed their stand
since the first veto was sustain
ed, on the basis of mail from their
constituents. Others are said to
be agreable to going along as
long as the effective date is Jan.
1.
Taft Non-Committal
Chairman Robert A. Taft, It.,
O., of the Senate Republican Pol
icy committe, said the Senate
would try to complete action next
See GOP On Page Two
CITY MAY AMEND
BUILDING LAWS
City Manager, Attorney To
Study Code In Rela
tion To Churches
Amendment to Wilmington’s
construction laws to do away with
religious groups having to pay for
permits for erecting and remod
eling structures is being studied
by city officials.
City Manae.r J. R. Benson and
Attorney William R. Campbell to
day began a study to see if it is
possible to work out an amend
ment that will not conflict _ with
state laws or present municipal
statutes.
The two city officers were or
dered at yesterday’s council ses
sion to begin such a job when a
motion introduced by Richard
Burnett, was adopted.
The matter came before the
council at the instance of J. E. L.
Wade, who declared that while he
did not wish to eliminate any rev
enue, it had been called to his
attention that churches were com
pelled to pay construction fees.
City Manager J. R. Benson read
from the present law revealing
the fees are on a graduated scale,
depending upon the amount of
construction. Any such change in
the statutes must apply to organ
izations that • are “strictly reli
gious” and not operated for prof
it. _
Board Urges
Land^t^:
Presi. .< Safety
Grout -aborts On Ac
cident Prevention
WASHINGTON, ‘July 2.— (IP) —
President Truman’s Air Safety
board declared today that the
‘tragic pattern” of past commer
cial air accidents will ‘‘inevitably
repeat itself” unless Congress
quickly provides for more ade
quate landing aids to meet the
emergency situation.”
Chairman James M. Landis told
the President the board’s report
was prompted by a “mistaken
idea” in Congress that Mr. Tru
man’s recommended program oi
air safety “is out of line with
similar programs being pressed
by the armed services in behalf
of national defense ”
However, the board said there
is “no conflict between the pro
gram of installing these aids and
any program now being pursued
by the armed services” and de
clared:
“Both safety in civil air trans
port and the needs of national de
fense have rarely been better
aligned.”
Declaring that an "emergency
situation” exists, the board said
that “accidents in the approach
and landing category are by far
the largest category of serious ac
cidents in air transportation.”
High Percentage
This type, for example, repre
sented 35 per cent of the fatal
accidents in 1946, tak’ng 85 lives,
the report said. It added that
“their reduction is not a matter
of regulation but of the installs
tion of adequate aids.”
The board identified the devices
as:
High Intensity Approach Lights
—to permit pilots from “heights
of 200 to 500 feet and at distances
of a half mile to make contact
vrith the runway.”
Ground Control Approach—The
method by which pilots, through
use of ground radar, are “talked”
into safe landings.
Surveillance Radar—An instal
lation which “enables the control
tower at an airport to determine
with precision '.he directional po
sition distance and altitude of air
craft within twenty or thirty miles
of the airport.”
ILS Device
Instrument Landing Systems —
Electronic devices “which auto
matically (so far as ground con
trol is concerned) provide the ap
proach to airport runways and the
glide path for landing.”
Commenting on the progress of
the President’s recommended pro
gram in Congress, the board said
that while it would cost $13,428,
000 the House had approved only
$5,930,000, and the Senate only
$571,706 for installation of the de
vices. It added, however, that it
is a “prerogative of Congress” to
decide how much should be spent.
CRIMINALS TAKE
MAYOR, GOVERNOR
Philippines Town Cap
tured By Band Following
Break From Prison
MANILA, PHILIPPINEA, July
2—OR—Forty-five desperate crim
inals broke out of Mindoro prov
ince prison yesterday, captured the
provincial capital cf Calapan and
seized Governor Conraao Morente
and Mayo* Filemon Samaco of
Clapan as hostages.
A reliable Manila source said
today that Morente anj Samaco
escaped during a one-hour battle
between the desperadoes and a
hastily organized civilian guard,
but there was no official confir
mation.
Three C-47 transports loaded with
military police look off from Man
ila to Calapan Today. Before they
left, military police reinforcements
had gone in boats across the strait
from Batangas to Mindoro Island
and reported the situation was
“under control”.
Leader Killed
They said a Lieutenant Romero
leader of the break, had been
killed. The Manila Tribune report
ed an MPsergeant and two of
the escaped prisoners were slain
in fighting today.
Congressman P.aul Leuterio of
Mindoro wired the government
that the desperadoes had scatter
ed an MP sergeant and two of
rendering. Neither police nor Leu
terio, however, said specifically
tnat Calapan had been recaptured.
Shortly after the break a signal
officer, Lt. Antonio Bunta, aided
by Mrs. Mary Acebeda, wife of a
well known Mindoro guerilla lead
er, organized the civilian popula
tion to battle the prisoners,
Beer Bar Beckons Pilot;
Carries Thirst To Jail
BATTI/3 MOUNTAIN, Nev.,
July 2—CU.R)—The main street of
this little Nevada community is
no air strip, and no parking place
for a pilot who wants a quick
beer. Frank Pace learned today.
Yesterday Pace, an Ely, Nev.,
private pilot, got thirsty for a
beer while flying over Nevada in
his light Monocoupe. Beneath him
was an oasis for*a thirsty pilot
—a Battle Mountain bar.
He glided down out od the sky,
landed smack on the main street
and taxied up in front of the bar,
cut the motor and went inside.
“Gimme a beer,” he said.
Constable Charles Lemaire ar
rived minutes later.
“Get that airplane out of the
street, you are obstructing traf
fic.” *
“I can’t—I’m out of gas,” said
the airman, gulping a beer.
A mention of the Battle Moun
tain jail made him change his
mind. He flew off.
But 30 minutes later he was
back again, stepped out of his air
plane in front of the bar, and
went inside.
“Gimme another beer,” he said.
The constable came back and
jailed him.
Pace, lacking $500 bail, remain
ed in jail today, charged with a
gross misdemeanor; “reckless
and careless operation of an air
plane on the ground.”
Nation-Wide Coal Strike Threat
Ends As Operators Bow To Lewis;
U. S. To Carry Out Marshall Plan
.------I
Decision May
Nettle Soviet
Molotov’s Refusal To Co
operate With England,
France Wrecks Parley
WASHINGTON, July 2 — (#>—
The State department was report
ed fully prepared tonight to go
ahead with the Marshall plan for
economic aid to Europe despite
Russia’s flat refusal to cooperate
with France and Britain in organiz
ing European recovery.
This probably means an outright
economic-political conflict between
the United States and the Soviet
Union.
Secretary of State Marshall de
clined today to comment on the
breakdown of the Paris conference
due to Russia's refusal to cooper
ate. But he did tell a news con
ference that he expected very
shortly a British-American agree
ment on a new level of industry for
Germany. This will mean, in ef
fect, boosting German steel, coal
and other essential production as
one means of helping Europe.
Foreign Minister Molotov’s re
marks as the Paris meeting closed
that the Marshall plan means the
division of Europe was taken here
as an indication of Soviet intent
to fight it at every turn.
So long as European nations will
take the initiative in seeking the'r
own salvation, the United States
See DECISION On Page Two
federaTbureaus
FACE INDICTMENT
House Cammittee Requests
Proceedings Against
Agency Activities
WASHINGTON, July 2 — (A; —
The Justice department was re
quested today to proceed against
six federal agencies ^ccused by
the House Expenditures committee
of illegal “propaganda activities”
in behalf of compulsory health in
surance.
The committee, in a report ap
proved unanimously, said it found
key personnel of the agencies
planned to establish “health work
shops” in strategic arears, for
“propagandizing- farm and labor
leaders to build up an artificial,
federally-stimualted health bill.”
This development came shortly
after represtnatives of four or
ganizations urged the Senate Pub
lic Welfare committee to approve
the Wagner-Murray - Dingell bill
providing complsory health insur
ance to be financed with a three
percent payroll tax.
President Truman has asked
Congress for health insurance le
gislation.
Four Organizations
The four organizations — Amer
icans for Democracy Action, com
See FEDERAL on Page Two
DERBY ENTRY
The Wilmington Civitan club
will have an entry in the Soap
Box Derby.
Club members at yesterday’s
luncheon voted to enter a boy
and car in the race. Yesterday’s
speaker was Capt. A. B. John
ston, in charge of the Wilming
ton Branch of the Organized Re
serve corps.
He outlined the proposed mili
tary training bill now before
Congress. Club guest was Dr.
A. McR. Crouch.
FLOOD WATERS FROM THE SWOLLEN Miss issippi River sweep through a break in the Chouteau
Island levee eight miles north of St. Louis, Mo., F lood workers fought five futile days to save this,
the first of three critical levess to go out under pr essure of the highest flood on the river In 103 years.
—(International Soundphoto). __
Heaviest Travel In Nation’s
History Expected On July 4
SOUTHEAST TO ENJOY
PICNIC WEATHER ON
“GLORIOUS FOURTH”
ATLANTA, July 2. — (IP)— It
will be picnic weather over
most of the Southeast Friday,
July 4, with the Weather bu
reau predicting fair and mor
erately warm temperatures.
Conditions also will favor mo
toring, swimming and other
sports.
Indicated temperatures for
Georgia, the Carolinas, and
Florida will be generally hot,
varying from normal to six de
grees above average with clear
skies.
A little relief from the heat is
due Saturday.
KIWANIANS BLAST
COMMUNIST TREND
Convention Also Elects
Salisbury Man President
For 1947-48
CHICAGO, July 2 — (ff) — Term
ing Communism as “insidious,
creeping paralysis of all essential
governmental functions of a free
state,” Kiwanis International to
day urged that the governments
of the United States and Canada
“continuously investigate and sup
press subversive activities and in
flitration of foreign doctrines.”
In other resolutions adopted at
the group’s 32nd annual conven
tion, the delegates advocated uni
versal military training, com
mended the Taft-Hartley labor bill,
urged “economy and efficiency”
in government for the “ultimate
relief of the taxpayer,” and pledg
ed their “wholehearted support”
to the United Nations.
In its resolution on Communism,
the convention declared that Com
minism, under whatever name it
may be called and under what
ever guise it may be presented,
. . . tends to rob the citizens of
freedom of speech, opportunity,
thinking, and religion.”
Earlier today, the convention
named Dr. Charles W. Armstrong
of Salisbury, N. C., president.
Along The Cape Fear
BRIDGE OF DECKS—Remem
ber when ships were so thick on
the Cape Fear River that a per
son could walk from shore to
shore on their decks and not get
his feet wet?
C. D. Maffitt does. Maffitt, a
shipping agent, also remembers
when the Cape Fear was frozen
over so hard that it would sup
port a person.
Apparently the days of a har
bor filled with ships and of a
winter severe enough to freeze
the murky waters of the Cape
Fear, are over.
For it is on few occasions when
a merchant ship steams into port
now. And none of the younger
generation can exactly remember
when there was ice in the Cape
Fear.
The shipping agent said he
cleared and sailed eight ships in
one day back then. That is more
than has been in the Port of Wil
mington in the past year, not
counting tankers.
* * *
MISSING CARGOES—What hap
pened to those good old days? Ad
mittedly shipping has dropped off
some. It must also be remembered
that the present day tramp steam
ers carry many times the cargo
of the old sailing ships remember
ed by Maffitt.
Terminal facilities aren’t what
they used be In Wilmington.
However, dredges are working
constantly to deepen the Cape
Fear channel so that larger ves
sels may bring their cargoes up
to the Port City and there is
usually some legislation to im
prove the waterways.
But one thing is sure. Residents
of Wilmington will never again
see the “forest of masts” on the
Cape Fear as described by some
old-timers to indicate the amount
of shipping.
* * *
THE BIG FREEZE—The cold
weather that Maffitt remembers
must have cracked a number of
Wilmington thermometers. The
temperature went low enough to
freeze the Cape Fear solid. So
solid that it supported the weight
of Maffitt as he walked across.
But the most awe-inspiring
sight came later. While the sheet
of thick ice across the stream
evoked many exclamations the
really thrilling moments came
with warmer weather.
The ice began to break up and
float downstream. Its sharp rag
ged edges cut into the wooden
wharfs and boats.
One vessel in particular, Maffitt
recalls, suffered from the on
slaught of the ice. The flows jam
med against the prow of this
craft, which was moored at the
time, and cut a gash in the wood
several inches long, requiring re
pairs.
CONGRESS RUSHES
FINANCIAL BILLS
Lawmakers Provide Money
For Several Agencies;
Estimates Cut
WASHINGTON, July 2— —
Congress today rushed through
the second of 12 major money
bills to save the government from
financial embarassment, but in
one stroke lopped off $105,455,000
from President Truman’s budget
estimates.
Both Houses sped action to re
plenish the government’s yawn
ing coffers for the new fiscal year
which began yesterday.
1. By voice vote, the Senate
passed and sent to the White
House a bill carrying $1,674,158,
630 for the Labor department and
the Federal Security agency. The
House had approved the measure
shortly before.
2. Almost immediately after this
action, the House and Senate
passed a compromise bill provid
ing tide-over funds for federal
agencies whose regular appropri
ations are still hanging fire.
The compromise ended the
threat of delayed paydays for
thousands of federal workers, as
well as the possibility that veter
ans benefit payments would be
temporarily held up.
July Operation
It provides that except for those
agencies whose regular supply
bills have already become law, all
federal agencies will be allowed
See CONGRESS On Page Two
FRENCH ASSEMBLY
ENDS IN UPROAR
Charges Against Right
Wing By Ramdier Bring
Adjournment
PARIS, July 2. —(U.R)— The Na
tional Assembly was suspended in
uproar tonight after Premier Paul
Ramadier charged that Right Wing
deputies tended to follow the same
line of action as the extreme right
ist “Black Maquis’’ accused of plot
ting to overthrow the Fourth Re
public.
Ramadier made his charge a
few hours after Gen. Rene Edgard
Marie De Larminat, inspector gen
eral of French overseas and coloni
al forces, had been summarily re
lieved of his command.
There was no official word
whether, as indicated, the dismis
sal of one of the highest and most
distinguished French Army men
was connected with the “Black
Maquis’’ plot.
It was made known, however,
that General of Reserve Jean Casi
mir Merson was being questioned
by the Surete Nationale, the French
Scotland Yard, in connection with
the conspiracy.
Millions Of Autos Will Jam
Highways; Transporta
tion Taxed
CHICAGO, July 2— (U.R)—The
heaviest travel—and the greatest
traffic jam—in the nation’s holi
day history was forecast tonight
for the Fourth of July weekend.
With millions of persons expect
ed to crowd the highways, vaca
tion resorts and parks, authori
ties reported in a nationwide sur
vey that fatalities probably would
be the highest since pre-war days.
The national Safety council pre
dicted that 275 persons would die
on the highways alone during the
three-day holiday.
The number of deaths and in
juries will be swelled by fireworks
casualties, drownings and other
mishaps. Only bad weather would
put a damper on travel.
Railroads, airlines and bus com
panies prepared for the heaviest
weekend travel in history. In most
areas all types of public transpor
tation were sold out.
The Safety council estimated
that 30,000,000 vehicles would take
See TRAVEL On Page Two
NEW FLOOD CREST
PASSES ST. LOUIS
R a m p a g ing Mississippi
Rolls Toward Weak
Spots On Levees
ST. LOUIS, July 2. —(U.R)— A
new flood crest in the mighty Mis
sissippi, on one of the longest ram
pages in its turbulent history, pass
ed St. Louis tonight and rolled to
ward Missouri towns where levee
workers fought to hold back flood
waters expected to be the highest
on record there.
The river fell slightly and fore
casters said the crest apparently
had been reached here on the 40th
consecutive day of flood along a
100-mile stretch of the swollen
river.
U. S. Engineers moved their
forces into Perry County, Mo., to
bolster dikes protecting Claryville
and McBride, opposite Chester, 111.,
where a stage of 38 feet or higher
was predicted.
River experts called the situation
“critical” at Claryville. They
warned that a hundred families
remaining in that area would have
to be evacuated if the fight to hold
the levees appears doomed.
Fourteen thousand Missouri and
Plinois residents were listed as
homeless in the latest Red Cross
survey. The total was 34,812 in Mis
souri, Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska.
More than 300 homes and other
buildings have been destroyed in
the area and nearly 12,000 damag
ed, the Red Cross reported. Some
375,000 acres were inundated.
The weather bureau here report
ed that the Mississippi crest would
reach Cape Girardeau, Mo., 130
miles downstream, on July 4, 103rd
anniversary of that city’s highest
flood.
Russian General Holds
Up Minister To Hungary
BUDAPEST, Juy 2—VP)—Selden
Chapin, new United States minis
ter to Hungary, arrived in Buda
pest by plane tonight and was de
tained on the airfield Tor 35 min
utes by a Russian guard who said
a Russion general was curious
about Chapin’s “road pass”.
Chapin came from London and
was accompanied by his wife,
and two children and two U. S.
Embassy political experts, Ronald
Drew and James McCarger.
About 15 automobile*, earning
American legation and military
mission personnel, met Chapin at
Matyasford airfield. After 35 min
utes of delay, which included a
telephone conversation with Rus
sian Maj. Gen. A. N. Kondratov
who demanded to know why Chap
in did not have a Russia) road
pass, the automobiles were allow
ed to leave the field.
Chapin replaces H. F. Arthur
Schoenfield, who left Budapest last
month.
Union To Get
Full Demands
Northern Half Of Bitumin
ous Industry Agrees
To UMW Terms
WASHINGTON, July 2—(U.PJ—The
threat of a nation-wide soft coal
strike next week was dissipated
today when the Northern half of
the bituminous industry settled
with John L. Lewis on terms
which, informed sources said, in
cluded the full 35-cents-an-hou*
raise demanded by the miners.
Led by U. S. Stel corporation
and the largest commercial coal
interests in the North, the opera
tors came to terms with the UMW
president at a secret bargaining
meting here this afternoon.
A joint announcement said the
disputants had agred “in prin
ciple” on a union - management
contract and that its terms would
be drafted shortly for ratification
by both sides — probably this
wek-end.
Industry sources conceded that
the terms probably would have to
be accepted by the Southern and
Western mine owners who had
balked at Lewis' demands. The
Southern and Western groups con
trol slightly less than half the na
tional coal output.
While no official announcement
See UNION On Page Two
UNION-TOMIT
NO SI E TERMS
Steelworkers Vote Also To
Stay Away From Labor
Relations Board
PITTSBURGH, July 2. — (ffV—
The CIO United Steelworkers ex
ecutive board, meeting to form un
ion policy on the Taft-Hartley la- -
bor bill, today voted to eliminat®
no strike pledges "enforceable by
harassing law suits” from all fu
ture contracts.
The board also adopted a resolu
tion declaring that the union will
not use the facilities of the new la
bor board created by the Taft
Hartley law.
The resolution declared:
“We shall in good faith seek to
resolve all issues between our un
ion and the employers through
bona fide collective bargaining and
other peaceful means wherever
possible.
"The right to strike in event of
disputes must be preserved or our
freedom shall be lost.”
The action of the steelworker*,
one of the largest unions in the
CIO framework, was in line with
the instructions of CIO president
Philip Murray who said the parent
labor body would leave it up to its
international unions and their lo
cals units whetner to resort to
the National Labor Relations board
as now established.
Murray is also president of th®
steelworkers.
The resolutions were announced
by David J. McDonald, secretary
treasurer of the union following a
two-hour meeting of the board.
They termed the Taft-Hartley
bill and the new labor board “in
struments clearly designed to op
press unions and to destroy the liv
ing standards of American work
ers.”
McDonald said the union would
live up to existing contracts con
taining standard no strike clauses
with some 1,050 steel firms, but
that such provisions would not bo
included in 450-odd contract*,
mainly with small fabricators, still
to be negotiated.
To Look Outside
For future bargaining election*,
McDonald said, the union can ob
tain the services of numerous in
dependent organizations.
He added:
"In some communities labor or
ganizations work with chambers
of commerce while in other in
stances employers could be asked
to negotiate a contract with the un
ion on the basis of a card check.
And So To Bed
Making an impromptu speech
before a large gathering can bn
rather hard on the nervous
system.
Sometime it can be so nerve
racking that the words just
flow out without the speaker
knowing exactly what he, or
she, as it was in this case, is
saying.
Tuesday night at the Jay
fee meeting, six of the contest
ants in the Miss Wilmington
beauty pageant made short im
promptu talks on themselves.
One of the aspirants to the
title, Harriette Vines, said she
was employed as a switchboard
operator at the Wilmington Ho
tel, and she was quoted in a
news story as saying so.
Yesterday she called and
wanted a correction run. Seems
she doesn’t work anywhere.
“But you said that was your
occupation,’’ the reporter in
sisted.
“Yes, I did, but I was awfuV
ly nervous. I don’t really wtork
anywhere, right now.” ^