Coal Strike Idles
More Than Half
Million Workers
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and welfare fund. Lewis said that
refusal had forced the fund to sus
pend pension and welfare pay
ments to aged and ailing miners.
Lewis told southern operators
they were wrong in their conten
tion that lapse of the contract
June 30 freed them of then- obli
gation to continue royalty pay
ments.
Those developments brought on
the nationwide work stoppage
Monday.
It wasn’t long before industry
stepped into the battle.
Joseph Moody, president of the
Southern Coal Producers, called
the UMW fund a "Frankenstein,”
adding.
"If continued as it has been in
the past, it will wreck both the
coal industry and the union, itself.”
Reports of the first violence
came from Kentucky and West
Virginia. No one was badly hurt
but some 20 shots were reported
fired at a strip mine truck in Ken
tucky.
And in West Virginia two tipple
workers and a truck driver were
beaten at a strip mine operation.
Thirteen truckloads of coal were
dumped.
In both instances bands of rov
ing pickets were blamed.
In Washington, a source close to
President Truman said the Presi
dent has no intention of trying to
halt the walkout for 30 to 60 days.
The official, who asked anony
mity, said Mr. Truman is deter
mined to let Lewis and the coal in
dustry "sweat out” their difficul
ties.
There are about 60,000.000 tons
of coal above ground, enough to
t keep industry going anywhere
from 40 to 60 days.
Greek Army
Bests Guerrillas
—
NEW YORK, (A*)—The United |
Nations special commission on the
Balkans (UN'SCOB) said today the
Greek army has eliminated organ
ized guerrilla resistance along the
northern borders of Greece.
This does not mean that the civil
war is ended. Communist-led
guerrilla bands still rove parts of
the interior. The Greek army’s re
I cently concluded Grammos Moun
tain offensive drove strong rebel
detachments across the Albanian
frontier, as other offensives have
done before. Each time in the past,
the guerrillas have reorganized
and returned.
The Greek general staff an
nounced in Athens last night 13
Albanian soldiers who surrender
ed to Greek frontier guards re
ported that guerrilla leaders hoped
' to re-enter Greece soon “with Rus
j sian aid.”
Greece holds a temporary ad
vantage at the frontier.
The commission warned, how
ever, of “increased gravity of the
threat to peace” if Greece’s com
munist northern neighbors. Alban
; ia and Bulgaria, continue aiding
} guerrillas m defiance of a U. N.
j assembly resolution.
EASTERN STARS
CONFER DEGREES
The Eastern Stars met Monday
evening and conferred degrees on
Mrs. A. Miller, with Worthy Ma
tron and Patron, Mr. and Mrs. L.
Dunbar, presiding .
It was announced that a full re
port of the Triennial Convention
held in Toronto, Ontario, which
was attended by the worthy ma
tron will be given at the next reg
ular meeting.
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Devaluation Brings
Political Revolt In
Labor Government
LONDON. (#*)—Britain’s labor
government faced a political crisis
in its own ranks today. Trade un
ions threatened to revolt against
higher prices resulting from
money devaluation.
Outside Britain echoes of the
slash in the British pound’s value
continued to jolt the world’s mar
kets. In all, 23 nations now have
devalued. Belgium, with a cut of
12 per cent in the Belgian franc,
and portungal, with a 15 per cent
cut in the value of the escudo in
relation to the dollar, were the
latest to join the devaluation a
rade.
France proposed to Italy, Hol
land and Belgium that the four
countries act together to ease
trade barriers and make their cur
rencies freely interchangeable.
The threat of a British political
crisis was raised by the general
council of the Trades Union Con
gress. whose eight million mem
bers are the backbone of the rul
ing labor party.
The TUC council—instead of
endorsing government policy as it
has in the past—decided last night
it “could not pass on the necessity
of devaluation.” It called for as
surances from economic chief Sir
Stafford Cripps that the govern
ment would make every effort to
limit price rises which will be sure
to come from cheaper money.
Observers regarded the TUC re
luctance to take a positive stand
on devaluation as evidence of a
split in Labor’s own ranks.
Many observers felt it was
doubtful the TUC leaders coul.l
hold out against rank and l'*le
pressure much longer.
Prime minister Attlee sum
moned his cabinet ministers to a
meetoing tomorrow to discuss the
political crisis that has been piled
on top of his government's econo
mic crisis.
The conservative Daily Tele
graph said the government “faces
its sharpest crisis.”
Concrete evidence of union dis
satisfaction was a “go slow” move
ment scheduled to begin at mid
night tonight by the 50,000 work
ers on the nationalized railways.
The move was in protest against
government denial of a $2 weekly
wage boost demand.
Dissatisfaction with British de
valuation also came from another
quarter. French finance minister
Maurice Petsche complained that
Britain’s action in slicing her
pound value from $4.03 to $2.80
was "commercial war.”
French leaders had long urged
devaluation of the pound but were
surprised ^hat it was so steep.
Scotch Terrier
Gets New Home
HOLLYWOOD. (/P) — They fi
nally got around to opening a new
dog house with typical Hollywood
fanfare. Even the mayor, the Cal
ifornia attorney general, chief of
police and sheriff turned out.
Earl Gilmore, owner of oil re
fineries, a midget auto racing sta
dium and an athletic field, was
host at the affair last night
Mayor Feltcher Bowron snipped
a ribbon officially opening the
new home of Gilmore’s recently
acquired Scotch terrior. as the as
sembled dignitaries looked on. Af
terward they all enjoyed a buffet
dinner.
The Scottie took it all very
calmly. Gilmore paid the bills.
Pound Devaluation
Has Repercussions
Around the World
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local currencies than they could
before. So gold producers stand
to get more.
Exchanges in Rome, Milan and
South Africa shared the excite
ment. In Italian money markets
the lira fluctuated wildly and
cheapened. At Johanesburg,
brokers struggled to handle thou
sands of orders for gold pouring
in from many parts of the world.
Government bonds gained in
London, but they had suffered se
vere losses in the last few weeks
in anticipation of devaluation.
Trading in foreign stocks was
barred in Paris, wheer the franc ]
opened about 6 per cent under last
week’s free market prices. That
was at the level sought by the
French government.
In Moscow, economic observers
believed the Soviet ruble will re
tain its present relation to the dol
lar. That will be Moscow’s* way of
saying that its ruble is r.s sound as
U. S. coin. Rut Russia is expected
to adjust the rate of its ruble in
relation to the money of devalu
ing cour ries.
Canada, a great gold producer
like South Africa, made a compro
mise devaluation—10 per cent.
That means it will cost 110 cents
to buy an American dollar in Can
ada.
The pound’s worth was set at
! $3.08 in Canadian funds. Thus the
j effect was to benefit Britain, since
I the pound would have been worth
[only $2.80 if Canadian dollars had
GEN MARK CLARK ALMOST
MADE NAT. GUARD GENERAL
OLYMPIA. Wash., </P) — Gen.
Mark Clark almost became adju
tant general of the Washington na
tional guard, it was reliably re
ported here yesterday.
The informant reported that
Governor Langlie and Clark con
ferred by telephone on several oc
casions at a time when the then
sixty army commander was con
sidering retiring from the army
and returning to his Whidbey Is
land home. He subsequently took
an army post in Washington, D. C.
The conversations occurred at
the time Langlie was seeking to
fill the vacancy caused by the
ousting of the then adjutant, Brig.
Gen. Ensley M. Llewellyn, the in
formant said.
remained at par with U. S. dollars.
Over almost all the world, gold
was king—and the U. S. dollar
grew mightier.
In Sydney, Australia, gold was
the darling of traders. Twenty
thousand shares in eighteen dif
ferent gold companies changed
hands during a bewildering morn
ing session. As news of the world
wide gold increase got around,
the demand skyrocketed
Expert opinion, survey: ig the
rise in the value of gold, said that
it was not a transient thing but
likely to be permanent.
The effects of Britain’s far
reaching 30 per cent slash in the
value of bre money was felt in the
home island in almost every walk
of life. The threat of labor rebel
lion and inflation were among the
most upsetting. Despite the gov
ernment’s appeal to hold the wage
line, railway workers began a
slowdown for more money.
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