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Army Gripe Board
Recommends Full
Revision Situation
WASHINGTON, May 27, —UP)—
The Army’s Gripe Board recom
mended a thorough revision of the
existing differences in pay, pro
motion, furloughs, decorations.
The Board called for two new
measures aimed at raising the
standard of leadership in the army
and proposed that off military
^ personnel be referred to as “sold
ier:” the board ascribed poor re
lationships between commissioned
;\nd enlisted men as one of the
fnain factors “for undeniably pooh
leadership on the part of a small
percentage of those in responsib
le places. The system encour
ages a wide official and social
gap between officers and men.
Labor Opi loses
Pres. Truman’s
No Strike Bill
UNDATED May 27 — (/PI—Spok
^ esmen for large industrial labor
organisations held widely diver
gent views on President Truman's
proposed labor bill.
The bill would barr the right
of labor to strike against the gov
ernment seized industries and em
power the President to draft
^trikers in such plants.
Labor leaders opposed the pro
posed legislation although most
industry spokesmen were said to
be in favor of the bill proposed
by the President.
w A. F. Whitney, president of the
Brotherhood of Rairway Train
men, one of the labor leaders as
sailed by the Pesident, declared
his union has $47 million in its
treasury and will spend it all if
necessary “to defeat” Truman if
he tries to run for President in
1948.”
B. C. Loggers
Renew Negotiation
VANCOUVER, B. C. May 27,—
(/P)—Renewed efforts to effect a
settlement in the twelve-day
strike of 35,000 British Columbia
loggers and sawmill workers was
scheduled to begin at 2:00 p.m.
* today, after Saturday’s collapse
of negotiations under mediator
Chief Justice Gordon Sloan.
CHERRY BLOSSOM TIME —The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Is reflected in the lagoon
as visitors and Washington residents stroll under the blossoming cherry trees edging Tidal Basin.
Green Says Pres.
Strike-ban Is “Slave
Labor” Facism
WASHINGTON, May 27. — (JP)—
AFL president Green denounced
President Truman’s strike ban
program as “slave labor, under
Facism.”
Green declared the AFL will
resist legislation already passed
the House and now before the
Senate “to its last breath.”
He said the same opposition will
be thrown against the case of
labor disputes bill which major
ity leader Barkley gave the Sen
ate, a section by section explan
ation, saying, “No can disagree
with its general statement of pol
icy,”
The House meanwhile deferred j
action until next week on the
Senate version of the Case Labor
Disputes Bill.
LAND OFFICE
OFFICIALS HERE
George Parks, Territorial Cad
astral Engineer, and Roy Peratro
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Veteran Loses
Supreme Court
Decision - Rights
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WASHINGTON, May 27. — </P)—
Supreme Court today decided
veterans don’t have “super-senior
ity” rights to prewar jobs.
The decision came out of the
stiit of Abraham Fishgold, a
Brooklyn welder, war veteran,
who contended that under the
Selective Service Act he was en
titled to regular work throughout
the year at his old job at the
Sullivan Dry Docks Repair Corp
oration, even though it would re
quire the laying off of a non
veteran worker with greater sen
iority.
Justice Douglas delivered the
court’s decision, 6 to 1, Black dis
sented, Jackson took no part.
vich, representing the U. S. Land
Office Registration Division, ar
rived from Fairbanks Friday night
to open the office for registration
of patented lands. Information
regarding the registration will be
found in other columns of this
paper.
Molotov says In
Pravda Report
Byrnes In Error
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MOSCOW, May 27 —<#)—For
; eign minister Molotov asserted
that United States and Great Brit
ain waged offensives against Rus
sia in the four power meeting
of foreign ministers in Paris.
Molotov declared the proposals
by Byrnes for writing the peace
treaties for the United Nations
Assembly, if there is no agreement
this summer.
He aid he would not be forced
into acceptance of the American
and British proposals by “threats
and intimidation”. The prestige
of the Security Council has al
ready been subjected to grave
trials.” Molotov stated in a full
page statement published in Prav
da, giving his views on the re
cent meeting with Byrnes, Bevin,
Bidault and himself.
The suggestion that the United
Nations consider to draft peace
treaties and Molotov said “We
need more attempts at breaking
up the procedure of recent years
Coal Mines Come
To Dead Halt
Governni’t Seizure
I UNDATED, May 27, —f/P)—Soft
| <-‘oal miner and United Mine
j Workers came almost to a dead
i end stop in the big coal producing
states across the nation despite
government operation of the
mines, as reports came showing
that the bulk of the 400,000 dig
gers remained away from the
! mines.
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Anderson says
Food Relief Will
Be \\ orld R« ieord
WASHINGTON, May 27 —i..p)_
Secretary of Agriculture Ander
son said today, “The United States
will set a world’s record for food
relief shipments in the next five
weeks,” in coast to coast broad
cast over the NBC network, spon
sored by the American Dairy As
sociation.
He further stated “The next
. five weeks will witness the great
I est single movement of food com
modity in world history.”
to utilize methods of pressure and
threats and intimidation.”
He declared, the British and
American Capital was trying to
“subdue” nations weakened by
war. Molotov continued, “they
say” it is sometimes difficult to
draw the line between desire for
security and desire for expansion.
He said. ’’Indeed it is difficult
at times, for instance, what in
terests the security of the U.S.
of America to demand military
bases in Iceland, evidently what
matters here is by no way secur
ity, but a far different aspira
tions.”
Molotov in his newspaper state
ment said, Byrnes made a some
what inaccurate statement," when
he said he had obtained Stalin’s
consent “in principle” last Dec
ember, to the proposed 25 year
peace treaty among the U.S. Brit
an i Russia and France, for accom
plishing disarmament and de
militarization of Germany. Mol
otov said, Byrnes didn’t have a
draft of such a treaty in Decem
ber, therefore Stalin’s consent,
couldn’t have been given.