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CLOSE B.C. MINE
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VANCOUVER, B.C., — </P) —A
wage dispute closed the Silbak
Gold mine.
The shutdown, announced by
Dale L. Pitt, managing director of
Silbak Premier Mines Ltd., was
effective yesterday—four days be
fore a scheduled strike by 220
members of the CIO-International
Mine, Mill* and Smelter Workers
Union.
The dispute hinges around a $1
a day pay boost which was granted
July 1, but which the union asks
be made retroactive to Dec. 8.
The mine, located on the north
ern British Columbia coast near
the Alaska border, is almost the
sole support for the towns of Pre
mier and Stewart, B. C.
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German charges.
ATHENS
Greek Communists again plead
ed for an end to the civil war,
now that a main part of their
forces are threatened with defeat;
in the Grammos Mountains. The
Greeks rejected their demands.
CAIRO
The Jews scored new victories
in Palestine and both they and the
Arabs appeared cool to a new
truce.
LAKE SUCCESS
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threatened to block Security Coun
cil action.
LONDON
The Cominform,* the Communist
information bureau, issued its new
blast from Romania. Its original
charges accused Tito and Yugo
slavia of being hateful toward
Russia and straying from the party
line. Tito shot back that these
are absurd “lies and slander.”
The new Cominform attack said
the Yugoslav Communist Congress
July 21 will be packed with Tito’s
“intimidated” henchmen who are
unable to speak for the “real will
of the masses of party member
ship.
ROME
Togliatti is improved from his
three bullet wounds.
Disorders had broken out in
Rome and nearly every major
Italian city. The general stilke
stopped transport, the radio and
newspapers. Only bakers and the
dairy workers were exempted.
• LONDON
Russian rejection of Allied de
mands to lift the Berlin block
ade meant this: The Russians
may continue their blockade in
definitely unless the Western Pow
ers are willing to reverse their ba
sic policies on Germany, suspend
their plans to unify Western Ger
many toss their new currency out
of Berlin and reopen German
peace treaty negotiations in the
Big Four council of foreign min
isters.
MOSCOW
Moscow spoke of the rail, road
and barge blockade as “tempor
ary measures” and spoke vague
ly of eliminating the “difficulties”
The Kremlin admitted, however,
the introduction of Western cur
rency into Berlin, and not “tech
nical difficulties” as they first
asserted, caused the blockade.
BERLIN
The U.S. and Britain were put
ting 400 to 500 planeloads of food
and supplies into Berlin. They
will find it extremely difficult
and most expensive to take in
enough coal at an estimated tran
sport cost of $60 a ton. The west
ern area of Berlin needs about
3,000 tons a day.
LAKE SUCCESS
The United Nations, in its strong
est decision yet, ordered the Jews
and Arabs to stop the war in Pal
estine. Diplomatic and economic
sanctions and the use of armed
force may be invoked if the order
is disregarded. The Jews were ex
pected to comply but not the
Arabs. Britain voted with France
and the United States for the or
der,
BERLIN
The Russians notified the UJ5.
and Britain her fighter planes
would train in the 20-mile wide
corridors to the land blockaded
city. The Western planes flew on.
The American military govern
ment called the Russian action a
“brutal starvation blockade” in
a broadcast telling Berliners they
have a right to demand a lifting
of the squeeze.
“The civilized world has demon
strated its complete solidarity’*
against the blockade, the broad
cast said. Russia rejected, on Wed
nesday, demands that the rail,
road and barge routes to Ber
lin be opened.
NEW YORK
Andrei A. Gromyko, who cut
to many Soviet vetoes to atop
U.N. action*, tailed for home, per
haps not to return.