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Russia Renegs On
Count Of “Troops
fAt Home”
LAKE SUCCESS. N. Y. (/P)—
Russia unexpectedly refused early
today to accept a proposal for a
United Nations inventory of armed
troops at home.
In a surprise move, Soviet for
• l eign minister V. M. Molotov de
manded deletion of a home troop
census from a resolution already
approved by the powerful 54
member U.N. polictical committee.
His action, taken at assembly
plenary sessions at Flushing Mea
dow Park, threatened to reopen
the whole question of troop dispo
sitions.
Previously, at the committee
stage, Molotov had agreed to tak
4 ing census of both domestic forces
and those on foreign soil.
Molotov tossed today’s verbal
bombshell into the assembly a few
seconds after Sir Hartley Shaw
cross of Great Britain asked the
world peace-keeping body to es
tablish inspection board to verify
figures submitted by member na
tions in the troop inventory.
* Delegates who had come to the
session prepared to debate the i
A British plan were so surprised and
unprepared for Molotov’s action
that the plenary session was re-,
cessed until tomorrow. i
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Republican Or
Democrat? !
• WASHINGTON, f/P) — The Re-j
publican House leadership faces
this question: when is a Democrat l
a Republican?
The problem arose in connec
tion with six California Congress
men, registered as Democrats, but
who won both the Democratic and
Republican nominations in the j
June 4 primary.
They are Representatives Lea,
m Engle. Miller, Holifield, Elliott
T and King.
What the Republican leadership
has to decide is whether these |
self-admitted Democrats are en-1
titled to sit in on the Republican
party caucus on Jan. 2, to choose
a speaker of the House, Renubli
can floor leader and other major
ity party officials for the 80th
Congress beginning the following
i. Social Calendar
School Program ...Dec. 13!
20-40 Club Party.Dec. 14
Community Xmas .Dec. 20
Pioneer Roof Garden.Dec. 21
FLYING BOXCAR — Army pilots call this Fairchild packet cargo plane, which carries a
nine-ton load at 200 miles per hour, the “flying boxcar." Its cargo hold is 38 feet long.
Anglo-Americans
Determine On Just
German Peace
l\i-.w YOrij-v, (>P>—oecreiary in
States James F. Byrnes and Brit
AviiwA0ii dcCictuiy -j* ficsi> i^eviii
today were reported determined to
avoid what they consider the mis
taKes of the Paris peace confer
ence system wnen n comes to
arafung a peace settlement for
Germany.
Against the indicated opposi
tion of Soviet foreign minister V.
M. Molotov both the western
power ministers were authorita
tively described as ready to insist
on the fullest possible hearing for
small nations on the German set
tlement before the foreign minis
te s council ma^es any decision at
all.
The issue was scheduled for dis
cussion and possible decision in
the council session late today as
foreign ministers began their last
scheduled ween of meeting hare.
Also slated for discussion soon
was Byrnes’ proposal to cut Euro
pean occupation forces by 621,000
men before April 1.
Meanwhile Big-vour subordin
ates are working out minor dis
puted points of the peace treaties
for Italy, Hungary, Romania, Bul
garia and Finland but not for a
month will these be ready for
signing.
At their last session th,s> week—
Bevin and Molotov are scheduled
to sa l on t^e Queen ^l'rabeth Sat- !
urday—the Big Four are supposed
to decide when they will hold
their next meeting.
STRIKE NEWS
(By Associated Press)
The nation’s labor picture today
vie ar.ghtest in months.
-.msc oi John L. Lewis’ 400,000
a.i..cu mine workers were
_ioging soft coal again after the
a ama<.c enaing oi their 17 day
walkout which threatened collapse
oi the national economy.
* * itoc lord, 111., 900 workmen
a«. me J. 1. Ca.e Co., idle for near
ly a year s.a te^ back to work,
-ai .sel King, president of the CIO
m.ted auto workers local at the
farm equipment plant, said the
uaion agreed to a general 18 cents
an hour increase.
f four Case plants struck last
Jec. 26, only the dispute at Ra
cine, Wis. is still on.
. I
The . -TiS-Caaimers Boston plant I
.vas n production for the first.
me since April 30, following an 1
agreement reached with the CIO
united electrical workers.
The CIO united packing house
workers and the Cudahy packing j
company were expected to sign a
new work contract in Chicago to-1
day. Previously, the union had
laid plans for strike action against'
"’udahy and other major packers, j
Puget Sound’s 69-day maritime
t e-un ended.
But the labor picture had some
dark spots, including:
Threat of a repe!tion of the tug-1
boat s*rive which earlier this year
tied no New York’s huge harbor
traffic.
Closin" of all oublic schools in
nawh»cvet. R. I., following a strike
threat by most of city’s 430 teach
ers.
Government To
Insist On No-Strike
Union Pledge
(By Norman Walker)
WASHINGTON, -(/P)—'The gov
ernment pushed for an iron-clad
no-strike pledge in key industries
today in the wake of its victory
over John L. Lewis in the coal
strike.
Officials opened the drive in the
hope that the Administration’s
handling of the mine shutdown
might persuade other unions to
seek peaceful settlement of labor
disputes in vital industries or risk
painful punitive measures.
The initial no-strike pledge ef
fort was directed at the public
utility field. Representatives of
unions and management in the
'Continued on Page Five)
U. S. To Carry On
UNRRA
WASHINGTON (/P)—The United
States plans to carry on alone its
relief work abroad when UNRRA
folds up at the month’s end—but
only in those countries that can
prove their need.
Under secretary of state Dean
Acheson made that plain in a ra
dio address in which he said Con
gress will be asked for a “generous
appropriation.”
This country contributed two
billion, seven hundred million to
the three billion United Nations
Relief and Rehabilitation admin
istration, which expires Dec. 31.
Ij
Employers And
Checkers Ajjree
On N ew Contract *
SEATTLE. (^P)—Sixty-nine ‘days
j of diene s on Puget Sound’s wa
: terfront was to come to an end to
day as a result of ratification of a
; new contract agreement by the
| AFL checkers’ association.
Details of the agreement, ap
proved overwhelmingly by union
members, were not divulged pend
ing actual signature of the past
today by the Washington Water
front Employers’ association, the
checkers and the AFL internation
al longshoremen’s association.
Pape Crummer chec'-e" busi
ness agent, said the docks would
be manned immeci ately after the
signing with priority- being given
to Alaska vessels. Seventy-five;
ships have been idle throughout
the lengthy waterfront tieup.
Settlement of the checkers’ dis
pute was reached Saturday with
withdrawal of an emolovpr de
mand for sole right to decide on
hiring of supercargoes.
Crummer and Merle C. Pingen
berg, president of the errrployers’
association, said a new clause pro
j viding for the appointment of a
■ joint committee to handle disa
| greements over hiring and other
‘ matters had been inserted in the
I new contract.
PORTLAND, Ore. (/P)— Cargo
for the Alaskan relief ship Reef
I Knot, due to sail for the northern
; territory Saturday, was being
i piled up on the dock today.
Lt. Comdr. E. P. Chester, the
Alaskan governor’s aide who came
here to arrange the relief ship
ment, said that loading would be
gin as soon as sufficient cargo is
ready on the docks. Some freight
, cars are still expected in.
With the Seattle maritime strike
settled, this ship will be the only
one to sail from here to Alaska.
! Chester said it should be loaded
and ready to depart by Saturday.
It will stop at Cordova, Valdez,
Seward, Seldovia, and Kodiak.
Chester said settlement of the
Seattle area strike would mean
“real relief for the Alaska peo
ple.” He sa d he would ask Seattle
shipping interests to make loading
gangs available to rush north
bound ships but said the huge
backlog of work would mean only
the most vital cargoes would move
in the first few ships.
_
BUFFALO, (/P)—A CTO united
automobile workers local of 1,500
Bell Aircraft employees today pro
posed John L. Lewis of the AFL
united mine workers as a national
labor party Presidential candi
date.