Truman ^Keeping
(lands Off* Stvcl
Ami Coal Strikes
WASHINGTON '/P)—1The White'
House said yesterday President
Truman has set no deadline on
mediation efforts in the steel-coal
disputes and is “keeping hands
off” for the present.
Charles G. Ross, Presidential
secretary, described as “entirely
without warrant” reports that Mr.
Truman planned to intervene in
the strikes if they were not settled
by the week end.
Ross said Mr. Truman author- (
ized him to say the President has
not discussed the strike situation
individually with any member of
the cabinet.
The President may have men
tioned it at a cabinet meeting,
Ross said.
A cabinet officer told reporters
Wednesday that the President had
decided to step in if the strikes
were not settled by this week end.
He asked not to be publicly iden
tified by name.
Ross said the President has
kept abreast of the progress of
conciliation efforts through John
R. SteeLman, his assistant, who
has been in touch with them
through Cyrus Ching, federal me
diation director.
The strikes are still in the
hands of the mediation service,
Ross emphasized.
Ross indicated this statement to
reporters:
“Any attribution to the Presi
dent of any plan to intervene in
the coal and steel strikes or to fix
a deadline on the effort to reach a
settlement through mediation is
entirely without warrant.
“This office has told you every
day. in reply to questions, the liter
al and exact truth of the situa
tion.”
Even before Ross made his
statement, another official—prom
All Kinds At
Fishwheel Strike
(By Jack Daum)
Fairbanks News-Miner Writer
(Written for the Associated Press)
FISHWHEEL, (A1)—Residents of
this gold-seeking tent village rep- j
resent a fairly accurate cross-sec- j
tion of Alaska—native, old-timers, ,
cheechakos and business men.
The old-timers are a quiet group j
—going about their business with
the calm efficiency forn of many
years an experience in the north.
Their entire equipment for a
month’s stay in this treacherous
wilderness is carried in a large
pack. A tent, a collapsible stove,
a few pounds of dehydrated vege
tables and dried meat, an axe and
a gun are all these redoubtable
characters require.
ut the cheechakos—Indian for
newcomers — arrive like motion
picture stars on an ocean voyage.
Huge bundles of clothing, canned
food, fancy lanterns, heavy stoves,
and many small comfort items are
piled on the river bank in hur
ried disorder.
inent in behind-the-scenes plan-1
ning on Trurndn labor policies—
had insisted the cabinet officer
was mistaken in talking of a dead
line. This official, unwilling to be
quoted by name, said, “evidently,
! the gentleman misunderstood the
i President.”
Ching was reported trying to
get Philip Murray, president of
the CIO and head of its striking
1 steelworkers union, to negotiate
directly today with the U. S. Steel
Corp. in New York.
Murray went to New York from
meetings in Cleveland with his
CIO lieutenants. Ching has been
| meeting with industrial relations
! experts of U. S. Steel, the nation’s
biggest stell producer, for more
' than a week.
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Ask Commission to;
Negotiate Rail
Link Survey
WASHINGTON, (/IV-President
Truman signed a bill yesterday
empowering him to seek an agree
men! with Canada for a survey of i
a proposed railway linking the
United States with its defense out
posts in Alaska.
The survey would cover a 1,400
mile gap between the existing
railway systems of Alaska and
British Columbia.
If Canada agrees to it, Mr. Tru
man is authorized to have the sur
vey made, plans drawn and costs
estimated
Senator Magnuson <D.-Wash.)
suggested to undersecretary of
state Webb later that a commis
sion be set up to negotiate with
Canada for an agreement on the
railway surveys.
The Senator told reporters that
such a commission would be sat
isfactory to the President if the
details coi^ld be worked out with
the department.
Magnuson and another Wash
ington Democrat, Rep. Jackson,
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are authors of the bill for the sur
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Their measure was endorsed
strongly by the House foreign af
fairs committee, as well as the
Senate foreign relations commit
tee, while it was pending in Con
gress.
The House committee stressed
the importance of Alaska to the
defense of the United States and
Canada, saying:
“At one point it is only some 50
miles from the Soviet Union; it
sets astride the Great Circle air
route to Soviet Asia.
“It seems a foregone conclusion
that in a future conflict, Alaska
will be a prime enemy target.”
The committee said defense
needs require well devolped and
secure transportation lines to Alas
ka, unable the year around. It
mentioned the fact that the Terri
tory has important fish and fur
industries, as well ns mineral and
timber reserves, and said Alaska’s
economic development depends on
transportation at “rates reason
able enough to permit the fullest
possible movement of goods.”
The survey actually will be lit
tle more than a formality. The
government already has a survey
of the raliroad route to the north.
It was made by army engineers in
1042 and 1943 and is complete
even to such details as special
i trackwork and bridge design need
! ed.
Magnuson attended the signing
of the bill. He said the President
remarked:
“I’m even more interested in a
railroad to Alaska than you peo
ple out on the coast.”
When Pat and Mac registered
they had to sign their names and
; nationality.
Pat signed: Irish—and proud of
lit.
Mac signed: Scotch—and fond
1 of it.
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