Steelworkers
Agree to New
2-Year Work Pact
NEW YORK — The United
Steel workers sf • America announced
yesterday new two-year agree
ments with five major aluminum
companies covering 20,000 union
members. The agr eements, effective
Aug. 1, do not provide for any
wage increase.
Union President David J. Mc
Donald said the agreements were
reached * “without government in
tervention or pressure from any
outside source.”
They provide for improvements
in vacations and pensions and sup
plemental unemployment benefits.
A new supplemental vacation
plan could provide as much as a
week’s additional time off a year
for every employe, union sources
said.
The agreements
with the Aluminum Co. of Ameri
ca, Reynolds Metals Co., Kaiser
Aluminum Corp., Olin-Mathieson
Chemical Corp., and Ormet Inc.
The pacts also call for continu
ing a present 23-cent-an-hour cost
of living allowance.
The agreements were reached
more than a month before the ex
piration of present contracts. This
is the earliest this has been ac
complished in 25 years of negotia
tions with the union, McDonald
and Harrison said
m
were reached
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Women’s Clubs Vote to Allow
Religious Observance in Schools
WASHINGTON Iff* — The Gen
eral Federation of Women's Clubs
voted yesterday to work for a
constitutional amendment to allow
voluntary non-denominational re
ligious observances in school.
The action came by voice vote,
with only a new noes heard among
the 1,285 delegates to the conven
tion.
The women turned down an
amendment to the religious obser
vance resolution which would have
protested this week’s decision of
the Supreme Court against official
prayers in public schools.
LUTHERANS MERGE
DETROIT UR — A new church
was born yesterday in the largest
merger of Lutherans in American
history.
With solemn ceremony and song,
four denominations joined forces to
become one—the Lutheran Church
in America.
The merging denominations are
the 2 VS-million-member United
Lutheran Church, of German back
ground; the 630,000-member Au
gustana Lutheran Church, of
Swedish descent; die 35,500-mem
ber Finnish Evangelical Lutheran
Church, and the 25,000-member
American Evangelical Lutheran
Church, of Danish origins.
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AT CHIEFS’ CONCLAVE
SPEAKER WARREN TAYLOR
DENOUNCES HANDLING
OF INDIAN CHIEFS’ MEET
FAIRBANKS UD — Warren Tay
lor, Fairbanks attorney and Speak
er of the House joined with other
state officials in denouncing the
handling of the Indian chiefs meet
ing concluded Monday at Tanana.
Taylor, a Democrat, charged that!
“representatives of outside Indian
rights groups are attempting to
have the Indians of Alaska indi
cate strong opposition to the State
of Alaska in the allocation of land.
“They do not tell the native
people that each and every one of
them has the right to apply for and
hold land under the land laws of
the United States and the State
of Alaska,” Taylor, who attended
the meeting, said.
“The professional native rights
group with headquarters in New
York, Philadelphia, and Washing
ton have the sole purpose of stir
ring up dissension so that their
legal representatives can step in
and attempt to block the State of
Alaska administration of its land
laws.
He also charged the groups with
interfering with every piece of leg
islation introduced in Congress re
garding Alaska, including the con
struction of the Rampart Dam.
“We had these professional
groups descend on the Constitu
tional Convention in an attempt to
write the article regarding lands,
fish, game,
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INDIAN CHIEFS VOTE TO
ORGANIZE FOR SOLVING
HOST OF PROBLEMS
FAIRBANKS t/P) — A conference
of Athabascan Indian chiefs sim
mered down Tuesday afternoon at
Tanana and voted to organize for
solving a host of problems, in
cluding land claims, aboriginal
rights, and economic development.
A verbal battle that was waged
on the meeting floor for about an
hour and a half ended shortly
after noon when the Indians voted
to exclude from the meeting every
one except delegates.
The delegates then approved a
formal report of the meeting, voted
to organize, hold conferences once
a year and asked for the contin
ued assistance of the Association
on American Indian Affairs, the
Alaska Native Rights Assn., and
the Indian Rights Assn.
Many political candidates, in
cluding U.S. Sen. Ernest Gruen
ing were asked to leave.
The candidates had been invited
to the meeting to listen to In
dian problems but when the ar
gument broke out the political
candidates left without having the
opportunity tc be recognized.
The verbal barrages started
when Ralph Perdue, a Fairbanks
jeweler of Indian extraction, ques
tioned whether Indians or members
of Native Rights Associations were
running the meeting.
other similarly named organiza
tional affiliate from Philadelphia,
and their local front organization,
the Alaska Native Rights Assn.,
gained control of the meeting ma
chinery and proceeded to manu
facture and perpetuate charges of
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HOUSE PASSES JFK’s
TRADE EXPANSION BIEL
WASHINGTON — The House
passed President Kennedy trade
expansion bill yesterday, sending
to the Senate its provisions per
mitting sweping trade bargains
with the European Common
Market.
The vote, to a considerable ex
tent bipartisan, was a well-relished
triumph for administration leaders,
who had been smarting over the
defeat exactly a week ago of Ken
nedy’s farm bill.
Before passing the administra
tion legislation, the House rejected,
252-171, a Republican-offered sub
sdtute. This would have merely
extended for a year the present
trade law which is almost de
pleted of bargaining power.
The measure passed would give
the President unprecedented power
to cut tariffs. In some negotia
tions with the Common Market
and on some products of develop
ing countries, they could be eli
minated entirely.
It would also set up a new sys
tem of aid to firms and workers
hurt by imports.
CONVICTS RECAPTURED
POINT OF THE MOUNTAIN,
Utah UR — Five inmates broke out
of the Utah state prison yesterday
but were quickly spotted by guards
who pinned them down in a near
by field with machine gun and
rifle fire.
The prisoners, described as long
time trouble makers, were recap
tured without further incident. No
one was hurt.
Deputy Warden G. M. Fitzgerald
said one pulled a sharpened table
knife on guard Kenneth Jensen as
a food cart was being pushed
through a prison gate after break
fast.
“It seems that’s what the other
were waiting for, and then
they all got out.” Fitzgerald said.
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