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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-17
NEW ORLEANS SPOT

NEW ORLEANS, July 16.-R
Spot cotton closed steady and
unchanged Sales 2,071. Low MIDI
ling 22.6O, good middling $500, re-
ceipts 1859, stock 1874. 1899.
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RALEIGH POULTRY, EGGS

RALEIGH, N. c., July 16.-F)-
(NCDA)-Egg and poultry markets
steady to very firm.
Raleigh-U. S. grade AA large
At; hens, all weights, 1858.
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N. G. HOG MARKETS

RALEIGH, N. c., July 16.-(RE
MCDA)-Hog markets active and
steady with tops of 1855 at Clinton
and Rocky Mount and 1875 at
Richmond.
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NEW ORLEANS COTTON

NEW ORLEANS, July 16-(Ar-
Cotton futures closing prices were
steady 20 cents a bale higher 10 5
cents lower.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-17
CHARLOTTE SPOTS

CHARLOTTE. N. c., July 49,
Spot cotton 22.65.
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-11-23
Court Upholds Ryan
Against CIO Raiders

New York City.-Joseph P. Ryan,
president of the International Long
shoremen's Association, won the sec
ond and presumably final round OF a
court action brought by "insurgent"
longshoremen to force formal hear
ing on internal union affairs before
any new dock contract is signed with
the New York Shipping Association.
In a unanimous decision the Appel
late Division of the Supreme Court
reversed on injunction issued Oct. 70
by Judge Carroll G. Walter which
ordered MIR. Ryan not to sign a con-
tract until hearing was held. The
Appellate Court ruled that John Berg,
cochairman Of the "insurgent" group
in whose name the action was filed,
had "failed to establish any right to
the relief granted"
Louis Waldman, attorney for Mr..
Ryan, said the decision had cleared
the way 'tfor arbitration without any
strings" while Mr.. Ryan said it would
.shearten every longshoreman and
member Of the ILA." Mr.. Ryan charg-
ed that the insurgents were the fifth
column for the pro-Communists in
the CIO who are trying to create
trouble on our waterfront"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-11-23
House Unit Approves
Anti-LabOr Measure

Washington, d. C.--An extremely
bad piece of antiunion legislation was
reported out of the House Military
Affairs Committee as Congress spite
fully retaliated against strikes.
In voting repeal to the Smith, Con-
nally Act, the committee tackled on
provisions that could completely wreck
collective bargaining. Among other
things the legislation would make a
union legally responsible if its mem
bers violated no-strike pledge in a
contract. A union could lose its en-
tire contract with a corporation as the
result Of spontaneous and unauthor-
lied walkout by local.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-11-23
Wage Issue Is Dropped AS CIO Retreats Collective
Bargaining Backed

endorse collective bargaining on
wages now and in the future.
"Of course, no one either on the
labor side or on the management side
is going to object to that" one dele
gate commented.
But, originally, the CIO sought to
toss into the conferences lap all its
current wage disputes in steel, auto
mobiles and other industries. The
delegates got the impression that Mr.
Murray wanted the conference to fight
the CLOS battles for it. John L. Lewis
delegate for the United Mine Work
ers Union, castigated Mr.. Murray at
a stormy session of the Executive Com
mittee. AFL delegates took the same
stand. Discovering he had no support
Murray retreated completely.
However, the CIO sought to propa-
gandize the issue and make the ma
tion's workers believe that the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor was not sup.
porting higher wages.
AFL President William Green point
ed out that the American Federation
of Labor has led the fight for higher
wage rates and that it is throwing
it's full support to affiliated unions ir
their attempts to negotiate wage rate
increases with employers.
But such matters, he emphasized
must be decided through collective
bargaining and cannot be injected into
the labor management conference
which has no power to enforce it's rec.
concentrations and has no authority
or desire to establish a new, nation
wide wage formula.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-11-23

complete program serving families in
all incomes. This program must give
primary responsibility to private
builders and private investment to
reach more home seekers than they
ever have before. But this program
must also include public aid to the
families of low incomes, SO that every
American family could be assured a
decent home. Labor cost for close
and positive working cooperation
among BODYBUILDING enterprises,
BODYBUILDING labor and the govern
ment toward achieving a long-range
goal of unified national housing policy
should enable private enterprise and
local initiative to make maximum
contribution to the welfare of the
entire people"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-11-23

Washington, D. c. - Substantial
progress was reported by the Labor
Management Conference seeking to
minimize industrial disputes as COM
mittees began drafting reports on
specific recommendations.
The first major agreement reported
by Conference Secretary George w.
Taylor was on collective bargaining.
All six conference committees have
fully accepted the principle that col
lective bargaining is the primary and
basic method of resolving disputes be-
tween unions and employers. Failure
of employers to accede to this prin-
ciple wrecked the labor Encouragement
conference held after the last war in
1919, Mr.. Taylor said.
Another committee was reported
unofficially to have reached unanl-
NOUS agreement in favor of repeal of
the Smith Connally Act on the ground
that it has increased industrial strife
instead of reducing it. The American
Federation of Labor fought this
measures from the beginning and has
never wavered in it's opposition.
The committee on existing collec-
tive agreements, Mr.. Taylor told
newsmen, appears to be IN agree
ment that there must be some termi-
nal point to grievance procedure If
the agreement is to contain an effec-
tive no-strike, no-lockout clause
This is to prevent management from
defeating the purpose of such agree
ments by delaying action on griev-
ances interminably.
Improvement of machinery for set
tling themselves is being explored
by third committee.
Hearings are being held by fourth
committee on ways and means OF Dol
stering the United States Concilia-
ton Service. Among the witnesses
appearing before this group were
Consultation Service Director Warren
and John Steelman, special assistant
to President Truman.
The way was cleared for action by
the conference on major issues wher
CLIO President Murray was forced al
a meeting of the Executive Committee
to back down from his original de-
mand that the conference pass upor
pending wage disputes.
Mr.. Murray explained that all he
meant by his resolution on the wage
question was for the conference tx
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-11-23
Bates Describes Housing Shortage
As No. l Threat to Nations Progress
Calls for Cooperation Among Enterprise Labor and the
Government Toward Achieving Long Range Goal

Washington, d. C.-Harry C. Bates,
chairman Of the Housing Committee
of the American Federation of La
Dor, warned that "the housing short
age is about to become the number
one threat to the American postwar
standard of living with homelessness
a reality for American families in
thousands of communities within a
year."
Speaking before the meeting Of the
National Association of Homebuilders
at the Statler Hotel here, Mr.. Bates
called for "close and positive working
cooperation among homebuilders en-
terprise, BODYBUILDING labor and the
government toward achieving long
range goal of unified national housing
policy which would enable private en-
terprise and local initiative to make
maximum contribution to the welfare
of the entire people" A summary of
Mr.. Bates statement follows:
"Intolerable overcrowding is al
ready reality most of our communi-
ties are witnessing today. Tomorrow
holds real threat Of actual home
lessness to many American families.
Over 100000 married veterans are
already in immediate need Of homes.
More than 100000 returning veterans
are expected to marry and establish
new homes within the next year, but
will find no place to set up new house
holds. Some 100000 new homes will
therefore be sought in the course OF
next year by veterans alone, with
prospect of not more than 100000 to
| 100000 built next year and most of
them at prices out of reach OF the
veteran. There is no binding of the
fact that the housing shortage is about
| to become the number one threat to
the American postwar standard OF
| living. That threat must be met with
promptness and courage through a
| cooperative effort of building business,
labor and the government.
"Among the immediate problems
facing us now, the foremost is that
of an inflationary price boom. We
must avert the danger of (D large
mass of our families being priced out
of homes; (2) the homes to be built
being priced out of reach of the mass
market; and (3) the homebuilders be-
ing priced out of investment oppor-
tunities with workers being priced
out of jobs.
"Real estate and home price infla-
ton cannot be held by wishing. We
cannot talk ourselves into price sta
bility. Nor can the problem be equit-
ably solved by snap judgment. The
American Federation of Labor and
the Building Trades Department are
now making a careful and searching
study of the ways and means to meet
this complex and challenging problem
"The building trades are doing
their full part to assure an adequate
/ supply of labor in all classes OF skills
to meet the demand for an expanding
BODYBUILDING program in all parts OF
the country. The flow Of mechanics
and laborers who have been serving
their country in the armed forces
back to their peacetime jobs is in
creasing every day. In addition, ap-
prentice training programs have been
Jointly set up by labor and industry
in thousands of our communities, with
increased training under way under
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-11-23
Labor Management Parley
Driving Toward Agreement
How About The
Unemployed ?

Congress is moving with commenda-
BILE speed and zeal toward the enact
ment of legislation which will bring
some measure of relief to the nations
taxpayers. Just the opposite is true
of the attitude of Congress toward
those who will not be able to pay taxes
next year because they will be unem-
ployed.
Labor can find no excuse or condona-
ton for the decision of the House
Ways and Means Committee to pigeon
hole unemployment compensation leg
islation in defiance of urgent and re-
peated recommendations for immediate
action by President Truman and in
complete disregard for human needs
during reconversion.
The President is reported to have
told members of the House Waye and
Means Committee that the Senate ''let
him down" on this "must" legislation
by adopting an unsatisfactory bill. But
the House committee has let the Pres
ident and the nation down even worse,
for it has blocked action on any kind
of unemployment compensation law.
AS result, victory is proving bit
ter mockery to millions of loyal war
workers who helped to win the war
by their product on achievements only
to find themselves now jobless and
| without sufficient income to tide them
over the reconversion period until new
employment opportunities are avail
able.
The President emphasized at least
twice in his message to Congress that
special legislative provision has been
made to aid capital and business and
veterans during reconversion. The only
ones whose fate has been ignored, the
President said, are the war workers,
to whom America owes deep obli-
cation. So long as that obligation re-
mains unfulfilled, it will constitute
black mark on the record of Congress.
The American Federation of Labor
has appealed to the reason, the patrio-
tism and to the friendship Of Members
of Congress. President Truman has
labored valiantly in the same cause.
| Yet these efforts have thus far proved
entirely unavailing.
The Executive Council knows of no
way of blasting the log-jam that is
blocking passage of this legislation
except by public demand. This winter
conditions of the unemployed in cities
throughout the nation are certain to
become acute. Instead Of waiting until
a severe emergency develops, we
strongly urge all State Federations Of
Labor and city central bodies to stir
up public opinion now in favor Of i'm
mediate action.
We believe that the American peo-
pie agree with labor that maximum
Of $25 a week for twenty-six weeks
year is not too much temporary COM
pensation for those who have lost their
jobs through no fault Of their own. Let
the voice of the people be heard in
Congress!
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-11-23

cooperative labor management plans.
Labor is equally alert to the need
of making clear and farsighted pro-
vision for more homes over a period
of years, under an improved legisla-
tive program providing for unified
American housing policy. The Ameri-
can housing market is universal
market. To reach it we must have a
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-15
MORE COAL BEING
DIVERTED SOUTH

WASHINGTON, Dec. "A - W.D -
The Solid Fuels Administration,
acting to relieve the grow ing fuel
shortage in the southeast, tonight
directed producers to increase ship
ments of scarce southern Appa.
lachian high volatile Goals to retail
yards in Virginia, Tennessee, Geor-
gia, North Carolina and South
Carolina.
Under the directive, yards will
get 80 1-3 per cent, instead of Is
per cent, of their remaining winter
quota during December. But the
total quota for the winter will not
be changed. It will remain at 80
per cent of the coal received by
the yards during the 1943-44 fuel
year.
The STA attributed the lag in
shipments to the southeast to lack
of mine manpower and production
loss resulting from work stoppages
in the southern Appalachian mines
last September and October.
MANY communities are hard
pressed for. fuel" it said, and
the situation has been growing
steadily more critical. Their geo.
graphical location limits most
southeastern states to southern
Appalachian mines as a primary
source of fuel and these are the
Goals which now are in shortest
supply
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-15
SENIORS SELECT /
EXAM CANDIDATES

Thirteen New Hanover High
school seniors have been select
ed by classmates to take a COM
petitive examination for the ma
tional Pepsi Cola scholarship
which entities winners to four
years tuition at any acciedited
college or university.
Selected py their fellow students
were Bill Teter, Miss Sarah Ann
Eaton, Harry Wellot, Jr., Miss
Douglas McKoy, Francis Chad
wick, Miss Pat Hardwick, Miss
Elizabeth Evans, Lon Ussery, Miss
Bettina Marable, Miss Jane Rey-
nolds, John Hearn, Miss Betty
Jean Marshburn and Miss Jacque-
line Reynolds.
The scholarship is donated by
the soft drink firm to two stu
dents from each state and the
District of Columbi and
one representative from each
of the territories plus twenty addi-
tional awards for Negroes in
Separate schools, totaling 121.
Awarded on a basis of school
record, recommendations and ii.
nancial need from the IL highest
scorers on the examination from
each state, the scholarship, in
addition to tuition provides for
the payment Of $25 per month for
the normal SO month college Pc
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-15
JOSEPHUS DANIELS
AWARDED MAYFLOWER
CUP FOE NEW BOOK

RALEIGH, Dec. 14.-R)-Jose-
plus Daniels, newspaper editor
and author of several books, was
awarded the Mayflower Cup to-
night for his latest book, 1.-THE Will
son Era; Years and Peace 1910
1917"
Daniels, who served as 5ecre-
tary of the Navy in President Will
sons cabinet, later became Ambas-
sador to Mexico and now is edit
ing his Raleigh News and Obser-
yer, received the cup at a meet
ing of the State Literary and His,
torical Association. 1t was pre-.
scented to him by DR.. Wallace E.
Caldwell of Chapel Hill.
The Mayflower Cup is an award
made annually since 1880 by the
Mayflower Society of Descendants
in North Carolina to the resident
Tar Heel author whose book is
selected by a committee as the
best published during the year.
There were IS books entered in
this years competition.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-15
PEARL HRBOR
PROBE WOBBLY

WASHINGTON, Dec. 49,
,natience within the Pearl Har-
tll III Committee over the time being
p So0a. r in its investigation FLAIR
e q IN today in a threat by Chair
ss.n Ny Barley O-Ky) to resign
p psd = request by the committees
! sau staff of four to be released.
w. oakley said it is evident the
,,a,,irv is going to run on for
pa aa+hs and that he will have to
l msish the question whether his
s s.tv to the Senate as majority
, lsi or his duty to the commit
.se is the greater.
~ He told his colleagues he will
link it over for the next few days
s ,r' decide on course of action.
w William D. Mitchell, chief coun-
col and former Attorney General,
s.d a similar complaint.
HI H. sad he had accepted the posi-
linn with the understanding that
lis st services would not be needed
,nnger than early January. The
rssoltion creating the inquiry
.0nmittee directed that it report
nv January 3.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-15
PATTON CONDITION
TERMED EXCELLENT
by ROBERT C. MILLER
United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
HEIDELBERG, Germany, Dec.
14..Gen. George S. Patton's con-
dition tonight was EXCELLENT and
his doctors said he would be flown
to the United States within the next
four or six weeks.
There still was danger, however,
that the colorful former comman-
der of the U. S. Third Army would
be partially paralyzed for the rest
of his life as the result of the
broken neck suffered in an auto
mobile accident last Sunday.
Bue he no longer is completely
paralyzed from the neck down and
can make some movement below
the fracture and dislocation of his
third and fourth cervical verte-
brae, said Col. Roy Glenn Squirting,
Louisville, KY, one of the Army S
leading nerve surgeons who flew
the Atlan1 c earlier this week with
Mrs. Patton. He is Patton's chief
physician.
Barring unforeseen compiled
lions Patton is out Of danger at
the moment,' he said. 1.-THE gen
eral is not out of danger of partial
paralysis for the rest of his life,
though"
Today's morning bulletin said:
''Patton's condition continues ex-
cellent. He had a comfortable
night. His scalp wound is healing
normally. He is cheerful. ''Neu-
Biological situation unchanged.
Temperature SO, down one degree;
pulse 81; respiration a."
At Spurling's press conference,
were two of his assistants on the
case-Col. Paul S. Hill, Jr., Saco,
Maine, and Capt. Willial1 Duane,
Jr., Philadelphia. All said Pat
toms condition was very good; that
the patient was fully cons aous and
alert and was taking a soft diet.
The full extent of injuries to the
spinal column still has not been
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-15

Since. the start of the hearing
1t has become increasingly appar-
ent that some members of the
committee have a different view
than that entertained by counsel,
either as to the scope of the in
qulry or as to what is pertinent
evidence" Mitchell added in a
statement read to the committee.
This has been reflected in ex-
tensive examination by some mem.
bers of the committee far beyond
what the legal staff anticipated. "
Mitchell pointed out that the
committee began hearings --ov.
ID and thus far has completed the
examination of only eight witness
eS.
There remain at least sixty
witnesses to be examined" he
said. MANY of these witnesses
are quite as crucial as those who
have testified"
The other members of the legal
staff are Gerhard Gesell, chief as
sistant counsel, and julie M. Han
naford and John E. Masten, as
siStant counsel.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-15
Go m nlittee
Move Hats
Legislation
PARLEYS RECESSED
Court Order Sets Picketing
Strength Of VIVA Mem
bers AT Cleveland
BY The Associated Press

The administration lost it's race
yesterday to, get passage of new
labor legislation before start OF a
scheduled steel strike Jan. IA.
The Senate Labor committee re-
cessed it's hearings until after the
Christmas holidays and Chairman
Murray (D-Mont) said testimony
then could continue for another
month on the fact-finding bill ad-
vocated by President Truman.
The dashing of the administra-
TONS expectations that the new
labor bill would become law be-
fore Christmas came as the courts
took a hand in the General Motors
strike and CLIO President Philip
Murray described the nations en-
tire industrial picture as explosive.
The Ford Motor company and the
CLIO United Auto Workers recessed
their contract negotiations until
Monday after a session yesterday
which both sides described as
brief and satisfactory"
Because of the Senate commit
tees action, the Fact-Finding
Board which President Truman has
announced he will name to con-
slider the steel dispute will be with
out legal authority, the same as
the board he appointed to look
into the General Motors strike.
Both boards must rely on COOP
Grafton Of the companies and
unions.
The new Fact Finding bill, which
may receive House consideration
before Christmas, would prohibit
strikes for 3O-day cooling off,
periods pending study by fact
body.
Meanwhile in the General Mo-
tors strike, which has accounted for
213, 900 of the nations 100000 idle
in labor disputes, the principal
development came Vt Cleveland
where Common Pleas Nudge Frank
S. Day limited picketing at the GIN
Fisher body plant to SIS members.
He acted after General Motors
sought a temporary injunction
against striking UAM members on
charges of illegal picketing.
In a similar injunction case in
Chicago, a JAW lawyer told SUI
perior Judge Donald S. McKinlay
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