Evening star., 1945-10-29
Truman Cancels
Trip as Labor
Farley Nears
Southern and Western
Visits Put Off Because
Of Press of Business

President Truman today can
celed an extensive travel sched-
ule which would have taken him
as far South as Georgia and as
far West as Oklahoma within the
next three weeks because of the
pressure of official business.
The cancellation. which had been
limited at for several days, was an
nounced by Eben Ayers, acting press
secretary, shortly before noon.
Before the White House an
nouncement r. ]. Thomas, president
Of the CIO United Auto Workers,
had said in Detroit he had been
called by President Truman for q
conference at II am. Friday.
AS tentatively mapped Mr.. Tru-
man was to 60 to Statesville, N. c..
Friday for an address before an
adjourned session of the North
Carolina State Senate; to Atlanta
Saturday for the Georgia Georgia
Tech football game, and to Warm
Springs. Ga, Sunday for a visit to
the Warm Springs Foundation.
Missouri Trip Cancelled.
On November Is, he was due to 60
to Liberty, Mo, to receive, an hon.
orary degree from William Jewell
College and later in the week was
scheduled to attend an aviation
show at Oklahoma City and an ar
tillery demonstration at Fort Sill,
Okla.
Mr.. Truman also told his news
conference last week that he was Of
a mind to 60 to Waco, Tex, In De-
cember, to accept degree at Bay
lor University, but that trip never
had been formally listed.
The Southern and Western jaunts
were arranged by the President be-
fore his trip earlier this month to
the Mississippi and Tennessee Valley
sections which provoked some criti-.
cal comment in the country.
In the course of that trip, the
President visited the county fair at
Carruthersville, Mo. and also visited
Reel Foot Lake, Tenn.
Series of Conferences.
Before the announcement that all
the Presidents travel plans were
Cancelled; it was said at the White
House that the Georgia trip was
out. There was an indication at
that time that the Statesville trip
also would be abandoned as word
came from Detroit that Mr.. Thomas
would come here Friday. Mr.. Tru-
man is holding series of confer
enees with industrial and labor lead
lers prior to the convening here next
Monday Of the labor-nanagement
conference.
Mr.. Thomas. who yesterday re-
jected q proposal of the General
Motors Corp. for a 45-hour week.
said in telling of his call to the
White House:
Il don't see how the 45-hour week
could do either General Motors or
the workers any good"
The corporation and the union
!, were stalen1ated over the workers
demand for a 80 per cent wage In
crease on the present 40-hour basic
week when negotiations were post
poned indefinitely last week. Cen
eral Motors had rejected the UWA
; request as unreasonable"
Truman Works on Speech.
Back at his desk yesterday after
brief trip to New York, where he
delivered an important foreign pol.
icy address and reviewed the Amer.
lean Fleet, the President spent sew.
eral hours shaping up the speech or
the price and wage policy speech
he will deliver tomorrow night.
Mr.. Ayers said the President hae
received number of very favor.
able" kilograms on his New Yori
speech.
: Mr.. Truman today discussed the
labor-management conference with
representatives. from both sides
His calling list included Benjamin
F. Fairless, president of United
States Steel, and William Green
president of the American Fedora
ton of Labor, who was accompanied
to the White House by Martin Dir.
kin, president of the international
Plumbers Union, and Boris Shiskin
AFL economist.
Gives Preview of Speech.
Mr.. Green said the President hac
, given them a preview of his wage;
price policy speech, but Mr.. Greer
said he did not want to comment
: on its contents.
Asked whether he was conten
with what Mr.. Truman would say
: Mr.. Green said, I'm not clear OF
! how far-reaching" the speech vii
) be, and for that reason would max,
! no commitments.
!. ! Mr.. Green said his group wa
keeping an open mind on the posi-
hility of fact-finding machinery be
. ing set up by the conference, bur
he said labor would not agree t,
compulsory arbitration or a no
J strike pledge.
John w. Snyder, reconversion di
rector, sat in on the meeting.
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