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MILLION SLASH
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teated, 81 to %, an attempt by
Senator McCarran (D-Nev) to re
store funds cut out of the secre
tary of labor's appropriation.
On another roll call, the Senate
turned down McCarran's propose
tc increase the fund for the Blu
reau OF Labor statictics from So,
$50, 900 to 81, 900, 900. The vote wa:
40 to 30.
The Nevadan said some mem
bers OF the Senate would like tt
smother inforpation On the
cost of living, which the bu1ea,
complies.
Senator Knowland (R-Calif.
countered that the committee fig
IRE is three times as large as the
bureau received in any year frori
1898 to 1945.
Pepper Defeated
Senator Pepper (D-Fla) tried in
vain to raise the fund for the Ma.
tlonal Cancer institute from $12,'
900, 900 to SIT, 1928, 200. He was
turned down "a to Is.
The House appropriations com
mittee, in sharply cutting TIT
other large bill, decreed a % pei
cent reduction for the State de
partment, including complete
elimination of the "Voice o
America" broadcasts and al
other parts Of tn e department.
foreign cultural relations pro
gram.
Acting quickly, Secretary o
State Marshall and Walter Bedel
Smith, U. S. ambassador to Rus
STA, joined in personal pleas tt
more than a score Of Compression
al leaders of both parties to keel
the Voice of America" speaking
particularly to Soviet Russia.
Legislators who heard Marshal
at a closed conference at tn
State department quoted him a
saying his experience at the Mos
COW Foreign Ministers conference
confirmed his judgment that tn
overseas broadcasts are impoI
tant to American foreign policy
Ambassador Smith, who arriv
ed from Moscow Saturday TO
consultations, estimated that b,
1850 Russia may have $500, 90
short wave radio sets capable Q
receiving the U. S. broadcasts
He said such a set can be Dough
nov for 1900 rubles Or about hal
the cost of a suit of clothes.
Tabor Firm
Leaving the conference, Chair
man Tabor (R-NY) Of the Hous'
Appropriation committee told re
porters he remained unconvince'
that the broadcasts should be cor
tinued.
Nothing will change me unit
they get this operation organize
on a business basis" Taber said
The State department was nc
the only agency to fel the prun
ing knife OF the House Appropria
tons committee. TIL committe
made the following other cuts: 3
per cent for the Commerce de
partment, 2.7 percent for the Jus
tice department and about 20 pc
cent for the federal judiciary.
The 1947 beach season arount
Wilmington will be opened thi
year by THE sweetest trumpet il
the world - played by Charlie
Spivak, who will herald the OF
fetal opening with a spectacula:
dance program at the Lumina
May Is.
The event will be sponsored b,
the James A. Manley Post 1878
Veterans of Foreign Wars. Tit
proceeds will be used for their new
building fund.
Hiram Enlow, field superintend
ent at Bluethenthal airport yes
terday rendered his resignation t.
the New Hanover County boar
of commissioners. The resignation
was accepted, and Elbow gave nj
reason for his decision to resign
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-06

Hiram Enlow, field superintend-
ent at Bluethenthal airport yes
terday rendered his resignation to
the New Hanover County board
of commissioners. The resignation
was accepted, and Enlow gave no
reason for his decision to resign.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-06
DISH DRAWERS

Lunch baskets, market bas-
kets. fruit baskets and shop
ping baskets.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-06
VEGETABLE BINS

Here is the ideal way to
keep potatoes. onions, etc.
Slightly bent; can easily be
Straightened,
Evening star., 1947-06-29
New Political Group
Hits Both Parties,
Suggests Third One
BY The Associated Press

CHICAGO, June 28.-Directors OF
the Progressive Citizens of America
declared today the Nations voters
should be guaranteed the oppor-
tunity; by a new party If necessary
to have clear choice between pro-
gressive and reactionary candidates
for President"
The peas national board of di-
rectors, in a statement on political
policy, noted "a mounting tide OF
popular opposition to the policies
and leadership of both the major
political parties"
"This leadership has created one
reactionary party and has defraud-
ed the American people of an al
tentative progressive choice" the
statement said.
1T has produced the Truman doc
trine of military aid to despotic
governments, the Taft-Hartley anti
labor law, higher prices and rents,
the sabotage of the programs for
veterans housing, agriculture, recla-
nation, rural electriflcation ard
public power, sharpened attacks
upon our civil liberties and failure
to end mob violence and discrimi-
nation. ="
A spokesman described the Pea
as IAN organization of independent
voters for progressive political ac-
ton" 1t developed from merger
last December of the National Citi-
zens' Political Action Committee and
the Independent Citizens Commit
tee of the Arts, Sciences and Pro-
feSSionS.
Attending today's meeting were
A. F. Whitney, Cleveland, president
of the Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen; Elmer A. Benson former
Minnesota Governor; Robert w.
Kenny, former attorney general of
California; Charles Graham, Den
yer, former Midwest regional direc-
tor of the National Labor Relations
Board; Quentin Burdick. secretary
of the North Dakota Democratic
State Central Committee; Clark
Foreman, Washington, president of
the Southern Conference for HUI
man Welfare, and Martin Pepper,
Washington, president of the Ma
tional Lawyers Guild
The directors elected Mr.. Kenny
national co-chairman, to serve with
Frank Kingdom of New York City.
Mr.. Kenny succeeds Sculptor 10
Davidson of New York who was
unable to continue as CO.
chairman because of the necessity
of completing work in Paris.
Evening star., 1947-06-29
Heavy Security Restrictions
Put on Unions byNewLow

ployer still must agree to 1t before
it becomes part of the contract.
Here are some other important
provisions of the new law:
Employers receive more leeway in
a free speech" section which states
that expression of any views against
the union or organized labor in
general shall not constitute or be
evidence of an unfair labor prac-
tice if such expression contains no
threat of reprisal or force or prom
Use of benefit"
Recent NLRB interpretations of
the Wagner Labor Relations Act,
which the new law supercedes, have
given far more leeway to employers
in expressing their views to en-
ployes on union affairs. The new
law provides free speech" in black
and white.
Restriction on Bargaining Units.
Professional employees cannot be
combined with nonprofessional
workers in one bargaining unit un-
less they vote for the inclusion.
Plant guards cannot combine
with other workers in a bargain
ing unit.
The board must hold an election
for craft units when such is re-
quested. This will enable small
skilled groups of workers to split off
from larger industrial units.
The NLRB is not allowed to act
on any union petition unless the
union previously has filed with the
Department of Labor the following
data:
Names, titles and compensation
and allowances of its three prin-
cipal officers if they aggregate over
$1,000; the manner in which the
officers were elected; initiation fees
and dues charged; detailed in
formation containing the constitu-
ton and bylaws, showing procedure
in election of officers, calling of
meetings, imposition of fines, dis
bursement of funds, audit of finan-
cial transactions, participation in
insurance and other benefit funds
and expulsion of members and the
grounds therefor.
13 States Ban Closed Shop.
Regarding new Federal require
ments on union security arrange
ments, it should be mentioned that
at the moment 13 States. including
Virginia, now ban the closed shop
either by State law or constitutional
amendment. There has been little
or no enforcement of such bans
pending tests of the provisions by
the Supreme Court.
The breakdown on the closed shop,
Federal officials believe, will lead to
numerous sub-rosa or bootleg
agreements between managementS
and unions, especially in such
unions as those of the building
trades which have worked under
such arrangements for years, The
penalties for violating the law,
however, are stiff.
Evening star., 1947-06-29
Only IS CIOWorkers Turn Out
ToPicket T uftutSon' sWeddinq

representative for the electrical
workers, repeatedly had made ar
rangements for some 200 pickets to
take part in the demonstration.
He said he would protest the police
action to the American Civil Liber-
ties Union.
He earlier had told reporters that
union members would picket Sena-
tor Taft wherever we find him" for
sponsoring the Taft-Hartley Labor
Law in the Senate.
The bridegrooms father and
mother and thee brothers were
among the 800 guests at the we'd
ding. An estimated 1000 persons
were denied entry to the small,
New England type church.
Miss Stone is the daughter Of an
industrialist here.
The neWlyWeds, who met while
both were students at the Univer-
sity of Michigan, planned 70 leave
Immediately for Murray Bay, Que
bee, for a honeymoon, after which
Mr.. Taft will work on the Cincin-
natl Times Star.
While here the Tafts were guests
at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Louis
c. Upton. Mr. Upton is president
and founder Of the 1900 Corporation.
by which some of the electrical
workers are employed
Evening star., 1947-06-29
Bill Bars RFC Buying
OF 81 Home Loans
By the Asseeiated Press

The power of the Reconstruction
Finance Corp. to purchase from
other financial institutions loans
guaranteed or insured under the CT
bill of rights would be eliminated
under legislation now pending be-
fore President Truman.
The measure cleared both the
House and Senate Friday.
The House insisted that the RFC
go out Of business as a secondary
market for mortgages, and the Sen
ate concurred in adopting confer
ence agreement on legislation eX-
tending the RFC for anoGner year.
Gen. Omar N. Bradley, veterans
administrator, had told Congress
that elimination of the RFC from
the secondary mortgage market
might delay construction of needed
homes by causing financing difficult
ties.
The RFC, he said, had been buy
ing such mortgages at the rate of
approximately ST 100000 day with
the total value of such commitments
by the RFC 1862, ,877,387.
Evening star., 1947-06-29

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ther meetings. So far as was known,
however, a formal conference with
Mr.. Lewis has not been arranged.
Since Secretary of Interior Krug
and his Coal Mines Administration
are to release the seized mines to-
morrow, the Labor Department was
expected to take over the case for
the Government. Officials said that
Secretary of Labor SChWellenbach
will attempt to bring the miners
and operators together.
Hold Labor Law Ineffective.
M. Fairless and Mr.. Humphrey,
it was said. were prompted to make
the wage offer because they believed
there was little or nothing the
Government can do to avert a costly
and possibly long mine shutdown.
They held the Hartley law in
effective to deal with Mr.. Lewis
Specifically, here is what Mr.,
Lewis demanded and the operators
offered in the way of wage and
hour changes;
An eighthOur portal-t portal
day with the same pay the miners
now receive for a nine-hour day.
This change. it is estimated.
amounts to an increase of 209 cents
in the basic hourly rate. The re-
mainder of the boost necessary to
bring the total to 35 cents an hour
l4.l centS-WOuld be given in the
form of a fiat increase.
Would Raise Pay to S13.05.
This would raise the miners pay
to S13.05 for an eighU-hour day.
The hourly rate of the average
miner would be increased from the
present S1.18'a to $751;, the nigh
est paid by any of the big industries,
including automobiles and steel.
Miners now work a nine-hour por-
tal-to-portal day for which they
receive S11.85 day.
Recent negotiations between
Northern and Western operators
and Mr.. Lewis collapsed when the
union refused to retreat rom its
original demands and rejected
management proposal for an in
crease of Is cents an hour.
An industry official was asked
whether he thought Mr.. Lewis de-
sire for protection from Taft
Hartley penalties could be worked
out He replied:
ut is a he'll Of a big bill"
Evening star., 1947-06-29
Ship Union Expects
100000 10 Strike
By the Associofed Press

NEW YORK, June 23.-CIO ship
yard workers. 10000 of whom have
been on strike for three days at 10
East Coast shipyards, called out
only token picket forces today at
the struck plants, but their union
declared 10000 men would walk
out by Tuesday on the East and
Gulf Coasts if no settlement with
employers were reached.
H. H. Rogers, a national repre-
sentative of the striking CIO In
dustrial Union of Marine and Ship
building Workers, said that no
weekend developments are ex-
pected" and added that only token
picketing" was followed at the idle
yards.
Nine of the struck yards are
owned by the Bethlehem Steel Co.
The union has demanded a 13-cent
hourly wage hike plus other bene-
fits but Bethlehem has countered
by saying it could not add to its
labor costs.
A union spokesman listed these
major plants as due to be struck at
1901 am, Tuesday:
Maryland Drydock and Repair
Co., Baltimore, 5000 workers; Ala
bama Drydock and Repair Co., Mo-
pile, 1000; New York Shipbuilding
Co., Camden, N. j.. 5,000-6,000.
Also due to walk out, he said, are
10000 workers at IS to 20 small
firms in Philadelphia and between
10000 and 10000 at other small
yards.
Movie attendance in Japan is now
double that of last wear
Evening star., 1947-06-29
| Herald Tribune Obtains
RIGHTS 10 Byrnes' Book
Bv the Associated Press

The New York Herald Tribune
announced last night it has obtained
the newspaper rights to "the inside
story of the war and postwar con-
ferences as revealed by James F.
Byrnes, former Secretary of State. ."
Mr.. Byrnes' book, Speaking
Frankly" will be published in Oc-
tober. The Herald Tribune and
other newspapers will carry the six
most significant" chapters in in
stallments.
All proceeds from the newspaper
sale will go to charity. The amount
was not announced.
Evening star., 1947-06-29
Steel Mills Cut Back
To Save Slim Stocks
OF Coal During 1ieup
BY the Assoeiated Press

PITTSBURGH, June 28-Coal-
related industry felt hunger pangs
today for the fuel supply cut off by
To-day paid vacation of the ma
tionS coal miners.
The country's entire coal produc-
tion virtually was snuffed out as
nearly 100000 miners. including 400
000 AFL-United Mine Workers in
the soft coal pits, started holidays
which closed the mines.
Federal estimates indicated the
nation had only a 31-day coal sup
ply as the holiday began.
Steel Mills Conserve Supplies.
Steelmakers took to starvation
diets" to conserve meager supplies
of soft coal without which the in
dustry cannot operate. These drastic
conservation measures forced layoffs
for thousands of production workers.
The Carnegie Illinois Steel Corp,
top producer of the U. S. Steel Corp,
biggest steelmaker IN the nation, led
by furloughing 10000 workers in the
Pittsburgh-Youngstown, Ohio, dis
trict.
District operations of the firm
will be reduced So per cent from
a theoretical 104 per cent capacity
to about As per cent. Other steel
concerns cut back operations
sharply. Coal-carrying railroads
began to feel the pinch.
The uncertainty whether the va
cations would end on schedule July
7 or would coast into an indefinite
holiday" until private mine oper-
ators and UNIV Chief John L.
Lewis negotiate a new contract fig
ured in steel's cutbackS.
Return to Owners Monday.
Soft coal mines return to pri-
vate ownership from Federal con-
troll on Monday for the first time
since May 81, 1916, when the De-
partment> of the Interior took over
after a .59-day strike and gave the
U. S. Navy the job of running the
pits
Miners now are on vacation be-
cause the Governments contracts
with the unionists provided the
paid holiday. The current coal
shortage was made more acute be-
cause about 275,000 UNIV members
Jumped the gun" a week ahead
of the holiday in wildcat work stop
pages aimed at the Taft-Hartley
labor law.
A substantial proportion Of the
Walkouts occurred in steel company
owned mines, called captive" pits
because the entire production is
used in steel-making.
Carnegie Illinois deep production
slaShes will bank 10 additional blast
furnaces, raising the total banked
to the equivalent of 1412 Of the %
the concern operates in the affected
area. Additionally, the firm will re-
duce its open-hearth operations
from 130 to so units, a cutback of
30.
Coke Production Cut.
Coke production at the Hugh
Clarion, Pa, coke works will be re-
duced to 38 per cent in this largest
plant of its kind in the world.
Republic Steel, Sharon Steel and
Wheeling Steel were other firms
which announced cutbacks. Wheel
ing Steel's curtailment will idle
about 5000 workers by July 7.
A Federal transportation official
said that railroad passenger traffic
would be curtailed if the coal min
ers prolong their work stoppage
past July 7.
The Norfolk & Western and the
Virginian Railways announced in
Roanoke, Va. that 975 workers were
Evening star., 1947-06-29

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furloughed because of the shutdown
of mines in the area it serves. At
Nashville, Tenn, officials of the
Southern and Louisville & Nash
vile Railroads predicted progress
sive layoffs" in the Knoxville divi-
sion because of the mine stoppage.
Evening star., 1947-06-29
Kappa DeIto Elects

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. June 26
tP).-Miss Elizabeth Winston La
nier of Petersburg was elected ma
tional president of Kappa Delta So
rority today at the sororitys golden
anniversary convention.
Evening star., 1947-06-29
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cat strikes as well as those called
through orderly processes.
About Is per cent of the Nations
10000 collective bargaining con-
tracts contain no-strike clauses,
whereas only small percentage
Of unions operate under a closed
shop.
The Federation also hopes for a
Evening star., 1947-06-29
Use of U. S. Money Curbed

Honk Kong banks no longer will
accept United States currency
bought there on the open market,
in payment of letters of credit, a
new regulation stipulates.
Evening star., 1947-06-29

Roads for cyclists only are being
in Nigeria.
Evening star., 1947-06-29


test of the closed shop prohibition
Mr., Padway said. However. cases
pending in several States, includ-
ing Florida, Nebraska, South Da-
kota and Arizona, may reach the
Supreme Court this fall and make
it unnecessary to start new suit
on the Taft-Hartley bill.
Aff1daVits Called Insulting.
With regard to the requirement
for aff1davits to the National Labor
Relations Board denying Com
munist affiliations, Mr.. PadWay
said:
1--WE feel that these afhdavits are
unconstitutional and insulting. It
is distinctly unconstitutional to deny
thousands of workers their access
to the sole tribunal because one Of
hcer may not be able to file such an
affidavit"
Under the Taft Hartley Act the
sworn statements are a prerequisite
10 NLRB enforcement of the legal
projections which the Wagner Act
gives unions, such as the REQUIRE
ment that employers bargain with
them.
If a noncomplying union files an
application with NLRB and NLRE
refuses to take the case, Mr.. Padway
said, the AFL will petition for d
writ Of mandamuS to require the
board to consider the case.
He predicted that 80 per cent OF
AFL unions will be advised by theil
lawyers not to file such aff1daVits
even though he said there are few
Communist officers in AFL unions.
viii Work Against Sponsors.
There is indication, Mr.. Padway
said, that counsel for some of AFL s
international unions will advise
against any use whatsoever of the
new National Labor Relations Board
The NLRB'S duties are so enlarged
he added, that it will be unable to
handle tenth of the cases foreseen
for the next year.
Highly skilled and well organized
crafts like the typographical union
will get along without NLRB protec-
tion,' Mr.. Padway said. The Unit
ed Mine Workers did not speak up,
but I would say if any union could
get along without the board it is
the UNIV"
Mr.. Padway said the unions would
work to defeat the supporters of the
act-"will not refrain from publish
ing that Senator Taft, Republican,
OF Ohio, and Representative Hart
ley, Republican, of New Jersey, are
aVowed enemies of the principles OF
organized labor
we will request AFL members to
defeat them when they are up for
election, and to spend money pub
iCizing the records of Taft, Hartley
and those persons who acted in con-
cert with them, in our own publica-
tions, over the radio and in the
newspapers"
Evening star., 1947-06-29

Movie attendance in Japan is now
double that of last year.
Evening star., 1947-06-29
Bv the Assoeiofed Press

ST. JOSEPH, Mich, June 28-
AS a group of CIO. pickets stood
across the street from the church
Lloyd Bowers Taft. third son Of
Senator and Mrs Robert Taft of
Ohio, was married today to Miss
Virginia Stone.
Despite earlier threats of mass
picketing, only 10 men and women,
members of a CIO Electrical Work
ers Union and some Of them en-
ployed by the Tafts' host here,
marched with placards from a union
hall to the vicinity of the First
Congregational Church shortly be-
fore the ceremony.
On orders of As State police,
sheriff's deputies and city police
from st. Joseph, Benton Harbor
and other communities, the pickets
steered away from the church itself
and never got closer than diagon-
ally across the street.
The pickets marched around
nearby square and up and down an
alley twice, then returned to their
headquarters The signs read: Taft
Obstructed Housing" "Congratula-
tions to the Bride and Groom" ard
Senator Taft Is a Bad Boy"
Gordon ColWell, international field
Evening star., 1947-06-29
Permits Issue to Be Raised.

The elections mentioned in con-
nection with the union shop and
maintenance of membership do not
mean that such forms of union Sc
curity become part of a contract
when the workers vote Eyes"
The election only enables the
union to raise the issue of such
union security as bargaining
point with the employer. The en-
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-05-15
AT HARRISBURG
FRIDAY, May 81

The Owls played their final game
with Harrisburg on Friday night,
with Poffenberger on the mound,
opposed by Piercey.
Boots was in trouble right off the
bat, when two walks, two singles
and his own error, gave the Senators
a two run lead Settling down
again, however, he held Harrisburg
scoreless in the next three innings
and as the Owls had tied the score
in their half of the third on Poffen-
berger's single, Halvonic's double
and singles by Owcar and Bartz,
and then forged into one-run lead
in the first half of the fifth on a
walk to Daddario, who went to sec
ond while Owcar was being thrown
out at first, and then scored on
Bartz's third straight hit, it looked
as if the Owls were on their way
But in the Senators half of the
fifth the roof fell in ard bang went
the ball game Here's what hap
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-05-15
Second Game

Let's have the good news right at
the start-The Owls won this one.
With Bill Stratton on the mound
and holding Allentown to six hits
(including two home runs that ac-
counted for three of the Cards four
runs), the Hagerstown boys collect
ed ! / hits off the offerings of Seifert,
including home runs by Yeash and
Jenis, good for six runs.
Manager Bunny" Griniths re-
vamped his lineup for this game,
inserting himself at short; and turn
ing the catching chores over to Elm
er Swanson, sent in by Williams
port, on option
Final Score: Allentown, 49,;
HagerstoWn, GLIB.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-05-15

home runs. four in all, that account
ed for seven of the home clubs
twelve runs. Nedelco started for
Hagerstown, followed by Poffen-
berger and Stamos, but the Cards
were impartial, scoring four-bag-
gers off the offerings of all three.
P.S. In Hagerstown's half of the
ninth Stamos finally got a round
tripper for the Owls but il was
much, much too late.
Final Score: Allentown, 12-11-1;
Hagerstown, 6-11-1.