Evening star., 1948-03-14

Federal labor experts concede that plenty Of
labor trouble Is in store for the Atomic
Energy Commission (ABC) at its Oak Ridge,
Tenn, operations unless q uniform policy on
wages sick leave vacations and other con-
tract issues is worked out by the principal Acc
contractor there. The CIO gas coke and
chemical workers threatened strike at q
production plant last December but settled
for wage boost. The same employer-Car-
bide & Carbon Chemical Corp-now has
taken over the contract Of Monsanto Chemical
Co. at the Oak Bridge National Laboratory.
Monsantos agreement with AFL Atomic
Trades and Labor Council paid more to the
craftsmen employed there and was more
liberal on sick benefits, ETC., than Carbide 6S
Carbons contract with the. CIO for work
In the other Oak Ridge installation. Result:
(A) Pressure upon AFL unions to get the same
or better contract from Carbide as from Mon
santo; (B) pressure from CIO for. equal
terms The CIO may open negotiations for
wages next August If the AFL gets boost
out Of its current dispute. II the C1o makes
some advance the AFL unions without doubt
will come back for matching concessions, the
Government labor observers fear.
Trysve Lie on Pan
DR.. Jan Papanek's plea to the United Nations
to take up the case of Czechoslovakia was
stymied for the time being. But Trygve Lie,
secretary general of the U. N, who ruled
out Papanek's plea, is getting verbal comb
ing here among legal experts. Mr.. Lie ruled
that Papanek's plea was mon governmental"
To that, experts say that DR.. Papanek was
still the official Czech delegate to the U.
and that Mr.. Lie acted too hastily. It also is
noted that one of three with whom Mr.. Lie con-
ferred was Russian, Arkady Sobolev, chief
of the Security Council Department.
Don't look for any big cuts in military
appropriations The House Appropriations
Committee, jealous of its record for whacking
appropriations has been given unoficial notice
to sheath its pairing knife when 1t reaches
the Army and Navy The notice came from
Speaker Joseph w. Martin, jr., head of House
Republicans. Mr.. Martin told newsmen it
might be necessary to give the Army and
the Navy even more than the Presidents
budget calls for. And it's almost a certainty,
he said, that the Air Forces will receive an
increase. I'm times like these we can't do
much, If any, cutting on those things" Mr..
Martin declared. I'VE must have the biggest
and best Air Force in the world, for defensive
and offensive purposes. 1t will cost a lot Of
money but we will have to pay it,"
Palestine
LAKE SUCCESSIVE United Nations faces
its first major deadline on the Palestine parti-
tion plan April l. The U. N. Palestine Com
mission was directed to have provisional
councils of government for the proposed new
Jewish and Arab countries operating by then,
but it seems certain that neither an Arab nor
Jewish government will be set up within
%l>n
the proposed governments could not start
operating until May Is, when its mandate
Is ended
JERUSALEM. - The Palestine government
has announced that Jewish political prisoners
now held in Kenya Colony in Africa will be
back in the Holy Land not later than July.
Private informants say approximately 800
are in Kenya camps For two or three years
Britain has been sending Jewish political
she considers most trouble |
some-to African detention centers. At first |
they were taken to Eritrea the former Italian
colony in Northeast Africa
CIO Shifts
The CIO has shifted its organizing per-
sonnel because of the custer Of Harry Bridges
as Northern California director. Tim Flynn, |
former official of the steelworkers and re- |
Gently Eastern representative of the CIO, was |
shifted to the West Coast for the top job.
Irving Abramson, former head of the New
Jersey State council succeeds Mr.. Flynn as
Eastern representative
Bevin's Plan
LONDON.-WhitehaH informants say For
eign Secretary Bevin will emphasize the need
for broad Western European union during
the Marshall Plan conference opening In
Paris tomorrow but emphasize primarily eco
nornic rather than political and military CO.
operation. Mr.. Beyin Is reported to kelieYe