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The Nome nugget., 1952-07-25
End of Steel Strike Prevents Disaster In Canned Foods Industry

PITTSBURGH, (P) - Charles w. York, executive secretary of the Pennsylvania Gamers Asso- citation, said Friday the steel strike ended just in time to prevent a disaster in the country's canned food industry.
 York said railroad cars will be waiting at mill gates to load stored tin plate the minute plants open.
 ''It is still too early to predict how much damage has been done to the canning business. It de- pends on too many ifs, such as condition, of the stored tin plate. How fast it can be delivered to can manufacturers and how quick can deliveries can be made to the canners."
The Nome nugget., 1952-07-25
Alaska OPS Personnel
 To Be Trimmed from 34 to 2l

ANCHORAGE, P) - Fred C.. Hanford, territorial director of the Office of Price Stabilization, said Thursday, the Juneau staff would be trimmed from 34 to 21 as a result of the curtailed ap- propriation for controls agencies voted by Congress last month.
 Hanford said present pla n s were to retain branch OPS offices at Anchorage and Fairbanks and to eliminate certain functions of the Juneau office.
The Nome nugget., 1952-07-25
News BlackOut Lifted
 After IS Off-the-RecOrd ArmiStice Truce Meetings

MUNSAN, (P) - The three week news blackout was lifted from the Korean armistice talks Friday, showing the deadlock over prisoner exchange - final issue blocking a truce-still unbroken.
 Despite a United Nations offer to return an additional 13,000 captives to the Communists, 18 off -the-record meetings since July proved completely fruitless," said Maj. Gen. William K. Harri- son, Jr.
 The chief Allied delegate said, "As long as we continue negotia- tions there is always hope. When the enemy proposed this morning that we go back into open ses- sions, agreed heartily"
The Nome nugget., 1952-07-25
CIO Delegates Are Asked To Vote For Stevenson


 CHICAGO, {P) = Jack Kroll, CIO political action director, Fri day asked all CIO member-dele- gates at the Democratic conven- ton to vote for Gov. Adlai Stew enson of Illinois.
 Kroll issued a statement through a press aide saying that he wanted all CIO members who are con- vention delegates to vote for Ste venson as the presidential nomi- nee "as soon as they can fulfill their commitments"
 By this he said he meant they should vote for Stevenson on the first ballot, or on the soonest subsequent ballot possible.
 The CIO had been wavering be- tween three candidates, Steven son, Sen. Estes Kefauver of Ten nessee and Mutual Security Di- rector Averell Hartman.
The Nome nugget., 1952-07-25
Last Yukon River Boats
 To Leave Nenana Aug. 10

ANCHORAGE, (R)-The Alas ka Railroad said Thursday that the final runs of it's river boats to the villages of Fort Yukon and Marshall are scheduled to leave Nenana Aug. 10.
 . Railroad officials urged Alas kan shippers with freight for the two river points to get their goods to the railroad in time to reach Nenana before the last sailings. Ice begins to appear on the Yu- kon and Tanana rivers early in September and the villages are then cut off from service until May.
The Nome nugget., 1952-07-25
Convention News
By JACK BELL

CONVENTION HALL, Chicago (P =. Weary, squabbling Demo- crats deployed for their payoff battle over a presidential nomi- nee Friday with hastily assem- bled stop-Stevenson troops dug in on defense.
 Supporters of Gov. Adlai Stew enson-now somewhat less reluc- tant to become the party standard bearer than he has been before carried the attack to 10 opponents seeking the top nomination.
 The Stevenson men were cred ited with bringing back into the convention fold bolt threatening delegations from Virginia, South Carolina and Louisiana.
 Working together in what they have styled a Liberal" combine which has attracted supporters of some other candidates, Kefauver and Hartman took a 648K to 512 licking in efforts to prevent the 28-vote Virginia delegation from balloting on presidential and vice presidential nominees.
 The Virginians had refused to subscribe fully to a new loyalty pledge put across by the XII combine which would require delegates to go to work to place the conventions nominees on their states November ballot, un- der the Democratic label. The net result was to leave the three dele gations in a position to cast a total of GA convention votes for the South's champion, Sen. Rich ard B. Russell.
 Then, if they didn't like the eventual nominee, they could go home and name their own candi- date for president in state con- ventions. All they appeared to be pledged to. do, was to give the national party a place on their state ballots.
 Earlier in the day word had come to party leaders from the White House that President Tru- man prefers Stevenson.
The Nome nugget., 1952-07-25
Coast-of-Living Index Reaches <All-Time High, Almost Treble Base Period

WASHINGTON, {P The cost of living, as measured by the gov-. ernment, scared to an all time high in mid-June.,
 Figures made public by the Bu- reau of Labor Statistics Thursday, showed that on June IS the price of food, clothing, rent, entertain ment and other daily living costs was 1896 per cent of the 1885 1889 period. :
 That was 11.4 per cent higher than two years ago, just before the Korean fighting started.
 The cost-of-living index jump ed five-tenths of a point over the previous record high for last Jan- uary, under the pressure of higher costs for food, rent, and miscel- laneous goods and services.
 About 100000 wage earners may get a pay hike as result of the new index. These workers have contracts which tie their wages to the rise and fall of the index.
The Nome nugget., 1952-07-25
Death of Civil War Vet, Israel Broadsword, 1O5,
 Leaves Only 3 In GAR.

SPOKANE, (P - Israel Broad sword, who took up arms at the age of IA to fight in the Civil War, died Friday at the age of 1O5.
 His death leaves only three liv- ing veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic. A resident of Samuels, Idaho, since 1929, he was hospitalized at the Spokane Veterans Hospital 10 days ago for diseases of old age.
 Broadsword responded to his country's call three times, enlist ing in the 51st Missouri Volunteer Infantry at the age of A, and later in the regular army when only Is. After the Civil War he rode with the 1'th Kansas Caval- ry as a sergeant during the Sioux uprising.
The Nome nugget., 1952-07-25
Bucket Line Saves
 KOtzebue Mercantile Go. Building From Burning

Special to the Nome Nugget
 Destruction of good portion of Kotzebue by fire when the old Magids Store building caught fire was averted early today by the prompt formation of bucket line. Men and women of the vil- lage and visitors to Kotzebue formed a bucket line from Kotze- bue Sound to the roof of building.
 The building housed the Kotze- bue Mercantile Company, owned by Beulah Levy. There was con- siderable damage to the upper storey.
 No wind and immediate alarms brought control which prevented the flames from spreading to ad- cent frame structures and sweeping Front Street.
The Nome nugget., 1952-07-25
Blood Typing Program Provides MIMI Hospital With Walking Blood Bank

Frank Pauls of the Alaska De- partment of Health Laboratory Department of Anchorage, assis- ted by Marshall Gordon of the MS Health, who volunteered to assist him, and local volunteer help, blood typed 399 Thursday at the ANS Clinic in the Federal Building.
 Mir. Pauls states that this is a community program with Civ ilian Defense and the Alaska De- .partment of Health and once the community has been typed, each person will have his own card or tag, the hospital will have com plete record as we'll as the Civ ilian Defense headquarters in Nome and a master copy will al- ways be available at Anchorage in case of disaster. He stated that the local doctor will now be able to call upon his walking blood bank" and have blood in emer- gencieS within a few minutes.
 The clinic was open this morn ing and this afternoon was held at the King Island Village.
 All those who have not had time to be typed may do so this evening from 2 to g o'clock.
The Nome nugget., 1952-07-25
CHICAGO, (R-Alaska's gov

CHICAGO, Alaska's gov. Ernest Gruening seconded the nomination of Sen. Estes Kefau- yer Thursday for the Democratic presidential nomination as dem onstrated winner" and the peo- ple's choice.
 Gruening said eff the American people were selecting candidate for the Democratic nomination for the presidency it would be Estes Kefauver."
The Nome nugget., 1952-07-25
Truman Demands. Gets Settlement In Steel Strike

WASHINGTON, (P)-The long, est, costliest steel strike in Ameri- can history in effect is over. Pro- duction is expected to resume next week.
 The striking CIO Steelworkers Union was considered virtually certain Friday to ratify a strike end agreement reached at the White House after President Tru- man personally demanded - and got - a settlement.
 It was not a clear-cut victory for anyone concerned-the union, industry, or the government. There was give and take on all sides.
 The end of the crippling, 53 day strike was announced late Thursday by the President him. self, with CIo President Philip Murray \and US. Steel chairman Benjamin Hairless standing be- side him.
 At best it will be four or five days before any substantial pro- duction of steel is reached. It takes that long to heat up the banked blast furnaces which standby workers have kept alive ever since the strike started on June 2.
 The new steel which comes out of some 38O struck plants will sell for at least $5.2O' a ton more than before the strike started.
 Some officials have predicted that such a boost would increase the cost of living, already at an all-time high.
 The $5 price increase, ironically CllOQSIl, "dS IIiC pIlSC 1ilSl CdSC Charles E. Wilson as Defense Mobilizer, had said the industry should get to compensate for higher wage costs.
 No wage or other terms were announced at the White House session, but it was reliably learn ed the agreement includes: a wage boost of 16 cents an hour for 650,O00 basic steel workers; a highly modified form of union shop; six paid holidays; two- year contract dating from last June 30, with a wage reopener next June 30.
 The strike, longest in the na- tion's steel history, will have cost more than 21 million tons of the defense-vital metal by the time full production is resumed.
The Nome nugget., 1952-07-25
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The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-05-16
FATHER HIGGINS
Union Shop Here To Stay

against the union shop is an open
insult to the intelligence of the
American people. 1t is enough to
make the average person throw
up his hands in despair of our
ever being able to find a work
able solution to the problem of
labor-management relations in
the United States.
Fortunately, the situation real
ly isn't as hopeless as all that.
The union shop is here to stay,
come hell or high water or a
million full-page advertisements
about the So-called American
way of life. One fine morning, in
the not too distant future, rep
resentstives of Big Steel will
suddenly wake up to the fact
that Abraham Lincoln knew
more about the basic intelli-
gence of the common people
than they do.
One of these more progressive
industrialists-Samuel Klein, Ex-
ecutive Director of a very inn
portant trade association in the
ladies' garment industry-recent-
ly made recommendation more
radical than anything ever pro-
posed by organized labor in the
United States on the subject OF
union security. Il suggest :"
he said, that the parties to our
agreements labor and manage
ment-join in urging national
legislation through which the
conditions set forth in union con-
tracts that embrace substantial
majority of firms in an industry
be made applicable to all en-
gagged in il" Earlier in. this same
address MIR. Klein had stated,
without qualification, that "in
our industry, we correctly re-
gard a strong union as an es-
sential stabilizing factor"
The representatives of Big
Steel, in their fanatical opposi-
tion to the union shop, are talk
ing the dead language of the 10Th
century. Mr.. Klein's is the voice
of the future.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-05-16
Il Am an american Day.

Sunday, May 18, has been designated as Il Am
An American Day" New citizens will have part
in ceremonies expressing their JOY in having been
accepted as full-fledged Americans Their action
could be of value to all the rest of us.
However, it is these new citizens who will be
scandalized at some of the things which they will
experience from others who are native born. Com
ing some of these recently admitted citizens
have from places of no freedom il is most strange
to them to witness people enjoying complete free
dom ready at times to deny it to their neighbors.
That this is true is evident from bill intro
dueed recently in Congress. This proposed legisla-
tion would outlaw the shipment of literature through
the mails or across state lines which libes racial
or religious group. Evidences of what such libes
are capable of doing were seen in recent bombingS
In Florida and the dissertations of churches and
synagogues in Pennsylvania and elsewhere In other
words it is evident that in some instances American
citizens are ready to deny basic freedoms TO
another.
Il am an American Day" could be an admirable
opportunity for all of us to renew our good Amer
lean charity towards our neighbor. Respect for
others rights is sometimes forgotten in ones in
sstence upon ones own. Some 90 so far to
say they do not care about the rights of Others they
want to make sure of their own no matter who
suffers result This is Americanism at its worst
Good neighbors look out for one anothers needs
And this is good Amercansm.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-05-16

hollow-eyed, in search of a bet
ter vision to pursue. Despair of
the second-best may be the sur
est of all incentives for pushing
on to find the best. The best, of
course, is God.
This struggle, with its super
natural overtones, is the real
struggle of most ages. 1t was
only very shallow and brief
period in which men could de-
lude themselves that earthly
happiness for everyone could be
won at so cheap a price as they
thought in the twenties, the thir-
ties and the forties. The earnest
crusaders of those times were
the spiritual grandchildren of a
small and cynical group of Vic
torians who wrote wonderful
phrases to attempt to make the
half-gods seem full-sized and
whole.
Primarily Satanic
1t has been, when you come to
think of it, brief dream in the
history of western man - this
dream of a perfect society on
earth. The ancient Greeks were
far too cynical to believe in it:
their Golden Age was placed
firmly in the past. The Middle
Ages looked to the Catholic
Heaven for its happiness, as
Catholics do today.
Can an intelligent man or
woman, in our day, dedicate his
life to the perfectability of man
through economic change or
through political reform, through
extension of the franchise or the
spread of education or an eleva-
tion of the material standard of
living? No; not even the Com
munists expect their paradise on
earth to arrive from methods
such as these. They know, now.
that their primary task is a Sa-
tanic one; and that the war upon
religion is far more momentous
to their cause than the wiping
out of capitalism or the destruc-
tion of private property. Even
among the Bolsheviks economics
has lost its primacy and the
revolution" has emerged as a
religious war.
The little dreams that kent
men of good will busy and hope
full for the past few decades have
ended: there is only the Chris
tian Reality and the Communist
nightmare left for them to
choose between. The twilight al
legiances are no longer possible:
one must serve full day or black
est night.
The demigods have crumbled
away and there are only two
armies left in all the world to
which man may pledge his
soul. There is God. There is an
tigod.
But the half-gods of temporal
reform are as dead as Jupiter
and Venus and the little lepre-
chauns in whom men, once upon
a time, also believed.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-05-16
Union Shop And Steel

One of the less noticed but important issues
that has been pushed into the background by more
weighty and pressing problems in the current steel
dispute is the matter of the union shop. The union
shop is union security measure requiring all
workers in plant where union has bargaining
rights to Join that union condition of continued
employment after they are hired The Wage Stabili-
zation Board recommended that it be granted the
steel workers union in the new contract
Naturally enough the union wants it, primarily as
a security measure and necessary instrument
in effectively enforcing contracts entered into The
union also feels that since all in plant benefit from
the union all should belong.
The companies contest this very hoty, maintain
inr that the union shop is abridgment of the right
to work Every man should be able TO work without
being required TO belong TO an organization that may
be personally obnoxious to him.
The management position is weakened somewhat
by the fact that the union shop is now commonly
accepted in industry II is not a matter of principle
either for the same companies have granted the
union shop to other OF their employees, such as the
coal miners in steel owned mines.
The right to work is not an unconditional right
Work has both individual and social effects, Every
man has the right to job, else the right to life
would be meaningless However, no particular en-
ployer be charged with the obligation of respect
ing this right by hiring a certain man.
A man cannot demand a job under conditions
which might be contrary to the common good. If
one OF the conditions in employment which pro-
notes the common good is membership in union,
then no right of the worker is abridged by the re.
quirement that he join union.
II should be evident by now that most unions,
and certainly the steel union is among them, have
made positive contribution TO the common good in
the improvement of conditions, hours, wages and
security for their members. Why then the continued
objection to the union shop?
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-05-16
Sunday tn Spring

Spring with its spirit of awakening has tremen-
dous effect upon all of us. The winter is over and
We feel ready for life and activity II is cleaning
time; the house, the yard and the field need atten-
ton-they are TO be readied for new life and
growth
But this urge to action brings some problems
When, for instance, is this house-cleanng going TO
be done in homes where both husband and wife
are employed all week at regular Jobs? II is not
the purpose here to survey the reasons for such
situation. But it may be of interest to direct atten
ton to the fact that ii is used excuse during
these spring days for lot of hard work on week
ends. Accordingly it is not uncommon to see house
holders busy painting Saturdays and Sundays
Nor will it be unheard of that people will use Sun
day TO the lawn, remodel the house. clean
house, do the washing or ironing, and other such
things The spirit and enthusiasm of the season
urges on even to the extent of serve work on
Sunday.
drive around the city and through the country
Sundays reveals stores open for business and
the farmer on his tractor in the field. Sometimes,
too, contractors have crews at work on this day.
renewal of the realization that we have OBJ
legation to keep holy the Lords Day is in order
1t is true that some may consider certain labors
recreation But il is stretching the point to say that
moving the lawn, painting the house, making the
garden housekeeping and such like fall in that
category. And there is still the matter of giving
scandal to others, and of contributing to the al
ready too general lack of observance of Sunday
day of rest and prayer Catholics in particular may
feel that they have completely fulfilled their obli-
CATION by assisting al Mass forgetting that the whole
day belongs TO God. Some thought and care may en-
able us to bring Gods blessing upon the rest of the
week by giving Him all of His one day.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-05-16
Is The Rosary An
MduLgenced Prayer?

ployees stealing. Do l haze TO
report it to the boss?
A. Employees are bound by
the seventh commandment as
much as anyone else although
certain minor unwritten privileg-
es sometimes prevail, especially
regarding small amounts of food
or candy consumed on the prem
iSes. This privilege cannot be as
sumed, however, If there are spe-
cific prohibitions and it does not
include removing articles from
the premises. Those who have
some sort of supervisory posi-
ton are bound to see that any
unauthorized appropriation of
the employers property is pre-
vented, and if it is any serious
amount and they can prevent it,
they must. Watchmen or fore
men who see the owner, wheth-
er it be individual, corpora
ton, or government, robbed
and do nothing may be bound to
restitution. Other employees,
who do not condone or aid the
injustice are not bound to en-
dure grave hardships likely to
come from reporting thefts.
They should strive to persuade
their felIow-employeeS to give
up the practice, and indicate dis
approval whenever possible. If
the matter involves serious
amounts, however, they are def
nitely bound to more than these
steps, either bringing the matter
to the attention of the employer
or the civil officer. In a particu-
lar case advice should be sought
from the pastor or from the
priest in confession.
@. What is the best time for
an adult TO be baptized? Nm
gtrlfriend is taking Instructions
and | think she should come in
to the Church before Mass in
the morning, but another Cath
olic tells her it should be in the
eUeninq.
A. Following the Roman Ritual
the most favored time for adult
baptism is the morning, followed
by Mass and reception of Holy
Communion. The Code of Canon
Law No. 1851 states: Unless
grave and urgent reasons prevent
it, the baptized adult should inn
mediately after Baptism assist
at Holy Mass and receive Holy
Communion. Because of numer-
Gus difficulties this custom has
been generally replaced in the
United States by reception of
the convert in the evening with
Mass and Holy Communion the
next day. The pastor in the par
ish where the young lady is being
received is the one to decide
what is most suitable under the
circumstances in his parish.
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