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FORD EMPLOYEES WALKI WESTERN EUROPE SETS UP OUT AT RIVER ROUGE ITS FIRST "PARLIAMENT”
Detroit, May 5.
The CIO United Auto Workers Union walked out of the Ford Motor Company in a strike that could closa Ford's industrial ompira and idle a total of 135,200 workers in 33 citios within three wocks. About 62,200 workers began the strike at Ford's River Rouge and Lincoln Mercury assembly and manufacturing plants shortly before noon EST in a protest against an alleged "speed-up.'
Over 50,000 of the strikers are lure of Company executives and
officials beaded from the key River Rouge plant, Union
by the which sprawls over 1,070 aeres International President Walter. along the Detrolt river,
Beuther to effect a settlement in The walk-end came after fai- last-minute negotiations. As the
strike
through word flashed plants, workers dropped their tools and streamed out of the shops.
Free Gold Market Proposed
read from
the
Washington, May 5. Senator Pat McCarran, Demo- silver-producing state of Nevarla, torlay urged that a free gold market be re-estab- Bsbed the US.
He said that the present restrie- Bons on purchase ned possession of gold by private citizen in the D.S. me absurd.
He urged the Senate Judiciary Committee lo avesinnene! his bill which
would repeal the restrie- on gold exchange and ros- nue in operation the gold slut- dard act requiring the U.S. Trea- Bury to buy all gold offered at $35 an ounce,
Mr. McCarron said But in the past two years the Treasury bought more that $3,700,000,000 worth of gold and that 08 per rent of it came from outside the
IUS.
"We do not know what the Treasury proposes to do with this enormous mast of precious metal. It has never stated its intention and, so far as 1 know, no polley with respect to this gold has ever been formulated.
"It is high time that we give serious thought to the use and disposition of thie gold," he
Bald.
"
Some of the first out came from the building where the speed-up at River Rouge was al- leged. The strikers quickly es- tablished
the picket line of main gate to the River Rouge plant. They carried large signs
"Ford is on strike." saying:
Now Chapter
The Ford strike opened A new chapter in the atormy his- lory of molor-car labour. There has been only one other major strike at Ford since the late Henry Ford built his first car In 1803,
The sprawling Rouge plant wux
United struck by CIO
Auto Workers and operations ceased on April Fool's Day, 1941. Ten days later, Ford agreed to bargain with the Union,
The longest and costliest mo- tor-car strike whs The 113-day walkout in DAW's wage dispute with General Motors in 1940, total of 175,000 workers gained 18-rent-hourly wage Ita- ere $128,000,000 In erense, but not before they lost wages andt the company and dealers lost un es- tunaled $1,700,400.-United Press,
Mr. McCarran argues that H free gold market would make it easier to
rates. alter exchange help sel up a sound monetary policy and promote both domestic and international stability-Asso- cinted Press
Asbestos Defies Authority
Lebanon Warning On Palestine
Lake Success, May 5. The Lebancs delegate, Mr. charles Malik, today
warned Nations Political the United
Gover- Committee that his ment might reconsider her al- titude to the Palestine Conci- lintion Commission if Israel is admitted to the United Nations wilimut absolute assurances of Israeli's respect for the Com- mission's terms of referepte.
Mr. Malik said that the Con- ciliation Commission had only Montreal, May 5. recently succeeded In starting The town of Asbestos, 75 negotiations for settling the Pale- I miles East of here, where three-į stine problem. He asked whether quarters of the world's asbestos the Generat Assembly is pre- is manufactured, is in a state of pared to prejudice these negotia- tions in their initial stages by near siege today after 5,000
deciding to admit Israel now. strikers blocked roads and, j armed with crowbars, stones, sticks and guns, defied the police.
Fifty police were marooned in the town and 200 reserves were ushed from Montreal and Quebee City to smash through the road blocks raiser on all the routes of
entry
some
at
"The admission of Israel this stage is looked upon by my Government as in part a revoca- tion of the resolution which set up the Conciliation Commission.” he added.
The Commission's terms of re- fercnes are not being respected by the Israeli Government. Mr. Mallic said. "I am instructed by
should Israel be now
church rypt, but they vers later my Government to declare
had des not
The strikers kidnapped peter and imprisoned them in
released. The police were using rev-lvers but inimed that they to membership of the Unitert Na- to shoot or use tions without our being assured Zas in any circumstances.
absolutely of
of Israel's respect for and their
The ferns of The strikers
families,
reference at after a two-months' stoppage, are
Commission, my Government will tarvation
Catholic And itself called upon And en- Churches in Montreal, Quebec tilled to reconsider Its decision and other cities have been enl- towards the conversations going lecting money at their services to on at present in those areas."- buy food for them.-Router.
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The Council, which meets for the first time in Stras- bourg in August, sets out its aim in the Statute, which was signed today, as achieving greater unity to safeguard their common heritage and realise economic and social progress. National defence is not within its scope.
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AS well as the
of Representatives of Govern. "The possibility of accession to ments and a Consultative As, the Statute by other European sembly. Each nation will have States will be considered by, the one representative on the Com- Committee of Ministers at the mittee, with one vote. Normally same time." this will be the Foreign Ministar
or a Deputy who should, If possible, be a member of the Government.
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as follows: Britain 1B, Belgium 3. Denmark. 4, France 18, ireland, 4. Italy 10, Luxembourg 3, The Netherlands 6, Norway 4. Sweden 0.
make
Not Military
The communique discloset' that the Ministers, befora dia- persing, today hold the first meeting of the
Preparatory Commission of the Council of Europa under the chairman- ship of the
French Foreign Minister, M. Schuman.
Thoy nominated M. Camille Paris, of the French Foreinn Office, as the Executive Secretary The Assembly will discuss and and agreed that their next meet- recommendation Conying should take place in Puris da tople passed on the majority of May 11. Labour the representatives' voting.
Issued The communique
10- the night
setting up of the
Schuman, for
A Preparatory Commission will, tion start work in Parks on May 11, Parly).
Before setting the seal on the M. Robert Statute and ending their three- France, sees day London conference, the dele-hope of a lasting supro-natrinal gates made short speeches union. They are serving Europe alphabetical order.
its a whole by greating the nue- leus of a new Europe, he said. The Wulon is a threut to no one and will net only
by example and persuasion, he added,
Vicomte Obert de Tleusies, Belgian Ambassador, said Beiglum and offen been the victim Europe's strife, "She is, there- fore, the more anxious to ro operate with all her might,'
Two Bodios
The British Foreign Secretory, Mr. Ernest Devin, who signed Inst, stid the Statute lays the foundations of something new and hopeful in Europen life. "We are witnessing today the estab- ishment of common demo- eralle institution in this ancient confluent of Europe. This is a truly historie occasion."
(In the House of Commons to- De- day, Mr. Herher! Morrison, puty Prime Minister, announced that Britain's representation wit include members of the Opposi
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Commenting on the provisions of the Statute for the Council of Furope, the Communique
of national defence are
B
in the Statute the Comell of Eurone said that it is "It should be noted that
take place in Strasbourg during ed from the scope of the Coun- August, and that the first session ell of Europe. This Is because will consequently
there is no question here of any of profound significance in Earo- military alliance but rather, as the preamble to the Statute says, Pean history.
The communique added: "The of a general desire to chleve conterence noted the requests re- pence anci
about to bring ceived from the Hellenic Turkish Governments to be ad-safeguarding and realising those and greater unity for the purpose of
mitted as
as members of the Coun- ideals which are the Common eil of Europe. It was the general heritage of the members." *_01 view that the accession of these in the preamble, the members wo States would be acceptable declare that they are convinced and It was agreed that the mat-
that the pursult of peace, based ter should be dealt with under on justice and international co- the Statute by the Committee of operation, is vital for the pre- Ministers as soon as comes into servation of human society nail being.
civilisation.Reuter.
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