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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.

The 87 members of the Con=" sultative Assembly are divided

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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hoped the Inaugural meeting will

be

an evenl

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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