1952-04-09 — Page 3

Eleventh-Hour

Bid To Avert

US

Steel Strike

New York, Apr. 8.

The United States Government's chief nego“ tiator said today that he had put new proposals which might prevent the nation-wide strike of 655,000 steel workers due to start at midnight.

Mr Nathan P. Feinsinger, Chairman of the Wage Stabilisation Board, said that he had made certain suggestions as a basis for possible settle- ment to leaders of the industry and would now put them separately to union leaders.

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"I wouldn't have embarked this course and I not felt some confidence that the paniles would be receptive," he said.

of

More than 100,000 members the United Steel workers' Union are already idle. The rest are under strike ordera which will shut down 98 steel mills from the Atlante 1x the Pacife at midnight..

Mr Philip Murray, President of the Congress of Industrial Organisations and of the United Steelworkees, sald that unless the steel industry accepted wage increase recommendations, the production of steel nution's would come to a halt.

steel 100,000 More than workers had left their jobs lo- ity, well In advance of the strike deadline. Many other

The Wage Stabilisation Board industries including railways lias recommended a 1714 cents and mines laid off workers Increase. The steet in the expectation tant a steel mukers say that they

cannot strike would mean the closing

an

hour

pay this unless they can inercase down of factories, prices by about $12 a ton. The recommendations of the Board fre not binding. The present steet price is about $110 a 100.

Steel supplies

Some $7,000 communications workers of America also wen

strike yesterday on

in the against the American dispute civilian Telephone to

cinel Telegraph

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1953.

Balloon Test Again Fails

Glasgow, Apr. 81

A second giant balloon, carrying equipment for studying camld radio- activity, in the stratosphere, which was launched toʻiay by An atomic research team, fell into the sea after reaching 98,000 feel.

Beleniiats said It met turbulent air.

As a

result it lost hydrogen and then descended. Yesterday the first balloon fell into the cea after I had been up an hour,

The balloons were in- tended to reach 100,000 feet and stay there for about three hours so that Information on cosmic rays could be

an recorded photographie plates, Other information was expected the radioed to

to

544

ground.-Reuter.

Uranium Find In Yugoslavia

Heavy Turn-Out Of

Illinois

Voters In Presidential Primary

TAFT VICTORY PREDICTED

Chicago, Apr. 8..

Nearly 2,000,000 voters are trekking to the polls in Illinois today to cast ballots in the State's presidential primaries.

Illinois, the hub of the Middle-West, is electing 50 delegates to party national conventions which will meet here next July to choose their presidential candidates.

Polls are to close at 5

Balmy spring weather encouraged a heavy vote, p.m. local time,

Traditionally Democratie Chl-, Eisenhower had, in fnel, written carly, at the Hotel and waited cago is pling up an expectedly any letter.

for the General to come. heavy Republican

NATO officers ne Soine 09 vole.

present for the Ave-day paper The

war" test.

Republican

primary

In Paris

today, General vote Eisenhower's election campaign reckoned to result in a certain manager, Senator Henry Cabot

disclaimed win for Senater Taft, General Ledge,

knowledge rival Elsenhower's chief

for of reports that the General had nomination.

seni his resignation to Mr

New York lonight after a five- Senator Lodge is leaving for

day visit.

The only rival named on the Robert Lovett. ballot paper is Mr Harold Stassen, Mr Taft will probably Belgrade, Apr. 8. gain a hugo` majority on pre- High-grade uranium oresidential preference or popularity bis been

AN ADMISSION? discovered in contests and may win 45 of the 50 delegates. it is reported Yugoslavia,

General

Eisenhower can get The

General reports that by well-informed sources only write-in" votes.

Eisenhower had already sent in here today.

The consensus here is that if his resignation provoked no he polled 20 per cent. of the comment"

at Supreme Head-

Brmy have already been systems in four Stales and the CORNERS

The Commerce Department

43 States.

Alpular vote in this Taft strong-quarters in Patis today but

And is in The

Yugoslavin's

Strumica Valley where tha

Bulgarian, Greek and Yugoslav obtained bigger share he absence of an outright deniul

was said to be ready to take Nation-wide heketing is due frontiers meet. over the industry should Preto start tomorrow. sident Truman order

Govera-

ment seizure of the mills.

A In the Western Union walk-

White House spokesman said out, about 30,000 members of the that it was thought likely that Canime: cial Telegraphers' Union the President had ample have been out since last Thurs. authority to do so in

the in- dny. terests of public safety and security.

ORDERS

DRAFTED

Western Unitm claims that it has restored service between 82 key cities, Sixty to 80 per cent of the

the nation's phones are on the that

emmares Department off. aute

automatic dial

dial system, so _ rele

that seizure orders the strike affected chiefly long had been drafted but no action distanse calls and manuang- couhi be laken until an an-operated phones. But a prolonged nouncement by the White Strike could hurt dial service; House,

too, by curtailing maintenance. Reuter,

President Truman ordered the Secretary of Commerce, Mr Charks Sawy, to return from the Mat-West tu Washington today.

Several laws give the Gavern- is take over and min, pow... operate an industry under cer- tain conditions. The question is whether the conriltions in the current steel controversy fill the legal requirements.

A

Sandblaster Wins Suit

man

was

Edinburgh, Apr. 8.

who contracted pneumoconiosis while working The sleci

industry has said ng a sandblaster

tollay 1310 Government

seizure and awarded) £2,300 damages by operation of their facilities Lord Mackintosh in the Court woul

amount to "vonfiscation" of Session here.

William McCorkindlale, of

and that they die prepared to

move.

light in the courts any seizur Kirkintilloch, Dumbartonshire. ad sued the Lion Foundry Company Limited, Kirkintilloch,

£5,000, alleging for

that the did not กลาง

keep the sand

One parsible alternative would be for the Government an

to seek an anti-strike injune blasting plant in safe condition Lion under the Tart-Hartley but allowed it to become leaky. law, which permits an 80-day with the result that dust

injunction

against

which Createns welfare or safety.

strike creaped from it.

the tutional

McCorkintiale worked for the

firm for 32 years--for six years until July 1940 as 24 sand blaster. Pneumoconiosis is a

The industry already was paitly closed down swith fornaces being gradually stopped lung disense due to in advance preparations for this! or minute. walk-out..

16

particles-Reuter,

inhaling

metallic

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YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD—Across: 1 Siceny, 4 Scoff, 7 Robust, 8 Angle, 10 Lira, 12 Returns, 18 Knead, 16. Meet, 17 Even, 19 Newór, 20 Dejucts, 21 Doir, 23 Seals, 24 Pistolj 25" Trade,. 20. Tended.; Down: 1. Stroiled, -3′ Embarked, 3 Pest, 5 Consumou, O Feltne, Codes, 11 Annulled, 13- Rants, 13 Re-rouled, 14 Storfled, 18 Vencer, 22 Wize.

Is one The valley

of the ancient

for invasion routes

wes through the. Balkans and

used

1041 most recently

in

when the German armies drove through it to the sea, cutting of

several Greek divisions.

the much

Mr Slussen.

Mr Taft, still showing sign of wear

and tear aftor thousands of miles of travel

in. Minnesola against

HARD ON "IKE"

law

Tlinois

no

stipulates that "write-in" vates must be follow-

cd by a

square as on

may, in fact, be a tacit admis- sion that has been despatched to Washington,

They did not

expect, how-

None of the General's staff would comment on the Washing- ton resignation report-United Press.

4

Mr. Eden Advocates Caution

REFERENCE TO RED. FEELERS

and hundreds of speeches, has ever, that his resignation would

Glasgow, Apr. 8. concentrated here on blocking take effect Immediately but that The Foreign Secretary, General Eisenhower "write-ins." the General would probably re- Mr Anthony Eden, said turn home in the second or The Strumien mountains form

third week in the southern tip of the north-

May

here tonight that the de- after a fare- south chain which has already

well

terrent effect of increasing well tour of the NATO nations. provided considerable uranium

Before his departure at Orly Western strength was al- For the Soviet Union.

the Airport, Paris, Senator Lodge ready producing a greater Almost-duc...

north of t the painted ballot paper and he said in very much nee willingness to negotiate on Yugoslav Bushovo, in

marked by an X in the square. I feel I have been talking to the the part

couraged

by my visit to France, Bulgaria. the Soviet-ru Until last week the law had in-

of others than uranium mine, has been ship sisted that

United there was some six months candidate's name next President of the ping 60 carloads of ore per day should be spelled correctly-a Statea, who will bring lasting to Russia, according to a Bul-vote loser in the case of General Beact to the world.

not

United ago. garian refugee who had work-Bis

Eisenhower,

States but to the ed for a year in the mine,

American coull come over and "I only wish that every talk with him as I have done, I was very favourably impress- The interpretation of "under- standably" resis

with General Eisenhower's and was Kiso with counting Eeneral attitude office.

by talks with encouraged Ag most of the countles

French public men."

Senator Lodge said that his which votes are counted are pro-Taft there is a widespread next move in the "Eisenhower belief that

Eisenhower many "write-ina" will be ruled invalki. The

Democrat primary re- mained a walk-over for Senator

MORE EXPLOITATION

S: farther to the north, ac- cording to well-informed Yugo- slav sources, more exploitation of new uranium discoveries is planned for this Spring in the region of Turnu Severin on the Rumanian border.

Geologists had long expected

that uranium - would be dis-

In covered Yugoslavia because of its extensive lead deposits, but this is believed to be the

definite confirmation first their predictions.

But a State judge ruled that a name had only to be "wrion understandably" to be a valid vote.

A

in

The discoverty was made in Kefauver, the only aspirant with the

or 1953, this name on the ballot paper, carly Autumn

but was learned.

wr[le»uj lost-minute The site wus immediately! campaign for Governor Sealed off as a military, reserve Stevenson, the Governor DI Illinois is expected to yield a and large groups of workers, no largely prison Jabour, brought considerable poli.

It reflected a wide popular Actual production, at least on wish that Governor Stevenson a small scale, is believed to be should be a candidate he might

willing candidate for the pre- sidency, Democratic Party lenders hope-Reuter,

in.

ed

"

for President" campaign would be to continue the campaign in Houston and Dallas (Texas) and Okinitoma, 25 so as he gets

United back to the

States.-- Reuter.

whs

Mr Eden believed that the danger of war in Europe hart largely due to the polley of the receded and that this

Western Allles of building up strength without provocation.

"We must persevere with that policy not as a threat to anyone but as an indication of our de- termination to preserve aur way of life.

"I have

never refused--1101 enter into refuse-to would

I any discussion whose scrious purpose was the reduction of International feelon end the promotion of a speelite agree- ment on a given issue.

FAREWELL LUNCH?

"But what we must not to is to be drawn into tangled and Paris, Apr. 8.

interminable negotiations whos General Dwight D. Eisen-

host today at only purpose is to prevent pro- hower played what appeared to be a "fare-gress with schemes of interna

tienal understanding on which well" lunch for his fellow off the nations of the West in the NATO Command now, netively engaged. cers

but

refused to comment on that is letter of re-

already under 'way, - United change his mind and become has reached Washing-

Press,

MYRON

COWEN'S NEW POST ·

Washington, Apr. 8.

Ambassador in Brussels.

Mr

GRAVEST DANGER

are

"I sum up by saying: Serious The Supreme Commander of negotiations 037 any occasion

Time North Atlantic Treaty Or- |—yes,

wasting contor- RESIGNATION REPORT

ganisation countries entertained tons on every occasion-no," scores of senior officers who Mr Eden was speaking at a Washington, Apr. 8.

An- have

gathered here for his head-political meeting in St. The United States Defence Mr Myron Cowen, former US Secretary, Mr Robert Lovett,

quarters' Arst large-scale "paper drew's Hall.

It was important that Bri- war" exercises, Ambassador to the Philippines, replied "No comment" when

Because of Washington

should ialn re-

work closely with has been chosen by the State asked today if he had received Department to replace

Mr General Elsenhower's resigna- ports that the General's resigna- the Commonwealth in solving Robert Murphy as American tion as the Supreme Allied tion had been received there, political, economie and financial

Commander in Europe,

the luncheon was regarded by problems, he stated,

Turning to the rising un- Cowen who returned

President heater,"

Truman's many as a farewell party for last December from Manila, is

Press

Secretary, Mr Joseph the communder of the European employment in Britain's textile Industry, Mr Eden said it was at present special adviser with Short, told reporters that the defence effort. the State Department On White House had received General Eisenhower posed true that a world-wide recession foreign aid, --- France-Presse. nothing from the General in the Jovially for photographers before in textiles was causing the loss nature of request for rellet the banquet but refused touf work in the industry, but if from his post.

answer any questions about his the Government had not adopt- ed the policy that it did the Mr Lovett was questioned reported resignation,

He arrived at the Royal country's whole economy would after he held a 35-minute con-

collapsed. ference with President Truman Monceau Hotel with Turkish, have

Mr Eden sald, "Our nation has Italian and French officers and The House today completed at the White House.

Introduced them to Lord Louis

been усту

close to economie Congressional action on a

Earligt in the day a report Mountbatten before entering the disaster and we are still in the solution making Wednesday had Been published saying

banquet room,

gravest danger. Seldom in our Bataan Day, marking the 10th that General Eisenhower had

Word of his reported resigna- history lins the Government anniversary of the fall of the written to Mr Lovett subtion is the primary topic of can had to face such formidable peninsula.

mitting his resignation and that The measure, approved by the letter was expected to reach versation among Belgian, Dutch problems on every front in so

and French officers who arrived short a space."-Reuter. the Senate and now sent to the him today. White House, calls for the dis- Earlier enquiries at the De- play by the pubile of the US. fence Headquarters brought n and Philippines Angs, and 'spiri- denial that the letter had reached tual services" in schools and Mr Lovett and a spokesman churches.-Azsociated Press. said he did not know it General

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