TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1952
WSB Cuts Miners'
Boost; Strike Starts
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 20 (iP)— Stung by a government order reducing a pay increase,
305,000 of the country’s 375,000 soft coal miners refused to work today. V
The protest walkout hit hardest in the number one producing state —West' Virginia
—where all the 115,000 members of the United- Mine Workers stayed away from the pits.
Reds Halted;
UN Forces
Wait Attack
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (P)—Allied and
Communist guns duelled furious
ly across the valleys around Sni
per Ridge and Triangle Hill Mon
day night, but mauled Chinese
forces had no appetite for another
attack.
On the two scarred Central Ko
rean r heights, U. S. and Korean
troops dug in for the next Red
blow.
The night was dark —perfect for
a Red. attack. The stars were hid
den by haze - and fog. /
Although action dwindled after
a night and day of costly and fu
tile Red attacks, United Nations
officers refused to predict that
the Chinese Communists had giv
en up.
South Korean Second Division
troops fought back Monday to
dominating positions on the two
thirds of nearby Sniper Ridge.
Officers said at least 884 Chi
nese were killed or wounded in
24 hours of fighting around Tri
angle Hill ending at dusk Monday.
Communist casualties on Sniper
Ridge were not estimated. - -
The United Nations forces
stormed the two heights north of
Kumhwa last week in the first
Allied limited offensive this year.
Allied fighter bombers and ar
tillery Monday pounded Papa San
Mountain, towering Communist
stronghold just north of the Tri
angle, Sniper Ridge . sector. The
Chinese used its craggy slopes as
.a base for two assaults involving
up to 7000 men. The Red attacks
were beaten off by Monday after
noon.
Adlai Depicts Ike as Man
With "'No Polity / No Faith 7
SPRINGFIELD, 111., Oct. 20 (£>)-rGov. Adlai E. Stevenson to
night pictured Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower as man “with no policy,
no program, and no real faith in the future of America.”
Stevenson, the Democratic presidential nominee, said in an ad
dress prepared for a home town audience that Eisenhower, his GOP
opponent, “goes around saying
one thing,” only to have'Republi
can Sen., Robert A. Taft of Ohio,
“assure the country that he (Ei
senhower) really meant something
else,”
Describing Taft as “the great
est authority on what the general
really thinks,” the Illinois gover
nor added:
“While the galaxy of political
followers ride off in all directions
with the general struggling might
ily to keep from falling off the
thrashing elephant, the expedi
ency of it all is showing through
—no policy, no program, and no
real faith in the future of Amer-
Stevenson’s address at the Ar
mory in Springfield was primarily
in behalf of Illinois Democratic
candidates for state and congres
sional offices.
A few hours before the rally,
Stevenson’s -campaign manager,
Wilson Wyatt, said that what
started out to be' Eisenhower’s
great crusade for the presidency
appears to be degenerating into
“the great smear campaign.”
Stevenson’s speech tonight was
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Pennsylvania counted 86,500
idle diggers. All of Illinois’ 17,000
UMW' members are out, as well
as 33,000 of 60,000 miners in
Kentucky, 8500 in Indiana, all of
Alabama’s 15,000 plus 12,000 in
Ohio, 9000 in Virginia and 2000
in Tennessee. Other coal states
reported smaller numbers.
Ups Minimum Wage
The familiar “no contract, no
work” chant went up from min
ers.. One. UMW leader said the
'men felt their new contract was
nullified when the Wage Stabili
zation Board reduced their $1.90-
a-day pay boost to $1.50.
The cut made the basic mini
mum daily wage $17.85. It for
merly was $16.35 and • would
have been $18.25 under the new
contract.
UMW President John L. Lewis
maintained an unbroken silence
in Washington. No publicized, of
ficial orders for a work stoppage
have come from him or any other
UMW leader.
'Long Shutdown'
Possibility of an extended
strike is ’ seen by President
George J. Titler of UMW District
18 in Beckley, W. Va., Titler de
clared:
“The mine shutdown might be
a long one, maybe as much as six
months.”
The work stoppage began last
week when restless miners first
stayed away from the pits to
show dissatisfaction with the gov
ernment’s failure to act immedi
ately on the contract negotiated
by Lewis and the coal industry
Sept. 18. By the end of the week,
160,000 miners were staying at
home.
No one is likely to suffer from
lack of coal for at least two
months. The walkout’s start found
about 85,000,000 tons of coal piled
above gro u n d—a near record
amount.
on the eve of a 4000 mile cam
paign swihg into the Midwest and
East, the final tour in his bid for
the presidency. He leaves Spring
field tomorrow on a two week trip
which will take him into 12 states
with 208 electoral votes among
them.
In his speech tonight, the Demo
cratic nominee said of Eisen
hower:
“Some days the general seems
to stand with the Democrats for
positive action abroad to stop and
turn back Communist aggression,
and positive action at home to pre
vent depression and improve the
freedom and security of our peo
ple.
“But on other days—and these
seem to be in the majority, the
general advocates the election of
all Republican senators and con
gressmen who vote against just
such positive foreign and domestic
policies.”
Wyatt told a news conference
that there had been “shocking”
distortion of the truth by the Re
publican opposition.
Political News
Tuesday, Oct. 21, 1952
By the Associated • Press
Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson will
leave his Springfield, 111., head
quarters for a studio fireside
chat at Chicago to be broadcast
over CBS radio at 10:30 p.m.
Gen. Dwight . D. Eisenhower
will continue New England
tour in Massachusetts and New
Hampshire and make a noon
speech on Boston Common be
fore flying to New York at 4
p.m.
Sen. John J. Sparkman,
Democratic ’ vice presidential
nominee, will speak at Rocky
Mount, N.C.
Sen. Richard M. Nixon, Re
publican vice presidential nom
inee, will campaign by train
through Missouri.
President Truman will start
a new three-day train swing
into Pennsylvania, New Jer
sey, West Virginia, and Mary
land for the Democratic ticket.
Survey Shows
ike Gains
Sn Pennsylvania
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 20 (£>)—
Editors of newspapers represent
ing all of the State’s 67 counties
believe Dwight D. Eisenhower has
gained on his Democratic Presi
dential opponent in the last month
and would receive about 53 per
cent of the popular vote in Penn
sylvania if the election was to be
held today.
The same editors—asked to ex
press their opinions in the second
1952 Associated Press survey—
said they believed Adlai E. Stev
enson would receive about 47 per
cent of the Pennsylvania vote to
day.
These figures represent a gain
of about one per cent for Eisen
hower over the figures given in
a similar survey a month ago.
The 55 editors who took part in
the Associated Press survey were
asked for their estimates of polit
ical sentiment as of today in their
home counties. These answers
were compiled on a statewide
basis with all 67 counties repre
sented, and the total then com
puted to statewide percentages
based on the 1948 total vote. In
that election Republican Dewey
received 1,902,197 votes to 1,752,-
426 for President Truman and ap
proximately 80,000 for other can
didates.
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British Try to Quell
in Kenya
Uprising
NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct. 20 (£>)
troops and a cruiser to Kenya ai
tonight in this East African col
fanatic, secret, anti-white society
The Mau Maus, who -take a h
of Kenya, have murdered at least
43 persons, set buildings and
crops on fire, and slaughtered
cattle in the last few weeks. The
organization is said to number
200,000 of the Kikuyu tribe.
The announcement of a state of
emergency—equivalent to martial
law—followed by a few hours the
arrival in Kenya of a battalion of
the British Lancashire Fusiliers
flown in from the Middle East,
Uganda, and Tanganyika.
Ah airlift of 12 planes made a
night landing on a clockwork
basis at the Nairobi Airport. Use
of the airport after nightfall is
considered an emergency opera
tion. The action was taken under
the militapr code name “Opera
tion Sterling.” The men came
equipped with rifles, light ma
chine guns, and Sten guns.
At the same time, the Colonial
Office announced in London that
the cruiser Kenya would go to
Mombasa, 400 miles from Nairobi,
to support troops in the Kenya
capital.
It was the first major show of
force Britain has made in East
Africa in years. Britain. fears
Kenya could become another
area of guerrilla warfare like
Malaya. So far as can be learned,
however, the Mau Mau has no
Communist leadership or back
ing.
Eisenhower Says Public
Will Oust Democrats
WORCESTER, Mass., Oct. 20—
(A P) —An angry Dwight D. Eisen
hower said today President Harry
too angry to speak. You speak for
administration and added: The
people “are going to throw it out
of office.”
Whistle stopping to tens of
thousands through Southern New
England, the Republican presi
dential candidate charged his-op
position with spreading lies, poi
son, and drivel against him.
The general's ire bubbled up
to the point where he told a police
estimated crowd of 8000 at New
London, Conn.:
“I get to the point where I get
S. Truman has a “scandal-a-day”
me on Nov. 4.”
• Eisenhower’s speech here was
a major one in his tour and he
used it for a 15 point restatement
of “the beliefs which make this
a crusade for me.”
“I am still a ‘No Deal’ man,”
Eisenhower said as he opened
this review of what he regards
as his basic political creed. Then
he went on to make such points
as:
“Anyone who says it is my
purpose to cut down social se
curity, unemployment insurance,
PAGE THREE
I —The British sent a battalion of
ad declared a state of emergency
lony in an effort to control the
known as Mau Mau.
Lood oath to drive the British out
7 Hawaiians
To Be Tried
As Red Agents
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 (ff)—
Seven persons described by the
FBI as Hawaiian Communist lead
ers, including Harry Bridges’ top
lieutenant there, must stand trial
on charges of plotting to over
throw the government by force
and violence, the Supreme Court
so ruled today.
The court, in another action,
agreed to pass on whether unions
violate the Taft-Hartley labor law
when they cause their members
who break union rules to lose
their jobs.
In the Hawaiian case, the high
court refused to issue an order
sought by the seven defendants to
prohibit U. S. District Judge- Jon
Wiig from going ahead with the
trial.
Jack W. Hall, regional director
of Bridges’ International Long
shoremen’s and Warehousemen’s
Union, and the six others contend
ed an indictment returned against
them in Honolulu Aug. 9, 1951,
was defective. They argued the
indictment was drawn by a fed
eral grand jury which was not
racially, economically, or geo
graphically representative of Ha
waii.
to'leave the ill and the aged des
titute, is lying . . .
“I believe that corruption in
government is not something to
be shrugged off . . . That is why
this scandal-a-day administration
stands before the country dis
credited . . .”
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