WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1953
AFL President Requests
Revisions in T-H Law
WASHINGTON, March 3 (/P) AFL President George Meany today asked Con
gress for what amounts to practically a 'repeal of the Taft-Hartley. Act;
In a sweeping indictment of the se.ven-year-old law, which he called “unjustifiably
oppressive,” the AFL/s new president told the House Labor Committee: '
Enslavement
Fight Seen
By Parties
WASHINGTON, March., 3 .(/P)—
The lines were drawn up today
for a possible out-and-out fight
between Republicans and Demo
crats over the resolution con
demning Russia for enslavement
of free peoples.
Secretary of State Dulles, spon
sor of the original proposal on be
half of President Eisenhower, has
said it would be better to have no
action at all on the subject than
to turn out a split decision which
the Soviets could interpret to the
world as a division in American
views. Such a fight might still be
averted, but Democratic state
ments .sounded like the chance
was a slim one.
Democrats Vote Against
The Senate Foreign Relations
Committee laid out the battle line
—and produced a party-line split
of its own—by writing into the
measure an amendment which
says Congress is expressing no
opinion- as. to the “validity or in
validity” of long - controverted
wartime agreements _with Russia
by President Roosevelt and Tru
man. Sen. H. Alexander Smith
(R-NJ) offered the hew language.
The vote on that revision, and
on approval of the resolution as
amended, was 8-6. The six were
all Democrats. '
Oppose Revision
In the original version the Reds
would simply have been de
nounced for perversion of agree
ment "which resulted in enslave
ment of peoples behind the Iron
Curtain- ,
Democratic leaders in both the
Senate and the House had ap
proved the original form, and op
posed any revision that would
amount to criticism of the agree
ments themselves.
A number of Democrats,argued
today that the amendment final
ly adopted “emasculated” the res
olution as a propaganda weapon
by throwing into doubt the valid
ity of the pacts Russia is accused
of breaking.
State to Air
Cost Cut Plan
HARRISBURG, March 3 (JP)—
Pennsylvania’s general assembly
got set today to give pin-pointed
public hearings to proposals 'for'
cutting 100 million dollars from
the cost of the state government.
A committee of 30 senators and
representatives was named to
make a page-by-page study—with
the public looking on—of the
bulky Chesterman Committee re
ports.
Those reports, prepared' under
direction of Francis J. Chester
man, Philadelphia, recommended
a broad re-organization of state
agencies, including a number of
consolidations.
“We’re prepared for a long
siege,” commented Sen. Rowland
B. Mahany, Republican floor lead
er. He said the hearings would
last at least a month.
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CATHAUM THEATRE - BEGINS FRIDAY!
1. The closed shop, under which
employment depends on- prior un
ion’ membership, should be legal
ized.
2. Injunctions of all kinds
should be stricken from the law,
including 80-day bans on strikes
which affect the national safety.
3. Some types of secondary boy
cotts should be allowed. Meany
called these boycotts “time-hon
ored activities traditionally car
ried on to protect established la
bor standards and to assist other
unions.” The Taft-Hartley Act
forbids - them.
4. The anii-Communisi oath
requirement "reduces unionists
to the status of second class
citizenship" and should be elim
inated. Meany. said the
sion is not "ferreting out Com
munists' from unions."
The Taft-Hartley Act forbids
unions to use the facilities of the
National Labor Relations Board
unless their officers sign the non-
Communist oath.
5. Unions should be allowed to
make political contributions.
6. Extend collective bargain
ing rights to large groups of
farm) employes, not covered by
the act.
Meany's appearance before
the committee, headed by Rep.
McConnell' (R-Penn.), was the
first testimony of organized-,la
bor in the committee's hearings
on the law. The hearings are due
to run well into April.
Hero's Welcome Given
To Returning Van Fleet
„ WASHINGTON, March 3 (IP)— Gen. James A. Van Fleet re
turned to a hero’s welcome at the White House today and held to
his belief that the U.S. Eighth Army in Korea is invincible.
The. strapping 60-year-old general was closeted alone with Pres
ident Eisenhower for five minutes, which presumably gave the chief
executive little opportunity to sound out Van Fleet at that time on
his ideas for? ending the. long
stalemated Korean War.
Then a parade of the nation’s
top military chieftains, including
the veteran Gen. George C. Mar
shall, filed in and joined the dis
cussion for another 2 minutes be
fore the group went to lunch."
Later, Van Fleet told newsmen
the things he talked about with
Eisenhower and the military high
command were strictly “confiden
tial.”
He is scheduled to begin a round
of congressional quiz sessions at
an open hearing before the House
Armed Services Committee to
morrow, Chairman Short (R-Mo.)
said Van Fleet had agreed to tes
tify publicly with as full informa
tion as possible without violating
security.
Bombarded with me w s m e n’s
questions, Van Fleet ducked a di
rect reply when asked whether
it would require heavy reinforce
ments for the United Nations to
lash out on the offensive in Ko
rea.
The general, who pricked con
gressional ears several weeks ago
by saying the Eighth Army “cer
tainly” could undertake a success
ful offensive now* answered the
questions in these words:
“I’m certainly never going to
admit that the Eighth Army could
be defeated. The American Army
has never been defeated and it
never will be defeated. Those are
my sentiments.”
Some, members of Congress
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WASHINGTON, March 3 (/P)—
Adlai Stevenson ran up a land
slide victory sOver a squad of
Washington politicians today to
win the “Snickers Award” of the
National Association of Gagwrit
ers.
His quips during his unsuccess
ful Democratic campaign for the
presidency last fall were ad
judged superior to the output of
former Vice President Alben W.
Barkley, former White House mil
itary aide Harry Vaughan,
George Allen, Mrs. Perle Mesta,
minister to Luxembourg, Sen.
Charles W. Tobey (R-NH), Mike
DiSalld—and even Harry S. Tru
man.
A scroll is being, prepared by
the gagwriters, with headquar
ters in New York, for presenta
tion to Stevenson during the
eighth annual National Laugh
Week, which starts April Fool’s
Day. Getting it to him will be a
problem. Stevenson sailed from
San Francisco yesterday for a
four-month ' trip around the
world.
have contended that without
strong reinforcements the Eighth
Army would suffer hazardous
losses in attempting to break the
military stalemate and drive the
Communists out of their deep
dug entrenchments.
Riding Club to Meet
The Riding Club will discuss
further plans for the Horse Show
at its regular' meeting at. 7 to
night in 317 Willard. The show
will be held May 2 and 3 at the
College riding stables.
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Stevenson ■Wins
'Snickers Award'
By a Landslide
"Coke" b a registered trade-mark.
Opposition Blocks
Vote for Mossadegh
TEHRAN, Iran, March 3 (TP) —Premier Mohammed Mossadegh’s
opposition boycotted a Parliament meeting today and blocked a vote
of confidence in his Struggle for power with youthful Shah Moham
med Reza Fahlevi.
With the exception of sporad:
Tehran 'was relatively free from
by cord o<ff in g off Parliament
Square to prevent a mass rally
called by a Communist-f ro n t
group, “The National Organiza
tion to Combat Imperialism.”
Kashani Orders Boycott
The scheduled Parliament meet
ing had promised a showdown be
tween . Mossadegh and Ayatullah
Seyed Abolghassem Kashani, pow
erful Moslem religious leader who
is speaker of the Chamber of .Dep
uties. Kashani swung the support
of his fanatical followers to the
Shah last week when it appeared
the Premier might force the Shah
to leave the country.
Kashani ordered his deputies to
boycott the session after Mossa
degh’s Army staff installed a new
chief of guards at the Parliament
building. He contended the change
left the deputies without proper
protection.
Deputies Prepare Bill
A- bloc of 28 Mossadegh depu
ties has been camping in the
building sinpe Tehran’s latest riots
erupted Saturday. But with Ka
shani’s order keeping his support
ers away, Parliament lacked a
quorum to do business.
The Premier’s deputies were
prepared to submit a single article
bill intended to restore Mossa
degh’s power and prestige, badly
shaken when pro-Shah demon
strators roamed the streets and
even chased Mossadegh from his
home in his pajamas.
During the day a second bill of
confidence apparently was drafted
by one or more opposition depu
ties in a maneuver of some sort:
Mossadegh was quoted in the
press as saying the simple draft
of a bill indicates confidence in
the government and no actual
vote is needed.
McCarthy Group
Seeks Loyalty files
WASHINGTON, March 3 (£>)—
The Senate investigations sub
committee went after the loyalty
files of two State Department
employees today, contending that
White House orders making them
secret already have been violated.
Chairman McCarthy (R-Wis) is
sued subpoenas for .the files
Theodore Kaghan and Edmund
Schgchter, Jboth of whom hold
senior positions under the U.S.
high Commissioner in Germany.
Whether the State Department
will relinquish them remained to
be seen. The executive order for
bidding congressional access to
security files was issued by for
mer President Truman, and the
Eisenhower administration has let
it stand.
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ic demonstrations by Communists,
violence. Police ended one threat
UN Planes
Fire-Bomb
Red Bases
SEOUL, Wednesday, March 4
(TP) Allied fighter - bombers
Tuesday flattened two Red cen
ters near Manchuria with fire
bombs and high explosives, touch
ing, off fierce air battles in which
U.S. Sabres probably shot down
one MIG and_ damaged five more,
the Air Force said.
The renewed air clashes, after
a lull due to bad weather, over
shadowed light skirmishes along
the soggy battle front.
The Eighth Army reported four
Allied raiding parties stabbed at
the Reds before dawn and left 40
Chinese Reds deail or wounded in
the Kumwha sector of the Cen
tral Front. . Republic of Korea
troops closed to within hand gre
nade range in all four raids.
U.S. Air Force Secretary Tal
bott, accompanied by retired
Gen. Carl “Tooey” Spaaitz, flew
the length of the quiescent 155-
mile battle line in an unarmed
Constellation. Twelve Sabres
flew protective cover.
. No Red war planes were sight
ed and no Communist antiaircraft
fire was directed at Talbott’s
plane, pilots said.
Off the Korean east coast, the
Seventh Fleet flagship Missouri
swept 140 miles north of the 38th
Parallel and blasted Communist
coastal positions with its power
ful 16-inch rifles. The Navy de
scribed the battleship’s strike as
“heavy.”
Nationalist Chinese
On Rampage in Burma
UNITED NATIONS, N.'Y.,
March-3 (JP) —Burma’s chief dele
gate to the . UN received orders
today to return home for consul
tations on Burma’s troubles with
thousands of Nationalist Chinese
troops reported on a rampage in
Northern Burma. The area ad
joins Red China.
Group Okays Hawaii
, WASHINGTON, March 3 (AP)-
The Hawaii statehood bill won
approval from the House interior
and insular affairs committee to
day but the group turned down
by one vote a move to add Alas
ka.
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