FRIDAY FEBRUARY 11. 1955
Soviet Changes
Probed by West
MOSCOW, Feb. 10 (JP)—Weitirn diplomats groped today
for the significance of the momentous changes in the Soviet
governtnent, with' Nikolai Buganin as premier. Eastern bloc
envoys had an even bigger job of interpretation.
One question puzzled both Eastern and Western observers;
why did the Soviets decide to make the governmental changes
at this critical time? The move
coincided with crises over For
mosa and West German rearma
ment, the fall
French Preml
Pierre Mendi
France, and ti
Russians' o w
great drive
'more apricultu
al and industri
production.
The problt
for Eastern bl
diplomats is
and close
home. Their jc
is to report faith- Marshal Buisanln
fully to their
communist governments the sig
nificance of the governmental
changes in theii big Soviet ally.
They must have been amazed to
note that it took only seven•min
utes Tuesday for the Supreme
Soviet Parliament to accept by
a unanimous show of hands the
resignation of Georgi M. Malen
kov as Premier.
Experienced Western diplomats
showed no undue alarm over the
changes that 'came with stunning
rapidity these last few days. They
had anticipated the policy chang
es, such as the stress on heavy
industry, which had been fore
shadowed by the recent resigna
tion of Anastase I. Mikoyan as
trade minister, and by various
articles in Pravda and other So
viet organs. Mikoyan was the
chief advocate of increased pro
duction for consumers.
CIO Merger
OK'd by AFL
MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Feb. 10
(W)—AFL union leaders today un
animously approved the on -CIO '
merger agreement and the pact
appeared well on its way to being
put into effect.
The endorsement by the AFL
Executive Council was only one
in a series of necessary ratifying
actions but AFL President George
Meany said he was confident they
will be accomplished.
Meany and CIO President Wal
ter Reuther along with other top
AFL and CIO officials, signed the
detailed agreement to merge their
big organizations here yesterday
amid predictions that their 140
unions would be brought under
the same banner before the end
of the year.
AFL, CIO Plan Drive
To Draw Members
MIAMI BEACH, Fla., (R)—The
nation's top union leaders, agreed
on consolidating forces into a
single organization, todEy planned
a giant , drive to take in m illions
of neW members.
Leaders of the American Fed
ezation of Labor and Congress of
Industrial Organizations decided
to bury traditional rivalries and
embark on the same sort of intens
ive mass organizing campaign that
sparked the ClO's surge two dec
ades ago.
Ike's Trade Program OK'd
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (R)—
The House Ways and Means Com
mittee today rolled up a surpris
ing 20-5 vote for President Eisen
hower's program to boost free
world trade by gradually lower
ing U.S. tariffs.
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Churchill Favors
Top-Level 'Big 4'
Talks With Reds
LONDON, Feb. 10 VP)—Prime
Minister Winston Churchill said
today he still favors top-level Big
Four talks with the Russians, but
made clear to the new Kremlin
rulers that liritain intends to push
ahead With rearming West Ger
many first.
The 80-year-old statesman
spoke in the House 3f Commons
at the British ambassador in Most
cow, Sir William Hayter, carried
out secret negotiations aimed at a
Fomosa cease-fire.
Responding to Laborite de
mands that he invite the new Sov
iet Premier, Marshal Nikolai
ganin. to loin in Big Four talks
soon, Churchill declared:
"The policy of the government
is to seek a four-poWer conference
at a time when it seems likely to
yielc genuine results, but that
oc
ci}sion is not likely to occur until
after the ratification of the Lon
don-Paris agreements."
Pittsburgh Store
Pickets Disappear
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 10 (RI
Sign-carrying pickets disappeared
today from three of five big
strike-harassed department stores
for the first time in nearly 15
Daontho as 12 AFL unions adopted
divide-and-conquer strategy.
Many—but not all—workers re
porting for the first time since
Nov. 27, 1953, were told to re
turn home and await call.
The stores have •efused to dis
cuss resulting losses but unofficial
sources say 4 iie figures will run
into the millions.
CIO War Vet Is 108
DULUTH, Minn., Feb. 10 MI
Albert Woolson, last of the 2,675,-
000 Boys in Blue of the Civil War,
celebrates his 108th birthday
without what he refers to as "a
lot of hullabaloo." He was born
Feb. 11, 1847.
The chipper old soldier will
make only one public appearance,
going to city hall in the after
noon.
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Pflimlin Will Try
To Form Government
, PARIS, Feb. 10 (R)—Pierre Pflimlin, a 48-year-old Strasbourg
lawyer and Cabinet veteran who backs West German rearmament,
agreed tonight to try to form a new French government.
A member of the Popular Republican Movement (MRP), he took
up the task at the request of President Rene Coty after Independent
Republican Antoine Pinay gave •
up in the face of strong opposi
tion in the National Assembly.
The Assembly, irritated and di
vided .over many issues, brought
on the crisis last Saturday by top
pling Pierre Mendes-Fkance's gov
ernment, the nation's 20th since
its liberation in 1944.
In the Assembly lobbies, the
immediate reaction to the Pflirn
lin (pronounced "flam-lan," with
both syllable equally stressed)
candidacy was friendly. He. was
given a better than even chance
of rallying enough support to be
voted in.
Speaking to reporters tonight,
Pflimlin said he hopes to form a
government supported by all non-
Communists. He quickly added,
however, he is not seeking a gov
ernmeqt in which conflicting in
terests would nullify all possi
bilities for action.
Pflimlin singled out the North
African situation as the most ur
gent problem for any incoming
Premier, This was the specific
issue which provoked the down
fall of Mendes-France.
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Reuther Blasts
Economic Plan
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (W)—
President Eisenhower's economic
plinning wash sharply criticized
today by CIO President Walter
Reuther. He said the administra
tion is "looking through a rear
view mirrow" when it should be
looking forward to the •days of
automatic factories and offices.
"I firmly believe that the ad
ministration is selling the Ameri
can people short," Reuther said,
"that its petty, half-hearted ttco
nomic programs are based on an
hypnotic preoccupation with sta
tistical indexes of the long-run
past, rather than with the tremen
dous strides toward economic
abundance that present Amerl -an
technology and ingenuity are
currently making possible."
Infirmary Crowded
Thirty-four University students,
suffering from colds, upset stom
achs, and' grip, filled the Univer
sity Hospital to capacity last night.
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