SATURDAY. DECEMBER 3. 1955
CIO Approves Merger;
Ends Union Labor Split
NEW YORK, Dec. 2 (flV’-CIO convention delegates, singing “Solidarity Forever,” today ended a
20-year split in union labor by approving a long-awaited merger with the AFL.
CIO delegates voted 660-3 lor the merger, which the AFL had approved unanimously a day
earlier. Separate AFL and CIO conventions came to an end and both groups prepared to meet Mon
day in a week-long joint session
The historic merger action, wc
years of active negotiations. The
basic merger agreement was
reached last February in Miami
Beach, Fla., and it took until now
to complete it.
. The new organization is called
the'American Federation of Labor
and Congress of Industrial Or
ganizations—AFL-CIO
Ratified at Convention
The ClO’s ratification came at a
convention session filled - with
sentiment over the ending of the
organization. The CIO was formed
into a rival labor group over two
decades ago by AFL unions which
seceded because they wanted to
organize workers in whole indus
tries. The AFL unions are organ
ized along craft lines.
Walter Reuther, CIO president
who is stepping aside to let AFL
President George Meany head the
merged organization, told the final
CIO session, that, “this is not
the end. The CIO goes on, the AFL
goes on, but they go on together
in a unified labor movement.”
Merger a Milestone
Meany told concluding AFL ses
sions the merger was a milestone
in labor history. He sought to
calm misgivings of a few union
leaders that the' new organization
would be too large and unwieldy
by saying, “I may be a chump
but I don’t think so.”
The principal dissent in the CIO
convention was cast by Michael J.
Quill, president of the Transport
Workers Union and a CIO vice
g resident. Quill said the CIO was
eing “liquidated” and it was a
“black day” for CIO unions.
Meany Too Conservative
Quill charged Meany was too
conservative and “just slightly to
the left of Sen. Knowland,” the
Senate Republican leader from
California. Quill said his union
would conduct a membership ref
erendum to see if they wanted to
join the merged organization.
Joining Quill in voting against
the merger were Dominic Merolla
of- the Wilkes-Barre, Pa., CIO In
dustrial Council, and Frank Eng
land, of the Springfield, 111., CIO
Council.
Education Talk
Failure Cited
PITTSBURGH, Dec. 2 (/P) —'The
U.S. Bureau of Prisons director
said .today the White House Con
ference on Education failed to dis
cuss fully the needs of exceptional
or handicapped children.
James V. Bennett, the prison di
rector, said half of the juveniles
in federal prisons are there “be
cause schools were not able to
meet their needs.”
Bennett spoke at a luncheon
meeting of the Juvenile Court In
stitute. Judges from 14 states are
attending the institute to study
juvenile problems and the court’s
relation to such problems. Bennett
said:
"I am told there are at least
a million children in this country
of school age who are not in at
tendance. They are droprouts, the
disadvantaged, the under-privi
leged, the character disordered.
Curtice Defends Auto Firm's Actions
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 ( /F)—
President Harlow Curtice of Gen
eral Motors Corp., raked over the
coals in public by some GM retail
dealers, testified today that the
giant auto firm plays fair with
everybody.
No management organization
he knows of, Curtice told the
Senate Antitrust and Monopoly
subcommittee, has “a more gen
eral' regard for the equities of
the various groups with which
we have contact—customers, em
ployes, suppliers, dealers and
shareholders.”
GM Accused
Sen. O’Mahoney (D-Wyo.),
chairman of the subcommittee,
let Curtice take the stand four
hours after he showed up. First
‘lding 140 unions into a 16-million-member federation, climaxed two
Bundestag Gives Consent
To Close Alliance Policy
BONN, Germany, Dec. 2 (JP) —The West German Bundestag
overwhelmingly approved today the government’s policy of close
alliance with the West as the way to eventual German unity.
In a resolution, passed by show of hands against Socialist op
position, the lower house of Parliament also appealed to the Rus
sians to agree to reunification of
the divided country as the basis
of a permanent peace between
Germany and the Soviet Union.
The House rejected an opposi
tion Socialist motion that called
on the Adenauer government to
put forward concrete proposals
ior reunification. The Socialists
also demanded a promise that a
future united Germany would
keep out of all miiltary alliances.
Could Maintain Relations
The Socialists said there was no
reason why West Germany could
I not negotiate with Moscow while
[maintaining “close and friendly”
| relations with the West. About
I a dozen members of the Refugee
party, which left the government
some months ago, voted with the
opposition.
Foreign Minister Heinrich Von
Brentano firmly ruled out yester
day separate negotiations between
Bonn and Moscow. In a govern
mept policy declaration he
pledged the West Germans will
not make any separate deal with
the Soviets which would en
danger their -freedom and the
safety of the West.
Adenauer Warns
Ike, Advisers
Talk Over
Defense Plans
GETTYSBURG, Pa., Dec. 2 (JP)
President Eisenhower talked
over the nation’s defenses for 75
minutes today with his two top
military advisers, who had nar
rowly escaped injury on the slip
pery, 80-mue drive from Washing
ton.
The conference, with Secretary
of Defense Charles E. Wilson and
Admiral Arthur W. Radford, took
place in the President’s newly
bullet-proofed office here.
To Meet Leaden
Tomorrow Eisenhower will have
separate meetings .with Republi
can leaders of Senate and House.
His 11. a.m. date with Sen. Wil
liam F. Knowland of California
takes top place in speculation in
view of the Republican Senate
leader’s repeated efforts to get
the President to give an early
“yes or no” on whether he will
seek re-election.
To See Marlin
Rep. Joseph W. Martin of Mas
sachusetts, his leader in the
House, is seeing the President an
hour and a half earlier.
Both Wilson and Radford took
a cheerful view of the rough ride
to Gettysburg today, the former
telling reporters “it was a little
slippery, but I’m used to that.”
They complimented their driver,
James D. Freeman, a veteran
Pentagon chauffeur.
Dulles Denounces
Soviet Remarks
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 (JP)
Secretary of State John
Dulles joined a visiting statesman
tonight in denouncing remarks
by Soviet leaders now touring
Asia as an attempt “to forment
hatred between the East and
West.”
In a formal communique,
Dulles and Fqreign Minister Pau
lo Cunha of Portugal said they
deplored all such remarks as an
effort to "divide people who need
to feel a sense of unity and fel
lowship for peace and mutual
welfare.”
date's S-D Record
HARRISBURG, Dec. 2 W—The
acting director of Pennsylvania’s
Highway Safety Bureau today
termed the state’s S-D record yes
terday as “one of the best in the
nation."
the senator called for testimony
in which thre dealers accused GM
of treating them like “pawns and
vassals,” putting them under “al
most “diabolical” sales pressure
and forcing them to "buy equip
ment they did not need.
O’Mahoney said Curtice and
other GM officials should “have
the benefit" of this testimony and
he directed them to listen to it.
No Direct Reference
Curtice made no direct refer
ences to the dealer criticism. He
did say dealers’ net profits before
taxes are now 415 million dollars
a year. He said this compared
with 72 million dollars in 1940
and represented an increase of
476 per cent.
Dyring the postwar period, Cur-
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer,
speaking in the Bundestag for the
first time since he became ill two
months ago, warned today of the
dangers of keeping Germany di
vided. He said there was danger
that the people of Communist
East Germany could become ac
customed to being cut off from
the West and a greater danger
that the world could become
weary of endless negotiations over
the German problem.
Priority Sought
For Geneva Plans
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (/P)—
Four Western powers proposed
today that the UN disarmament
subcommittee - give priority to
President Eisenhower’s and So
viet Premier Bulganin’s Geneva
inspection plans in seeking such
disarmament measures “as are
now feasible."
Britain, Canada, France and the
United States made the proposal
in a resolution laid before the
General Assembly’s Political
Committee. They and the Soviet
Union comprise the subcommittee,
which has been talking about
arms limitation for two years
without result.
Candelight Service
The Chapel Choir will present
its annual Candlelight Worship
Service at 10:55 p.m., Dec. 17 in
Schwab Auditorium.
The service will be repeated at
10:55 a.m. Dec. 18, the regular
Chapel hour.
tice continued, GM dealers have
had profits before taxes of over
five billion dollars, after deduct
ing one billion of owners’ salaries
and bonuses.
Curtice said there were four
principle reasons for GM’s suc
cess. He named them. 1. The dy
namic growth of the country; 2.
The even more rapid growth of
the automobile industry; 3. GM’s
management structure and 4. GM’s
approach to problems.
GM's Approach Discussed
GM’s approach to problems,
Curtice said, “is really an attitude
of mind. It assumes that every
thing and anything—whether it
be product, process, method, pro
cedure or social or human rela
tions, can be improved."
Nationalist China
Hits UN Proposal
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Dec. 2 (/P) —Nationalist China today
assailed a proposal to admit 18 nations to UN membership in a
package deal as "unconditional surrender” to the Soviet Union.
Ambassador T. F. Tsiang, Chinese delegation leader, said a
resolution approving the package—including 13 Western-sponsored
countries and five Soviet satel
lites—represented a turn-around
in the UN in the face of Soviet
vetoes.
“This is blackmail,” he told the
Assembly Special Political Com
mittee. “The United Nations, after
all these years of struggle, is asked
by the joint draft resolution to
pay the blackmail demanded by
the Soviet Union.”
27 Nations Sponsor
The resolution before the com
mittee was sponsored by Canada
and 27 other nations, including
the African-Asian bloc, Latin-
American, and British Common
wealth countries.
Canada’s Paul Martin has said
he is certain at least 45 countries
in the committee will approve the
18-nation package deal.
Tsiang poised a veto threat over
Soviet-supported Outer Mongolia
in his statement to the committee
but did not state specifically that
his delegation would veto the Out
er Mongolia application when it
reached the Security Council
stage.
China May Veto
A delegation source, bearing
out Formosa dispatches quoting
an official Nationalist spokesman,
said China will still use a veto if
necessary to keep out the Oriental
state it now claims is a part of
China.
The source said Tsiang did not
bring up the veto question in the
committee debates because the
veto is a Security Council matter.
Diplomatic informants revealed,
meantime, that strenuous efforts
were going on behind the scenes
to head off the Chinese veto
threat. One appeal to the Chinese
was to plead with, them to regis
ter their protest not with a veto
but by a walkout from the Coun
cil during the vote on Outer Mon
golia.
This could dramatize their pro
test, the Chinese were told, With
out arousing the ill-feeling that
the diplomatic informants said
would be sure to follow a veto.
Red Parliament
To Convene
MOSCOW, Dec. 2 (fl 5 )— I The Su
preme Soviet Parliament of the
U.S.S.R. was summoned today to
meet in special session Dec. 23.
A decree signed by President
Klementi Voroshilov and N. M.
Pegov, secretary of the Supreme
Soviet’s Presidium—or interim or
ganization—gave no reason for
the unusual holiday-time session.
Western diplomats believe,how
ever, it is intended to provide a
forum for Premier Nikolai Bul
ganin and party boss Nikita
Krushchev to report in a full blaze
of publicity on their current jaunt
to India, Burma and Afghanistan.
It also could provide an oppor
tunity for Foreign Secretary V.
M. Molotov to report on the re
cent foreign minister’s conference
at Geneva.
Hunter Kills Unusual
Doe With Antlers
PITTSBURGH, Dec. 2 (JP) —
Richard Bauman, 23, shot a doe
deer during buck hunting but he’s
not going to get fined for it.
The doe had antlers. That’s
right. Six-point antlers, just like
a buck.
Dr. J. Kenneth Doutt, curator
of mammalogy at Carnegie Mu
seum, examined the animal and
verified that it was a female to
day. He said the antlers were
caused by a freak of nature.
Bauman shot the deer Monday.
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Federal Control
In Oil Industry Hit
SANTA FE, N.M., Dec. 2 (£>)—
Gov. William G. Stratton of Illi
nois and others today assailed fed
eral control or the threats of such
control over the oil industry in
talks before the opening general
session of the Interstate Oil Com
pact Commission..
Stratton, the outgoing chair
man of the 30-state lOCC, de
clared that “federal bureaucratic
control of the oil and gas indus
try has now driven its entering
wedge. The ultimate results may
be complete federal control over
the oil and gas industry, even to
the entire destruction of reason
able regulation of this industry
under state enacted and enforced
conservation statutes.
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