TUESDAY. OCTOBE R 6. 1959 Unio New PITTSBURG! strike appeared t After the Un: jected an industn night session was ted Steelworkers earlier yesterday had re y proposal to end the strike, an extraordinary s called. It lasted only five minutes. Unions [ Aid to Sf Steel Wc r iking trkers CLEVELAND (, aid to striking ste urged yestferday in before -two separat union conventions 285,000 workers ir and atomic industiies. The resolutions were submitted at the opening c invention ses sions to committe ?s, which will report back later :n the week to delegates of the International Chemical Workers Union (ICWU) and the Oil, Chem.cal and Atom ic Workers Union .(OCWA). ) Financial elworkers was resolutions put ; international representing oil, chemical The measures are supported by! administrations of each union and are expected to win approval of the delegates. Walter L. Mitchell, president .of the ICWA, told 45Q delegates at his union’s convention that "the steelworkers’ strike is our strike.” “The key issues in the steel ne gotiations,” Mitchell said, “are the very same we are meeting every day in chemicals—employ er demands for ‘flexibility’ and ‘prerogatives’ which are only a disguise for a ‘speed-up’ and a ‘stretch-out.’ ” Mitchell added: "The big companies of this country through their insistence on the princely right to replace and shuffle workers at will are making a dirty word out of auto mation.” In his report to 1,000 delegates, OCAW President O. A. Knight, of Denver, urged establishment of a new defense fund that would sup plement the union’s regular strike defense fund and lend aid to steelworkers and other unions. U.S. Runs 2nd In ICBM Race WASHINGTON OP) America still lags behind the Soviet Union in rockets for space projects but in the "life and death” field of intercontinental ballistic missiles she’s climbed close to her rival. That was the word yesterday from the Defense Department’s top scientists. Dr. Herbert York. York indicated it might take at least a year for the United States to duplicate the Soviet’s present effort of hurling a 600-pound sat ellite towards the moon. The rea son: America’s most powerful booster for space rockets has only about half the thrust power of the booster believed used by the So viets. Elsewhere, Dr. T. Keith Glen nan, head of the nation’s civilian space agency, said the Soviets have "a solid advantage over us in the field of racket propulsion.” But York said America's most powerful br sti the lf> r more i Rejects Steel Pact (/P)— Negotiations in the 83-day-old steel be on the verge of collapse last night. President Eisenhower has threatened to invoke the Taft ! Hartley Act if necessary to get |the half-million strikers back on jthe job for an 80-day cooling off iperiod during which steel pro duction would be resumed. ISCUSS I The union’s Wage Policy Com imittee yesterday morning reject led the industry pioposal to settle the strike on the basis of a two year contract which the industry jsaid called for a 15-cent hourly pay increase. A brief negotiating session ! was held yesterday afternoon. ' Then David J. McDonald, pres- ; idenl of the USW, called for the night session—first held since the strike started in July., McDonald asked that the prin cipals of the industry-leaders of ;12 major companies—be invited | to participate. None were on hand |when the meeting began, only jthe four negotiators from each iside. Developments came thick and fast, but they all added up to no settlement and none in sight. Here’s what happened: The USW's 170-member Wage r|_ C* jL_, Policy Committee turned down dl@@pinCJ JICKIIGSS the industry proposal as "com- , . _ pletely unsatisfactory." The BlQlT!6d TO S' POCith vote was unanimous. Industry negotiators lifted a PITTSBURGH (/P) —An autop news blackout and said its offer sy showed yesterday a potential amounted to a 15-cent hourly diagnosis of encephalitis in the |package increase over a two-year death of a 35-year-old Clearfield period. County man. They added that no more could The victim, Albert H. Salvatore be granted "at this time without of Penfield, died Sunday at West resulting in an inflationary in- Penn Hospital. The hospital said crease in production costs.” confirming tests are being con- The union issued a statement ducted at the University of Pitts placing the worth of the proposal burgh. at 10.2 cents an hour for the two Salvatore died nine hours after “Such an economic package Encephalitis is an inflamation of would be unacceptable to the the brain and commonly results Steelworkers even if you did not in sleeping sickness. '< attach further conditions to it The sleeping sickness variety j which are themselves totally un- has caused a number of deaths acceptable,” it added. recently* in southern New Jersey. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA MacMillan Urges Early r* •, || ! UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (jP) inf S immit I OlfCl — Tlle United Arab Republic ac ,cused Israel yesterday of raising LONDON f/P> —Prime Ministers fake crisis in the United Na- Harold Macmillan promised yes-i t ions over fieedom of navigation terday to keep on fighting for,:., , early summit talks. He denied he 1 11 * ne Suez Canal, is making a political football out, Mahmoud Fawzi. UAR foreign of the project. minister, told the 82-nation Gen- Both Macmillian's Conserva-eral Assembly the issue would tives and Hugh Gaitskell’s Labor-, “melt away and automatically dis ites took up the summit talks as appear” if Israel recognized the a major issue in Thursday’s elcc-,legitimate rights of more than a tion of a new House of Com- million Palestine Arab refugees, mons. 1 Ambassador Arthur Lourie, Britain’s Allies watched this 1 head of the Israeli delegation. Im development with silence whichmediately challenged Fnwzi to may conceal annoyance. Diplo-itell the Assembly whether the mats said the process of arranging|UAR is willing to negotiate a top-level talks has been suspended'- by the big Western Airies until after the British balloting. Labor leaders declared Presi dent Eisenhower had given Mac millan the brush-off for trying to use the summit conference in the election campaign. They cited a statement from President Eisen hower’s vacation headquarters in Palm Spring, Calif., that there had been no agreement yet to hold summit talks. Macmillan was unabashed. He still was pitching the Conserva tive cause on the claim that he was the original icebreaker of the cold war and the driving force behind the whole summit idea. he was admitted to the hospital UAR Criticizes Israel In Suez Canal Dispute THE BELLES LETTRES CLUB presents Dr. and Mrs. Stanley Weintraub on GBS'S FIRST PAPER PASSION October 6—7 p. m. Simmons Lounge Everyone Welcome DOT DASHES THROUGH HER ASSIGNMENT AND ON THE NIGHT OF THE FAU- BAU-... DOT, VDU DIVINELY. 0 UGHT ON fKt m ALWAYS DANCING ON AIR, PAL, SINCE I BECAME A S SMITH-CORONA J PAGE THREE settlement of the entii; Pales tine problem; He said Israel is ready to nego tiate “at any time and place with out attaching any conditions. 1 ' He described the UAR position as a "maze of conti adiclions’' and added: "Having failed on the field of battle, they now say they are entitled to maintain against us a one-sided state of war.” The sharp exchange appeared to doom chantes for negotiating any settlement of the canal issue at this Assembly. Diplomatic ef forts have been persisting behind the scenes in an attempt to mini mize the risk of a new Israeli- UAR blowup m the Middle East. Get Smith Corona's new potlafcle now, and recent Itee from Smith Corona a 523 95 course on records that teaches touch typing in just IQ days! Sratk-CorMi SSot Super. The world’s first and fastest portable. Complete with tarrying case. Choice ol colors Only }5 down, 24 months to pay.
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