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Cuba Labor Withdraws
From Anti-Red Group
HAVANA (RI Cuba's organized labor withdrew yes
terday from the Inter-American Regional Organization of
Workers.
The decision to break the ties with the hemispheric con
federation was voted at a meeting of the Cuban National
------------ Workers Congress
Lawrence
Balances
State Budget
HARRISBURG (/P) A
balanced budget has been
achieved by Cloy. Lawrence
with the signing of two new
tax levies over $lOO million
in appropriations.
One tax measure switches the
4 per cent sales tax on soft drinks
from the distributors and bottlers
to the consumer. It also strength
ens enforcement provisions and is
designed to bring in $1.5 million
in the next. two years.
The other extends the 14-mill
tax on gloss receipts of public
utilities to natural gas companies
for the first time. It is expected
to yield $5 8 million.
Gov Lawrence signed the meas
ures and ni•w appropriations total
ing $128,124,935 Saturday in Pitts
burgh. his record budget now
stands at $1.820,700,000.
The appropriations are mainly
for state-aided universities. col
!eges, homes, historic sites and
otner intilitutions a' well as a
vai let v of capital construct , on pro
grams.
Some $3.25 million in so
authoi 'zillions are still in the final
stages of passage through the
Legislature The largest is a $3,-
125,000 boost for blind pensions.
The governor also signed a
measure doubling the $l-a-year
motor vehicle operator's license
fee. The action signalled the mail
ing of over five million license
applications carrying the new $2
price tag.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Prime Minister Fidel Castro had
to be called to restore order at
an earlier session of the congress.
lie compared the disorderly con
vention hall to a lunatic asylum.
The vote to cut loose from the
regional organization, an anti-
Communist group formed nearly
a decade ago, came in the adop
tion of a resolution by the con
gress' International Af f airs
Committee.
The regional organization is a
branch of the International Con
federation of Free Trade Unions,
%vhich has headquarters in Brus
els This confederation is the
flee world t oval of the Commu
rust-lec: World Federation of Trade
Unions.
The resolution charged the
regional organization is under
control of "American imperial
ism, which has consistently
supported all dictators." It pro
posed creation of a new "revolu
tionary confederation of Latin-
American workers" and asked
that other Latin-American labor
groups join.
Delegates quickly approved a
series of other resolutions bris-,
tling with anti-American pas
sages. These included:
OA protest to the U S. govern
ment against alleged arming of
planes on U.S. territory for at
tacks On Cuba.
•A protest to the United States
altruist what the resolution called
"the trampling, torturing and jail
ing of a Panamanian youth." This
apparently referred to the stand
of American police against an in
vasion of the canal zone by Pana
manian Hotels three weeks ago
Hopes for Recovery
Of Capsule Remain Dim
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE
BASE. Calif. UP) Only faint,
hope remained yesterday that the
Air Force would recover the .
ejected capsule from the Dis
coverer VIII satellite.
Success Expected
In 14th Resolution
About Hungary
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (fP)—
The United States is expected toi
succeed with a resolution that]
would have the UN General As-i
semblv deplore the actions of So-I
viet and Hungarian authorities in;
Hungary
Diplomatic sources said yester
day the US. delegation has circu
lated copies of the proposal in;
tentative form to other delegations
in the hope some of them would
join in sponsoring it.
Experienced observers predict,
it will pass in the next two weeks.l
If it does, it will be the 14th reso-i
lution on Hungary the Assembly:
has adopted since the doomed up-'
rising against Soviet domination'
!there in 1956.
, The resolution ‘vill not be hand
ed in to the UN Secretariat until
the General Assembly puts the
'Hungarian question on its agenda
The 21-nation Steering Commit
tee meets today to consider two
requests that this be done.
' One of the requests came from
,Sir Leslie Munro of New Zealand,
!UN special representative on
',Hungary: the other from the
;United States.
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24 Die in Beirut Air Crash
BEIRUT, Lebanon Gl 3 )—Twenty- countant and was traveling from
four persons, including two Amer- Rome to Kabul.
icans, died Saturday night in the In San Mateo, Calif., the wife
crash of an Afghanistan Alma of Dr. Gordon Hay Clark, 48, said
Airways plane shortly after it her husband was booked to fly
took off from Beirut Airport. on the plane from Beirut to Ka-
Three passengers survived. tbul, Afghanistan. Dr. Clark was
The two Americans were listed medical director in Kabul for
as Frank William Shepherd and'Morrison-Knudson Co., U.S. con
;Gordon Hay Clark Spokesmen / tracting firm.
'at the Beirut hotel where the two The airliner smashed into a
had stayed said both listed th e mountainside three minutes after
;ir .
!residence as Kandahar, Afghani_ it took off for Kabul. Afghanistan.
stan.
' They said Shepherd was an ac-1 For CLASSIFIEDS Call
UN 5-2531
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1959