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Show . WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Strike Settlements Pave Way For Quick Peacetime Production; Conservative Bloc Curbs Truman "'"" bv Western Newspaper Union. - those of (EDITOR S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these columns they afr,spiiper.j Western Newspaper Lnion s news analysts and not necessarily 01 &:-j&&.i-.-MJtT.iMi.Xv. :MfcSS,.. tiib&MtMiMXM Representative of great scientific advances of day are the huge antennae anten-nae used to contact moon through radar and jet plane which was piloted across nation in 4 hours and 13 minutes. ECONOMY: Clearing Hurdles With Ford and Chrysler having set a postwar wage pattern, a speedy return to work in major U. S. industries loomed, with the virtual completion of tooling up presaging pre-saging an early resumption of badly bad-ly needed civilian production and initiation of a hectic postwar prosperity pros-perity of at least five years duration. dura-tion. Oddly enough, the strike situation was broken through, collective bargaining bar-gaining processes at Ford and Chrysler without imposition of government gov-ernment pressure on the companies and the ClO-United Automobile Workers units involved in contrast to the situation at General Motors and in the steel and meat packing industries. Having asked for a 30 per cent wage increase, the UAW finally settled set-tled for 15.1 per cent, or 18 cents an hour, with Ford and 16.2 per cent, or 18 cents an hour, with Chrysler. As a result, Ford production pro-duction workers will now average $10.96 a day and those at Chrysler $10.60. Though management and labor were seen to be settling their postwar post-war wage differences with a minimum mini-mum of government interference in standing with President Truman's Tru-man's own affirmation of collective bargaining, traditional American economy, assuring an even break for all parties, dictated the alteration altera-tion of the administration's stabilization stabili-zation policies. While admitting the justification for higher wages, Mr. Truman also conceded 'the necessity of higher prices in some instances to maintain profit margins, with the result that the administration leaned toward what one official called "flexible" price control. While squaring the demands of both capital and labor and avoiding prolonged industrial strife, such a policy would not increase in-crease consumer costs more than 5 or 10 per cent, the official said. SCIENCE: Moonbeams When .TIaj. Edwin H. Armstrong invented the mechanism for establishing estab-lishing radar contact with the moon, he laid the basis for a wide new use of electronics, ranging from possible contact with planet life to solution of basic problems of television. f In commenting upon the historic event, army engineers envisioned the possibility of transmitting bursts of electrical charges toward the planets in the form of code messages mes-sages and receiving responses if intelligent beings on celestial bodies intercepted and interpreted them. Because such planets as Mars and Venus are 35 million miles distant from the earth in comparison with the moon's 238,000 miles, tremendous tremen-dous power would have to be generated gener-ated to hope for contact. In more practical terms, engineers en-gineers looked to the dispatch of rockets guided by electrical beams to great distances into the stratosphere as a result of the new technique, with radio "transmitters installed on the ships automatically sending back meteorological and other data. Major Armstrong's development of the mechanism for sending high-powered high-powered bursts into the heavens also was seen as a possible solution to the perplexing problem of television, tele-vision, whose waves do not bend over the horizon and are limited to 50 miles without special relay equipment. equip-ment. By aiming television waves at the moon through a huge transmitter, trans-mitter, it was conjectured, they might be deflected and shed over great distances on their return. Fast Pace Pending creation of the atom-driven atom-driven rocket ship, man will have to be content with the conventional fuel propelled planes, but even here aerodynamic engineers have kept in step with the tremendous developments develop-ments of the age. Hardly had the nation caught its breath over the army's radar ra-dar contact with the moon than Col. William H. Councill of the air force roared across the country from Long Beach, Calif., to LaGuardia Field, N. Y., in a jet plane in 4 hours and 13 minutes, and was followed fol-lowed by two other U. S. pilots in similar craft 10 and 20 minutes min-utes later. Burning kerosene in an engine weighing only 1,820 pounds, 48 inches in diameter and 101.5 inches long, the three jets registered over 600 miles an hour at times during the transcontinental hops, . with Councill's plane hitting a top speed of 660 miles an hour between Cha-nute Cha-nute Field, 111., and Akron, Ohio. From Chanute Field to New York, he said, he never saw the ground. CONGRESS: Balk Truman The rough sailing predicted for President Truman's liberal legislative legisla-tive program materialized with congressional con-gressional defeat of his proposal for retaining federal control over the United States employment service and the formulation of a stringent anti-strike measure. Chalking up 263 votes to the administration's ad-ministration's 113 in the house, a combination of Republicans and conservative Democrats in the house moved to transfer the USES back to the states next June 30. Operating approximately 1,700 offices of-fices in 48 states for the purpose of finding work for the jobless and certifying cer-tifying applicants for unemployment unemploy-ment compensation, the USES was placed under federal control shortly short-ly after Pearl Harbor to facilitate the hiring of people in war indus- tries. The move to restore the USES to the states represented a victory for states rights proponents jealous of strong centralization. Steamed up by the recent strike wave, Republicans and conservative conserva-tive Democrats in the house also joined in pushing vigorous anti-strike anti-strike legislation in place of a diluted version of the President's fact-finding proposal. Introduced by Representative Case (Rep., S. D.), the restrictive legislation would set up a mediation board of labor and management and would compel disputants first to give notice of a work stoppage and then remain at their tasks for a cooling off period of 30 days. Other provisions would require both companies com-panies and unions to observe contracts con-tracts and make them liable for violations; vi-olations; outlaw unions of supervisory super-visory employees, and strip collective col-lective bargaining and re-employment rights from individuals or unions charged with forceful picketing picket-ing or organized boycotts. Farm Briefs . . . Farm tenancy is increasing in Kansas, the nation's premier winter wheat state. Facts on farm tenure show that more than 30 per cent of all the tenants ten-ants in the state are related to the land owner, more than one-half of the Kansas tenants are on the same farm for less than five years, 60 per cent of leases do not provide permanent perma-nent improvements, and 65 per cent of the landlords have no written leases. NAVY: I Atom Tests tee rf- In seeking to dei naval fects of atomic 'diiled in detachments in navy will ex- the distant Pacrtc, and un- periment with air, derwater bombing cruis. Battleships, heav destroyers ers, aircraft car .. onie en. and submarines wc K emy ships, ? an explosion with the first vdvffl8 we alr to several bu"dreV'" Marshall is-l be held in the western j lands early m May- J- booked in surface bombmgS er E btrdetred pending atomic explosives to naa should prove of majo of determining the possib le efl the new charge on fleet ta val officers were even trigued by Pf 8 jjht create ers. BIBLE: NZ S Pliant revi-siofto revi-siofto be made in Americanized version of the New Testament was scheduled to make its appearance this month A vised version of tne uju will be completed by lsu- Representing eight years of effort by the leading Protestant biblical scholars, the New Testament was said to retain all of the beauty of the King James version, while us ing the everyday language of Amer leans today. Printed in large, clear type on substantial paper, one chapter chap-ter leads into another like a continuous con-tinuous story. First copy of the new version was to be presented to former Gov. Harold Har-old Stassen of Minnesota, president of the International Council of Religious Re-ligious Education, at a formal ceremony cere-mony marking the .completion of the work at Columbus, Ohio. Officers Of-ficers of the council, scholars who worked on the revision, executives of church boards of education and publishing houses of 40 denominations denomina-tions were to participate. AFL: Lewis Back Returning to "the house of labor" la-bor" after a long absence during which he organized and later left the CIO, beetle-browed John L. Lewis took his seat on the executive council of the AFL and immediate immedi-ate comment centered on his possible pos-sible succession to the presidency now held by William Green. For 22 years chieftain of the AFL, the 75-year-old Green announced Lewis' return to "the house of la- William Green (left) and John L. Lewis. bor" which he had helped divide in measured tones, then emphasized his intentions to remain as its head. Return of Lewis and his 500,000 United Mine Workers to the AFL heralded a restoration of labor unity, he said. Ironically, Lewis' re-entrance into the AFL was smoothened by William Wil-liam ("Big Bill") Hutcheson of the Carpenters' union, with whom the doughty John L. had traded punches on the convention floor in Atlantic City in 1935. A staunch Republican, Hutcheson patched up his differences differ-ences with Lewis in 1940, when John L. came out in support of the candidacy of Wendell L. Willkie in opposition to President Roosevelt. ' CLOTHES: Charge Hoarding As vets and other buyers alike continued their vain search for togs in depleted clothing stores the country over, charges persisted that manufacturers were withholding hundreds of thousands of suits off the market because of price ceil ings which they termed inadequate to assure a fair profit. At the same time, production of men's shirts was said to be lagging because of price ceilings, with small hope for large-scale output even with OPA relief before late sum" mer. ' At least 400,000 suits reportedly were being kept out of consumer channels in the East and apprecia-ble apprecia-ble numbers also were being heTd up m the Middle West as manufacturers manufac-turers hoped that shortages might lead to price increases. RAILROADS: Abandonment of unnmm u, branch lines by the raU6 United States totaled 412 mil 6 1945 compared with 640 m lcs ? 1944, 1,096 miles in 1943 and 2 miles in 1942, figures reved 2 Continuing the trend that 'had it, beginning after the record abanrf ments in 1942, of decreasing 1?" ages of lines abandoned yff year, those reported for 1945 " by the lowest for any year i ere in fact, in only y have they been less. year1927- |