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Show Steel Golicrths Line Op (Behind! Truman 1 ; Board Peace Formula U.S.SfeclCo. Supplies Final Word PITTSBURGH The . powerful United States Steel Corp. agreed te resume aege-tlatioas aege-tlatioas with the CIO Catted Stoerworkers ef America as der the preafcteatial beard's i plu for pesos la the steel as- I dually. By sessrlstsd Press America's steel-produdng Go- ! Hatha began lining up Tuesday be hud a presidential board's formula for peace In the nation's most tm- ' portant baste Industry, But there was no word from m dustry bellwether United States Steel Corp. Spokesmen commented only "nothing doing yet" There won't be any steel strike for the neat 11 days and maybe none at alL The wage dispute that threatened to tie the nation In economic eco-nomic knots apparently la headed for a happy solution. President Truman Is "highly ' gratified" about the whole thing. CIO United SteeKrorkers and 1 six major steel producers agreed to extension of the strike truce at request of the chief executive. The truce expiree at midnight Tuesday. It will continue to Sept. 36. t Accept Prep seats The steelwork ers also accepted recommendations of the president's steel fact-finding board even though It meant giving ap a fourth round wage Increase. "The president Is naturally highly high-ly gratified," said the White House. nn la very much pleased with the way things have developed p to . BOW."- ... - . Republic Steel Corp. of Cleveland, Cleve-land, the nation's No. J producer, waa the first to announce willing ness to bargain pensions as recom" mended by the presidential board In a 10c hourly package not Including Includ-ing wages Then No. 4 produoer Jones and Laughlln Steel Corp. of Pittsburgh followed suit, accepting tha peace plan "as a basis for oolleo" Uve bargaining." 1 Prepared for Study J. and L. said It Is prepared to' undertake at once a Joint study of pensions with the steelworksrs "in anticipation of bargaining on this subject beginning March 1 next" "With respect to soda! lnsur-' anee benefits." the statement added, "we will negotiate with tha See Page a, Coluaaa 4 Sfeel Backing Truce Plans Ceatiaawd trans Pag Oaa union for th purpose of reaching a mutually acceptable agreement.' The Wall Street Journal at th same time said only " a alight increase" in-crease" In labor coats will result tf the recommended social insurance program is put into affect The newspaper added that most steel companies now have some form of group life insurance but less than - half have company financed accident acci-dent sickness and hospital and surgical benefits. Avert Seoaad Stria Another strike, also affecting steel, was averted, at least temporarily. tem-porarily. The walkout against the Union Railroad Co. at Pittsburgh, scheduled for (:SO a.m. Tuesdsy, wss postponed by the Brotherhood Brother-hood of Railroad Trainmen. The union said it had agreed to send representatives to Washington Wednesday to discuss the dispute with the national mediation board. The union said the walkout which would make idle thousands of ateelworkers in th Pittsburgh district could be called on 24 hours' notice. Th dispute is over working rules. Efforts to end the four-day-old Missouri Pacific . railroad .strike continued as union and management manage-ment representatives met again Tuesdsy. Union leaders rejected a proposal that strikers, members of four rail operating brotherhoods, return to their jobs during the n- gotistions to settle the dispute Involving In-volving Interpretation of union rules. -Some 23,000 rail workers are idle including 5000 strikers and operations halted throughout the carrier's 10-atats system. Dock Strike Coattaues There appeared no sign of early settlement in the 136-dsy-oid Hawaiian Ha-waiian dock strike. Peace talks in New York broke up in complete failure Monday. But th federal conciliation service was ready to try to help again at reaching a settlement of the wage dispute. No progress wss reported in contract con-tract negotiations between the A F L International Longshoremen's Longshore-men's Assn. and th cast coast shipping opera tora - After Monday's Mon-day's meeting in New York, a union official said: "We are at a stalemate.'' The union, representing represent-ing about 65,000 east coast stevedores, steve-dores, haa threatened a strike after Sept SO. The union has asked for a 22c an hour pay hike over th present basic rate of ll.ftg. The operators proposed a cut of 13c an hour. |