Show WEEKLY NE NEWS WS ANALYSIS israel registers D diplomatic victory by agreeing to C cease oease ease oase fire order lewis quits first coal foal conference by bifi bill staff wilter writer f norri wh baliu w efm emm i or iradi rJ adi ia i ebu tiu ee emma owr dwy w a tile sile k of f clr wet we t ata eta UBI arr ard irr karf 1 64 a nr arity ity sst iffa dew sew spar diplomacy PALESTINE ma what t tho iho jews jew of israel tacked lacked in ormed to arab at eok ats tacks their thor new now stat state they hall hail made up ull in shrewd diplomacy if it was wai just lust tha th deci ive dive ivo blow of the palestine ln war wa was truck struck when israel irael tore lore foreseeing seeing inui lwy defeat agreed to t order its ita army t 9 cease crise cesse cesae fire on all palestine pait Palt ln fronti it if the acobs would do the ame adf that development nt which too took k pince ai as uie ule U hattie battle for jerusalem Jer entered its lt sixth day in an unholy atmosphere bunting of rattling cuna guna bunting buntine hell heil ind violent death made the mot most favorable impression pos poa sible bible in the united nations thus having the onu onus of prolonging the palestine fighting shifted suddenly sud aud denly to their shoulders alon alone the arabs araba were put on the pot spot in the N and in world public opinion it was wa a clover clever diplomatic maneuver on the part of the jews but at least at the outset outlet of this thia new line itne of circumstances the arabs araba were having none of it they reiterated their determination to wrest wrist 11 II 11 palestine PaI pal eUn from control of the tha th jews jewa actually Actu any aUy ail oil the jews jew bad done was to lu issue a surprise cease cese fire tiro order in compliance with a U M N security council request that the fighting be brought to a halt neither the tha security council nor anyone elb eib else ele had expected the request to be observed but that put it up to the arabs who faced ath with a deadline set et by the U N were having tr trouble troubie bubl deciding whether or riot not to cease fire it if they stopped fighting now they would have done so 0 o without attaining their prime objective the revoking of israels Isra elt els eis claim to sovereign statehood tate hood it if they continued the war beyond the deadline they would be laying lay ing themselves themi elves open to becu security ity council sanctions of the economic variety SECURITY desperate plau president truman came up with another sound plank to reinforce his campaign platform when he demanded that congress overhaul and broaden the social security program to relieve the desperate plight of 01 the aged and needy in this inflationary called for tor a 50 per cent Increase Ap i old age insurance benefits and asked that 20 million snore persons be protected he offered a five point program and said he h wanted quick action on it for three years the president pointed out with some irritation similar requests on his part have been shunted aside this ibis time he w was asking aa A 50 per cent increase at atlea least sf in old age and survivors insurance benefits allowing pensioners to eam earn up to 40 a month instead of 15 without losing benefits raising of the tax rate from 1 per cent to 1 1 per cent next january 1 extension of coverage to farm 2 and domestic workers the seit self employed and others not now covered broadening of unemployment 3 insurance to cover employees of sma small smail 1 1 firms h having ft I 1 ng f fewer sewer ewer th than an eight workers federal employees and others disability insurance to protect 4 workers atrom loss of earnings caused by sickness and injuries in increased creased federal benefits to 5 match state aid for de dependent pendent children the needy aged and blind whatever his motives in presenting length the problem of inadequate so SOS carity benefits again at this Ws time mr truman did have havi a good even a noble point people whose sole income Is from fron social security pay payments have J just about reached the breaking point all of them face a desperate struggle in trying to procure bare necessities at tit present prices both president truman and the aged and needy were hoping fervently that congress would be able to squeeze social security legislation into the crowded docket it had prepared for the month preceding adjournment AA at for congress cong ress itself it was on I 1 the fence acain again ECONOMICS wage price while prices continue to climb steadily wage increases are begin ning nine to show signs of le velling off says the latest department of commerce report on inflation possibility of a business recession and irth it the prospect lower prices vanished like mist in the sun after aster the foreign aid and military preparedness programs began to take shape in march the survey revealed walkout 9 vik ilk I 1 P this IMIs photograph of f the west end of john L lewia lewis going solas east enat out oat of at a door Is perhaps symbolic ym bollo of trouble to come in the nations soft oft coal mines minee first conference between the united mine worker workers and the coal producers produce ra ann any the minera miners lou 1944 contract ended in frustration when lewis walked out after refusing to tb zat ent zat est eat cat a representative of the th southern coal producers association at the parley NO conference lemis lewis again it was ail all typically 1 I make tha the observation that there is now no conference john I 1 L chief of the soft coal miners as ha he walked grandly out on the first meeting to negotiate a new contract between the coal operators and the united mine workers present contract expires june 30 lewis broke up the discussion on 1948 1048 wage agreements when he objected to seating joseph E moody president of ot the southern coal pr producers 0 association at the conference and was outvoted by the operators he was not against moody personally so nally officially his bis his unions position was that the 14 24 regional organizations which comprise the southern association must bargain in 14 separate groups rather than delegate bargaining authority to the all ali inclusive association according to lewis accepted pattern tern of operation his balk at the southern coal producers was the opening tactical stroke in his hit 1948 campaign for tor an improved miners contract following that be could sit back and present the wage demands in Ms own good time then if the coal operators did not accede he could call the annual strike lewis knew his position was good gohd the recent pension walkout had bad left the nations coal reserves seriously depleted by the time june 30 rolled around soft sott coal stocks would not yet have been built up up to the point where industry could stand a long strike barring unforeseen circumstances it looked like this would develop into another injunction case the ile union still is under an 80 day court injunction prohibiting renewal of the pension strike but bu t the court might rule that another walkout would be a brand new strike in that case a new injunction might have to be sought by the government under taft hartley procedure HARVEST european europe may look forward to p possibly 03 ats its best year since the war it if food fold production prospects continue to be as favorable as they are right now U S agriculture department said that the continent will produce a larger part of its food needs this year than thin it did last year and that the crop outlook was good over most of europe and the soviet union early in may prospects indicate a considerably larger crop of bread grains wheat anil and rye than 1 rast last ait git year years a desperately small one A se severe bevere er e winter killed most of winter N W heat wheat and rye last year bear european production of bread grains may surpass 18 18 billion bushels which wa the size of the 1916 crop largest since the war production last year dropped to about 15 ls billion bushels compared with a 23 2 3 billion n average aver age before the war aeng long voya voyage previous flight range records paled into when an bir air force B U 30 36 flew an unprecedented miles nonstop with p dummy bomb joao load of about five tons it was aloft for tor a day and a half the B U 36 returned to the ground with about 1200 gallons of gasoline remaining in its tanks lanks enough to keep it aloft another two or three hours if necessary DAIRYING td a cris cres cresis crisis as ahne the tho U S dairy industry was busy promoting its lyth annual june dairy month for the tha pur put poe post of selling more milk butter 6 chem chef ese and arm ice lc cream it also abo was taking 4 ion lon long iong look behind the scenes and not liking what it saw hufus industry try tny analysts had bad potted what appeared to be a dangerous trend trena in its ita simplest form tha the tb trend cowd could b bo defined as an in exo tabie table increase in the U S population P lation at the root of he the problem was wab wa a stubbornly entrap entrenched rived economic condition whoa whose factors were wore the war widespread hunger 0 broad abroad o lr and domestic VI dilation inflation lation continuing high prices for beef and veal have been instrumental in fending genc fenc m many shy dairy cows or potential dairy cows to the slaughter houe too many mahy american dairy farmers have discovered how ahey ubay could deduce their herds drastically put more mor land into moneymaking grain crops realize a greater profit and still have more leisure time adding those condit conditions ions lons to the fact that during the past few years yean the nation has haa experienced about a 45 43 per cent increase in its birth rate the dairy industry came up with a grim conclusion if these circumstances continue at the present rate and there if Is eabry likelihood that they will by 1952 the U 8 will bo be approaching the critical point at which it no longer will be able to produce enough milk to satisfy ita its own needs that according to some might mean strict rationing in a land which hitherto had literally flowed with milk and honey POLITICS the race in oregon where the last presidential dent ial primary of this campaign year was held in an atmosphere of political hoopla gov thomas I 1 E dewey of new york was voted more likely to succeed than haroid harold harold haroid I 1 stassen whether he would or not remained an open question but it was certain that his political complexion had taken on a more sanguine g hue as a result of the oregon balloting stassen who had won spectacular primary ma victories Ic tories in wisconsin an end and d ne over oven taft tatt and dewey his bis chief rivals for the GOP nomination and then had received a borderline setback at the hands of taft forces in ohio at last had suffered a clear cut defeat oregon going to do stas son bon any good having had to buck organized republican opposition all the way along he apparently had estimated that his best chance chanco of procuring the nomination lay in building up sufficient prestige and momentum during the primary campaigns to stampede the june 21 convention however be he still will go to the national conven convention Uon with at least delegates pledged to support him on the first ballot so tor for that matter will dewey A 16 total tal tai of convention votes Is required for nomination |