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Show GUARANTEKi) WAtiM: Gets Approval WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSSS , Truman Modifies Tariff Cats; Buffalo Teachers Point Up Drive for Higher School Pay I ai"f- by Western Newspaper tT"'"" 1 (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those of Westero Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) The guaranteed anmnl v;i v?. which promises to become one of the major objectives of the American Ameri-can labor movement, received the endorsement of President Truman's reconversion advisory board. Embodying an employer's pledge to provide a definite amount of work a year, the guaranteed wage has been in effect in a number of plants, with advocates declaring that it tends to regularize production and remove employees' fear of layoffs. Opponents of the plan assert that it would compel employers to pay out wages during periods of slack demand de-mand for goods. Because the guaranteed annual wage is no cure-all for economic fluctuations, the board said that it should be correlated with other stabilizing sta-bilizing factors, including social ; security, minimum wages and tax ; policies. All guaranteed wage j agreements should be worked out through collective bargaining rather than imposed through national na-tional legislation, it was said. Board members include Presidents Presi-dents Edward A. O'Neal of the Farm Bureau; William Green, AFL; Phil Murray, CIO; and Eric Johnston, Motion Pictures Producers Produc-ers and Distributors. r : I ' '1 aw i J , I : . U I y f I S v. ' - As Buffalo school teachers strike for higher pay (top), students (bottom) show sympathy by bearing instructors' placards. for beginners and increases of $1,025 yearly for elementary teachers now making $l,875-$2,575 and high school Instructors earning $2,175-$2,975, plus a state authorized $300 raise. Federation President Ast said the teachers walked out after he had failed to receive assurances from Governor Dewey that proposed legislation leg-islation providing for permanent salary sal-ary increases would embody the organization's or-ganization's demands. Although some 568 non-striking teachers stayed on the job, the schools were shut down completely because of jostling jos-tling picket lines and union teamsters' team-sters' refusal to make fuel and food deliveries. PALESTINE: . S. -British Rift While diplomatic observers expected ex-pected no major rift to develop between be-tween the U. S. and Britain over the heated exchange on the Palestine question, the outburst pointed up the apparent cross-purposes at which the two allies were working In the strategic stra-tegic Middle Eastern region with its oil-laden lands. Foreign Minister Bevin's charge that President Truman had disrupted disrupt-ed delicate British negotiations for settling the Palestine issue by demanding de-manding admission of 100,000 Jews into the Holy Land before the 1946 congressional elections to get votes was immediately denied by the White House. In a prompt reply, it was .said that Mr. Truman's declaration decla-ration merely reaffirmed the U. S. position on Palestine taken in the summer of 1945. Republican senators were quick to rise to the President's defense. Brewster Rep., Me.) said that Bev-in Bev-in was trying to make Mr. Truman the "sacrificial" goat for Britain's failure to work out an equitable agreement between Jews and Arabs, and Taft (Rep., O.) pointed out that Bevin had conveniently dropped his proposal for partition of the Holy Land in the face of stiff Arab opposition. oppo-sition. , AUSTRIA: Allies Clash Indicative of the problems facing the Big Four in Moscow when their conference gets underway shortly, their deputy foreign ministers laying lay-ing the groundwork for discussion of German and Austrian treaties agreed only half-way on an Austrian Aus-trian pact. Out of 62 clauses, agreement agree-ment was reached on 32. ' Major differences included: U. S. and Russian disagreement disagree-ment over what constitutes Nazi assets In Austria. The U. S. contends that the Russians have removed important Austrian Aus-trian property as reparations on the grounds that they were Nazi property, seriously impairing the country's economy. Russian support of Yugoslav claims to the richest and most densely populated provinces of Carinthia and Styria. The U. S., Britain and France object, declaring de-claring Austria's prewar boundaries bound-aries should remain intact. French insistence upon rigid control of scientific research. The U. S. argues that such supervision su-pervision wonld hamper the economic redevelopment of Austria, leading to employment and trade difficulties. In Washington, Secretary of State Marshall disclosed that John Foster Dulles, Republican adviser on foreign for-eign affairs, would accompany him to the Moscow conference. In all, the U. S. delegation will include 84 members, half of whom will be clerks. VOLCANO: Rampant in Sicily Quietly slumbering since 1928, when it wiped out the village of Mas-cati. Mas-cati. Mount Etna on the east coast of Sicily kicked up again, with molten molt-en lava gushing from a new crater on its side threatening to bury several sev-eral more small settlements. Nine hundred feet wide, a stream of bubbling, molten lava edged intd the plain of Damusi at a speed of about 210 feet an hour, then broke off into three forks, one pushing toward to-ward the villages of Passo Pisciaro and Cisterna. As natives fled In panic, government govern-ment authorities rushed motor vehicles ve-hicles to the area to evacuate the homeless. Directors of the Etna observatory ob-servatory asked Rome to consider the advisability of air bombardment of the countryside to divert the flow of lava from villages and rich agricultural agri-cultural areas. LABOR: Pin Down Green Pinned down by the close questioning ques-tioning of Representative Hoffman (Rep., Mich.) Pres. William Green of the AFL told a congressional committee com-mittee that the union would back the amendment of labor laws to permit free speech to employees by employers employ-ers and require unions to register with the government and file financial finan-cial statements. At the same time the gaudily dressed AFL chieftain rapped proposals pro-posals for a closed shop, declaring that workers benefiting from union gains should pay organization dues. He opposed passage of anti-racketeering laws on the grounds that it was unfair to punish the entire labor movement for the excesses of certain cer-tain members. Questioning Green on union pressure pres-sure against unorganized workers, Hoffman asked: "Farmers are unorganizedwhen un-organizedwhen they bring ham and eggs to town, why don't you refuse re-fuse to eat them?" Green blandly replied: "We are reasonable men." TRADE: Modify Program Seeking to soften Republican opposition op-position to the administration's foreign for-eign trade program, President Truman Tru-man issued an order sharply modifying modi-fying reciprocal trade agreements. Acting after consultations with Republican Senators Vandenberg (Mich.) and Millikin (Colo.), Mr. Truman directed that hereafter reciprocal re-ciprocal agreements contain escape clauses permitting the President to modify er eliminate low tariff concessions con-cessions that jeopardize an American Ameri-can industry. Agreements also will embody a "most favored nation" clause, giving giv-ing the U. S. the same trade advantages advan-tages afforded other countries. At present, some states have agreements agree-ments with others which tend to discriminate against American trade. Reiterating U. S. hopes for building build-ing a foundation for peace through the free exchange of goods and elevation of ' living standards, Mr. Truman said that this country looked forward to the forthcoming world trade parley in Geneva, Switzerland. Swit-zerland. He stated that the U. S. would negotiate for tariff reductions, reduc-tions, removal of trade barriers and elimination of discriminatory practices. prac-tices. U.N.: U. S.-Red Harmony Suspension of Russian opposition to a U. S. trusteeship over former Japanese mandated islands in the Pacific virtually assured U. N. approval ap-proval of the American proposal to hold on to the territories for security reasons. Earlier the Russians had threatened threat-ened to force this country into taking unilateral action on the islands by demanding that the trusteeship question ques-tion be postponed until formulation of a Japanese peace treaty. While Britain and Australia had joined in the Soviet opposition, it was considered con-sidered that it would be comparatively compara-tively easy to adjust differences with them. In making their about-face, the Russians proclaimed that the U. S. was entitled to the trusteeships because be-cause it had made incomparably greater sacrifices than the other Allied Al-lied countries in wresting them from Japanese control. Under the U. S. proposal, the islands would be held open for U. N. inspection, except for strategic military installations that may be closed for security purposes. TEACHERS: Biggest Strike Seventy-one thousand Buffalo elementary ele-mentary and high school students had no classes as 2,400 instructors staged the biggest teachers' strike in U. S. history over substantial pay demands. The walkout pointed up the increasing in-creasing pressure for higher teachers' teach-ers' salaries throughout the country not only to keep present instructors within the educational system but also to make the profession more alluring for recruits in a day of increased in-creased remuneration in other fields. Members of the Independent Buffalo Buf-falo Teachers federation and AFL and CIO unions, the teachers demanded de-manded a minimum salary of $2,400 INSURANCE: F or Kiddies Reflecting the desire of American families to start thrift programs for their children at an early age, life insurance on the lives of children : was purchased in a new record vol-! ume last year, according to a survey made by the Institute of Life Insurance. The survey covered the experience experi-ence of companies writing one-half of the total new ordinary and one-third one-third of total new industrial life in-1 surance issued in the United States j |