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Show TEMPERATURES PARTLY CLOUDY south and cloudy north portion Sunday. Little change in tern peraturc ttattoa Mas Min Sutton Mas Mill Prv . i... SI 25 Salt Lke.. 4 Z Ofdea 44 34 Boil ..... St 33 Butt . 43 IS rertland . . S3 41 SeatUt S3 43 San. rran... S3 41 L.OI Angeles 1 43 Las V as Denver . . . Chicago . . . New York . Atlanta . . . III! "XegSSI - VOL. 24, NO. 35 SS r PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 1947 1 PRICE FIVE CENTS'"""" Argentina Gets Praise for U. S. State Department Shows Form Reversal By Praising Argentina , WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (U.R) The state department today showered unwonted praise on Argentina for an act of denazification which officials hoped would lead to early cementing of inter-American inter-American unity. In a reversal of Its past critical attitude toward the government of Col. Juan Peron, the state department de-partment in a brief but significant signifi-cant statement warmly welcomed Argentine seizure yesterday of 60 "enemy spearhead firms" valued at $90,000,000. Argentina's act and the state department's comment on it appeared ap-peared to foreshadow early improvement im-provement in long-strained relations rela-tions between the two countries. They also may portend early opening op-ening of a proposed Inter-American conference to draw up a hemispheric hem-ispheric defense pact. This country for years has been trying to ret Argentina to kick out Nasi agents active act-ive there and to denazify Argentine Ar-gentine Industry and education. educa-tion. The state department said seizure seiz-ure of the 60 business firms was "an Important step and comes as a welcome addition to the measures meas-ures already taken in respect of Nazi educational and other institutions." in-stitutions." The U. S. statement was issued shortly after new Secretary of State George C. Marshall had spent 45 minutes discussing Argentine Ar-gentine affairs with Ambassador George S. Messersmith, who will return to his Buenos Aires post next week. The warmth of the U. S. statement state-ment was in marked contrast to the renunciatory tone of past official of-ficial remarks of American officials. of-ficials. Former Secretary of State Cordell Hull flatly accused Argentina Ar-gentina of aiding the enemy. And in the years since Hull's retirement retire-ment Assistant Secretary of State Spruile Braden has frequently voiced criticism of the Peron government for not complying speedily with its promise to get rid of Nazi influences. This promise was made by Argentina Ar-gentina and other American re publics when they signed the act of Chapultepec at Mexico City in 1945. This act also calls for an inter-American defense agree-: ment, but the United States nasi refused to discuss such a pact un-! (Continued on Page Two) Solution Of 'Atomic Veto' Sought By U. S. , NEW YORK, Jan. 25 (U.P.) The ' United States, while standing firmly on its original atomic control con-trol plan, is exploring ways of solving the troublesome issue of an "atomic veto" without altering alter-ing the United Nations charter, American UN delegate Warren R Austin said tonight. Austin, said in an address to the New York slate bar association, associa-tion, that the United Spates stii! insisted that no atomic control violator should be protected by a veto in the UN security council He indirectly denied Soviet charges that this would mean changing he security council voting vot-ing provisions in the UN charter the provisions which give the Big Five countries the right to veto proposed action by the council. coun-cil. Austin said the means of removing re-moving the threat of veto of atomic enforcement "'already reside re-side in the charter." The charter, he said, contains certain obligations which are "the law. . .definite and unequivocal." unequi-vocal." Some ol those obligations require individual nations of the UN to band together collectively to act against an aggressor nation whether the security council has crdered such action or not, Austin Aus-tin explained. Bribery Alleged ATLANTA, Ga., Jan. 25 (U.R) A grand jury investigation was demanded today into alleged bribe attempts made by both sides to sway voting in the general assembly session which elected Herman Talmadge governor of Georgia. Mayor Harvey Kennedy of Barnesville, head of the newly organized "Aroused . Citizens of Georgia," made a demand on' behalf be-half of his organization that the Fulton county (Atlanta) grand jury look into the alleged bribe offers. "The people of Georgia are shamed and humiliated over the charges made by members of the general as Denazification Resnatron' Turns Out Current x 4. V.. - ' -"mm i These copper objects are principal parts of the "resnatron," an electronic elec-tronic tube which generates immense quantities of high frequency . . I 1 T IV T 1 ...Ml )A current. It was usea auring me war 10 jam a loum, v adapted to peacetime television and frequency modulated radio. The parts shown are taken from the tube that broke the world's power record by delivering 140 kilowatts of continuous power. Men examining them are (left to right) Dr. David Sloan, University of California electrical engineer who worked on the idea while in bed recovering from a back disease; Dr. Winfield W. Salisbury, and Dr. L. C. Marshall of the U. S. Dr. Sloan and Dr. Marshall conceived the idea. - Rent Control Failure Would Bring Wholesale Evictions WASHINGTON. Jan. 25 (U.R) The Congress of Industrial Organizations Or-ganizations warned tonight that efforts to weaken or abolish rent ceilings, if successful, will result in wholesale evictions within 60 days. The government meanwhile drafted plans for tipping- some rents in isolated cases of landlord hardship, "but its housing -chiefs warned that the shortage of homes is still acute. They said meeting housing needs remains a House 'Ready ToRolj'Says GOP Leader . WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (U.R) House Republican leader Charles A. Halleck, Ind., said tonight that the House is "ready to roll" with a legislative program which should be wound up in time for a congressional adjournment July 31. The GOP leader struck back at "some people, uninformed as to the workings here, who think that we have not been moving fast enough." He promised to: 1. Give top priority and expeditious ex-peditious but not hasty consideration con-sideration to portal - to - portal, strike control and tax reduction legislation. 2. Do everything possible to wind up House work in time for congressional adjournment by July 31, the suggested deadline in the congressional reorganization reorganiza-tion act. 3. Support any investigation "which appears to be in the public pub-lic interest and which will be undertaken vigorously and fairly." fair-ly." He pointed out that Republicans Republi-cans took control of congress at a time when the reorganization act had shrunk the number of House standing committees from (Continued on Page Two) MISSING GIRL MAY BE IN CANADA BENNINGTON, Vt., Jan. 25 (U.R) Renewed hope that Miss Paula Welden of Stamford, Conn., might be alive in Canada came today with reports that the 18-year-old Bennington "college sophomore who disappeared Dec. 1 had been seen in Montreal. State's Atty. Almo B. Franzoni was investigating the reports of several persons who told of seeing see-ing the attractive girl in Farn-ham, Farn-ham, Que., and the Montreal area. In Election Of sembly that bribes were offered of-fered by both sides at the time the general assembly elected a governor," Kennedy said. .Acting Gov. M. E. Thompson said he would welcome an investigation in-vestigation into the bribery charges, asserting that "the public pub-lic is entitled to know about it, and it should be either proved or disproved." His rival. Gov. Herman Her-man Talmadge, had no comment on the demand for a grand jury investigation. State administration, meanwhile, mean-while, faced a partial financial breakdown within seven days if the dual governorship deadlock is not resolved and Talmadge -2 'national obligation for both the government and the nome ouiia-ing ouiia-ing industry. The CIO, which with the rest of organized labor is battling to keep present rent ceilings intact, sent a circular letter to all affiliated organizations organ-izations calling on them to resist attacks on the program. The letter warned against both "extreme" and "more subtle" forms of wiping out controls over rents. "The most subtle form," the letter said, "is the proposal for 'cushioned decontrol.' The National Na-tional Association of Real Estate Boards is pushing this program in congress. It provides that any home or apartment shall be decontrolled de-controlled if the landlord gives the tenant a lease for one year at a 15 per cent higher rental." The CIO said the effect of such a proposal would be sharply ris ing evictions on the flimsiest excuses," ex-cuses," a national wave of dissatisfaction dis-satisfaction with all rent controls con-trols and "obvious unfairness." The letter said a survey of 26 cities shows that landlords' net income has increased from 85 to 225 per cent, due to zero' vacancies vacan-cies and reductions in costs. OPA sources indicated that small operators with scattered or single apartments or houses probably prob-ably will get most of the benefit from newly liberalized landlord hardship rules. The new regulations regula-tions still are being drafted and probably will be made effective some time next week. They were announced by Fleming yesterday after a conference with President Truman. New Homes Cost Too Much For Vets WASHINGTON. Jan. 25 (U.R) Maj. Gen. Philip B. Fleming, Federal Works Administrator, predicted today new homes will cost so much this year that most veterans for whom they are intended in-tended can't buy them. It is problematical, Fleming said, how many houses will be within reach of GI's either for purchase or rent. "While we expect some decrease de-crease in prices later in the year, home ownership is likely to remain re-main in unattainable luxury for most of the veterans," he said. Fleming spoke before the 21st Women's Patriotic Conference on National Defense here. He charged that the homebuilding industry had failed to keep pace with modern technology. Talmadge pleaded for both moral and monetary mone-tary support of his claims to the office. His rival, Acting Gov. M. E. Thompson, was sitting tight in the growing financial crisis on the thesis that the more trouble Talmadge Tal-madge runs into the more strengthened will become his own position. Thompson did say that he vould take "no action" to prevent salary payments to pre-Talmadge pre-Talmadge employes' or his own appointees. - Thompson also suggested that the legislature declare an im mediate recess pending court adjudication ad-judication of the governors' deadlock, dead-lock, thus saving the state $5,000 (Continued on Tare Two) -J 12 Killed In Plane Crash In Great Britain Transport Collides With Parked Plane, Both Burning Up By EARL BARBER United Press Staff Correspondent CROYDON AIRPORT, Eng., Jan. 25 (U.R) Twelve persons, including three nuns and two babies, were killed today to-day when a chartered Dakota transport taking off in falling snow for -Rhodesia fell back to the runway after being airH borne and crashed into an empty parked Dakota. The . two planes burst into flames. Eleven of the 23 persons aboard the first craft survived!, suffering burns and shock. The nuns were of the Sisters Sis-ters of Mercy order. One of them might have been saved, but she pushed to safety s man mho was trying to shove her through an emergency door. The Royal air force reported a second crash and a third probable prob-able crash. An RAF Mosquito went down near North Allerton, Yorkshire, early today, killing the two men aboard. A Philippines Airlines C-47 with four crewmen and $15,000,- 000 in gold aboard was believed to have crashed in pirate-infested waters just outside Hong Kong, China, about 3 p.m. yesterday. Destroyers and launches searched for it -11 night (A 21-passenger U. S. naval air transport plane crashed near Dartmouth, N. S., last night, injuring in-juring seven persons.) The Dakota that crashed at Croydon today belonged to the Spencer Airways of South Africa. Capt. Ted Spencer, the pilot and part owner of the line, was one of those killed. Show was falling and the runway run-way - was coated with tee- when the plane took off. It had climbed climb-ed 150 feet into the air when sud-(Continued sud-(Continued on Page Two) Ex-Gangster Al Capone Dies Suddenly MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Jan. 25 (U.R) Scarface Al Capone, king of Chicago's organized crime during prohibition, died at his Palm Island estate here tonight at 7:25 p. m. Capone died suddenly when his heart failed after a final illness that began with an apopletic stroke early Tuesday. All members mem-bers of his family, including his mother, wife and son were present. Doctor Kenneth Phillips, his personal physician announced an-nounced the news to reporters J at 8:30 p.m. He had arrived only a few minutes before in response to an emergency call. "The death was sudden with no previous warning," Dr. Phillips said. "The family were all present. pres-ent. The final death was due to heart failure." "The funeral arrangements are as yet uncertain. The wife collapsed col-lapsed and is in serious physical condition. It is requested that from the standpoint of humane justice that she be given as much consideration as possible. "Further details will be given when there has been sufficient time to compose all concerned." Pneumonia resulting from a stroke Tuesday finally brought death to the man who once ran a $100,000,000 bootleg empire, after af-ter more than 15 years of illness, seclusion and absence from the underworld kingdom he ruled. Barely 48 when he died, Capone had spent seven and a half of his years in federal prisons and as long on the sick list. The former gang leader suffered suffer-ed an apoplectic stroke Tuesday morning at 4 o'clock and was given the last sacrament of the Catholic church befdre dawn. But 14 hours later, Capone rallied ral-lied from a coma to speak briefly to those gathered at the bedside, and then fell into a natural sleep. He showed steady improvement until pneumonia began to develop in his lungs Friday. The man who had a cordon of bodyguards for his every move while he ruled the crime rackets, fell victim to paresis, it was reliably re-liably reported. He was ill when released from Alcatraz prison in 1939, and spent most of his time since then under careful watch of physicians. ' Capone's loyal wife, Mrs. Mae Capone, their son, Alphonse, Jr., and Al's aged mother and brothers broth-ers were at the bedside when he died. Other relatives from Chi-(Continned Chi-(Continned on Pare Two) v . 'Wins 1 High Income Tax Cuts Vin GOP Backing Tax Reduction Would Would Bring More "Risk" Capital Out WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (U.R) House Republicans began be-gan mustering arguments tonight to-night in an effort to prove that substantial tax reductions reduc-tions for persons in high income in-come brackets are both possible pos-sible and necessary. Republican members of the house ways and means committee commit-tee contended that tax reductions would bring more "risk" capital into the market and thereby contribute con-tribute to future prosperity. Rep. Robert W. Kean, R., N. J., cited these figures as proof that what he called "soak-the-rich" taxation of New Deal days had liquidated the bulk of venture capital: In 1932 a married man who earned $100,00 paid 830,100 in federal taxes. The man with an identical income today pays S63,-127 S63,-127 in federal taxes. On a percentage per-centage bases, the $100,000-a-year man had a 47.24 per cent decline in the net income between 1932 and 1946. A married man who earned $5,-000 $5,-000 in 1932 paid $100 in federal taxes. Today thi. $5,000 man pays $798 in federal taxes. His net income in-come has declined 14.24 per cent. Ways and means committee Chairman Harold Knutson, R., Minn., wants to cut income taxes of all persons earning up to $302,-000 $302,-000 a year by 20 per cent. That would cut the taxes of the $100,-000-a-year man from $63,127 to $50,502. The taxes of the $5,000 a year man would be cut from $798 to $638. Republicans admit the argument of Democrats that the greatest beneficiary of an across-the-board tax reduction reduc-tion would be the rich man. But they contend that the tax reduction is more necessary in the upper brackets because be-cause the rich man risks his money to produce, more wealth for the nation. To Democratic arguments that tax reductions should be made in the lower brackets first, the Republicans Re-publicans reply that taxes cannot be reduced in the lower brackets only without seriously cutting government revenue. For example, congressional tax experts estimate that if the basic personal income tax exemption is increased from $500 to $600 as some Democrats have proposed the revenue loss to the government govern-ment would amount to about $1,-500,000,000. $1,-500,000,000. But benefits to the individual taxpayer would be so small as to be negligible, Republicans Repub-licans contend. Legislation to increase exemptions exemp-tions has been offered in both the senate and house. The latest measure was dropped into the hopper Friday by Sen. James E. Murray, D., Mont., who proposed to increase the exemption of a single person to $1,000 and a married mar-ried person to $2,000. Present exemptions ex-emptions are $500 per taxpayer with an additional $500 for- each dependent. Immediate Paying Of Gl Terminal Leave Bonds Asked WASHINGTON. Jan. 25 (U.R) A bill under which G.I. Terminal Leave bonds could be cashed immediately im-mediately has been introduced by Sen. Ernest W. McFarland. D.. Ariz. Another bill by McFarland i would continue monthly payment pay-ment . to children of deceased veterans long enough to see them through four years of college or technical schooling provided theyj start before the age of 21. I Soviets Deliberately Misrepresent U. S. News WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (U.R) State department officials charged tonight that large scale, Russian-sponsored Russian-sponsored propaganda activities in European countries .deliberately .deliberate-ly omit or misrepresent . statements state-ments of U. S. officials and present pre-sent a weird, distorted picture of American life. The charges were made by William Wil-liam T. Stone and Maurice S. Rice of the department's office of international information and cultural affairs, and Frank R. Shea of the U. S. Information teel QO Peace Move WKte Government Officials See Signs That 1947 May Become Year of High Production and Prosperity; Hostile Labor Laws Deplored By CHARLES II. IIERROLD United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan. , 25 night praised a peace move by U. S. Steel and the CIO, and government officials generally noted signs that 1947 may be a year of high production and prosperity. AFL President William Green charged that some con gressmen have "declared war on trade unions." He foresaw fore-saw possible danger "to free enterprise and our democratic demo-cratic institutions" in the current legislative-industrial pic ture. But most government Assistant John R. Steelman, detected de-tected in recent labor-management developments portents that industrial peace and reduced living liv-ing costs may become established establish-ed facts this year. They said these blessings seem nearer to realization now than at any other time since the end of the W8 1 What evoked the White House expression was the U. S. Steel -CIO agreement to extend the present wage-hour contract from its Feb. 15 expiration date to April Ap-ril 30 while negotiating a new agreement. Steelman, in a statement understood to represent the views of President Truman, said "it was a very fine move on the part of all concerned: they are to be hlrhly congratulated." con-gratulated." Mr. Truman recently called for cooperation between management and labor to avert strife and maintain production. Whether stabilized prosperity Is! achieved in the next six months, officials said, depends upon con- . The Ironton plant of the Geneva Steel company, where the CIO United Steelworkers hold the bargaining agency, was thusassured - of ' uninterrupted uninter-rupted working" conditions un- i til May 1 so far as labor-man- ' agement problems are eon ; cerned. The Geneva plant of ! the company is at present un- ! affected by national CIO steel I negotiations beeause the AFL i holds the , bargaining agency. ' The CIO will oppose the AFL : at a new labor election called ! ' for Feb. 12 and 13 at Geneva. I gress, further price reductions by industry, and uninterrupted production pro-duction by labor, particularly John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers (AFL). The bullish view of the immediate imme-diate economic future was inspired in-spired principally by the steel -CIO agreement. The steel company and union also announced tonight in Pittsburgh Pitts-burgh that they had reached agreement on payment of $30,-000,000 $30,-000,000 in retroactive wages for elimination of inter- and intra-plant intra-plant inequities. The settlement provides for l'fc cents an hour average wage increase after Jan. 31 for "a large percentage". of the corporation's workers emploved by American Steel and Wire Co., Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp.. Columbia Co-lumbia Steel Co., National Tube Co., and Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co. These agreements are expected to set the pattern for other basic steel companies. - Another recent development which the administration found pleasing was the Ford price cuts. Steelman praised the Ford Motor Co. for "business statesmanship." There was some fear In government gov-ernment circles that congress (Continued on Page Two) Chrysler And CIO Agree To Extend Contract 30 Days DETROIT, Jan. 25 (U.R) Chrysler Corp. and the CIO auto workers union announced jointly today that their contract, due to expire tomorrow, has been extended ex-tended 30 days by mutual agreement. agree-ment. Neither Robert W. Conder, Chrysler director of labor relations, rela-tions, nor Norman W. Matthews, Chrysler director for the UAW, would give a reason for the extension. ex-tension. Service in Bucharest, Romania. In a radio broadcast (NBC) they asserted that Russia con stantly refers to Americans as "militaristic, aggressive, decadent, wealthy, and imperialistic." She said the Russian-controlled "propaganda outfit"' in Romania presented statements made by former Secretary of State James F. Byrnes and Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg in a way "that almost al-most changed their meanings." In Vandenberg's speech following fol-lowing the Paris Big Four meet House Praise (U.R)--The White House to sources, including President Book Searched For Clues In Girl's Murder LOS ANGELES, Jan. 23 (U.R) The blonde Amazon who guaranteed guaran-teed to name the "black dahlia" slayer for a price was dismissed by police today as a thrill-seeker and they turned to their "hottest" "hot-test" lead the black address book that may yield a clue to the egocentric killer. The tiny book, containing the names and addresses of Elizabeth Short's friends, was mailed with her birth certificate and other personal belongings to local newspapers possibly by the person per-son who tortured and mutilated her and then bisected her body. A set of fingerprints found on the envelope was hurried to the FBI for checking. One page was torn from the black address book of the former movie extra whose passion for black led to her nickname "the black dahlia." . Detectives believed the missing pjge may nave coriameq mc name of the maniac who hacked her up in' frenzy of excitement . They released the tlx foot, one inch blonde woman, Miss Caral Marshall, 21. of Tulare, Calif. Miss Marshall had told Barstow police "I know who killed Beth Short (Elizabeth Short), and if the reward is big enough I'll talk." Homicide bureau officers disclosed dis-closed that all Miss Marshall' knowledge of the case was learned learn-ed from newspaper accounts of the slaying. As detectives checked the names in the book, a WAS ser geant, Mary Stradder, offered to fly here from Maxwell Field, Ala., to aid officers with hei knowledge of Miss Short. She had befriended Miss Short, she said, when the two worked at Camp Cooke, Calif., in the post exchange. " t reported that Miss Short lived with a sergeant who threatened threat-ened her life. Miss Marshall trld detective? during questioning that she had fallen in with a group of com panions in Los Angeles who seemed to have an intimate knowledge of the Short killing. Her companion. Charles E. Wells, Jr., 26, San Gabriel, was held on suspicion of auto theft after he attempted to sell his car to a service station operator fo-$700. fo-$700. Miss Short's personal belongings belong-ings were mailed in a letter ad dressed b" pasting up in viJual (Continued o Page Two) Egypt Appeals To United Nations CAIRO. Egypt, Jan. 23 (U.R) The Egyptian cabinet has decided decid-ed to submit the dispute or points in the Anglo-Egyptian ' treaty negotiations to the United Nations Na-tions security council and Premier Pre-mier Mahmoud Fahmy Nokrasgy Pasha will make the announce ment in the chamber of deputies Monday, it was reported today. A .cabinet member s 'd the de- osion to break of direct negotiations negotia-tions with Great Britain was made after a three-hour discussion discus-sion of the latest British proposals. pro-posals. It was understood the cabinet was unanimous in reject ing the new offers, submitted yesterday to Nokrashy Pasha by British Ambassador Sir Ronald Ian Campbell. Details of the proposals pro-posals were not disclosed. ing, Shea said the phrases "Russia "Rus-sia does hot' want war" and the ''United States does not want war appeared in the Romanian press only as "Russia does not want war." . "That is not distortion." he said. "That is butchery." 1 He added that all references to Byrnes' speech on the withdrawal withdraw-al of trooDS from Eurooe and the principle, of r free commerce on ine uanuDewere omittea in Romanian Ro-manian reports. 1 Steel Men Get Retroactive Pay Benefits Agreement Between U. S. Steel CIO Means $32,000,000 Back Pay PITTSBURG, Jan. 25 (U.R) The CIO United Steelworkers Steelwork-ers and U. S. Steel Corp. today to-day announced agreements after two years of negotiations negotia-tions on a new standard of hourly wage scale rates. The agreement will cost U. S. Steel $32,000,000 in retroactive retro-active pay and groups 43,000 separate job titles under 30 general classifications. The agreement eliminated job inequities by converting hourly, tonnage, incentive and piecework rates to the new standard. The contract is wholly apart from negotiations between the company and the union for a new contract, which opened here Friday. Those negotiations were recessed over the week end, and will resume Monday. The wage rate agreement provided that U. S. Steel pay about $32,000,000 in retroactive retro-active pay dating back to Jan. 4, 1944, as set forth in a ruling by the national war labor board in Nov. 1944. The board directed the company com-pany and union to negotiate wages with a view toward eliminating elimi-nating intra-plant wage rate inequities. in-equities. The steelworkers agreement with the nation's biggest producer pro-ducer of steel is effective on the first pay day - after Feb. 1. It affects 223.000 production and maintenance workers at five major U. S. Steel subsidiaries. They 'are Carnegie - Illinois Steel Corp., American Steel St Wire Co., National Tube Co, (Continued on Page Two) 260 Ironton Workers Get Wage Raises Between 230 and 260 Ironton employes of the Geneva Steel company will receive hourly wage increases ranging from 34 cents to as high as 27 cents in one or two instances beginning Feb. 9, Thomas J. Weaver, Orem. chairman of Ironton's CIO United Steelworkers wage inequity grievance committee, said Saturday. Satur-day. The increases, which in the majority of the cases range' from 3'i cents to about 17 cents an hour, Mr. Weaver said, are the result of the wage inequity ad justment agreement reached na tionally between the United Steelworkers and five major subsidiaries sub-sidiaries of the U. S. Steel cor poration, plus the Ironton plant of Geneva Steel. The Ironton wage Inequities Inequi-ties chairman said, the number num-ber of production and .maintenance .main-tenance men at Ironton who would receive no benefit from the agreement totaled less than a dozen. Ironton workers received, on a general average, greater increases irom the agreement than any other area affected, Mr. Weaver declared. He asserted the agree ment corrects a situation long deplored by Ironton workers, that they were paid substantially low er than workers on corresponding correspond-ing jobs in eastern steel centers. Such re io- inequities have now been corrected, Mr. Weaver claimed, asserting that an Iron-ton Iron-ton worker now will receive the same wage as a man on a corresponding corre-sponding job in the other sub sidiaries and other regions where U. S. Steel plants coming under the agreement are oper ated. The committee chairman had no figures on the amounts in retroactive back pay which Iron-ton Iron-ton men will receive, but indicated indi-cated it would be suostahtial for most of them. The agreement calls for payment in back pay of 70 percent of what the increases will total retroactive from Jan.. 4, 1944. Production and maintenance jobs at Ironton were lumped imo. 18 general classifications, ana tne majority of these classifications' received boosts under the agreement, agree-ment, according to Mr. Weaver. The Ironton wage inequities committee has been at work on the problem on behalf of Iron- ton workers since October of 1945. - The agreement is in no way related to the current national negotiations between . the .-CIO United Steelworkers and the U. S. Steel corporation for a new.' general working contract. |