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Show - '( TEMPERATURES v i Suttoa tu aoasutloa CLEAR with rising temperatures oter the weekend. .Low Sunday morning 25-35 with about 40 la Utah's Dixie. Max Mia . 41 2jSaa Fran., 1 t 3 Tuas Ancelet J2U Vcgai S4 Si 31DBVr ... 44 tS 14 Chirac .44 31 43,New York. 47 S3 fll Atlanta ..72 S3 art lui y SI odt : Bois M Btttt . 41 Peruana . . 4S Mtti ... 41 V VOL 24, NO. 46 PROVO,. UTAH COUNTY. UTAH.' SUNDAY. APRIL 13, 1947 PRICE FIVE' CENTS Boy , 4, Killed Totality Hits Family In Provo to Attend Funeral oi Relative Bv Auto On Provd Street Vi For the second time within y the same week, a child was killed on Prpvo streets late ; Saturday afternoon in a traffic traf-fic accident. 4 The victim was little Garth TjBfush Jr., 4, son of Mr. and Mrs. Garth Brush Sr. of Rich- ?leld, Ida Police said he ws play-ng play-ng in front' of a parked car near Second North and Second East and -dashed out directly into the path of a car driven by Thurman A. Willis, 22, BYU student. 213 South First East. Rushed to the Utah Valley hospital by ambulance, ambu-lance, the child died soon after Iris arrival of a cerebral hemor- rhage. He also suffered a broken leg. The accident occurred at 3:40 y p. m. Saturday. Last Monriav Mnna Marip T)ia- mond. 3. was killed when an over-! HYDE PARK. N. Y.. April 12 turned load of coal crushed herlU-R Franklin Delano Roosevelt as she sat on the eurh in front of her home at the intersection of Third South and Third West. Witnesses told police that Willis was, traveling about 15 miles an hour. He stopped immediately, but was unable to avoid striking the child, reports said. Willis, accompanied by Lois Sturgill, 518 East Center, another BYU student, was driving south on Second. East. The little awuvu vu OW.UUU. uui. boy was playing in front of a car parked on the west side of the street, just a short distance north of Second North The boy's parents had come from their home in Richfield, Ida.. Saturday to attend the funeral of S Arthur Crowther,-uncle of A1rs.iof treasury in Mr. Roosevelt's Brush. They were visiting at the i binet also spoke on the pro. home of Mr. and Mrs. I. Earl;am Crowther, 246 North Second East.1 " and the little boy was playing' " near the Crowther residence when j the accident occurred. j The child was born Aug. 1.! 1942. in Buhl, Ida., the son of j Garth E. and Ruth Stevens Brush. The family moved from Buhl to, Richfield two years ago when the father entered the service. He is survived by' his parents and a brother, Otis, also of Rich-ia11 - . jniu m iiciu, iud., a gidiiuidiiici, itauci Stevens, Richfield, and a grand - mother, Mrs. Georgia Brush Dan - iels Buhl Ida The boy will be taken to his!native lands, home in Idaho today under the Mrs. Roosevelt, speaking of the direction of the Berg mortuary of ; scholarships, said they would Provo for services and burial. ! achieve "One of the aims very Chief of Police E. W. Mower 'dear to my husband's heart." issued a plea following the Uci- i am sure he felt that we need- dent for ereater resiionsibilitv of both parents and motorists toward nhiirlrpn a mpans of :ir.nninp CnUaren, as a means Ol SlOpping h. fraffi. foil -ajhinh rbimpH: two children s lives in Provo within a week. The chief of po- V "wm6. P.- -.u. g f . P ed the estate and filed past his tsibihty lies with parents to keep;rave in th( ro! earrifnH their children from playing in the grfe ,theJ t1' - - streets, and Darticularlv to keeD Franklin Roosevelt rests in the streets, and particularly to keep them away from objects such as parKea cars, wneie visiDiiuy is reduced to almost nothing on the part of a motorist if a child darts t.... t Provo at Dresent has no ordin- chUdren in streets, Chief Mower - . . oiil Ho ri0fl9rn tin hac nrki;iAitc. ly asked that one be put into ef-' fu?hI" Salt Lake City has a model ordin- ance on the subject, he said, maxing parents responsible to a considerable degree if they allow V (Continued on Page Two) k McCarthy Heads newly Organized Denver, Rio Grande . DENVER, April 12 wnson, McCarthy, native of American Fork and former Salt Lake attorney, at-torney, was elected president of the reorganized Denver & Rio Grande Western railroad Friday at a meeting of the escrow com mittee, representing the ElOCK- ; Kltoicrcrs. PVini- ITtahnc -j were elected to the board of directors: Orval W. Adams, executive vice president, presi-dent, Utah State National bank; D.,a D. Moffat, vice president. Kennecott Copper Corp.; James Ellison, vice-president and gen- eral manager, Layton Sugar -rertorT First ecuVitV Corp. John Evans, president of thej First National bank of Denver, held the reins of the railroad's) $135,000,000 reorganization pro-; gram as chairman of the board j and chairman of the escrow I r- trustees. nenij qiii, vitc picaiucm.i United StntP Mational hank "z ;l Denver, was elected chairman of the finance committee and Edward Ed-ward A. West, Denver, former 'Salt Lake man,--was elected vice i president and general manager. Ua uraa o 1 crt aonoro I manairor under the receivership. R. K. Bradford was elected I vice president and general man ager at Salt Lake City and Fred D. Hogue, Deliver, vice president presi-dent in charge of traffic. a Other directors are Merrill E. r'- V " f?nntinupd ad Pat Two) Truman Spends Second Anniversary in Office Visiting His Mother By MERRLMAN SMITH United Press White House Correspondent KANSAS CITY. Mo., April 12 (U.R) President Truman 'tonight. began his third year in office. case-hardened to recurrent crises' and with more self-confidence i than he has had at any Time since i entering the White House. . ! He spent his second anniver-j sary in office on home soil back in his beloved Jackson County, j Mo. His plane landed irom neav-ily neav-ily overcast skies at the Grand-view Grand-view airport 11 minutes after Roosevelt Memory Honored at Rites Held at Hyde Park ; was mourned anew across Amer ica today, the second annivers ary of his death. IT n P ' cnrrnstfir hi uirtnw and millions ojt just plain people! would consult with local doctors paid tribute to him here and i tomorrow morning "during Mr. throughout the state he led Truman s second visit with his through a depression and a war. mother. President Truman, speaking! A Charles G. Ross, press secre-from secre-from Kansas City on a national I tary. said this -afternoon, in re-radio re-radio program, described the fPonse to a question whethei the man whose place he took as one; White House planned to intervene man wnose piace ne wok. as out?;.- .-- - - "who brought hope and courage! ,n tr,e telephone strike, that to despairing hearts wnen tear was destroying the faith of the neonle the svmbol of fortitude. justice and humanity." : M ri.,, vtru ,h Henrv' Morsenthau Jr secretary Morrenthau announced on behalf of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial Foundation Founda-tion a series of international scholarships, to be awarded as a "living memorial" to the late president. j The scholarships. Morgenthau' 'd. Wi enable students from Parts of the world "to live and; 1 stiiriv in Amprira1 tn pft In know' 7 " - our people, understand our ways ;f le and carry this knowledge iback when they return to their a k o- r together " she said saiu- Mrc Rnncoooll 9nrl Mnrnantkan " . " 6 ? rv L' t t wrm tint 4ha 1'jta rvrici- d ami,v ome . Thousands of nr, tj..i.v- ,v,.. . - --w-. --- - "--rr spot he held dearest his home'itodav was better and stronger i.!Mr. Trirmaii said. Hp mod fiffht-! . . . j r . "'s 1UI vvuai "e lover mosi us; countr- lts homes its institu-! tions. its people, sharing their I stubborn belief in freedom underjhe knew through V-J day. , beneficence rests the hope of the ' u.-nrlH this nav New York Plans Kjlncc Vnrr innf inn WClSS V aCCinariOn NEW YORK. April 12 (U.R) A plan to vaccinate every one of New York City's 8.000,000 resj-1 dents against small pox within the next three weeks was announced an-nounced "by-city officials tonight after an emergency conference ati city hall. i The announcement came as a: ! 26-year-old woman died of iSmallnox in thp WillarH Parkor hospital for contagious diseases' it. i , . we secona xavaiiiy irom me areaa disease since the first case wasjdenberg tonight accused former discovered early this month. There are four other . iscs in the'of trying to line up the rest ofi hnanilsl mayor wiinam uuwyer em- phasized that the vaccination pro- gram was voluntary but added , that "the time has come as i i.u j ; iicmui jurasuie 10 urge unmuni-: Tat ion for PVPrv on iti th ntviVntflanrl Co-.jin tne pnly su,e wayby vaccin- . J Truman Proclaims Sunday, May 11 As Mother's Day WASHINGTON Anril 19 (IIP) . . ----- ; President Truman today pro-i claimed Sunday, May 11, Mother's Day. He called on Americans as 'to; manifest through private and public expressions the reverent esteem in which we hold the mothers of our country." Mr. Truman proclaimed May 22- as National Maritime Day. "The future of the. world, so earnestly sought bydl, will be immeasurably advanced," he said,! vjr "ic luuircisuuu u.l uie seveiai.age uuuer steam propulsion. noon, (CST) completing a five hour and one-minute flight irom Washington. . Primarily he was here to visit his bed -ridden mother, 94 -year-old Mrs. Martha E. Truman, at her home not far from the Grandvlew airport. It was his third trip here since she fell and snapped her right hip in mid-February. After a visit with her and a 65- cent roast beef special lunch at the Grandview cafe, Mr. Truman broadcast from his hotel suite atop the Hotel Muehlebach. He praised the memory and ideals of Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose sudden death two years ago today to-day catapaulted the mild-mannered Missourian into the presidency. presi-dency. Brig. Gen. Wallace Graham, the president's physicial, flew here from San Antonio to meet Mr. Truman. After the visit with Mother Truman, Wallace said that she was "getting along as well as can be expected" and added that her "blood count is much improved." He said he "" . i the phone strike at all Before taking off from the Washington National airport this morning, the president stood by tne plane and thought back to the hectic afternoon in 1945 when he was plunged into one of history's most difficult roles. No, he said, he did not feel much different today than he did at that time. Crisis, he said, seemed seem-ed to be with him always. He said he felt fine physically. .Bu there were a few more lines around his eyes and his hair seemed whiter than it did two years ago. High on his current list of crises were the telephone strike, the controversy over safety in the coal mines, the inflationary dangers of higher high-er prices and the continuing international tangle over the writing of the final peace treaties. He did not, however, seem to regard those as more serious than what he had been through the Idllruaa Ke. coai siriKe, sinxes : i i a . i i i i a . -1 I ?" auton?obile. steel .industries, the Democratic defeat .L. . . ; ; ,n me iasi congressional eiecuons and a series of jarring congressional congres-sional rejections of his legislative ,, ,w, ; i Actually and this according to 1 SOme f hiS beSt friends the j president felt his political position recommendations oiot : k. , ,- annual an nine jhiw has been in office, with the sjble exception of the brief ine president was met as he"ree umes ior one-monin stepped irom his plane into theiperioas. raw-cold northeasterly wind by UAW talks with the Ford Mo-stage a one-day work stoppage his daughter. Margaret, here to tor company, third member of the; next week in protest against New serve as maid of honor at a wed-' big three, will open shortly. ; Jersey's new public, utility anti-ding anti-ding thi afternoon at an Episco- Joe Rubin, assistant to Norman strike law, a joint union corn- pal cathedral only a few blocks from the hotel suite from which he broadcast his Roosevelt mem- ' orial remarks j He carried a large box of flow (Continued on Page Two) Wallace Accused by Vandenberg of Trying To Line Up the World Against His Own Country JOHN L. STEELE t?5'! v AOXllJI U 1 VJ. . ADril IZ (U.rU senate prPciripr,t Arth,,- h v- Ivice president Henry A. Wallace I tne world "against his own gov ernment." Several senate leaders of both parties joined the Michigan Re publican in denouncing the anti 1 arimimst ratinn nreisn nnlis.tr r""J VIPW Which Wallara mn-rAntlv ie . - . J voicing in a speaking tour Of Wallace is strongly opposed to President Truman's proposed ntlnni i T.cni -..oj - . ..... c- strictions upon international trade Mr. Truman said the welfare of the American Merchant Ma. rine is of "utmost importance" to the national economy, national defense, and friendly intercourse with other nations. National Maritime Day com memorates the date in 1819 when the steamship Savannah put out from the Georgia coast on the first successful transoceanic voy- Union Rejects GM Offer Of 10-Cent Raise UAW Presses Drive For 2Vi Cent Hike; Files Strike Notice DETROIT, April 12 (U.R) General Motors today offered a "temporary" 10-cent-an-hour raise to 265,000 workers in its automobile, rubber and electrical divisions, in a surprise sur-prise bid for labor peace. The hopes raised by the General Motors offer were somewhat some-what dimmed for a few hours later when the CIO United. Automobile Auto-mobile Workers announced filing of strike notice for higher wages against Chrysler corporation, another an-other of the auto industry's "big three." Significantly, General Motors made no mention of price increases in-creases and it was believed the huge industrial empire was heeding heed-ing President Truman's warning that a national economic crisis can be avoided only if management and labor cease the series of wage raises and price boosts that are leading to spiralling inflation. There, was little expectation' that the GM offer would be accepted ac-cepted flatly by the CIO. Already, the United Electrical Elec-trical Workers had rejected It as unsatisfactory. The United Auto Workers said It would be submitted to the membership member-ship but Walter Heather, president, indicated disapproval. disap-proval. The UAW has set Its wage sights on a 23 H cent increase. But the General Motors offer was at least a starting point for negotiations leading to a settle ment and the fact there was no mention of price increases was es - pecially hopeful. .'Russell Nixon,' representing the 30,000 electrical , workers ed-br CM.'Wldirr that the ' lQent raise was un satisfactory and not acceptable. ; Officials of the CIO United i Rubber Workers, third union to which the GM offer was made,; could not be located immediately.' The proposal would affect about! 3.200 rubber workers in GM' plants. GM, stopped cold by a 113-day 113-day strike which ended just a year ago, sought to avoid a repetition at a time when it was movlnr into high production produc-tion rate, limited only by material ma-terial shortages. H. W. Anderson, GM vice pres-; ident in charge of personnel, said the 10-cent offer was made be-' cause of the difficulty of reaching' an agreement that would hold for a year in view of an unsettled economic suuauon. Todays developments affected a. - . i .1- : 41 . . ' iwu oi uie dik mite auio com-' nani fhrvlpr inH ranrawnts. i - j r . : pos-!ves oi some hu.wu employes ; jhave been negotiating since Oct. 30. The Chrvsler contract exnired' Jan. 25 and has been extended Matthews, head of the UAW'sjmittee announced tonight. Chrysler division, said he filed 30-day strike notices with the state labor mediation board and the U. S. department of labor by registered letter. i $400,000,000 campaign to block -" anu aznia. "C wiu mil audience in Manchester. Enaland. today that powerful forces were Pushing the united States toward ruthless imperialism Sens. Claude Pepper, D Fla., and Glen H. Taylor Ida., defended Wallace.- But some of their Democratic colleagues thought the farmer cabinet member shojrfid be read out of the partC Vandenberg, GOPr foreign policy spokesman and chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, said Wallace's actions were"shocking Sen. Walter j". George, P., Ga., a ranking foreign 'relations committee com-mittee member and formerly its chairman, lso attacked Wallace. "It is unthinkable,' George said, "that a ban who has held high office iii the United States government gov-ernment would be expressing, in publiq; addresses and through the press direct opposition to the purposes and policies of his own government." George added that the president's, presi-dent's, middle-eastern plan- is designed de-signed simply to assure the integrity in-tegrity of smaller states. He sug gested that Wallace. iubsUUlf Plhioinie S Strike Red Activities South of the Border J25,000 ,1S2,000" mmW labor Uad4r.Es?--i mUt uh k. Ll. br; top labor laaotr. not is party 1 j -555a: 3lt Um, contreU ii M " "iVi'i Y "-"'--- ---? :-y-:--rjA llllfeim4iib4ri, Wicpstiw. ; t J 50.000 wsiwbtrs. 20 gg! Jg g Pi44, thrw cabiMt pests; jgj 1 P""1 I Vil "J7nZZ porty costrl powtrf nI cop- fegtf BI--J About 30,000 -rrrr sr"wtrttsmoiif,Ckile. t MW ,mtmhn- dth- -SSS o Fodtroriow of Labor- tSSSI Q' --r"'" r ' ' :V" " - -5 In iU recent report to Congress, the House Un-American Activities Committee declared that the American Communist Party ' is only one of 67 similar groups throughout the world which carry out orders of the Communist Executive Committee in Moscow. Map 1 above shows estimated Communist strength in Latin America and Keas infiltration in Vffii&ewisJJacks Down In Sdfety se wit tin. Strike'; Allows Back If Mines Thought Safe WASHINGTON. AdmI 12. (U.R); John L. Lewis backed down ! today in his soft coal "safety strike." He authorized his United Mine Workers' district presidents to permit re-opening of any soft coal mine they have "reasonable 'grounds" for considering safe. For the past week Lewis has been insisting publicly that his miners would go AMA lLi!!AM kiAM UH6 NllllOII MW1 To Stop York In ima II aw Mr At ACT UHC'lClY I I UlCdl NEWARK. N. J.. Anril 12 (U.R) one million members of CIO, AFL and independent unions will The committee said Friday, April 18, has been set tentatively for the demonstration prompted by Gov. Alfred E. Driscoll's or-(Continued or-(Continued on Page Two) 'Russia" for the United States in his references to aggressive in- tentions of this country. Senate debate on the Greek-Turkish Greek-Turkish aid bill was in a three-day three-day recess, meanwhile. Leaders hoped to reach a final vote late next week. The Criticism of Wallace, leader of the Democratic party's left-wing, came only a few days afteiPresident Truman told a news conference confer-ence that he expected Wallace and Pepper, who also opposes the aid v plan, to work for the Democratic presidential ticket in 194S. Some Democrats disagreed with the president. Sen. John L. Ark., said it would thing" if Wallace left the Demo cratic party. "He's a liability to either of the major parties," AJcClellan said. "I wonder if he's tot trying to establish himself as, a favored Communist Quisling.. Sen. J. William Fulbright, D., Ark., a strong senate advocate of world cooperation, said Wallace's Wal-lace's speeches .''sound as though they've been written, in the Kremlin Krem-lin . . . He's doing no good to his own country, its policies or its objectives." tir ike Mew Seago Collapse smtMt Mdt Hum for sit Caftflfsss meisrity; tdt CMfrtf mow movtmawt. 1 national governments. Miners To Go back to work onlr in mines re-examined and certified as safe by federal Inspectors. Rc-cxamination ot all the nation's na-tion's coal mines would take months. But Lewis' new instructions made possible quick re-opening of all but 350 of the 2.531 government-operated government-operated coal mines. All indications indica-tions were that an accelerated back -to-work movement beginning begin-ning Monday will wipe out the safety stoppage, for all practical purposes, within a few days. Informed sources here said two factors influenced Lewis' action strong objections among the miners min-ers to continued idleness and tough talk- by Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough, who said on Thursday that Lewis and the UMW have failed to comply in good faith with a supreme court no-strike mandate. Lewis' instructions were revealed re-vealed in Pittsburgh by Frank Hughes, president of UMW district dis-trict 3. UMW headquarters here had no comment. Hughes announced he had received re-ceived this telegram from Lewis: "In order to avoid undue loss of coal production, the president of each district is authorized to grant permission for the immedi ate resumption of production at each mine now closed where there is reasonable ground to- be lieve from information available to him that the mines have been placed in a safe condition." Hughes said the message did not apply to the 518 pits closed as unsafe by Secretary of Interior J. A. Krug. But 168 of them al ready have passed federal in spection, leaving 350 still under seal. 4 Soft coal production yesterday was 59 per cent of normal, according ac-cording to field reports . to the coal mines administration. CMA said 858 mines which had been certified as safe, although not re-inspected, re-inspected, still ywere closed because be-cause of the safety strike. Presumably Pre-sumably most of these would be (Continued on Page Two) TreerPlanting Time: Arbor Day To dcbeel.avfrhroughout County Monday Arbor day dedicated to the planting of - trees, shrubs and flowers will be observed Monday, Mon-day, with thousands of Utah county people planning to devote efforts toward planting and beautifying beau-tifying for the Centennial. In Spanish Fork, Arbor day coincides with the city's cleanup clean-up day, and residents throughout the city have vowed to make this a holiday of work for improvement' improve-ment' of the city's appearance. Provo's mayor, Mark Anderson, proclaimed the day and called upon all citizens . to plant - trees Negotiations . Company Rejects Union Proposal On Bargaining Scope Of Bargaining Proves Stumbling Block; Company Will Bargain Only With Long Lines, Not With The 19 Affiliates - WASHINGTON, April 12 tU.R) Efforts to settle the six-day old nationwide telephone strike collapsed tonight over the issue of industry-wide versus" regional bargaining. The American Telephone & Telegraph Cp. rejected a union proposal for new, open negotiations. The union announced that the strike will continue "until a way for settlement is found." Labor department officials were seeking a new formula that might provide a basis fori : further negotiations. But there is as was no evidence of progress and; no developments were expected over the week end. The issue causing the deadlock, is the scope of bargaining. The: A. T. & T. says it can bargain! only with employes of the long lines division, which it operates directly, and not with all the estimated esti-mated 335,000 employes on 'strike.1 The striking National Federa- , i-!ci,i! .,,. tion of Telephone Workers (Ind.) y aPPed legislation designed insists that any bargaining must!to Prevent coast-to-coast tieups cover all its affiliates, whose! like the present telephone walk- members work for 19 Bell system companies and western Electric Co- all subsidiaries of A. T. & T. Company rejection of the anion proposal for open-to-the-publle negotiations was revealed by Secretary of Labor La-bor Lewis B. Schwellenbach In a letter to NFTW Fresl--dent Joaepa A.Belrne. Schwellenbach said the com- ttli i hiSn suggestion that it could bargain nlMhw in u"5S dlvision' and that it had reached an agree- ment two days ago with the long lines union only to have it re- , . . . lUE-rrur jected by the NFTW policy com - mntee- "The position of the officials of the American Telephone & Telegraph Tele-graph Co. is that . . . therefore,! they see no benefit to be derived' from the meeting which you suggest," sug-gest," Schwellenbach wrote Beirne. I The "A. T. St T. made what it. described as a "final offer" to thej long lines union on Thursday. It proposea io arouraie six oi me ju iiiajui lasuca, iiiviuuing wages. me Nr iw policy committee rejected re-jected the offer because it did not apply to striking workers outside the long lines division, and the (Continued on page two) Hanging Play Nearly Fatal For Boy, 14 NEW YORK, April 12. (U.R) It was a pretty safe bet today to-day .that 14-year-old Malcom Porter of the Bronx won't try again to show his playmates play-mates how they used to. hang horse thieves in the wild west. ' While his little friends looked on admiringly, Malcolm Mal-colm looped a.rope over a water pipe ipr the cellar of his home, made a hangman's knot, pulled up a box to stand on and y 'placed the noose aroundJtis neck. Just- then the box slipped out from under him and Mal-.;olm Mal-.;olm dangled in the air with ' the knot tightening around - Jr the his' neck. His playmates raised a hue and cry and MrSr Monica Lehner, with whom Malcolm lives, rushed down into the cellar and cut him loose with a breadknife. It was almost an hour before be-fore a police emergency squad brought Malcolm back to consciousness. He was . taken to Fordharrr hospital, where doctors said he will recover. Bp Oberved and otherwise beautify the city.' "This should be a good day to get out in tne yard and dig around a bit," he said, "That's what III be doing." He reminded Provoans that this is not just another Arbor day It's Centennial Arbor day. With thousands of summer visitors expected ex-pected this year, he especially urged that the day be spent to. a good advantage in beautifying the city. Proyo stores will remain open for the. day, but banks and city and county offices will be closed. rirlllsP 1 flririr Group Okehs Union Curbs WASHINGTON, April 11 UE .XhA Virtue lahnr rnmmtft tr j out and last fall's coal strike by ; banning industrywide bargaining and otherwise restricting union activities. The bill provides machinery to enforce conciliation through 75-day 75-day cooling-off periods. It permits per-mits court injunctions against strikes in vital industries and outlaws the closed shop. House leaders predicted the bill will be passed by the house by Chairman red Hartley, R N. j said he expcted no Jajor changes on the floor. ... u - j . I . j " chan" T 2 w. t ln JJ dfncn L?Z hibiting even union shops, iHartle said .This bil, fa going to be watered down on the .floor." He said the bill "absolutely" "absolute-ly" would prevent a soft coal strike on July 1 when the government must return the mines to their private owners. own-ers. But few believed the senate would accept the measure with- out a considerable softenins. The labor bill came out of the house committee amid these developments: de-velopments: 1. The senate Republican con- ference voted 21 to 7 to draft an omnibus labor bill instead of ap proving separate? measures dealing deal-ing with specific problems. Sen. Robert A. Taft, R., O., said any other course would enable President Pres-ident Truman to veto those bills he disliked, and thus in effect drafting labor legislation himself. 2. CIO President Philip Murray Mur-ray promised to "have a lot to say tomorrow" about the drastic house bill. Murray has called a conference here tomorrow of 250 CIO officials to draft a "defend labor" legislative program. Other provisions of the house bill would give employers em-ployers the right to sue for damages In illegal strikes and would deny bargaining rights to a union if any of its officers were Communists. Commu-nists. The measure would forbid any requirement that an individual belong to a union before he could be hired. This would ban the . closed shop, but the bill would permit a union shop, where an individual is required to join a union after being hired, if a majority of the employes of a plant voted for it in secret ballot. Reps. Clare E. Hoffman R., Mich., and Ralph W. Gwinn, R., N. Y., opposed the union shop provision in committee and may offer amendments on the floor to knock it out. CIO To Fight Legislation WASHINGTON, April 12. OJ.R) CIO vice presidents tonight mapped map-ped a campaign against labor legislation leg-islation in congress and planned protest to President Truman against the sweeping character of his loyalty order. The vice presidents instructed CIO President Philip Murray to protest to Mr, Truman that his order fails to safeguard individual individ-ual civil rights. The CIO political action voted to push establishment of local committees and to seek voluntary contributions up to $850,000 to carry out its program in 1947 and 1948. mm |