Show I NEWS BROADCASTS WEATHER 7:30 am I pm 9:80 pm Sports 1115 pm Station HALL Intermountala Network Clear Warmer (Details on Page 22) VOL 154 NO 180 SALT LAKE CITY UTAH SATURDAY MORNING Arm ll 0" 11PIpliA"14 V 12 1947 PRICE FIVE CTNTS 11 Labor Curb Bill Nears House Floor I Line Reorganized After 12 Years In Receivership Industry Bargaining Closed Shop Bans Included in Measure ' far-reachi- z ' 4s4 ration r4o Young Republican chairmen of four Intermountain states talk over plant for 1948 in Salt Lake City Front left to right Dean Kloepfer Burley Ida FLOW OF COAL CLIMBS TO 59 OF NORMAL WASHINGTON April 11 UM— The coal mines administration reported that soft coal production crept up to 53 of normal Friday with the return to work of 30000 additional miners They had been idle in the "safety" stoppage which followed the Centralia Ill mine explosion The C M A said 1860 'mines are now operating 163 more than on Thursday The number of men at work was estimated at 183648 com- pared with 155723 the day before Estimated production calculated on the normal working basis was 1393996 tons The bureau of mines said that 38 additional mines were removed from the government's "hazardous" list of 518 Friday bringing the total of mines which have passed inspection to 168 - ( Applies to Lewis Cotrunittee officials said the ban ' would apply to Lewis and the coal Industry on the theory that one rnine competes with another But they said it would not apply to the telephone industry because a telephone company In one section does not compete with that in another The intention is to limit bargaining with few exceptions to local unions and single employers The outlawing of Industry-wid- e bargaining Is part of a broad new house bill intended to curb strikes and unions The senate labor committee starting through a milder bill section by section took no conclusive action In addition to the industry-wid- e bargaining provision the house committee also approved parts of the bill which would: Outlaw various kinds of strikes 1ke jurisdictional tieups For the most part these are brought on by disputes between two unions over the right to do a certain job 'Forbid secondary boycotts in which employes refuse to handle the products or supplies of a company with which they have no direct squabble but with which some other union does Make mass picketing and violence on picket lines Illegal AFL CIO Boast 46 Superlatives WASHINGTON April 11 American Federation of Labor unions participated in 55(3 of the nation's 1946 strikes but the Congress zif Industrial Organizations although engaged in fewer strikes had a greater number of workers involved in walkouts Bureau of Labor statistics figtres announced Friday showed: A FL unions—Involved in 55 of year's strikes About 1680000 workers or 34 of the 1946 total idled in A F 1 union strikes C I 0 unions—Involves in 33 of year's strikes About 2070000 workers or 42c' of the 1916 total engaged in C I 0 strikes Union Passes Up Deadline On Tentative Peace Offer Tribune Special WASHINGTON April 11 UP) —The house labor committee approved Friday night a new till to curb strikes and the powers of unions generally The senate labor committee at the same time adopted a ban on the closed shop In the general measure it has under consideration Sen Robert A Taft (R 0) committee chairman announced the action after an all day session ) in which the rnembers went through less than half of the big 1 The house committee put of Until Saturday morning a single routine vote which will send its bill to the house floor for action Text week It hes approved the bill section by section however including a provision to cope with strikes affecting the welfare of the entire ' Outlaws Closed Shop The measure would outlaw the closed shop and with some exceptions ban collective bargaining on basis It would an industry-wid- e permit the union shop if both employers and employes want itcomThe closed shop requires a pany to hire only union workers T)10 union shop lets It hire anyone it tileases but the new employe must on the union shortly afterward Chairman Fred A Hartley (R N J) told reporters the bill would 'break unions down to a company level" Far stiffer than a labor bill now under consideration by the senate labor committee the house measure Lags a whole new set of labor practices that would be branded "unfair"' practices of both emt loyers and employes Ban Political Gifts Among other things it would: Forbid polflical contributions by unions guarantee the employer the right of free speech on labor matters make unions subject to lawsuits for Iola ting contracts take the conciLation service away from the labor department and make it independent abolish the present National Labor Relations board And set up a new one conIlned primarily to hoding heangs on charges of unfair labor practices An Independent administrator would submit cases to the new board and enforce them in the courts if need be A union would be forbidden to bargain for a contract covering an entire industry when the indiidual companies In it compete with each other But It would be allowed to seek a ecntract covering an entire industry in which the individtlal companies do not Deadlock Casts Truce Ro pes 211 e Strike' D&RG Names McCarthy As President U S Mines Aid Hits 'Laxity' In Safety Code WASHINGTON April 11 i11— IL Sayers director of the Federal Bureau of Mines reported "considerable laxity" in state coal mine safety requirements Friday and suggested a federal law with "definite police powers" Be also said that a federal inspector "exercised reasonable judgment" in not seeking to close the Centralia (111) coal mine where an explosion snuffed out 111 lives 'Very Hazardous' In a statement to a senate public lands subcommittee investigating the disaster Sayers noted that an examination of the Centralia mine by Inspector Frank Perz a few days before the March 25 blast disclosed the need for 52 "major and minor" improvements In safety conditions The committee may wonder why the federal inspector did not request that the mine be Closed because of imminent danger" Sayers said "I think it important that 'the committee understand Just what in our judgment constitutes imminent danger and just what the inspector included in this case "Imminent dangell as we use the term in coal mine inspection work represents an exceptionally hazardous condition which is in existence and which may in the immediate future result in Ft Improvements Needed "The conditions at Centralia were very hazardous and the inspector realized that unfess the conditions were changed there was a likelihood of an explosion in the mine However in the normal course of coal mining procedures there would have been an ample opportunity to make the necessary corrections 'I want the committee to know that I and' my safety inspection division agree that the inspector exercised reasonable judgment" Sayers was on hand but did not have a chance to read his statement Sen Guy Cordon (R Ore) chairman of the subcommittee said Sayers probably will testify when the hearing resumes I 44 and right County Atty O Louise Replogle Fergut county Mont rear left George Frey Fallon Nev and William H Gar low of Cody Wyo Speakers Laud Congress' :lee9rd at GO? Session The Reputlican-controlle- d congress was vigorously defended on its legislative accomplishments thus far by speakers at the conference which opened FriYoung Republican western In Newhouse the hotel day Alf 11Landon the party's 1936 presidential nominee challenged the effort to pin a "do nothing" label on the congress in an address at the evening banquet He reviewed the current stes legislative picturedeseribed the record a5 "5p1endid" but added that the impoitant l'principle is the way ft has been done" Bills Duly Weighed "No longer are bills rushed through in shameful hysteria without thorough consideration and debate" he said "In the early new deal days bills passed before they had even been printed On one deal disgraceful occasion the new majority leader held up ' a rolled newspaper masquerading as a printed bill" The G 0 P congrets was cred- -' ited with doing more in its first three months than any other in history "except the new deal rubber stamp congress of 1933" by Ralph E Becker Port Chester N Y president of the Young Re-- 1 publican National Federation who addressed the morning business session Divergent Views Norman Schutt Tacoma Wash secretary to Rep T C Tolleson agreed with Mr Becker as to the record of the new congress but bluntly end frankly expressed the view that divergent concepts of the meaning of the 1946' election ireturns plus some 0 0 P "prima donnas" could bog the party down In congress and seriously hurt its chances in the 1948 presidential election Arthur 13 Langlie a navy veteran and former governor of Washington arrived in Salt Lake City early Saturday morning He will address the Saturday noon session of the conference Appearing on the banquet program with Mr Landon was Miss of Margaret ESeeBaker president rage 7 Column C PICKETS FAIL AS KIRSTEN WINS CHEERS — April 11 Norwegian Wagnerian soprano Friday tremendous ovations at a concert here as picket marched outside Orchestra hall protesting her appearance 25 pickets Approximately who identified themselves as members of the Congress of American Women 'paraded in front of the hail carrying sings reading: "Women don't welcome the friends of Quisling" and "in memory of our boys who fought the nazis we protest Flagstad's appearance" The pickets caused no disturbance The concert was Mme Flagstad's third postwar appearance in this country and'Harry Zelzer who produced the concert said it was the first at which there had been any demonstration CHICAGO Kirsten Flagstad night-receive- - d her against Her husband Henry Johanses died in Norway before coming to trial on charges of doing business with the nazis Mme Flag- stad has denied any connection with the nazis ' Jones Put Witness Avers Him in Rail Job WASHINGTON April 11 (LIP)— Stewart McDonald former deputy federal loan administrator testithat his onetime boss Jesse Jones was responsible for his transfer to an executive position with the B & O railroad The switch McDonald told the henate banking committee inquiry Into an $80000000 It F C loan to the railroad came in 1940 two years before the B & 0's management became concerned over its financial condition He said he was named chairman of the road's executive committee in 1941 "Mr Jones had a policy of having what he called 'his man' in all corporations where the R F C had a big loan" he explained "He grad 'to 'Me that 'You go over to Baltimore—I think they would like to have you as one of their direcfied Friday tors' " ' Charges Control Grab The committe has charged that a group of Jones' It F C associates gained control of the railroad Other witnesses agreed that Jones—former secretary of commerce and federal loan administrator—"had dominated the whole matter" of R F CD & O dealings The committee is inquiring into charges that the "Jones group" also put the B & O through a "fictitious bankruptcy" in 1944 to keep themselves in power The committee earlier heard charges by its chairman Sen Charles W Tobey (R N IL) that Russell L Snodgrass one of the Jones group who 'jumped from It F C to vice president In charge of finance for B & O' had "inspired" the wording of a letter from R F C to the railroad setting up the basis on which B & O successfully applied for reorganization in 1944 Used as Model letter ostensibly' from That R F C to the B & O actually was written by Vice President Snodgrass and sent back to R F C as a model to be used by them Tobey averred William W Sullivan chief of the R F Cs railroad division protested that he "wasn't sure that the letter we wrote was the esome as that written by Snodgrass" "Talk about skullduggery in high finance" Tobey shouted "If that isn't collusion what is collusion?" "I don't call it collusion" Sullivan countered Sen Homer E Capehart (R asked the chairman whether Ind) he intends to call for testimony from Jones whose name repeatedly has entered into the evidence "I think Mr Jones will come without being called" Tobey responded crisply DENVER April 11—Four Utahns and 11 Coloradoans moved into control of the Denver & Rio Grande M'estern railroad as the escrow committee representing stockholders completed reorganization and Wilson McCarthy Salt Lake City was elected president of the corporation Friday in Denver The 15 westerners and two other directors elected by the escrow committee adopted a new advertising slogan "A Westernas Road Run by Western Men" they took over control of the line which for nearly 12 years had been In federal courts Mr McCarthy a native Utahn and former Salt Lake attorney and cotrustee of the judge had been railroad since 1935 Utahns elected to the board of directors are Orval W Adams executive vice president Utah State National bank: D D Moffat vice president Kennecott Copper Corp James E Ellison vice president and general manager Layton Sugar Co and E G Bennett Ogden director First Security Corp Chairman Named John Evans president First National bank in Denver and another trustee under the receivership was elected chairman of the board and chairman of the escrow trustees Henry Swan vice president United States National bank Denver was elected chairman of the finance committee and Edward A West Denver former Salt Laker and general manager under the was elected vice receivership and general manager president Other directors are Merrill E Shoup president Holly Sugar Co and Golden Cycle Corp Colorado Springs John W Morey president Morey Mercantile Co Denver W C Kurtz president Inde7 pendent Lumber Co Grand Junction Colo John E Gross regional director tr S Employment Service and former president Colorado' Federation of Labor Denver: Henry McCallister Denver attorney Maple T Hari chairman Federal Deposit Insurance Corp Denver and Washington D C and Floyd G Blair vice president National City Bank New York City Escrow Trustees Others of the escrow trustees are Harvey J Gunderson director Reconstruction Finance Corp Vermillion S D and Ralph J Wann president Wann Motor Car Co Inc Canon City ColO also members of the board of directors and J F Fitzpatrick secretary-treasure- r Kearns Corp Salt Lake City and Charles L Tutt president El Pomar Investment Co Colorado Springs neither of whom Is on the directorate The new directors planned a two-da- y meeting in Denver after provisions of the consummation order and final decree became effective Friday R K Bradford was selected as vice president and general manager at Salt Lake City and Fred D Hogue Denver vice president in charge of traffic the new board announced Other personnel problems are expected to come before the board in its two-da- y session Meanwhile contending that the reorganization plan "appropriated" 90 of the property of mortgage bond holders and all of the prop-Se- e Page 9 Column 2 Wilson McCarthy Will WASHINGTON:April 12 Saturday (JP)—The first major step toward settling the telephone strike collapsed at midnight That was the deadline set byGeorge S Dring of the long lines division' of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co for acceptance by the long distance strikers of a tentative agree merit on that phase of the strike The deadline came and went without anything happening Actually it became known hours earlier thet the tentative agreement was "dead" John J Moran leader of the con- distance workers thus I Senators hake scribed it to reporters when told early Friday night Drings Wallace in Dring had said that the union failed to accept the settlement definitely midnight "the tentative agreement of the Greco' Debate plan withdrawn Then I pany bong tinue to direct I) at It U affairt de- of - -- line dead-- I If 1 by 1 WASHINGTON 1 April 11 UM— over Angry criticism of Henry A Wal lace touring critic of Pres Irarry — S Truman's $400000000 Greco! Turkish aid program arose on i' r capitol hill Friday as the senate i o' debated the bill without reaching 7' a test vote ) Sen James O Eastland (D Miss) declared that Wallace "has attempted to induce the friends I and allies of his country to desert her" and thereby "force us to sail the perilous seas alone" (In London Friday Former Vice ' I Pres Wallace said Britain could I save the world from war by refus - Elected chairJohn Evans man of the board of directors PEACE FORMULA' Wallace Says creek Aid Path to War LONDON April 11 A Wallace said Frida:y Pres: Harr S Truman was embarking on a doctrine of "unconditional aid to The governments" former vice president advocated a $50000000000 world spend Ing program as a substitute preUP)—:-Itenr- anti-Sovi- y et 10-ye- ar scription for peace Wallace urged world control of atomic energy and weapons of destruction internationalization of strategic areas Including the Dardanelles Suez canel and Panama canal and a movement toward national disarmament and creation of a world security system as other elements of his plan for peace Leftists Sponsor Talk The former vice president on a tour of England France and Scandinavia to contact "progressive" leaders spoke at Central hall Westminster before a meeting sponsored by editors of the New Statesman and Nation leftist British weekly IF WAR COMES Declaring "the president's program is both demoralizing and inadequate" Wallace said "it is undertaken in the name of stopping communism Instead it wil& lead to communist revolutions" "If war comes" Wallace continued there can be no neutralmodern world Nations LOS ANGELES April 11 (UP) ity in the strive for justice will be —America must be prepared for which the suicidal task of choosa lightning fast attack across the given side& ing top of the world Gen George C "You Are asked by many of my Kenney Friday warned the nation countrymen to make that choice The commanding general of the strategic air command said the today" He urged the British to turn a United States no longer can count ear to these pleas and to stick on a long period in which to pre- deaf a middle road to pare for war Gen Kenney spoke at an Army day luncheon sponSpiritual Warfare sored by the chamber of commerce "I am alarmed" he and the Military Order of World said "I!dothoroughly not believe that there Wars will be war this month or next He saidif this country is ever month but I do believe that a conforced into another conflict it will tinuation of the present policy will come from the European-Asiati- c set during the next few months land mass "on the other side of a rigid framework which will mainthe Polar basin" tain a state of perpetual spiritual And to defend itself against warfare which will after a time such a possible attack will re- produce a depression in the United quire something more than a series States and eventually a- worldof push buttons such as have cap- wide war tured the public's imagination He "I believe this is true also of warped against setting up a the Russians In the short term a "flaginot line" of push buttons hard policy against Russia may and then lulling ourselves into se- be highly successful In the long term I don't see how it can help curity itIf war comes within the next peace At first by policing Rus20 years the probability is that sia's every body we may force her we will still see our pilots flying to contact her influence But withairplanes that shoot down enemy in her borders she may prepare planes in air combat and piloting fore ventual war instead of taking planes that carry bombs to destroy the risks that all nations must take for lasting peace" enemy targets" he said Flier Predicts Polar Attack - - - will be suppose we will have to WASHINGTON April 11 UP) —Leon Ilenderson former 0 P A administrator said Friday night that Americans for Democratic Action do not agree with Henry Wallace's statement that "the Truman doctrine on Greece and Turkey Is a move towards war" Henderson Interviewed on a national radio network also said that Wallace wa's not 4tuthor1zed to speak for the organization in his tour of Europe ing to take sides between the United States and Russia The Truman program is designed to bolster Greece and Turkey against communism) When Eastland said Wallace had been Invited to France by Jacques Duc los leader of the French Communist party Sen- Claude Pepper (D Fla) interrupted to declare that other Frerech leaders also had — Invited Wallace Deplores Timing Sen Scott W Lucas W Eli told reporters: 'I regret that Mr Wallace has seen fit to go into ' England and France at this time and make the statements he has made when this grave and serious question is being debated What we need Is unity behind our bipartisan foreign policy and not disunity Mr Wallace makes no contribution to that cause" Three more Republicans—Sens Henry Cabot Lodge (Mass) Leverett Saltonstall (Mass) and Ralph the senate E Flanders (Vt)--to- ok floor during the day to announce support for the Truman bill But it made little progress there or in the house foreign affairs Recess Until Tuesday The senate recessed at 5:02 pm until noon on Tuesday without reaching a vote on an amendment by Sen Edwin C Johnson (D Colo) to strip the aid to Turkey from the measure It will take a the openholiday on Monday forthe season ing baseball game of also will which Pres Truman again" corn- start all 'Will Not Accept' Moran speaking as president of the American Union of Telephone 'Workers said: "We're not going to accept by midnight of course We'll just have to stand by and see what happens now "We are not too much worried about them withdrawing the offer When the company finally gets down to negotiating a contract that won't hurt any" Deng issued a subsequent statement saying that "in the event the tentative agreement is rejected the next move will be up to the union" The tentative agreement between the A T & T and the long distance union included a plan to arbitrate demands including wages for these workers However their union is only one of 49 in the National Federation of Telephone Workers and the policy committee of the federation ruled that the proposal "did not conform" to union policy 'Local' Agreement The policy committee held that the agreement is "local" in the sense that it applies to but one union whereas the committee wants all to be treated together Government conciliators had hoped that the long distance proposal might serve as a pattern for all unions and thus end the strike of 320000 workers quickly One condition of the long distance proposal was that the members go dback to work The federation policy committee steered away from approval apparently for fear of the effects a restoration of long distance service would have on the rest of the strike Dring said that if the deadline passes without acceptance "it may be some time" before negotiations on long distance matters can be resumed Meantime Secy of Labor Lewis P Schwellenbach delayed for the present a reply to a union proposal for top level and public talks with the American Telephone and Telegraph Co Promised Decision Schw' ellenbach had promised "an immediate decision" after getting the request from J A Beirne president of the National Federation of Telephone Workers The union federation proposes to carry "our complete story" to t3res Harry S Truman if it cannot d meeting of get a the labor department its own leaders and representatives of the A T and T Labor department conciliators See Page 8 Column 2 I three-cornere- Marshall Demands Russians Keep Promises on Korea April 11 (UP) — Secy of State George C Marshall threatened Friday to set up a separate government in American-occupie- d southern Korea unless Russia made good its promise to cooperate in starting the whole country on the path toward independence In a firm note to Soviet Foreign Minister Viacheslav Moloto v Marshall accused Russia pf blocking all attempts to unify the country and of being responsible for its present "grave economic digress" He demanded: 1 That the'United States and Russian commanders immediately n reconvene the joint commission and start it working toward setting up a provisional Korean government as the first step toward independence 2 That the United States and Russia at a fixed date this summer review the progress of the joint MOSCOW in Moscow in 1945 For 18 months since then he said Russia has failed to carry out the agreement and he implied that its failure was due to an attempt to force a commun- government on the country Unless Russia accepts the American proposals Marshall said the United States sees no alternative "to taking without further delay such steps in its zone as will advance the purposes of the Moscow ist-dominated agreement' In the meeting of the deputy foreign ministers on Germany the United States offered a formula of a German for the make-u- p peace conference which would assure attendance of more than 50 nation s No agreement was reached U S Ambassador Robert Murphy asked the deputies to approve a peace conference membership of the Big Four plus the neighbors of Germany and all the states which had been at war with the nazis The last qualification would cornmission Marshall made his demand on bring in the Latin American the basis of an agreement made countries Soviet-America- )1 |