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Show VVEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS 1 Patterns Set for Settlement Of Wage Disputes; U.S. Assured Of Control Over Atom Bomb Released by Western Newspioer Union - o( nilTllli S NOTE: When opinions are eipressed IB these column.. , ,,,, r. -Mirn NrwMiaper I moo news analysis and ool ofrrsjrn ; .. .: ...m- " f :;. . 5 i (..' . f " j ?.". 'it ,..- .-; v ? . 4 , J i V ' Following speedy settlement of negotiations with Kaiser-F razor officials, offi-cials, R. J. Thomas (center)-, head of the United Automobile "r union, explains contract under which employees will share fund drawn from So on each auto produced. President Joseph Frazer of new company sits at left with Chairman Henry Kaiser on right. LABOR: I Hopeful Signs With individual agreements reached in the oil, auto and steel industries, hope was held out that the understandings reached would serve as national patterns for resolving re-solving labor strife threatening early ear-ly resumption of peacetime production. produc-tion. With the CIO spearheading the drive for a 30 per cent wage increase in-crease to maintain high wartime take-home pay, the United Oil Workers' Work-ers' agreement to accept an 18 per cent boost and afford companies guarantees against unauthorized walkouts led to hopes that such a settlement might prove the basis for determining other nation-wide disputes. dis-putes. Meanwhile, the Kaiser - Frazer agreement to set aside $5 out of each automobile sale for a year-end bonus fund for employees amounting amount-ing to 10 per cent of income, opened the way for consideration of the plan as an alternative to the United Automobile Workers' demands tor basing pay upon profits. At the same time, the adminis-fT-ntinn rtprisinn t.n nermit rjrice in creases on steel products was looked upon to iead to resumption of negotiations nego-tiations between the industry and the United Steel Workers over union demands for a $2 a day wage boost. Pointing the way to a temporary settlement pending a final determination determi-nation of national wage policy was a pact drawn up between the USW and Lehigh Foundries, Inc., calling for immediate pay raises of 12 cents an hour, with a sliding scale up to 21 cents an hour as production and tonnage goes up. As these cracks developed in the labor-industry stalemate, the gov ernment worked feverishly to avert work stoppages in the packing and farm equipment fields, arising over CIO-AFL wage demands. In dickering with Armour, Swift, Wilson and Cudahy, the CIO and AFL asked representatives of the Farm Bureau, Farmers'. Union and Grange to sit in on discussions to weigh the merits of their pay demands, de-mands, set at 17M cents an hour pending further negotiations for an additional 6 cents. Rather than permit stoppage of meat production, the U. S. reportedly was pondering seizure of plants under emergency power. In seeking to avert a strike of the ClO-United Farm Equipment and Metal Workers at 11 International Harvester plants, the government ,set up a fact-finding board to consider con-sider the union's demands for a 30 per cent wage boost. Producer of an estimated 60 per cent of farm equipment, the company has offered the UFEMW a 10 per cent raise. ATOM: U. S. Safeguarded Even while Secretary of State Byrnes assured the country that congress would have the last say on the disposition of the atomic bomb, a British scientist declared that Russia already had developed a similar explosive whose superiority rendered the American 'product obsolete. ob-solete. Byrnes' reassurances of U. S. control con-trol over disposition of the bomb followed anxiety expressed in some quarters concerning plans shaped at the recent parley of foreign ministers min-isters in Moscow for creation of a United Nations commission to regulate regu-late atomic energy. Concern centered cen-tered about possible U. S. release of the two billion dollar bomb secret before adequate safeguards had been devised against its misuse. In explaining plans for commission commis-sion control, Byrnes said that any UNO group set up to study atomic control could only make recommendations recommen-dations for action. Proposals not only would have to be approved by the security council, on which the U. S. has veto power, but congress con-gress then would have to agree to what extent the suggestions would be adopted. In claiming that Russia had already al-ready developed an atomic bomb, Dr. Raphael E. G. Armattoe of Londonderry, Lon-donderry, North Ireland, said that the weapon had a destructive range of 53 miles in width and an upward lift of 6.2 miles. Reputedly invented with the aid of two German physicists captured by the Reds, the Russian bomb was said to be as large as a tennis ball and to develop -its terrific force by a spin or angular motion. Because of the comparative simplicity of design, de-sign, Armattoe averred, the Russian weapon could be manufactured on a mass production basis. Amid all the atomic talk, the United Nations Organization was scheduled to convene in London IUr lib mSl gCllCldJ aooi-mw;, .. high hopes of inaugurating a new world order guaranteeing peace and justice. WAR CRIMES: Unique Appeal While Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita languished in a jail in Manila, three American army officers acting as his counsel carried a unique plea to the Supreme court of the United States for suspension of his death sentence for war crimes on the grounds that he was denied a fair tri'al by a military commission. In declaring that firing had ended and no need existed for an emergency emer-gency war crimes commission, Yamashita' s three defense attorneys, attor-neys, bedecked with decorations attesting at-testing to meritorious service in the American army, declared that as a prisoner of war the Jap general gen-eral was covered by constitutional guarantees assuring fair trials to all under U. S. supervision. Noting that the war had not been officially declared ended, government govern-ment counsel argued that revocation revoca-tion of sentence would seriously hamper action against individuals who had waged barbarous warfare war-fare against this country. DEMOBILIZATION: Q.Ls Protest Angered by war department plans to slow demobilization because of inadequacy in-adequacy of replacements, G.I.s in the Philippines staged orderly demonstrations dem-onstrations against the new program, pro-gram, with complaints that "brass hats" sought to preserve wartime rank by maintaining a large organization. organ-ization. In announcing its new demobilization demobili-zation plans, the army disclosed that 1,553,000 men will be shipped home during the next six months instead of the next three because accelerated accelerat-ed return of troops would leave occupation oc-cupation garrisons undermanned. Even with the reduction in monthly month-ly redeployment, the army said, total to-tal strength on July 1 will be 400,-000 400,-000 below previous estimates, with 335,000 men in Europe, 375,000 in the Pacific, 87,000 in other areas, 360,-000 360,-000 in the U. S. in supply, hospital and other operations, and 343,000 also here as a strategic reserve. Intermixed with protests to Lt. Gen. W. D. Styer, commanding army forces in the western Pacific, were pamphlets and other literature circulated cir-culated by G.I.s incensed by the slowdown in demobilization. Rapping Rap-ping the policy, the Yanks called for a petitioning of congress by friends and relatives back home to bring pressure to bear for relief. Assail Head and Ke. United Nation s BeUe QeT. habilitation adrnm sttick many, Lt. Gen. F from gan received strong com imerican and Fren t manders m h s e folloWing pressure for hi rem fl statemzeend movement - existed well-organized m from Eu. for the exodus 01 rspite declarations of Gen. "Fern" Includ - ciency in dtrecUn reU in their respective z t0 re- on the British th uNRRA sign remain ed strong. au. threatening to depr ftOTity !ft Ta weU-developed In asserting that a w j.. plan nurtured W or a ground organization ext st Jewish exodus from ting gan said that all Jew d tato Germany om Poland no signs of feSgS had fed and clothed. Investiga failed to disclose evidence ot spread pogroms in Poland Irked by the fe":"oi polish can and World Federation of jews, with headquarters m York City, charged the Bnb fostering anti-semif m nting their uPPrt the glegedIy in exile in Italy, w carried on aJewlsd Canada. spreading to the U. S. ana u BRUTAL MURDER: Arouses Citizenry Working on more than a half dozen doz-en clues, Chicago police aided by the FBI staged one of the most 'tensive man hunts m the afr tory in efforts to solve the brutal murder of Suzanne Degnan s daughter of an executive of the met ropolitan office of OPA. As police Pressed their search, an aroused citizenry, horrified by to-criminal to-criminal attack and slaying of the little girl and the subsequent dismemberment dis-memberment of her body and disposal dispo-sal of parts in different sewers throughout the neighborhood, put up over $11,000 in rewards for the apprehension ap-prehension and conviction of the killer kill-er Acting upon recommendations of Mayor Edward J. Kelly, the city council voted a $5,000 reward. In seeking to carefully dispose of the dismembered body by lodging parts in different sewers throughout Suzanne Degnan, whose brutal murder led to extensive man hunt in Chicago, 111, the neighborhood, the killer seemed to outsmart himself, since his actions ac-tions indicated a thorough familiarity familiar-ity with the district and thus furnished fur-nished police with an important starting point in their probe. Discovery Dis-covery of blood-stains, particles of flesh and bone in the wash-tub of an apartment basement also pointed up the slayer's acquaintance with local housing layouts. With police investigation focusing upon the neighborhood, two janitors were closely questioned in connection connec-tion with the crime. Both fathers, the two suspects protested their innocence, in-nocence, with affirmations of their characters supported by their wives and neighbors. NATIONAL ECONOMY: Quick Rebound With an average individual reduction reduc-tion in savings to permit greater consumer expenditures an important impor-tant factor, the national economy showed a surprising rebound after V-J Day, Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace declared in a year-end report which estimated over-all income and output for 1945 only slightly below 1944. In checking over the postwar in-dustnal in-dustnal picture, Wallace said that though the job of reconverting plants to peacetime production largely was completed, output re mamed small. While employment has risen upwards since V-J Div the rapid demobilization of the armed forces will result in in Mostly because of fewer h, worked, total wages an7 , rs shrank 12 per centl Wallace estimated s ments to servicemen also ! P" uted to the drop "n n ntnb-added. ntnb-added. P lncome. he ARMY: At the present time nnri . ly 20.000 civilians in theTmat!-in theTmat!-in Germany are given n,u' ,S' zone aminations and iM Mn M'Cal ex' weighed eachmomh'asamre a determining the health ,? ans ot population in the Z Ve ot the P-d areas, the srl CCU" ,work isdiroed bvnUnCed-tton bvnUnCed-tton survey units fiv By S1 nutri- and one in Austria p, J .Germany hv a nutrition om'rrr 1S headed - '"ined aZ'Z J Sla" |
