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Show I WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Threaten Industry -Wide Farm. Equipment Strike; Tighten Draft Rules; Aid Jap Labor Released by Western Newspaper Union. ' (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are th"" of Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily or lhis newsp v . i f ,M If. . ,11 J M X V r-T' - ! 'I x - A I1 ' I yi ' f I f x , i - l Prices mav have risen throughout the country with the cessation of CPA, but Andy Sapara of Detroit, Mich., held the line against inflation in-flation in his candy store and refused to raise the price of bubble-gum bubble-gum to the crowds of eager youngsters who crowded inside Ins establishment estab-lishment each day for the popular confection. FARM EQUIPMENT: Threaten Tie-Up Threats to extend the prolonged strikes at Allis-Chalmers and Case to other plants were voiced by leaders lead-ers of two farm equipment unions in an effort to speed settlement of the disputes. By striking the industry, indus-try, the unions would halt all production pro-duction of badly needed machinery, just swinging into gear after the recent walkouts. As president of the ClO-United Auto Workers in control of two struck Case plants, Walter Keuther threatened to close two other company com-pany factories unless a satisfactory settlement was reached. The executive exec-utive -board of the powerful CIO-United CIO-United Farm Equipment Workers, meeting in Chicago, resolved to ask the union convention opening July 31 to strike all the plants in which they represent the workmen unless the Case and Allis-Chalmers ; disputes dis-putes were concluded. The two unions pressed for a settlement set-tlement in the midst of a disagreement disagree-ment within administration circles as to the course of government action ac-tion in the disputes. While Secretary Secre-tary of Labor Schwellenbach favored fa-vored U. S. seizure and operation of the properties, President Truman leaned toward the position of Secretary Secre-tary of Agriculture Anderson and Economic Stabilizer Steelman : that the disputants enter into sincere collective col-lective bargaining to resolve the outstanding out-standing issues. DRAFT: Big Call While the cases of farm workers will receive special consideration, tightening of deferments for men in other occupations and extension of the draft to registrants up to 29 years of age will make 155,000 available avail-able for induction by next March 31, selective service officials said. Announcement of the new regulations reg-ulations was made as selective service prepared to induct 25,-000 25,-000 men in September after the current draft holiday. Whereas previous rules called for deferments in cases where registrants regis-trants were considered necessary in an activity supporting the national health, safety and interest, new regulations reg-ulations grant deferments only to men found to be indispensable and irreplaceable to the national existence. exist-ence. Men in the 26 to 29 age group previously deemed unfit for service will have their cases reviewed and discharged vets who did not see duty outside the U. S. or were in for less than six months also may be called. JAPAN: Labor Reform , Hitting at efforts at leftist domination domi-nation of the Japanese labor movement, move-ment, General MacArthur's supreme su-preme Allied headquarters in Tokyo To-kyo declared that it favored establishment estab-lishment of a liberal legal base for growth of an independent union movement. Answering . Russian Delegate Derevyanko's objections to Allied labor policies, headquarters declared de-clared that current or impending legislation covered every reform proposed by the Soviets, with the exception ex-ception of a provision permitting unions un-ions to seize and operate properties proper-ties on strike. Not rven in Russia is labor granted this privilege, it was said. Indicative of the "new deal" for labor in Japan, headquarters cited the drafting of legislation for a 48-hour 48-hour week; vacation and overtime pay; tightening of child labor regulations regu-lations and dangerous employment of women, and minimum wage standards. Pointing up the growth of unionism under Allied policy, headquarters revealed that no less than 4,000 labor organizations have been formed, with 3,000,000 members. mem-bers. More than 200 trade agreements agree-ments have been signed. BRITISH LOAN: Trade Aid Grant of the 3 billion dollar loan to Britain was expected to speed up the revival of the empire's postwar trade while at the same time affording af-fording American exporters a large market for heavy equiprnent and consumer goods. Effect of the loan is to permit Britain to acquire essential material materi-al from the U. S. and maintain a relatively high standard of living while paying off part of the huge debt accumulated during the war when Britain was unable to match imports from friendly nations with exports. A substantial proportion of the 3 billion dollars made available avail-able to the British will be used to purchase American machinery machin-ery to overhaul and enlarge the country's industrial capacity for producing more and cheaper goods. American cotton producers figured fig-ured to profit from the modernization moderniza-tion of the present antiquated textile tex-tile industry, hampered by old machinery ma-chinery and a labor shortage. Tharjjs to the loan, the British will find life more enjoyable since many foodstuffs and luxury items that would otherwise have been unobtainable un-obtainable if the country would have had to conserve its funds now will be imported from the U. S. British theater-goers now will be able to see U. S. films; Virginia tobacco to-bacco will be found on shelves, and dried eggs, canned milk and fruit juice will be obtainable, though in limited quantities. FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Tedious Process Back from the Paris conference of foreign ministers, Secretary of State James F. Byrnes could offer Americans no speedy settlement of postwar peace problems but only more bickering, more jockeying and more compromising in the difficult business of satisfying the interests of the great powers. Said he: ". . . Our experience suggests sug-gests that understandings, particularly particu-larly with our Soviet friends, cannot be reached until we have gone through rounds of verbal combat, in which our old complaints are repeated, re-peated, past positions reaffirmed, differences accentuated and crises provoked. . . ." . With the stagnation of German economy of continuing expense to the U. S. taxpayer and detrimental to the recovery of European prosperity, pros-perity, Byrnes, however, indicated that the U. S. would take a firm stand for the reintegration of the reich into a single unit instead of four occupational zones. Declaring that the U. S. military commander in Germany had been instructed to work with other occupying powers for the co-ordination of finance, transport and industry, Byrnes said we would either secure co-operation or point up the obstructiveness of others. |