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Show " VVEiJCLY N2VV3 AHALYSiS I UNO Weathers First Big Test; Rail Unions Balk at Pay Award; Civilian Output at PeakRatej Rpipaspfi bv Western Newspaper Union rtc (hose of (KDITOK'S NOTF: When opinions are exprensed In these cfllu"11 (his ewspuper.) 1 Western ewttpaper Ldiud's news analysis and not necessaril) 1 -' S V ' - ' i.-1" i2LiuL... jmamtx.. "- . - " "" "" ' seated on stone block of ruined public building, Polish girl wews desolation of once modern building section of Warsaw. Once proud Polish capital is now ghost city of Europe, with half of its population half-starved and ill-clad. UNO: Weather Storm Fraught with danger to the United Nations Organization and world peace, the tense Russo-Iran-ian dispute melted under the promise prom-ise of diplomatic compromise, with Moscow saving face and Tehran its sovereignty. Secretary of State James Byrnes, chief U. S. delegate to the UNO security se-curity council, started the happy train of events, suggesting that both countries state their position in the dispute over Russian failure to withdraw with-draw from Iran before UNO considered consid-ered action in the case. Russia had walked out of the security se-curity council after its decision to consider the question and Byrnes' proposal offered an excellent opportunity oppor-tunity for the Reds to walk back in without losing prestige. Making the most of the chance, the Russians Rus-sians wrote UNO that they were pulling out of Iran without imposing any conditions for their retirement and their troops should be gone by May 6. Taking his cue, Iran's representative representa-tive then told the security council that if definite assurances could be obtained that the Russians would apply ap-ply no pressure for oil concessions or Red-backed provincial governments govern-ments as a condition for withdrawal, withdraw-al, Iran would consider the matter closed. And upon that happy note, UNO appeared to have overcome its first great hurdle. RAIL PAY: Balk at Findings In protesting the 16-cent-an-hour raise awarded by a labor-management arbitration board, railroad union un-ion officials declared that the boost granted failed to meet higher living costs and adjust differences in pay between railroad workers and employees em-ployees in other industries. Declaring railroad workers were entitled to a 46-cent-an-hour increase, in-crease, B. M. Jewell, representing 15 non-operating unions, and E. E. Milliman, president of the Brotherhood Brother-hood of Maintenance of Way Employees, Em-ployees, asserted that the minimum award should have included HVz cents an hour for higher living costs plus the general industry-wide 18 cent-an-hour postwar advance. Meanwhile, railroad officials also complained against the arbitration board's wage decisions, estimated to add up to $400 per year for 1,220.000 members of three operating operat-ing and 15 non-operating unions and cost the carriers $584,000,000 annually. an-nually. Echoing the carriers' warnings that increased wages would require rate boosts, President Fred G. Gur-ley Gur-ley of the Santa Fe announced that the 16-cent-an-hour award was too large and his road would immediately immedi-ately appeal for higher freight tariffs. tar-iffs. Stating that the wage increases would add $25,000,000 yearly to Santa Fe operating costs, Gurley said the boost coupled with higher material, supply and fuel costs against reduced income made the step necessary. Because both the railroads and unions had agreed to accept the arbitration boards' findings as final in submitting their dispute for settlement, set-tlement, no work stoppage loomed because of disagreement over terms. The recommendations were handed hand-ed down even as a fact-finding panel pan-el conducted hearings on demands of the Brotherhood of Locomotive FARM LOANS : Farm operating loans will be made to approximately 10,000 farmersprincipally farm-ersprincipally World War II veterans vet-erans this spring with the additional addi-tional 15 million dollars made available avail-able to the Farm Security administration adminis-tration by deficiency appropriation. Legislation increased the amount for rehabilitation loans this fiscal year from 672 to 82 '2 million dollars dol-lars with the additional amount permitting per-mitting continued lending through last spring. Engineers and Brotherhood of Railway Rail-way Trainmen for a 25 per cent wage increase and changes in working work-ing rules. In demanding that wages and working rules be considered simultaneously, the two unions refused re-fused to join the other 18 in submitting sub-mitting the pay issue to arbitration. CONGRESS: Pay Adjustment Government employees, were in line for a pay increase as a result of congressional action but an administration ad-ministration measure to raise the minimum wage to 60 cents an hour appeared doomed because of the farm bloc's insistence that the same bill hike the parity formula over President Truman's protest. The senate and house strove to get together on a uniform pay increase in-crease for U. S. employees following follow-ing their approval of conflicting raises. While the senate had o.k.'d an 11 per cent boost, the house voted a $400 a year advance. Since the house also decided to limit department de-partment appropriations in the 1947 fiscal year to those of 1946, however, how-ever, the higher pay would cover fewer employees and thus cut the federal payroll by 2000,000. In pushing for an upward revision of the parity formula as an amendment amend-ment to the 60-cent-an-hour minimum mini-mum wage bill over President Truman's Tru-man's veto threat, the farm bloc sought to protect farmers' returns in a period of rising costs. Trumpeting Trum-peting administration disapproval, Secretary of Agriculture Anderson declared revision of the parity formula for-mula to include farm wages would result in a 33 per cent boost in farm prices and spark an inflationary inflation-ary cycle. PRODUCTION: Rosy Prospects In meeting the pent-up and ordinary ordi-nary demands of consumers, re-nV5s. re-nV5s. quirements for a J9 X large military estab-f estab-f tishment and heavy I 1 exports, the U. S. 1-?i'4'x -1 faces an unparal-; unparal-; S , ' leled period of pros-U pros-U I Perity Reconver- - - sion Director John if w; Snyder indi" f ; s- ? f cated in a report to U JLj President Truman. Despite work stop-John stop-John Snyder pages and material shortages, civilian production had reached a rate of 150 billion dollars during the first three months of 1946, Snyder said, with private wages and salary payments pay-ments returning almost to the pre-V-J Day date of 82 billion dollars. Non-agricultural employment totaled total-ed 44,700,000 in February, with 2,700,000 jobless seeking work. Indicative of the huge demand for goods, Snyder said that consumer and business purchases during the first quarter of 1946 equalled those of the Christmas period in contrast to an ordinary drop of 10 to 12 billion bil-lion dollars. Though overall civilian production rose, the textile shortage remained acute, being aggravated by mills' refusal to sell unfinished goods because of higher profits on bleached or printed cloth. Notwithstanding increasing production pro-duction and high taxes, the threat of an inflationary spiral remains, Snyder said. Noting the trend, he pointed out that on March 15 wholesale whole-sale food prices were 3.1 per cent above those on the same date last year and the prices of other products prod-ucts were up 2.5 per cent. Laundries Boom Showing a continuing trend in increased in-creased patronage of commercial laundries, the nation's laundries did a record-breaking 634 million dollar dol-lar business in 1945. This all-time high represents increases of 4.6 per cent over 1944 and 127 per cent over 1933. Increases in laundry services sales volume were reported from every section of the country. OVERSEAS RELIEF: London Confab The problem of tiding war-stncK- 11. 1Q46- 47 con- er countries over the i ' being held in London, with the U S. aiming to ship MO to" of wheat monthly toward a goal of 11,000,000 tons, efforts were bent on stimulating contributions con-tributions from other countries to fill out the huge deficit. In Us con-. con-. n report of the conference s combined S board -ommended .w TJnssia be requested to fur S3 and that steps be taken to increase the extent of Argentine Tittle Ireland followed the U. b. in setting an example to the participating partici-pating nations, announcing it would send 35,000 cattle, 9,000,000 pounds of canned meat, 20,000 tons of sugar fs""llas milk, bacon and cheese to the continent this year. Normally Normal-ly Eire sends most of its cattle and eggs to Britain. MIHAILOVITCH : U.S. to Aid Lauding Gen. Draja Mihailo vitch's contributions to the Allied cause in the early stages of the European Eu-ropean war, the U. S. state department depart-ment asked the Yugoslav government govern-ment that American officers attached at-tached to the Chetnik leader's headquarters head-quarters be permitted to testify on his behalf in his forthcoming treason trea-son trial. Famed for his daring guerrilla warfare against the Germans during dur-ing the height of Nazi domination, Mihailovitch lost his grip on the Yugoslav Yu-goslav resistance movement with Allied recognition of the Communist-trained Tito following the Russian Rus-sian resurge in 1943. At odds with Tito, Mihailovitch became a fugitive, fugi-tive, charged with collaborating toward to-ward the end with the Germans invaders. in-vaders. In coming to Mihailovitch' s defense de-fense in the face of bitter Communist Commu-nist allegations against the Chetnik leader, the state department said many American army fliers had been rescued and returned to Allied lines through the daring efforts of his forces. It was also pointed out that U. S. officers were attached to Mihailovitch' s headquarters as liaison men in co-ordinating resistance resist-ance operations. F.D.R.: Sell Stamps Individual hobbyists and dealers deal-ers shared in the purchase of Franklin D. Roosevelt's famed I stamp collection, which brought heirs to his estate over $210,000. Representing a lifetime collection collec-tion of the late President, the stamps were appraised in advance ad-vance of the auction at $80,000. Berry Hill, a New York dealer, deal-er, was one of the biggest buyers buy-ers at the sales, paying $1,885 for most of 29 lots of French stamps and die-proofs and $1,615 for four groups of German stamps included in statistical albums showing the extent of inflation in the reich after World War I. Dr. L. L. Ruland, a hobbyist, topped bids to pay $4,700 for 62 lots of Chinese stamps presented present-ed to Mr. Roosevelt by Chiang Kai-shek. K. Biloski, a Canadian Cana-dian dealer, paid $2,100 for 848 stamps of a Russian collection tendered to the late President by Soviet Ambassador Maxim Litvinoff. Almost $8,000 was realized on the sale of 107 lots of Venezuelan stamps and albums. NEAR EAST: Plot Thickens Long the pawns of European power pow-er politics, natives of the Near East again figured in the diplomatic double dou-ble play of the oil-rich region, with reports that the Russians were aid mg chieftains of 5,000,000 Kurds in PlnMTUhrkey; Irq and Syria the establishment of an independent republic. re-public. Though the Kurds in these countries coun-tries enjoy relative freedom in the mountainous regions under local chieftains, the independence move ment reportedly has thrived under Russian backing. An indenend ent Kurdish republic already has" rPhrIajmed with headquarters at Mehabad in northern Iran and Russian technicians were said have arrived there to h en native forces. length-Headed length-Headed by Ghazi Mohammed th. Kurdish movement was thrm . gear at a coeren X, aH ers held in Baku T). , oad-vember. oad-vember. HeveSe N" portedly are being f,? i fPS re" chieftains who attended nhp6d by the with the heart JZt lZT' ered in British control r""" Like Iran, iraq.s J raq. Part of the huge near easlern T Posits prized by the ma ASIA: With production off 4n k--pounds .below the 19 an 1Il0n Asiatic countries a " "K, with a serious rice sLu ? ciaUy ln areas where the f ' Spe" the staple diet, lhe dp! real is agriculture said. The scar' 0f result of a small 1945-46 era Vhe was reduced by the war Which "y to transport coma"d '"abil. small surpluses to ,h Parat'velv It wili become most acuf .arca next few months as stork . th" 1945-46 harvest become jhc |