Show WEEKLY WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS UA W Offers Security Against WiLdcat caf Strikes Strikes' es U U. S. S S Plans Pans L Revamping R of 0 German o f Economy Ec onomy Released Hv by tu Western NOTE l Newspaper Union When opinions le wester Newspaper are expressed In these Unions Union news analysts 5 and not necessarily column of this they newspaper are those of R Rd d' d a 4 l r hi c 1 9 5 p 9 n f L r w k y s y Taking P posts St i in picket line President R R. RJ J J. Thomas JThomas of Unit United d Automo Automo- w ile Workers at left and Secretary George F. F Addes beside him parade before General Motors offices in Detroit See Labor LABOR Offer Security Spotlight in the troubled labor sit sit- situation situation situation again shifted shi ted to the Ford Motor company where the CIO CIO- United Automobile Workers offered the firm a security clause against wildcat strikes and the two parties parties' then agreed to sit down and discuss the unions union's demands for a 30 percent per percent percent cent wage increase to maintain high wartime take-home take pay First of its kind to be drawn up in the automotive industry the se se- security security security clause provides for an im im- impartial impartial impartial partial umpire to determine the merits of an unauthorized walkout with wildcatters wild fined 3 a day by bythe bythe bythe the company for the first offense if found guilty and 5 for the second Company employees provoking un un- unrest unrest unrest rest also would be liable to pen pen- In resuming wage negotiations the said that its 30 per cent demand was not inflexible the union being willing to waive part of it if the company proposed an annual an- an annual an nual wage pensions retirement benefits and paid vacations Meanwhile ex CIO Chieftain JohnL John L. L L Lewis testifying test ying before a con con- congressional congressional congressional gressional committee on President Truman's proposed strike anti-strike legis legis- legislation legislation legislation lation took occasion to blast the UA W for its General Motors strike Pointing out that G. G M M. would make more money by not operating I because of refund provisions in they the concluded by February 1948 with the following 12 months marking arki g the emergence of Germany as a arc arc- re re- revamped revamped i vamped nation with an industrial industrial setup sufficient to provide only min min- minimum minimum needs at the outset Declaring that Germany was was not to be made a nation of foresters and the state depart depart- department department department ment also issued instructions to army officers in the U. U S. S occupation occupation tion bon zone not to destroy or disman disman- dismantle tle tl industrial facilities that could be utilized for peacetime pe production or shelters During the delayed recovery of the reich permitting other Euro Euro- European European European countries to get a head start starton on Germany in reconstruction the Allied powers po would finance a a apro a pro pro- program program program gram of imports to prevent priva priva- privation privation privation tion and starvation All din the U. U S. S was shocked as news lathed flashed fl hed from frona Germany that colorful Gen George S. S Patton had been critically injured when the automobile in which he was teas riding ridin crashed cra on head-on with a ton half army truck near Mannheim Rugged and tenacious in the field old Blood and Guts displayed the same at at- attributes attributes attributes tributes in his lis hospitalization warding off aU offIn r I Kilt RY r y I i In this picture Mrs Patton is shown greeting famous general upon his Ws return to U. U S. S this summer the initial shock of oJ a broken neck verte- verte vertebrae vertebrae brae and partial paralysis Found in the back hack o oJ ohis his spattered blood sedan with ith his face badly cut Patton had told his rescue rescuers rescuers ers My neck hurts Leading surgeons neurosurgeons were in attend attend- attendance attendance ance at Potions Potion's bedside Col Roy Glenn GleIm Spurling Louisville Ky specialist has hav- having hasing ing floun to Germany with Mrs Patton to treat the injured soldier and Brig Hugh Carnes of oJ the British army also coming at ather ather ather her request JAPAN Land Reform Re Though Gen Douglas MacArthurs MacArthur's directive for sweeping land reforms in Japan may not solve the press press- pressing pressing pressing ing problem of congestion abolition of absentee ownership and establishment establishment establishment of easy credit will enable Nipponese farmers to obtain full title to working tracts Presently only 20 per cent of Jap Jap- Japanese Japanese Japanese anese farmers own their own property prop prop- property property erty while tenants cultivating small plots have been prevented from im im- improving improving proving their situation by the need for turning over half or more of their annual crops in yearly rental In calling for a redistribution of theland the theland theland land MacArthur also demanded adequate safeguards to protect pros pros- prospective prospective prospective small buyers from an ex ex- excessive excessive excessive drainage of production and relapse into servility t l With the average Japanese farm farm- farmer er tilling less than three acres in comparison with the 47 in the U. U S. S MacArthur demanded that the new government provide a program of technical education to assure maxi maxi- maximum maximum maximum mum efficiency and also encourage independent operatives co-operatives to per per- permit permit permit mit more economical operations |