Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 May 1946 — Page 2

coal strike » world war II veteran| Would permit them to rebuild ‘de-

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| Set on Vote Cloture.

A By FRED W. PERKINS : i Tok i Seripps-Howard Staft Writer XE il ASHINGTON, May 24.—Buoyed by their first big victory—the ‘plan to require joint union-employer spending of “welfare funds’— of new labor laws today saw certain victory ahead. 48-10-30 vote showed where the strength lies. If the Byrd plan becomes law—-the house is sure to concur<-it will remove the No. ‘the row between John L. Lewis and the coal operators.

of strike-control|-

MAL BREAD

‘to prevent. a recurrence of the at labor crisis still hope to fin-| ___ ish the job within the next few days by use of the hazardous cloture method, } scheduled to be|

Sosa ‘on omer Expect Ample Supply Soon,

If Rail Strike Ends.

WASHINGTON, May 24 (U. P).

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In the meantime a group of pro - union members,

i Mr. Perkins Oup on retail shelves within two or| |three weeks—unless the rail strike is prolonged. The spokesman said {strictions on millers

. marshal and Senator Pepper © Fla.) is sparkplug, are expected to continue their filibuster. ] Atmosphere Tense In. :a tense atmosphere produced by the railroad strike on top of the

lifting reinventories

started the wheels for cutting off pleted wheat stocks and renew the the interminable talk and getting flow of flour. the bitterly contested issues to a He said refilling the pipe-lines vote. |from the farm to the retail stores He was Senator Knowland (R. ordinarily would take from two to Cal) who served overseas three three weeks. years. The cloture petition he pre- Indiana in Group Stitied had 27 gs ne 13%, 11 more The main reason for the bread a at SE a. [shortage is that millers on May 1 The "27 senators presumably will | were required to reduce their wheat vote for cloture, although that is|inventory to 21 days. After the not certain in one or two cases, Br linventory was exhausted they had foris Will be concentrated on to shut off flour to bakers. Heh Signing Sgmains 39 el Sous "| The government today began Votes for the two-thin y requisitioning 50 per cent of all 1946 wheat marketed in 26 major pro-| ducing states. The wheat will be used. as a stockpile against U. S. promises to export 250,000,000 bushels of wheat and to meet any domestic emergencies.

Only four times has cloture been | voted. It has been proposed by pe-! tion 23 times, has been rejected in| 12 cases, and in the segen other cases either the petition was with-| drawn or the subject at issue was | ii : | Farmers virtually were assured 4 of before the cloture ques- | they would receive full ceiling prices

tion came to a vote. : | . lon 1946 wheat. The department an-. The 4 is always reluctant| =o ced it was prepared to pur-

I De chase wheat directly from the southern members, Not one south= farmer if prices fell below current! ern Democrat signed the Know- ceilings at country elevators, land petition, . although this grou The 26 states in which the gov. pe : g 8TOUD | iment set-aside order becomes cludes Some of the nosh ‘meal gis. | Tective today include Illinois and

coma a ve es ISTRIANS. ASKING BS TERRE con BRENNER PASS

the coal and railroad strikes comROME, May 24 (U. P.).—Austria

bined constitute a menace of greatest magnitude to the food supplies ‘of this country, He proposed that|is demanding of Italy. the entire senate go on a 24-hour basis to Brenner pass and French territorial help meet the crisis. claims against this country are Not long thereafter Senator Pep-|mounting bit by bit, according to per, who held the floor most of Italian Premier Alcide De Gasperi. last week, started a one-man dis-| BOth the French and Italian course which threatened to last as| C!s are dictated by “reasons of long as the senate could remain SUrategy,” De Gasperi said. He sug-

in session. He talked vigorously fested that the insecurity of the from 6:45 to 11:30 p. m nearly | POSt-War era had made both counfive hots. < tries * defense-minded, prompting

their efforts to whittle away Italy's to ue Peppet laced ie Yiame northern and western frontiers. J failure to pass public health ir He said Austria was demanding lation, thus bringing about the One-third of the Upper Adige, Lewis demand fora wellare fund { which includes all of the strategic He also charged management js | Brenner Pass through the Alps. more responsible than the unions | 118 territory he viewed as a strong

| . {point in Nazi theories and what! for both the rail and coal strikes. |“oould become the new Germany's’

Capehart Seeks Action open door to Italy.” - 80 heavily did the dual rail and| “You must realize that it's not’ coal crisis weigh with some thatia question of romantic spots where Senator Capehart attempted to get German peasants are interested only immediate actionxon a bill to force in dancing and singing,” he said presidential sefmure of struck in-| “This is a cradle of the Nazis and dustries. He would penalize indi-|Nazi theories. This zone could be{come the rear line of the new Gergovernment by withdrawing their man army. seniority and other privileges under | He said the Austrian claims were the national labor relations act. to be discussed by the deputies of Immediate consideration was re- the Big Four ministers at Paris fused. > May 30, and the French claims on The railroad strike prodiiced new May 27, activity among senators favoring — a new bor law, but apparently did] servient to organized labor will have not’ change the determination of [to be met immediately.” most opponents to delay or block it.| He declared also that the right Senator Morse (R. Ore) known! to strike is “not absolute in the as a “friend of labor,” warned that| sense that it can be exercised “the .issue of whether the govern-| against the welfare of the people or ment of the United States is sub-| the security of the nation.”

IN INDIANAPOLIS

EVENTS TODAY | Edwin Donovan, Cleveland, O; Elsie Lil-

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STOCK NEAR-IF

Flare Are Rule Cha

By Seripps-Howard Newspapers WASHINGTON, May 24—What are the rules—the operating pro‘cedures by which: trains are run— that have become the basic issue of the railroad strike? .

President © Truman's fact-finding

{board has recommended a pay raise

of 16% cents an hour, plus certain changes in the rules, * The President hiked that offer to 18% cents with the old rules to stand. The engineers and the trainmen refused the offer, saying it amounted to less than that of the fact-finding board because it omitted the desired rules changes. So the rules evidently caused the strike. -* Let's take a look at the proposed rules changes. The unions wanted 44 changes; the railroads, 29. Some Rules Baffling Some of the proposals are simple; some are complicated. They complicated ones baffled the fact-finding board and it even reported: “There was uncertainty on both sides as to the actual scope or operation of the (rule) demands.”

The unions wanted the railroads] : to supply employees with watches| of whom —An agriculture department spokes-| + cost and pay for the cleaningonly when there is extra work) be Senator MuITaY man said ‘today bread in near nor- and repairing. (D. Mont.) is the mal quantities should start showing| The fact-finding board said , this regularly assigned men. At present was reasonable, but it held un-|the extra men get only straight

reasonable a union demand men get a minimum of two hours. pay for the time consumed in the inspection of their watches—a requirement of the roads. . . The brotherhoods proposed that the roads bear the cost of providing, maintaining and cleaning uniforms where uniforms are required, The board recommended the costs be split. : Ask Limit on Claims The railroads wanted time limits set on making claims or listing grievances. The board held such time limits were unreasonable, but it recommended longer time allowances than the roads suggested. The unions asked extra pay for engineers and motormen operating more than one power unit on motor or electric cars in passenger service. Such operations increase both the productivity and responsibility of the engineer, it was contended.

The board concurred on that, The board also recommended that extra men (fhose who do not have regular jobs, but who are called

given the same overtime pay as the

THE INDIANAPOLIS VEY z nges' Which Have Become the Basic Issde Leading to.Strike of U. S. Railroad Workers:

hag time after - eight hours; regular]

men get time and a half. . The unions asked that a yard conductor (foreman) get $1.50 more a day than yard trainmen (helpers). At present they get 52 cents more a day, The board recommended 85 cents, The roads sought to free themselves from jurisdictional disputes among various classes of employees over work on specified types of trains. The board concluded some adjustment should be made, but it made no specific recommendation, The roads also proposed that they be allowed to include overtime in making up monthly or daily guarantees. The board approved this change. One of Toughest Problems Now for a tough rule change: This one—it received most attention by the board—would affect short passenger runs, those during which the crews make a return trip within & normal work day. For instance on the 4-hour run from Washington to New York a round-trip would take eight hours, Under present rules employees may be released (have time off) at the far end of their run—in the above

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If the time off or turn-around time is more than one hour the carriers deduct that off-time from the total hours in figuring pay. Suppose .a trainman ‘went from Washington to New York—four hours—was off 1% hours, then returned to Washington — another four hours, That makes a total elapsed time of 9% hours, The roads can count that time as eight hours, If a man were off only 50 minutes at New York it would count in his pay——8 hours, 50 minutes that day. Board Sees ‘Merit’ in Plan But the roads cannot deduct more than two hours of off-time. As the rules operate if the off-time is more than two hours, overtime does not begin until 10 hours after the worker reported for duty, If the off-time is less than one hour, overtime begins eight hours after he reported. The unions argue that the services of the men were available to the employer throughout the whole time and hence the men should be paid for total elapsed time, without limitation. : “The board concluded: “There was considerable merit in that position.” But it did not recommend how the rule should be changed.

GET NEW LEADS IN SLAUGHTERNG QU

OPA ipvestigators today were following new leads they obtained from questioning two elderly men found slaughtering beef in a small building near ‘Danville two days ago. Aaron Goodwin, 58, and Cornelius Ahper Disney, 69, were asked to confer with Indiana district OPA enforcement officials here after they were found slaughtering the beef. Government investigators also were interested in further infor mation concerning the possibility that a state policeman directed truckloads of beef to illegal slaughtering houses. ! Col, Austin Killian, state police superintendent, has found nothing vet in his investigation of these charges, he declared. “When it’s all summed up, I don't think we'll find anything” Col, Killian stated. His investigation has turned to commission houses, he added, in the hope someone in this fleld may be able to direct him to the “phantom” policeman. The report concerning the state policeman originated when an Illinois farmer sald a trooper helped to fix the farmer's truck lights near Danville, As the farmer prepared to leave, he reported that the policeman suggested he might get more for his cattle “down the

road a way."

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. FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1946

NE . Organizations ; The Brotherhood of Locomotive ineers ahd the grand international suxe fiary will hold memorial services at, 3:0

.‘m, Sunday at Central Y. Cy C. C. Livingston, chairman, will preside,

Semmpps ’ St. Philip Neri court 705, Women's Catholic Order of Foresters, will have & public card party at Forester Hall, 10th and Rural sts, =a 130 p. th. tomorrow. Mrs. Alma Whisler will be chairman, ase sisted by the newly elected officers of the court.

Lynhurst chapter 505, Order of the Eastern Star, will meet Tuesday night jor a stated meeting and memorial serve ces,

CAR, DOG, EXPLOSION HURT 3 CHILDREN

Three children suffered injuries in accidents reported today by police. ' ; Charles 8. Shaffer Jr, 8-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles 8, Shaffer, was treated for slight burns yesterday at City hospital after-a “smoke bomb” exploded in his face while he was playing in the rear of his home, 919 Massachusetts ave, Theresa Newhouse, 4-years-old, 1227 Wright st., was bruised on the legs and body when she was struck by a car driven by Donald L, Glaten, 1038 N. Tremont st., as she crossed Sanders and Wright sts, While walking near New York and Gladstone sts., with his mother, Mrs. Velma Owen, Robert Owen, 35, 14 N. Euclid ave. was attacked and bitten on the neck by a dog. All three children were released from City hospital after treatment.

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