Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 16, Number 22, DeMotte, Jasper County, 12 April 1946 — WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS State Department Blueprints International Atom Control; House Probes Spy Intrigue [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS State Department Blueprints International Atom Control; House Probes Spy Intrigue

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WORLD RELATIONS: Atom —Russ Even as the United Nations Organization's security council strove to compose differences with Russia over the Iranian question, the U. S. state department issued a special report calling for the creation of an International agency to control all phases of atomic energy and avert atomic rivalry among the major powers. Written by a distinguished board of scientists and technicians the report recommended the establishment of an atomic development authority that would own and lease property and conduct mining, manufacturing, research, licensing, inspection or other operations. While the authority would possess absolute control over the production of atomic weapons, it would permit utilization of atomic energy in such civilian fields as medicine, biology, chemistry and physics. The U. S.’s secret processes in development of atomic energy would be gradually unfolded to the United Nations authority as plans progressed for its development. Release of preliminary information necessary to discussion of setting up the agency would be followed by revelation of industrial know-how in manufacture and finally the method of constructing the A-bomb. In releasing the report. Secretary of State Byrnes pointed out that the recommendations did not constitute official U. S. policy but could be considered as a basis for discussion of the creation of an international atomic authority. Meanwhile, the security council worked on means to adjust the difficult situation posed by Russia’s walkout in protest over UNO’s consideration of Iran’s complaint against the Soviets for failure to withdraw Red troops from the country. While Russia’s withdrawal from the deliberations Jolted UNO. the Soviets were quick to explain that their action did not mean they were withdrawing from the United Nations, but rather objecting to security council procedure.

SPY INTRIGUE: House Acts Hard upon the arrest of a 29-year-old Russian naval officer for espionage by the FBI In Portland, Ore., the house committee on un-Amer-ican activities, headed by Representative Wood (Dem., Ga.), voted to send Investigators up to Canada to probe possible connections between the Soviet spy ring uncovered in the dominion and agents in this country. Revealing that the committee had been aware of the FBl’s Investigation of the Soviet naval officer, Lt. Nicolai Redin, the committee counsel said that the group soon would hold hearings on subversive activities and call on a number of witnesses. Including atomic scientists and government employees. Meanwhile, Redin. nabbed for obtaining Information about the destroyer tender USS Yellowstone, charged "the whole thing is a buildup for political purposes.” A member of the Soviet lend-lease purchasing staff in the U. S., Redin enjoys no diplomatic immunity and was held on $25,000 bond. SCIENCE: Use Germans Some 180 German scientists are now in the United States working on military projects involving captured German equipment including rockets, buzz bombs, Jet-Propelled planes and aerodynamic research Instruments, Secretary of War Patterson announced. The original plan called for large acale utilization of German experts but was cut back radically following tha Japantse surrender.

LABOR FRONT: Farm Machinery Tie-Up Government seizure of strikebound farm machinery plants appeared as the remaining alternative as negotiations between companies and union bogged down and equipment was badly needed for the maintenance of high crop production to meet domestic and foreign demands. As the government pondered taking over the plants, the International Harvester company continued to resist the CIO-Farm Equipment Workers' demands for union security, maintenance of membership, dues checkoff, arbitration and methods for settling grievances. Both company and union agreed to a government fact-finding recommendation for an 18-cent an hour wage increase. In addition to 30,000 workers In 11 International Harvester plants, 12,500 employees in six plants of AllisChalmers and J. I. Case remained out over contract differences. Coal Snag While the government kept one eye on the farm machinery situation, it trained another on the coal industry, where parleys between John L. Lewis’ United Mine Workers and the operators sagged over the UMW chieftain’s demands for the creation of a health and welfare fund. Dropped last year during the bargaining over a new contract, the health and welfare fund issue was raised again this year by Lewis, who gave it No. 1 position on the negotiating agenda. Asserting that it would cost them $50,000,000 annually, the operators proposed the creation of a Joint committee to study an accident compensation plan as an alternative. As a walkout in the industry loomed, the government prepared to control the shipment of an estimated 29,000,000 tons of bituminous coal above ground. , Steel spokesmen said a miners’ walkout might result in the restriction of production within two weeks. lSew UAW Chief A concerted drive to organize the white collar workers in the automobile industry loomed with the election of fiery, red-haired Walter Reuther as the new CIO-United Automobile Workers president. Avowed foe of the communist faction within the UAW, Reuther thwarted the re-election hopes of R. J. Thomas, head of the union since 1938, who enjoyed leftist support. In winning the presidency of the biggest union in the world, Reuther announced the organization of the white collar workers in the industry as one of his No. 1 goals. He also said an educational program would be undertaken to interest the membership in union activity and the UAW would strive for industrywide instead of company-wide bargaining to correct wage and working inequalities between plants. The stormy petrel of the UAW. and head of the union's General Motors division, Reuther is 39 and destined for major leadership in the American labor movement. Fired from the tool department of the Ford Motor company for union activity in 1933, he organized an AFL local in the plant In 1935 and then led his men into the CIO In 1938.

Pictured (from bottom to top) during tense UNO talk on Iran are Andrei Gromyko, representing the soviet; Sir Alexander Cadogan of Britain, and Edward Stettinius and James Byrnes of the U. S.