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ST. JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND,   SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1955
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Tito, Kremlin Part Amiably
Both Sides
Satisfied
BELGRADE (Rquters) —
president Tito Friday bade
godbye to his  top-ranking
Soviet guests   at Belgrade
airport as  both   countries
taid they   got   what tfiey
•vante-i out of the week-long
negotiations.
Observers said Tito certainly got
more than he gave away in his
talks with Soviet Communist party
chief Nikita Khrushchev, Premier
Nikolai Bulganin and Deputy Pre*
mier Anastas Mikoyan.        . «■
Above all, Tito extracted a Soviet pledge to keep hands off his j
country which broke wilh Moscow!
in 1048. A joint declaration signed:
Thursday night said Russia recog-'
lifted Tito's form ot communism
was the "sole concern" of Yugoslavia.
Disgcst speculation here Is how
Khrushchev will explain to, his
Kremlin colleagues and to the Soviet satellite governments his failure to bring Tito back inlo the Soviet camp.
STOP IN BULGARIA
Significantly, Khruschev, Bui-
j-:*in and Mikoyan stopped over
in Bulgaria while second-rank
members of the dslegation went
lft Hungary on their way back to
Moscow.
"Titoism*1 will make an impact
on the satellites which have seen
their Kremlin leaders try for years
In bring Tito to heel only to visit
in person and apologize for the
seven-year estrangement.
In Sofia, Khrushchev told an
o*>3n air audience Friday his talks
with Tito had ended thc period of
"disturbed relations" and created
"a healthy, normal situation/'
"Yugoslavia has not given up
her sovereignly, has retained her
Independence and has remained in
the Socialist camp," he said.
CONDEMN POWER BLOCS
Yugoslav official nawspapers
greeted lhe agreement as an
example of peaceful coexistence
'vhich could well be followed by
the Big Four powers in thalr negotiations this summer.
Observers said one of Tilo's
main triumphs, wrested at'lhe last
moment, was the joint condemnation of world power blocs,
Tito was seen as giving way on
Mo poinls—support for Communist China's *Mcg.limate rights" on
I'nrmosa and agreement to establish contacts between "social or-
Russia,
•janlzations" in Yugoslavia ami
Yugoslavia generally has favored Communist China's claims
a-calnst the Nationalists, but thc
specific inclusion of the Formosa
claim Is regarded as a Soviet effort to en-haras*- Tito's relations
with the United States.
Seek New
Benefits
From Ford
DETROIT (AP) - The
United Auto Workers CIO
Friday sought further concessions from the Ford Motor Company in the wake of
reports that Ford had offered to guarantee laid-off
workers   a   percentage  of
their wages up lo six months.
Armed with Ford's offer of a
"guaranteed semi - annual wage,"
the UAW, which had asked a guarantee of year-round pay In the auto
industry, went back to G-aneral
Motors in the hopes of getting
something better from the industry's biggest producer.
Ford and the union met briefly
Friday morning, then took a 3&-
hour recess for separate caucuses
bsfore resuming later. GM and the
union met Friday afternoon.
Ford put Us latest offer on.tlie
bargaining table Tuesday after the
UAW had rejected the company's
plan for layoff loans, separation
Pay and purchase of stock by employees.
The subsequent proposal, per-
liapa revised in the last three days,
would guarantee a laid*off worker
RO to 65 per cent of average take-
home pay for up to 28 weeks. The
company would pay the difference
between what a worker receives
in state unemployment compensation and the 6(Uo G5 per cent.
The union has bceen campaigning for a maximum of a full year's
guarantee of wages.
CM Is said to have stuck so far
In its original offer ot a stock
purchase plan similar to that originally proposed by Ford. Reports
circulated Friday, however, that
HM had raised Its original proposal to''improve pension provisions and other benefits.'
The UAW has extended Its contact wilh Ford to Sunday mid-
r-isht. hnt-says'il will not aaree
lo •* further extension. The union's
contract with Gbntfral,Motors run*
until Tuesday-midnight;'*
Three people were rushed to
hospital shortly after last midnight
after the car In which they were
driving left the road, rolled over
five times and ended up about
one hundred feet away In the
ditch. None of the three was
seriously Injured.
The 1955 Pontiac, carrying two
SL John's girls and driven by an
American serviceman from Argentia, was proceeding Into the City
on the Goulds Road when It took
the sharp curve, marked dangerous, bolted straight across thc
road and turned end over end
about five times ending up in a
mass of barbed wire and mud. All
thc windows were shattered except
the windshield which flew out of
the car and landed intact In the
ditch. The vehicle was practically
demolished,
One of the girls said later at thc
hospital that they were going at a
normal rate of speed* In very thick
fog and she knew nothing until
she saw the ditch loom up In front
of her and next thing they were In
the ditch, all on top of onc another. She was pale and shaken
up but uninjured.
The other girl was suffering
from shock, while the man except
for a few scratches came out unscathed. The car was a rented one
from Hertz,
In. Britain:
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Hugh Dalton
Resigns From
Labor
Advises Colleagues To Folloiv His Lead
LONDON (AP)—Hugh Dalton, 67, resigned Friday
night from the" Labor party's high command and urged
that his elderly colleagues—with the exception of leader
Clement Attlee—step down also to make way for younger
men.
Jodoin To Head
New Canadian
WINSOR, Ont. (CP)—Hefly Claude Jodoin, youngest
president of the Trades and Labor Congress, of Canada1*
Friday, won re-election for a second term and assurance
of, heading the planned 1,000,000-member merger of
labor
congresses.
Tho .towering Monlrealer, who
turned 42 on May 25, was given
an acclamation to the TLC presidency hy the annual congress convention at the end of his first
nine months of office.
This makes it certain that thc
250-pDund former garment workers' organizer will become president, next year of the new Canadian Labor Congress lhat is. to
be formed out of an amalgamation
of the 600,000-membcr TLC and the
450,000 members of the Canadian
Congress of Labor. ,
Congress officers have an agreement that the CLC will be. headed
by the president of the Trades and
Labor Congress of Canada when
the merger Is solidified' early next
year.
Jodoin, an'amiably but shrewd
six footer who Is the rarity of a
college-bred labor l^aibr and who
can sway an audience in two languages, rotted.back into the.prcsi-
dency of Canada's .largest labor
body with no one nominated against
him.
He will hold office until about
next spring when—if merg-ar plans
go through' on ' schedule-he will
lake over the Canadian Labor Congress.
Under the arrange men t, the other
lop officers of the new congrass will
he secretary-treasurer Donald MacDonald of the Canadian Congress
of Labor, who will become secretary-treasurer of the big group, and
secretary-treaiiurer Gordon Cush-
ing of the TLC who' will become
its executive vice-president.
NO OPPOSITION
The 42-year-old Cushlng, other
half of a young team' at the helm
of. the 70-ycar-old TLC, was re*
elcclcd at Friday's convention without opposition. Cushlng halls from
Calgary, where he formerly was
secretary .of the district trades and
labor.
Other congress officers, were returned at Friday's elections, though
vice-presidents Bill -Jenoves ot Ontario and Carl Berg of the prairies
had competition,
George Schollle of Montreal,
Canadian heart of the machinists,
was re-elected without opposition
as vice-president for.Quebec, giving that province a non - French
vice - president for thc second
straight ycj-j.
James Whilcbonc of Saint John,
N.B., and R.'K. Gcrvin of Van
couver won unopposed re-election
as vice-presidents for the Marl-
times and British Columbia. White-
bone, 61, is the oldest vice-presi.
dent In' point of service, having
been in office, since 1939.
After his election president Jodoin appealed to the delegates for
their co-operation.
"With that," he said, "I'm certain we will realize in Canada a
strong unified labor organization."
A more youthful executive group
is the Labor party's only hope for
tlie future, said Dalton, one of the
chief theorists of British socialism
and former chancellor of the exchequer.
He excepted Attlee on the ground
the 72-year-old former prinfe minister is the only man able to reconcile warring factions of the
party, which took a beating from
Prime Minister Eden's Conservatives In the May 2D. general elec-
tibn.
IN SHADOW CABINET
Dalton has been an influential
member of the Labor high command, Attlee's' shadow cabinet.
This is tha policy-making board
which would become the real cabinet in any future Labor government.
Writing Attlee of his decision,
Dalton said nine of lhe shadow
cabinet's members are over 65 and
the party should start the new
EDMONTON (CF) -- The rest Parliament June 9 with a younger
dential Indian school at SI. Albert, group, preferably made up of men
10 miles north of'here, has  anl under 50.
educational  program  worked  culL Dalton's decision was applauded
-ore*the" premise' that In 50-■yd'aBTpy^the Dally'Mirror, 'pro-Labor
Canadian Indians will havc voluntarily given up their reservations,
Hndliiy Barnes, principal of thc
school sponsored by the federal In*
difin affairs branch and the United
Church of Canada, says il is ex
ncclcd that in j0 years Indians will
be integrated socially am] cc'innm.
ler lly with the rest of lhc papula
tion.
Tlie school has 175 students of
b'"Ih sexes from five to 18 years
nf age. More than half the students come from along the coast
of British Columbia, where fishermen find it Impractical to send
thc children to day schools.
Aim Mix Indians
With Other
Canadians
tabloid which has been campaigning for a reshuffle of the party
since its election defeat.
EXPLAINS ACTION
Dalton's letter to Attlee said:
"It is essential, in my view, that
from the start of the new Parlia-
men there should be a much
younger shadow cabinet. In the
last Parliament, as I once said to
you, this body was becoming more
and more* a shadow of the past
and less and less a cabinet of the
future, . . ."
Besides Herbert Morrison, 67-
year-old deputy leader, the men
in line of Dalton's fire include
Chuter Ede, 72, former home secretary. Philip Noel - Baker, 65,
former minister of fuel and power
Glenvil Hall, 68, chairman uf thc
parliamentary party five years
ago James Griffiths, former colonial -secretary, who will be 65 in
a few months and Emanuel Shin-
well, 70, former minister of defence.
The average age of the shadow
cabinet now is 60 years, four
months. Eden's cabinet averages
"55 years, 10 months. r— ••
Main structure of Seville Cathedral in Spain was built between 1402
and 1510.
Outstanding Cadet
TODAY'S WEATHER
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occasional rain.   High 55, .
Sunday cloudy and cool,
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Sunrise ,, .. ..  .. .. 4.05 a.m.
Sunset .. ,. ... ..  ..7.53 p-m.
Hopes For Early Settlement Hit Rock
Bottom    J
LONDON {AP)--The British railway strike threatened Scottish steel production Friday and tightened its grip
elsewhere on the country's industrial machine.
■Prime Minister Eden will takef-
to the air Sunday night to give
the nation a strike report. This
will be his second broadcast on*
the crisis—an unprecedented step
for a British prima minister in
peacetime.
Trains were running at approximately one-fifth of normal. A few
factories gave their employee's precautionary layoff notices, most of
them for next Friday. But more
announced shorter work weeks or
abolished overtime in hopes of riding out the strike, now in its
sevenlh day, by stretching supplies.
Finished goods jammed up in company warehouses.
The ministry of labor said it had
no figures on the number of workers who had rsceived layoffs notices.
SETTLEMENT HOPES FALL
Hopes of an early end to the
strike hit rock bottom.
"At the moment, there Is no
opening for a settlement," said
Jim Baty, general secretary of the
67,000 - strong striking Associated
Society of Locomotive Engineers
and Firemen. •
With the positions of r*s union
and the British Transu't Commission, which runs the nationalized railways, hardening, the next
move toward a settlement appeared
up to tlie government.
Tlie Federation of British Industries said "the crisis point" Is likely
to be reached towards the end of
next week.
STEEL INDUSTRY HIT
The steel industry, backbone of
the nation's industrial -might, appeared hardest hit so far because
of*IU dependence on dally .sup-
;plie«-ot:*)re.i.an-Lxoal. Induslrial-
repnrlers predicted .100,000 strcl
workers might be idle by the end of
next week.
The union is demanding an increase of eight shillings in the
weekly base nay nf its members,,
now £9 15 riiillingp, to restore a
customary wage  differential  for,
englnemen In relation to less iWiled
railway workers, most, ot whom
are members of the -iW.QOO-strong
National Union of Railwaymen.
The differential was narrowed by
an industry-wide pay increase In
January. The NOR, opposed to tht
strike, is helping to supply engineers and firemen for the tralu
that are running.
The British Transport Commis*
'sion, wary of setting off ah in-,
flattonary spiral, has offered five
shillings for main line crews and!
a two shillings, sixpence in ere a at
for others.
In the 24 hours ended at 6 a.m.
Friday, the British Transport Commission said 4,171 passenger and;
2,817 freight trains ran—the-largest'
number in any 24 hours since tht-
strike began.
But the commission warned,
emergency passenger service during the weekend would be further
curtailed to allow the maximum:
possible movement of freight such
as coal, Iron ore and gasoline.
DOCK STRIKE CONTINUES
A strike of 20,000 dockers at six
major ports wore on through its
13th day, holding up British exports. The national dock labor
board reported 165 ships were tied
up. The cause is an* inter-union
feud In which the National Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers
Union is demanding equal bargain*'
ing rights with the rival Transport
and General Workers Union.
Tbe trek to the work benches
tinued with little Interruption.aland offices of the big cities con-'
though at a slower pace than normal. Traffic in London was tha
holdups-..were slight. Emergency
heaviest of the week Friday but
buses, in competition with thc Lon-
don transport system, made their
first appearance in more than 20
years on, tha capital's streets..
London authorities called in an
extra 1.150 provincial police lo a*;-
Fist in handling traffic. *
Dictator May Already Have Been .
Excommunicated
VATICAN CITY (AP)—Argentina's president Juan
D. Peron, a Roman Catholic once decorated by the Pope,
is only a step from excommunication if not already so
punished by the church, a Vatican authority said Friday.
"We cannot say yet whether he
has fallen Into the state of excommunication, nor can we deny it,"
a mnnsijinor consultant of lhe
Sacred Congregation or the Holy
Office said in comment on a
Church-slate feud in Argentina.
"But certainly he is In grave
sin, and with him all the legislators (of the Peronlsta-dominatcd
congress) who have adopted the
law on divorce, eliminated religious education from the schools
and concurred in the arrests of
priests and' catholic laymen.
"What Is certain, if the president has not fallen into the state
of excommunication, is that hc Is
a very short step-from it."
Kxeomnumiation varies in degree. In minor cas*'s it mean-*
suspension uE -the sacrament--.
Major-•excflinnuiiik'alhm calls for
absolute expulsion from (lie church
and all ils right and advantages,
In the case of great offenders even
from social intercourse with othar
catholic's. Sometimes it may be
incurred automatically. At other
times the chufch proclaims It,
usually through decrcc*-of the-Holy
Office, which the Pope heads.  .
The monsignor consultant asked
not to bs identified by name.
Pledge Aid
Relief For
Refugees
TORONTO (CP) -
Presbyterian    Church
Canada pledged itself
day to go all-out this year on
refugee relief. At the 81st
general.  assembly    church
commissioners   voted    that
the relief target figure   of
$15,000 for 1055 he increased.
No 'definite figure was set. But
Dr. William Barclay of Loudon,
Ont., reporting  on refuge-.* relief
needs,, said hc would like to see 	
$30,000 collected. A total of 513,500 ■ gregations could help newly-formed
has already been raised. I congregations wilh financing nnd
"There   are ' 40,000,000  refugees   nottdrain general assembly funds
in the world today," Dr. Barclay
tlie Presbyterian church written off
as isolationist. "It is our younger
men who have insisted in past
years that relief figures be raised,"
he said. "We must continue to
meet our moral commitments ip
Ihis field."
MISSIONS EXPANDING
G. Dean Johnston of Brantford,
Out., chairman of the church board
! of missions, said his department
Tne ;is expanding both at home and
in: abroad.
■pi..* i Mr. Johnston said the missions
board overspent its 1954 allocation
by $115,000. Of this $93,297 wa*|
used in national missions in Can
ada.
board al its March meeting cut
"As a consequence, the missions
all mission grants down-$300 right
across Canada," he .said,
Mr. Julinsluii vet-on.mended thai
the .church slart a vigorous cam-
paigii Uj gel back part of tlie nearly
£■1,000,000 on loan to individual congregations across Canada.
He also suggested that local con-
said. "Some of us forgot thc rcfu
ccc problem right after th« Second
World War."
Dr. Barclay said he didn't want
ANCIENT CUSTOM
Creamation was customary foi
the dead in nearly all ancienl countries except Egypt and China.-
To
CADET MAJOR THOMAS
COOPER
Thc Army Cadclr Headquarters
at Buckmastcrs Field today announced their choice of thc most
outstanding .cadet for the year
1055. This Distinguished award
went lo Cdl./Major Thomas Cooper,
of No, 2415 St. Bonaventure's
College Cadet Corps;   /
He Is the son of Mr. -and Mrs,
Austin Cooper of 12 Empire
Avenue and "ot present completing
Grade 12 at the College. The lion-
our to Major *Cooper was received
with, delight by, his parents and
teachers both. •■
During    Cdt./Major.   Cooper's
Programme he has distinguished
himself to a high degree in all
phases of army training. He has
twice been awarded thc trophy
for the most outstanding cadet in
his corps. Cadet Major Cooper is
one of the few .distinguished
marksmen in the Newfoundland
Area who have qualified .for the
Gold Bullet. Award.. During last
summer at the Army Summer
Camp in Detail he competed in
the Nova Semi;. Annual Competl-
lion attaining first place.among
all the Cadets of tlie Eastern
Command. He was also .awarded
first place among all the Cadets
qualifying.-for the rftle coaching
Campney
Officers
Crack Down On Military
Who Release Information
years In the Army Cadet Training|course, at Dobert-last summer.
OTTAWA (CP)—Defence-
Minister Campney indicated
Friday that he will crack
down on high military officers making. public statements dealing with government policy.
He told the Commons "it,is not
proper,'of course," for senior military men to make such statements. *
He was uucstloned by John Die--
fenbakcr (PC—Prince Albert) and
Douglas Harkncss.CPC - Calgary
North) about a statement by 'Air
Vice'-.Marshal John L. Plant In
Toronto Thursday that the army
should.be scrapped to make more
manpower available for a stronger
air force.
NOT GOVERNMENT VIEWS
. Mr, Campney said tlie remarks
of 'Air Vice-Marshal'Plant, RCAF
air member for technical services,
don't represent the views of tlie
fair force. '*.
It-was-.tine second such.incident
-In'"'two -days, and lhe-.thlrd-.in recent months." , •.-■ ,;
On Wednesday, Air Marshal Roy
Slemon, ^chief of air staff, was
quoted In Montreal as saying-Canada and the United States arc heading toward a 'unified air defence
system add an over-all commander
for it.
Mr. Campney said in the Com
irions Thursday the    government
isn't staking appointment of a su
preme commander and lhat Air
Marshal Slemon was only stating
a trend in military thinking.
SIMILAIt REMARKS
A few months ago, Ltd.-Gcn. Guy
Simonds, chief of trie general staff,
said In Montreal he and, most army
officers favor peacetime military
conscription.
Gen. Simonds, who had mad? a
similar statement last year at Saint
John, N.B., said he fully realized
this was a matter for political decision. Mr. Campney*later-pointe**l
lo this part of his statement when
questioned, in- the Commons.
It-is known thai Air Vice-Marshal Plant is nnt alona in tlie RCAF
in advocating abolition of the army i
'to create i bigger -air force,,       \
There Is a small group in the
RCAF dedicated to the air concept of war—that is that air power,
by itself, can win wars. But Air
Vice-Marshal Plant is the first officer to state such views publicly.
MUST BE PREPARED
Abolition of the army, and possibly thc. navy, has been mentioned among officers of all three
services 'but it has never been a
subject for serious discussion.
Thc government's view is that
Canada's armed forces must be
prepared to fight a limited war-
such as Korea—as well as -total
war.
If the entire defence effort were
thrown into the RCAF, with possible' creation of a bomber cpm-
mand, there would be no easy
way for Canada to make a contribution in a limited war.
' Some senior" officers 'say they
believe a total atomic war is unlikely, that any fighting that may
hreak oiilin future probably would
be.limited. A Canadian army division could make a good contribution to the west's cause iff such'ah I.
event.
Mr. Campney replied to questioning in tha Commons the air vice-
marshal's remarks donft represent
government policy. He did not wish
to comment further until he had
checked the accuracy of thc newspaper report of the officer's spaecb
made before a group of aviaUoo
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