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ALL EDITIONS Page 22. Arizona Republic, Phoenix, Arizona. July 25, 1952 teelworkers Jay Over Word Strike Is Ended Go Wild With UJS. Arms Mission More. Car Workers Laid Off Faces Red Check $3 Payless Days Leave Many With Lean Larders DETROIT, July 24 (AP) The Steelworkers Receive 16-Cent Wage Boost the vast majority of laid-off men.

Automobile firms indicated this was impossible. steel strike's settlement Thursday BERLIN, July 24 (AP) The Russians, contending that the Soviet liaison officers assigned to By BOBERT LORZ Frankfurt are shadowed by West WASHINGTON, July 24 (AP) Authoritative sources said Thurs came as layoffs of another 35,000 automobile workers were ordered adding to the growing army of unemployed created by the long CIO walkout. With steel shortages continuing, Ford and Buick ordered layoffs. The strike's settlement meant no immediate return to work for German police, said Thursday they're going to keep a check on MAID HAS KICK JACKSON, Miss July 24 (UP) Mary Emma Scott, a maid, complained to police that her employer, N. Parker, kicked her when he returned home from work to find no supper cooked.

The maid claimed she had nothing to cook. the U.S. military mission in the differentials between North and South average 10 cents higher in the North. 7. The agreement anticipates a two-year contract effective June 30, 1952 with a wage reopener on June 30, 1953.

8. OX THE STICKY union shop issue, the parties agreed to a Russian zone headquarters city of same story. 'They bounced up and down with joy," Russell McAllister said. "I'm, damn glad it' over," steel-worker Mike Carsevich said. "I'm tickled to death," a fellow employe, Harold Harper, said.

United Press reporters covering the VS. Steel's huge plant at Potsdam. modified union shop arrangement which exempts all present em Homestead and the big Jones Laughlin works on Pittsburgh's south side said the steelworkers ployes who are not members of the union and gives all new employes the right to leave the union at any time during the last 15 days of the "went nuts" when the word of set first month they work. tlement came. "I never hea'rd such a bartender in Lennie's said.

"Ev- day the terms of the steel strike settlement were these i 1. An average 16 cents wage boost. Present earnings average just under $2 an hour. 2. Six paid holidays and double time for workers who must work on any of the six holidays.

3to An increase in the differentials for the afternoon and night shifts from the present four and six cents an hour to six and nine cents an hour. 4. THREE WEEKS vacation after 15 years of service effective Jan. 1, 1952. 5.

Retroactivity to last March Previously the industry had said it could pay back wages only to March 30. This does not involve a great deal of money, however, because the steel strike started June 2 and the retroactive pay would naturally be cut off on that date. 6. A reduction in the southern differential by five cents an hour. Only UJS.

Steel and Republic are affected on this point. Present pay erything was on the house after Upon going to work, an employe must sign an application card for union membership. If he fails to notify the company within the 15th to 30th day of employment that he wishes to withdraw from the union he must stay in. The agreement that" 1 "MY IOOR'S been clean now for 53 and I want to start i PITTSBURGH, July 24 (UP) 'The nation' steelworkers, yvho counted eight straight payless weeks, went wild Thursday over the settlement of their 53-day "strike. They cheered the settlement to the skies.

In taprooms, at home, on the picket line, the steelwork-en went crazy with joy. Pickets tore up their signs. They couldn't contain their joy. rl "I almost hit the ceiling when I heard the good news," Crucible Steel employe John Mihelcic shouted. "Boy, I got on the phone.

I called everybody." THANK GOD, thank God. it's hi wif er Eleanor, said. "I'm too excited. I'm too happy. I don't know what to say." Some heard the news while watching the Democratic-convention on television.

"I was listening to the Harriman demonstration on TV," James Duncan, pipefitter at U.S. Steel's Edgar Thomson Works, said. "But when the strike settlement was announced that was the biggest news I wanted to In Lennie's Bar near the sprawling U.S. Steel plant in Homestead, bedlam broke loose as more than 30 workers heard the settlement announcement. "THERE WAS MORE noise here than in Chicago," proprietor Len-nie Shappe said.

In the Neptune Bar it was the also includes a Drovision for a 15 seeing a little dirt on it." Lennie said. day withdrawal period foT all present union members at the end of But joyous as they were, most of each contract period. the steelworkers let it be known they dida't like being out of work This was seen as a victory by the industry. The union originally demanded a full union shop under Tka-t's tukat rriexvd told us for 53 days. "We were getting a little pan COOL CLIMBER A Douglas Skyrocket reaches dizzying heights in a hitherto unpublished photo.

Bill Bridgeman, 35, flew the new navy ship 1,238 mph at an altitude of feet. Since the high speed would melt the plane, it carrjes a refrigeration unit capable of cooling a large auditorium. which all workers would have been compelled to join the union. icky," Andrew Sayko, said, "It's only my opinion, but I think the -the other datj. life have Ultimatum Ends Steel Strike when the strike was settled.

Monday we will announce those plans." (Continued From Page One) reflect cost increases up to last strike went on too long. The steel people are in business like every-" one else; they've got to make a profit." "WE'RE HAPPY, all right, but it should have been settled a lot sooner," Chester -Kobus said. "We were all getting pretty worried," Joe Baginski said. "The strike had us busted wide open, real system tidujw July 26. The walkout by 650,000 CIO TRUMAN'S announcement was steel workers began early in June immediately following a supreme court decision outlawing President Truman's seizure of the steel mills.

1 11. -5- quickly relayed to the Democratic national convention in Chicago, where Chairman Sam Rayburn have uour MnR to thank KOY Seeks TV Channel 10 Radio Station KOY has filed and it's going to take some time read it to the delegates. A tremen before we get back on our leet. dous outburst of cheers greeted In prolonged off-and-on negotiations, the steel companies and the unions reached agreement on many the news. SMS The President personally told issues, including wages, but dead fYousee.tue xuanted newsmen of the peace pact.

He locked on the question of a union with the Federal Communications shop. Commission a request for a permit As the conferees left the White said Fairless and Murray "have just advised me that six major steel companies and the United Steel Workers of America have atfuned to.fhe rhythm of glamorous fashion by House, newsmen asked Murray if to construct a television station for Channel 10, Albert D. John a loSretrid it urns made ver-uj he was happy about the agree ment. son, KOY president, said Thursday. reached agreement on important basic issues." "Well, I am relieved," the tall, He said KOOL-has also applied Truman added: "This should lead to a speedy white-haired union- chief replied.

Fairless commented: for Channel 10. resumption ot steel production." "Probably the FCC will set a pleasant for us 1 "I AM VERY happy that this jfcs Si Defense Secretary Lovett told hearing to determine who gets -r i the permit," Johnson said. newsmen weanesaay, nowever, disastrous steel strike is nearing an encL I hope it will be the last strike we will ever witness in our that if the strike were called off FERNCRAFT Just when such a hearing will -uj lately 1 fek xiave uon reen immediately it would take three to great industry." be held, Johnson said he wouldn't six months to resume full produc At that point, Murray chimed in want to guess. tion of vital defense items bogged down by the. strike.

"It may be a year, it may be echo the sentiments of Mr. Fairless. I hope we will be able to two years," he said. After the announcement of the build up good, friendly and co agreement defense officials esti operative relationships between all mated the strike would cost the nation 21 million tons of the basic the companies and the union. Defense Secretary Lovett, in formed of the White House ah Dope Suspect Slain In Resisting Arrest metal before full output is re stored.

That is slightly less than a nouncement. broke into J- a wide LOS ANGELES. July 24 (INS) fifth of a full year's production. erin and exclaimed: Stanley Mutersbaugh, 36, asserted TRUMAN told reporters- that National Bank Arizona Jfc4 Frnsi "Gosh, that's wonderful! Now lefs pull up. our socks and get CIO President Murray is -calling onetime head of a dope was tf i his 170-man wage policy committee going, full speed ahead." Lovett had told newsmen only snob and killed Thursday by a veteran narcotics officer when he resisted arrest.

Police said Mutersbaugh was re HEAD OFFICE: PHOENIX BRANCHES IN MOST BUSINESS CENTERS MiHIII MBIKAl DEPOSIT INSUIANCI COtFOtATION to meet here Friday to ratify the agreement, A few hours before the agree Wednesday that the strike was a greater blow to the nation than if ment was announced Sen. Wayne leased from a lengthy prison term it had suffered a mass bombing two months ago. Morse (R-Ore) urged Truman to call a special session of congress attack. Such an assault, he said, would not have shut down so many steel mills in a single day as did the walkout by the CIO steel to deal with the strike if it was For Weddings! For Formats! not settled by the end of the week. The strike, longest in the indus workers.

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