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Labor Comment Oakland Tribune, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 1946 U.N. Official to UYE OUT OF TOWN? USt OUR MAIL ORDER REPAIR SERViCI Speak in S.F. Reason Deemed Labor Peace Key "BERKELEY, Dec 25. Leroy Stinebower, deputy United States representative to the Economic and ByVICTOR EIESEL Social Council of the United Nations, will speak on January 3 at 7:45 pjn.

in the University of California's San Francisco Extension Center; His address will culminate a day of round-table discussions sponsored by the Exploratory Committee fori I 1, 4 i N4 T5 V7 CI Alt A an Inter-Organizational Council on World Affairs and the University Extension. Dr. Henry F. Grady, president of American President lines, is chairman of the Exploratory Committee. Dr.

Monroe E. Deutsch, vice-president and provost of the university, will preside at the, open meeting. The San Francisco Extension Center is located at 540 Powell Street DRIVER ESCAPES DEATH, NOT POLICE Jose Fernandez, 35, of 227 Peralta wamuinuaw, D.C., Dec. strike-bound auto city of Hint was nerve-wrecked and tense that -wintry I day in 1937 when a calm, gum-chewing boyith redhead pulled into town at the head of some 400 grim Ohio auto workers. They doubled over to the General i Motors' Chevrolet seized it by a ruse and immediately rammed the heavy corrugated steel doors shut out of commission.

1 7 The 29-year-old redhead by! the name of Walter Reuther shotj orders out like a professional army sergeant onj Normandy sands.1 In a few hours his private army had entrances, iredoors and windows wired and welded. FIRE IIOSES READY Fire hoses were filled to the nozzle as weapons and readied for instant action if state troops attacked. Metal sheets were welded over top windows) keep out tear-gar bombs. Holes were cut in them by acetylene torches for vision and the use of slingshots. Car bodies and i seat cushions were converted into sleeping quarters In a little while the governor-Frank 1 Murphy by nam sent troops around.

The major in charge asked Reuther for a peace parley. Si: I 4 4 'o 7w IVG Will IVATCHGG! it Excellent, guaranteed work-by a fac-U tory grained watchmaker! And, excel-' lent s'frvice, too! At the most ten days sooner, if you are In a hurry! Call ri in tomorrow! Happy to serve you! Street, San Leandro, whose car, according to police, narrowly missed a Western Pacific engine- and freight car yesterday morning at 88th Avenue and San Leandro Boulevard, was charged with drunk driving and will be tried on January 10. Police said Fernandez car was IIUHII L0EB, Walchmaker at a- i preceding one driven by Robert Burke, 30, a bartender of 1046 72nd When the officer saw the efficient barricading, the story goes, he invited Reuther to join; the Army. But Reuther stayed in the ClO--and helped to build one of the world's -v Avenue, which collided with the freight car and fatally crushed Wil 5 liam Snell, 55, a Western Pacific largest unions, BATTLE OF STATISTICS i Burke told police that he had cele brated his birthday with Fernandez, his employer, on the previous evening. Burke is under police guard Oakland 19th and Broadway And in 1948 nine years later Walter Reuther, the moderate i Socialist of 1936, again struck General Motors.

This time not a nose was bloodied, and not a toolhouse was These young carolers sang yesterday In the lobby of the Later, they appeared at a service dubs' luncheon. Group Alameda City HalL entertaining city employees and visitors. was directed by Miss Alice McCarthy. Tribune photo. at Highland Alameda County Hospital, being treated for head injuries.

seized. Reuther fought the battle of itatistftsT7 This year, a few days ago In Pittsburgh and New York, I heard Reuther tell reporters that a strike was unnecessary and free enter i Army gase Civilian Faces Theft Trial A federal court appearance is awaited today by Willie Lee Robinson, 24, formerly of Richmond, -tiit i a i prise had its virtue's. i But this isn't a profile of Walter Reuther. It's a column with a moral. And that moral is: industry can do OH BIGGEST business with Reuther and Phil Murray and the other non-Commu xjenargea wiui ppemng a ursi ciass QNjiaii package while he was a tivil- nist leaders otm a CIO Funeral Tomorrow For Mary Wales Funeral services are scheduled at 2:30 p.m.

tomorrow for Mrs. Mary E. Wales, postmaster at Canyon and widow of the late Harold E. Wales, former Alameda County deputy sheriff, who died in July. Mrs.

Wales died Sunday in a Berkeley hospital following a long illness. She was born in Juniper Flats, in 1878, but had lived in the Oakland area since 1888. She was one of Gov. Larl Warren's secretarial staff when' he was district lan employee 01 xne uaKiana. Army postal concentration center.

unions this year without strikes. OVER GROWING PAINS ostal Inspector R. F. Nielsen said man admitted opening a package And furthermore the size land power of these unions doesn't mean addressed to a soldier overseas and taking a wrist watch which he they re eager take over manage rial rights or government preroga pawned in Richmond for $5, THE YEAR! tives. I can honestly report to my friends in topside industrial circles Robinson! was arraigned yesterday before U.SJ Commissioner Cameron W.

Wolfe and waived preliminary LAST RITES HELD FOR GIDEON DAVIS Funeral services are pending at the Truman Chapel for Gideon Davis, 77, former Oakland newspaper editor and retired advertising who died suddenly Monday at his home, 358 Hanover Avenue. A native of California, Davis began hns newspaper career as a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle and was employed by that paper from 1900 to 1905. This was followed by two years as editor of the Oakland Herald. Leaving the Herald in 1910, he established his own advertising business in Oakland and later became the representative here of a national advertising concern. He retired six years ago.

Surviving are a son, Harrison Davis, of Oakland, and two daughters, Mrs. Naomi Lee Willman, of Fairfield, and Mrs. Marion; Hig-gins of Honolulu. City Gets Dump Truck The City of Berkeley public works department will start 1947 with1 a new dump truck, contract for purchase from Cochran and CelTi, Oakland automobile agency, awarded yesterday by: the city council in the sum of $5813.96. that the CIO is eager to do business conservatively this year and I that hearing." Wblfe set his bail at $1000.

CIO shouldn't be created in the In anoth er case ciiiiora tiaroia image of the years of Its growing Culbertson attorney of Alameda County and was active in i the Parent-Teacher Dains circa 1937. 35, of San Francisco, an FBI complaint with wearing a U.S. Army charged in unlawfully Association. Surviving are her mother, Mrs uniform. was arraigned oeiore Winifred Knowles of Eastmont; two This is the moment for reason on both sides.

I've just returned from the Nation's steel, coal and auto centers, where I found honest fear on the part of labor and management slowly pushing the country Wolfe. ThepFBI alleged he wore a uniform in playing gambling games with soldiers at the Oakland Army sons, Harold of Oakland, and Jack J. Wales of Canyon; one Base. 'He was released on $250 bail daughter. Betty Golway of into an unwanted strike wave.

The Oakland: two sisters, Maude Adam son and Florence Siedentopf, both CIO is afraid of the giant corpora Fish Decontrolled tinn. Th eomnanies. In turn, are of Oakland, and three brothers, WASHINGTON, Dec. 25. Capt E.

T. Knowles of Alameda, rizhtened by the size and grow Eugene Knowles of Oakland and The Agriculture Department today -ing power of unions. FEAR LABOR FASCISM William Knowles of Windsor, Colo, removed wartime controls on the Services will be held at the Grant importation into the continental Man industrialists sincerely! be United Stales of pickled or salted D. Miller ChapeL 2372 East Four lieve the big unions now are so teenth Street, and interment will be cod. haddock, hake, pollock and powerful that the country is moving in Mountain View Cemetery.

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