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First 3-Year Contract
For Phone Workers
Takes Effect Here
A three-year contract covering
3.000 District telephone operators
and traffic clerical workers went into
effect today between the Chesapeake
& Potomac Telephone Co. and
Washington Traffic Division, No. 50,
of the Communications Workers of
America.
Signed late last night, it is tne
first of its kind ever adopted here
and replaces a one-year contract
that expired at midnight. It was
hailed by union officials as contrib
uting to “long-range stability” and
as a basis for settlement of other
CWA contracts in the industry. The|
CWA is an independent union.
The accord provides no immediate
wage increases. It gives both parties
an opportunity to reopen negotia
tions on wages at any time during
thi^next 12 months and again at the
end of another year if an agreement
is reached. The contract could be
canceled at the end of the first year
if there is no agreement, or at the
end of the second year under sim
ilar circumstances.
Company officials said the settle
ment came after seven weeks of
bargaining.
“There will be no change in pres
ent basic wages.” F. G. Macarow,
vice president and general manager
said. “The new contract is to run
for three years from May 18. It pro
vides for two reopenings for recon
sideration of basic wages during the
life of the contract.
“It also provides that there shall
be no de-liberalization of the provi
sions of the pension plan while the
contract is in effect. The bargaining
was almost continuous during the
past few days in an endeavor by
both parties to reach an agreement
before expiration of the old con
tract.”
Mrs. Mary E. Gannon, president
of Division 50. said the long-term
contract “gives workers more liberal
termination pay, ties pensions down
to the union’s contract, improves
the grievance procedure and a holi
day differential and clarifies the
wording of the contract in a number
of ways.”
Noting that the settlement is the
first in th Bell System this year,
Joseph A. Beirne, CWA president,
said:
"Terms of Division 50’s settle
ment can serve as a basis for set
tlement of other CWA contracts
and prevent the possibility of a
strike in the industry. This agree
ment. and many others like it that
may be negotiated across the coun
try', can provide long-term stability
in the industry if proper wage ad
justments are made within the next
12 months and thereafter in ac
cordance with the wage provisions
of the contract."
Mr. Beirne said about 50 such
contracts are under negotiation.
They cover about 217,000 of the
230,000 workers represented by the
union.
Numbers Suspect Seized
Montgomery County police re
ported the arrest yesterday of
Richard Albert Pratt, 36, colored,
of the 700 block of Barry place N.W.,
on a charge of writing numbers in
Kensington, Md. They said he was
a runner for a Washington operator.
Mexico’s new silver coins are so
popular that millions of them al
ready have been hoarded.
U.S. Speeds foProduce
New Atom Weapons
Tested at Eniwetok
By the Associated Press
The United States geared up to
day for production of new atomic
weapons whose deadly power is this
Nation’s secret.
This much is known—that what
ever their form or dimensions they
represent “very substantial prog
ress” in harnessing nature’s forces
to instruments of terrible destruc
tion.
rnose were me woras usea oy me
White House yesterday in announc
ing successful completion of a new
series of tests of “three atomic weap-,
ons, each of improved design” at
Eniwetok Island in the far Pacific.
Speculation mounted over what
the new weapons may be. Whatever
they are—guided missiles, radio
active clouds, an improved bomb or
whatnot—the White House an
nouncement indicated no time is
being lost in putting them into
production. It said:
"The President gave general ap
proval of (Atomic Energy) Com
mission plans *for steps it proposed
to initiate at once for further nuclear
development, based upon informa
tion gained from the tests.”
David E. Lilienthal, AEC chair
map, added pointed emphasis to
this statement. He said the tests,
involving some 10,000 military and
scientific personnel, were a “mile
stone in atomic development.”
With the Nation thus embarked
on a new atomic era, there were
indications the armed forces are
grooving their plans for using the
new weapons.
The Air Force has new sky giants
in the making to replace the famed
B-29 which dropped the first atomic
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bomb on Hiroshima three years ago.
And the Navy has asked congres
sional approval of plans to con
struct the world’s biggest warship—
a 65,000-80,000-ton aircraft carrier
whose flight deck could serve as a
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In Congress, meanwhile, battle
lines formed over how long mem
bers of the Atomic Energy Commis
sion should serve.
The Senate-House Atomic Energy
Committee filed a report with the
Senate yesterday saying the com
mission “because of the nature of
its duties and the extent of its
power, can exercise decisive control
over the destiny of our Nation and
the lives of our people.”
Limited Extension Approved.
For this reason, the Republican
dominated committee said, there
should be no rush about appointing
Chairman Lilienthal and the other
four commission members to regular
terms ranging from one to five
years.
The committee approved a bill
wr.ich would extend their terms only
to June 30, 1950, and, in effect, give
the next President the right to make
the full-term appointments.
Senator McMahon, Democrat, of
Connecticut said he will file a minor
ity report and rally support to give
Mr. Lilienthal and his colleagues
regular apointments.
Shipbuilders to Seek
Raise From Bethlehem
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