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Court Dismisses Barrett's Suit
In Backing Police Questionnaire,
But Doubts City Heads' Authority
Calls Complaint
By Superintendent
'Premature'
BULLETIN
The Commissioners were to
meet at 2:30 p.m. today to de
cide whether to rescind, modify,
or do nothing about their police
questionnaire order, it was an
nounced after a- meeting this
morning with Police Supt. Rob
ert J. Barrett’s attorneys.
District Couit Judge James R.
Kirkland today decided in favor
of the Commissioners in their fight
with Police Chief Robert J. Bar
rett over answering a financial
questionnaire.
The judge, however, questioned
the authority of the Commission
Text of Ruling on Police Quiz. Page A-3
ers and the relevancy of many of
the items in the questionnaire.
He ruled in their favor on the
grounds that Maj. Barrett’s com
plaint was “premature” and the
court lacked jurisdiction “at this
time.”
Maj. Barrett sought a tempor
ary and permanent injunction to
restrain the commissioners from
enforcing their order to police to
answer the searching financial'
questionnaire issued by the Senate
District crime subcommittee. The
commissioners, on the other hand,
were fighting to dissolve the tem
porary restraining order granted
last week by Judge Kirkland.
In today's action. Judge Kirk
land dismissed Maj. Barrett’s com
plaint and dissolved the tempor
«ry restraining order. The deci
sion means that policemen who
refused to answer the question
naire would not have the pro
tection of the court.
Canfield's Plea Denied.
As soon as the decision was
handed down. Attorney Austin
Canfield, representing Maj. Bar
rett, asked the court to delay re
cording the decision until Monday
to allow attorneys time to study
their next move. His plea would
have continued the temporary re
straining order over the week end.
Judge Kirkland denied the plea.
Later Mr. Canfield described the
decision to newsmen as "unusual.”
He said Maj. Barrett’s attorneys
immediately would study their
next move.
"Frankly, we don't know where
we are going next,” he said. “These
men (the police) now have no
protection. They could be called
in and if they refused to answer
the questionnaire they could be
fired.”
As soon as the judge’s ruling
reached the District Building, the
Commissioners went into confer
ence with Corporation Counsel
Vernon West and Arnold Bauman,
counsel for the Senate District
Crime Subcommittee and author
of the disputed questionnaire.
Trying to Analyze Order.
After two hours, Engineer Com
missioner Bernard L. Robinson
emerged long enough to tell news
men, “We are trying to analyze
the court's order and its effect on
our future course of action.”
Shortly before 1 p.m., Maj. Bar
rett's attorneys arrived at the
District Building to confer with
■ the Commissioners. The attor
neys had requested the confer
ence.
Judge Kirkland, at the outset
of his written opinion, explained
that he had issued the temporary
restraining order because of “a
casual examination of the 27-page
questionnaire containing some
1,750 questions, many of which
appear irrelevant and immaterial
to the inquiry, plus the apparent
unreasonably short time to an
swer.”
The original deadline for return
of the affidavit questionnaires wras
(Continued on Page A-3, Col. 1.)
Commons Query Due
On Jane Russell Baby
Ey the Associated Press
LONDON, Nov. 9.—A member
of parliament demanded an offi
cial inquiry today into the re
moval of a London baby from this
country by Hollywood's Jane Rus
sell.
“We don’t want to export babies
to Hollywood or anywhere else,”
Laborite Marcus Lipton told news
men.
•He said he will bring the mat
ter up in the House of Commons
next Thursday as a formal ques
tion to Sir David Maxwell Fyfe,
the Home Secretary.
The baby is Thomas Kavanagh,
15-month-old son of a poor family
in London’s working class district
of Lambeth. His father, Michael,
is a carpenter and Thomas is one
of three children. The Kavanaghs
live in a three-room flat which
rents at 11 shillings, or $1.54 a
week.
Mrs. Kavanagh says she in
trusted the baby to Miss Russell
for a three-month visit to Amer
ica “because I thought he would
have a better chance there.”
Miss Russell has said she did
pot expect to adopt the child
English law prohibits the adoption
of children of this country’s citi
*ens by nationals of other coun
tries.
A.
3 Red Jets Downed, 2 Damaged
By Allied Flyers in Air Battles
Temperature at Front Dips to 17 Degrees;
Communists Reinforce Kumsong Area
By tn« Associated Press
UNITED STATES 8th ARMY
HEADQUARTERS, Korea, Nov. 9.
—Allied warplanes sent three
Communist jets crashing in flames
today, the United States 5th Air
Force reported. This was the big
gest score since October 23.
Two other Russian-made MIG
15s were damaged. The Air Force
said all Allied planes returned
safely.
Two aerial battles were fought
over Northwest Korea, with 52
American jets pitted against about
50 Communist planes. It was one
of the few times the two sides
have met on near-even terms.
On the ground, Chinese forces
threw a series of small attacks be
fore daylight at Allied positions
near Yonchon and Kumsong.
Yonchon is in the west, Kumsong
on the central front.
The temperature dipped to 17
degrees last night. The ground
was white with frost and flying
weather was good.
AP Correspondent Milo Fameti
reported a new Chinese division
was in the line south of Kumsong.
An Allied officer said a fresh Red
army corps—about 30,000 men—
was believed moving into the
area.
The recent surge in Red activity
ground Kumsong may have been
a screen for the shifting of Com
munist troops, the officer said. The
8th Army estimated that 610 Reds
were killed and 527 were wounded
yesterday in the Kumsong sector
fighting.
The Reds also were reported1
building up their tank forces
around Yonchon in the west.
An Allied briefing officer said
the Chinese have moved up enough
armor and artillery to be "capable;
of launching a limited offensive"!
on the western front.
Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway
visited the front and took a look
at the Chinese through ) field
glasses. The U. N. commander
remarked he wanted “to get some
of that good front-line air."
Air observers reported intense
Red activity behind the front ap
peared to be dropping off after
Allied warplanes attacked more
than 1.300 vehicles on the high
ways last night.
Despite continuous pounding by
Allied artillery, the Communists
this morning still held two peaks
wrested from the Allies Sunday
near Yonchon.
Former Czech Attache;
Got Atom Data lor
Reds, OXonor Says
State Department Took
No Action on Charges,
Senator Discloses
By J. A. O'Leary
Chairman O'Conor of a Senate!
Internal Security subcommittee
charged last night that a former
military attache of the Czecho
slovakian Embassy here was a
“key figure in the Communist
espionage apparatus" and gath-:
ered information about atomic
energy and bacteriological war
fare.
Senator O'Conor named the at
tache as Col. Oto Biheler and said
he returned to his homeland last
February on a visa which author
ized him to go to Canada and
return.
a statement, issued Dy senator
O'Conor said that information ob
tained from intelligence agencies
discloses that one of Col. Biheler’s
assignments in this country was
"to procure information on the re
search activities in the field of
bacteriological warfare which are
being conducted at the Army cen
ter at Camp Detrick, Md.”
Described as Key Figure.
The Senator said that “as a key
figure in the Communist espionage
appartus in the United States, Col.
Biheler has been engaged in the I
procurement of information con
cerning atomic energy, the uran
ium stock of the United States and
bacteriological and chemical war
fare.”
The date made public by the
Maryland Senator shows that, be
tween his first trip to this coun
try in August, 1948, and his de
parture early this year, Col.
Biheler was given visas by the
State Department/o travel in and
out of the country.
“During the period of time that
Col. Biheler was operating in the
United States,” said Senator
O'Conor, “an official of the De
partment of Commerce, who was
concerned over Col. Biheler’s ac
tivities in exporting vital articles
to Czechoslovakia . . ., notified the
Department of State of such ac
tivities.
Derogatory Data Presented.
“On two occasions prior to the
issuance of visas to Col. Biheler
by the Department of State,
derogatory information procured
by the intelligence agencies on
Biheler was directed to the at
tention of certain officials of the
Department of State, but on
neither occasion was Col. Biheler
declared persona non grata.”
Senator O’Conor irointed out
that several of the visas were
issued to Col. Biheler after the
enactment of the Internal Secu
rity Act in September, 1950.
Chairman McCarran of the Ju
diciary- Committee and of the In
ternal Security Subcommittee,
authorized the issuance of a state
ment from his office here that
Congress has given “the Attorney
General clear authority to bar
subversives from this country or
(See SPY, Page A-3.)
Sen Mentioned for Post Here
NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 9 (JP).
—Diplomatic sources said tonight
Prime Minister Nehru has decided
to appoint B. R. Sen, now India’s
counsellor at the embassy at
Rome, as this country’s tempo
rary Ambassador to the United
States. He is a veteran civil serv
ice man and was India’s first
counsellor minister in Washington
in 1947.
Reds Believed Waiting
For New Truce Order
After Vishinsky Talk
Korean Negotiations
'Inconclusive/ Allies
Say Foe Is Stalling
•y the Associated Press
MUNSAN, Korea, Nov. 9.—
Truce negotiators canceled their
afternoon meeting today after an
‘‘inconclusive and unproductive"
morning session.
A United Nations command
communique, which described the
talks as fruitless, said negotiators
would meet tomorrow at 11 a.m.
(9 p.m. Friday EST.)
Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckols,
U. N. spokesman, said he got the
impression Communist represen
tatives might be stalling.
38th Parallel Not Mentioned.
Allied sources suggested the
Reds might be waiting for new in
structions in view of Soviet For
eign Minister Andrei Vishinsky's
proposal yesterday in Paris for a
cease-fire within 10 days. Mr.
Vishinsky suggested all troops
withdraw from the 38th Parallel
and foreign units leave Korea
within three months.
Gen. Nuckols said neither Mr.
Vishinsky nor the 38th Parallel
were mentioned during today’s
two-hour-and-45-minute meeting
in a dirty yellow tent in Panmun
jom.
Gen. Nuckols said he felt Mr.
Vishinsky’s remarks would not
‘‘tend to allay any of the fears
that have arisen” about Commu
nist intentions.
Red Position "Elusive”.
Negotiators of both sides pro
pose creating a 2 Vi mile wide
buffer zone along the present bat
tle line with certain alterations.
They differ on the alterations and
the time for drafting the buffer,
zone.
Today’s meeting was again de
voted to the Communist proposal
which the Allies "completely re
jected” yesterday.
Gen. Nuckols described the Red
position as “elusive.” He said it
was "very obvious” the Commu
nists were still demanding what
would amount to a cease-fire now
which would relieve them from
pressure to solve other armistice
problems.
Half of Childless Husbands
On Draft List Become Fathers
By George Beveridge
About half of the men listed for
deferment as childless husbands
by District draft boards last sum
mer are turning out to be either
fathers or fathers-to-be, draft offi
cials estimated today.
Frank D. Norton, the District’s
deputy draft chief, said the esti
mate is based on birth certificates
and doctors’ reports of pregnancy
which have poured into draft
headquarters since passage of the
new draft law.
Responsible for the influx, he
said, are these two Selective
Service rules:
1. Married men no longer can
get dependency deferments, under
the draft law, if they have only
a wife to support, except in cases
of extreme hardship.
2. Regulations allow husbands
to be deferred, as fathers, if—
before they are ordered to report
for induction—they submit doc
tors’ statements that their wives
are pregnant, dr if they submit
birth certificates.
Not all the birth certificates re
ceived, Mr. Norton stressed, re
present ' newly-born dependents.
In some instances, he said, they
show laxity on the part of fathers
in reporting parenthood to draft!
boards. Until the new draft law
passed, it didn’t make much dif
ference, since marriage was suf
ficient for a dependency defer
ment.
Congress’ main purpose in
wiping out deferment for child
less husbands was to make more
men beEween the ages of 18 Vi and
26 liable for induction, in order
to fill the increased draft calls ex
pected next year.
But, if-the experience of Dis
trict draft boards stands up as a
criterion, the draft “take” of child
less husbands will be a small one.
After passage of the draft law
last June 29, an officials’ check
(See DRAFT, Page A-5.)
U. S. Challenges
Russia to Start
Arms Talk Now
Yugoslavia Files
Complaint in U. N.
Against Soviet
By th« Associated Press
PARIS, Nov. 9.—The United
States called on Russia today to
start immediate talks in the
United Nations on disarmament
instead of waiting until some time
before June of next year.
United States Ambassador Philip
C. Jessup threw out the challenge
at a specially called news confer
ence where he also charged the
Russians with trying to bypass the
U. N. in asking for a world-wide
meeting on arms reduction.
The U. N. Assembly itself re
ceived a formal complaint from
Yugoslavia that Russia and her
satellites are trying to drive their
peoples to the point of making
war on Marshal Tito's lone wolf
Communist state.
Yugoslavia has made many
charges against Russia and the
other Communist nations since
Tito split with the Cominform in
1948, but this was the first formal
complaint of that nature filed with
the U. N.
Aggresive Pressure Charged
The Yugoslav complaint said
Russia and her satellites have
been exercising aggressive pres
sure against Tito with the aim of
threatening Yugoslavia's territor
ial integrity and national inde
pendence.
Russia's proposal for a world
arms conference before June. 1952.
was in reply to the United States
plan for progressive reduction in
both conventional and atomic
weapons after an accurate arms
census.
Dr. Jessup told newsmen the
United States, with the support of
Britain and France, would push
for quick U. N. action on arms re
duction despite the Soviet refusal
to accept the Western plan, which
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Y.
Vishinsky said yesterday made him
laugh. The Western plan was
presented by United States Secre
tary of State Dean Acheson.
The tough talk between Russia
and the United States spurred the
smaller powers to plead for
greater collective security against
the possibility of another Korea.
Barks Any U. S. Peace Plan.
Representatives of Cuba. Hon-!
duras and New Zealand were:
among those who spoke to the As
sembly today.
Dr. Tiburcio Carias of Honduras
said his country supports any plan
designed to help the U. N. main
tain peace.
F. W. Doidge of New Zealand
urged increased measures of col
lective security to give the free
world strength to repel any future
aggressions such as occurred in
Korea.
In his policy speech he called
on all U. N. members to “pull their
weight in deeds as well as words”
for an effective system of world
wide collective security.
Cuba’s chief delegate. Dr. Aure-*
liano Sanchez Arango, said his
government supported all meas
(See U. N., Page A-4.)
Japanese Freighter
Flashes Distress Call
By th« Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 9 —The
Japanese freighter Kinugasa
Maru, with 42 men aboard, was
reported in distress in the North
Pacific today.
The 3CA radiomarine station
at Point Reyes, -Calif., said it
picked up an SOS from the 4,971
ton vessel saying she was in need
of immediate rescue.
The Kinugasa was reported
laden with iron ore.
Economy Pinch Forces Allies
To Scale Down Defense Plans
Fewer Divisions,
Cut in Spending
Seen for Europe
By Edward E. Bomar
Anociated Prt$» Staff Writ«r
Administration officials said to
day the North Atlantic Treaty Or
ganization most likely will be called
on to scale down its Western
European defense plan along lines
recommended here this week by
Gen. Eisenhower.
Because of the financial diffi
culties of Britain and other Allies,
these officials said, it is almost
certain that a 12-nation "Wise
Men" group will propose the down
ward revision during the NATO
council meeting opening Novem
ber 24 at Rome.
The committee, headed by Am
_(See NATO. Page A-4.)
Britain Reported
Drafting Plea for
More U. S. Dollars
By the Associated Pre»»
PARIS, Nov. 9.—Britain most
likely will ask for new United
States dollar aid to help pay her
$13 billion share in rearming for
Western defense, an authoritative
source disclosed here today.
Sir Edwin Plowden. British rep
resentative on a special North At
lantic Treaty Organization com
mittee meeting here, is expected
to make a formal request for the
aid sometime next week, a highly
placed British informant said.
There have been reports re
cently that Britain might request
new United States aid to help her
financial position, made increas
I (See BRITAIN, Page A-4>
CIO Official Asserts
Labor Can't Accept
Eisenhower Record
Mazey Cheered as He
Voices Opposition to
General's Candidacy
By James Y. Newton
Stor Stoff Correspondent
NEW YORK. Nov. 9.—A high
official of the CIO said today that
Gen. Eisenhower would not be an
acceptable candidate for Presi
dent so far as organized labor is
concerned.
Emil Mazey, secretary-treasurer
of the United Auto Workers, told
the CIO convention:
“I have carefully examined the
record of Gen. Eisenhower and I
Two Democrotic Visits to Otter Eisen
hower Aid of Trumon Reported.
Page A-4.
want to say that I find nothing in
his record which would indicate
that he is an acceptable candidate
for President as far as organized
labor is concerned.”
Convention delegates cheered as
Mr. Mazey continued:
“Gen. Eisenhow-er is a good gen
eral. but I firmly believe that no
man who reaches the position of
a general, who has spent his en
tire life in the environment of
the caste system and dictatorship
of the Army has the proper basic
training to be President of the
United States . .
Hits Pension Views.
Mr. Mazey said Gen. Eisenhower
had made one pronouncement on
domestic problems and in it he
“pooh-poohed the idea of the im
portance of social security and the
necessity of pensions, and he
thought that we were pampering
people by trying to provide for
them when they reach the age
where they were too old to work
and too young to die.”
The convention gave Philip
Murray a 20-minute ovation and
then elected him to his 12th term
as president of the CIO.
All other incumbent officers
were re-elected. They are:
Secretary - Treasurer James B.
( (See CIO, Page A-6.)
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Red's Korea Casualties
Estimated at 1,442,844.
The Army estimated today total
enemy casualties in Korea through
October 31 at 1,442,844, an in
crease of 12,163 in a seven-day
period. The over-all total includ
ed 168,418 enemy prisoners of war.
This was 72 more than were re
ported on October 24.
Battle casualties for both North
Korean and Chinese Communist
Forces were estimated at 1,042,109.
Non-battle losses were estimated
at 232,317.
Announced United States battle
casualties through November 2
totaled 97,514. American figures
released weekly do not Include
non-battle casualties.
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Communities Step Up
Chest Campaign Pace
In Suburban Areas
Montgomery Reaches
62 Per Cent of Quota;
Others Report Today
BULLETIN
The Community Chest drive
topped the two-thirds mark to
day w’ith new pledges of $306.
0C0. New total is $2,759,981, or
68 per cent of the goal.
Washington’s suburban com
munities are stepping up their pace
in the Community Chest drive.
Montgomery County reached 62
per cent of quota yesterday. Good
reports from Alexandria and the
other three counties were expected
today at a general report luncheon
at the Washington Hotel.
The area-wide campaign hit 60
per cent Wednesday with pledges
totaling $2,453,981. The goal is
$4,050,000.
Special Montgomery Report.
Montgomery County campaign
ers held a special report meeting
yesterday and added more than
$25,000 pledged in the last week.
The county’s new total is just un
der $70,000, and leaders hoped to
have more by today.
Arlington, Alexandria and Prince
Georges County all expected to
pass the half-way mark today.
Fairfax also planned to report a
substantial jump, from 15 per cent
to about 40 per cent of its quota.
Arlington's drive has been handi
capped by election activities, but
now that these are over, leaders
expect it to roll faster.
Alexandria Out for Mark.
Alexandria has a good history
to match—two years ago it topped
its quota. Leaders would like to
do it again.
Prince Georges, at 25 per cent
last week, gradually is picking up,
and results so far are better than
last year at the comparable stage.
November 15 is the drive’s of
ficial target date, but it is expected
to run somewhat longer.
High Commissioners Ask
Advice on Bonn Parleys
By the Associated Pres*
BONN, Germany, Nov. 9.—The
three Western high commissioners
asked their governments today for
advice on snags they’ve struck in
dickering with Chancellor Konrad
Adenauer for a German peace
contract.
It was the first time in seven
weeks of negotiations, the com
missioners said, they have had to
refer to their governments.
The announcement said the
commissioners and Adenauer had
“carried forward” work on a pro
posed general agreement and sup
plementary conventions govern
future relations between the West
German republic and the three
Allies—Britain, France and the
United States.”
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Heir to Realty Wealth
Kills Self With Rifle
In Maryland Home
Benson Robert Low, 15,
Found Dead by Mother,
Recently Remarried
Benson Robert Low, 15, who
shared in his father’s $800,000 es
tate, shot and killed himself last
night in the home into which his
family had moved only yesterday.
The boy’s body, with a bullet
wound in the chest, was found
shortly before 8 p.m. by his
mother, Mrs. Ethel K. Lesser, in
his second-floor bedroom at 204
Dorset avenue. Somerset, Md. A
22-caliber rifle was on the bed.
In his pocket was a card on
which was written. “I can't stand
her any longer.”
Dr. F. J. Broschart. Montgom
ery County medical examiner, is
sued a certificate of suicide.
Legacy Left In Trust.
Young Low waa an upper-class
student at the Landon School for
Boys. Bethesda. His father, Jos
eph Low, was an attorney and sec
retary-treasurer of Baskin & Co.,
real estate firm, at the time of
his death in January. 1948.
Half of the father’s estate was
left to his wife and the rest in
trust for his son and an older
daughter. Marjorie Ann.
Mrs. Lesser was married to Mar
tin Lesser about two weeks ago.
At that time the family lived in
the 6600 block of Sixteenth street
N.W.
Montgomery County police said
Mrs. Lesser told them she went to
the boy’s bedroom after receiving
no answer when she called him.
She found the door locked.
When she opened it with a key.
she told police, she found the body
lying face down on the floor at the
foot of the bed.
Hound Covered by Jacket.
Since there was no telephone in
the home, Mrs. Lesser ran next
door and called the Bethesda
Chevy Chase rescue squad.
The boy was fully clothed and
his jacket covered the small wound
made by the bullet.
Unaware that he had shot him
self, squad members began admin
istering oxygen in an attempt to
revive the boy.
When police arrived they ex
amined the rifle and saw that it
had been fired. The boy's chest
was bared and the wound dis
covered.
Police said the bullet passed
through the boy's left chest and
imbedded itself in a wall.
Funeral services were to be held
today at the Goldberg funeral
home, 4217 Ninth street N.W.
Burial was to be beside hip father’s
grave in Bnai Israel Cemetery,
Oxon Hill, Md.
16 Hurt in Disorders
At Buenos Aires Rally
By th« Associated Press
BUENOS AIRES, Argentine,
Nov. 9.—Six persons were wound
ed by gunfire and about 10 more
were injured last night when
shooting broke out at a huge op
position Radical Party rally in
Buenos Aires.
The rally w'as attended by an
estimated 90.000 persons.
Ricardo Balbin and Arturo
Frondizi, Radical candidates for
the presidency and vice presi
dency in Sunday’s election, were
among the speakers. Neither was
hurt.
Police reportedly made about 20
arrests.
The fact that Gen. Arturo Raw
son, a former President of Ar
gentina, is being held in a peni
tentiary was disclosed yesterday
when a habeas corpus action for
his release was rejected. It also
was disclosed that Guillermo
Gainza Paz, a cousin of Dr. Al
berto Gainza Paz, former pub
lisher of La Prensa. has been
under arrest since the abortive
revolt of September 28 against
the regime of President Juan
Peron. ,
Dockers Return
To N. Y; Piers
Under'Truce'
Rebel Longshoremen
Agree to Work While
Mediation Proceeds
By th# Associated Press
NEW YORK, Nov. 9.—Striking
longshoremen flocked back to
freight-jammed piers today after
their leaders agreed to end the
port's billion-dollar, 25-day wild
cat walkout.
Along the miles of waterfront
from Hoboken and Jersey City, N.
J., to the far reaches of Brooklyn,
thousands streamed to work be
fore the 1 p.m. deadline set by
their leaders.
There were jobs aplenty for all
at the long-idle piers. In Hoboken,
police were helping round up extra
men.
The rebel union faction, which
steamrollered the strike into New
York's longest port tieup, yielded
to a New York fact-finding board
in the pre-dawn hours to end the
strike.
Dispute Still to Be Aired.
No mention was made concern
ing settlement of intra-union dif
ferences. The dispute—principally
| over wage scales in a new con
tract and legality of the contract
itself—still must be aired by the
board.
The strike was the costliest in
the history of the world’s biggest
port, with piers sprawled along
both New York and New Jersey,
i At the peak of the walkout, 114
I ships were tied up.
1 New York State Industrial
Commissioner Edward Corsi, who
.appointed the three-man inquiry
panel, announced shortly before
2 a.m. that the ports of New York
and Boston would be open at 1
p.m. today.
Boston was the only other port
completely shut down by th/s
strike, with other East Coast ports
being affected from time to time.
Four-Hour Closed Meeting.
In New York, an increasing
number of dockers had been re
turning to work on non-military
ships in recent days.
| Mr. Corsi’s announcement fol
lowed a four-hour closed meet
ing between representatives of
rebel longshoremen and the panel.
All the stevedores are members
of the AFL International Long
shoremen's Association, whose At
lantic Coast district represents
’65,000 dock workers from Maine
to Virginia.
More than 20.000 union docker*
were affected by the minority
walkout, which began over ratifi
cation October 12 of a new ILA
contract with East Coast shipping
and stevedoring companies. The
dissident group, led by John
(Gene) Sampson, went out three
days later.
Pickets, aided by motorcades of
jstrikers, barred entrance to the
docks by non-striking Ua mem
bers. In many instances, fists and
rocks flew during the dispute, but
no serious incidents occurred. In
some instances, workers went to
and from the docks aided by polica
details.
| Concessions Cnmentioned.
1 In announcing the back-to-work
move, Mr. Corsi made no mention
of concessions, if any, coming
from either side. He said the
inquiry board would continue its
public hearings on the dispute.
The board urged “that there be
no discrimination in hiring or
re-hiring” and added:
“The Strike Committee lent it*
co-operation to Board of Inquiry
in full recognition of the necessity
of protecting the port of New York
'and of the public interest.”
Joseph P. Ryan, head of the
ILA. said he was “very happy”
that the walkout was over and
there would “of course” be no dis
crimination against strikers in the
shape-up hiring system.
Mr. Sampson, who was present
at the board meeting, said the
settlement means “approximately
25.000 men will be going back to
work.”
The strike brewed after Mr.
Ryan announced ILA acceptance
of a new contract with the New
York Shipping Association. Mr.
Ryan said the stevedore balloting
among the 65,000 men showed a
2-to-l majority in favor of con
tract acceptance.
The Sampson group contends
that the vote was a fraud, and
that ILA voting machinery is out
moded. It demands scrapping of
the pact and re-negotiation of
wage and other issues.
The agreement gave the dockers
a $2.10 hourly wage, a 10-cent
boost over previous wages. The
strikers wanted a 25-cent-an-hour
pay hike.
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