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111th Year.
Rights Marchers Top 175,000
Rail Strike Threat
Fades, House Set
To OK Senate Bill
Arbitration Law Seen Signed
By President Before Deadline
By LEE M. COHN
Star Staff Writer
The threat of a Nation-wide railroad strike faded almost
- to the vanishing point today.
Congressional leaders anticipated no serious trouble in
completing action on anti-strike legislation before the dead
line for a rail shutdown one minute after midnight tonight.
The House was scheduled to pass the emergency bill this
afternoon, sending it to the
White House for President
Kennedy’s signature hours be
fore the time set for the strike.
Senate passage of the bill
last night, clearing the way for
House action, was achieved
with unexpected ease. Senator
Morse, Democrat of Oregon,
decided against trying to delay
action on the legislation.
If the anti-strike bill be
comes law today as expected,
'Unacceptable' Beats 'Unthinkable'
in Senate Vote. Page A-2
it will eliminate the possibility
that a rail shutdown would
strand homeward bound civil
rights demonstrators after the
march on Washington.
Sets up Board
The bill would prevent a I
strike for at least six months. .
It would prohibit the railroads
from putting job-cutting work
ruled into effect unilaterally at 1
12:01 a.m. tomorrow, and forbid I’
the unions to strike over work |
rules.
The legislation would estab- i
lish a seven-member arbitra
tion board to make binding de
cisions within 90 days on the
two key issues in the four-year '
dispute over work rules. These '
issues involve management de
mands for authority to remove
firemen from freight and yard
diesel engines and to reduce
the size of train crews.
Rulings by the arbitration
board would take effect 60 days
after the decisions were filed, ,
or 150 days after enactment of
the legislation. They would re
main in force up to two years,
unless superceded or extended
by voluntary agreements be
tween the unions and railroads . I i
Passed, 90 to 2
Subsidiary issues were to be i
left to collective bargaining.
Failure to settle them could
precipitate another strike crisis I
when the legislation expires
next March. ' i
The Senate passed the bill 1
last night, 90 to 2, with Sena
tor Morse and Senator Tower. '
Republican of Texas, opposing 1
it. '
On the key vote earlier yes- 1
terday, the Senate amended the 1
committee bill to eliminate pro
visions for binding arbitration
of subsidiary issues.
These issues involve such '
questions as wage structure,
jurisdictional lines between 1
road and yard crews, extension 1
of train runs beyond division 1
boundaries and operation of
selfpropelled equipment. 1
Hie vote for this amendment
was 75 to 17. The amendment J
brought the Senate bill close to
conformity with the bill pend
ing before the House. I
Senate leaders supported 1
the amendment to facilitate
fast House action and to meet '
See RAILS, Page A-2
President Kennedy's intima
tion of the shape of the 1964
presidential campaign "con
tains strong overtones of
McCarthyism in reverse."
Columnist Richard Wilson
speaks out against "label
pinning exercises" involving
the for right issue.
Page A-19
Full Page of Pictures on Rights March—Page A-7
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9 Utah Miners
Believed Alive
Blast Traps 25 Men
Near Moab, Utah
BULLETIN
MOAB, Utah (AP).—Voice
contact was established to
day with nine of 25 miners
trapped more than 2,700 feet
i below the ground in a
■ phosphate mine.
MOAB, Utah, Aug. 28 (AP).
—Rescuers ran into deadly
carbon monoxide gas today in
the depths of a potash mine in
'which 25 men were entombed
iby an explosion.
Presence of the gas further
dimmed already slim hopes that
| the men would be found alive.
State Mine Inspector Steve
Hatsis said the gas was dis
covered at the bottom of the
'2,712-foot shaft, one of the
largest and deepest in North
America.
The missing men are scat
tered out somewhere beyond
and below that level in one of
two lateral tunnels extending
from the base of the main
shaft.
Old Tubing Destroyed
Before rescuers can go far
ther, Mr. Hatsis said, they
must establish a new air supply
iin the main shaft, which goes
straight down the distance of
nearly 10 football fields.
He said this would involve
installing new tubing in the
bottom of the shaft and pump
ing in fresh air. The old tub
ing was destroyed by the ex
plosion.
The men were entombed in
the mine near this Southeast
ern Utah community when an
explosion of undetermined ori
gin ripped through the shaft
at 4:50 p.m. yesterday.
No Contact Established
They apparently were caught
without warning.
Frank Tipple, head of the
Potash Division of Texas Gulf
Sulphur Co., operator of the
mine, said the rescue teams had
not established contact with
the trapped men.
Asked if there was any
chance they were alive, Mr.
Tippie said:
“I wouldn’t even attempt a
guess. I think there’s a
chance."
He said the men had been
using dynamite.
Rescuers wearing oxygen
See EXPLOSION, Page A-2
MINER TELLS HIS STORY
'I Got Mad... Must've Been Off My Rocker a Little'
By HENRY THRONE
As Told to the Associated Press
HAZELTON. Pa.. Aug. 28.
—There were times when we
saw people that weren’t there
and lights that weren't there
and doors that weren’t there.
Imagine seeing a door like
a regular house door down
in the bottom of a mine.
There was a time we heard
rain and it really was rain
coming down the drainage
pipes and, we thought the
water would back up and
flood the mine and drown us.
And while it was raining.
I yelled at Davey. "Davey,
I'm going home. I’m going
alone if you don’t want to
come.”
But, of course. I wasn't
going knywhere. Not then.
We were still more than 300
feet down. We still had a
week to go before we could
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Thousands hoist their signs as the civil rights march gets under way near the Washington Monument.—Star Staff Photo.
SURGE PAST LEADERS
Eager, Orderly Marchers Join Demonstration
Throng Gets
Quick Start
A chanting, singing crowd of
more than 175,000 civil rights
demonstrators, today marched
from the Washington Monu
ment to the Lincoln Memorial.
The throng, described as pre
dominantely Negro, surged en
thusiatically up Constitution
avenue waving thousands of
placards proclaiming their aims.
There was no disturbance
under the watchful eyes of
police and the demonstrators’
own monitors but some con
fusion arose when the marchers
got ahead of the leaders at the
outset of the walk.
The marchers surged ahead
nearly half an hour before the
scheduled 11:30 a.m. departure
from the Monument grounds.
The premature beginning
caught such leaders of the dem
onstration as A. Philip Ran
dolph, Walter Reuther and Roy
Wilkins by surprise.
The leaders had just arrived
at the Constitution avenue
starting point from their visit
to Capitol Hill when the crowd
began streaming toward the Re
flecting Pool and the Lincoln
Memorial. Even the color guards
and the fife-and-drummer
corps were left behind and had
difficulty getting into the line
of march.
After a few minutes, the
mass of demonstrators recog
nized their leaders and slowed
long enough for the key figures
of the March for Jobs and
Freedom to take their place at
the head of the crowd. Mr.
Randolph and his companions
See CROWD, Page A-6
stand and walk again, not
just sit and crawl, before we
could breathe clear air again
and see real light again.
But maybe I better start
at the beginning. That’s the
only way I can get it clear
in my own mind. So much
got so mixed up later we
couldn't tell day from the
night or Monday from Sun
day.
That first day, that Tues
day. August 13, I went to
work about 7:15 in the morn
ing. It was a nice sunny day.
I had no special thoughts,
no hunches about something
bad. It was just an ordinary
working day.
We that’s David Fellln.
Louis Bova and me—we got
down in the hole about 7:30
and by 8 we had filled the
first buggy (a small wagon
carrying coal to the surface).
We were on the bottom of
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the mine, in a tunnel, where
the sump water collects.
Davey and me were on the
right side of the shaft and
Louis was on the left, sepa
rated by the buggy tracks
Louis rapped three times
for the buggy to go up and
it went up and dumped the
coal. Coming down, it got
only half way down. That’s
when the big rumble started.
And all hell broke loose. The
timbers on the wall next to
us caved in and the timbers
on the ceiling above us came
down. We just managed to
step aside in time as the big
chunks of wood and coal and
stone fell wildly around us.
We could see Louis on the
other side until the power
line to our work lights broke.
For the next couple of hours
we could see a little around
us with the lights on our
helmets. But then they
President
Comments
By the Associated Press
Negro gains of 1963 will never
be reversed, President Ken
nedy said today as thousands
marched here in an unprece
dented civil rights demonstra
tion.
In a statement calling for
ever greater efforts to achieve
equal rights for all citizens,
Mr. Kennedy said:
“These recent months. 100
years after the Emancipation
Ttxt of Statement, Page A-5
Proclamation, have seen the
decisive recognition by a major
part of our society that all our
citizens are entitled to a full
membership in the national
community. The gains of 1963
will never be reversed.’’
Recent developments, the
President said, “lay a solid
foundation for the progress we
must continue to make in the
months and years to come."
Mr. Kennedy and his brother,
Attorney General Robert F.
Kennedy, will meet late today
with leaders of the organiza
tions sponsoring the march.
Vice President Lyndon B. John
son will also attend the White
House meeting.
Outwardly, neither the Chief
Executive nor the Attorney Gen
eral showed any particular con
cern about the demonstration,
which President Kennedy has
indorsed. Privately, however,
both have been very much in
volved in advance planning
aimed at insuring an orderly,
nonviolent assembly.
Early Monday evening, for
See KENNEDY, Page A-8
Henry Throne, one of two minert
trapped underground for 14 days,
relotet hie own itory in this e«-
cluiive interview.
burned out. Our matches
wouldn't burn down there.
And that was the end of light
for the next 5 ’a days.
In that first hour and a
half, we just sat there against
the wall while the debris
piled higher before us in the
tunnel. The rumbling from
the cave-ln lasted that long.
There were others later.
I hollered for Louis but
there was no answer. After a
while we started crawling
over the debris. All our tools
—the picks, the bars, the
shovels and our lunch pails
—were lost under the pile
except for a mason hammer
and a hatchet The mason
hammer broke soon after-
Workers
Stay Home
A strange Sunday calm pre
vailed in downtown Washing
ton today as about half of
the downtown area’s Govern
ment workers stayed away
from work.
Commuter buses plied their
regular routes nearly empty,
and the number of cars moving
through the downtown streets
was only one-half or one-third
of a normal business day’s
traffic.
Whether they were staying
home to avoid the traffic jams
expected later in the day. or
were planning to come down
town in mid-morning to join
the civil rights demonstration,
the effect of the mass absence
of workers was to make driving
in the city a pleasure, and
breakfast in drugstores and
cafeterias a qUiet, leisurely
affair.
The eery, ghost-town quality
of the downtown section away
from the march area was per
haps most noticeable during the
morning “rush" period, but
even later the scene was rela
tively lifeless. Whole blocks in
the financial and shopping
streets, normally teeming with
vehicles and pedestrians, were
virtually deserted.
The extremely light traffic
was noticeable everywhere—on
the bridges from Virginia,
along Maine avenue and the
approaches from the South
west and Southeast, in George
town and on Rock Creek Park
way, the normally frenzied
speedway from the Northwest.
At 8 o'clock a lunch counter
a block from the White House
See DISTRICT, Page A-8
ward. AU we had was a
hatchet to cut our way over
the junk.
Oh, yes. we also had a
plastic jug which we filled
with the sulphur water that
dripped into the tunnel.
We started crawling around
in the dark looking for away
out. We went this way and
we went that way and some
times we thought we were
back where we started and
most times we just didn’t
know.
We were lost. But we kept
crawling around like that tor
almost six days looking for a
way out.
There was no question
about standing up then. The
most room we had between
the top of the debris and the
celling of the tunnel was
4 feet. Many times it was
less. Always, sleeping, crawl
ing or sitting, it was on
sharp chunks of rock and
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Leaders Go
To Capitol
Thirteen organizers of the
civil rights march sought as
surances from Senate and
House leaders this morning that
legislation enforcing equallity
would clear Congress in 1963.
They were told chances for
a House bill are good but that
they should not expect action
until October.
The Senate will have its own
bill opening public facilities to
all races ready as a “vehicle"
for the broader House measure.
This was the legislative
strategy explained in a series
of three, separate meetings.
First Senate Majority Leader
Mansfield of Montana received
the group at 8:50 a.m.
At 9:31 a m.. A Philip Ran
dolph, president of the Ameri
can Labor Council, and Roy
Wilkins, executive secretary of
the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People led the delegation into
a conference with Senator Dirk
sen of Illinois and Representa
tive Halleck of Indiana, Re
publican leaders of the Senate
and House.
Spokesmen for the demon
stration. at 10:10 am., were
conferring with House Speaker
McCormack of Massachusetts.
Mr. Randolph, leader of the
march, who is 74, has been
setting a grueling pace for
the past several days, making
speeches across the country and
handling final preparations for
today’s demonstration. Mr.
Randolph was visibly tired dur
ing the rush to meet with con
gressional leaders today His
aides were escorting him on
See CAPITOL, Page A-6
coal. We got cut up a lot on i
our hands and knees and
elbows.
To keep warm. I'd sit with
my legs spread and Davey ,
would sit between my legs
with his back to me and I'd I
breathe on his back and
neck. All the time we’re rock- i
ing back and forth, also to
keep warm. Then Davey L
would switch and do the same
for me. Most times it felt I
like about 30 degrees above
zero
I’d sleep. I'd wake up. And
I’d see all kinds of lights
and the actual figures of
people. They now tell me
these were hallucinations but
the crazy thing is that Davey
would see these things the
same time I did. r
The lights and the ‘figures
always were in front of us '
but the more we crawled
toward them the further away
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Giant Appeal
Is Made Under
Lincoln's Eyes
Throngs Come
From All Parts
Os the Nation
A hundred years of history
caught up with the Nation to
day.
In the brooding shadow of
Abraham Lincoln, who signed
his Emancipation Proclamation
a century ago, men and women
from many parts of the country
gathered for the greatest dem
onstration m the city’s history,
dedicated to the proposition
that all Americans share equal
rights and equal opportunities.
The march, itself, actually
began about half an hour ahead
of time as the crowd, in a
happy, holiday mood, moved
off from the Monument
Grounds toward the Lincoln
Memorial without waiting for
those who were supposed to
lead them.
Police estimated the crowd
at between 175.000 and 200.000.
March officials and newsmen
pitched in to hold back the
crowd so that A. Philip Ran
dolph, the leader of the march,
and others in his group, could
get to the head of the surging
column.
Lasts More Than Hoar
Even the color guards and
the drum and fife corps, had
difficulty getting into the line
of march.
As the crowd moved down
Constitution avenue, with oc
casional bursts of singing and
chanting "Freedom, Freedom,
Freedom," it looked like a sea
of signs, framed by the trees
on each side of the avenue.
Strolling, rather than march
ing, the demonstrators filled
the avenue for more than an
hour.
The early start of the march
caused a problem at the Me
morial when cars carrying
members of Congress and other
dignitaries were blocked by the
crowd. A large bloc of reserved
seats was kept empty, but the
section was finally opened to
the public on a first-come, first
served basis. It was thus im
possible to see which Congress
men were there and which were
absent.
Hundreds Dip Feet
As the two-hour program of
speeches, prayers and music
began, the area in front of the
Memorial and around the Re
flection Pool was carpeted with
a mass of humanity. Some
marchers crowded back under
the trees, others sat on the
grass in the sun and hundreds
dipped their feet in the Re
flecting Pool.
In some areas, the marchers
were packed so tightly that a
slight breeze gave them no
relief from the heat and many
fainted.
This morning the leaders of
See MARCH. Page A-8
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ON PENNSY GOOD
FOR LATER RUNS
Pennsylvania Railroad of
ficials said today that any
passengers with tickets on
special trains will be able
to ride other Pennsylvania
Railroad trains if they miss
their earlier-scheduled run
back to their home des
tination.
The 20 special trains are
scheduled to leave from
Union Station between 5
and 10 p.m.
The heavy traffic will be
between Washington and
New York City, and if pas
sengers miss the complete
schedule of special trains,
they can ride on any of the
regularly scheduled trains
tonight.
Pennsylvania o f f i c 1 a 1 s
warned that passengers on
the late trains tonight will
have to take "pot luck,"
meaning that a lot of them
would have to stand.
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