Sherbrooke daily record, 7 novembre 1947, vendredi 7 novembre 1947

[" THE PAPER OF THE EASTERS\u2019 TOW\\S HI PS WEATHER OVIUCAST.SHOWERS Cirir (HU «Mntumn »uj tonight.S«U)rtt«y, ovvrCMt wuh tcRticnni *ho»«\u2018» ttht'ut boob.CW\u2019aunti S»' ur.tajr «vrntnii, Oonunati! milti, fonttiroi y«P) \u2014 Howard Hughes arrived here early today after a 12-hour flight from the West Coast to attend a second round of Senate hearings on his wartime airplane contracts.Hughes could not tell when he might appear before the committee or what he might say.but he would wait until he is asked to testify before replying to an assertion of Senator John Williams (Rep.-Del.) that the Hughes companies owe the government almost $6,000,000 in taxes.* * * Vancouver.Nov.7 \u2014 (CP) \u2014 Decision of 2.800 tram and bus operators on a return-to-work proposal may be known late today or early Saturday, according to Union officials.The operators have been on strike since October 20 in Vancouver, Victoria and New Westminster, demanding a 20-cent-an-hour pay boost, and an immediate 40-hour week.The men vote today on a new proposal, reported to call for a 10-cent-an-hour pay boost, and a 40-hour week when sufficient crews are trained for all shifts.Voting hours are from 8 a.m.to 6 p.m., and all ballots will be counted at union headquarters here.Ballof boxes from the Victoria local will be flown to Vancouver.If a favorable vote is received, normal transportation services may start Sunday or early Monday.h\t.i Union Spokesman Believes Agreement Announcement To Be Issued Later Today Wedding Lifts For A Future Queen r Argument At Meat Probe Nears Close Compromise on a Number of Basic Points Reported as Result of Meeting of Company and Union Officials With Quebec Labor Minister.r\t-:>***\u2022 b -'It «A A spokesman for the Canadian and Catholic Confederation of Textile Workers announced in Quebec City last night that a settlement of the current strike in four Quebec textile plants will Adoption of Rand Formula bc announced in Montreal today.May Meet Union Demands However, following sessions today in the office of pro-fOT Maintenance of Mem*i v'ncial Labor Minister Antonio Barrette, it was reliably learned bership Clause in Con- ,bat some progress\u2019\u2019 has been made, but that the Dominion tracts.\t^ extile Company and the syndicate are \"far apart\" on many points.1 he strikers, members of the National Catholic I extile Syndicate, affiliated with the Confederation, walked out on i'JM I » LU.I eagle plktr, abme.is om* vf a ffor.en Waugh ik'Mgmil «in*-' plr.tr».etched with Am.nibnn bird motif», prcM'ivtcd by l \u2022 8, Vnil'ii' \u2022 ador Dougiu».' U.S.Seeking To Balance Soviet Talk Intensification of \u201cTruth Campaign'\u2019 Proposed to Offset Effects of Repeated Russian Charges.+ The dispute arose over tc m.s of I a collective agreement recominenri- W aching ton, Nov, Stung by the vigor (JP) Russia\u2019s Toronto, Nov.7.\u2014 O\u2019\u2014Argument , was expected to be completed to-| day, third day of hearings before | C.P.M'cTague, arbitrator in the .\t.\t_ ! dispute between the United Pack-1 Monday morning in plants at Nherbrooke, Magog, Drummond- | itighouse Workers of America | viHe and St.Grégoire de Montmorency.1 (C.I.O.) and two of the three big1 Canadian packinghouse chains\u2014 Canada Packers Ltd., and Burns and Company.A separate and final agreement had been reached between the union and the Swift Canadian Company at the close of the recent six'-weeks' strike of packinghouse workers.The union struck for a wage increase of 17^2 cents an hour, among other issues, and Canada Packers and Burns had granted seven cents increase.It is the difference between seven cents and 17Vi cents, among other things, that is being arbitrated, Mr.McTague\u2019s arbitration deci-1 sion will be binding on both parties.He has received submissions on wages and union seçurity for the past three days.There was a hint in yesterday\u2019s hearing that the formula invoked by Mr.Justice Rand in the Ford strike at Windsor in 1945 might be a factor in the arbitrator\u2019s report.The Rand formula provides production employees must ion dues, but that they do not necessarily have t® join the union.In the present hearings the U.P.W.A.seeks a \u201cunion shop.\u201d The company asks for deletion of a clause requiring \u201cmaintenance of membership.\u201d Pat Conroy, secretary-treasurer of the Canadian Congress of Labor, and Fred Dowling, Canadian director of the U.P.W.A., yesterday argued that if the companies expect the union to assume responsibility for all those under it.jurisdiction,' the union must have the power to command that responsibility.And the union leaders added that all members of the bargaining unit should be compelled to pay for the benefits the \u2022 obtain from the efforts of the union.It was at this point that Mr.Jus- pwi ; ed by a Provincial arbitration j board on October 15.The spokesman for the Con-l federation in Quebec said an agreement had been reached on at least one point today in Montreal.He added that the classification of jobs, I a main point in the dispute over, | which 6,800 workers struck, had 1 beer, retained \u201cin its mndamental principles\u201d as set out in a provincial arbitration decision maoe last j October.Meanwhile, reports from Magog and Drummondville say all is continuing quiet.The picket line-aze token ones and no inckiint.propaganda barrage, high govern- \u2019aZe \u201el\u2019eT rej30rte^\u2019 .ment officials here were reported ' .Gordon, president of th; today to be considering an inten- dtonnmon Textile Company, ha L (lift of the I'rc idem and Mrs.Truman i- tfis hand some Steuben glass-covered bowl, designed by Sidney Waugh, American sculptor.Entirely hand-blown, of lead crystal, the 10-inrh high bowl bears copper-wheel engraving showing five sets rf merry-go-round figures and riders.A New York firm made up Ib'r set of half a dolen \"glamor\" gniln , » pair for es h outfit in 1\u2019riiu'i ¦-Elixabf b\u2019s trour cau.Cover girl Clu.Helly, who models them, holds in her hni d the wedding garter, designed as the traditional \u201cMmielhing blue\" fm the firidc.Kranve'* gift 1» a specially designed, lit piece dinner service of Sevres porcelain.Above, a worker applies dc ign .if délicat» gold tracery, inlerspei sod with th< royal \"K\" and coronet on the lavender blue background, photo b,\\ Rene Henry, NUA Acme staff corn\" pondent.Russian Powers Army Minister Planning New Charges Western Imperialistic War \u2018truth cam- .sified United States puign\u201d abroad.At the came time it was learned i ie,g;EIri'\"g j issued a statement saying \"A dc jgree of confusion appears to exis.the particular is uo i furt°al 1 that the State Department is plan-! \"i*\"1'1 t'10 1 atll0''c Syndicate,, and nav unJ r,ing to ask Congic.se, possibly dur-ll'he company have been trying U, t\tling the approaching special ses- ! w'0,'k out under the chai.man hip \u2019 j sion, for an additional $1,500,000 °t.the Honorable Mr.Barrette, \u2019 for its \u201cVoice of America\u201d and Minister of Labor, during the pas, ! other foreign information pro- few days.grams.\t| \u201cIt has been stated, for ex \u2022 These disclosures came on the ample, that the syndicates are op heels of Foreign Minister Molo-1\tto any changes in method tov\u2019s declaration yesterday that|cf production by the company the secret of the atom bomb \u201chas which would result in a reducti ui long ceased to exist.\u201d\tjof the.wage increase of 15 cents But it was other passages in llcr hour recently^ granted, while Molotov\u2019s Red revolution anniver-, ^he company is said to have taken sary speech greatest resentment cials here.World Food Situation Is Still Bleak Deficit of 9,000.000 Metric Tons in Overall Wheat Production Compared With World Demand Reported.Ottawa, Nov.7.\t(P>\u2014The world wheat situation is still bleak, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics rc-which stirred the'fhe stand that nothing must inter- ports in its monthly review of among off]- ! fere with its freedom to put into I wheat needs and prospects through- e.-sen.ial changes have taken place ! practice new methods of produc-1 out the globe.\tI in the international situation.A, Loml< n.Nov.7.f/T) Ru »ia paraded her military might through A1 cow's Red Square in commemoration of the Bolshevik revolution's 3!),h anniversary today amid renewed cries that \u201cwarmongers\" arc railing for a cam paigii again, t the Soviet Union and \u201cmaking plans for a new imperialist war.\u201d In a special broad,a t beamed direr.)y ai the United States and Great Bri.ain, Moscow radio quoted Mar-hal Nikolia Bulganin.Soviet Minister of the Armed Forces, as saying just before the parade began to the accompaniment of martial music by ma.'t>ed bands, that; \u201cAfter the Second World Wai Situation In Forest Fire Area Static Heavy Frost Plays Part in Drive to Keep Fires in Mansonville and Dunkm Area Under Control.The caustic-tongued diplomat contended anew, for instance, that! the United States is trying to ring j Russia with Air and naval bases.) Molotov mentioned in this connec-1 tior.the United States interest in tion.Since its last report, the Bureau a result of the war the system of presentation of the > sa\u2019tL Uttle has happened to change 1 capitalism hua suffered a serious justice to ,.\t,\t.-] Greenland, which all the American tice Meiague said that this could) republics have declared to be a vine taken care of under the Rand : ta] link in the Western Hemisphere formula.\t: defence chain.! Briefs of the question of wages! In general the attacks of Molo- \u2019 nroWemsT» te+L ^\ti ¦ °V\u2019 D\u20acPut/ foreign Minister Vish-j protecting'It r membership again-d ones!W, r,f n, w°r^ sche^u i lnsi)V'.and Soviet press and the imposition of inequitable I question of pay for statutory hoh- j radio seek to prove that the Uni 1 -\t-\tM \u201cSuch a situation does not do the respective po.-dtiorts of either the syndicates or the company.The drafting of a clause for a collective labor agreement dealing in detail with technical operating matters is necessarily an involved affair.On the one hand the syndicate is concerned very properly in days, and a few finally technical.other matters, Russian Boycott Policy Is Puzzling Assembly Members Lake Succasa, Nov, 7\u2014((P)\u2014The least United Nations; today was con-fronted with the strange, new \u201cboycott pressure,\u201d introduced by the Russian bloc into General Assembly affairs to oppose majority-decisions in lieu, of a veto, confined to the Security Council where the Soviet Union has invoked it 22 times.In the last two days, the eix-state Soviet group has vigorously declared its boycott of the \u201cLittle Assembly\u201d\u2014after it was approved yesterday by an overwhelming majority\u2014and also the U.N.commission to facilitate Korean independence.Earlier the bloc boycotted the Balkan \u201cborder-watch\u201d commission and the sub-committee which drafted the \u201cLittle Assembly\u201d proposal.These boycott tactics have the delegates here puzzled.They watch the Russian bloc going to these radical lengths to declare it; opposition to majority decisions of Assembly committees, yet there isn\u2019t the slightest indication that the Soviet Union and its supporters have any intention oft \u2018veto pressure, into the work of the General Assembly, where no veto has ever been applicable.\u201cThe Russian's are trying to establish the principle that they can veto anything they disagree with by classing it a violation of the U.N.charter,\u201d he said.This is exactly what Vishinsky and the other five Slav countries tried to do yesterday, without success.With the Russian bloc outside the important \u201cLittle Assembly,\u201d which will be a year-round group, now with 51 members instead of 57, to discuss questions of peace and security, there are two distinct and large deliberative bodies within the General Assembly structure.There is the 57-member Assembly itself and the \u201cLittle Assembly.\u201d this led to a corridor quip: \u201cTo which United Nations do you belong?\u201d Most delegates had hoped that this situation could be avoided and that the Russian bioe would not boycott.But they have and grave dan- walking out of U.N.\tjgers lie ahead for U.N as it tries In fact.Russia's Andrei Vishin-.to make both bodies function, sky said in effect yesterday Rus-! While the \u201cLittle Assembly\u201d sia would resist any attempts toi vote and the subsequent boycott push her out.\tj attracted most of the attention One leading delegate, who re-] here yesterday, the four-power quested not to he indentified.term- \u201cworking party\u201d of the Palestine ed the boycott measures the \u201cveti of the mechanical six.\u201d He said he felt it was an at tempt to introduce the veto, or at Sub-committee received a compromise proposal from the United ted States is out to start a war against the Soviet Union and that the other countries of the world ehouid line up with the U.S.S.R.in opposition to virtually ah phases of United States foreign policy.At the State Department this line is regarded as a three-way device to rally people inside Russia behind the government, frighten the smaller powers into support of Soviet foreign policy, and obecure the direction and intent of Russia\u2019s own activities in euch places as Eastern Europe.For some weeks there has been a growing feeling among State Department.army, navy and air force officials concerned with foreign propaganda policy that the present scope of the American information program is not sufficient.This has been defined by State Secretary Marshall as a policy of | telling the truth about what\u2019the patches from Kashmir said toda changes in tasks and other working conditions while the company cannot afford to place itself in a position where it is prevented from producing lower-cost cotton goods through new machinery, improved methods and other technological advancet;.\u201cThere is no thought of the newly-increased wages being reduced by any such changes, but it is a matter of defining the exact procedure to be followed by the syndicate and the company where moves to improve methods of pro- the prospects of a general world less.The forces of democracy need for more wheat, and the 1947-! (Communism) and Sociali m have 48 requirements for grain imports1 strengthened, but the forces of for deficit countries, set by the Food capitalism have weakened, and Agriculture Organization at \u201cThe succès.;** of the demi era 38.000,000 metric tons, probably tic camp (Communists) give the will fall short by about 9,000,000 war-mongers no rest.Forgetting tons-\tj the lessons of the recent war, they I he report of the r.A.O.confer- are ca]]jng for a campaign again;, ence emphasized that unless special ]democracy (Communism), agaim- t efforts are made m both exporting thR Sovjet Unio and ,naking and importing countries to mobilize ; for a m.w imperalist war.\u201d more food and reduce this wide gap Bulganin was extravagant m the calorie intake m deficit coun-|his *raj.:\u20ac of prime *Minl3ter as still vacation at a Black Sea Port, and of the armed forces of the U.S.S.R.'The Soviet people and it1; arm (Special In the Record) Mansonville, Que,, Nov.7.The fire situation in this area lia-not materially changed from yes ) | terday and this morning the site of the fires could not be ern due to a thick haze which has enveloped the district.The fires are burning about aix miles from here six miles: from Dunkin To Increase Food Output Of Colonies Two Crown Corporations Formed by Britain to Develop Economic Resources of Overseas Possessions.London, Nov.7.UP)\u2014 A men: me.designed to develop the latent economic resources of British colonies headed today for final approval in (ho House of Commons.The bill, which passed Its decisive second reading last night, would endow two government corporations with an initial borrowing tries must inevitably fall to still 0, more unsatisfactory levels,\u201d the Stal.,.ÜL^l°\t0W£ report recalled, \u201cand it stressed the | necessity of using every available device to save grain from human consumption.\u201d Most of the surplus wheat this come ,\t,\t, ,\tpower of £ 165,00'0,00O\t($660,- and about five or\tr ,\t,\t\u2022 ¦ 000,000) for lang range colonial ! development.11 re fighters were aided today.Food Minister Stracbey said th* by jhf* na/