Wednesday, Nov. 28, 1962 University Daily Kansan
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55,000 Missile Workers Strike
BURBANK, Calif.-(UPI)—Union machinists picketed production plants and missile bases of the huge Lockheed Aircraft Corp. today in a widespread strike affecting some 55,000 employees from Cape Canaveral to Hawaii.
The strike was called at midnight by the International Association of Machinists when negotiators said they still were hopelessly deadlocked on the crucial union shop issue which had stalled mediation attempts.
ockheed installation at Cape Canaveral was struck first at
FEDERAL MEDIATOR William Simkins said he would return to Washington to make a report to President Kennedy on the status of the deadlock. The president may order an 80-day cooling off period under the Taft-Hartley Act to end the walkout.
The Lockheed installation midnight (EST) and west coast members walked off their jobs three hours later.
Several hundred spectators milled with 40-50 pickets at the main gate of the major installation here of the California division that produces the F104 Starfighter and P30 Orion ant-submarine patrol planes.
LOCKHEED VICE PRESIDENT John Canaday said all plants are open and the firm was determined to "make every effort to minimize the effects of the strike and continue operations."
The California division employee 24,000 workers here and at Palmdale Calif.
The missiles and space division employs some 31,000 persons at Sunnyvale, Van Nuys, Santa Cruz, Rye Canyon and Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., and at Honolulu and the Cape.
ANOTHER 20,000 employs of Lockheed divisions at other locations, including Marietta, Ga., were not affected by the walkout.
Negotiations were broken off here last night at 10:30 p.m. (FST) and pickets then took up placards and began chanting "the strike is on" as they marched at the gates.
The pickets remained orderly and there was no sign of violence although police details remained on duty.
AT VANDENBERG and Point Arguello, launch sites for the Discoverer, Midas, Samos and other major space efforts, pickets concentrated on roads leading to the bases.
A picket at the Burbank plant said "this could go on forever."
Another commented, "We feel the strike is justified."
At the Sunnyvale facility in Northern California where groups of pickets clustered at all plant entrances, opinions of the strikers was varied.
JAMES P. LYNDON, vice-president of industrial relations at Lock-heed, said in a statement shortly after the walkout order. "This strike makes no sense at all."
"The union has rejected our contract and called the strike—not because our contract is not a good one, but because it does not yield to the union's demand for compulsory union membership or to a vote by employees on the closed shop issue.
"The strike was called by the union, not by the company. It was called surely because we did not agree to one union demand that we believed to be wrong.
"A union shop at Lockheed would force some 14,000 Lockheed men and women to join the union or lose their jobs. We refuse to place them in this position."
PremierAngry Over Downed U. S. Plane
VIENTIANE, Laos — (UPI) — An angry Premier Prince Souwanna Phouma demanded today that Communist leaders explain why they shot down an unarmed American supply plane and killed two of its three occupants.
Souvanna Phouma, who had personally ordered the private American plane to fly into Communist-dominated Pathet Lao territory to supply his neutralist troops, acted swiftly as a possible revival of Civil War threatened Laos.
"The fact that the Pathet Lao fired on this plane is a very disgraceful act," he said. "This is a question which must be settled with the Pathet Lao chiefs immediately."
HE DID NOT SAY how it would be settled, but his statement came as the shooting incident yesterday at Xiang Khouang in the Red-held Plain of Jars threatened to wreck the shaky five-month truce which ended fighting among right wing, neutralist and Communist Laotian factions.
Communist batteries downed the transport as it attempted to land near Xiang Khouang, with rice for Neutralist troops who are intermingled among the Communist forces in that area.
The C123 owned by a firm called Air America was shot down at a time when the three factions seemed to be making headway on unifying the armed forces of each into a single national army of 30,000 men with 10,000 from each group.
The C123 was the third American plane shot down by the Communists since the cease-fire took effect five months ago.
PARIS — (UPI) The United States will renew pressure on its European allies next month to increase their military contribution to the Atlantic alliance, American sources said today.
U.S. To Pressure Allies
Washington may even ask for more than the present unfulfilled minimum of 30 divisions demanded by U.S. Air Force Gen. Lauris Norstad, the allied supreme commander in Europe.
Present allied ground strength in Europe is about 25 divisions, a force which Norstad says is "critically short" in a number of ways.
Europe's contribution to allied forces is likely to be a major subject confronting the Atlantic Pact Council when it meets here Dec. 13-15.
American sources said the United States considers an increase in military manpower more urgent than the creation of the nuclear striking force America has offered its European allies.
"THIS YEAR'S speakers form the smallest number of students ever to try out in the contest. There was a time when the KU enrollment was one-third as large as it is now and when we had as many as 39 students compete in preliminary competition."
Undersecretary of State George W. Ball said earlier this month the United States is willing to help create an independent West European nuclear striking force.
American sources said the United States might sell its allies polaris missiles to be mounted on American-manned and owned nuclear submarines in European waters.
E. C. Buchler, speech and drama professor who originated and developed the annual contest in 1925, said.
Five Students in Speech Contest Finals
The finalists and their speech titles are; Analee Burns, Aurora, Colo, sophomore, "Western Civilization — What Now?" James Fox, Lawrence senior, "Position of the Independent Student on the KU Campus"; John Pulley, Kansas City freshman, "Discrimination"; Alan Gribben, Parsons junior "Indifference, Incorporated," and Gary Brient, Overland Park sophomore "Cultural Lag at KU."
Five KU students will compete in the final round of the campus problems speaking contest at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the Kansas Union.
The sources said it is unlikely that Washington would give or sell medium-range nuclear missiles to European countries to be mounted on the continent of Europe. It certainly would not give nuclear warheads to the Europeans, they said.
The 37th annual contest is sponsored by the speech and drama department.
Trophies will be awarded to the two top speakers.
Prof. Buehler explained the purpose of the contest is to give students an opportunity to orally editorialize on campus problems affecting student welfare.
Judges for the final round are Dan Palmquist, a former KU speech and drama professor, Gerald Pearson, director of continued education in the University extension department, and Carl Larson, Lawrence graduate student.
Duane Smith, Lawrence graduate student, will emcee the program.
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The CIA is the executive agency responsible for the coordination of the foreign intelligence activities of the U.S. government. CIA is particularly interested in students with either graduate or undergraduate degrees who are outstanding in language ability or in the physical sciences, and who have an interest in foreign affairs.
A representative of the United States Central Intelligence Agency will be on campus during the first week of December to interview prospective job candidates.
Interested students should inquire at the placement bureau in the College office, or the engineering placement office in Hoch Auditorium for further information and interview appointments.
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