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Union Battle Near As Longshoremen Return
New York—(U.R.)—The AFL was reported moving swiftly today to petition for a National Labor Relations Board election that would force a showdown in its battle to drive the discredited International Longshoremen's association off the New York waterfront.
A Taft-Hartley court order end'd a crippling five-day strike at Atlantic coast ports yesterday and cleared the air for a decisive membership battle between rival unions.
Activity on the vast New York New Jersey waterfront and at other ports from Maine to Virginia had returned nearly to normal today after the Longshoremen heeded a temporary injunction banning their strike for at least 10 days.
The injunction, requested by President Eisenhower, is expected to be extended next week for the full 80 days allowed under the Taft-Hartley act as a "cooling off" period in labor disputes threatening national security and welfare.
Attorneys for the new longshoremen's association chartered by the AFL after it ousted the old ILA were said to be preparing a formal petition to be filed before the NRLB requesting a collective bargaining election. The AFL also was circulating cards to be signed by dock workers signifying their support of the new union.
Under NLRB regulations a union must prove it has the support of at least 30 per cent of the workers in question before it can compete in an election for recognition as bargaining agent. The AFL claimed it already had signed up 25 per cent of the longshoremen in New York.
Modern Dance Club Chooses 9 Members
Nine women have been chosen members of Tau Sigma, modern dance club, following tryouts held Tuesday.
New members are Marilyn Underwood, Shirley Price, and Margaret Donnelly, College sophomores; Pat Worcester and Lucy McKeithan, fine arts sophomores; Sandra Cooper, College freshman; Carol Royer, fine arts junior; Pat Mackey, education sophomore, and Alaine Casebier, education freshman.
Each candidate presented a one-minute original dance, then each was assigned a "creative problem." Final selection was made by club members.
Nieder Brought to Watkins
William Nieder, education sophomore, center on the KU football team, has been transferred from the Medical center, Kansas City, to Watkins hospital. At the Medical center he underwent surgery for a knee injury suffered in the KU-TCU football game.
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Cole Reasserts Red Threat Is 'Real and Imminent'
Washington—(U.P.)—Chairman W. Sterling Cole (R.-N.Y.) of the congressional Atomic Energy Committee said today he is "standing firm" on his assertion that the threat of a Russian H-bomb attack is "real and imminent."
His appraisal of Soviet capabilities was directly at odds with that of Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson, who told a news conference yesterday it will be "perhaps three years" before Russia is equipped to launch an H-bomb attack against American cities.
Mr. Wilson said he thinks it will take that long for Russia to produce "a reasonable number" of H-bombs and "airplanes that could deliver them." He acknowledged that "the Russians do have the H-bomb" but said they "certainly are not going to deliver one bomb with one plane and having nothing to back it up."
In this connection, ne hinted broadly that the United States already is prepared to deliver a deadly H-bomb counterpunch if war should come. He said there is "no reason to think the Russians want to precipitate a war at this time" because "they ultimately could not win."
Mr. Cole, who had previously credited the Russians with "H-bombs—plural," told a reporter he did not wish to engage in a public dispute with the defense secretary and therefore would not comment on Mr. Wilson's remarks as such.
But he said he had no intention of modifying or retracting his own warning, because he believes the "only realistic assumption" on which U.S. defense plans can be based is that Russia now has, or soon will have, a formidable H-bomb arsenal.
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Mr. Cole also repeated his belief that the Eisenhower administration should give up trying to balance the budget, if necessary, to undertake an immediate multi-billion dollar program of stepping up U.S. air and civil defenses.
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Debaters Prime For 1st Tourney
Practice debates are being held this week as the varsity debate team prepares for a squad tournament to be held Oct. 15, Kim Giffin, debate coach, said today.
Purpose of the squad tournament is to select students to compete in the intercollegiate tournaments scheduled this fall. It takes two defeats before a team is eliminated from the squad tournament.
Thursday night at the weekly squad meeting in Green hall, debaters will present five-minute speeches in further preparation for next week's tournament, using free trade as the topic. The college question of the year is "Resolved, that the United States should adopt a policy of free trade."
Missouri university debaters will come here Oct. 29 to oppose the team that wins the squad tournament next week.
A British team from Oxford university will debate here Nov. 12. It will be the first time in many years that an Oxford team has debated here, Prof. Giffn said.
A tournament for debaters who have never before faced intercollegiate competition is scheduled Nov. 14 at Kansas State. Nov. 19 a team again will debate against Missouri, this time in Columbia.
next on the fall debating calendar is a tournament at Emporia State Nov. 21, followed by a tournament at Iowa university Dec. 4. Debaters will then compete against Southwestern college at Winfield Dec. 11.
Bridge. Chess Tourneys Set
Bridge and chess tournaments have been formed in the Union card room, it was announced today by Betty Liechty, program director. Persons interested in playing chess should be in the card room at 7:30 p.m. every Monday. Those interested in joining the duplicate bridge tournament should come to the card room at 7:15 p.m. each Thursday.
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UN to See US Films Denying Germ Warfare
United Nations, N.Y.—(U.P)—The United States today made ready filmed denials of Communist charges of germ warfare for the UN General Assembly debate on the matter.
Sound motion pictures of the personal experience of five American airmen forced by the Communists to "confess" to waging germ warfare were among the documentary proof the U.S. had to refute charges before the UN.
The films, made in San Francisco, were screened yesterday for top UN diplomats at the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, and Soviet-blot delegates, who stressed the "confessions" in earlier UN meetings, had been invited but did not attend.
Dr. Charles Mayo, who will handle the germ warfare issue when the item comes up for discussion at the current General Assembly session, said the repudiations were "additional evidence that the UN, and we, the U.S. have never engaged in bacteriological warfare."
The five airmen made it clear that the "confessions" were extracted by the Communists by means of mental and physical torture. All five of the "confessions" were circulated by
Soviet delegate Andrei Y. Vishinsky earlier this year as official documents and "evidence" that the Allies were waging bacteriological warfare in Korea.
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