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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Sept. 30. 1953
East Coast Police Gird For Pier Strike, Fights
New York—U.P.)-Atlantic coast ports from Maine to Virginia girded today for a waterfront strike beginning at midnight that may erupt when two unions of tough longshoremen fight for supremacy.
Police officials in New York began mobilizing all available police strength to meet the threat of bloody hand-to-hand clashes in the union loyalty struggle.
It appeared that intervention by President Eisenhower — considered highly unlikely—was the only hope of stalling a "no contract, no work" walkout scheduled for 12:01 a.m. EST tomorrow by the orphaned International Longshoremen's association. Shippers yesterday rejected a "final" wage proposal from the union.
The New York Shipping association late yesterday appealed to President Eisenhower to use his Taft-Hartley law powers to delay the strike. But Washington sources say President Obama would give the appeal careful study there was scant possibility he would act.
A work stoppage was regarded as inevitable though some of the ILA's 40,000 cargo handlers in the Atlantic coast district already have voted to desert the discredited union and join a new one chartered by the AFL to replace it. The ILA was thrown out of the AFL last week for allowing gangster elements to flourish in its locals.
Another 200 special police were scheduled to be added today to the 1,000 already assigned to patrol New York piers where bitter feeling ran high between dock workers remaining with the ILA and those siding with the AFL.
More than 3,500 brawny dock wallopers gathered for an outdoor meeting in Brooklyn last night and heard pro-AFL speakers declare that organization of the new union was "the beginning of the end" for Joseph P. Ryan's crime-tainted ILA.
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Fugitive Asserts Reds Have PWs
Manila, P.I. —(UP)— Jan Hatjakduwicz wiz, one of Poland's latest fugitives from Communism, said today the Reds still are holding Americans and other allied prisoners of the Korean war.
Hajdukiewicz, formerly an interpreter for the neutral nations inspection team in Korea, said the United Nations should not believe Communist claims that all prisoners were returned in "operation big switch."
The 28-year-old Pole blasted the Communists shortly after he arrived in the Philippines from Okinawa on May 14, 1956, which has granted him asylum.
The Communists have insisted they returned all prisoners who wanted to go home in the exchange at Pammunju which ended Sept. 7.
Hajbukiewicz, who broke away from the Communists. Sept. 9 at an American airport in South Korea while on an inspection tour, also said he saw "teeming squalid slave labor camps" in Russia and China.
Dancing, Programs Scheduled by SUA
Events scheduled by the Student Union Activities group this fall include a dance in the Trail Room every Wednesday evening, after each home football game, and a 4 p.m. Sunday afternoon music program.
Two important dates on the SUA calendar are the SUA Activities Display set for Wednesday, Oct. 21, and the Student Union Carnival slated for Nov. 7, the night of the K-State game.
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Committee Fight Seen Between America, Russia
United Nations, N.Y. — (U,P) — A clash between Russia and the United States appeared imminent today in the United Nations political committee on matters pertaining to Korean peace.
Russia prepared to force debate on composition of the Korean peace conference.
The United States was geared to reject debate on the make up of the conference and postpone talks on Korean matters in general while it negotiates for direct talks with the Far East Communists.
A highly placed source said the United States did not want to discuss arrangements for the Korean peace conference with Russia because there were indications the Chinese Communists did not want Russian UN delegates to speak for them.
Six items are on the agenda for discussion, including one general topic entitled "the Korean question."
Soviet Delegate Andrei Y. Vishinsky was expected to try first to force debate on composition of the pending Korean peace conference, a move which the general assembly rejected earlier this session.
The showdown will come in the initial meeting at this session of the political committee. The committee is due to organize and consider its agenda.
The United States was believed prepared to accept the topic for discussion as the third or fourth item hoping to achieve its proposed face to face meeting with North Korea and Chinese Communists on the Korean peace conference before discussion of other items is concluded.
If he fails in this endeavor, Vishinsky was reported ready to urge that the general Korean question topic be moved to the top of the agenda for immediate discussion.
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Once each year, the "big men" on the second floor of Strong hall, plus assorted campus "wheels," personalities, and students, throw convention to the winds, let their hair down, and appear in public as though ready for a "long winter's nap."
Convention Cast Aside In Parade of Nightshirts
It's the annual "Nightshirt Parade," a tradition on the Hill since Chancellor Frank Strong appeared on the front porch of his home after a successful football contest in 1902.
Clad only in a nightshirt, he led the assembled students in a wild cheering session which never has been equalled in subsequent night-shirt outings. His garb set the precedent for the annual parade, which precedes the first home conference football game each year.
"It is hoped that every student will take part in the parade and rally," William Wilson, chairman of the traditions committee, said.
This year will find Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy, Dean of Students Laurence C. Woodruff, and Dean of Men Donald K. Alderson, appearing in full regalia of nightshirts and leading the traditional parade and rally.
The parade will begin at 7:15 p.m. in front of the Union building. The chancellor, deans of students and men, Dean of Women Martha Peterson, and All Student Council President Richard Sheldon will ride in a convertible, escorted by police and fronted by the University band.
Following the convertible will be the cheerleaders, KuKus, and the Jay James. Pajama-clad students will whoop it up, behind.
The throng will travel en masse down Oread street to 12th, then east to Louisiana street. The group then will pass down Louisiana to 11th, passing by North College and Corbin halls, where additional students will join the crowd.
When the throng reaches Tennessee street, it will turn north, traveling to Ninth street, and then east to Massachusetts, snake-dancing south through downtown Lawrence until it reaches South park.
A rally will be held in South park, where the chancellor, A. C. "Dutch" Lonberg, and an assistant coach will speak. Howard Engleman, president of the Alumni association, may speak if he arrives in time, Wilson said. "There will be no bonfire as in the past, because of the water shortage," he said.
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Refreshments, including cider and doughnuts, will be served by the Lawrence chamber of commerce. Wilson is making arrangements for late free movies for all students.
Wilson said a 10-minute rally will be held at 10:50 a.m. Friday between classes. Morris Kay, education senior, and Bob Hantla, education junior, co-captains of the football team, will speak.
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