UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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WEDNESDAY. SEPT 21, 1948
Truman Asks Six-Day Truce In Steel Dispute
Bv UNITED PRESS
President Truman asked for another six days of truce in the threatened steel strike today while hopes were revived for settling the impending Ford walkout and negotiations were resumed in the nationwide coal strike.
Mr. Truman asked the C.I.O. United Steel workers and the steel industry to continue work under present conditions until 12:01 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 1. Union and industry representatives promised an answer by tomorrow.
The existing truce ends at 12:01 am. Sunday.
Mr. Truman made his new truce request after conferring with federal mediation director Cyrus Ching. He called on both sides to begin bargaining on the recommendations of his fact-finding board.
Ching recessed negotiations until Friday pending a response to the President's request.
Hopes were revived today for heading off the threatened steel and Ford strikes, while in the soft coal walkout negotiations were resumed.
In the steel crisis, federal mediation director Cyrus S. Ching conferred with president's approval a "face saving" proposal to settle or at least delay the threatened steel walkout.
Ching was said to believe that neither the steel companies nor the C.I.O. United Steel workers actually want a strike, which would idle one million workers across the nation at 12:01 a.m. Sunday.
The union stuck to its demand that steel companies accept the recommendations of President Truman's fact-finding board for a 10 cents hourly pension and welfare "package" financed by the industry alone.
But C.I.O. president Philip Murray raised hopes for averting the threatened walkout when he postponed a meeting of his steelworkers' policy committee until Thursday to enable him to participate in today's negotiations.
In the soft coal dispute, Northern and Western mine operators who previously had failed to do so paid three million dollars into the welfare fund of John L. Lewis' striking United Mine workers for the month of July. Most Northern and Western operators had continued the welfare payments, but the failure of southern operators and some of the others to pay had touched off the walkout of a half million miners.
Lewis left Washington to attend negotiations with the Northern and Western operators at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., late today. Negotiations also were scheduled with Southern operators at Bluefield, W. Va., where union representatives threatened to break off the contract discussions if welfare payments are not made. Virginia operators announced that they have agreed to pay to "keep faith" with Lewis.
The steel, coal and automotive disputes were the big ones, but smaller strikes idled additional thousands in other industries, including newspapers, railroads and rubber.
At Cincinnati, stereotypers of the city's three daily papers struck in a wage dispute but publishers said they plan to continue publishing despite the walkout.
Chairmanships Open In Business Association Group
Applications for committee chairmanships in the School of Business Association council are now available in the School of Business office. Chairmanships of the professional, publicity, social and Jayhawk business newspaper committees will be filled. Mrs. Margaret Ewing, secretary to the dean, will take applications.
Strikes Will Idle Two Million
The following is a "box score" on the number of American workers on strike, idled by strikes, and threatening to strike in the near future:
By UNITED PRESS
On strike—
Coal miners 480,000
Missouri-Pacific rail-
roadmen 5,000
California A.F.L. Farm
workers 15,000
Goodrich C.I.O. rubber
workers 17,000
California C.I.O. ware
housemen 6,000
Miscellaneous 33,000
Dwellings 556,000
Idled by strikes—
Idled by strikes—
Railroadmen idled by
coal strike 28,000
Railroadmen idled by
Mo-Pac strike 20,000
Workers idled by California warehousemen 6,000
Total 54,000
Threatening to strike—
workers 1,000,000
C. I.O. electrical
C. I.O. electrical workers 200,000 Total 1,315,000
Total on strike, threatening to strike and threatened with idleness through strikes—1,925,000.
Detroit, Sept. 21—(U.P.)-Encouraged by a company report of "real progress" toward writing a pension plan, negotiators for the Ford motor company and C.I.O. United Auto workers today renewed efforts to agree on a new contract before the Sept. 29 strike deadline.
Ford Strike Talks Continue
Meanwhile, 83,000 Chrysler corporation workers began voting in a state-supervised strike election. They are seeking the same $100 pensions and other benefits as Ford workers, but settlement was expected to follow the pattern set by Ford. Results will be announced Saturday.
The Ford company confirmed that it had discussed pensions with the U.A.W. since last Thursday after "reviewing the situation" in the light of the report of President Truman's steel fact-finding board.
Ford recognized in a formal statement yesterday the "inescapable national effect, whether we agree with them or not" of the board's 10-cent package recommendations for the steelworkers.
"We have been trying to work out basic features around the bargaining table and we feel that debating them in public will only retard the progress we might make at negotiations," the company said.
The negotiators were reported within two cents of agreement on welfare benefits which they boiled down from Reuther's original demands for $100 monthly pensions, a health plan and a pay increase.
One report said the company's latest offer was a 10-cent package, with the ultimate distribution for pensions and the medical care program to be decided later.
Entomology students for years have been calling on "Bob" for help in identifying the mysterious little bugs they have collected. They may get some satisfaction from knowing that Bob didn't know any more about those bugs than they do when he first came to the University in 1920.
"Bob" is Robert Gunter who works in the entomology department's storeroom. He is a short man, about 60 years old, with a cheerful, smiling face under thin, almost white hair. He can usually be seen in his storeroom in Snow hall trying to make some order out of the microscopes and slides that the entomology students return to him with pleas to please give them the same one next time.
For Teasing KU Women Guntert Uses Spiders
"I was just a green farmer when I came here," he said in his crisp, German accent. "My wife had died and I had two boys, so I moved into town from my farm, and I've been here ever since." It was in 1920 when he first started in to work in the storereoom.
He says he gained all his knowledge of the insects by working among them. This may surprise some of the entomology students who spend hours trying to decide if a little fly is toxic or not, winding and therefore belongs in another class from the one in which they have classified it.
Mr. Guntter was born in Switzerland in the Rhine valley where his father was a farmer near the German border. His father raised grapes for wine on a farm much smaller than his own and came to Kansas in 1905. Bob settled north of Lawrence in the Kaw valley and married a Lawrence girl.
Does he have an insect collection? No, but he does study honey bees. Why? "Because they are a social insect and they do so much good for us. Besides making honey, they pollenize our flowers, legumes and other plants."
"It amused me to hear the German prisoners of war wonders at the large farm yards the Americans had. They just couldn't see all that land going to waste. And they're right. It does seem wasteful." he says.
His eyes twinkled behind his glasses, and his face broke into a quiet smile as he said, "And humans can learn so much from the honey bee. For instance, when they don't have any food, the queen stops laying eggs and there are no more bees born until there is enough food to feed them."
"Bob" enjoys helping the students with their insect collections. And not the least of his fun comes from teasing the women by letting tarantula spiders crawl on his arms, and shocking them by other similar means.
Part of his time is taken up by straightening up the insect boxes used in class work, by changing the displays in the display cases so that they will include the insects that the classes are studying. He mixes up the cyanide for the bottles that the bug collectors use and checks out their equipment. He keeps track of all the equipment that is used in the classes.
Sutherland, Iowa, Sept. 21—(U.P.)
—James P. Martin, 101, Indiana's last surviving Civil War veteran, died at 2:25 p.m. today.
Civil War Vet, 101, Dies
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Kansas Begins Distributing Tax
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County treasurers found checks totaling $52,982.14 in the mails, the first distribution of money paid by package store dealers to the state and then sent back to the local governments.
Topeka, Kan., Sept. 21—(U.P.) — A new source of revenue for Kansas cities and counties was tapped today, the two per cent "enforcement tax" on retail liquor sales.
Expected to run around $1,200,000 annually, the two per cent tax is remitted quarterly to the counties on a basis of population and property tax valuation.
All Kansas cities and counties share in the enforcement tax, whether they permit liquor sales or not under the state's local option law. All but 10 counties have at least one community in which there are liquor stores, but less than half the state's municipalities permit the package outlets.
After the counties get the money, half of it is turned over to the cities of each county according to their population.
There were five other counties receiving more than $1,000-Barton,
$1,157.44; Crawford, $1,002.27; Johnson,
1,235.73; Montgomery, $1,119.05;
and Reno $1,497.08.
The first distribution, covering only the period from July 19 through August and not including operations of all established stores in that time, represented sales of around $2,650,-100 worth of liquor.
The largest payment went to
Sedgwick county, $5,093.28. Wyandotte county was sent $3,408.97 and Shawnee county was next, $2,518.10.
Other amounts included:
Other amounts included:
Cloud county, $458.32; Douglas,
$741.62; Finney, $427.75; Geary,
$858.58; Leavenworth, $712.70; Riley,
$608.56; Russell, $644.15; Seward,
$306.01; and Sherman, $213.01.
Tickets To Go On Sale
Tickets for Spike Jones and his City Slickers will be sold in the rotunda of Strong hall as soon as they arrive, Phyllis Jones, office manager of the Memorial association, said today.
The Student Memorial committee will handle the sale of the tickets.
KU Co-ops Send Six Men To Texas
Six University students attended the fourth annual North American student Co-operative league conference September 3,4,and 5 at Austin Texas.
Wendell Walker, College senior and president of N.A.S.C.L. said that the meeting was for "mutual exchange of ideas between students interested in the co-operative movement, and for discussions of how to better conditions of campus co-ops."
Two delegates from each co-operative house represented the University at the conference. They included Walker and Austin Turney, business seniors, Jayhawk co-op; John Eberhart and Robert Hurkington, College seniors, Don Henry co-op; Sydney Anderson, College senior, and Luther Buchele, Rock Chalk co-op.
The students who attended from eight universities and colleges represented 50,000 members of campus co-operatives in 42 states.
American Subs In Arctic
While in Austin the delegates inspected the University of Texas cooperative book store, the student cooperative buying service, and the co-operative houses on the campus.
London, Sept. 21—(U.P.)—American submarines were "reconnoitering" near the Soviet port of Murmursan when the U. S. S. Cochine exploded and sank in Arctic waters four month, the Soviet newspaper Fleet said today.
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