Daily hansan
60th Year, No. 99
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Friday, March 8, 1963
N.Y. Papers End 91-Day Strike
NEW YORK—(UPI)—Publishers and the striking printers' union agreed today on terms put forth by Mayor Robert F. Wagner for settlement of the 91-day-old New York newspaper strike.
The settlement — reached three months to the day the strike and shutdown started — must be ratified by the membership of the International Typographical Union (ITU), expected to be only a formality. Also to be resolved were several other issues, including strikes by the Stereotype and Mailers Unions.
Thus, it was not believed the papers could resume publication before next mid-week at the earliest.
THE SETTLEMENT, providing a two-year contract effective with a return to work, brought a variety of changes involving money and automation:
● A $12.27 money package — $6.51 the first year and $5.76 the second including a $4 wage increase each year.
- A common expiration date for all of the newspapers' union contracts, providing all unions agree. This would be about the second week in March and avert threats of strikes during the ad-heavy Thanksgiving and Christmas seasons.
- A 35-hour work week in the second year of the contract, compared to the present $36\frac{1}{4}$ hours.
- Introduction of outside tape (automated operation of linotype machines) with the union to get a share in increased productivity.
The ITU struck last Dec. 8, demanding a package of $38.37. The settlement agreement was announced by Wagner at 6:25 a.m. EST after night-long meetings.
YET TO BE worked out are some secondary issues in the ITU contract, and the strikes by the stereotypers and mailers unions. The latter is affiliated with the ITU.
Amory Bradford, Publishers Association spokesman, said his paper (the New York Times), could be on the streets "within a matter of hours" after the pickets had been removed.
However, federal mediator Stephen Schlossberg said he felt certain the other unions would quickly accept terms within "the general settlement area" announced by the publishers and printers.
"We invite all unions to join us in bringing to an end the prolonged period of the strike," he said in a statement for the publishers.
BRADFORD SAID the settlement would not force any of the city's newspapers out of business.
"We would not have accepted it," he said, "if we thought it would force any papers out of business."
Wagner, who proposed the contract terms early this morning, said the agreement "means that the shutdown involving the printers will end
Weather
Mild and partly sunny weather is forecast for Kansas today before an outbreak of cooler air moves in from the northern plains this evening.
Forecasters said temperatures would hit the 50's and 60's over most of the state this afternoon, cooling to the 20's and 30's tonight after the cold air arrives.
A persistent storm track from Canada through the Great Lakes area eastward probably would continue to hurl colder air into the area through tonight, weathermen said. But warmer, dryer air from the southwest is expected to start a warming trend in the west tomorrow.
as soon as the union completes negotiations of certain so-called cleanup issues. . ." Wagner said they were minor.
Publisher were to meet with the printers and with representatives of the other unions as soon as possible, probably later today.
ASKED IF he thought the union would approve the contract, local printers boss Bertram Powers said, "I do."
He saw "no insurmountable problems" remaining. He estimated that "several days" would be required to finish.
Powers saw a "victory" for the union in obtaining "three principal issues" for which they had fought:
- The shorter work week.
- "A share in the increased productivity from the introduction of outside tape."
- Common expiration dates of union contracts.
Wagner said that if the contract terms are accepted, contracts for all the newspaper unions involved "will be negotiated at the same time in the future." He said the effective date of the two-year contract would be the day the unionists actually return to work.
Neither Bradford nor Wagner would comment on the possibility that the settlement might force the city's four morning newspapers to raise their price from five cents to a dime.
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WASHINGTON — Chairman Emanuel Celler, D-NY., of the House Judiciary Committee said yesterday his antitrust subcommittee's hearings on concentration of ownership in the news media will start Wednesday and continue for 11 days over a four-week period.
Celler listed 40 witnesses, starting with Newton N. Minow, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, and including a number of newspaper executives and others in related occupations.
James E. Webb
James E. Webb Seeks KU Help For Space Race
It is up to Kansans to move ahead in space development, the head of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) told research and administrative officials here yesterday.
NASA Director James E. Webb discussed what KU might do to take a more active part in space research. He said KU can help Kansas benefit from space-age ventures by greater cooperation in research and closer ties with industry.
Webb also suggested to two KU scientists that they submit research proposals to NASA for consideration.
"I'm not sure they'll be accepted," he said, "but the only way space research will come to Kansas and to KU is by the citizens taking proposals to NASA."
Webb is on a two-day, four city visit to Kansas. His trip is the result of a visit to NASA last September of 35 leading Kansas businessmen and educators.
THE NASA administrator stressed
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Pro-Nasser Unit Invades Syria
BEIRUT, Lebanon — (UPI) — Rebellious pro-Nasser army officers took control of Syria today in a lightning revolt resembling the Iraqi coup of a month ago.
The uprising against the civilian government of Premier Khaled El Asm apparently was bloodless. There were no immediate reports of fighting.
CAIRO AND Baghdad quickly pledged their armed support to the rebels. The Iraqi government announced that units of its army had moved to the Syrian border and were "at the disposal of the Syrian National Revolutionary Council." Syria formerly was merged with the U.A.R.
The military junta which seized power promptly expressed its friendship for President Gamal Abdel Nasser of the United Arab Republic, for the month-old revolutionary regime in Iraq, and for Yemen and Algeria.
Radio stations in Damascus anc Allepo announced the revolt when they came on the air early today with insurrectionist proclamations. Damascus Radio said support for the rebel junta was pouring in from army troops, students and other civilians all over the country.
There was no immediate word on the fate of the Azm or President Nazem El-Kodi.
Damascus Radio, in a broadcast heard here, said a curfew has been clamped down throughout Syria and all airfields and seaports have been sealed by the revolutionary military command.
A COMMUNIQUE broadcast by the radio said security forces were on full alert with all leaves canceled. Another order banned all demonstrations, gatherings and the carrying of banners or posters.
Members of the rebel junta were not identified in radio broadcasts, but it appeared that Brigadier Abdallah Jabrini, named new chief of security forces, might have been the leader of the coup. He is strongly pro-Nasser and was right-hand man
to Egyptian Col. Abdel Hamid Serraj who ruled Syria during the Syrian-Egyptian union.
Faculty Leads Discussions On Model UN Resolutions
The revolt, which was the second by the Syrian military leaders within a year and the third since September, 1961, followed recurrent reports recently of discontent in the army. Azm has been reported making frantic attempts to broaden the base of his government.
Baghdad Radio at 5 a.m. CST said it had received a message from the revolutionary command in Syria reporting the situation "under control" and no need for any help.
Five KU faculty members lead discussions in three Model United Nations committee meetings last night before delegations of the 115nation conference.
The meetings were designed to bring into view the first three resolution areas which the delegations will have to consider as they adapt the resolutions to the countries they represent.
THE RESOLUTION areas discussed included: regional disarmament, internationalization of foreign aid and the invitation of Red China to participate in the specialized agencies of the Model UN.
THE UPRISING also appeared to fit into a pattern of Arab unrest in the Middle East which has seen the revolt in Iraq, a coup in Yemen and a reported plot against Jordan's King Hussein just last Monday.
A. A. Strassenburg, associate professor of physics, who spoke on the first area, said disarmament should progress, even at the expense of national interest.
"I believe a resolution should be passed which has as its goal the reduction of tension and the lessening of the likelihood of nuclear war," Prof. Strassenburg said.
Middle East observers expected mounting pressure on Hussein and King Saud of Saudi Arabia, both vigorously anti-Nasser.
TO ACHIEVE this purpose he advocated that all countries be required to remove and cease maintaining nuclear weapons on foreign shores, and be open to inspection.
He offered the delegates two proposals for resolutions.
Prof. Strassenburg also advocated a long-range disarmament resolution proposed by J. David Singer, research political scientist at the University of Michigan.
"Under this program," Prof Strassenburg said, "all countries would list an inventory of their stockpiles of nuclear weapons, and would agree to reduce it each year."
Damascus Radio reports indicated a Ba'athist-military pattern similar to the one in last month's Iraqi revolution, except there was no call for suppression of Communists. The Iraqi revolutionists had made Communists their first targets because they backed the ousted Premier Abdel Karim Kassem.
In addition to surrendering the weapons, the countries would also supply manpower to maintain them, the professor said.
"RATHER THAN destroy the weapons which the countries surrender," Prof. Strassenburg said, "they would be sent to a central neutral location for inspection and safekeeping."
One delegate asked what would keep the central agency, or certain members of it, from forming a coalition and using the power they would have to become the world power.
"I EELIEVE the representatives would still have strong enough ties to their countries that they would prevent this from happening." Prof. Strassenburg said.
weapons, so they could be quickly returned for defensive purposes in case of an attack by an offending country."
When asked where this central stockpile would be located, Prof. Strassenburg said, "A number of small depots would be maintained near the countries surrendering the
PROF. STRASSENBURG said the resolution would have to be a UN proposal, and would have to be carried out on all levels by all countries.
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CLIFFORD KETZEL, associate professor of political science, discussed the second resolution area, the internationalization of foreign aid.
He said in view that two-thirds of the world is underdeveloped, foreign aid on an international scale must be controlled by the United Nations in order for an effective and workable program.
Prof. Ketzel said the present UN pattern is a very complex affair with several agencies concerned with the distribution of aid, the most important being the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development which deals mainly with postwar and reconstruction loans.
JERUSALEM Radio said a heavy exchange of gunfire took place in Syrian positions on the Sea of Galilee, or Lake Tiberias, which are across the tense de-militarized zone border between Syria and Israel. The area has been the scene of repeated border skirmishes during the last year between the two countries.
Jerusalem Radio said there were no Israeli boats on the eastern shore during the period of the shooting. Syrian positions often open up on Israeli fishing vessels in certain parts of the lake.
He told Model UN delegates there are also three aid programs currently functioning outside the UN. One of these is a bilateral pro-
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Damascus Radio indicated the leaders of the Syrian revolt were supporters of U.A.R. President Gamel Abdel Nasser. The radio issued a long proclamation extolling the virtues of Arab unity and claiming the rebels extended the "hand of friendship" to the U.A.R., Iraq, Yemen and Algeria.
Today's Syrian coup followed by exactly a month the overthrow of the government in Iraq. Anti-Communist military leaders in Baghdad staged an uprising on Feb. 8, and executed Premier Abdul Karim Kassem the next day. Most of the rebel leaders were said to be pro-Nasser.
Cairo and Baghdad Radios quickly announced Iraqi and U.A.R. troops stood ready to aid the Syrian rebels against outside interference.
SYRIA BROKE up a two and a half year union with Nasser's U.A.R. after a near-bloodless coup in Damascus on Sept. 28, 1961.
Both the Iraqi and Yemeni governments have moved closer to Naser, with Yemen asking for U.A.R. troops to help fight against the forces of the deposed Imam Mohammed Aladr.
Damascus Radio announced a four-point program as the guiding principles of the rebels:
A MOVE AT restoring the army to its correct Arab course.
- The army to work for the fulfillment of liberated Arab unity.
- The turnover of power by the army to civilians.
- Respect for international commitments and the United Nations, the principles of the Bandung conference and neutrality and cooperation with other states.