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Tuesday, Feb. 5, 1963 Lifts Ring in Handshake
Rash of Walkouts Hit Rails, Papers
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A fifth union was on strike against Cleveland's long-idled newspapers today and railway clerks pessimistically agreed to another peace effort by federal mediators in their year-old dispute with the Southern Pacific Railway.
Mayor Robert F. Wagner called for joint negotiations between New York publishers and striking printers and the strike-bound Florida East Coast Railway attempted to resume limited freight service with supervisory personnel.
Philadelphia, just over a transit strike, faced a threatened transportation strike in its suburbs.
The Virginia Transit Co. said it would seek fare increases in Richmond and Norfolk to meet a wage increase approved yesterday.
Elsewhere on the nation's most troubled labor picture in months,
Young Republican Goes to Washington
John Grothusen, Ellsworth junior, has resigned as treasurer of Young Republicans and will accept a position in Kansas Sen. James B. Pearson's office in Washington.D.C.
Grothusen left for Washington yesterday, according to Ruben McCornack, Abilene junior and YR president. Grothusen will be a junior assistant to the senator.
Election of a new treasurer will be Feb. 13 at the organization's next scheduled meeting.
William Ferguson, Kansas attorney general, will speak on "The Kansas Republican Party — Where It Has Been and Where It Is Going."
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workers were back on the job at the Shell Refiner in Roxana, Ill., and more butchers signed agreements in St. Louis.
Chairman James Weaver of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, Southern Pacific unit, agreed to meet with federal mediators tomorrow but said the meeting "won't amount to much."
A strike would idle 50,000 Southern Pacific employees and shut down operations from Oregon to Texas.
The dispute arose over automation and job displacement.
The eleven Off-Train Brotherhoods continued to picket the Florida East Coast Railway. A union spokesman called the supervisors, freight runs between Jacksonville and Miami "insignificant."
The unions have been striking the railway 12 days with demands for a 10.28 cent wage increase. The Railway claims its business was hurt by the Cuban crisis.
Wagner, after separate meetings yesterday with the two sides in the newspaper dispute said the joint talks would consider "collateral issues that need clarification." He did not identify the issues.
In Cleveland, the Machinists oined picket lines yesterday against he Press and Plain Dealer, struck since Thanksgiving.
PITTSBURGH — (UPI) — Raymond Miller would like to get his hands on the "old friend" who insisted on shaking hands with him yesterday in a variety store in suburban Homewood.
Soon after the stranger left, Miller discovered his $245 diamond ring had been slipped off his finger.
Taxes High for Boston
BOSTON — (UPI) — Taxpayers must furnish $119,068,086 of the $126,837,807 it will cost to run Boston, New England's largest city, during the next fiscal year.
Mayor John F. Collins said yesterday, in announcing the budget, the other $7.7 million will come from self-producing revenue departments.
LIMA — (UPI) — The military Junta government issued a decree last night restoring civil rights which were suspended a month ago after the announced discovery of a "Communist subversive plot."
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