' GOOD EVE I GEE YBO Y: lbout that propos 1 of Benjamin F irless, head of O.S.Steel, the su estion that President Truman call a confe ence of all the top men of industry:- Ben Fairless's idea was that management executives could advise the President just how auch of an increase . of wages the country can stand without running headlong into further inflation. It might solve not only the steel strike but all the others now plaguing the country, that was Fairless' idea. During one co6l dispute, the late President Rooeevel i the feelings of the country wa, •a pla ue on both your houses.• Presi ~ ent Truman's r ply was much the same. Talking to the newspap r ■ en in asbin ton, he said both man emen and _ abor have become too po rful for the ood of the eople. That t e rike ra ing thr ughout the country today are a series of ba tle bet een mane em nt and labor for power. The government, he admitted, should assert and wield the power of the people. But in that di ction, he said, he bas already fone s far as he can. That all he can do is r mind both labor and ~ana ement that the rights of th people co ■ e first. Furtber■ore, in reply to the sugge•tio of Fairless of D.S. Steel, President Truman remarked that he did not make his engagements through radio or pres ■• Then be reit~rated what be had aaid before, that the best thing Fairless and his associates could do was accept his su estion for an eifhteen and a half cent per hour increase. If anything ~oncrete can be accomplished, r. Truman sai he is willing to meet mens ement representatives again. But, he is not oin to seize the steel mills, at ny r· t e not now. It wou dn't be pr ctical, he ex ained. However, this does not men he may not do ·t later on. He al o told his pre s conference that it was lo ic lly oat probable th t the end of the steel strike wou d also mean the end of the General Motor• trouble. Mr. Truman then gave voice to an appeal to the workers in steel mills that are not basic, those that have no quarrel with the employer. Be urged the ■ to go back to work, since the dispute is no quarrel of theirs. Everybody ho can should stick to hi job, and push through the nation'• reconversion progrem. There has been a lot of conjecture about what ,auld happen to the big steel mill the government built during the war at Provo, Utah. The President announced that he now is considering overnment opera ion of that plant. LE . - l ~-- ..... As fo th meat tri e, he feels sure f ~e wor rs will get bu y as soon as the ov n ent takes over the pac·in hous s on Saturday. e spape men asked about the statement made by the C.I.O. Presicent,•~ • Philip Murray, the accusation th t the epidemic of strikes was pro oted by a conspiracy of big business men. Said the President,there ••• no such evidence so far as he ne. Late this afternoon the President published the order to Seer tary of Agriculture Anderson to seize the packing plants, a hundred-and-thirty-four of tbea, owned by seventeen companies. As we had been alreadJ told fro ■ Washington, Secretary Anderson is to do this on Saturday at one minute past noon. The executive order direct• Secretary Anderson to run the packing houses on the ter sand conditions of employment that now prevail. That sounds a trifle ambiguous, bee use the condition• LE ..--.i------- no revailing are th a t the men are not orkin. hat it mens, obviously, is ~t the wa e scale reveiling at the time th~ en struck. Apparently, r. Truman expects the worke s to comply with that idea. And, th&t doesn't make a bit with the two union• involved. Both the A.F. of L. an d the C.I.O. ■ en announced at Chic go that _ they will not go back to work even for Uncle Saa unless the government's fact-findin1 panel makes wage increases retroactive to next Saturday. And the panel will not r port until February Sixteenth, un ess it hurries faster than was expected. lell, the A.F. of L. union, the Amalgamated eat Cutters and Butcher Union, rescinded its order to its aen to go to work for the government and told the ■ to sit right and awai~ further word from their headquarters. The C.I.O. Union, United Packing Bouee Workers, will hold a meeting t morrow to decide whether its two hundred LEA - 6 ------- thousan members will comply with th P. government•~ orders. Thre of the packin com anie informed the Fact-Fi ding Panel that it ould cot the seventeen and a half cents more an hour immediately to meet the wage increase that the workers de and, and seven and a half cents more later for the C.I.O. union, and fifteen cents more for the A.F. of L. When the plants are seized on Saturday . , troop• I will be on the Job. President Truman has ord•~ed the Secretar1 of lar to send the troops as guards to ■ate sure there i• no disorder and top vent any •owert act.• '•, F LLO' T U , tAN - ~ - ------ ..... ~----_, __ ~ o 1 th st iie.e situ a tio su nary. Th total numb r on strike today througboat th ~ ount.y is estiaated at a million, ei bt-bundred- tho1 and. But thee are othe sidle -- many othera, as a -result f the strike; plc1nts forced to abut do•D becau~e they no• ar running out of steel. --o-- In addition te the threat of a walkout on t• rail~oads, there· is a chance that certain coal mines ~ay shut down; in lentucky and Virginia. ot becaaa of a striie of miners, but of electrical workers i n t o plants supplying po er to the mines. --o-- In Chicago the police on guard outside the DO stockyards, to prev 0 nt d lsorder, had *• place to sit 1o n. So, an individual who called hi . self wspecial Service Sandy,• came along witll pillows and old ne spapers, which he sold to the cops. Then it turned cold. This time along came San1y · itb earmuffs and blanket . which he 6 ave the offices - - for a price. Then, it turned warm, and now the police ha no place to hang their hats and coa,s. and the blankets. So Sandy _nt out and got a supply of nails. Be even tried to · aell the nails to the police, at five cents apiece. That as the last straw. The police took after their ienefactor, an4 tonight Sandy doesn't work there any ore. --o-- In Pittsburgh, the steel strike at least h~• done a goo~ turn to men wbo pay alimon1,. The court of Alleghany County handed down a rulin~ that •support orders• will not be enforced a~ainst ■ en who are OD strike! benefit Bo 9ver. this• s Ai! dona for the ••■II* ot the en. It's for the benefit of the omen. ~o long as sl ■J she rec 0 ived sup~ort from her husband, the little wo m an oul get no relief from the public worts. low that alimony is cut off, wives get a weekly allowance fro th ta te -- , a ain it's the taxpayer ho pa1•~ ADD STRIKE - ----- -- --~ Added to the factories ahut down tor lack ot ateel, will be all the Ford motor plants. Tbe eompan1 announced at Detroit today that it would be obliged to a:;, all operation ■ in ten days; t1■ 1■1 119.. ateel. la\ even before the ten days are up, the Co ■pany will lay off fifteen thousand ■en to■orro•1•ent7-fiTe thousand ■ ore within a week. Secretary ot State Byrnes left London today, on is way to Washington. Be started iaaediately after the lase bly ot the United lations bad unaniaously voted to establish the coamiasion tor the control ot atomic energy a1 suggested by the Bil Three Foreign linietere at loscow. Before be lett, Byrn•• deli•ered a statement ~o the Aaae ■bly •~ich, accordia1 to reports fro■ London, ■ ade quite an i ■pression. The United lation1, be said, were obliged to unite in war to pre1erYe their co ■■ on freedoa. They are now co ■■ itted to re ■ ain united to preser•e their co■■ on peace. •11 won the war againat aggression and tyranny by fighting together,• said be. ••e ■ ust now keep the peace by working together.• Be then spoke of tbe necessity ot finding ways to pro ■ ote the use of our scientific knowledge for the benefit ot ■ ankind and pre•ent their use tor destructive purposes. Science, declared Byrnes, is a •onopoly of no one nation, and the problems that have u.1.0. - 2 ------ arisen fro ■ the di1c0Tery of ato ■ ic energy cannot be solTed by any one nation. Tbey are the co ■aon responsibility of all nations. Be went on t o aay that we shall haYe to contin• keeping ar■ l•• of occupation in Ger any and Japan for a~•• time to come. He added that to keep ar ■ ie• of occupation in countries wbich •• want to Join the United lationa will not be condusive to a peaceful world. Following Byrnes•s 1ta t. ement, ca ■e \he nani ■ ous vote of tbe Asaeably for the ato ■ ic energy control co ■aission. f>£ ., In a preas conference, Byrnes told new1paper■en "' that he was particularly. anxious to get all occupation ~ forces out of the Balkans and out of Italy. lo progre11 l can be ■ ade toward reconstruction so long as occupation troops remain in ■overeign countries. Thi• would include China and Greece, but not Indon,sia. i ' I. I l,,i; - I TRIAL --~---- Fro ■ Rure ■berg we learn today what line tat Berman Goering is going to follow in bis defense. Be is going to put moat of the bla ■ e on Ribbentrop. ~ . ~ ' According to the obese Air Yarsbal, he~could haTe I( / J kept Britain out of the war in Nfneteen f irty-lin•~ but for Ribbentrop'• a rogance and blundering. Bi• defense will include ■ ateriala in a book recentl7 published at Stuctbola by a Swedi1b ciTil engineer. In this, the en ineer declares that in J ••• B1neteen Thirty-line, a t j pot British big bu1ine11 ■ en tried to get in contact with pro ■ inent Ger■ an1. luguat Seventh, lineteen Thirt7-l1ne, they ■et Goerin& near the Danish border. According to Goering, be had almoat brought &bout a reconailiatioa between Mrttaln and Germany. But at the crucial ■ o ■ ent, Ribbentrop insulted the British Ambassador, tbe late Sir leville Henderson. Instead of banding bia a copy of the Ger■an note on Poland, he sua■ oned Henderson to his office and kept hi ■ standing while he read him the note aloud. Goering tried to s ■ootb Henderson's ruffled feelings by obtaining a copy of the note and sending it to bi ■• On August Thirty-First, lineteen Thirty-line, Go ring invite~ Henderson - so be says - to a conterenc, ~"!r.opoaed negotiations bet een Britain and Ger■an7, " Britain to represent the interests ot Poland. Bend r1on pro i1ed to conTey the peace oTeriures to hi1 government, and Goering thou1ht he could persuade Hitler to appoint hi■, Goering, aa mediator with Britain. Allot these atte ■pts at peace were upset by --=IZd Ribbentrop1~•a7a Ber■an Goerina. Another anti-European riot in Bombay! la11 de■onstration~, with the police firing on the erow d ■; leaving ten dead,and aoae forty-six injured. The police held tbeir fire until the ■ob ••t fire to a street car. Up to that ti■• the police ha4 \ been battling the de■on■ trators with tear gaa. Bat, while the fire■en were trying to control . the fla■e ■ , Indiana tro■ nearby rooftops atte pted to drive the ■ ott with atones. And tbat was wben the firing started. PA ,., .-.---------- Y , , Gen " l rl Touhy paatz !! to take the pla J~ f ene~ l Arnol. It's official no from the ent hi, elf. G 0 n ra I Spaatz * il 1 become o o and 0 r of On le , a ' .:, A y Air Fo-r es as soon as G~neral nold retu ns f-roo his p esenv tour of South America. Gen plan al Arnold's original ,1aa ■ as not to coae back until ea ly in February. Bo ever, he became ill, tn i t • ne u, I believe it a , and no is on bis way ho · e. So ewbere in the Pacific,~e•• i• s•i•1 •• '• the ■ oat oo 0•1al scientific experi ■ ent ever undertaken The GoYern ■ ent ia going to aaee ■ble a fleet ot ninety- seven • arehipa Ger■ an, Japanese and A ■erican. T h Jle of our own that ar included will be old ■en-o-war, 1uch as the aircraft carriemSa•atoga and Ind pendence, and the battlewagon1 le• tort, .-.r«. J M A C . ~ ~ - ~ ~.:t-~ Penn17lYania, Artaa ■ aa and leYada. Thea•• ato■ boab ,,, will be dropped la the ■ idat of tbia fleet to 4eter■ ine how ■any of tbo ■ e . ob ■ olete and eneay war1bipa it will de ■ troy. The ezperiaent will take plac not tar fro ■ the Marshall I1landa, bat tar enough away 10 that there will be no danger of inJ•rin1 either tbe aati••• ot the . i1land1 or any traYelera in tbe Pacific. l•••paperaen will be on hand to de ■ crib• the effect of tb• de ■on ■ tration, which ought to aake a eight worth seeing. There will al ■ o, ot course, be ■ e ■bers of Congress, repreaentati••• ot all aras ot the ■ ilitary establiah ■ent, civilian 1cientists. Senator llclahon of Connecticut baa urged that representatiTea 0£ the United lations be invited. Also British and Canadian obaervere. As otficiall1 stated, the obJect of tb1 experiaent is to aate available to science and to the public all appropriate intoraation deri•ed fro■ tbi1 hi1tor:lc ta1t. It ■ ay be neceaaary to keep 10 -· ■• re1ult1 1e . ct t bec1u1e of tbetr ailita·ry; iaportanoe .. S•ppoaiag the exploeion of tbe atoaic bo■b sink• all ninet1-••••n ot those sbip1, it woul4 be treaendoaal7 1igaificant. There will be three teat,a tn all. ror ~•xft•• the firat, the ato ■ ic boab will be explodeL ••••ral handrad feet aboTe tbe 1bip1. T 1• •ill tate place in lay. A couple ot aontb1 later, it ••1 ehip1 are left, anotber boab ~ill b• exploded at water le•el. The third teat will be conducted next i••r or later. In that one, the boab will be exploded under water at a considerable depth. There ta a 1cientific tbeor , 7- that 111rfac'- . •xplo , 11 , on1 are far ■ore daaaging than tboae under water. Thia teat will proYe or disproYe it. In addition to news ca■eramen, A~•J, Ravy and Air force cine ■atographers will record the explosion tro■ heavily ar■ored abel~ers on the ring of island• which surround the place chosen for the anchorage. There will al10 be planes alott, without crew ■, controlled b7 radio *•x••••, bat carr7ing recordin1 apparatu1. Tb base of the operation• will be tbe i1l1n4 ot IwaJalein, which we captured fro■ tbe Jape at ••c• terrific coat of lite. The for■er ene ■y 1bip• will include the Japanese battlewagon lagato, and the Ger■an h•a•y crai1e. Prine Zugea, which •tea■ed into Boston last l14ne1day. The entire operation wi?l be under the co ■■and ot tic• A4airal ••1st~ B1and7. ■•••tea •• ,,_-:Ji;ere ill be no er••• aboard the target 1hip1. lt the spot selected tor the first experi ■ent the water ie only sixty-sis feet deep. That will ■ ake it po1aible' to send divers down to exa ■ ine in detail tbe results on tbe vessels tbat are sunk. Those that are not · sunk and hopelessly da■ aged will b~::r-ired ang. w-de eeu91tby~orlth1_, aecond t e e . ~ ~ ~ ~ , ~ ~