WESTERN EUROPE EDITION One Year Ago Today The Weather Today Russians claim 300,000 German killed in two-week winter offen- PARIS: Morning; fog-, frost—36 sive. Third Army patrols Ger- THE STARS A S. FRANCE: Cloudy, rain—50 TRIPES DOVER: Cloudy, frost—11 man border in Luxembourg-. Ger- mans thrown back across Moder. GERMANY: Morning fog—33 Unofficial Newspapers *( U.S. Forces in th« European Theater Vol. 2^No. 194 2Fiv Id. Monday, Jan. 28, 1946 UAW Signs Pact With Ford, Chrysler; Railroads and 18 Unions Will Arbitrate UNO to Act It's Always the Same Story Meat Strikers Told On (Greece, To Co Back bv CIO ilraii Today By the Associated Press • LONDON, Jan. 27 (AP).—• America's labor picture assumed its most encouraging The so-called threats to world outlook in weeks yesterday with the. following rapid peace in the questions of al- developments: leged Russian interference in 1— The United Automobile Workers (CIO) settled its Iran and the presence of Brit- dispute with the Ford Motor Co. on the basis of an 18-cent- ish troops in Indonesia and Greece an-hour. wage increase^ and with the Chrysler Corp. on an are scheduled for debate before 18 1/2-cent-an-hour basis. the United Nations Security Coun- cil in the opening of" its second 2— Officials of the United Packinghouse Workers business session tomorrow. (CIO) urged 193,000- striking members to return to work The council is also expected to consider the application of Albania today, pending further negotiations. for membership in the world peace 3— The major railroads and 19 out of 20 railroad-labor organization, and later in the week unions agreed to arbitrate wage requests for 1,250,000 the urgent refugee problem which has been closely linked with pre- workers. liminary discussion of UNRRA In an announcement issued joint- finances. ly with the union, the Chrysler Argentina Condemned Corp. said that "complete agree- 3-Year Men Meanwhile, the General Assembly ment" had been reached on tne has received a 10,000-word memo- wage increase. The union originally randum from an organization had demanded 30 percent boosts Seen Leaving known as the Nation Associates of from both Ford and Chrysler. New York, urging exclusion of Ar- Over 100,000 Affected Whatever the weather is, whatever the nationalities are, the boys will gentina from the UNO, The Chrysler agreement affects Early in April The document condemned the always go with the girls and the girls with the boys. A Japanese photographer gets a shot of Nipponese-American collaboration. The Argentine regime as a "totalitarian and will, when finally ratified, By Joe Harvey government" whose "purpose is backdrop (real) is the moat surrounding the Emperor Hirohito's Tokyo Stars and Stripej Staff Writer palace, a part of which can be seen. {^represent an estimated $18,000,000 aggression," and charged that it ' increase in wages. The Ford agree- FRANKFURT, Jan. 27—The re- had violated all obligations assumed ment affects nearly 100,000 workers. Under the United Nations charter. deployment of officers is being Although the CIO urged its meat accomplished at a slower rate than It. was not considered probable, workers to return to the govern- that the Argentine application for Yugoslavia Starts UNO Scrap ment-operated plants, it added that that of enlisted men, and no move- «4*tembership would be discussed it was not calling off the strike. ment schedule for officers who be- during the present session. The packing-house workers original- come eligible5 for shipment on the The agenda for the London ses- By Opposing Refugee Action ly had decided to remain off the sion of the Assembly is well on its job despite Government seizure but basis of length of service has yet way to being cleared, but among reversed their decision after Clin- been set up, USFET redeployment the important items not yet con- LONDON, Jan. 27 (UP).—Yugoslavia created a major poli- ton P. Anderson, Secretary of Agri- officials said yesterday. sidered is the selection of 15 mem- culture, had told their president bers for the International Court of tical controversy in the UNO Assembly today by declaring that At the same time, the USFET that he favored putting into effect G-3 Redeployment Branch an- Justice. the refugee problem which plagues most European nations has Thus far, the smaller nations any wage increase which might be nounced that GIs who became eli- ceased to be the most important international question. The recommended by the fact-finding gible for discharge on the basis of have fared better than they had board now holding hearings. expected, with the Arab League three years' service probably would Yugoslav delegation introduced a resolution asking the Assembly If such an increase is unsatisfac- leave the theater early in April. and most of the Latin-American to go on record as opposing the countries leading the fight for tory to the union, said Lewis J. USFET G-l said that the move- small nations' interests establishment of any kind of inter- Clark, UPW president, "the strike ment of officers who became eligi- Most of them had feared that national^ machinery for dealing will be on as usual." ble on. Jan. 1 because of having 70 China Seeks Markets Promised Meat points or four years' service had (Continued on Page 8, Col. 5) with refugees. not been completed. Officers with It is predicted that this move is Gayle Armstrong, who is direct- less than ^that number of points ing Government .meat operations destined to cause another split Key to Impasse 09 length of service will not move Ike Against Investigating among the Big Five because the for President Truman and Ander- until the higher categories are Yugoslav proposal represents the son, said: "With the co-operation cleared, it was added. Rapido Battle, May Says Russian view, while Britain now CHUNGKING, Jan. 27 (INS).— of both labor and management, we The necessity of maintaining suf- has.come around to the U.S. opi- Political leaders agreed yesterday are now assured we can get meat ficient officers for essential jobs WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (AP).— nion that the Economic Social to extend the session of the Inter- back into the markets within a and of providing officers for home- Rep. Andrew J. May (D-Ky.), Council should study the entire Party Council to enable the Com- matter of days." ward-bound outfits has slowed of- Chairman of the House Military problem. munists to study the last-minute' The other meat union, the Amal- ficer redeployment, USFET said. ' Affairs Committee, said yesterday The Yugoslavs did, however, sug- government proposal aimed at gamated Meat Cutters and But- breaking the deadlock in peace chers (AFL), had ordered its 55,000 that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower gest that the UNO Economic Secu- members back to their jobs when Nazis Delayed in Spain was opposed to any congressional rity Council study the Spanish negotiations. investigation of the Rapido River refugee problem. Debate on the Gen, Chou En-Iai, chief Com- the plants were seized at 12:01 AM MADRID, Jan. 27 (INS).—Bad battle of Jan. 20, 1944. munist negotiator, asked that the Saturday. flying weather and "certain techni- entire refugee issue is scheduled to council be recessed instead of clos- In Chicago, the agreement be- calities" here delayed the scheduled An inquiry ' was asked by the begin tomorrow in the Assembly's tween the railroads and most of takeoff of 50 Nazis, including Hans 36th Div. Association at a reunion Social, Cultural and Humanitarian ed so he could fly to party head- in Texas recently. quarters at Yenan for new instruc- the unions was the fruit of three Thomsen, former head of the Nazi Committee. tions on the major issue in the weeks of conferences. Management party in Spain, who were to have dispute—composition and powers (Continued on Page 8, Col. 2) left'Madrid today. of the~ new State Council. Kuomintang Foreign Minister 'Ships for Blighty, Not Java/ Wang Shih-chieh, in conferences with Chou and Dr. Lo Lung-chi, Legion, Congressmen Criticize Democratic League leader, said the #RAF Men Cry in Demob Strike Central Government was willing to modify its original demands in re- Job-Return Ruling Against Vet spect to the State Council." He de- SINGAPORE,- Jan. 27 (AP).— lestine), Almaza (near Cairo) and clared that Generalissimo Chiang Four thousand Royal Air Force Katunayake (near Colombo, Cey- Kai-shek was willing to give up the WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (INS).— way that it cannot be misinter- men shouted, "Ships for blighty, lon), according to Reuter. Normal power of appointing Chinese gov- John Steele, National Commander preted by any court. not for Java" and other slogans conditions were reported at all air- ernmental officials and proposed a Adjustment allowances to 671,065 when Air Marshal Sir Keith Park fields affected by strikes begun "gentlemen's agreement" should be of the American Legion, and several unemployed veterans during the addressed the men today at Seletar earlier in the week.] reached on the political composi- Congressmen joined today in criti- week ending Jan. 12 totaled $16;425.- Airbase, major RAF base nine miles Meanwhile, the RAF EM at Cal- tion of the State Council. cism of a court ruling limiting 774 compared with total payments from Singapore. He spoke after a cutta's, Dumdum Airfield, all be- Wang proposed that instead of veterans' rights to their old jobs. of $11,718,728 to 507.043 unemployed strike by ground crew personnel low the rank of sergeant, joined the 36-member State Council, as The ruling, by Federal Judge veterans during "the previous week, this morning stopped all Seletar the "want to go home" strike over originally planned, 40 members be Charles L.