THE MICHIGAN DAILY
'o End Strike in
Week
Tshombe Rebuffed at C
DETROIT - The United Auto
Workers and General Motors yes-
terday reached tentative agree-
ment on a new three-year labor;
contract. Both sides immediately
expressed hope that the strike
against the giant automaker could
be ended within a week.
The only stumbling blocks now
preventing a complete settlement
are at the plant working agree-
ments which supplement the na-
tional contract. But there are
some 13,600 unresolved union de-
mands at issue in these.
Weary negotiators who had been
at the Detroit bargaining table
all night immediately turned their
efforts toward local-level solutions.
Each side set up teams available'
at a battery of telephones to local
counterparts.
The 11-day strike has idled
28f,000 of GM's 350,000 UAW-
represented production workers
across the country.
Lost Wages
The company estimated the
walkout was costing workers $7
million a day in lost wages. A un-
ion spokesman said economic gains
and improved working conditions
already obtained or sought are
worth the price.
The new national agreement had
the eftect of lifting a damper from
the national economy. GM stock
sbot upwr.. $1.25 to $100.50 Im-
mediately.
Right behind joint announce-
nrent of tentative agreement at
GM came word that Chrysler UAW
members had "ratified by an over-
whe:nmg majority" the first and
pattern-setting contract of this.
year's bargaining in the automot-
ive industry.
At Ford, the UAW added a con-
tingent $25 to $100 Christmas bon-
us to the package won' at Chrysler.
And at GM it got the same.
But to add a series of fringe
gains, including earlier retirement
and higher pensions, the union
gave up 9%g' cents hourly it could
have added to pay checks im-
mediately.;
The new pacts automatically
add wage increases in 1965 and
1966. And this year workers will
get, an average three-cent hourly
gain in take-home pay as the com-
panies take over full costs of life,
sickness and accident insurance.
UAW president Walter P. Reu-
ther estimated the Ford and
Chrysler agreements were worth
54 cents hourly over their three-
year span. He declined to put a
figure on the GM package. So did
the company.
Pre-strike national bargaining
bogged down on union demands
for what it termed improved work-
ing conditions, more union repre-
sentation within the plants, pro-
duction quotas'and excessive over-
.time.
Relief Time
GM already had offered to match
the 36 minutes daily relief time
which Ford and Chrysler agreed
to give workers whose pace was
geared to machines and assembly
lines. These breaks-totaling 24
minutes heretofore-normally are
taken in equal splits before and
after lunch.
The UAW added as much as 10
hours a week-from 15 to 25-to
the amount off company-paid time
union shop committeemen can de-
vote to grievances and other union
business. The company also agreed
to increase the number of commit-
teemen in two categories of larg-
er plants.
Reuther said the settlement
provides for 12,000 more hours a
week for union representatives to
handle grievances, check assembly
line speeds and handle other mat-
ters which he said add up to
"meaningful improvement" in
working conditions.
-Associated Press
1 THE UNITED AUTO WORKERS and General Motors yesterday
agreed upon a tentative three-year contract. Louis Seaton, vice-
president of GM, left, said that unions in 117 of 130 GM plants
across the country still have to settle local issues. Walter Reuther,
UAW president, right, noted that the total agreement added up to
"meaningful improvements" in working conditions.
Supreme Court OpCns
With Two Rights Cases
WASIINGTON QP)-The Supreme Court was told yesterday that
unless it declares the public acconimodations section of the new! civil
rights act unconstitutional "there's no end" to how far Congress will
invade personal liberties.
Moreton Rolleston Jr., atttorney for the Heart of Atlanta motel,
hammered at the theme "people are not commerce" like products and
he denounced as "hogwash" government arguments that the section
barring racial discrimination at virtually all motels is aimed at reliev-
French Rightist Group
Backs Goldwater Drive
PARIS, (P)-Apparently without the candidate's knowledge or
.approval, Sen. Barry Goldwater's campaign for the United States
Presidency has spilled over into the French political arena in the form
of an extreme rightest movement.
This came to light over the weekend with the formation of the
"Association Francaise des Amis de Goldwater" (French Association
of Friends of Goldwater). In accordance with French law, the organi-
zation made its declaration to the prefecture of police, and it was
published in the official journal.
Americans in Europe who have formed a Goldwater-for-President
group to campaign among expatriate Americans expressed surprise.
Evan Galbraith, European chairman of this group, said, "We know
nothing about it and we have no connection with it."
Headquarters of the French organization confirmed this yester-
day. Philippe Heduy, Vice-Chairman of the "Amis de Goldwater,"
said he and his friends are vorking independently of any American
group.
Commenting on his group, Heduy said his aim is chiefly to win
Frenchmen to the ideas of Goldwater, and not to attempt to influence
American voters. He praised Goldwater as a spokesman for conserva-
tive ideas.
"His political ideas are parallel to ours," said Heduy. "We feel he
voices a current which can spread to Europe and to the world. This is
a counter-current to the so-called 'sense of history,' and can well
reverse this so-called 'sense.' " Heduy ,intimated he was alluding to
Communist claims that their cause is the "sense of history."
,
-ying the burden on interstate
I commerce.
Worl News
Roundup
By The Associated Press
VATICAN CITY-By an over-
whelming vote, the Vatican Ecu-
menical Council approved yester-
day part of a draft decree aimed
at unifying Christians. The Coun-
cil agreed the church must share
with others guilt for discords that
split Christianity over the ages.
TOKYO-Premier Khrushchev
has said it is possible China may
explode a nuclear device at any
time, the Newspaper Asahi Shim-
bun reported yesterday.
But Khrushchev said the test-!
ing of China's first nuclear de-
vice will not be a threat since it
will take several years before the
Chinese can develop an effective
system capable of carrying nu-
clear warheads, the paper added.
NEW YORK-A Republican task
force report on control of field-
type nuclear weapons was public-
ly outlined yesterday, in former
President Dwight D. Eisenhower's
presence. But he neither accept-
ed nor rejected it.
The report amounted to a poli-
cy statement, backing GOP presi-
dential candidate Barry Goldwa-
ter's position that the American
NATO commander should have
the authority to use tactical nu-
clear weapons in certain defensive
conditions.
The high tribunal began its 1964
term with an unusual opening day
hearing to take on its first test
of the civil rights act. The motel
appealed from a three-judge fed-
eral court decision in Atlanta
which upheld the public accom-
modations provision.
The justices also heard a more
restricted test of the law, a federal
government appeal from a three-
judge federal court in Birming-
ham which ruled in favor of a res-
government appeal from a three-
taurant that maintains it is not
in interstate commerce.
An attorney for Ollie's Barbecue
in Birmingham, Ala., said Con-
gress had set up an invalid test
which brings under the law any
restaurant that "has moved food
in interstate commerce."
He said this wording sets up a
legislative presumption that be-
cause a restaurant has moved its
supplies in interstate commerce
in the past it is contiinuing to do
so. There is no limit to how far
back this ,reasure goes, Smitn
added
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