tI Second Front Page October 24, 1959 Page 3 Williams Return Inter-PrtyI Tax Orders Meeting Steel Union, Industry Set New Meeting Both Sides Answer U.S. Court Request 'h.. \. Board Gives New Picture To Governor is ..L4'". . Sl Rau.i U.S. STEEL EXPORTS 1 1 KUS. STEEL'IPCTS 7AR KOA WORLD AR WA- r-: I . . : 19999 95 j . LO1' O" e Lrae 44 M4*.4.. 4 ". r4... 0. i :. ". . . . * .*. ~. . .4. :4 . W f _ _ _ " .~ ~. oRWAR ~ ~S:.:. 193 93 1431981953 1958 RADICAL CHANGE-The American steel industry, which has long enjoyed a favorable position on the world trade market has taken a drastic setback since 1958, while foreign steel makers are getting a bigger share of the American domestic market. This is due to the modern cost structure, especially wages In the United, States. Foreign prices are lower in general U.S. Los'ing World Steel. Trade PITTSBURGH () - The Unit- ed Steelworkers and the steel in- dustry's f o u r - m a n negotiating team agreed last night to resume contract talks today in efforts to end the 101-day nationwide steel strike. The new round of talks were scheduled in rapid fire develop- ments that saw both sides re- questing meetings. The union asked the industry to meet Monday. The industry re- plied it would like to get started today. Both parties are under directive from the United States Third Cir- cuit Court of Appeals to. resume bargaining quickly. While the negotiations were be- ing scheduled, Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell urged negotia- tions "around the clock until an agreement is reached." To Bring Together US5W President David J. Mac- Donald sent invitations to 96 steel companies to meet with the union in Pittsburgh Monday. All were named as defendants in a govern- ment request for a Taft-Hartley injunction. The union's invitation yesterday called for separate meetings with each of the 96 companies closed by the strike. McDonald said he still hopes to hold individual hopes to hold individual meetings with each firm Monday. Neither the industry nor the Union had any comment on a possible new proposal being sub- mitted today. Directs Bargaining The United States Third Circuit Court in Philadelphia directed that bargaining be resumed at the same time it stayed enforcement of a Taft-Hartley 80-day injunc- tion. The injunction was issued in Pittsburgh last Wednesday. The federal government re- quested the injunction, claiming the strike is threatening the na- tion's economic health and safety. The appellate court issued the directive in delaying enforcement of the injunction ordering the steelworkers back to the mills. A ruling on the union's appeal seeking to overthrow the injunc- tion is expected sometime early next week. i l 1 l F 1 .+ i 1 l i ,1 CASTRO DENOUNCES FORMER COMRADE-Crowd cheers as Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro, speaking from balcony in left background, attacked former comrade Maj. Hubert Matos as a traitor. Matos, the provincial commander, and 30 of his officers had resigned with a challege to the leftist swing of the revolution. The officer was arrested and charged with plotting a coup d'etat. IN DARKEST HOUR: Castro Makes Appeal for Help HAVANA (A) - Prime Minister Fidel Castro appealed to the Cu- ban people yesterday to help him t h r o u g h his regime's darkest hours. In the wake of the first blood- shed in Havana since the bearded revolutionary leader took over in January and the shakeup of the army in Camaguey, Castro called for a mass demonstration Mon- day by the people to show support of the revolution. Castro made his appeal in a marathon TV appearance which drove another wedge in the wid- ening gap of Cuban-United States relations. He made an impas- sioned accusation that the U. S. allowed planes to fly from its ter- ritory to bomb Cuba. Confusion on many fronts cloud- ed the situation. Attempts Assassination 1) In the supercharged atmos- phere of Thursday was the first actual attempt made on Castro's life? Roberto Salas Hernandez, 44- year-old upholstered accused by three witnesses of attempting to approach Castro with a knife in his hand is being held for a 72- hour investigation. I Police seized him yesterday after two youths said he ap- proached Castro with a long knife hidden under his arm. Salas, who was intoxicated at the time, in- sisted he was a supporter of the Prime Minister's regime. Takes Lightly Castro, who appeared to take the incident lightly, recommend- ed Salas be sent to a hospital for a drunkenness cure. On TV Thursday night, how- ever, he warned any enemies who might think of assassinating him: "They will really tremble when there is no one to come on tele- vision to tell the people not to take the law in their own hands." 2) Did bombs actually fall from planes which. showered the capi- tal with anti-government leaflets Wednesday as Castro charges? The Cuban Air Force at first said no. Numerous witnesses de- nied any shooting or bombing from intruder planes, and the be- lief is growing that many of some 50 victims, including two dead, were hit by falling bullets fired by Castro's own forces. 3) Did Commandante Hubert Matos, one of the 'B a r b u d o s' By BERNARD GAVZER Associated Press Newsfeatures Writer' The American steel industry has long enjoyed a favorable world trade position, with exports gen- erously surpassing imports. But there was a radical change in 1958. Industry statistics show that two things have occurred: 1) The United States share of the world market has dropped- and is dropping. 2) At the same' time, foreign steel makers are getting a bigger share of the American domestic market. The industry contention is that the modern cost structure-par- ticularly in terms of wages-puts it at. a competitive disadvantage. Foreign prices are generally lower. This argument plays a role in the stalemated steel strike, which began July 1. Steelmakers Complain The steelmakers complained be- fore the strike that high wages were causing American products to be priced out of foreign markets. The United Steelworkers argued that increased wages do not auto- matically call for price increases and that the industry can afford to raise wages without hiking prices. DAL DIAL NO 5-6290 International concern over American steel-and the outcome of the strike-was reflected re- cently at Washington sessions of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. It was one of the chief topics engrossing economists from many countries. They talked in terms of a new upsurge in the inflationary spiral should a wage- price hike develop. United States steelmakers have watched the rise of foreign steel imports with growing concern. They got a bit of a shock when export statistics showed that ton- nage dropped from 5,175,448 tons in 1957 to 2,687,415 tons in 1958. That set off the cry that high wages were pricing United States steel out of foreign markets. Not Significant But this argument has been dis- counted in some quarters. For in- stance, M. S. Scymczak, a mem- ber of the Federal Reserve Board, said American industrial prices have not risen significantly more than in other major countries. He also said American exports had ex- panded far more than normally and the 1958 decline was a natural and probably temporary conse- quence of many factors. However, Steelways, a publica- tion of the American Iron and Steel Institute, insists that the experience of 1958 cannot be dis-, missed as abnormal. "The first six months of this year (1959) continued to follow the same discouraging tfend," Steelways says. "In that period im- ports exceeded exports by about two to one, in sharp contrast with the years 1953-57, when the in- dustry's exports exceeded imports three to one. Thus, we have not only lost sales abroad, but we have lost some of our sales right here at home." Condition Improved A contributing factor placing foreign steel producers in an im- proved condition was the American aid given foreign nations follow- ing the World War II period. As a result, such nations as West Ger- many and Japan have been able to rebuild their industries. Says Steelways: "European and Japanese steel mills in 1958 made substantial in- roads into American export mar- kets and deep penetration into our own domestic market for some steel products through extending liberal credit and sizable price con- cessions. These actions were un- dertaken to satisfy a national de- sire to maintain employment levels at home by improving their posi- tion in export markets and there- by maximize their production rates." The accompanying map and chart shows the recent rise in United States imports of foreign steel and the declining United States exports which has been under way with only periodic in- terruption since World War II. Bars on the map show the decline United States share of the world steel export market and fluctua- tions in other countries. PSYCHIATRIST'S THEORY: Hallucinations Caused by 'Hunger' By SHELBY SCATES OKLAHOMA CITY (P)-Normal humans have an odd hunger that quietly feeds on sight, sound, taste and even pain. Without these sensations the hunger will cause the mind to soar off into an eerie dream world of hallucinations. That's the theory of Dr. Jay T. Shurley, a psychiatrist who is making the first systematic study into the effects of extreme isola- tion at the Veterans Administra- tion hospital here. Shurley says hallucinations are common in persons mentally ill with schizophrenia and are known to occur to persons confined in iron lungs and to those paralyzed over large portions of their body. Makes Dreams To learn more about schizo- phrenia and the nature of normal persons, Shurley is conducting ex- periments which result in hallu- cinations. a 01 His subjects, medical research- ers, are immersed in a plastic tank' of water inside an underground room engineered to eliminate sound or vibration. Water in the tank is at body temperature. The subject breaths filtered air through a soft rubber mask that fits copfortably over his head. "The subject is in a near vacuum of sensation," says Shurley. "He feels, sees, tastes nothing. There is no word in our language to de- scribe such a situation." Stripped of its ordinary stimu- lations, the brain takes a turn for the bizarre. The brain begins to light up like a pinball machine with geometric figures in the first 15 minutes. In an hour the subject has a full production of hallucinations, no matter how hard he tries to avoid them. No one has stayed in the tank more than three hours. Like normal dreams during sleep, Shurley says these hallu- cinations can be pleasant or hor- rible. But here the similarity ends. For most people dreams are like old movies, one dimensional and in black and white. By contrast, hallucinations are a homemade cinerama. They have three dimensions, sound and vivid color, says Shurley. A Difference Condition of the subject in the experiment is akin to schizophre- nia, with one significant difference, Shurley explains: "The subject steps outside the tank and in a few minutes, the hallucinations vanish. The men- tally ill schizophrenic never knows where reality ends and the fantasy begins." Why do hallucinations occur in normal persons? "In the brain there is a law of diminishing returns," the psychia- trist explains. "We have known for some time that too much stimula- tion can cause a temporary or per- manent loss of reality. "Brainwashing and.combat fa- tigue among soldiers are grim ex- amples of this. "Now we find that the absence of these ordinary feelings which we've always taken for granted can also break down the mind. Deprived of stimulations from the, outside, the brain will make its own-hallucinations." What He Has Proved Shurley insists his work is pure research with little practical ap- plication. But ,he bristles with ideas that have resulted from the experiments. "First we have proved that nor- mal persons-not just schizophre- nics - can have hallucinations. We've done away with the idea that sleep occurs in the absence of stimulations. One the contrary, the brain is extra alert." The experiments, he feels, sug- gest the cure for combat fatigue may be isolation, and the remedy for hallucinations suffered by per- sons paralyzed or in iron lungs may be extra stimulation. (bearded ones) who fought in the1 hills against Fulgencio Batista, betray his country?1 Lashes Outt Castro lashed into his formerF Chief of Camaguey Military ForcesE with a full denunciation treatment in two television appearances. But the provincial military leader who ran Castro's army was well-liked and respected through- out the province, and even in Ha-{ vana eyebrows were raised at1 Matos' arrest and the treasonl charges brought against him. Rteds Insist On Meeting At Summit MOSCOW () - The Soviet Un- ion insisted yesterday the job of easing world tensions is one for the heads of government, and an- nounced it wants a summit meet- ig quickly - the sooner the bet- ter. The Kremlin position was made plain in a statement issued by the official news agency TASS. It came at a moment when interna- tional developments in the West indicated a summit meeting might be delayed until spring. The timing of the TASS an- nouncement left the impression that Premier Nikita S. Khrush- chev urgently wants a summit= meeting, but that'if he cannot get it this year he will take it later on. TASS mentioned no proposed date for the gathering of the gov- ernment chiefs of the U.S. the USSR, Great Britain and France. The TASS statement followed by 16 hours another dispatch of the agency distributed here and then canceled, with the explana- tion only that it had been distrib- uted by mistake. That earlier statement had said Khrushchev told Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower in the U.S. last month the Soviet government "deems it necessary that a summit conference be con- vened before the end of the year. The new statement put the So- viet position this way: "Conflicting reports have ap- peared in the foreign press con- cerning the Soviet government's position as tothe time of the con- vocation of a meeting of the heads of government to consider urgent problems with a view of relaxing the international situation and strengthening world peace. "In this connection, TASS has been authorized to state that the Soviet government's repeatedly stated position on this matter re- mains unchanged. The govern- ment of the USSR regards a meeting of the heads of govern- ment as necessary and is ready for such a meeting. x. To Recommend Use Of Veteran's Fund To Bail Out State LANSING (l - Gov. G. Men-. nen Williams yesterday summoned legislative leaders to a bipartisan huddle Tuesday to formulate a tax program. The governor acted within two hours of his return to Lansing from a month's vacation trip abroad. During the brief interval, he was closeted with members of the State. Administrative Board. He was briefed among other things on the supreme court de- cision wiping out most of the reve- nues provided by a one per cent increase in the state use (sales) tax seven weeks ago. "The worst thing that could happen to the state is to have an- other prolonged tax battle," Wil- liams said. "I am determined that if I can prevent it there shall be no furth- er delay in enacting some kind of tax program which will provide the money we need." Recognizes Majority He recognized that the Repub- lican Senate majority has the votes to block any Democratic tax proposal and to force Democrats to accept anything the GOP agrees on "or face complete dis- aster." Wires asking attendance at the 2:30 'p.m. Tuesday meeting went out to Lt. Gov. John B. Swainson, Sen. Frank Beadle (R-St. Clair), Sen. Charles T. Prescott (R-Pres- cott), Sen. Philip Rahoi (D-Iron, Mountain, Rep. Alilson Green (M.. Kingston), Speaker Don R. Pears: (R-Buchanan), Rep. Joseph J. Kowalski (D-Detroit) and Rep. Al Horrigan (D-Flint), all party leaders and to all members of the House and Senate taxation comi- mittees. The governor said he was get- ting ready a message to present ts lawmakers when they return next Thursday but had not decided on its content. To Recommend Fund Use He said he would again recom- mend use of the Veterans Trust Fund to help bail the state out of the financial swamp. He said Republicans need have no fear of House Democrats block- ing any suggested tax plan but denied that this was a "surren- der," as suggested by one news- man. Lt. Gov. John B. Swainson anl- nounced these tentative decisions of the State Administrative Board, all subject to confirmation next week: Defer Openings 1) Deferral of opening of the new Boys Vocational School cus- todial unitnear completion at Whitmore Lake. First buildings are due for completion about Jan. 1. They would provide housing for 100 state wards. 2) Postponement of the opening of Plymouth State Home and Training School facilities due for completion in February.hAn order for 100 cribs for use there was held up. 3) Postponement of a State Po lice recruit training school, ex" pected to graduate 40 to 50 andi. dates for the force in November. Demands Substitute From Sen. Carlton H. Morris (R-Kalamazoo), who spearheaded the use tax drive, came a demand that the governor produce a sub- stitute tax blueprint. Williams and Democratic, legis- lators, joined by a scattering of House Republicans, urged passage of a personal and corporate in- come tax package which would have yielded about 140 million dollars. It squeezed through the House but met quick defeat in the Senate. The income "tax route still lies open but no one thought the GOP-controlled Legislature would take it --except in utter despera- tion, even Rep. Rollo G. Conln (R-Tipton,) a staunch advocate. A bill to slap a one per cent tax on wholesalers was waiting on the sidelines in the Senate. Sen. Charles 0. Fenstra (R-Grand Rapids) the sponsor, estimated it would produce about 70 million dollars a year. Cinema uld Tonight at 7:00 and 9:00 Tomorrow at 8:00 JANE EYRE. with JOAN FONTAINE 5-jOR N 1\ WEL - TOM LEHRER coming Noy. 14 tickets on sale now at Bob Marshall's I I Endin Tonig g jht , ' DIAL NO 8-6416 I m ruKlar..,- I I I III i s f