STUDENTS BILL OF RIGHTS See Page 4 Y it AI ait Latest Deadline in the State VOL. LX, No. 95 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1950 CLOUDY, COLDER SIX PAGES Natio Reds Accused Of Arousing Pit Agitation 100,000 Men s Idle by Weekend By The Associated Press Mass layoffs, coal rationing and mine picketing violence spread through the nation today in the Great Coal Strike of 1950. Soft coal contract talks brought 1 "absolutely no results" yesterday despite earlier reports that John L. Lewis and the operators had edged closer together on money differences. * * * n's Coal Strike Brings Rations, * * * * * * * COAL MINER pickets idle in the "no contract no work" walkout set a Pennsylvania, non-Union mine stockpile on fire with home- made gasoline bombs in their con- tinuing drive to choke off the last bit of production. In Washington, testimony in- dicating that 50 youth leaders of a Communist-front organiza- tion may be seeking to prolci g the coal strike was laid before the House Un-American Activ- ities Committee yesterday. Matthew Cvetic, of Pittsburgh, a former FBI undercover agent, said he had been informed two weeks ago that the alleged radi- cals were distributing food to the miners "as bait" while passing around copies of the Daily Worker, a Communist newspaper. * * *' BEST ESTIMATES are that more than 100,000 workers in coal- dependent industries will be laid + off by the end of the week. In Illinois a. state-wide dim- out has been ordered and organ- ized fuel merchants asked the governor to close all public non- essential institutions such as schools. The New York Central Railroad reported its steam-powered pas- senger trains running up to five hours late because of "poor coal." * * * DISTRICT OFFICIALS of the United Mine Workers agreed with Pittsburgh authorities on a ten- tative plan for providing a 2,000- ton daily emergency supply for hospitals and other essential us- Meanwhile, David L. Cole, Chairman of President Truman's coal inquiry board, announced that progress had stopped in negotiations which failed for the eighth day to end the strike of 372,000 United Mine Workers. At nine a.m. today the miners must answer for their apparent defiance of a Federal Court Taft- Hartley directive. 'It was assumed that one UMW contention would be that the min- ers were acting as individuals in quitting work, which the Taft- Hartley Act permits. Lewis is on record with two public calls for them to go back to work. r* * * University Will Help in Local Coal Shortage The University will add to Ann Arbor's nearly exhausted coal sup- ply to help the city overcome a serious fuel shortage, according to Mayor William E. Brown, Jr. Brown announced yesterday that the offer had been made by Rob- ert P. Briggs, Vice-President of the University. He added that the University uses stoker type coal which is less efficient for home use than the type ordinarily used in residences. * * * HE EXPLAINED that various plans were considered for ration- ing the coal and they had even considered letting the police 1- partment handle the job. It was finally decided to let city coal dealers buy the coal from the University and sell it to residents as emergencies arise. Frank B. McCudden, presi- dent of the Ann Arbor Coal Dealers Association has been named chairman of a board of Atomic Pact WithRussia Still Doubtful Truman Awaits Kremlin Move By The Associated Press President Truman stood firm yesterday in rejecting any dra- matic new approach to Moscow on the control of atomic weapons. He told his news conference he has received no "feelers" from Russia on the subject which has stirred grave misgivings in world capitals. Senator Tydings (D-Md.) warn- ed that the United States will be "caught in a trap" if Russia ac- cepts the current American plan to outlaw all atomic weapons, without effective global disarma- ment applying to other weapons. * * * THE PRESIDENT also disclosed yesterday that he will invoke an automatic 60-day stop to head off a threatened nationwide railroad strike, tentatively . set to begin at 5 a.m. Monday. Two brotherhoods composed of conductors and trainmen, repre- senting between 200,000 and 250,000 workers, called the strike' after rejecting Federal arbitra- tion on its wage-hour demands. The White House announced that the President will appoint an emergency board today or Satur- day. The board has 30 days to sub- mit a report, and no strike can be called then until another 30 days has elapsed. * * * PRESIDENT TRUMAN persist- ed in a stern refusal yesterday to give Congressrconfidential "loy- alty" files on Federal employes. He said he has promised the Senate Foreign Relations Con- erate with it in disproving what he called false charges made by mittee he will otherwise coop- Senator McCarthy (R-Wis.) that a Communist ring exists in the State Department. Senator Wherry of Nebraska, GOP leader, promptly proposed that, if the State Department re- fuses to give up the records, the Senate have Secretary Acheson prosecuted for contempt. Thus, he said, the powers of the Senate would be tested in the courts. Smith To Preside Over Men's Judie Jim Smith, '50 has been elected president of the Men's Judiciary Council. Smith succeeded Irv Goffman,1 '50, who retired from the council.; Joe Guttentag, '50, also retired from the council this semester. The council elected Duane Neu-i chterlein, '50, secretary.I 'U' TOO UNWIELDY? R. Churchill Out LONDON - () - Winston Churchill's son Randolph lost his bid for a seat in Parliament, election returns showed today. Randolph, 38, was defeated in the Devonport district by Michael Foot, Laborite who represented the constituency in the old Parliament. During the campaign the elder Churchill spoke in the district to bolster his son's race. TOWER TOPPLES-The ancient tower of historic Ferris Institute collapses in a blazing inferno as a fire of undetermined origin razed the campus at Big Rapids, Michigan Tuesday. Future of the Institute apparently will not be determined until the Legislature' meets next month. Because it is not scheduled to assume control of the school until next July, the loss could not be charged to the State's insurance fund. Weak FEPC Bill Passed Thomas Blames House Procedure Stripped-of Legal Racial Barriers 'By VERNON EMERSON WASHINGTON-UP)-In a bit- The mutilation of such bills as ter defeat for the Administration, the Fair Employment Practices the House yesterday passed a sub- Commssin at cn ony b pr- ;stitute FEPO bill stripped of the Commission act can only be pre- legal barriers against racial dis- vented by giving administration- crimination in employment that supported measures priority to de- President Truman has demanded. bate on the floor of the House of The vote was not even close: 240 Representatives, Prof. Morgan to 177. Some of the sponsors of Thomas of the political science de- the original Administration meas- partment claimed yesterday. ure voted against the substitute, "The present methods of get- although in doing so they had to ting bills on the floor often iean get in the same column of the roll a delay or drastic change in pol- call as the Southern Democrats icies set forth by the chief execu- who superintended the wrecking tive," Prof. Thomas explained. of the original bill. * * * ' * THE PRESIDENT is elected by FEPC, THE INITIALS which the people on the basis of thehavn taktnon agmosandsti measures he presents in his plat- significance to Negrops and some form, Prof. Thomas said. It i other minority groups, stands for form Prf. Toma sai. I isFair Employment Practices Coin- only good sense that they Congress mission. The bill the House passed should consider laws on which pubichas voiced approval, he ndenth mSn swould es- deced. tablisli such a, commission, but that is about all. "This can be done by giving The board would be directed to bills such as the one dealing work with state and local agencies with FEPC preference over all to discourage discrimination in others." .. the hiring and firing of minority groups. Christoffel I's Guilty Of Perjury WASHINGTON-( ) - Qrim - faced Harold Christoffel, former Milwaukee labor leader, was con- victed late yesterday on charges he lied under oath in telling a Congressional committee he had never been a Communist. Punishment could range from two to 10 years on each of five counts. Sentencing probably will be delayed until next week. THIS IS the second time the one-time president of Local 248 UAW-CIO at the Milwaukee plant of Allis-Chalmers has been con- victed on the same charges. His first conviction was in 1948 when he was sentenced to a two to six year prison term. He won a dramatic 5 to 4 re- versal of that conviction by the Supreme Court last year on tech- nical grounds. ROGGE told reporters he will carry the case to the Supreme Court again if necessary. Christoffel was charged with ly- ing before the House Labor Com- mittee March 1, 1947. The Com- mittee had been investigating sub- versive activities in labor unions. He denied that he had ever been a Communist or had affiliations with the party, and said did not know two Communist officials, Ned Sparks and Fred Blair. IFC Officers ResignPosts Dick Morrison, '50, and Stan Crapo, '51E announced at the In- terfraternity Council House Presi- dents' meeting last night they In- tend to hand in their resignations as vice-president and secretary- treasurer, respectively, March 1. Their declarations came as IFC officers and fraternity presidents collaborated to formulate new basic policies in preparation for a revised constitution. REPLACEMENT elections will take place at the next regular House Presidents' Assembly meet- ing, March 9, IFC president Jake Jacobson explained. At that time, the present of- fice of secretary-treasurer will be expanded into two separate posts, as part of the revamped IFC structure, he added. This move has been warranted by an increasing complexity of the double job, he noted. A style committee was desig- nated to draw up a final draft of constitutional changes, and will present it to the assembly at the March 9 meeting. Restaurants Hit By 'U Competition Quad Snack Bar Cited As Example By HARRY REED Twenty local restaurant owners and managers gathered last night to complain about the University's entrance into competition with them for local business. A' recently opened snack bar in the East Quadrangle was cited as an example of this competition. Open from 8:30 until 11:00 p.m., it serves food which students us- ually obtain from shops. in the area. * * * A DAILY CHECK with the res- taurant owners in the East Quad- rangle area showed a decrease in evening business varying from 10% to 50%, with a corresponding layoff of employees, many of whom are students. It was generally agreed that a percentage of this sales drop was because of student spending for the J-Hop and registration, and that the adverse weather conditions had influenced many to remain indoors, but they said the drop was more than usual. Francis C. Shie;, usiness Dan- ager of the Residence Halls, said., "There has been a student de- mand for such things for some time. Every year students petition for the privilege of selling sand- wicheshand milk within the resi- dence halls." He added that the snack bar is not cuttingerestaurant prices, and, when queried about the future of such enterprises, answ~red, "If this innovation proves successful, there's a good chance there will be others." Student-Regent Meeting To Be Held Today Student Legislature President Quent Nesbitt last night hailed today's meeting between the Board of Regents and more than 75 stu- dent leaders as "a step in the right direction.' He termed the coffee hour, at 5:15 p.m. in the Union, an excel- lent opportunity for students and1 the Regents to become better ac- quainted but expressed hope that "it will not be an end in itself, but the beginning of a closer rela- tionship between the two groups." Sponsored by the Union Student Offices, the coffee hour is design- ed to be "a pioneer step in the furthering of closer student-Re- gent relationships," according to Union president Bill Wise, '50 B'Ad. "We don't hope to have all student problems solved in an. afternoon," Wise said, "but we do feel that it will give students a chance to become better ac- quainted with the Regents and, lead to similar meetings in the future.' Invitations have been sent out by the Union staff to leaders of nearly all major campus organi- zations to attend the coffee hour which is scheduled for 5:15 p.m. in the Union Terrace Room. Socialists Claim 60-SeatMajority LONDON-(A)-Britain's Labor Party wrapped up a five to three lead over the Conservatives in Parliamentary election returns from more than a third of the nation today. Labor claimed a clear-cut victory and with it, a mandate to drive Britain along the road to Socialism for five more years. Returns from 261 of 625 constituencies showed Labor clinched 161 seats in the new House of Commons, the Conservatives 99 seats, and the once-powerful Liberals, only one. JUBILANT LABORITES predicted at least a 60-seat majority in the new house. They had a 148-member majority in the last one. Gloom settled over Conservative Headquarters. While Winston Churchill's hard-fighting party had cut into Labor's ranks in Parliament, by morning it still had a long way to go. But the Conservatives had not yet given up the fight. Prime Minister Attlee was relected to the house, along with Sir Stafford Cripps, Chancellor o the Exchequer, and Aneurin * * * Bevan, the Health Minister. CLEMENT ATTLEE * * * Vernon Sees Expansion of Labor Power The victory of the Britist Labor Party will mean furthered sociali- zation of England's industries, and will necessitate a complete revi- sion of the Conservative party, Manfred C. Vernon of the politi- cal science department declared last night. "Although the Socialists will not hold as large a majority as af- ter the 1945 polling, they have scored an impressive victory," Vr'- non claimed, as the Laborites piled up a five to three lead over their opponents. HE NOTED that the vote shows that the Englishman who put his faith in the Labor Party five years ago is ready to leave it there. "The people of Britain still attempting to recover from the last war seem to believe that they will receive the fairest break from Labor." The Labor Party will continue its present social services plans and will probably nationalize steel and possibly other industries at an early date, he speculated. "The election results will be a great blow to the Conservative party," Vernon noted. "These people will have to seek new blood and new ideas if they expect to make any progress in the next election five years from now." The Conservatives did not do more than present a weak Labor program, he explained ATTLEE HAILED the results as "pretty satisfactory." At 4:45 a.m. (10:45 p.m. yes- terday he told Labor Party officials at party headquarters: "I should say while one never likes to anticipate a result be- fore the finish, the results are pretty satisfactory and the vote is up." The 67-year-old leader seemed tired, but was in good spirits. The indications were that the vote was the heaviest in Britain's history-somewhere in the neigh- borhood of 26,000,000. THE LABOR Minister of Health, Bevan, was a four-to-one Winner in his district in Monmouthshire, Wales. Foreign Secretary Ernest Bev- in was returned to The House, but ColonialSecretary Arthur Creech Jones lost out to his Conservative opponent by a mar- gin of 81 votes. The vote in Conservative leader "hurchill's district was not to be counted until later today, but like most top party leaders, his was a "safe" constituency with election virtually assured for the 75-year- old leader of his majesty's loyal opposition. IN BITING INTO labor's ma- jority, the Conservatives took 14 Commons seats which had been Laborite, while surrendering only one which had been Conservative. The Communists had won no seats at all. They had two seats in the last Parliament and put 100 candidates in the field this time. The total popular vote at 2 a.m. (9 p.m., Thursday was: Labor 3,392,707. Conservative, 2,941,838. Liberal, 582,418. Most Tickets For Marriage Lecture Sold About two-thirds of the tickets for the Marriage Lecture Series have already been sold, accord- ing to Ivan C. Parker, assistant to the dean of students. Remaining tickets. will be sold from 2 to 5 p.m. today at the Union, the League and Lane Hall. Sales are now' open to any student, regardless of his class standing, at a price of $1.50 for the series of five lectures. ID CARDS MUST be presented at the time of purchase. Prof. John Useem of Michigan State College's sociology depart- nent will launch the series at *8 p.m. Feb. 28 in the Rackham Lecture Hall, when he talks on "Contemporary Setting for Mar- Prof. Thomas noted that other legislation should continue to be sorted as to importance by theI House Committee on Rules and the calendar system. But he termed use of such time schedules for ad- ministrative bills "hokum." I RnSuOf Subsidi A proposal to develop a chain of "subsidiary colleges"throughout the state as a m'eans of forestall- ing the possibility that the Uni- versity "might become too un- wieldy" has been advanced by University Regent Charles S. Ken- nedy of Detroit. Speaking at the biennial meet- ing of county school officers, Ken- cgests Chaint1 r aryCollegesl Kennedy referred to the Uni- versity as "big business" as he pointed out that the University plant investment is $100,000,000 to $150,000,000, and that the annual budget fluctuates between $20,000,- 000 and $25,000,000. * * * BETWEEN 1,100 and 1,200 full- time faculty members and 700 to World News Round- Up By The Associated Press BUDAPEST - Hungary last night demanded a reduction in the American and British diplomatic staffs here as a result of the trial of Robert A. Vogeler. Vogeler, 39-year-old American Assistant Vice-President of Inter- National Telephone and Telegraph Company, was sentenced to 15 years in prison Tuesda~y on charg- es of e,,pionag;e and sabotage, Ed- gar Sanders, a British assistant, was sentenced to 13 years. HONG KONG-The Chinese Communists won in thebSupreme Court last night their battle for 90 former Nationalist planes valued at $20,000,000. 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