LATE NEWS STRIKE CONTROL

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 May 1946, Page 7

LATE NEWS STRIKE CONTROL

NEW AMERICAN BILL PASSED ■ ? w:' . ? >?? (Rec. 3 p.m.) WASHINGTON,.-May 29. The House of Representatives passed the Senate version of the Strike Control Bill, which now awaits Mr Truman’s signature. The?, measure provides for the creation of a Federal Mediation Board with authority to intervene in major labour disputes. It forbids strikes and lockouts for 60 days, while the board attempts, a settlement. The board will be composed of labour, management and the public. The Bill Contains a prohibition against employers’ contributions to workers’ welfare funds, if administered exclusively by unions. Other provisions include civil suits against labour or management for breach of contract, and also the establishment of fact-finding commissions in disputes involving public utilities. ?' ' ' . ■ t PRINCE UMBERTO ON ELECTIONEERING TOUR (Rec. 3.5 p.m.) ROME, May 29. Open-air meetings in Italy are officially banned on May 31 and June 6. This measure has been taken to safeguard public order on the eve of the elections and the referendum on monarchy. In the meantime, Prince Umberto, Signoi* de Gasperi, and party leaders are all campaigning.

Umberto to-day Catania after receiving ovations at Palermo. What, in effect, is the king’s electioneering tour has taken -him thus far to Naples, Sardinia, and'Sicily, all ring wing strongholds, and Turin, home of the dynasty. Interest is now focussed on whether he will visit the Republican strongholds of. Milan and Bologna, an dalso whether he considers himself exempt from the open- ’ air meeting prohibition. PALESTINIAN NAVAL RATING SENTENCED : (Recd. 3.10 p.m.) ’ . JERUSALEM, May 29. Peter Martosh, 21, a Palestinian naval rating, allegedly the owner of a kitbag full of explosives found aboard a British destroyer on April 30, after the destroyer berthed at Haifa, and also, charged with being in possession of three fuse detonators at Haifa on May 1, was sentenced by a military court to six years’ imprisonment. Martosh denied ownership of the kitbag.

AMERICAN MERCHANT SHIPPING (Rec. 3.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON, May 29. Senator Radcliffe, chairman of the Senate Merchant Marine sub-com-mittee, after a conference with Mr. Truman, told , the press that the threatened maritime strike would not prevent the operation of the nation’s merchant shipping. Senator Radcliffe declined to explain whether the Government would take over shipping, but declared “somebody is going to run the ships.”