Waterloo Daily Courier (Newspaper) - September 3, 1951, Waterloo, Iowa IT DID HAPPEN cucumber fully matured inside a small bottle which had been tossed into a garden here when the cucumber vines were small ESTABLISHED 1854 FIRST WITH THE NEWS Pertly cloudy Tuesday L WATERLOO IOWA MONDAY SEPTEMBER 3 1951 TWENTY PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS TOUGH RULES TO FENCE IN REDS Story of the Birth of Labor Day By VICTOR KIESEL Inside Labor Columnist A long forgotten Irishman had an so at mer's end each year ca gets on wheels for its final hot t weather holiday Labor day The long weekend began few people know just about 70 years ago Those were the days when a little Jewish cigar maker Samuel Gompers was first president 0 f something new called the AFL So 1 was this little giant who was to build the world's most powerful labor tion that he walked to work in Riesel room slippers for he couldn't afford shoes When the AFL had he drew a week for ary and expenses He used a wooden shack for an office and a crate for a desk That's a long long way from the unions of today unions with private hospitals scraper real estate Lewis coal diggers own four cation playgrounds multimillion dollar banks and treasuries Working closely with little was the Irishman Peter J McGuire Had it not been for him there'd he no Labor day weekend Pete and Sam were raised in the New York East Side slums but soon enough McGuire headed west settled in St Louis organized the ters Union raised the pay scale from 15 cents to 30 cents an hour in two years and then felt that what America needed was a national labor outfit So he launched the now famed and all powerful pivot of the construction trades The of Carpenters of ica Most of America's labor men got to know Pete and got him to write the call for a national parley on Nov 15 1881 and there in Pittsburgh the ican Federation was born Pete with the tic political organization genius of his people in New York worked behind the scenes and his old friend the the first president an of- fice Gompers held until he died in Texas in 1923 Six months after the AFL set up shop Pete visited his home town and nostalgically wen over to the Side to find his AFL brethren meeting in Central Labor Union session in ancient Clarendon hall Cries of Speech went up And with the lyricism of his homeland he soon was fervent ly eulogizing labor There were days hallowed bj Saints he said in a- rich purr ing brogue There were days ing soldiers statesmen ex musicians and even poets But nowhere could he find a day for those who from rud nature have delved and caryet all the grandeur we the men and women who wort for a living Old Clarendon hall shook as the walking delegates in bowler hats vests and high brogans cheered the idea bor day weekend was born Excitedly they asked McGuire to set a date He thought it should be between Independence day July Fourth and the Thanksgiving date That they liked Soon they hit on the first Monday in September because they were accustomed to ing in terms of the first day or the second Tuesday etc etc for their union meetings It came But ihc first Labor day celebration was held Tuesday Sept 5 1882 for that WPS the first day on which they organize a parade Traffic Toll 336 Going Up Claims Child's Death an Accident Inspects 3-Way Defense Treaty Allies Plan to Fight Red Traffic Tax Fabian 16 is questioned by Edwin T Breen first assistant states attorney at Cicero police station in suburban Cicero III Police Lt Lester Connerty said Fabian day signed a statement that he killed six-year-old Biritz in a hobo jungle but claimed t was an accident Yvonne's body was found last Friday she had been missing from home for 14 hours Connerty said Fabian told of swinging the girl by her ankles and her head struck a rock Story on page 2 AP Wirephoto UP The ern allies may call off west German trade talks in against drastic taxes imposed by the Russians on highway traffic between in and the West observers be- Monday Western leaders met for three hours to discuss steps to de- feat the Soviet measure which the U S high commission said amounts to a starvation ade Informed sources said the ers discussed measures necessary to safeguard Berlin's food supply as well as West Berlin officials said milk supplies were short over t FOREIGN ROUNDUP weekend because of a snarl which resulted from the tax but were back to norma Monday Switzerland Lausanne Dr Sergi Voronoff famous authority on rejuvenation ex who claimed man could be made to live at least 140 years died here Saturday night He was 85 Voronoff won world fame with his theory that the life of human beings could be prolonged for Voice of Labor Raised for National Unity Against Reds I Tin the Associated Press Labor day 1951 brought new pledges of national against Communism new praise for labor's contribution to defense and a proposal to warn Russia that the Kremlin will be bombed if new red aggression occurs Against this somber background millions of Americans passed the holiday at beaches ball games and picnics and in endless lines of cars jamming the nation's highways The militant proposal for meeting Red aggression was made by George Meany secretary-treasurer of the American tion of Labor In a major AFL nationwide Sunday Meany If the Soviet leaders were made to understand in clear and unmistakable terms that further aggression anywhere against free nations would subject the Kremlin to attack there would be no more aggression President Truman before leaving for the Japanese peace con- ference at San Francisco issued a statement saying that labor is j Washington D Truman flew to San Francisco Monday with a warning to Russia not to throw any monkey wrenches into the Japanese peace treaty machinery The chief executive took off for the west coast at a m CST aboard his and was scheduled to arrive in San Francisco 10 hours later His pilot Col Francis T liams planned a nonstop trip a tan suit Accidental Deaths Nearing After 61 Hours of Holiday By the United Press An alarming number of traffic deaths marred the nation's celebration of Labor day Monday and safety ex- perts predicted an record number of fatalities for the iday The holiday toll from 6 p m Friday to 10 a m day was 489 including 336 traffic deaths 69 drownings 70 miscellaneous fatalities and 14 airplane crash deaths This scares the pants off said Ned H Dearborn president of the national safety council It looks now as though the traffic toll will reach 500 and set an high for Labor Dearborn said Had Predicted 390 The council earlier had pre- 390 deaths This is a high price to pay for a little holiday fun even in these Dearborn said It is a tragic and intolerable price when you remember that these lives are being wasted needlessly and brutally through selfishness and carelessness The last day of any long day usually brings the greatest number of deaths and the safety experts predicted that the accidental death rate would swing sharply upward as the crowds returned home The unusually high number of drownings was due to the long weekend's worst accident in which 37 persons drowned in the capsizing of the fishing boat Pelican in a gale day off Montauk N Y Seven members of one family died near Aitkin Minn wher their car skidded off the road and plunged into a ditch filled with eight feet of water Sheriff's of- said the victims drowned See FOREIGN Continued on page 2 col 4 part of the American team along with management and ment working out the nation's destiny Secretary Defense shall said American labor has consistently stressed its stake in the free way of life and has made great contributions to the preservation of that Martly Fleischmann defense production administrator said another statement that labor is meeting the challenge of the I mobilization program AFL President Green and CIO President ip Murray sent messages to foreign workers through the state department's Voice of America overseas broadcasts Green said that when trade Truman wearing Prop Twisters Model Tourney An estimated persons watched the fifth annual Wa- Prop Twisters model plane meet at municipal airport Sunday Story and pictures on ureen saiu nauc was ln a wnen ne unions fall under control of the arrived at the Washington slaves i skidd state workers become the slaves of dictatorship he The free unions by standing together firmly against port to board the plane He engaged in his usual tar with reporters but put wag when his racin ho i i i 1 Iowa Toll Six Lives Accidents claimed at least sb lives during the first three days of the long Labor day weekend in Iowa a survey showed Monday Three were killed in mishaps one was drowned an other died in an accidental shoot ing and the sixth victim wa killed in a racing accident at th Iowa slate fair in Des Moines Lawrence Chidester 52 Albia drowned when the boat from which he was fishing on the De Moines river near Eldon cap sized Mrs Marjorie Chapin 37 Des Moines died in a hospital Sunday as a result of injuries received in a collision Saturday near Grimes Authorities said a car driven by Minburn on wet pavement and j crashed into the Chapin car Creamer 29 San Percy Spender wife of the ian ambassador to the United States turns her lorgnette on the mutual defense treaty which her husband and representatives of New Zealand and the United States signed here Saturday Signing of the pact brought expressions of hope from the signatories that it will form the basis for peace in the Pacific Wirephoto Blackmail Plan Seen in Red Delays of Ceasefire Talks United Nations armistice tiators flew from Korea to Tokyo as Allied head quarters said Reds may be deliberately delaying Korean war truce talks to blackmail the rest of the world at th Japanese peace conference in San Francisco Vice Adm C Turner Joy senior UN representative and two other members of the ceasefire Gen C Craigie and Read Adm Arleigh by plane at p m a m Presumably they will confer with the United Nations com- mander Gen Matthew B Ridgway on the stalled negotiations at Kaesong Korea A source close to Joy said the admiral went immediately to his home here The source Usually Joy goes right into conference with Ridgway but he didn't do BACKSEAT FLIER TALKS ran snu Plan of Procedure May Stir Russians to Walk Out on Pact Signing San Cal The United States and Britain Monday circulated a raft of stringent rules that vould hamstring any Russian ort to stall the 52 nation nese peace conference A copy of the rules was made available as San Francisco pre- pared a welcome for President Truman who arrives Monday at p m PDT to open the peace conference Tuesday night The proposed procedures are certain to provoke the ire of sia's Andrei Gromyko and the chief delegates of Poland and Czechoslovakia But American and British domats were confident they could get the general outlines of the stop Russia plan approved by the conference without major amendments May Inspire Walkout Copies of the rules already have been distributed to many delegations and is to get his soon The tone of the rules chances that the Communists might walk out of the peace ley The draft rules were under- stood to have been discussed day night at the Palace hotel during a 65 minute meeting be- tween Secretary of State Dean Acheson and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida who ar- rived Sunday from Tokyo The rules 1 That the conference would be conducted in accordance with the terms of the invitation extended by the United States on July 20 INTO PARKING TICKET New Power Jr got a parking ticket Sunday for landing his small plane a Bronx park Power of Philadelphia blamed his troubles on his wife's seat flying They were returning to delphia from Fall River Mass he said and she worried about the poor weather and possibility of ramming a skyscraper and ed to land then and there it Monday night He went straight home It was the second time Joy has come to Tokyo since the Reds suspended the talks Aug 23 On his previous visit he conferred at length with Two Girls One Man thing he said off-the-record lunit lie aam sion crushing j T m the J A n 1C 1 I witn another racer at j defeats to the aggressors as inj Korea can hasten the process of bringing Soviet Russia to her treaty conference Tuesday night senses Murray's overseas message said that American workers are against reactionary Fascism and they are against the reactionary page 3 Soviet system that kills liberty Other features Page d in Believe It or Not ets Cedar Falls City in Brief 3 William Heimstra 22 of near RCd cot Edward Harvest Oskaloosa was his Dutch Master San Felice Martin cigar car plunged off 3 roaa Classified Advertising Comics Considine Column D A Hulcy president of the U S Chamber of Commerce said the traditional American freedoms have given us a bor force without which the T development of America as a Northeast Iowa t Radio Programs Sports 13 14 Theaters 15 Uncle 6 productive power would have been impossible Earl Bunting managing di- rector of the National tion of Manufacturers also came on page 2 col 6 Woman's 9 a Labor day statement Waterloo Streets Are Not Read the SAFETY MESSAGE Page 79 Today near Oskaloosa Thorvald Nelson 41 Brayton j died in an Atlantic hospital a short time after his car j hit a steel bridge near Exira I Donald Shipley 26 I Bluffs died in a Council Bluffs hospital Saturday of a gunshot wound in the nock NO Washington D de- fense department Monday fied 18 additional U S casualties of the Korean war List No 390 reported six killed nine ed one injured and two missing in action Holly Dunstan liked Steve cey her handsome boss but he failed to notice her Then on business in Central America a dark Latin beauty announced her This Steve who cannot see a He will sec After that fireworks Read the love story MEN PREFER GIRLS By Kerigan Beginning Today on Page 6 in The source close to the top allied negotiator said he didn't know how long the admiral would be in Tokyo and I doubt that he knows himself Full-scale fighting in the war was ready to flare at any moment if fire talks collapse completely Ridgway was stonily silent about the latest Communist charge that his UN forces lated the Kaesong neutrality zone But his public relations office issued a release saying the Reds set about to bring I the peace negotiations to a still without consideration for the fact that their own forces are dying at the rate of over a thousand a day The release said the Chinese and North Koreans originally entered truce talks determined to secure by conference what they had failed to do in tle The invitation provided that the peace conference would be held conclusion and signature of ithe treaty This rule would block Moscow's treaty that Gromyko brought with him 2 Representation at the con- ference shall be confined to tha governments of Allied ers invited by the government of the United States of America to participate in the conference Would Block Gromyko This would block any move by Gromyko to demand that Red China attend the conference 3 The United States and Brit- ain would explain the treaty i during a period which shall not one hour each and then jail other delegations may make statement in no case to exceed one hour and these speeches i would only be on the present anese treaty Subsequent events have in- there may be a change in the Red line of thought In view of the fact that sia announced that her will be at San cisco not to sign the Japanese peace pact but to denounce it it becomes clearer as the war is prolonged day by day and as the 4th of September opening day of the treaty draws closer that the new tive for suspending ceasefire talks is closely tied up with the Japanese peace treaty i This would prevent any Communist filibusters It would i also rule out talk on extraneous i subjects j 4 After a delegate had made i his speech he could not be heard I again until all others have been heard and then only if the ence shall decide as to what if any further statements will ba permitted and under what I tions i One exception would be made llf a speaker put questions to an- other delegate he could reply in la time limit not to exceed five minutes I Speaker Has Stop Sign j 5 No delegate or tive may address the conference without having previously been recognized by the presiding icer j The presiding officer shall the power to call a speaker to order and if the speaker does not conform shall terminate his i recognition and call upon the next i Observers could not recall any precedent for the tough to be put before the con- They are aimed clearly at the Communists If adopted as is Gromyko could have only one big in- the rules and are debated After j that the rules would be In force I Truman is one of the final
