Greek Crisis Seen As Threat To Anglo-Soviet Relations Future fa .dX\MMED TANKER CARRIES ON 3UT UNDAUNTED, the U.S.S. Gaudalupe, a fast fleet tanker, is ing on with her job of supplying American invasion fleets oper- sithe Jap home islands. Only when a replacement arrived, did leave her task behind and: head home for a San Pedro, Cal.; & for anew bow and overhauling. Navy photo. (Interriational) tional Woodworkers of @ Agreement concluded be- @ inion and operators hot this -year. #d Pritchett, District fait of the IWA, told P.A. fie Regional War Labor d rulings on the holiday in the agreement, which ered the original agree- ad been reversed by the 1 War Labor Board in in appeal hinged around ain points with regard to nting of holidays with the original agreement, s:tions dealing with the € of computing holidays =-worded by the Regional ©n such a manner as to be H2ted-as a three hundred alifying period. No holi- ere to be granted for the ree hundred days’ employ- The National Board re- = the decision and holidays granted for the first three days service during the g year, as allowed for in €ginal agreement. Archer point under dispute the Board’s interpretation % two-year vacation clause. a2 master agreement, an dvee of over five years’ ser- INLB Decision ivors Union Stand significant victory of labor-management. cooperation sorded this week in the successful defence by the |;epresented by Stuart Research Service Ltd., of the America and the logging oper- vice was to be entitled to at least ene week’s holiday with an ad- ditional. week’s pay in lieu of holiday where occasion demand- ed. The Regional Board protest- ed that pay in lieu of holidays could not be granted as could be interpreted as an erease in pay. The National Board reversed the Regional Board’s. decision and the point was won. The clause remains as in the original agreemem. such in- In the computation of pay fox holidays, the Regionai Board ruled that such holiday pay should be computed at the regu- lar hourly rate. Thé master agreement had recognized that pieceworkers would be unduly discriminated against, and holi- days with pay would be comput- ed on the basis of average earn- ings for the previous twelve month period. The National Board ruled that the holidays, with pay for piece- workers was to be computed as allowed for in the agreement. In some cases this will mean an in- crease of fifty percent over the pay which would have been re- ceived had the Regional Board’s movement. Allied Labor News.) ATHENS — In Athens, where the difficulty of disen- tangling facts from rumor can daunt the boldest heart, one self-evident truth stands out: Greece is the rock on which Anglo-Soviet relations can either be wrecked by a wrong policy, or be given the endurance of the Parthenon itself, by wise statesmanship. For this reason it is difficult to see how the Big Three can avoid considering the Greek sit- uation at their Berlin meeting— ny more than they could avoid ultimately reaching an agree- ment about Poland, which was never as dangerous as Greece as a potential battle ground. If the question of the Darda- nelles is reviewed at Berlin, as it is almost certain to be, then I cannot see how the problem cf Greece can. be ignored. The present status of the Straits proved a handicap to Anglo- Soviet relations when Britain wanted a short supply route. to Russia and it is bound to-be con- sidered in that light. But con- trol of the Aegean Sea, into which the Dardanelles opens, was also proved by the German oc- cupation of the Greek islands to be equally important. Air and sea power operating from the Aegean and Dodecan- the Islands can block the Straits, and for this reason, although Greek claims to the Dodecanese are justly founded and unansw- erable, Russia would hardly sup- port the claim if there is any possibility of a reactionary anti- Soviet Greek regime. -Athens is buzzing with rumors of an impending Royalist putsch, of mass arrests and so on, but the Government has denied re- ports in the Athens Communist General Election Urged By Left To Precede Plebiscite On Monarchy (David Raymond is Diplomatic Editor of Reynolds News, organ of the British Cooperative He is makirig a tour of the Balkans and Central Europe for his newspaper and ordered to stand by. Certainly in Athens there are no visible signs of trouble, although some observers who have been here longer than I have, say that “in Greece there is never smoke without fire.” The extreme rightists here do not trouble to conceal their be- lief (which is also their hope) that an Anglo-Soviet war is in- evitable. Some of them speak as if this clash is simply a mat- ter of months. Territorial Claims Greece has a numiber of terri- torial claims, some of which are legitimate and could justly be conceded by the peace confer- ence. But these acquire a dif- ferent and an ominous signifi- cance when associated with all this open talk about a war against Russia or against the Slav world, and with the Royal- ist clamor for British military help in the occupation of South- ern Albania, which the Greeks eall Northern Epirus. Despite a categorical denial by M. Zakythanos, the Press Minister, that Greece intends the forcible occupation of Southern Albania, the present tension, coupled with charges and coun- ter-charges broadcast daily from Athens, Sofia and Belgrade