J.S. steel workers yf i { o 4 ielebrate big gains WASHINGTON fi aoe did the 650,000 members of the United Steel- ers gain by their month-long strike ? “Package” set- Beis on an installment plan basis stretched over three S make exact computation difficult, and the difficulty cater when you try to compare a three-year installment age with a five-year proposition. But the gains were substan- 3 As the Wall Street Journ- t put it: / The increases granted un- €r the memorandum of agree- Went signed by the United pteelworkers and the 12 steel | mpanies involved in the ne- ‘Otiations were greater than Rost observers expected.” ' The employers estimated the Yackage they offered before f" Strike as worth 65 cents " the end of five years. The ss settlement, they estimat- vas worth from 52 to 55 S at the end of three years. * union put a 45.6 cents ice tag on the settlement. Some of th j i e major differ- Mces between the pre-strike anc. the -stri Were. post-strike agreement i Beth of contract: Pre- a offer was a five year no- . contract, or a four years, See as contract: with 8 S scaled down accord- * ae The settlement calls Br sct ree year no-strike con- eo (Companies were pleas- £° with this provision). peer provisions: Pre-strike Sein Was for increases aver- Ban 7.3 cents per hour for Ss year of the contract. Set- . ent calls for increases av- 4ging 10.5 cents hourly in the first year, and 9.1 cents in each Ucceeding year. Freminm pay for Sundays: €-strike offer was 10 cents an hour premium for Sunday work — but not until July, 1959. Settlement calls for time and one tenth per hour gor Sunday work during first year of contract; time and a fifth in second year, time and a fourth in the third year. The issue of premium pay fox Sunday work was one of the most pressing among steel workers. The pre-strike com- pany offer would have given them only 80 cents extra for a full.Sunday shift — in the fourth year of the contract. Under the settlement, they will get an “average” of some $2 premium pay for a Sunday shift during the first year of the contract and in the third yeay this would rise to about $5. One gain, elimination of the lowest wage classification and incorporating it in the next -highest, was offered before the strike. Another, a full union shop, did not appear to be a -major issue in pre-strike ne- gotiations, although it was the key issue in the 55-day strike of 1952.- The strikers won the union shop. There: appears to be some improvements in the supple- mental unemployment bene- fits provisions in establishing eligibility of workers. The SUE payments may stretch over 52 weeks. “colonialists to * Mass production of these six-wheeler truck trucks, with the trade mark “Liberation,” are equipped with compressed air brakes. tory, located in Changchun, Northeast China. ed, cheering the young men an The mos the six-cylinder blocks -are employed in the plant. Nationalization of Suez hailed by Chinese press average 22 years of age. d women who produced them. s begins next month in People’s China. The have a carrying capacity of four tons each and This is China’s first motor car plant in its his- When the first 10 trial-produced trucks rolled off the assembly lines July 13, there was jubilation across the city, Tens of thousands march- Workers in the gear section t modern methods, using automatic lines for processing The entire foundry is mechanized. PEKING Egypt’s nationalization of the Suez Canal is described by the authoritative ‘ People’s Daily here as a major threat to peace in the Canal Zone as their military Extracts from the editorial follow: “The Egyptian people hail this determined action of the Egyptian government. Alf people who oppose colonialism and support national inde- pendence wholeheartedly en- dorse and welcome this Egyp- tian action to uphold its sovereignty and independence. But those who tried unsuccess- fully to stifle Egyptian inde- pendence by refusing aid to build the Aswan Dam are greatly alarmed and angry. “It is the Egyptian people who should be angry. Through the Suez Canal Company the eclonialists have stolen vast wealth rightly. belonging to the Egyptian people. “When the Egyptian govern- -yent announced the national- ization of the Suez Canal Company, it did not ask the restore this enormous loot. This is the magnanimity of an indepen- dent, people willing to forget the past. “The imperialists have al- ways used the Suez Canal Zone as their military base for pre- _paring war and suppressing the people of the Middle East. So long as they still hold the Suez ‘a valueable contribution to world peace’’ because it removes Middle East. The imperialists have always used the Suez base for preparing war and suppressing the people of the Middle East, the Peking paper claims. Eyes of the world are on the Suez Can Canal Company in their grip, they can return to this area on all kinds of pretexts and push the people of Egypt and the Middle East into the abyss of war. “The nationalization of the Suez Canal Company by the Beyptian government roots out. once and for all the imperialist adventurers from cs al today. the Suez Canal Zone; converts the Suez Canal from a paradise of international adventurists to the service of normal ship- ping and trade among nations; and removes a major threat to peace of the Middle East. This is a valuable contribution to world peace.” August 10, 1956 —PACIFIC TRIBUNE — PAGE 3 ee