European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 28, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes wednesday october 28, 1964 construction. Labor costs shrinking u social democrats gain strength Washington api the number at men vim of Downto the Seui in american ships is shrinking year by year. So is the number of Flag of the United states is becoming increasingly rare in the world s report of the House of representatives ant Trusi sub committee headed by rep. Emanuel Oiler d-n.y., de clares that american Trade routes Are permeated by abuses of All sorts. Among these abuses listed compel ton stifling agreements. Antl american rate discrimination. And predatory All this is the High Cost of american ships and labor . Firms Hare registered 409 snips including 214 tank ers under the flags of Panama Honduras and Liberia. In the nation s nine major commercial shipyards Only 4�ships Are on order or under construction. Japanese shipyards by comparison have orders for a ships totalling 1.839.000 Gross tons. Britain has orders for 159 ships of 1,443,000 Gross tons. A snip slut c09u lit million to build in a american Yard costs is million in a japanese Yard. It costs a . Ship operator nearly 190,000 a month cooperate a bulk cargo Carrier on the High seas about twice what it costs to operate an identical ship under a foreign Flag. By calculations of the labor unions there Are 48,000 .seamen, but the unemployment rate is 30 per cent. The National unemployment rate is 9.3 per cent. There is More to the picture of the total of 013 . Ships 318 Are in Domestic service. On the High seas arc 113 . Ships of which 319 Are subsidized that is. The government pays the difference be tween what it costs to operate them and what it costs cooperate foreign vessels plying the same routes. This subsidy is presently 1900 million a year. There Are in ships known generally As tramp engaged la foreign Trade which receive a subsidy. At present there Are no plans to replace these aging ves Sels. Thus As the tramps disappear even More of the nation s Trade will have to travel in foreign 319 subsidized ships Are probably the Best in the world. This Fleet contains five times As Many 20-knot cargo liners As the rest of the world s fleets combined. They carry about 10 per cent of the nation s non bulk High rate cargoes rear Admiral John Flaralee . Maritime commis Sion chairman told the Senate appropriations committee recently there had been a Lack of regulation of . Shipping in the past. Since the maritime commission was created in hit Asan Independent Agency it has taken its enforcement duties seriously. On july 21 Hallec told a House committee the commission had been under constant attack by shipping interests in an Effort to hamstring it. Harlem Laid the Usmill was led by foreign ship Ping ii nes belled As be put ii by . Lines on anti american shipping rates and the registry of . Owned ships under foreign hags contribute to the . Deficit in balance of payments now running at about 7.7 billion a , Federal agencies contribute to that deficit. On the wheat Deal with Russia. Involving 1,750.000tons of . Wheat subsidized by the taxpayers at m cell a Bushel Only 41 per cent travelled in us. to diagnose the ills of the maritime Industry is something Akin to opening a can of worm and trying to identify the head worm. But there u Little doubt that the High Cost of lab orb Factor. So Are Ankin work rules. In american shipyards the Basic wage is 13 an to 11.69 in Sweden highest in Europe and 73 Centt in Japan the lowest anywhere. A for operating costs an american Able bodied Seaman earns a base pay in the Atlantic of 1369 a month. With overtime and penalty pay he can earn Over a is about four times the wage of a foreign Seaman. Erhard faces reelection fight by John Wervlan Donn a Chan Llor Lud wik Erhard widely considered shoo in for reelection when he took office a year ago no faces a fight for his political opposition social demo cratic party which has become Middle of the Road under the leadership of West Berlin lord mayor Willy Brandt is coming up Strong. In local elections la threes tales monday u chalked a big gains. The parly made unequally impressive showing n month ago in two of the ether10 slates. Headquarters of Erhard Christian democratic party and Mill there is a trend in favor of the social democrats. It the trend continues it could Cost Erhard a simple living a demonstrative Man of 07, in the general election next fall. The latest polls indicate the social democrats have edged ahead and become the biggest parly a Post Una which had been held by the Christia democrats since the Foo Dallon of went Germany it years strength l crucial to Erhard s future. Under this country s parliamentary system the Chancellor is elected by Fel Low party members in the bundestag parliament not directly by the voters. The Christian democrats Are predicting that Erh turd s per Sonal popularity will save them that the voters will choose his party s bundestag candidates in the National elec to keep him As Chancellor. This personal popularity rests a Erhard s 14 year s a economic minister when be be came � Symbol of West Ger Many s postwar Prosperity. According to Christian de population still thinks Erhard i doing an adequate to very Good Job in his new office. This is considerably stronger backing than his predecessor Konra Adenauer received during his Ludwig Erhard. Disenchantment Long tenure a social Democrat Grant Erhard s popularity White questioning that it Lias great u these figures show. But they Figue that the Public u now turn Fng against its Long Lime favor lie and will vote for the party not the Chancellor candidate. In the new Chancellor by feed from what has looked us Indecks Venem and poll Kil ineptitude and his people Nan Long admired Strong aug. 1 Erhard had to stale run Telephone system introduce increased charge arguing that they were necessary to keep it solvent. Last week. Just before the local did a turnabout lower ing the charges somewhat lob lowing Strong Public reaction. All Erhard s political trouble has not been his own doing. A. Inherited a coalition govern ment characterized by bitter. Well Public did internal fight. After losing their parliamentary majority under Adenauer leadership in 1901, the Christia democrats had to bring the right leaning free Democrat into the government. Ironically their differences now giving Erhard such a Baa time opened up the office for him. The free democrats Force the resignation of Adenauer whose arbitrary ways they rats cited. Sudan arabs fear negro takeover Khartoum Sudan unix continued rioting in Khartoum has focused attention on the growing dispute in he Sudan the festering squabble Between he Arab North and the negroid South Between traditional Rule Rand ruled. A revolt m Zanzibar in Jan uary resulted in the ouster of the Arab rulers and was note with concern in the Sudan. U could happen Here if the estimated 4 million negroid southerners Are Ever organize Don a big enough scale to tackle the Arab northerners who dominate the country. The ingredients for such situation Are All there. Before the Sudan became Independent in 1�m. Britain administered the Southern Sudan As a Sepa rate territory. Even before Independence and the British withdrawal Southern politicians were de manding a federation of the North and South rather than one United stale. They did t get it and their chances appeared to have slipped when president Ibra him Abboud successfully led the military coup of 1958 which entrenched Power even More firmly in the hands of the northerners. The military government decision in March last year to move 0.000 Northern troops to the South showed that they did not intend to tolerate any non sense from the the years since Independence there has been steady now of political exiles from the Southern Sudan into neighbouring Uganda Ethiopia and the estimates put the number currently at More than4,000. These exiles periodically form raiding parties and go Back into the Sudan from their amps along the Frontier in what became a virtual full scale guerrilla Campaign. The Sudan government s expulsion of Large numbers of Christian missionaries from the South served to highlight the problems confronting it most of the missionaries confirmed what Southern pod a clans have been saying forbears hat the moslem North is trying to Force the Christi Anand Pagan africans of the South to embrace the islamic religion As the Price for Gall ing education. And just below the surface Are the same Strong current of racial hatred that became flood in Zanzibar the hatred of the african sons of slaves torte sons of the Arab slave holders from the North. Utopian edition naw aim Forca to map o. Frankie nov s. Kit twin olmec Tony of news Uriaus. Pro Huchor Masaraf l Roll t7l in. Twyl Hur Lott . Will bar red China again . Believes Washington a the United states la confident communist China again will tall to achieve admission to the United nations despite peking s new status As a nuclear Power. Slate department officials say tally of the . Membership shows the votes on peking s admission will be close to last year s count perhaps wit More abstention. In 1903, of the 110 votes re corded 41 favored an Albania Resolution to admit communist China 57 were opposed an there were 12 abstentions. One nation. Ethiopia was absent when the question arises this year France and some of performer colonies in Africa now Independent undoubtedly will support the seating of peking. Last year France voted for admission and most of her former colonies against admission. To change the chinese representation from the present nationalist government to the communist regime would Lake Iwu thirds Vole. . Officials arc preparing a blistering condemnation of what they Call a double Stan Dard attitude that peking s ability to explode a nuclear de vice should bring automatic and ,71 10. Lui re lit numb. Lully Al oar Miguil. ,".?. A u in ".? th."? 25fol Mima main Ali. Lur. Damatt cd 7um. Iino Loi st., new Voru the knifed nation us so a the. 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