European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 18, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday january 18, 1969 the stars and stripes Page 3 u. K. Unveils explosive labor relations code a pre a la Bor government unveiled Friday politically explosive new labor Lions code which would give the government Powers to cur strikes enforce secret strike bal lots and order 28-Day Cooling off periods before walkouts Likely to damage the also provides for creation of an Industrial relations commis Sion to act As a watchdog for collective bargaining and every other phase of employer labor re blueprint was contained in a government White paper presented to parliament by mrs. Barbara Castle Secretary for employment and described it As the most important charter of Trade Union Advance for 60 years which pro Vides the Means by which we can begin to make a reality of Industrial the government plans to incorporate the main provisions into legislation it will submit to parliament later this year but officials indicated it is unlikely to become Law before 1970. The proposals particularly those designed to curb strikes appear Likely to touch off a Furi Ous political debate. They already have been at Ore ship sinks near Sardinia Cal aet Sardinia up an Core Carrier with 21 italian an yugoslav sailors aboard Sank Friday in Stormy seas off the Southwest tip of Sardinia. The yugoslav freighter sub Cekov pulled 11 men to safety. I reported it had sighted four others but they seem to be italian officials held out Little Hope for six men still unaccounted ship that Sank was the 2,000-ton Rigel flying a panamanian Flag. It was on its Way from Yarroch Sardinia to South Africa with a 3,000-ton cargo of Barite Ore. Heavy seas unsettled its cargo causing the ship to list and sink. Dutch Princess wins libel suit tacked by the labor unions As anti labor and by the confederation of British Industry Chi the employers organization for not going far conservative opposition also is certain to attack the government for refusing in the White paper to make Union manage ment contracts legally enforce Able As they Are in the unite states and Many other countries. The White paper was published after a series of Stormy meet Ings Between mrs. Castle an representatives of employers and Trade unions. It finally was approved by the Cabinet at a three hour meeting tuesday ministers with close Trade Union connections were re ported to have opposed it strongly. The main provisions of the White paper Are immediate creation of a com Mission on Industrial relations with the task of reforming the collective wage bargaining sys tem. The commission would not have Powers to enforce its recommendations but it would have the right to obtain information. Establishment of a Register of agreements. All companies employing More than 5,000 would be invited to Register with mrs. Castle s minister their agreements with the unions. Later this might become compulsory. Legal Powers for the Secre for employment and productivity to order a 28-Day Concilia Tion pause or Cooling off period in Case of Wildcat walk outs or strikes where manage ment Union talks have not taken place. The right would be invoked Only when the effects of the strike would be Power for the Secretary to order a secret strike ballot before a major walkout Likely to involve a Seri Ous threat to the Economy or Public of a new Industrial Board with Powers to impose financial penalties on employees unions or individual strikers who defy orders by the Secretary for employment and productivity. Hamburg Germany a a Hamburg court ordered a Dusseldorf weekly tabloid Topay $25,000 to the International red Cross for printing a series of articles last year claiming that Princess Irene of Hollan had been pregnant before her marriage to Spanish Prince Hugo Carlos of Bourbon court also ordered the paper Neue Welt to print Abold faced article on the third Page of its next edition stating that the articles were fully re moved from the truth and were damaging to the Honor of Princess Irene the libel suit had been brought by Prince Bernard of the Netherlands and his Daugh Ter Princess Irene. No instalment plan Lagos. Nigeria a police banned a demonstration planned for saturday against the Ameri can British French West Ger Man and israeli embassies spokesman for the groups organizing the demonstration said the police refused a permit be cause the nigerian government was still paving for damage done to the British and american consulates in Ibadan during demonstrations two weeks nigerian Trade Union con Gress and the nigerian com Mittee for afro asian Solidarity had called for a March on the embassies to protest what they claimed was support for secessionist Biafra and the Sale by the United states of eight strato freighter planes to Relief organizations running mercy flights into the breakaway Region. Hong Kong flu spreads to Russia Geneva a the Hong Kong flu appears to be spreading quickly in the soviet Union according to the world health who summary report said there Are indications that the epidemic was declining in the United states. Its spread i Western Europe appears to be slower than originally expected. Sex miss world makes recording London a Reita Faria India s first Winner of the miss world contest is making he debut on records with a Reading from the ancient sex manual the Kama Sutra. The record based on an English translation by Indian scholar Mahmud Hossain is due for release next f a r i a25 year old medical student who won the miss world title in 1966, told reporter that she had never read the Kama Sutra would consider it As a Book of Art she said. It is no going to teach anyone anything they do not know already. But obviously it will attract some people who have just heard of the Kama Sutra As a work of German traffic toll Wiesbaden up West German traffic accidents claimed13,491 lives and resulted in 391,707 injuries during the first 10 months of 1968, it was disclosed Friday. The Federal Bureau of statistics said accidents causing death and injury totalled 283,446. Ilk. Doctor warns on Tilv London a a leading British expert on women s Dis eases warned Friday that the contraceptive Pill might make some wives . K. Vernon Bailey of Man Chester University wrote to the British medical journal urging that doctors should refuse to give the Pill to healthy Young women who have not had a baby. He explained that if although apparently healthy they had some mis functioning of the ovaries the Pill could jeopardize their chances of having a baby later. Ebon Calls soviet plan Low level of polities Good balance in spite of two and four wheeled vehicles All around spec. 4 James Snipes of the 90th replacement in Rolls to work in Saigon on his unicycle with his pet Kitten As a Hitchhiker. A photo Tel Aviv a foreign minister Abba Eban Friday called the soviet Union s latest Middle Eastern plan a Low level of thought politics and in answer to a question at Atel Aviv news conference Eban said the soviet proposal have evoked any serious at Tention had it not emanated froma great the plan reportedly Calls for Israel and the Arab states to de Clare in writing their unconditional acceptance of the nov. 22, 1967, . Security Council Reso Lution calling for a phased israeli withdrawal from occupied Ara territory and the redeployment of . about any imposed four i Power settlement of the crisis a Eban replied there is no such thing. A imposed settlement is like a warm Frost or like a cold heatwave the contradiction is built it is imposed it in t a settlement because the parties against whom it is imposed would at the first possibility fee themselves free to disengage themselves from foreign minister said he thought it would take such a longtime for the great Powers to come to an agreement Over what to impose that you j might As Well spend the Tim bringing the Arab states and is Rael into j Eban said the russian propos Al was very ambivalent on the Suez canal and the tiran added this is highly important because the wars of 1956and 1967 emerged directly out of a maritime context and there fore the refusal of the soviet plan to acknowledge free passage for Israel in the Suez canal or prac tical permanent effective Protection of Israel s rights in the Straits of tiran. Are very sinister elements in that Eban in answer to another question said he thought the new Nixon administration would continue the same american policy in the Middle East. He reiterated the israeli Posi Tion that the secure and recognized boundaries must be negotiated. We cannot accept the june 4 1967 map. Our refusal to go Back to that Nightmare of insecurity is unreserved and Mao death hearts checked Boston up the Bosto Globe said thursday officials in the United states and Japan Are investigating reports that Mao tsp Tung aging chairman of the chinese communist party is dead. Taking Sisters to kidnapper 11, almost did the Job Stockholm up the passport police at Stockholm s Arlanda Airport reported Friday that they had captured their youngest kidnapper. He is an 11-year-old boy who was stopped As he was boarding a flight for Salzburg Austria via Vienna accompanied by two of his younger Sisters aged 9and 8. A police spokesman said the boy was kidnapping them and taking them to their 62-year-Oldfather, who lives in Salzburg. The boy identified Only Serik told the police a Story which they first refused to believe but after checking they found it was said the children s parents were divorced in Decem Ber. The Mother living in a Stockholm suburb was granted custody of the two daughters while the father was grunted custody of Erik and his 4-year old said the father sent his son equipped with passports and air tickets for the girls and u Large sum of Money to Stock Holm by train. He also had a Black notebook to read on the train. In the notebook the father told in great detail How Erik was to go about his Job of bring ing his Sisters to got off in the suburb where his Mother and sister lived and went to their school to Contact Lena 9, and Eva 8, Attis stage his father s plan Al most fell through when it turned out that Eva was in bed with flu. But improvised a new plan police said. He joined his elder sister on her Way Home. Ionly came to visit you mom he told his surprised 48-year-Oldmother. The next Day the three children went out to play. But in the play ground Erik told is Sisters that they would travel to Austria and visit Mieir father. The girls were excited about going in an air Craft police said and they had no objections when Erik brought them to the railway station an took a train to Stockholm. Erik Hud an unidentified woman Telephone and order double room in a hotel for the night. Hotel personnel said the found it strange at first that the three children had no adult com Panion. But Erik had a Story ready for them too and the were eventually satisfied that everything was All following morning Erik ordered breakfast for the three paid the hotel Bill and left in a cab for the Airport. There the checked in and sat in the de parture lounge to wait for their flight to be called. When the three were to boar the flight a passport officer made a routine Check of Erik s pass port and found that he had been reported missing along with his two Sisters. After telling their Story Al three were brought Back to their Mother. A spokesman for the children s welfare Board said Erik will stay with his Mother for the time being. He does not want to return this father because he failed to bring his Sisters he said
