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No.
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DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY
204
Tel.
3-8400
San Juan, Puerto Rico, Friday, July 1, 1960
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Fomento’s Pla nt (SIU Picket Hit In Leg i
Promotion
ps
Set
By
The (Fomento)
FREDERICK
island’s Economic broke
By
<n
New Records
By Bullet; Man Knifed
Ss
-
Administration
terday.
It was a day of violence which saw:
all record s for the promot gf new plants in Puerto Rico during the fiscal year ion which; ended yesterday, the agency reported. 4 mn -
PAA White Collar Strike Due Tonight A strike of Pan
called
agency
after
midnight
pected
to
one
It
clerks
is
cated
ex-
off the
of
Railroad
is expected
Clerks,
the
by some work-
ers to be respected by other Pan American employes, including pilots. The workers are asking for
a renegotiation of their-wage con-
tract.
The
strike
comes
on
the heels
of a wild-cat pilot’s walkout
than
a week
ago
which
more
tempo-
rarily tied up traffic on both PAA and Eastern Aig Lines between the
island
and
158 for
a marked
40 a
shift
indi
in the
ratio
About
70—or
thai
half—
promotions
were firms new to Puerta Rico. The same trend appeared in the promotion of the 60 locally
owned
firms,
which
wer3
about
equally divided between new operations and expansions. Opinion
(See
was divided
FOMENTO,
among
Page,
Fo-
21)
Roosevelt Wage Bill Killed; Substitute Wage RateIs $1.15 WALTER
STAR
Washington
PRIEST
(D-N.C.)
Cerrespondyont
WASHINGTON—A House Republicans
coalition of and Southern
Democrats yesterday overturned a labor-baeked minimum wage
bill and scuttled AFL-CIO.
formula
mainland centage
By vote,
a the
wage
for
gains
basis
in
close
211
coalition
Democratic the
a Commonwealth on
Puerto
to
203 and
of
a per-
Rico.
overrode
leaders
substitution
matching
roll-call House
forced
legislation
trimming the new mainland wage floor from $1.25 to $1.15. The action substituted a milder bill Sponsored by Rep. Paul Kitchen
by
for
legislation
Roosevilt
James
Rep.
int,oduced
(D-
Calif.).
The Kitchen bill providis only that special federal industiy committees will continue to Sreview
Puerto
Rico
minimums
hardship
review
upsto
under
the Roosevelt
mainland
called
(See
bill.
Sources
Wage,
Page
pre-
21
tified
assailants
into
The _
fired
the
1:45
building
carrying
gun
House Votes
Ike Authority To Cut Sugar WASHINGTON
(#®—The House of
Representatives, heeding administration pleas for fast action, last
night ity
voted
to
The
the
slash
roll
President
Cuba’s
call
vote
author.
sugar
was
quotas.
394-0.
incident
pm.
at
Amilcar
oc-
Brom.
and
Alejandro
Or-
group
of
persons.
proached
the
did
scene
man
the
tana
a
Hernandez
Luis
tiz reported hearing oting and saw a man
a
of
in old San Juan. Fires Into Group
Sgt.
--- arrested
three
side
and Fernandez Junnear El Imparcial’s
Patrolman
FRANK MONTOYA
knifing
as uniden-
shooting
at
baugh St. cons Ave.,
St.,
gun
They
ap-
was
they
and
fled in
the shofring at
along
hand.
They
cal-
led to him to stop or be shot. He stopped and dropped the gun and surrendered. Police identified him as Frank
Montoya,
41,
a
organizer
By
Associated
Press
in Toronto, said that La Compania
Rep.
L.
called for for Cuban holdings. “We
and
Rivers
longer
supply
Petrolera
(D.-S.C.)
also
immediate retaliation seizures of American
should
strong
States occupy
island.
s@
the
island
with
oil
on
SUGAR,
Page
affiliate ban
Shell
has
de
Cuba,
also ‘refused
government
request
its
a
Cu
to
re-
Castro,”
fine Russia crude oil in its Havana refinery. From London, the Shell international Petroleum Co. also
21)
placed
immediate
sancti
Brotherhood
of
leg
Teamsters.
Wounded by one of the shots Police said Montoya fired was Roberto Escobar Vela, 18, of 350 St. Agustin St., Puerta de VIOLENCE,
(See
Page
21)
Oil Crisis Spreads In Cuba As Shell Co. Cuts Off Supply
necessary
the United
in
---Shot the
for
The oil crisis in Cuba spread yesterday when Shell of Canada said its Cuban subsidiary can no
Caribbean
ROBERTO ESCOBAR VELA
Quin-
The action sent to the Senate a bill extendiing the Sugar Act for one year—to Dec. 31, 1961. The House vote followed angry denunciation of Cuba’s Prime
(See if
his
the
will - apply
he
at
for
ea Jan. 1. The Kitchen bill also extends coverage to some 1.5 millién new workers oy about half that ‘of the
Roosevelt
on
the
bill. Tae new
minimum
assault
Minister Fidel Castro—including “in the absence of satisfactory conditions of payment.” a demand by one member that if The firm, in a statement issued
new mainland level rather tijan the complex percentage adjvstment and
his
alleged
happened
curred
estavlished by companies already operating here, or casey where
of stateside
on
door
Seafarer auto.
were firms new to Puerto Rico. The remainder of stateside-owned promotions were expansions of existing enterprises, nety firms
majority
glass
which
bullets
plants
Fomento signed a new owner to take over a faltering operation. In previous years, the great
a
3—An
Expansions less
Sea-
Union
market, shattering the glass.
establi-
of the 158 stateside-owned
the
leg while
alleged
against
of existing opera-
Majority Were
in the
2—an
of
figuses
of
a Miramar businessman in which he was knocked
local-
total
member
International
way to a picket line.
*
tions to new enterprises shed during the year.
the USS.
By
shot
yester-
Stateside-
and
preliminary
of expansions
System in the states. Called by their union, the BroStrike
factories
The
job in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands as well as in the PAA
therhood
said!
signed
ly owned plants 218 plants.
minute
tonight.
throw
had
owned
American World
for
officials
1—A
farer’s
day that preliminary figyres for fiscal 1960 indicated that the
Airways white collar workers has
been
Fomento
J. LIDIN
the flaming Puerto Rican labor front yes-
HARMON
Development
HAROLD
Bullets and blood were spattered about
a
ban
on
the
supply
of
oil to Cuba government has failed to pay a $17 million debt. It reafirmed its decision not te refine Russian crude oil and addéd that “this action, which may lead to the suspension of Shell’s activities in a country
where
it
has
worked
harmon —
iously for 35 years, has been taken on purely commereisl grounds.” In
another
development,
the
confiscated Texaco Oil Co. refinery
in Santiago de Cuba began processing Soviet crude oil yesterday. (See CUBA, Page 21)