January 26, 1954

Teamsters Union pres Beck offers truck cos $2-million loan for cargo handling equipment pool to enable them to take over work of outlawed pub loaders; union files $51-million damage suit against ILA, NY Shipping Assn, 220 corps and persons; charges they conspire to continue loading practices banned by bi-state compact; cites losses; Assn denial; NYC Trucking Authority chmn Sheridan says loan offer will be considered as last resort; says indus hopes to map plan whereby Teamsters and longshoremen will share work

UN Command again asks probe of charges that Communists impressed POWs into armies or labor bns; cites data from individuals, photos and records corroborating charges; NNRC, 3-2, disapproves UN liberation of POWs; plans no further action; India gives final tally on POWs returned, other data

Reed and Simpson minority rept; suggest Act be renewed for 2, not 3 yrs

conf opens, C L Sulzberger rept; Bidault and Eden opening statements stress agenda must be ltd to Eur problems; bar bargaining; Molotov proposed agenda includes items unacceptable to West; Dulles defers reply; mins illus arriving

McCarthy gives up exclusive right to hire and fire staff; agrees that minority members have right to choose own counsel and com clerk; agrees that when minority unanimously opposes pub hearings on an issue it must be submitted to parent com; Dems to return; illus