High Court Grants Union Delay, Strike Will Last Through Week; Ike to Meet European Leaders

WASHINGTON--The Supreme Court refused Wednesday to require the Steel-workers Union to hurry its appeal from an order that would end the 106-day-old steel strike.

This probably means the strike will drag on at least into next week.

In a brief order giving no reasons, the high court rejected a government request that the back-to-work injunction become effective promptly if the union did not file its appeal by noon Thursday.

By so doing, the Supreme Court let stand a six-day delay granted the union by an appeals court in Philadelphia Tuesday when it upheld the back-to-work order issued earlier by a U.S. district judge in Pittsburgh. That delay--intended to give the union time to carry its case to the Supreme Court--is due to expire Monday.

There was nothing to indicate the high court's action was other than unanimous.

The ruling came a little more than seven hours after the Justice Department formally had requested the court to lose no time and uphold the back-to-work order.

Meanwhile, in Pittsburgh, negotiators in the steel strike can't even agree on the value of a wage package proposal, let alone get together on the amount of new money a contract should provide for the workers.

Western Summit Announced

WASHINGTON--President Eisenhower disclosed Wednesday that all major Western leaers, French President Charles de Gaulle included, have agreed to hold a Western summit conference within the next few months.

De Gaulle evidently is calling the turn on timing. He also apparently is going to get his way about putting off until sometime next spring a subsequent East-West summit conference with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.