The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 30, 1940, Page 8

Kiaska Work For Alaskans Says Dimond Two Measures Infroduce: by Delegafe Fa North Residents fis om Page | ployees in the years indicated: Other pt ex 1941 Bristol Bay « 30% Bristol Bay area 100 50 1942 All fishing areas 80 B 1943 do 85 70 1944 do 90 80 1945 do 95 90 1946 and thereafter 100 100 Under the provisions of last mentioned bill every employer engaged in the fishing industry . would be required to keep a record Voflng of all persons empioyed the residence of each; and in the case of resident employees the da on which they acquired residence in the Territory. The records would be cpen to inspection of the —— officers and agents of the Interior partment, the Bureau of Fish- s, the Treasurer of Alaska, the oned would D herie§: The ¢ 3 Labor Commissioner, p in the blllg g (ne Attorney General of Al- ca of the follow- ;ovq Independent fishermen sell- in resident e€m- o their catch to an employer e _____ would be considered as employees of the purchaser m The Delegate believes that the enactmer of either of the pro- TODAY'S ONIONS 3 MONKEY FACE GLOVES 2~ FLUFFO, Vege- g Ib. pkg l.lhl(*.\horl(’ni"g4 6 c SAFETY-EDGE WAX PAPER 125 Feet—Each : JUICY z'd posed measures will go far toward increasing the resident population Alaska, as well as insuring a bona fide Alaskans 4 in the fishery Indus- now enge 1bs. 19 try WORK FOR ALASKANS " 35¢ ON NAVAL AIR BASES It now appears that most of the disputes with respect to the em-/ ployment of residents of Alaska in work on the naval air bases at Sitka and Kodiak are in a fair way of being adjusted Before the bill carrying appro- priations for these two bases was passed by Congress, Delegate Di- mond requested the Secretary of the Navy to emplo; Alaska work- 19¢ " 69c men c¢n the projects so far as GOLD DUST available, pointing out that the WASHIN Ib. pkg. Territory of Alaska as a Territory z zgc in cooperation with the Federal POWDER WALDORF TOI TISSUE BROWN SUGAR 5 Bulk z Aimta PEACH PRESERVES DROMEDARY GRAPE Finest Florida 1 pound, 4 oz. can 3 FRESH OREGON WALNUTS and g Ibs. FILBERTS 2 SUGAR 10° FRESH FRUITS and VEGETABLE THRIFT CH-B We Deliver P;akmf{ Powde! Schilling 2 ounced MONEY!ACK“’ show our unboune ‘er?lh in this (}REAN dO' TARTAR Bakiag Powdet, ¢ groces Wi Yous oneystout xpenie, il also pas a0 butser, four, €1, 700 beve used, if you find a7 fault whatever with it. 11b. jars 35c PHONE 767 | although bona fide Government maintains an employ- ment service which would be help- ful in supplying all types of labor y and that the American Legion posts in Alaska would be in a po- sition to render assistance in see- ing that Alaska workmen had a fair opportunity to obtain what- ever jobs were available. The Sec- |retary suggested that it would be FRUIT |an advantage financially for the for | contractors to employ as many 50c skilled mechanics and laborers at for 45c made of the services of qualified tlocal workmen in construction of |or near the site of the work as bs. the projects. ssc | Contractors’ Contract "¢ " 17¢ likely that full usage would be | possible and therefore, it was However, after the contracts were awarded to the Seims-Spokane Company, Johnson, Drake and Piper, Inc, and the Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging Company, by the Navy Department, the con- tractors entered into a contract with the AF. of L. unions in Se- attle that in reality discriminated against residents of Alaska., Those discriminations were of four types. (1) The contract provided that residents of are qualified P the Territory who EVERY TIME WITH BAKING Schilling rwe Piping hot biscuits taste as good as they look if you use Schilling Baking Powder. Dowble- acting — made with pure cream of tartar — never leaves any “baking powder taste!” For over half a century, Schilling has been relied TONIGHT January 30 BASKETBALL CITY LEAGUE HIGH SCHOOL GYMNASIUM Use Sixth Street Entrance ONLY! HENNINGS vsh.{l}mflll HIGH KRAUSE vs. MOOSE = - m—-—d‘ t he showing | (losed Down, | Japai (enter Coal Shorfage, Dwindling| Water Power Hits Manufacturing TOKYO, Jan. 30. — Except for factories engaged In “urgent” pro- duction of war materials and essen- tial public services, the industrial heart of Japan, the Osaka metropol- itan area, is virtually at a standstill | due to the electric power shutdown The shutdown is caused by a coal shortage and dwindling water pow-! er Beginning at 9 o'clock this morn- ing, electric power was shut off in| 14 prefectures embracing Osaka City, with & pepulation of three and one half million; Kobe, with a popu- | ation of three and one half mil- l'on; Kobe, the Empire's chief port | city of 1,000,000 population and Ky cyc. population of 1.200,000. l The shutdown was to last 14 hours with indication it might con- tinue tomorrow. 5 | to work should be given preference | of employment, they might be hired | only at the site of the job; (2) It contained a provision that | each craft involved would be al- In this picture, which graphically portrays the atmosphere of warfare in a frozen are shown, according to the caption approved by British censor, “taking shelter in snow-covered woods as Soviet planes come over on yet an- | other air raid. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, JAN. 30, 1940. - SCRAMI - RUSSIANS ARE DROPPING BOMBS AGAIN , wooded battlefield “somewhere in Finland,” Finnish troops against lynching until lynching is wiped out in this country. As long as life and liberty are protected | by guarantee of the constitution, how can anyone ask for less?” - Electra Goes To Fairbanks Pilots Al Monson and Ralph Sa- vory took off for Fairbanks this afternoon with a full load of pas- sengers, Those flying north were M. Marks Sue Revell, J. Mellquist, Pred Sor: A. Anderson, A. F. Ayers, P. Passe J. A. Lathanan Jr Harol Schimidt. LOCAL PLANES TAKE TO AlR; THREE FLYIRG and — R With skies clear and vis unlimited, local nes werl today. Alex Holden was to fly two trip to the Polaris-Taku mine with the Bellanca on wheels. John Amundsen flew the heed to' Hoonah and Tenakee wi Norman Caameron of Radio En- gineering to examine the new sta- tion at Hoonah and set up still ar other air communication unit at Tenakee. Shell Simmons flew the baby Fair- child to Hoonah with Nurse Mabel Muenks and patient Mary Dick, lowed as a first placemet on each BIG SHOW BE'NG nation of people afflicted With a5 replies Sam Honbs or Ala- I didn't mean no harm, and was to continue from there tc project one man exclusive of the| Fecernliiy bama, “that I do not believe that never seed one of them things| sitka and bring in a number of pas- foreman to be hired through their Northern members that he would have paid a bit more before. I stocd there for 15 min- sengers, resbective RIS i Beattle; ! STAGED (ONGRESS- lynchings are a viola- | attention the the opinion of the Utes, and I seed all the white e — (3) The contractors agreed that ’ f |tion of ihe 14th amendment de-|committee on the judiciary if it folks going through on the green ADAMS 'S BA(K all labor cajled for and hired in| T signed to give equal rights | had been adverse to his belief that 1ight, so I figured naturally that Seattls ShOUBL KRGS minimum. first- | ' | to negroes. the colored man in Uniontowa,|th® ved must be for us niggers.” FROM MEE"NC C class transportation paid to the | Rees of Kansas wishes the ju- Ala, did to to newly installed traf- Pontifically, Representative Fish sites of the work; and (Continuea rrum Fage One diciary committee had passed on| fic light, He stood parked in his of New York gets up. Horace Adams returned on the / (4) Provision was made that _—_ T | the constitutionality bill Modet T for 15 minutes watching steamer Alaska today after attend- g & before the House had vot o new v a o “As long as there is one sin ing a conference of company agent; any gmployee hiréd in Seattle Who | (heir business and send them to gkl iR e T L LR A B S U0 i he, “if in Seattle 5 became incapacitated through sick- (he penitentiary SR 1t went right through on the red l¥ynching the land, 3 s n Se: - X shoutd have his pegsenua v ke light. He was arrested and taken this bill fails to pass the Senate,| Adams took a few extra days ofi ness fr SPSCEH . they have not carried out a con- i o another anti-lynching will after the conference and visited hi r transportation furnished to greg; 1 e x what N s A before the Mayor. He said to the! anotner 4 o & ¥ o 2 reiusm gressionsl o That is whit NATURAL MISTAKE I be introduced heres because we brother Noel in Enumclaw, Wash- Seattle if so elected upon the ad- s destroying (f “f & > o : Mayor: tro re, aus . Wash . is destroying this demoeracy—a I say to my friend from Kan- propose to enact a Federal law ington. vice of the physician. Pay Transportation So it was clear from the con- tract that any Alaskans employed would be obliged to pay their own transportation from their places of residence in Alaska to Sitka or Kodiak, as the case might be; and if they became sick they would have to return home at their own expense; and instead of being able to get jobs at some pqint in Al- aska other than Sitka or Kodiak it would be necessary for Alaska residents to proceed at their own expense to Sitka and Kodiak and just take a chance that work would be available when they arrived there. So the provision giving pref- erence of employment to Alaskans in the work to be done on the pro- jects was little better than mean- ingless except as to the compara- tively few workmen who might re- side at Sitka or Kodiak. Shortly .after this contract be- tween the Spattle unions and the contractors was entered into, Dele- gate Dimond ‘and Gov. Ernest Gru- ening, who was then Director of the Division of Territories and Is- 1and Possessions in the Department of the Interior, protested against it and demanded that Alaskans be given the same advantages as the residents of Seattle with respect to Navy base employment. Acting Governor E, L. Bartlett and Mr. Joseph T. Flakne, Director of the Alaska Territorial Employment Ser- vice, exerted every effort to see that Alaskans were given a square deal, After assuming the Governor- ship, Gov. Gruening made a trip to Sitka and upon his return pub- licly denounced the existing set-up as highly discriminatory against residents of Alaska. | Settlement Reached | Last week Delegate Dimond and | Gov. Gruening had an extended conference with Secretary of the | Navy Edison, and a number of | Navy officers, and another confer- |ence with Representatives Mag- {nuson and Wallgren of the State |of Washington, and James Taylor |of Seattle, a representative of the unions _ involved. The dispute was not one between the unions and Alaskans, since the skilled work- |ten belonged to branches of the |'same unions anyhow. Nor was it |a dispute with the Navy Depart- ment. The arrangement now made pro- I'vides that Alaskans may be hired | at Juneau or Anchorage, and their | qualifications ' examined into there, | as well as at the sites of the work, jand that .if found qualified they | will then be paid transportation | from Juneau or Anchorage, as the case may be, to the place where | they are to be employed, and that | the facllities of the Alaska Terri- | torial Employment Service would be used to the' fullest possible ex- { tent. Further . provision .is made | that if residents of Alaska become ill on the job they, too, may have their transportation paid back to |the place where they were em-| ployed. In this way by having employment - offices, even on a part-time basis, in two of the| main centers of population in Al- aska, the citizens of Alaska are given the same advantages with ‘to el yment as enjoyed thiose in the*States who may be hired in Seattle. 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