The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 23, 1945, Page 6

PAGE SIX west and middle west. rival he found a government f 46 bucks. He had a 40 bility rating ing how come he was rcent disabled and didn't know That’s what 1 wondered, too. it seems he had an accident in states before going overseas. * Didnt’ amount to much and it didn’t Jcave any disability noticeable at the time. In know, in the | VETERANS' GUIDE By MAJOR THOMAS M. NIAL ffected a disabil NFFE CARRYING FIGHT ON WAGE B WASHINGTON — The other day|cier I felt just as thought I'd gotten back wc 1ld be el into uniform and was reading over sion after Army Regulations. I was s i scme printed stuff that w ed to explain about di sions for veterans of this It was just as tough some of the material you read and try to understan service. But the way it looks ey would Data Assembled to Estab- lish Discrimination AgainsiAIaskans got malaria | and rheumatic and was in- valided back to States. He was Global War ntract- | ; us to get out of the hospital going 1 and didn’t realize he was consider- had to ably disabled. Yet the small dis- in the ability from the accident, plus that to me left by the diseases, added up on the is that there are two kinds of pen- t bocks to 40 percent. sions for Global War veterans. The This Marine got his first pension {irst is payable if you came out of ybout a month after he filed the service with a disability caused ¢ Usually it takes plenty by your service or aggravated by it 1 a month to extract the The second is payable if yc» lisal check from the Vet- Global War veteran and you become Administration. At one time, permanently and totally disabled much as eight months or from any cause not service connect- | > V. A. was far behind ed. they call “adjudicating After the World War, disability In my language that means payments were called compensation. . “rating” disability For this Global War, they are pen- sions. Service-connected disability pensions are payable regar the veterans' personal incom Keeping in mind, at the mome¢ nes L 1k just the service-connected disabilit But now he'd have to mee pensions, all we have to know is that ernment guy instead of the any disability incurred in service he figured may impair a man’s future ability, not cook =0 hes’ entitled to payment for that mceting disability. He won’t be able to func- did tion so well as a sound, healthy man. ' on ¢ Sc he's rated according to a scale or | the a percentage of impairment That even means that, if a service d man's foot was badly mangled by a ther fall from a truck at Camp Devens, the M or by getting it caught in the grass H cutter at Ft. Bragg, his future effi- Phils alcanal e feve G as California i for fur- be discharg before check aim ington, D. C. effect has been L erby, N president, Luther C. Steward. pension. Didn't whether he ny claim. Some- scide that later. Leatherneck I've ited to meet downtown morning make any differ thought he had k y else would ¢ particular top ~executives in But the V. A it’s about up to now, so there should be little Consequently, Veteran, if e a disability discharge and aven't filed a claim, you'll be the locality.” lo tions that would ent recipients of differentials. being prepared by equently ‘he heard ting Wednes 8 p. m. All 1t0 a short talk | Flks are asked to attend. He filled out > “ a claim Brenner Pass is the lowest and the ditched cne of the most frequented passes still waiting ss the Alps , that's what .o The word button comes French “bouton,” meaning thing to be pushed out. mission. The order, as employees than from within United States. It contained provi ions, however, Mr. acrc irom the A Mol VL to get home to some- Lots of wild oats, you BUY WAR BONDS DO YOU study floor plans or keep a scrapbook of new home ideas? Have you picked out the plot of ground that will be perfect for the type of architecture you prefer? If you have, you are probably speeding “moving day” by your purchase of War Bonds. Every bond we buy brings our post-war dreams closer to reality. Whether it’s a new home we want, or new equipment for the home we now own, our War Bonds will do two things—build a foundation for our post-war years, and bring the boys home sooner, so they, too, can realize their dreams, ) ALASKA STEAMSHIP COMPANY DIFFERENTIA[_S Vigorous prctcst has been lodged‘ in the National Capital against the' never considered a war measure un- proposed executive order, eliminat- il action was taken by the various| ing wage differentials for Alaska'(cpartments and agencies as a re- residents in graded Federal posmons.‘ It of agreements reported by the by the Natignal Federation of Fed- ci: eral Employees head office in Wash- 19 Information to that| received here by fc local NFFE president Alva W. Black- ' {uncticning in Alaska: in a wire from the national | However, the NFFE headquarters has also passed along the advice that nhigher than like positions in the In- “There is tremendous feeling” among di.n Service in the States. Washington (ions in Alaska were reduced one' “against paying a geographical dif-| ferential to employees who live in cc The NFFE headquarters has fol- ved its protest by offering sugges- protect all pres- The crder for Presidential action is now ¢ the Bureau of the Budget and Civil Service Com- th originally drafted, would have entirely eliminated dif- ferentials immediately only for new hired from other sources the continental Blackerby said, which would prevent all present res- TH' DAILY ALAbKA I:MPIRI:-JUNLAU ALASKA 1t graded emplcvees from obtz\m- wage increases until they ad earned sufficient raise in grade' <o that the difference between theh‘ oki and new base salaries would ex- ceed the amount of the dmeren-' tial Fallacy In Thought Mr. Blackerby today agam point- ed out that a fallacy in the think- ing going on back in the Nanonal Capital is in the impression that| pefore the war no one was paid a | gifferential. Differentials are of long l\ inding in Alaska—due to much { higher costs of living here—he said. payment of the differential was 1 Service Commission in late and early 1943.”" | » cited examples of pre-war dif-; entials existing in most agencies T'he Alaska Native Service — from ch 15, 1931 all positions in this were allocated one grade ‘:\l service All posi- orade when the full-Federal 25 per| nt differential policy was put into! fect, on February 1, 1943. Alaska Road Commission—In 1931\ s recognized that all positions' this agency were from one to two es above similar positions in the ites. This grade differential mounted to about 25 percent and » Civil Service Commission, -on' September 2, 1931, authorized con- tinuation of the grade differential. In February, 1943, grades were low- ered to conform with grades of sim- Jar positions in the States and the percent differential put into el- Office of the Governor of Alr.:.}.n— All classified employees in the Gov- ernor’s Office were given a differ- /ntil of one grade, effective May' 1, 1942, to offset the high cost of living in Alaska. Effective Febru- ary 1, 1943, these employees were wered one grade to the regular classification and they were given a 25 percent salary differential. Pre-War Differentials Grade differentials were also in effect prior to the war in the follow- ing services: Public Roads Adminis- tration, since 1924; Customs Service, ince 1928; Fish and Wildlife Ser- vice, since March 1, 1942 (prior to then the Alaska Game Commission had authority to scts its own salary rates, which were put at amounts ary to meet local competition.) The Forest Service, since 1924, gave a differential of 25 percent with an $800 maximum), regardless of where recruited because of high- er costs of living in Alaska. In the Weather Bureau, the differentials omounted to approximately 25 per- cent of the bhase pay since 1937, at Juneau and Ketchikan; with differ- |tials running up to 50 percent at Bsthel and Barrow. Mr. Blackeroy pointed out that /in no instances was any discrimina- ition made because of recruitment in | Alaska. Living Costs Require | Cost of living is the very heart of cur reason for needing a differential, he stressed. A comprehensive and authoritative study of cost of living {in Alaska was made by the Juneau |NFFE local in 1941 and more re- ]‘cenlly by the Bureau of Labor Sta- tistics. Both show living costs in Alaska are far more than 25 percent {higher than the United States aver- |age. At Fairbanks they were found |to exceed Washington, D. C. living costs by as much at 116.16 percent. | Mr. Blackerby summarized wlth ithe following statement: “Granting 25 percent dlflerentlal {to employees recruited in continen-! {tal United States and got to em-| | ployees hired in the Territory is both | .hghlv discriminatory against Alask- {ans and unthinkable from the stand- | |point of enlightened personnel ad- |ministration. It would mean that Hwo employees, comparable in every, {way from the standpoint of dunes, experience, living expenses, etc., would be paid different salaries de- |pending upon whether they were hired in Alaska or continental United States. It would be impossible for Federal agencies to maintain effi- clent organizations under such con- ditions. ! | “Such action would force recruit- ment in continental United StaW&E Increasing recruitment in the States will increase 1db(!r turnover and low-! {er efficienc; { MRS, McCORMICK'S SON ! IS GIVEN HIGH HONOR, Alfred McVay, secretary-manager of the Walla Walla (Wash.) Cham-| ber of Commerce is one of 18 men appointed to the commercial organ- ization department committee of the Chamber of Commerce of the Unuedl States, according to an announce- mpent in a Walla Walla paper. Primary function of the commit- tee is to discuss organization and management problems and to sug- gest additional or improved services the commercial organization depart- ment of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce can furnish local cham- bers of commerce. The committee meets twice a year, either at Wash- ington, D. C., or elsewhere as mem- bers decide. McVay is the son of Mrs. John McCormick of this city. —— e Total U. S. production’ of farm machinery in 1944 was valued at more than $1,080,000,000, compared with $552,000,000 in 1929. - —— ATTENTION ELKS! ULTIMATUM 't TOJAPANESE, RUSS THREAT President Puts Potsda m? 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