The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 2, 1946, Page 4

posoR Daily Alaska Empire Publisficd every evening except Sunday by the ! IPIRE PRINTING COMPANY | Minimum Wages EN - : - - President (New York Jimes) NGO - - Vieebresident | 4o oo often happens in Washington, the debate Managing Editor on the proposal to extend the coverage of the Fair Business MANASEr yopor Standards Act, and to increase®the minimum wage first to 65 and later to 75 cents an hour, has thrown little light on the central questions at issue, but has beeri mainly concerned with irrelevancies. The Administration has been rightly alarmed by the pos- sibility of aodption of the inflationary Pace farm parity rider; but it does not itself appear to have given any serious study to tht actual effects of its own proposed amendments to the law. If all the arguments of the sponsors of this legislation were sound in principle, if wages could be raised by legislative fiat without harmful effect, then the problem would be very easy. In fact, it would in that case be hard to justify a bill that raised minimum wages only to 65 or 75 cents an hour instead of to $1 or $2 or indefinitely larger sums. Wages are based upon productivity. Employers cannot pay unskilled labor more than it is worth. If a worke crvices increase an employer’s profits by y $20, he cannot afford to pay him $30. A minimum ge of 75 cents an hour would mean a wage of $30 for a forty-hour week. But Congress canhot make an unskilled worker worth $30 to an employer simply by | forbidding the employer to pay him anything less. The | effect of such legislation may be merely to throw that worker out of employment or to halt or reduce the kind of production on which he was engaged. 'Thus neither he nor the community is benefited. The largument that a higher wage “increases -the worker's producing power” misses the point that if he cannot | be employed his producing power is reduced from its present level to nothing. The first fact to be determined in all minimum wage legislation is what minimum wage a given in- dustry can afford to pay. No serious consideration is ! given to this quetsion in the legislation now before the Senate. The Administration does not even know how many workers are now getting less than 65 cents an hour, how many are getting less than 75 cents an hour, and precisely where, these werkers are. It does not know what the effect of increasing these wages would be on the industries concerned. It is acting in the dark, and it is asking Congress to act in the dark. If, we are going to amend the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act, then we ought to reconsider that act in a far more basic manner than the present -bill attempts tc do. Before the present Federal law was passed in 1938 many of the States had minimum wage laws. Virtually none of these attempted to state in the text of the law itself precisely what the minimum wage should be. Instead, they provided for careful investigation by special boards, commonly consisting of representatives of employers, workers and the public, before minimums were fixed in any particular industry. This has also been the procedure followed by the wage boards in Great Britain. If this procedure is necessary in small countries and in our States, it is obviously much more necessary to meet the extremely wide range of conditions in the United States. To attempt to fix the same minimum w: is to ignore the realiti Another provision in the Fair Labor Standards Act which should be reconsidered is that making it legally mandatory to pay time-and-a-half for overtime to all workers, regardless of the wage class they are in. The effect of this is to penalize most the employer who has been paying the highest regular wage rates and to benefit most the workers who have already been 5o getting the higliest wages. Thus the emploer who Yet the Lea bill is courage itself when compared n.uq o regular rate of 75 cents an hour is obliged to with the broader labor bill recently framed by the pay only 37': cents more, or $1.1212, for overtime Senate Labor Committee. Both pieces of proposed hours, while an employer paying a regular rate of legislation illustrate the complete unwillingness of $1.50 an hour becomes legally obliged to pay 75 cents Congress to deal with first principles in connection more, or $2.25 an hour, for overtime. A further effect with labor matters. Both illustrate its tenndency to Of this legislation is to make a law that was originally deal with consequences instead of with causes. If, Tegarded as applying only to submarginal workers {Rfleaq af marely bevitigito curb a few of Mr. Betxillo's | SPPIY 1n fact'to practically all workers. It would soem o A more sensible to fix a minimum overtime rate 50 specific abuses of power, Congress asked itself how | .. cent higher than the minimum regular rate, and he came to have so much irresponsible power to abuse, and what it had itself done to contribute to that |result, it might be on the track of a sound general program of labor legislation. HELEN TROY MO DOROTHY TROY WILLIAM R. CARTER - A . ELMER A. FRIEND B la e 't ALFRED ZENGER - - - . the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class SUBSCRIPTION RATES: petivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.50 per month; six months, $8.00; one year, $15.00 postage paid, at the following rates: ivance, $15.00; six months, in *dJvance, $7.50; ance, $1.50. confer a favor if they will promptly notify of any failure or irregularity ic the delivery ter. One vear ene month, in ad Subscribers w the Business Of U their papers Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. )CIATED PRESS usively entitled to the use for hes credited to it or not other- d also the local news published VAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 Wash ONLY A STARTER There is at least some satisfaction to be taken from the acticn of the Senate conferees in accepting virtually intact the Lea bill, designed to curb the de- mands, powers and edicts of James C. Petrillo, presi- dent of the American Federation of Musicians. It shows that Congress has the courage to curb at least a few union practices when they become intolerable. But the bill reflects just about the minimum cour- age to do anything at all. It is so ridiculously narrow in its scope as to be in effect discriminatory. It makes it unlawful. for example, by the use of implied threat of force, violence or intimidation, to coerce or compel a radio licensee to employ, in connection with the con- duct of the broadcasting business, any persons in excess of the number needed to perform actual services, or to pay more than once for services performed, or to pay any money in lieu of giving employment. Consider some of the implications of this. By making it unlawful to use force or violence for the very specific purpose of compelling the employment of unneeded workers, the bill implies that it is perfectly legal to use force or violence for any number of other | union purpeses. By making it unlawful to use force or violence for the still more specific purpose of com- pelling the employment of unneeded workers only in the broadcasting business, it implies that it is perfectly legal to use force or violence to compel the employment of unneeded workers in any other business. lective bargaining. ne waflin 'on “c:‘cp. though she has been export-'serve than the USA. .. .U. S. meat “ | ing heavily to England. | production last year topped 20,000,- Me'r'_fin-kound ‘ 000,000 pounds but may fall off this POLITICS IN THE DESERT year. We have promised Europe —_— The wide-open spaces of New 1,600,000,000 lbs. of meat for 1946. (Continued from Page One) | Mexico are about to see the most .Chief reason for the world- turbulent political fight in years— Wide wheat shortage is the Argen- shipped before the end of June. In with three colorful figures battling | tine-Australian drought. Also North other words, unless there is great for the U. S. Senate. Al which normally exports to individual saving there just won't| Governor Jack Dempsey (no re-|Italy and France, this year had to be enough wheat to go round. lation to the boxer) who jumped import wheat. . from Brooklyn subway brakeman N FAT FAM !to New Mexican politician, has fin- | CAPiian CHAFF The same thing is also true of |ally decided to enter the race. He| Representative Hugh Delacy of fats and oils. We just won't have Will oppose Senator Dennis Chavez Washington has offered West Point them on hand for export unless in the Democratic primaries. appointments to two ex-G.I.'S who every housewife is more frugal| ‘Wheever wins will then have to came out on top in the West Point than ever. Here is the line-up: On|Cross swords with grandstanding entrance exams, but they have April 1, stocks of butter mmned]‘Patrick J. Hurley, ex-Secretary of turned down a free Army educa- only 14,964,000 lbs. against 29,833,»1“’“"‘ ex-Ambassador to China, and tion. Say they prefer to learn about 000 last year. (the man who breathed fire down and live under civilian democracy. Cottonseed oil totalled 1,492,900 the back of the State Department 1bs. against 1,756,400 last year. | regarding allegedly “pink” diplo- retary Henry Morgenthau traveled 3¢ favored. ages in New York and Mississippi | allow any figure above that to be determined by col- | . . When former Treasury Sec-' | | | MAY 2 B. F. McDowell Dr. E. H. Kaser William Trumbo Einar Lavold Bill Champlin Vivian Powers Archie McDougall Clarence Clements Winona Stewart ecoe0200n0c00e @00 c 00 000 00 - - B ey TR My HOROSCOPE | “The stars incline | but do not compel” {' ety | | FRIDAY, MAY 3 I HEART AND HOME | Under this configuration boys and girls of high school age are espec- i Many require ‘the sympatketic counsel of their par- ents who will find man-to-man yhcnesty better than condescending subtlety. 1 BUSINESS AFFAIRS | This is & good date on which to review one’s investments and plan’ ! ckhanges. Reasonably sure small dividends are to be preferred to the risks of get-rich-quick schemes | NATIONAL ISSUES ] Pclitics and high construction costs will combine to deprive some sections of the country of the mod- | ern type of highway now common in the East and without which an| area must be seriously handicapped. Costs of construction soon will be more than 60 -percent higher than before the war in some localities. | | INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS | | The present lack cf mutual ad- |miration and friendliness between the United States and France is strictly temporary. France is fight-| ing for survival and many of its enemies ars within its own bord- ers. She needs the friendship of the U. 8. and will have it. | Persons whose birthdate this 'is! jare promised by the stars: A year 1of increasing joy in the home and family. | Children born today will have a great diversity of interests and will never lack for entertainment or occupation. They will be honest, | friendly and unselfish. (Copyright, 1946) | in Europe during the war, Secrét Service insisted that he use’ay® other name in order that he not be a target for Nazi pilots. Morgen- thau was known as Henry Murphy. ..... Despite the serious shortage of fats and oils here, Secretary of Agriculture Anderson has been un- | able to get any help to bring the 25,000 or 30,000 tons of copra which | have been available for the gath- ering in the Philippines for over| a year. | | (COPYRIGHT, BELL SYNDICATE. INC, 1946) | e e v v ve e s 00 2 L] . . TIDE TABLE .| - o o MAY 3 L o High tide 2:42 am, 205 ft. o e Low tide 5 am., -44 ft. ® e High tide 15:33 pm, 171 it. ® |® Low tide 21:20 pm, 09 . o (1 4 2 /o @ e 08 » e 6o o0 ! b —————— : waKNING | \ To alx owners of bicycles. Ajl; traffic Safety Rules must be ob- served. Parents are asked to co-' operate in case of children. Proper lighting at night must be observed. [ CHIEF OF POLICE | Lard totalled ~ 81,435,000 lbs.|mats. In the end, the Senate made * = against 49,928,000 lbs. last year and Hurley look a trifle red in the face | 403,151,000 two years ago. himself. | Actually ‘the fat picture is we se A former Oklahoma lawyer, Hur- | than most people realize and the ley has been itching to get bacl Russians are faced with such a Into politics, and about two year: FACROSS L mre| R Moe vihoringe that - Mhes ago took up residence in New Mex-| “ For the pur- 5. Remain near h hat they have P ex- | vose of 29. Move rhythmj gene to the Argentine and are bid- ico with that in view. That state dinz aca nst us for linseed ofl. Or- long has been considered a happy cally Talked idly Chopped fine . At a distance dinarily we buy the Argentine lin- hunting ground for disappointed B Unknit seed cron for paint. The Russians Politicians wino lost out back East.| . Loyal i + it for. hum i | Russian city will us () n,‘n.’m‘consumptmn, |5 Odsanto False jewelry however, and e willing to bid Jack Dempsey, though of Brook-| 7. Ticks News organi- Iy 7 gy .| 8. Ancient Greek zatlon: abb high. ‘l n’ origin, has been ..uccessr_ully ity 39, Writing ime AR | gyrating through New Mexican 2. Acts out of plement | politics fer two decades. He was Jond 40, Sl ot WHEAT RESERVE U. 8. Agricultural officials don't lone Congressman from New Mex- ! 1 read loosely 42. Conjunction say é;bgw it, but they haye, ico. later Under Secretary of the| * Dijge reem & Hvacreen 05 at the British. Secre- ' Interior, then Governor. During' minuet tree targAnderson held up his flour- | thi$ time he built up his own ma- § Fauality 4, Muthor SHNS mil cut for about three weeks chine; and he will need it to buck| 6. Detested 47. Comes forth wailifig for the British to agree to Scnator Cha who,' as author o! shiplimore of their 1,000,000-ton ' the Fair Employment - Eyactices wheat surplus to the famine-strick- | £ct, has endeared himself to Span- en Continent. Normally -1,000,000 i:h residents of New Mexico, i tons is not 2 large surplus for the Note—Chavez also has hit. the Britsh but U. S. officials argued all-time high for putting relatives that in the present emergency this on the Government pay-roll. could. be sent’ to Europe, with a' saving of valuable time and ship- FAMINE NOTES ping,. while we got more wheat to One reason for the poor wheat the Atlantic seaboard crop in Europe is the lack’ of Theén with the new summer wheat horses. Great numbers of horses crop coming in, we could replenish Wwere eaten during the war; others British reserves. were drafted by the military and Finally London came through S in battle. wheat with an offer of only 200,000 tons, failed to move to the Atlantic sea- providing the United States and bcard in usual amcounts this spring | Canada replaced it without too partly because of a spring thaw much delay. (Which made country roads impas- Secretary Anderson also was dis- ' sable. . Another dgay factor— appeinted when the Canadians in addition to shortage of box- matched our 25 percent cut with a cars—was income taxes. Farmers prox/ahe of only 2,500,000 bushels of wanted to wait until this year to wheat plus 5,000,000 bushels of oats. harvest their grain, when income- Note — Canada has about one- tax brackets would be lower. . .At eleventn the population of the USA our present rate of export, England ard about one-third our wx;em‘uxu sxcn have a larger whea! re- i Crossword Puzzle (257-t1) | { o/o[r MH | Amm[Z > Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle Aft 2. & Al ersong. 5 61, Near ¥ 54, erver “Thus DOWN Swamp rabbit Egg dish Dense - mist Vivacious, Get back Heavenly body Genus of sheeg @roove olish ent fro- quently Cover Seed contalner . Chairman's mallet . English colns . Inn Mountain i chain rain v l S ESeen sideration Variety of onion . Wrong name . Biggest . Play on words . Virgil's hero Magician's 48. 43, THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1946, from fzo YEARS AGO 7% supinm e et ettt et e et P et ittt MAY 2, 1926 Rain and wind this afternocn partially upset plans for the opening of the 1926 baseball season, though the scheduled ceremonies were carried out. Gov. George Parks pitched the first ball, then the game between the American Legion and Moose was called on account of wet grounds. However, the parade paraded from the Gastineau to the park, headed by the 12-piece city band, and the Legion hoisted the flag and the 1925 pennant to the top of the pole, while J. W. Leivers shot views of the proceedings. Mrs. Ray G. Day, who had been here a short time attending to business, was to leave on the steamer Princess Royal, returning to Miami, Florida, where Mr. Day was engaged in the printing business. Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Cashen entert ed with a dinner party at their home in Douglas last night in honor of their twin daughters, Misses Esther and Mae, whose birthday it was. The May Day dance, given last night at A. B. Hall by the American Legicn Auxiliary was a beautiful event, and was attended by a crowd which filled the dancing floor and all space in the balcony was taken by spectators. Following the crowning of the May Queen four of Juneau’s ular yoyng ladies performed a Spanish dance. They were the Misses 7 Grace and Gladys Nngh'el.'Namlia Kashevaroff and Elizabeth Pullen. Weather: Highest, 49; lowest, 42; cloudy. E Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpox | WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “I have passed through everal crisis (or, crisises).” CRISES is the plural form. (Pronounce last syllable SEIZE), ; OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Los Angeles. The preferred pronuncia- tion is los ang-gel-es, O as in NO, the G's as in HANG and GET (not as J), accent on second syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Analysis (singular). SYNONYMS: Narrative, narration, account, vecital. WORD STUDY: “Use a wora inree times and it is yours.” Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: TENTATIVE; of the nature of an experiment .(Pronounce first syllable TEN, accent first syllable). “A tentative correspondence would begin, leading slowly up to a fresh invitation."—H. G. Wells. P e Analyses (plural). tale, story, history, bl Q. What are a few acknowledgments of an introduction that are forbiden by social usage. A. “Pleased to meet you,” am sure,” or any other extravagant phrase. accepted form. Q. Hi - ——d “Delighted to know you,” “Charmed, I “How do you do” is the t been said that there are three features upen which the successful dinner depends? A. Yes; ccngenial guesi Q. What are the cnly in , good food and interesting conversation. talions 2 man may accept when they dc | not include his wife? A. Only inviiations of a business nature. LOOK and LEARN I:\y_c, GORDON -—— What, in legislative parlance, is a filibuster? ‘What is a Bishop’s staff called? What is known as the “Land of the Rose”? What is a cul de sac? ‘Who was the author of “Arrowsmith”? ANSWERS: . A member of a deliberative body who obstructs legislative action by use of dilatory tactics, such as speaking merely to consume time. 2. A crozier. England, from its National emblem. A blind alley or an argument that leads nowhere. Sinclair Lewis. oom HEATING Smith 0il Burner Service 214 SLCOND STREET DAY PHONE 476 NIGHT CALLS—Fred C. 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Stewart DENTIST 20TH CENTTURY BUILDING Office Phone 469 CALIFORNIA Grocery and Meat Market 478 — PHONES — 571 High Quality Foods at Moderate Prices Jones-Stevens Shop LADIES'—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR . Seward Street Near Third Don'’s Radio Service Electrical and Radio Repair (We pick up and deliver) Phone 659 909 West 12th Alaska Music Supply Arthur M. Uggen, Manager Pianos—Musicz> Instruments and Supplier Phone 206 Second and Seward i HEINKE GENERAL REPAIR SHOP Welding, Plumbing, Oil Burner Blacksmith Work GENERAL REPAIR WORK Phone 204 929 W. 12th St. “The Store for Men" SABIN°S Front St—Triangle Bldg. | Wartield's Drug Store | | Formerly Guy L. Smith Drugs) NYAL Family Remedies | | HORLUCK’S DANISH | ICE CREAM HUTCHINGS ECONOMY MARKET Choice Meats At All Times Loca‘«d in George Bros. Store PHONES 553—82—95 The Charles W. Cartfer Morfuary Fourth and Franklin Sts. PHONE 136 FOR TASTY FOODS and VARIETY TRY Gastineau Cafe Foremost in Friendliness VANITY BEAUTY SALON Cooper Buflding ELSIE HILDRETH, Manager Open Evenings Phone 318 METCALFE SHEET MET. Heallnx—Alrmndltinnhx—BA-.Lt Tanks and Stacks—Everything in SHEET METAL Phone 711 90 Willougnby Ave. "The Rexall Store” i Your Reliable Pharmacists I BUTLER-MAURO HARRY RACE Where Pharmacy Is a Profession Juneau’s Most Popular “Meating” Place ONLY THE BEST OF MEA'TS PHONE 202 HAULING and CRATING DIESEL, STOVE, CRUDE OIL Phone 341 Phone 344 FOR Wall Paper IDEAL PAINT SHOP Phone 549 Fred W. Wendt S ——— INSURANCE €) B.P.0.ELKS Meets every Wednesday at 8 p. m. Visiting brothers welcome. E. C. REYNOLDS, Exalted Ruler. W. H. BIGGS, Secretary. MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 SECOND and FOURTH Monday of each month in Scottish Rite Temple beginning at 7:30 p. m. : M. L. MacSPADDEN, Worshipful Master; JAMES W. LEIVERS, Secretary. Silver Bow Lodge No. A 2, LO.OF., Meets each Tues- | day at 8:00 P. M,, I. O. O. F. HALL. 1 Visiting Brothers Welcome | FLOYD HORTON, Noble Grand H. V. CALLOW, Secretary Ci0O DIR MEETINGS HELD IN UNION HAI Juneau Industrial Union Council Secy. R. S. Hough; Phone Green 240; meetings second and fourth Thursdays at 7:30 P, M. Int. Woodworkers of America Local M-271; Secy. Henry Ad- sero; meetings 2nd and 4th Fri- days at 7:30 P. M. United Trollers of Alaska, Local 26; Secy. B. H. (Jack) Manery; Phone Blue 220; meetings 1st and 3rd Wednesdays, 8:00 P. M. Local Industrial Union, Local 882 Sec. Abel Anderson; Black 605. The Alaskan Hotel Newly Renovated Rooms at Reasonable Rates PHONE SINGLE O JUNEAU UPHOLSTERY CO. RE-UPHOLSTERING NEW FURNITURE DRAPERIES Phont 36 122 2nd St. ALASKA ELECTRONICS Sales and Service Expert radio repair withoat delay: P. O. Box 2165 217 Sewarc PHONE ECTORY LL—1st and Gastineau—Phone 327 Juneau Mine & Mill Workers Local 203; Secy. Arthur H. Wal- ther; Phone Green 340; meet- ings 1st’and 3rd Monadys, 7:00. Juneau Transport Workers ,Local 172; Secy. George C, Martin; Phone Black 265; meetings 2nd and 4th Tuesdays at 8:00 P. M. United Cannery Workers, Local 269; Secy. Ruth Hayes. Inter. Longshoremen & Ware- housemen Union, Local 1-41 Cold Storage Workers; Secy. -Mike Avoian; Green 759; meetings 1st and 3rd Wednesdays, 7:30 MEETINGS AT 222 WILLOUGHBY—PHONE 518 International Longshoremen and Warehousemen Union, Loeal 1-16 Secy. Don McCammon; Phone Blue 372; meetings Mondays, 7:30 Baranof Turkish Bathand Massage Hours 9 A. M. to 6 P, M.—Open Evenings by Appointment BARANOF HOTEL—Lower Level PHONE 758 : 1891—O0ver Half a Century of Banking—1946 The B. M. Behrends Bank Oldest Bank in Alaska COMMERCIAL SAVINGS