The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 11, 1947, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Daily Alaska Empire Published eve-y ev.aing except Sunday by the NY 3, Alaska - - Presfdent - Vice-President Fditor and Manager Managing Editor Business Manager WILLIAM R. CARTER - . o ELMER A, FRIEND wha, o I % ALFRED ZENGER - R e 5 econd Clase Matter. Entered in the Post Office in J SUBSCRIPTION RATE Delivered hy carrier in Juneaw and Douslas for $1.50 per month; ix months, $8.00: one year, $15.00 B postage paid. at the following rates Cne year. in advance. $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; sne month. in advance. §$1.50 Subscribers will confer & favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any faflure or irfegularity in the delivery of their papers. Telephones' News Office, 602: Business Office, 3T, ASSOCIATED PRESS sively entitled to the use for he local news published Alaska Newspapers, 1411 NATIONAL REPRESENTA PoLrth Avenue Bide., Seattle, V VE G TACTICS A high official of the International Longshore- men’s Union from San Francisco, testifying before the House Subcommittee on Territories and Insular Pos- sessions, Tuesday charged the press with telling lies in connection with the current Juneau longshoremen’s strike. It is significant that he did not support his charges with the facts. Looking around for someone to take the blame for a troublesome situation, labor officials are often apt to point the finger at the press in an attempt to confuse the realsissues. In the past we have given full publicity to any statements which the local longshoremen have cared to present. Thelr first statement said that point at issue in the dispute was the matter of four-hour minimum time for calls on Sundays and holidays and between the hours of 1 am. and 5 am. This announcement was printed in The Empire of July 1. But on the very same day the longshoremen handed to the Governor a different statement, not | | labor moguls and their lobbyists and attorneys haven't | .viial hundred G-men to track | MODERN E‘l’ I 0 U ETTE by |a perfect right to fight for repeal, revision or court | ;. o ROBERTA LEE made public until later, in which the four-hour mini- mum call is not even listed, but a new demand involving the division of work aboard ship between longshoremen and sailors in unloading appears. About @ week later Michael J. Haas left for Seattle for meetings to attempt a peaceful settlement of the dispute. It is understood that agreement was reached on practically all points but that the contract was not signed because representatives of the Alaska Steam- ship Company stated their top officials were in Alaska and would not get back until July 31. That was on July 20. On July 29 Juneau longshoremen presented us with another notice stating that a tentative agree- ment had heen reached in Seattle but that if the operators did not sign by August 5, a strike would be called. ‘The next day, July 30, Territorial U. S. Department of Labor Representative Haas gave The Empire a statement on the situation as of that date, pointing out that agreement had been reached on most issues and that the employers were to report to Haas on the remaining issues by August 1. But before the August 5 deadline arrived, long- shoremen presented a new demand for the contract which would absolve them from liability under the Taft-Hartley Labor Law. This was the third separate and new demand. On August 5 the longshoremen struck. They have been out since that time. The official who testified for the longshoremen here Tuesday, however, stated that the longshoremen f!—e Wasfiifiilon Merry-Go-Round River Board of by Nothing could ly Continued jrum Page Coe! boring western states more indig- In the case of gold, some people EMBLEM C -~ e eoe ———— nant, for they regard California may not realize that most of the Meeting Thursday Sept. 11, 8 p. to Hughes' Trans World Airways 25 8 neighborhood bully whose gold we buy comes from the Brit- m., Elks Hall. 678 2t If their evidence shapes up, they g”"fl'“{r .“ZO G I v roce = - _ - -—1— will move for Brewster's impeach- - Interstate affairs. ~To provide [T[A[R ciT(s Mk water for her growing population (3 rd Puzzle ° A[R[E 2 and thirsty farmlands, they claim, % (3 RiO|T INSIDE RUSGIA «llfo‘na has helpe:d herself lav- ACROSS 31. Think ST E[D[S While 1t aifficult to know ex- .y from the all-important Col-j 1 Kindofrock 83 Radlum E i i * cradc, at the expense of other 6 Witness emanation AN N|D|S actly what's going on inside Rus- g oot “ctarec 9. Small cushlon 34 Inquiring sia, one significant fact s that & o o0 oo 12, The Lady of 36. Tiresome sio RIE Stalin is not making the sama Credit “for this polilical baner Troy 31. Pay out Pl AlW! mistake Hitler did of trusting his £0°S (0 California Semator Bill 1. Finish 33. Round-up | K[E generals The Russian eneral Xtowland, long jealous of the 4. Long narrow 33 Relieve ElR fie H il cominant role his Democratic col- et 0. -Erniie staff has now been thoroughly dis- %% 8 AAEHIDCH o 16. Depuly 41, Powder persed league, Sheridan Downey, has play- :g Indistinctly :! g‘ree” ; E[R g| i in' . . Small: law When Iif‘'ler broke up trads un- in pushing California’s water g 47, Indulge in a T[E ions and disrupted private busi- :?;hnm;, 11‘0 )O,me; it, Knowland % 15 linter sport AlT| ness he kopt the German general 87¥anged for his friend Senator racters continents S[H[E staff intact. Eventually this v. Taft to travel under the aegis of %4 Organ of 51, Exist T staff intact. tually this prov-, oo 't . : k Nearing 52. More rigorous ed his own' undoing. For aboutCdlifornia in visiting the Col- Undermines b4 Coat with the time the Allies invaded France, °Fado River. . : Ba8t tndlan ey the general staff turned agains; 100 late, Taft's office realized money of him and in July 1944 almost 'D€ mistake. They hope to smooth ik assassinated him. it over by suggesting that the Arizona board go along, and De- . Forms The Russian dictatorship, how- 5 - o A . Flight R T S e Ao e arals Witt Sage, who helped plan Taft’s Beverage e 20 g & tour, is on his way to California Part of a who get too powerful are shifted (.= oo y1ic compromise. camera to distant posts or liquidated. The - : Pronue BRne e execution of seven high Russian Maddest of all over the Taft 7. Hard paint generals before the war is the most boner is the famous novelist, Ar B cxtreme illustration of how the Kremlin treats military leaders it does not trust A milder form has been the transfer of Marshal Zhukov, hero of Berlin, to the re- latively obscure command of Odes- sa. Reliable intelligence roports from Moscow indicate that the politburo is determined to take no chances ence important leader Republicans. Note—Despite and Republican special Act of the name of under the auspices of The Colorado is a state agency wealthy growers. zona's State GOP Chairman, Clal Buddington Repuklican publicity mogul and an “Boulder “Hoover Dam,” Taft's press release | | had been ready to sign all along a contract not in| conflict with the Taft-Hartley Law, indicating that this demand had never been made. And that seems to be the situation up to the| present It is to be regretted that top steamship officials were not in Seattle ready to sign the contract late in July. Their reason is that they were on a trip to Seward to confer with officials of the Alaska Railroad | on transportation problems involving many more per- sons than those involved in the Juneau dispute. And it is also regrettable that the longshoremen could not be tied down on just what their demands | were and what issues were involved. We believe that our presentation of the events leading up to and following the day the strike began were not half-truths As to our edito policy on the matter, we do not believe that anything we have said about the Juneau longshoremen has been strong enough. We do not believe that the Government of the: United States should allow any group of men to take action cutting off from any group of c'tizens the supplies which they need to sustain life, and we believe that dited to it or not other- | Rep. Fred L. Crawford of Michigan, chairman of the British now want it back which | House group in Juneau this week, agrees with us on this point It is true that small boats have been allowed to | continue to bring in some supplies, but this service is entirely inadequate and much more expensive. If th: ! severe shortages in many lines. The people of Juneau don't have to be told this after going through the |three different occasions the United ! S the British! damaging strikes of the past few years. And there are further damaging consequences not quite so dramatic, but important to the community. As one illustration, unless the strike ends and the lumber now being piled up by our local lumber mill can be moved, the mill will have to shut down and | throw about 250 men out of their jobs. The Vital Stabilizer (Collier’s) No doubt about it—a new era in American capital- labor relations began when Congress overrrode Presi- | dent Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley labor bill and | thereby made it law. Already you can notice a change lin the economic and social weather, THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA . _ . . SEPTEMBER 11 . o Mrs. Eva Darnell . ° Mrs. G. L. Lovgren ° . Leo M. Jones, Jr. . . Mrs. Gene Smith . . Winona Monro2 . . Mrs. Al Forsythe . ) Ethel Kerr . . Pauline Palmer . LI Frank Haynes . . F. K. (Bob) Jensen . . . e e 00000000 ish—chiefly South Africa. I we quit buying gold, British gold mines would really be out of luck. But having sold us the gold, the means, of course, they would sell it to us a s2cond time. For are one of the fow countries where they exchange goods for gold today Selling can us the same commodity strike continues for much longer there will be gyer and over again was what hap-| pened with Empire Preference. On States in effect bribed to abolish Empire Preference (the system whereby England gives other members of the British Em- rates than the ire lower tariff rest of the world) Here is the history of what happened: 1. W2 paid $26 billions in lend- lease to England with the provis- ion that Empire Preference be abolished. 2. When the British said they could not live up to this, we paid them another $3,700,000,000 through the so-called British ‘“loan” again on condition they abolish Empire Preference, 3. At the Geneva Trade Confer- we | e e e et~ 20 YEARS AGO #%: SEPTEMBER 11, 1927 Miss Mary Kashevaroff, graduate of the Juneau High School, who ! was in Juneau last in 1922, was returning on the Alaska. s three years she had been studying music and writing in Europe, visiting EMPIRE SUBUUUSPSES e s much of her time in Paris, Twenty-five couples were entertained at a bridge party at the Rev. | the Episcopal Church. | Mrs. B D. Stewart, first prizes; Mrs. Robert Coughlin and William Bow- | man, consolation prizes; Mrs. J. W. Woods, cut prize Mrs Alice Sully and daughter Henrietta returned home on | Northwestern after spending several weeks in Tacoma, Portland and Seattle and a few days between boats in Ketchikan the Joe Kendler and A. J. Reiss were a business trip in the States vals on the Northwestern from The Bureau of Fisheries boat Brant, Captain Earle Hunter, in Juneau the following day. was due Izangnar Kronquist, of Douglas, left on the Northwestern for Whit- man College to enter his third year. On his way to Walla Walla, Rangnar was to visit with his sister, Lily, who was attending business college in Tacoma. { Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Balog and Mrs. Balog's mother, Mrs. Robert | Bonner, left on the Northwestern for Seattle where they were to spend | the winter. During their abesnce Mr. Bonner was to make his home at !the Kilburn House. | Weather: High, 43; low, 40; rain. '{ Daily Lessons in English 3. 1. corpon | 3 | ! WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “I figure that it will cost i around fifty dollars.” Say, “I ESTIMATE that it will cost ABOUT fifty | dollars.” i | OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Ameliorate. Pronounce a-mel-yo-rat, | We think it will prove to be a change for the bet- ' o.o (1,0 British have told us they | first A as in ASK unstressed, E as in ME, O as in OBEY, second A as in iter. What the new law dces is to put employers ‘,’flnd labor on an equal footing when it comes to bar- | | gaining about wages and working conditions, and to |cut down some of the powers given to labor leaders | by the Wagner Labor Relations Act of 1935—pOWers .. puv back the abolition of Em-| | which too many of their possessors had taken to abusing. Now that the atmosphere has been cleared to this extent, how can all of use best adjust to the new era? Nobody that we know of is suggesting that the | | weakening of the Taft-Hartley Act. We're glad, in {fact, to see them putting up these fights, while for- | | getting the wild talk about general strikes and civil l e industry representatives have | wars with which they peppered their conversation | before Congress voted on the bill. ! l That gives a cue to all the rest of us, we think. | How about letting the new law have a fair chance ‘;Lo prove it isn't an overly harsh piece of legislation; y..q that the “bad boy of Mos~ and, more important, how about getting rid, as rapidly as possible of the notion of the class struggle which has been preached in this country for so long? This idea that there is an irreconcilable conflict between emplovers and employed has done more than ) any other one thing, we'd guess, to impede production, foment and prolong needless strikes, and stir up sense- | less hatreds among Americans. | { The worst of it is that it is a false notion. The ! truth is that interests of capital and labor are identical |at almost all points. { | Capital craves profits, true. But capital must have profits if labor is to get better and better pay 1and working conditions. On the other hand, it is to capital's life-and-death interest to keep labor well | paid, so that labor can buy capital’s goods. |+ The class-conflict idea is an ancient Marxian im- ! portation from Europe of 80 years ago. It is now ’))rearhod more enthusiastically in this country by the | Communists. The more enlightened labor leaders I realized its falsity and danger long ago, as did the | more eniightened employers. 1 | In this new and, we think, healthier industrial | i climate brought in by the Taft-Hartley Act let’s do H | ourselves the supreme favor of giving the class-conflict | hokum the final boot. We'll never regret it. recall the fact that the British have a habit of selling us a com- modity, then kack and selling it to us again—as for in- ance with Empire Preferenca. California. Tais dominated large- taking it nave made neigh- cannot live up to prior agreements and Empire Preference must be 1 stored. 4. Finally the British plan to have pire Preferenc2 again when we give them more funds under the Mar- shall Plan. MERRY-GO-ROUND J. Edgar Hoover has assigned | RATE, accent second syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Brief; IE, not EI } SYNONYMS: Dirty, foul, ny, soiled, nasty, squalid. WORD STUD “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us | increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: | DISCREPANCY; a state of being at variance; disagreement. “There is a ‘;discrepancy in our figures that must be explained.” down conspiracies to raise the prices of food, clothing and housing. Al- ready the FBI has found that been keeping deliterately false minutes of their meetings to cover up secret price fixing The State Department has received cow,” Foreign Minister Molotov, will head the USSR delegation to the United Nations. As a result, Secretary Marshall has decided to head the USA delegation at the United Nations. This means an- other knockdown, drag-out fight in New York—beginning next week. (COPYRIGHT, 1947, BELL SYNDICATF. INC) e e, SRR iTA (4 HOSPITAL NOTES Helen Cormiag was admitted to St. Ann's Hospital yesterday for medical attention Discharged from St. Ann's were Joe Kelly and Mrs. Robert Booch- ever and baby girl. 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