The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 10, 1948, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10.884 LL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 10, 1948 PRICE TEN CENTS RAILROADS OF NATION SEIZED BY TRUMAN Mountain Flaffening Rocket Puf fo Test | Launched by a Navy fighter plang a “Tiny Tim” rocket speeds eartaward during test in mountain and Rocket is one of these developed at U. 8. Navy’s new Ordnance The desolate desert and mountain area of the Mojave provide excellent forest areas of Califonia’s Mojave Desert. Test Station at Inyokern, Calif. proving ground for new weapons developed by the Navy. for a mountain to flatten. (International photo) COMPLETION OF JUNEAU SPRUCE MILL SHUTDOWN E. H. Card Declares Barge Loading by Sawmill Workers Not New The Juneau Spruce Corporation closed its local sawmill today af- ter completing the processing of some lumber which had remained in its yards when an ILWU picket une was established over four weeks ago and the mill workers refused to cross the pickets barrier. The work was mainly done by plant foremen. At the same time, E. H. Card, Personnel Manager of the Coos Bay Lumber Co., who is assisting local manager E. S. Hawkins, issu- ed a statement on the situation to date: Says Card: “There appeared in the Alaska Sunday Press for May 9, 1948, a statement attributed to union offi- cials that the loading of company owned barges is a new practice recently inaugurated by Juneau Spruce Corporation and was not a practice at the time the I.W.A. signed their working agreement with the company. This is a mis- | statement. The first company- owned bharge was loaded 'by I.W.A. members in October, 1947. At that The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DRE@ARSON (Copyright, 1948, by The Béll Syndicate, Inc.) ASHINGTON— No. 1 indus- try in the nation’s Capital has now hecome lobbying. BPespite the lobbying act, the hotels, the cock- tail lounges, the corridors of Con- gress now swarm with more of these oleaginous back-slappers than during the' war. Standing out above the rest is the oil lobby—king-pin of them all. The oil lobby has just scored one great victory—Palestine—about which more later. Now it's con- centratirig on- perhaps the richest of all prizes—tidelands oil. Tidelands oil, the great contin- ental shelf extending under the water off the Pacific and Gulf coasts, - is estimated by some as more valuable than Arabia and the oil combined. Around 100 billion bar- rel lie buried in these underwater fields: as against only 20 billion' barrels remaining in the dry-land oil fields of the United States. “The petroleum resources of the continental shelf are ours to exploit whenever to exploit them becomes worth while,” safl Stand- ard Oil in a statement to stock- holders. And since the Supreme Court now takes a contrary view that the Continental Shelf belongs (Continued on Page Four) “Tiny Tim” ‘ is pictured underway and looking time the longshoremen demanded the work and were refused for the reason that the I.W.A. was legally | recognized as the collective bar | gaining agent and negotiations | for a working agreement were un- | !der way. | “Shortly thereafier, on November |8, 1947, the agreement was signed !with IW.A. Local M-271 covering lall employees except. superinten- dents, toreman and office workers. {The TW.A. now attempts to re- | {pudiate this agreement by printing | statements in the newspaper that | they have relinquished jurisdiction over loading of company-owned | barge We cannot accept such |2 repudiation of the agreement any | | more than the IWA would accept " a newspaper statement by the com- pany that we did not mean what {we agreed to last November and | would no longer observe our agree- |ment. Union agreements aren’t en- tered into and terminated at the will of either party through the newspapers. “We are charged with endeavor- ing to institute a ‘back-to-work’ movement. This is a misstate- iment, A good many of the IWA members have approached us in the last two weeks with a request ' for work. This culminated in a {meeting in the City Council ichambers last Thursday evening, {at which time we expressed our views on the situation. The ini- | tial movement came from IWA' | members who wanted a chance to, support their families, not from the Company. | “We are charged with refusing to | meet with the longshore commit-“ tee. This is only partially cor= jrect. We have had several meet- | jings with that committee, start—‘ ing last September. The last one | was on April 23 in Mr. Benson's office. We have not met since | ANDERSON | | ham, yesterday voted to accept a4 rers with SEN. GEORGE RESIGNS, ACCEPTED Se creiary?figriwhureJj Quits Cabinet fo Run as Senator ; WASHINGTON, May 10.—(P— President Truman formally accepl—[ ed the resignation of Secretary of Agriculture Anderson today wilh‘ an endorsement of his candidacy | for the Democratic nomination for:! the Senate from New Mexico. ! “In consenting to your relase at this time,” the President wrote, | “I do so in the hope that the pericd immediately ahead is but the preliminary to your re-entry to the Halls of Congress—next time as a member of the Senate.” Anderson formerly was a mem- ber of the House of Representa- tives. Anderson is seeking nomination in the June primary for the seat now held by Sen. Hateh (D-NM). Hatch is not a candidate. ‘ e —— i { i Defensefor | Alaska Urged OLYMPIA, May 10—®—A reso- that date and do not intend tolution urging an adequate defense meet with them because there is!of the Alaskan Territory was un-|v MACHINISTS ARE GRANTED WAGE BOOST Union Accepts Coniract Of- fered by Alaska Sal- mon Industry, Inc. i SEATTLE, May 10.——Mem- ! bers of Machinists' local No. 79, ‘ Seaitle, and Local No. 230, Belling- contract with the Alaska Salmon Industry, Inc., which provides a 15 percent wage increase Under the agreement, union members are guaranteed a total of three months and 10 days work. Foremen will receive $43.60 per day, and the lowest scale will be $11.29 for cannery helpers. First machinists will get $23.20 a day. ‘The contract also provides work- insurance policies of $10,000 each to cover air travel. “All in all, it is a very satis- factory settlement,” said I A. Sandvigen, business agent for Lo- | cal 179. pedition, checks over equipment Seatfle Couple Alaska by P - IS GROOMED FOR HONORS 1 | Some Southerners Make Announcement in Op- - JERUSALEM Senator Walter George (D-Ga) is | being groomed by some southerners in Congress as their candidate to oppose President Truman for the| Democratic Presidential nomina-! HOD, o Russell (b-Ga) said 1o JEWS Making Efforts to Get ' Supplies fo Truce- day that unless his senior colleague puts his foot down, George's name e will be offered at the Philadelphia | §: H convention in July as Georgid H J"”ed C"y andidate on a ‘States’ Rights” b gt latform. ' The possibility of putting up| the Georgian as a candidate was|cupied all strategic heights around discussed at a meeting of “States’ a mountain pass 10 miles west of Rights” Democrats fror 10 states at | Jerusalem in a supreme effort to ackson, Miss., beginning today. | open the Arab-blocked supply line Governor J. Strom Thurmond of | from Tel Aviv. South Carolina, the keynotér, de-| Some 4,000 Haganah troops were clared that President Truman has!said to be active in the drive t3 “stabbed” the South “in the back”|clear an avenue for food to the and asserted that the National| 100,000 Jews in truce-stilled Jeru- By The Associated Press Jews claimed today to have oc- Democratic party would lose the salem. They smashed against Arab solid south unless it deserts the road blocks, President’s civil rights program. | —— Several otfiers have been men-| (SEOUL)—It was estimated 80 tioned as possible scandidates, in- | per cent of the 8000000 eligible cluding Gov. Fielding L. Wright voters in southern Korea defied of Mississippi and Gen, Douglas Communist, violence and threats MacArthur, | vote in the country’s first self-rule On the Republican side, galli- | clection. Some 60 Communists were anting Harold E. Stassen and |arrested after a weekend of violenre fields of the United States| { nothing to talk about. } ! “The sole issue In ‘this case is | | the question of whether or not we must bargain with a union jthat does not represent any of our, employees when we are already | under agreement with another un- | ion to bargain exclusively for all our employees. If the longshore-| {men have the right to bargain| with us they can establish that right through the National Labor} Relations Board, which is the only Government agency with author- ity to determine such matters. The use of force rather than recourse to the legally established agency does not persuade us that the long- shoremen are right. On the con- | trary, it only strengthens our con- viction that the longshoremen are wrong and they know they are wrong. We will not surrender to! the use of force in a case of this| kind. “Now, according to the story| in the Sunday Press, the AFL has Jjoined forces with the CIO in this | struggle. That is all well and good. If the combined unions in Juneau are s0 willing to see Juneau Spruce remained closed we will be pleased to keep it closed until*such time |as we receive the gracious per- mission of the unions to reopen with IWA members performing the few hours of work per week that are the cause of this whole battle. (Continued On Page Two) animously adopted by 200 ‘members | of the Washington State Reserve Officers Association meeting here Saturday. Major Marvin M. Scott, Tacoma, was elected President. Contract s Let for Repairs, Painfing Fed. Bldg., Cordova SEATTLE, May 10. — (# — The Public Building Administration has announced award of a $6,574 con- tract to R. A. Nelman and Son of McMinnville, Ore., for painting and repairs to the postoffice and court- house at Cordova, Alaska. Bids were opened about two weeks ago. } CRUISER ASTORIA IS JUNEAU BOUND; DUE HERE TUESDAY SEATTLE, May 10—(»—The light cruiser Astoria left Seattle yesterday with 175 Naval Reserv- ists aboard on a l4-day training cruise to Juneau, Alaska. The cruiser is due in Juneau on Tuesday afternoon. Gov. Thomas E. Dewey held the | which claimed 73 lives. Communists spotlight in their battle for Ore- |and some “liberal” groups shunned gon’s 12 delegates to the Repubn.‘vlhe election as bidden by radio can national convention. | threats from Russian ruled radios They will settle the issue in me}m northern Korea. The vote will May 21 primary there. | be counted tonight. Stassen, who shuttled to West Virginia for a weekend speech, moved up his return to Oregon, where Dewey is campaigning the | grass roots. “The former Minnesota Govern- or said he expects to arrive in Oregon May 4 and repeat there a challenge to Dewey to debate the Communist party issue, (ROME) — Carlo Sforza led the field tonight. in voting for President of the Republic. But the first two ballots taken in Parliament were indecisive, i Sforza, Foreign Minister and Presidential candidate of the Chris- | tian Democratic Party, received 405 {votes on the second ballot against 336 for Enrico de Nicola. De Nicola led the first ballot, | zetting 396 votes to Sforza’s 353. | De Nicola, who has been Provisional President, had the backing of the Communist-led Popular Front STEAMER MOVEMENTS Alaska, from Seattle, scheduled to arrive at 2 p. 1. tomorrow. Baranof, from Seattle, due pro-| « b ) — Ki bably tomorrow fdrenoon. AMMAN, Trans-Jordan King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia wired Princess Louise scheduled to s"”‘Klng Abdullah of Trans-Jordon he from Vancouver Tuesday. | is putting “all my armies at vour Square Sinnet scheduled to sail: gisposal for the fight in Palestine.” from Seattle May 14. | Action by Arab regular troops may Clove Hitch scheduled to sail start after midnight Friday when from Seattle May 14. | the British mandate ends. Abdullah Aleutian scheduled to sail from|galready has command of the armies Seattle May 15, lol ‘Trans-Jordan, Syria, Iraq and e !Lebanon. A third of the Egyptian Ken Lindsay, james E. Parks, E.| army was reported on the southern J. Fox, David A. Hoffman, E. M. porder of the Holy Land. Buol, Elizabeth 8. Mertel, Tke Alha- | e R deft, Thomas Goodman and W. E.| WASHINGTON — President Tru- Mitchell, all from Seattle, are now man will send Congressa special in Juneau and staying at ranof Hotel, tion, i the message this week on farm legisla- Edlipse Sight Post, Aleufians In the far strung Aleutian Islands, Paul J. Paulsen, of Orangeville, Utah, geodetist with the National Geographic Society's Eclipse Ex- he used in studying the moon's blackout of the sun, May 8. The eclipse observation post is located on the peak of 3,90-foot Mt. Adagdak on Adak Island in the Aleutian Comes lo lane; fo Spol Fishand Then Caich Them SEATTLE, May 10. (P—Alaska +'fishermen. will. have some competition this sedson. A young Seattle couple, Mr. and Mis. Clem Simmons, took off for Alaska yesterday in a Navy surplus amphibian plane. ,They plan to scovt for likely fishing spots, taxi their plane onto the beach and seine for salmon from shore. When the plane is loaded to its capacity of a ton or more, the fish will be flown to the nearest can- nery. | simmons declined to reveal where he will fish. He said he tried the plan last year with a small J-3 Cub and made a profit. e FIVE CARS IN PLUNGE, WHITE PASS SKAGWAY, Alaska, May 10—At { approximately 2 o'clock last Sat- urday aiternoon, at 1l-mile post on the White Pass and Yukon Railroad, the southbound train had a derailment, the cause of which is unknown, 7 Five cars cf refinery material went down into the canyon. These were the last cars of refinery ma- terial to be shipped over the rail- road. There was no one injured. BOEING OFFICIALS DECLINE TO ATTEND WASHINGTON MEET| WASHINGTON, May 10. P~ The government continued efforts to end the strike of 14,500 machinists at the Boeing Airplane Company bomber plant, Seattle, Wash,, de- spite management refusal to attend Washington meetings. The Conciliation Bervice received its third turn-down from the com- pany today after inviting the par- ties to talk over the strike with mediators here. The company con- tends the Aeronautical Mechanics Union provision in the contract. . Howard Colvin, Associate Director of the Conciliation Service, said “we're going to continue to explore the matter and try to find some method of settlement.” “We're not giving up hope,” he added. P i WASHINGTON ~— President Tru- man asked Congress today to ap. propriate $181,000,000 in foreign aid for China, Turkey, GCreece and Trieste. novel | (Ind) violated a no-strike | Rail Strike | - Situation af ~ AGlance The Associated Press) Here is the rail strike situa- ticn at a glance Washington—President the nation's railroads (PST), but Thomas J. Ha of the Brotherhood of Loco- motive engineers, says “My orders are that a strike goes into effecty at six o'clock to morrow;” more conferences between conciliators | and disputarts scheduled | New York—Emergency transpor-| tation mobilized; extra bus and air- line equipment sought; Mayor O'Dwyer says city faces “one of worst food gouges in history | Chicago—Survey of nation shows threatened mass unemployment, crop losses, and inflated food pri- ces if strike goes through tomor- ow morning g Buffalo—Steel-making and blast furnace operations expected to halt .n Bethiehem Steel Company's Lackawanna plant if strike takes | effect Cleve (By Truman | at| land—Unions involved in dis- pute over wages and working rules are the Brotherhood of Locomotive | Engineers, the Brotherhood of Lo- comotive Enginemen and Firemen, and Swichmen’s Union of North America, MINIMUM WAGE OF " RAIL MEN { { | NEW YORK, May 10.—(—Here {are the minimum wages received jby railroad engineers, firemen and | switchmen, who are scheduled to | strike tomorrow morning, as listed in a union pamphlet: Engineers. $10.80 for an eight- hour day; firgmen, $9.21; switch-\ I'men, $1002, switch foremen, list-| ied as a job involving executive responsibility, $10.54. { Union demands were listed in the .pamphlet as an increase of 30 { percent or a minimum of $3 a day ‘Icr an eight-hour day across the} {board. The rallroads’ counter of- |ier is 15': cents an hour, or $1.24 |a day, the pamphlet said. The pamphlet was released by Thomas J. Harkins, assistant Grand Chief Engineer - of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En-| gineers. | e Sun’s Eclipse | Is Seen Here The sun’s eclipse was seen in Ju- jneau last Saturday evening begin- ning shortly before 7 o'clotk and continuing about 27 minutes. Less than half of the sun was ob- scured as the moon moved across, framed by a narrow ring or annulus Ahinning clouds prevailed during Ithe eclipse. Many Juneauites used. their green glasses used in auto driving. Others smoked glass while some just re- sorted to photo {ilms. A slight dusk, suddenly appear-| iing, called attention to the eclipse and then residents began getting their glasses trained on the passing | of the moon across the lower part of the sun. e ® ® 0o 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 * WEATHER REPORT . (U. 8, WEATHER BUREAU) ® Temperatures for 24-hour period B ending 7:30 th!s morning |® In Juneau— Maximum, 60; ¢ minimum, 37 ® At Airport— Maximum, 60; ® minimum, 31, WEATHER FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Variable cloudiness and not much change in tempera- ! ture tonight and Tuesday. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today In Juneau— .05 inches ® since May 1, .09 inches: ® since July 1, 81,53 inches. ® At the Airport— .15 inches; {® since May 1, .15 inches; |® since July 1, 48.20 inches. i. ® o 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 . . . . . . . . RAIL LINES TAKEN OVER BY TRUMAN Presidential Statement Is- sued Asking Men to Stay on Jobs WEEKEND CONFERENCES HELD AT WHITE HOUSE Present Dispute Is Over Wage - Unions Make Concessioqs, Report WASHINGTON, May 10— President Truman today seized the nation’s - reilroads. There was no word from the three strike-threatening unions as to whether they would run the trains for the government. They have called a strike for 6 am. (lo- cal railroad time) tamorrow, Truman signed a seizure order two minutes before 1 o'clock (EDT) in an effort to bar a strike, The order places operation of the trains ¢ mnder direction of the U. 8. Army. Mr. Truman appealed to all rail- road workers to stay on their jobs, “I call upon every railroad work- a to cooperate with the Gov- srnment by remaining on duty,* he seizure statement said, “F call"upon the officers of the ailroad labor organizatios - to ake appropriate action to keep their members at work.” Truman’s Statement “It is essential to the public aealth and to the public welfare senerally that every possible step Je taken by the Government to issure to the fullest possible ex- tent continuous and uninterrupted transportation service.” , “A strike on our raMroads would be a nation-wide tragedy, with world-wide repercussions.” Weekend Conferences The seizure order was issued af- ter a week-end of almost con- tinuous negotiations, directed by Presidential adviser John Steel- man, failed to bring a settlement of the dispute between the three brotherhoods and the railroads over wages and working conditions. The heads of the three unions left a White House conference just as the President's executivae order was being released. They would not say whether their union mem- ners would remain on the job under Government seizure, “We're going to take that up now with our committees,” President Alvanley Johnston of the Locomo- tive Engineers, David D. Robert- son of the Firemen and Enginemen, and A. J. Glover, of the Switch- men's Union said. Railmen Confer The Union leaders went right to their hotel for a conference with their strike committees. They said they would return to the White House at 2:30 p. m. (EDT). They said they would not promise they would be able to notify Steelman at that time of their decision about working for the Govern- ment. Mr. Truman’s order directed that, for the time being, present wage and working conditions in effect on the rallroads shall be mam- tained. The President said these wage conditions shall be continued un- ul further order from himself of from the Secretary of the Army, Kenneth Royall. Dispute Over Wages A Presidential fact-finding board has recommended a 15% cents an hour increase as a settlement of the wage dispute. Railroad man- agement accepted it, as did nearly a score of other unions. The en- gineers, switchmen and firemen re- fused to accept it. They ask a 30 percent increase. ‘These unions have about 190,000 of the 1300000 workers in the nation’s rail system. Johnston told reporters that in the weekend negotiations “we have reduced our demand and tried to get a compromise. We have en- deavored to get a settlement by t&ununned on Pnie Eight