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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1951 - 2 O O e om0, | 0111, but it is one that the Com- & mission could undoubtedly solve. STATEH D census, A proposal has been made to be elected classify, for a starter, all cm\strn( ’lirc Ter tion work north of the Yukon River \D)\I\lm - By BOB DE ARMCND or the Arctic Circle as seasonal. |- 1" One thing seems quite clear. 0t s 2 22— ] ) " ) ) 05 {{ekrertante TaHbE FRAR W ke Twenty-third of a series | amounted to only 64 cents for each | virtually repealed for the duration EXPLAIN!NG sfmzlg- ])If()\](lt(l for a »' 5 j dellar Placed in the fund, a in| of the Alaska construction boom electiol ¥ Says the report of the Territor-| g4y nbdrup])'xl to 28 cents. . or until some sort of seasonal clas- 5“‘2‘:‘.“0‘ ',”, ': t» 1stitutional al Commissioner of Labor for the| sifics is provided for construc- c‘\ o “party basis; in- rs 1949-1950: “The biennium| The reason fishing and placer onvention or asis; ir ed a new high both in num-) mining have not caused a drain| ser of persons employed and num- | upon the Employment Security | ser of persons unemployed. The|Fund is that they are sifled | ot Becurity Mund for each em- smployment _Security Commission |as seasonal indystries by the Em-| mott ST EUHE Vi - eports that unemplo t bene’its | ployment Security . Commission. | i o* u‘p‘ to $625 aplece out of th saild during the v wm Thkis means that a miner or 21 fund during the winter months 049-1950 were the hichgst for a| fisheries worker who is unemployed tha TR nit R e i en year period. This amamalovs|during the off season, when fish-| o G (WU SOUE 10 Erow 6 ituation, createq by the secsonal|ing and mining are shut down, is|poy o ona tha Stk Snklltime 1 . tis given in Delegate Bartlett's new of Alaskan stries, em-| not entitleq to unemployment ben- v,‘””'\.,,l st Soors ‘M the Ter- | letter from Washington, ted ©hs 5 the need r develop- efits. ”‘ ',”,1;"'}; >havn 5 ru”,] January 18. The news letter ment of no: S0n3 ust i 4 B s bon his return this week from:meet on the 9 This state | It seems obvious, then, thatja large part of the bill lmfxlnmmll meeting of the Alaska ! election. The new b Somm!scioner something has been added to the; During recent legislative hearina: | . Koo amittee at Anchorage, | to the 30th day ]'IGZ\ITH | ks 1E ma it s | Alaska economy in recent years|on bills having to do with unem-|poogate Bartlett introduced an | $ tir eniait ] tae Emolov- that has resulted in the present yment compensatipn, much was Alaska statehood bi ame day | 4. H. R. 331 granted B tirely explain why 2 ment S(’mlrily Commiseion paid DeAVY drain on the fund. | «2ig abont the benefit Alaska mer- | o oressman Yorty of California | the structures and ut $1.85 ir Lenefits fm every dol- kmm it is necess 1y to look no | chants derive from the payment of{ jrreyeqd a bill in the House p:".‘u(\“pun in Ji u tot END lar it recelved in o=t ibutca- dur- further than }l)v‘ big construction | this comper m during slackli....q after Delegate Bm(‘e:n_‘ e for a dwell for the ing 1949, prczrams to find the cause. Con-|peinds of the year. for a State museum, ar i ' struction has become perhaps the: The merchants do benefit, al " S0 At }and recreaticnal Storewide | o 13 e ol st business i Alaska, and al- though with approsimately halt or| 10 0\, Wi (0 U e amend the & ) T ! though construction is often sea-| the unemployment compensation [ """ 3 the bill!yige (hat Bloc > out for each dollar taken in back gond) for the yery same reasons) payisnts s ths Mfls‘;a o | ptaced in tne Senate hopper “m_c; Fofed week by Senator O'Mahoney, in 1948, to 96.9 cents in 1948, on up F - P 5 * that placer mining is seasonal, it Lbeing made to people in the states | Juneau are granted to $1.85 in 1940 and possibly higher i not g classified on the books | he does not benefit as much as he{ ply il S Ly \'lcx any or all CA R NI VA L IN NiC E — The gigantic King Carnival SALE yet in 1950 A % ¥ " Jinterior and Insular Affairs, a & f float passes through stréets of Nice, France, as the 67th Nice of the Empl t Se - ok ‘ rpos t e e o > ol H ; 5 g 1In sl ployment Security Com- | might. P 18 othef Senato: 1” fl‘x‘“‘\ Aq £ . ery| Carnival opens despite an unseasonable rainstorm. This year's i And there is now a bill before | Governor, a State St k] theme is from !hc La Fontaine Iablcs. i The first difference, in compl ins 11doz ra- Legislature t er P |and recreational use. For instance, a bulldozer opera-| the Le: ul hat would further snoe 'with! & Fbomadshantion tade] a Jges : ‘7 tor who works for a mining con- | decrease the Alaska merchant’s rev- som- | 0. 55 Bt 3L B i th 1 you take in bani ac- # e g members of the Statehood Com- pr ’ 2 TS SR B X ternationa COr tnues Jou fae 4 waur Ak cern from May until October and|enues from the Alaska compensa-}" Me™>¢™ e e e bill | Federal Building and the F 1 y the President with no| Islands, nternational count is going to dc 4And the 18 the t of % b Hox' fudd mittee, is found in the House bill{? s g to Congre sDe v cal industry would Employment Securi Hd has I FERIA DA DECWRER. DRCHUSE SRS ¢ which calls for a primary vvmuon £ gl . , S ) Wader AHe I T W aw n-l 3 t " { & S ke provisi r der the jurisd of the freeze-up will draw no un-| This is House Bill No. 73, and it} © delegates to the constitutior he Sta f T : i Foteatioha mient: iof -t ATk .0 h (Fed 4 Viles s 1 3 1 | requires that every employer wh I his ruag ting h Erfl@l Moreover, when the Empl-yment €Mployment benefits during the requires y employer whol . ention as well as a general elec- | Pills clar d ¥ SLALINE,, s : yiat s S it he proceeds: Trons LR b winter. transports any persons to Alasks e Federal B ( ) he f t r Security Fund suffers, the busines:- i ) "1 tion, the latter election being the| 0 b " fok Soved ek i bz 1 uld. Goitothe N men of the Territory who are Eut a bulldozer operator work for the purpose of employlng him one called for in the Senate|terests of the EX : p % - { must furnish return transportation be ! Bl¢ C and and t} t S T h 3 | i i oary steady employers of labor are hit ing on a construction job, perhaps . X version. Both elections would F " 1 T.'esday h the pocketbooks. only a dozen miles from the min-|2¢ the termination of the employ-|, .1i"on 5 non-partisan basis and |and improvemen P q | case of the. H the new state by the United 3 5 | ment, . u, are This happens because when the ing operation, aud who is also . the candidates would run ] A, RS 1 3 2 A - | States after statehood would go to : g 1 a worke; s own - § A s after > fund drops to a certain point, ex- jobless after the freeze-up, is en- If & worker Niew {0 pax. s pwr h I i efer- | to the State of Alask: et gt 4 rd to party affiliation or refer- {0 th ’ \ 1 prc for support of the a”d perience rating credits’ are auto- titled to compensation for 25 weeks,| f‘l‘]‘i]:‘:‘t; t°h:h;fm;::;;hgi 1 ?|ence. The second difference be-| 6 H.R. 331 granted one millior | B 3 e matically terminated. And when or almost six months. :h: “_m; ey yr msesun;r‘l"irf tween the two bills finds the Senate | acres to the o : B fheg visle SaHb L Tot ReatAL these credits are terminated, the It is entirely true that not all s o ¥ : b | g measure calling for approval of the | Provemen il i : Esmq e . " arnings an i ] men ey y - a it t C n ¥ “red..esduy | businessman and employer, even construction work is seasonal. ”3:(?m;;e:vL;xxdixxh:la:cr; Hploy state constitution by the Congress | that 2 t $200.000. land one Representative following though he has steady payrolli a building is well alon; efore| * o 3 g § B Sedy Payrol g before| “'p it he can get free transporta- before submitting it to the Pr e 0 ] |l e - an|proclamation by the President of and creates no unemployment what freeze-up, the carpenters, plum-| tion back to the sunny south, and N dent, while the House bill pr | ¢ T ver, is ni or r r- bers ricians ay | : h h a stitution be S ously- & H 5 e | $in rovisions ¢ Febr”“r ever, is nicked for a full three per- bers, electricians and painters may| " N0 5 B MU SELh P fthat the state constitution will be | lands grar . provisions of cd cent of his payroll—2.7 percent to be able to continue work during sansation SHase e Heetly as Mtineh submitted directly to the Pre nt | Uni B X d bes | 1 : wit technical the fund itself and .03 percent to much or all of the winter. rl = v for approval, as did Delegate Bart 7. H. R. 33 i e 1 insofar as the Uncle Bam to be used for admin-! But 8 repork of the Employment| 1t remAlned in Algaka, there 18 nof, ... "y oc’introduced and passed Senate (this pr r g 0 Blatamibnig tiic ths 9 459 : : LR | incentive whatever for him to stay the bill as it S ; " ? istrative purposes—with a limit of Security Commission shows that| """ "0 Wl oT e BT mwlm the House last year. it il i : g i y an Federal -~ $90 for each individual employee while there were 5,805 contract con- | Sl 51 PR A Both Senator O'Mahoney’s bill provided that no native < ' = .| conditions, there wouldn’t be muchj tlett re- | would be created by in a year. struction workers employed in) {and that of Delegate Bartlett re e While the Commissioner of La- Alaska in October, = 1§48, this| Of 21 incentive for anybody to stay of the Interior until i sloner of La-' Alf " 18! in Alaska after the first of Octobe LoF Ve buan and bor blames all of this upon the dropped to 2,426 in February, 1949,| r'(')e 1dent or nor Differente Between 0Jd | coutd atso have run. The new senate ! Measure and New One ?2&3“}“‘?““"‘ e el sud i Proposed IsTold |bw ™% Swatea aove, reference to par With the contractor paying a maximum cf $81 into the Employ- | | Versions of the new statehood bill | | | e neasure plain wi~ this tain most of the provisions of H. R 331 as reported to the Senate in of the statehood ] I ste thi fon by | seasonal nature of Alaskan in- and climbed again to 9,275 in/ June of last year. The changes, 11 The new bm:d”“ hi : : minor adjust-| 8 H. R. 331 prov y dustr Alaska has had seasonal August, 1949, a considerable season-| One of the trees from which tan-!in all, are mostly i 28‘,& industries—fishing and placer min- al fluctuation | ners derive extract used in making ' ments and are listed kriefly be- | constituiion adopt ing, for example—for many years Just how contruction workers can' leather soles tough and flexible is low: would have to be | without apparently putting any Ve classified so as to offset the a South American variety so rugged 1. The number of delegates to the | Congress. The x‘m.x\. 5 : undue strain on the fund, seasonal nature of much of their|that the natives call it quebracho— constitutional convention has been | tains this PEOY) 3 g I ] ABY GIRL | Back in 1939 benefit payments work is a not inconsiderable prob-!literally “the axe-breaker.” increased by 2 to 31 and has been | | Bartlett’s legisls . s ey A 1 arrived this morning win C. John- 00000000 h!l!l!iii!!’; e RO e s * Hopial in ces on its ar- M. It ha WILL / e | 2 SAVE | v ; ‘ ‘ H S NV 77 R - | FRER R visitor here Ed Cast ret Linds: BIBEHRENS), 0, NG 5 T VA A Lol 4 | o e s L to valid existing ri It 1 SOUTH VIA DENALI selected unsy 1, ¢ I shudshift is a passen- : , o W Many ' 7t B e B e O ) 4 bl will visit a sister : cal cf and rest. Later she rg ms /I n .i S SEaND @ vey. The sfate’ co rent || ay visit friends and relatives in land in tracts n g i ke : - | Calitornia. acres for any pt remain | Everybody Welcome at The Couniry Club| - i = oo i 4 land, all for the support of the !’ : - the hospital NOW . . . Youcanhave HOME COCOKED FOOD b ool | and s medicn csre far n. Ham is one of prepared by MRS. CLOIE CLARK at ST By B R 1 of e UROG. '—\l;n 25 porl cent which goes to| " Junean t living in Douglas. Alaska as a terri — T l.l E C 0 UNT i 6. The new state would control i Ll RY CLUB . e e aptonoi| ,, COLDEN. ANNIVERSARE ‘.he fur- w.‘l fishery on 1‘ e H\:‘- & ““_ !u;L.~ of Douglas, cele- in every OPEN EVERY NIGHT — ALL NIGHT —7p.m.1o10a. m. : : hor | | i va ie is a sister , who celebrated department DINING === DANCING ---- COCKTAILS | e A e A Qo P d ay and a day before P RAR R ot NO MINORS ALLOWED : § ey S e | ship to mtflnd the affair. unus“al T A 3 ? o 2 g T 7 i - 5 .nv Bowies were values CUCKTAILS SEAF00D far adle Oob o Al Shrlmp French Fried Prawns—Tartar Sauce .. EN"EES French Fried Oysters — Tartar Sauce . proud parents Broiled Lobster — Drawn Butter ... AR e 4 parents everyone Fried Chicken, Half; Local, Pan Fried . SRR Bl rolled PRbeter ra\\n. it .\ a baby d ter, Lorn at 7:55 J T-Bone Steak . s oy : 2.50 Salad — Spaghetti — 3 on Saturday evening in st. Top-Sirloin Steak 2 b AL 2.50 R ¥, B | ; , at Juneau. P Filet Mignon Steak . i ; 550 Garlic Bread or Hot Biscuits The jou e Marilyn SPECIAL — NEW YORK CUT, BABY BEEF .. 3.00 Honey — Coffee — French Fries e ainas wall ™ oitises. o RiEth ab eeee BANQUETS ===== SPECIAL PARTIES ===== DINNERS ===~ DON'T BE AHOARDER. . 3 Miles on Glacier Highway : Telephone — Juneau 015-2 that hoarding does not pay. And the hoarder almost the Tread ———————— il always is caught with une iy 0 O A, Sovabie LB gty _EMPIRE WANT ADS PAY— ——————

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