The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-01
 Fellow Employees of the Alaska Juneau and Citizens of Juneau


 Whut said in the following scd in the interests of Locol 2O3 of the International Union of Mine Mill and Se CT WorE9s bgoTl9 % m a G co9 eLeeGGl 4 1 o Gv I @ employees these remarks directed principal to those employees and secondly to the residents o this community in much they have interests We propose to illustrate hdt participation in the uds Of Local 203 by the ity labor porculor and hope to do this without recourse to lndured attacks those whose opinions happen to dit fer from
 through the efforts of Local 2O3 ho the LdbOr Bocd held it's recent hearing here hut resulted in the com ing election The members of the local satisfied hG this ballot will be the benefit of all concerned secret ballot the fUrest most American way of settling matter in dispute Our members feel that of the two factions to be pres ent the ballot organization hos the better program to cdrrY out the work d hand
 Every reader of the daily papers ut organized labor has been divided on national scale We do not base arguments the merits of the Congress for Industrial Organization as a National organization, do we con demn the A. of such There much to be sdd both sides However contend that the Industrial form ot Or gunzuon best suited to the needs of the Alaska Juneau employee It is the of Local 203 to unite all the employees into body for the purpose of collective bargaining with speC wages hours, and working conditions And in ing desire all genuine workers groups in this community reunited Juneau is too small to contain comfort ably dsdgreeng CO and AT dCtions is certain thut is not profitable to anyone.
 well at this point explain whu Local 203 has to o fer who see fit to become part of it. Weekly meetings
 held in which each member has opportunity 10 express his opinions by and vote Beginning Jdn s 1889 executive board takes office; is composed of union officers elected by the membership to conduct the dttrs ot the local All of these employees of the Alaska W neau company The Union has been established and sub ized the extent that has possession o it's hc which hdlf puid fo and which it is paying tdxes This hall and the physical properties of the local cared for by duly elected board of three trustees We dsk hd the interested in this election join Local 2O3 and avail them selves of these facilities take active part in conducting their business with their employer We ask thdt these support this election thdt may accomplish the gco for which we have set course
 has been sCd about thdt group Ot radicals and dgtdoIs aiming to set strife and dlsCord This contrary the facts of the Our present ranks resent good section of the employed at the mine Of course to be perfect aspire to all ot the em poyees within ranks This is the fdr American WdY of conducting organization It is impossible to retute the fair condemnation and criticism thdt being put forth uis us this time other thcn to make this statement Ot facilities and Seup fer consideration Ades of the Congress for Industrial Organization unquesondbY control of the bargaining agencies in the mining industry throughout the country Those who less transient or those who plon to follow mining work elsewhere. will be particularly inter esed this condition Both the United Mine Workers of Am erica which is composed of workers in the cool mining in dlstTy and the International Union of Mine Mill and Smelter Workers which is interested in the metal mining industry and allied work old established Unions The International with which Local 2O3 is affiliated established in 1916 as an dide of the American Federation of Ldbor It withdrew from the AF with the other CIO unions in favor of the indus tdl form of organization and organization al campaign throug ghou the country must be pointed out here thdt the condition o univ esd transfer exists within the CIO ho is to hd member transferring from one n dustrid union to another required to new lnld1on ee but merely transfers his card and dues into the new union which hos jurisdiction Otherwise Local 3 operates under the ndondl constitution that acceptable to