The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-01-30

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 to work should be given preference of employment, they might be hired only at the site of the job;
 CD It contained a provision that each craft involved would be al- lowed as first placemet on each project one man exclusive of the foreman to be hired through their respective unions in Seattle;
 (3 The contractors agreed that all labor called for and hired in Seattle should have minimum first class transportation paid to the sites of the work; and
 (4) Provision was made that any employee hired in Seattle who became incapacitated through sick ness or injury, should have his return transportation furnished to Seattle If so elected upon the ad- vice of the physician.
 Pay Transportation
 So it was clear from the con- tract that any Alaskans employed would be obliged to pay their own transportation from their places of residence in Alaska to Sitka or Kodiak, as the case might be; and if they became sick they would have to return home at their own expense; and instead of being able to get jobs at. some point in AL aska other than Sitka or Kodiak it would be necessary for Alaska residents to proceed at their own expense to Sitka and Kodiak and just take a chance that work would be available when they arrived there. So the provision giving pref erence of employment to Alaskans in the work to be done on the pro- jects was little better than mean ingless except as to the compara- lively few workmen who might re- sue dl Dllhd O4 HAo0ioh'
 Shortly after this contract be- tween the Seattle unions and the contractors was entered into. Dele gate Dimond and Gov. Ernest Cru ening, who was then Director Of the Division of Territories and Is- land Possessions in the Department of the Interior, protested against it and demanded that Alaskans be given the same advantages as the residents of Seattle with respect to Navy base employment. Acting Governor E. L. Bartlett and MT. Joseph T. Flakne, Director of the Alaska Territorial Employment Ser vice, exerted every effort to see that Alaskans were given a square deal. After assuming the Governor ship, Gov Gruening made a trip to Sitka and upon his return pub- licly denounced the existing set-ur as highly discriminatory against residents of Alaska.
 settlement heacneu
 Last week Delegate Dimond ano Gov. Gruening had an extended conference with Secretary of the Navy Edison, and a number ol Navy officers, and another confer ence with Representatives Mag nuson and Wallgren of the State of Washington, and James Taylor of Seattle, a representative of tht unions involved, The dispute wa not one between the unions anc Alaskans, since the skilled work. men belonged to branches of tho same unions anyhow. Nor was il a dispute with the Navy Depart ment.
 The arrangement now made pro vides that Alaskans may be hiree at Juneau or Anchorage, and theil qualifications examined into there as well as at the sites of the work and that If found qualified they will then be paid transportation from Juneau or Anchorage. as tht case may be, to the place wher' they are to be employed, and that the facilities of the Alaska Terri torial Employment Service woult be used to the fullest possible ex tent. Further provision is mad that if residents of Alaska becom' i'll on the job they, too, may hav' their transportation paid back t' the place where they were em ployed. In this way by having employment offices, even on part-time basis, in two of tn main centers of population in Al aska, the citizens of Alaska ar' given the same advantages witl respert to employment as enjoyed by those in the States who may bt |l 3,irod in Seattle