The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-02-01
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 DI5AppR0vE5 LEA5E-LEND
Bill Would Establish MiIi- fary Dictatorship,
 Say Delegates

twenty resolutions before the day business was ended.
 Highighting the days discussion were two resolutions pertaining to the position of the United States in relation with the resent Euro pean war. Resolution No. l re- corded the Convention as ''unal- terably opposed" to the Lease-Lend Bill now pending before Congress. The second demanded that the United States must not enter into any foreign entanglements which may involve it in war
 President Dictator
 Reasons for firm opposition to the Lease-Lend bill by the Convention are as follows:
 The LeaSe-Lend bill. would establish military dictatorship and vest the President with such sweep ing powers that the fate of the American people would no longer rest in a legislature of their own elected representatives. The Presi- dent would be an absolute ruler. It would make the United States an active participant in the i'm perialist war now raging abroad, by empowering the President to sell, transfer or lease any and all military equipment to any belliger- ent nation he so desired; and to permit war equipment of that na- ton, such as warships to take refuge and refuel in American ports and undergo repairs in American drydocks
 It would nullify the Johnson and Neutrality Acts which now consti- tute powerful safeguards against active U. s. participation in the present war"
 No War for U. S. In the second resolution passed, the Convention went on record as demanding the United States must not enter or approach any foreign war. The resolution stated that the peope of the United States are de- termined to prevent war from com ing to this nation and that under the guise of furthering national defense, the enemies of labor are attacking the living standards of the American people"
 Protection of the National La Dor Relations Act, asking that it be not amended was embodied in the third resolution Arguments were that the Government has abandoned the New Deal in favor of an ornaments and war program, and that during this relaxation of former policies, reactionaries might attempt to cripple or de- stroy the Act during the present session of Congress.
 Want Labor Included
 Resolution No. 4 demanded that Acting Charles Jackson and the Bureau of Fisheries include labor representation in discussions of proposed regulations. A particular example of labor neglect cited in the resolution was that of January when Jackson did fail to invite labor participation" in a confer ence to which he had invited other individuals and associations. It was said that Jackson publicly threatened his subordinates when they discussed fisheries problems with Union representatives.
 The condemnation of war profit eering was the basis of the fifth resolution, which says defense pro- duction has created opportunities for big business to "extort huge profits at the expense of the Am erican people"
 Bridges Defended
 Charges on Harry Bridges brand ing him as Communist, are false as proven by the Department of Labor and Dean James M. Landis, said Resolution No 6, which con- demned attacks being made on Bridges and the FBI investigation of the labor leader.
 Sandwiched among resolutions of lesser importance and national at tention were four other statements which asked for guarantees of col lective bargaining in Government contracts. loans and purchases, con- demned the unfair practices of Montgomery Ward and Company, urged the construction of hospitals for natives in Alaska, and offered a tentative program for the con- servation and development of fish cries.
 Montgomery Ward and Company, according to the Labor Convention resolution, has refused to reco2- nize the Wagner Act and the Wage Hour act and has not recognized organized labor nor its right to bargan collectively, says a resolu- ton.
 Build Hatoheries
 In Resolution No. IT, the Conven- tion urged fish conservation pro- gram including the prohibition of dam and irrigation projects with out protection of the spawning streams. the elimination of indus trial pollution, the extension Of