The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-29

CI0 Spokesman Attacks Empires Treatment of
 Message of Governor

The Daily Alaska Empire was called" Saturday night on its att tempted political skuldugery' in a radio speech delivered by John Wiese, chairman of the CIO Alaska conference held in Juneau last week.
 For those who were unable to listen to the talk, the complete text is as follows:
 "A MESSAGE TO THE PEOPLE OF ALASKA.
 Good evening, fellow Alaskans.
 First, permit me to identify my self. I am John Wiese, Chairman of the CIO Alaska conference cur rently being held in Juneau. And, in speaking, I voice the decision of the delegates to this conference who represent membership of CIO unions ranging the full length of the Alaska coastline. I am a resident of Cor dova others in the conference come from Ketchikan, from Sitka, from Juneau, from Anch.orage, and from many other of the communities in between.
 we feel that the attention of the people of Alaska should be called to the recent treatment accorded by the Juneau, Alaska Empire in it's news and editorial columns to the forward looking program for the people of Alaska that Governor Er- nest Gruening suggested to our Ter ritorial Legislature in his message last Thursday afternoon.
 Empire "CalIedv
 That treatment, we hold, de- serves censure. As The Empire should be called on it's attempted political skuldugery. It was thinly yelled and just plain stupid.
 The Governors proposed pro- gram, our conference has unani- mously decided after having studied it, was progressive and realistic. It took into account the factual things that face the people of Alaska, and then, based on this factual analysis. it outlined a proposed course of ac- ton.
 But, if the treatment The Empire twisted this proposal with. is taken as the basis for judging, the people of our Territory can't possibly know the proposal. And we charge that The Empire, by news distortion has abrogated it's moral license as the medium on which the people of the Territory must depend for a know ledge of their government. This vio- lation of that obligation is all the more important and all the more cause for indictment of The Empire when it is remembered that much of the rest of Alaska depends on this paper for information of what happens here in our Legislature Through The Associated Press, and through the practice among news papers of lifting news articles from The Empire for reprinting, the rest of Alaska leans heavily on the Ju- neau Empire for information. And when distortions are made by this paper, they're reflected everywhere in Alaska.
 Governors Program
 Very briefly, I'd like to remind those of you who heard Governor Gruening's message to the Legisla- ture of what the program was that he proposed to our legislators, and at the same time to take this op- portunity to acquaint those of you who didn't hear the message of it's contents in principle.
 First of all, the Governor took into account that our nation Is still at war and that this very basic and fundamental fact must remain the biggest influencing element in our Legislators deliberations.
 At the same time, our solons were reminded that they and that we have an obligation to the return ing soldiers to take into account in all of our planning and our actions. Those boys want and must have, a functioning home to come back to and a future to look forward to- They want this, we want it for them, and it's our special obligation to fulfill that requirement.
 "On top of that, Alaska also faces future after the war in which un- told thousands of persons will be coming to the. Territory to make their homes and to participate in the development of this country of ours. This pleases us, of course We want them; we need them, in fact, to make Alaska a better homeland.
 Obviously these propositions con- front us with problems. Problems primarily of laying the groundwork