The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-20

that another hearing will be held in Alaska and possibly still another in Washington.
 to accept any impairment of the position of any of his union mem- bers.
 USES representatives at the meet ing, Jack Carvel and Director Hedges stated that present job openings listed with their office total 39; all for skilled work. Four of them are for out-of-t town jobs. Of the re- maining 36, 16 of the calls are for carpenters, of whom there is none available. Painter, baker, printer, tin-smith, plumber or pharmacist are examples of the calls they have on hand.
 However, MT Hedges declared his strong belief that there may well be other jobs available in Juneau- not listed with the USES. Much might be done, he thought, by rounding up employers to see just what work they can supply. To the query of Welfare Director Rus sell Maynard: are there odd jobs or part time jobs to be rustled?, Car vel and Hedges replied that there may well be, though none are on their records now and all that have come in have been snapped up. Be- fore cold weather set in, MT. Car vel. local USES Office Manager, stated quite a few of their appli- cants were kept busy washing win dows, etc.
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 One suggestion definitely decided for action is that the Citys commit tee shall bring the present surplus of workers to the attention of all possible employers.
 MT. Maynard brought out that the present problem is not Juneau's alone; that Ketchikan just recent ly held meetings to set policies for handling men stranded there. Fifty percent of the Ketchikan cases, he quoted, are of men overflowed from the Alaska Railroad. Most of the non-residents augmenting the unem- ployment in Alaska are of two types, he reviewed: persons left over from discontinued war, jobs in the Terri tory and those on their way up here from the States, either attracted by glowing pictures painted of the Territory or pushed up from below by unemployment there.
 Suggestions along the line of the Anchorage policy of blue -ticketing out" Juneau's transients or halting the flow from the States were met with the reply that tits easy to talk about, but this is a democracy - thank God" Also, USES Chief Hedges again pointed out, 130 of the POS unemployed here are local resi- dents. He summarized the educa- tional program the USES has been advertising for long time: that anyone Alaska-bound should have a minimum of $2,500 or a definite job connection in Alaska. That pro- gram, he said, has laid his agency cren to burning criticism for knocking the Territory down" Alaska just can't absorb thousands of men coming here looking for eight a-day jobs, he stressed.
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 Mrs. John Mccormick, at last nights meeting as one of the Red Cross representatives, finally found herself fed up with much talk go- ing round and round, seemingly get ting not very far. In fiery exit speech she declared: These men have been invited into the Terri tory by somebody who painted glowing picture of it. Now that they're here, something must be done for them. Its not their fault if they're stranded here by ship strike" Previously, she had de- scribed several cases handled by the Red Cross in which men had used up their funds getting this far on their way out of Alaska and could get no further than Juneau because of lack of transportation.
 After listing of help available to the jobless here through the var ious organizations entering into the field, c. B. Holland, local Red Cross Chairman, stated the general view, that anything falling out of the juris- dictions of the several agencies is a problem for the City--whether the answer is a soup kitchen or what, whether it means drain on taxes or what.
 It was finally suggested that the City Councils Health Committee,