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The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-06-15

equipped with initiative, courage brains, brawn, patience, persistence-and some capital" That's whale of an order.
 On the other hand Harold L. Ickes, while Secretary of the Interior and other officials have been singing song of Alaska for years Ickes writing recently Gin This Weeks Magazine, again cried shame that hadn't done more to skim something more than three billion dollars off the of natural resources in the Territory for which paid less than seven and a half million dollars
 Alaska is our last great frontier of untapped natural resouces Before the last thunder of the bombs of Pearl Harbop has ded the Hawaiian Islands will be as populous possibly overpopuated as many of the States The Philippines going back to their people and promise to be an economic problem for years to come Puerto Rico never has been anything but an economic problem
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-06-15
MONDAY, JUNE IT
HEART AND HOME

The stars are friendly to those in love and the day is ideal for all affairs of the heart, engagements, weddings and marriage anniver- ga rios
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-06-15

Weather; Highest, es; lowest, 4e; clear.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-06-15

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-06-15

 Baseball Dance being tonight for the the youngsters organization.
The union times., 1946-10-12
As We See It
 by THE STAFF

OUR congratulations to the Sunday Herald and its publisher, Leigh Dannenberg, on its special issue Practical Ways To Indus trial Peace." This is an important contribution to a highly complex subject. When other newspapers are able to be as objective as the Sunday Herald about relationships between organized labor and man. agement beginning will have been made to solve one of the most inn pOrtant problems which confront the people of this country.
 GEORGE W. THORPE, presi- dent of Conn. Council 16, Am. Fed. of State, County, and Municipal Employees, and vice-president of his international, is one of the In- ternational's five delegates to the American Federation of Labor con- ventiOn now meeting in Chicago. In addition to Thorpe, the organiza- ton is represented by International President Arnold Zander; Secre- tary-Treasurer H. z. Collins; Ex- ecutive Assistant Gordon Chapman; and Vice-President John Leary of Chicago.
 DROPPED line added something to story about Veterans Admins tratiOn jobs in the Pennington VaI- ley (Conn.) Herald:
 Salaries range from $I954 to
 $2394 annually for 4O-hour
 week opportunity for overtime
 pay, vice privileges, including
 20 days annual leave and IS
 days sick leave with pay.''
 EXCEPT for eight legislative candidates and the Republican for coroner, the Detroit & Wayne County Federation of Labor (AFL)
 Continued on Page Four)
The union times., 1946-10-12
Building Trades Plan Changes In Workmen' s Law
Conn. Council Also Unani- mously Votes to En-
 dorse Joe Tone

Expert advice on the need for i'm proving the Connecticut Workmen's Compensation Law was received by the executive board of the Connecti- cut State Building and Construction Trades Council at its meeting We'd nesday.
 At the invitation of the Council, the Board was addressed by Mar shall Dawson of the Division of Labor Standards, U. s. Department of Labor. Dawson pointed out that the Connecticut compensation law in l94O, when the latest figures were compiled, had dropped in na- tional rating from the 10th most liberal law in the country to the 18th. No other state in the country pays less than the 5O%o provided by the state law, and many pay much more. Dawson criticized the fact that the law is elective in Con- necticut, instead of being cOmpuI- sorry. The decentralized administra- ton now provided for is unfair to workers he said. Members of the board went further and said that it helps adjusters representing the insurance companies play fast and loose with victims of accidents.
 Dawson pointed out that insur- ance rates have gone down 1892 for the employer, while benefits for
 Continued on Page Three)
The union times., 1946-10-12
Grocery Prices Up $6O,OOO,OOO In Seven Days
Anti-OPA Law Passed By Congress Is
 Responsible

Washington (LPA) = We had $6O,OOO,OOO added to our grocery bills for the next twelve months by an OPA action last week. The retail price of oleomargarine, shortening, mayonnaise and cooking and salad oils was raised an average of 215c pound.
 The oil price boost was ordered be- cause of action taken by Agriculture Secretary Anderson under the powers granted him by Congress to set prices of agricultural food products.
 Price ceilings for chocolate pro- ducts were raised 279o last week by OPA order. This covers chocolate bars (which will probably be re- duced this much in size to keep the traditional nickel price), cocoa, chocolate syrup, and cocoa butter which was raised l3c pound.
 Completely decontrol1ed by order of Agriculture Secretary Anderson, using the powers given him by Congress, were: canned corn, canned fruit, canned fruit juices and nectars, oat cereals, rum, liqueurs and alcoholic specialties, fresh and frozen salmon.
The union times., 1946-10-12
Conn. Federation Asks Candidates Ten Questions
GEL Requests .Contenders To State Their Views
 On Basic Issues

A questionnaire containing 10 ques- tions on Tissues of vital concern to labor has been sent to all candidates for the United States Senate and House of Representatives from Con- necticut by the Non-partisan Politi- cal Committee of the 'Connecticut Federation of Labor, it was announced by Chairman Joseph P. Cleary. Can didates have been asked to state their views on whether or not they favor ::
 Amending the National Labor Relations Act. If so, in what man. ner?
 A long range Federal housing program (the Wagner-EIlender- Taft bill).
 A national health act (the Wag- ner-Murray-Dingell bilD.
 Amending the Fair Labor Stand ards Act to raise the minimum hourly rate to at least 65 cents).
 A permanent Fair Employment Practices Commission.
 Continuance of price and rent controls while scarcities exist.
 Drafting of labor as a means of ending strikes.
 Government responsibility for full employment.
 Anti-lynching legislation
 A questionnaire on issues based upon the state legislative program of the Connecticut Federation of Labor will be forwarded in few days to candi- dates for Governor and members of the General Assembly, C1eary said.
The union times., 1946-10-12
AFL Membership Hits Record High With 7,l51,SO8
Increase Totals 2,582,752 Since Before Outbreak
 Of World War II

CHICAGO (LPA)-The AFL's membership has reached an all-time high of 7,151 sos, an increase of 22O,- 55 over Aug. 31, 1o45, the Fedora tion's Executive Council reported to the AFL's 65th Convention here this week.
 The AFL's wartime membership gains were underlined by cOmpari- son of the l94l pre-Pearl Harbor membership of 4,569,O56 with the current 7,l5l, ,8O8-an increase of 2,582, ,752.
 At the same. time Secretary-treas- urer George Meany reported that the AFL now has balance on hand of $1,742,077, drop of $344,944 from the balance on Aug. 31, 1945. Of the cur rent balance, 1,50O,975 is in the de- fense fund for the local trade and federal labor unions and the balance of $241, ,102 is in the general fund.
 Expenses exceeded receipts by $344, ,944. Total receipts from all sources amounted to $2,28O,979 with expenses reaching $2, ,625, 1923. Organizing activities during the l2 months preceding Aug. 3l cost the AFL $l l,453, ,O42. Of this, said Meany, $7O8,524 went for ''organ- izing and services for directly affili- ated trade and federal labor un- ions; the balance, $744,5l7, was incurred in the formation and as- sistance of newly formed local un- ions of national and international unions and in activities in behalf of state federatiOns of labor and city labor central bOdies."
The union times., 1946-10-12
Building Trades Reflect Cray
 As President.
Rivers Also Renamed Green Asks For Less
 Government Control

CHICAGO (LPA) = Demands for less government controp high lighted speeches made to the 3oth con- vention here of the AFL Building Trades Department
 Also, the Department unani- mOusly elected Richard J. Gray as president. Gray, who is secretary of the Bricklayers, has been serving as chairman of the departments executive board since the death of its previous president, John P. Coyne.
 Secretary-Treasurer Herbert Riv- CTS and all yice-presidents of the department were reelected unani- mOusly.
 AFL President William Green, in an address to the Departments meet ing, declared: "We are asking for less government control because we have learned by experience that W. suffer from it"
 He assailed the emasculated price control act adopted by the last Con- greSS as "profit-promotive piece of legislation"
 Green sounded an urgent warn- ing against the growth of anti-labOr laws in the states and added that: ''The time has come for every unit of labor to be alerted against anti union forces seeking to enact such laws.''
 ''In Congress and the states,' he added, "we must vigorously oppose every move to deprive workers of the rights they have attained after long years of struggle"
 Green also predicted that the is- sue of Communism would "split asunder" many CIO unions and that ''many of them who are tired of Communism and foreign domi- nation are going to turn their faces homeward, to the AFL.''
The union times., 1946-10-12
Stop Rising Prices Or Face US. Collapse
Europe Food Parcels
 Are Cut In Price To $1O

NEW YORK (LPA) = Union of ficials last week urged members to take advantage of the reduction in price of food parcels to be sent to Europe by increasing their gifts to un- dernourished unionists on that conti- nent.
 The Cooperative for American Re mittances to Europe, 50 Broad St., NY. 4, N. Y, has reduced prices from SIS to $10 for a food parcel con taining 10000 ca1ories, or enough food to supplement for two weeks the pres ent rations of European family of four.
The union times., 1946-10-12
Conn. Conference Committee Named

The Connecticut Conference of So- cia1 Work has initiated plan for correlation of the legislative interests of the various statewide and local welfare and health agencies compris- ing its membership.
 At a meeting held October 1 at the New Haven YWCA, forty-fve rep resentatives of such agencies were present and appointed a committee to work out definite plan for presenta- ton at a second meeting to be held the end of November. This commit tee will consist of Nathan Sherman of New Haven, chairman, Philip w. Swartz of Bridgeport, Miss Eleanor Little of Gui1ford, Mrs. Ralph T. Lasbury, IT,, of East Windsor Hill, and Howell F. Fuller of Westport.
The union times., 1946-10-12
Ceelan,McMahon Pledge Help On
 Vets Housing
Reply To RolIback Protests Sent By New Haven
 Building Trades

Both US. Senator Brien Me- MahOn and Rep. James P. Ceelan have pledged their full support to the New Haven Building Trades Council in their effort to prevent a reduction in the amount of emer- gency housing to be made available in New Haven for veterans.
 Responding to telegrams of protest sent by President Saul Kreas and Secretary Bernard Chloride, which asked them to use their influence to prevent the reduction, McMahon wired back: Taking matter up with regional office of Federal Public Housing Administration. Will keep you advised"
 Ceelan wired:
 ''This is to advise you that two days before received your teIe- gram l contacted the Washington Office of the F.P.H.A. and also the regional office in Boston protest ing against the cut back in the Vet erans Housing Program and re- questing conference on the matter. Will be happy to keep you advised of results of my effOrts.''
 From the White House, Kreas re- ceived the following:
 My dear MT. Kreas:
 This will acknowledge receipt of the telegram of October first to the President from yourself and MT. Der nard Gilbride. Please be advised that the matter about which you wired is being brought to the attention of the appropriate officials of the Govern ment."
 WILLIAM D. HASSETT"
 Secretary to the President" !"
The union times., 1946-10-12
AFL Auto Men Write Congress Twice A Year
Union Survey Shows JAW AFLLets Representatives
 Know Labor Views

Chicago (LPA) - The average member of the United Auto Work ers-AFL wrote to his Congressman twice during the past year, a union survey disclosed last week.
 Legislation which caused the auto workers to write their Congressman most were price control, the Case Bill, the Hobbs Bill and the British Loan. By margin of four to one the union members believed their writing did some good.
 KNOW THEIR REPS!
 Only 69o of the AUW-AFL mem bers did not know the name of their representative in Congress; go did n't know the name of their US. sena- tor. Only 129o could not identify their state senators and representatives. Nlnety-three percent of the member ship vote regularly, the\survey show ed, with about the same proportion voting in the presidential primaries. Fifteen percent reported that they did not vote in the primaries and 11% that they did not vote in state and county elections. Twenty-six percent said they are active in politics in their communities, but the survey revealed that only l6% belong to a political party and attend meetings.
 On the question: ''What do you think labor could do to increase its political power generally?" the unionists gave first place to ''By better informing its members of political issues." Favored next was for unions "to get out the labor vote mOre." In succession were: 1: ''lObby more'', ''use purchasing power of labor more'', and finally y ''write legislators more.''
The union times., 1946-10-12

Railroad Support
 The New Haven Central Labor Council, at its meeting Thursday, unanimously voted to endorse Tone on his labor record, and took similar action in regard to Rep. James P. Ceelan, who is member of the Cigar Clerks Union. Acting upon instructions from the Coun- cil, President Vincent McCovern appointed nOn-partisan political committee to work for the election of Tone and Ceelan.
 On the national scene, official word was received here today from Washington that the Railway Labor Executives Association, represent ing the l8 standard railroad labor organizations, have endorsed Tone for election. The eighteen brother hoods represented in the Associa- ton have a national membership of 100000 members.
 Bricklayers Union, No. 6, of New Haven, according to an announcement by Business Agent James DiLonardo, has unanimously voted to endorse Tone, and its members are forming a "A Dollar for Tone Club" through which the membership will raise funds to help in Tones campaign.
 ssEnded Sweatshops
 Our union, together with the other labor organizations of Connecticut, are proud that Joe Tone has been nominated for Senator, and we are going to do everything possible to elect him." DiLonardo said. "We know that Tone is responsible for driving the sweatshops out of our state, and it is because of his work as Labor Commissioner of Connecticut that women are no longer working 70 hours a week for $7. He is truly a man of the people,"
 Aid To CeeIan
 DiLOnardO said that full support would also be given to Rep. Ceelan.
 Painters Union Mo- 186 of New Haven, meeting Wednesday night, also unanimously voted to endorse Tone. Business Agent Kreas said that the enthusiasm for Tone was "second only to that inspired by President Roose- welt when he ran in 1914"
 Labor Record
 Tone has also been endorsed by the executive board of the Con- necticut State Building and Con- struction Trades Council; the Great CT New Haven Building Trades Council; and the Greater New Haven Industrial Union Council. All of these endorsements have been made on the basis of Tones labor record, and not on the basis of party affiliation.
 The New Haven Central Labor Councils Non-Partisan Political Ac- tion Committee, as appointed by Pres ident McGovern, and the union of the members, follow:
 Samuel F. Curry, Trolley & Bus Operators, chairman; Richard Buckley, Cigar Salesmen; Joseph M. ROurke, Electricians; Joseph J. Egan, Typographical; George Rheims, Carpenters; Saul Kreas, William P. Enright, and William Zuckerman, Painters; Stanley Cries. ing, Plumbers; Harry L. Benson, Musicians; Everett Shaw, Police men; and Nathan Sherman, editor of The Union Times.
The union times., 1946-10-12
Anti-T rust Group
 Asked To Report

WASHINGTON (FP)-The mo- nopoly subcommittee of the House small business committee has asked the Justice Dept. antitrust division for report of its activities during the past eight years.
 The committee asked specifically about formation of cartels before the war, price fixing, use of patents in throttling competition and actions i'll preventing concentration of industry
The union times., 1946-10-12
Anti-Pol Tax
 Suit Dismissed

RICHMOND, Va. (LPA) = A new attempt to have this states an- cient poll tax declared unconstitutional failed here last week when Federal District Judge Sterling Hutcheson dis missed a suit brought by a Repub1i- can candidate for Congress. The court was told that the tax violated and abrogated the 14th and 18th amend ments to the Constitution" and that its purpose was to disenfranchise Ne groes. The court cited U. s. Su- preme Court decision which ruled that the poll tax does not deny the right fO vOfe
The union times., 1946-10-12
WU Finally Gives
 Pay Boost Of 161ac

CHICAGO LPA) = With only approval by the Wage Stabilization Board still to be granted, Western Union last week gave in to the pro- posal of fact-fnding board to grant pay increases of 121ac an hour to all employees and an additional 4c an hour to some classi6cations.
 Workers, who are represented na- tionally by the AFL, had threatened to strike when WU attached strings to its acceptance of the fact finders report.
The union times., 1946-10-12
Vets Urge Raise In Job Training Pay

WASHINGTON - (FP) - Fol lowing the lead of the American Legion in protecting the hastily-en- acted $200 monthly income ceiling on veterans training on the job under the CT bill of rights, AMVETS Natl. Commander Jack Hardy said the limit is inadequate and negotiable" :"
 Hardy said the AMVETS .''hope the next Congress will take the reme- dial action of allowing the Veterans Administration to fix appropriate ceil- ings, as determined by the economic factors in various parts of the coun- try
The union times., 1946-10-12
Chest Goal Still
 Far From Fulfilled

Reports from volunteer workers in industrial plants, after a week of in tensive campaigning for the New Ha- ven Community Chest goal of $82O,- 900, indicate that although workers are responding we'll, the goal is still far from being fulfilled.
 Organized labor represented by leaders of A. F. of L., C.LO., and Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers organizations in the New Haven area, make up part of the approximately 1000 volunteer workers for the drive.
 The drive this year will not include the National War Fund agencies as it has during the war. The attempt will be made to raise substantially more than the announced goal in order to meet the pressing demands on sev- eral of the agencies for additional service.
The union times., 1946-10-12
Wages Are Low And Profits Are High h-Steelman
Prices Up Faster In Last Three Months Than In
 Last 38 Months

(See ''Our Prosperity Is Wear-
 ing Thin," Page 4-EditOr's
 NOte.)
 REAL WAGES DOWN 19.5%
 Serious and severe collapse threatens the nations econ. Omy unless prompt action is taken to stop rising prices, RecOnversiOn Director John Steelman declares in his first report to Congress and the President.
 Prices have already risen fur ther in the three months since the original price control act ex- pired than they did in the previ- ous 38 months. A further rapid price rise might choke off de mand, upset business stability and precipitate an early and se- we're price collapse, with serious economic and social conse- quences," the OMWR report leads off.
 Workers real wages, the report calculates, have declined l9.5% from what could be bought with the contents of wartime pay en- veIopes. This has resulted from: D an 8.5% decrease in take home pay resulting from shifts to lOwer-paid industries, elimination of much overtime, and cuts in the work week; 9 rise of lI9o in prices of consumers goods between April I945 and July 1946; 3 the sharp increase in personal income taxes for workers since l94l.
 Profits of business, after taxes, "are at the highest point in history" the report asserts Production, too, is at record peacetime levels.
 NOT PERMANENT
 However, Steelman warns, "our satisfaction in achievement to date must be tempered by the knowledge that the present level of production and employment has been the product in part of delayed demand, backed by wartime savings, and is not neces- sarily permanent"
 "An uncontrolled advance in the general level of prices" Steelman says, ''is the worst possible way to bring demand into balance with supply"
 To stem the tide of higher prices, and to prevent any bust which may follow the present boom, the gov ernment report says, ''The first and most salutary action to arrest a de- cline could be taken by business itself by reducing prices-wher- ever pOssible-withOut reducing wages. There can be no doubt that in some industries the profit posi- ton is such that prices could be re- duced and profits still be maintain- ed at a satisfactory level"
 The government, Steelman reported in a section obviously aimed at Con- gress, finds itself "gravely handicap ped in our fight against imitation through lack of adequate government tai machinery to cope with it"
 KEEP THE LID ON
 Labor, business and farmers all must share in the work of keeping the lid on imitation, Steelman said. He is sued special appeal to consumers: Public resistence.t to higher prices, in creased saving and self-denial in the case of goods which are not yet plen- tiful, can be tremendously effective weapon to keep prices in line"
 Referring to consumer resistance to high prices, the OWMR report notes that ''there is some indica- ton that the bloom is off the mar ket." Figures compiled by govern ment agencies show that inc physi- cal volume of such goods as food and clothing purchased in the past three months may actually have de- clined slightly.
The union times., 1946-10-12
Arbitrator Rules Veterans Should Get Merit Raises

An arbitrator has just decided (Ace Mfg. Corp.) that veterans are entitled to increases equal to those received by average employees for merit during the veterans absence. The theory is that if the veteran had remained on the job and not joined the armed serv- ices he would have received such in creases because he would have per formed at least as well as the average orr101o1ya
The union times., 1946-10-12
Endorsements For Tone Filing Up;RR Unions Back Him
N. H. Central Labor Council Backs Tone And Geelan National Railway Labor Executives Endorse
 Tone, As Do Conn., Building Trades

Endorsements for Joseph M Tone candidate for United States Senator from Connecticut reaching heavy voum from local and national
The union times., 1946-10-12

FAMOUS LAST WORDS: ssBet YOU a buck I can beat that train to inc crossing!"