The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-07-13

bitrator Mund, which the ship com panies have not, he added Me Cannon put in that the ship lines also refused to agree to the ar bitrators findings.
 Gle did not add that the ILWU also has expressed dissatisfaction with them)
 Wages Only Asked ot CPR Asked about the strike situation concerning Canadian Pacific ships Ford said all the union demands of that company-so far meeting cnly refusal-is that the CPR pay the $1.54 scale and retroactive wages set by Mund for the American lines. CPR says it is foreign company entitled to special treat ment and refuses to pay, he aneg- ed If they will agree to pay us, we will ask no more" Ford denied that tte Juneau local had ever ask ed the CPR to sign working agreement
 CThe question of putting aboard local longshoremen to work cargo out of CPR ships, which has also been reported as a union demand, was not discussed.
 Ernest Parsons. unofficial chair man of the town meeting" inter- srersed: You won't get what you want by pushing the line out of Juneau"
 We won't get paid . by let ting them push us around" came the reply
 With that, the meeting, which had been delayed by conflict on hall dates with the budding Juneau Yacht Club, turned to discussion of a merchants association.
 ProUeS League Need
 This round table, Henry Ho que asserted, lis proof of the need of a merchants league. We have been told tonight lot of things we didn't know He asked if a merchants group was formed, would the union be represented, so that in future difficulties they might all sit down together and hear all sides.
 Cash Cole, chairman Of the tra o1o o1,t of l,f 1l gathering, went a step further and received an affirmative from Ford to request that the union let a merchants representative sit in on union meetings in case of future disputes. Itsis the silence existing that has created friction which injures the town, Cole pointed out. Ford said he thought it would be agreeable to have a merchant sit in on future meetings regarding the CPR dispute.
 Ford added-as another fact not disclosed by the Empire-that the longshoremen had been blamed for spcilage on the Tongass which really resulted, he said, from the rerishable goods having been froz- en, then thawed. The Tongass left Seattle he stated, at about the same time as tke North Sea. Yet the North Sea produce arrived here in good condition.
 "Citisen'S Court"
 To a proposal by E. G. Krause that what's needed is not a mer- chants association, but a citizens court" which he suggested be com prised of two union men, two busi- nessmen and two judges, to deal with future difficult situations, Me Cannon replied that there already is a court" Three men each from the union and operators forming what is known as the Labor Rela- tions Committee. That committee has not met in years, he said, be- cause the operators representatives here continually have refused to meet-they claim they have to get orders from Seattle.
 Declaring the prime reason for calling last nights meeting was not ito rake" the longshoremen lover the coals," but to organize mer- chants association, Parsons set out his idea that the proposed associa- tion should include only merchants, and all merchants. The association he said, would afford a means for concerted action" on strikes or other problems. An association committee could sit down with both unions and employers and "straighten things out
 Want Fair Deal
 He complimented the union dele gation on coming before last nights meeting to present their side pub licly. We want the union to have a fair deal but we want the people of Juneau to have one, too, v he asserted.
 With such an organization, yachtsman Cole interposed, any fair grievance of the union could be supported by the merchants agreeing to boycott" the ship lines and not let them play Alaskans as suckers"
 Following Parsons statement, Ford made the union mems closing comment: This is an example of