The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-03-25
REP. TAYLOR HITS EMPIRE
 IN REMARKS
Orator ExfoIIs Self as Champion of Labor
 Raps Walter Sharpe

Unanimous passage of the Sen- Iate's version of the Green -Shattuck
 Workmen's Compensation bill in the
 Territorial House this morning
 prompted production of lengthy verbal painting by Rep. Warren A.
 Taylor in which the following fig ures appeared:
 CD Labor Commissioner Walter P. Sharpe as "a liar and "a twen- ty-two carat labor fink, morally and otherwise unfit for his job CD The Alaska Empire as "an example of prostituted journalism | at it's worst.
 (3) Warren A. Taylor as labor's
 champion.
 Taylor, whose attempts to substi- ute his rival compensation measure , HB. 50) for the AFL-CIO-endorsed
 Green-Shattuck bill failed last week, gave the following account of T his experiences with Juneau labor since arrival here for the current extraordinary session: Shortly after the legislature con- vened Taylor was approached by "a beetle e-browed bruiser' who invited him to labor meeting tthe joint AFL-CIO meeting held here in AFT. hall March g..
 "HoaDled DoDn" At the meeting Taylor was sub jected to rude treatment" and came to the conclusion, he said, that the meeting was packed after he
 had been "howled down. by labor groups who went on record for the Green-Shattuck bill. (At that meet ing Taylor reportedly agreed to sup port the Green-Shattuck bill If la Dor went on record for iD. Later, lin all sincerity" Taylor introduced his rival H.B. so, where upon his motives were impugned in the local paper and given the wrong Interpretation" Concluding the account Taylor
 went on to say his motives like wise had been 'impugned' by Com mission Sharpe, who together with
 Sen. Joe Green and Rep. Curtis
 Shattuck drew up the Green-Shat- tuck bill along lines recommended by Alaska labor groups and the U. s. Department Of Labor. TaylCr's Vie1Ds As evidence that Sharpe should be removed from office, Taylor submitted the following. CD Sharpe made a trip to An
 chorage with the purpose. Taylor
 charged, of blocking Sen. Steve
 McCutcheons election. (2) Sharpe failed to attend a specified national labor convention land failed to appear in Fairbanks
 during specified strike of culin-
 ary workers.
 (3 Sharpe submitted "a weak, |puerile' report to the 1945 legis-
 lative session.
 Taylor also quoted from a letter ,assertedly written by Sharpe to Ia Mr. Muldoon of Fairbanks, which read in part: Taylor is making a fine record and should be hanged |on the strength of it." Taylor wound up by offering Sharpe "a chance to make some- thing of it." He did not further clarity either his charges or his challenge, but he paused in his brushwork long enough to admit that the Green-Shattuck bill was highly advantageous to labor and to describe it as "a far step in ad- vance"
 Real Business Prior to Taylor's remarks the
 House amended SB. tthe Senate's compensation bilD to strike the 45- day clause which would allow em-
 ployers to waive injury coyeragc for the first 45 days of the em- plcyees service. With other amend
 ments of a minor value the bill
 passed, 2l-0. Reps. Fred Hanford and Stanley McCutcheon were ab- sent from the voting. Also passed was the Senates fish trap levy. S.B. 28 with section in- serted to earmark the revenue for the veterans revolving fund until the $3.500,000 goal has been reach-
 ed. at which time the tax collec-
 tions would revert to the Territorial
 treasury
 Two post-deadline arrivals, from
 the Senate, admitted to the House
 by suspension of rules. were: S.B. 20. relating to the Pioneers Home, which was referred to the
 committee on Territorial Institu- tions.
 SB. 27, to appropriate 22.57483
 for the Territorial Department of
 Health, to Ways and Means.