The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-05-07

Card. We get an order Tor one or two different kinds. The orders we have to fill do not take all the lum- Der that the sawmill produces and that not required on the order is put out in the yard to be picked up for shipment some other time.
 Hendrickson: Would it be prac- ticable to plan for or hours work at a time for loading the next day?
 Card. We can not do that. We load just few packages at a time. | We do not have the room.
 Carter: That, Mir. Card is what we want to clarify. If you had enough space to assemble lumber for loading whole barge
 Card: No; we do not store a mil lion feet of lumber. We have to store so much that comes out of the mill but is not ordered.
 Carter: What is the capacity of a barge?
 Card. 100000 feet.
 Hendrickson; What is the capac- ity of the steamship?
 Card That depends on what space the steamship has free.
 Hendrickson: But what have yor loaded?
 Card. Twenty-Five to one hundred thousand it. But that does not enter into it. The longshoremen load that. At Ketchikan the longshoremen load on the scows. In Sitka the mill employees load it at the company dock. It is transferred to another dock and there is loaded on DCLs by longshoremen.
 Hendrickson The longshoremen load the scows at Ketchikan?
 Card: Yes.
 Newmarker We know there is not enough room to store the lumber.
 Carter: It has to be loaded piece meal.
 Ninnis: We are only trying to get the picture.
 Card: We only want to know if we have to recognize lengshermen. We are not bargaining with them because we have a contract with the mill employees. And treating with the longshoremen would vio- late that contract. We are not con- sidering the cost. We do not have to consider costs but only if we have to bargain with them.
 Carter: Have you anything to suggest as to how the NLRB could be speeded up?
 Card: We are doing all we can to speed it up.
 Ninnis: Could this committee do anything to help?
 Card: If you publicize the facts. would not want to advise the com- mittee to do anything beyond their purpose and try to do too much.
 Moore: The dispute has to be set tied by the parties.
 Carter: This committee intends to do nothing but find out the facts and put them before the public. There is no thought of making any f recommendations or to put any pressure on either party.
 Hendrickson: If there was any way the committee could speed up the deal we would do it. But we feel we have no right to force any thing
 Card: I think fair statement of the facts, released to the public, will do as much as anything to speed the matter up. You gentle men have been taking my word as to whether company has or has not to take over the contracts of 2 company which it has purchased. Here is the decision by the N.L.R.B. dated December 2, 1947: Herman Lowenstein Inc, Gloversville, N. r., Adirondack Leather Workers Union and International Fur and Leather Workers Union of the United States and Canada, Local POP, c. I. o. Therefore, in the absence of any evidence of a express agreement either written or oral by the en- ployer to assume the bargaining agreement between the CLIO. and the prior owner of the plant, we find that the employer is not bound by any existing bargaining agree ment between the prior owner of the plant and the CI.O." The CIO. contended that the present owner was the successor to the previous owner. The employer made no at tempt to assume any obligations for the previous owner We only bought the plant and equipment. There is still in existence the Lumber Mills company which is now in process of dissolution.
 Hendrickson: And the contract is still with them and not with your company?
 Card: We did not purchase the Juneau Lumber Mills Company, only some of it's assets.
 Carter: I think I can assure you that this committee is not going to l stick it's neck out and try to do anything it>should not.
 Card I appreciate the time you folks are putting in. I think you