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The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-05-23
HUGHES-GRAvES

Stanley s. Hughes, chief store keeper for the Arctic Contractors, a concern working at Point Barrow has made application for a mar riage license with Glenna Victoria Graves of Juneau. former waitress at the Mugup Cafe. The applica- ton was made out before U. S Commissioner Gordon Gray.
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3 WESTERN
 CANNERIE5
 OPERATING
Plants Being Manned by Non-Resident Work
 CTS of Local v

SEATTLE, May 23--tR-The AL aska salmon industry reported to- day nine canneries in the Anchor age-C -Cordova area have started op- erations despite picketing here which has halted shipment of sup plies to Alaska.
 The nine plants, on Cook Inlet and Prince William Sound. are ex- pected to produce about 10 per cent of the industry's pack this sum- mer. They are being manned in part by nonresident workers of Local IT, United Westinghouse Workers (CIO).
 Local 77 is the rival of Local 7-C. International Longshoremen and Warehousemen's Union (CIO). which has been picketing the in- dustry in an effort to force open ing of contract negotiations cover ing nonresident workers.
 The National Labor Relations Board asked yesterday for an ln- junction against the picketing on the grounds that 1t was unfair labor practice. Representatives of the ILWU and Local 7-C are to appear in Federal court here to- morrow to oppose temporary in- junction
 The NI,RB also issued a con- plaint yesterday charging the in- dustry with unfair labor practices for signing a contract with Local IT when the union had not been certified as bargaining agent for nonresident cannery workers. An NLRB trial examiner is expected to conduct a hearing on this charge in July.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-05-23
SON FOR PARKERs

MT. and Mrs. Robert Parker be- came the parents of a son early fhis morning at St. Ann's hospital. The Parkers reside on Douglas Road.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-05-23
BLOCK ACTION FILED

SEATTLE. May g = R = The NLRB filed court action today to block the Alaska Salmon .Industry, Inc, from carrying out contract with Local 77 United Clearinghouse Workers (CIO). The NLRB asks an injunction under the Taft Hartley Act contending the contract was signed while the NLRB was de- termining whether an election should be called to decide what union should be certified as agent for nonresident cannery workers. Longshoremen's Local 7-C is chal- lenging the Local 77 contract.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-05-23
POPPY wREATHs

Will be made Thursday at the Dug out. Anyone desiring to help come for what time you can give from 10 am. till finished.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-05-23
FROM KETCHIKAN

Casey Moran of the Alaska High way Patrol, Ketchikan. is in Juneau staying at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-05-23
FROM ANCHORAGE

Mrs. Maribeth Turner of the Ter ritorial Department of Health, An chorage, is a guest at. the Baranof Hotel.
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(CcEtinued on Page six)
CAA MEN HERE

R. J. Petite and S. H. Brown of the Civil Aeronautics Administra- tion, Anchorage, are guests at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-05-23
WEATHER REPORT

In Juneau-Maximum, 52;
 } minimum, 38.
 } At Airport-Maximum, AS;
 . minimum, 38.
 } FO R E c AS T , (Juneau and Vicinity
 } Variable cloudiness tonight
 , and Wednesday. Lowest tenn
 } perature tonight about 38.
 , Highest Wednesday near 52.
 , F R F c IP T A T Q N
 , (Past "A hours ending 7:30 am. today ( , City of Juneau-0.0l inches; , since May l = 4.33 inches; , since July 1-69.25 inches. , At Airport Trace; } since May l = 1.90 inches; since July 1-44.53 inches.
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FROM COLLEGE

Laurence Widmark, Jr., of Col lege is at the Gastineau Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-05-23

FROM SKAGWAY Ken Lamoreaux of Skagway ii stopping at the Gastineau Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-05-23
FROM POINT LAY

MT. and Mrs. Jack Farr of Point Lay arrived here yesterday on the Pan American flight, and are stay ing at the Baranof Hotel.
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-23
Management
(Csnfinued From Page ODe)

the creatures of John l.. Lewis is
"a gross error" and it is the other
way around.
8. By and large an employer gets
just about what he deserves in the
kind of union he deals with. "If he
has been a good employer, intelli-
gent, fair, sensitive to the needs of
his employees as human beings, the
chances are he has pretty good,
a pretty reasonable union with
which to deal"
7. The employers notion that all
labor leaders are simply power
hungry is an error.
8. "At the bar of public opinion,
in the minds of those not involved
in the union-management competl-
tion, the idea that a strong union
movement is necessary in America
to do a better job Of looking after
workers interests than employers
will or can-that idea has very
broad support
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-23
Oh! Workers Get
Vested Rights In
Company Pensions

Denver LPA)-The Oil Work
ers international Union has nego-
tiated a pension agreement with
Sinclair Oil Corp. that corrects
gaps found in many industrial
plans. The agreement was worked
out in two months of negotiations,
and covers more than 10000 work
ers throughout the nation.
The plan provides minimum
pension of $125, including social
security, for workers at 65 after
20 years service, and extensive
paid sick leave, disqualification,
surgical, medical and insurance al
lowances for employees, and depen-
dents.
The employee is guaranteed a
vested right to company contribu-
tions after 10 years of service, of
so per cent, with the amount in
.creasing at per cent year. That
is, if he leaves or is fired, he does
not lose the equity he has built up.
An employees rights will not be
abrogated or impaired by a strike
or lockout; an employe may be laid
off for 365 days without losing
service continuity in calculating
pensions; disability after Is years
brings 100 per cent annuity rights;
retirement on pension before 65
can be negotiated; retirement at
65 after only Is years service, with
a smaller pension, is possible.
Pensions will be jointly financed,
with participation voluntary. How
ever, Sinclair workers have been
contributing to their pensions for
years-and the old plan is inferior
to the new one.
Other benefits have been improv-
ed. In addition to five weeks at full
pay and 25 weeks at half pay, for
sick leave, employees will get So to
62 per cent of their full pay be-
yond the old maximum sick leave,
up to 81 weeks. Payment for hospi-
tai charges, including maternity
benefits, have been made more
generous; each worker will get
$1,000 accidental death insurance
policy.
The agreement is contingent on:
Ratification by the rank and file;
passage by Congress of HR 5000,
Increasing social security benefits.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-23
World Govt Would
Give People Voice
Says BRIT Speaker

Washington (LPA)-Support of
resolution urging the US to take
steps looking toward a world gov
ernment was expressed by Byrl A.
Whitney, speaking on behalf of the
Brotherhood Of Railroad Trainmen
before the Senate Foreign Rela-
tions subcommittee holding hear
ings on such proposals Feb. IT..
zone of the finest things that
could come from a world federal
government" Whitney observed,
would be the taking of the destiny
of mankind from the hands and
control of the diplomats, admirals
and generals, and placing it in the
hands and control of the people.
eve have had many wars in his
tory because the people have never
had an effective voice in the for
eign relation policies that deter
mine the issue of war and peace.
Democratic as our great country is,
there is too little democracy in the
formulation of our foreign policies.
There are those who even question
why labor should be interested in
foreign policies. A federated
world government will make the
business of peace and war the bus
mess of the people, something that
has never existed and can never
exist in the absence Of government
and law at the international level
in the affairs of mankind"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-23
Civil Rights
(ConiiHurd From rage One)

arate the white and Negro races
be equal" as guaranteed by the
US Constitution?
The majority of the Appeals
Court held there was no evidence
of discrimination in funds or as
signments of school buildings in
the Districts segregated school
system. The complaints had asked
for admission to white schools in
their neighborhoods, which were
not crowded, since the Negro
schools in the area were over
crowded and enrolling students for
part-time work.
The Justice Department has fill
ed a brief in the Texas case, sup
porting the view that separate
facilities cannot be equal.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-23
Shoe Workers Hit
Industry Plea For
"Learner Rates"

Washington IPA) - The at
tempts of the shoe industry to esta-
blish "learner" rates below the 75-
cent minimum are unprecedented,
and fraud, according to the Unit
ed Shoe Workers of America. The
union will oppose the plea when
hearings here are resumed Feb. 20.
before the Wage and Hour divis-
ion of the Department of Labor.
The union declares the industry's
request for learner rate of 571a
cents an hour is merely an attempt
to evade the intent of the law The
union points out the industry never
had a learner" system; existing
contracts now call for starting
rates of 60 to 70 cents or more:
the plea that qualified and exper
fenced workers are unavailable is
false. William E. Thornton, unior
president, cited the example of the
Florsheim Co. in Chicago, which
petitioned for a learner rate on the
plea it couldn't get enough exper-
fenced workers. The union showed,
by official unemployment figures,
that unemployed shoe workers
were available, and that the min
imum rate at Florsheim, under
union contract, already was &c
cents an hour.
The Boot and Shoe Workers
Union-AFL, also opposes any lear
ner regulations, but holds that if
learner rates are set, they should
not be less than 70 cents an hour.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-23
COP Leader Investigated
AS Unregistered Lobbyist

Washington (LPA)-The House
Lobby Investigating Committee has
uncovered evidence that Harrison
Spangler, former chairman of the
Republican National Committee
helped enact legislation in the Re-
publican 80th Congress for big
trucking and motor carrier firms
but was not registered as a lobby
ist.
Spangler helped draft and put
through Congress Legislation under
which midwest trucking firms can
prosecute claims against the gov
ernment for about $20,000,000. The
companies are claiming this much
in profits realized when the gov
ernment was operating their COM
panies after strike during the
war.
Evidence gathered by the lobby
committee indicates Spangler was
lobbying without registering. The
lobby law provides penalties for
lobbying, without registering, up
10 $4,000 fine and a year in Jail.
Spangler, questioned at his home
n Iowa, denied he was acting in
the capacity of a lobbyist" for the
motor carriers. He admitted help
ng prepare briefs, and committee
'ecords show he testified before
House and Senate Committees on
he legislation.
Under the law this does not nee
essarily constitute lobbying, but in
his testimony before the House
Committee, Spangler told of help
ng prepare legislation which was
finally approved by Congress. He
appeared before the committees as
l representative of Iowa truckers.
Spangler has long been Republican
National Committeeman from Iowa,
and recently served on the Repub-
lican Policy Committee that draft
I'd the party's statement of princi-
pies.
The lobby committee has in it's
possession the draft of a contract
between Spangler and the truckers
lnder which he and his law firm
would receive 10 per cent of any
money recovered from the govern
ment on behalf of the companies.
But Spangler denies he ever signed
The contract. The contract called
Tor the employment of Spangler's
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-23

come together "not as representa-
tives of their respective economic
viewpoints, but as active church
members examining economic pro-
blems in the light of the Christian
gospel" DR.. Flemming, president
of Ohio Wesleyan University, heads
"A 100000 Federal Council pro-
gram endowed by the Rockefeller
Foundation for the study of econ
omic affairs.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-23
AFL Union
(COniinued From Page OHe)

cation endorsed the principle of cx-
tending social security to include
employees of state and local govern
ing bodies con "A voluntary basis,
as supplementary to existing pri-
vate and public local or state pen
sion and retirement plans" Her
man A. Gray, speaking for the or.
ganization which is a clearing
house for educational associations
and state departments of education
urged that "the method of CORE
lating existing pension and retire
ment plans with the federal sys-
tenn Il. should be left to the state
and local units.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-23
BARBARA BELL PATTERN
No. 1902

This little outfit for tots serves
double purpose. Your young
daughter can wear the sleeveless
dress now with simple blouses and
later on it makes a practical sun
dress. Matching bolero is trimmed
with applique, too
Barbara Bell sew-rite perforated
pattern No. 1902 comes in sizes 3,
4, 5, 6, and 8 years. Size 4, dress,
requires rs yards of 39-inch fab
ric; bolero, | year.
For this pattern send % cents
in coin, your name, address, pat
tern number and size wanted to
Barbara Bell, Labor Press AsSo-
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New York 10, New York.
READY FOR YOU NOW-the
new Spring and Summer STYlIST.
This special fabric issue contains
4S pages Of stimulating sewing
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-23
UN MAY ADMIT ICFTU

Lake Success, N. Y, UPA)-
The new anti-Communist lntl
Confederation of Free Tr G
Unions has applied for "consulta-
tive status" in the United Nations
Economic & Social Council. The
AFL, which has such status now,
is pressing for the ICFTU's admis-
sion. Consultative status would
permit the spokesmen for the
ICFTU, which represents 50,000,-
GOO workers in 53 countries, to par
ticipate in UNESCO debates.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-23

Services, legal and otherwise, iiE
"furthering of the adoption" of
the legislation. Under the proposed
contract Spangler was to pay for
entertainment" and other ex-
penses.
Spangler's is the first big name
to be dragged into the House lobby
inquiry, which has had corps of
investigators working for several
months. The Iowan was chairman
of the National Republican Com
mittee from 1912 to 1914, and has
continued to be power in the
party since. He is regarded as one
of the leaders of the cold Guard"
in the party.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-23
Co-ops Play Big
Role In Rehousine
Western Europe

Washington UPA) A bipart-
isan committee of congressman
who went to Europe last summer
/ to study cooperative housing de-
velopments there has turned in a
factual report to the House Bank
ing Committee. 1t provides a de-
tailed picture of the powerful in
| fluence the co-ops had in rebuild
ing the war-handicapped nations
since VE-day.
cooperative enterprise general
| ly," the report declares, ''is wide
spread and firmly established in
Europe" The report distinguishes
carefully between private enter
prise housing-under which they
list the co-ops-and the public
housing that is being built in most
of the countries they visited.
In 1948, the Congressman found,
cooperative housing produced about
20 per cent Of all the dwellings
built in Sweden, about "a per cent
in Switzerland, 33 per cent in Hol-
land, and 35 per cent in Denmark.
I"Cooperative housing continued to
be relatively unimportant in Bel
gium and France; and in Britain,
largely as matter of government
policy in promoting public housing,
there has been practically no CO.
operative housing constructed since
the war.
The group, headed by Rep. Abra-
ham Multer Cd, N.Y., who has been
one Of the leaders of the drive for
the coop housing bill now before
the House Banking group, included
George O'Brien Cd, Mich.), Ralph
Gamble OR, N.Y., Rolla McMillen
Cd, SCI, Albert Cole OR, Kan,),
Hardie Scott OR, Pa and Donald
Nicolson Or, Mass.).
They found, "housing coopera-
tives have been increasingly recog-
nized in national legislation. Basic
laws permitted them from the be-
ginning; and many statues have
been adopted to encourage and as
sist them" Just as much assistance
is given to co-ops as to private pro-
fit housing and public housing, in
the form of subsidies, and-pur-
chase arrangements, technical as
cictapca and rpSaarch
"Most of the governments in
clude cooperative housing as one
of the three principal methods and
one of the three principal elements
of their programs for dealing with
the housing crisis" the Congress
men point out. "This interest and
encouragement on the part Of the
governments in itself constitutes
important assistance"
Without comment, the report dis
plays a table showing the number
of dwelling units for each 100000
Of the population for the European
countries and the United States, as
of l947. At this point, though the
US has forged ahead since then,
Denmark, France, and Sweden all
had more dwelling units for each
100000 population than the US.
However, in the US the dwelling
units were more spacious than in
any of the European nations stud
led.
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Labor Lawyer
(Continued From Page One)

clio, and independent--have or
ganized a minority stockholders
group at Illinois Bell. It's proba-
Ebiy the smallest, bravest minority
ever to show up at a stockholders
meeting. At each meeting they
present their own resolutions. They
ask for such things as pay increases
for phone workers, and detailed
report on its pension program.
Their resolutions lose by 1884 ,497
votes to 90.
Once Hackett actually was able
to overcome the terrific odds. He
proposed that the company organ
"memorialize" an official who had
just died. (The official was above
average in his dealings with labor.)
The resolution took management by
surprise, but it passed. Yet when
the minutes were printed, there
was no mention of the resolution.
Hackett got on the phone and ask
ed, "How Gomez" The company
corrected the minutes only after
Hackett threatened a court suit.
Hackett is now chairman of the
Chicago Bar Assn.'s Labor Com
mittee-the first labor man to
hold the job. The committees vice
chairman is Sewell Avery's lawyer
John Barr, vice president in
charge of industrial relations at
Montgomery Ward.
Hackett is attorney for Division
III of the Communications Work
ers of America. He also has done
legal work for other Chicago area
unions.
at seems to me-" says Hackett,
"that there's a difference between
labor lawyer and lawyer prac-
ticing labor law. A lawyer practic-
ing labor law is just someone max
ing a living"
In the five-week telephone strike
in 1947, Hackett was home only
once. He slept from to a. m. in
a Loop hotel, went out for four
hours of picket-line duty before
starting his "brain" work as chair
man of the Chicago strike commit
tee.
At Is Hackett was a Chicago
elevated" conductor and mem
Der of the Amalgamated Associa-
tion of Streetcar and Electric Rail
way Employees Union -AFL. While
studying law at night, he took a
Job as coin box collector with
Illinois Bell. He got into trouble by
Speaking against the "picnic
unions" - he company unions
which did practically nothing ex-
cept hold an annual picnic. When
the Commercial Telephone Work
ers Union broke from the COM
pany's apron strings in 1889, he
was natural choice for president.
Hackett is IA and has II child
rem, ranging from 3 to II years old.
The family lives in a Broom
house, drinks Ii quarts of milk a
day, runs up a $72 shoe bill each
month.
Since five of his six boys are be
low 10, Hackett isn't making any
predictions on which union card
they'll be carrying when they grow
up. "But, believe me-" says Mrs.
Hackett, they're getting their
union education early"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-23
Labor -Liberdl Viewpoints
Dominate Church Purley

Detroit (LPA)-"Labor looks tC
the church for real ethical leader.
ship in the problems that beset oui
age" Walter Reuther told 455
churchmen and laymen at a lunch
con opening the second annual con-
ference on "The Church and Econ
omic Life" The conference was
called by the Federal Council of the
Churches of Christ of America
Reuther, president of the United
Auto Workers, called for moral
equivalent" to the hydrogen bomb
He urged voluntary conference
of labor, management and farm
leaders to deal with the entire
range of national problems.
"Free men everywhere are
searching for a workable, demo
cratic system of human welfare, y
he said. "This conference should
grapple honestly with the univer-
sal hunger for freedom and secur-
ity." A conference such as he pro-
posed, said Reuther, Should deter
mine what we do about unemploy-
ment, food surpluses, the FEPC,
and civil rights. And it must not
be just window dressing"
In calling for the moral equival-
ent for the hydrogen bomb, Reuth-
er said 1--WE have achieved the
know-how to destroy the world,
but we have not achieved that
sense of moral responsibility to
translate that know-how into ach-
ievement for peace"
christianity cannot win its
fight in the ivory tower" Reuther
continued. "It's got to come down
to where people live; it's got to get
its feet muddy up to its knees; it's
got to get filth, CRIME and grease
under its fingernails."
George Harrison, president of
the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks
AFL, said organized religion and
labor have much in common, since
both acknowledge that social JUS
tice is conducive to good morals"
Others at the conference include ::
Victor Reuther, JAW, chairman of
a panel on Freedom of Enterprise
and Social Controls; T. Dudley,
Congregational Christian Church !;
George Guernsey, Federal Council
Department of the Church Of Econ
omic Life; Frank McCulloch, Con-
gregational Christian Church, aide
to Senator Paul Douglas; Ted Sill
vey, ECA, of the YMCA; Professor
Kermit Eby, University of Chicago,
Church Of the Brethren; Tom
Downs, Michigan legislative repre-
sentative and chairman of the
Michigan Unemployment Compen-
sation Commission, Detroit council
of Churches; Robert Scott, secre-
tary, Michigan Federation of
Labor, Michigan Council of
Churches; Ted S. Ogar, Protestant
Episcopal Church; DR.. Reinhold
Niebuhr, Evangelical and Reform
ed Church, national board, Ameri-
cans for Democratic Action; Joseph
FIGHTER, Columbus, O., Methodist,
president of the pro-Brannan plan
Ohio Grange.
DR.. Arthur Flemming, chairman
of the Federal Councils Depart
ment of the Church and Economic
Life, stressed that the delegates
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-23

Jobless Claims Set Oregon Record
Portland, Ore. (LPA) = Benefit
payments to Oregon's unemployed
in January totalled $4,273,653 or
100000 above the previous high
mark of March 1949. Claimants so
far this year total $4,000 found
ineligible, and 1880 other having
exhausted their benefits. Maximum
allowance is a fourth of base
years earnings.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-23
TUGMEN WIN PENSIONS

New York (LPA) - New York
harbor tugboatmen, members OF
local 333 of the Int'l Longshore-
mems Ass'n-AFL, wrested a last
minute settlement from manage
ment that included non-contri-
butory pensions for the first time
Threat of a strike that would have
tied up this port turned the tide.