The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-05
PEACE NEAR
 IN SALMON
 UNION FIGHT
Wage Parity Is Grdnied- ILWU Wins 3-Year Con-
 traet--0ff Season Pay

SEATTLE, June 5-tR-Two CIO iunions signed contracts yesterday with Alaska salmon canners - move hailed by both sides as pav- ling the way for peace after 25 !days of labor strife in the industry
 Settlement of the dispute was expected to start rush today to load cargo for the 70-odd Alaska canneries whose supplies have been lreduced to a trickle since May 10.
 A small amount of supplies was loaded yesterday aboard the Alaska Steamship Company's Square Knot which sailed late in the afternoon for southeastern Alaska. The lCoastal Rambler is scheduled for loading of supplies tonight or to- morrow for Bristol Bay canneries. The new pacts cover 2,000 non- resident cannery workers in Local TIC of the CIO Internationl Long lshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union and l,400 Bristol Bay resi- dent workers in Local 46 of the ICIO International Fishermen and Allied Workers of America. The IFAWA recently became an affil- fate of the ILWU.
 Residents Boosted Union and management repre- Isentatives announced jointly that lmajor provisions were. CD pariS I in wages and working conditions 1 for resident and nonresident workers, with the former receiving a wage boost of $20 man per lseason; CD hiring of nonresident workers on seniority basis through the Washington State Employment iOffice, and (3) equal division of ijobs between resident and non- lresident workers, with resident em- lrloyes being represented by a nor thern union local.
 Approximately l6,000 other fish- ermen. processors and transport
 workers are employed in the in- ldustry, but the drive by the ILWU
 to strengthen its foothold on AL Iaska waterfronts has been the brine factor in crippling the Ter lritory's canneries.
 Local 7-C has been embroiled
 in jurisdictional dispute with local 77 of the CIO United Packing mouse Workers Union for the right Ito represent nonresident workers. :. The new contract gives the two locals equal standing.
 II The road to complete amity has lnot been fully cleared, however. IStill awaited is the reaction Of Local TT and another union in- lvolved in the complicated labor situation, the AFL Alaska Fish Cannery Workers Union. And
 trouble loomed on another front. T Local of the IFAWA, repre- senting Puget Sound purse seincrs fishing in Alaska, voted last night
 to hold out for earlier departure
 from the fishing grounds. -,.e industry countered with a new offer which would allow the vessels to lleave the banks July 27, instead of July 31 as previously stipulated. No vote on the offer has been taken.
 None of these unsolved difficult ties is expected to prove serious. An industry spokesman said she lgains granted to the ILWU and IIFAWA will be offered to the
 Clearinghouse Workers Local and Ithe AFL Union, with their acceSi- lance likely. Neither had the 'hlr- ling hall provision in their agree lments.
 The contract with Local 7-C lcoyers a three-year period; the lone with Local 46 one year. Both
 are subject to cancellation if the NLRB holds that some other union is entitled to act as representative lof the workers.
 William Gettings, regional direc- |tor of the ILWU, said the new pay scale for resident workers rep resented by Local 46 will range from $560 to s445 for the 45-day jseason depending on the type of work.
 He also said that work done be- Efore and after the season at the lcanneries, such as unloading sup lplies, etc, will be paid for at the rate of s185 an hour The pro- lvision is new.
 Gettings added that Joe Nashoa-
 look, businss agent of Local 46, Twill return to Alaska within a few days with copies of the contract I for a vote by members.
 Meanwhile, NLRB regional direc- itor Thomas Graham said he would task the board to call an election to determine which of three rival unions would be bargaining agent for the nonresident workers. He said he hoped the election could be held before large groups of the non-resident workers leave for AL -l.