The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1951-01-31
ALASKA IS ASSURED
N0-ST0ppAGE WORK
Defense BUILDING

Successful acn5.--.lon last Sat,
urday in Anchorage Of the wage
hour agreement reached by all MA
ior contractor and labor unions in
Alaska assures the territory Of a
1851 construction season uninter-
rupted by costly work stoppages,
if has been announced by Larry
Moore. head Of the Associated Cen
eral Contractors in Alaska. All
contracts are said to have assur-
ance and procedures against work
stoppages.
The agreements. reached through
collective bargaining, establish a
new pattern of procedure in that
they all cover a period from Janu-
ary 5 to December 81, 1851 and
extend yearly thereafter unless re-
opened and modified.
First In Alaska
This is the first time negotia-
tions have been conducted entire
" in Alaska.
nj general the new contracts call
for a 80 cent an hour wage increase
for all crafts involved.
The fact that the agreements
signed in Alaska laboring crafts
are dated on January 25 is signi-
lent because that brings them UNI
der the wire insofar as the national
wage-freeze order is concerned.
In Juneau Today
In Juneau today enroute to
washington, DC, former Senator
Frank Graham, named by Secretary
CT the Interior Oscar L. Chapman
as moderator of a conference be-
tween interested ter-department-
al government agencies and con-
tractors and unions engaged in
building construction in Alaska also
held in Anchorage last week COM
mended highly the manner II
which the negotiations were carried
out. He said that the agreements
voluntarily made through collective
bargaining between the represent
tative of the construction contrac-
tors and the labor unions provided
the basis for a year of the greatest
defense production in the history
of Alaska.
Proceedings of the conference
were suspended to allow for the ne
gotiations for contracts for the
next season to be carried out.
Senator Graham said the repre-
sentatives of the contractors and
the unions attending the inter- de-
partment government conference
showed a fine determination to CO.
operative effort to reach agreements
toward the best interests for the
Alaska building program. Chief oh-
jective of the conference was to
effect non-stoppage work pro-
gram.
Senator Graham arrived in Jul
neau yesterday afternoon on the
Pacific Northern Airlines plane
and was scheduled to leave Juneau
today by Pan American plane Tor
washington. With him, were Henry
G. Gomperts. Associate Director
OF the Office of International Labor
Affairs, Department OF Labor and
Charles w. S,traub, Special Assls-
tant to the Secretary OF Labor, De-
partment of Labor. Leonard Evans,
Alaska Representative for the Labor
Department accompanied the party
to Juneau. He also attended the
Anchorage oonclave.
Evans and Commander L. Z
Chester. aide to Governor Ernest
Gruening were hosts to the Juneau
visitors and among other points
of interest they visited the Alaska
Legislature and the Territorial MI
scum Tuesday morning.
Senator Graham is former Pre-
sident of the University OF North
Carolina and in Juneau met people
from his home state, among Whom
was Miss Wilma Lyon, secretary
in the office of the Department OF
Labor.