executive also asked the special
session for:
a. A new displaced persons bill
to provide for the admission of
some 400,000 of Europe’s war ref
ugees into this country during the
next four years, instead of 202,000
in two years as provided in a
bill passed at the last session. He
asked that Congress wipe out “dis
criminations” in the current law.
He has said it would operate un
fairly against Jewish and Catho
lic displaced persons.
b. A federal-aid-to-education bill
to povide $300,000,000 annually to
states for education.
c. Approval of a $65,000,000 loan
for the construction of a perman
ent United Nations headquarters
in New York City.
d. Senate ratification of the in
ternational wheat agreement. He
said this would “guarantee Ameri
can farmers an annual export mar
ket of 185,000,000 bushels of wheat
at a fair price (a maximum of
$2 a bushel) during the next five
years.
e. Restoration of $56,000,000
trimmed from proposed appropri
ations at the last session for power
and reclamation projects, includ
ing a Tennessee Valley Author
ity steam generating plant at New
Johnsonville, Tenn.
f. A “more equitable and real
I istic” pay bill for federal em
' ployes.
g. A bill raising the present 40
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cent minimum wage to “at least
75 cents an hour."
h. Legislation increasing by at
“least 50 per cent” the benefits
under the old-age retirement pro
[ visions of the Social Security law.
He said the age at which women
can receive benefits should be low
ered from 65 to 60 years, and he
again asked extension of cover
age to groups not now covered.
The president took note of the
GOP cry of “politics” that went
up in response to his special ses
sion call.
“High prices” he said, “are not
taking time off for the election.”
“High • prices are not waiting
until the next session of the Con
gress.”
WASHINGTON, — (JP) —The
National Labor Relations Board
ordered an election to determine
a collective bargaining agent for
licensed radio operators employed
by the Alaska Salmon Industry
at cannery and shore stations in
Alaska.
The election is to be conducted
during the present cannery sea
son at a date to be fixed by the
regional NLRB director. It will
determine whether the employes
wish to be represented by the
radio officers’ union division of
the Marine Engineers’ Beneficial
Association of the Pacific Coast
(CIO) or by neither.
MINERS & MERCHANTS
BANK OF ALASKA
NOME :: ALASKA
ON THE BALLOT in the Oct. 12th election there will be a referendum on “the practice of fishing by means of traps should
be continued or ... should be abolished.” To abolish traps, we believe, would amount to confiscation and would permanently
Injure the Territory of Alaska.
Trap Operators Pay to Insure Future
Salmon Runs
Alaska salmon canners each year give
$175,000 to the Fisheries Research Insti
tute of the University of Washington to
pay for studies of the Alaska salmon.
The purpose of such studies is to in
sure salmon runs forever. The industry
realizes that its future depends on these
salmon runs. Alaska’s future also de
pends on these salmon runs.
Don’t vote to confiscate traps and
cripple the industry that is helping in
sure Alaska’s future.
VOTE TO
CONTINUE TRAPS!
Here's why YOU Should
VOTE to CONTINUE
TRAPS:
1. Traps mean jobs—not just for 45 days but for
six to nine months for approximately 4,000
people, mostly Alaskans.
2. Traps are the best means of conserving
Alaska’s salmon.
3. Traps pay taxes. Without them the Territory
would have to levy additional taxes on all
other Alaska businesses and individuals.
4. Traps, together with mobile gear, allow can
neries to operate efficiently. Without traps,
at least 25 large canneries would close down
because they would be stripped of their de
pendable supply of salmon—thousands of men
would lose their jobs.
5. Traps are vital to Alaska’s economy. Confiscate
them and you undermine the Territory’s sta
bility. An unstable region cannot develop a
diversified economy.
6. Traps so stabilize the entire salmon industry
that they make it possible for packers to pay
fishermen maximum prices. Confiscate traps
and you cut down these earnings. Nobody
gains—everyone loses.
7. Traps are vital in maintaining U. S. world
leadership in the canned salmon industry. Con
fiscate them and you so weaken America’s posi
tion that it will be possible for Russia, utilizing
U.S. built floating canneries, to seize this prize
in world trade. The Japanese demonstrated,
in 1937, by their operations in Bristol Bay,
that such floating canneries constitute a real
threat.
8. Traps represent large investments in venture
capital. Confiscate them and you discourage
other industries from investing in Alaska’s
future.
9. Traps provide healthy competition. Confiscate
them and you establish a gear monopoly in the
catching of salmon.
10. Traps, seines and gill nets — ALL THREE
TYPES OF GEAR ARE ESSENTIAL to
maintain Alaska’s canned salmon pack. Vary
ing conditions in the Alaska fishing grounds
make it economically feasible to fish certain
areas to full advantage only by means of traps.
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COMMITTEE OF ALASKA TRAP OPERATORS
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At A Glance —
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in a conference at London to send
their ambassadors to foreign min
ister V. M. Molotov to deliver
personally proposals for settling
the Berlin crisis, a diplomatic of
ficial said.
FRANKFURT
The Western Powers approved an
agreement with German politi
cians to set up a government in
Western Germany and call a con
stituent assembly Sept. 1.
PARIS
Andre Marie finally formed a
new French Coalition Cabinet with
no Communists or DeGaulists.
ISTANBUL
Turkish newspapers said heavy
Russian military forces have been
concentrated in Romania along
the Yugoslav frontier.
BELGRADE
Premier Marshal Tito of Yugo
slavia stood firm in his defiance
of Moscow and its Cominform.
WASHINGTON
The U.S. State Department noted
that Russia and her Eastern Eur
ope satellites have formed a tight
network of 22 interlacing treaties
against “agression.” More are be
ing written. All this has been tak
ing place while Russians protested
American support of Western Eur
ope.
ROME
The Communist-controlled Ital
ian General Confederation of La
bor was splitting up. The Com
munists and the Catholic and gov
ernment party factions were in
disagreement.
ATHENS
Greece pressed a new offensive
against the Communist rebels in
the rough Grammos Mountains
near Albania.
LAKE SUCCESS
Syria sought in the United Na
tions to have the Palestine issue
sent to the International Court of
Justice.
The U.N. decided in effect to
suspend talks on disarmament un
I til the Western Powers and Rus
sia agree.
TOKYO
The Internatiolal War Crimes
' court in Tokyo reached a deci
sion in the case of wartime Prem
ier Hideki Tojo and 24 other de
fendants. The court will start work
on the judgement early next week.
SEOUL
The U.S. commander in South
ern Korea warned that Commun
ists are trying to destroy the
new government there by infil
trating newspapers and organiza
tions.
(BERLIN* — The Russians,
through their official Berlin press
asserted two American officers
tried and failed to bribe their
way through the Russian road
block of Berlin. One of the Amer
icans said the charge was a “fan
tastic lie.”
The western allies counter
manded two Russian efforts to
muscle in any destroy the elected
city government ftf blockaded
Berlin.
The commandants of the U. S.,
Britain and France advised May
or Louise Schroeder the Rus
sians had no right to order her to
discharge Johannes Stumm. the
new police chief. She promptly
told the Russians that inter-allied
laws forbade her to follow their
directive.
The western powers also told
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