Machinists Ask
25% Pay Hike
SEATTLE, </P) — Planning to
ask wage increases of approxim
ately 25 per cent, local 79 of the
machinists union will meet Febru
ary 28 to set demands which they
will make on the Alaska Salmon
Industry, Inc., this year.
Negotiations between the indus
try and several unions, including
the machinists, have been going
on for the last five weeks. How
ever, wage demands have yet to be
formally made, pending the set
ting of fishing regulations in some
districts.
The committee will make a re
port and recommendations at the
meeting, I. A. Sandvigen, machin
ists business agent, said. He added:
“Since price controls went off in
October, 1946, canned salmon
prices have risen up to 150 per
cent over 1945 ceilings. Labor’s
gain in this period has been 23^
per cent. This year—with the ris
ing cost of living—we intend to
seek a healthy wage increase.”
Unions in the industry, repre
senting 25,000 workers, received
wage increases of 12V£ per cent
[Crewmen Plead
Guilty; Fined $500
JUNEAU, <iP)—Six crewmen of
the freighter Coastal Rambler,
changed their pleas yesterday be
fore federal judge George Folta
from innocent to guilty on charges
of receiving goods stolen from in
terstate commerce. Each was
fined $500.
Five of the men are free on
$3,500 bail apiece and have left
the Territory. They are B. L. Ol
son and Jack Switzer, both of
Seattle; Gordon Leake, San Fran
cisco; Raymond Kiskala, of North
Dakota, and Hiram Johnson of
Hawaii. The sixth, Raymond
Court, has been held in Juneau in
lieu of bail.
The change in pleas was entered
by counsel for the seamen.
last year.
This year’s negotiations between
unions and the industry have been !
slewed * down by a jurisdictional [
dispute between Local 7, cannery
workers, and the seafood workers
union. The dispute is pending be
fore the national labor relations
board.
Partition Plan
Will Fail Unless
Backed By Force
LAKE SUCCESS, </P)—1The Pal
estine commission predicted yes
terday that the United Nations
plan to partition the Holy Land
will fail unless adequate armed
force is provided to back it up.
The commission, made up of
representatives from five of the
smaller members of the United
Nations, asked the Security coun
cil to provide such a force, pre
sumably on an international basis,
before May 15.
“The commission,” its members
said in a strongly worded report
issued last night, “has decided to
refer to the security council the
problem of providing that armed:
assistance which alone would en
able the commission to discharge j
its responsibilities ...”
It is charged with ending the|
British mandate over Palestine
and with building the foundations
for separate Jewish and Arab
states there by Oct. 1.
(The British have said they will
end their mandate and transfer
authority on or before May 15>.
There was no immediate reac
tion from members of the council.
ALASKA ALMANAC TO
FEATURE NOME BUSINESSES
Pictures of Nome’s principal
business firms will be featured in
the Alaska Almanac, according to
A1 R. Beasley, represen ting
Tewkesbury Publishers in gather
ing material locally for the 600
page book to be published in May.
The young publishers represent
ative, with headquarters in An
chorage has engaged Richter Pho-J
to Studios for the local illustra
tions.
The Alaska Almanac will in
clude the revised all-Alaska busi
ness directory published last
spring by Tewkesbury publishers.
The new book will include added
features to present every import
ant aspect of the Territ&rial scene,
according to the Nome visitor.
Beasley believes that the tour
ist industry is indicated as the sin
gle most potential economic de-1
velopment in Alaska.
“Tomorrow’s tourist will come
north as a stopover visitor, with
the desire to hunt, fish, and ven
ture farther afield with his cam
era,” Beasley declares. “To meet
this phase of interest, the new:
Tewkesbury publication will in
clude an Alaska Travel Guide de-;
tailing every item of information
required or of interest to tourists ^
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and business travelers.”
Commenting on the success of
the 1947 publication, Beasley em
phasized the interest shown in
Alaska by national business lead
ers.
‘‘Tewkesbury Publishers sold
thousands of business directories
—the first complete one of its
kind — throughout the United
States. At the request of many
business executives, the revised
publication will include a classi
fied directory of reliable business
concerns in continental U. S. ac
tively interested in business with
Alaskans. Such a section should be
of great value,” he concludes, "to
Alaska business men who are
seeking new sources of goods they
must import.”
Beasley will be here until Mon
day. He is a guest at the Wallace
Hotel.
Captain George Weymouth took
a cargo of white pine from Maine
to England in 1605 and white pine
still is called Weymouth pine in
England.
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