2 THE NOME NUGGET Wednesday, November 27. 1946
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Wednesday, November 27, 1946
Proposal for Industrial Armistice
(Rocky Mountain News)
Believing that warfare between industry and labor
threatens the American people with a chaotic depres
sion and disaster, Basil Manly has proposed that 1947
be made, by voluntary agreements, a year of indus
trial armistice.
Mr. Manly, a national leader in many progressive!
causes, was joint chairman with William Howard Taft
of the World War I National War Labor Board. He has
studied industry and labor problems for nearly 40
years. Here are the terms he suggests for the industri
al armistice:
1. Artificial wage and price controls to be removed,
with the voluntary agreements containing appropriate
arrangements for readjustments of wages in harmony
with changes in the cost of living.
2. Industry to do its part toward assuring uninter
rupted production by undertaking to operate through
out the year at the full capacity permitted by the avail
able supply of materials, fuel and labor, and by guar
anteeing, for the one-year truce period, employment
for every willing worker.
3. Management and labor alike to agree that all is
sues which cannot promptly be settled by conference
shall be submitted to arbitration; awards, retroactive
to the date of submission, to be final and binding for
one year.
4. Management and labor also to agree, during the
armistice period, not to attempt to change their respec
tive status as regards union recognition, closed shop,
membership maintenance and other similar issues.
5. Management to establish machinery for quick
and equitable adjustment of individual grievances; la
bor to assume the obligation of preventing or speedily
squelching “outlaw strikes” adn all forms of “slow
downs” or other production limitations.
A New Solution
(Anchorage Daily Times)
“It is only in a last resort,” Heikal Pasha of Egypt
told the UN General Assembly, “that one should think
of reestablishing refugees in other parts of the world.”,
•As he spoke, the American military government in
Germany was cleaning up bomb damage to a denazifi-i
cation office in Esslingen, and hunting the terrorists
responsible for anti-denazification outbreaks here and'
in Stuttgart. As he spoke, Rome police were still
rounding up suspects after a bomb had been placed in
the Chamber of Deputies as part of a lawless anniver
sary celebration of Mussolini’s march on Rome.
The remnants of nazism and fascism were stirring
in their grave of military defeat. Some were acting
with a boldness that they had not shown since the
deaths of Mussolini, Hitler and the regimes they cre
ated. Others, like-minded but less violent were con
triving to sow dissension among the wartime allies by
rumors and accusations.
These were the people who, in their time of strength,
created the problem of today’s refugees. They are the
people whos democratization is a long, difficult process
which demands wisdom and force.
One might cold-bloodedly say that the process of
democratization could be made harder by an attempt
to repatriate Europe’s Jewish refugees in their old
homes where old hatreds exist. Or, more humanely,
one might say that it would be a cruel decision which
would risk exposing those Jews to further danger of
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violence.' Their days of fear should be of the past, not
of the future.
Heikal Pasha did not mention the Jews by name.
But it is evident that he was speaking of them, and for
the Arab League. “Resettlement of refugees,” he said,
“must under no circumstances be imposed on a sov
ereign nation, or when such resettlement goes against
the freely expressed wishes of the populations of this
or that region.”
That, then, would seem to be the Arab League’s “so
lution” to the Jewish refugee problem. Literally ap
plied, it could close every door in the world to the first
victims of Nazi persecution. They could be forced on
no sovereign nation. No dependency could be com
pelled to admit them if anyone objected.
In contrast there is some comfort in President Tru
man’s reiterated statement, expressed in a letter to
Saudi Arabia’s King Ibn Saud, that he favors a con
certed effort to “open the gates of other lands,” includ
ing ours, “to these unfortunates,” and that he will ask
Congress for special legislation to admit a number of
them above our present immigration quota limits.
It would be more comforting to see some evidence
of “concerted effort” from other United Nations mem
bers within the UN organization, and of a possible ef
fort by the UN ot unsnarl the muddled British man
date of Palestine.
Zionist claims and the question of a Jewish state in
Palestine are important. But it does not seem wise or
just to make all action await their settlement. The first
concern is surely the health, safety and welfare of the
refugees themselves. Until some action along that
line is taken, the liberated Jews of Europe will con
tinue to be the victims of their liberation.
LETTER
ifH®N
By MARY LEE
Secretary to E. L. (Bob) Bartlett, Delegate to Congress from Alaska
ALEUTIAN i
MAIL SERVICE
Mail contracts are being nego
tiated to carry mail to 23 western
Alaskan communities, thus resum
ing service suspended during the
war. It is expected the service will
commence January 1, according
to information made available to
Delegate Bartlett by postal offi
cials.
The contractor will be Jesse H.
Petrich of Langley, Washington,
who has successfully bid on two
round trips a month for a four
year period ending June 30, 1950.
The first monthly trip, at $5346.73
a round trip, will leave outbound
from Seward to Atka via Seldovia.
*».odiak, Kanatak, Shignik, Perry
ville, Sand Point, Squaw Harbor,
Unga, Belkofsky, King Cove, Cold
Bay, False Pass, Sanak, Scotch
Cap Lighthouse, Sarichef Light
house, Akutan, Unalaska, Maku
shim, Kashega, Chernofsky, and
Nikolski, Return will be made by
Unalaska, Akutan, Sanak, False
Pass, Cold Bay, King Cove, Bel
kofsky, Unga, Squaw Harbor,
Sand Point, Perryville, Chignik,
Kodiak, Seldovia to Seward.
The second monthly service, at
$3819.09 a round trip, will leave
from Seward to Unalaska toy way
of Seldovia, Kodiak, Kanatak,
Chignik, Perryville, Sand Point,
Squaw Harbor, Unga, Belkofsk
King Cove, Cold Bay, False Pas
Sanak, Scotch Cap Lighthous
Sarichef Lighthouse and Akuta
returning by way of Akutan, Sa;
,ik, False Pass, Cold Bay, Kin
Cove, Belkofsky, Unga, Squa
Harbor, Sand Point, Perryvill
"hignik, Kodiak, Scldovia to Sev
*rd.
Earlier this year it had bee
anticipated this service could t
.naugurated on October 1. Hov
ever, the bids received were abo\
the statutory limits, and some di
ficulty was encountered in findir
a contractor to offer to carry U
mail at an aceptable price.
LIGHTERAGE RATES
Further hearings on transport;
tion rate of freight and lighteraj
companies in Alaska will be n
sumed, on Januay 7 in Seattle, a
cording to a recent notice serve
by the Maritime Commission.
The carriers involved are tl
L o m en Commercial Compan
Kotzebue Sound Lighterage Con
pany, Northern Commercial Con
pany, Shishmaref Native Stor
Kuskokwim Freight Service, Sa
ah Sumi Freighting Servic
Charles A. Traeger and Kobe
Navigation Company.
In the original order instigatir
the hearings, the Maritime Con
mission stated that the tariff <
certain freight and lighterage con
panies in the Territory are receh
ing transportation rates "high<
than warranted.”
PAYMENT FOR
CLEARING LAND
The Soil Conservation Servic
will pay $20 an acre for clearir
land in Alaska up to three acre
such payments to be made throug
the Director of Extension Sen
cie at College, Lorin T. Oldroyi
This program will be in effe<
in 1947 and will be carried on b<
yond that year if warranted. An
homesteader, farmer or anyone o
a homesite in Alaska may appl
for such funds which will be pai
after proof of clearing has bee
established through inspection c
the land.
ARMY AND NAVY
PREVAILING WAGE
Unskilled laborers, cement fin
ishers and painters employed o
army and navy projects in Alask
will receive wage raises followin
negotiations undertaken recentl
in Washington.
The rate increase for unskilled
laborers wil lamount to approxi
mately 25 cents, from $1,015 ai
hour to $1.25. The pay for cemen
finishers and painters will go t<
$1,675 an hour from $1.50.
ORTHOPEDIC HOSPITAL
FOR TERRITORY
Decision has been reached, it i
understood, to turn over to th<
Territory of Alaska facilities a
Sitka for an orthopedic hospital
a move long-desired by the Terri
tory to take care of many cripplet
children who cannot gain entrant
to the Orthopedic Hospital in Seat
tie.
The meeting in the Interior De
partment at which this decisioi
was made was presided over bi
Assistant Secretaries of the Inte
rior, Warner G. Gardner and C
Giard Davidson, and was attende<
by Governor Gruening, officials o
the Office of Indian Affairs, Divi
sion of Territories and Island Pos
sessions. Dr. C. Earl Albrecht
Commission of Health for Alaska
Negotiations have been proceed
ing for several months followinj
the transfer of the naval base fa
cilities on Japonski Island to thi
Interior Department. The plan;
also embrace a 200-bed tuberculo
sis sanitarium and a 600-pupi