Seattle May Cease
To Be Port Of
'Embarkation
SEATTLE. (/P) — A threat to
close the Seattle port of embarka
tion and transfer its operations to
other ports precipitated a clash
late yesterday between Col. Fen
ton S. Jacobs, commanding officer
of the port, and unionists engaged
in the current waterfront strike.
In a sharply worded statement
Col. Jacobs said he would recom
mend the closure “unless organ- j
ized labor will extend the cooper
ation necesary for me to accom
plish my mission and duty to our
government.”
He cited a long list of grievances
in an open letter to the Committee'
for Maritime Unity after a CMU
decision was announced to re
move union members from mili
tary vessels here and to limit army
transport vessel cargoes to food,
clothing and medical supplies.
The colonel’s blast brought a
CMU reply denying any intention
to close the port. It expressed re
gret that “the army should align
itself against the welfare of the
public and the thousands of mari
time workers on strike by taking
up the fight in behalf of the
steamship operators . .
Burt Nelson, northwest CMU
chairman, earlier had announced
the strikers were “tightening up
on” the army shipping here.
“For the past several months,’’
wrote the colonel, “the local mari
time unions have exhibited an at
titude of hostility and interference
which has delayed the operations
of the port and added greatly to
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Higher Hourly
Wages For Alaska
WASHINGTON, </P)—H i g h e r
hourly wage rates for construction
workers in Alaska were announc
ed yesterday by the wage stabili
zation board.
Board regulations permit an
employer to pay his established
rate of Oct. 2, 1942, any rate ap
proved for him since by the board,
or the area rate published by the
board, a spokesman said.
The rates are higher in almost
the cost of government.”
He listed 25 ‘‘recent causes for
work stoppage, not generally
known," including:
Refusal to work under scrutiny
of civilian guards posted to pre
vent pilfering; refusal to work
with members of rival union or
ganiaztions regardless of the
shortage of men; refusal to work
with military work details; refusal
to work unless permitted to smoke
in pier toilets; refusal to work
with civil service personnel;
threats to stop civil relief cargoes
to enemy countries; refusal to
work because required to reveal
identification; refusal to work un
less permitted to smoke on ships
posted as “hot’ by post fire mar
shal in acordance with local or
dinances . . .”
“For a time, the port felt that
this was merely a part of the ‘war
of nerves’ associated with indus
trial strife. Recent developments,
however, have forced me to the
conclusion that the attitude of lo
cal labor in offering continued
hindrance to the war deparament’s j
program is part of a plan to sub- j
ordinate the operations of the
Seattle port of embarkation to the
control of the local labor organ
izations.”
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Carrying 44 passengers in luxurious
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drivers $1.85; dump trucks of 20
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mucking machine $2.20; locomo-,
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WASHINGTON. (/P)—'Walter A. ’
Duffey of Portland, Ore., has been
selected director for the states of
Washington and Oregon and the
Territory of Alaska for the newly
created Farmers Home Adminis
tration.
The new agency merges all
credit facilities#and services of the
former farm security administra- J
tion and the emergency crop and
feed loan division of the Farm
Credit Administration, under pro-,
visions of legislation passed by the j
la9t congress, effective November j
1.
The new agency will provide
credit and farm supervision to ap
proved tenants for purchase of
farms as well as agricultural pro
duction and subsistence loans.
Selma L. Porter of Haycock, a
little girl about three years old
was admitted to the hospital yes
terday.
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