Employers Refuse
To Negotiate With
“Irresponsibles’
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ballot. Foisie wrote:
“The problem, as you well know
is the future administration and
observance of any contract be
tween ourselves and the ILWU,
under its present leadership.”
He accused the union leadership
of 14 years of irresponsibility. Wa
terfront employers have refused to
negotiate with unions whose lead
ers have not signed non-commun
ist affidavits which are required
by the Taft-Hartley law for serv
ices of the national labor relations
board. Brides has not signed such
an affidavit.
The longshoremen demand a 15
cent raise from a base pay of $1.67
cents an hour. The employers of
fered 10 cents' but withdrew all
offers when negotiations broke
off.
Four seafaring unions are allied
with the longshoremen in the
strike.
At the same time, Alaska gov
ernment officials again urged
• Seattle operators of Alaska ship
ping lines to accept a union offer
to release strike-bound vessels.
I The plea was contained in an
“open leteer” signed by Alaska
Gov. Ernest Gruening, Delegate E.
L. Bartlett, Atty. Gen. Ralph J.
Rivers and commissioner of labor
Henry A. Benson.
The letter asked the shippers to
reconsider their turndown of the
union’s willingness to sail all
Alaska ships under pre-strike con
ditions, with terms of any west
coast agreement becoming retro
active.
In reply, M. G. Ringenberg,
president of the waterfront em
ployers of Washington, termed the
letter “the same old pious plea of
appeasement that has issued from
some politicians in Alaska in other
forms in recent weeks.”
Ringenberg reiterated the oper
ators’ determination not to deal
with striking unions that he said
are under “irresponsible leader
ship.”
“The letter is written to the
wrong people,” he said. “It should
have been addressed to the rank
and file of the unions who have it
within their power to throw out
their irresponsible leaders ...”
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MAIN 5
Alaska Airlines
NOW
NOME to
EVERETT WASH.
STARLINER
DC-4
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FROM ANCHORAGE
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CHAMBER HELD
BUSY MEETING
TUESDAY NIGHT
Tuesday evening the members
of the Chamber of Commerce met
for another of their popular sup
per meetings at the Pioneer Hall,
i with Bud Harper presiding,
j President Harper reported on
j committee activities since the last
meeting. He reported that a ways
and means committee to raise
necessary funds to complete the
; breakwater project, appropriations I
| for which will be brought up be- |
j fore the next Congress, was ap^ j
pointed and is composed of Luther
Dunbar, Carl Dewey, Carl Lomen
and Grant Jackson.
He stated that the Chamber was
also working with the City and
Council in a study to try and im-1
prove the conditions seen on our
streets in the evenings and to try
an curb the situation. Mee ings j
have been held with Army offi
cials who are co-operating.
The subject of housing was pre
sented by A. Polet who reviewed
factors about same, calling the
Chamber’s attention to the fact
. that on the legislative program
presented to the 17th Legislature,
four years ago the Chamber
recommended a Housing Commit
tee, which subsequently was ap
pointed and also how the Cham
ber recommended, to the last Leg
islature appropriation of Federal
funds for urgently needed housing
hroughout Alaska.
He also called to attention the
report of the Alaska Housing Au
thority as circulated by the Nug
get last Friday, showing that all
the other Divisions in the Terri
tory have taken advantage of the
opportunity given and have not ;
only built homes, but large rental
housing projects throughout the
Territory.
Second Division has not taken
advantage of the housing authori
ty’s privileges, he sta ed, and he
recommended the Chamber ap
i point a committee to study the sit
uation seriously and hold meetings
with any and all individuals who
so desire to own a home, so that
the legislators may become ac
, quain ed with the needs of the
j community.
Mrs. Bochman called attention
! to the fact that the proposed
breakwater only extends 3000 feet,
I or halfway across the city of
! Nome’s waterfront and urged that
; the amount be doubled to m^et the
I growing needs of the town. She
stated that housing has to extend
j eastward and only by the protec
tion from the sea can it do so. She
stated her confidence in Nome’s
expansion.
Mr. Hilky Robinson recommend
the construction of apartment
houses as the best method of fur
nishing housing, as many people
here are transient.
The meeting adjourned untli the
next supper scheduled for Novem
ber 2.
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jack and lots of 4t.
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Explosion
Kills Four
TEXAS CITY, Texas. <#*)—Four
persons were burned fatally and
about 40 others injured in a gas
explosion and fire which swept a
line of automobiles at a blocked
railroad crossing here last night.
Fire Chief Fred Dowdy of Texas
Ci y said the explosion was caused
by the igniting of an accumulation
of manufactured gas which had
leaked from a pipeline alongside
highway 146, near the Stone Oil
refinery.
Witnesses said the gas, which
hung in the roadside ditches in a
visible fog, went up in a huge puff
of flame. The searing blast burned
• automobiles waiting for a string
f tank cars to pass the railroad
c ossing.
Many Dead In
Chilean Eruption
SANTIAGO, Chile, (A*) — Forty
persons are reported dead and 200
mising in a violent eight-hour
, eruption of the Viplarrica volcano
of Cautin Province, 400 miles
south of here.
Damage may reach 50,000 000
pesos <$1,500,000).
Reports indicated the lava flow
ed to appoint between the resort
town of Pucon and Villarrica,
both on the bank of Lake Villar
I
rica and about six miles apart.
Farm huts were engulfed. Pucon
was isolated except by boat. In
habitants of the mountainside fled
as fire-fighters and medical crews
were rushed to the area from
nearby communities.
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