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Telephone Unions
Want Third Round
Of Wage Increases
WASHINGTON (/P)—Telephone
unions Saturday opened a nation
wide program of parades and mass
meetings to enlist public support
in their drive for a "third round”
wage increase. «
They backed that program with
a thinly-veiled strike threat.
Leaders of rival unions repre
senting more than 350,000 work
ers agreed on the demonstrations—
instead of an immediate country
wide telephone strike—as their
present plan of joint action,
Nevertheless, the union chiefs
said that by October 15 all of the
scattered telephone organizations
will be legally free under the Taft
Hartley act to walk out if they
"find it necessary.”
While the unions have made no
dollars and cents demand they are
franklly striving for the 13-cent
pattern of third-round postwar in
creases in other industries like
steel, auto and coal.
General Election, October 12, 1948
ELECT
GEO. J. WALDHELM
Republican Candidate
FOR
SENATOR
Russia Wants
“Arms Reduction
To Keep Peace”
(By Louis Nerin)
PARIS, (IP) — Russia proposed
Saturday that the five major pow
ers reduce their armed forces by
a third inside of one year.
Accusing the United States, Bri
tain and France of trying to isolate
Russia by means of military alli
ances, Soviet Deputy Foreign Min
ister Andrei Y. Vinshinsky asked
the United Nations general assem
bly to set up an international con
trol body to supervise reduction of
armaments of armed forces and
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prohibition or atomic weapons.
Vishinsky said he proposed this ;
resolution in order to strengthen
the cause of peace and eliminate
“the threat of a new war fomented
by expansionists and other reac
tionary elements.” The expansion
ists, he contended, all are west of
the iron curtin.
When Vishinsky finished, U. S.
chief delegate Warren R. Austin
commented:
“It’s the same old stuff. He came
with his speech all written out and |
just touched it up after hearing
the dignified form of Gen. Mar
shall’s remarks.”
U. S. Secretary of State George
C. Marshall two days ago told the
assembly United States patience in
international crises must not be in
terpreted as a sign of weakness.
Marshall sat poker-faced through
Vishinsky’s speech today.
Sir Alexander Cadogan of Bri
tain, president of the security
council, said Vishinsky “covered
all the old points. It was a coun
terattack on the points on which
they have been the worst offend
ers.”
1949 Income To
Continue High
WASHINGTON, (A*)—Next year
should be a kind one for your poc
ketbook, if a government predic
tion works out.
Noting that personal incomes set
a record this year, the bureau of
agricultural economics reported
that 1949 incomes should be just
as high. And what’s more, the bur
eau foresaw a continued boom m
employment.
Meanwhile, the federal reserve
board painted a rosy picture of the
nation’s farmers. Their buying
power this year, said the reserve
board, is more than twice what it
was before the war.
However, the agency added, "in
comes received by farmers who
operate small acreages have been
small, and it appears that sizeable
number of these farmers have been
taking industrial jobs.”
It estimated that 10 per cent
fewer persons were working on
farms at the end of 1947 than be
fore the war, while non-farm pop
ulation has risen nearly 20 per
cent since 1937.
The bureau of agricultural eco
nomics said personal incomes
may slip toward the end of 1949,
but that for the year as a whole
they will equal the 1948 record.
SINGAPORE, OP)—The French
troopship Andre Lebon arrived
yesterday with the first of several
thousand army reinforcements for
Indochina. They are scheduled to
pass through this British port in
the next two days.
The troop ships Chantlly and
Marechal Joffre were scheduled to
arrive today. All three are carry
ing French and Foreign Legion
troops for service against the re
volting Viet-Nam Republic.
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T'his is a fish trap The wire fence extends clear
to the bottom - from shore to deep water and ta
just about 100'// effective. No species of fish can
escape.
The trap was built to catch the principal fisheries
resource of Alaska, the salmon. All species other
than salmon - including cod, sole, trout and halibut
- are dumped back into the sea. dead. Once upon
a time we had a pretty fair cod industry in Central
Alaska. What happened to it? Ask the trap operators!
This trap was placed in its particular location be*
cause trial and error have proven that a substantial
number of fish pass this way each year on their way
to the spawning grounds. There is little or no chauoe
for salmon to escape this trap It has taken such a
toll of fish over the years, and prevented such an
adequate number from spawning, that the run is
rapidly becoming depleted.
Every other trap in Alaska is doing the same thing as this one - fishing 24 hours
a day. Traps do not stop for darkness or for rest. Rough water doesn’t force them to
- seek shelter as it does man-operated trollers. beach nets and seine boats.
The fish trap is chiefly a special privilege to a few absentee owners to the detri
ment of the economy and welfare of Alaska. British Columbia and the State of
Washington saw the evil of fish traps and discontinued their existence. As a result,
their runs of salmon are on the increase with each cycle.
Alaska is the only place on the continent where the fish trap is permitted. Let us do
the right thing for Alaska and legally abolish fish traps in the October 12 election.
Charles Skinner, Vice president, Alaska Territorial Federation of Labor
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