Labor Leaders
“Resign” From
Wage Board
WASHINGTON, (JP)— Rebuild
ing of the shattered Wage Stabili
zation Board today ran up against
a major obstacle—a demand by
unions that it handle labor dis
putes as well as wage controls.
Economic Stabilization Admini
strator Eric Johnston was making
fcautions moves to fashion a new
industry-labor-public board to re
place the nine-man panel from
which organized labor has with
drawn its three representatives.
Top labor leaders, acting on or
ders from the United Labor Poli
cy committee, showered all the
•mobilization agencies with resig
nations yesterday in protest
against alleged “unfair” wage
control and “big business” domi
nation of the defense drive.
Mobilization director Charles E.
Wilson was the major target of
their charges.
Johnston, recognizing more
storms and delays ahead, acted as
- his own one-man wage board in
two actions announced last night:
1. He relaxed the 10 percent
ceiling on wage -boosts by per
mitting workers to get full benefit
of cost-of-living wage increases
up to June 30—provided their
“escalator”-type contracts were
signed before Jan. 25.
This may avert unrest and pos
sible strikes in the auto industry,
where about 1,000,000 workers
enjoy “escalator” benefits.
2. Johnston set a precedent for
handling “hardship” cases. A 3
member board was named to
study whether CIO and AFL pack
ing house workers should get the
full nine-cent hourly pay boost
won from major packers just af
ter the freeze. It would pierce the
ceiling, but the unions claim the
freeze caught them at a substand
ard pay level.
A percent increase for pass
enger car manufacturers was or
dered at the same time by price
officials, to offset ‘partially’ high
er wage and other costs.
Find Uranium And
Hit The Jackpot j
. WASHINGTON, (jP)— To pep
up domestic prospecting for ura
nium, the previous A-bomb mat
terial, the atomic energy commis
sion today offered new jackpot j
prizes as high as $35,000 for ura
nium hunters.
Applying such pay-offs even to
very low grade ores, the AEC said
the new bonus offer will not take
the place of its long-standing—and
still uncollected—prize of $10,000 i
for prospectors who deliver 40,-:
000 pounds of very high-grade
ore from a newly-discovered de
posit.
At the same time, the AEC an
nounce! it would pay substantial
ly more than it has in the past for
certain uranium-bearing ores of I
the Colorado Plateau, the richest
known U.S. source of the metal.
The commission said it would
continue to pay for acceptable
uranium arc at so much a pound
wherever it is found and that the
jackpot “bonuses” would toe paid
over and above the regular pay
ments.
Thus, a commission spokesman
said, it would be possible for a
prospector to sell 10,000 pounds,
of a certain grade of uranium for
$35,000—and then collect a bonus
of $35,000 on top of that.
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nounced that he will keep his of
fice in the Federal Bldg, open
from 9-5 o’clock on Saturdays,
March 3 and 10 for the conveni
ence of the people of this area.
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Monday evening ai 8 p.m. by
Marie Grant, Public Health nurse.
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et: Virginia Weokoluk Morris.
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Senator Says
! Alaska Defenses
Neglected
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ply materials for defense construc
tion at far lower costs has been
impeded or blocked.
1 4—Private investment and en
terprises in the Territory have
been discouraged, while near-mo
nopolistic Seattle companies have
had wide rein.
5—Alaska's economy has been
throttled under a system of "re
mote controls."
When President Truman or r-1
dered a 10 percent cutback in
non-defense • expenditures, Hunt
said, government bureaus “took
jt out on Alaska to a degree dis
proportionate to all the rest.”
Public works appropriations for
workers on defense projects were
cut 60—ncrt 10 percent, he asser
ted.
! Millions were lopped off from
sewers, water supplies, housing,
and other utilities for construction
workers.
Senator Hunt said:
“Without these utilities we can’t
get the workers we need up there.
“Without the workers military
construction lags.
“The appropriations that were
slashed were as much defense as
anything I can think of.
“If Alaska was a state with two
Senators you can bet your life it
would never have happened.”
DEFEND U. S.—
Two senators from Alaska prob
ably would also have saved Alas
ka’s deteriorated and abandoned
airfields, the chairman contended,
explaining:
“At a cost of only $60,000 a
year, a 15-million-dollar air field
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“With two Senators and a mem
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great strategic area, I think that
small amount would have been
provided to save these fields and
air-strips.”
Alaska’s present defense setup
is primarily designed to defend
not Alaska but the United States, <
Hunt said, adding that that was
the decision of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, not his.
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