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THE AFL AND POLITICS
It now appears that the American Federation of
Labor will back a presidential candidate for the first
time in 28 years. Thus the largest labor federation fol-e
lows the same course this year as the CIO has in recent
presidential elections.
The AFL executive council has voted to invite
President Truman, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, and
Gov. Adlai Stevenson to address the federation’s an
nual convention, which will be held in New York
during the middle of September. The candidates will
certainly place great importance upon their appearance
before the AFL convention and some interesting
speech-making can be expected.
The new AFL policy will mean that both of the
country’s two major labor organizations will take part
in presidential elections. It may eventually lead to a
stronger voice for labor in political selections, although
this year that effect is not expected. It also might
eventually lead to collaborations of the two major
labor organizations in presidential campaigns as long
as the two agree on a candidate. If a disagreement
should ocur, it would act to cancel out labor’s influence
in a national election.
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COMING TAX CUTS
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There are several good reasons why tax reduc
tion is almost a certainty in the next Congress. For
one thing, both Presidential candidates are promising
tax cuts. For another, the tax increases voted by the
last Congress conntained automatic termination dates.
After that date, taxes drop back to 1950 rates, and the
only way a reducion can be prevented is through af
firmative action by the next Congress.
It is generally believed that the next Congress—
in view of both Presidential candidates’ pledges to
reduce taxes—will not take affirmative action to re
tain present tax levels or increase taxes further. In
•*'ead. it is expected that the excess profits tax will
drop in 1953 and that it might end altogether in 1954.
Personal income taxes are expected to go down, either
in late 1953 or 1954.
The prospect for reduced taxes will be greatly en
hanced if an armistice is reached in Korea, or if defense
expenditures are reduced t>y Congress. The present
high tax rates were voted as a direct result of the
Korean War, at a time when high rates still prevailed
as an aftermath of World War II.
Ike Tells AFL He Is
Against Repeal T-H Act
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should be subject to the same
requirement.”
That was in reference to the
T-H provision requiring union
leaders to swear under oath that
they are not Communists. It is
one of the more controversial
features of the law.
President Truman turned on
the heat in Washington:
He voiced hot resentment over
the use of “the big lie” technique
to reflect on government employe
loyalty and to call Gen. George
C. Marshall a “traitor.”
The President did not mention
names, but Sen. Jose'ph R. Mc
Carthy, Wisconsin Republican,
has attacked certain government
officials and has said Gen. Mar
shall has sided with Russia in
historic decisions, and Sen. Wil
liam E. Jenner, Indiana Repub
lican, has called Gen. Marshall a
“front man for traitors.”
ALASKA AIFLINES
From Anchorage: Wardie King,
Robert Wood, Rex Carpenter, J.
Waggoner.
To Anchorage: W. Zimmerle, J.
Hayward, C. Kilhul
To Unalakleet: Lois Morey.
To Kotzebue: L. M. Basker and
Capt. Sanders.
Mr. and Mrs. George Gosh aw
arrived from Shishmaref, where
they have made their home for
many years, having sold their
business to the Native Coopera
tive <ANICA>. The Goshaws for
many years were owners of the
only fox ranch in the Arctic rais
ing the beautiful platina foxes.
Mr. Goshaw, a member of the
Territorial Tax Board, is here to
conduct Board of Equalization
hearing which starts Sept. 23.
UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
The POLARIS
COFFEE SHOP
Will Be Closed Sundays
In Order lo Give Their
Employees A Day Off.
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140 - M.P.H. Wind
Whips Sea Across
Wake I. In Storm
HONOLULU, (#*)—A raging ty
phoon with winds up to 140 miles
an hour lashed tiny Wake Island
Monday, demolished living quar
ters and communications and sent
the sea crashing over the entire
island.
Mountainous seas and torrential
rains battered the island which is
only 15 feet above sea level, all
afternoon, subsiding only late at
night.
Air-sea rescue planes left Hon
olulu’s Hickam Field and Kwaja
lein Tuesday morning with food,
water and medical supplies for
the 600 men, women and children
marooned on the coral speck 2,300
miles west of here.
Scattered messages received here
painted a picture of devestation.
An unidentified Civil Aeronautics
Authority maintenance man
cranked up the radio of a ground
ed plane and gave first details of
the disaster.
Gordon T. Maxwell, a Pan Am
erican Airways executive, repor
ted to his San Francisco office
from Wake that all the company’s
facilities were destroyed. He said
no Pan American personnel was
hurt.
During the storm, Maxwell said,
everyone took refuge in World
War II underground Japanese gun
emplacements and ammunition
vaults.
GEORGE MADSEN ATTENDS
DEMO. CONCLAVE IN DENVER
George Madsen of the Polar Bar
while in the States on business,
was the Alaska delegate to the
Democratic convention held re
cently at Denver, Colorado. The
meeting was for delegates of the
11 Western states and Alaska and
Hawaii. George reports that the
meeting defined policies and plat
forms and finances for these states
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in the coming election, and showed
a well-balanced program.
Revise Regulations Dealing With
Coal Deposits On Government
Owned Lands In Alaska
WASHINGTON, (jF) — Revised
regulations dealing with the leas
ing and development of coal de
posits on government -owned
lands in Alaska were announced
at Washington, D.C., today, by
Vernon D. Northrop, Undersecre
tary of the Interior.
Northrop said the revisions of
the regulations and of the permit
and lease forms are the first since
1928 affecting Alaska.
Director Marion Clawson of the
Bureau of Land Management said
the revision is part of his bu
reau’s efforts to standardize exist
ing mineral leasing regulations.
j "4-on" Duplicate Receipt Books
at the Nugget
f FUNERAL NOTICE
Funeral services for Tommy
i Ulagak (Toomah) will be held at
| the Nome Gospel Mission on Fri
day, Sept. 19 at 2 o'clock in the
afternoon.
ANNOUNCING . . .
WOLF DANCE
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SATURDAY — SEPTEMBER 20 — 8:00 P.M.
NOME SCHOOL AUDITORIUM
AN ALASKAN REPUBLICAN
says . .-.
That Delegate Bartlett failed to have the federal con
trolled Fish and Wildlife Service transferred to the control
of the territory, where it justly belongs. The Department
of the Interior under Democratic Secretary Chapman re
fuses to permit Alaskans to administer their own fish and
wildlife affairs.
In other words, Secretary Chapman and his bureau
crats say to you that you are too dumb to properly admin
ister your own Alaskan natural resources.
Eskimos should remember how they were arrested
and their rifles and shotguns seized by carpet-bagger game
wardens—how they were denied the rightful privilege of
hunting for needed wild life food to appease their hunger.
For a Change Vote Republican—rWin with Ike
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