increased personnel and more
money. That is the nature of exec
utive departments.
May the coming Congress find
enough gizzard and gristle to stand
up and say no. We must end waste
alfd extravagance in government.
When nearly thirty cents odt of
every dollar you earn goes directly
or indirectly toward support of
federal government, that is too
much. Already the federal budget
has swollen to four times its pre
vious peacetime size. We cannot
continue to be the strong and fi
nancially stable nation we must
be, unless something is done to
curtail the spread of government.
Bar currency antedated the in
troduction of coins in Britain.
AFL Considers
Severing Russian
Trade Relations
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bers agreed to return to their ship.
The Cunard White Star Line
promised that the Queen Elizabeth
would not sail until Ihe longshore
mens’ strike is settled, and would
not go to Halifax.
In New York, 3.500 AFL team
sters struck against 350 trucking
companies. Local 282 of the team
sters is insisting on a 22x/z cent
hourly wage increase. Employers
refuse to pay more than 20Vfe
j cents in addition to the present
I scale of $53.90 to $71.40 for a 40
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horr week.
The American Federation of La
bor convention drew toward its
close today in Cincinnati, O. Dele
gates considered what they will do
about a committee’s recommenda
tions that the convention favor a
defensive military alliance against
Russia and severance of trade re
lations with the Soviet. Convention
leaders said they hoped to finish
work tonight.
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At Lawrence, Kans., the AFL
united textile workers’ union voted i
in convention to seek a 10-cent
general hourly wage increase for
40,000 woolen and worsted work
ers in 55 mills throughout the
country when new contract talks
bgein Feb. 1. The union said the
present average scale for such
work is $1.32 an hour, with a $1.05
minimum.
The Congress of Industrial Or
ganizations began its 10th conven
tion today at Portland, Ore., with
the anti-communist right wing in
full control. Further blows at the
dwindling left-wing faction were
expected in the sessions.
In his opening report, CIO pres
ident Philip Murray urged an
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eignt point program for a "healthy
domestic economy.”
It called for price controls, an
excess profits tax, control of es
sential materials, all-out attack on
business monopoly, farm price
supports, a one-dollar an hour
minimum wage, low-cost public
housing, and plant expansion in
basic indus;ries.
In Washington, the federal court
of appeals today affirmed the per
jury conviction of Harold Christof
fel, one-time president of local
248, CIO UAW union, at the Allis
Chalmers Milwaukee, Wis., plant.
He was convicted last March of
falsely telling the House labor
committee he never had been a
Communist. He faces a two to six
year prison term.
Just before it sheds its skin, a
snake is partially blind.
JOHN SOLON SELLS
BARBER SHOP
Mr. and Mrs. John Solon and
children are scheduled to leave
Nome Wednesday of next week to
make their home in the States.
John Solon, who has been a bar
ber in Nome for the past 24 years,
has sold his establishment to
Joseph K. Hunt, barber at the
post. Mr. Hunt will take over next
week.
John isn’t saying good bye in
Nome; he says because he might
be back again before too long.
Mrs. John Holm and children,
family of Sgt. John Holm returned
home after a short visit in the
States. Sgt. Holm, who was re
ported as being transferred, has
had an extension of serivce here
until the Fall of 1949.
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