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SAILORS. AND SEAMANS UNIONS
PENQlNG i'STRIKE ISSUES
On September 30th. of this month the Sailors
union of the Pacific and the SIU's contract with
ship owners expires. The eyes of Alaska watch with
growing concern this controversy for wether her
vital life line for supples continues to run smoo
thly or *. wether it' will be severed depends upon
this issue.
The SUP and the SIU do not consider the Taft
Hartley bill a just law. Their particular object
ions to it are in part1: Section 8, A, 3> .* This'' >f\
section prohibits the employers, in their case the
ship owners, from signing a closed shop agreement
with the union. On the surface this seems like
a small an#;insignificant, point but its r effects
'arc indeed far reaching. It isn't hard to re
member a few short years ago when the laboring
man suffered from poor working conditions, long ho- .
urs and short pay. In many cases this has -ceased
to bet and only because of unionism. This is a
good * thing. Labor as well as capital is entitl
ed to a decent living wage and decent conditions in
which to earn this wage. 7ith an open shop ag
reement the employers could hire whoever they so
desired, which in its way is just, considering it
is their money which is paying for this labor.
But it Is the natural tendancy of a business man
to conserve on investment wherever possible there
fore he would be tempted to hire the man who
would work for less money. This in itself would
break the unionism movement.
Another point of controversy in the bill is
section 301, which makes the unions libel for t
damages suffered duo to break of contract or vi
olation of agreements. In the laymans opinion of
of this it seems just and it is just except "in
the concensus of. - opnion of the unions they feel
that the employers • would use this section of the
law to break the union financially. This could
be done by planting a stooge in the ranks of the
union for the specific purpose of stiring up tro
uble amongst the rand and file of the union mem
bers causing them to,make a violation or breech _
of contract. Such a breech would bf' course-' ■ b.e‘l i
followed by numerous lawsuits
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COUNCIL TO.MEEl
ON FRIDAY y : '
There is a council •
meeting scheduled for eig
ht. o'clock this Friday
evening at City Hall.
G; 0. Swain, newly
appointed councilman has
accepted his appointment
and will meet with the
city council for the
first tine on this Friday
evening.
UNION CONTROVERSY .
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Labor, in particular
the Seamans Union of' thc
Pacific, is up in arms
concerning the Taft-Har
tley bill and intend to do
sometining about it. The
ir stand is that it wilt,
seriously effect and crip- *
pic as well as weaken and ‘
perhaps destroy the ent
ire Trade Union Movement.
Their forthcoming and pre
sent policy is to smash
the law and render it in
effective _ _ _•
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NETT MERCHANTS
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Cordially invite
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your inspection.
'!7on,t you come in
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and shop around,
it
. 7e carry
a complete line of ,
grocery needs,
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