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JOINT INSTALLATION SET |
FOR THURSDAY
- Officers of Mt. Verstovia
Lodge, F. & A. M., and Baranof
Chapter. Order of Eastern Star,
are to Ibe installed at a joint
ceremony Thursday evening at
the Cappenlter’s Hal at 8 p. m.
The installation is an open
ceremony, with members of
both bodies, their husbands,
wives and friends cordially in
vited to attend.
Refreshments will follow Ithe
ceremonies.
LEGION AUXILIARY
MEETS THURSDAY
, A regular meeting of ithe
American Legion Auxiliary is
scheduled (for eight o’clock on
Thursday evening at the Legion
Annex. Initiation is to ibe held.
Hostesses include the Mes
dames Ed Van Horn and Char
les Tucrtgel.
Sports Trail
In Pittsburgh, the Georgians
Will be meeting a really rug
ged team with a brace of ex
ceptional ends. The Panthers
may lack the flash of Tech, but
they’ll be playing sound, hard
hinting football, and if it sho
uld come up mud they could
very well roll to victory. But
■well stick by Tech, regardless.
Texas Christian came through
the rugged Southwest, confer
ence on top, and the team that
does that rates in any company.
The only yardstick that might
compare Mississippi and the
Texas team is that old mislead
ing, undependable ruler — com
parative scores.
TCU defeated Arkansas 26
to 0, and Mississippi defeated
the same team 17 /to 7. We’ve
observed Jim iSwink in action,
and don’t believe Old Miss is
going to be able - to stop him.
(From a comparative score
standpoint, Auburn and V'an
deibiSt have more mutual rela
tions than a cooJple of cousins.
They have met no less than six
common opponents, and based
@n the record of each team you
can work up 'a good case for
either.
Taking just one opponent in
this common relationship —
Georgia — Auburn defeated the
GutHdogs 16-13, and Vanderbilt
lost to them 14-13. Not: much
to choose there.
All in all, the bowl lineups
next Monday have all the pro
mise of Ibang-up games, and if
any team runs up a one-sided
score il will be something of a
surprise.
Ilf we were to pick the ldwest
scoring game we believe we’d
take the Oklahoma-Maryland
contest, with TCU and Mississ
ippi the bed. prospect for a
high-scoring encounter.
Alaska labor
varied.” Despite recent popu
lation increases which have
brought important price reduc
tions, the territory “must still
be characterized as a high
cost region.”
The “rapid increase in the
size of Alaska’s labor force”
during the past 15 years, he
said, have seen the govern
ment and industries primarily
dependent upon federal spend
ing emerge as the territory's
principal employers. j
The same period was one of ’
generally rising employment
and wages. Although average
annual earnings by persons
covered under the unemploy
ment insurance program / in
creased in this era ifram about
$1,850 to nearly $6,300, Rogers
emphasized that noli all Alas
kans are highly paid and well
off.
He cites census bureau data
showing that in 1949 the aver
age earnings of all income pro
ducing .persons over 14 years
of age was $2,072 while that
for nonwhite Alaskans, who
make up about a fourth of the
total, the average was but $784
By contrast, the total earn
inigs of workers covered by the
unemployment insurance pro
gram that vear averaged $4,
633.
“The wide income differen
ces,” Rogers explained, “Were
due in part io the inclusion of
military personnel in the cen
sus data, but more significant
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I ly they resiled-ed the limited
! degree to which native Alas
kans (who make up most of
the nonwhit^ category) had
been brought into the regular
labor force.”
In his discussion of the char
aci.er of industrial relations in
Alaska, Fitch declares that
‘'trade unionism is the rule ra
ther than the exception” in pri j
vate industry. Government em j
ployes, by contrast, are pre
dominantly nonunion with the
exception of those working for
the government owned Alas
ka Railroad.
He sees in fi'he gradually in
creasing labor pool and the
decline of military construc
tion, evidence that Alaska “is
ceasihg to be regarded as an ov
erseas base to which workers
must be lured by the promise
of extravagant take-home
pay,” and added:
“While the wage practices
of more wasteful days have
continued, there is at least a
possibility that 'both unions
arid management will interpret
the economic situation in a
more reasonable light as the
amount oif military construc
tion continues to decline. The
transition to more normal
Wage-price relationships, in
comparison with stateside en
terprise, will obviously be dif
ficult, but there is some indica
tion that employers may get a
more sympathetic attitude to
ward the problems ‘ of this
transition than they now ex
pect.”
Fitch refers several times to
the “absentee control” of Al
aska’s trade unions through It he
handling df negotiations and
other union matters in Seatt le
This has (been justified, he
said, on the ground of the de
sirability cxf relying upon the
greater skill and experience of
Seat! le union officials.
“Furthermore,” he contin
ues,” it seems to be true that
labor relations have been
more disturbed and disagree
ments more prolonged in the
case of carpenters, who have
tried more than other construe
tion workers to throw ofif Se
attle control. Nevertheless, the
desire for a more democratic
control otf Alaskan union ac
tivities is increasing and grow
ing pains accompanying any
shift from Seattle to local re
sponsibility are inevitable.”
He predicts the “trend to
ward local autonomy will in
evitably continue” with the
development of a large labor
market within Alaska.
Flakne, writing of the gov
ernment’s role as an employer
cites inequalities existing in
wage standards between the
classified worker — who re
ceives a 25 per cent diflferen
tial atop a base ipay set by con
gress — and the wage-board
employe whose pay generally
reflects the hUgher wage levels
prevailing in the territory.
“If the price of consumer
goods in Alaska were no more
than 25 per cent above the
price of consumer goods in the
United States,” he writes, ne
serious conflicts between wage
board and classified pay rates
would arise.”
While this may be true in
the region between Ketchikan
and Juneau, Flakne continues
surveys have shown “decided
ly higher living costs” in the
huge area north and wesjt of
Alaska’s Panhandle.
A 1953 department of the
interior study showed also, he
said, that “unreasonable vari
ations” exist between agencies
of that department in wage
board pay rates.
He suggested that “undoubt
edly, something should 'be
done to secure greater unifor
mity in wage-board, pay-rate
determination procedures,” and
added:
“Possibly some of the rem
edy consists in placing care
fully trained persons in charge
Of wage administration, and
in requiring a common philos
ophy of wage-rate determina
tion rather than completely
uniform pay rates in the same
area and for the same occupa
tion.”
Discussing wages and work
ing conditions, Clark writes
that stateside wage standards
are the greatest influence on
Alaskan waige ral.es. These, of
course, are subject to increase
. because of higher living costs,
seasonality off work in certain
industries and — during World
War II — the shortage of labor
While he cites various basic
; pay 'scales, Clark notes that i|t
is not these hourly rates but
the chance for overtime and
holiday pay which has attract
ed workers (to Alaska.
“The working of long hours
in construction,” he said, “has
virtually mocked the concept
of the 40-hour week.”
The “get-it-quick” possibil
ities have declined, however,
in the past two years because
of ! he growth of the labor sup
ply, the virtual elimination of
emergency completion dead
lines, increasing -competition
among contractors and the de
sire of unions to spread work
among all qualified members.
Evans’ -article cites hhe
growth and administration of
Alaska’s labor law since the
territory’s first legislature in
1913 passed laws which “com
pared favorably with labor
legislation existing in the states
at that time.”
(FCDA Photo).
COMM OK INTEREST of the Air Force and Federal Civil Defense
Administration in early warning of unfriendly planes is under
scored as Maj. Tilmon B. Cantrell, an Air Force liaison officer at
FCDA, shows silhouettes of plane types to Miss Joan Cross, an
FCDA bookkeeper and new recruit In the Ground Observer Corps.
Miss Enaajene Noon (background) is on duty at the GOC post atop
the 14-story FCDA headquarters building in Battle Creek. Michigan,
AMATEURS AND PROFESSIONALS on the staff
of the Federal Civil Defense Administration pro
vide a variety of voices for one of the skits In a
series of “spot” announcements on “Conelrad,”
the emergency Civil Defense radio system. Re
corded by FCDA’s audio-visual director, Chet
Spurgeon, and radio-TV head Nat Linden
(seated), the skits and an accompanying tune are
designed to make the public conscious of Conel
rad’s 6-10 and 124.0 emergency radio frequencies.
More than $5,000 has been saved the Government
by using mostly amateur voices instead of pro
fessional actors. A West Coast firm pressed the •
records and mailed them io radio stations.