TIIE NOME DAILY NUGGET
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WAGNER ACT CAN AVERT STRIKES,
AND SAVE MILLIONS
As if to emphasize the dollars-and-cents value whi
ch the supreme court’s Wagner act decisions can have
for the U. S., a statistically-minded reporter has tabu
lated the net cost of the year’s big automobile strikes
in Michigan.
Altogether, this reporter figured, the four major
auto strikes had a total cost of $477,000,000.
Autos worth some $267,000,000 were scheduled to
be paid out but were not paid. Industries supplying
wheels, glass, instrument boards, and other equipment
to the auto makers lost business worth slightly less than
$137,000,000.
But that does not tell the entire story. The strikes
cost the state of Michigan $1,629,000 in added relief
costs, national guard maintenance, and lost sales taxes.
The federal government lost $4,200,000 in excise taxes.
Michigan merchants and storekeepers lost something
like $18,000,000 in sales during the strike period.
Altogether, this tabulation tells us what we already
knew—that the strikes were fearfully expensive all
the way down the line.
What makes it interesting is its relation to the Wag
ner Act decisions.
The Wagner Act does not compel any employer to
sign a union contract. It does not force him to accept
any terms that the union may place before him. All it
does is legalize the workers’ right to form unions with
out interference and to bargain with their employers
r6nce the unions are formed. In cases of doubt, it sets
up machinery to determine whether a majority of men
in a given plant want a union to bargain for them.
Measured against the demands of some confident
labor leaders, that is not much. Measured against the
background of the auto strikes, it is a great deal. More
important, it is the sort of thing that can avert the ter
rific expense of a wave of strikes such as the ones the
auto industry has just had.
For these auto strikes were primarily organization
al, Demands were made in respect to wages, hours,
seniority, and so on. and in some cases concessions were
made along these lines; but what really stirred the
strikers was a desire that their right to organize and to
bargain collectively be formally recognized. The auto
industry was the citadel of the non-union tradition; the
workers set out to crack it.
It is precisely that sort of thing from which the
Wagner Act should save us. Half-billion dollar strikes
to legitimize union organizations ought never to appear
again.
Much remains to be done, of course. A good deal
of wisdom and statesmanship is going to be necessary
—at union headquarters, among other places. But one
very big reason for expensive labor fights has been re
moved.
Our idea of something or other would be to be walk
ing delegate for those striking Japanese geisha girls.
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SOCIAL ^
SECURITY
COLUMN
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Alaska Office
Social Security Board
Juneau, Alaska
(For Immediate Release)
JUNEAU — Seven measures
specifically designed to tie in the
Territory’s program with the So
cial Security Act were passed by
the Alaska Legislature, meeting
in extraordinary session, and sub
sequently were approved by Gov.
John W. Troy.
One of these acts has to do
with administration of Old-Age
assistance. Existing territorial
legislation on that subject was
amended to conform with the re
quirements of the Social Security
Act and provision was made for
acceptance of federal money
grants with respect to old-age as
sistance.
Another act created a Depart
ment of Public Welfare, which
will administer old-age assistance
as well as have supervision over
'the needy and delinquent child
ren. Two measures transferred
supervision of the needy and de
linquent children to the newly
created department.
A sanitary code was set up un
der the administration of the ter
ritorial Commissioner of Health.
The act establishing the sanitary
code will make it possible for the
Territory to receive grants-in
aid for health work in accordance
withthe provisions of the Social
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FEAR CAS ROUTS SIT-DOWNERS
Sheriff’s deputies, using tear gas, evicted 150 sit-down strikers,
mostly women, from the Vale & Towne manufacturing plant at
Detroit after a 30-minute battle in which strikers hurled lead
weights at the officers. The picture shows a striker being led from
the build}
Security Act.
A system of unemployment
compensation was established by
a long bill which received partic
ularly close attention by the leg
islature. A commission of three
members will be named to have
charge of this program and they
A’ill appoint an executive direc
tor and other required personnel.
An appropriation act establish
ed for use during the biennium
the sum of $553,000 for Old-Age
Assistance. This wil be aug
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merited by substantial federal
grants and in addition the na
tional government will add to the
amount of its grants five per cent
hereof to be used in helping de
fray costs of administration.
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NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOB
UNITED STATES PATENT
Min. Sur. No. 1888
Min. Appl. No. 0926
IN THE UNITED STATES LAND
OFFICE, Nome. Territory of Al
aska.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that R. W. SILVER, whose post
office address is Nome, Alaska,
has made application for a pat
ent for 1454.5 linear feet on the
Shamrock No. One lode and for
1500 linear feet on the Goode
lode, each bearing gold and sal
ver, the same being as to the
Shamrock No. One lode N. 44 deg
411 min. W. 63.5 ft. and S. 44 deg
48 min. E. 1391 ft. from the dis
covery cut thereon, and a furth
er discovery of said Shamrock
No. One lode being a cut the
east end of which hears S. 18
deg. 40 min. E., 255 ft. from thf
west end of the lode line from
which Cor. No. 1 of the Shamrock
sTo. One 'lode cla m bears S. 36 deg
48 min. E., 300 ft.: and the Goode,
lode being N. 36 deg. 47 min. W.
25 ft., and S. 36 deg. 47 min. E
1475 ft. from the discovery cut
therein. A particular description
of the Shamrock No. One lode
claim being -as follows:
Begi nning at Cor. No. 1. a fir
past 43 in. long, 4 ins. sq., 2 ft
in ground, in mound of earth and
stone 1 ft. high, 30 in. base, anc
marked SH-1-1-1888, from which
U. S. L. M. No. 324 bears S. 41
deg. 25 min. W.. 774.7 ft., anc
, from which Cor. No. 1 Sur. No
324 Southern Cross lode bear
|N. 2 deg. 35 min. E„ 204.5 ft
|magnetic declination 19 deg. 15
jtnin. E.: Thence N. 36 deg. 48'min
E., 600 ft. to Cor. No. 2, magnet
i :c decliijatiun ,19 deg. 15 mir.
iE.: ThenctflS. 44 deg. 48 mir
E.. 1454.5 ft. to Cor. No. 3. mag
netic declination 19 deg. 15 mir,
IE.: Thence S.-36 deg. 48 min. W
600 ft. to Cor. No. 4. magnetic
declination 19 deg. 15 min. E.
i Thence N. 44 deg. 48 min. W
, 1454.5 ft. to Cor. No. 1, and place
of beginning, containing 19.819
acres. Area in conflict wlith Good*
, lode of this survey 3.493 acres,
and in conflict with Sur. No. 324
! Southern Crass lode 3.36 acres
Net area of Shamrock No. One
lode 12.966 acres.
Ana a particular description ol
the Goode lode being as follows
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, which
us identical with Cor. No, 1 Sur
i No. 324 lint Air lode, a fir pxis*
4 in. sq., 48 in. above ground, ir
| an earth mound 1 ft. high, 4 ft
j base, and pneviousy marked
324-No. 1, and now marked atec
GO-1-1888, from which U. S. L
M. No. 324 bears S. 46 deg. 0!
min. W., 389.4 ft., magnetic de
clination 19 deg. 45 miin. E.; Then
jte N. 36 deg. 48 min. E„ 599.2
I ft. to Cor. No. 2, magnetic declin
ation 19 deg. 00 min. E.; Thence
S. 36 deg. 47 min. E., 1500 ft
to Cor. No. 3, magnetic declina
tion 19 deg. 30 min. E.: Thence
S. 36 deg. 48 min. W., 599.2 ft
to Cor. No. 4, magnetic declina
tion 19 deg. 45 min. E.; Thence
N. 36 deg. 47 min. W., 1500 ft
to Cor. No. 1, and place of be
ginning, containing 19.792 acres
net area, the conflict of 3.493 ac
res with the Shamrock No. One
lode claim, same survey, being
shown above and deduction made
therefor from the Shamrock No.
One lode claim. Total net area of
the Shamrock No. One and Goode
lode claims being 32.758 acres.
Said 2 claims are 'located on
Trilby hill between Solomon Riv
er and Trilby Creek, in the Cape
Nome Mining and Recording dist
ract and precinct, Second Divi
sion, Territory of Alaska; the no
tices of locations being recorded
with the Recorder for the
district and precinct for the
Shamrock No. One lode claim hi
Vol. 214, page 108, and for the
Goode lode claim in Vol. 214
page 107.
Adjoining claims are on the
North, Sur. No. 324 Southern
Cross lode; on the East, Sham
rock 2 lode and Goode 1 lode,
unsuryeyed; on the West, Sur
No. 324 Southern Cross lode and
Sur. No. 324 Hot Air lode; other
adjoining claims unknown.
U. S. L. M. No. 324 to which
these claims are tied is a slate
block on said Trilby hill, In lati
tude and longitude as taken from
the U. S. G. S. map of the Solo
mon Quadrangle, of 64 deg. 39
mim. % N., 164 deg. 16 min. % W.
. „ ALMER RYDEEN Register
1st Publication Fit, April 16,1937
Last Pub. Monday June 28, 1937