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NEW YORK, Sept. 15 (by Associat
ed Press).—The Republican form .of
government for employes, introduced
in certain industrial plants throughout
the country, has been adopted by a
large New York department store.
Employes of this store, numbering
1,700, have a voice in virtually all mat
ters affecting their relations with the
management, through elective bodies
managed after the bicamoral system
of representation prevailing in the gov
ernment of the United States.
The employes elect members of the
house of representatives and senate
directly, while the executive depart
ment, consisting of a cabinet of five,
is named by the corporation officials.
The judiciary functions are carried out
by a joint justice committee from the
legislative bodies. All branches of
the store government derive their pow
ers from a constitution somewhat sim
ilar to the constitution of the nation.
The fixing wage scales and working
conditions are included in the broad
powers of the house and senate, while
the justice committee may bring about
the expulsion of an employe from the
concern, or if they find a worker has
been unjustly' discharged, they can
have him reinstated. The acts of the
legislature, may be vetoed by the cab
inet. but this has not been necessary
as yTet, it was said by officials of the
concern.
Improvement of the service ren
dered by the store to its customers is
the aim of the legislation enacted by
the workers, but the bettering of the
morale of the force of employes also
brings many bills to the floor of the
house and senate, which convene one
day each week.
Recently a bill providing for the in
stallation of a motion picture ma
chine to provide “movies” in the
building was passed and the manage
ment is to spend $5,000 a year in
carrying out its provisions. Another
act provided for the location and in
stallation of new individual lockers in
the basement where employes might
hang their coats and hats.
Passing much of the responsibility
for the conduct of the institution on
to the shoulders of the employes has
brought about many improvements,
most of them originating in sugges
tions which are made to the sugges
tion committee of the house and sen
ate at the rate of more that 50 a week.
Employes are paid cash prizes for all
suggestions put into use and no sug
gestion is rejected until an investiga
tion has been made by the committee.
An increase in the earning power
of each employe is one of the purposes
of the new store government and
economy dividends are paid on the sav
ing in the percentage of operating ex
pense. A merit system has been inau
gurated by the workers, grades for
each employe being made out monthly
on a basis of their ability, experience
and co-operative work. An average
grade is reached by balancing those
turned in for all workers by their
direct superiors—floor managers, buy
ers, assistant buyers and department
heads. Salaries go up along with the
ratings and promotions also are based
on them.
The house of representatives mem
bership is elected directly by all of the
workers except department heads and
their assistants. These two groups
elect the senators of whom there are
3 4 compared with 1G representatives.
Half the membership of each body
changes semi-annually, the electors
holding office one year. The five
standing committees from each body
include those on justice, co-operation,
economy and service.
As soon as the industrial democracy
plan has gone beyond its infancy, its
originators hope to take the public in
to the organization in some way. Al
ready observance of the wishes of
customers by employes has resulted in
bills directed toward making shopping
more pleasant and suggestions for
other changes are expected to come
from outside the store after the gov
ernment grows beyond the embryonic
stage.
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If you believe everything you hear
you‘’ll soon hear more than anybody
could believe.
If you change your address, do not
notify the carrier boy—report your
new address to the office
Sun Maid Raisin Bread, always a
fayorite at the City Bakery.
Read the Daily Times for the latest
and most reliable world mews.
Ask fer quality bread, the CRy
Bakery’s famous Cream Loaf
Adrertiee is the Daffy Times
The demand of the pulp industry
is for an assured permanent supply
of timber and properly allocated wat
er power under stable tenure; both of
these can be found in the Tongass
National forests, in southeastern Alas
ka.
Southeastern Alaska is favored
with numerous deep water harbors
open the year round with compara
tively smooth waters in straits and
passages. It is advantageously locat
ed with reference to shipments by
rail and water to the United States
and water shipments to the Orient,
South America and Australasia.
“With her enormous forests of rap
idly growing species suitable for pulp,
her water power, and her tidewater
shipment of manufactured products,
Alaska will undoubtedly become one
of the principal paper sources of the
United States,” says Secretary of
Agriculture Meredith.
Aside from fuel, the more impor
tant operating supplies for pulp mills
in general are lime or limestones,
sulphur, soda, ash, salt cake, grind
stones. bleaching agents, and repair
materials. Alaska has numerous
known deposits of lime rock that
would furnish very high grades of
lime.
According to government agricul
ture experts in Alaska it is possible to
grow magnificent vegetables in all
parts of Alaska, except on the tun
dras and mountains. To Alaskans
they are no novelty, but to strangers
unacquainted with the country they
are a constant surprise.”
That Southeast Alaska is assured
several large pulp plants within a few
years is the statement of Chief For
ester W. B. Greeley who has just re
turned from a several weeks’ trip
spent in looking over the timber and
other resources of the Tongass Na
tional forest in Southeast Alaska.
Col. Greeley’s trip took him from
Cape Chacon on the south to Haines
on the North and up the Stikine riv
er and Port Snettisham on the east
to Sitka on the west, and was for the
purpose of getting first-hand informa
tion about the pulp resources of
Southeast Alaska which the forester
is most anxious to see developed.
The forester Avas not content to see
the forests from the deck of the gov
ernment boat but got ashore at every
opportunity and examined thoroughly
logging operations, sawmills, canner
ies, marble quarries, a Avhaling sta
tion, power plants, mining operations,
climbed mountains to inspect at
close hand water power projects, and
went out and cruised timber. He is
most enthusiastic over Alaska’s enor
mous timber and water power re
sources and the part that the forest
service has played and Avill play in
getting knoAvledge of these resources
before interested capital, and in as
sisting in a businesslike development
of Alaska. The forester states that
the pulp and paper industry is coming
to Alaska very shortly. The forester
pointed out that the Avell established
policy of the forest service to develop
Alaska’s timber wealth is bringing re
sults in that capitalists and engineers
are already making definite plans to
start pulp and paper plants. The tim
ber resources of the Alaskan National
forests, the chief forester emphasized,
have ahvays been open to use and ex
ploitation, but development on a large
scale has had to wait upon economic
conditions. The present high price
and scarcity of newsprint are offer
ing sound investments for capital to
develop the spruce and hemlock for
ests of Southeast Alaska.
“I have been surprised by the fine
quality of Alaska spruce and it is
encouraging to learn that some of the
best grades of this lumber is noAV be
ing shipped from Alaska to Eastern
markets. The best of the clear,
straight-grained spruce will shortly, I
believe find its way to eastern piano
manufacturers and for other special
uses -calling for a wood of such high
quality. The Alaska spruce met the
test of quality in being used in the
manufacture of airplanes during the
war,” said Colonel qjjreeley.
“I look forward to seeing a great
number of permanent thriving forest
communities built up along the magni
ficent waterways of Southeast Alaska.
It is imperative therefore that Alas
ka’s timber wealth be so handled that
it shall furnish a permanent and con
tinuous supply of raw materials to
make Alaska’s population a stable
one, a people whose homes and inter
ests will be in Alaska. This can be
brought about by a liberal but sound
policy of forest management which
will encourage paper making and
other forest industries and at the
same time perpetuate the forests so
that these developments may be per
manent.”
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PERFUMES
AND TOILET DAINTIES
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Just received a shipment of Solon Pal
mer’s goods which we will sell at out
side prices.
Gardenglo Perfume, Orig. bottle 3.75
Gardenglo Perfume, Bulk, ounce $2.75
Gardenglo Perfume, orig. bottle 3.75
Gardenglo Perfume, orig. bottle 6.00
Gardenglo Toilet Water, large bot. 2.50
Gardenglo Toilet Water, small bot. 1.25
Gardenglo Sachet, bulk per ounce 1.10
Gardenglo Sachet, orig. bottle - - - 1.60
Gardenglo Soap, large.1.00
Gardenglo Soap, small ------ .50
Garland of Rose, bulk per ounce .25
Gardenglo Perfume, Bulk, per o. 2.75
Lotion Soap - -- -- -- - .25 1
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* PHONE102
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THE
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AUTHORS
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“Johnny Nelson,” by Mulford
“Kindred of the Dust,” by Burroughs
“The Man of the Forest,” by Zane
Gray
“The Great Impersonator,” by Oppen
heim
“Mary Marie,” by Porter
‘Oh, You Tex,” by Raine
“Splendid Outcast,” by Gibbs
“The Duke of Chimney Butte,” by
Ogden
“The Green Sea Pirates,” by Kyne
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CORDOVA MACHINE
WORKS
E. R. GARNES, Prop.
Residence Phone 101-3
Shop Phone 182
Machine Work of all Kinds,
Blacksmithing, General Repair
ing, Horse Shoeing, Oxy-Acety
lene Welding and Cutting.
AUTOMOBILES
REPAIRED
Office and Shop: City Dock
CORDOVA, Alaska.
Out of Town Jobs Given Strict
Attention.
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Pol'
THE home is safe—but how
about the bread winner, is
he safe? Is his earning capac
ity protected while incapacitated
from sickness or injury? A fire
insurance policy is not enough.
Adversity strikes from an unex
pected quarter. Complete pro
tection costs a good deal less than
you might lose by the least of the
misfortunes which could happen
to you. Come in and learn how tbs
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OF THE
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protects you against any form of
financial loss due to accident or
misfortune.
Cordova Abstract and
Realty Co.
100 PER CENT AMERICAN
)«tran#er Building Q Avmmm
Alaska
Steamship Company
Regular Sailings Between Seattle,
Ketchikan, Juneau. Cordova, Valdez,
Ellamar, Liscum, Latouche, Seward.
FROM SEATTLE 8A1L8 80UTH^
SEPT. 16. ALASKA SEPT. 25
SEPT. 23. ALAMEDA OCT. 3
SEPT- 30. NORTHWESTERN OCT. 12
I- requent sailings of freighters carrying explosives.
•^his schedule subject to change without notice.
_ F. B. TRACY, Agent
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Alaska—Washington—California ALASKA ROUTE
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OFFICE EMPRESS BUILDING
WESTBUND SOUTHBOUND
LEAVE CORDOVA LEAVE CORDOVA
WATSON, SEPT. 28 EVANS, SEPT. 15
CALLS ANCHORAGE AND KODIAK
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Phone 132—2
TAILORED SUITS AT STORE PRICES
send Jour orders east and wait for weeks to get a suit, when you can have
eal tailor-made on this coast at less money which bears the journeymen tailor’s
ei. come in and see the good workmanship and the woolens in the large piece
T. N. HUBBERT, TAILOR
ONI Y P. I P A M I M Dl AMT IM T/Ml/m ^
Northwestern Ry,
Semi-Weekly Service Between Cordova
and Kennecott. 4
THIS SCHEDULE SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE
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DINING car in connection with all regular
PASSENGER TRAINS BETWEEN CORDOVA
AND CHITINA
Freight received and delivered at Cordova Wharf from
9 a. in. to 5 p. m., except Sundays
and Holidays
Tickets on sale at Second Street Depot Office one hour
before departure of trains.
CALEB CORSER, Superintendent MARK McALLEN, Ticket Agent
CITY BAKERY LUNCH ROOM
Special Carefully-Prepared Lunch served from 11:30 a. m. Our Fin©
French Rolls with every meal
Big Variety of Pastries and Cakes, Always Fresh
Sanitary Machinery of Latest Model. Patent Brick Oven. Best Ma
terials used by Expert Workman producing our Famous Cream Loaf
Best Coffee in Town
French Bread Rye Bread
SPORTING CLOTHES !.
Waterproof Hunting Coats.
Sporting Boots.
Excelsius Greer Shooting Coats.
Sporting Hats and Caps.
Khaki Colored Stag Shirts.
KENNEDY'S
FRED M. SCHAUPP
SANITARY PLUMBING
Steam-Fitting, Marine Pipe and Tank Work
Sheet Metal Work
6EC0ND STREET, NEXT DOOR TO FEDERAL JAIL
PHONE 72