At the 10th biennial convention
recently in session at Sault Ste.
Marie, Mich., where Alaska was
represented by her popular dele
gate, Ralph Priddy of Anchorage,
President Luther C. Steward head
of the national federation of fed
eral employees for the past 11
years, was reelected to office.
The 150 delegates from 332 local
unions situated in every state of
the Union, Alaska. Porte Rico, the
Phillippines, Hawaii and the Pan
ama Canal Zone, listened with in
tense interest to the hearty greet
ing of former Governor Chase S.
Osborn of Michigan who, in his ad -
dress, welcomed them to the Lock
City.
The former governor congratu
lated them on raised standards of
employment, and declared that the
manner in which federal service is
conducted is a refutation of the
charge that government work is
not as well performed as private
industry. He is quoted as saying:
“My attention is called to condi
tions here at Sault Ste. Marie
nearly a half century ago. At that
time the men on the government
payroll were poorly paid. Even the
lower cost of living and the higher
purchasing power of money they
barely eked an existance. The same
was true of the customs service
and the weather bureau, the reve
nue work, the post office, the life
saving service, now the coast guard
and in the repair and construction
activities. It was a mirror of gov
ernment labor conditions all over
IF YOU HAVEN'T TRIED FRYE
BRUHN’S BABY BEEF, you are
certainly missing: something.
IEEE NOTICE
IT. S. LAND OFFICE, ANCHOR
AGE, ALASKA.
NOTICE 19 HEREBY GIVEN
that RALPH SPARKS, entryman,
together with his witnesses, HAA
KON SUNSBY, and THEODORE
ALBERT NUTBEEM, all of Sel
dovia, Alaska, has submitted fin
al proof on his homestead entry,
serial 06799, for lands embraced
in U. S. Survey No. 1541, Longi
tude 151° 12' 30" W. Latitude 59°
36' N. containing 17.55 acres.
If no protest is filed in the U.
S. Land Office, Anchorage, Alas
ka, within the period of publica
tion or thirty days thereafter
said final proof‘will be accepted
and final certificate issued. The
proof is now in the files of the
local Land Office at Anchorage,
Alaska.
J. Lindley Green, Register
First publication August 20, 1929.
Last publication October 30, 1929.
THE PALACE
John Mattich Paul Svedeen
:: Proprietors ::
POOL, SOFT DRINKS AND
CIGARS
Furnished Rooms
Phone Main 55
Orlander
Jeweler
Dealer in watches and
clocks, nugget jewelry,
old ivory, curios and a
full line of goods us
ually carried in a first
class jewelry store.
Watches repaired on
short notice.
America. On the locks, which may
be taken as an example, men had
as low wage as $2 a day for about
|eight months. For the four coldest,
(hardest months when living was a
j fierce struggle in a land of below
|zero weather, the lock employees
(were not paid at all. They were left
I with no resources as they had not
been paid enough during the sea
son of navigation to enable them
to save a cent. So they had to hib
ernate or nearly die.
j “In the time of wrork, the hours
were 12 on and 12 off—two shifts
a day of 24 hours. Compare those
conditions with the present and it
(can be convincingly seen that con
jditions have improved. They are
not yet what they might be and
j ought to be, but they are so much
better as to be a hopeful augury of
The future. Now the pay is livable
The shifts are eight hours each.
There is continuing pay during
closed season of navigation when it
j Continuing, the former governor
is most needed.”
pointed to the urgent need of gen
erous pensions and the “steady and
wholesome trend in appreciation of
responsibility for and duty to those
(who wear htemselves out in both
! public and private work—who have
(given their lives in steady exaction
(day after day until death confronts
(them in a more gruelling manner
(may come sw’iftly with none of the
pain and weariness of years long
drawn out.” he ^concluded by say
ness of years long drawn out” He
ing, “Have renewed address and
pride in your wrork. In the mantime
lit is w’ise-to keep your organization
strongly vital and growing, because
you must have an adequate instru
ment of presentation of your needs
(Continued on Page Seven)
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FOREGRSTS. MONTH
OF OCTOBER 1929
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lst-3rd—Milder, cloudy and un
i settled with local showers in east
land high winds on 1st and 3rd.
4th-7th—Fine fall weather, mild
|southerly and easterly winds. 7th
i 1 Oth—Warmer and sultry on 8th
land 9th, with thunder storms on
10th. llth-14th—Storm and dan
ger period. The suddenness of this
storm as it comes up out of the
south will cause surprise. At the
last the winds will veer around to
the north and cold rains will pre
vail along the eastern seaboard.
The Pacific coast will also feel this
{disturbance. 15th-18th—Hot and
|dry in southeast, cold winds will
I sweep the north and central west
ern states. 19th-22nd—Severely
cold. Storms in west, northwestern
and Pacific states. 23rd—26th—
Storm period for Great Lakes states
and into New England. Snow and
ice in places. 27th—31st—High
winds and colder with local storms
land snow flurries on 30th. Colder
than normal and precipitation be
low mean.
AUSTRALIAN RAILS LOSE
CANBERRA, Australia, Oct., 1,
|(/P)—The commonwealth transport
committee reports that railway
i losses in Australia during the last
ithree years have been $14,500,000.
Increase in motor car traffc is giv
;en as one of the principal reasons.
Ed Holbrook, formerly inter
ested in the Nome Creek Dredg
I ing company, went up the Sixty
mile the past summer with a
i large crew, reports the Fairbanks
| News Miner, to operate an aban
doned dredge. He has met with
| success, the report said.
Hear the record Utah Trail. Play
ed on the New Brunswick Portable;
price $35. Also the record Barnacle
Bill is good and some more about
Bill will be on the next boat.
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