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San Francisco Was Xhe first
*%\g t ever saw. Young and !
interested in everything, I stop
ped one day to look at a big piece
of plate glass being installed in
a store-front. It was the lunch
hour and the workmen were not
busy. As they ate they drank
milk from bottles. When the bot
tles were empty, they broke
them. The incident gave me a
distinct shock, and I never for_
got it.
Back in Oklahoma, 60 miles
from a railroad where I had
learned to walk as well as to
plow, every manufactured thing
was deemed to have value. My
mother literally hoarded bottles
for many useful purposes. A milk
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bottle would have been prized in
her collection. My curiosity won
a battle with bashfulneSg »nd I
asked the workmen why they
broke the bottles, and they told
me.
IDEA TO MAKE WORK
“You see, buddy,” the foreman
explained, “we work in glass. So
do the working men who make
the bottles. The more bottles we
break the more work they will
have.” Later I learned that this
was a tradition of the industry,
supposedly based on fellowship
and loyalty to Labor. At first I
was very much confused—loyal
ty to Labor seemed entirely
right to me, destructiveness en
tirely wrong.
Just recently, Edward T., Chey
fit, national chairman of an im
portant labor union, a member fc
the National Reconversion Com
mittee of the C. I. O., touched o^
the subject in as clear and sound
an economic treatise as I ever
read. It appeared in the Decem
issue of Fortune. He called bot
tle.breaking a waste of labor and
raw material, typical of an old
fashioned and wrong attitude to
ward jobs and wages.
FOR HIGH PRODUCTION
This big labor leader said, <(I
know of numerous cases in pre
war days where workers delib
erately held down production
because they had been made to
feel that this was the road to
wage and employment security
We must educate union member
ship,” he continued, “to * * *
practice productivity. Certainly
labor can not increase its own
share of goods by producing
less.”
To sum up the whole article,
Mr. Chetyfitz contends that la
bor and management must find
a common ground if our nation,
as now constituted, is to survive.
He said the survival of labor un
ions depends oil flhe same thing.
To find this common ground,
the CIO man suggests that labor
and management travel the SSme
road of maximum production.
Let me add: He is 100 per cent
right.
A 40-YEAR RECORD
History backs him up. High
ducticn has always helped labor.
In 1899 tl^ average factory em
ployee toiled 60 hours a week
and earned only $420 a year be
cause what *he produced would
sell for no more than $1,030. In
1939 the average factory worker
put in only 38 hours a week,
turned out $3,140 worth of mer
chandise and earned $1,150 a
a year. Good tools make the dif_
ference.
With better equipment, the
worker produces three times as
much and therefore earns tihree
times as much. The formula is
still good. Greater and more ef
ficient production will make
many jobs at good pay in the
post-war years. It will require
better equipment but this can be
provided wherever employers
and employees see eye-to-eye.
Mr. Cheyfitz points to the only
hope in sight for labor or capi
tal either.
AIRWAYS
Pan American Airways
A plane came in today from
Fairbanks with Mrs. Sarah Good
all, Herbert Okerlund, PAA in
dustrial relations officer from
Fairbanks; Leonard Gminkin,
Norma Charles, John Paden, all
from White Mountain. It also
carried mail. There were no out
bound passengers on the return
trip.
Alaska Airlines
Pilot Terry McDonald returned
to Fairbanks this morning with
the following passengers: George
Lockwood for Unalakleet, Dan
Kline for Fairbanks, and Mr
Pindlo for Fairbanks.
The first settlement by Whitt
men in Australia was on the sitt
of modem Sydney in 1788.
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HOUSING HEAD
TOURS ALASKA
ON SURVEY
Alaska’s critical need for
,'housing accQiairtodatlons will be
investigated by George W. Cop
len, regional representative for
the National Housing Agency at
Seattle, who flew north by Pan
American Airways recently on a
survey trip.
Taking this initial step in im
proving the housing situation in
Alaska’s major cities, Coplen
will visit Juneau, Ketchikan,
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Fairbanks, Nome and Anchor
age, making reports on the need
for additional facilities. He flew
North at the invitation of Gov
ernor Ernest Gruening.
Coplen planned to spend three •
weeks in Alaska before return
ing to Seattle headquarters with
his report.
TELETYPE IS
NOW USED ON
ALASKA DAILIES
SEATTLE, Jan. 17.—(AP)—To
day, realizing a goal in newspa
per development, The Anchorage
Times and The Fairbanks News- «
Miner began receiving direct au
tomatic printer service from the
Associated Press.
These two are the first papers
in the Territory to obtain this
instantaneous transmission of the
news from the United States,
linking the Seattle bureau of the
AP with Alaska papers. 1
The service also carried news
reports for the press association
APS Radio subsidiary, news ser
vice to stations KFAR and KFQD
in Fairbanks and Anchorage, re
spectively. Thi«j ^rvice is made
passible by cooperation of the
U. S. Signal Corps, ACS. ^
This new service speeds up
the delivery of news to parts of
Alaska comparable to that re
ceived in the States. Each, day
the papers will receive more than
7500 words of news copy of the
most important stories, over leas
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