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10-Hour Week
The House recently defeated a bill introduced by
Representative Howard Smith to repeal the 40-hour
week law. We believe that in some instances, the 40
hour law may be hampering the war effort, but a)
blanket repeal of the law in all industries, which the
bill would have brought about as drafted, certainly
is something we don’t agree with. We think the House
acted in good sense.
It is true that we are carrying on a tremendous
{.mount of war production in America today. But the
greater portion of American industries still are engag
ed in non-defense work. Thus to bring in the argu
ment “that you can’t win a war on a 40-hour week"
seems a little irrelevant when you consider that the
bill would have affected industry as a whole.
It seems to us that the work hours, even in war in
dustries should be based on two things: the number
of men available for various jobs, and the number of
hours that will give the maximum production per man.
It is probably a fact in many instances that to work a
man more than 40 hours a week would hinder pro
duction instead of helping it.
Soon after the 40-hour law went into effect, most
employers admitted that workmen were much more
efficient than they had been when they were working
longer hours. We certainly do not want to throw effic
iency out the window now.
Some skilled workers, perhaps, can and are working
as much as 72 hours a week because they have to.
The present law doesn’t forbid this. It simply states
that the men must be paid time-and-a-half for overtime.
There is a wide variation in modern industry of the
number of hours which can be worked in a week with
out loss of production. Early in the war, the British
took the ceiling off of hours. Many industries went up
to 72 hours immediately only to find that production
went down.
What it amounts to is this: The 40-hour week is not
long enough for some jobs, while in others, production
would be lowered by boosting the hours. This is a
•problem that must be worked out for particular indus
tries and jobs. It can’t be solved by any blanket re
peal of the 40-hour week law.
Let’s not have any destruction of a basic labor
standard unless it. can be proven that war production
will benefit by it.
"The Spirit of Alaska*"
When the United Nations, under the Supreme Com
mand of General Douglas MacArthur, unleach their
general offensive against the Axis in the southwest
Pacific, India and Asia sometime this spring, the “Spir
it of Alaska” — a heavy four-motored bomber—well
may be in the vanguard of the attacking forces.
The designation of a Flying Fortress to bear the
name of America’s far-flung northland territory was
made possible when Alaskans went to their banks and
post offices in the final week of a 5-week campaign
and turned in $150,369 for purchases of Series E De
fense Savings Bonds.
These purchases, in the final week of the five-week
campaign for the “Spirit of Alaska,” brought the total
campaign sales to $436,552—a figure which would per
mit the purchase of a pursuit plane and a light tank,
beyond the minimum purchase price of the heavy
bomber.
“As I said at the beginning of this campaign, the
‘Spirit of Alaska’ will be but one of many thousand
such planes that will be in service before this year is
over, but it will represent in powerful terms our be
lief in the things for which America stands,” Acting
Governor E. L. Bartlett said. “The campaign was not
so much a ‘stunt’ as it was a carefully planned and
well-executed drive to put impetus into the general
picture and to make the objectives of the United Stat
es Treasury Department’s program tangible and real
to the average person.
“The tremendous effort of the many volunteer work
ers throughout the Territory, guided and coordinated
by the Defense Savings Staff office in Juneau has, in
this instance, demonstrated amply to the local self
appointed critics of the Treasury’s policy in Alaska
that coordination of volunteer effort in a campaign of
this sort produces eminently worthwhile results.
“Let us make this first heavy bomber just the fore
runner of scores yet to come through Alaskan bond
purchases, a steady procession of bombers and fighter
planes rolling from factories all over the country un
til, as our President has said, ‘we will gain the inevi
table triumph—so help us, God’.”
Fairbanks led the field from point of purchases for
three weeks out of five, including the final week, which
was climaxed by a Defense Sports Festival, taking the
place of the annual Ice Carnival. The weeks in which
Employers Must Maintain Production
Employers have a dual responsibility in connection
with allocation of skilled labor to meet the Nation’s
war needs, John L. McCormick, Territorial Director
of Selective Service declared today in an appeal for
their patriotic cooperation with the Selective Service
System. They must maintain production of war mat
erial, he pointed out, and at the same time release to
the armed forces every qualified man who can be spar
ed from such work.
A drastic readjustment of his individual business
operation must be made by every employer to meet
the demands of our armed forces for men and war |
materials, Director McCormick emphasized. This re- (
adjustment, he asserted, must be made with partic-1
ular regard to available workmen.
“No employer engaged in essential production should
hesitate to request deferment from induction into the
armed forces for any employee who is necessary in
that production and who cannot be replaced immed
iately,” the Director declared.
“On the other hand,” he warned, “no employer can
be permitted to selfishly retain an employee who can
be of greater service to the Nation in its armed forces,
and who can be readily replaced by a man otherwise
deferred for military service or by a woman.”
Employers of skilled labor, Director McCormick as
serted, must keep in mind that skills are necessary in
the armed forces as well as in civilian production. “A
well equipped army,” he pointed out, “must have in it
men who can do a thousand things that are done in
our everyday life.”
Illustrating, the Director said: “I need only to re
call the epic of Wake Island to prove this plan. There,
the attack by the Japanese left a number of planes in a
tangled mess. But from this wreckage our resourceful
Marines assembled planes with which they took a toll
of one enemy light cruiser and two destroyers. It was
the trade skills in our armed forces that counted here.”
Every practical precaution to prevent disruption of
war production by promiscuous induction into the arm
ed forces of men whose greater service can be given be
hind the battle lines has been included in Selective
: Service Regulations, Director McCormick declared.
However, he emphasized, that each and every one of
these stabilizing provisions is predicated on patriotic
! cooperation bv both the emplover and the emplovee.
He said:
“Give our local boards this cooperation and we can
be assured that this required transfor of a large seg
ment of our male population to the Nation’s armed
forces will be made with the least possible disturb
ance to war production or agriculture. But that coop
eration from employer and employee is essential, and
must lie unselfish. That means simply that no defer
ment of any employee qualified for military service
should be sought for a period any longer than is re
quired for his replacement.”
Director McCormick said he has no fear that busi
ness or industry in Alaska will hinder the proper func
tioning of Selective Service.
the Golden Heart City was at the top of the list were
those ending February 21st, March 7th and March 14th.
Kodiak led the communities participating in the
bomber campaign during the week ending February
28th, while Anchorage placed first during the initial
■week, which ended February 14th.
Fairbanks led in the total purchase of bonds with
$103,125.25. Nome was sixth with $29,063.75.
As to the actual naming of the heavy bomber, the
Defense Savings Staff uffive revealed that negotiations
are going forward with Washington for the “christen
ing” to take place in the near future. Meantime Lu
Liston, commercial artist who is serving in an advis
ory capacity on the Territorial Defense Savings Com
mittee. is designing a Thunderbird Totem to be paint
ed on the plane which is to carry the Spirit of Alaska
into the fight against our Axis enemies.
THE BUM P—Snowfall helped break the fall of this Para
Skl soldier who used his emergency chute after seam on his regu
lar chute tore, in jump training at Alta, I'tah.
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Churchill May He
Succeeded as Premier
By Sir Stafford Cripps
London. March — An ex
tremely reliable and well
informed political source
in London, commenting on
the failure of recent cab
inet changes to halt crit
icism at public sessions of
the Churchill government,
said that there is every
liklihood that Sir Stafford
Cripps will replace Win
ston Churchill as Great
Britain’s prime rpinister.
This source went so far
as to predict that Church
ill would be unseated with
in three months, after a bit
ter parliamentary debate.
It must be emphasized,
this source said, that while
Churchill is vastly popular
in the United States he has
steadily lost strength and
his hold on the British
masses since the fall of
Crete last June.
Cripps, on the other
O R I» I N A N C E N O. 2 9 5
A.N ORDINANCE fixing the
salaries of the City Clerk, City
Attorney and C tv Treasurer to
be e ected at the annual City
Election on April 7, 1942.
BE IT ORDAINED AND EN
ACTED by the Common Council
of the City of Nome, Alaska:
That the salaries of the City
Clerk, City Attorney and City
Treasurer to be elected at the
annual City Election on April 7,
1942, shall be as follows:
City Clerk--$195.00 per month
City Attorney — $50.00 per
month
C ty Treasurer—^$1.00 per year.
THE COMMON COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF NOME. AL
ASKA.
APP1ROVED: March 22, 1942.
i By Edward Anderson, Mayor
■ CITY SEAL
; ATTEST:
! M. J. Walsh, Citv Clerk
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hand, has grown in stature
as a result of his work as
British ambassador to Rus
' sia. This fact was recogniz '
cd in his recent appoint
ment to the cabinet post of
Lord Privy Seal.
Twin girls born to Mrs. Jessie Piciotti at St. Vincent’s
hospital, Staten Island, New York, take a nap while
doctors ponder. Said to be healthy, they were at birth
connected from a point just below the chest to an inch
below the naval.
NENANA ICE POOL
WELL ORGANIZED
The Nenana Ice Pool organiza
tion has started functioning in
prepaartion for the great annual
spring event. Tickets can be had
at the Nome Drug Store, Polar
Bar, the Navada saloon and at
Jack Solomon’s.
Rules governing the 1942 Ice
Pool contest are:
Nenana Ice Pool closes April 4,
1942, midnight.
No refunds for rejected tickets.
No silent partners will be re
cognized as winners.
Key ticket—Name of combina
tion signed on front of ticket,
placing as many names as con
; venient on back; making your
combination list as follows:
Key ticket. Serial No.
Name of Combination
Names
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