Coast Guard Notes
Improvement In
Port Security
WASHINGTON, UP—1Top Coast
Guard officials told Congress in
testimony released Saturday the
security of America’s ports prob
ably cannot be made airtight in
peacetime.
But the officials said they made
‘significant improvement’ in tight
ening port security last year.
The Coast Guard undertook a
limited security program, worked
out in 1950, after former President
Truman declared America’s ports
were endangered by subversive
activities.
Vice Adm. Merlin O’Neill, the
commandant, told a House Appro
priations subcommittee that pro
gress was made last year in 10
major port areas where security
hazards were checked. He said
seamen and longshoremen were
screened “to keep subversive ele
ments” off the waterfront.
The two admirals testified the
Coast Guard plans to continue
about the same security activities
next year.
The total Coast Guard budget
was cut 811,750,000 by the Eisen
hower administration to $188,250,
000 for the year starting July 1.
Adm. Richmond said 140,200
--security cards probably will be
issued to longshoremen and others
regularly visiting restricted wat
erfront areas.
AFL May Expel
Longshore Union
On Shape-up Issue
NEW YORK, (#'—Possibility the
strife-torn International Long
shoremen’s Assn. <ILA> may be
ousted from the AFL heightened
Saturday after metropolitan New
York dock workers voted to retain
the much-condemned “shape-up”
hiring system.
The AFL executive council has
ordered the longshore union xto
clean up the piers and get rid of
the “shape-up” practice or face
expulsion from the parent body.
Charges of a frame-up election
rose, even before results of the
vote Friday showed that New
Jersey and New York dock hands
had voted 7,000 to 3,920 in favor
of the “shape-up.” There were
978 voided ballots.
The 35 metropolitan locals form
the bulk of the 65,000-member
ILA on East and Gulf Coasts.
Under the shape-up, longshore
men are hired for a day’s work
by a pier boss who picks them out
of the crowd of job hopefuls.
The system has been attacked
at state and federal investigations
as a breeder of rackets, of kick
backs to curry favor with the
bosses, and of loan-sharking.
Joseph P. Ryan, the ILA presi
dent and now under indictment
for grand larceny of union funds,
reportedly was in favor of retain
ing the system. He has admitted
30 percent of the ILA officers and
dock bosses have criminal records.
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NLRB Rules Against
Printers Union in Dispute
With Paper Publishers
WASHINGTON, UP)—'The AFL’s
International Typographical Un
ion (ITU) must bargain fairly
with newspaper publishers, with
out insisting on 60-day cancellable
contracts, the National Labor Re
lations Board has ruled.
The board issued its order Fri
day in the more than five-year-old
dispute between the union and
the American Newspaper Publish
ers Association (ANPAh
It said the record indicated
strongly a disposition by the union
to try to obtain “closed shop” con
ditions and that “we have ample
reason presently to believe that
this disposition still exists.”
Closed shop contracts, under
which a union supplies workers
for the employer, are banned by
the Taft Hartley Labor Law.
THREE MEN KILLED IN
ATTEMPT TO LAND PLANE
MOAB, Utah, (A*>—Three men
were killed when an airplane at
tempting to land crashed and
burned three miles from Moab
Friday night.
The bodies were burned beyond
recognition, but the three were
believed to be John H. Hersey and
C. Kenneth Hicken of Salt Lake
City, and Ron Johns, oil editor j
for the Denver Post newspaper. :
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ANS’s North Star
Sails For Arctic on
2nd Trip Of Year
One the second of its three
annual trips to the Arctic, the
Alaska Native Service vessel
North Star put out from Seattle
May first, to spend the next two
and one half months taking sup
plies to the isolated villages and
ANS schools in the Territory.
The North Star, with Captain
Chas. H. Salenjus in command,
will call in at Mt. Edgecumbe and
continue along the coast to Valdez
and Seward where supplies wifi
be unloaded for transfer to ANS
stations in the interior. The ship
will continue westward and will
stop at points on the Alaska Pen
insula, Aleutian Islands and Bris
tol Bay, continuing north to
Hooper Bsfy, Unalakleet, St. Mi
chael and Nome. Calls will be
made at Nelson, St.. Lawrence
and King Islands and the North
Star will return south from the
islands in the Bering Sea, stop
ping briefly enroute at Dutch Har
bor and Mt. Edgecumbe, returning
to Seattle July 17.
The final and long trip of file
season that will take the North
Star to Point Barrow is sched
uled out of Seattle August 4.
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These shining tins of canned salmon will never be
placed on the grocer’s shelf. Yet, this canned salmon
plays an important part in selling the yearly pack of
Alaska salmon in the world’s market places.
This spring, the salmon industry—as it has since
1933—carefully examines samples of the previous year’s
pack with an eye to improving future salmon packs.
Hundreds of cans of Alaska salmon are selected at
random, their labels removed and this important food
product carefully judged by experienced examiners.
Canners learn how to improve their packs from
suggestions made at this "Annual Salmon Cutting,”
sponsored by the Northwest Branch of the National
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Canners Association. The desire to improve the Alaska
salmon pack is more important this year than ever
before because salmon must be sold on an increasingly
competitive market.
Besides the "Annual Salmon Cuttings,” the in
dustry carefully inspects each year’s salmon catch at
various stages of processing to be certain that high
standards of quality are maintained.
For the complete story of Alaska’s most impor
tant industry, write today for your copy of the color
ful booklet, “Alaska’s Salmon Industry.” Address
requests to Box 893, Ketchikan.
Mlaska Salmon Institute
KETCHIKAN • JUNEAU • SEATTLE