Bartlett Calls on
Congress to End
Waterfront Tieup
(By the Associated Press>
Alaska Delegate E. L. Bartlett
called for a special session of
Congress Monday to end a water
front tieup blocking ship move
ments between Seattle and the
northern territory. '
The appeal was laid before
Presidential Assistant John R.
Steelman in Washington as rep
resentatives of Alaska’s attorney
general and affected Seattle ste
vedoring and steamship firms
joined In legal action designed to
solve the jurisdictional dispute.
The tieup, which started when
95 longshore foremen split from
the AFL International Longshore
men’s Association and formed an
independent union, is now in its
30th day. Picketing by the ILA,
which wants all foremen hired
through its halls, has cut heavily
into Seattle-Alaska shipping.
Three witnesses took the stand
in the Seattle court action and,
with 27 scheduled to be called,
observers predicted a long hear
ing on the application of the em
ployers, Alaska Treasurer Henry
Roden and Atty. J. Paul Coie for
a temporary restrainer to halt
picketing.
Bartlett said he submitted a
three-point legislative program
proposed by Juneau newspaper
editor Jack McFarland to Steel
man, who promised it would be
placed before President Truman
when he returns from Indepen
dence, Missouri.
The delegate said he realized
there was only a remote possibil
ity a speedy decision would be
called but he made the proposal
in belief only congressional action
could solve the tieup.
Bartlett proposed:
1. Repeal of a maritime law
which prevents Alaskan ports
from being served by Canadian
steamship lines;
2. Strengthening of the Taft
Hartley Law to prevent shipping
service tieups by jurisdictional
strikes;
3. Strengthening of the author
ity of the Federal Mediation and
Conciliation Services.
Bartlett acknowledged the first
two proposals are controversial
and predicted strong opposition.
U.N. GENERAL ASSEMBLY
TERMED NOT SATISFACTORY
FOR INSTRUMENT OF PEACE
NEW YORK, (JP)— Soviet For
eign Minister Andrei Vishinsky
sailed for home Tuesday with the
comment that the “work of the
[United Nations] General Assem
bly as an instrument of peace is
not satisfactory.”
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] Official Says IFL Didn t
Keep Contract When
Co. Tried to Name Bosses
NEW YORK, (/P) — A former
steamship company official told
the waterfront crime hearing yes
terday the AFL International
Longshoremen’s Assn, failed to
live up to its contract when the
comparty tried to name its own
hiring bosses.
The New York State Crime
Commission, probing criminal
conditions on the world’s biggest
waterfront, has heard many wit
nesses say the situation cannot be
improved until racketeers are
driven out of influential posts.
Willard L. Swain, former su
perintendent of terminal opera
tions of the Atlantic, Gulf and
West Indies Line, told the com
mission the company had tried to
name its own hiring bosses, guar
anteed by their contract with the
union.
“But we could not hire our own
hiring bosses,” Swain said.
At one conference about the sit
uation, Swain testified, ILA Pres
ident Joseph R Ryan told him:
“Under the contract you have
the right to do that [select hiring
foremen and dock bosses] but
our men like to select their own
hiring bosses and I doubt if you
can get the men to work if you
do that.”
U.S. Prison Camp
Planned in Alaska
ANCHORAGE—The possibility
that Alaska may get a federal
prison work camp for the custody
of short-term prisoners or first
offenders was indicated recently
by Roy Casey, newly appointed
superintendent of Alaska federal
jails.
At the same time Casey said
bids for construction of a new
federal jail for Anchorage will be
called for shortly after the first
of the year. It is hoped that work
on the new $480,000 structure
can begin during the coming con-:
struction season.
An employee of the Federal
Bureau of Prisons for the past 19
years, Casey previously served as
prison inspector in the western
part of the States. His Alaskan as
signment, a newly created post, is
for three years.
“My headquarters will prob
ably be in Anchorage, since this
city has the largest number of
prisoners,” he said, “and also in
view of plans for a prison camp
in this area.”
Casey declared the camp would
eliminate the necessity and ex
pense of taking all but hardened
criminals and persons who re
ceive long term sentences outside
to McNeil Island Penitentiary.
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