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Anchorage C of C
Cautioned Against *
In junction Action
ANCHORAGE, (/PV—A request
that the Anchorage Chamber of
Commerce join in possible court
action to halt the shipping para
lysis in Seattle, brought a plea
for caution from a local labor
leader.
Mayor Maynard Taylor report
. ed a request from Burke Riley,
acting governor, for statistics on
effects of the shipping tie-up as
the Anchorage Chamber directors
studied a request from the Ju
neau Chamber that they join in
court action to end the jurisdic
tional dispute.
The Chamber leaders were told
by A1 Owen, Anchorage AFL
Longshore business agent, that
they should use caution in any
approach they may consider re
garding the shipping stalemate.
Owen is a former legislator from
Kodiak, where he was an AFL
union leader in the fishing in
dustry.
He said the organization might
t play into the hands of Harry
Bridges, West Coast labor leader.
“We must either give Bridges
control of the transportation sys
tem or keep control where it is,”
Owen said. “If you want to get
to the core of the problem, how
about urging the Supreme Court
to give Bridges a speedy trial and
relegate him to the place where
he belongs.”
<Owen apparently was refer
ring to Bridges’ appeal from a
perjury conviction for which he
has been sentenced to prison.)
Owen said the “present strike
is a repetition of the thing we
had in 1948. That was the year
Bridges sent 10 men to Anchor
age. They infiltrated the ranks
of longshoremen here, eventually
won union offices. The local men
didn’t get along with these tac
tics and got rid of Bridges’ men.
“In Seattle, Bridges’ moves
hasn’t been stopped. If Alaskans
take part in the move to break
the present Seattle strike they
will be handing Bridges complete
control of the Seattle waterfront.”
Income lax Cut
, To Be Proposed
In Congress Soon
WASHINGTON, (JP) —An 11
percent cut in individual income
taxes and elimination of the ex
cess profits tax on corporations
will be proposed as soon as the
new Congress convenes next
month, Rep. Daniel A. Reed
(R-NY) said Tuesday.
! Reed is in line to become chair
man of the House Ways and Means
Committee, which originates all
revenue measures.
His proposal calls for a reduc
tion of slightly more than 50 per
cent in individual income taxes
next year and a similar reduction
in 1954, for a total cut of about
y 11 percent.
The 1951 tax bill raised indiv
idual rates by 10 ter 11 percent.
The increase will expire auto
matically Dec. 31, 1953, unless
Congress orders otherwise. The
# excess profits tax is due to go off
the books next June 30.
Ike May Face
Rebellious
Congress
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Senator
Robert A. Taft’s sudden blast at
President-Elect Eisenhower for
his choice of a Secretary of Labor
today posed the possibility Eisen
hower could face a rebellious a
Congress as those President Tru
man had in recent years
Congressmen were wondering
whether the Ohio Senator's bit
ter denunciation of Eise ihow jr’s
selection of Martin P. Durkin to
the labor post — Taft called it
“incredible”—meant:
1. All - out war between the
forces of Eisenhower and Taft in
the incoming Republican admin
istration; or,
2. A temporary, isolated blow
up growing out of Taft’s tender
ness toward his own Taft-Hartley
labor relations law.
If the answer turns out to be
“yes” to the first question, then
the result could be the same frus
tration of Eisenhower's legislative
program that has afflicted many
of Truman’s proposals.
Throughout the Truman ad
ministration, conservative South
ern senators have joined with Re
publicans to block most “Fair
Deal” domestic legislation.
Eisenhower Names
Martin P. Durkin
Secretary of Labor
WASHINGTON, (^—President
elect Eisenhower’s choice as Sec
retary of Labor believes the Labor
Department will be strengthened
and the Taft-Hartley Act amended
in a way satisfactory to both the
unions and management.
Martin P. Durkin, 58, president
of the AFL Plumbers Union, will
be the only Catholic and the only
Democrat in the Eisenhower cab
inet. His appointment as Secretary
of Labor was announced by Eis
enhower’s headquarters Monday.
Though the policy of the AFL
and of his cwn union calls for
repeal of Taft-Hartley, Durkin
told newsmen he is convinced the
law can be “amended to satisfy
labor . . . and no doubt, to satisfy
management as well.”
Amendment, rather than out
right repeal of the nation’s labor
law was Eisenhower’s campaign
pledge.
Durkin said he was “greatly
surprised” at his appointment be
cause he voted for Adlai E. Stev
enson in November and helped
put over the AFL’s official en
dorsement of the Democratic nom
inee. But he told reporters:
“I think president-elect Eisen
hower will give full and complete
consideration to the problems of
labor.”
CHRISTMAS IN SITKA AS
RELIEF SHIP ARRIVES
SITKA, (/P) — Christinas came
early in Sitka. The Coastal Ram
bler, a relief ship released by
AFL Longshoremen from Seat
tle’s strikebound port, arrived in
Sitka Tuesday.
The Daily Sitka Sentinel even
1 datelined its paper December 25.
Persons Accused
of Red Sympathies
Face Legal Action
(By the Associated 'Press)
Persons accused of being Com
munists or Red sympathizers
were the targets of legal action
on several fronts Tuesday.
In Washington, Atty.-Gen. Me- j
Granery ordered a grand jury
investigation of Owen Lattimore,
Johns Hopkins University pro
fessor and cme-time consultant to
the State Department.
The proceedings will be con
cerned with whether Lattimore
told the truth when he testified
during a Senate Internal sub
committee probe of Far East pol
icy last spring. Lattimore has
termed “fantastic” the subcom
mittee report accusing him of
perjury.
Lattimore has been accused by
Senator McCarthy (R-Wis) of
having been a So\det espionage
agent.
McCarthy told reporters he as
sumed the Justice Department
would follow up its grand jury
investigation of Lattimore with
similar action against career dip
lomat John P. Davies, Jr.
Davies, formerly on the State
Department policy planning staff,
now is Deputy Political Adviser
to the U.S. occupation authorities
in West Germany.
The subcommittee, at another
session in New York Tuesday,
heard Irving P. Schiller testify
that he is not a Communist. But
Schiller, archivist of the United
Nations European headquarters
in Geneva, refused to say whether
he had ever been a Communist
party member.
The Army lodged formal char
ges against First Lt. Sheppard
Carl Thierman, 30-year-old Army
doctor who refused to tell the
subcommittee whether he was a
Communist.
A New York federal grand jury
said “an overwhelmingly large
group of disloyal United States
citizens” has seeped into the U.N.
as part of a “definite, planned
pattern.”
Jurors urged that, when their
terms expire, a new jury be im
paneled to carry on their investi
gation of alleged subversion and
espionage.
—
John Foster Dulles Says
Loyal Americans Have
Nothing To Fear
WASHINGTON, (JP) — John
Foster Dulles, who will be the
next Secretary of State, declared
at the State Department today
that “loyal servants of the gov
ernment have nothing to fear”
from the Eisenhower administra
tion.
He specifically promised that
the foreign service will be “pro
tected as a non-partisan career
group.”
Foreign service officers are the
professional diplomats who rep
resent the United States abroad.
At the same time Dulles assert
ed that “many angles . . . need
to be looked into and will be
looked into very thoroughly.” He
did not amplify this point.
Dulles conferred with Secre
tary of State Dean Acheson for
30 minutes.
Lomen Predicts
Congress Provide
Elective Governor
SEATTLE, (/P)— Legislation to
permit Alaskans to elect their
own governor will be introduced
at the next session of Congress,
Ralph Lomen, Seattle and Alaska
business executive, said today.
Lomen, himself a candidate to
succeed Gov. Ernest Gruening,
said correspondence with associ
ates in Washington, D.C., indi
cates that the Alaskan bill will
pass with little opposition. The
bill now is being prepared by the
Senate Committee on Interior
and Insular Affairs.
He tsaid the bill probably will
provide for the first popular el
ection of an Alaskan governor in
October, 1954.
“It is my conviction that Alas
kans should be permitted to
choose their own chief executive
and I shall press for adoption of
the necessary legislation if I -am
appointed governor,” Lomen said.
Most ardent statehood advo
cates have opposed the governor
election proposal with the argu
ment that it has been advanced
with an eye toward sidetracking
statehood legislation.
Reuter Likely Candidate
For CIO Presidency
ATLANTIC CITY, (IP)—Walter
P. Reuther seemed virtually as
sured today of becoming the CIO’s
new president after a close and
bitter political battle among CIO
unions.
The youthful, fiery president of
the million-member Auto Work
ers Union shrewdy master-minded
a fight for CIO convention votes
and apparently was a winner over
CIO vice president A1 S. Hay
wood.
Reuther claimed “overwhelming
victory” after the CIO rubber and
oil workers unions, representing
more than 400,000 members, came
out late last night for Reuther,
following ardent wooing by Hay
wood adherents. The rubber and
oil unions previously had been
neutral.
The fight for the CIO presidency
as successor to the late Philip
Murray still may go to a conven
tion showdown vote tomorrow.
Civil Service Predicts
170,000 Federal Jobs Will
Be Open for Patronage
WASHINGTON, .(JP)—'The Civil
Service Commission says Republi
cans will have 170,382 federal
jobs — mostly small ones—avail
able for patronage purposes.
The announcement, based on a
recent*survey, was made Monday.
It had been awaited since the
Nov. 4 election -which gave th"
Republicans control of the White
House and Congress for the first
time in 20 years. They take over
next month.
The commission’s figures did
not describe the “open” positions
or show what they pay. The an
nouncement emphasized that more
than 95 percent of the 2Vz million
federal jobs are protected by Civil
Service or some form of merit
system.
Seattle Waterfront
Tieup In 4th Week
SEATTLE, {A*) — A waterfront
tieup that has completely choked
off ocean-borne commerce in this
major west coast port of half a
million entered its fourth week
yesterday, apparently no nearer
solution than when it began.
Only military ships are allowed
to come and go freely.
The Chamber of Commerce puts
the cost to Seattle thus far at
$l,0(jf),000 and says at least 40
vessels have by-passed the port
since Nov. 11. ,
The shutdown has had other
serious effects, the gravest of
which is the pinch on Alaska
which relies largely for its sup
plies on shipping from Seattle.
Three relief ships to the terri
tory have been cleared, and last
night the Alaska Steamship Co.
announced it had been given AFL
sanction to shift operations to
any other port for the duration
of the tieup here.
At the heart of the trouble is
e fight being waged by an AFL
union local with only 21 mem
bers left against 95 who withdrew
to form their own independent
group. They are dock foremen.
Beneath the haggling over hir
ring of dock foremen is a fight
by the AFL to keep a toehold
among West Coast port workers.
Five locals in Puget Sound are
all that remain of a once-power
ful coastwide organization.
The AFL International Long
shoremen’s Association charged
that Harry Bridges engineered
the withdrawal of the 95 dock
foremen as part of a campaign
to gain complete control of all
maritime labor on the Pacific
Coast.
Charles Peabody, president of
the new union, said the 95 were
reputable men who have held re
sponsible jobs on the Seattle
waterfront for 10 to 25 years. He
said long standing dissatisfaction
with the AFL setup led to their
withdrawal.
Neither side sees an early so
lution.
Next Head British RAF
Praises American B-36
LONDON, (JP)—The next head
of the Royal Air Force today
praised the U.S. giant B-36 atom
bomber as a warplane which
could reach its target in “a very
large majority of its missions.”
Air Chief Marshal Sir William
Dickson, expressed this view
upon his return from a two
month 35^000-mile tour of Korea
and Allied air bases in 16 nations.
“I don’t think people realize
what an enormous improvement
has been made in the perform
ance of the B-36,” Dickson told
reporters.
“It is now comparable with any \
jet bomber in the world.”
BARGE LADEN WITH 200 NEW
CARS SINKS IN OHIO RIVER
HENDERSON, Ky., (/P) — The
Ohio River swallowed another
barge loaded with approximately
200 new automobiles last night—
the second such accident within a
year for the Commercial Barge
Lines, Inc.
The towboat and a second
barge managed to escape.