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Legislative Council Meeting Takes
Up Workmen’s Comp and Fisheries;
Next Meeting In Nome On June 9
Jim von der Heydt, member of
the Alaska Legislative Council,
returned Tuesday from Ketchi
kan, where hearings were held
before the Council on the subjects
of rates charged employers for
Workmen’s Compensation insur
ance and the present situation of
the Alaska fishing industry.
In a statement released here
today, von der Heydt said:
“The testimony concerning
Workmen’s Compensation insur
ance rates presently being charg
ed Alaskan employers was diffi
cult to decipher, to say the least.
Through the years it has been ap
parent that insurance carriers
have proceeded as they pleased
and it may prove to be the case
that rates so charged have been
consistently well above similar
rates for like coverage in the
states.”
fie continued: “It is the hope
of the Council that the matter
may be clarified, sc reasonable
rates may be determined in the
future, that will give the insur
ance carrier a fair return upon
his business investment and still
be reasonable for Alaskan em
ployers to pay.”
Witnesses from all over the
United States appeared before
the Council on behalf of the in
surance companies and were gen
erally helpful in assisting the
group with this difficult and
troublesome problem, von der
Heydt said. He noted that consid
erable importance is placed upon
the safety factor, experience rat
ings, and safety programs carried
out by some employers in lower
ing such insurance rates.
Fisheries Hearings Enlightening
“The fisheries hearings were
indeed enlightening to me,” said
von der Heydt, “as never before
has the problem of the Alaska
fisheries been so clearly and
squarely placed before the public.
“The condition of Bristol Bay
fisheries and Japanese fishing on
the high seas, where American
fiehermen cannot by law fish, is
a serious problem that must find
its primary solution with the
State Department and treaty re
organization. All Alaskans should
be made aware of the serious
problem presented by Japanese
salmon fisheries upon the high
seas, and the resulting depletion
of American-born salmon stocks.”
To Meet In Nome June 9
The Legislative Council, which
is an interim group of legislators
of the Territory of Alaska, will
hold its next meeting in Nome,
commencing on June 9, and all
Nomeites should take an active
part in the hearings. The agenda
for this meeting will be announ
ced later by Mr. Henry Camarot,
executive director of the Legis
lative Council.
Members of the Council are:
Sens. Victor Rivers, Anchorage;
Frank Peratrovich, Klawok; John
McNees, Nome; * Paul Haggland,
Fairbanks; and Ralph Moody,
Anchorage, chairman; and Reps.
Seaborn J. Buckalew Jr., Anchor
age; George B. McNabb Jr.
Fairbanks, and James von der
Heydt, Nome.
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Bloody Revolt In
Venezuela Ousts
Dictator Jimenez
CARACAS, Venezuela, UPi —
Military leaders overthrew the
dictatorship of President Perez
Jimenez Thursday. A bloody re
volt of civilians led by a news
paper reporter brought about the
overthrow.
j Jimenez, ruler of the nation for
nearly 10 years, fled with his
family and aides to the Domini
can Republic. Another ex-dictator
Juan D. Peron of Argentina, to
whom Jimenez had given refuge,
was reported fleeing to Colombia
by car.
The revolt, which began with
an abortive air force uprising on
New Year’s Day, culminated in
a civilian-led general strike Tues
day. Hundreds were killed and
wounded in rioting and pitched
street fighting while Jimenez
maneuvered in vain to hang on.
A military junta, headed by
Rear Adm. Wolfgang Larrazabel
and including four colonels, was
sworn in as the executive power.
But the civilian patriotic junta,
led by 31-year-old Fabricio Ojeda
a reporter for the newspaper El
Nacional, declared they would
support the military only condi
tionally.
The conditions included the
holding of national elections as
soon as possible, the formation of
a national union gvernment in
the meantime, arrest of persons
responsible for crimes under the
deposed regime, and restoration
of freedoms, including the free
do^n of political parties.
M-K Ordered To Stop
Requiring Hod Carriers
To Join Union
SAN FRANCISCO, UB — The
Morrison-Knudsen Co., Inc., has
been ordered by the National La
bor Relations Board to cease re
quiring or encouraging its em
ployes in Anchorage to become
memb.rs of the Hod Carriers
Union.
The order following hearing of
complaints by five University of
Washington students that they
were required to join Anchorage
Local 341 of the AFL-CIO union
before being given jobs in June
1956, on M-K’s White Alice proj
ect in Alaska.
The students were identified in
the NLRB order as “athletes.”
A trial examiner held after a
hearing that the five had been
required illegally to join the
union. The contractor will be re
quired to post notice of the find
ings in its Anchorage office for
60 days.
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President Urges Congress to Curb
Corruption and Abuse of Power
In The Labor Management Field
WASHINGTON, UP) —President
Eisenhower today urged Congress
to curb “corruption, racketeering,
and abuse of trust and power in
the labor management field.” He
made the recommendation in a
12-point proposal for legislation.
In a special message, Eisen
hower recommended specifically
that unions be subject to loss of
legal bargaining status if they
fail to file true accounts of their
finances and other subjects.
The entire 12-point legislative
program recommended by Eisen
hower had been unveiled pre
viously by Secretary t>f Labor
Mitchell in a speech at the AFL
CIO convention last December.
As given out in the Mitchell
address, the program had drawn
fire from both sides with labor
leaders contending it went to far
and management spokesmen who
said it did not go far enough.
Coupled with the normal politi
cal wariness of Congress mem
bers on labor matters in an elec
tion year, that lack of enthusiasm
lessened chances for major parts
of the program to get through
this year.
Eisenhower said much is being
done in some quarters to elimin
ate evils and abuses. “Union of
ficials—most of whom are decent,
honest Americans—are also doing
much to eliminate the few in the
ranks of organized labor who are
corrupt.”
Eisenhower said the American
public should be assured:
1. That funds set aside for the
benefit of workers in health, wel
fare and pension funds are ac
counted for.
2. That money contributed by
| workers to union treasuries is
used solely for their welfare.
3. That organizations of work
ing people are administered in
such fashion as to reflect their
will.
4. That workers are more fully
protected from dealings between
labor and management represent
atives which have the effect of
preventing full exercise of the
workers’ rights to organize and
bargain collectively.
5. That the public is protected
against unfair labor and manage
ment practices.
ADELAIDE, Australia, —
Circus trapeze artist Donna de
Young fell 30 feet from a trapeze
bar last night. A sudden breeze
swayed the tent and her trapeze
bar and the 16-year-old perform
er missed her footing.
The horrified audience saw her
plunge head first toward the
ground. Her father, in clown cos
tume and makeup, dashed for
ward, braced himself and caught
her.
Several minutes later she was
performing again.
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