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Why There Are Jobless
THERE HAS BEEN a great deal of discussion of the
unemployment problem. A commonly suggested
cure is more massive doses of government aid of one
kind or another, combined with inflation-breeding
government building programs.
But these proposals offer no real cure at all. They
are merely alleviations. They deal with symptoms
of the disease — and not the disease itself.
The distinguished economist Henry Hazlitt ex
plains why there are jobless. He says: “Unemploy
ment is caused mainly by wage rates that have become
excessive in relation to productivity or demand. The
price of labor services is like the price of anything
else. If it is too high in relation to demand, part of
the supply will go unsold. The cure for a commodity
is to reduce the price to the point where the entire
supply can be sold': The cure in the case of labor is
to reduce wage rates, in the lines where they are
unworkable, to the levels where full employment can
be resumed.”
This prescription will be highly unpalatable to a
great many people. But it is the only prescription
which can solve the basic unemployment problem
without creating still worse and still more destructive
problems. Labor can price itself out of the market
— and it has been doing just that in many cases.
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NOTICE
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to serve you — The Bering Sea Coffee Shop is
forced to temporarily discontinue its 6 A.M. open
ing for breakfast service. We will henceforth
open at 11 A.M., serving luncheon, and dinner ’til
Midnight, as usual.
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| Indians Sue Egan
To Thwart State
Ban on Fish Traps
JUNEAU, UP* — The Southeast
| ern Alaska Indian villages of Kake
I and Angoon brought suit Monday
against Governor William A. Egan
to prevent' enforcement of state
laws prohibiting salmon traps.
The native fish trap season is
scheduled to open today.
In petitions submitted to the
U. S. District Court here the vil
lages contended federal laws and
the Constitutions both of the na
tion and the 49th state prevent
Alaska from interfering with the
control and management of Indian
fishing rights held either by the
Indians or by the United States
in trust for the Indians.
The suits also claimed manage
ment of fish and wildlife resources
in Alaska remain in federal juris
diction at least until next January
under the terms of the statehood
act.
Federal regulations issued last
March “constitute an exercise of
the United States of its exclusive
power both over the whole Alaska
fisheries and over the fishing
rights of Indians,” the petition
said.
The court also was asked to
rule that a 1959 state law and the
state constitutional ordinance pro
hibiting traps were “void and of
no force and effect insofar as
their application extends to” the
rights of * natives.
In addition to the temporary
restraining order, the suits asked
a permanent injunction against
the state to prevent interference
in any manner with the rights of
the villages to “erect, moor, main
tain, operate and fish” the trap
sites permitted in the 1959 federal
regulations.
The Village of Kake also asked
that the state be ordered to re
turn a trap taken into custody
last week at Point Pybus. The
state has held the trap since last
week when Ernest Williams Sr.,
president of the Kake Council,
and Herbert A. Hansen, foreman
of the Whiz Fish Co. of Seattle,
were arrested for violating the
state’s anti-trap law.
The Point Pybus site is one of
four owned by Kake. Angoon owns
three trap sites. The village of
Metlakatla, which is not scheduled
to begin its federally-approved fish
traps until July, was not a party
to the suits.
Britain Launches .Windsor
Castle, Biggest Ocean
Liner in 21 Years
BIRKENHEAD, England, UP) —
Queen Mother Elizaeth yesterday
launched Britain’s iggest passen
ger liner in 21 years, the 38,000
ton Windsor Castle.
This steam turbine vessel, cruis
ing at 23 knots, will cut twp days
off the 13-day Southampton
Capetown run. She will carry 850
passengers and have massive re
frigerated holds to carry perish
ables from South Africa.
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Britain’s No. 1 Atom Spy
Dives Behind Iron Curtain
BERLIN, OPl — Klaus Fuchs dis
appeared behind the Iron Curtain
j Tuesday night saying he bears no
i grudge against the British for his
nine years in prison as an atom
spy
The German-born scientist was
hustled out of England after his
release from a 14-year sentence
for handing secrets of the atomic
bomb'to the Soviet Union. He had
been stripped of his naturalized
British citienship upon his con
viction, and the British govern
ment did not try. to prevent him
j from joining his father in Com
munist East Germany.
Newsmen were tarred from
speaking to Fuchs during his last
hours in England. But several
booked seats aboard the Polish air
liner that flew him to Germany
and reported their interviews with
him today.
“I wish to say that I bear no
resentment whatever against Bri
tain or any of the Western coun
tries for what has happened,” the
47-year-old physicist said.
- NOTICE OF HEARING
Notice is hereby given that the
Common Council of the City of
Nome, Alaska, has, at its regular
meeting of June 22, 1959, fixed
the time and place for a hearing
upon the Petition of the Nome
Telephone Company for a change
in rales.
Such time and place are as
follows:
Thursday, July 9, 1959, Council
Chambers, Nome City Hall, 8 P.M.,
or as soon thereafter as the matter
may be properly heard.
All persons wishing to be heard
may appear at the time and place
aforesaid.
Publish June 24, 26, 29; July 1,
3, 6, 8, 1959.
B-52 Jet Test Flight
jEnds in Disaster
I BURNS, Ore., (PI — A B-52 jet
bomber crashed in flames on an
experimental low level flight for
the Strategic Air Command yes
terday. The five men aboard per
ished.
Witnesses said the huge, eight
jet craft caught fire in the air and
was enveloped with flames before
smashing into the top of a knoll
covered with juniper and sage
brush.
The plane exploded with im
mense force, scattering wreckage
and bodies over a mile area. Burn
ing wreckage ignited scores of
small fires.
The Air Force and state police
placed a ring of guards around
the crash. No newsmen were al
lowed to inspect the scene, and
no ground photographs were
allowed.
An inspection team from the Air
Force was reported en route here,
as well as investigators from Boe
ing Airplane Co. in Seattle, which
built the plane and was conduct
ing the tests for the Air Force.
On the flights, which originated
at Seattle, the craft made its runs
500 feet above the ground, and at
speeds near the jet’s maximum,
the spokesman said.
The Air Force has described the
plane as having a maximum speed
of 650 miles an hour.
The purpose of the flights, the
spokesman said, was to set up
techniques for low-level runs for
the Strategic Air Command.
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