Alaska Longshoremen
Transferred To
Seafarers Union
SEATTLE, Uf) — Longshoremen
in seven Alaska ports have been
transferred into the Seafarers’ In
ternation Union, said James' O.
Willoughby, who has been in
Alaska completing details as a
representative of the S.I.U. and
' the Maritime Trades Department
of the AFL-CIO.
Tile ports are Anchorage, Val
dez, Skagway, Haines, Petersburg,
Homer and Kodiak. About 290
longshoremen are involved.
The workers formerly were in
{he International Brotherhood of
Longshoremen, an AFL-CIO affi
liate with headquarters in St.
Louis.
“The transfer was made by mu
/ tual consent of the two unions,”
Willoughby said. “It was felt the
SIU with many other locals on the
West Coast, was in a better posi
tion to serve the Alaska long
shoremen.”
Longshoremen in Port Angeles
also recently voted in a National
Labor Relations Board election to
affiliate with the SIU. They had
been in the IBL.
All other longshoremen, cargo
checkers and dock foremen on the
West Coast, belong to the Inter
national Longshoremen and Ware
housemen’s Union.
Northwest Orient Airlines
Begins Florida Flights
On December 1, Anchorage will
become the terminus for the long
est American domestic air route.
On that day, Northwest Orient
Airlines will begin its new Florida
air service, under terms of a Civil
Aeronautics Board decision effec
tive November 29 extending
Northwest’s routes from Chicago
to Florida.
A. B. Hayes, Alaska sales man
ager for NWA, said the new au
thority will enable Anchorage
passengers to leave the Alaska
metropolis at 1:30 p.m. daily, and
ai l ive in Miami, Florida, at 3:34
•p.m. the next afternoon.
“Because there is a five-hour
time difference between Miami
and Anchorage, total time for the
4,675-mile trip will be 21 hours
4 minutes,” Hayes said.
Groups Protest
Alaska Freight
Rate Decrease
WASHINGTON, UP> — An inves
tigation was ordered Wednesday
into complaints that Alaska Freight
Lines is charging new barge rates
that discriminate against West
Coast shippers.
In ordering the inquiry, the
Federal Maritime Board refused
at the same time to suspend the
rates as requested by the com
plaints. The board promised to
hold a hearing at a later date at
a place still to be selected.
Alaska Freight Lines hauls car
go by barge from Chicago and
St. Louis to Alaska. On October
15 the firm set up new rates on
this traffic that were relatively
cheaper than those it charges West
Coast shippers to Alaska.
This brought protests to the
board from:
Alaska Steamship Co.; the Se
attle Traffic Assn.; the Los An
geles Chamber of Commerce; the
Vancouver (Wash.) Chamber of
Commerce; the Portland (Ore.)
Chamber of Commerce, and the
Electric Steel Co. of Portland.
The new rates were praised by
Wand C. Hendrickson, acting Gov
ernor of Alaska. He said it was
one of the few times he had seen
a carrier set rates “with which
we can live.”
Alaska Freight Lines defended
the new rates on the grounds that
the type of haulage from Texas
ports and New Orleans was dif
ferent than the traffic from the
West Coast.
The Gulf port haulage, the lines
maintained, Was of the “slow
boat” variety.
It said the West Coast shipping
was premium express, with the
barges carring loaded vans that
were driven into the Interior of
Alaska.
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Russ Have Fired
Two Nuclear
Test Bombs
WASHINGTON, MV—The United
States announced today that Rus
sia has fired two nuclear weapons
tests since this country halted
testing. President Eisenhower
said, however, that the American
suspension will continue for the
time being.
In a statement, Eisenhower ap
pealed to the1 Soviet government
to join in a temporary ban on
experimental nuclear explosions.
At .the same time he warned:
"If there is not shortly a corres
ponding renunciation by the So
viet Union of testing, the United
Statets will be obliged to recon
sider its position.”
> There was an implication in the
AEC statement that the Soviets
might have thought the two tests
would not be detected, although
this was merely a speculation.
The AEC statement said:
Both explosions were of rela
tively low yield. They were con
ducted at a test site in the south
ern part of the U.S.S.R. rather
than at the Novaya Zemla test
site north of the Arctic Circle
where most of the tests in recent
weeks have been held.”
Eisenhower in his statement
said that “this continued testing by
the Soviet Union has occurred de
spite the fact that negotiations for
the suspension of testing of nu
clear weapons have since October
31 been under way at Geneva.
The United States, he recalled,
announced August 22 that concur
rently with the opening of the Ge
neva negotiations it would sus
pend the testing for one year “un
less testing is resumed by the
Soviet Union.”
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