Job offices Now
Federal Set-up
i ugh J. Wade, Territorial
Ijijpjtor of the Social Security
poard, annoanced today that
e(.i)trali^*-ion of the opera
jj,)n9ofthe United States Em*
ployiDCDt Service in accordance
wjlb the President’s order of
pffonljer 19, will soon be com
pleted Mr. Wade is negotiating
fl{b Territorial officials to al
lege for the transfer ot the per
sonnel, records, and facilities of
^respective employment ser
jjgs to the Federal Government
■fhe federally-operated employ
Dtat services will remain in the
Social Security Board which, for
the past few years, has paid a
large proportion of the entire
cost of Territorial emloyment
eervice administration and assis
ted the Territory in carrying on
itsprograms.
Under the new set up, Mr.
fade will head up the activities
of tie United States Employ
ment Services throughout the
Territory with Joseph Fladkne,
Director of Alaska Service, re
porting directly to him The pur
pose of this move was to stream
line and speed up the labor re
mit,ment activities of the pub
lic nnpovment offices in order
tomeet the greatly increased la
bor demands of the war produc
tion program.
Mr. Wade emphasized that
lie public employment offices in I
acb State will be staffed by pre- j
ent State employment service
ereonne). Every State employee
| who is thus transferred to the
United .States Employment Ser
vice will be put on the Federal
payroll at the same salary and
classification he now has.
Pointing out that the unem
ployment compensation laws will
remain State-operated, the Ter
ritorial Director said that ar
rangements will be made so that
the Federally-operated public
employment offices, wheie unem
ployed workers claiming benefits
are required to regie;er and file
tbeir claims, will eoDtinue to
serve the Territorial agency ad
ministering the unemployment
compensation laws.
‘*1 will do everything in my
power to accomplish the transfer
as quickly and smoothly as poss
ibly so that the men and women
who operate the public employ
ment offices throughout the Ter
ritory could devote all their ef
fort and attention to labor sup-1
ply program will require a tre-1
M ninj; Law Relax
Men In Military Service
Cnder the soldiers’ and Sail
ors’ Civil Act of 1940, persons in
t he military services are exempt
from the annual a-8-ssment re
quirements of the in ning law.
The requirements of $100 el
labor during each year until the
patent is issued is waived for a
period six months beyond the
termination of the military ser
vice.
However, to cla m this exemp
tion. Dotiee must be tied in the
office where the certificate is re
corded that the person is enter
ing the seivice and desires to
! hold his mine claim, the Depart
ment of Mines points out.
--
Betty K ng, formerly of Ei
skine’s, is now employed at ’
Bert’s Drug store.
rncndou.-ly increased number of
workers.”
ANNOUNCING the Opening of the
KODIAK LIBRARY
SATURDAY TO(JaV Jan. 17, 1(142
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Open 9 a. m.
Ufext to the BROWN BEAR CAFE
BOOKS LOANED
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Resident Agent
Kodiak
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In care of L. R. Mendt
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THE
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I
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