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Economic Effects Of Strike Of Longshoremen In Hawaii Now Being Felt On Mainland By SAM DAWSON N W YORK, July 20. CB Strife and hubbub in the storied island paradise of Hawaii at last is echoing on the mainland. Much ot the United States east of the Rockies has paid little at tention to the SO-day-old loi.g s ioi emen's, strike. But its econ 01 .ic effects have spread to our 'own west coast. And now the U. S. S'nate labor committee has Induced labor and management meet ' federal n.ediators in Washington, probably Friday. Meanwhile, the Hawaiian gover nor seeks legislation enabling him to seize the docks and operate them. Harry Bridges' pickets under the palms make the' idyllic days of Queen Liliuokalani seem far away and long ago. The pro longed shipping tie-up sounds more like what happenr along mainland waterfronts, where tem pers traditionally run higher and t V battle for survi al presses close . than they are supposed to in mid-Pacific. .Not only is the strike choking off the islands from their food and industrial supnlv line ti the ,Uni' 1 States, it Is said to be slowly searing Hawaii's three crops: Sugar, pineapples and tourists. The people are going in fo.- a super-imposed austerity. Cannec milk is obtainable for tables through a physician's pre scription. Raw sugar overflows the varehouses into schools and emp'y stores. The pineapple in dustry is begging for tinplate to can the crop now ripening. Sugar Bought Elsewhere . : Along our own west coast ship ping tonnage totals are dropping. Stevedores put in fewer hours, get less total pay. And west coast sugar refineries, cut off from their Hawaiian sources, are turn ing far afield to bu;' from Cuba and Puerto Rico, at additional i's metis 100 virgin wool swim trunks shipping costs. Unesumated are the losses In sales bv American industries and merchants who normally supply cargoes for the now idle snips that otherwise would be plying the hipping lanes to the islands. And 11 tne pineapple industry fails to can all of the crop, the results may be seen later in gro cery stores across the United States. Losses In Millions Meanwhile, here are some of the losses already claimed: Businessmen in Hawaii say that up until a week ago the islands' losses had totalled $18 million. They included in that $1 million in wages lost by the strikers. The Pacific Maritime Associa tion says that longshoremen's working hours in westcoast ports were down 15 per cent in June. San Francisco estimates 256,000 working hours lost and $435,000 in wages. The Ideologies involved are summed up in two contrasting charges. Bridges tells a U, S. Senate investigating committee that all his men want are higher wages. He denies they seek to foster communism. But the com nanies say the strike is an at tempt by radicals to get contnl not only of the islands' shipping but its sugar and pineapple indus tries and hence of most of its economic life. Bridges' union in cludes 20,000 members who work for sugar companies and 7,000 in the pineapple industry. Sen. Wayne Morse (R-Ore),.on R. D. BRIDGES Savings Representative Equitable Savings and Loan Ass'n. Phone 442 Oakland, Ore. jHiUd I Armed Services To Get I Help In Home Building WASHINGTON, July 20m The House voted Monday to give federal assistance to home con struction for members of the armed services. It approved and sent to t h e senate a bill extending F H A mortgage financing to private construction of low rental housing at camps and military installa tions. Because special risks are In- the other hand, says "The feudal ists attitude of the Big Five shows the employing class of Hawaii is not ready for statehood." The Big Five he mentions are the five large companies, often credited in the public mind with running the islands. . These companies give financial and management services to su gar and pineapple plantations, and engage in merchandising, shipping, fish canning and Insur ance, But the Hawaiian economic foundation, a non-profit, business sponsored research organization, contends that the net worth of the Big Five totals only $100,000,000, or one-fourth of the net worth of the islands' total of 831 corpora tions. It also says these 831 cor riorations are owned by more than 34,000 stockholders, and that the days of Big Five predominance are over. .Yes, Hawaii seems to be getting more and more like the mainland in its problems and ways of life. 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Treat ing is recommenced for all wheat varieties to oe seeded including tne smut resistant varieties sin ilar to Rex. A common error In using Cere san is not allowing 24 hours to elapse between seed treatment and drilling. This time allowance is required to get full benefit from the Ceresan rjas, Steenland exniains. Throughout the Columbia basin T1 11. WAREHOUSE CO. BUl.'ll.'llllllll'iWJil IIH.'I.IHillMillHi Certain County Employes Can't Be Fired, Ruling SALEM. July 20 UP) County courts can't eliminate any employes whose salaries are fixed by law, Attorney General George Neuner ruled Tuesday. The opinion was for Gilliam county District Attorney William Eennett, who asked if Gilliam county could eliminate appropria tions for the county health nurse and the county veterinarian. Neuner said It was all right to eliminate the nurse's salary, be cause it isn't required by law. 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