The Daily Alaska Empire

The Sailors Know
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Maritime Memorial Day is a holiday of long
standing with the Sailors Union of the Pacific.
It is, therefore, particularly noteworthy that the
Seattle branch of the union, recognizing that present
conditions provide a real emergency, has resolved to
work cargo on all Alaska ships on that day, and also
to man vessels scheduled for sailing. Otherwise the
holiday will be observed as usual.

Organized labor as a whole has served the
country well in furthering the defense program.
There have been regrettable instances to the con-
trary.

Set up against these is the voluntary action of
the Sailors Union this week. These men know there
is an emergency. They know, too, what importance
Alaska may assume in the immediate future and how
essential it is that our ramparts to the north be
strengthened at once.