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The extent and quality of the "company loyalty" of employees 

 must be predicated upon the loyalty that any given company 

 exhibits towards its employees. Alaska Pulp Corporation has 

 proven, time and time again, that it has no respect for, or 

 loyalty to, its employees or the communities of Southeast 

 Alaska. In order for a company to demand "loyalty" it must 

 first show that it is deserving of "loyalty", and be willing 

 to be fair and just. When one examines APC ' s record on these 

 issues, APC falls miserably short of the requisite atributes. 



You cannot demand "loyalty" when you have none to offer in 

 return. 



Only through the revocation of the 50-year contracts will 

 the plight of the common working man of the Tongass be 

 improved. As long as the "big timber interests" have the 

 power to dictate to the workers, how they can think and what 

 they can say, that power will be exercised to its natural 

 limit. The timber monopoly must be eliminated, if justice is 

 to prevail . 



In closing, I would again like to thank Chairman Bumpers and 

 the members of the Subcommittee for their efforts to arrive at 

 a solution to this terrible injustice. Please, save the 

 Tongass for our future generations, for America, and for the 

 world . 



Respectfully, 



Florian Sever 



