TUi; NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO S. MAYNARD, Editor
RUSSELL G MAYNARD. Manager
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HELP NEEDED FOR AN
INFANT INDUSTRY
From time to time during
the last several years Alas
kans have invested both
capital and effort in attem
pts to develop the Crab
packing industry of the ter
ritory. There are few wat
ers in the world in which
this luscious sea food abou
nds in such numbers in
which the crabs attain such
size nor yield such sweet
meat as is the case in many
spots along the shoreline of
Alaska. A few of these ef
forts have resultecUin a lim
ited measure of success and
most of them have failed,
for exactly the same reason
that similar efforts in the
Puget Sound district have
failed—namely that Amer
ican labor cannot compete
with Japanese labor.
During 1934 six plants in
Southeast Alaska and five
plants in thePrinceWilliam
Sound area prepared crab
products employing 280
persons. The output of the
canned product waso44,8ll
pounds valued at $184,052.
During that same period 7,
401,742 pounds of crabmeat
valued at $2,246,463 was
imported, almost entirely ;
from Japan. A large por
tion of this product was tak i
en just outside the three
mile limit in Alaskan wat- j
res by Japanese fishermen j
officered by Japanese naval -
officers, packed in Japan by i
coolie labor and returned <
to this country after pay- i
rnent of a 15 per cent duty
on the cost of production at
the point of origin. Alas
kan and Puget Sound pack
ers cannot compete in this
market and no real Ameri
can desires that our labor
should attempt competition
It should be remembered
that Japanese packers are
by no means passing on all
the advantage to the con
sumer. They simply get
under the figure at which
an American packer can af
ford tn market his merchan
dise to just the extent
which is required to domi
nate the market and run
the American packers out
of business.
t The waters of the Pacific
Northwest and Alaska can
supply all the crab meat
consumed in the United
States, furnish a superior
product packed under con
di tions more suitable to the
American taste than those
prevailing in Oriental can
neries and do it at A very
imall additional cost to the
consumer. All that is re
quired is a tariff sufficient
ly high to offset the differ
ence :n living standards as
betv at n our fishermen and
eannerv workers and those
if Japan. One thousand
qood Aiaskan citizens and
manv more Americans in
;he Pacific northwest wouid
then have jobs and share in
ihe two and a quarter mil
lions of good American dol
lars now going to our little
brown brothers of Japan.—
The Alaska Weekly.
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Ann Hall Strong i
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Gone On Another
GloSe Trot Trip
Continued From Faae One
hands and 25 years spent
;n Alaska has given me a
horror of just idly sitting
down and hold my hands.
I love to travel and see how
the other people live and
get aiong. I find the world
good to look upon and every
nation I have ever visited
is interesting and hospitab
le. Modern travel is so com
fortable, and one can really
travel and see the world
just as cheaply as they can
settle down at home in a
nice hotel and live the or- .
dinary life—that’s why I
travel. And when I get
back after this trip, I want
lo go up to Alaska once
again. Where? Every place
from Ketchikan to Kotze
bue, and all of the in-be
tween places, for Alaska
will always be home to
me.”—Alaska Weekly.
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Original Deposit . $750.00
End of 1st year . 772.50
End of 2nd year . 795.67
End of 3rd year . 819'54
End of 4th year . 844 13
End of 5th year . ’ 869 45
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