THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO. S. MAYNARD, Editor
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ALASKA RELIEF WORK—EMPLOYMENT
With Alaska conspicuous in the national eye because ot
the new impetus in her gold mining industry, thousands in
the states are longing to come here this year and many will
come whom have no assurance of employment.
The Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce recently look a
wise precaution in sending out a widely distributed circular
warning people without means from rushing into Ihe terri
tory this season to seek work. It was pointed nut the region
already has its unemployed and many on relie.. V 'valu
ing should go out from every Alaska community.
it is reliably reported from Juneau and Keli hikan each
have 400 to fiOfl persons on relief. Anchorage h ' ■ carried
a good many on relief all winter. Men who had i little sav
ed up to get past the winter or lived on credit are waiting—
together with those Alaskans on relict—the first opportun
ity to go to work when the seasonal works start in the spring.
Alaskans should be given the first opportunities to work,
and there will be something radically wrong if they are not.
Alaska wants prospectors and settlers who can come
with means to see them through—people with means of their
own or backing who can launch out for themselves, but she
offers no new opportunities to outside job seekers. A'aska
is not a country with which the newcomer can trifle. The bit
ter seasons of the year—and they do come—show no compro
mise to the unprepared. And if there is any work to be dis
tributed in Alaska it should go first to the courageous people
who have pioneered or otherwise come and iought their way
against the hardships that have beset them and unflinching
ly have taken the bitter with the sweet.
Steamships sailing northward already are bringing
bumper loads of passengers. It may be expected that far
more will be coming and among them no end of steerage pass
engers who will land without a dollar in their pockets.
Right now the federal government is being memorializ
ed to permit a partial operation of fisheries in Bristol Bay
area in order that the resident Alaskan fishermen and their
families may survive. It will be well to remember that oth
er resident Alaskans than fishermen also should be consid
\ered. ,
The Alaskan faces constantly a higher cost ol living than
people in any part of continental America. This handicap
alone is sufficient to establish his demand for protection ag
ainst an influx of labor from Outside.
Alaska will be grateful for any new federal projects that
mean the employment of more people—but at the same time
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it should bo considered that Alaska is a mighty contributor
of wealth to the federal government and the first reward from
the federal government should be whatever jobs it has to the
people of Alaska. Then, if more are needed, it will be time
enough to call in others, or to permit them to come It may
be argued Alaska is a part of America and Americans can go
where they please. On the other hand, Alaska is a country
of limited job opportunities and limited capacity ol carrying
lor f lic needy and her present communities are now taxed
beyond their limit for support of her own and will be noth
ing short of tragic for surplus outsiders to be added to the
present idle list or to displace the local unemployed.
It will be wise for the federal authorities to go into this
matter circumspectly and not make a mistake in policy, ll
the government will lay down a policy from the beginning ■
of Alaskan jobs for Alaskans and the consumption of Alask- i
an products as far as available on all federal enterprises and
the protection of the Alaskan in general on all such lines it
will be taking a long step toward the elimination of endless
future difficulties—Anchorage Weekly Times.
EDITOR'S NOTE—The above editorial also demonstrat
es the interest in home labor which other communities in
Alaska are taking. Nome is even now working out such a j
plan that she will not be swamped with a surplus of labor
vhen the first boats arrive. The problem is a serious one,
nd if the civic bodies of Nome have any other than a serious
. iew nf the situation, it is believed it will be changed before
long. To further complicate the situation in Nome, our hous
_ ’accomodations are practically nil It is not a question of
hunting for a place until you find one, because such a hunt
would be fruitless here: there are no places to be found.
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