HYDER WEEKLY HERALD
Established 1924
Published Every Saturday at the Herald Building,
Second Avenue,Hyder, Alaska.
Chas. F. Sandford and Louise Sandford
Sole owners and publishers
Chas. F. Sandford,.....Editor and Manager
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aska, as second wlass matter, urn^r the Act of March 8,
1879.
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AN INDEPENDENT NEV/SPAPER
A TIMELY PROTEST
The attitude of the Hyder
Chamber of Commerce regard
ing the Alaska Compensation
Act is not only fully justified
by the distinctly inhibitive and
inequitable features of the law
but is also one that should be
shared by all who hold a prop
er regard for the welfare and
prosperity of the Territory.
The law as it stands is a most
deplorable detriment to the!
country and can have no other
effect than to stifle industry
and hinder and delay develop
ment.
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As pointed out in the recent
resolution of protest passed by I
the Chamber of Commerce, the i
law provides no adequate pro
tection for either employee or
employer and may, under eas
ily attainable circumstances
become absolutely ruinous to
the latter.
No clearer evidence could be
provided of the risks run by
employers of five or more per
sons under the law than is dis
played in the refusal of indus
trial insurance companies to
continue such insurance in
Alaska. The effect of their at
titude i3 that from now on ev
ery employer of five or more
persons within the provisions
of the act must bear personally
the entire list of heavy com
pensation liabilities fixed by
the law.
How destructive this liability
may become under certain cir
cumstances is clearly perceived
when it is understood that the
death or total disability of an
employee in an industrial ac-!
cident places the employer un- j
a liability of possibly $9,000
for each and every employee
so killed or totally disabled.
This in addition to a wide var
iety of other costs and damages
for lessor injuries.
Consider for a moment what
it means to an employer of lim
ited capital in the event that
several of his employees should
be killed or totally disabled
within a short space of time as
a result of some unfortunate j
accident. What would be left
of a vast majority of Alaskan
business or industrial institut
ions if they were suddenly
called upon to pay death or
disability indemnities totalin j
$45,000 or $50,000? Not many
we venture to say, could do so
without facing certain bar.’:-!
ruptcy and utter dissolution, j
As pointed out by the Cham
ber of Commerce resolution, |
•'he liabilities ox the law, while j
equally shared by all indust
ries except domestic service,
agricultural pursuits, dairying
in d the operation of railroads
as common carriers, in reality
bear most heavily on the min
ing industry, wherein more
people are employed ancj dan
ger of accidents is greater than i
in any territorial industry ex
cept fishing. Indeed it may be
laid that no more than a rela
tively small percentage of oth-1
er Alaska businesses employ a ;
sufficient number of people to I
bring them within the liability ;
provisions of the act; hence j
mining is the principal suffer
er from the compensatory pro
visions imposed by the law
That these liabilities have a
most unwholesome tendency to
hamper the development of
mining, as well as of other in
-lustries, there can be no quest
on. Instances of mining capi
tal either withdrawing from or
refusing to engage in develop
ment activities in the territory
have been displayed repeated
y since the Compensation law
was enacted. Due probably to
ts less dangerous character,
placer mining has suffered no
treat injury in this respect but
he inhibitive effects of the law
have been long "recognized by
hose engaged in the quartz
industry. It has happened,
however, that so long as the in
lustrial insurance companies
were willing to undertake the
compensation liabilities the
quartz mining employers were
able to protect themselves and
it is probably due to this fact
that the law has heretofore en
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countered no serious opposit
ion from that source. But, with
industrial insurance no longer
available, the law has now be
come a distinct menace to the
industrial welfare of not only
the quartz industry but to al
most all other territorial indus
tries. In order to protect them
selves from its ruin-threatening
liabilities, employers of small
capital have no recourse but to
avoid expasions of their busi
ness which will increase the
number of employees to five
or more This in turn means a
curtailment of mining enter
prise, with loss to both capital
and labor, as well as to the ter-1
ritory. Furthermore, capital
cannot be expected to establish
or enter important industries
on a large scale when our com
pensation liabilities present
such possibilities for heavy
loss. An attitude of this char
acter can have no other effect
than to further curtail industry
and development by keeping
capital away from the terri
tory.
The Herald believes firmly in
the wisdom and justice of ade
quate compensation for victims
of industrial accidents; but we
agree with the Chamber of
Commerce that the law now in '
effect is neither just or bene
ficial, either to the employer,
the employee, or the terri
tory. It forces upon employing I
interests unwarranted liabili
ties, without regard to their
prosperity or lack of prosper
ity, acts as a bar to the entry
of foreign or outside capital,
cripples established industry
and presents possibilities for
iheir utter ruin and extinction
in certain circumstances and j
at the same time provides no j
positive guarantee of compen- !
cation to injured employees, j
In addition it is strongly dis-1
criminatory against citizens of i
the country in favor of aliens!
in certain of its schedules.
In again placing it upon the j
statute books of the Territory j
without attempt to cure or al-1
ter its glaring deficiencies, the |
last legislature committed a
most grievous and inexcusable ■
error that will result in much j
harm to the country and its!
people until it is either wholly :
lepealed or made to conform
to more just and equitable
standards. Ultimate loss to ail
concerned is the inevitable re
ult of tlie outworking of such
enactments.
:
Just for Fun
-o-—
Hot heads rush in where cold
feet fear to tread.
She was only the garbage
man’s daughter but she wasn’t
:o be sniffed at.
A loafer usually wishes he
tvas doing something else.
Tough Luck: When you have
i check for $40 and the only
nan you know who can ident-;
fy you at the bank is one you
)we ?50 to.
_
Parents object when the young
rolks begin to do things they
lsed to do.
Most of the world’s best writ- j
ng is done with an eraser or a I
due pencil.
It strikes us that criminals
vould be more ready to quit if
uries were less ready to ac
quit.
Every new month, day or
hour means new opportunities
if you have your eyes open and
your wits working.
As the holder of ‘the most j
thankless job we know of we \
nominate the church usher.
Another good way to cure the j
sleeping disease is to monkey j
with the stock market.
Americanism: The pet faiths
and prejudices of the person
who happens to be defining it.
A doctor won’t take his own
medicine. He says that the
medical books teach that it is
to give, not to take.
They say Broadway is full of
actors out of a job, and we
don’t suppose the poor fellows
even had the foresight to send
a lobby down to Washington to
work for actor relief.
“Her niece is rather good
looking, eh?”
“Don’t say ‘knees is,’ say
‘knees are.’ ”
i
Ben O— tells of a girl he met
clown south who, when he re
marked at luncheon that he
had heard that the mustard
manufacturers made their
money not by what is eaten,
but by what is left on the side
of the plate, answered: “Yes,
but how in the world do they
collect it?’’
Wife, reading: “It says here
that they have found a sheep
in the Himalaya mountains
that can run 40 miles an hour.” j
Her Hubby: “Well, it would |
take a lamb like that to follow ;
Mary nowadays.”
“Are your children thought-j
ful of you?” asked the neigh-!
bor.
“Oh, very,” beamed the moth-!
er, “When they get home in the :
morning they always bring in |
the milk and put it in the ice |
box for me.”
“ft ain’t sanitary,” protested :
the stranger, “to have your j
house built right over the hog |
pen that way.,,
“Wal, I dunno,” replied the j
native. “We ain’t lost a hog in I
fifteen years.”
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Chamber
of
Commerce
Hyder, Alaska
Reliable Information
Relative To
PORTLAND CANAL
MINING DISTRICT
Judge: You have admitted
that you murdered your father
with an axe and your mother
with a sash weight, and still
you plead for mercy?
Prisoner: Yes, your honor. I
throw myself on the mercy of
the court.
Judge: On what grounds do
you expect mercy, may I ask?
Prisoner: Please, your honor,
I am an orphan.
“Why don’t you send in your
jokes to the joke editor of the
paper?”
“Aw, what’s the use? He’d
only laugh at them.”
Poppa (at dinner): “Willy,
you’ve reached for everything
in sight. Now stop it; haven’t
you a tongue?”
Willy: “ Sure, Pop, but my
arm is longer.”
“Dat’s a mighty mean man
I’s workin’ for, Rastus.”
“How come, Mose?”
“He dun took de laigs off’n
de wheel barruh so’s I kaint. |
set it down an’ rest.”
Professor: “Can you give me
an example of a commercial
appliance used in ancient
times?”
Student: “Yes, sir; the loose
leaf system in the Garden of
Eden.”
Passenger (to old lady sitting
on his hat): “Excuse me, ma’
am, do you know what you are
sitting on?”
Old Lady (with asperity):'
“Well, I had ought to, young j
man! I’ve been sitting on if for
more than fifty years.”
Seng of the Vacationist
“Little bank roll, ere we part,
Let me hug you to my heart;
All the year I’ve clung to you,
I’ve been faithful, you’ve been
true.
Little bank roll, in a day,
You and I will start away;
To some gay and festive spot
I’ll return, but you will not.”
Location Notice Forms and
Proof of Annual Labor Blanks
for sale at the Herald office.
WATCHES! WATCHES!
Waltham 17 and 23 Jewels
Hamilton 19 and-21 Jewels
Elgin 7 and IS Jewels
Wrist watches, Waltham, El
gin & Hofes, $12.50 to $25.00
Jewelry made to order, repair
work Anything in jewelry fur
nished on short notice.
Crosley Radios on Hand. Come
In And Look Them Over.
THE NUGGET SHOP
PORTUND CANAL LODGE
1218
LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE
Meets Second and Fourth
Thursdays
Second Thursday in Hyder
Fourth Thursday in Stewart
PROFESSIONAL
6E0R6E B. GRIGSBY
Attorney - at - Law
KETCHIKAN. ALASKA
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FRANK A. METCALF
am & MINING ENGINEER
U. S. MINERAL SURVEYOR
JUNEAU ALASKA
CHAS. F. SWORD
NOTARY PUBLIC
HERALD OFFICE
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