L OUIS F. PAUL,.EDITOR
C. O. PARKS,.BUSINESS MANAGER
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lishing Company at Petersburg, Alaska.
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Six months, $2.50
Advertising Rates on Application.
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Buttons, Buttons, Who’s Got the Buttons?
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Some American manufactur
ers have been at groat pains ci
late to expiain to us that there
has been ‘no over-production’
but that the idle factories and
consequent unemployment art
"lie solely *0 “under consump
tion.”
Cut such expressions in any
direction—they are the same
stuff all the way through, re
presenting only an attempt to
avoid responsibility and to pa,a;
tre buck. We have been ad
monished to spend, spend,spend
and save the country; buy more
shoes to make more jobs for
shoemakers; put dollars into cir
dilation and create a world ol
business, so the worker can eat
more bread to save the wheat
farmer and buy more fish tc
save the fisherman, so the farm
ers and the fishermen can buy
more coal to save the miners, sc
the miners can buy more shoes,
so the shoemakers can eat more
bread, and so on and on and on.
The man who has unspent dol
lars these days is beig called a
traitor.
Let us endeavor to brush
aside some of the smoke and
hysteria of the battle, candidly
consider a few simple figures,
and see on whose doorstep those
accusations will finally roost.
The census of manufacturers
taken by the Department of
Commerce shows that in 1920
the total manufacturing output
of this country was something
like 69 l/2 billion dollars. The
cost of materials, containers,
fuel and power was 37»/2 billions,
leaving more than 31V2 billions
as the net value added by man -
ufacture. This amount divided
by the number of workers em
ployed shows that each work
man produced in excess of $3,600
during the year, out of which
he actually received $1,306.
Out of the wealth produced by
manufacture nearly $2 went for
interest, profits, and manage
ment for every dollar that went
into the pockets of all the work
ers and since the workers are
by far the greater number they
should be the chief consumers.
Where is the consistency in de
manding of them now that they
consume the country’s product
when their wages would have
purchased only a third of it ev
en if they could have bought at
manufacturer’s cost. Their
lack of buying power is the key
to the present depression. How
long must the producing ma
jority wait and starve while the
consuming minority (holding in
its hands the purchasing power)
catches up with production?
And still there are those who
would economize by cutting
wages. We may even have a few
of them in Petersburg and out
neighboring town of Wrangell.
But there are hopeful signs
While the experience has beer
a costly, we are learning by our
mistakes. Three thousand ex
ecutives, manufacturers ana
heads of advertising and sales
departments from all parts of
the United States and Europe
met in New York a few days ago
and adopted a statement to the
public in which appears the fol
lowing significant language:
This federation subscribes
to the principle that busi
ness cannot realize its full
development except thru the
widest possible distribution
among thecreators of wealth
of an equitable share of the
profits of production and of
the time economies made
possible by the development
of machinery.
We hold this to be evident
because no matter how
great may be the advertising
man’s ability to create de
sire, such desire cannot be
come effective in producing
business, unless behind the
want, lies a financial ability
to satisfy it.
Apparently the country is do
ing more straight thinking
about the cause and cure of
business depressions than ever
before.
Reciprocity
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Members of the Brotherhood
of Locomotove Engineers in
Washington and Oregon have
served notice that they will pa
tronize only those merchants,
jobbers and shippers who use
the freight-hauling facilities of
the railroads. A resolution sign
ed by General Chairman Wil
liam Bibelhauser, C. G. Younger,
T. E. Luster, and P. W. Rathbun,
declares that continued use of
transportation facilities other
than the railroads will mean less
jobs for railroad employees and
that they feel it ,is their duty to
patronize only those firms which
give their shipping business to
the railroads and thus aid in
maintaining “the largest pay
roll in the two states.”
Railroad men and those di
rectly dependent upon them ara
responsible for a staggering
amount of business in the two
states each year. The patroniz
ing of auto bus lines and motor
truck freights makes no jobs for
railroad men. But there is one
element in this story which is of
particular interest to th^ pub
lic: It is just one instance where
the employers and the employ
ed have realized their interde
pendence and. that, each must
fight the other’s battle in order
to protect their own interests.
Such a spirit of co-operaion and
reciprocaion would have obviat
ed every labor dispute in history
and the public, though not a
participant, Is a sufferer in every
disturbance.
We talked with a couple of
salmon canners recently about
operating costs and salmon mar
kets, and we were told that the
operator who made a profit this
year would be indeed fortunate.
‘•‘I do not know what we can pay
our fishermen. We wish to pay
them full value for their product
but unfortunately circumstances
will not permit us to set a price
which at this time would cause
us to jeopardize our investment
We*have had Mr. O’Malley close
our trap locations to protect us
during the time we use only io
cal fishermen. We would like to
set a minimum cost per fish anct
later when the pack is sold, dis
tribute to our men the differen
tial, if any, which the market
allows,” stated this operator.
We replied that the fisher folk
were a fair minded people whose
desire was to receive fair anJ
ful value fortheir labor. At the
present rate of production, the
average crew delivering 25.003
salmon at 5 cents could not ev
en hope for an existence but if
the system, by abolishing the
traps, permitted a catch of 100,
000 salmon at 3 cents, the men
would be satisfied with the less
er price. And if they had as
surance from the operators that
r, fair per cent of the case profit
would be forth coming, they
would be willing to operate on
that basis.
That friendly assistance in the
political fields would mean a
measure of relief which the can
ners need. In comparison to the
tax to the federal government,
and the territorial tax whether
the operator makes a million or
loses a million canning salmon
the minor pays 2 per cent on a
net profit over $500,000. During
the immediate future the Terri
tory will face an economic crisis
as it has never faced before. The
Treasury will be bankrupt by the
first of the year. The taxes in
the main come from the fisher
ies. Any failure in this industry
will add to the crisis and in 1935
ii is the announced policy of the
Bureau of Fisheries to close the
Bristol Bay area, taking that
revenue from the Territory. The
burdens of government must be
met and how is the question now
worrying some of those who put
the inequitable burden upon the
canners in favor of the miners.
In the end labor, the small
consumer must pay and pay and
pay. And the first immediate
solution is employment of resi
dent labor at a scale which will
Insure greater buying power in
order that bills may be met, re
rairs met, homes built and a'l
development in stagnant pools
of depression be wiped out. Their
is no need for the depression to
occur in Alaska with the wealtn
of the fisheries, timber and min
erals at her doors. But when
they are locked up for future
generations, for the benefit ot
political demagogues, when the
rules of reciprocity are forgotten
and only selfish breed continues,
then must the Territory stagger
along to meet a greater financial
crisis than it can bear.
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A Few Hints
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With apologies to the Pacific
Pulp and Paper Industry.
Alaska has been suffering
from hints by the pulp and pan
er companies for the past seve •
ul years. The Campbells ere
coming, usually at election time
and the tomorrow is always o
the imediate future
George T. Cameron publisher
of the San Francisco Chronicle
with associates, holds large tim
ber claims and hydro-electric
power concessions from the Bn
leau of Forestry that leads the
fhcep-minded citizens of Juneau
to believe that they will soon
have a new industry in that oi.i
town. I
‘ While anr.ounceemnt of a de-|
hnite site for the Cameron mill;
has been studiously avoided, p » !
pular street gossip, (by the po-i
ijtical old maids) has already lo-|
cated the m;,l at Thane, due fcej
some natural advantages (andj
to unload Jackson’s old Thane |
gold milling bubble) and it.fi
proximity to Juneau, one of th i
I wo major population centers W
Southeast A’aska which could
be really tapped as a labor re -
servoir.”
Methinks he writer meant
“one of two maior population
••enters in Southeast Alaska,
where the labor reservoir eoulJ
pc readily tapped.”
Whose Obligation?
ROTTEN RULE
It is high time the rotten rule
of political rings must pass. The
selfish party interests now conn!
first, not the welfare of thej
wholevpeople. Labor has been!
hi-jacked and sandbagged fo:
plutocrats until faith is begin
ning to waver. Ccmmunisri
Advances will be
made as usual
when requested
Transferred by tel
egraph if desired.
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Special Sales held
on request of Shipper.
HI
seems to be spreading through
cut the world like prairie Are.
—Seward Gateway.
When the Gateway takes per
sonal steps Lo help eradicate the
rotten rule of selfish party in
terests, and this includes other
j cwshounds, labor will not be
jr.i-jacked by the plutocrats.
Poverty, hunger, fertilizes the
bleeding places of communistic
activities. The belly is the cen
ter of thougnt of a large pro
I ortion of the laboring class.
When the pangs of hunger are
f nlt they have plenty of time to
l.sten to the doctrines of all
hinds of “isms.”
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WHOSE OBLIGATION?
• If it is absolute unbiased in
formation honestly and sincere
ly sought, we would suggest that
The Gateway ask the legal opin
ion of Senator Dimond, or Re
presentative Ziegler, or any oth
er attorney in Alaska, “Whose
obligation is the education of
Alaska’s aboriginee population—
jthe Territory’s or the Federal
j Government. We will await the
| honest answer to this simple
| question.
In the case of U. S. versus
Charley Jones An Indian, charg
with illegal voting, First District
Court, the late Judge Thomas
Reed laid down the principle
that Jones was a citizen by vir
tue of birth under the American
flag and jurisdiction and that it
was his constitutional right to
participate in all the rights and
privileges as well as to assume
all duties and obligations of ci
tizenship.
The right of voting is an ob
ligation and duty, despite the
effort of shyster politicians to
nullify this constitutional right.
The right to an education in
schools maintained by moneys
appropriated from general taxes
is another. And not one
attorney in the Territory will
deny this assertion—honestly.
For which reason the various
towns have never fought the
legality of the question when it
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