king salmon under six pounds 01
from destroying herring and oth
er food fishes not otherwise can
ned for food purposes; there is
no prohibition as to the depth of
trap lead; there is no prohibition
against the use of meshes in lead
or the trap itself to prevent the
destruction of millions of smaller
salmon of all species and the de
struction of every other kind of
fish that hits into the traps.
Get Down on Your Knees
Yet there are business men
who object - to any criticism of
O’Malley’s abuse of his authority
and discrimination aganst resi
dent fishermen. It will not be
long before Alaskans will be com
manded to get down on their
knees to the king of Alaska’s
fisheries and sings “Praise God
from Whom All Blessings Flow.”
THE BRITISH COLUMBIA
POLICY
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The Canadian fisnery policy
has always been held up to the
American salmon packers and to
the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries
and its czar, Henry O’Malley.
That Alaskans and other Ameri
cans may know and understand
the Canadian system of con
servation we refer to their offi
cial statement as published in
tlie February issue of the Pacific
Fisherman:
“The study we have given and
the meetings that have been
held have convinced us that this
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great basic industry has been al
lowed to drift inio a deplorable
condition. It affects some 15,000
persons directly in the industry,
$25,000,000 invested capital, be
sides all the allied industries and
their employees. The success of
this industry is of vital import-,
ance to every person in the Pro
vince.”
. .The study of the fisheries situ
ation in Alaska reveals a condi
tions worse in Alaska than in
Canada, for the Canadians real-!
izing the true conditions of their j
fisheries are bending every effort j
to properly conserve supply and j
to build it up to normal. The
situation in Alaska is ignored by |
the officials and blithely the in-'
dustry goes on putting up un- j
limited packs and placing thej
load of conservation where it;
hurts most to carry—upon the'
resident fishermen. 1
The Canadians find ‘‘There are
three salint features of the whole
situation. (1) That the supply
of raw fish has been diminishing.
(2) That the earnings of the
fishermen have been shrinking.
(3) That the manufactures are (
not making an adquate return;
on their investment.”
The Alaska Situation
As pointed out by residents, ’
the condition of Alaska’s fish-,
eries are concisely described by.
the report of the Canadians of
their fisheries. The business |
men are agreeing with the fish-'
ermen that the earnings of fish
ermen have shrunk to such in- j
significant figures as to be a cry-;
ing shame to decent Americans.
And further the effect upon resi
dent businessmen has been so
bad as to virtually banrkupt ev
ery mercantile establishment in
the fisheries Divisions.
The small packers have all had
to quit or sell out to the larger
corporations, bearing out the
statement that the manufactur- I
ers are pot making an adequate j
return on their investment.
“Aims of New Policy”
“This Government (Canadian)
intends to remedy this condition
by a definite policy, which will
conserve the supply of fish not
only for the present generation
but also for future generations
and will INCREASE the earnings
of fishermen and those engaged
in the industry, thereby protect
ing the large number of fisher
men, employees and those en
gaged in the fishing and allied
industries.”
The O’Malley Policy
The O’Malley policy is to con- !
serve the operation of traps and I
in no manner can it be shown, |
by catch of salmon or pack, that!
conservation of salmon is the ob
ject of his regulatory measures, j
The Canadian fishermen have i
asked that for the next four i
years no fishing licenses be j
granted other than those issued 1
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in 1929 other’ than to sons of
fishermen who have reached the i;
age of sixteen years. The ovdect :
Df which regulation is to insurei
maximum fishing hours to a j ■
minimum number of fishermen r
with a five-day week. This idea. J;
was incorporated in the new!
Canadian regulations. With the
limitation on the number of fish
ermen’s licenses issued was a
limitation on the number of can
nery licenses. “The more can
nery licenses issued, the greater
will be the amount of gear in
the water, thereby continuing
the vicious circle of more fisher
men and fewer fishing days, al
so less fish for each cannery, al
though overhead expenses re
main the same. CONSERVATION
WITHOUT ECONOMICAL PRO
DUCTION IS OF NO VALUE TO
EITHER THE FISHERMEN, OP
ERATORS, OR THE PUBLIC AT
LARGE.”
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AS VIEWED BY THE CANADI
AN FISII COMMISSIONER
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The Hon. S. L. Howe, Canadian
Commissioner of Fisheries in pre
senting his views on the fisheries
situaton in Canada declared:
The government has given a lot
of consideration to the whole
subject. We find that an indus
try which SHOULD be growing
and enlarging is going the other
way. We find that the supply of
fish is gradually decreasing. We
find that the fishermen who take
the fish out of the water are con
fined to five days a week, and
that there is a possibility that if
things go on the way they are
going, he may be able to fish on
ly three days a week instead of
five. That is not healthy.
“The province is confined to
certain powers that are within
the jurisdiction of the province,
and the others are in the Domin
ion. We cannot control the whole
industry. 'We cannot control the
number of licenses that the Do
minion cares to issue. That may
be unfortunate. If we had sole
control we might approach the
subject from a different angle,
but we are bound' to confine our
selves and deal with it as a gov
ernment so far as the jurisdic
tion of the government goes, and
we can go no farther.
“If you overfish a certain sec
tion the hours of fishing are cut
down. That means that there is
a very great chance that the fish
ermen may be cut down to even
three days a week fishing. I do
not think that is what they want.
I think they want the maximum
fishing hours and to make the
most money in the season that
they can make. That is what any
man is in business for. He wants
to make money.
“If that be true of the fisher
men, it must also be true of the
operator. IF WE WISH TO STA
BLIZE MATTERS IN THIS
PROVINCE, NOT ONLY IN THE
FISHING INDUSTRY, BUT IN
ANY RESOURCE THAT WE
HAVE, AND IF WE WISH TO EN
COURAGE CAPITAL INTO THIS
PROVINCE, THERE IS ONLY
ONE WAY TO DO IT AND THAT
IS TO HAVE SOUND, STABLE
CONDITIONS, LAWS AND RE
GULATIONS. When capital goes
to a field for investment it looks
into all those things. * * * Now.
we have in the fishing industry
as near as I can find, something
like $25,000,000 of vested inter
ests in this province. That mon
ey is not all within the province,
but from outside and, therefore,
is capital that has come into the
province. It seems to me we
have to respect that along with
trying to give the fishermen full
working hours per week. We
must also try and see that in
visitors of capital are working
their plants more than three
lays a week because they have ’
:he plant, overhead and supplies, ;
tnd have made arrangements for j
;he season, and that all costs *
noney; and if any industry is go 1
ng to succeed, it has to at least <
>ay. That is where we start and 2
where we approach the whole
situation. I repeat, we approach
t from the standpoint that if we
:an do anything that will give
die fishermen greater working
lours or full working hours, and
it the same time that the plant
nay be working equally—if we
:an do anything to help that, we!
feel that that is the vital point.” j
ALASKA WILL DEMAND ITS
SHARE
From The Ketchikan Chronicle
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Representing the Chamber of
Commerce, with the hope of in
ducing the American Can Com
pany to establish a factory4 in
Ketchikan to care for the needs
of the salmon industry, the cojii -
mittee left for Seattle this morn- !
ing on the Princess Mary.
Newspaper reports from Seat
tle during the last ten days have
indicated that this can company
has started the construction of a
large plant in Seattle to “care
for the needs of Alaska.”
Business men of Alaska gen
erally have shown a resentment
that this company or any other
should establish outside of the
Territory a plant to “care for the
needs of Alaska.”
It has been pointed out that in
Southeastern Alaska some $3,000,
000 worth of cans are used an
nually. No Alaska labor is used.
No revenue is derived by the Ter
ritory. The sawmills of the Ter
ritory are deprived of business
that otherwise would be theirs
The total value of cans used in
the whole Territory is consider
ably more and laborers, business
men, fishermen and others resent
the fact that all of this business
is being handled in outside fac
tories while they believed it could
be handled economically in Alas
ka. ....
.. Seattle newspapers tell of the
extensive plans of the can manu
facturing company, rather boast
ing of what it will mean to Seat
tle and its prosperity. But Alas
ka, producing the fish, will not
share in this. The cans will be
made in the states. The cans will
be shipped north in containers
not manufactured in the Terri
tory. The tendency will be to
come to the Territory, take out
the product of the north but to
leave as little as possible and less
than formerly. This applies par
ticularly to boxes.
The committee of the Chambei
of Commerce is going south as a
good will organization, but the
people of Alaska are rapidly los
ing their good will when they see
annually a diminution of a re
sponsive good will and they are
going to demand that to which
they believe they are entitled—
Alaska products produced in the
Territory, by Alaska fishermen,
packed in Alaska plants, in con
tainers, cans and boxes made in
Alaska. Nothing else will suffice
or satisfy.
.. Producing in a rather small
way Alaskans have today their
own wire factory for traps. They
want their own can factory and
they wTant their own boxes used
for their own fish.,
It becomes a battle or Alaska
against the world. As long as the
Territory produces the funda
mental product, the fish, it must
and will insist upon manufac
turing, handling and turning out
in its entirety the delcious com
modity which gives so much
pleasure to the epicureans the
world over.
. .Everyone will hope that the
committee going to the states to
liscuss the matter will be suc
cessful, for the general benefit
a,nd welfare of $11 interested.
EDWARD G. MORRISSEY
The above editorial was not
vritten by William L. Paul, or by
iny one connected with The
Vlaskan as many people would
:uppose, but by Edward-G. Mor
issey, editor of the Ketchikan
chronicle and published on the
rd of March of this year.
However, there is no difference
of opinion among us. The polit
ical issue has always been a busi
ness issue. Heretofore the hurt
has been felt only by the laborer.
But ilie- "higher-ups” of the com
mercial clubs cannot escape the
same economic hurts. That is
what caused the Chronicle to
sound its note of warning. What
the Chronicle says about “No
Alaska labor is used,” is just as
true of the cannery business with
their huge traps, contract labor,
outside supplies of piling, groc
eries, boxes, and now cans to
“care for the needs of Alaska.”
“BALLYIIOOVER”
From The Nation
The Hoover administration is
bankrupt—intellectually, moral
ly, and politically. Lacking sturdy
moral principles and a consider
ed plan of action, it has failed to
offer to congress and the coun
try a sorely needed leadership;
and today, at the end of only
fourteen months, it finds itself
discredited in the eyes of all
classes of people. The business
men who put up money to elect
Mr. Hoover on the theory that
they were getting a great busi
i
i —
ness executive with “an engin
eering mind” are becoming dis
gusted with his inability to de
liver the goods, though publicly
they may place the blame else
where. The faithful party work
ers who run campaigns and win
elections are disturbed and con
fused by his lack of political
sense. The plain men who voted
for him in the comfortable as
surance of a continuance of
Coolidge pr osperity now listen
resentfully to the blare of the
loud speaker predicting good
times just around the corner,
while they study the red figures
in their little profit-and-loss ac
counts or tramp the streets look
ing for a job. The farmers,
granted the ineffable boon of
the Farm Board, are trading in
their dollar wheat for the stone
of the Grundy tariff. The pro
hibitionists. who were going to
see the prohibition law enforc
ed, see what they see. The peace
lovers and the taxpayers of the
country, who looked forward to
a Quaker president reducing
needless military burdens, see
the fiasco of London and the big
navy advocates planning to take
advantage of it and build up to
parity with Great Britain. There
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