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Lawyers and Liberty
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Edmond Burke, said, Lawyers
in the colonies were the cause of
the unrest because they foresaw
the evils of a bad law whereas
the average person cared noth
ing until the wrong was suffered.
The people of Alaska are prov
ing this statement. When Justin
W. Harding was an applicant for
the judgeship of the First Divi
sion, the only person (a lawyer)
protested his confirmation and
argued that he was:
(1) . Temperamentally unfit,
and
(2) He was ignorant of law.
Now the truth of this charge
became apparent. Every lawyer,
except two timeservers, and
every citizen would sign a peti
tion asking Harding’s removal
for these very reasons.
Why should the people of Alas
ka wait until the chains of
tyranny are forged and shackled
about their necks?
It is now revealed that that
practice of District Attorney j
Harding of blackmailing of in-1
nocent fishermen into pleas of
“guilty” or seizing their boats
was begun at the command of
the United States Bureau of
Fisheries. What is Alaska com
ing to when a bureau begins to
direct the United States Depart
ment of Justice and a subser
vient District Attorney is re
warded with a judgeship?
This has caused the Seward1
Gateway to say, “It (the Bureau
of Fisheries) has notified Kent
Robinson, U. S. Commissioner at
Cordova, that starting next year!
the Bureau will NOT PERMIT
ITS CASES TO GO INTO THE
COMMISSIONER’S COURT, as
misdemeanors, but would seize
boats and gear and hold all vio
lations for the district court.
Thus the ordinary citizen, ar
rested and branded as guilty by
any representative of a federal
bureau, may be denied the right
to a preliminary hearing.”
We are not surprised at the
boldness of the Bureau of Fish
eries. Alaska, in spite of her so
called “hundred percenters” is a
land of slaves, of whom Henry
O’Malley is a fitting slave mas
ter.
Citizens are not yet aware
that O’Malley (and Justin W.
Harding) can yet “crack the
whip”—an “anti-syndicalist” law
that still remains on the books
of Alaska’s laws—of this we will
^’rite later.
Consuming Power Comes First
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The Territory, if it must suc
ceed and become a state, must
obey a natural law. And that is
the basis of prosperity is con
sumption. Every business in the
Territory is dependent almost
entirely upon the prosperity of
the masses and the masses are
the consumers of commodities
The greater their prosperity, the
greater their buying power—the
greater their consumption.
This year is a demonstrated
fact that none can deny. The
cannery workers average great
er earnings than do the fisher
men. The average high boat
shared from $30 to $50 per share
in Ketchikan; they did better in
Wrangell where the conditions
were better and where the em
ployers were more fair and had
greater concern over the future
of the wage earners. The earn
ings on Prince of Wales Island,
and Kake, the earnings of the
men at Port Althrop and other
canneries of the northern sec
tions are a shame to Alaska or to
any territory with the natural
resources at hand.
Where the people of Kake
would be coming to town to
spend from $30,000 to $70,000
they are not coming to spend
anything for they have nothing
to spend. The same is true in
Juneau for there the workers in
Excursion Inlet, Port Althrop,
Hoonah, Angoon and other can
neries, the men did not earn
enough to go to town to spend
their earnings. The business
houses are the first to feel the
lack of earnings. The investment
cf the business men has been
jeopardized through the lack of
common sense. It has been jeo
pardized by the Siren songs of
the Trap Circes who only sing
for their own aggrandizement.
Now the territory must pay and
cnly through the taste and feel
of adversity.
The Alaska Native Brother
hood and its publications have
fought to prevent just such a
situation and condition. Unsup
ported in the past their efforts
have been negated through ig
norance and prejudice but ig
norance and prejudice will not
now ameliorate the intolerable
situation which confronts both
labor—the producers of wealth —
and the distributors of commo
dities.
When Alaska gets down to
fundamentals and follows the
basic fact—prosperity means
consumption— and permits its
laborers to become prosperous,
then it will make great strides
of progress.
Generates Versus Facts
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We have before us a clipping
from an Alaskan paper of sever
al years ago—during that time
when the industrial czars of
Alaska were buying the good will
of the Territory through adver
tisements in the press. We quoio
some of the paragraphs:
“The statement that the pack
ers bring outside labor into the
territory for the season and pay
^them at outside points at the
conclusion is a common one.
(What is feasible at one point
may be practical or quite im
possible at another). When found
to be true investigation will
prove it to be so only in cases
where the canneries are located
at isolated points, where no local
labor is to be had, and where
there are often no merchandis
ing institutions except cannery
commissaries in which the men
may spend their money. On the
other hand in Southeastern
[Alaska where the country is
| more thickly settled by far the
j greater percentage of employees
are residents of Alaska.”
1 The Demmert and Peratrovich
canneries employed more local
labor than did the combined
canneries of Ketchikan—t h e
‘ city that cans the most fish in
the 'world.” In Ketchikan alone
more than four hundred Orient
als were imported to do the can
| nery work, in 1932, while resident
| labor had to sit around waiting
; and hoping that during the peak
[of the rush season they would
! secure employment. Port Althrop
] alone employed 160 Orientals
and so it went up and down the
line.
These conditions were con- J
demned back in 1925 when the'
Beef Trust of Chicago was reallyj
beginning to import their labo";
and it was seen then that such'
Importation was to the detri-'
ment to the territory.
Herbert tHoover once said,
“Scientific discussion, pious state j
ments or political oratory will
not spawn salmon. Neither will!
loose discussion, unfounded de-j
rogatory statements or political;
chicanery bring about conditions!
conducive to getting the best
from the fisheries industry foi
Alaska or the packers.” To which
we will agree. But we do not a
gree that, following the obser
vations of the trend of the in
dustry since seven years ago.
that the Chica^ Beef Trust was
not “loose in discussion,” used
“unfounded derogatory state
ments or political chicanery” to
gain control of the fisheries.
Today there are more salmon
in the streams—during that part
cl the season when the canners
want them not and the fisher
men cannot use them—than any
other part of the season. “Pious
statements” of the commissioner
of fisheries have not alleviated
the intolerable situation among
the fishermen but on the con- j
trary the canners have made no
effort to secure an understand- j
ing of the mutual problems con-i
fronting those engaged in the
industry and the citizens of
Alaska and a sane consideration
oi tnose proDiems in a spirit oi
sincerity to aid materially in
their solution.”
.We cannot but point to the
closing paragraph which is a
gem in thought:
“Alaska’s chief industry is
worthy of honest, unprejudiced
consideration at the hands of
every Alaskan,” and we might
add at the hands of every can
ner. The consideration from that'
source has been mighty little in i
the past and not much to be1
hoped for in the future.
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IT WENT THROUGH
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“Good news comes from Ju
neau in the announcement of
the granting of a preliminary
waterpower development permit
to the California paper syndicate
headed by George T. Cameron.
This is regarded at Juneau as in
dicating beyond any doubt that
the Cameron interests, which
spent a lot of money for power
surveys and timber investiga
tions, are going through with
their pulp and paper project in
the Juneau district. It also i; '
reported that the Zellerbach in- \
terests have assured a Ketchikan \
delegation that the Ketchikan I \
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project will go through also.” \l
This was taken from the An- j t
chorage Daily Times editorialj t
page printed several years back i t
We bring it to light at this time j \
to point out the fact to the wood ! t
-be-pulp mill advocates that the J|
“projects did go through” even "
though it was “reassuring news.”
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