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O. O. PARKS,.BUSINESS MANAGER
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Odservations from Different Viewpoints
“People everywhere are en
gaged in gainful' occupations/'
Parks reported. “There are no
idie laborers anywhere, neither
are there any extra jobs, there,
fore there is no chance for ad
ditional labor and influx of men
seeking employment would be
unwise.”
It is an old axiom that you can
always find what you are look
ing for. In Juneau the writer
counted 100 idle men from the
Juneau ferry dock to the Juneau
sawmill dock. At the Alaska
Juneau employment office there
is a sign “NO MEN WANTED.”
Yet every day from morning till
night there is an average of a
dozen men sitting abreast the
office, hungrily watching for
an opportunity to get on. We
saw men sleeping in the mill
slab burner; we saw many men
hanging on in the pool halls.
The saerri picture was drawn
for us from Cordova by a labor
ing man who had just returned
from that port. In the presence
of a federal official we were told,
“I was employed by the Road
Commission to go on a job in
Fairbanks but there was a cut
in road appropriations so I was
sent back. I don’t know what I
am going to do, but I intend to
eat. Yep, I won’t go hungry
next winter if I have to eat in
I We make these observations
not in criticism of the Governor
but point to those “jungles"
which federal and territorial of
ficials are hardly aware of.
The fishing season temporari
ly takes care of several hundred
residents but their earnings are
so pitifully small that one may
well wonder how they keep body
and soul together.
Canada with one-third the
salmon pack, employes three
times as many men in her salm
on fisheries than does Alaska—
Alaska, 3,000 and Canada, 9000..
There is plenty of work for
non-residents but not if you are
a resident. It is reported that
salmon packers in the Icy
Straits section are not employ
ing resident fishermen with
their boats BUT they are em
ploying fishermen from Ana
cortes. If that is what the resi
dent business wants, they wiil
continue to get such treatment.
| Resident labor spends where it
ican get the most for its dollar,
j When its dollars are few, it goes
i to the cheaper mail order hous
jes and when it has more to
j spend, it spends with local busi
ness houses.
There is plenty of room for
greater employment of resident
! labor in the fisheries to the ad
vantage of all Alaskans.
Where the Last Legislaturs Failed
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During the last legislature, it
was urged that this law making
body pass a law standardizing
Alaska scale of labor and to in
sist through law that where
Territorial fund s be used on
construction work, resident la
bor be required.
This legislature will go down in
history as the most assinine
body of law makers in Alaskas
brief legislative history. Today
on territorial construction jobs,
80 per cent of the men employed
never were residents of the Ter
ritory and most likely never will,
and it is easier and cheaper
to import Spokane, Wn., labor
than to employ at Alaska wages,
rc ident labor.
7n Napoleon, Ohio, the An
derson Construction Company
of Chicago, which has a govern
n nt contract for building a
$63,500 postoffice building, was
brought into line with the new
law enacted at the last session
of Congress safeguarding wages
! on federal construction. j
The concern was given the1
contract on condition that it
pay prevailing wage rates and
employ local workers, of whom
many are unemployed. Howev
er, it offered laborers only 25
cents an hour, and when it could
not induce local workers to ac
cept that rate it imported men
for the job. ,
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Through the efforts of Con
gressman Frank C. Kniffin, the
Anderson company was induced!
to comply with the law and is
now paying local wage scales,
making it unnecessary to oppeal
to the Secretary of Labor forj
a ruling. I
A Friend of Alaska-Rep. Rankin, Democrat
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Speech by Hon. Rankin, Demo
crat in Congress.
Mr. Rankin. Mr. Chairman,
fi ;t I desire to express myregret
tl it the gentleman from Alaska
(, r. Sutherland) is leaving this
b- ly. I have served with him
o a member of the Committee
c.i Territories ever since I have
been in the House. While we are
of different faiths, I desire to
say without fear of successful
contradiction that the gentle
man from Alaska is the best
friend the people of that Terri
tory have in public life today,
according to his works. (Ap
plause.)
He knows more about the Ter
ritory than any other man I
know, and has devoted his years
of service to trying to take care
of the people of Alaska. His ex- j
it from this House will be a dis-j
tinct loss to the people of this!
a distinct loss to the people of j
Alaska.
Mr. Chairman. I am opposed!
to this bill to raise the salary
of the Governor of Alaska from'
$7,000 to $10,000 a year.
This House has just refused
to raise the salaries of Govern
ment workers in the United
States, largely because of the
fact that we are in the midst of
a great depression. A dollar will
buy more now than it would a
year ago, so that tha salary of
the Governor of Alaska has been
automatically raised by the re
duction in the price of commod
ities without any reduction ini
his salary.
I regret to say, Mr. Chairman,
that the policy of the United'
States at the preesnt time to- j
ward its insular and Territorial!
possessions is one of exploita-j
tion. That is the reason we do
not give the Phillippine Islands
their independence. If you will
take the hand of exploitation
off the Phillippines and let them
know that for all time to come
they will be deprived of exploit
ing those islands, then you will
see all opposition to the inde
pendence of the Philippines de
stroyed and a bill passed in both
House and Senate to give them
their immediate independence.
You take Porto Rico. Every -
thing that is produced in Porto
Rico today is gobbled up by ex
ploitation elements in the Unit
ed States and certain countries
of the Old World to such an ex •
tent that today we have the
most abject poverty throughout
that island—a condition where
by the people there can not get
enough to eat, although living
in one of the richest possessions
of America’s insular possessions.
The Territory of Hawaii isj
more fortunate because morej
Americans have moved there;
but in the Territory of Alaska
our exploitation policies are in
defensible, and Dan Sutherland
has done more than any other
man on his side of the House to
take the hands of these exploit
ationists from that Territory
and permit the people who live
there to earn and enjoy a liveli -
hood such as is enjoyed in con
tinental United States.
The average man does not
know about conditions in Alas
ka. I have said on the floor of
this House before that we are
virtually giving a subsidy to the
cannery interests in Alaska
amounting in value to that of
the wheat crop of Ohio or the
cotton crop of the State of Ten
nessee. Yet you are driving
from the fishing grounds, by
the very policies which have
been adopted, the white people
1 who have gone there to try to
make their homes. And the
| most pathetic thing about it ail
I is that you have driven those
poor Indians from their fishing
grounds until today they write
me that they and their children
are looking into the dark future
without a ray of hope. I can
never forget my visit to Alaska
in 1923. The President of the
United States. Mr. Harding, went
| there just after we did, and at
; Ketchikan an old Indian chief
went to him—and I can never
forget his expression—and said,
“Mr. President, we like fish, but
we must now beg fish from the
canneries.” What did that
mean? It meant that these
fishing areas had been farmed
out or given out, without a dol
lar of remuneration to the
United States, to those large
canning companies and they
drive those white people and
those Indians from the fishing
grounds until today they are un -
able to even take their living
from the waters of the streams
on which their ancestors have
lived for thousands of years.
I want to serve notice on
you now that if we ever do come
into power in this House and in
the other body while I am a
member of this House, those
conditions are going to be
changed.
RULE OF THE CZARS
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Perhaps I can explain to
We reprint statements from
the reports of two governors in
order that these who run may
read.
Down in Kasheets Bay, the j
Bureau of Fisheries has placed
markers indicating areas closed
to fishing from point to point.
Under the law of 1924 the un -
derstanding is that fishing is
prohibited within the markers.
Comes now the stream watch
man who advises that the clos
ed area is not within the mark
ers but several hundred feet be
yond the markers.
This is the quarrel with thei
Bureau of Fisheries—they make
elastic regulations that are not
within the intent of the law of
1924. Government by the Bu
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1931 Sales Dates:
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made as usual
when requested
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EATTEE FUREXCHANGE
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reau of Fisheries in Alaska has1
come to the point where its1
authority exceeds even that of
Congress which makes the laws,
and pays for its operation andj
for the functioning of the bu-|
reau which has control of the|
fisheries.
The Result
Out of this confusion and
j conflict between the law and bu
! reaucratic regulation arises a
j disrespect for the law. “I am
going to get that fish regard
less of regulation.” And so the
j bureau of fisheries, by its un
fair, unjust and illegal regula
tions drive otherwise honest,
law abiding citizenry into vio-;
lation of the law.
The sooner the Bureau of
Fisheries is brought under the|
direct control of Alaskans, the,
sooner will the present intoler-i
able conditions be clarified.
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YES, LOOK AT KLAWOCK
In a recent statement in Ket-i
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chikan, Henry O'Malley pointed;
to the Klawock escapement ofi
salmon, last year. Literally!
millions went up that stream,1
due to the system of regulation!
as enforced by the Bureau of
Fisheries, he says.
There was no salmon in that:
stream during the fore part of!
the season. After the season
closed, the stream was jammed
with salmon which were unable
to go up stream. When the dry
weather came on and the stream
was not deep enough to care for
the travelling fish, they were
unable to go down stream be
cause of a weir which permitted
only upstream travel. The weir
was finally cut away, but many
thousands of salmon were de
stroyed. Instead of being a ben
efit to the industry, this was a
distinct waste. The fish did not
go into cans as food nor did
they escape to spawn.
Draw your own conclusions as
to what constitutes a benefit un
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