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LOUIS F. PAUL,.MANAGER and EDITOR
THE COMMITTEE IS
FUNCTIONING
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Last convention of the Alaska
Native Brotherhood, a commit
tee of three to lock into terri
torial political affairs was ap
pointed. That committee is com
posed of President Frank G
Johnson, Kake; Frank D. Price,
Juneau; Louis F. Paul, Peters
burg. Not a few inquiries have
come in to this office requesting
information as to how the com
mittee is functioning and wnat
it i? going to do.
Here goes. President Johnson
was in Petersburg last week. The
entire committee has been in
direct touch with each other at
all times. It is functioning. It is
going to do plenty when it is
time to do it. No sooner. A line
cf campaign is not laid down
ret—not until we sec the moves
of the several candidates and of
the major parties.
In the past, the Brotherhood
and its leaders have stood out
and borne the brunt of each
campaign—in getting up tick
ets. financing elections, in work
ing up platforms, in getting the
Lepublican message over. And in
every war and battle, it is the
men in front who make up the
inc jor casualties. So this year
the organization has given
others the opportunity to step
up in front to assume leader
ship and direction of the politi
cal attacks. It will come in with
its knife this year and will cut
here and there as adroitly or as
viciously as ever did the profes
sional republican democrat.
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WHY THE MISNOMER
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It was pointed out to us that
the Third Division, and the
Fecond Division and the Fourth
Division had organized “Divi
sional Republican Clubs.” In the
I irst Division there was organ
ized a “First Division Campaign
Club.” We don’t understand the
name, the whys nor where
fores. Have the Republicans of
the First Division become a
shamed of being Republican
that they must call themselves
only a “Campaign Club?”
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SO-SO REPUBLICANS
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Already the boss-ridden gang
cf political whatnots of Juneau
is becoming drunk with the ex
pectancy of its future power. It
never slurred its Republican
toe-kissers—in fact, on several
occasions, it went out of its way
to ask Democrats to refrain
from entering the Democratic
primaries and to cross over into
the Republican in order that
their power would not wane.
But listen to this:
“About the only kind not dis
coverable in the lists * * * are
Republicans who in the easily
remembered past were professed
Democrats.” It is not so long
since, the gang of pewees were
proud of the professional repub
lican democrats. Now that there
is a hope, on the part of the old
convention gangsters that they
can wallow without interruption
in the swill of their party, they
lenudiate the “republicans who
ir the easily remembered past
were professed Democrats.”
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SHYING AT SHADOWS
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The federal brigade at Juneau
—that gang which has consist
ently voted democrat and op
posed regular republican terri
torial candidates, but which
owes its allegiance to republi
can appointments,—is pretty
much up in the air. They are
plumb scared that President
Hoover is going to be renomi
nated—they are plumb scared
that, he is going to be defeated
in the general election. They are
grabbing at political straws in
the hopes of staying afloat yet
awhile longer.
It is being hinted, rather
broadly that these “federal re
publicans” are going to support
Senator Dimond in his ambi
tions to become the first Demo
cratic delegate to Congress since
the past two decades. Evidence
of this will become more evident
as time passes by.
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‘ALASKA FISHERMEN’S
UNION’
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Peter E. Olson, secretary of
;the “Alaska Fishermen’s Union’
nas been actively supporting
legislation that will hurt resi
dent labor and opposing other
measures which would benefit
Alaska labor. Mr. Olson is
thought to be an Alaskan by the
members of the House Commit
tee on Marine and Fisheries and
his union, representative of Alas
ka labor. Olson is a Franciscan,
and does not even give evidence
that he has ever been to Alaska
and no one in these parts knows
t;ny thing about the “Alaska
Fishermen’s Union.” There is an
Alaska Troller’s Association,
and an Alaska Seiner’s Associa
tion—the so-called “Alaska
Fishermen’s Union” is a union
cf California fishermen who
come to Alaska and operate for
a couple of months and then
return to the climes of sunr.y
California.
Yet, in spite of being Cali
fornians, these men have the
impertinence to go before the
House Committee opposing the
wishes o f resident Alaskans,
livery Alaskan organization
should repudiate the so-called
Alaska union.
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IN SIMPLE JUSTICE
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H. R. 495 was introduced by
Delegate Wickersham to stop
the practice of bureau and court
officials blackmailing resident
fishermen. In the past petty
cfficials would nab a boat oper
ating for salmon, haul it before
a commissioner’s court, prefer
charges of illegal fishing, let
the operators go and hold the
boat and gear in admiralty in
r cm. In order to get their boat
and gear, to continue earning
their meagre pittance, the fish
ermen would agree to anything
and everything that the legal
ised blackj ackers would demand
“Plead guilty and we will let
you go for a fine of $400”—and
they would. For having the tem
erity to oppose the northern
Mafia’s, an attorney was hauled
op in contempt of court by an
Ohio district attorney. Which
only shows how drunk with
power the petty officials have
become.
Under the prohibition laws,
vehicles used in transportation
of liquor are exempt from se-~
sure until the operator has been
found guilty of violation of the
(’aw. Under the fishery regula
tions, a boat is seized and held
confiscated by the bureau of
fisheries and court action, until
the operator pleads guilty. In
most of the cases the operators
of such fish boats were never
e/en tried—nor any attempt
made to find if they were guilty
or not.
The Alaska Native Brother
hood has held that the proce
dure in liquor violation casey
should apply in fishery cases -
and the bill introduced by Dele
gate Wickersham is in support
of this idea. But, the Alaska
Fishermen’s Union of California
through its secretary, Peter E.
Olson, has stated its objections
to this bill as being discrimina
tory against Alaskans and would
'entail extra legal machinery to
permit the functioning of the
law. And further that it would
; curtail the powers of the Bu
' reau of Fisheries. We agree that
the power of causing an abor
| tion of justice in many instanc
; es would be taken from the Bu -
jreau of Fisheries—but, already
jthat bureau has too much po
wer. No fafrminded citizen of
| Alaska can quarrel with nor op
pose the bill presented by Dele
gate Wickersham and this bill
should have the support of
every business house and or
ganization in the Territory.
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PARTY LINE-UPS
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For the past several months,
v.e have stated that the primaiy
line-ups are going to be some
what different. In the past,
there have been no contests in
the Democratic primaries—in
this election the party is torn up
several ways as to candidates
and as to principle. The “Old
Guard” versus the ‘‘Young
Guard.” the one demanding
abolishment of the primary laws
and the other demanding its- re
tention. The Republicans who
would crow over this division
should not. air their dirty linen
for the division is no different
m that camp.
The line-up this year is con
servative reactionary versus
'iberal progressive. The conser •
vative of both major parties are
going to swing together in the
hope of gathering control of all
elective and appointive offices—
the liberals are getting together
with loins girded for the battle
of the century. Conservative Re
publicans and Conservative De
mocrats are making entangling
alliances—the liberal Republi
cans and the liberal Democrats
will stand together to prevent
the continued rape of the Ter
ritory.
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Lutneau chamber opposes
CONSERVATION MEASURE
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The Juneau Chamber of Com
merce has gone on record and is
protesting H. R. 897, introduced
by Delegate Wickersham—a bin
to prohibit the wanton waste
and destruction of salmon and
other food fish. The bill is aim
ed to prevent the further des
truction of the herring fisheries
which are now in a sad state of
depletion.
The bill is in line with a reso
lution drafted by the Petersburg
Chamber of Commerce, endors
ed by the Ketchikan and Wran
gell Chambers and the conven
tion of the Grand Camp of the
Alaska Native Brotherhood, last
November in Yakutat. The text
of the resolution was substan
iated by George Rounsfell, Jr
'Pecial investigator for the U.
S. Bureau of Fisheries.
The action of the Juneau or
ganization is not only opposed
:o the other organizations, but
its continued effort to negate
Mhe will of the majority is aim
i negation of the Territorial
Democratic platform adopted at
Fairbanks recently. We quo'e
he paragraph specifically re
el ring to the herring fisheries:
“We recognize that the con
servation of herring is vital to
die halibut and salmon fishing
ndustry and we are OPPOSED
TO THE WANTON DESTRUC
TION of the herring supply.”
If President Allen Shattuck
uses his influence, and if other
Democrats oppose this bill, the\
show the insincerity of their
adoption of the plank opposing
'he wanton waste and destruc
tion of the herring supply.
The Chambers of Commerce
cannot afford to neglect follow
ng up their resolution urging
Die protection of the herring
fisheries. It is good business to
protect that supply for the en
tire halibut and trolling indue
'ri.es are dependent upon the
apply of herring. Continued
destruction of this fisheries
means the ultimate destruction
if the other fisheries. In other
*ords, failure to support the
Delegate on this bill is to com
mit economic suicide.
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Washington Newsletter
By Will A. Steel
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Senator Dill, or Washington,
and Representative Connery, of
Massachusetts, have introduced
: an identical bill in Congress
making an appropriation of ten
million dollars to aid the States
of the union to pay old pensions,
at the ratio of two-thirds by
the State and one-third by the
| Government. The bill dees not
| include the Territories and
| when Delegate Wickersham call
; ed this fact to the attention of
the men who introduced the bill
' they both agreed that Alaska
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should be included and consent
ed to see that when the bill was
considered in committees that
the necessary change is made.
Bishop Peter Trimble Rowe, in
charge of the Episcopal activi
ties in the north, and Dr. Graf
ton Burke, in charge of the
hospital at Fort Yukon, have
been in Washington the past
week. They visited the Interior
Department and entered their
protest against the ki£h rates
that are charged for freight and
passenger service on the Alaska
Railroad, and at the Depart
ment of Justice they made a
plea for the reappointment oi
Judge Cecil H. Clegg in the
Fourth Division.
Peter E. Olsen, Secretary-1
Treasurer of the Alaska Fisher
men’s Union at San Francisco,
left for the west after spending
ten days in Washington. He was
here to advocate the passage of
the Welch bill, which provides
that floating canneries in Alas
, kan waters shall only operate
I when their owners in December
shall indicate where they intend
to get their fish the following
season. As the Marine and Fish
eries committee will not have a
hearing on this particular bi'.i
for several weeks Capt. Olsen
made a deposition favoring the
bill and urging an amendment.
Others are expected here later
to oppose the bill.
Delegate Wickersham was very
much gratified recently to re
ceive a wire from the Secretary
of the Kodiak Republican Club,
stating that he was directed to
advise that in its platform a
dopted Jan. 4th. the Club de
clared that “We approve and
stand for those principles and
Territorial policies as promul
gated and advocated by our De
legate in Congress, James Wick
ersham, and we stand for his
continuance in office.”
Capt. and Mrs. Wallace Lang
ley are spending a couple of
weeks in Washington while on
!rn extended Eastern trip. They
now make their home in Seattle
although the Captain has spent
many summers in Alaska, hav -
ing vessels that ply to the west
ward and others that run on the
Xuskokwim river.
In the Jan. 10th Sunday edi
tion of the New York Herald
Tribune are two pages of photc
engravure illustrations of Alas
ka animal scenes. These pictures
were taken on an expedition in
I to Southeastern Alaske last sum
mer by Arthur N. Pack and
j William L. Finley on the yacht
Westward, under the auspices
of the American Nature Associa
tion and Nature Magazine. Their
object was to photograph animal
I and bird life and in particular
I to study the habits of the Alas
kan brown bear.
The Indian Rights Associa
tion, of Philadelphia, which has
tc its credit 48 years of active
and non-partisan work for In
dian civilization and citizenship,
has become interested in the
reindeer industry o f Alaska.
Through its Washington repre
sentative, S. M. Brosius, the fol
lowing information has been
furnished Delegate Wickersham:
‘The Home Missions Council,
at its annual meeting held in
Toronto January 5, 1932, adopt
ed a resolution calling on the
Secretary of the Interior, ‘in the
interest of justice to a less pri
vileged and helpless race,’ to use
a'l the power and influence of
his office to secure the absolute
separation of the reindeer herds
as between the Natives of Alas
ka and the whites, and the es
tablishment of defiinite ranges
for the Eskimos, or Natives. The
Government introduced the
reindeer as a food commodity
for the Eskimo, with the inten
tion that ownership should vest
solely in the Natives and in cer
tain missions to hold and ad
minister in behalf of the Na
tives. Strong white commercial
interests have obtained large
holdings and up to the present
time all the deer, regardless of
ownership, have been run in
common herds. The Natives
have felt that the intermingling
of the herds has worked to their
disadvantage and materially to
the advantage of the whites.
WRANGELL CAMP
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