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FISHERMEN ARE SATISFIED
“Everyone seems to be satisfied
with the present salmon fishing re
gulations and they seem to be suc
cessful, as the l&rge packs this
season would indicate, and to the
entire satisfaction of the fishermen.
This success, I think, is due to the
untiring efforts of Mr. O’Malley, U.
S. fish commissioner, wiio is contin
ually on the ground during the fish
ing season. No new reulations are
contemplated by the fisheries bu
reau, but if any changes should be
decided upon, they will be made by
Mr. O’Malley.”
Such is a statement of Lawrence
Ritchie, private secretary to Secre
tary of Commerce Herbert Hoover.
Mr. Ritchie made a trip throughout
the territory “investigating” the
fisheries. The conclusions to which
he has arrived are being broadcast
ed as fact because of his official po
sition. It carries weight for upon
his report to Hoover along with the
recommendations of O’Malley hangs
the fate of the fishermen of Alaska.
“The entire satisfaction of the
fishermen.” Go where the fisher
men congregate and ask any ^fisher
man if the conditions in the indus
try are to his satisfaction. Ask him
it he made wages. Ask him if it is
possible for a fisherman to go out
and fish anywhere without violating
the laws and still earn sufficient to
pay his working expenses. Ask the
fishermen of Ketchikan wffiat the
average catch was this summer and
he will tell you 7,000 which is just
a fair catch in better days. Ask the
fisherman if he benefited by the 130,
000 case pack of the Petersburg
Packing Company and he will tell
you that the average catch of the
men working for this cannery was
not more than 20.000, which in bet
ter days could be caught in one set.
Ask the fishermen of Sitkoh Bay
and they will tell you that high
boat there shared $80. to the man.
Go to Wrangell and the conditions
are not any more satisfactory. Mr.
George Barnes, one of the owners of
the Sanitary Packing Company ju°t
a few days before he left for sunny
California expressed himself as be
ing sorry for the fishermen who. did
not make a decent living wage? this
summer. Report from the West
Coast of Prince of Wales is no bet
ter.
Do to the Untiring Efforts
} - t, _ . * of O’Malley
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The unsatisfactory economic con
dition which the fishermen face this
year according to Mr. Ritchie “is
due to the untiring efforts of Mr.
O’Malley.” Mr. Locken, “independ
ent” candidate for the legislature
iust recently declared the condition
is due entirely to Delegate Suther
land. We don’t think Locken knows
anything about the fisheries and be
cause of his “intefisive” study of
the situation Ritchie should know
more about the promulgation of re
gulations and rightly lays present
conditions at the right door. That
regulations and effort as creates
hardship and depletes population as
well as the fisheries shows his state
of mind and the trend of legislation
to which the so-called independent
ticket is pledged.
As a matter of fact, Ritchie spent
a couple of hours in Petersburg with
the packers giving no ear to the
fishermen or those advancing their
cause. He might have listened, out
of respect to one or two, but he for
got all about it before he -was out of
port an hour.
The packs this year to those con
versant with the fisheries situation
bespeaks complete depletion of the
salmon streams within the next ten
years unless honest effort at con
servation is made.
The aim of the Republican nom
inees is honest conservation of this
industry and population as well.
The aims of the so-called indepen
dent party is conservation of vested
interests. How can a party domin
ated by attorneys representing the
packers represent their constitu
ency honestly and at the same time
accept retaining fees from packing
interests?
The conditions existing today are
intolerable in the fisheries fields
and the only remedial measure,
without loss of population, is the
absolute abolition of the trap sys
tem. If the electors believe that
the so-called independent voters
ticket will better the conditions and
improved legislation will be secured,
then they should cast their ballot
for that party. But so long as their
official and subsidized press are an
ti-fishermen in their propoganda it
will be well for the voters to look,
before the leap.
THE BANKERS TICKET
The “Independent” ticket is well
named. Hardy of the First Nation
al Bank of Juneau. Edward Locken
of the Bank of Petersburg. A. E.
Gurr, of the Bank of Alaska, Wran
gell. Allen Shattuck, insurance
agent with interests allied with the
bankers. Tony Dirnomd of Valdez,
leading senator of thee independent
party, attorney for 6he Alaska Pack
ers. Murray, leadter of the so-called
independent‘faction in the House
opposing every measure that was of
benefit to i&e laboring class of citi
zens of the Territory
Other leading lights of the so
called independent party is that
Canadian citizen Herbert Lu Faulk
ner,; holding a retaining fee from a
number of canneries;' R. E. Robert
fcon, who before a Committee in the
House of Representatives declared
that he represented mere than a
hundred corporations in Alaska;
Trey—Eleven ounces of the Empire,
subsidized mouthpiece of the can-(
neries, unalterably opposed to trap
I rohibitions; Edward G. Morrissey,
another spokesman representing
the packers, who is said to have
been an I. W. W. agent along the
Sound Country but who is said to
have been kicked out of that organi
zation. Stroller White a political
trough feeder of the Democrtic ma
chine regime aA $5,000. per annum;
all having their own particular axes
10 grind and the devil with the best
"merest of the Territory .
"Ves, a vote for the bankers ticket
will bring prosperity—to the bank
ers andperhaps they will be gracious
onoug.k to make liberal laws where
by tfee citizens of Alaska will benefit
by the paper industry which they
held out as bait to make the poor
elector forget about those regula
tions promulgated by their crowd
which makes it impossible to earn a !
decent wage from the fishing indus-1
dustry
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DEFAMING ALASKA ^
The alleged independent party is
making a lot of political smoke out
of the alleged defamation of the
good name of Alaska. Sutherland
did it they say. He it is who has
brought shame upon Alaska. Dr.
Wilson is oft quoted for declaring
tertain conditions in Alaska incom
parable even in heathen lands. But
we do not see them quoting the pe
tition of the Mothers of Ketchikan
who declared conditions intolerable
nor the Indian Mothers who peti
tioned that their children have the
chance to grow up in proper at
mosphere. Nor do we see them
publishing, much less refer to the
Grand Jury report to. the Judge at
■\ aldez, a report signed by eleven
decent women and eleven respect
able men yet which would not be
permitted in the United States
mails. A report telling of moral
lepers, physical degenerates import
ed committing crimes against na
ture and scattering physical filth
and disease in the land.
No. But they damn Delegate
Sutherland for exposing those con
ditions and forcing the packers to
insist on a better class of cannery
labor. Look at the report of Cop
pernol, who declares that conditions
are far improved over that of
last year; where last year there
were 20 criminals removed from the
Bristol Bay section alone, this year
there were none. Were conditions
as well as they would have us be
lieve then why the removal of 20
criminals. The regulations called
for this year are but the direct re
sult of the exposure made by Suth
erland. We have read the Hearst
article and certainly no one but of
the literati can construe defamation
of the entire Territory.
However, so long as Troy, Morris
sey are proud of and resent the un
moral and filthy degeneracy of such
cannery labor, they should not both
er with staying in Alaska where a
higher type of citizenry is desired.
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BUILDING UP ALASKA
Last year the Petersburg Pack
ing Company sent a couple of her
tenders to Seattle for repairs. For
this they paid $14,000 to Seattle
mechanics. This year they send
three tenders^to Seattle for repairs.
Vt hen the citizens of Alaska pur
chase from agencies in the States,
the pro-canneryites yell “patronize
home industry.” When the migra
tory prostitutors of our resources
have any buying to do or repairing
of boats they take it to Seattle. It
would seem that Alaska has no me
chanics able to repair boats. It
would seem that the Petersburg Ma
rine Ways was not large enough to
handle the jobs. Still we remember J
seing these same boats on the ways
geting a coat of paint. Perhaps the
Wrangell boat shop is unable to do
the work . At least they might be
!
given a chance to bid on the work. ]
Fourteen thousand for overhauling
two boats in Seattle. Fourteen
thousand dollars turned loose in
Petersburg in particular would
mean more to Alaska than the same
sum spent in Seattle.
Patronize home Industry is just
a3 applicable to cannerymen as to
residents and would bring a better
feeling between residents and the
packers if they were more fair in
the consideration of the needs of
n sident labor. i
• TEACHING ILLITERATES’
Five million persons in the United
States who are more than 10 years
old can neither read nor write. To
meet this situation, the* General
Federation of Women’s Clubs, the
American Legion, the National Edu
cation Association, and the United
States Bureau of Education more
than a year ago called a conference
iu Washington of persons interested
in the reduction of illiteracy. An
outgrowth of the conference was the
appointment by the Commissioner
of Education, by request, of a rep
resentative committee to recom
mend subject matter and methods
of teaching native and foreign-born
adult illiterates. The work of this
committee is embodied in Bulletin
No. 8, 1925, Elementary Instruc
tion of Adults, by the Chairman,
Charles M. Herlhy, Massachussets
State Supervisor of Alien Edu
tionState Supervisor of Alien Edu
cation. It comprises a simple and
practical method of instruction in
reading, writing, conversation, spell
ing, and simple arithmetic especial
ly adapted to adult illiterates.—
A'aska School Bulletin.
(Reading the Empire and Chron
icle we somehow got the Impres
sion that illiteracy was rampant
alone in Alaska and that the poor
Indian for that reason was a men
ace to the Territory . But when
Prof. Henderson, Commissioner of
Education declares that 5,000,000
illiterates are in the United States
ever the age of ten years, then we
must say that the “menace” in the
Territory is but a dtop in the buck
et and the energy of certain politi
cal mouthpieces is misspent.
GERMANS DEVELOP MOTOR
Experimental work has been car
red on for some months past in the
hope of making a simplified crude
oil motor the motor of the future in
the automotive industry. Consider
able advancement in this work has
been obtained by an engineer of
Munich.
The Robert Bosch Aktiengesell
achaft, Stuttgart, Germany, has ac
quired the sole rights of utilizing
patents and has been carrying on
exreriments with the assistance of
the inventing engineer for about 18
months to bring the improved crude
oil motor to a practical stage of
construction. It is stated that the
price of this new engine is higher
than the cost of the gasoline motor,
but the saving in fuel will more
than- offset the difference.
There are on file in the Automo
bile Division of the ^Department of
Commerce, illustrations of this mo
tor, fuel pump and the spray nozzle
v hich will convey an idea of the
construction.
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