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Louis F. Paul. Editor and Manager.
ANNOUNCE DIVIDENDS
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The Alaska Packer’s Associa
tion, it is announced, will declare
its regular $2. dividend payable
November 10 to stockholders as
oi' October 31. This is a quarter
ly dividend on pack production.
Another dividend is declared
each year from their insurance
fund.
Have you wondered Mr. Busi
ness Man. how many oi' you in
Alaska are going to declare a di
vidend for this year, let alone a
quarterly dividend? And how
many of your fishermen custom
ers are going to do without many
of the common necessities of life
which you sell? That your best
customers are not the small
number of independently weal
thy, but the vast majority of
wage earners?
UNITED STATES MUSSOLINNIj
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The American people are j
prone to point a scoffing fingerj
at the autocratic Mussolinic rule j
of Italy. That government be- ;
ing an autocracy such a rule is
more or less winked at by mem
bers and citizens of other coun
tries. But when such an auto
cratic system entrenches itself
within the borders of a republic
an form of government the citi
zens qf such a democracy bow
as base born slaves to the power;
of the masters in control.
Specific mention is made of i
the autocratic, bureacratic mis- j
rule of Alaska and abuse of pow- i
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or to the hurt of the Territory—'
O’Maiieyism of Alaska’s fisher
ies.
Stop Vessels on High Seas
Vessels travelling peacefully
and lawfully about their business
were stopped and boarded by
petty fish wardens and ordered
to open hatches and questioned
as to where they obtained their
salmon.
In one instance, gasboat
Peasant,- of Kake, was forced to
lose a week’s fishing because the
boat was a mile offshore from a
closed area.
Another boat, running thru a
severe storm, ran into a bay that
was closed to commericial fish
ing, anchored and the crew were
in bed when boarded by a ward
en who ordered them to weigh
anchor and get out of the bay
and head back into a storm at
night. The crew refused to
move even under threat of ar
rest for violation of a law of
which they were not guilty.
In Sulzer inlet all bights and
little bays on one side of the in
let were closed by O’Malleys flat
to seiners—but on the opposite
shore in the same inlet, traps
were permitted to operate.
A local man went up Peters
burg creek to see a frier d. The
only boat he had was a gillnet
skiff with net on board. While
ashore visiting, a fish warden
confiscates the net over the
protest of the owner without
avail. After the net became rot
ted and unfit for use, the warden
offers to return it to the owner
who refuses to take it back as iU
value is nil. Hw-lP,
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Wardens are reported as fi'-fl
ing in closed areas for commer
cial purposes and claim the right
is given them by their local
boss ‘‘Captain” O’Connor.
SHOULD BE INVESTIGATED
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Friends of United States Fish
Commisioner, Henry O’Malley,
defend him and claim him to be
honest in his regulation of the
fish industry of Alaska.
The ALASKAN at this time
challenges that statement and
charges that his administration
of the Alaska fisheries is by and
with the consent of the Big
Packing Combine, that his re
gulations are to protect their in
terest alone and NOT for the
conservation of the fisheries.
Why Close Yakutat Area?
Capt. M. B. Dahl this fall went
to Yakutat to buy cohoes from
the fishermen. He found th it
the Libby, McNeil & Libby can
nery were paying 15 cents f n
the same kind of salmon that
they were buying for 85 cents in
this end of the Division. So
Captain Dahl offered 30 cents
and got the fish. The next trip
to Yakutat the company offered
35 cents so Dahl went them bet
ter by paying 40 cents. Before
he finished getting his load one
of those peculiar O’Malley fiat?
was issued closing down the Ya
kutat district. •
Now, earlier in the fall Cap -
tain Dahl saw Mr. O’Malley and (
was assured implicitly and be- :
yond question that there was
no reason why Dahl should not
procure all the salmon at Yaku
tat he desired and that he could
proceed without fear of the bu
reau.
The Libby company fearing a
payment of standard prices fo»
salmon giving a living wage to
the fishermen procured through
O’Malley or his force, the regu
lation closing Yakuatat distritc.
Again we assert that the Unit
ed States Congress should step
in and throw out the dirty linen
from the O'Malley regime and
but the fisheries o. Alaska on it;
proper basis.
THEY MAKE OUR FISH LAWS
Going back over the hearings
before the Merchant Marine and
Fisheries Committee in Wash
ington, 1921, Representative Ed
munds of Illinois, Packing House
District, Chicago, he has this to
say: “Mr. Edmunds. I may be
dense, but from my own experi
ence and observation up there,
I would say that fishing by traps
gave the fish more chance to
reproduce than did fishing by
nets and purse seines.
“Mr. Sutherland. No that is
not a fact.
“Mr. Edmunds. That is my own
I observation. I saw it myself; I
saw hundreds of nets, and of
course the fish had no opportun
ity to get into the streams.
“Mr. Sutherland. That can be
done.
“Mr Edmunds. And I know
this, if you set a trap and it is
I set properly, the fish have a
chance to go upstream.”
The joker being that “if the
[traps WERE SET right they
would give the fish a chance to
I go up stream—BUT they are set
to get all the fish. It matters
not whether the . fish are caught
| by seine or trap if not enough
! are permitted to escape the in
dustry will suffer and the Ter
ritory must suffer the conse
quences in the end.
The primary object in the
fight of Alaskans is preservation
of salmon and preservation of
population. Without the fisher
ies industry the residents of the
territory will be.without means
of earning a livlihood; without
population industry and busi
ness must go to the walls of
bankruptcy. Your choice, gen
tlemen.
Charms strike the sight, hut
merit wins the soul.—Pope.
Lying is a certain mark off
cowardice.
INTERNATIONAL HIGHWAY
On another column is printed
statement by Judge Wiekersham
of Juneau, relative to the pro
posed international highway.
This project should have tine
hearty and unanimous support
of every chamber of commerce
and every organization, com
mercial or otherwise in the ter
ritory; and the support of every
influence possible to m.-.ke cer
tain the speedy consuznation of
the plan.
There has been no better and
more feasible plan for the <•-> !
colonization of the territories
through which the hi;;,away v.iu
pass.
JOHNSON REMINDS HOOVidi
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.Senator Johnson, progressive
republican of California, over
shadowed all other features of
the Senate fight on the tariff
law. He took sharp issue w,Ui
President Hoover and in closing
drew attention to the president’s
Boston pre-election speech when
he was campaigning for vote :
..‘The American people will
never consent to delegating au
thority over tariff to any com
mission, .whether nonpartisan
or bi-partisan.. There .is .only
one commission to which dele
gation of that authority can be
made.. That is the great com
mission of their own cm go
the congress of the United States
and the President.”.
. .He declared that the g ca4
question before the senate wa,
not only of the uexible tariff bid
where shall the tariff be made?
A bug in the hand is worth two
in the head.
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