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The Natives of Alaska, thru the
Alaska Nat.vp Brotherhood conven
ed at Sitka, Alaska, representing
sixteen towns in southeastern Alas
ka, wishes to protest certain discri
minatory practices of the Bureau
of Fisheries:
1 Whenever charges are made
against our fishermen, the United
States At'er^ey usually makes the
prop, sition, you enter a plea of
guilty and pay a four hundred dol
'lars line or ve will seize your boat.
' onsidering the shortness of the fish
ing season the length of time it
would take to release a boat. geize-l
under the fisheries law even where
the charges were groundless (as in
(he case or gashoats Kotor and Peter
Gvnt) to fight the charges only
means to incurr the heavier penalty
of losing the entire fishing season,
and so many cases have occured
where pleas of guilty have been en
tered and tin penalties paid where
the parties were innocent.. We
contend that this procedure of the
United States Attorney and the Bu
reau of Fisheries is nothing hut of
ficial blackmail, and that it should
he investigated by the Attorney
General of the United States, and it
true that the parties thereto should
he removed from office on the grj ;"d
that they have abused their offices.
rI ne cnief offender in this direction
seems to be head warden O’Connor.
2. rne Alaska Native Brotherhood
have long charged that certain of the
employees of the Bureau of Fisher
t, | ies enforce the law against the na
[., tives but shut their eyes as to viola
lions of law by the large cannery
[* corporations. We believe investiga
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[♦ tion will easily show that warden
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f i Harry Pryde of the Yakutat district
[♦I should really be on the payroll of
.* i the firm of Libby, McNeil and Libby,
as he is using all the power of the
Uniied States government to further
tho special interests of that corpora
tion and against the natives of Yaku
tat, for example in the matter of
holding stake net sites on the rivers
around Yakutat. Harry Pryde should
not be allowed in the government
service unless he enforces the law
tairlv and without favor.
i he Bureau ot Fisheries seem to
have placed the dead line for fish
imr at point? where the seiners and
giPnetters cannot catch any fish.
Tills compels our people to risk their
lives and property because we main
tain that we are en'itled to a living.
The United States government has
no "ight to make regulations that
| will deprive our people of their liv
I ing. An example is Klawock Inlet
! wheVe the dead line was placed so
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| that millions of salmon wrere wasted
bv permitting them to go up the
| creek when the creek was already!
overseeded and hy not allowing the i
seiners to catch any of the fish. We |
hold that this practice of the Bu-1
reau of Fisheries encourages crime
and since that Bureau knows of these
conditions tile authority over them
should stop that practice.
4. The dead line at Karta Bay and
Scowl Arm, west side of Prince of
j Waies Island have been established
• without regard to the rights of the
I natives of Fasaan and greatly in
ev’ess of the requirements of the
returnable demands of conservation,
which reasonable requirements
j wouid move the dead line back to
the old line.
5 The fisn -adder at Harris Creek,
in Twelve Mile Arm, on Prince of
Wales Island is entirely inadequate
and unless the Bureau of Fisheries
see that this condition is corrected,
this important fish stream will be
destroyed. This matter has been re
ported to the employess of the Bu
| reau of Fisheries without apparent
! result.
6 In many places, the Bureau of
Fisheries hae created closed areas
and thus virtually stopped our sein
ers from fishing altogether for this
reason ou: equipment is such that
we cannot fish altogether except in
the calm -waters of the large bays
of southeastern Alaska. When these
bavs are closed we have no place
to fish. And yet the Bureau of
Fisheries permits large traps to be
placed In such a position to the
closed bay that it fiecomeg a special
privilege, it is the only device that
can fish the area tributary to the
protected bay. In this way traps
catch millions ot fish from the very
restricted bays from which our sein
ers are excluded. Example of this
are Saginaw Bay on Kuiu Island,
and Dundns Bay There are many
others as Tenakee Harbor.
7. The fish eate9 of Icy Straits and
inland waters are the passes around
Irdian Island Those islands are s*>
situated that the fish must pass close
to thq shores of these islands. The
tides are so strong in this district
that seines can only operate about
two hours on each flood tide. But
the eight traps :n North Indian Pass
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are working twenty-four hours a
day catching millions of salmon. We
suggest to the Secretary of Com
merce that even a slight restriction
olacefl on these traps would release
millions of fish. We hold however,
ihat these traps should be prohibited
for the same reason that traps are
even now prohibited in fish streams.
Indian Pass at this point is really
a fish stream
8. The weire on the Setuc River
stnps the steelhead salmon from go
ing out to the ocean so that in time
this important fish will he destroyed
m that rivci ; the weir is open only
a few hours each day and only at
the convenience of the watchman.
If a weir is to he maintained, it
should he open all the time so that
[tne fish can go up the river. When
[salmon strike the weir, they nearly
jalvays turn back and go out to the
| ocean and are then caught. The
weir is creating n shallow spot in the
river making it harder and harder
for the salmon to go thru the nar
row gate. The weir should be abol
ished altogether. The excuse given
I for icg excistence by the Bureau of
Fisheries is that they must know
that the 5 0% escapement directed
by the law is bad. The 50% fescape
ment theory is not scientific and not
supported b> men of science. It is
not observed by the Bureau of Fish
eries at any point for this Bureau
has never defined the term. If the
term means anything it means that
50% of all the fish that Btart for
that particular stream must be al
lowed to enter the stream, an ob
vious impossibility. The Bureau of
Fisheries proceeds on the theory
that 50% of the fish that finally ar
rive at the stream should be allow
ed to enter, an absurdity because
u a million salmon should start
for a given stream and all but two
are caught by the time they arrive
at the stream, one salmon would be
caught for canning and the other
allowed to proceed up the stream.
It is ordered by this convention
that copies of thi; statement be
sent to the Secretary of Commerce,
the Bureau of Fisheries, Delegate
Dan Sutherland, and other interest
ed parties.
Adopted this 26th day of Novem
ber, 1928.
Denver, with 300,000 inhabitants
the cultural center of a vast moun
tain area, now has two newspapers,
the Rocky Mountain News, a Scrippg
Howard paper, in the morning, and
the Denver Post, owned by F. G.
Bonfils, in the evening. The latest
consolidations were perfected last
week.
Forty years ago, with less than a
third of its present population.
Denver had five papers, all under
dilferent ownership. Men who at
tained national reputations worked
on Denver papers in those days,
“Gene” Field, for instance.
Now, the much greater city has
two papers; and in a few years more
both these may be under one owner
ship, as has happened already in
many places.
What becomes of the “freedom of
the press” under such circum
rances? - Freedom can be strangled
as eftectivelv by ownership as by
censorship. What then?
Two things; First the press of or- J
ganized labor should be safeguarded j
extended and improved; and second, I
every man or woman who believes in I
social progress should prepare to
fight to the finish against monoplyj
control of radio.
These are the only outlets left for
the free expession of opinion. They
must not be lost.—LABOR
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