RAILROADMEN
< FORMULATING
NEW DEMANDS
While the skies are brightening
with regard to furnishing of funds
for the carrying on of the great gov
ernment railway project connecting
tidewater with the Interior of Alaska,
in another direction there has ap
peared the small cloud that indicates
new storms to be encountered and
new difficulties to be -faced by the
Alaskan engineering commission. The
following editorial in a recent issue
of the Anchorage Times gives a con
cise statement as to the brewing
storm, and it is to be hoped that the
matter will be amicably settled with
out further impediment to the pro
ject:
“The railroad workers have pre
sented a set of demands to the Alas
kan engineering commission in which
they ask for several concessions which
if granted would have far-reaching ef
fects upon the future of all Alaska,
particularly that district contiguous
to the government railway.
“These demands of the railway
workers include: An increase in
wages, the opening of the commis
sary to all employes, which means
the selling of goods at cost; and the
institution of Panama conditions,
which includes free transportation to
and from Alaska, a six-weeks’ vaca
tion each year including transporta
tion to and from the States, and free
house rent for all white employes.
“The Times at this time has no hes
itancy in stating its position on these
demands. #This matter has been
brewing for weeks, and the Times has
had ample opportunity to look at the
matter from all angles in an impar
tial manner.
“At the first instance, the Times
will state that it is in favor of the
highest wages to all employes corn
menu rate with good business. If
the men now are not getting enough
with which to support themselves and
families in a manner which will allow
them to live in comfort and provide
for the adequate education of their
children and at the same time allow
them to set aside an adequacy for
their old age, then wages should be
increased. The Times believes in
high wages for all classes of work,
and will support with a will any de
mand which has a semblance of rea
son to support it.
“As to the other two demands, how
ever, they are questions which admit
of no reason for their support.
“The government is building a rail
road in Alaska in order to settle this
community with an American popu
lation.' The development of the coal
fields is only a means to this end.
By the operation of the coal mines
^ and the transportation of coal to tide
wTater, employment will be given to
a certain number of persons who, it
is hoped, will form a nucleus around
which will be formed a permanent
population which will develop the
other resources of this territory. ,
“With this end in view the govern
ment has laid out townsites and sold
lots to business men and other citi
zens, apparently with the intention
of encouraging them in their efforts
and attracting people to settle along
the railroad.
“With abiding faith in the good in
tentions of the men at the head of
the construction work, merchants
and other business men have settled
in Anchorage, and, it is idle to state
otherwise, are dependent almost en
tirely, upon the trade of the railroad
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“Were the commissary to be opened
and goods sold to all the employes at
cost, it would mean that the mer
' chants of this city would have to go
'out of business. It would mean a
general exodus from Anchorage which
wpuld deal Alaska a blow from which
it never would recover until the order
opening the commissary was res
cinded.
“As to the demand for the same
concessions which were granted the
employes on the Panama canal, prac
tically the same reasons must be ad
vanced for its rejection.
“In Panama the government was
digging a canal, which was the sole
reason for its presence there. There
■was no desire on the part of the gov
ernment to populate the country with
Americans. The men were forced to
work in a malarial climate; condi
tions were insanitary, and every man
who went there was determined to re
turn to the States as soon as he had
earned enough money to satisfy his
ambitions.
“Under these circumstances, in or
der to make the work atractive, every
possible concession was granted the
men. Houses were built and a com
missary operated. As a health meas
ure every man was requested to visit
the north at least once a year, and
no inducements were offered for men
to settle there permanently.
“In Alaska it is different. Here
the government wants employes who
intend to live in Alaska and help de
velop the country. This climate is
the best and healthiest in the world,
and there is no reason why anybody
should be granted a free trip to the
Outside each year.
“Conditions in Alaska and Panama
are as different as the respective lo
cations of the countries are distant.
There is no similarity either in the
work, conditions, populations, or aims
of the government, and the sooner
all comparisons between the two pro
jects are dropped the better for all
concerned.
“If the last two demands are
granted it means the destruction of
Anchorage and a blow at the devel
opment of Alaska, and so far as the
Times is concerned, the granting of
them will be opposed to the last ditch.
In fact the closing of all work on
the entire project, and the abandon
ment of the country to its primeval
conditions, is more agreeable to the
Times, and to the resident Alaskans,
than any concessions which will bring
about the so-called ‘Panama condi
tions.’
“As to the wages, however, as stat
ed before, the Times believes in a
fair payment for services rendered,
which means that high wages should
be paid. This matter, we believe, can
be settled amicably by the represen
tatives of the men and the officers of
the Alaskan engineering commission,
and any fair demand by the men will
be supported to the utmost by the
Times, which when it tenders its sup
port, will go the limit.”
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I sing a song of trail and tramp,
The sport and fun when out at camp.
And ’round the embers;
I love to roam the forest wild,
In freedom as a little child,
That one remembers.
I write about the outdoor joys.
Of scouting with A troop of boys,
Through forest woodlands;
The joy of camping ’neath the pine,
Out in the woods that I call mine, •
And of the bluff lands.
I sing of hiking through the snow,
Out where the winter winds now blow,
With shrieks and laughter.
I sing just of the outdoor life
That makes us stronger for the strife—
The life we’re after.
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