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San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego
H. BRANDT, G.A.P.D. C. D. DUNANN, P.T.M*
608 Second Ave, Seattle. Market, SanFranclaco
Might reserved to Change Schedule
NEXT SAILINGS FROM KETCHIKAN
S. S. SPOKANE, JAN. 20-31. FEB. 11-22. MARCH 4-15-26.
RETURNING THREE DAYS LATER
PHONE 77..F. H. BOLD, Agent.
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CHIKAN AND SEATTLE Second Class 110.00
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OF PRINCE OF 'VAI-^8 ''BD
S. S. NORTHLAND
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The Canadian Pacific Railway
TIIE PRINCESS LINE
Leave Seattle March 4, 15, 25; April 5, 15.
Arrive in Ketchikan March 6, 17,27, April 7, 17.
Leave Ketchikan March 10, 21, 31, April 11, 21.
Arrive in Seattle March 12, 23, April 2, 13, 23.
Subject to change without notice
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1 CONDITION
AT ANCHORAGE
EXPLANATION OF WALK-OUT
AND WHAT LEAD TO IT
SET FORTH
Telegraphic news from Wash
ington last Saturday said that two
men had been appointed to go to
Anchorage and investigate the
cause or causes that lead to the
walk-out of the men employed by
the government railroad officials.
A writer, who is presumably famil
iar with the facts in the case, has
written an explanation; and as
every Alaskan is more or less inter
ested in the work that is being done
in that part of Alaska by the gov
ernment, it is herein reproduced,to
gether with tile letter of request for
its pul hcation. The af'cla follows:
EDITOR PROGRESSIVE-MINER
Ketchikan.
Inclosed find copy of letter re
garding walkout here, which I am
sending to several of the territorial
papers with the understanding that
my name be not published in con
nection therewith. This letter con
tains, and others to follow will con
tain, considerable matter of special
interest to Alaskans which will not
go out through the regular chan
nels of news and not published here
through f ear of reprisals on the
part of those “highei up” whose in
competence and contempt for real
men and Alaskans is responsible
for the present “insurrection.”
Dick Bushell is the only resident
of Ketchikan with whom I am person
ally acquainted, but who will no
doubt vouch for my reliability,
Fraternally yours, etc.
ANCHORAGE, Feb., 22.—The
most remarkable labor “disturb
ance” in the history of the United
States, in several respects, involv
ing more than 1200 employes on
the government railway project here
and causing suspension of cons
truction work, has entered its sec
ond -week without any sign of viol
ence on the part of the men and
with both the railway Commission
and the men good naturedly await
ing action of the higher authorities
at Washington to whom appeals
have been made. Delay in settle
ment has been caused by the broken
cable and delayed steamer mail ser
vice.
Some features of the walkout not
sent outside through regular news
channels may be of interest to the
readers of the Progressive-Miner.
Without organization or recog
nized head,involving originally not
more than GO members of the steel
gang, it was responsible for organ
ization of the All-Alaska Federal
Union within a week had more than
1200 members enrolled. This mem
bership not only included almost
every skilled and unskilled wage
earner in and near Anchorage, but
also many prominent and influen
ential businessmen and officers of
the chamber of commerce, but also
it had obtained the hearty endor
sement and promise of co-operation
on the part of the chamber. The
last to join the insurrection were
teamster! engaged in hauling sup
plies from the end of the track at
Peters creek to Moose creek, ex
pected center of next summer's
greatest activities in construct
ion. These numbered 29. Four days
later the commission advertised for
teamsters, offering 75. a month
and board, an advance of fifteen
dollars over former wages, only
eight responded, according to re
ports received atunion headquar
ters last night. The engineer in
charge at Moose creek was quoted
as saying that some of these were
so ingnorant of their duties that
they were unable to “undress” their
teams and that the engineer him
self had to take off the harnesses
at the end of the first day of the
new service.
Let the reader, after he has per
used this uncolored statement of
facts obtained first-hand by the un
biased writer—some of these facts
have been placed in the form of
affidavits and others are fully subs
tantiated by reliable witnesses—im
agine himself in the place of one of
the steel gang, for instance, and
answer these questions: Were the
steel gang justified in quitting in
a body? Has the commission
"played fair” so far as concerns
wages of all classes of employes
and as to conditions surrounding the
gang and some of the others? It
should be rememdered that the steel
gang walked out after desertions In
pairs and half dozens had occurred
daily for a period of several weeks,
the vacant places being filled by
new and verdant arrivals. Also re
member what is related herein oc
curred oh public work, to be paid
by the people of the "richest gov
erment under the sun,” work under
supervision of their own “hired
men” presumed to be holding down
their jobs because of efficiency.
While the question of wages is
now involved, that was originally es
tablished by Alaskan railway com
mission are the lowest paid skilled
labor in Alaska and at most points
on the Pacific caost. It is to the
credit of the commission, however,
that it has paid common labarers on
the railroad higher wages than ever
paid on any similar work in the ter
ritory except at Nome and Fair
banks; but the system of compen
sation established for station work
♦flore than offsets this credit. Con
tractors on government work are
not permitted to pay more than
the wages fixed by the commission.
The A. E. C. scale at Anchorage
follows: Common labor, 37% cents
an hour,carpenters and other me
chanics, 50 cents, helpers, 44 cents.
Many of these men have been hired
by the month at sixty to ninety
dollars, not including board.Wages
paid here by private employers are
fifty cents for common labor arid
not less than severity-five cents
for skilled. The schedule now ask
ed by the insurgents is; minimum
of 50 cents for common labor, price
and a half for overtime and double
pay for Sundays and holidays.Mi
nimum of 75 cents for carpenters,
cooks and bakers graduated from
ninety to one hundred and twenty
five dollars a month, depending on
size of crew and including board.
Teamsters ninety to one hundred
and twenty dollars a month and
board, depending on size of team.
Wages for longshoremen and
others are to be approved by the
organization whenever the men can
agree on what they want.
The real cause of the walkout and
phenomenal growth of the organi
zation was the intolerable unsanita
ry, inhuman and almost unbeliev
able conditions under which the
steel gang were compelled to work.
Their combined living and sleeping
quarters were flat cars on which
were flimsily constructed shacks,
without adequate means of ventil
ation other than crack in floor and
walls. These cars,8 by 32 feet in
size, contained 24 rough bunks in
three tiers. There was no room for
seats and the bunks were the gen
eral resting places for the men at
all hours when not at work. Tem
perature from zero to 30 below and
cars were heated by a stove placed
in the center, so that occupants of
the middle tiers of bunks were over
heated and those at the ends were
unable to keep warm. Dry foot
wear being absolutely necessary to
keep from freezing those members
when the men were working, the
dry-out occurred at night and 48
pairs of perspiration-soaked sox
and half that number of insoles ad
ded their poisonous odors to the
already choice assortment in the
unventilated sleeping quarters. The
cars were crowded to double the
capacity permitted within juris
diction of cities and communities
which do not care to make or save
■money at the expense of human life
or health. Mattresses and bedding
froze to walls where airholes form
ed masses of ice, and icicles accu
mulated on the lower mattresses.
“I have been in some of most
notorious logging and construction
camps of the middle west and never
saw anything to compare with it.
said one of my informants.
(Continue in tomorrow’s issue)
ADVERTISED LETTERS
Avertised letter list of the Ket
chikan, Alaska Post Office. For
the week ending March 4th 1916.
Johnson, Louis
Molton, Miss E.
Schmidt, H. C.
All letters unclaimed by March
lot.i, 1916, will be se t to the dead
Letter Office, Washington, D. C.
Parties claiming letters from the
above list must pay a fee Of one
cent for each letter claimed.
When calling for the above, say
Advertised.
M. E. SWINEFORD,
Postmaster.
Star*
, THE KETCHIKAN DRUG CO^ INC.
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KETCHIKAN MEAT COMPANY
SPECIALS
Fresh Chicken tamales,
Fresh Sound Oysters,
3 Doz. Eggs 95 cents.
ANOTHER AMUSEMENT PLACE
With the re-opening of the Shoot
ing School at the foot of Mission
street, the people may fod another
place of amusement where / can
shoot away their little wads. Mr.
DeYoung will attend to the rest
Just go and sheot away all you mind
to.
LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE
Local 224. regular
meeting Monday
Visiting Brothers
cordially invited.
Hall for rent, Mon
day, Thursday, Fri
day and Saturday.
T v. ~;.V
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E. E. Sparhawk
DENTIST
Office in Residence
Hours, 10 a. m. to 4 p. in.
CHAS. H. COSGROVE
Attorney at Law
GENERAL PRACTICE
C. E. INGERSOLL
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Prompt attention given to perfect
ing land titles and securing patents
KETCHIKAN, AI
James M. Shoup
Attorney at Law
Offices adjoining U. S. Customs
Office
Notary
S.A. PLUMLEY
Attorney and
Counselor at Law
Office—Town Council Chambers.
Ketchikan, Alaska.
MARY A. C. GIBSON
Stenographer
Notary Public
OFFICES
—Newtown Home
Phone 142
People’s Meat Market
At The Old Stand Opposite
Sparahawk’s Store, Newtown
SWIFT & COMPANY’S MEATS
ED COOK, Propietor.
General Hauling
and work of all kinds
done by the
Independent Transfer
Company ■
O. M. TAYLOR, Agent
Phone 64'
Alaska Delivery
WALTER GRAY, prop
COAL DELIVERED FROM AL1
DOCKS
PHONES 61—T!
Ketchikan Wharf Co.
COAL
COAL
NANAIMO
Lump Coal
(0.00 PER TON.
Ketchikan Wharf Co.
C. M. Taylor
1 Phone 64 Agent
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