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DO NOT WANT ANY
AUSTRIANS IN THE
ALASKA CANNERIES!
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DO NOT WANT—PAGE X Gateway
Wrangell Business Men and Others
Make Protest Against Hiring
of Alien Enemies to Work
In Northern Fisheries
MKNAC'K TO KISH INDUSTRY
Citizens o i Wrangell Claim That
Importation of Austrians Is
An Affront to American
Citizens of Alaska
WRANGELL, March l. — A great
indignation meeting was held here
last night, business men, protessional
men and fishermen protesting against
the importation of alien enemy fish
ermen. Strong resolutions \\ti?i
adopted declaring that the importa- J
tion of alien enemies was not only a j
menace to the fishing industry hut an j
affront to the loyal American citizens,
taking from them the work that^
should belong to them.
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What Is Is All About
l The indignation meeting at Wrang
ell last night was probably caused by
the announcement that Austrian fish
ermen would be permitted to engage
in fishing in Alaska this season. It
is understood in Seward that a ruling
has been made which peimits Aus
trian fishermen to operate in Alaska
this coming season if the Alaska can
nerymen will stand sponsor for them.
The Attorney General of the United
States, made this ruling, and various
discussions pro and con have result
ed. The greatest argument against
the Austrian fishermen is that this
country, while not yet having declar
ed war against Austria, is practically
at war with that nation inasmuch as
Austrians are fighting democracy, are
j now engaged on the western front
| with the Germans against the Ameri
cans in the American sector. Austria
has also torpedoed boats flying the
United States flag. America is at war
with Austria in practically every
sense except a decimation of war has
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not been declared. Belonging then to
the Central Powers, with direct in
sinuation against the Germans, why
would not the Austrian be regaided
as an alien enemy? Why would not
Austrians plot the same as the Ger
mans? With salmon already being
commandeered for the American for
ces. why then should an alien enemy
be permitted to be employed in the
canning of salmon?
The Seattle Times in an editorial
recently, commenting on Austrians
being employed in Alaska canneries,
which editorial can be shot to pieces
with paralleled arguments against
says:
••The barring of Austrian alien
enemies, unless they deliberately vio
late the law, from the Alaska can
neries would benefit neither the Unit
ed States nor the Austrians.
“These men must live during the ]
war. Many of them are acquainted I
with no other line of work and would i
be valuable nowhere else. Were they i
to be ordered out of the canneries or
prevented from fishing, they might
become a burden on the community i
and certainly would cease to be num
bered among the country’s food pro-,
ducers.
“The attitude of the United States
toward these aliens naturally must
be governed by the actions of the in
dividual. The Austrian alien enemy
who follows the attorney-general's ad
vice to “keep your mouth shut and
1 obey the laws” is not a menace to the
community’s peace or welfare. The
alien who cannot follow this simple
rule is misplaced when out of an in
ternment camp.
“A number of Alaskan canneries
are dependent upon Austrian purse
seine fishermen. They realize that the
modified order recently issued cover
ing these workers imposes upon their
employers 'additional responsibilities
of a very grave nature. Nevertheless
they are prepared to assume these re
i sponsibilities in order to obtain labor
without which they would be serious
ly handicapped during the packing
season.
| “Obviously, it is necessary to ob
; tain as large an output of canned sal
mon this year as possible. All the
country’s food resources must be ex
panded both o provide for America’s
wants and in order to assure a sur
plus for export to our Allies.
“Under the circumstances, it is good
policy to extend every consideration
compatible with the public interest to
; the cannerymen and to the Austrian
aliens, in order that the latter may
be able to earn a living and in order
that the former may be in a position
to supply quantities of a food product
that is in groat demand both in
Europe and in the United States.”
The same arguments then can be
made to fit the alien enemies called
• Germans. An alien enemy is an
alien enemy—there is no way of get
ting away from it. We have just as
many good alien enemy Germans but
they are now required to register,
every one of them, the good and the
plotter. Why make a distinction with
the alien enemy—the Austrian? The
German alien enemy must also make
his living as the above Times’ edit
orial says the alien enemy Austrian
must do.
To the Gateway th® “indignation
meeting” of the Wrangell citizens was ,
timely, logical, perfectly well taken. I
The United States is at war with
Austria as with Germany.
ONE AViATOlT
GIVES AN IDEA
OF EXPERIENCE
_
ROME, Mar. 1. — How an aviator
feels when he drives an airplane
through a flaming observation balloon
is described by Giovanni Ancilloto, an
Italian airman who demolished an
Austrian baloon in that fashion in an
air conflict at Rustigne.
The balloon was guarded by three
Austrian chaser airplanes. These
were engaged by three Italian fight
ing machines while Ancillotto dived
straight at the balloon, at which he i
opened fire with incendiary bullets at
a range of about twenty yards. At
the same moment he suddenly realiz
ed the danger he was in, for it was
clearly impossible for him to avoid'
collision with the now flaming bal
loon.
“I thought to myself, it means
death,” he says in his report. “I clos
ed my eyes and waited. Barely a
second passed before I fell a shock;
there was a sound vf tearing; flames
rushed across my face. I opened my
eyes and found myself a dozen yards
from the ground.
”1 started my engines, steadied the
machine, glanced at the wings in fear
that their support would fail me. They
were trembling as though broken and
were carrying some tattered pieces of
stuff. But they held; the propellor
turned, and the airplane, gradually
gaining speed, glided toward the Ital
ian lines. A few minutes later I
alighted at my camp.”
Examination of the machine showed
that it had passed clean through the
burning balloon. In the shock of col
lision the wings had actually been
broken in the middle, but were held
together by the support of the ma
chine gun.
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