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IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR
THE KODIAK PRECINCT, THIRD
DIVISION, TERRITORY OF AL
ASKA, AT KODIAK, ALASKA.
In the matter of the estate of
GUST HOLMBERG, deceased.
No.
Notice of time and place for hear
ing settlement of final account,
j determination of heiirship and peti
tion for final distribution.
NOTICE is hereby given that E.
Petellin, administrator of the estate
of Gust Holmberg, deceased, has rend
ered and filed in the above entitled
court, and presented for settlement
his final account of his administra
tion, together with his report and
petition for final distribution, and
that Tuesday the fifth day of April,
1927 at the hour of two o’clock in
the afternoon of said day, at the
office of the Judge of the above en
titled court in the village of Kodiak,
Alaska, has been fixed and appointed
as the time and the place for the
settlement of said account and the
hearing of said report and petition,
and the determination of heirship, at
which time and place any and all
persons interested in said estate may
appear and file their objections, if
any they have, to said account and
report, petition and determination.
AND NOTICE is hereby further giv
en that said account is for final set
tlement, and that the said estate is
ready for distribution and on settle
ment, of said account, final distribu
tion of said estate will be immediate
ly had.
Dated at Kodiak, Alaska, this first
day of February, A. D. 1927.
A. F. STOWE,
U. S. Commissioner and Ex-offico
Probate Judge.
JOHN F. COFFEY,
Attorney for Administrator.
Kodiak, Alaska.
First Publication, February, 2, 1927.
Last Publication, March, 15, 1927.
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to earn enough to attend school in
winter. While these were efficient
cannery hands, they had evidently no
experience with business methods, for
their contract, which was entered into
by one of them on behalf of all, pro
vided that they would do all the work
for the season dt a fixed price per
case and board themselves, but did
not hold the cannery bound to any
minimum pack. As it happened to be
a very small run of salmon in the
waters tributary to this cannery, the
entire crew was idle nearly all sum
mer, without receiving even as much
as their board during the time of idle
ness. Under the terms of their con
tract they had tjound themselves to
stay all season whether they made
expenses or not, and they did stay—
perhaps largely because they could
not get away. In this particular case
the business experience of the can
ner had enabled him to discover and
take advantage of the ignorance of
the employes. How many of such con
tracts are made, I am not in a posi
tion to say.
Somewhat similar, though less gall
ing, system prevails at the herring
salteries. Most of the gibbers and
white women, hired in the States to
packers at these establishments are
work through the season at a fixed
price per barrel. Before the contract
is signed the employer explains to the
women that the herring runs 700 to
the barrel and is so plentiful that the
employes must agree to work over
time if necessary. But when the con
tract is executed, wThich is on a print
ed form and very long, no minimum
is guaranteed by the employer, nor is
anything said as to the size of the
herring, nor is mention made in the
contract of the refilling of the barrel
after the herring settles. All that the
written contract provides is that th“
packers shall pay a fixed price "per
barrel of fish” and furnish the em
ploye with transportation, lodging and
board. The employe guarantees that
she is experienced as a gibber and a
packer; that she will remain the en
tire season; that she will work week
days and Sundays and extra hours if
necessary, etc. Very frequently it hap
pens that for vreeks or even months,
there is no herring brought to the
saltery and the help remains idle
without the opportunity of earning
anything and still under agrement to
remain all season. Then, again, if
the herring does come in may happen,
and generally does, that it is so
small it requires 1,000 or more instead
of 700 to fill a barrel, and then only
after these have had to be selected
from a catch where possibly only one
out of five or six is of a marketable
size, the sorting of which must be
done by the gibbers. After a barrel
has been filled it is left to stand in
order to settle, when it is “refilled”
before headed. The question under
these contracts frequently arises as
to whether or not it is the duty of
the original packer to refill as part of
the work for which the price per bar
rel is fixed by the contractor.
All the contracts to which mv at
tention has been called provided that
the superintendent of the cannery or
saltery shall be the sole judge of the
efficiency of the employe, and that if
he finds the latter unsatisfactory he
shall have the right to discharge him
of her for such cause, in which event
the employe loses the right to free
transportation from the place of work
and subjects his or her earned credits
to deduction for cost of transportation
from the States to the Alaska sta
tion. Under this clause of the con
tracts unscrupulous canners do not
hesitate to discharge employes when
they can no longer use them to their
profit on the pretext that they have
violated their contract, of which fact
the superintendent is made the sole
and absolute judge.
Complaints from laborers who claim
to have been unfairly dealt with un
der these contracts are numerous.
Entirely independent of the fairness
or unfairness of the contract, a large
number working at salteries, more !
especially, have at the end of the sea- '
son discovered that their employer |
was without means to pay the wages i
earned. Not infrequently is the whole J
season’s work lost through the in- i
solvency of the employer. '
For this evil, I do not think the i
Legislature can invent any more ef- J
fective remedy than the lien law of j
1923. That statute is about as dras- 1
tic as it nan be made without materi- j
ally crippling the industry. My atten- j
tion has been called to no case where 1
that law would not have been effect- |
ive in protecting the employes if it 1
had been properly taken advantage of. j
Ihe problem of how to protect the i
employes against unfair contracts is J
more difficult of solution because the i
Constitution of the United States ac- j
cords everybody the right to make i
any contract one sees fit except such ■
as may be against public policy. The ■
courtesy has, however, upheld the 1
right of the lawmaking department in ■
the exercise of its police authority to ■
to prohibit transactions and contracts j
which are of such a character as to l
affect the interest of the public gen- |
erally and not merely the individuals i
directly involved. Within that rule it !
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