Perhaps the greatest range of
temperature is experienced at Yak
utsk, Siberia, where extremes of 82
below zero to 102 above have been
recorded.
Highest Market
Prices
Paid for
FURS
Wire, Write or See
Leo Koslosky
Fur Buyer
at
K. & M. Store
Seward, Alaska
BAN K. K. K. PARADE
MOBILE, Ala., March 2. (£>)—The
Commissioners of Mobile announced
that any effort on the part of hte KU
Kluk Klan to stage a parade in Mobile
an indicated in advertisements would
meet with resistance by the city au
thorities.
OUR MILK
IS RICH, FRESH
and CLEAN
We Specialize in
QUALITY MILK
SEWARD DAIRY
Dairy Lunches rrom early morn
to late at night
SEWARD BAKERY
GEORGE SCHMITT, Prop.
PHONE MADISON 82
IN A CLEAN
SUNLIT BAKERY
Seward Bakery
Seward,Al3ska
TUF
Setter Groceries
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ONLY handle Groceries that are
better than usual—in fact ours are the
best you can buy. Wholesome food-stuffs pro
ductive of tasty, enjoyable meals—that’s
what you get here. Low prices are our usual
ones.
Seward Trading Co.
Inc.
Telephone Main 135 for Quality Goods
MORE ON ATTY. GEN.
(Continued from Page Five.)
may be possible to a limited extent to
attenuate some of the most baleful
effects of the unfair eontracts at pres
ent habitually required of employes
connected with the Ashing industry.
To that end and for (that purpose I
make the following recommendations:
1. The Labor Commissioner should
be given authority to hear and decide
disputes over compensation for labor,
and his decrees should be prima facie
evidence that they were correct and
just. He should also have authority,
in exceptional cases, to require the
Attorney General to prosecute claims
for labor at public expense.
2. A law should be enacted pro
viding:
() That the employes should be
paid monthly and in money of the
United States unless- prior to perform
ance of the labor a co’’tract in writ
ing had been entered into expressly
and specifically providing for payment
in a different manner.
(b) That where the contract is for
gibbing or packing herring and noth
ing is stated in writing as to the size
of the fish to be gibbed and or pack
ed, it shall be presumed that by a
barrel of herring is meant not to ex
ceed 700 fish.
(c) That unless something to the
contrary is stated in the contract in
writing, refilling is not a part of the
gibbing and or packing.
(d) That where a contract for ser
vice contains no minimum guaranty it
should be construed to guarantee to
the employee enough work to enable
him to earn at least twenty ($20) dol
lars per week besides lodging and
subsistence; and where the contract
is for the performance of tasks con
templating the employment of several
servants and contains no minimum
strued to guarantee for each indivi
stured to guarantee for each indivi
dual whose services are needed to ac
complish the task when the cannery,
ealtery or other establishment is op
erating at full capacity, enough work
to enable each servant to earn at
least twenty ($20) dollars per week
in addition to lodging and subsistence.
(e) That where the contract for
service provides that the superin
tendent or manager of 'the work and
or other employee or employees of
the master shall be the sole judge or
judges of whether the servant has
discharged or performed his duties
under the contract, it shall be compe
tent for the servant to show that his
or itheir decisions were unfair or un
just and not in conformity with ithe
facts. f ■
(f) Written Contract for service or
the performance of the work shall be
plainly read to the servant before it
is signed and a copy furnished to
him at the time of signing, and in
event ithe contract contains more than
two hundred (200) words, the parts
relating to the minimum guaranty and
the size of the fish to be packed, if
such there be, shall be printed or
written and printed and is understood
by the servant it may be varied by
oral evidence in any count in Alaska
no matter where the contract origin
ated.
buch a law as here recommended
will, in my opinion, be valid because
it does not invade the constitutional
right to contract. It simply estab
lishes certain rights where the con
tract is silent and permits a written
contract to be varied by oral evidence
in certain cases. Being purely a law
of the forum it will apply even to
contracts entered into outside of
Alaska whenever they are produced
as evidence in a case before the
courts of the Territory.
That ignorant and weak-minded
people will always be the pray of the
keen-witted is unavoidable no matter
what the law provides, but it is my
opinion that a statute as suggested
will materially ameliorate the evils
above referred to as special subjects
of complaints.
It must be also admitted that the
proposed statute would afford dis
honest employees considerably better
opportunity than heretofore ito annoy
the employer. But it should not be
overlooked that thei employer is in far
better position to protect himself
against a dishonest employee than
is the employee in a position to pro
tect himself against unscrupulous em
ployers, at least so far as the terms
of the contracts are concerned.
Complaints are common that men
hire out in the states to "Work for a
cannery for the season, receive free
transportation North and then dis
appear at thee first Alaska port they
touch, obiously having hired out for
the sole purpose of securing free
transportation. Whatever protection
the law can give the employer against
that type of employees should un
questionably be given, and given un
grudgingly. It is not the employer
alone who is injured in such cases,
but it is the public at large who be
come the sufferers and more especial- j
ly those of the population who are
dependent upon contracts of employ
ment for their subsistence. As a
general rule it has been held by the
courts that the liberty of contract
involves the liberty to break a con
tract, subject only to the civil liabil
ity for the damages caused. But
(Continued on Page Seven)
OUTCOME PREDICTED
WASHINGTON, March 2. (yp)—A
permanent or semi-permanent Amer
ican protectorate in Nicaragua, simi
lar to that which now prevails in
Haiti, apparently is to be the out
come of the present intervention
there, according to all indications.
LADIES '
Just received on last boat, a ship
ment of New Spring Coats direct from
the Eastern markets. URBACH’S.
NEW LAUNDRY OPENING
Tony Yago, former resturant man
of Seward, announces the opening of
Yago's Hand Laundry within the next
few days-. An advertisement in anoth
er column of this issue states Mr.
Yago will conduct a modern hand
laundry and in addition will conduct
a cleaning and pressing establishment
in connection.
Strictly fresh candies. Schallerer’s
Alaska Shop.
Fred’s Kitchen
Is Open Again
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that you have good Meat as the basis for
your dinner when you are hungry
There’s no substitute for a juicy piece of Meat
When You Buy
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You Know it Always Tastes Right
C. D. BLAKE, Mgr.
PHONE MAIN 94
“WE DELIVER”
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