HARBOR CANNERY BURNS
This cannery, near Juneau, was a
total loss by fire which occurred on
October 2nd last. About 34,000 cases
of canned salmon were destroyed.
This cannery belongs to the Alas
ka Pacific Fisheries Corporation and
is also known as a Burckhardt can
nery. There is, of course, not the
slightest suspicion that this fire was
not perfectly regular and in order.
But the public will not forget that
in the divorc esuit between Mrs.
Burckhardt and her husband, she
testified that be burned his cannery
up at Chilcoot, near Haines, that she
saw him apply the match or words
to that effect, and that he burned it
to get the insurance money.
This fire, of course, is quite dif
ferent.
The Burckhardts are the worst in
fluence that we have here in Alaska.
For many years, they have been the
greatest violators of our fishery
laws. And they are today the arch
type of cannery tryants that gives
so much color to statements that
cannerymen are essentially exploiters
of Alaska. It is the practice of the
Burckhardts, and consequently of the
Alaska Consolidated Canneries, which
is nothing more or less than the
Bank of California in the fish busi
ness), to take every advantage of
their men, firing some on any pre
text so that this company can save
themselves from paying the return
fare to Seattle, or firing them so
that the men cannot claim any bonus
for finishing the season according to
contract. Their contract of em
ployment with the men gives the
Burckhardts-Bank of California the
right to work the men 24 hours a
day, every day in the month, and if
the men cannot stand the pace, this
company may discharge the men
“for cause” and save return fares
and bonus.
Mrs. Burckhardt said that the
Haines or Chilcoot plant of the
Alaska Pacific Fisheries was pur
posely burned for the insurance
money, that she knows because she
was there.
REPUBLICAN ADVISORS
Alaska is Republican by a large
majority. And yet the newspapers
of the S. E. section are Democratic.
Every day the Republicans are ad
vised by these Democratic news
papers to be sure and vote for the
Democratic candidates or else the
Indian politicians will destroy all
the big mines, the big stores, tha
big mills and turn the whites out
of their homes and schools.
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HE INTRODUCED THE
LITERACY TEST BILL
Frank Foster of Cordova became
famous because he introduced the
Literacy Test for Voters Bill in the
last legislature. Is illiteracy the
thing good citizens should guard
against ?
While Frank Foster was at Juneau
attending the legislature he got into
a fight while drunk, the cause of
the drunken fight being a game of
“craps.”
This patriot who has set all Alas
ka by the ear broke the 18th amend
ment, a fundamental law of our
land; and he was gambling. Two
birds with one stone, as it were.
Frank was almost caught at a
drunken party at one of the road
houses near Juneau. The officers
were just a few minutes late.
Frank Foster filed for re-election
and ha dthe support of all those
patriots who did not wish our illit
erate citizens to run our country,
so they said. But Frank withdrew
his filing after he and a certain
“lady” were kicked out of a hotel
in the Third Division. We ask again,
is illiteracy the danger which Alaska
faces? Or is it not the lawlessness
which prevails among a certain cla«s
of literates?
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