urgent calls of labor.
The following are some of the
amendments opposed by Tom,
the “Friend of Labor:” (1) In
crease of compensation for tem
porary disability from 50 per
cent to 65 per cent; (2) station
workers to be considered “em
ployees;” (3) burden of finding
cut names of beneficiaries to be
on employer instead of employ
ee; (4) to make it easy for em
ployees to reject the act as the
employer.
The worst features of the bill
were retained by the Gaflney
Lomen combination. For ex
ample, (1) the right of compro
mise was retained. This in view
of the fact that there was no
specified time when compensa
tion must be paid. By waiting
long enough the designing em
ployer can always “settle.”
(2) Widows, parents and chil
dren in foreign countries were
to get only 50 per cent under the
Gaffney plan. Thereby putting
a premium on the employer of
foreign labor for it is fifteen
per cent cheaper to kill a for
eign laborer in Alaska than to
kill a citizen. Therefore the cor
porations preferred foreign to
citizen labor.
Let Gaffney, ‘Friend of Labor’
tell his own record in the First
P.v>- -rmi
Division. See how far he will
get
What does this have to do
with the auditor’s office? It has
much to do with it. As the
man in that office cannot be the
hireling of the vested interests.
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TOM AND THE FISHER GIRLS
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Tom Gaffney, “Friend of La
bor,” wishes it known by the
electors that he was a “friend of
labor.” The records show that
on every occasion, mines, fisher
ies, compensation, wage bill,
et cetera, Tom, the “Friend of
Labor” opposed those measurers.
He now comes before the elect
ors of the Territory on his re
cord, as a candidate for Terri
torial auditor to supplant Cash
Cole, incumbent, whose record
is and has been consistantly in
the aid and interest of labor.
Every season several hundred
girls have been shipped to Alas
ka to gib and pack herring. The
flsh run on an average of 709 to
the barrel and the renumera
tion was “75c per barrel of flsh
gibbed and packed. Down in
our Division, the herring are so
email that they run 1,000 or
more per barrel—which meant
the girls had to do more work
per barrel without an increase
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place of labor they must accept
the work and be wage slaves—
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selves into prostitution. When
they sign the contracts a rosy
picture of a fine summer’s wage
was pictured to them.
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prepared a bill which provided
that where the contract was si
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