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VOL. 6. No. 11
DECEMBER-JANUARY, 1930
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GOODWILL—CAN IT BE ATTAINED?
Every prominent canneryman hopes for the
goodwill of the people of Alaska. They deplore
what they call “the fight made upon them” by the
Natives, and wish for peace and good will.
We would po'nt out a more effective way to
sect re this than by “wishing,” and refer to what
occurred last summer in Kasaan.
This is a town inhabited entirely by natives
of Alaska. Its men fish in seine boats but make
so little money that the women are compelled to
work to provide for the winter. In former years,
these women found employment in the very can
nery that exists within their townsite and usual
ly earned somewhere around $100.
But last summer, not a single woman was
employed for even as much as one-half hour. All
of this labor was performed by imported contract
ed Filipino labor who were paid off “in Seattle.”
You can’t have good will on an empty stomach.
Aiaska is not benefited by labor that is paid
off “in Seattle.”
William L. Paul.