THE GIBBERS
Every season several hundred
Kiris are shipped to Alaska to gib
;.,nd pack herring. They are told
that the herring runs 700 to the
barrel and their remuneration is
75per barrel. But the written
contract is silent on the subject of
the size of the fish. It simply says
the pay is to be “75tf per barrel ot
fish” gibbed and packed. General
ly the herring in Southeastern Alas
ka is so small that it runs 1000 or
more to the barrel,—which means
almost twice as much work. The
girls, therefore, have to stay and
work for about half of what they
were led to believe they were going
to receive,—or walk home.
The bill prepared ny tne Attorney
General provided that where the
contract was silent on the subject
of the size of the herring, it should
be presumed that it referred to her
ring of the size of not more than
700 to the barrel. This could work
no injustice to the operator, for he
could protect himself in the con
tract a clause giving a minimum size
of the fish. But Tom Gaffney, “the
Friend of Labor,” would stand for
no such provision. Fooling the
working girls had become one of
those sacred rights of Capital which
needed the protection of the Legis
lature. And so, fooling and de
frauding these girls remains a pro
tected industry and will remain
such while the Gaffney-Lomen brand
of statesmen are elected to make
the laws.
WAGES
A herring fertilizer plant hired a
bunch of girls in Seattle last year,
telling them about the “big wages'*
which are to be made in Alaska do
ing “easy work.”
After working from May 19th to
July 13th, three of the girls quit,
one was paid as follows:
HOOD BAY, ALASKA
July 13, 1926
fjTATFMFNT of trma HAYSSEN,
—Gibber
By 29 i/k-bbls gibbed @ -37 Vzt—
—$10.87
By 5 lirs. re-packing at 40^ 2.00
To store account J)-7 0
Net amount due $ 3.17
The girl was glad to get the $3.17
The other girls fared as badly on
ly we have not their statement.
(Note:—The Honorable Tom Gaff
ney, Rydeens and Lomens helped
defeat the minimum wage bill in
the last legislature. They were as
sisted by Sheldon, Fisher, and the
Joe Murray bunch. Opposing them
and supporting the bill were the
Regular Republicans led by Ross,
Johnston, Sundquist and Paul).
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