3. Stationary and floating traps
can fish day and night and are not
prevented by stormy weathers. The
purse seines fishes only day time
and cannot fish during stormy wea
ther.
4. Nearly all the fishing boats
used by the fishermen are small in
its size and cannot use deep sea
seines and therefore can not very
well fish in the open sea as the fish
stay deeper down.
5. We need to live to support our
wives and children and for the sake
of the future generations, we do not
want the fish to be depleted.
6. Pass law only for traps and
this will save fish from depletion,
and by so doing will save the poor
natives from starvation.
With sincere wish and the voices
of the future starving natives of
Alaska again ask you the purse
seines be stricken from amendment.
Kake, Alaska
April 14th, 1928.
Rt. Hon. Sen. Wesley L. Jones,
House of Senate,
Washington, D. C.
Honorable Sir:
Having learned that the White
Fishery Bill passed the House of
Representatives recently, carrying
provision taking both traps and
purse seines out of bays and estuar
ies, we the undersigned representing
Camp No. 10 of Alaska Native Bro
therhood at Kake, Alaska, a village
of five hundred people, hasten to
make appeal to you that the purse
seines be stricken from the amend
ment.
If this is not done, it means the
natives throughout this Division will
be unable to fish and we face starv
ation.
We ask that the fish traps be kept
out of narrow bays and channels in
the interest of the conservation of
fish, as this restriction alone will
bring us relief and give us means
of making an honorable livelihood.
This we ask for the sake of our
families and trust it is within your
power to help us in our hour of dis
may.
Gratefullv vours,
WALTER WILLIAMS,
HAINES DeWITT
CHAS. NEWTON,
Committee.
Socrates drank the hemlock and
Christ was crucified to save the “Old
Order.” But in the name of Liberty,
Equality, Fraternity, the French De
mocracy guillotined 2,000 persons,
men and women, for entertaining,
expressing or concealing opinions that
differed from the executioners!
—Bruce I. Keenan
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BROTHERHOOD NOTES
In 1921 all four representatives
from this division were Juneau resi
dents. This year nine of them ask
ed the voters to let them represent
the rest of this Division.
* * * *
A hog- cannot help putting its feet
into the trough, because it is a hog.
* * * *
“Down in Gaw-gia” where the
Stroller came from-Well,
now Stroller, just why did you come
from “Gaw-gia?*’
Do not lose sight of the real is
sues of this fight: Home Rule ver
sus Bone Rule; lower Transportation;
no favoritism in Taxation; Abolish
ment of the Fish Trap; a decent
Workmen’s Compensation Act.
* * * *
I make this prediction that a few
\ears after the entire trap system
is abolished, Ketchikan will have a
I opulation of at least 15,000; Wrang
ell will have 2,000; Petersburg will
have 2,500; Sitka will have 2,000 and
ether cities in the fishing belt will
increase proportionately.
I am convinced that the Ketchikan
Iron Works would have to hire ten
more men, the Northern Machine
Works, at least thirty men, the En
terprise Machine Works would add
10 men, and so with the other plants.
Boat building plants would open
up, sales agencies for engines, ship
chandleries, and many other necessi
ties for which the boats now go to
Seattle.
The above statement is well worth
looking into. If I am correct, you
owe it to yourself to strengthen my
hands.
Say, old man Stroller, don’t you
remember the time when you and
Troy and Smizer and some more
.Democrats were handing- out “Certifi
cates of citizenship” to certain Na
tives in Juneau to vote for Sulzer?
So long as you, Stroller, and you,
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