teiier To The Editor
We had a glorious party in
#tir American city of Boston 17C
years ago that freedom-loving
Americans are proud to refer to
ffi the ‘'Boston Tea Party”. The
jp»d who set the stage for the
party was King George III of
gngland
leading actor was Samuel
Adams
Costumes for the participants
„ere American Indian and the
inspiration for thia lavish and
expensive affair was “Taxation
without Representation”. We
#re proud of this party’s place
jo our early American history
because it illustrated the ideals
#e strived for in framing our
democratic form of government.
The idea of this article is to
remind the independent fishing
population of Alaska that there
pre still legislators in Washing
ton who believe as did King
George III of England prior to
our American Revolution, or,
better still, until we changed
their minds.
Only for the alertness of our
Alaskan Delegate, the Hon. An
thony J. Dimond, a recent bill
identified as Senate 930 would
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have been jammed through the
committee without any Alaskan
representation. It was quite by j
accident that Mr. Dimond;
i learned that this bill had been j
referred to committee and then
had to request privilege to give ■
testimony. This is a fact con-j
cerning a bill that vitally affects
the largest industry in the Ter
ritory of Alaska; an industry j
that has contributed as high as
80 per cent of the entire taxes
derived from the Territory m
one year.
If this bill goes through as it
reads today it will place every
independent resident seine and
gillnet fisherman on the coast of
Alaska on a permit system, con
trolled entirely by the local Fish
and Wildlife agent. It also stip
ulates that a fisherman must
have fished five years previous
to the date this bill becomes law.
in order to be eligible for a per
mit if the agent so wishes. It al
so provides for complete con
fiscation of fish and gear on the
second infraction. It plainly
states that even the apparent
intent to commit an infiaction
without actually doing so, will
be sufficient cause for a seizure
of fish, boat and gear. The bill
as a whole and in part is drawn
expressly to make things more
secure for the trap operators
and larger canning coroorations,
with no view whatever toward
the conservation of fish, regard
less of the argument the spon
sors made in its behalf. But it is
evident from a study of the bill
in question that the purpose
thereof is to give the canners
and trap operators a vested in
terest in the fishing rights they
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FISHERMAN'S
AND
# SEAMAN'S
H EADQUARTERS
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SHIP’S TAVERN
W. A. Schultz, Prop.
KODIAK
RECREATION PARLOR
John Raft, Owner
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have heretofore utilized by li
cense issued by the Territory of
Alaska. This conclusion natural
ly follows from the fact that the
appeal from the Director’s re
fusal to issue a permit can only
be appealed to the Circuit Court
of Appeals and not to the U. S.
District Court of Alaska; and
from the further fact that the
bill provides that no license or
authorization shall be necessary.
This eliminates the necessity of
making an application to the
Territorial Treasurer for the li
cense and will prevent the State,
in the event Alaska should be
come a state, from having any
control of the fishing industry.
If the Territory plans on pro
viding an opportunity whereby
the future population of Alaska
can make a living until indus
tries suited to the different lo
calities can get started, this bill
will have to be defeated in its
entirety.
It is the opinion of the writer
that every civic and commercial
organization along the coast of
Alaska which does not believe in
this sort of attempted legislation
without representation should
make it known with letters of
protest to the Chairman of the
House Committee on Fisheries,
the Secretary of the Interior,
and Governor Gruening
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