The Trailers’ Strike
Of 1927
A REWARD OFFERED
Right after the Trollers’ Associa
tion struck in May 1927, a dele
gate went over to Noyes Island and
everybody struck in sympathy. The
Hydaburg natives struck for three
days and sent a man over to the
Hole-in-the-wall to find out what
it was all about. A1 Johnson told
them that he would not go over to
their camp.
The Natives then began fishing.
The reason was they did not know
what it was all about and nobody
frcm the Union would explain.
Klawoek Natives
The Klawoek Natives did not
know what to do. Charles Cutter
called a mass meeting for discus
sion. The question was put and
the Klawock Natives decided to go
fishing for the simple reason that
they were all family men and thei^
wives and children were without
food to eat. The Hydaburg Natives
were in the same condition.
William L. Paul’s Part
William L. Paul did not write a
single letter, nor did he send a tele
gram, nor did he by word of mouth
advise anybody to break the strike.
On the other hand, he lent the
strikers every assistence in trying to
make their strike a success.
Even when a meeting was called
in Ketchikan, he refused to preside
or to lend the Union’s name to the
meeting for fear that it would be
construed as weakening.
The Reward Offered
We hereby offer a reward of $100.
to any person who can bring a
genuine letter or telegram proving
that Paul was false to his trust as
secretary of the Union. This goes
for anybody who can prove that he
by speech advised anybody to break
the strike.
We make this reward to give
certain non-resident trollers who are
opposing Paul’s election because he
favors a high tax on these for
eigners who come to Alaska with
the geese, skim the cream of our
fishing season, go back to the states,
buying nothing in Alaska except
gasoline, to give these foreign birds
n chance to make some easy money.
Talk is cheap. Produce the evidence
if you can and get the easy money.
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