THE ALASKA FISHERMAN
Published the 15th of each month at Ketchikan, Alaska
WILLIAM L. PAUL, ATTORNEY FOR THE
ALASKA NATIVE BROTHERHOOD
Entered as second - class matter at the Post Office at
KETCHIKAN, ALASKA
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OUR PLATFORM:
ALASKA FOR ALASKANS.
FULL TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT.
ABOLISHMENT OF ALL TRAPS.
COMPETENT CHRISTIAN CITIZENSHIP.
TERRITORIAL PLATFORM OF THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY PROPOSED
A number of the members of the last legislature
met informally one night and some one suggested that
a proposed Republican Platform be adopted for the
entire Territory.
We herewith print the result of this and other
discussions for the consideration of the Republican
Party in Alaska, to-wit:
1. Elective Territorial Officials for all major offices;
2. Separation of Territorial offices from federal offices;
3. Equitable taxation;
4. Trap-tax based on catch;
5. Discriminatory tax on non-resident fishermen.
6. Repeal by Congress of Section 27 of the Jones
Merchant Marine Act.
HERBERT HOOVER, CANDIDATE.
Candidate Hoover wrote a letter. The language was
clumsy here and there hut the meaning was clear.
“My dear Colonel Brown: I have received through
you and others requests from very many Republican.
of Ohio that I permit my name to be entered in the
Presidential primaries of that state. I do so.
“I shall be deeply honored by whatever support the
people of Ohio may decide to give me at the Republican
National Convention. I shall he glad to serve the
American people through the Republican party in any
way that I can in finding constructive solutions to the
many problems which confront our country.”
“My conviction that I should not strive for the
nomination, and my obligations as Secretary of Com
merce preclude me from making any personal cam
paign. I must rely wholly upon my friends in Ohio
to conduct it, and to conduct it in a fair manner and
with steadfast regard for Republican success in the
state and the nation. It is my special desire that ex
penditure of money shall be strictly limited and rigid
ly accounted for.
“If the greatest trust which can be given by our
people should come to me, I should consider it my
duty to carry forward the principles of the Republican
party and the great objectives of President Coolidge’s
policies—all of which have brought to our country
such a high degree of happiness, progress and security.
Yours faithfully,
(Signed) Herbert Hoover.”
In New York State 20,000 people were laid off from
work during January, said Commissioner James A.
Hamilton of the state labor department. Unemploy
ment was worse than at any time since the depression
of 1921.
The Labor Bureau Inc., specialists in economic re
search for labor unions, last week estimated that
throughout the United States 4,000,000 persons lacked
work.
The Magazine of Business, careful, reliable, states
in its February issue that for every hundred men who
hunted jobs in 1921 (when in recent history the job
less were most numerous), 122 are now looking for
work.
Last week the Riverside and Dan River Mills in
Danville. Va., one of the largest textile mills in the
renascent South (it employs 0.000 people), curtailed
its working week from five to four days. The New
England mills have been cutting operating costs by
reducing wages (Time. Feb. 13).
With police reports from New York City showing
that there is an increase of 5 00 to (500 per cent in
the call for free beds and food and similar reports
from other parts of the country, what does Hoover
mean by the “high degree of happiness, progress and
security.”
Is there anyone bold enough to deny the existence
of poverty among the mass of people in Alaska?
Is there any one else but Hoover to blame for our
condition?
Alaska is ready for Statehood.
DUMPING HERRING.
How are the Cold Storage companies of Ketchikan
going to satisfactorily explain the dumping of 250
barrels of herring bait into Tongass Narrows by the
Carmen on March 6th and 7th last because of no
market?
With boats going to Juneau in the one direction
and to Prince Rupert in the other to hunt the elusive
herring, there is something wrong somewhere. 500