Why Such A Law
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It shall be unlawful to operate
a cannery unless a report has
been filed with the Secretary of
Commerce prior to December 1
of preceding calendar year and
no cannery may be operated in
more than one. place or location
during that year.
The purpose of which law is
to shut out any or all small
salmon cannery operators and to
“conserve” salmon by prevent
ing a floating cannery from
moving from one section to an
other whereby they may obtain
at small cost salmon for can
ning. There is no inhibition a
gainst the packing of salmon
several hundred miles to a sta
tionary plant which is in effect
the same as moving a floating
cannery from one section to an
other. In the past canners in
Ketchikan district have gone
several hundred miles to Lynn
Canal and obtained fish for
canning; they went out Prince
- of Wales District and aia tne
same. But under the new law
it would be illegal and wrong to
move a floating cannery in
stead of moving the salmon.
The logic of the Bureau of
Fisheries is something we cannot
fathom. According to the recom
mendations of Mr. O’Malley it is
proper to transport in boats or
scows, salmon from one district
to another. Under the same lav;,
it will be illegal to move a float
ing cannery from one district to
another to permit them to do in
a small way what the larger
corporations do right along with
the permission of the depart
ment. Perhaps we are just dumb
and can’t understand the logic
of the new law. At least, we have
sense enough to object to such
a law and to brand it as a
crooked piece of business.
Poverty and Crime
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For two months, McGee,
would be robber of the Behrends
Bank, Juneau was behind in his
rent and he had been ordered
to get out. How many sugarless,
breadless, meatless, eatless days
he enjoyed before he went gun
ning for deposits in the Beh
rends Bank, has not been re
ported. But the fact is when men
become hungry they become
vicious and many prefer death
to starvation.
Alaska, the land of rich re
sources, the land of plenty is
coming to the point where men
rre becoming desperately hung
ry. They are going to eat—and
it does not matter how they get
tiie wherewith to get the eats,
flow much better, if the cannery
system were a bit more human
and allowed every man willing to
work, an opportunity to make
the few hundred dollars to tide
him over the winter in a man
ner which will preclude going
gunning for food.
All any Alaskan demands is a
living, cultural wage. A wags
whereby he can sufficiently feed,
clothe, educate himself and
have a dime or two left over for
a bit of pleasure. How long are
t hey to be denied such privilege.
The Egyptians forced the Jews
to make bricks without straw.
Alaskans today are not better
than the slave Jews of the days
of Pharaoh and the worst of it
Is that they lack the leadership
to be lead out of the wilderness
of slavery.
STOP FLOODING COAST
WITH FILIPINO LABOR
(Seattle Times)
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Strong petitions are going
from the Pacific Coast states to
congress to prohibit further
Philippine immigration into the
United States.
These petitions, signed by
thousands of veterans and mern
ters of labor organizations, ,are
entirely reasonable. CONGRESS
SHOULD GIVE THEM IMME
DIATE AND SYMPATHETIC
CONSIDERATION.
By Phillippine as well as
American students of this prob
lem the conclusion was reached
long ago that the dumping of
Filipino laborers on the Pacific
Coast was a menace both to the
people of the Phillippines and to
the people of the United States
and ought to be stopped.
Filipinos need in their own
islands all the labor that they
have. Their economic develop
ment depends upon keeping
their own people at homeland"
training them to work in and
for the Phillippines.
The Phillippine people will
not be prepared for any more
autonomy than they now have
until they get much further
along the road toward economic
independence. Their progress
toward this goal depends in
large part upon developing an
adequate supply of more or less
skilled native labor.
Certainly the United States
has all the labor in this country
that it requires.* In fact, it has
far more at the moment than it
can find work for.
CONSEQUENTLY, THERE IS
NO NEED HERE FOR THE F.CLI
F'NO LABORERS THAT ARE
COMING IN, THEY CAN NOT
BE ASSIMILATED. THEIR
PRESENCE HERE IS DETRI
MENTAL TO THEM AND TO
US. NO MORE SHOULD BE AD
MITTED, AND THOSE THAT
ARE SHOULD BE ENCOURAG
ED TO RETURN.
The Philippine legislature
should have taken this matter in
hand long ago and prevented
Filipinos from using permits for
the Hawaiian Islands to get into
Washington, Oregon and Cali
fornia.
The Phillippine legislature
having failed to deal with the