The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 13, 1922, Page 14

Alaska C onileanne Canneries Furnish * * * * Max Stern, newspaper man, has w ® vivid description of of the “hell Preceding chapters found bim. ‘Way North. The sea has the days drag on In endie: ’ reck pigeon follows the ship and is ere he's sick because vermin leave dominated Alaska country and me Hursed but an aged Mextean is left @franges for getaway and leaves. A @wes them $14.85. @rrival of mail ship. salmon ts apparent. among the codfish crews.—Editor, What does Alaska think of the @riental labor contract systern In ite @aimon fisheries? I had an unusually good chance @ find out, and I can say that from Wushagak to Kodiak and from Sew f@rd to Seattle the peop of Alaska ere everiastingly opposed to its op eration in their midst, 1 interviewed many prominent Jaskana, and from Gov. Scott C. _ they expressed disap. indignation over the em tn the can rn was not only @isease and insanity that It has left fm its wake tn Alaska 8. ©. Casier of Valtes, for nine chief U. 8. deputy marshal for Bristol Bay region, speaks with ledge and authority. “Seventy per cent of all the in gane that Alaska Is supporting come @ut of the salmon canneries,” he me, “and practically all of that per cent comes from the Chinese gangs have meant nothing Alaska, It's been « ‘Delly strike’ after an- ago we took 16 at one of these strike hear ‘Low wages, poor food, dope @ few of the effects of the Chinese E other Latina, who go Mmarabuana weed, or a iF af tr ; cannery dumping ground for all the rf E R 2 i Governor Bons: “T do not ap- of the Chinese contract system afford to have our men living under ditions. The can- ar i it, z F Surveyor General Carl Thisle: over the situation, and i stag zr for an ‘re ‘em. "m Alaskan and I can my it we’ tired of the sort of labor canneries are shipping up here. conditions in Bristol bay are as demand some immediate looking to improvement. If don't start improving, then we start some legislation.” . 8. Craig, former commissioner Dillingham, Bristol bay: “I've cases in the Bristol bay settle- for two years. The big major- cases that came before me those of the Chinese gangs. It's shame the way they are treated it is up to the companies to look into the situation. These gangs sell ‘booze to our natives and take their 2FE, sUEFAAED ge last dollar. It would be better for our natives if the canneries had never come.” PAVORS CLOSING THEM UP H. EB. Ellsworth, fish commissioner for the Third district: “If I had my way I'4 close up all the canneries for tour years until we could work out some protective legisiation. On “Hell Ship” Scott Bone Urges Real Supervision Treat Fisheries Like Placer Mines trip be took on an Alaskan hips” are brought home member of the can’t stand up. Wretched outlook is despatring. Men finally get eb: bathe. The same double standard exists work extra to cet leftover delicacies, Finds he must work at another cannery 10 days to await Is given @ seat at “white” table. Finds labor contract evils general, and same condition BY MAX STERN 'Girl Given a Seat in the Senate Contract System the Insane * * * * * ritten for The Star wts are dry for tack ded as an omen of i reg: the sign proved bad and the ship undertaker had no luck, Stern him, Bark at lust reaches cannery m are taken ashore. A sick pup bs to die, Rooms in bunkhouse so low ce ore as aboard ship and Stern plans to escape, Finally fler serving company two months he Great waste of and overwork, m for the Jrewult of dope, b< fam\ they ave the proble } rice, = The are very few] ~umioughs tn our insane asylums. The big majority come from the cannery gangs. While the can THE SEATTLE STAR MIKADOWINS Building Trades Thank _\{ opera TENOR | (ere A Sinead AGAIN AT MET _olks Who Helped Dill re Ges Frehe ae After sending a message of con mittee for the various county and Opening the final week of its en | corporation counsel's office to inves | itgate charges that the Beattie Light eratulations ( . Dil, U. & sen: | legialative offi were also wuccens. | ator-elect, the Seattle Bullding Trades | tui &: ling Co. is charging exorbitant rat 1, thru tte legislative cx for gas and to file a complaing | against the gas people with the state It |to obtat gagement here, the American Light - ublic ities 7 inoued @ atatement Monday | the main, department of public utilities, wa Opera company presented the ever for wup-| “Despite all be acted upon by the elty coun tuneful comie opera, “The Mikado,” Dill. | confuse our fo Monday afternoon, Mrs. Kathi before an reclative audience by | tormir he Miracle introduced the ordinance. the Metre tan theater nda and adhered Mayor Brown's appointment ‘ " ie’ Ame Francis B, Kelly to the inten night wan one of the nplt tree ern wal tart ay : e apt results be extending you our eney of # jets and sewer s @ ited performances that Seattle ba hearty sincere congratuls- pected to muffer the same treatment many & week, and the fons. We ere ified to know as his former nominations to thi » kept in an almost continu | that organized of the yond further ) vacancy have—rejection by the coun was instrumental in your vie | file of the wr eft irewn carried off the leading | tory, We feel confident that your | state are loyal } " ae Pe # Ko Ko, the lord high duties as senator will be dis | national and |Polish Minister his really rema coml charged with the same credit to 1 will not t * " s' being given a splendid op saa toediraee ea fe Leaves His Pos Satcatadnass May o wise Ju WASHINGTON, Nov. 18-—Prin divtuatan ¥ energy and success |Castmir Lubomirkski, minister = pom mag ur efforta. Poland to this country since 191 t| ‘The statement to the workers is as | \ called at the White House today one tolhowea: | presented hig letters of recall It . The legisiative committee of the | President Harding ne Mites detest Heattle Mullding Trades council takes | bor's own lout | The prince ts returning to Pol nh is to exprens ite aincere ap: ‘Our legislative committes t# proud te become connected with the Wipber Gayker and Ge pre on to the thousands of work- | of the ory won in the defeat government ie sucotesor, Dr, L The Mikado" was to rep re in Heattle and vicinity who re-|of t my of labor—Milen | liwlan Wroblew#ki, who hae repr night; “The Chi nded no unitedly to our indorse- | Poindexter are doubly proud ¢4 the Polish government tn Lond ay will be prenented ment and appeal for mupport of the|of the un nee of our rank for the last year, will arrive hi nd Wednesday nights; “Pir progressive candidacy of C. C. Dill,|and file membership, without whose! iaike Tine Ghat end will be the Wednesday matinee « who has achleved such a magnificent | united support tht fet ” — _ ing, and “The Bohemian Girl” w ossive principles labor could not have t won, Itt) Songs of Russia won much popu American debut at the Columb sung Thursday night and ature ot that four-fifths | an vietory netruct Anatole Berezoveky, Kus theater in specially arranged p afternoon and evening joraed by our com. | Ive policte: * ta aay inger, who made gram, 6 A op booze, disease—these were | ~jto go sooner or later. |neries are busy looting Alaska, they jought to at least be made to care for their insane.” Commissioner Tom Padden, Dib lingham: “The Chinese gang sy* tem is a thoroly bad institution | It brings the riff-raft of the states to Alaska and does ua no good, 1 think the cannery owners them selves would find it to their ad vantage to do away with the sys jtem and hire for themselves a bet ter type of workers. SELi, ROOZE TO NATIVES Senator Chamberiatn, member of the Alaska legislature from Sew ard: “Twothirds of all our crime and insanity ts traceable to the! Chinese labor camps of our salmon | jcanneries. They kill our game, sell) | boore to our natives, and then what | little money they make they cannot spend outside the company stores. “If Alaska had the power to make her own laws, she'd soon put a) stop to It “The organic tew Alaska results in the bureaucratic form of government and our hands are pretty much tied. When we try to do anything, as we did when we) tried to raise the salmon tax from 5 cents to 10 cents @ cana, the bie governing | » | lobbies of the cannery men are/ too strong for us. LITTLE BETTER | THAN SLAVERY | “The Chincse contmet system ts & relic of the feudal days, and has It's little better than slavery.” A. EK. Rucker, former chief dep- uty clerk of the third division “Alaska wants white labor. The Chinese contract system is repul- sive to our ideal of Americani«m. Moreover, we don't want their grappo and thelr dope brought up here to contaminate our ghtives. You only have to Itve in Seward ind see every year the tnsane brought out of the cannery region to realize what the effects of the system are.” Thus speaks Alaska. One eduid |auote to the limit of all its 20,000 for they do not love the Ba economies 10 New Styles! lace and velveteen, metallic and velveteen, combined in wonderfully rich models. The last word in style—the first THE BON MARCHE RGAIN BASEMENT We give you reliable merchandise for less money because of many in operation, volume and inexpensive fixtures! Velveteen Dresses Satin andPatent Leather PUMPS $4.79 pers Reba Hurn A former University of Washing ton girl, Misa Reba Hurn, of Spo- kane, has the distinct the first wo to be pred by «| seat In the state senate. Mins Hurn, | & republican, wan selected to succeed BE. T. Coman without opposition. Miss Murn, following her gradu ation from the university law school, yecarne associated with Nathan | Strauss at Washington, D. C., and, | as his private secretary, did much to aid in the Strauss philanthropic en deavors, Later Mies Hurn returned to Spokane, where she practiced law | with her father. j of being DR. A. U. SIMPSON and Mi Bertha Gannon, of the state board ot health laboratory, will speak Tuesday night at a meeting of the Seattle branch, Society of Amertean Bacteriologists, at Room 206, Science hall, University of Washington, ONE HUNDRED visttors who tn spected the Sacred Heart Orphanage Sunday were entertained with a spe cial program given by the children. canneries and their ways. The peo ple of Alaska don't mind hard work | and certainly they aren't squeam- | lah, but they tnatet on fair play And the Alaskans figure that the canneries, with their Chinese gang system, have gone a bit too far. 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