The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 24, 1923, Page 16

Auburn Boy Makes Sensational Charges Against Bristol Bay Cannery CORROBORATES FINDINGS OF = e VALDEZ SPECIAL GRAND JURY = Tells Graphic Story of Insanitary and Filthy Conditions and of Brutal Treatment Received BY LELAND HANNUM jWworking his way Albert Moran, Auburn, who declares would rather be put in prison for four months than to turn for another four months to the Alaska cannery where he was employed. man, who Francisco con ning season § prison than another four month: salmon cannery. employ.” “Your name is “Mud' r they get you away from the States,” asserted | young Moran, in an interview with | The Star. “The federal grand jury| Teport published in The Star a few days ago wasn't half explicit enough. s in| People down here can't begin to im-| gine the actual conditions under which you get your ‘pure’ canned} salmon. “A buddy and I signed up with| @ company last June, in San Fran- cisco. I was to fire tho boiler on the company tug Farm, at the Yak-| yik river cannery, on Bristol bay. “I saw Yhen shanghai four fellows aboard the steam-sailer Mount Baker, which took us up, and those four were so drunk |we drank from the gang-plank and gotten back on land, but ne ince I first went to sea when I was 12 years old have I ever ex perienced a thing like Yak-yik wt Into the on the t they gave tuft it was, and Black and asked him ing better and give © for the boys. He ward and told me “Mg Wrong with the | TELLS OF BAD | FOOD SERVED al of Irish stew romised us bet . We ad. was tho first graft we yuldn’t eat what they ut to you, but y ould buy cent stuff from the cook. A hun- |ery fellow has to eat when he Is Pp and we bought} paid six | Oo eKES; 15-cont | . and gingersn A sandwich was 65 es of bread was 2 wormy salmo up gave you and the mush in the wrning, when! it wasn’t full of weevils or too salty, was passable, |The rest was too poisonous for even a dog. “On the boat going up and down an open fresh water tank where wo also washed. ‘There was soap bars and tobacco in the slop. The Mount Baker carried 12 lifeboats for the 350 whites and Mexicans, and seven of them were [lashed down with wire cables and |were so full of holes that they wouldn't live in smooth water. Two | boats on the whole boat wero service. lable, and they were aft where the re volver-toting officers were. What | kind of a chance would be have had?! “I never heard of a federal inspect lor looking at any salmon for possible | condemnation. The only ones up there I heard of were there to keep they didn’t even know where | them from fishing in the river or in- they were going. agined what it was going to be like, I'd have slugged the guards =the better it gots. = Telephone Direct Main 4271 TH00. dod cups were served | at the PANAMA- PACIFIC | International EXPOSITION: |: Main 0222 RPHEUH E CIRCUIT VAUDEVILLE. Now Playing Twice Daily William Seabury & Co. In “Frivolie’ JOn TOWLE THE KLOWN RhivUn Kenney and Hollis in “The Two Doctors” PEI etal hdl WILL AND GLADYS AHERN McSOVEREIOGN Roger Imhoff and Co. “In a Pent Houne OPPORTUNITY, Star Want Ads if I had im- | side the boundaries. }a quart of whisky He had had but two hours’ rest the day | Fourth for |You see ‘The only sant- tary inspector we had was a com- pany employe,” Moran continued. HOW SALMON . WAS HANDLED I saw salmon sit out in the open! In cans for four days before It was finally sealed up. And when you get {t down here you see directior remove {t immediately to prevent poisoning. When the cans full of fish had sat there four days a bunch | of barehanded Chinamen removed them, rolled them into balls and put | |them back into other cans for seal-| | ing. | “I saw fish He on the dock for} %6 and 48 hours before they were | finally cut up. Some of them were so decayed that the ‘iron chink,’ the machine which cuts them up, wouldn't handle them. They'd just | smash up into a jelly. The ‘chink | man’ would hook them out and! throw them fn a pile and they'd lie | there all day in the worst sanitary | 5 you can think of. When| jar run was finished a gang would cut up these decayed fish the machine wouldn't cut and they’d cut them by hand and slam them into cans, too,” Moran declared. These fish, later canned, Moran aaverted, lay where the workers con- | taminated them in the most loath- some manner. “On the Fourth of July I saw the superitendent of the cannery give an ‘iron chink’ aperator #0 he could work. before and he worked thru the] hours straight, ‘thanks | whisky,’ the young man said, | TRIKE, ARE ARRESTED Then a hop head couldn't work | given $1 or $1.50 a day for » so he could continue his labors, but when the season was over he a dirty dog and a hop head d was thrown out with his wages n up in food, clothing and dope. you don't get your pay until you are brought back to the | to th Moran continued, “the | k for better food. As they stopped work the book: began subtracting $5 a day their prospective wages for {board and room, ‘They were off |work for two days and the super l{ntendent promised better |'They worked a couple of days and it didn’t improve, so they went back jon strike for a week, “Then a United States marshal |and a deputy came and investigated | They arrested five fellow#—a French« grub. | man, two negroes and two whites: |two of them pleaded guilty to #trite ling and were fined $200 aplece out |of thelr wages by the United States | commissioner and the other three, | who plead joawe and v Janitary conditions were of the! and the men all were infest. | with: vartun ad fought for thelr alleged poisonous food like wild animals, Moran charged. 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