Valdez daily prospector., 1912-04-02

Railroads and Coal.
 We favor the construction by the government of a railroad from iidrwatrrS of the North Pa ciiic ocean to the Yukon water shed and it's operation by inc gov rrnmcnl or under such govern mental supervision as will pro iccl the people against cXiOrliOn- ate charges; We also favor the construction and operation by the government of d railroad tO at least one of the coal fields of the irrritnry and the opening and Op- era lon by the government of coal mine or mines as the best means or regulating and con trolling the price of coal and pre- venting a monopoly thereof. We favor the enactment of a law for the disposition of all other coal lands, which will permit of and encourage the acquisition of and development thereof by private enterprise to be, however, under government control.
 Road Poll Tax.
 We favor the repeal of the law Wnlch imposes a road poll tax Of eight dollars on our citizens.
  Slvc, unjust and unnecessary.
 Mining.
 We pledge our candidate to an active and honest effort to se- cure the passage of laws which will abolish the abuses of loca- tion of claims by agent or pow CT Of attorney, and which will re- quire that a hundred dollars an- nual assessment work be per- formed for each 20 acres of an aSSocIatlon claim, and which will give the miner lien upon all the mIInlng claims, machinery and other equipment, as well as up on the dump.
 Banks.
 We declare that recent events in Alaska have accentuated the fact that there is an utter lack of any laws regulating private banks in our territory and we emphasize the necessity of the immediate enactment of such laws. We pledge our candidates most earnest efforts to have con- grcSS pass the necessary laws to to protect from loss those of our citizens who have occasion to
 
 institutions.
 lndigent Pioneers.
 We favor liberal appropriations by which justice may be done to and care taken of those worthy pioneers of Alaska who have blaZcd the way for civilization, hut who are, themselves, left to an old age of penury and want.
 Land Office in Southwestern
 Alaska.
 We favor the establishment in Soul hwcStcrn Alaska of d Unit ed States land office and pledge our delegates efforts to secure inc same.
 We favor the enactment of a law securing the proper rrgula- tIOn of the hours of labor, and adequate protection for the lives and health of employees. and to this end, We are in favor of what Is known as the riEht-hour law. making eight hours the measure of days labor, and prohibiting employers from re- quiring their employees iO work more than eight hours per day in mines or SmcItcrS and prescribing a penalty for the of such laws.
 The fcllOw-scrvanL doctrine and the doctrine of assumed risk IS uni uSt. unfair, barbarOuS and cruel in the extreme and should bc abolished.
 As a cure, however, for the lnJuStIcc now done to labor in the . n n injuries received, while engaged on or about the employers busi- ness, We favor the enactment of an employers liability act on sub Stanfially the same lines, as those which prevailed in the acts of many of the more advanced states CT the Union. We believe that injuries received by the working men While engaged on or about he employers business should l'c ir"aird as one of the expenses Of the business.
 We demand more rigid en- forcement of the law, prohibit ing the importation of contract labor.
 Fisheries.
 Our fisheries, if properly man. aged so that waste and Wanton destruction are avoided, will fur niSh employment to our people for years to come, and will result in permanent population of many thousands deriving their from that industry. That industry should, therefore, be carefully fOstcred and pro noted to higher state of eni- cicncy.
 We favor q more rigid inspec- ton and supervision of the fish cries tO the end that sEch laws as now exist, may be more strin- gently enforced.
 We believe that the contrivan- ccs known as fish traps arc wastcful and should bc prohibit