The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-04-14
LABOR MARKET
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Rustgard and Associates Greeted by Capacity
 House at Ketchikan

KETCHIKAN, Alaska, April 14.- The Alaska labor market, the non- resident fishermen issue, and the Paul legislative ticket, were high lights in an address delivered here Saturday night by John Rustgard to a crowded house. He, c. T. Gardner, and Walter P Scott, Ju- neau candidates for Republican nominations, opened the campaign here in an impressive manner.
 MT. Rustgard made the principal address. He reviewed the ground already covered in speeches at Wrangell and Petersburg, touching on the several blanks in his own platform and those set up by the legislative candidates, the need for capital for industrial development, urging fair play for outside invest ors, and the so-called Indian suit issue.
 He then turned his attention to the Alaska labor market and non- resident employment legislation. His remarks on these subjects follow
 Employment of Home Labor
 Tn my platform have pledged myself to do all in my power to secure such legislation as will leave the fisheries of Alaska open only to the bona fide residents of the Territory, wherever that is practi- cal, and where, by such policy the settlement of the Territory can be materially stimulated.
 The Bureau of Fisheries has done all it can do under the present laws along this line. It has limit ed the size of the seine boats to shut out the boats from the Sound. 1t has limited the permissible length of the seines to render the seines from the Sound unavailable in Alas ka waters This is the extent of it's powers. The Legislature has put tax of $2500O per head on nonresident trollers. That will help some. But the question must always be before us: when is a non resident not d resident?
 "If a person who spends seven months fishing in Alaska and spends the rest of the year in the south is a resident, the law will be of little avail.
 Asks Pointed Question
 But can hear some of you say that person must have been a resident continuously for a period of one year before he will be en- titled to resident fisherman's li- cense. True But let me ask you this question: Would Will Steel be fisherman? He spends two months in the Territory during the legis- lative sessions, then goes south and stays away until next session two years later To be sure, this last time he came back a little sooner because his term as a laWmaker for Alaska was expiring and there was another election coming on; but he departed as soon as the last session closed and did not show up till it was time to file for reelec- tion He has not spent over seven months in Alaska during the last six years and does not own within the Territory as much as chair to sit on or a plate to eat from. If he is a resident of Alaska sufficient to be a lawmaker for us, he is also a resident sufficiently to be entitled to a resident fisherman's license. But if Will Steel is entitled to be classed as a resident for any pur- pose, then every rowing fisherman who drifts into Alaska for few months year, or every other year, is with greater right entitled to be classed as a resident.
 Makes Great Noise
 My opponent makes great noise about wanting to shut out every nonresident laborer, though he knows very well that this cannot be lawfully done, but if such wander. CTS as Steel are to be classed as residents, such laws, even if valid, would be of no value.
 And my opponent claims Steel is a resident and urges you to vote for him. Any law enacted in that spirit to protect home labor and home industry, would be futile.
 Steel himself does not patronize Alaska labor. He publishes an Alaska newspaper every year, but every page of it is printed and every copy of it is bound in Seattle by Seattle printers and binders. Not one dollars worth of work by Alas ka labor goes into that paper. Every penny paid for labor on that paper is paid in Seattle and not in Alaska though he parades it as an Alaska product.
 Shows Up Insincerity
 T refer to this to show my opon-
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