The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-04-01
INFLUX OF IDLE !. NOT DESIRABLE, PARKSASSERTS
Governor Warns Jobseek- CTS Against Coming
 Here from States

jobssekers to Alaska would inevit- ably bring serious relief problems to all communities and to the Ter ritorial Government and handicap them in their efforts to take care of local unemployment, Gov George A. Parks today issued a warning to those contemplating coming to the Territory in search of employ ment.
 Anyone who has sufficient funds to defray the necessary ex- penses to Alaska to look for jobs that do not exist, will be wiser and better off to remain where he is and use the money to live on, than to come here and find nothing but disappointment" he declared.
 Local People First
 Alaska, of course, wants 6et- tiers. Just now, however, it ean- net offer prospective ones any in ducement in the way of jobs to provide them with livelihoods while they are getting established There fore, those looking this way for homes, must be financially able to provide for themselves for a year or two if they are to slic- ceed," he added
 Ordinarily at this season of the year our fishing, numbering and mining industries could absoEs hundreds of workers in seasonal occupations. They cannot this year. If they are able to provide employment for local people, who are our first concern, they will do as well as can be anticipated. Non- residents, without funds and com- ing north in search of work, will find nothing but disappointment in store for them, and the money they must spend to get here will at least provide them with susten- ance for at least some time where they now are.
 Fisheries In Dumps
 The salmon and halibut fish ing industries, major sources of employment for transients, are severely hit by the effects of world wide depression. The salmon canning industry will operate on a greatly curtailed schedule, re- ducing the number of plants below the normal stage and cutting down the gear used. This means that the number of jobs normally available from that source will be at minimum and can easily be taken care of by local labor.
 Market conditions in the hali- but fisheries has totally upset the industry, and fishermen are agreed that they can operate only at loss at existing prices"
 Mining Offers No Field
 While our mining industry is on the upgrade and the gold pro- duction this year probably will be larger than last which was the largest in @ decade, it affords no field of employment to transients. Alaska mines are abundantly SUD- piled with labor from local rom- munities.
 ''Tfle lumber industry here, as in the States, has likewise been hard hit by the depression. Local loggers and mills are operating on a part-time basis, and are well supplied with Alaskan workers.
 Need Expect No Aid
 Alaskan communities and the Territorial Government during the past winter have managed to pro- vide necessary employment relief by taking heroic measures. They have stretched their financial re- sources in this work, and cannot go further than they are now go- ing.
 ''Transients, coming here in the hope of obtaining work, cannot therefore, be given any add by either the communities or the Ter ritory If they have no funds above transportation necessities, or merely limited funds, they can ex- ist more comfortably and better where they now are than they can in Alaska where living costs are necessarily somewhat higher than in the States proper" the Gov