The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-06-17
COMMISSIONER BELL PROCLAIMS
 NEW DEAL.

In the interview given The Empire during hls visit here, Commissioner Bell of the United States Bureau of Fisheries proclaimed a policy that ought to appeal to every Alaskan and to all those engaged in the salmon canning industry, whether as owner and operator of packing plants or those employed by them. It is statement that ought to be studied by all Alaskans and every individual connected in any way with the industry.
 It envisions new deal" in that industry It declares as basic policy for "a fair deal all around; to those who have capital invested in the industry; to those employed in the industry to the people at large who this natural wealth in the ocean bordering on Alaska and the Pacific Coast; and to the consuming public" That, of course might be characterized in some quarters as mere generality general promise without specific details of how it is to be accomplished.
 But the Commissioners statement did not stop there. He set forth certain definite methods by which the Roosevelt Administration through him and his associates in the Bureau of Fisheries expect to bring about the accomplishment of these aims He spoke frankly concerning these methods leaving nothing to the imagination. Higher prices for the finished product coincident with higher prices for the materials, and higher wages for the workers and improved working conditions; drive out unfair competition using cutthroat methods eliminate justifable price cutters and rid the industry of certain economically niqutious trade practices
 
 to prosecute vigorously and without fear favor those who fish unawfully or violate rules and regulations of the Bureau of Fisheries; penalze guilty ones by restricting closing entirely areas in which they operate. This, in brief, is the scope of the plan to bring the salmon canning industry out of it's depression and raise it to the level of prosperity for all connected with it.
 It is large order. But most Of the things sought to be attained under it have been possible of attain ment by the canners themselves had they been able to agree upon sound, sensible and business like program. They still be accomplished by the canners voluntarily. They should be- But if they ernment under the provisions of the National Re- covery Act which gives it ample power, will bring them about of it's own volition
 Alaska is just vitally interested in the saliva tion of the canning industry those with money invested in it. It the Territorys greatest industry based upon the utilization of its richest resource returns from which exceed those of all other indus tries combined. The Territory suffers in the same degree from runous trade conditions the owners do If the industry is prosperous the Territory is likewise unprosperous And Alaskans will applaud Commissioner Bells outspoken announcement
 They are equally gratified with his evident desire to accord them share in saying what the regulations governing the industry are This is something never before permitted them The new Commissioner is devoting days of his first official visit to hearing what Alaskan fishermen business men and other interested parties have to recommend in the way of future rules and their criticisms of existing ones. This is something more than ges- ture on his part, anyone who has conyersed With him readily recognizes. He hasn't come as scientist or fishery specialist He has come as one seeking to find out the facts on the ground. He wants to know all there is to know about local conditions; about the state of the fishery itself and every related subject that has bearing on the prosperity of the industry and those whose daily bread depend on it well as those whose money is invested in it.
 Our basic policy is a fair deal all around, he declares The people of Alaska ask for no more than that. And they will back the Commissioner to the limit in honest and sincere efforts to achieve it.