The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-01
FISH INDUSTRY ' PEEAnSi CAUSE
 BEFORE SENATE III:
Urges A ainst Further Taxation Burden as
 < Recovery Looms
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 Stre ssins the need of offering ev- cry encouragement to business in linc tn the Administration wish tc fe ite employment and have
 ndu .ry share greater burden fhrou ' eiving more employment,
 .'e spsaker pointed out that in du try cannot do it's natural part of it is tt be smothered at every turn with mounting taxation He explained how the cannery indus try was co- operating with the na- tional program now to the fnllest, having adopted the NRA code and was carrying it out to the letter.
 "The r'i'pose of this bill is op- pression and discrimination, he said, while the MIRA code cx- plicitly says just the opposite" :" } Here he quoted from the Code of Fair Competition as set up by the National Industrial Recovery Ad- iiiist.atIon and which was adopt Fl by tie industry ses ep F NsTsie c3ac' is not designed to and will not eliminate or oppress rnall enterprises and will not op- 3. lte to di i;cfiminate against them" No Benefit to Small Operators The Hoffman bill, he said. was aimed by it's author as d benefit 70 the small operator as against : yie Dig, but that it does not do ], that, but rather throws additional sarden on the psmail independent ]. yanner the same as the rest, thus s it Is in direct conflict with the ] ode the national administration , had asked industry to accept in ! tiie climb back to normal condi- II dr,is t'ie sis.fEtsaz a5snst-stsf q Gilbert reiterated to the Senate i, the statement he had previously made in the House that 1t was q tuaiiy matter of survival while recovery was yet in sight He 'ex- plaiiiod how year after year the industry had lost money but had teiiari6G Sly hung on giving em- pioyh1eut to thousands always an ticipafng fhat things would ad- jtia.a .henisslyes.s Last season, he faid as1 the fifst indication of real 'fiip. 5!ltf,,ens a5ut that it would take Igrs guod season before the in- als.fy could honestly say it was making money due to the several years after 1929 when hundreds U. thousands of dollars were pour ed into 1t to keep it alive and nothing in the way of profits ta- ken out.
 fife declared it was unfair to the investors who have put their mon eyfin the industry with the hope ofEa@ fair return to increase the tax burden winch there appeared to she h Tray Of hope for them to realize something Oh their invest 2 riens: Hsressing again the canad- ian Situation, Gilbert said his com t,anS alone paid Into the Territory ol: Alaska two to seven times as mitch as the entire tax bill of the B2hadfari' ffheiics to their gov- etnment.
 Theife Says Unfair
 { {Rrl Thiele, for l2 years Secre- 1 taiy Of Alaska and now an inde- bendtpt cahnery owner at wran- se1E told the rpnarnittee he was in position Sto know the Territory does not need more money; that ! ik kas unfair to burden industry Hrthers when it Was struggling to 1 :.ehlbIiftate itself s'.s W stsWhy dibcfiminatc again.t this ii1dNztryf Mir Thelle asked. Ev- sgy6cdy dad to cut down expens- ess iis Said. why cahhot the Ter tdfTH He declared he was paying 1 sI5Dt0 ihs taxes to the Territory 1 ttiis. ys6r while making no profit 1 '6s himself. Theile urged that the l beei1hture cooperate in trying to ! tif7defstand 1. Industfy's problems rather than legislate it out of 1 6dsihess. He stresked the dangers l df ontsids seinsrs who come in and make money but pay nothing intS ths Territory, Traps and sein- tfse 66th are Necessary to the ir- 1 drstry, ffS explained, to bring about I tiik proper balance, for the sein-' i sfs fdrnish fish when the traps are not operating and the traps I At other .tiniHs when the seiners l are not furnishing sufficient SUD- I plies. Alaska seiners and the peo- pie of Alaska, Tiieile asserted, want ! the trap t5 remain. He explained \ how he employed local labor and 4 had paid $65,000 to Wrangell work | CTS the past season. He said the small packer does not need fur 1ther protection, as the Holman bill 1 proposed, but it does reed to be left alone to work out its salva- tion without too great interference. Others speaking were J ". Da- wis or Juneau, independent can- her. and Tom Gardner of the Ju- neau Logging Company who point ed out the benefits the logging ,iidusgfy derives fr3in the opera { tion 6f the canheries and fish