The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-06-29
BRISTOL BAY SALMON PACK
 WILL HOLD UP
C. Baltzer Peterson, Can nery Man, Looks for
 p Fair Season

The Bristol Bay salmon pack this season will hold up fairly we'll in comparison to past years, ac- cording to c. Baltzer Peterson, General Manager of the Red Sal mon Canning Company, who pass ed through Juneau on the Columbia last night for the fishing area.
 We managed to iron out our labor troubles at the last minute, and there will not be such a great decrease in this years pack as was first believed" Peterson said,
 The prominent cannery man, who was one of the leading figures in the strike negotiations in San Fran cisco, said his company would put up a full back" this season at it's Naknek and Ugashik plants al though it is hard to say whether Tor not we'll be able tos sell it." Small Canneries Involved
 Such curtailment as there will be in Bristol Bay packing, this year, according to. Peterson. will be most ly confined to small canneries.
 TWO canneries of the Alaska Packers Association, the. bigg est packer in the district" will not operate" Peterson said, but added, they are small plants and will not affect the pack a great deal. The two plants at Naknek, two at Xvi :chak, one at Egegik, and those at Chignik and Karluk will be oper- ated. the latter two by PAF. The canneries at Ugashik and Nushagak are shut down. s..a ,e.g
 Peterson estimated the pack de- crease for this season will probably be about 100000 cases off the l. 400 o00- case. pack last year.
 >a Employment Less
 "As for employment around 500 less workers than usual will be em- ployed in Bristol Bay Peterson said. T don't believe, any resident workers will be out of work. At least. 1t is our, policy to give the residents work in preference to i'm ported workers, right down the line and am sure most of the other packers feel the same way Regarding labor conditions, Pet erson condemned the eff ect of strong unionizing of the workmen and it's stultifying effect on man output"
 Labor Situation
 For some reason or other" Pet erson sighed, "the laborer'S init iative is being curbed, and the popular feeling seems to be that the slower they work the more work they will make available for more hands, but it isn't so. If we could put up faster pack, we could hire more men If we put up a slower. pack, we can't afford to hire more men.
 Last year, because of this mass inertia-this sort of psychological stymie to efficient work, it took us just about 25 per cent longer to put up our pack than ordinarily it doesn't stack up at all with the economic standards wh h have built us to the country we are. When individual initiative is curb ed, something has to slip" Curtailed Operations
 With Peterson, going to the West ward also, is Stanley L. Cocks, assistant to the President of the Alaska Salmon Company. Cocks said his company will con- tinue to operate the Naknek cannery of the organization, with curtailed operations. but will not run the Nushagak plant.
 Peterson received a wire yester- day from H. B. Friele, of the Nakat Packing Company at Nakeen, Bris- tol Bay, advising of an apparently good run of fish with yesterdays average catch per fishernian at 400 fish.