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With the advent of the canneries the result of their catch was sold to these con. cerns while their women worked there during the brief fishing season. In recent years the canneries have installed mammoth traps which not only reduce the natives haul and make the disposal of his fish precarious and of little valhe. but they drain the Alaskan waters of salmon to such an extent that even with gigantic hatcheries aid socalled conservation methods (which virtually restrict only thie independent fishermen. allowving the fish traps to operate without material interference). the slaughter of salmon is Ilmperiling the greatest Industry in Alaska. Besides this. every season the corporations operating the canneries bring hordes of alien labor from California and Washington to usurp the work belonging to the native resident fishermen of Alaskl. Across the border in Canada. the native fishermen are protected by laws prohibiting nonresident fishermen from operating except at an exceedingly high tax. Corporations In California and Chicago are reaping huge dividends annually at the expense of the residents of Alaska.