Northwest History. Alaska. Earthquakes & Volcanoes.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1931
• Subjects: Eskimos; Anchorage; trading schooner Trader; Bering Sea; Yukon River; Capt. Pete Palsson; Ira Rank; Captain Palsson; Gren Collins; kyaks; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Alaska; Pacific; Ship Anchorage; Warden; Yukon; eskimo*; Yukon river
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/90596

Eskimos 'Strike' At Barter Ship. ESKIMOS "Strike" AT BATER SHIP. ANCHORAGE, Thursday, Aug. 12. — UP) — Br-r-r-r! Eskimo sit-down strikes are cold propositions. Two hundred natives, dissatisfied at being hustled off the trading schooner Trader, anchored in the Bering Sea off the mouth of the Yukon River, went on a sit-down strike—with plenty of ice to sit on —The Daily Times correspondent reported. "Capt. Pete Palsson moored the Trader to the beach in the tidal slough while Ira Rank, owner of the vessel, bartered 'with the Eskimos. When the tide began to recede Captain Palsson hustled the Eskimos ashore," said Gren Collins, game warden, who was aboard the ship. "When the captain asked the Eskimos to cast the lines loose from the moorings, the Eskimos refused and jeered the ship and crew in Eskimo language. They sat in their kyaks in the ice-choked water with others jeering from the shore. "Rank offered 50 cents to an Eskimo to loosen the lines. The Eskimos conferred and announced the price would be $1. Younger Eskimos saw a chance to earn some easy money and started for the lines in their kyaks. "The other Eskimos chased them and a battle ensued, during which paddles were used to splash the icy water. The younger fellows fled. "The captain finally lowered a dory and loosened the lines and "The Eskimos followed in their kyaks, throwing mud at the ship until she was far out."