Northwest History. Alaska. Eskimos.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1937
• Subjects: Eskimo; Anchorage; Alaska; natives; the schooner Trader; Yukon river; Bering sea; the Daily Times; Pete Palsson; the vessel; Gren Collins; Kyaks; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Bering Sea; Pacific; The Schooner; Yukon; eskimo*
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/91065

Eskimos Stage "Strike" Of Own. ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 12. (AP)- Br-r-r-r-. Eskimo sit-down strikes are cold propositions. Two hundred natives, dissatisfied at being hustled off the 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 today. "Captain Pete Palsson moored; the vessel to 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," Gren Collins, game garden aboard the ship, "When the captain requested' 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 (boats) 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 a dollar. Younger Eskimos saw a chance to earn some easy money and started for the lines in their kyaks," he said. "The other Eskimos chased them uax a oarue ensued, during which I paddles were used to splash the icy water on the 'scabs.' The younger fellows fled."