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they are far from being uncharitable — but because the labor is needed, particularly 
when the rush is on, and for which profitable provision can not otherwise be made. 
When the cannery ships arrive in the spring the native, having struggled through 
a long, severe winter, is hungry and has many wants. He greets the cannery ship 
with childish glee and wishes work. It is given him, his hunger is appeased from 
the overflowing cannery table, his daily wages soon supply the few luxuries he desires, 
and then he no longer cares for work. Why should he work? Hunger no longer 
worries him, his immediate wants are satisfied, and he has no others! 
The condition of native labor is the same here, among the Eskimo, as it is in 
other sections of Alaska, to which feature reference was made in the former report; 
Eskimo women cleaning salmon. 
only here the canneryman, being entirely out of the lines of communication with the 
labor market, seems still more desirous of employing natives and frequently sends 
some distance to their villages to enlist them in his work. Statistics show that the 
largest number employed in any one cannery is from 25 to 30 for a short period. 
Some days there may be 40 and the next only 10. 
It is true that the canneries can not give them constant employment, as their 
intelligence only warrants giving- them certain work; still a good, reliable native will 
have work the greater part of the time, and can earn during the short season from 
$100 to $125, also having his board furnished him during the time emplojmd. 
The wages paid this year to adult males was $2 per day; reliable men received 
$2.25; boys from 12 to 14 years of age received $1 per day, and children were seen 
