Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1924-02-10 | Page 42 | Alaskans Win Hicost Fight

ALASKANS V YN N NH H COST Railroads Help Fight Figh Living Costs for forI I Laborers I Zo Alaska 9 CAI A W AbId Gold bId seekers ekers along alone the thc lower 11 aukon ukon river hate hale just won ston on a strIke against the th cost cot of ot living according ding to men hero here on their annual e from the th Arctic placer fields to the tIre outside Old time tim prospectOrs explained l lI that they had st rou ht rought a II I of o trading In Alaska Trad- Trad cro Cr they said no longer lonter can dole lout out time worn goods but must meet the lie competition competitIOnS o mall mail order houses In the th ho a as well ell a eli as that of the more modern to ns I that have sprung up along time the Alaska railroad I I rho Th lh with stith Its connecting steamboat lines which extend fan fol loan don the 1 lukon ukon In iii summer isas as time the medium through the miners won their ad Time Tho railroad llo a facility of ship ship- shipment ment nent ne er n er kno known knon n to interior Alaska Fairbanks was ens the th first placer camp to In abandon the quieter or 01 O l tao bit piece pice as IlS tire h lowest hottest basIs of change That city came to ac- ac accept the despised nl-I nl nickel el and dime Before the go is 1 55 built 10 cents was stas a II short bit and was ens not le al tender Inder hen be first Fairbanks Ira ding took look dimes and nickels there thre was an n outcry from other stores and anti I among pros pros- pro pro- prospectors and laborers But prices soon became 10 lower loiter cr ages to help meet adjustments the Alaska railroad establIshed d a corn com with sith provisions for or sale sail at prices In the i Miny railroad are getting but 4 t 50 a diy this w si Inter Intel but butir t the rhes them the lege Ige of dra draft Inc any part of ot their stages ages in food tood and the tho th workmen early In the winter for tor tora fora tox a diy's pay at this rate they could coul 1 In provisions pro the til alen of 9 In iii prices at th lie riding posts post of the tho interior Th The boycotted the tl traders b bi getting all alt their thelt food from the Merchants protested to the th rail- rail railroad road rill road management and received the th 6 that whenever hene er prices were on a fate fair lr comparison with Ith markets market in the elites stites the commissary would ho be discontinued Colonel Lee iee II 11 Landis manager of the th tb railroad announced this work Week that Anchor Anchor- Anchorage Anchorage Anchor ago age business men had hl agreed onis on is hat ho he h ConsIdered reasonable prices so o the there be closed Prospectors Pro of the tIme Ko I and far to the tho north d their point I b ordering provisions from coat towns or front from mall mail or- or or der order houses in th the mates Some Sono tradesmen on the th 1 t uk ukon on out of ot business arid nd others dropped prices to met meet the tho Lion tion