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SALMON FISHING GROUNDS. (From Our Own Correspondent.) SAX FRANCISCO, November 9. The Alaska Fishermen's Union announced in San Francisco recentlv that it would establish picket lines about all •Japanese ships arriving in Pacific Coast ports for a period of one month, unless the United States Government took action against Japanese fishermen who are allegedly destroying Alaskan fishing grounds. Mr. Andrew Vigen, secretary-treas-urer of the up ion, which is affiliated with the American Federation of Labour and the Maritime Federation of the Pacific, declared that a strict boycott of Japanese goods and commodities would be carried out if the State Department failed to protect the salmon industry of Bristol Bay. Alaska, which is valued at more "than £4,000,000 annually.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 283, 29 November 1937, Page 11
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