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208 have a length of from 50 to 60 feet and a minimum speed of 10 miles per hour. They should be of heavy build and should have plenty of clear deck space to permit the installation of the machinery used for setting out and taking-in the drag. These boats are supplemented by one or more smaller Jaunches that are used for patrolling the drag, sounding on shoals, clearing the drag from shoals, etc. There are few towns in Alaska available for use as headquarters for a wiredrag party, and it is therefore necessary to use, in addition to the boats mentioned above, a larger vessel THE MARINE REVIEW Radicals Checked on West Coast Puget sound shipyards were still idle early in March following the gen- eral walkout at the steel plants effec- tive Jan. 21. The firmness of the government in stating that no negotia- tions will be opened with the men until they return to work has served to convince the leaders of the present walkout that it has been a _ huge failure. The details of the so-called general strike of all union labor at Seattle and Tacoma Feb. 6 to 10 are well known. COMPARISON OF THE SURVEYED AND UNSURVEYED WATERS OF ALASKA, CALIFORNIA, OREGON, WASHINGTON AND THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS—SHADED SHOWS THE UNSURVEYED WATERS AND WHITE THE. PORTIONS THAT HAVE BEEN SURVEYED—THIS COMPARISON SHOWS THAT MUCH REMAINS TO BE DONE BEFORE ALASKAN WATERS ‘ARE, SAFE FOR NAVIGATION of sufficient size to carry a consider- able amount of supplies and to pro- vide living accommodatioris for the party on the working grounds. This vessel is frequently used for towing one end of the drag and also acts as a tender for the subparties, as a wiredrag party in Alaska must carry on triangulation and topography in addition to the drag work. There should be at least three drag parties working along the shores of south- eastern Alaska. With this equipment wiredrag work in the main channel of the Inside passage could be quickly finished, which would result in advantages in develop- ing vast areas in Alaska and in giving her resources to the mother country. At “Tacoma, the effort was less suc- cessful than at Seattle but the cause of the shipworkers did,not meet with the enthusiastic response from other workers that the shipbuilders had hoped. The firm stand of Mayor Ole Hanson of Seattle helped to break the back of the general strike and to weld together those elements of the citizenship who had not been awed by the defiant attitude of the radicals. The Pacific Coast Metal Trades district council held a long and stormy session at Portland, Oreg., recently, at which the more conservative ele- ment held sway. The position of the Puget sound councils was not given enthusiastic endorsement and the at- titude of the Portland meeting exerted April, 1919 considerable weight in breaking the spirit of the Puget sound leaders. Dr. L. C. Marshall, representing the shipping board, appeared at this con- ference and plainly told the leaders the position of the government. It was emphatically stated that nothing would be done for the men as long as they were not at work and were in the position of having broken their agreement with the shipping board. The Portland counci! decided to order a vote on the question of a coastwise strike April 1 for higher wages, following the expiration of the Macy agreement. The Puget sound leaders fought for an immediate strike in support of their position but they could not gain their point. The firmness of the shipping board in prohibiting steel shipbuilders froni paying wages higher than the Mazy scale, on penalty of having contracts canceled, undoubtedly helped to win the fight on Puget sound. This was evidently an attitude unexpected by certain labor leaders who: during the last two years have become exceed- ingly arbitrary in that district. The second factor contributing to the fail- ure of the present strike is the refusal of the coast conference at Portland to order an immediate strike in sup- port of the Puget sound locals. That the trouble on Puget sound was instigated by radical and un- scrupulous leaders is the assertion of federal and local officials who have been active in arresting and prosecut- ing anarchists, bolshevists and I. W. - W., many of whom have been promi- nent in labor circles. Tnat the strike was not a walkout but an attempted revolution or rebellion is freely as- serted. That the walkout was ordered illegally, without giving the rank and file opportunity to express themselves. is another statement coming from authentic sources. It is certain thaz many of the men did not want to quit work but were forced to leave their tasks. , The shipyards announced that on Feb. 19 the yards would open, on the basis of the Macy scale, that union wages and conditions would be ob-. served. but that the employers would. hire at the gates and thus eliminat= inefficient workers and agitators. This. plan was abandoned at the suggestion of government officials and the ont-- come of the Portland conference was. thereupon awaited. The idle period has given the ship- yards opportunity to clean up and do- repair and replacement work which has been impossible during the rush of the past two years. The wood. vards have been likewise idle as well as the steel and wood plants depend-- ent on shipbuilding.