The journalist Max Stern, of the book “The Price of Salmon” edited by James and Philip Chiao, may have given the readers of the San Francisco Daily News in 1922 his own first hand accounts of the horrible living conditions aboard the Emily F. Whitney as it travelled from Pier 29 in San Francisco to the salmon cannery in Bristol Bay that summer. He went on to describe the the unsanitary conditions, segregation by ethnicities, and the awful food that they were given. It seems like things did not change by the time he boarded that ship because 22 years … Continue reading “Illness among Chinese recently returned from Salmon Canneries of Alaska” -October 30, 1900