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The Alaska fisherman., 1924-07-15
PETERSBURG SAWMILL

A new company has been incor- porated under the laws of Alaska to take over the mill which has been idle for some time. It will operate as the Shields Sather Lumber and Box Co.,, Inc. The incorporators are Ed B. Shields, of Portland, Oregon, and Oscar Sather, of Hoquiam, Wash ington, and MT. Elsemore, of Peters burg.
 MT. Sather, who has been identified with the lumber industry in Wash ington, will have charge of the mill work, while MT. Shields will handle the office and sales department.
 The company is capitalized for $5O,0OO, the stock having a par value of $10O. This company does not expect to engage in extensive opera tion yet, but will aim to take care of the local demand. It will not be lcng, however, before these men will make the mill the most modern in all A 'aska, reducing the cost of manu- featuring and establishing business that will be of greatest value to Petersburg.
The Alaska fisherman., 1924-07-15

in hurting Ketchikan," said H. c. Strong, and something should be done to stop the talk when it re- suits in such injury"
 No one will differ from him.
 The thing that should be done is this; let the canneries quit their secret agreements, and their encour- agement of lawlessness, and the talk will stop at once.
 Nobody knows better than Carl Strong that there is a fish trust, and for long time, he was vital part of it. For many years prices have been exactly alike in this dis trict. Was it mere accident?
 The cannerymen do not want us to talk about their unlawful prac- tices, then let them quit. On one occasion, Carl Strong ordered fish boat to get dog salmon, and when that boat came back with something like 12,OOO, he refused to take them, forcing the fisherman to throw the fish overheard because Strong had received fine load from some trap.
 When he was in Washington, ho argued that trap fish were the best because they could be held until they were nee@ed by the cannery, and yet h. forced this fisherman to dump 12:000 good, fresh fish into the wa ter and took the trap fish.
 Lest summer, while Senator Wes- lc: |. Jcncs was making personal inspection" of the fishing industry, over 100000 pounds of fresh fish were dumped into the bay near the cold storage plant belonging in part to Carl Strong. Where was the Sena- tor? Probably riding down in MT. Strone's automobile to inspect "the best cannery in Alaska.''
The Alaska fisherman., 1924-07-15

Progressive. We wonder if Fair banks is alive to her chance to elect a man who will be power for good government and strong representa- tive of her interests. You cannot always tell
The Alaska fisherman., 1924-07-15
FAIRBANKS RENOMINATES

lature closely during the past TOUT years can very easily pick out the "strong men," I do not mean by that, that "strong man" is one who agrees with me, but rather one who by his personality has left his mark on legislation.
 Two men who are entitled to this designation and are )again in the field for reelection are the Honor able Joseph H Murray of Mccartney, in the Third Division, and the Honor able H. H. Ross, of Fairbanks.
 Singularly speaking, these men are strong but exert their strength ir entirely different directions. There is no stronger force in the legisla ture than MT. Murray, but he has used it entirely in the interests of the large copper mine from whose district he comes. He has used it to defeat every just demand of the lit tie fellow, voting to increase the taxes of the small business man and the working man, in order that his "pet" that divides from two to six millions in profits each year might be relieved from paying it's just share in taxes. AS result of his efforts, the kennecott mine pays S15,000 in taxes for eac'1 million dol- lars in net profits. Do you wonder that a poor transfer man has to pay oftentimes the value of his truck in taxes?
 The other strong personality in the House, was H. H. Ross. This man is often misunderstood because of his quiet style. But at every test, Mr. Ross showed a capacity for correct thinking. Usually he and MT. Mur- ray were on opposite sides, and this led to much comment until MT. Ross became recognized as the leader of the Progressives and Mr. Murray the leader of the reactionaries. It is not doubted that he and MT. Johnston were responsible for the ap- propriation for the Fairbanks Col .lege.
 At the last session, MT. Ross was the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, and as such he would not be stampeded by the charge of the Cannery brigade.
 The people of all Divisions are in terested in the reelection of MT. Ross and the defeat of Joseph Mur- ray; for the next legislature will be composed of almost entirely green material. The leadership will fall naturally to the older hands especial ly in the early days of the session. 1 have no doubt but what the two candidates for the Speakership of the House will be H. H. Ross and Jos. Murray, not so much because these men are ambitious for it, but because they represent the two op" loc
The Alaska fisherman., 1924-07-15
"BAD FOR BUSINESS"

"Recent newspaper articles against the fish industry, charging trusts and the like, is all having it's effect
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-21
Virgin Islanders
Badly Fed Under
American Rule

NEW YORK, March 20.-Hear-
ings on the senate bill, providing for
permanent form of civil govern
ment in the Virgin Islands, have
been preceded by the publication of
a report by the federal commission
to the islands.
The policy Of the American gov
eminent toward this West Indian
possession stands indicted by its own
investigators. The report says, In
part: Economic conditions in the
Virgin Islands are far from salts
factory. The marked loss Of trade
is largely due to our general policy
Of treating the islands only as an
outpost of defense for the Panama
canal; federal prohibition which Grip
pied the bay rum industry of the is
lands; serious droughts which almost
eliminated the last three years crops |:
and the fact that st. Thomas, al
tho one of the finest ports in the
world, is no longer used as a port
of call by Panama canal and South
America-bound steamship traffic.
These conditions create an appalling
ly large percent of unemployment
and already evidences of under-nour-
lshment are apparent"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-21
Austria MiniStering
Relief to J. p. Morgan
Under League Yoke

VIENNA, March 20.-Austria's
suggestion that it is high time to
consider the removal of the yoke,
thrust upon the country by the
League Of Nations and foreign
bankers, has elected a "rebuke"
from the league.
The clerical government at
Vienna, acting under pressure from
the socialists, recently suggested
that the Austrian parliament is,
after all, the competent authority to
determine the nations fate, to draw
up the budget, execute reforms and
express the sentiment of the inhabi-
tants. The League Council reports
that the "bondholders must be pro-
tected"-the foreign bonchclders, Of
course.
If there is any doubt left as to
the persons who are benefitting by
the leagues Intervention in Austria,
the leagues own statement should
dispel such uncertainty. The Aus
trian workers and middle class are
not even favored with honorable
mention" in the leagues dispensa-
ton of gratuities. If relief is being
administered, it IS TO the Bank of
England, ]. P. Morgan and other
investors in the Austrian loan.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-21
MGzunldGr VIII Tell
Y. w. League About
The Youth of India

An exceedingly interesting orien-
tai program has been arranged by
the Irving Park Branch of the
Young Workers League for Sunday
afternoon, March 30, at p. m. The
program win consist of talk by
Haridas T. Mazumdar, author Of
"Ghandi, the APOSTLE on the youth
movement in India. A very lively
discussion by the members of the
leagues and their friends is ex-
pected. In addition there will be
oriental songs and dancing to give
this meeting an oriental character.
The meeting will take place at
Irving Park Peoples House, 4O21 N.
Drake avenue.
All Comrades Of the city are
invited to attend this, the first open
meeting of the Irving Park Branch
of the Young Workers League and
to help make it huge success.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-21
Famous Irish Tenor
Sings at Auditorium,
Here on April 7th

John Mccormack, noted Irish
tenor, will make his final appear
ance this season in Chicago on Mon
day evening, April z, at the Audi
forum theater. The concert was
originally scheduled for Sunday af-
ternoon, April 10, but within the
past week, Mrs. Mccormack, wife
of the tenor, was severely injured
in a train wreck il Europe and the
concert scheduled for Chicago has
been advanced a week to permit the
singer to make a hurried visit to
Europe.
Mr.. Mccormack, who is now in
the west, has been forced to cancel
a number of eastern concerts, but
due to the fact that he must come
thru Chicago on his way to Europe,
his managers hive deemed II advis
able that he keep his Chicago en-
gagement, for he Is so well known
in this city that the disappointment
to the thousands Of his friends
would be great.
His program for the concert in
Chicago viii contain several new
and interesting numbers as we'll as
the countless favorite arias that
have endearcd him TO the American
public. Mr.. Mccormack, as usual.
will be accompanied by Edwin
Schneider, who Is noted pianist.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-21
WiLkeS-Bdrre Free
Speech Test Coming;
PinchOt Won't Act

NEW YORK, March 20.-Follow-
ing court action to prevent Mayor
Daniel L. Hart, of Wilkes-B Barre,
from interfering with the right Of
free speech, a test meeting will be
held by the Workers Party in that
Hart-ridden town.
Robert w. Dunn, who has been in
quiring into the state Of Lornorder
in Wilkes-Barre on behalf of the
Civil Liberties Union, was informed
by Governor Pinchot that he has
no legal power to curb "the 1awless
acts Of mayors like Hart as long as
they are confined to the first amend
ment and the Bill Of Rights"
Attorney General Woodruff, OF
Pennsylvania, tells Dunn tf1lt Hart
violated the fundamental law of
free speech when he broke UP the
Lenin memorial meeting on Jan. 27."
But Woodruff adds that the removal
Of Hart from Office would require
two-thirds majority on the reaction
airy state senate.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-21
Grating Officials
VIII Hold on to
Prison Pen Contract
By ERNEsT R. CHAMBERLAIN

(StaH Correspondent Of Federated Press)
OKLAHOMA CITY, March 20-The
Reliance Shirt factory is not in dan
ger of losing its outrageous Okla
homa prison contract despite the fact
that the state house of representa-
tives has passed resolution charging
its agents, particularly Eli H. Brown
Jr., of Louisville, KY, with "debauch-
ing state officials" The resolution
has been sent to the senate, reported
out by one committee and again re-
ferred to the committee on prison
affairs presided over by Senator Carl
Monk Of McAlester, where the shirt
factory is located. Monk is a friend
of the contract.
w. E. Disney, house leader Of the
investigating committee, charged that
the contract was "reeking with
graft"
r. r. RAIDER, treasurer Of the COM
pany, came to Oklahoma City recent
ly from Chicago where he has his Of
flee and was caught unawares by the
probers. He said that tho he was
treasurer he knew nothing Of his
company's financial affairs and moth
ing of the $4,000 alleged to have
been paid by Brown in to the cam
paign funds Of former Governor j.
G. Walton and Attorney General
George Short.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-21
League of Nations
Rebukes AuStriG's
Plea for Freedom

VIENNA, March 20.-Austria' 5
suggestion that it is high time to con-
slider the removal of the yoke, thrust
upon the country by the league Of
nations and foreign bankers, has
elected a ''rebuke" from the league.
The Clerical government at Vienna,
acting under pressure from the So
cialists, recently suggested that the
Austrian parliament is, after all, the
competent authority to determine the
nations fate, to draw up the budget,
execute reforms and express the
sentiment of the inhabitants. The
league council retorts that the "bond-
holders must be protected"-the for
eign bondholders, of course.
If there is any doubt left as to the
persons who are benefiting by the
leagues Intervention in Austria, the
leagues own statement should dispel
such uncertainty. The Austrian
workers and middle class are not even
favored with honorable mention" in
the leagues dispensation Of gratui-
ties. If relief is being administered,
IL is to the Bank Of England, ]. p.
Morgan and other investors in the
Austrian loan.
This episode should serve as ample
warning to those who still hope for
Germany's rescue thru the league.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-21
Seek Toy Girls Wealth.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, March co.
A fortune which Zoe wilkins, toy Of
wealthy men, found slain in her
home here, was believed to have
possessed, was sought by authorities
today as a possible clew to the MUIR
derer
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-21
GALS CAMP AIGN
PRIN TIN C DONE.
BY SCAB LABOR
Strikebreaker Coolidge
Has Consistent Record
By CARL HAEssLER

tStah Correspondent of Federated Press)
President Coolidge is for union
labor in the district where he can
get most votes that way. He is for
the open shop wherever he thinks
that more votes will develop out Of
scab conditions.
view granted to Typographical
Union No. 16 by the Coolidge cam
paign headquarters in its magniii-
cent Wrigley building suite. The
printers want to know why the union
label does not appear on Coolidge
campaign literature.
The official answer was that soma
times it does and some times it
doesn't. But this is not thru care
lessness or negligence. The pur-
chasing agent Of supplies for all the
Coolidge Headquarters thruout the
country said that the use Of the
label is determined by political ex-
pediency in each state. "The New
England states, particularly Connec-
ticut and Rhode Island, insist that
the label be omitted" the agent de-
clared. "Texas is another state where
the label can't appear. Illinois
doesn't matter much because we
aren't making strong fight here"
Northampton, Mass, is evidently
against organized labor, Coolidge's
home town has published folder
boosting him for the Republican
nomination. There is no label on
this folder.
. The anti-labor bias Of Coolidge is
no secret. His only appointment Of
a cabinet member is that of Judge
Curtis D. Wilbur of California to
succeed Secretary of the Navy Ed
win DENLY, who was run out OF
Office by the senate. Wilbur is chief
justice Of the state supreme court
that has persisted in keeping Tom
Mooney and Warren Billings in Jail
under life sentence on confessedly
perjured evidence. His court has
repeatedly sustained the criminal
syndicalism law of California under
which Anita Whitney, the suffrage
worker, and hundreds of labor men
have been convicted.
Coolidge has kept in his cabinet
Attorney General Harry M. Daugh-
erty, whose assistant, William j.
Burns, spends his time trying to
put both American Federation of
Labor and other unions out of bust
ness. Burns uses government re-
sources to help his private detec-
tive agency from its jobs and get
more business. Burns is the pre-
tege Of Hiram johnson, another
presidential aspirant.
Coolidge has also kept James Da-
Wis as secretary Of labor, whose plan
to register alien workers and build
up huge political and industrial
police machine was condemned oy
the A. F. of l.. in its Portland con-
vention in 1923.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-21
Lumber Trust Uses
Direct Action When
Their Courts Fail
sBy The Fsa-rAted Press,

UKIAH, Cal, March 20.-Follow-
ing on the dismissal of the criminal
syndicalism case against Oscar Erick-
son, when the second jury to try him
failed to agree, tactics directed
against the /. w. w. Commonly
supposed here to be inspired by the
lumber comanies) have taken a new
turn. /. w. w. members are now
being forcibly deported from this
town.
On two different occasions men,
bers have been overcome by mobs
of much greater number and forced
out Of the county. In one of these
cases all their literature and supplies
were burned, and the men were
threatened with tarring and feather
ing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-21
Negro Workers Are Against
Conservative Sanhedrin Leaders

TODAY we show up the Urban League, and how little
for the betterment of the housing and labor
conditions of the Negro Race. II will be noted that So
called social workers and real sharks worked
geher in the last Sanhedrin Conference, throw
aggressive and definite housing reforms demanded by
labor delegates The dissatisfaction of the of Negro
workers with the conduct of the
their Race who in league with large white industrial
firms, prompted the Negro workers to organize the
NEGRO TENANTS LEAGUE. Tomorrow anaIyze the
last Sanhedrin Conference little further, showing how
the labor and housing problems of the Race
separated We will also present a program Negro
conditions in the United States, Endorsed by the only
political party which has definite and practical program
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-21
LEWIS BLOCKS
The PAYMENT OF
HOWAT'S WAGES
Tells Kansas Not to Pay
S Months Refund
BY TOM TIPPETT
star coTr..nordsn, - F. FL -,

PITTSBURGH, Kan, March 20.-
John L. Lewis, international presi-
dent, United Mine Workers of Amer
lea, is blocking payment of back sal
aries to Alexander Howat and other
deposed officials Of District Ia. vot-
ed to them by the Kansas rniners'
convention which adjourned here
March 10. The convention had vot-
ed to pay the deposed men five
months wage for their nnexpired
terms, while the ex-officials were
serving their 16 months Jail SEN
tence for violation Of the industrial
court law.
Don't Pay" Lewis Wires.
After the conventions action Lew
is wired the officials here not to pay.
His message threw the convention
into an uproar. A wire was sent to
Lewis demanding that he cite the un-
ion law that prohibited this district
from spending its money in accord
ance with its own convention deci-
sions.
Lewis reply said the constitution
contains ample authority" but did
not mention the section. His tele-
gram pointed out the payment Of
moneys under such circumstances
would be Misrepresentation of funds
under our own law and lay officers
guilty of such action open to Grim
inal court action under the state
law" One delegate defended Lewis
and he was an international organ
izer.
Lewis Bunk Disproved
The 100000 sent for the Kansas
fight, by the Illinois miners against
the instructions of President Lewis
was cited as proof that his stand was
wrong. Upon the advice of Howat,
who spoke for the deposed men, the
convention did not force payment
of the salaries.
The men involved in the salary
question, when interviewed, said that
everybody in the district had suf-
fered; all had lost salaries. The dis
trict officials said an appeal to the
international board would be taken.
A motion carried unanimously in
viting Lewis to Kansas to debate. the
Kansas case with Howat and ex-
plain his opposition on the salary
question to the Kansas miners. Lew
is is permitted to select the date and
place of meeting in this district.
A scale committee was elected to
negotiate wage scale with the oper-
ators at Kansas City March %.
What Howat Men Won
The convention adjourned with
every proposition presented by the
old Howat crowd housekeeping the
actual payment of salary to the de-
posed officers--and they figure that
the action was a victory for them
as the record now stands. They kill
ed the appointive power, demanded
special convention for Howat's re-
instatement and the other ousted
men. They undid the work of the
provisional convention and rewrote
their district constitution so as to
permit Howat men to run for Office
lin the coming election and laid other
plans to resume the control of
the organization which they hope to
bring out of chaos and up to the
old Howat 100 percent organized
standard.
A committee was elected to draw
I'D a resolution to be presented to
the Illinois miners convention
thanking District IL for its support
in the Kansas trouble and asking CO.
operation until a final settlement is
made.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-21
Dutch Children Are
Busy Collecting Funds
For German Riddles
CBy The Federated Prsss)

AMSTERDAM, March 20.-The
children of Holland are collecting
money with which to erect feeding
kitchens for the starving school child
rem of Germany. Already enough
money has been brought together to
erect one such feeding kitchen in
Berlin, where 80 of the neediest tots
are fed daily. To keep down the over
head, it has been arranged that the
pupils of the upper grades, who are
receiving lessons in home cooking,
shall prepare the meals every day
for these 30 under the tutelage of the
domestic science teacher.
1t is expected that a large number
of kitchens will soon be provided for.
BURNS MUST co!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-21
Urban League, Negro "Welfare"
Agency, Ignores Housing Issue;
Workers Party Is Leading Fight

Despite the fact that the Negro workers clamorng
cearu housing and labor to be adopted by the
Sanhedrin ARace Conference which held in Chicago
ending February &c. only vague and brief resou
ton labor and housing allowed to thru the
sentative watch dogs who controlled the Congress.
Due to the efforts of Dean Miller and Arnold T. Hill Of
the Urban League of Chamber Of