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"a e its benefits.
points out is belief that such
rbor wouldgbe of more benefit
smeron couIty than to Hidalgo
~.
1t may be so, except in one
Hidalgo county is larger than
ron and presumably pays out
for freight than Cameron.
pose that Hidaigo county saved
R00 a year in freight rates by
kpf q harbor in close proxi
4 Cameron savd 100000.
would benefit the most?
SSION TINES argues for
Brazos de Santiago in an
hich follows:
ICE at the map will dem
general need for a port
ISABEL. Questions which
questioning the advis-
harbor at this point
been predicated on the
project. How the har-
paid for end what the
II be are matters which
&c permitted 70 block this
prise. for they san and
rked out equally, impos-
r5ea Of expense where il
inc that we are concerned
port as a medium Of cheap
Ltion. IL can be seen by
ytursory glance at the map
Vbint Isabel is geographically
! to a pert. Down the coast
nearly 200 miles to the first
south at Tampico, and consider
lpver 100 miles north to the
Corpus Christi. The Valley
: huge problems Of transpor-
dependent almost entirely
Rrriers and at the mercy Of
Pds should onerous rates be
eminent in its wisdom
have lent its support to
sabel port nroject had IL
e need for such a har-
il was pointed out 70
Irs that our present ton
h into the hundreds Of
d this year approxi-
Zion tons of outbound
it did not take the
Fbors committee in
to endorse the pro-
mend that si,000,000
I development of the
Fhal fund of $150,000
Itenance Of tins port
bmmended.
mot q section in the
IS. and probably any
ry which has as great
las the Valley and is con-
3 tidewater, that does not
port. With the long rail
Necessary to take Valley pro-
30 markets, the time element
be considered as we'll as the
# transportation. Besides this
markets ar opening up for
I citrus products along the pop
n centers on the Atlantic sea
and also in Europe. These
Is cannot be reached as cheap
u as quickly by rail as by
ships.
II THE PEOPLE OF the Valley
TX on the port project because
y cost the taxpayers 100000
-en a million dollar5, or be-
one county may profit more
is the height Of folly.
E county will profit from the
Continued on page two.g
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81 Plane CRASH KILLS PILOT
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~ hntiago harbor
- DAYS Hidalgo coun-
So SO cf 80 district, re-
sss~-,ssYsi,i as "the four
ksm seem TO resent an
patton fiat they were
arth 'f.ews."
he fur names into
inteded to convey
paer were con-
&oI convenience in
rcedes, that a.
Donna and that
wise related.
apart, independ-
their own cash
own type and
themselves as
the Weslac o
IL followed any
~ declaring against
cation district
: per believes there
or at Brazos San
that, in the forms-
bn district, Hidalgo
ray z tax in nro.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-04-21
WATER SUPPLY IS SHORT HERE BY
 LOW TEMPERATURES

With a temporary shortage in the Juneau Water Company s tanks, local residents are again asked to waste as little water as possible, it was announced today at the office of the City Clerk, and sections of the water waste ordinance are being printed in to- days issue of the Empire.
 Minard Mills, superintendent of the Juneau Water Company, said this afternoon the tanks had more water in them today than yester- day due to the rise in temperature and light rainfall during the last 24-hour period.
 Freezing temperatures in the Silver Bow Basin during the mid dle of the week nearly depleted the supply, he declared, and with little drainage from the basin flowing into the reserves, water was practically exhausted. The Alaska Juneau turned some of it's water supply into the city tanks to relieve the shortage, he said.
 Waste of water by local resi- dents is probably not the cause of the shortage, asserted Mills, but added that during the next few days as little water as possible should be wasted.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-04-21
REEDS CONDITION IS
 NOT CHANGED

There is no pronounced change in the condition of Judge T. M. Reed this morning, according to his physician. He spent very restless night but in other re- spects is much the same, and still expects to be in Court Monday morning to dispose of the Lee Donnelly perjury case, it was made known today. It is even thought possible that Judge Reed may leave the hospital long enough to render a decision on the Donnelly case and then return to the hospital.
 The Donnelly case is resting. awaiting the decision of the Court on two motions entered by the at- torneys for the defense, which were taken under advisement by Judge Reed just before Court ad- journed last Tuesday afternoon. The first motion requested that the charges of perjury be strick- en from the indictment because there had been insufficient evi- dence to sustain them, and the second requested that the Court instruct the jury to bring in a verdict of not guilty.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-04-21
WORK TO OPEN AT FRITZ COVE
 ABOUT MAY 15
New Section of Glacie Highway Will Be Han
 dled by Bureau Forces

The recommendation of the To- cal office of the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads that the Fritz Cove section of Glacier Highway be constructed by day labor instead of contract has been approved by the Washington office, according to an announcement made today by District Engineer M. D. Will Hams. The section is 2.79 miles in length and opens up a new settlement area in Fritz Cove where a number of settlers have a seady taken up small tracts of land.
 Arrangements for construction will begin immediately and work probably will start about the mid dle of next month, MT. Williams said The work will probably be both station contract and on force account. It is hoped to com plete the entire project by the end of the current season.
 W. J. Sisson has been assigned to the job as resident engineer. Last season MT. Sisson had charge of the bureaus survey up Chicka- min River. He has been attached to district headquarters here all winter.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-04-21
CAPT. LOUIS L. LANE
 PLANS ALASKA TOURS

An extensive hunting and tours expedition covering the Alaskan coast and Arctic Ocean areas is planned by Capt. Louis L. Lane, veteran trader and navigator of the north, according to a telegram received today by Gov. George A. Parks from San Francisco. About 90 people, both men and women, have been signed up for the pro. posed expedition.
 Capt. Lane is endeavoring to make arrangements for the neces. sary guides and comply with the regulations of the Alaska Game Commission. Most of the men in the party desire to do some hunt ing. The boat, Capt. Lane said, will be used as a base for the parties which will return from ashore every night.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-04-21
TAKU RIVER ICE IS
 STILL SOLID, REPORT

A late breakup on the Taku River is indicated by ice condi- tions on the lower river, accord ing to F. c. Guerin of the Pub lie Survey office who returned yesterday from a trip to Twin Glacier Camp. The river ice was solid for about one-half mile be- low the camp.
 Low temperatures have prevail ed on the lower river for some time and retarded ice movement. Yesterday the weather had mod erated and it was warm in the valley. This, with present high tides may move the ice up as far as the camp, it was said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-04-21
Territory Loses But First DiUisiion
 Gains Totes, 10 Years

In the ten year period be- tween 1916 and 1926, the to- tai vote of the Territory de- creased 1.031, while in the same period the vote in the First Division gained 1,417, official statistics just com piled in the office of Secre- tary Karl Theile reveal. The total vote in the 1916 election was 14,295 and in 1926 was 13,264.
 The vote in the First Divi- sion in 1916 was 4,642, and ten years later it had increas- ed to 6,059 despite the fact that in the interim two of it's largest mines, Treadwell and Thane, had ceased to operate. The gain is largely due to the growth at Ketchikan and the big increase in the Indian vote.
 Every Division in the Ter ritcry except the First showed losses. The Second dropped from 1,707 to TBS; the Third from 4.193 to 3.977; and the Fourth from 3,753 to 2,490.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-04-21

was on his way to Richmond, Vir- i ginia, the Confederate capital. He had just resigned from his class at West Point, two months before graduation date. It was April. 1861. Arriving at Richmond. he was appointed lieutenant of ar tillery by President Jefferson Davis, his personal friend.
 Robertson's first assignment was with General Beaureguard' 8 army. In a short time he became captain of artillery and organized Robertson's battery. Sent north with General Albert Sidney John ston's army, he faced the enemy at the Battle of Siloh, and from then on was in every great battle of the army of Tennessee.
 Under Johnston, Bragg, and Hood, the young officer rose to brigadier-general in Wheeler's cay. airy.
 A few months before the end of the war, at Buckhaad Church Ga., he was wounded in the left arm, and short time later sur rendered to General Fitzpatrick, at Macon, Ga. A major-general's s commission was on its way to him at the time, but it was cap tured by Federal troops.
 When the war was over, General Robertson disbanded his command and rode for two days to find the headquarters of General Kill patrick, the nearest Union com mander.
 Born March 9, 1S40, at old Wash
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-04-21

22 years when Vasco Nunez de Balboa, the courtly Spaniard. at tained the summit of the range of mountains on the Isthmus of Pan anna and viewed the Pacific Ocean and three days later waded into it's waters and formally claimed all the lands bordering on the Great South Sea" for his country
 These and other events in his tory are depicted by cards which will be pinned to the annual growth ring coinciding with the event itself. Among the years and achievements noted are: 1920 the landing of the Pilgrims; 1741-Alaska first sighted by Behring's expedition; 1776-the Declaration of Independence; 17s4 the establishment of the first permanent Russian colony at Ko- diak; 1799-the Russian coloniza- tion at Sitka; 1S61-the Civil War; 1S67-the purchase of Alas ka by the United States; 1880 Richard Harris and Joe Juneau first wash gold from the sands of the stream now known as Gold Creek; 1S9S-the discovery of gold in the Klondike.
 Weigle Speaks Friday
 Last night. speaking over KOMO at Seattle, W. J. Weigle. former forest supervisor of Tongass Ma tional Forest and now supervisor of the Snoqualmie Forest in Washington, talked on American Forest Week under the auspices of the Federal Bureau of Eduea- ton. On the same program was an Eskimo girl born in Nome who gave two vocal solos.
 MT. Weigle, who is an authority on Alaskan forest resources, de- clared it would be but short time when the country would have to look to Alaska for it's and a large variety of wood products. He also declared that the development of interior placer gold deposits had been largely made possible by the pres ence of timber in sufficient quan- tity and quality for fuel and con- struction purposes.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-04-21
TAX ORDINANCE IS PASSED BY
 CITY COUNCIL
Two Installments Are Now Provided for-School
 Budget Presented

Ordinance No. 201, providing for the division of the payment of taxes in two installments and amending the former tax collec. tion ordinance, was given it's fi- nal reading and passed last night at the meeting of the City Council.
 According to this ordinance as- sessment will be completed by the latter part of July each year, the Board of Equalization wil set the tax rate in August, and all taxes will be due at D. m. on the first Monday in October.
 Taxes not paid by that time will become delinquent, except in the case where one-half the amount has been paid, and in this event the taxes will not be due until the first Monday in March. If not paid on that date they will become delinquent. Ten percent will be added to all delinquent taxes.
 Remaining sections of the ordi- nance provide for the collection of delinquent taxes, notices of delin- quency and publication of the ordi- nance in the newspapers.
 School Budget Presented
 R. E. Robertson, president of the School Board, presented the annual budget to the City Coun- cil. For the year 192S-1929 budget expenses will be $55,OOO. $30,000 of which is to come from Terri torial funds, the remainder being asked from the city.
 According to a printed budget of regular expenses of the last thsee years, teaching expenses have been by far the largest ex- pense and this has been increas- ing each year. In 1925i26 the to- tal was $4O,10122, of which $29,- 650 was for teachers. The facul- ty received $33,109.0S of the 1926 27 budget which totalled $41,- 732.33. This year the budget jumped to $47,399.64 while the teachers expenses climbed to S35,- 697.75. Next year the instructors end of the budget comes to $3S,- 995, while the total regular bud get is $53,30O.OO and is boosted to $55,000 by special expense in cident to moving into and equip ment for the new high school building.
 A general discussion was held, which lasted until II o'clock last night, on the sewer and street systems. Much sewer work is an ticipated, but much depends on the bond issue election When
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-04-21
B PASSENGERS ABOARD ALASKA
 FOR THIS PORT

SEATTLE, April 21-Steamer Alaska sailed at o'clock this morning for Alaska ports with 304 passengers including the following for Juneau: H. w. Terhune. w. S. Pekovich and wife, Miss God dard, Miss Raven. Mrs. Blackman, M. l.. Davis, T. c. Brown, R. Car rolls, Louis Solyey, E. R. Jaeger, Mrs. Stevens, J. Riskanen, H. Erickson, H. s. Linnell, c. Wood ley, Glen Bently and wife, Charles Davis, George Kirdick, D. c. Ream and 12 steerage.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-04-21
HARVEY c. TRIMMING IS
 DEP. LABOR COMMISSIONER R

Harvey c. Fremming, reared in Juneau where he is well known, has been appointed Deputy Labor Commissioner for California and is in charge of the work of the Labor Commissioners office in Los Angeles and the southern part of the State. He was former ly President of the Central Labor Council of Long Beach.
 MT. Fremming is being urged for appointment as State Labor Commissioner for the next term. LET Almquist Press Your Suit.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-04-21
RESURVEY STARTED ON MENDENHALL BAR JOB

A resurvey of Mendenhall Bar by the U. s. District Engineers office was started yesterday by Lieut.. John R. Moves and, it is expected, will be completed with in a week. Fifteen holes were sunk to a depth of nine feet be- low the ground surface in the first days probing.
 Sand and gravel and a few boulders were encountered in the digging yesterday. The work was done on the south end of the bar. The probings will cross the bar from south to north and gener- ally follow the line of the pres ent chanenl.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-04-21
AHLERS- -WEATHERS MARRIED

Mrs. Hazel Ahlers and Isaac Weathers, both well known resi- dents of Juneau, were married in the U. s. Commissioner office at eleven o'clock this morning. Mir. Weathers is engaged in the fishing industry and owner of the gasboat Imp.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-04-21

tbis has been decided, work can he outlined for the present season.
 More Fire Hose
 Three hundred additional feet of fire hose will be purchased if a recommendation made to the Council is carried out. Additional new hose is needed by the depart ment in order to provide highest measure of safety from fire.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-04-21
BABY GIRL BORN

A five pound baby girl was born early this morning to MT. and Mrs. Edward Krause at St. Ann's hos pital. Both mother and babe are doing well. MT. Krause is en- ployed at the Alaska Juneau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-04-21

ington on the Brazos, first capital of Texas, he came from a family of patriots. His father, Jerome Bonaparte Robertson, also was a general in the Civil War.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-04-21
LEGION MIXER

All members of the American Legion turn out Sunday from nine o'clock on, to work on lawn, weather permitting. Bring tools if you have them. adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-04-21

Eugene Permanent waves, $15. American Beauty Parlor. adv
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-04-21

Adj ertIsIns alwavs pays. Us the columns of The Empire.
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Old papers for sale ar Ths Empire
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-25

had a four hour shift but this would
not be desired by the bosses. Bethle-
hem figures pay for each man accord
ing to the lowest possible amount of
money it takes for a man or his fam
lily to exist, so in this case if a man
were getting four and a half dollars
day for eight hour day, this would
mean for a four hour day he would
have to receive the same amount of
money in order to exist, and would
necessitate the raising of hourly rate
or tonnage. Thus you find the eight
hour day forced on the worker because
of the extremely low wages. These
workers on the furnaces would not be
making ridiculous demands if they
ask for four or six hour day with
more pay.
1t is interesting how they arrive at
the final rate of pay for piece-work
With the introduction of new ma
chine or some kind of work, a fair
standard of pay is set, then in the
course of time the bosses with then
time clocks and statistics figure out
the established high production made
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-25

possible by inducing the worker to a
high speed as a result of pay being
placed on each article produced AS
the case may be, the worker may be
getting Sc or 81 for eight hours. Sup
pose the production is 200 for eight
hours at three and half cents apiece
which makes seven dollars. The boss
takes the figure of 200 and tells the
worker the pay is now two and a half
cents which for 200 would make five
dollars. The worker raises his produc-
ton to 225 making about $5.63 for
eight hours. To the scheming boss
this is still too much as they figure
a man should not earn more than fifty
cents an hour on skilled work, so he
inaugurates a new scheme and if the
worker don't like it, he is told to quit.
but with the new workers in place, the
new standard is set like this ten hours
work at two cents piece. The older
worker who quit was making on ar
average of 25 an hour. This new man
will make 25 or $50 in ten hours for
five dollars and with experience raise
his production to possibly 300 which
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-25
(By a Worker Correspondent


NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (By mail i enclosing one of
the handbs given by the relief for the
Bedford Maybe you it? We still all strike
Will stay strike until demands You know
1, that if they cut which about SIT week.
f5y percent can't live We would have away
or just all workers could goes on
here they could sleep before they sent help.
-MEIXOS
Editors Note: The following extracts from the
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makes Sc for ten hours, then the
worker finds himself at the mercy of
another wage cut to meet with the
Bethlehem minimum of S.. Here is
already accomplished low rate Of
pay as we'll as a higher standard Of
production. This is a typical policy
instituted in Bethlehem.
Automatons.
Senator Wheeler at on open forum
speaking on China, showed much in
dignation over the terrible conditions
that the Chinese coolie must endure
and praised America where we have
modern civilized methods. Mr.. Wheel
er would drop this assertion if he
should step in Bethlehem and see the
human automatons going full speed
rolling red hot tin, piece-work, jump
ing about, piece-work, group piece
work, where if one man slackens
down, he threatens the bread supply
of the whole group and their families.
China's coolie system has nothing on
the coolie system in Bethlehem under
the Coolidge regime.
BETHLEHEM STEEL WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-25

thousands of feet of pipe a day. The
pipe mill is reputed here for needing
less than fifty per cent of men that
is ordinarily required in other pipe
mills. Then there is the big Shee,
mill where heavy iron plate IS made
from the rough bar form. There is a
big gas plant here where they make
the energy to drive all the machinery
and fire for the furnaces. Here is ten
or twelve giant industries in itself of
the iron family that only $4,000 men
are employed in and it would be safe
to say that fifteen years ago these
same industries without modern ma
chinery such as this place is equipped
with would necessitate the employ
ment of 100000 men.
There are great number of work
ers who live in the company
houses, while there is also great
mass of workers who come down from
Baltimore each day on the street car
line. Steel workers don't get up 9 or
10 a. M, like bankers, we get up at
5 a. m, if the on the day shift, in
order to get breakfast and take the
hour ride down to the mill. Its funn!
how all of us fall asleep on the car
until we hit the Point, then automati-
cally and disregarding the "No Smok-
ing" sign on the car, everybody begins
to light up a cigarette as though to
I, e.. kn TO ly
This winter the cold winds blew off
the bay and sent US scurrying up the
long slushy roads to the different de-
partments and we would run to escape
the discomfort Of the weather, only
to step in the mill to enjoy a real dis
comfort of the changing of bells, the
shrieking of whistles, cranes running
up and down overhead with tons of
iron on small sings of wire, the heat
that radiated from the furnace felt
comforting at first but then with the
new shift coming on and warming
up started, we were forced to stand
in front of the small air pipes that are
meant for cooling us off. The shift
LlAsiI ILilnliSu Wdo udpPy W lcdNcy Jul
when they left with their sweaty
bodies and open pores out in the cold
the expression on their face changed
Even the climates are against us.
Pneumonia, severe colds and cramps
are our lot.
Starvation Pay.
Workers whose duties confine then
close to the furnace work eight hours
such as in the tin mill, sheet mill and
open hearth. 1t would be the wrong
impression, however, to suppose that
furnace workers get eight hours be
cause the boss has any particular love
for them and it would be wrong to be-
lieve that eight hours is the standard
here in Bethlehem. Only twenty-five
per cent of the men work eight hours
while the others WORK from ten tc
thirteen hours not counting a half
hour extra for lunch. 1t is a well es-
tablished fact that the boss would
have a greater tonnage daily if they
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-25
PACKINC-HOUSE
men ARE SLAVES
IN SIOUX CITY
Have to Lay-off Every
Third Day of Speed-up
a. a W0rker Correspondentl

by a Worker Correspondent r.
SIOUX CITY, Iowa, (By Mail)--
AS a conrade and a worker l will en-
deavor to describe conditions in Sioux
City.
AS is to be expected, the packers
dominate and run this city. Being the
largest employers of labor, they set
the wage scale for the rest of the
bosses, and you can be sure that it
isn't too high. They pay from thirty
seven and one-half cents to forty-two
and one-half cents for unskilled labor,
and up to seventy-three cents for
skilled labor
The speed-up system here is ter
rifle. In some departments they
drive the workers to such an extent
that the men have to lay off about
every third day as they can't stand
the grind
Whenever they think that any of
the men are getting too friendly with
one another, they lay off whole
bunch of them, for they are afraid
that there might be some labor &C
tivity going on on the quiet.
1t is very hard to organize inside
the packing plant, as there are so
many stool-pigeons posted all over.
Because of the economic pressure the
bosses can put on men with families
to support, so many Of the men are
afraid to attempt to organize. But
conditions are ripe for it, for the men
are all in a disconnected mood and
receptive to propaganda.
There ought to be one grand house
cleaning clear down the line from
Green to the smallest craft official.
|. -FENTON.