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The Nome nugget., 1928-02-25
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

In the Probate Court for the Cape Nome Precinct, Second Division, Territory Of Alaska, Before the Hon. c. w. Thornton, U. s. Com. missioner and Ex-Officio Probate
 Judge.
 In the Matter of the Estate of: .iLICK HOLMSEN, deceased.
 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the undersigned that he has been duly appointed Administrator of the Estate of ALICK HOLMSEN. deceased, and all persons having claims against the said estate must exhibit the same, with the neces sary vouchers. within six months after the first publication of this notice. to the said Administrator, at his place of business, the Nevada Pool Room. situated on Front Street, Nome, Alaska, the same be- ing the place for the transaction of the business of the satd estate in the above Precinct and Territory. Dated at Nome, February r, 1928
 s. H. BURGH,
 Administrator. Publish Feb. 25. March 3. 10. IT. 24. 1923.
The Nome nugget., 1928-02-25
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE

To: K. F. Christensen, your heirs, administrators, executors and as-
 signs.
 You and each of you are hereby notified that the undersigned as CO., owner in the placer claims herein after described. has expended the sum of Two Hundred Dollars dur ing each annual expenditure year ending on July 1st of each of the years 1925, 1926 and 1927 in la bor and improvements on the Thom~ az Association, the Karen Associa- .ion and the Katinka Association Placer Mining Claims. situated on Buck creek in the Port Clarence Recording Precinct. Second Divis- ion. Territory of Alaska. the rec ord of the location of said claims being on Page 157 Volume 97 of the records of said recording dis trict
 That said expenditure was made III IuS pcIIOIulduCc OI Lue annual assessment work as required by law for the purpose of holding said mining claims.
 And you are hereby notified that if within ninety days from the com pletion of the publication hereof for the period of ninety days. you fail. neylect or refuse to contribute to the undersigned your proportion of such expenditure as a co-owner your interest in said mining claims will become the property of the undersigned co-owner who has made such required expenditure.
 H. J. CHRISTENSEN.
 Co-owner. Publish Nov. 1S, 2S. Dec. 3. 10, IT, z4. 31, 1927. snd Jan. 7. 1T, 21, 2S, Feb. 1. II. 1893.
The Nome nugget., 1928-02-25
THURSDAY (TElEoRAPHicl
1,7OO COMMUNISTS EXECUTED
 BY CANTONESE TROOPS

Shanghai, Feb. 23, R-Dispatch- es received yesterday from Canton say that seventeen hundred alleged Communists, both men and women, were executed by Cantonese troops after their capture on February 20. hundred members of the Girls Communist Corps but these were not executed.
The Nome nugget., 1928-02-25

as a Presidential candidate today pledged himself to the support of the Prohibition Amendment. This declaration Is the first that Hoover has made On a. political subject since his campaign opened. This declaration was made in a letter an swering Senator Borah's quiz of the Republican candidates. Hoover de- clares it is the Presidents solemn duty to support the laws.
The Nome nugget., 1928-02-25
GERMANY IMPORTS FIR CONES

Alamagordo, N. NJ, (P)-Germany is calling upon New Mexico for the seed to be used in reforestatior work. Shipments of white pine and National Forest are being ma 1e to officials in charge of German rvf r. estation. who believe that seed from tie forest "tproducef letter ;;:dn any other ste, ies tha: has be-" tri- ed
The Nome nugget., 1928-02-25
TARIFF HARMS TRADE

American exporters are facing the loss of a French market be- cause of the new French tariff laws which force upon certain American products duty four times as heavy as that on goods from Germany and other favored nations. Prod ucts affected include electrical equipment, light and heavy ma chinery and instruments, hardware and other metal products, chem icals leather, textiles, earthen and glassware, and such specialties as clocks, toys. seeds and jewelry.
 Hntscpsklo NGlVN fnr ths. Nnr>na NsusUaa
The Nome nugget., 1928-02-25
DOG RACERS BLOCKING TO
 FAIRBANKS FOR RACES

Ruby. Feb. g. P)--Adolph Null Ter of Kaltag and Fred Stickman of Nulato left yesterday for Fairbanks with two dog teams to enter the races there. They intend 10 select dogs from both teams and enter only one team in the race and that team will be driven by Stickman.
The Nome nugget., 1928-02-25

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The Nome nugget., 1928-02-25
PLANS PARTY EARLY

Cincinnati. O.. R)-Stephen A. Gerard, fruit dealer is issuing in vitations for q party three years hence to celebrate the golden we'd ding anniversary of the Gerrards. Already he has invited 7s4 couples and says he has only started. He will take over the ballroom of a Cincinnati hotel for the affair.
The Nome nugget., 1928-02-25
HOOVER PLEDGES HIMSELF
 SUPPORT OF PROHIBITION

Washington. Feb. 23, R-De- claring that the United States has deliberately undertaken a great social and economical experiment. noble in it's motive and far reach ing in its purpose" Herbert Hoover
The Nome nugget., 1928-02-25

Beautiful Costumes! Big Sur prises! Vivid! Sensational! All at the A. B. Mask Ball. Tickets 31. .OO
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-08
THE RUSSIAN OPPOSITION

ton became was illustrated by Tom
ski, who said: Comrades, it may be
that under the dictatorship of the
|proletariat there will be two or three
or four parties, but only under the
single condition that one party has
the power and all the others are in
Jail. Whoever does not understand
that does not in the least understand
what is the dictatorship of the prole-
tariat and what is Bolshevik party"
Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kamenev and
the others have played important roles
in the revolution. All acknowledge
that. 1t is a hard necessity that
causes the split with them. But their
policy no longer made for the revo-
luton, but against it. And just as
the Party had to break with Plec-
hanov, Kautsky and many others who
at one time performed revolutionary
services of the highest value but fin
ally got in the way of the revolution,
so it has to break with Trotsky and
the other Opposition leaders. One of
the most striking proofs of how deep
ly these formerly widely popular
leaders have discredited themselves
with the Russian workers is that when
they were expelled from the Party
there were no strikes, no mass dem
onstrations of any character. The
workers recognized the hard revolu-
tionary necessity of their expulsion.
Will the expelled intellectuals ever
return to the Party? That depends
primarily upon them. They will even
tually be taken in provided that they
accept the Party program and disci-
pline, but not otherwise.
Serious Problems.
Before the Russian workers stand
a maze of terrific problems, in the
building of socialism. These are COM
plicated and intensified by the rela-
lively slow development of the prole-
tartan revolution in Europe and by
the mobilizing of world imperialist
forces against the Soviet Union. To
build and protect the Soviet Union is
the now central task not only of the
Russian workers but of the interna-
tional working class. Lenin's strategy
of an alliance between the workers
and the lower and middle peasantry
is basically correct for maintaining
and building socialism in Soviet Rus
STA. Stalin's policy carries through
this fundamental strategy. The work
'ers are making real progress in in
dustrializing Soviet Russia, in i'm
proving their own conditions. And
with the passing Of the years this
progress, barring successful attacks
from capitalist nations, will steadily
increase its tempo.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-08

night there will be held Irving Plaza Irving Place and
the close of the penum of the Workers (Commun
@ Party reception to the students who beginning ten
training in the Workers School The stu
attending special represent every district of the
country several applications only eighteen selected
Only active comrades chosenthose with long
revolutionary movement.
The fact that such required tribute to the
Communist this country and to the
realization the of the Central Committee OF the Party OF
the the tasks before the working class
historical moment 1t also indicates appreca
ton increasing the Communist Party in the rug
giles the United States official leadership of the labor
repeatedly berays the working class in face of the
danger employers the drive against the
unions and tries help the mperass the for
mere vassals fodder in the next world
present leading cadre the Party all too small There
be filled in the leadership CT the revolutionary
vanguard working New districts and important
sudsts be opened up and this special training
will prepare the students take these responsibilities when
they trained for that work
Every branch of revolutionary theory and practice will be
with that the students who complete the will be
equipped solve of the problems that confront them
eighteen have completed their training
will be made select other for future
that the Party will be able to train short period of
time powerful revolutionary leadership that will be able to
fulfill its historical role of leading the working class of this
try victory the mghest mperat the world has
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-08

With the leadership of the labor aiding the
fierce of mperast reaction against the American labor
pavement with of tyranny combnedto chain the whole
working the policies of the with the grow
ing unemployment aiding this fight against labor it inevitable
that revolutionary workers should be singled out for
renewed attacks o
history capitalist attacks against the labor movement
follow certain wedened course beginning with attempts to
crush the most advanced of the working class This
characterized drive in the against the Communists
and the wing present period of reaction by the combna
ton employers the capitalist agencies and the labor
ieuenants capitalism the head of the unions The DAILY
WORKER the official of the Workers Communst)
Party the agator and propaganda as well as the
collective organizer working cassas the face of the
in spite all upon paper base the working
class was so strong supporters loyal determined that
they would defend paper the limit of their ability that all
attempts thus destroy have failed.
the existence of the workers fighting paper
goads fury the ruling Glass; the state
renewed Again editorial personnel and bus-
the and the threat of imprisonment
our paper again must fight before the strongest of
imperialist despotisms.
Against this latest attack must be hurled the full power OF
our Workers (Communs Party and its sympathizers The
one English language that carrying the fight in
elementary demands of the working class and for
the proletarian revolution must not be slenced.
Let every reader of The DAILY WORKER rally to
the defense paper order that this the latest of series of
lacks against will be defeated and the live to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-08
SEAMEN ARE BEATEN UP
Letter Describes ~ Y Church Institute

you can't sleep there whether you
have bought ticket or not.
"A SEAMAN.
International Seamen's }, New
York City.
Editor, The DAILY WORKER:
Enclosed find money order for
five dollars, donation to The DAILY
WORKER from the Working Women's
Educational Club of Lake County, In
diana.
We held a Tenth Anniversary af-
fair in East Chicago on Nov. 5, at
which a little profit was made, and
at our last meeting all returns were
collected and SIS was voted to the
Daily, while $50 was sent to the
Colorado miners and their families.
BERTHA GARNER,
Financial Secretary.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-08

KEYS that all this be changed, that
these advantages be withdrawn from
the peasants and that the fruits of
the revolution should go to those to
whom they properly belong, the work
ers.
But the Russian workers were not
deceived by this seductive approach.
In the recent convention delegate cleo
lions the Party rejected the Trotsky-
Zinoviev program by vote OF over
SO to /. The workers were almost
unanimously against it. They realized
that although their conditions are still
hard and many problems confront
them, the way to improve them faster
is not by the fatal way of war against
the broad masses of peasantry but
along the main lines of policy now
being followed by the central COM
mittee. To say, as Trotsky and many
of his followers in America do, that
there was no discussion of his pro-
gram is the lamest kind Of an alibi
for their unprecedented defeat. The
fact is that for three years the Rus
sian Party and all it's press has been
literally saturated with official and
unofficial discussion of Trotsky's poll
cies. Its answer to them is a rea-
soned, categoric, and almost unani-
nous mo"
The failure of the Opposition to
accept the repeated Party decisions
on the general question worked heav-
lily against them. They threatened
violently the unity and life of the Par
ty. They built groups throughout
the Party and set up disciplined
dues-system and apparatus of their
own. According to the astounding
statements of Kusounikow, former
prominent Opposition leader, they ac-
i copied the idea of an eventual split
and the formation of new party and
they were bending their course in that
direction. They ignored or openly
disobeyed Party decisions; they re-
Ipeatedly repudiated their peace agree
ments" with the "CEC"; they held
public mass meetings criticizing the
Party; they even, as for example
Rakowsky in Karkoff, attempted to
organize strikes against the Party.
Bucharin said, "In general we have
here to do with all forms of fighting,
with a single exception, that of the
armed revolt" The limit was reached,
however, in the November 7th cele-
brations Of the 10 Anniversary of the
revolution, when, calling upon nom
Party elements to aid them, they tried
to organize mass demonstration
against the Party. The masses re-
jected them and their demonstration
was pitiful fiasco.
The Last Straw.
This was the last straw. Manifest
ly the Trotsky Opposition no longer
subscribed to the program or disci-
pline of the Party. Their course was
strengthening the nter-revolution-
airy elements in Russia and elsewhere.
Widespread demands were made for
expulsion of the leaders and this was
done. The Party had to defend it.
self. The dictatorship of the prole-
tariat can be carried through only by
a united party, not party divided
against itself. How serious the situa-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-08
Child Labor

WASHINGTON, (FP).-The Con-
sumers' League of the District of
Columbia, in an appeal for the pend
ing bill to modernize child labor leg
islation in the district, points out
that under existing law child five
years of age may be employed at
selling papers or selling pies on the
street at all hours Of night; children
of IA may be employed at blasting
operatings or at running elevators,
where accidents are most likely.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-08

Trotsky's policy, despite his asser-
tons that it is directed only against
the "kulaks," would inevitably strike
hardest at the middle peasantry and
line them up against the workers.
Some of his followers, Smyrnov in
particular, frankly admit this inevi-
liability and accept the idea of break
with the middle peasantry. Their es-
sential position is that this alliance,
which they claim is based on the
"kulaks," is poisoning the Party with
Thermidorian, counter-revolutionary
spirit. They pin their hopes on early
revolutionary movements in Europe
to offset the increased peasant Oppo-
sition which would flow from their
policy. But such break, produced
by strong anti-peasant policies, would
in reality enormously increase the
forces of reaction by laying the basis
for peasant revolts, by reducing agri-
cultural and industrial production, by
encouraging capitalist nations to at
tack the weakened workers govern
ment. 1t would expose the revolu-
ton to the gravest danger. The pres
ent central committee fights the
kulaks and the Nepmen successfully.
Trotsky's policy would give them the
victory over the workers.
Position Familiar.
The position of Trotsky, accepted
opportunistically by Zinoviev and
Kamenev, is the familiar one of the
Mensheviks that socialism cannot be
built in Russia alone. Hence, Trot-
sky must argue that socialism is not
being built now in Soviet Russia. The
outlook of the Opposition is ultra
pessimistic. They see panic and de-
feat on every side. Where the facts
do not justify their pessimism they
interpret" them to suit. Although
every visitor, whether capitalist or
worker, that visits Soviet Russia
marvels at the great advances being
made in industrial development and
in raising the workers standards, the
Opposition sees no progress and often
actual retrogression. 1t is character
istic that Trotsky has cried panic and
failure at every fresh difficulty in the
building of Soviet Russia. The ac-
ceptance of Trotskyism by the Rus
sian workers would mean to lose faith
in their own efforts, to be over
whelmed by pessimism and demorali-
cation.
Trotsky's general policies are
wrong; likewise his methods for win
ming support for them. Crying out
for the rapid industrialization of
Soviet Russia at all costs, even at the
expense of a break with the middle
peasantry, Trotsky laid down as a
basic condition for industrialization
and high production the rapid and
radical improvement of the workers
conditions. This opened wide the doors
for demagogic appeals to win over
the workers. The Opposition made
the strongest demands for far-reach-
ing improvements in the wages, hours,
working conditions, housing, culture,
etc, of the workers. They declared
that the Stain Central Committee,
degenerated by kulakism and Nepism,
was making great concessions to the
peasantry at the expense Of the work.
ers. They demanded in thousand
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-08
EDITOR. The DAILY WORKER:

Editor, The DAILY WOhhEh'
In the Seamen's Church Institute
~ New York, where the seamen stay
or pay for their lodgings nightly
workers are being abused right along
ry the officers in the place. Last
night | saw them beat up worker
into insensibility, and knocked three
teeth from his mouth. That's the con-
ditions that exist OF the waterfront.
myself was barred from the In
stitute only this morning. / was COM
ing in for my mail; l was grabbed
and taken upstairs to their private
police department on the third floor
and asked all kinds of questions
whether I was seaman or not. They
treated me as if l was criminal.
They have beds there from thirty
five cents to a dollar a night. And
If you're not in by twelve o'clock,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-08
By WILLIAM z. FOSTER.

1T was inevitable that the struggle
in the Russian Communist Party
should lead, as it has, to the expulsion
of Trotsky, Zinoviev, and other OPP
position leaders from the Party. Their
policies show that they have departed
from the fundamental Leninism of
the Party; their fractional methods Of
struggle aimed to shatter Party unity.
Their further remaining in the Party
became impossible. All roads led
straight to the expulsion climax.
Between the Central Committee and
the Opposition the head-on collision
is over the most fundamental ques-
ton, the perspective of the revolu-
ton. The Trotsky Opposition, agree
ing in substance with the Mensheviks
and grossly Understanding the revo-
lutionary power of the Russian work.
ers, contend in effect that the build
ing of socialism in Russia is impos-
sible without the assistance of VIC
torious proletarian revolution in Euro
pean countries. The Stain Central
Committee majority, in the true spirit
of Lenin, base their policy on the
thesis that barring the overthrow of
the Soviet government by the inter
national bourgeoisie, the Russian
workers can and will build socialism
in the Soviet Union. From these two
basically different conceptions flow
two general policies, covering every
phase of Russian economic and poll
teal life, domestic and foreign, and
conflicting at hundred points.
Peasant Question.
One of Trotsky's basic weaknesses,
which displays his Menshevist ten
denotes, is in the peasant question.
Lenin laid down the great strategy Of
co operation between the workers and
the middle and lower sections of the
peasantry against the capitalists and
the rich farmers in the building Of
socialism. Lenin understood the nee
essity and possibility of such work
ing together. Such an alliance is es-
pecially vital in a country so strongly
agricultural as Russia. To promote it
is the policy of the Stain Central
Committee. But Trotsky would de-
part from this basic strategy. He
looks upon the peasantry, not only
the "kulaks," but also the middle pea
SAINTS, as inevitable enemies of the
revolution. The peasantry generally,
one of the more frank spokesman of
the Opposition, Preobrazhensky, says,
are not elements to be co-operated
with, under the workers lead, but
Colonies" which the workers have to
Systematically exploit, through maxi
mum high taxes, high prices, and
other drastic measures, in order that
they, the workers, can hasten the in
disqualification and specialization of the
country. The reality is that such
measures can have only the result of
breaking the alliance with the middle
and poorer peasantry, strengthening
the kulaks, by throwing the middle
peasantry into their arms, and pau
perizing the poorer peasants and
weakening their resistance to the
kulaks, and thus undermining the
position of the workers themselves.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-08
Oppression in South.

We will use our political influence
against the outrages practiced upon
our brothers in the South lands: Jim
Crowism, discrimination and exploi-
tation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-08

We know that racial discrimination
is fostered by exploiters of labor
against the common interests Of all
workers. We are for joint action. We
are for higher wages and better stan
dards.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-02-10

The Rotary Club met at the For
est Hotel private dining room We'd
nesday evening. All but enc men,
Der of the club was present. The
meeting was in charge of the Boys
Work Committee, Byrd Brownell
chairman. Sig Olson, Boy Scout
Leader with two of his Scouts, Har-
ry Newgord and Frank Church, were
guests for the club. Mr.. Olson made
an interesting talk on Scouting and
the boy in general and introduced
his accompanying Scouts. The two
boys gave a practical demonstration
of the Indian sign language and ex-
planned the story they were telling
much to the amusement of the Ro-
tarians. An elegant dinner was
served by Mrs. Lexen. The next
meeting of the club will be at the
Community Center.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-02-10

Among the guests at the opening
of the Forest Hotel on Saturday
evening was John Mullen, formerly
travelling salesman for the Patrick
Company of Duluth, but now out OF
the game and enjoying well de-
served rest. Mr.. Mullen was one of
the most popular men on the road
and numbered his friends by all with
whom he came in contact. His many
Ely friends were pleaced to again
greet him. He promised TO come
again next summer and spend some
time with his old friends.