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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-20

sary to establish an intermediate
base on King Charles Land.
Late in the evening preparations
were begun for the flight to King
Charles Land. The flyers were
babushkin, the pilot; Groshev, the
mechanic, and Valentei, the moving
picture operator, in the capacity of
radio operator. Seven reserve cans
OF gasoline were placed in the cabin
to be left at the base.
Before taking off Babushkin said.
IF everything goes well, we shall
be back around six in the morning"
1t was an amazing midnight with
a binding sun standing high up in
the sky. The ice and snow glis-
tened. Even the lilac midnight
shadows cast by the hummocks
were less marked than usual.
At 1890 the plane was ready to
start. Nearly the entire expedition
and part of the crew were on the
ice. They babe farewell. "Bon
voyage" flags were unfurled at the
mast. The airplane TAXED along
the ice for short distance on it's
skis, rose and set off straight to
the north. Within four minutes it
was lost to sight in the dazzling
sunshine.
We ali returned to the vessel. For
the first half hour UNINTERRUPTED
radio communication was main
tanned with the plane. Then some
thing failed in the apparatus and
contact was broken. This dis
turbed everybody. Might it be a
catastrophe? The usual noisy dis
cussions in the general cabin began
to die down. There was little sleep
ing that night as everyone awaited
six o'clock, the hour at which Ba-
bushkin had promised to be back.
But at three o'clock a dense fog
descended. Fog! Oh, what a ter
rible thing it is-this thick fog in
the north. With white, bleaming
density it filled everything-it was
as though we were plunged in a sea
Of milk. In such a fog the air.
plane could not fly back.
The disheartening morning came
and then the day dragged on. The
fog was dissipated. But the plane
Gid not come. And anxiety-drop
by drop -seeped into every heart.
Restless figures spent a fitful day
en- the captains bridge, securing the
horizon with their binoculars. Is
she not flying in? No, no. The
horizon is clear, everything is glis-
tening. Now and again the sailors
and stokers came out on the SPAR
deck also to scan the horizon.
(To Be Continupd.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-20
TROOPS RUSHED
FOR SCAB LABOR
TO CITY MARKET
Entire Meat Supply Is
Threatened

PARIS, Nov ia sudden strike
for higher pay by drovers at La
Villette cattle market caused au-
thorities to rush soldier scabs from
the local military garrison to the
market. At the same time slaugh-
ter-house workers may walk out on
solitary strike.
The strike occurred spontane-
ously when the workers wage de-
mands were turned down. Slaugh-
ter-house owners and city authori-
ties were so alarmed at the pros
pect of the meat supply being en-
tirely cut off that troops were i'm
mediately sent to the market to at
tempt to break the strike and scab.
Conditions are so poor in the
slaughter houses that it is believed
the workers will strike immedi-
ately, not only in sympathy with
the drovers but also for better
working conditions for themselves.
Should both strikes be complete,
victory for the workers may ensue,
despite whatever attempts the gov
eminent and owners may make to
break the strike with troops, since
the city would be entirely without
meat.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-20
STRESEMANN IN
REICHSTAG talk
AVOIDS ISSUES
Hits Arms Despite
Own Cruiser Bill

BERLIN, Nov. 19.-No distinct
proposal marked foreign minister
Stresemann's talk to the Reichstag
today, when he introduced the dis
cussion on foreign relations. In
fact, he seemed to take great care
to avoid main issues.
He told the Reichstag that "au-
thoritative British opinion" sup
ported his view that Preparations
were to be separated from the
problem of evacuation of the Rhine
land, and that the former problem
must be decided from the capacity
of Germany to pay" AS to what af-
feet any payments made by the Ger
man government upon the workers
in industry, as is evident in the
Ruhr metal lockout, he did not have
much to say, except that, vaguely
speaking, it should not "endanger
the living standard of the German
people"
Stresemann insisted that the
Anglo-French naval pact was dead,
despite all evidence TO the contrary,
and even he had to admit that a
tacit understanding existed between
the British and French governments
when he deplored the British con-
cessions to France regarding the
maintenance of a trained French
military reserve.
Despite Germany's own depar-
ture into a new Imperialism, as evil
denced by the passage of the ar
mored cruiser bill, Stresemann
maintained that "all separate agree
ments must be subordinated to the
goal of disarmament"
He further insisted that no fur
cher debate in the Reichstag on
PREPARATIONS should take place until
the committee of experts, to be ap-
pointed by the interested powers,
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should make its report. He also de-
clared that "final settlement of
must rest upon founda-
tons which are wholly divorced
from political considerations. They
must take due cognizance of the de-
cisive economic issues involved for
all powers.
Count Westarp, chairman of the
right wing group in the Reichstag,
in a speech in the house declared
that England went into the world
war in 1914 without the existence
of a formal alliance with France
and that with or without an ALI
ance" England would support
France in the future.
Westarp urged that Germany
support the American opposition to
any attempt to link the inter-allied
debts and PREPARATIONS question. He
charged that the German foreign
policy was failure and bitterly
attacked England, which, he declared,
could no longer be considered an
impartial guarantor of the Locarno
pact after entering the Anglo
French naval and military agree
ment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-20
Mitten Worker, Father
of 10, Commits Suicide

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Nov. 49,
James ]. Kane, conductor on the no
torious Mitten trolley system of this
city, and father of ten children, COM
mitted suicide here yesterday by
shooting himself in the temple with
revolver. The reason was not
given, but there is a suspicion that
he was killed by the kindness of
open-shop Mitten management. Tn
ease with which a worker with ter
children can get along on the wages
a conductor receives probably
prompted him to this desperate act.
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Lena Chernenko, left wing organ
izer. Hitherto officials have denied
that these strong arm men are a
special gang installed to do dirty
work, but this threat dispells that
claim. A group of them told Lena
Chernenko that if the left wing
leaders had been men, they would
long ago have been cleaned out 'by
our gang"
Another meeting of the strike
committee will be held tonight to
consider further preparations for the
Thursday membership meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-20
The Icebreaker 'Malygin" in the Arctic

waving their hats for long while
after the departing airplane. For
the first time in the endless roll of
centuries a steel bird was flying
ever these icy waters. -.
The plane had taken off at 1890
a. M, June %. The sun was shin
ing high over the horizon. For ten
days and nights it had not set.
This night, besides the usual
ships watch, the members of the
expedition organized guard to act
in the event of an unexpected re-
turn of the airplane. Continuous
radio communication was main
tanned with the plane. An hour and
a half had elapsed when dense fog
suddenly descended and shrouded
everything. From the airplane
came radio message that the avi-
ators had also run into a fog and
were turning back. We grew anx-
icus. How would they find the ship
and how would they make land
ing? A tormenting hour passed.
High up in the fog a motor began
to hum. The sound came rearer
and nearer, but the plane itself was
rot visible. Rockets were sent UP
from the steamer and thick smoke
spouted from the stack. The air
plane flew past, then turned, circled
above US and landed safely.
Babushkin related that the fog
had prevented them from reaching
King Charles Land. They were
only thirty miles away when it be-
came necessary to turn back. The
aviators almost got lost. Only the
rockets and black smoke from the
stack of the "Malygin" indicated the
landing place. The flyers had OBJ
served many crevasses and thin
spots in the ice. 1t seemed that it
would be possible to push further
north.
We loaded the airplane on board
again, took down the scaffolding,
and proceeded. We went ahead for
three hours and then once more
broke into such ice that the ship
could move neither forward nor
backward.
On this day we were informed by
radio that "Amundsen flew from
Tromso Monday and there is no
word from him yet Thursday"
This message had a most depres-
sing effect upon us. In the long
hours of enforced eidleness we spoke
of Amundsen, Of his polar expedi-
ticns. and we read his famous book,
ITO IS Degrees North Latitude"
Heroic Flights.
During the evening of June 90
an extensive. exploration flight was
carried out. 1t was at last indis-
pensable to ascertain whether or not
it was feasible to break through the
ice to the north. Chertkov himself.
the captain of the "Malygin, flew
as observer.
The flight lasted about an hour.
It was ascertained that it was i'm
possible to cut through the ice
northward. There We're water leads.
in fact many of them, but they
were far behind the ice fields Per
haps several weeks would be re-
ouired to break through To them
And time would neither wait nor
permit. People stranded on icefloes
may perish at any moment. The
floes are driven about and break
up. The sumemr thaw was just
about to begin.
At 4 conference of the "trium-
y-rate" it was decided to leave the
"Malygin" on permanent station
and begin search by .airplane.
First, however, it would y asees-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-20
"Uncle Toms Cabin"
Barred in Alabama

MONTGOMERY, Ala, (By Mail).
The state censors have refused to
permit the showing of "Uncle Toms
Cabin" Universal Film Company
slave drama, in this state. James
B. Lowe, Negro actor, plays the lead
in the production.
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the blows Of the icebreaker, which
continually made slower progress.
although the engines ran at full
speed as before. There was a She
bear with two cubs on the ice. Up
on seeing US she hurriedly. made off.
The cubs rose up on their mind legs,
looked at us and did not follow their
mother; she anxiously came back to
them and pushed them along, shak-
ing her head in dissatisfaction.
All around there was a great
glare, so dazzling that it hurt the
eyes. Everybody wore blue Cog
giles for protection, but despite this
the light was still binding.
Ice fields began to be encoun-
tered. Piercing through them was
extremely difficult. The "Maly-
gin" labored and sought out the
weaker. places in the ice, but such
spots became less and less fire.
ouent. AS our leaders, Professor
Wiese and photographer Lavrov
had anticipated, winter was still in
full blast here. The snow and ice
showed no signs of thawing and
everything was tightly locked in
polar frost. The ice had reached
full meter in thickness. Now and
then the vessel sticks in the ice,
backs water and plunges against
the floes with running start. The
entire ship quiyers from stem to
stern.
Our immediate objective was
Hope Island. 1t was somewhere
around there, not far away. Would
we reach it? The whole horizon
was clear, level. No sign of land.
Before midnight we ran into ice
four and a half feet thick. The
ship, powerless to break through the
wall of ice, stopped scores of times,
backed water and rammed in from
running start. No! 1t was i'm
possible to smash through. 1t was
necessary to wait. Perhaps IA
vorable wind would blow up and dis
perse the ice, so that we might push
en- further. The engines were
halted and all at once a profound
silence reigned.
By means of sextant and calcula-
ton of bearings we promptly deter
mined our position and found that
we were at that moment thirty
miles from Hope Island.
Wild ducks appeared in large
numbers, indicating that there must
be land somewhere in the vicinity.
Our hunters went out on the ice
after seals. They were out a long,
time, but they did not succeed in
shooting any, as the seals were
wary and would not let the men
come within firing distance.
AT three o'clock in the night an
other attempt was made to break
through the ice. Again with short
blows the ice wall was being split
to the accompaniment of booming.
scraping and grinding. din. After
hours of work the icebreaker had
riattered through only seven miles.
And with what labor!
Hope Island.
Toward morning the situation re-
vealed that ice fields from ten to
twelve miles wide and one-and-a-
half meters thick barred our way
to the island. During this night
June 1917 fog had been drifting
around on the horizon. At eight
o'clock in the morning the wind
scattered it and we beheld Hope
Island in the distance to the right
of us. It was all aglitter in the
bright sunshine and its four ridges
were distinctly visible. Never had
human foot trod its fields Of per-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-20
Fishing Schooner
Grounds; Crew Saved

WELLFLEET, Mass, Nov. 10
(UP).-Fourteen members of the
crew of the fisherman Virginia were
brought ashore by coast guards of
Cahoons Hollow station, several
hours after the schooner grounded.
The vessel was not seriously dam
aged.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-20
ars DoveS Strike tor Higher Wages Slaughter House Men Ready to Walk O
Fill Negro Survivors Of "vestris" With Religious Dope

The Negro surviv-
ors of the "Vestris"
a0ho haze been kept
prisoners at the Sea-
mems Church Insti-
tute, are being doped
loith the usual religi-
Gus hokune IN order
to make them sub
missile to all sorts
of a b 4; s e. Photo
shows Negro surviV-
ors of the crea0 at q
memorial service"
for their fe ! 10 ~ :
qUorkers a0ho qOent
doa0n aVith the rotten
Lanport & Holt
liner. Such "memor-
idL services" haze it
as their purpose, of
course, to interpret
the "Vestris" disas-
ter as an act of god,
and thus to absolVe
the slaUe : herdimg,
profit greedy COM
pany from all blame.
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petual snow. Its black cliffs
dropped down to the sea like gigan-
tic walls. 1t beckoned- unex-
plored island-it lured, as the I'M
known always does, so intense was
the desire to be on it. But our
route lay ahead, ahead-past the
island and to the north. There
somewhere was King Charles Land,
and beyond it, at distance of one
hundred and eighty kilometers,
Foyn Island, near which the crew
Of the italia" were encamped.
We steadily receiver radio advices
of what was going on out there in
proximity of Foyn Island. The
"Citta di Milano" Mobiles relief
ship regularly communicated all
the news to US. Would that we
were speedily there! Once more
we seek a passage (water leads)
we lunge against the frozen bar
riers, but the strong east winds knit
the floes closer together.
Two days of fruitless efforts
passed and it became evident that
it was impossible for us to break
through far into the north. We
were wasting in vain our time and
our supplies of coal and fresh
water. Our "triumvirate," Profess
sor Wiese, photographer Lavrov
and Aviator Babushkin, as well. as
Strelkov, the representative of the
Communist Party-decided to halt
the ship and commence airplane ac-
| tivities from this point.
On this day 400 kilometers inter-
vened between us and Mobile. Our
model 10 Junkers plane could not
operate directly over such dis
lance. 1t was therefore decided to
establish an intermediary base "a
stock of gasoline and provisions) on
King Charles Land and to carry on
the rescue work only in this marsler.
During these days we received
the following radio message: "Ital-
ian aviator, Madeleine, located No
bile, dropped provisions. Return to
'Citta di Milano' greeted enthusiast
tically. Mobiles tent amid myriad
foes. :"
This communication aroused long
discussions amongst us. Could it
be that we were already late?
Hurry, faster!
At nine o'clock on the morning of
June 81, we began preparations to
lower the plane to the ice. We all
worked frantically, both the crew
and the members Ct the expedition.
We set two huge beams with heavy
iron reinforcements at the ends
from the vessel down to the ice.
Across these beams we laid boards
and along this scaffolding we low
cred the wings and tail Of the plane
down to the ice and then by means
Of ropes we eased down the body
itself. We worked until five o'clock
in the evening, whereupon a trial
flight was made. The airplane
quickly rose high over the ice, dis
appeared from sight and stayed up
forty-five minutes. Upon their re-
turn the pilot, Babushkin, and his
mechanic, Groshev. related that in
addition to Hope Island they had
seen Spitsbergen in the distance.
| 1t was decided to make a second
flight direct to King Charles Land.
Four men went on the plane-Ba-
bushkin, Groshev, Lavrov, the
photographer, and Fominykh, the
radio operator. The flyers were
given am impressive send-off. A
"bon voyage" flag was raised to the
masthead. Most of the vessels
crew and the expedition members
descended to the ice and kept
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-20
BY ALEXANDER YAKovLEv

BY EXANDER YAKOVLEV
(This vivid description of the
Arctic rescue expedition of the So
Wet icebreaker "Malygin," which
together with the 'Krassin" sought
for the Italia crew, was published
recently in the Moscow s'Pravda. .
Nakovlev is one of the members of
the expedition.)
The "Malygin" traversed the first
few kilolneters Of ice almost with
out slackening speed. The ice
masses were small Bobbing on the
waves, they clashed, wore away at
the edges and crumbled. This was
not ice but rather an ice porridge.
With every passing hour, however,
heavier ice was encountered, rising
in the path of the ship in the form
of large, round floes. On these
black clouds of seals were every
where to be seen. The blocks struck
and scraped against the sides of
the vessel. Ice, ice, ice wherever
the eye turned. And the ship rap
idly drove ahead, flinging the floes
to the right and left. The sunshine
was dazzling, The gulls wheeled
overhead in great numbers, large
flock of them trailing along behind
us. AS the steamers screw cast a
mass ON small fry upon the ice, the
gulls pounced upon the booty, CAB
bling and squabbling. Then the
Jaeger, or pirate bird" as the sail
ors call the black bird of prey which
seizes the fish from gulls, would
dart down upon the gulls like an ar
row, striking them on the head or
back, and as they released their
prey in fright it would snap up the
fish on the fly and soar off.
We were all on the upper deck.
To us all of these sights were new.
All of the crew that were not busy
lid gathered on the poop. Suo-
denly a xnember of the expedition
cried out, "Look! A mans foot
prints!"
In fact human tracks could be
discerned on the floes. A big man
must have passed from floe to floe
in heavy boots.
photographer Lavrov, who had
navigated many years in polar ice
and had seen such tracks countless
times, said, at was not man that
passed there. but white bear" \
Aha! So that's the way he walks.
But where is he? The tracks are
quite fresh. The bear must be
somewhere nearby.
From the ships bridge comes the
cry, "Look, there goes the bear
ahead"
Not far off at all the bear was
proceeding leisurely in the same
direction as we. He was huge old
beast, like big COW on short legs.
He went clumsily, lssily. glancing
back at the ship. A flock Of gulls
circled over him. His fur had yell
lowed somewhat, so that against the
glistening background of snow and
ice he was completely visible down
to the last detail. The "Malygin"
began to catch up with him. The
bear looked hack more often,
frightened. What sort of uncouth
monster with long black tail was
chasing him? Finally we were
abreast of him. Our bold hunters
made ready to shoot. But the bear
turned aside and trotted off, leap
ing comically from floe to floe.
An hour, another hour and still
another passed. The floes grew
steadily larger and thicker They
now presented . solid phalsnx to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-20
Uphold Japanese
Right to Incorporate

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (UP).-
Japanese have the right to form
commercial corporations in Califor-
MIA, the United States supreme court
decided today in suit involving the
attempt of japanese physicians and
surgeons to incorporate the Japan
csc Hospital of Los Angeles"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-20
To Allow Foreign
InveS t m e mt S in
Australia Oil

SYDNEY, (By MaiD.-An amend
ment to the Australia Petroleum Act
to be submitted to the Queensland
state parliament would permit for
eign investors, and not merely Brit
ish and Australian investors in the
Queensland oil fields. The amend
ment will probably be passed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-20
SILK STRIKERS TO
MEET THURSDAY
Membership Will Have
Say on Clusters
Continued on Page Two

COHt7HWbU OF FugF I no
giles. LEADERS of the Passaic strike
ordered workers into automobiles
and forced them to throw bombs"
Hoelscher blandly declared.
Workers, however, condemned
Hoelscher for this brazen lie and
pointed out to him that when it
comes to fighting the bosses, Hoel-
scher isn't there, but that he demon
strates remarkable courage in fight
ing the left wingers inside the
union.
The membership meeting this
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-20
FIND DEAD BODY

NORRISToWN, Pa, Nov. 10
tUP).-The body of a pretty girl,
pistol bullet through her head,
was found by farm hand in corn
field near here TODAY.
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