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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-03
Detroit Members Meet Dec. 10
to Take Up Cleveland
Challenge

Long before the Recruiting Drive was start
ed, the Philadelphia District challenged the
Detroit District that they will secure more
members and build more shop nuclei in the
coming period. The Detroit District was silent
on this challenge thus far and was busy MAX
ing preparations for the Recruiting Campaign.
The Detroit District, on the other hand chal-
lenged the Pittsburgh District that we will
secure more members in the basic industries.
Now comes the Cleveland District and chal-
lenges US that they will secure more members,
more subscribers to the Daily Worker, and
more shop nuclei.
The quotas set by the National Organization
Department for the Cleveland and Detroit Dis
tricts are the same-400 new members, 400
additional readers for the Daily Worker, and
ten new factory nuclei
On Tuesday. December 10, at 1880 p. M
we are going to hold special general men,
bership meeting at the New Workers Home,
1343 E. Ferry, at which we will take up the
entire evening with the perfection of our plans
and the mobilization of the membership for the
recruiting drive. December 10th, the date of
our membership meeting is the official date
for the opening of the drive. Every member
must attend
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-03
George Halonen Expelled from
the Communist Party of U.S.A.

The Central Control Commission and the Cen
trail Committee of the Party approved unan-
mously the action of the District Executive Com
mittee of District Nine concerning the expulsion
Of George Halonen from the Party.
George Haonen has for a long time been OPP
posed to the political line of the Communist
Party and the Communist International. That
his fundamental conception one of social dem
ocracy and not Of Communism is now borne out
by the fact that he organized fascist attack
upon Party members in Superior
George Halonen has completed his development
from right wing opportunist within the Party
to a white-guard fascist outside in record time
CENTRAL CONTROL COMMISSION.
CENTRAL COMMITTEE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-03
By SENDER GARLIN.
(Contiaued.)

A truckload of books, magazines and papers,
seized in raids at the homes of the defendants
were introduced in evidence. Among them were
the following: Court Record, Vol. /, P. A.
Bust of N. Lenin; Loose-leaf binder, contain
ing account sheets and cards of transfer, and
of application for membership in the Workers
Party of America; Catalog of Books for Work
ers from Sources of All Communist Literature"
Daily Worker Publishing Co. Questions for
Study Class" on two half sheets of yellow
paper. Pamphlet entitled, Communist Mani
festo," by Carl (sic!) Marx and Frederick En-
gels. Box containing celluloid buttons pins,
containing an insignia of crossed hammer and
sickle and the letters, words and figures, GUS
SR, 9th Anniversary; Forward to the Soviet Re-
public of the U. S. A." One package of red
crepe paper" Bundle of newspaper, headed,
"Negro Champion" Photostatic copy of "a Sol
der Drifts into Red Russia" Picture of an
athletic club in frame, etc.
In addition to the above evidence, the indict-
ment alleges that the defendants "did on the
day and year aforesaid in the county aforesaid,
and within the jurisdiction of the court, with
force and arms did then and there unlawfully,
feloniously and wilfully encourage each other
and other persons to procure arms, ammunition
and dynamite to band themselves together to
drill and to overthrow by force of arms and
bloodshed and force and show and threat of
force, the government of this commonwealth and
of the United States, contrary to the form of
the Act of the General Assembly in such case
made and provided, and against the peace and
dignity of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania"
And the witnesses and evidence brought forth
by the J. & L. to support this charge were as
impressive as the bought up, degenerate pro-
cession in countless other trials in American la
Dor history.
A "Star" Witness.
| Take Mike Zebich, J. & L. stoolpigeon. He
takes the stand and tells the following fantastic
tale, which for perverted ingenuity almost equals
the testimony in the legal lynching in Charlotte.
Testifes Mr.. Mike Zebch (Vol. /, P. 311):
81 went down to stand to buy myself a
morning paper and Pete (Muselin) came down
the street and said: Where are you going?' I
said, Going home He said, What are you going
to do?' said, Going home and read the paper;
/ have to 60 to work pretty soon' He said, 4
have good paper, you want to have it? l
said, What kind you have?' He said, The Work
er Party" He said, You read that paper and
join the Workers Party and we will make man
out of YOU | said No, don't want your paper
| asked him, What are you going to do then p
He said, i will tell you: we will get enough
men to overthrow the country, and we will put
our Labor or Workers Party in for Government
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-03
By EARL BROWDER.

THE organ of the renegade Lovestone openly
carries on the propaganda of American i'm
perialism, on every issue of the day as well
as theoretically Above all it strives to hide
the inner crisis of American imperialism, 60
ing to lengths far beyond what any official
bourgeois apologist will allow himself. The
second issue of this capitalist-propagsnda
sheet in dealing with the tariff says:
obviously the urge for considerably in
creasing the American tariff rates does not
arise from the fear of collapsing shrink
ing domestic market"
OF course this is not obvious at all; what
is obvious, however, is that the capitalist class
wishes above everything to keep the masses
under the illusion that nothing is wrong in
ternally with American capitalism, but all
troubles come from abroad. Lovestones every
word is calculated to support this capitalist
propaganda.
obviously" it is not only the fear of, but
actual present realization of, "a colapsing,
a shrinking domestic market" which is the
motive force behind the tariff bill, as well
as behind the Wall Street crash, Hoover's Ma
tional (fascist) Council, and the quickly devel-
oping economic crisis.
FINANCIERS ADMIT CRISIS.
We have cited and analysed many figures
demonstrating this fact. And if it be argued
that we read into these figures only what
we wished to see and had previously deter
mined to find, then let US think out for COM
parison what the BIG FINANCE CAPITAL
lists THINK, those when whose interests
precisely in the opposite direction. Find out
what these men say in their private meetings
and communications, among their own circles.
Let us take "The Stable Money Associa-
tion,' organization of the very creme de
la creme" of finance capital, including practi-
cally every name of significance in the bank
ing and economic world. This association is
calling attention of it's members to circular
letter sent out on Nov by President Hemin-
way, of the American Trade Executive Asso-
citation. in which, after quoting the figures of
current economic developments, it is said:
IF these figures be correct they mean that
enter next year with one-third less con-
sumner buying power than have had in
any of the past few years. Obviously, this is
too far-reaching to affect only few indus
tries, and each of US will feel the blow of
retarded buying action"
This private view of the biggest finance cap
italists is not, of course, displayed in our daily
press for the masses. But since when did we
think that the daily press reflects the real
views of the rulers 1T reflects, on the con-
trary what they want the masses to think,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-03
KEYNOTE IN MASS ACTIVITY.

The general mass activities Of the Party
must be the keynote in the drive At the same
t'-,e it must be remembered that individual
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-03
Andrew Mellon, Steel and SeditiOn

and knock that son of bitch off we got in now
said You will p Then he said, The President is
getting two hundred thousand dollars year, and
thu poor son of a bitch ought to be knocked off.
@. What else did he say?
A. He said if l joined with him and twenty
o" thirty members and buy the guns and ma
chine guns and shoot them fellows heads Off.
c. When you say he said, "That son of a
bitch ought to be knocked off" he was referring
to the President?
A. Yes; the President and the Governor.
Q. He said the President was getting $4,000?
A. No, 100000 year.
But this very obliging witness became little
netted when the defense lawyer began to dis
robe him under cross-examination:
Q. You are a member of the Croatian Benefit
Society?
A. Yes, sir.
O. There is factonal fight in that Society,
isn't there?
A. Yes
@. Pete Musen, here preferred charges
against a member, and you took an active part
in the lodge dispute, didn't you?
A. Yes
O.. And at that time you threatened Pete
Muselin, and you said, "I'll get you?"
A. No.
O. You threatened Pete there in that open
meeting where you had the trial of this member,
alter T te had preferred charges against him?
A. | says | am going to kick the---out of
him and will as soon as l get chance
Significantly enough, the witnesses that fol-
! l5wed Zehch were not even md, as he. The
putrd procession of professional witnesses fol-
lowed with testimony of the same transparency
| lying character. CIncluded, of course, was the
inevita lie Department of Justice agent who
qualified as expert" on Communisnl.) Few
words were said of the serfdom of the workers
in the j. & L. plants of the life-destroying speed
up, of The periodic wage slashes, of the terrify-
ing company spy system.
| Not in North Carolina alone do the bosses
! fear the agitation of the Communists among
! the exploited Negro masses. In the South
| these Negro workers slave on the cotton and
| tobacco plantations and before the looms in the
textile mills. In the North and in the Mellon
! kingdom of Pennsylvania, thousands of them
work the ten-hour day before the blazing fur
naces of the steel mills. And it is for this
/ precise reason, obviously, that the prosecutor
! Mr.. Craig, took the trouble to make pretty
point with the jury. (From the Report, VOL /,
| P. 1889
| Mr.. Craig: "The attention of the jury is di-
rected especially to Exhibit No. al, testified to
| having been found in Muselin's place. being
| bundle of papers called the Negro Champion,
| official organ of the American Negro Labor
! Congress, whose program is: Help the Labor
| Congress to Organize the Unorganized Against
! Oppression Also containing cartoon of large
black figures
Ito be continued)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-03
Food Prices Paid by Workers
Rise

rood prices were two per cent higher for
October than they were last year, says the
Bureau of Labor.
The workers in the leading industrial cities,
in spite of lay-offs and wage cuts must pay
more money for their fool. Wheat, hog and
beef prices paid to the farmers are RAPIDLY
declining. No corresponding cut is being made
to the toilers for food. In New York City the
rise was three per cent The greatest rise in
costs appear in the industrial cities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-03
PARTY RECRUITING DRIVE

recruiting, especially in the factories, is an
important force in the drive. The measure of
activity of Party member must be his Com
munist activity and propaganda in the shop and
of course, there many forms in which Com
munist activity may be carried on in the shops
without being exposed. Some of the Parties
and Leagues in the illegal countries carry Oh
s,'l ndid general activities and individual pro-
paganda in the factories. recruiting drive
can and will serve as training for the Party
membership for their individual factory &C
tivitie-
The Daily Worker and Party literature, espe-
cially the Daily, must be utilized to the fullest
extent for the recruiting drive. Without or
ganization and agitation there is no recruiting
drive. And the Daily is and must become so
even more, the collective organizer, agitator
and propaganda. A recruiting drive without
simultaneously increase land for that mat
ter improvement of the Daily in the circula-
ton of the Daily cannot be considered success
full.
The main purpose of the drive is to turn the
face of the Party to the masses and to develop
the method and habit of linking up every phase
of Party activity with the recruiting of new
members.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-03
Some Aspects of the Recruiting
Drive
BY SAM DON.


THE present membership drive of the Party
Il can be successful only if it will be closely
linked up with all the activities of the Party,
flowing from the present sharply and quickly
developing crisis in the country, growing ac-
tuality of the war danger and the ever-grow-
ing offensive struggles of the working class.
The membership drive must not degenerate
into mere clerical-routine campaign. The
campaign should be carried on not merely from
the viewpoint of numerical increases, but espe-
cially from the aspect of changing the social
and national composition of the Party.
MUST BE AT HEAD OF STRUGGLE.
One of the crassest manifestations of the
the right danger is the Partys tagging behind
in the growing struggles of the working class
While the main reason for the tagging behind
is lack of outlook and sensitiveness to the pre-
sent situation, lack of contact (which essenti-
ally is also result of the fact that the dis
tricts do not in due time orientate themselves
on the industries where a great deal of dis
content is prevalent, and where struggles
inevitably with the workers in industries
where struggles took place, is one of the great
est handicaps in establishing our leadership
amongst them.
There are today hundreds of departmental
strikes. In the present period they are all
naturalization strikes, and therefore of the
greatest Importance. Yet, because of lack of
leadership most of them are shortlived strikes.
In most cases the Party hears of them after
they are over and broken by the social refor-
mists.
The Trade Union Economic Resolution,
adopted at the Tenth Plenum of the C. l., en-
phasizes the Importance of departmental
strikes and the possibility and need of unity
ing these local struggles. And this can only
be done under our leadership However, the
experiences of the Party with the various To-
cal strikes, the experiences in New Orleans,
and in the recent truck drivers strike in New
York, in the ever growing strike wave in the
country, reveal clearly that lack of contact is
one of the greatest obstacles in developing and
leading the struggles of the workers. The
main purpose of the membership drive. there
FORE is to establish conctact with the workers in
the basic industries. The method of establishing
contact is by factory activities, and in this
connection shop papers, and the building of
shop nuclei are the main instruments. In prac-
ticaly all recent struggles in which the Party
participated, contact was established with the
workers, only after they went out on strike.
Naturally, ulder sucn circumstances, even Win
the best policy we may appear in the eyes of
the masses as strangers and outsiders The
systematic publication of shop papers and the
daily activities in the building of shop nuclei,
will help considerably to establish US before
the masses and in times of struggles we will
known to them and they will not look upon
us as strangers and outsiders.
KEYNOTE IN MASS ACTIVITY.
The general mass activities of the Party
must be the keynote in the drive. At the same
1--WE il must be remembered that individual
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-03
COxey Wants to Fool JObless
Workers

General Jacob S. CoXey, who led the So
called Cozey's army of unemployed to Wash
Ington in 1894, is again attempting to act as
THE clown of unemployment for the capital
lists in order to distract the attention of the
workers from the real measures to be taken
against unemployment ir the growing crisis
Coxey is planning to lead another unemployed
army to Washington to talk to Hoover.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-03

What about the Chinese workers in Amer
lea? What part are they playing in the world
revolution and the Chinese revolution? The
immediate task of the Chinese workers in
America, of course, is to fight for every day
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-03
TURN THE CORNER.

The Open Letter to the Party Convention
states; "The relics of the previous period of
its existence form the greatest obstacle in the
path it has to travel before it successfully
passes the turning point and develops in the
shortest possible time from numerically small
propaganda organization into mass political
PARTY of the American working class" And in
another section of the letter the Comintern con.
cretizes it by stating: "The Party can become
mass proletarian Party only on condition that
it widens its base by creating it's main strong.
hold in the ranks of the American native work
ers especially in the most important branches
of industry, and also among the Negro work
ers, while at the same time retaining its posi-.
ton among the revolutionary immigrant work
ers." The above line of the C. T.-of turning the
face of the Party to the masses, widen our base
among our native workers in the basic indus
tries, work among the Negroes (Which is so
neglected in practically all dstricts)-this must
/, the political line in the recruiting drive.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-03
Reformist Officials Smasl,
Strike

DURHAM. England (By MaiD Six hundred
miners who struck against non-payment of the
minimum wage we're tricked back to work after
speeches by trade union officials.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-01-19
OWNERSHIP CATTLE RANCH WESTWARD
 CHANGES HANDS

J. c. Wingfield, who has been horticulturist for the past five years for Alaska Agricultural Ex- perimental stations, has purchas- ed the interest of w. T. White, in the Kizhugak cattle ranch on Kiz- hugak Bay, Kodiak Isle, where he is raising beef cattle, assisted by his brother James Wingfield.
 The Wing gfields now have 25 head of fire cattle, but would have had nearer 50 head at this time put for the depredations of the Kodiak bear. The hear raided tue herd last spring and sunmer and destroyed 20 head of fine grade stock, but the Wingfields now pla,. a determined stand With and it is hoped that by killing off the raiders that venture near the Irancn headquarters, neutral zone nay be established. In the meantime new buildings are to be added to the ranch establishment, and since the ranch is ideally Sit uated in regard to extraordinary fine forage and range conditions plans are being made to increase the livestock holdings as fast as the bear menace can be removed.
 MT. White arrived in Seward to- day from Kodiak enroute to Mat anuska.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-01-19
RUSSIANS BECOMING
 ARCTIC EXPLORERS
 SEVERAL EXPEDITIONS

1 LENINGRAD, Jan., 18, (PJ-The greatest Arctic explorations eve' undertaken are planned by tho Soviet Government.
 Airships, airplanes, steamships not in one, but several expeditions and establishment of weather sta. Itions in the Arctic comprise thc plans. Three types of steamer are proposed, cargo carriers to sup ply food, cruisers to maintair touch between far-flung meterolo- |gical stations, and ice breakers.
 A newly created Arctic commits sion proposes to use Russia's nat. ural advantages for Arctic explora- tion, which are her great border on the Arctic regions.
 The first step in the program the building of four wireless Wea- .her stations, a large one in Fran Joseph Land. two smaller on Wrar
Seward daily gateway., 1929-01-19
COME NORTH, FOLKS !!

CHICAGO, Jan., 19, P)-Near zero ona sub-zero temperatures ovel soreauirg the middle west were agumented by the remnants of a second cold blast from the Rocky mountain regions with prospects of lower temperatures.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-01-19

Civil Service examinations for the purpose of filling the position of clerk, Cordova postoffice, has been announced.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-01-19
PAGE THREE
tually unknown to explorers.

be sought by the Russians, bu. more important, next to weathtr stations, they will attempt to learn the depths, currents and tempera lures ot the polar seas.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-01-19

Suits to order at Peysers TaiiGt Shop. Phone Adams 91.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-01-19

gell Island and Novaya Zembla F spectfully, and the fourth on of the islands of the New Sioe 'j group The fact that the nearh, Arctic provides the key to much Russia's weather, and to some { her crcp conditions, makes f speed in establishing these station.
 An attempt probably will be made to install automatic wireless weather reporters at some points. The nature of this device is not dis closed.
 Academican Fersman, prominent Russian scientist, says the Sever maya Zemlia, or Northern Land, is unexplored except in it's southern regions. He says that the country northwest of Franz Joseph Land and Ncvaya Zemlia also are viii
 Eastman KOdaks and supplies for the professional or amateur photo graphcr. SCHALLERER'S ALASKA SHOP.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-01-19

QUALITY DEVELOPING PRINT NC AND ENLARGING. Schaller- CTS Alaska Shop.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-01-19
Motorship DiscOVerer
For Hire or Charter

Service to Nulss Bay, Iliamna, Portlcck, Seldovia. Kenai, An c!orage, and other potts All Cook Inlet, has been discontin- ued temporarily while the M. s. Eiclioverer is undergoing in- sta.!ation of new engines, heat ing system, state rooms and lengthening as WelIl as many other improvements. in Seattle.
 Capt. Heinie Berger
 Seward, Alaska
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-28

Any person purchasing Wal
lace Better Used Car is permit
ted to drive that car for three
days. If the purchaser finds the
car to be unsatisfactory, or for
any reason whatsoever may not
care for it, he can bring the car
back provided, of course, that
no damage has been done to the
car in the meantime) AND HIS
FULL AMOUNT OF MONEY
HE HAS PAID WILL BE RE-
FUNDED TO HIM. There
are no conditions attached to
this warranty in any respect.