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The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-12-19
CiftHOsiery

in all the newest shades
 To give something that is both practical and beautiful, give hosiery. This will be especially true if you come here to make your selection from our stock of new and up-to-date colors and weaves.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-12-19

The distribution pressure much the
 rday ntenfying considerably Precpi tWentyour hours from St. Paul and Ketchkan Elsewhere Ill weather has been generally fair Temperatures at Tan and and the Kuskokwim little taking place at other stations Rain extends Southeastern Alaska to Oregon
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-12-19
MELLON DODcES
 CITY OFFICIALS
Secretary of Treasury Tours City Tn Rented
 Auto-Of on Trip

MIAMI, Fla, Dec. 19.-Andrew Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury, sailed late yesterday for a three weeks holiday in Bahaman waters after touring the city in a rented automobile, W hile city officials hunted for him in vain.
 Secretary Mellon is accompanied by his son Paul, his daughter and her husband, David E. K. Bruce and Francis Carmody, Paul's col lege friend.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-12-19
HOSPITAL NOTES

M. R. Dullton was operated upon for appendicitis last night at St. Ann's Hospital.
 Mrs. Grover c. Vim, who en- tered the hospital December 2 for an operation, returned to her home yesterday
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-12-19

NOTE-ObservatIons Barrow Fort Yukon Panama and ure at 8 a. m. and D. m, Juneau time
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-12-19
MRS. sHIPPEY RETURNS

Mrs. H. c. Shippey of the Fern Beauty Parlors has returned and is now fully prepared to do perm anent waving of all descriptions including the very new CROQUIG- MOLE. adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-12-19
WOMEN OF

Mooseheart Legion will meet to- night at 8 o'clock. Following meet ing there will be a social to which husbands are invited
 AGNES GREGG, adv. Recorder.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-12-19

-adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-12-19
NOTICE TO SHIPPERS

All freight for the America First" must be on the dock not later than 9 p. m. December 24th or it cannot be accepted for this coming trip. adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-12-19

GORDON'S GIFT CERTIFICATES
 The Ideal Gift. Always accept able and can be exchanged for mer- chandise at any time. adv
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-12-19

Have you tried the Five O'Clock Dinner Specials at Mabry's Cafe?
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-12-19
Weather Conditions As Recorded by the U. 5.
 Weather Bureau
OCAL DATA

Forecast for Juneau vicinity beP-uing m today; tonight Friday gentle winds mostly northerly.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-12-19
AT THE HOTELS
Alaskan

L. R. Skinner, c. s. Baroumes, Mrs. Lizzie Rogers, P. T. Padden.
 Gastineau Geo. Austin, A. J. Streed.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-12-19

SKATES Sh..cPENED All skates sharpened, either flat Jr hollow ground. adv Morris Construction Company
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-04
BRIGGS is A HELL-HOLE
]esus- Men Send Workers to SLAVE There

ship in a storm every time one
trundled truck load onto it.
The hours were from seven o'clock
in the morning until six, seven,
eight, nine, and / have worked until
ten and ten-thirty at night. No
overtime pay, just constant slave
driving with one of the damnest foul
mouthed slave driver l have ever
seen standing over one constantly.
/ worked as a millwright's helper
and where other plants were paying
fifty-five cents and hour, Briggs
paid forty. Millwrights usually have
pretty decent time in most auto
plants, but when we were not busy
shifting machinery, we were put to
making body trucks and when they
could find nothing else for US, even
for fifteen minutes, they put us on
production for that short time and
made us slave in the lines.
Yes, Briggs like every other auto
plant needs union and it was
Briggs that helped to push me along
on the path to Communism.
Long Live the Auto Workers
Union. j. H. S.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-04
MISLEADERS
OF CARPENTER
union BETRAY
Have Brought Condi-
tions Low

by a Worker Correspondent
The carpenters trade at the pres
ent time is on downward grade;
the present trend in building is to
build industrial buildings such as
large office buildings, factory build
ings and hotels where less carpen-
tiers are required because of the use
of wire steel forms in making foun-
cations and ready-made trim where
no skilled mechanics are required.
With the general speed-up and
unemployment union conditions are
becoming a thing of the past and
especially on small speculative
buildings where wages and condi-
tons even in the time of the So
called building boom were never
good. Now conditions are unbear-
able.
The carpenters do not get the pre-
vailing rate of wages and on the
slightest attempt on the part of the
carpenter to enforce union condi-
tons he is fired from the job and
he has no place to complain, as the
union officials of the carpenters
union cannot do anything for the
carpenter because of their agree
ment with the bosses for the right
of the boss to hire and fire and they
do not want to, as they are in the
union for business and not for the
interests of the carpenters.
The descendants of Brindel, who
went to prison for overstepping the
bounds of the business of taking
graft and selling the workers to the
bosses in the carpenters union do
not only follow his line of trade
unionism but go few steps fur
Their in taking away the right of a
local union to try its members. The
workers cannot get rank and file
justice as all charges must be made
to the district council and tried
there.
/ cannot enumerate all the mis-
deeds and betrayals by the mlslead-
ers of the carpenters union in this
one article. 1 just wanted to point
out the main abuses from which the
carpenters suffer today.
1t is the duty of every progress
sive carpenter to get on the job and
show the carpenters the real cause
of their conditions and build a
strong opposition against the mis-
leaders and in due time take over
the leadership of the carpenters I'M
ion. Under the leadership of the
Trade Union Educational League
this can be done.
1t is also the duty of the progress
sive carpenters under the leadership
of the T. U. E. L. to organize the
unorganized carpenters and the
other unorganized building trades
workers into an industrial union.
w. A. w.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-04
FORD ST.PAUL
PLANT is ALSO
A HELL-HOLE
Henry S High Rate
Talk is Bunk
(By Worker Correspondent

by a Worker Correspondent
ST. PAUL, MINI. (By MaiD. - I
am one of the slaves in the Ford
plant here in St. Paul. I want to
tell other Ford workers in other
parts of the country how we are
treated.
They are paying US SIS a day, if
we are there less than two months.
After that the rate is Sc. You have
to slave like I'll to get this.
Most of the men that came in with
me failed to last two months, and
after shaving nearly that long for
SIS a day they had to quit; they
couldn't stand the speed-up, even
though they were strong men.
We often have to work overtime
several times week, and we get no
extra pay - only ordinary rates.
After standing on your feet keeping
pace with the belt that keeps COM
ing and coming, with its chassis af-
ter chassis, you feel like killing the
foreman that comes along and tells
you to work overtime. You have to
work overtime or you arc fired.
The high wages Ford tells about
in the capitalist newspapers is a
lie. Last year, all I made for the
year was $1,000. We didn't work
over 200 days all year.
When Ford introduced the day
week, which + was praised so much
for, / was working in The Detroit
plant, Highland Park. lost out in
wages, getting $3.50 a week less
than l did when we shaved the six
day week. Why? Because we were
only paid for 5 days week under
the day week, being paid by the
day, and we did six days work in
five days. So that was Ford's good
ness to his employees.
When | applied for work in
Fisher Body plant in Cleveland, o.,
after 1 left Detroit, they asked me
where I worked before. ''In Ford's,
at Detroit" 1 said.
"You won't do" they told me. I
found out later that Fisher Body
was making practice of refusing
to hire ex-Ford help because they
said that anyone that had worked in
Ford's plant was too worn out to
stand the pace in Fishers. They
wanted their slaves fresh.
FORD SLAVE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-04
(By Worker Correspondent

(Bn worker Correspondent
Letters from Briggs Auto Plant
of Detroit appears in the Daily from
time to time. Well / remember this
place, if it is worse today than it
was then, and due to increased ra-
tionalization it probably is, then pity
the poor devils that work there.
In 1926 a charitable institute sent
me to the Briggs for work. The sleek
haired Jesus singer pictured the
place as a bad one. 'We send men
there" he said ito test whether they
want to work. 1t isn't nice because
they work rather long hours and the
place is dirty, men seldom stay over
a couple of weeks. stake hunters"
Was the place dirty? At dinner
time a half inch of oily scum ate
thru the paper on which / set my
lunch, the toilets swan with an inch
Of water, in which floating like half
stranded logs, the refuse of the
bowls lay uncleaned from one day
to the next.
No fire escape except a narrow
dingy unsafe stairway and diplapi-
dated elevator that shifted like a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-04
No Prison PallOr for
Sinclair; Rides Autos
on Special Duties"

WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.-Harry
F. Sinclair oil magnate who is
spending soft holiday in Jail, has
escaped from the pallor that usually
accompanies long conf ement in
prison by taking short automobile
rides to and from the Disticrt of
Columbia Jail Were he is serving a
six-months sentence for contempt of
the senate. The pampered prisoner
feels none of the brutality accorded
to ordinary" prisoners who have
no millions. Superintendent Will
liam Peak, to excuse the pampering
of Sinclair, said the wealthy oil
operator has been assigned to
Special duties" which make the
automobile rides outside the prison
walls necessary.
Several times since Sinclair was
incarcerated last May charges
have been made that he was being
favored over .e other prisoners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-04
Fight for Gastonla Workers
Class War Prisoners Write
Dear Fellow Workers -

My main motive for writing this reaffirmng
appreciation of the LID and the workers for the of
of the GaOna victims All affirm with
tonia victims With wishes yours aerna
GUS {. MADSIN Bx. 44461, San Quentin Prison
waua waIa Wash. Aug. 49, 1929
Fellow Workers.
say regarding the Gastonia workers who
facing the electric chair and know
only that faced the hangmans
possible for should the fail
guilty rendered degree then all is lost for there
these United States that would
rendered against labor.
Everything that labor possesses put fight
lives of these striking Gasonia workers To lose this fight would
only be losing the lives of those who fighting fight for
would be blow labor that throughout the could
be wiped out.
As long the industrial lords frame and railroad the
be the fall daardIy speak
evening from prison cell and workers. all your
allowed any
loved be the altar of sacrifice greed Act before
yours square DEAL BERT BLAND.
waa WASH Aug H. 1929.
The cntra defendants exactly what the
against they have had their
acquial of your
We know that brave feow-worke
that friends will stand by through thick your
release established
defendants lives WERE at stake 4b ft;1 t M ana
kind; all labor
perfect harmony with other
that said action all favor Fellow workers
all true lovers of justice the time
of the Gstona
have tough break fighting for justice Best wishes
Yours for industrial freedom JOHN LAMB.
N. Andover, Mass, Aug. o.
Dear
The Gastona strikers their have heast sympathy
and their aunch facing the battle of the
deserves the highest praise just leaders
fight to ultimate victory and make working class history
the seriousness of their position
court but their loyalty and bravery the struggle cheering
of solidarity.
Hoping the time when the will be
and wishing the strikers sincerely yours,
MRS JOHN E. MERRICK JOHN E. MERRICK.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-04
TWO DIE IN PLANE CRASH

WESTERLY, R. l., Sept. 3.-Two
women were killed and lingo pilot
was critically injured when the
plane in which they were flying was
thrown out of control while attempt
ing a swoop. The dead women were
burned beyond recognition when
their bodies were extricated from
the smoldering wreckage. The flyer
is not expected to live.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-04
Life Backstage Is Seen
IN "By0adway Babies .

NEW YORK gamblers, Detroit
~ bootleggers, Broadway rack
eteers, night club entertainers and
musical comedy chorus girls-all
pass in review in Broadway Babies
with Alice White and Charles De-
laney, now at the Cameo Theatre.
1t is First National Vitaphone, all
talking film directed by Mervyn Lee
Roy.
Those who like the type of film,
now in vogue, which concerns life
backstage and in the night clubs,
will like this we'll directed and anus
ing comedy which will go over big
in the great open spaces, where
Broadway is known only by name.
However, even many New Workers
will find it satisfying entertainment.
In other words, it is no better or
worse than a dozen films with a
similar theme, which has been shown
in the last few months. And while
it may be sad to admit, it is what
a great mass of film fans want at
the present time.
The film starts off with a fairly
good story of life backstage and
holds its own near the very end
when it becomes oversentimental. 1t
follows out the old formula of a
happy ending that is foretold in the
beginning of the picture.
Billy Buvanny Charles Delaney
stages the dances for a Broadway
musical comedy. Those in the chorus
include Dee Foster (Alice White)
who is his sweetheart. Bill manages
to secure Dee a small part in the
show which takes her out of the
ranks of the chorus. She puts her
part over big and is an immediate
success.
Pere Gessant (Louis Natheux),
Detroit bootlegger, falls in love with
Dee and manages to win her away
from Billy. She then secures a posi-
ton with a notorious night club and
shortly afterwards in the biggest
sensation on the main stem.
Dee finally consents to marry the
bootlegger, but on the last moment
comes the conclusion that she does
not love him. Gessant is shot by
gunner of rival gang on the we'd
ding night, the wound is not fatal.
When Dee decides that she loves
Billy, in fact, had loved him all the
time, the bootlegger gives Billy a
large bankroll, he had stolen from
some rival racketeers, and tells him
to make Dee happy. Thus the film
ends.
There are some nice shots of
night club, also backstage of New
York theatre in the picture. Pretty
chorus girls give the film flavor,
while several popular songs have
plenty of pep.
The members of the cast are we'll
placed. Alice White is superb as
Dee, the ambitious entertainer;
Charles Delaney is true to life as
the dance director, while Louis
Natheux as the bootlegger gives one
of the finest Characterization seen
in long time. Even George Bran
croft would not have played the
part more effectively. Natheux is
worth while watching, for if given
the right kind of roles, should be
star within a year.
Those who are interested in see
ing the AL Singer-Kid Chocolate
bout round by round can do so by
visiting the Cameo this week. You
can then decide for yourself whether
the much disputed verdict of award
ing the fight to the "Keed" was
correct or not.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-04
Henri Bernstein Play to Be
Imported by Wagner

Henri Bernstein's new play "Melo"
has been acquired by Charles L.
Wagner for production here this
fall. The play has been very sue
cessful in Paris and was highly
praised. The opus calls for three
roles of stellar Importance. Wagner
is also planning to star Madge Ken
needy in a new play. This, however,
is not settled as yet.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-04
Roumanian Fascists
Prepare to Throw So
Workers Into Jail

BUKAREST lBy MaiD. - The
trial of the So workers of Timisoara
began on August goth.
In order to brighten the lawyers
defending Muller and his comrades,
DR.. Macy, one of the counsels for
the defense 'a'as arrested after a
search in his house and released only
on 80 following day.
There is no doubt about the fact
that the objective of these police
measures was the removal of inn
portant documents relating to the
case from DR.. Nagy's office, thus
paralyzing the defense.
Build Up the United Front of
the Working Class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-04
Workers Asked to
Send Their GastOnia
Petitions in at Once

In order to send the mass pro-
test petition, with the hundreds
of thousands of workers names
attached, to the state authorities
of North Carolina, demanding
the freedom Of the Gastonia
textile workers, all petition lists
are asked to be returned at once
to the national office of the Gas
tonia Joint Defense and Relief
Campaign Committee, at so E.
18th ST.. room 402, New York
City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-04
FARMERS FACE RUIN

ALBANY, N. Y, Sept. 3.-Dry
rot has attacked potatoes in the nor
thern part of Chautauqua county
and farmers estimate that the yield
this season will be considerably less
than so per cent of the 1928 crop.
No rain has fallen in this part of the
state for the last two months.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-04
Course of Chamber Concerts
for Workers and Students

The Auxiliary Club of the Peoples
Symphony Concerts announces for
the season of 1929-30 a series of six
chamber music concerts on Friday
evenings at the Washington Irving
High School, Irving Place and 10th
st.
The series includes: Musical Art
Quartet, Nov. Is; The Old World
Trio, Dec. 81; The Stardivarius
Quartet, Jan. "a; Tollefsen Trio,
Feb. ID; Stringwood Ensemble,
March 81; Martha Graham and
group Of dancers, April II. Those
interested in the above concerts can
send their names in for circulars to
the office of the Peoples Symphony
Concerts, 80 Union Square.
Build Up the United Front of
the Working Class From the Bot
fon ITn-af tho Euforurieaci
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-04
BOSS GREED KILLS MINER

WASHINGTON, Pa, Sept. g.
Henry Comedy, a coal digger, was
killed yesterday as he was walking
out of the Arthur mine after finish
ing his days work when a mine car
crashed into him at the mouth Of the
pit. He leaves wife and five chill
dren.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-04
2 DEAD IN CEMETERY

LOS ANGELES, Sept. ga fly
ing instructor and his pupil were
killed instantly today when the BIZ
plane in which they were soaring
over Burbank went into a nose dive
and plunged 1900 feet to the Val
halla cemetery.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-04
MEN IN MARINE
WORKERS LEAGUE.
MEET ON HATCH
Many of Grew, Tired of
Slavery, Join
(By a Seamen Correspondent

L
the Dollar line, recently completed
a round the world voyage. On that
trip l was member of the Presi-
dent Harrison's crew. I wish to
tell of the terrible conditions for
the men on the crew of the Dol
lar liners, and l will illustrate their
rotten conditions by telling about
the trip.
Men Join Marine Workers League.
We left Manila around July 5.
Between lila and Singapore /
held a meeting on Number Nine
hatch, in which l talked to the men,
who were dissatisfied with the slave
conditions on the Harrison. I spoke
of the Marine Workers League, and
of organizing into the League to
better the seamen's conditions.
About go of the crew attended the
meeting, and 81 joined the League.
The rest would have joined had l
not run short of dues stamps.
Hold Weekly Meetings.
We held weekly meetings thereaf-
ter for the rest of the voyage, and
they were all we'll attended. Even
the old boatswain, who had been a
member of the International Sea-
mems Union for IL years, finally
Joined the Marine Workers League
at Marseilles.
Mate Browbeats Crew.
Now for conditions on the ship.
There is a crew of 120 men, of whom
SO are Chinese, the rest Americans.
The mate is a tyrant who frequent
ly beats up the sailors. The men
work nine hours a day, and have to
get up at a. m. on Sundays to scrub
the decks. There is no time off for
the crew while the ship is in port.
No overtime is paid.
Low Wages.
The wages are as follows:
Firemen-$65 a month,
Oilers-S72. so month,
Ordinary seaman - $47.50 a
month.
Able seaman-S6250 a month.
Chinese kitchen workers-S23 in
Mexican, or 81 U. S. money
month.
Speaking Of these Chinese work
ers, they are very class conscious.
They are nearly all absolutely
against the Kuomintang. All favor
a Soviet Republic of China.
The head of these Chinese work
ers is the Number One man." who
gets ten per cent of all the Chinese
workers tips. He is the official
bootlegger on the ship, with the full
knowledge of the company and Off
GERS.
Vcitimize Chinese Workers.
These Chinese are not only vic
timized as far as making them work
like slaves is concerned, but they
must also give "cumshaw" or brides
to the chief steward and the ships
captain. They re 0fte-! punished
for the least little thing, and their
tips are stopped on them.
The food served the crew is rot
ten. Rotten stew is served three
times day, and one orange every
Sunday.
The quarters are hell holes, for
they are located on top of the boil
ers and it is too hot for the crew
to sleep in them, so the crew men
have to go on the hatch to sleep.
All Floating Slave-Pens.
have worked on other Dollar lin
ers, and on every one of them the
conditions are the same for the
crew. The only way for the crew to
get human conditions and wages is
to organize into an honest union,
based on ship committees, and that's
the Marine Workers League.
Seaman.
SEAMAN,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-04

Our own age, the bourgeois age,
is distinguished by thiS--that 1t
Inns simplified class antagOnisms.
More and more, society is splitting
up into two great hostile camps,
into two great and directly CONTRA
posed classes; bourgeoisie and pro-
lefariat.-Marx
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-04

The working cInss cannot simply
my hold of the renuy-made state
m machinery. ana WELD II for its own
purpose. This nc.s Commune tParis
Communeb breaks the modern state
poWer.-Marx.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-04

by a Worker Correspondent
EASTHAMPTON, Mass. (By
MaiD i am writing to tell of con-
ditions in some of the departments
of the West Boylston Mill here.