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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-03
w. The Proletariat's Attitude To-
wards the Question of Disarmament
and the Fight against Pacifism.

anu the right against Pdcl1lSm.
So. Imperialism at the present
time encounters serious obstacles in
its theological and organizational
preparations for new imperialist
counter-revolutionary wars, viz, the
instructive hostility to war aroused
among the broad masses of the
population, particularly among the
workers, the peasants and the work
ing women, since the last world war.
For that reason, imperialism is
compelled to make its preparations
for war under the cloak of pacifism.
At the same time, pacifism is ac-
quiring a new objective significance
as the theology and the instrument
in world imperialisms struggle
against the progressing world revo-
luton and its stronghold, the U. S.
S. R.
Fake Peace Conferences.
Herein lie the objective signifi-
canoe and the fundamental aim of
the disarmament proposals and con-
ferences initiated by the imperialist
states. and particularly of the
"work" of the League of Nations in
this sphere: the discussions on "se-
curity"; the proposal to establish
arbitration courts; the pacts for the
"outlawry of war;" etc.
The purpose of all these pacifist
schemes, treaties, and conferences
are: (a) to camouflage imperialist
ornaments; (b) to enable certain
great powers to maneuver against
each other for the purpose of secur-
ing, by treaties, reduction in their
rivals ornaments, while at the
same time to increase their own
military power; (c) to enable the
great powers to reach temporary
agreements guaranteeing their DOM
nation over the weak and oppressed
countries; (d) to carry out ideolo-
gical and political mobilization
against the Soviet Union under the
cloak of pacifist slogans, or direct
preparation for war.
For this reason, to fight against
armament swindle and pacifism is
one of the fundamental tasks in the
struggle against imperialist war at
the present time.
A. The Social Democratic Disarma-
ment Program and Leninism.
90. The principal instrument in
he imperialist disarmament farce is
pcial democracy, which sows among
Le masses illusions about the pos
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-03

RESENT an alllance Tor the suppress
sion of the proletarian revolution
and of the national liberation move.
ments of colonial peoples. All the
tendencies within this main tenden-
cy (for example the Pan European
movement) are out and out reac-
tionary.
Oppose Aiming Workers.
60. The adherents to the second
tendency come out as ss'radical," or
revolutionary" pacifists, and de-
mand complete disarmament, not
only of the bourgeoisie but also of
the proletariat, i. e., they reject the
slogan of arming the proletariat.
At the time of the imperialist
war, this slogan was adopted by a
number of revolutionary interna-
tionalists, who found no other way
of expressing their honest desires to
abolish militarism. 1t was not a
revolutionary slogan, however, for
it failed to take into account, or
completely rejected. the necessity
for arming the proletariat and for
civil war; effectively, it was an ex-
preston of the desperation of the
petty bourgeoisie.
Lenin's criticism of this slogan.
expressed in 1916, holds good to this
day, and must be employed even
more sharply today, notwithstand-
ing the fact that the number of
those who support this slogan is now
extremely insignificant. The Octo-
Der Revolution has proved to every
honest revolutionary the absolute
necessity for arming the proletariat.
To substitute the slogan of disarm-
ing the proletariat for the slogan
OF arm the proletariat can serve at
the present time only as a counter
revolutionary slogan. For that rea
son the Communists must take great
pains to explain the true position to
those workers who sympathize with
the slogan of disarming, particular
ly in the smaller countries, and to
fight as strenuously as possible
against the left" leaders who adj
vocate it.
Arbitration" of War.
This applies also to the theory
that international guarantees and
arbitration courts" can abolish war.
Such institutions are merely soap
bubbles, which burst at the very
first serious conflict, or else serve
as instruments in the hands of the
more powerful imperialist robbers.
There is only one point on which
both social democratic tendencies
can agree on questions of disarma-
ment and pacifism, and that is, that
the principal obstacle to disarma-
ment are the countries where "there
is no democracy" i. e.. the dictator
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-03

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workers will be the same. Five
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off for his boss and says "Thank
you" for every kick he gets. But
then the Daily" was founded and
that's when we really got born.
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greetings by sending the Daily
Worker lots Of donations to keep it
going!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-03

Theodore j.. Smith, son Of Cyrus
I. Smith, first mayor of Brooklyn,
left a net estate Of $8SS,369 when
he died, in his 93rd year. last April
en- appraisal filed yesterday in the
Surrogate's Court showed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-03
ENDURANCE FLIGHTS

Three attempts to set new endur-
ance records for airplanes-one by
a woman pilot-were in progress in
the United States yesterday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-03
JOBLESS, KILLS SELF.

TRENTON, N. j., Jan. 1.-Out Of
work for several months, Kontanty
Russak, al, floor scraper, COM
mitted suicide by applying lighted
match to his kerosene soaked
clothes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-03
The Struggle Against Imperialist War
and the Tasks of the Communists

(Note.-This is the tenth install
ment of the thesis of the 9Th Con-
gress of the Communist information
al, entitled "The Struggle Against
Imperialist War and the Tasks of
the Communists. "-Editor.)
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The Alaskan., 1929-07-05

emphasizes racial segregation, 50 long will the racial character lsticS, habits and thought pre- dominate So long will assimi- lation be of tardy growth.
 Regardless of the fact that jhe Indian is American born md pure American stock, so long as racial language and habit and thought are con- pulSOry part of their environ ment it may not be expected that any more rapid progress will be made in assimilating them into the body polite.
 The rapid disintegration of foreign nationals into American citizenry is by virtue of environ ment which obliterates old country ideas and old country ideals. Sentiment is not lost up on the Italian, the Russian, the Slovenian, German or what not, and he is not compelled to live upon reservations which foster mother language. Yet the sys- tenn under which the aboriginal tenn is forced upon upon the ab- original American with the re- suit that we have American bern foreigners" in our midst with their own governments and without the rights and liberties of other citizens.
The Alaskan., 1929-07-05
INDIANS CLAIMING MILLIONS
 FROM U. s.

Everett Sanders, secretary to the president, during the Cool idge administration, will lead the fight of the Assinniboine h. dians of Montana to recover $17- 100000 they claim from the fed .eral government.
 Three representatives of the tribe from the Fort Belknap and Fort Pack reservation appeared before Judge c. B. ElWell in dis sign contract with Sanders.
 1851 Treaty Figures in Case
 The claim represents the val tue placed upon land the Indians assert was granted them under treatyof 1851 but which was never received. The tract lies between the Yellowstone and the Missouri Rivers, west of the Musselshell, in central Montana. The government claims the grant was extinguished by a later treaty but the Indian leaders assert that the later treaty nev- CT was ratified and insist that the grant still is valid.
 The Indians are represented l by the law firm of Davis, James and Beebe. James w. Good, se- cretary of war, was their repre- sentative until he became a member of the Hoover cabinet Sanders succeeded hirn,-Am- erican Indian Bulletin.
The Alaskan., 1929-07-05
KIDS WOULDN'T DO WORSE

Now that the Legislature has thrown the Territorial school Commissioner into the political arena we may look for the next session to insist that the kiddos be given the privilege of electing their teachers.-Gateway.
 Certainly the kids would be more honest in their election of a man for office than the federal brigade which makes the rank est kind of political plays with that office under the guise that it was not in politics. The fool ed no one-not even themselves.
The Alaskan., 1929-07-05
VIRGINIA GETS JOLT

The Virginia law denying ne groes the privilege of voting in a primary election was held un- constitutional by Judge D. L. Groner recently in the case of James 0. West, negro, who sued precinct officials for nominal damagesg to test the law. He was barred from voting in the last Democratic primary. Judge Groner ruled the law was con trary to both the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the constitution.
The Alaskan., 1929-07-05
MAY INVESTIGATE JUDGE

Federal Judge James Herbert WiIkers0n of Chicago, the gen
 tleman who issued the infamous Daugherty injunction against the Federated Shop Crafts, may
 be investigated by a Senate ICommittee headed by Norris o1 Nebraska.
 For a long time the Insull in tereStS have been anxious to take over the Chicago street railway system on their own terms. They have encountered all kinds o1 obstacles.
 Finally, they decided to throw 'tho Chicago Railway Company lpany into the hands of a receiv- CT.
 The Westinghouse Electric l Company went into Judge Will i kersOn's court and complained that the railway company owed | 1t 967,075 for materials supplied land had refused to pay the bill. Representatives of the com pany obligingly admitted the in 0ebJedness and agreed to the re- 'cetverShip, although they had plenty of money in their treas ury to take care of the claim.
 Judge Wilkerson appointed the president of the railway com pany and two of Insults right hand men as receivers, fixed their salaries at $6O,0O0 8 year each, and gave them two attor- .neys, one at $25,OOO and the oth- CT at $24,00O a year.
 All this was done to collect 2 debt of 3 little more than $60,- 000," Norris told the Senate.
 Norris presented a resolution asking that the Judiciary Com mittea, Of which he is chairman, be authorized to inquire into the case, to determine whether by means of said collusive proceed .ings the said United States Dis trict Court was induced to as .sume jurisdiction which properly belonged to the state courts of Illinois"
 If the Senate adopts the reso- Iution many responsible citizens of Chicago believe one of the greatest scandals in the history of American municipalities will be unearthed.
 Should the Senate refuse to act, the deal will probably go thru, as there is no other power willing and capable of combat ing InsulI influence.
The Alaskan., 1929-07-05
DRAW BACK TO ABORIGINEE

The great drawback to the progress and development of the Indian races, more especially of the States are the narrow boundaries of a reservation sys- tenn fostered by paternalistic bureau which prevents the dis carding of inherent languages, habits and customs. So long as the Bureau of Indian Affairs
The Alaskan., 1929-07-05
"I'll love him all I can, obey

"I'u love him all I can, obey
 him all I choose, And when I ask for funds he
 never must refuse" "Tll love her all I can, and
 cherish her if I must, And when she asks for funds, I'll
 mostly be on a bust. Then you are man and wife, and
 happy may you be, if you
 can. fl AS many be your years as dollars in my fee, in the "can."
The Alaskan., 1929-07-05
Sincerely,
JAMES R. LITTLE CENTRALIA LABOR TROUBLE

Ray Becker, Centralia logger who is serving a sentence of 25 to 40 years as one Of the elleg- ed Armistice Day slayers at Gen. tralia, was denied a writ of ha- beas corpus by Judge Bourquin recently. Becker has already served 10 years of his sentence.
 The history of this case is not one of which Americans need be proud. A jury of labor leaders sat thru the entire trial of the men who were convicted of the killing of Grimm and other Le- gionaires parading on Armistice Day. There verdict was mot guilty" To read the other side of the story is to wonder wheth- CT our system courts are depart ments of justice or injustice.
 The brutal and inhuman of la boring men as was brought out in the trial is beyond understand ing. And that every effort to secure their release frustrated it would appear that vengeance rather than justice is the aim of the principals in the case.
The Alaskan., 1929-07-05
contentment. To look forward

cOntentment. To look forward eagerly.
 Those dear "old Sourdoughs. 1" Their faces are scanned with Alaska history. Their eyes saw Alaska when life in Alaska was somewhat ruder than it is now, but excellent to live in. When neither wife, nor husband count ed it shame to work with their hands when Alaska was young, and they were young also, and people sang with love for his fel- low man in his heart. Bless them! Help them! Those grand old men, and women (pioneers) Sourdoughs of the bygone days. Let them rest! And after they are gone, if they rise again I know they would say, Let me live my life over again in the hills and Valleys of dear Alaska, where the mighty Yukon River wends it's way.
The Alaskan., 1929-07-05
"sOURDOUGHs"
Portland, Ore, June 29, 1929

June 29, 1929 The Alaskan,
 Dear Editor:
 In that far dimness which falls on by gone times, the pio- neer of Alaska, With gOldpan, pick and shovel and pack on his back, riSked his life, limb and liberty to seek out the hidden treasure along the wild streams of Alaska. It was indeed good to live when Alaska was young. And it is true that they dWelt and worked where romance was, and true also that our indebtedness to those dear old men is heavy. What is bravery unless it be something more than the mere f1outing of a physical hazard? The cheerful, casual bravery of early days, when men and women quilted the known for the unknown, the certainty for the uncertainty, and severed the thousand ties of familiar associ- ation, to house themselves in rude cabins and tents and have coarse fare for food, is in simple fact and epic of our civilization. Here was renunciation, and here was courage. But here also was acceptance of life. For it was a time in which hardship, though no more pleasing to endure than now did not deter the Sour dough" in his determination to create 8 home in the land he loved. For he said, and the words were hers as we'll, that the long miles would pass, and in hopes of striking it rich and probably the crudness of an un- tanned Alaska would some day pass, and time should find them happier than ever before, in their own homes in their valleys of Alaska. They were dreamers, if you call them so-but they had a way With dreams. They wrought to bring them true. It isn't a secret lost to the times, for the formula is of great an tiquity-yet one considers now and then, that it might be more often applied with something of that happy resolution the pio- neers brought to the Alaska country. These Sourdoughs are never at a loss to tell of the by gone days when they blazed the trails over the hills, and thru the valleys of the Yukon. They are the sound metal of Alaska, such were our dear Pioneers.
 The record of his restlessness, of his migrations, is more spirit ed than any fiction. These are the shining chapters of the story of his life. The roughhanded dreamers. The commonplace adventurers. They looked to the skyline where the blue curve of it beckoned and they could not bide at home. For surely wonder was virgin land, and gold, and more freedom and more oppor- tunity somewhere beyond the Alaska hills.
 Tn every period there have been those who could not bide at home. Nor endure discontent, but must needs strike out for themselves to have of life more fortune than it promised where they were. Tn this wise and by such means were nations ex- banded, These were the people in whichever era they lived and who thrust the forest back and blazed the wilderness trails, and made possible our cities and our civilization. The One-gallused men and our sun- bonnet women. True couriers of the advance.
 No, it was not the purpose of the SOurdoughs to write romance
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-21
EXPERT PUBLISHES
HUMIDITY RESULTS
D. B. Brooks Reveals Study
Of Atmospheric Effects
on Plane Engines.

The results of a long series of tests
made at the Bureau of Standards to
demonstrate the effect of atmospheric
humidity on the operation Of airplane
and automobile engines are contained
in technical note prepared by Donald
B. Brooks, in charge of the experiments,
published by the national advisory COM
mittee for aeronautics.
The tests made by Brooks reveal IN
creasing loss Of motor power as the
humidity increases. The tests were
made on a Six-cylinder three-port over
head valve engine coupled to an electric
dynamometer and spark accelerometer.
They were a continuation of former
tests made by A. w. Gardiner with
one-cylinder engine which revealed
scientifically for the first time that at
mospheric humidity has very appre-
ciable effect on some phases OF engine
performance.
The tests show that If the humidity
is expressed as per cent of barometric
pressure. the loss of power in per cent
of the engine will be roughly equal to
the humidity. They also show that
decided increase in spark advance Is
necessary for proper engine perform
ance with increasing humidity.
Brooks work, according to the report,
shows that failure to allow for the affect
of differences in atmospheric humidity
in conducting engine performance tests
may introduce errors as great as would
failure to allow for changes in baro-
metric pressure. amounting in extreme
conditions to nearly 10 per cent OF the
indicated engine power.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-21
SEVEN WELL KNOWN PILOTS
NAMED TO BOARD OF SURVEY
Nine in All Will Make Comprehensive
Stud y of Nations Flying
Schools.

and support. officials of the Aeronauti-
cal Trade Association say.
Limitations Set
A bulletin, ready for distribution to
members Of the Aeronautical Chamber
Of Commerce flying school section, dis
closes the action of the Department OF
Commerce in eliminating the 'one-man
flying school,"
Transport pilots filing applications
for an instructors license. either fly
ing or ground work. 1t is stated
in the bulletin. will not be APP
proved by the Department of Com
mercc unless they are actually en-
ployed by an approved flying school.
The Department of Commerce is now
receiving large number of requests
from transport pilots for flying In
structors license. The reason for this
is, first. the transport pilot wants to
show his flying instructors permit or
second. he thinks that such a license
is necessary for individual instruction.
The Department OF Commerce
wishes to announce that transport
pilots licenses are good for individual
instruction. That is, a transport pilot
may instruct as many as he desires in
dividually, with full approval Of the
Department Of Commerce and without
restriction, but there will be no ''one-
man flying schools. Licensed flying in
structors must actually be on the pay
roll of an approved flying school"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-21
u. S. BUSINESS FINDS
VALUE OF AIR MAIL
More Than Half Of Cargoes Travels
Over Some Part of Transconti.
mental Route, Survey Shows.

More than half the air mail carried
in the United States today travels over
at least a portion of the transcon-
tinental route from New York to San
Francisco, according to a survey COM
pleted by the American Air Transport
Association.
Business is finding" the association
stated, that the new 32-hour service
helps it greatly in its dealings with GUS
toners and branch Offices, as the re-
Gently established night transcontinen-
tai line carries letters from San Fran
cisco to New York with the loss of but
one business day, a gain Of IL hours
over previous operating schedules"
Cities off the main transcontinental
airway are receiving direct benefits from
the speeding up OF the schedules, the
survey shows. The association, which
now is testing the speed and reliability
Of the transfer of letters by air on all
routes, has reported that letter mailed
in Pittsburgh was delivered in Glendale,
Calf, in % hours and 80 minutes, in
Guiding time spent in handling at the
Cleveland, Chicago, Salt Lake City and
Los Angeles terminals. The letter was
flown in five planes, which covered a
distance of 1850 miles. The average
speed. including time lost on the ground,
was 80 miles per hour.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-21
GLIDER BUILDERS
TO VIE FOR AONORS
First Contest Sanctioned by
National Association to Be
Held at Cleveland.

The first glider contests in the United
States to be sanctioned by the National
Glider Association will be held in Cleve-
land during the national air races and
aeronautical exposition, August "a to
September 2. according to information
received here from Edward S. Evans,
president of the association.
The contests will follow the second
national glider conference. to be held
at Cleveland the morning of August 81.
Among the speakers at the conference
will be Anthony H. G. Fokker, famous
airplane designer and builder, who will
describe the value of gliding as an aid
to aviation, and Miss Amelia Earhart
who will deal with gliding as sport for
women.
The glider contests will be divided
into eight phases, as follows: Distance,
shock-cord launching method; dura-
ton, Shock-cord launching method
distance, auto-toWing launching method
duration, auto-towing launching method;
landing on mark, auto-towing launch
ing method; contest for famous
pilots of motored planes, both for dura-
ton In gliderS and for landing to a
mark; a contest for the best handling
Of glider by glider pilots only, and a
contest for the best handling of glider
by any pilot. The contests will be
flown each morning of the national air
races after August IS. A number of
trophies and prizes will be offered.
Judges of the duration and distance
contests will be DR.. Wolfgang Klemp-
erer, chairman of the National Glider
Association technical committee; Franz
Gross. designer of the Darmstadt
soarer; Prof. Peter Altman of the Uni
versity of Detroit, and Prof r. E.
Franklin of the University of Michigan.
Daily glider lectures will be given,
illustrated by motion pictures. The
glider contests will be open to all COM
ers. Information regarding the events
may be obtained from l.. F. Ross of the
Cleveland Glider Club, in care of the
Cleveland News