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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-25
}l5 A month is
Low WAGE PAID
TO BOOK SLAVES
Fire Youth Who Sought
Better" Job
(By a Workor Correspondent

by a Worker Correspondent
The New York Public Library,
cultural handmaiden of the corrupt
municipal government of New York,
exploits its young workers as thor
oughly as does any factory or shop
owner. They receive a minimum
wage of S45 a month. I know of
only one young worker who gets as
much as $50 a month. Their duties
are innumerable and include cater
ing to the whims of despotic, ultra
conservative chief librarians, wash
ing ink-wells, wearing coats in the
warmest weather, for the sake of
dignity" and keeping the books in
strict order. They are subject to
The most insidious spying and tale
Bearing, and are arbitrarily blamed
and severely "lectured" for the
SLIGHTEST mistake"
Increases of So month normally
some to workers twice a year-three
times if the worker is sufficiently
obsequious. How this starvation
scale is fixed is wrapped in mys-
terry. No doubt a trucking library
director and a pot-bellied committee
of the Board of Estimate and APP
portionment, under a pretense of in
tricate statistical consideration, had
set up this scale as the safest one
with which to exploit the young
workers. All the foregoing applies
TO the circulating division alone. The
money paid to the young workers in
the reference division comes from
private fund. How did this fund
come into existence? Astor, Lenox
and Tilden, after years of intense
exploitation of the masses, made
that phiianthropic gesture Of con-
tributing TO the common welfare"
"a gesture that brands them as
parasites on the backs of the poor,
and the one most common to capital
ism in its scheme to sell itself.
The scale price paid to young
workers in the reference division
is So mere a month. $50 a month
being the minimum. Here is board
of trustees that fixes the scale,
board composed of men of wealth
and leisure who have wrested their
fortunes from the slavery of the
workers, and who were put into this
position because of their experience
and cunning in exploiting workers.
Recently a young worker en-
rloyed III the circulation division APP
nlied for an opening in the reference
division. One condition had to be
filled before he was given the job;
his division chief would have to as
ssent.
The case ended in complete har-
nlony with capitalist procedure; he
did not get the latter job and was
fired from the first. This is what
he was told: That it was unfair to
leave a job in one division for one
in the other, that since he had tried
TO change he could not be relied up
on to stay, and had to leave.
The rule of fair play" and "busi-
ness ethics" that capitalist tissue of
lies, was violated to "teach the
worker a lesson"
LIBRARIAN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-25
SLAVE Alike
ON Farm and
IN the Shot
by a Worker Correspondent

(By a Worker Correspondent
l have been three months in New
York. / was compelled to leave my
farm where I shaved 16 hours day
with my wife and children, to be
able to pay the landowners, so they
could live in luxury.
On the farm l shaved to raise
food for the middleman who pays
the farmer starvation prices and
sells to the workers Of the city for
high prices. Then the farmer finds
himself compelled to sell his farm,
to pay the high taxes, and thus
thousands of farmers must leave for
the cities every year.
A New Slave Pen.
In the city the farmer is thrown
into new slavery, that of the fac
tory.
Since coming to New York City
have started to read the Daily
Worker, and l have been to the
Fifth Anniversary celebration of the
Daily Where l work, l was telling
the workers what l saw. Every
morning / bring my Daily Worker
and pass it around to the men in
the shop to read. They say they like
It, as it tells the facts about their
slavery. Fellow workers and farm
ers, help the Daily Worker to reach
every workers and farmers home.
The Daily Worker fights for lis and
against the bosses and imperialism.
Long may it live.
NAT CHANOW.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-25

tain in Latin America; the struggle
OF the Hungarian miners; the strug-
gle in Colombia against the United
Fruit Co.; the Russo-Norwegian
trade union movement; the fight
against the Right danger in the
German Party; the decision in the
case of Brandler, Tkalheimer and
others; the International Coopera-
tive Alliance; and other articles.
The Inprecorr is perhaps the most
important and interesting of all
Communist publications, essential to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-25
EMPLOYERS Experts Exploitation OF Labor FIX Wages OF Y Library


the rotten conditions; they must
organize into a militant union.
USELESS A. +. L., l. w. w.
The International Seamen's
Union and the /. w. w. have not
helped us. Seamen, fight against
the spies paid by the bosses on
nearly every ship. Seamen. only
organization can better cur condi-
tioRs. Join the Marine Workers
Progressive League, which was
founded by seamep and fights for
their interests. r. b.
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mattress. He told me there were
no Others. Again protested. and
he answered that conditions were
no worse on this boat than on any
other boat, and if l did not like it
could quit, for there were many
other seamen glad to get my job.
Our bedclothes are only changed
every three weeks, but those of
the officers are changed once
week. Our meals consist exclu-
sively of salt meat, cheap kinds of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-25
HUNDREDS OF
HELPERS SEEK
ONE SLAVE JOE
Must Organize to Fig,ht
Low Wages
by a Worker Correspondent

icy q W0rEer C0freSp0HdeHt1
Answering an ad. for a plumber
helper in the shop of Abrams, 145
w. fremont Ave, recently, l figured
to be first for the job by applying
at 7 a. m. Arriving at this shop,
was nowhere near being first, for
there were score of men ahead Of
me. Standing chatting with these
workers, | noticed helpers applying.
for the one job. By the time the
boss arrived, there were over zoo
plumbers helpers lined up outside
the shop. The boss opened his of
flee, lit cigarette, put on the
steam and walked out to the crowd
After looking the young workers
over, he called over one chap he
seemed to know and took him I'M
The young worker did not seem I'd
be pleased with the offer of SO q
day that the boss made, and he
left. The boss then called in the
first man on the line, and this fell
low accepted the job. The boss tolc.
us to dispense then.
From this experience alone you.
can see how the helpers get along
Imagine going to work for SO 8
day and after three or four years ir'
the trade. What the plumbers
helpers need is a strong union that
can demand a living wage and good
conditions. The Association of Plum
bers' Helpers is at present carrying
on drive to organize all helpers
in the trade. The organization meets
every Tuesday at Labor Temple,
18th st. and Second Ave-, New
York. j. X.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-25
(By a Worker. Correspondent

by a Worker Correspondent
S. S. HOXBAR. Mallory Line
(By AUTHORIZATIONS on board
this boat are terrible. We have
two separate kitchens, one for the
officers and one for the men. The
motto of the shipowners is: Eat
little and work plenty, so that our
profits will increase and the con-
ditions of the seamen decrease"
We had a steward on this boat
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-25

the leader of the working class who
wants to be well-informed on the
international situation and the tasks
of the Communist Parties in his own
and in other sections of the Com
munist international. 1t can be OBJ
tanned at the Workers Bookshop
26 Union Square, and from the
Workers Library Publishers, Amer
lean agents, at 43 f. 125th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-25

there are no health laws to pro-
tcct the seamen.
The time has come for the
American seamen to organize, as
our brothers in Australia have
done; we must put an end to the
terrible conditions the seamen
have to live and slave under. Our
living standard has been cut down
again and again, while the ship
pers' profits swell. So long as
the workers on the sea are unor-
ganized they cannot overthrow
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-25
Send Planes to Search
for Fishermen Afloat
on Lake Michigan Ice

MT. CLEMENS, Mich. Jan. "a
GP).-An observation plane, pi-
Ioted by Lieutenant Myron Elliott,
and a pursuit plane, equipped with
skis, piloted by Lieutenant Richard
~nsh. took off from Selfridge Field
u ~ 7r 7-'e-'-'v Mich, to aid in
he search for Lewis Sweet, Alanson
1riran, who is adrift on q cake
j ice on Lake Mirri~~-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-25
THROW WORKING
WOMAN out ON
STREETS OF N. Y.
Tammany Officials Aid
Landlords
(By a Worker Correspondent

A working woman, Mrs. Angelina
Derosy, living at 6S4 E. 14th St.,
rented some rooms from real
estate firm named S, Cohen and
Sons. She came home from work
about z p. m. recently and. found
her small belongings on the street.
Ali she had was a bed, bedclothes,
table and few chairs. The woman
told me she was chased out Of the
house because she owed a months
rent, $14. She was sobbing very
bitterly. She explained to me she
was going to pay the rent the next
day.
Dispossessed.
I took the woman to the police
station to see if the landlord had
the right to enter her home when she
was not there. She was told the
City Marshal dispossessed her, but
she said she had never received any
notice.
An old working woman on the
block offered her shelter, else she
would have had to spend the cold
winter night in the street. She told
me she was working only two days
this month and that her husband
was very sick and in a hospital.
The Tammany politicians thus
helped to throw a poor, working
woman out on the street. The cap
italist officials always uphold the
landlords and the bosses against the
workers. The workers must realize
the need of organizing and crushing
the capitalist system forever.
B. B.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-25
1870 of New Members
of Leningrad Soviet
Are Factory Workers

Especial to the Daily Worker
MOSCOW, (By MaiD The cleo
ton campaign in Leningrad is being
participated in by the broad masses.
At all the meetings the voters
unanimously approved the activity
of the Soviets. Ninety-three per
cent of all those eligible to vote took
part in the elections.
To date 1913 members and alter
mates of the Leningrad Soviets and
of the district have been elected.
Seventy-three per cent of those
elected are workers in the factories
and 20 per cent are women. The
elections are continuing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-25

SCHOOL CHILDREN STRIKE. /.
BRIGHTON, England, (By MaiD.
School children of Patcham School
are on strike against unsanitary
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-25

HONOLULU, (By Mail) Horace
Dodge, American auto magnate and
exploiter of tens of thousands of
workers, attacked Harry Kastana, a
doorman at hotel here. The at
tack was unprovoked, the doorman
claims.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-25

fish, and such Ike. The meals Of
the officers consist Of chicken,
eggs, etc.
UNsANITARY CONDITIONS
The sanitary conditions for the
crew on every beat shaved on are
beyond all description. If the
Board of Health was for the ben
eft of the workers, and not for
the bosses, these conditions would
have been halted long ago. but
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-25

whose wages amounted to as
much as SIPS a month. His duty
was to cut down expenses to a
minimum for the sake of the
bosses pockets.
SLEEP IN PIG Sly.
The sleeping quarters are like
Il pig sty. My mattress is in ter
rible shape. The so-called beds"
can be called rags. l went to see
the steward and asked for a new
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-03
(ji(OILD HIlUILILIETS
hy Charles C.Booth

tastic mounted revolvers, and that cartridge belt stuffed with gold bullets ..
 And not $10 to his name. Can you see the man, Mir Peebles?"
 "Yes, yes" I muttered tensely
 His young brother, Jerry, came with him"
 "Jerry!" I cried. His brother Yes, go on." So it was his broth erl
 He swaggered into my hus- bands resort. Men were drinking at the bar and watching two SCOT pions fighting in a coffee can. Scorpions, MT. Peeblesl And they were betting on the result Peter son treated the audience of this elevating spectacle to my husbands vile liquor; then he bet on the re- suit of the fight. Bet his last dol lar. MT. Peebles-at ten to one. He bet on the smaller scorpion and it won. After that he was never known as anything else but Ten to-One Peterson"
 He must have made money ra- pidly," I put in suggestively.
 Mrs. Lundy gave me her strange
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eyes again. Prosperity comes in floods sometimes-I am told" The bitter droop to her mouth touched me. Peterson staked out several claims and sold one of them well. After that he plunged recklessly, again and again-and he nearly al- ways won. His fortune and his reputation pyramided together. He became famous-or infamous-fr one end of Skull Valley to the oth- CT. But the Two Brothers mine he gave it that name himself-was his most recklessly extravagant venture. He put everything he had into it. Everything, MT. Peebles. The town had begun to bet on his gambles and it waited breathlessly for Peterson to vindicate his judg- ment It needn't have. He won Nothing could stop him. The Two Brothers paid handsomely. It paid after the other big mines had clos ed down. It paid until the town was abandoned two years later.
 Peterson became one of the two wealthiest men in Torridity The other was my husband, Joe Lundy Joe was a gambler, also, but. he gambled in human frailty. How I despised him. It is dreadful to have to care for a man you de- spise, MT. Peebles! But I have got over that now"
 Her eyes closed as if she were trying to shut something out.
 T must tell you about my hus- band" Mrs. Lundy went on, a lit- tie wearily. Tn his way he was as striking then as Peterson, though you couldn't have imagined more dissimilar pair. Joe was large and bulky, and taller than Peterson, but he was so stoop shouldered that he actually seemed shorter His head was always thrust forward like lantern hung on a beam; his face was long and irregular and wax colored. He had bristling black eyebrows that gave him a Satanic expression he was very proud of. His eyes were deep sunken and near-sighted, and he wore a pair of old-fashioned glasses with steel frames and eight-sided lenses"
 "Eight-sided lensesl" I calculated, and my hand went fumbling to the lens in my pocket.
 Mrs. Lundy nodded but there was distant look in her strange eyes and don't think she had noticed my astonishment.
 His soul was as shapeless as his
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-03
DOUGLAS NEVIS
D. F. ID. BALL TOSSERS WIN FROM ELKS IN
 SEASONS OPENER

The baseball season was official ly ushered in for the Island yes- terday when the Fire Department team and Elks played on the local diamond, Jne former winning by a Il to score.
 Gov. George A. Parks formally opened the season by throwing the first ball for the Elks. Robert Bon her, as Mayor pro tenn wore the catcher's glove and James Barra- ger yielded the stick.
 The firemen drew first inning for the first frame and it was in this inning that the game was safe- ly slowed away for Douglas. With two men on, Walt knocked out a pretty homer making the three points representing the win margin. At no time was this lead overcome. It was a good game from the spec tator's standpoint. A review of the plays appears elsewhere in to- days Empire. In spite of cloud ed sky and chilling wind, fair sized crowd witnessed the game.
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face" she went on in an empty voice. But he is different now. Only the shell is left"
 Mrs Lundy fell silent again. Her eyes seemed to look straig h t through me. I was glad of the pause for it gave me time to di- gest the morsel of information she had unconsciously given me. The thoug ht that Furie's "eyepiece" might have some connection with Andrews death came into my mind from I know not where That eight sided lens had belonged to Lundy- those marked cards-Andrew had shot Lundy. There must be some connection. I couldn't get rid of the thought.
 Copyright, 1929, Wm. Morrow Co)
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SYNOPSIS: The woman in black"-Mrs. Joe Lundy-t h e mysterious visitor whom An drew Ogden gave S1,000 a few days before he was slain, is found. Mrs. Moffit, the house. keeper, introduces her to Pee bles as a priestess of Cosmic Indulgence. Peebles questions Mrs. Lundy, learns her husband once the owner of a saloon in Torridity, was shot 30 years ago and has been feeble mind cd ever since. The S1,000 check is explained as a gift to her faith. Asked whether she ever knew or heard of Alex Peter son, Mrs. Lundy shouts, "Alex Peterson shot my husband!"
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Try the rive O'Clock Dinner Specials at MabrJ's. adv.
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CARD OF THANKS

A short tense telegram, Grace passed away yesterday afternoon. Came without warning upon lov- ing and care-worn mother as she was hopefully expecting she might have her daughter with her again for the summer, was shocking in extreme.
 Then within a few short hours, a second message came. Burial will be at Juneau tomorrow, so astound- ed all the fast gathering relatives who came to offer aid and con- solation, all coming and passing so quickly, has left us seemingly helpless to find words to express our feelings.
 So Providence decrees:
 We are leaving her last resting place to Your selection and care. We are leaving her in her own Great Gods Country she was be- ginning to know and to love so well And in remembrance of the many good expressions of the past she has left with us we know she was laid to rest with loving hearts and tender care. So Gods Will has been done. May she ever rest in Peace.
 We send our thanks to ali
 MIR. and MRS A. TsEINWALD,
 MRS. w. R. GREENWOOD,
 MRS. P. w. TAISEY,
 MRS. F. ROGAN,
 MRS. P. D. VINCENT,
 MIR. c. w. WHITE.
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face like the blow of fist and I fell back into my chair. Some in- fluence powerful enough to re-mold Andrews personality had come into his life. What right had to deny the word of one whose tragic life witnessed to its truth?
 Do you know why Alex Peterson shot your husband. Mrs. Lundy?"
 T don't" she replied in the same bitter tone. If Joe deserved it, I didn't. Alex Peterson left him for dead Joe responded to medical treatment and he was brought back to me several weeks late~. T have had him-ever since. Thirty years" :"
 The tragedy in her face wrung my heart.
 Did you see Alex Peterson when you were down there?" I asked gently.
 Yes. I saw him. Several times. "
 Can you tell me anything about him as he was then?"
 She nodded slowly. "Yes, I re- member him. He wasn't a man one forgets easily. He was fairly tall, supple as wire, and flat hip ped. His face had something of the eagle in it-that lean, reckless, fighting look, you know. He al- ways wore an expensive Stetson trimmed with silver buckle, a white silk shirt, fine riding boots with silver spurs. and two revolvers mounted with gold. The revolvers were loaded with gold bullets. I suppose those decorations would have been ridiculous on anyone else: but somehow they seemed to fit him."
 Mrs. Lundy fell silent and I re- spected her mood. What an ex- Extraordinarily vivid personality An drcw's must have been. What tra- gle eyent-for it must have been tragic-had transformed him into the Andrew Ogden I had known?
 "Do you happen to know how he came to be called 'Ten-to-One'?'
 Mrs. Lundy nodded. "Yes. I heard a good deal about him while I was down there. He made his fortune gambling in mining prop cities. He was an inveterate gam b1er-no chance was to great--and he'd risk every dollar he possessed. when he came to Torridity-in 1892, think it was-he hadn't sl0 Ii money to his name, but he was dressed just as have described nlsn. stetson hat with its silver bhckle, white silk shirt. those fam
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE In the Probate Court for the Ter ritory of Alaska, First Division, Juneau Precinct.
 In the Matter of the Estate of Gust E. Anderson, Deceased.
 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that under and by virtue of an order of the above entitled court made on the 23rd day of May 1929, in the matter of the above entitled estate, the undersigned, as executor under the will, will sell at public auction to the highest bid der, subject to confirmation by said court, the following described real property, to-wit:
 Lot l, Block 112, of the town. site of Juneau, Alaska, the
 same being an unimproved lot
 or parcel of land.
 Said sale will be made on the 4th day. of June, 1929, at two o'clock on the afternoon of said day, on the premises to be sold in Juneau, Alaska. The terms of said sale will be: Cash, lawful money of the United States of America, ten (10qo) per cent of the purchase money payable at the time of sale and the balance upon confirmation of the sale by the court aforesaid. Deed at the ex- pense of the purchaser.
 NELS ANDERSON,
 Executor of the Estate of
 Gust E. Anderson, deceased. First publication, May 24, 1929. Last publication, June 3, 1929.
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NEW BUTCHER AT HUB

Succeeding Dick Mccormick. who resigned his position at the Hub meat market few days ago, Ren Cook, an experienced butcher has been placed in charge of the meat department.
 MT Cook, who is a family man, recently came from Seattle where he operated market of his own, and he has been living in Juneau for the past month. AS soon as he secures suitable residence here for his family, they will remove to Douglas.
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INSTALLATION TONIGHT

All preparations are made for the joint installation of officers to be held this evening in the Eagles hall by Douglas Aerie IF. F. O. E. and the Ladies Auxiliary
 The Eagles meeting is called for 7:30 o'clock and the installation will follow.
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Chapter 31 TEN -TO-ONE" PETERSON

"What!" I shouted, springing to my feet. Alex Peterson-shot your husbandl Nonsense! He was the best friend I ever hadl"
 He shot my husband, I tell youI" Mrs. Lundy's bitter empha- sis of the words struck me in the
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MISS HURST RETURNS

Accompanied by her mother, Mrs. Jenny Hursfl, Miss Josie Hursh re- turned from Prince Rupert last eve ming on the Princess Louise. Mrs. Hursh expects to visit with her daughter here until the first week in August before returning to her home in Saskatchewan, Canada.
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The younger girls have taken to modern styles like a duck to water, but there are a lot of old hens who still miss the things under heath as much as man does his vest when he's shed it in the spring
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CAPITAL DYE WORKS

Very latesl methods in French Dry Cleaning and Dyeing. See Aeldner, Professional Cleaaer and OyrT- Phone 177. adv.
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Joe Lundy's eight-sided spec tacIes-Furie's magnifying glass eyepiece-"Marked cards"-the game that cracked the town" where do they lead? Continue the story tomorrow.
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Legs having ceased to be a treat, we can't help but wonder to what extreme the girls of the next gen. eration will go to attract the eyes of the male.