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Seward daily gateway., 1929-10-22
DEATH OF OLDTIMER |S
 SEEM BY OFFICERS
TOM McGANN FOUND DEAD AT MINE LOCATED IN
 BERNERS BAY

JUNEAU, Oct, 22, (P)-The mysterious circumstances sur rounding the death of Tom Nc Gam, oldtimer, who was found dead in 2 mine at Berners Bay, caused the marshal's office to un- dertake an investigation.
 McGann left Tuesday in his own boat, with George Stevens, who was to becme watchman at the Berners Bay mine.
 Indians, visiting the mine on Friday, reported they had found the body of McGann but no trace of Stevens. Officers believe that Stevens probably started back for Juneau and may be storm bound in some inlet.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-10-22
DOzENS QUAKEs HAWAII ISLAND
 SHORT PERIOD
ARE FORERCNNERS OF ONE OR MORE ERUPTIONS, IT IS
 DECLARED

HILO, Hawaii, Oct, P, (R)- Thirty-six earthquakes were felt on Hawaii Island within one hour and 40 minutes in the town of Holualoa, eight miles from the extinct volcano Haulalai
 The town was severely shaken at 12:45 o'clock yesterday after noon. The shocks were at first heavy then rumbled away and were the biggest since October 8 when seismic activity, which continued for almost three weeks, stopped
 The quakes are declared to be the forerunner of one or more eruptions of the islands volca- nos
Seward daily gateway., 1929-10-22
INVENTOR IS PAD WONDERFUL TRIBUTE
 BY MANY NATIONS EDISON NEAR TO BREAKING POINT SEVERAL TIMES
 DURING CEREMONY

DEARBORN, Oct., g, (P)-Hav- ing put behind him one of the most thrilling days in his long life, Thomas Al Edison, is rest ing at his country home and Ford is preparing to return to his home When he leaves he will carry with him the memory of a wonderful tribute voiced, not only in behalf of nations, but by President Hoover as well as from others from the far corners of the earth.
 Tt, was a tribute paid in the pre- sence. of some 500 notable guests who had been invited by Ford to join in honoring Edison's Fifth Anniversity of the ncadescant light. It had it's general setting an early American village which Ford had constructed to Edison who was given the seat of honor at the speakers table, despite the presence of the President of the United States.
 It was an honor rarely ac- corded a citizen. It was an hour of extreme happiness and it rel quired all the stamina of Edison to stand up in the flood-light of his own making and in the pre- sence of President Hoover and others, to acknowledge the tri- butte. Several times during the brief acknowledgment, MT. Edison came near to the break point.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-10-22
TELEPHONE GIRL
 LOYAL .EMPLOYER.
 BUT WADE 4 SLIP
CURRY HOLE WAS KNOWN AS THE MYSTERY ROOM or
 PANTAGES

LOS ANGELES, Oct. p, P)- An inadvertent slip of the ton que by one of the defense's inn portant witnesses who has been in Pantages employe for nine years, disclosed the mezzanine stairway cubby hole about which the trial centers, had been known to the theater magnate's em- ployees as the Mystery Room
 The witness is Mrs Catherine Stone, telephone switchboard op- erator Catching her slip she at- tempted to explain she Had heard it called both the mystery room and the conference room"
 Indication that the room to which Pantages had the key had borne this name among the em- ployees, was seized upon by the prosecution acidly and upon cross examining the witness As sistant Prosecutor Stewart, with  voice which fairly thundered, hurled questions concerning Mrs. Stones knowledge of the "Mys- tery room" The defense attor- reys protested vigorously against the new cognomen insisting the room had always been known as conference room"
 Mrs. Stones testimony DOT trayed her knowing virtually everything in the office and that she is loyal to her employer and has an evident dislike for Miss Pringle whom she described as Rough and naughty"
Seward daily gateway., 1929-10-22
PIONEER TIM MARCUS
 GOES 0N ''LAST TRA|L''

Another well known oldtimer of the North responded to the Last
 Call' this morning when Tim Marcum, of McGrath, passed away. He was found dead in his bed at MAS this morning and, ap- parently, old age was the cause. though in years he was not so very old his age being giving as 58.
 He was pioneer of Alaska and will find last resting place in the local plot of the Seward Igloo, Pioneers of Alaska.
 Tn earlier years it is said he had been mariner on Prince William Sound but the later years, and up to a few months ago, were spent in the McGrath district. Tn August of this year his health became serious and he journeyed to the Fairbanks hospital where he remained for about two weeks. He then went to Anchorage where. after a brief stay, he came to Seward with the intention of continuing on to the Pioneers Home at Sit ka. But his strength failed him
 Little could be ascertained tor day with regards to relatives The body is lying in the Seward Parlor
Seward daily gateway., 1929-10-22
SOVIET PLANE IS
 OFF FIR CHEYENNE:
 TOOK -OFF THIS \. M.

OAKLAND, oct, 22 F-'rhe Russian fliers left at $50 this morning for Cheyenne, the next stop on their flight to New York. q dash of 800 yards and quickly
 The plane rose gracefully after 2 dash of 300 yards and quickly gained altitude Al W. Petroff, vice. president of the Amtorg Trading Corp, of New York, is aboard with his four countrymen.
 The fliers announced they have arranged for a change of motors at Cheyenne if necessary.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-10-22
PRESIDENT DEDICATES
 OHIO RIVER MONUMENT

CINCINNATI, oct, 2, (P)-Pres- ident Hoover arrived at 3 a. m. tc unveil and dedicate the "Ohio River Monument" and commemorate the completion of the Ohio River can- alization system.
 A presidential salute of 21 guns special train arrived. Governors from three states, William Conley of West Virginia, Elem Sampson. of Kentucky and Myers Cooper. of Ohio, greeted the President.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-10-22
DEREL|cT SHIP OR 4
 WHALE SEEN IN GULF

KODIAK, oct, 2l, Special to the Gateway There is a great whale or a derelict ship floating in the waters of the Gulf of Alaska ac- cording to the report of the schoon- er Western which left sitka early this month
 Tn crossing Portlock Banks they headed into heavy weather but it did not prevent from sighting a hube mass which might have been either whale or a hulk awash. Without time to investigate more closely, they thought it advisable on their arrival here to advise mariners of what they had seen.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-10-22
DELEGATE RUMOR

Reports received state that when Judge and Mrs. James Wickersham were in Olympia the Daily Olym- plan, in referring to their visit, said the judge "Is being spoken of as the next delegate to congress from Alaska. Whether or not the judge will throw his hat into the ring again, after lapse of 10 years was not known among the politicians.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-10-22
NEW FISHING SPOT

KODIAK, Oct, 21, Special to the Gateway Among a host of visi- tors to this port during the past week was Captain John Johnson of Juneau with his halibut schooner
 Tthe El Dorado He had some minor repairs and after taking on supplies put off for a new point on the
 banks.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-10-22
HOOPSTERS LOOK GOOD

It is expected that there will be more interest in basketball in Cor dova this year than for many sea- sons past, and htat the high school quintet will have a hard race for the penant- The Elks are expected to introduce their reliable regular but have raw material which looks promising.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-10-22
SENDING BODY HOME

JUNEAU, Oct, P, (R-The body of Jack Thayer who was mauled to death by a bear last week will be taken to the home of his parents, at Rainier, Ore, for burial Legion Posts will con- duct an escort of the body at the various transfer stations.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-10-22
CHEAP INITIATES SOUGHT

WASHINGTON, Oct, 21, (P)- Promotion of a chemical industry until Spain would produce nitrates as cheaply as Germany is contem- plated by the Council of Energy" 3 Spanish government body, ac- cording to consular advices to the department of commerce.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-28
Start Relief Drive
in Cleaners Strike:
2 Unions Meet FRIDAY

Working class organizations thru
out the city are being called on to
aid the struggle of the window
cleaners by contributing for strike
relief. A campaign for relief has
been launched and committees are
addressing meetings of trade unions,
workers clubs and other labor or
CARNATIONS, appealing for funds.
Both the Window Cleaners Pro-
tective Union, Local 8, and the
Amalgamated Building Servie e
Workers Industrial Union are now
preparing for the conference of or.
ganized and unorganized building
service workers on Friday, Dec. 6,
that will launch a new industrial
union of building maintenance work
ers.
Tomorrow friday night, both
unions are holding membership
meetings at which plans for mobil-
izing as large and as representative
group of delegates as possible will
be discussed. The meeting of the
window cleaners union will be held
at 7 o'clock at Manhattan Lyceum,
Sc E. Fourth st. The Amalgamated
Union will meet at s o'clock at 16
w. 21st st.
Active picketing continued yester-
day in the window cleaners strike.
Pickets told of the increasing de-
moralization that is spreading in the
A. F. of L. company union camp.
Discomfort is growing by leaps and
bounds among those workers who
have been deluded or forced into
registering with the scab outfit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-28

New Babylon" is a film about
the Paris Commune. The complex
historical event is, in the scenario,
reduced to a few characters who
must serve as symbols of whole
classes and of social conditions. In
spite of their reality and visual tan
gibility, the principal characters
must go over to the spectator as alb
stractions and generalization. There
in is the core of the experiment.
The historical film is an attempt
to restore photographically an event
that took place in the past. AS a
rule, such films are neither histori-
cal nor artistic. Failing to repro
duee the given event in all of it's
details, it generally also fails to
bring to life the atmosphere of the
past and the spirit that animated
the events in question. Nor do we
find historic truth in those films
which make use of a dramatic plot
against historical background. In
such films one invariably gets a
false perspective of the historical
epoeh, since individuals are substi-
tt1ted for history and historic events
are made subservient to the plot.
In "New Babylon the "Feks"
(the ultra-modernist group that pro-
duced the film) attempt a third
of symbolization and
generalization. They seek to give
visual embodiment to the contend
ing social forces and circumstances
that were in operation at the time.
The department store New Babylon
and the Cafe Empire are made to
serve as symbols of the Second EN-
pire. Several nameless women, not
woven into any plot-texture, but
constantly recurring in the course
of the film, are made to stand for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-28
National Miners Board Tells
Why John Watt Was Removed

company had made by exploiting
him.
(2) "The National Miners Union
will not permit Watt or any other
individual to build a machine, seize
control and bureaucratically rule our
rank and file union, as he and his
clique sought to do, nor to revise
our fighting policies and substitute
policies of surrender and defeat.
Watt, schooled in the old-line phil
osophy of the U.N.W.A. simply does
not belong in fighting, class-cons-
cieus union like the N. M. U.
Calls Bosses Neutral.
! (3) watt maintains that the
operators are neutral in the struggle
for spoils between Lewis and Fish
wick. This is false. 1t is well known
that the coal operators are the chief
enemies to be fought If we hope to
GUST the Lewis-Fishwick machine
who are tn agents of the operators.
az "Watt never functioned as
the national president of the union.
He remained in his home in Spring
field refusing tc work with the Ma
tional or Illinois district boards.
(5) "Watt has established per-
sonal flee in Illinois, appointing
organizers from one district to an
o without the knowledge or con-
sent of those districts, despite the
fact that there is no appointive pow
er in our union.
(6) watt joins with Lewis and
the coal operators in an 'anti-Red'
campaign, by demanding the expul-
sion of soc, lied Reds from the
N. M. U. Such policies weaken our
union and strengthen our enemies.
The N. =. U. : a union for the
miners of all creeds, colors, political
'el'efs, v-ho stand n the platform
of the class struggle.
"The National Miners Union Is
moving forward despite all it's enc.
mics. With the rank and file stand
ing solidly behind its National Exc
cutive Board, the N. M. u. will be
built into fighting organization,
unfolding our class principles, and
go forward to energetic struggle
against the takers, against the split
tiers, against the bosses, to bring
every coal miner under the standard
of the N. M. U. and into the coming
militant struggles that will be
waged."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-28
seek TO ENj0IN
TRUCK STRIKERS
IN new JERSEY
Follows AFL Inability
to Halt Militancy

NEWARK, N. j., Nov. 27.-Scared
oy the great militancy displayed by
the striking Newark produce truck
drivers and helpers, who battled i'm
ported thugs on the streets of Harri-
son Saturday, 81 commission mer-
chants have combined to seek g
drastic blanket injunction against
the truckers.
The blanket injunction petition
comes after the granting o. an in
junction to the Mitchell-Dickerson
Trucking Co., on which is is based.
1t follows on the inability of tie
reactionary officials of the Teams
tiers, Truck Drivers and Helpers
Union to throttle militant action by
the strikers, for the bosses had clear
ly counted on the nlisleaders' abil-
lty to do so.
The 81 bosses seeking the injunc-
ton are all members of the Fruit
and Produce Trade Association. The
injunction prohibits strikers from
picketing,
, The bosses are using the few
truck strikers who have returned, as
decoys, and also to aid them in pres
sing charges of coercion" against
strikers, by which the bosses, thru
the courts, hope to break the strike.
The produce bosses are using the
strike as an excuse to increase the
prices on perishable goods.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-28
NEGRO STEEL
TOILERS WAKE
TO CLASS FIGHT
Militancy Rises in
Youngstown

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Nov. 81
In this steel-trust controlled city, the
militancy of the Negro workers, who
form large proportion of the steel
workers, is rapidly rising.
The Negro and white workers are
uniting for the common struggle
against the bosses, and are turning
more and more to the leadership of
the Communist Party and the Trade
Union Unity League.
A big step forward in bringing
the Negro and white workers to-
gether in the class struggle was
made at the Twelfth Anniversary
mass meeting here, which 25 Negro
steel workers attended, some of
them joining the Communist Party,
Over 20 Negro steel workers have
Joined the Metal Workers Industrial
League, and are taking active part
in building the League. Negro work
ers came in large numbers to hear
William 2. Foster, of the Trade
Union Unity League recently.
Over 80 Negro workers joined the
international Labor Defense at a
Gastonia protest demonstration at
which one of the Gastonia class war
prisoners, "Red" Hendryx, spoke.
Over 100 we're present at this meet
ing.
Negro workers as well as white
attended the affair for Tom lima,
Weodlawn steel worker railroaded to
five years by the steel trust because
they were militant workers.
A mass meeting, to be addressed
by Mahoney, militant Negro worker
and member of the Communist Par
ty, will be held Sunday, December 1,
at 5 pm. at Workers Hall, 100 Wick
Ave, Youngstown.
Mahoney will speak on the subject
"Why Negro and White workers
unite for a common struggle against
capitalism" and on "The life and
work of the workers of the Soviet
Union"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-28

both symbolic figures, are made to
fall in love with each other as il
they were two casual individuals
But in the main the scenario is built
upon symbolization rather than illu-
on of reality.
The real difficulty confronting
the "Feks" was in making these
symbols count as such in the eyes
Of he spectator. To make them
felt as symbols the producers had to
make clear the social interrelations
Of these characters. Here their sue
cess was lot over-great. In the pas
sages where the symbols of the
Commune are born Dramatically the
spectator grasps their meaning cas-
lily.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-28
Bosses Ask Injunction
Before Shoe Lockout
in New York Shops

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bosses openly, without pretense of
being friends of labor"
Frame-Up Starts.
An attempt to frame-up some
Bressler Shoe Co. workers on
charges of destroying machinery
came to light yesterday when Butt
enkant secured the release of one,
named Reilly, who was taken, with
out being arrested, down to the
police station, and questioned in the
presence of the attorney for the
bosses, and an assistant district at
torney. They did not go through
the formality of notifying him he
had a right to be represented by
counsel. When he was released, they
made him promise to return to the
station Friday.
Attorney Buitenkant stated yes
terday that this whole procedure
was illegal, and that he would not
permit Reilly to return Friday I'M
less accompanied by his attorney.
The strike of over 1000 workers
in 16 shops is still on full force.
Most of these shops locked out their
workers in response to letter from
the U. S. department of labor, ad-
vising the bosses to break their con-
tracts with the Independent Shoe
Workers. Union. Others are on
strike against attempts to cut wages,
to force the week workers to do
piece work or to discriminate against
Communist workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-28
Harper Will Speak on
How to Stop Lynching

Sol Harper, Negro member of the
Labor Jury at the Gastonia trial,
will speak on "How to Stop Lynch
ing of White and Negro Workers" at
the Harlem Educational Forum, Har-
lem Labor Center, 235 w. 129th St.,
at p. m.
Harper made the open mass meet
ing address for the Labor Jury at
the Southern Conference of the Ma
ti2nal Textile Workers Union held
at Charlotte, N. c., in October, where
he called upon the white and Negro
workers to unite in their fight
against the slave bosses who control
and own the mills as we'll as the
farms in the South.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-28
PROSPERITY?
FORD LAYS Off
2700 IN CALF,
Prosperity" Belied by
Shut-DoWns

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Nov. 81.
The prosperity" preachings of
Henry Ford, and of all the open
shop bosses, being spread thru the
capitalist press, have again been
belied by the laying off of 1000
out of 1000 workers in the Ford
assembly plant here. The pretext
for the lay-off is that the plant is
to be equipped for the new 1880
model.
Altho the thousand workers were
told that the impending lay-off
would be only for few days, this
is belied by the statement given by
Ford officials to the local press,
that the men would be "re-hired as
fast as orders for the new models
warrant it."
This means practically a complete
shutdown, lasting six weeks at
least, with great proportion of
the workers still to be unemployed
for long time after this.
In addition to facing long lay
offs, the auto workers are being
victimized by the favorite tricks of
the auto magnates, which is to re-
hire the workers, after a long lay
off, as new" men at lower wages.
The Ford Factory in San Fran
cisco, as we'll as the Chevrolet, the
Fisher body, and Durant- Star plants
in Oakland have been running far
below capacity for some time, and
the present lay-off accentuates the
already acute unemployment situa-
ton in this section.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-28

the heroic women of the Commune.
The peasant army of the Empire is
symbolized by the soldier Jean. The
spokesman of the Commune are
symbolized by the bombastie but
sincere journalist. The bourgeoisie
and the ruling class are personified
by the owner of the department
store, the Deputy of the Chamber
and the chanconette. In the same
symbolic manner are constructed the
basic scenes of the film.
Here and there the producers
wandered off the course of symbol
ism. The soldier and the salesgirl,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-28
Banquet at Workers
School This Evening

Students of the Workers School
will hold thanksgiving" banquet
this evening at s o'clock, at 26 Union
So. There will be a wide variety
of entertainment, including musical
solos and music, and plenty food.
The capitalist conception of
thanksgiving" will be exposed
while the occasion is used for a
Revolutionary affair. Admission
will be only so cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-28
LOZOWICK LECTURES.

The tremendously spurred cycles
Of creative effort working full blast
in. the Soviet Union; the tyrann'
and subsection under which creativ
effort struggles in capitalist society
and the relation Of Art to the Prole
tartan, is the subiect Of the lecture
to be given by Louis Lozowick, noted
art critic, at the Workers School, 26
Union Square, on Sunday At s p. m.
Admission Is rs cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-28
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establish the National Miners
Union, defeat the bosses and their
agents, the Lewis-Fishwick machine
and any bureaucrats we may find
in our ranks.
''This can be the only guarantee
that our union will ever remain an
instrument OF the rank and file and
not degenerate as did the U. NJ. w.
A. under the leadership Of the
bosses agents, the Lewises and the
Fishwicks, into an instrument of
the employers"
Pointing out that the N. NJ. U.
follows its leaders only as long as
these leaders uphold and fight for
the principles of the union, the state
ment points out that the union has,
from time to time, been compelled
to fight against opportunism and
bureaucratic hangovers with which
the U. NJ. W. A. was saturated.
"The National board of the N. NJ.
w." The statement continues,
unanimously approves the resolu-
ton of the Belleville convention con-
demning John j. Watt for his at
tempt to split the union and his re-
fusal to accept decisions of the rank
and file"
Little Loan" from Lewis.
Continuing, the statement sum-
marizes the specific charges against
Watt, as follows:
~ pressed by rank and file
miners, Watt admitted, before q
meeting of $50 members in Kollal
Hall, Staunton, ILL.,, Friday night
November 1, that he accepted the
sum of 500 from John L. Lewis
arch-betrayer of the coal miners
Present at this meeting were VIII
liam A. Boyee, president of the
N. M. IT,, Henry Corbishley, secre.
tary-treasurer of the Illinois district
n. M. u, and Vincent Kamenovich
special organizer of the union in Hi
nois. AS a feeble defense, Wat
states that he took the 500 as q
loan. Watt furthermore explained
that inasmuch as he has paid dues
to the U.M.W.A. machine for years
that he was entitled to get bacl
some of his cash. By the SAME
token, Watt presumably would &C
cept money from the Peabody Goa
Company or any other group o.
operators ON the ground that he wal
simply taking back money which thu
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-28
LECTURE ON ORGANIZATION.

Workers interested in organization
problems will hear Obermeier speak
on Monday at p. m. at the Work.
ers School, 26 Union Square on the
subject of Organization of Food
Workers" The lecture is one of a
series given weekly on the same day
and hour at the school. All those
not registered may be admitted for
% cents.