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NOTICE

Virginia " will not sail to Chi chagof and way ports this week. All freight for Chichagof and Icy Straits ports to be shipped out on the Margnita Thursday. Virginia will be busy hauling box shocks for the next week. --ady.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-05-01
NEW FISHERY
 REGULATIONS
 ARE RECEIVED

A number of supplementary Alas ka Fishery regulations have been received by Capt M. J. OConnor, Assistant Alaska Agent for the U.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-05-01

Suspicion points at Jerry, but Peebles is convinced that the youth is innocent. New develop ments and complications enter the story in tomorrow's chap ter.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-05-01
J. w. QUICKER LEAVES
 FOR THE WESTWARD

J. w. Gucker, merchandise brok- CT, left on the Aleutian last night for the Westward. MT. Gucker will visit Kodiak and all towns in the Western and Interior parts of Alaska and make trip down the Yukon River before returning to Juneau. He will be away about two months.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-05-01

Try the Five O'Clock Dinner Specials at Mabr7's. -adv.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-30
CALL LAWYERS IN
CRAFT CHARGES
Senate Will Hear 19
Counts Against Long

BATON ROUGE, La, April %
Attorneys rallied around Governor
Huey P. Long today in preparation
for the legal battle which will seek
to clear Long of the 10 charges of
impeachment against him. The
charges ranged from huge graft
deals, politely termed "indecorous
conduct" to conspiracy to murder!
The state senate will Judge Long
and board OF managers will prose-
cute. Long recently returned from
an extensive statewide tour, in
which he sought to convince voters
that the impeachment proceedings
against him, Unanswered by polit-
ical enemies, were the result of his
proposed oil and gasoline tax mea-
sure.
The house, which finished its ses-
sions Friday, took just one month
and a day after the introduction of
the 19-count impeachment resolu-
ton in the legislature to complete
investigations Of the various
charges.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-30
Industrial Contests
i'm Soviet Union to
Increase Production

MOSCOW. (By Mail.) - Chal-
lenges by workers of one factory to
those of another in the same indus
try to enter a contest for the high
est increase in the productivity of
labor and the greatest reduction in
the cost of production have lately de-
veloped into a novel movement in
many industrial areas of the Soviet
Union.
The. new movement has gained
particular popularity in the textile
industry. Recently conference of
representatives of the workers of
nine textile mills of Moscow, Tver
and Ivanovo-Voznessensk was held
in Tver, deciding to enter contest
for the biggest reduction of spoil
age, the highest stimulation of the
individual output, the greatest re-
duction of unnecessary stoppages of
machinery, etc. This contest is to
be conducted on the basis of a for
NAL agreement signed by represent
atives of all the nine mills.
The conference published an ap-
peal to all the workers urging them
to take part in the contest.
Successful contests are also being
carried out in the factories of the
Urals, the Don Basin, Leningrad,
Kharkov and a number of other
cities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-30
International Publishers,
Copyright, 1929

jumped into the bucket. The second
lit the last fuse (the blue flames
Kissed and dived), and grabbed the
rope.
"Heave up, lively~
Whether the second man stumbled.
or the engineer was too speedy-the
bucket shot upward through rain,
darkness, and whistling; the man
remained below, and the last little
light dived under water.
So the first sent the signal up
ward:
Halt! Lower away!"
The bucket swayed in the dark
ness, hung suspended in the rain.
Lower away"
Then the o er sent the signal:
"Heave up!"-for what would be
the good of a second death?
Lower away!"-thus the first.
"Heave up!'-thus the second.
And the bucket oscillated in the
darkness. Each one was sacrificing
his life for his brother, here at depth
800, where death and funeral are
simultaneous.
The engineer probably understood
what was going on in the shaft.
With deadly speed he sent the bucket
down, and with deadly speed he
Jerked the bucket upward, to the
rumbling of the exploding dynamite
down below, where death was. And,
once up above, all three, the engineer
and the two fusemen, first and
second, felt like having drink. And
as there was no revolution at that
time, in what other way could they
find the opportunity to "foonction
enegretically"?
Leather jackets. Bolsheviks.
That evening, in Ordynin's house.
Having taken off his boots, Yegor
Sobachkin was luxuriousiy kneading
his toes with his fingers. Crouching
on the bed near the lamp, as if on
all fours, he remained for a long
time intent on the pamphlet he was
reading; then he addressed his neigh
Dor, who was absorbed in a perusal
of the newspaper, Izvestia:
"And what do you think, Comrade
Makarov,is human life determined by
the reality or by the idea? Now,
when one comes to think of it.
there's reality even in the idea. ~
(THE END)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-30
Southern Textile Slavery Is
Failing Before Organization

tonia, but was fired because she
joined the union.
Food Is Needed.
The textile slaves are responding
to the call Of organization. To them
it comes as a thunderbolt that is
breaking their chains. However,
beneath their smiling faces one
senses the mountaineer strain of
hardihood that fears nothing.
The strikes i'll the south will be
victories for the working class of
the world. Here in the stronghold
of the textile barons the chains of
exploitation are being thrown off
and a cloak of decent living condi-
tons, more pay end shorter hours
put on.
Scabs, police, terrorism and lack
of food are helps to the boss. The
first two have failed. The last de-
ponds upon all organized workers
and friends of the working class to
make it a failure and make the
strike a success. As a strike leader
I want to make the appeal to all
workers: Give to the limit to the
southern textile strikers, for their
fight is the fight of labor against
capital. and their struggle is your
struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-30
MORE GAST0NIA
STRIKERS TOUR
Will Tell Northerners
of Starvation

Continued from Page One)
draws SASS a week; and Raymond
Clark, a doffer, 10 years old and
making around $11 or S12 week.
. Long Hours.
For these starvation wages, these
strikers, as do other Manville-
Jenckes toilers, put in a 60-hour week
day shift or a 55-hour week night
shift.
Bledsoe reports that he has three
daughters who, while working in the
mill, drew Sill a week for the one
who had worked a year, and SIS a
week for one who had worked four
years.
All report that the mills are ter
ribly hot, full of steam and full of
dust. Many workers have asthma.
Many have tuberculosis from the
unhealthy conditions in which they
spend so much of their lives.
"Crude" Speed-Up.
The strikers say that whereas a
man might live under these condi-
tions for Is or 20 years under the
older speed of work, the stretch
out" or speed-up system installed
by Manville- Jenckes recently ought
to kill him off much earlier. The
spinners are speeded by putting
smaller pulleys on their machines,
and forcing the workers to a faster
pace. The other workers are usual
ly forced to extraordinary efforts
by the device of firing some of the
workers, and assigning their ma
chimes to their fellows to tend in
addition to those they were working
on--for the same wage. This tactic
is what the mill owners were scolded
for by government Investigators as
"a crude" system Of naturalization.
The bosses were so sure their work
ers would not revolt that they made
little effort to disguise the greater
cxtortion by fake bonus systems or
other schemes favored by employ
ers in the North.
Identify Mob's Tools.
Carl Holloway is one of the men
who recognized the tools used in
destroying the union office and the
relief station in the raid by masked
men several days ago. A crowbar
was found near the scene of the raid
where it had been dropped by the
raiders, which Holloway was easily
able to identify as one he saw under
a spinning frame in the Manville-
Jenckes plant before the strike.
In addition there were found in
the wreckage after the raid hand
cuffs and deputy sheriff's badges,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-30
By GEORGE PERSHING.

GASTONIA, N. c. (By MaiD.-
The textile workers in the south
have felt the strength of organiza-
ton. They have been called "poor
white trash" since the Civil War.
To them the term "poor white" is
correct, but for trash" they have
substituted powerful" The organ
izers of the National Textile Work
ers Union have been able to learn
many glaring facts of the terrible
exploitation that the textile barons
have forced upon them.
The case of ore worker, S. H.
Wilson, of Bessemer City, who oiled
the twister room and spooling room,
kept bands of spoilers, took down
spools and rolled them down an
elevator, brought up pieces and
helped on crealing, hunted up bob
ms for doff twisters and helped
doff twisters, took out and sepa-
rated waste, all for S14.40 for a
week OF 60 hours, is a case show
ing the stretch-out and speed-up
systems in operation. This fellow
worker had been doing the work of
four men on a salary of less than
living expenses.
$24.49 Month.
Then there is the case of Matte
Hughes, a woman with three chill
dren and a mother to support, whose
pay envelopes were as follows:
March 80, so hours, STAT; April 6,
90 hours, $7.36; April 10, so hours.
S7.13, less grocery bill of So; April
20, 60 hours, $5.53; total, less gro
Gerry bill, S24.49, for 240 hours
work.
One of the bosses puppets, the
Holland Realty Company, barred it's
teeth to the workers and began
.evictions. The first worker to suf-
fer was Eva Scott, the mother of
ten children. She and her entire
family were dumped into the street
with their belongings. The rent of
$3.50 per week for a dirty shack
had fallen three weeks in areas, but
it was because Eva Scott was a
union member and a striker that
the Holland Realty Company had
her evicted. Eva Scott had been
working in the Ozark Mill, in Gas
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-30

NOTEBOOKS Pilniak was born
in 1894 into a prosperous middle
class family. His real name is
Wogau and he has -four blOOds"
coursing in his veins: German and
Jewish from his father, Russian
and Tartar from his mother. Pill
MAX received a good education and
at the age of IA his first story was
published. His real literary
strength, however, came to the
surface only after the Revolution.
One of Pilniak's most famous
novels is Leather Jacket" which
describes the heroic achievements
of the Russian workers under the
leadership of the Communist Party
during the critical years after the
Revolution. The following is an
extract from this novel.
"And the last shall be first"
upstairs, in Ordynin's house, in
Y the Ispolcom Executive Com
mittee) quarters-(there were no
flower-pots in the windows here)-
there gathered men in leather jackets
the Bolsheviks. These fellows, in
leather jackets, were, every mothers
son of them, leather beauties; each
one strong, with shock of hair fall
ing from under the cap down the
neck; each ones skin fitted tightly
to the jaws; lips were set, move
ments were downright and firm.
They are the pick of the flabby and
uncouth Russian people. In leather
jackets-you can't dampen them.
This we know, this we want, this we
have decided-and no turning back.
Peter Oryeshin, the poet, said truly:
'Or freedom to the destitute well
bring,
Or-in the field, from a post well
swing"
Arkhip Arkhipov spent the days
at the Ispolcom, writing papers;
then he made his way YEARLY
through the city and the factory, at
tending conferences, gatherings,
meetings. He wrote papers; knit
ting his brows-his beard slightly
disheveled-he held his pen like an
ak. At the meetings he pronounced
foreign words thus: "enfasize," "ene-
critically" "Litephonogram," "foonc-
|tion,' "budgdet," etc. In a loat,,r
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-30
Allies Declare Dawes
Board Meetings Over
Unless Germany Yields

PARIS, April 29.-The only pos
sibility of resuming Preparations ne
gotiations by the committee of ex-
perts here is for the Germans "to
place themselves frankly before
realities" according to allied gov
eminent inspired opinion expressed
tonight.
The realities" according to the
Paris newspapers, include the con-
tention that the allied minimum
offer for annual payments from
Germany will not be lowered. Ger
man offers of payments have been
far below the allied minimum.
The visit of DR.. Hjalmar Schacht
to Berlin this week end will give
him an opportunity to explain the
results of his frequent private con-
ferences with Chairman Owen D.
Young last week, the semi-official'
newspaper LIE Temps said.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-30
SENATE EVADINC
MELLON RULING
Committee Dislikes to
Commit Itself

WASHINGTON, April 29.-The
senate judiciary committee failed
again today to report whether Sec
rotary of the Treasury Mellon IS
violating the law by virtue of hold
ing his office while having extern
sive stock interests in large indus
trial enterprises.
The committee debated an hour
and half without reaching a de-
cision. Another meeting will be
held tomorrow.
Tariff Bill Ready.
A full meeting Of the house ways
and means committee was tenta-
lively called for Thursday by Chair
man Hawley today, indicating that
the new tariff bill has been COM
pleted.
Since republican members of the
committee drafted the measure dem
ocrats will be given their first in
formation of the contents of the bill
when the committee meets. It was
said, however, the call was only ten
tative and there may be some reason
later to delay the meeting.
Helm Still Crusading.
Senator Helm. democrat, Ala,
continued his attack on the Cath
olics in the senate today, demand
ing a vote on his resolution to con-
denim the recent attack on his in
Brockton, Mass. 90.
Reed Calls Hoover Shocking.
Senator Reed of Pennsylvania
argued against the perfunctory
method Of President Hoover in con-
temptuously dismissing the national
origins revocation bill without COM
ment.
ITO dispose of such am important
matter with a single sentence, as
President Hoover does, is shock
irg," said Reed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-30
eather Jackets
A Story of Reconstruction Period in the u SSR

Arkhip Arkhipov woke up with the
sun and, hiding the fact from all
eyes, studied books: Kiselev's Alge-
bra, Kistyakovski's Economic Geo
graphy, the History of Russia in the
Nineteenth Century (the Granat
edition., Marks Capital, Ozerov's
Science of Finance, Weizman's Ac-
counting, and German Self-Taught;
he also studied Gavrilkin's little die
tionary of foreign words incorpora-
ted in the Russian language.
Leather jackets.
Bolsheviks. Bolsheviks. Yes. So
it is. That is what the Bolsheviks
are.
THE Whites retreated in March, and
at the very beginning of March
an expedition came from Moscow for
the purpose Of ascertaining what had
been left of the factories and plants
by the Whites and the squalls of the
Civil War. The expedition included
the representatives from OTK and
KKHMU, and from the Department
of Metals, and CONF and Tsept and
TSPKP and Prombureau, and RKl
and VTSK, and other industrial or
ganizations-all specialists. At a
meetings in district capital it was
demonstrated as clearly as twice two
that the situation of the plants was
worse than catastrophe, that there
were neither raw materials nor in
struments, neither workers nor fuel,
and that it was impossible to re-
sumo the operation of the plants.
Impossible. l, the author, was one
of that expedition; the chief of the
expedition was Comrade K.-his
patronymic was Lukich. When the
order was given in the train to get
ready to start,-(we were in the
train as an armed detachment)-I,
the author, thought that we would
go back to Moscow, since it was I'M
possible for anything to be done. But
we went to the plants, for there is
nothing that cannot be done-be-
cause not to do is impossible. We
went, because the non-specialist,
Bolshevik Lukich, reasoned very
jacket, with beard like Pugachev's.
Funny. And what is still funnier,
simply that the need for doing a
thing is over only after the thing is
done. And human ha.ds can do any
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-30
Union Imports Great
Quantities Of RAM Material

MOSCOW. (By Mail.)-Thc prin-
sipal import items of the Soviet
Union are industrial raw materials,
semi-finished products and machin-
cry. In 1929 these articles con-
stituted rs per cent of the imports
which amounted to 944.7 million
roubles.
The import of cotton in 1929
amounted to 1912 million roubles.
According to the five year plan
1915 million roubles are to be in
vested into cotton growing, while
the consumption of cotton is to in
crease by "a per cent compared with
1929, and the import of cotton in
1928 is expected to reach 200
million roubles.
The 1929 import of wool was
valued at 64,3 million roubles. Dur
ing the next five years about $50
million roubles is to be invested in
sheep breeding while the import of
wool is to increase by 30-35 per cent.
Import CoIored Metal.
Colored metals imported by the
Soviet Union in 1929 amounted
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-30
THOMAS CHEERS
ARMS SWINDLE
With Militarists, Says
Geneva Is All Right

PHILADELPHIA, April 29.-"I
am proud of the leadership that our
government has taken at Geneva
through the Hoover proposals., al
though l wish they went even fur
Their. am proud of the position of
the American government on the
question of debts and Preparations.
We have been tolerably generous
in reducing the debt" thus big
hearted Rev. Norman Thomas char
acterized the disarmament confer
ence farce and the eXtortions of
American imperialism in Europe, be-
fore the annual meeting of the AGA
DENY of Political and Social Sciences
being held here.
Thomas Joined with a group of
outstanding international reaction
aries all of whom were vieing with
each other in defind their own i'm
perialist Netherlands. DR.. Marcel
Knecht, of the Paris lie Maint,
spoke on behalf of French militarism
in the following terms:
Militarists With Him.
"Since 1918 the deepest principles
of democracy and of international
friendship have more and more con-
quered the leading French political
parties, excepting a few Communi-
lists the French senate and chamber
of deputies are directed by MAORI
ties exclusively liberal republican,
radical socialist, socialist, whose po-
litical creed is based on the we'll
known rights of man and citizen
issued as the republican gospel OF
the French Revolution of 1882"
With these two defenders of i'm
perialist conquest there also spoke
Raymond l.. Buell. of the Foreign
Policy Association, H. w. Watson,
republican representative FIR o m
Pennsylvania, and Henry Kitteridge
Norton of New York who said in
justifying American conquest of
Hawaii that, advanced nations must
use force "when it is necessary to
hold ground which civilization has
already won."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-30
YANKEE DOLLARS
CROW IN China
Air, Cable Investments
Expand in Nicaragua

That American iinanciers are ex-
tending their holdings in China and
Nicaragua on an unheard of scale
is shown by the events of the last
few days. In China the rights to
commercial aviation have been
taken over by Aviation Exploration,
Inc, of New York, one of the Cur
tiss group of motor monarchs. The
contract concluded with DR.. Sun Fo,
minister of railways to the Nan
king government, provides for the
establishment of three trunk lines,
and will connect the entire area
from Marking to Picking, Canton
with Hankow. and Shanghai with
Hankow via Marking. This gives
The Americans an excellent strategic
military post internally in China.
The electric light and power sys-
tenn of Shanghai has also been sold
to an American-controlled firm, the
American and Foreign Power Com
pany, fer $50,o00,OOO. This brings
American public utility corporations
into China. Without doubt the of
fetal party of Kemmerer and his
financial advisors are responsible
for gaining these tremendous inter-
ests.
In Nicaragua the All-American
Cables, Inc, has acquired the right
to operate wireless telephone. tele-
graph and television between San
Juan del Sur and Managua, with
options to extend the service inter
nationally. This corporation is a
subsidiary of the international Tele-
phone and Telegraph system, The
contract runs for twenty years.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-30

to 57,700,000 roubles. According to
the five year plan the sum of 1925
million roubles is to be invested into
construction work in the field of
colored meallurgy which will make
it possible to cover 81 per cent of
the country's demand for colored
metals by the domestic output.
The import of black metals in
1927 was equal to 16,790,000 roubles.
The five year plan provides for an
investment of milliard roubles into
the black metallurgy. By 1928
the domestic output is expected to
cover the entire demand.
Demand Will Increase.
Last year the import of tanning
materials amounted to 1871 million
roubles, the domestic production COW
ering 80 per cent of the demand.
During the next five years the de-
mand for tanning materials will in
crease by so per cent and will be
met by the home output to the ex-
tent of 81 per cent.
The p aper industry will get 254
million roubles during the next five
years, according to the estimates. In
1929 the home paper production
covered 70 per cent of the country's
demand. In 1928 the demand for
paper should be met entirely by the
home production, which will increase
by 70 per cent compared with 1927
28.
Need More Machinery.
The total value of the machinery
which the country is expected to re-
quire during the next five years is
estimated at 6,405 million roubles,
and while the increase of the de-
mand for machinery by the end of
the five years is estimated to amount
to 173 per cent, the import of ma
chinery should increase by $50 per
cent, while the home production is
expected to rise 140 per cent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-30
Fascist Rule in Italy
Doomed to Collapse,
Says Liberal Leader

PARIS, April 29.-"Overwhelm-
ing financial and economic failures"
are the forces which threaten the
near destruction of Fascist rule in
Italy, Francesca Nit, Italina liberal
leader, will predict in an interview
which will be published here tomor-
row.
The recent plebiscite in Italy.
through which Mussollini obtained a
mechanical approval" of his re-
gime by electoral methods the meth
eds the results of which were
planned before the purely formal
elections, is described by Nit as a
farce. The liberal leader estimates
the number of unemployed to be
$4,000. He points out the enormous
expenditures "for police, private
espionage organizations, the army
and gigantic system of propaganda
throughout the world"