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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-16
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Isaents printed haze told of Hayaooods early life in
ranches homesedd and strike fields of the
Rocky Mountains Ohere Hay0od began has prote-
the He
picture of u imperialism killing the Indians, and Of
the gradual development of big business h 0agd right to the
Nth rebeus Wokens organizations He tells hoW ne
felt heard the hanging of the Chicago martyrs and of
becoming secretary the Western Federation of Miners at
After that his life melee of STRIKES
He stood IN the shadow of
GALLONS during the trial. but
quilted participate great MesabG Range
places for the W. w. hch he helped to organize IN
In the last inaem Haywood touring Europe as
speaker. NoO read
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-16
A Story of A Woman Workers Persecution and
Courage In the Chinese Revolution

head also he could only seek service
in the generals army. To shoot hit
own class brothers, peasants and
workers,-never, never would he do
that. Ti-Wan would rather live as
a deserter than to fight for the
British. When they are to figh:
against the foreign ir- -,erialists that
will be something different. For the
poor people, only the partisans
fought, the "Red Lances." Ti-Wan
had decided long time ago to go
over to the Partisans, but it was
very hard to break his way thru the
surrounded city. The fishermen kept
him hidden for many weeks, bring
ing him water-worms and bones
from their own meals. The fisher
men did not have rice, it was too
dear.
This was not the first evening in
which Ti-Wan prepared to fly to
the Partisans, but the patrols were
all about and if they sighted him
then he would have to bid goodbye
to his poor head. So he glanced
fearfully about him when he ven
tured from bark to the docks.
1t was dark. In such dark night
hundreds of Chinese would certainly
attempt to escape from Canton.
Dead silence reigned in the crooked
streets. The inhabitants of Canton
were still impressed by the past
terror and remained in their houses.
Here and there could be heard pa
trolls marching. When Ti-Wan heard
them coming he would press himself
into the shadows of a wall and when
they had passed he would again go
on his way. He saw the last houses
of the city and the city boundary
But at the last small street he did
not succeed in hiding himself quick
ly enough. A tall Chinese, an under
officer with silver epaulettes, stop
ped him.
"Where are you going, you red
dog?"
"Why am a red dog?" asked
Ti-Wan boldly. Perhaps l am no
dog but an honest fisherman
"And where are you running at
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-16

fletced in the skies. Slowly, in whis-
pers, they spoke to each other.
1t soon became dark. The Chi
rese earth exhaled blood and sweat
collected for thousands of years. At
home Wan-Tschi and Lao-Tschin
threw off their scarce clothes and
their wooden shoes, prayed old un-
understandable prayers before a
figure of Buddha, in which they still
believed little bit, and went to
bed. One sleeps badly on hard, rice
straw and the black rats also dis
turb sleep; but they must sleep, for
early in the morning they would
again have to go to work. Wan
Tschi drew a straw mat in place of
a bed cover over herself and closed
her eyes.
Canton has a large harbor in
which there are always hundreds of
ships from all parts of the world
and thousands of junks and other
vessels. Across the water lies the
British island of Hongkong like a
huge block of ice. From there comes
all the misfortunes for the poor city
of Canton. When a Chinese hears
the word Hongkong his eyes shine
with hate and passion.
In the small streets of the old
city rules the terror. Many thou
sands of workers and peasants from
nearby towns sat in the iron
bound prison cells. On the main
square are stakes from which the
heads of the executed glare with
frightful smiles. And on the other
side of the square, behind iron
gates, stretch the business steets
of the foreign settlement.
After his flight from the army,
Ti-Wan, Lao schan's husband, hid
himself in the huts on the fisher
mems banks. In spite of his youth,
he had passed through hard life.
He remembered wildly the gruesome
blood-courts, to which, after the raid
on the Soviet consul, all suspicious
revolutionary Chinese fell victim.
His life was also in danger. But
when they were ready to chop off his
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-16
By A. n. PESTJUCHIN.

A hot day. The yellow tablelanG
glowed under the burning sun. Be-
low, the road to Canton was buried
in grey-golden dust. And further on,
on the other side of the road, the
slow, yellow river, which the Chi
nese call Hwanhe.
The road is never empty. On it
people are always in motion, wagons,
rickshaws, and the always present
soldiers. Soldiers are seen more
than any others.
Lao-Tschan glanced through the
tea-plants to see the passing sol
diers. The generals troops marched
in long slow columns. Perhaps Tao
Tschan's husband, Ti-Wan was also
among them. The recruiting force
of the generals army had taken
him a long time ago and he had not
written to her for the last year.
The plantation of the British COM
pany stretched over four hills. Like
in a rose garden stood the exact
rows Of the tea-plants. They were
wide and many-forked so that one
must work carefully in order not to
injure the young bodies. The pluck
ed tea-leaves were dried in straw
baskets and then roasted in copper
pans, broken up, packed and brought
to the market. The English firm
was rich, its plantations large and
labor in China cost little.
But the work of the women and
children was even cheaper and the
company took many peasant women
from the impoverished farms for
work on the plantations. Many wo-
men came, for the plantations are
neutral territory and no government
dared to touch them; foreigners in
China are untouchable and supreme.
The working women received fill
thy hole for a dwelling and just
enough money to keep from utter
starvation.
In the evening hours when the
golden sun covered itself in purple
before vanishing into the river, the
ripe leaves could no longer be rec
ognized and work came to an end.
Weary from Is hou-5 of work, the
women went home. Their scratched
hands and legs panied lem. They
lived in small huts at the foot of
the hill which formed an half-circle.
Lao-Tschan washed her hands in
wooden bowl and sat down at the
table. She ate two times day,
erarly in the morning and late in
the evening, always the same: bone
soup and some rice. During the
meal her friend Wan-Tschi visited
her. She was prettier than Lao
Tschan for she came from the north.
Her brown eyes spoke of pain and
sorrow. Her husband, Communist
who worked in the Canton harbor,
was executed short time ago. She
could not think of it without clench-
ing her small fists. Wan-Tschi
drank some tea and then suddenly
cried:
81 will not go today and what's
more will never go again"
The over-seer, Williams, forced
Wan-Tschi to live with him. This
happens to all pretty Chinese wom-
en- and when they refuse they are
fired. 1t is almost impossible to
find other work. The war had al
ready lasted three years, rice had
become dear I'd for the Chinese
working women there remained no
other way than to submit to the
over-seer.
"You don't want to go?" Lao
Tschan asked with surprise. "Good,
and if they chase you out, then we
both go together"
They sat down on the side of a
lonely road on an earthbank and
looked into the distance, where they
saw the large city Of Canton re-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-16
Class War and Tea Slavery
By Fred Ellis

so late an hour? Don't you know
that after sunset no one must re-
main on the streets?" And the tall
soldier emphasized his words with
blow of whip.
Ti-Wan protected himself from
the blow and turned his head in such
a way that one of the soldiers rec
ognized him.
ooh, we take him along, this is
deserter from our battalion"
His hands were tied behind his
back and Ti-Wan ran along tied to
the tail of one of the horses. On the
square burned the campfire and
around stood the soldiers with their
horses. Ti-Wan was half dead when
he was handed over to a prison
keeper. The cold cellar was filled
with prisoners. Into the midst of
these crowded people, in this hole
sinking from sweat and excrement
they thrust Ti-Wan. The iron door
closed behind him.
From here the path leads directly
to the square where the public exc
cutions take place.
The over-seer of the plantation,
Williams, rained down fearful blows
and kicks upon Wan-Tschi for some
small fault. That was HE revenge
because she did not come to him dur
ing the night. He beat her so wild
ly on the breast that she fell, strik-
ing her head on the fire pan of the
drying room, and burned her beau
tiful black hair. Wan-Tschi bewail-
ed the loss of her hair and she felt
pain in the head, but she did not
cry. In the evening Lao-Tschan
helped her cut her burnt hair with
a knife.
"You look like a Communist now.
Williams says that only Communist
women have short hair and all re-
spectacle women and girls have long
hair" said Lao-Tschan. But Wan
Tschi only laughed bitterly. The
next day when they again went to
work, she said softly:
Tonight / am going to the city,
l cannot remain here any longer.
Williams will only kill me. Let us
both fly together!"
Lao-Tschan thought about the
flight the whole day. In her plight
she threw kettle over and the hot
liquid spilled down on her. This only
strengthened her. In Canton she
could perhaps discover where Tt
Wan was.
In the evening they both slid to the
road and ran in the direction of the
city. Soon after their flight they
met mounted division. When the
leader of the patrol saw the shorn
hair of Wan-Tschi, he suddenly
shouted:
"Ah, Bolsheviks, the short hair!
In Canton you would be killed and
you dare to show your head on the
public road!"
In vain did Lao-Tschan cry. They
chased them with the ends of their
guns and dragged Wan-Tschi back to
the plantation.
The red dawn already shone in the
skies when Lao-Tschan reached the
town alone. At the watch house the
soldiers joked over her impoverished
and sad appearance and the worn
out shoes which she wore, but they
let her pass. Hungry, she wandered
through the empty streets.
On the public square she stopped
before stake. She looked up and
saw oh Z. the staring, greu-
some eyes Of her husband Ti-Wan,
whose head was fastened on the
stake with it's tongue hanging out.
Then Lao-Tschan did what her
husband had planned to do--she
joined the ranks Of the Partisans.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-16
Get Ready for May Day.

May Day Conferences are being organized in all
sections of the nation The registered by these gather
ngs the number of delegates present and the enthusiasm
shown especially by workers coming directly from the fac
tories mills and workshops augurs well for mighty and mill
tan demonstrations in this country the international
Holiday of Labor May First.
There many for this encouraging develop
ment rehabilitation the working class generally as
cation schemes of the exploers, continually This
May Day witnesses the rising of the Southern mill workers
from slaverys Depths under the leadership of the National
Textile Workers Union.
1t precisely during the past year. since the last May
Day that left wing industrial unions have into existence
in the three great industries mining clothing and textiles
May Day for these organizations will be celebration of
tumphs already achieved and planning for and greater
struggles. The memberships of these organizations should
constitute tremendous hosts calling the workers generally
to Down Toos and to join in raising the mighty fist of
Labors Holiday before the face of the arrogant capitalist
rulers who dominate the land
The New York May Day Conference held Sunday regis
tered especial achievements enhanced by the growing spirit
of struggle among the workers the metropolis the food and
shoe workers joining with the needle workers in establishing
firm basis the principles of Left wing unonsm. But
the efforts exered in New York City, put forth else
where will bring the encouraging results Prepare for
international May Day. Make this years May Day the
significant in all the 40 years history of Labos Holiday
The national "shell game" has again opened under the
dome of the capitol at Washington with the reconvenng of
1t quite appropriate that Senator James E. Wat
Indiana should be the republican floor leader in the
senate His loyalty big business long period years
qualities him completely for the job of manipulating the gs-
atve peas under the congressional Shells This she game
session of ought to open the eyes good section
of the nations working population especially the dirt
farmers who going to be relieved of greater
their toll under the promise of farm relief"
The remains of Myron T. Herrick, late ambassador to
France who died in Paris finally been placed under
ground at Cleveland and the imperast war mongers will
have to look around for another publicity stunt to keep alive
the flames of jngosm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-16
By WILLIAM d HAYWOOD.
PART 81.

than week when got telegram
Daily Herald London asking to and speak in
Larkn then in Mountjoy Prison went
officials the Confederation of Labor and told them
Jim Larkn and the Dublin Trans
port Workers strike would like testimonial from France
understanding that the strikers could They
large contribution
sderng condition of the workers of France at that time
in London meeting arranged in Albert
time to speak at what
proved meeting Twenty-Five thirty thousand
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-16

Urals, Krivorojsky, Ukraine, and
Telbess, Urals, factories. A bid is
also made for foreign capital to par
ticipate in the construction of big
regional power stations, including
the Svir station, near Leningrad, the
erection of which has already begun.
Among the other objects to be
leased to concessionaries are an cleo
trical machinery factory, and fac
tories for the production of eIectri-
cal heating appliances, lighting ar
mature, etc.
The government also announces
its readiness to invite foreign capt.
tai to construct and exploit a trac-
tor plant lin addition to the Stain
grad tractor works to be launched
this year,, a tool factory, car
building factory, drill and thrash
ing machine plant, river shipyard.
a typewriter factory and a number
of mills in the cellulose and paper
industry.
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people, more than could get IN the ha, had gathered
Some students attempted to disrupt the meeting but
the stewards ushers well organized and
elected the noisy bunch in quick order. A son of
George Lansbury over the railing of the first
balcony and dropped into a struggling group which
fighting to get into the aisle
The speakers Lansbury, Cunningham-Gra-
ham, Dyson, Larkin myself and others. Jim Larkin
is big bony man with shock of iron-gray hair and
marked features such appreciated by the scup
tor or cartnnnist. He is vigorous sneaker and this
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-16

Celebrate the International Work.
ers May Day Mt the Coliseum.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-16

Bring the Workers or Your Shop Ia
the Coliseum May First.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-02-18
RlrrENAoUoa IN SPAIN

RITTENAoUoz IN SPAIN
 j. V. Rittenhouse. former local resident, is spending the winter in Palma De Mallorca. Spain. accord ing to a card received from him by Karl Theile. Mir. Rittenhouse said he would visit London and Paris in the Spring.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-02-18
Rot Good E1ecutioner But Poor Picker
 Of Interment Place


 A rat that was judge, jury and executioner has been found. He also picked place of interment but 1t wasn't sealed and that led to the discovery without which there would have been no story.
 Making his rounds the ether day. this rodent found an Insulated wife in the walls of the Alaska Road Commission storeroom in the old First National Bank Building. It was t0 his lik-. ing. Here was i chance for an experiment. 50 lie proceed ed to gnaw. The experiment was successful and. the evi- dence showed. Mt. Rat was added to the list of martyre who have given thslf lives to the cause of science.
 The wire was iohdsd with juice" When iihls fnolars encountered 1t, tie rat got the load" aud hiB troubles were over. Equipped with a gas mask. Latics fIendrick- son, of the CpfnmisSion io- cal stan, remotsd the. re- mains to a more secluded burial place today.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-02-18
FORMER SKAGWAY GIRL MARRIES IN SEATTLE

A wedding of interest to mn! was solemnized in Seattle recent 1y when Miss Jean Eleanor ilil- lery. daughter of MT. and Mrs. A. R.. Hillery. formerly of Skag- way. Alaska, became the bride of Mir. Charles William Van Buren.
 The double ring ceremony was performed by Rev. Paul L. Kunz- man in the living room of the Hillery home where an improved altar was arranged with ferns, palms and lilies.
 There were no attendants and the bride entered on the arm of the groom while the wedding march was played by her sister, Mrs. T. R. Johnson.
 The brides dress was billowy rufTles of tulie over white satin with spray of orange blossoms on the left shoulder and clus- ter of the same blossoms caught in the center of a ttlle bow on the right side. Ruffles and bow were edged in silver. A sheer veil. which hung nearly to the floor, was held in place by the symbolic wreath of orange blos'
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-02-18

from the Alaska Consolidated, and the Buschmann and Wake f ield plants. It is not contemplated that all of them will operate this year at least. Four of the old Alaska Consolidated canneries, it is understood, will be discontin- ued for the present.
 The plans of MT. Buschmann for the future are not known here. He still retains interests in three other companies, Pyramid Packing Company at Sitka, Hood Bay Pack ing Company at Hood Bay. and Peril Strait Packing Company, at Todd. It was reported he would be associated with the Alaska Pacific Salmon Company for sev- eral years, but this has not been confirmed MT. Wakefield still retains his herring packing inter- ests in the Territory.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-02-18

pany, which will acquire the Sun ny Point Packing Company's hold. ings, including it's properties pur- chased several weeks ago from the Alaska Consolidated Canneries, and the Buschmann and Wakefield plants. Securities in the new company will be offered to the public by Blythe & Company, Sc attle, which arranged the financ- ing pertinent to the deai.
 The Alaska Pacific Salmon Com pany will constitute one of the three largest American packing corporations. It will own 12 sal mon packing plants, all in Alaska Four were tho original sunny y Point properties, six were acquired
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-02-18
SKINNER EDDY
 INTERESTS BUY TW0CANNERIES
T a ke Over Port Althorp
 and Wakefield Plant Form New Corporation

Purchase of the Deep Sea Sal mon Company from. August Busch mann and the Franklin Packing Company from Lee H. Wakefield, by the skinner 6 Eddy interests of Seattle, reports of which were received several days ago. was of ficially made known here today. The former company's plant is lo- cated at Port Althorp and is a four-line cannery, and the Wake field cannery is at Port Ashton, Prince William Sound, a two-line plant.
 Skinner & Eddy announce the organization of a new company, the Alaska Pacific Salmon Com
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-02-18

sons. She carried a bouquet of Ophelia roses and freesias.
 Only relatives and intimate frior p witnessed the ceremony and were guests at the informal rec lion afterwards.
 The wedding cake was in the novel form Of a flower strewn flight of stairs at the top of which stood a miniature bride and groom.
 Among the guests were Mrs. M. Conway, Misses Bess Conway, Mary Pullen. Helen Murray, Dor othy Clark, and Lucille Hudson of Skagway, and Miss Billy Lov- ing, formerly of ChilBoot Bar racks.
 MT. and Mrs. Van Buren are at home to friends in the Mckay Apartments but expect to leave soon for San Diego where MT Van Buren has accepted a posi- ton as instructor of aviation students.
 Mrs. Van Buren is a graduate |of Broadway High School where she specialized in art.
 MT. Van Buren is a former University of Washington student and returned last fall from thu Hawaiian Islands where he had been doing some work for ths Geodetic Survey.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-02-18
WHO'S WHO
 AND WHERE

Donald Macdonald, Assistant Superintendent of the Fairbanks district for the Alaska Road Con- mission, arrived Sunday on the steamer Alameda. He has been assigned to duty in local head quarters of the Commission for several weeks.
 Bartley Howard, former mem- Der of the Alaska Senate from the Third Division and unsuc- cessful candidate for the Repub- lican nomination for Delegate to Congress, is a passenger on the Alameda enroute to his home in Seattle
 Albert Vile, travelling salesman, is making the round trip on the Queen to the towns of the Triangle route. MT. Vile has been in Jul neau for a few days doing busi- ness with the merchants.
 H. B. Carbray, of the travelling fraternity, is passenger for Sit ka on the Queen, from Seattle. MT. Carbray represents Seattle houses.
 Frank Metcalf, City Engineer, is a passenger for the south on the Alameda. He Is making the trip in connection with his private practice as civil engineer. He will return to Juneau after about two weeks.
 D. M. Bothwell, local broker, left on the Alameda for Seattle on va cation and also on business. He will return to Juneau after a week or so.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-02-18
VISITS WASHINGTON

Mrs. J. B. Bernhofer, who went east several weeks ago, while visit ing in Washington, D. C., was a guest at the Grace Dodge hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-02-18
eARpNeR ENRourE HOME

c. T. Gardner, local member of Sawyer & Reynolds, leading log ging contractors of SouthAAst Alas ka. Is now in Seattle enroute home. according to infornaation received here today. He will san for Jul neau on the steamef Alsutian next Saturday. Mir. Gardner has been on vacation for the past two months.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-02-18
NOTICE 10 xAartERs

Wrangell Naffows A-Kildahles salter Light, previ6lsly reported destroyed. was, tefnpofafily replac- ed by 2nd class can buoy num- bered TX on February 12. 1929.
 Wrangeli NAfrows U Colorado Reef Buoy. 6. and Colorado Reef Buoy, T. changed February 12 to first class wooden spar buoys.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-02-18

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The Spokane woman. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1921-1935, 1929-02-28
The car is on display at
Spokane. Washington, Feb. rs. 1929.

Spokane. Washington, Feb 25 1929
Mrs Pauline Suing Bloom, Editor
Spokane Woman, Rookery Building.
Spokane, Wash.
Dear Mrs Bloom:
AT the final meeting of the Publicity Commit
tee of our Community Chest campaign which
we held Saturday noon | was asked to write
To you and express appreciation for the
fine help and cooperation you gave us through
the Spokane Woman.
The publicity the Spokane Woman gave the
Chest campaign was wonderful You know as
well as we do that we got 10000 subscribers
To the Chest this year, setting record for all
time. That should be sufficient testimonial to
the value of such publicity received from
your splendid paper.
However that is the spirit of Spokane We
always expected it. We knew we would get
it but anyway We going to tell you how
deeply we appreciate it.
With best wishes,
Sincerely yours,
J. a. FORD. Chairman
Publicity Committee.