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The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-05-07
AN ANALOGY.

It would be just sensible to require the cleo ton of City School Superintendents by popular vote it is to elect Territorial Commissioner of Educa- tion that way. Throughout the country the custom is for the people to elect Boards of Education and permit them to select the teaching staffs That is
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-05-07

because the average voter, even in small towns IS not qualified to pass on the qualifications of can didates for teaching position and has not the time and facilities to qualify himself to do so.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-05-07
Ever Notice

The pest around the office who always has a cure for what ails you never has either cigarette or match to give you.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-05-07
ALONG LIFE'S DETOUR
 By SAM HILI.
There's a Difference
By SAM HILL.

For nuts who slap me on the back,
 I must admit I do not care, But have great admiration for
 The kind of folks who pat me there. b
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-05-07

Speakin'a Prohibition-Which Some
 People Do
 Just judging from the recent ex- perience of a certain lawmaker in Florida we'd say there ought'a be a law against selling suitcases not guaranteed to be -leakable, to dry Congressmen.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-05-07
His Last Flight

That he was a good man none would deny, But he, alack, wasn't a good flyer; Still when in a tailspir he did come down, His pastor said he'd gone up higher!
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-05-07
NOTICE LEGIONNAIRES

All members are requested to at tend the meeting of Mooseheart Legion No. 25 in Moose Hall to- night. GRANT BALDWIN, adv. Herder.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-05-07
CHAMBER VOLUNTEERS
 PAINT BATH HOUSES

Volunteers from the Chamber oI Commerce today left town to give a coat of paint to the bath houses
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-05-07
CAPITAL EYE WORKS

Very latest methods in French Dry Cleaning and Dyeing. See Aeldner, Professional Cleaner and Dyr. Phone TIT. adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-05-07

It ought not to cost more than Sl0ooooo q year a run Alaska but the fault is more with previous Legislatures than the one that has just adjourned
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-05-07
Fly Time Due

Now that the days
 Are growing hotter, We know we ought'er Hunt up that swatter.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-05-07

In the pictures of the Mexican revolutionary commanders so far published we notice that the nearer they are to the border the wider is their smie.-(Houston Post -Dispatch)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-05-07

Congressmen coming home from foreign parts should put their souvenirs in unbreakable bottles -(Boston Transcript
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-05-07
Help!

q wonder where that frail was when the brains were being passed out?"
 "Whassamatter?"
 We took her on sailing party, and when we found they had no cards when we wanted to play bridge, she up and says Why, I thought every ship had a deckp
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-05-07
Dau NhOws

Pa" said the kid, what is the most useless thing in the world?"
 Being right when your wife de- cides you are wrong, son." growled his dad.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-05-07
One For Science

Why is it that a gent of even the bluest blood gets just as red a nose from drinking too much as any member of the red-blooded herd?
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-05-07
Easy To Guess

Easy To Guess
 T wonder what daughter is do- ing?" sighed mother.
 "Huhl" growled father, tits a leadpipe cinch she's looking into a pocket mirror, powdering her nose and touching up her lips"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-05-07
Epitaph

Here lies an Englishman
 Named William Austin Pryor, Who had the nerve to call
 An Irishman a liar.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-05-07
Inuuiring to Know

Says J. Morgan Cook: That pink grapefruit said to have been de- veloped recently will certainly in- crease the hazards of eating it."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-05-07
Passing Observation

Troubles are what most of us like to tell but hate like poison to listen to.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-05-07
Wonders of Nature

Having the teeth come out may be painful, but nature has at least arranged it so you don't suf- fer any when the hair does.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-05-07

Commercial job printing at Che Empire.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-05-07

Meaning it's liable to cause an epidemic of pink eye?
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-05-07
Opposition to the Jones Law.
CNew York World)

(New York WordO
 The President of the United States has called all citizens of goodwill to observe the Prohibition law and support its enforcement A group of New York lawyers has replied oy oreanizing voluntary" committee to defend bootleggers Their statemnt of purpose seems to us a clear call to crime.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-06
F eral Chauffeurs
May Join WalkOut of
Calvary Gravediggers

A strong possibility of SYM
pathetic strike of members of the
Funeral Chauffeurs' Union, who
would refuse to take mourners be-
yond the cemetery gate, was seen
yesterday following a meeting of
striking grave-diggers at McGarry's
Hall, SO Greenpoint Ave-, Queens.
At the same time A. F. of l.. Of
ficials, disturbed by the persistence
and miiitancy of the GOO or 700
workers on strike at the Calvary
Cemetery, were striving to arrange
conference with the trustees of
the cemetery for this morning. The
men want an increase from an aver
age of S24,20 a week to 81 day,
with double time for overtime.
Thanks to a sympathetic health
commissioner of the Roman Cath
olic Tsmmany Hall, the cemetery
authorities have been permitted co
place over 40 bodies in temporary
trenches. Health Commissioner
Wynne stated that this "did rot con-
stitute menace to health"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-06
Chang g Suppresses
2 More Newspapers
Published in Peking

PEKING, China, Aug. 5. -
Chang Kai-Shek has ordered sup
pressed two more newspapers in
this city, due to his need for con-
cealing in the present crisis into
which his government has fallen
through its subservience to for
eign imperialism, and attack on
the U. S. S. R., and the wide
spread workers and peasants
movement against it.
Neither of the papers was a
radical, or even labor paper.
Unfortunately for them, they Oc-
casiOnally printed facts Chang is
trying to hide from the world.
General Shang Chen. Chiang's
military cOmmandant in Peking,
acting under instructions from
Marking, has placed a Chinese
censor in the office of the Amer
lean owned Peking Leader, to
read every scrap of news that
goes in, and stop what isn't good
politics for Chang. The French
owned lie Journal de Peking is
suppressed outright, and its Of
flee occupied by soldiers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-06
Prepare for Big Conference
on Rent, Housing Tomorrow
Urgently Request Volunteers to Report at
Tenant League Today and Tomorrow

Thousands Of tenants in Harlem
are organizing house and block COM
mittees in preparation for the Con-
ference on Rent and Housing called
by Harlem Tenants League at St.
Lukes hall, 125 West 130th Street,
tomorrow and Thursday. The ses-
sions will begin at p. m.
Big empetus was given the confer
ence movement last night when sew
eral hundred members of the League
met in the public library, 103 West
135th Street, and volunteered to help
the League in conducting the con-
ference and also to help with office
work and distribution of the call for
the conference. The league has is
sued an invitation to potential or
ganizers of tenement leagues in all
working class districts to visit the
Harlem Tenant League offices all
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-06
union CHIEFS IN
BUILDERS CAME
Misleaders Silent on
Offensive Threat

The apparent apathy shown yes
terday by chiefs of the Building
Trades Council toward the an
nouncement by the Building Trades
Employers Association on Friday
that the latter had called off the
five-day week technically granted
last May is further evidence that
the union takers will not resist the
offensive planned against union
standards.
At the office of Local 3, Electrical
Workers, it was said that H. H.
Broach, president of the local and
vice-prasident of the International,
was away, and that no action would
be taken until his return. John Hal
kett, president of the Building
Trades Council, was also reported
out of the city by Roswell D. Tomp-
Ekins, secretary Of the Council.
Nor was any word available yes
terday concerning the new "arbitra-
ton" scheme just proposed by the
conference committee OF the Build
ing Industry, a creature of the
building trades bosses.
1t is now becoming increasingly
clear that a vigorous offensive on
union standards is being planned by
the building bosses in collaboration
with the officialdom of the Building
Trades officialdom. Toward this
end the lockout threat made last
May was deferred until the building
season would be less active. The
FIRST blow may be expected soon,
militant building trades workers de-
clare, ard warn that the rank and
file must organize to resist this at
tack.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-06
TO EVERY COMMUNIST

Comrades:
We have been appealing you to help the Daily Worker
live through the months. The campaign is now
weeks old The total thus far collected is slightly
$4,000 Half of this has been assigned Party work
About 81, 600 has been used by the Daily Worker.
This $1,000 week does not normal de-
fct
But in the midst of the summer Our in
is half of normal Our advertising is less Our
paper bills printers bills and bills for engravers remain
Onay We cannot reduce the size of the paper because
that would necesstae the throwing of important
We at the parting of the ways The life of the
Daily Worker is at stake. Do not wait until forced
to suspend again. We do not want to do because
the life of the paper The staff is contributing its share in
the form of wages. But what you doing?
Have you done your share? Don't wait until tomorrow.
Today you still the Daily and help it fight your
battles. Tomorrow may We talk to you very
intimately because the situation is really very serious Send
donation by special delivery air mail letter. telegraph
to the Daily Worker, 26 Union Square, New York City,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-06
CROWD PATERSON
N. 7. ". U. PICNIC
Wicks, Harper Discuss
Textile Problems

PATERSON, August 5. - The
Paterson local of the National Tex
tile Workers Union held its first pic
mic yesterday at Regina Roost Park.
In spite of bad weather there was
good attendance The Paterson silk
workers are beginning to realize the
advantages of a national union in
stead of the local organization they
heretofore had
Wicks and Harper Speak.
The speakers were H. M. Wicks,
editor of the Daily Worker, who
was the leader of the victorious silk
strike of 1924, and Solomon Har-
per of the American Negro Labor
Congress. Wicks dealt with the re-
cent textile struggles and the Gas
tonia murder conspiracy in relation
to the imperialist prepar' tions for
war. Harper with the problems of
the textile industry with special ref
erence to the role of the Negro
masses. Both speeches met with
great enthusiasm.
Conditions in the Paterson mills
are getting worse and there is no
question that that famous scene of
labor struggles will soon again come
to the fore. An intensive organiza-
tion campaign is being conducted
preparatory to insisting upon the
demands of the union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-06
YOUNG PLAN MEET
in PRIOR CLASH
3 Plans of Procedure
Show Divided Aims

THE HAGUE, Holland, Aug. s.
Official representatives of the gov
ernments of England, France, Bel
gium, Italy, Germany, and unofficial
Representatives of United States are
here to participate in the battle over
the German war loot, or as it is eu-
phemistically stated, to discuss the
final adoption of the Young plan.
Clash of Empires.
Even the question of procedure
shows some of the clashing inter
ests.
The French delegation, headed by
Premier Aristide BRAND, will insist
that the conference follow agree
ment at Geneva last September,
which provided that the powers
would first accept the Young plan
and then take up the question of
military evacuation of the Rhineland
and establishment of a commission
of investigation and conciliation for
control of the previously occupied
area.
The British delegation, of which
Philip Snowden, chancellor of the
exchequer, and Arthur Henderson,
foreign secretary, are the leaders,
is said to be willing to agree to evac-
uation of the Rhine Valley immedi-
ately, but unwilling to accept the
Young plan without adjustments.
The principal British objection to
the plan is that it cuts British repa-
ration percentages and provides too
long period for payment of repa-
rations by deliveries in kind"
DR.. Gustav Stresemann, at the
head of the German delegation, is
disposed to accept the Young plan
integrally, but only on the condition
that the conference first provides
for evacuation and for limitation of
the existence of the investigation
commission.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-06
SHOE MEET HERE
TO LAY BASIS FOR
INDUSTRIAL union
To Pick Delegates to
Big Cleveland
Conference
Scrap Craft UniOnism
Marine Conference to
Meet Soon Also
Scrap Craft UniOnism

Delegates to the Trade Union
Unity Convention to be held in
Cleveland Aug. 31-Sept. 2 will be
elected at the conference of shoe,
hide and leather workers called by
the Independent Shoe Workers
Union in conjunction with the Trade
Union Educational League.
The conference, to be held this
Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 10 and
II at Irving Plaza, 18th St. and
Irving place, will take the first step
in replacing craft unionism in the
shoe industry with militant indus
trial unionism. The conference will
also be one of many to be held thru
out the United States in preparation
for the formation of a fighting, in
dustrial union of shoe, leather and
hide workers.
Unity VS.. Division.
"To be organized on the basis of
industrial unionism," the official
call for the conference reads, "means
to put an end to the craft form of
unionism that divides and pits one
worker against the other.
"To establish the shop delegate
system under the direction of the
workers in the Shops" it continues,
"means to put an end to the rule of
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-06
RUM0R COL OMBIA
WORKERS FIGHT
ON; ESQ JAILED
Government Censors
Conceal Facts

BOGOTA, Colombia, August s.
The newspaper Ell TEMPO today re-
ports that eighty Communists have
been jailed in connection with the
outbreaks in Ell Libano. One hun
dred and seventy more are said to
have been jailed at Bucaramanga.
The stringent censorship, with
which the Colombian government has
sought from the beginning of the
outbreak to conceal the successes of
the armed workers and poems, pre-
vents the TEMPO from publishing
details of the jailings.
1t is presumed, however, that
among the prisoners are armed
workers seized during the first days
fighting and held on a gunboat on
the Magdalena River.
The continued government censor
ship suggests that the outbreak,
which involved three Colombian de-
partments, has not yet been con-
trolled by the troops.
Rumors from the interior intimate
that the revolt is continuing in the
forest regions where defense is COM
paratively easy and guerilla war
fare keeps the government forces at
bay.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-06
Judge Lyle,
Red Batter,
Makes Stage

CHICAGO, H., August 5. =
The Honorable Judge Lyle of the
Municipal Court, who has distin-
guished himself by his venomous
persecution and futile attempts to
railroad Communist speakers and
demonstrators brought before him,
has been making such an all round
spectacle of himself that he has at
tanned the questionable fame of
honorable mention"-on the vaude-
vile stage.
The headliners on current bill at
the biggest theatre in Chicago, Oh
sen and johnson, devote about five
minutes of their review to him and
the audience is kept in constant
howl. Dressed as keepers and
guards of an insane asylum they
search through the audience loudly
demanding Judge Lyle, who they
claim has escaped.
Only regretfully do they abandon
the search, saying, "After the bunch
of forget me-nots he handed Judge
Comerford, he certainly belongs with
us"--referring to one of Lyle's many
childish set-to's with judges of
higher courts who intervene to take
prisoners out of his clutches when
his antics go altogether too far be-
y.nd what is allowed even by the
most elastic limits of capitalist JUS
tice.
The Comerford incident involved a
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-06
CUTTER Still IN
CRAVE CONDITION
Left Wing Worker May
Die, Doctors Say

Lying all day unconscious in his
cot in the Bellevue Hospital, Jack
Jacobs, a clothing cutter who on
Friday was murderously assaulted
by hired thugs of the International
Ladies Garment Workers, yesterday
lowered between life and death.
Hundreds of needle trades work
ers have visited the hospital during
the last few days in order to learn
Jacobs condition. His wife and two
little children have been in the in
stitution almost continuously since
the Schlesinger thugs, armed with
blackjacks and knives, made the
murderous assault on the young
worker.
"The blood of this worker" a
statement of the Needle Trades
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-06

day today and secure information on
the fundamental problems of its or
ganizational work. The publicity
committee of the League issued the
following statement:
"To make the landlords reduce
rents, the tenants in all working
class sections must organize by tens
of thousands and refuse to pay the
oppressive high rents. In Harlem
today rents are not only oppressive,
they are outrageous and have re-
duced a majority of the people to a
state of starvation. Unemployment
is increasing and the rent robbery
is driving thousands Of people fur
ther into the jaws of crime. The
courts are clogged with rent raise
cases of tenants who are unable to
pay the raises. There are over 81
Continued on Page FiVe)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-06
Police Offer Bribes.

FALL RIVER, Mass, Aug. 2. (By
MaiD. - An International Red Day
meeting was held here Friday, Aug.
2 on Liberty Lot which is owned by
the National Textile Workers Union,
which gave permission to hold the
meeting. The meeting was under
the auspices Of the Communist Party
and the Young Communist League
About 900 workers and so police and
plain clothes men attended. Before
the meeting started the police were
lined up in front of the lot trying
to intimidate the workers not to go
in, but without success. The meeting
was opened by Peter Hagelias, chair
man, who said, "This lot is private
property and only workers are in
vited to the meeting and not the
bosses police"
Immediately Chief Feeny said,
"Now you keep the police out of this,
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-06
PRAvDA Halls
AUGUST FIRST

MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Aug.
5.-Pravda, official organ of
the Communist Party of the
Soviet Union, in an editorial
yesterday, draws the lessons of
the unprecedented demonstra-
tions of workers throughout
the world, on August /, against inn
perialist war and for the defense of
the Soviet Union. The article is en-
titled First Summary" and points
out the wide sweep of the demon
strations, the class nature of the
demonstrators, the militancy uni
versally shown by the workers par
ticipating, and halls them as a pre-
lude to new international struggles
that will lead the proletarian masses
to the last great fight of ALL" the
overthrow of capitalism in all capi-
talist countries.
The Pravda editorial states:
at is already clear that the Au-
gust demonstration of the interna-
tional proletariat far surpassed the
First of May demonstrations of re-
cent years. It's salient feature was
that it was not limited to capital
cities, but spread out into the pro-
vinces.
"The second point is the organized
character of the movement. It was
the first serious effort made by the
Communist Parties of the world to
test their hold on the masses. The
1st of August proved that we Com
munists are the best-organized, best
Continued on Page FiUe)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-06
HOOVER FOR HIGH
TARIFF ON SUGAR
Smoot Declares Sliding
Scale is approved

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5. - Sena-
tor Reed Smoot of Utah today de-
clared President Hoover was sup
porting his plan for a Sliding
SCALE" a scheme for sliding the
prices of sugar upward, so that the
cost Of living will rise a little and
the sugar barons, of which Smoot is
one, will profit.
The senate finance committee is
in secret session, rewriting the house
bill on tariff, and Smoot was before
them today.
The committee is believed favora-
bic to the Smoot plan.
Fixes High Prices.
The democrats, speaking through
Senator Connolly, point out that the
Smoot plan is price fixing meas
ure, and jeer at Hoover's inconsis-
tency as he fought price fixing" in
the farm debate.
The republicans are reported split
on the Smoot plan, Borah and other
former supporters saying sadly they
cannot see how Mr.. Hoover, who
said he was for only moderate
changes, can be in favor of such an
unpopular thing as higher sugar
prices.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-06
Workers to Welcome
Bush, Schechter and
Melvin Next Monday

The workers of New York are
preparing a great welcome for
Vera Bush, Amy Schechter and
Sophie Melvin, the three women
workers who are charged with
murder in the Gastonia trial and
who have been released on $1,000
bail each. The three frame-up
victims are coming to New York
to aid in the defense campaign of
the International Labor Defense,
and on Monday night a big well
come has been arranged for them
by the New York District of the
l. L. D. and the Workers Inter-
national Relief. The welcome
will be held in the Central Opera
House, 67th st. and Third Ave.
The welcome for the three Cas-
tonia prisoners will also be a pro-
test against the sentencing of
Harry Eisman, 15-year-old mem
Der Of the Young Pioneers. to a
reform institution because he took
part in a demonstration against
the Boy Scouts.
In addition to Bush, Schechter
and Melvin, there will be num-
bcr of other well-known speakers
at the Monday night meeting.
The three released women de-
PENDANTS will also speak under
auspices of the joint campaign of
the !. L. D., w. I. r. and N. r..
w. U. in Washington, Friday,
August 8; Philadelphia, Saturday,
August 10, and New Bedford,
Sunday, August IL.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-06
"SYNDICALISM"
CHARGE ON Three
Arrested at August l
Meeting at Hancock

HANCOCK, Mich, Aug. 5. = Au-
gust ninth is the date set for the
first hearing of three young work
ers, Sam Reed, George Powers, and
Velma Stark, charged with criminal
syndicalism. They were arrested at
a street corner meeting August 1,
and the evidence against them is
that they denounced Hoover's pro-
posed world war, and the imperialist
attack on the Soviet Union.
They were arraigned Friday be-
fore Judge Rouleau, and are held on
$4,000 bonds each.
The International Labor Defense
has an attorney on the case and will
defend them. Criminal syndicalism
carries long prison term penalty.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-06

drade's Negro Renaissance Orches-
ira is guaranteed to titilate the most
tone-deaf ear, even if the dancing
days of the feet that go with it have
long been put behind.
Then there will be an opportunity
for those workers who enjoy swim
ming to beat the Saturday night bath
by taking a plunga in the cool, moon
lit waters of the river. And bath
ing suit makes as good costume as
the next.
As the decks of the Peter Stuyve-
SAINT are well covered, giving ample
protection from inclement weather,
the cruise will come off rain or
Continued on Page Fiue)