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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-06
PARTY RECRUITING DRIVE

District as whole, can reach its quota within
the next few weeks
Chicago District is making better showing
in recruiting coal miners than Ohio. Already
60 new members have been recruited in South
ern Illinois. OF the total recruitment of $40
in District 8. 243 came from Chicago, 81 from
St Louis, rs from Milwaukee and IS from
Gary.
Detailed reports have been received of Al
of the 90 shop nuclei organized during the Re-
cruiting Drive. The industries in which these
of the Party. Textile industry, nuclei; leath-
err, 3; shipyard, 8; auto, s. auto accessory, .;
steel, 6; metal, 3; car shop, /; WIRE l coal
mines, A metal mines, 4; furniture, / rubber,
/; glass, l; quarry granite, l.
Thru these shop nuclei the Party will in
crease its influence and activity, manifold and
exercise determined influence on the workers
of these factories-provided, that each District
Committee, devotes the closest attention to
each nucleus individually. In the past during
the Lovestone regime, reports were sent to the
Comintern of over 400 shop nuclei existing.
This was mere fractional bluff. Such reports
had to be exposed sooner or later, because these
nonresident nuclei would act as boomerang
on such a leadership. Today we want no bluff
reports. Each of these shop nuclei reported
organized, must become functioning and active
nuclei, or the District Buro will be called to
strict accountability for this failure by the
Central Committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-06

Party-these principles are foreign to Ovens
petty bourgeois theology.
Owens was also a friend of the scoundrel
Jackson, who roomed with him in New York.
and with whose expulsion from the Party
Owens did not agree. Some of Jackson's sur
reptitious attacks against the Negro work Of
the Party, which he has prepared for sale to
the Negro bourgeois press, appear also in
Owens letters.
By expelling John Owens the Party is get
ting rid of another of the renegades, who
pose themselves in the fire of sharpening strug-
giles and increasing difficulties that confront
the Party today.
Central Control Committee of the Com
munist Party of the U. S. A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-06

Six months of crisis have past. They showed
conclusively that the crisis Of American inn
perialism is not as Lovestone, Hoover and
Green analysed it, a temporary depression of
the character of 1924 and 1927, but funda-
mental crisis of overproduction. 1t is a crisis
that effects every phase of capitalist economy
in almost equally sharp degree-steel, build
ing, automobiles, railroads, agriculture.
The ''upturns" in steel and automobiles are
mere upward, short jogs in general graphic
downward curve of American capitalist econ
omy. The curve was at first preciptiously
steep.
The farm crisis particularly overlooked by
the Lovestonite apologists for American i'm
perialism is growing sharper and deeper and
will have the effect Of dragging the general
crisis of U. S. capitalism into deeper desponds.
("Unfortunately. as it happens, renewed de-
preston is developing :. in the agricultural
sections of the country, despite the efforts Of
the government at Washington to prevent it,
and perhaps because of it, and this may serve
to arrest the (industriaD recovery and indeed
cause new set back."-The Commercial and
Financial Chronicle, Feb. /, 193O.)
The crisis of American capitalism is q part
of the world crisis of imperialism. It tends to
intensity the world crisis, and in turn is inten-
sified by it. The nearest approach to the pre-
sent crisis is the crisis of 1921, with the world
objective factors now much less favorable for
world Imperialism. There is the rapid build
ing towards socialism in the Soviet Union un-
der the Five-Year Plan. Mass unemployment
throughout the world is much greater than at
that time. There is the growing rehabilitation
of the masses. There is less favorable con-
dtion in the world markets than in 1921, The
antagonsms between the imperialst powers
have sharpened. All factors point to an in.
crease of the crisis of world capitalism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-06

THE 80 new members recruited during the
seventh week in District 3--incidentally,
.sAe lowest number recruited in any single week
ssxpept one since the drive started-were dis
str3buted as follows, Philadelphia s, Anthracite,
is, Chester 6, Trenton 6, Baltimore 4, Wash
iagton, D. c. and Wilmington l.
Buffalo district reports that although they
have recruited 105 new members, only rs per
cent of the membership is engaged in the drive.
awhile we regret the progress being made by
buffalo, we cannot be satisfied until the entire
membership is involved in the drive.
Cleveland, one of the districts making the
best showing during the seventh week. came in
with 63 new members-al from centers of
heavy industry as follows Cleveland 81;
youngstown, II; Canton, 8; Akron, A; War
rem and mining region, 2 District six is
still weak in the mining region.
away over its quota already. 1t was assigned
10 new members and already has more than
30. All of these are steel workers The Party
must entrench itself in these steel towns to lead
the battles of the workers.
In Chicago two Sections have gone over their
quota, Section and The first had quota
second had a quota of 35 and has already
reached As. Some more Sections will have to
intensity their activity so that the Chicago
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-06

duction of farm implements is indeed extreme
ly black. The production of farm implements
is an important feeder for the steel industry.
Hence the prospects for increased steel pro-
duction based on greater output of farm i'm
plements is hit on the head by the general
crisis of American capitalism.
This was graphically expressed by Secretary
of Agriculture, Hyde, when he issued fervid
appeal to the farmers on January 26, 1880,
to curtail their crops for 1880 because 1T is
unlikely the demand for farm products in the
summer and fall of 1880 will be good as
during last summer and fall The demand
for some farm products has been already af-
fected by the decline in industrial activity since
last June"
No amount of glib phrases from Hoover and
his imperialist cohorts can hide the funda-
mental facts of the crisis, and that it will
worsen in the future.
1t is impossible for the capitalists to plan
their production and the verbal attempts of
Hoover to achieve production increases has met
with ignoble failure.
One of the mouthpeces of the finance-cap-
italists, the Commercial and Financial Chroni-
Gle, very frankly admits that capitalism can
not begin to plan its economy, and this be-
comes more or less hopeless in the face of the
tremendous factors of the crisis. They state
(Jan. 25, 1930):
1T may seem strange that such decided
curtailment should have occurred, in the face
of President Hoover's request to all the lead
ers of industry, that production, in fear of
the i'll effects to folIowe from the stock mar
ket panic, should be maintained as nearly full
volume as possible. The fact is, however,
that such ascoursc was simply out of the
question"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-06
Development of Russian
Revolution of 1905

From a speech on MASS Strike, Party
and Trade Unions" delivered by Rosa
Luxembourg in Frankfort on Maine on
April II, 1910.
THE present, so to say, official period of the
Russion revolution rightly dates from the
rise of the st. Petersburg proletariat on the
22nd January, 1905, from that procession of
100000 workers in front of the Tsars palace
which ended in fearful bloodbath. AS is
known, the bloody massacre in st. Petersburg
was the signal for the outbreak of the first
gigantic series of mass strikes which, within
few days, swept over the whole of Russia
and carried the fiery cross of the revolution
from st. Petersburg to every corner Of the
country and to the broadest strata of the pro-
letariat
The st. Petersburg rising of January % was,
however, only the highest point of mass strike
already entered on by the proletariat of the
capital town in January, 1905. This January
mass strike in ST. Petersburg undoubtedly took
place as a result of the immediate impression
of that gigantic general strike which had
broken out shortly BEFORE in December, 1904,
in the Caucasus in Baku, and for time held
the whole of Russia in suspense.
The December events in Baku were, however,
nothing but final and powerful offshot of
that huge mass strike which in the years 1903
and 1904 shook the whole of Southern Russia
like a periodical earthquake and whose pro-
logue was the mass strike in Batum lin the
Caucasus) in March, 1902.
This first mass strike movement in the I'M
broken chain of the present revolutionary erup-
lions is only separated by five or six years
from the great general strike of the st. Peters
burg textile workers in the years 1896 and
1897, and if this movement appears outwardly
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-06
Laisve' Supports Daily Worker

The shareholders of the Publishing Assoca-
ton of the Lithuanian organ of the Commu-
mist Party, "Laisve," at their convention adopt
ed resolution urging all their members to
become subscribers to the ably Worker and
constantly to support it in every way. They
sent their revolutionary greetings to the Daily
with a check of $3.50.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-06
Workers! Join the Party of
Your Class!

Communist Party U. S. A.
% East 125th Street,
New York City.
!, the undersigned, want to join the Commu-
mist Party. Send me more information.
Address NORTHUMBERLAND. City. ........
Occupation OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Age.
Mail this to the Central Office, Communist
Party, 43 East 125th St., New York, N. Y.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-06
Resolution of the NEG Plenum

Note: The following is the second INSTALL
ment of the resolution adopted by the last
meeting of the National Executive Commit
tee of the Young Communist League of the
L. S. A.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-04-16
Dams Steam CaIiope.
(Cordova Times.)

For years Alaskans have listened to a remark able tune. Remarkable in that it is persistent des bite its discordance
 This is the tune of steam caliope voice less but racuous instrument with lures by it's shee insistence is heard by it's habitua disturbances recognized by it's wailings which encompass all tho misdirected energies of it's musician
 We remember several years ago when we hearc our last steam calope at a rowing carnival show We looked twice at the man who manipulated the keyboard of this internal noise producer. 1 The player was none other than the once famous Fernez Bartolla, forgotten for quarter of a cen tury, but once known genius on the piano It wasn't the man who making the dis cordant noise. It the instrument which he had stopped to play
 And so when Dan Sutherland pressed down on the keyboard of his steam caliope again today we paused for moment before uttering condemna- ton. Perhaps Dan was another Bartolla-a genius unleashing steam from the boilers of a circus lcaiiope.
 Insistent during the past few weeks, have been the playing of the well known tuneless caliope To- day it is an indictment of the large commercial interests which are developing the Territory A few days ago it was an indictment of the morals of the many good Alaskans who were seeking political appointments. Before that it the cannerieS, before that 1t was mining but always it was the same old tune on the old instrument
 It is the tune which says that corporation has no soul, that the big live the blood of the little, that everything is wrong and nothing IS right
 The song itself is a song without a soul for it is played on the most soulless of instruments-the caliope It can't be played without steam. It plays in jerks because no one would listen to it steadily and because it soon down and has to be fired up again
 We in Alaska know that the steamship com panies operating in Alaska do not wax wealthy off of the trade of the residents of the Territory We know that one big company, giving good service to a part of Alaska which would be isolated with out its ships, lost money last year and made prac tcaly nothing the year before.
 We in Alaska have a keen sense of patriotism We know what it to the standard of the American wage if our shipping were not protected by laws of commerce, industry protected by tariffs against competition
 But, being AlaSkans we not vindicative by nature We do not condemn Delegate Sutherland for his one-tune caliope We think of old Bartolla and we feel that Sutherland is a man of worth a man of ability man of aggressiveness who through some strange jest of nature started to play his theme song on caliope and is fascinated by the steamy incarnations of his own instrument
 And so, when the caliope plays we stuff cotton in our ears, and when it runs low on steam we get out our fiddles and play the song with soul on the instrument with soul-it is the song of in- dustry, the song of honesty, progress spring plant ing and autumnal harvesting
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-04-16
WHO IS MIR. BROWN TO BELIEVE?

In 1929, the Alaska Legislature asked the Post master General of the United States in letting new mail contracts on the Seattle-Seward and Seattle rates more nearly in line with those prescribed by the Merchant Marine Act of 1928, thus affordng Alaska trade and shipping similar encouragement and assistance to that given by the Act of the United States foreign trade" In House Joint Mem oral No 18 which set up a number of reasons for this request, the Alaska Legislature agreed animously that this desirable policy to follow. The memorial was passed by both the House and Senate without an opposing voice being heard It was duly sent to Postmaster General Brown, to whom it was addressed by the Legislature.
 Now comes Delegate Sutherland with a demand the Postmaster General to cancel newly awarded contracts, because they give the Alaska Steamship Company and the Admiral Line larger sums than fixed by the old contracts the very thing that MT. Brown had been requested by the Leg isature to do. MT. Sutherland gave as his reason that the increase was unjustfied and unauthorized Perhaps MT Brown is the better qualified to judge these matters of justification and authority; cer- tainly the responsible officer he is in better position to judge
 The Delegate and the Alaska Legislature have taken positions absolutely at opposites At the in- stance of the latter the Post Office Department has, apparently, raised it's allowance to the steam ship companies for carrying the mails The Dele gate demands he revoke his action Both he and the Legislature supposed to speak for the people of Alaska Under the circumstances which is the Postmaster General to believe?
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-04-16

the law concerning alcoholic liquors would settle the Prohibition question. Under our institutions of government it only be settled when public opinion concerning it is settled"
 In other words, the American people have them selves not made up their minds what to do with this thing which is disturbing the public mind as 9 whole. And until they do, reorganization of the Prohibition Enforcement Unit under the Treasury Department or it's transfer to the Department of Justice as is contemplated, will not bring about settlement. That position is unquestionably sound. While the proposed transfer is undoubtedly the proper step since it puts enforcement of the Pro hibition law in the hands of the agency charged with general law enforcement it will not in itself solve the Prohibition question.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-04-16
TREAsURY DEpARTMENT of-

TREASURY DEPARTMENT Of- flee of the Supervising Architect, Washington, D. C., April 12, 1930.- Sealed proposals will be opened in this office at 3 pm, May 12, 1880, for furnishing all labor and mater
 al and performing all work neces- sary for the installation of two el- ectric elevators, in the federal and territorial building at Juneau, AL aska. All prospective bidders are hereby notified that any bid sub mitted in response to this adyer- tisement must be accompanied by 9 statement of facts in detail of the business and technical organization of the bidder available for the con- templated work, including financial resources and building experience, etc. The United States expressly reserves the right to reject any bids
 n which the facts as to business and technical organization, finan- cial resources, or building experi- ence compared with the project bid upon, justify such rejection. The successful bidder will be required tC furnish performance bond of 50% of the contract price. Drawings and specifications may be obtained from this office. Jas. A. Wetmore, Acting Supervising Architect.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-04-16
MIR. COOLIDGE ENDS SPECULATION.

In the May issue of the Cosmopolitan maga- zine, MT. Coolidge, in copyrighted article has ex- pressed himself at some length upon several ques- tions of public interest Two of them both affect ing him personally, he has settled with admirable definiteness. He will not be candidate for Senator from Massachusetts next Fall for the Presidency in 1882 nor for any other public office at any time He will not attempt to tell the Hoover Administra- tion, or any other, what it should or shouldn't do about Prohibition, the Tariff or any other issue
 He writes regarding becoming candidate for office When I left Washington I left public office It is an incomprehensble relief and have no inten- tion of returning to it." This should end political speculation to his future activities
 And advising the Administration he com mented pointedly:
 The country needs to keep its faith in
 delegated authority, which is republic
 The more it permit its public officers
 to discharge their duties in accordance with
 their own conscience, without the interfer-
 ence of outside dctation, the safer 1t will
 be.
 I believe in permitting the Admnistra-
 ton to do just that and in giving it helpful
 support wherever I can.
 l should like to be known as a former
 President who tries to mind his own busi-
 ness.
 This is an excellent creed One not only admir- able for exPresdens but for every citizen whether public officer or private individual It has been commented that he who attends to his own business is sure of steady job In the case of MT Coolidge it is certain that it will be altogether applicable as he lives up to his declared intentions
 With true Coolidge caution that the country came to know so well during his tenure of the Presidency he approaches the Prohibition question But it is evident that he considers it far from being settled This agitation is destined to continue far into the future" "fanaticism on both sides" mo immediate prospect of its repeal" are some of the phrases used by him indicating Prohibitions present and future status.
 There is one significant statement, however, that indicates why MT. Coolidge foresees long drawn out struggle over Prohibition Probably few people expected a reorganization of a bureau for the ad-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-04-16
: Internal Possession.
(New York World.)

Under the Prohibition Law of Tennessee a man was tried for illegal possession, the prosecution contending that since the evidence showed he was drunk at the time specified in the indictment he must have possessed the liquor internally He was found guilty. The Supreme Court of the State however reversed the verdict holding that the evil dence was not sufficient. Thus we have more of those delightful paradoxes that have become so numerous as a result of Prohibition The object of the law presumably is to prevent the drinking of liquor; one would suppose then, that if a man possessed liquor illegally, and then drank it. he compounded his offense. Actually, on the basis of the Tennessee decision at any rate, he does exactly the opposite. He achieves innocence The moral is quite plain, and should be borne in mind by all decent citizens If you want to avoid breaking the law, drink your liquor as soon as you see the dry agents coming.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-04-16
SEATTLE BUSINESS LEADER DIES.

In the death of Leo S. Schwabacher early this month, Seattle lost another of it's pioneer business leaders one of the group that was largely instru- mental in building up great city on Puget Sound. He was connected with Schwabacher Hardware Con- pany for over one-third century, and it's president for the past g years. He was also interested in the Gatzert Schwabacher Land Company and Schwabacher Bros, & Company. He was widely known throughout the Northwest for his business activities, and the Seattle business world will miss his counsel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-04-16

Delegate Sutherland protests against the Postal Department increasing mail contract prices paid to steamers on the Seatte-Seward run Maybe he would like to see mail shipments to Alaska by freight again.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-04-16

FIRE ALARM CALLS 1-3 Third and Franklin. IA Front and Franklin. 1-5 Front, near Ferry Way. l-6 Front, opp. Gross Apts 1-7 Front. opp. City Wharf. Ia Front, near Saw Mill. l-9 Front at A. J. Office. 2-1 Willoughby at Totem Gro. 2-3 Willoughby. opp. Cash Coles
 Barn.
 2-4 Front and Seward. 2-5 Front and Main. 2-6 Second and Main. 2-7 Fifth and Seward. 2-9 Fire Hall.
 3-2 Gastineau and Rawn Way. 3-4 Second and Gold. 3-5 Fourth and Harris. 3-6 Fifth and Gold. ~ 3-7 Fifth and East. 3-8 Seventh and Gold. 3-s Fifth and Kennedy. Al Ninth, back of power house. Az Calhoun, opp. Seaview Apts. 4-3 Distin Ave. and Indian sts. 4-5 Ninth and Calhoun. 4-6 Seventh and Main. AT Twelfth, B. P. R. garage. AS Twelfth and willoughby. Az Home Grocery. 5-1 Scatter Tract.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-04-16

New York used to have 1000 licensed saloons Now it is claimed that city has 35000 speakeasies No one has so far had the to figure out how many speakeasies there are in Chicago.-(Flor- ida Times-U -Union)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-04-16

French statesmen have advantage over those of other nations, in that every prominent French man becomes Premier after while.-( (Dallas News)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-04-16

But what difference should it make to any Senator even if the snoopers are on his trail as long as he has clear conscience and nothing con- traband in his locker?-( Indianapolis News)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-04-16

What this country seems to need as much as anything else just at present is a movement that will take the form of reform against further refcrm.- Philadelphia Inquirerl
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-04-16

The buffet in St. James Palace, which has been made dry in deference to the American naval delegaton, is losing money. Possibly because some other buffets are showing the American delegates even more deference.-(D Dayton, Ohio News)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-04-16

Life grows empty when nothing can deceive you says philosopher Think of the unoccupied space there must be in Senator Borah's life Rochester Democrat and Chroncle)
Seward daily gateway., 1930-04-03
JULIAN MESS |S
 KEEPING CITY 0F

LOS ANGELES, April 3. tP)- Los Angeles financial and busi- ness districts take their second shock at the hands of the new county grand jury when that body of citizens reconvene to vote new indictments in its revived inves- tigation of what Is popularly known as the Julian mess.
 Only the initial phase of the investigation was reached last Fri day when two indictments, charg- ing 34 well known men of the town with conspiracy to commit usury, were returned.
 True bills, it Is forecast, will charge conspiracy to violate the state corporation security, for con- spiracy to commit perjury and grand theft.