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The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-06
FARM BOARD
 AND VETS GET !. ALL THE JOY
Kansas c. o. P. Supports Administration and Vir-
 ginia Democrats Stay ' with Al E. Smith

WASHINGTON, August 6.-Re- joicing and comfort growing out of yesterdays primaries in four States appeared to be distributed largely among the Farm Board and those Democrats who have never forgiven their brethren who did not give Gov Alfred E. Smith loyal and un- divided support in the last election. The vets found balm in Virginia where they won in the Democratic primaries where the wet and dry issue was drawn while the drys must be contented with the results of the Republican primary in West Virginia.
 In Kansas, Senator Henry J. AL len, who supported the Hoover pol icies, won the Republican nomina- tion to fill out the unexpired term of Vice-President Curtis. He had formerly been appointed to the po- sition by Gov. Clyde M. Reed. Gov. Reed, who openly fought the Farm Board, received 100000 votes for the Republican nomination for Cover nor. His opponent, Frank Haucke, got 136,000. These figures are based upon reports from 2,O87 precincts out of a total of 2,668. Gov. Reed particularly attacked the Farm Board plan to reduce wheat acre. age. Haucke did not make wheat reduction direct issue, however. Senator Arthur Capper, unopposed, was renominated by the Republi- cans and former Gov. Jonathan Davis, unopposed in the Democratic primary, will run against him in November
 Smith Supporters Win
 Thomas Burch, who attacked Representative Joseph Whitehead on account of his attitude toward the candidacy of Gov. Smith for President, defeated him and will replace him in Congress. Burch is wet. Senator Carter Glass was renominated by the D emocrats without opposition.
 In Missouri the entire House dele gation of ten Republicans and six Democrats were renominated. The Democrats nominated candidates in all sixteen districts. Their nominees include several former Congress men who were displaced in the Republican landslide of 1928.
 In West Virginia, James Jones, big coal operator, was far in the lead in the Republican primary for the Senatorial nomination to suc- ceed Senator Guy D. Golf, Repub- lican, who is retiring. Former Sena- tor M. M. Nicely, who was defeated in the Republican tidal wave of two years ago, by Senator Henry D. Hatfield, was unopposed for the Democratic Senatorial nomination.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-06
Veteran Sailing Ship
 Master on Last Voyage

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Aug. 6. Funeral services were held here yesterday for Capt. Gustav A. Schmidt, aged 60 years. He sailed bis four r-masted schooner William H. Sits here after seven months hazardous trip in Boring Sea. He died from an attack of the heart last Sunday.
 His vessel is one of the few craft of the type remaining on any ocean. f
 Capt Schmidt had a notable career in Alaskan waters. He was skilled in commanding steam ves- sels but chung to sailing ships.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-06
SALMON LEADS OVER HALtBUT
 FISH RECEIPTS


 Sixteen thousand, nine hundred pounds of salmon and 12,000 pounds of halibut were unloaded today at the wharf of the Juneau Cold Stor- age Company.
 The Fern, Capt. John Lowell, brought 12,000 pounds of salmon; the Aims, Capt. A. Bartnes, 29o0 pounds of salmon, both for the New England Fish Company, and the T3380, Capt. John Pademeister, 2,000 pounds of salmon for the Ju- reau Cold Storage Company.
 The Avon, Capt. Olaf Larsen, had the halibut. It commanded g cents and cents a pound at auction. The New England Fish Company was the buyer.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-06
MORE CUNBOATS ARE DISPATCHED
 TROUBLE CENTER
Achievements Are Ord cred Dispatched to
 Hankow, Changsha
OUTRAGES PRESENT
 SERIOUS SITUATION
Bandits and Com m unist Armies Are Commit
 ting Deplorable Acts ]

SHANGHAI, China, Aug. 6. - Arouse at outrages against foreigners by bandits and Communist armies, the foreign governments have ordered additional warships up the Yangtse River to re- inf0rce eleven gunbOats at HankOw and five at Chang sha.
 HankOw is now threatened by approaching Communists.
 The American gunboat Lu- zon has arrived at Hankow and is prepared to- aid the American gunboat Palos on which five sailors were wounded recently in barrage of fire from Communists while protecting Americans.
 Four Japanese destroyers are rushing to the scene.
 Three British soldiers were wounded in a Changsha en- gagement.
 Many missionaries are flee ing from Changsha and other inland points and reaching treaty ports.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-06
HOOVER NOT DECIDED ON
 HIS HOLIDAY
Vacation Plans Are Indef- inite-Two Problems
 Hold Attention

WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. G. As the time draws near, when President Hoover hoped to leave on his vacation in the Rockiec, plans remain indefinite.
 Faced by the drought problem and his selection of Tariff Com mission, the President has consist ently declined to discuss plans even with his aides at the White House.
 It is said at the White House, however, that so far as his in- tentions go. the announcement that he expected to spend at least two weeks visiting Glacier and Yellow stone Parks still stood
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-06
WRITES FIRST STORY AT 8
Associnted Press Pinto

From the time of writing her first published story at the age of eight years, Isabella Macdonald Alden, known to her world wide public as "Pansy." wrote more than 120 books. Her works have been translated into many foreign lan- guages, including French, Armenian, Japanese and Scandinavian Even after she had reached the age of 30 she continued to write for re- ligious periodicals.
 Born in Rochester, N. Y, on Nov. 3, 1841, the youngest of six chill dren, Isabella Macdonald received her early education from her fa- ther, Isaac Macdonald. who encour- aged her to write stories and report for him the sermons she heard at church, even before she was five years old. When she was eight, her first story, signed by her pet name, "Pansy," appeared in a Gloversville, N. Y, newspaper.
 Writes Helen Lester"
 Her next published work was written while she was a pupil-teach- CT in the Oneida Seminary at the age of about IT. It was inspired by prize offer from the Western Tract Society for the best book of stories setting forth the principles of Christianity for children After writing her story, which is pub lished under the title, Helen Les ter" the young author was dissatis- fled and buried her manuscript at the bottom of her trunk. It was rescued by a roommate and sent, without the writer's knowledge, to the Western Tract Society, just three days before the close of the
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-06
COAST GUARD FIRES UPON
 GUARD CRAFT .a
Mistaken Identity Results in Hail of Bullets
 Man Killed

BOSTON, Mass, Aug. 6.-Bullets fired by a Coast Guard motorboat off Ipswich upon a Coast Guard power surf boat, mistaken in the belief it contained rum runners, cost the life of Boatswain's mate Lewis E. Pratt. aged 30 years.
 The Coast Guard Board will in- yestigate.
 Pratt and Cleo Falkingham were searching in the surf boat for a boat reported to be afire. The surf boat approached the other boat in the darkness and was greet ed by hail of bullets and Pratt was killed, Falkingham said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-06
TODAY'S STOCK QUOTATIONS


 NEW YORK CITY, N. Y. Aug. 6.-Closing quotation today of Alas ka Juneau mine stock is 511, Alle- ghany Corporation 21A, Anaconda S0h, Bethlehem Steel 821s, General Motors 46A, Granby 24h, Inter- national Harvester 801s, Kennecott 39%, Montgomery-Ward 34as, Ma tional Acme 1874, Packard Motors IS, 145s, 14%, Simmons Beds 25, Standard Brands 20, Standard Oil of California 63h, Standard Oil of New Jersey 71M, United Aircraft 58%, U. s. Steel 166A, American Can 127%, Fox Films 45A, Hupp Motors 14A, Stewart-Warner 26.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-06

Sixteen persons from Juneau took passage yesterday afternoon on the steamship Aleutian for ports to the Westward. They were:
 William Sutton for Port Althorp; Maj. Malcolm Elliott, President of the Alaska Road Commission; Mrs Elliott, Ann Elliott. Stewart FL liott and Van Elliott for Valdez; MT. and Mrs. Albert Burton, Mrs. J. F. Homel, w.. L. Holmes and D. E. Sheriff for Cordova; Mrs. L. L. Helemkus, George P. Stanley, Mrs George P. Stanley, P. R. McGuire and A. Nylan for Seward,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-06
Australian Gold Field Bubble
 Has Gone Boom


 MELBOURNE, Australia, Aug. 6.-The new gold field bubble appears to have burst.
 The chance discovery of a nugget weighing 30 ounces in the Tangulla district that start ed a gold rush has been follow ed by no further strikes.
 Hundreds of claims have been begged out but no more gold has been nailed.
 Many prospectors are leaving the district in disappointment and newcomers are taking their places.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-06
White and Negroes fBattLe Ouer |BasebaH Canre

NEW YORK CITY, N. Y, Aug. 6.-Twenty seven persons were injured, seven seriously, when 400 white and negro pris- oners on Welfare Island battled yesterday afternoon on the U. s. Recreation Field as the re- suit of baseball game. Guards broke up the fighting finally by using streams of water.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-06
KETCHIKAN CAPITALIST
 BACK FROM LONG TRIP

J. c. Barber, Ketchikan capitalist, has returned home from a long trip through the States. He told Ketchikan people on his return home that conditions are better there than in the States, where the unemployment situation is serious.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-06
Miss United States Is Chosen As
 Queen of Uniuerse

GALVESTON, Texas, Aug.
 6.-Dorothy Dell Golf, IT.
 year-old blonde of New Or
 leans. who was chosen Mon
 day, as Miss United States, at the annual beauty pageant
 was last night chosen as Beauty Queen of the Uni } verse. Besides the title Miss ) Golf wins the $2,000 cash prize. Helen Hannah, as Miss } New Jersey, a brunette. was second. and Mariana Mivica, ) of Rumania, was third.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-06
Veteran Kills Wife, Son;
 Believed Heat Affected

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Aug, G. Charles Hall killed his wife and his son, aged five years, with an axe. then wandered back to the Veterans Hospital at Fort She'll ing where he is a mental patient. He was clad only in pajamas.
 Hall urged someone to go to his home. adding, Something may be the matter with my wife"
 The intense heat of last week is believed to have affected him.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-06
Many Injured in Clash
 Between Hindus, Moslems

LONDON, Aug. 6.-Karachi dis patches report l2 were killed and l50 injured in fighting between Hindus and Moslems at Sukkur, Northwestern India. The Police fired into the crowd. Two hundred were arrested.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-06

ST. GALL, Switzerland, Aug. 6. -Monsignor Sebastian Messmer R oman n Catholic Archbishop of Milwaukee, died here yesterday, very suddenly. He will be buried at Gold ach, nearby.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-06
HEFLIN GETTING UP COUNTY TICKETS

MONTGOMERY, Ala, August G. Supporters of Senator Thomas J. Heflin yesterday held primary elec- tions in two counties to nominate for County offices tickets to oppose the Democratic slate selections. The Heflin candidates in Senator lief lin's home county of Jackson will run as "Jeffersonian Democrats"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-06

Sam Rolf, cannery worker at Hunter Bay, is patient at St. Anns Hospital. He was injured slightly in the head and about the shoulders.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-06

Mrs E. H. Dahlgren, whose hus- band Is connected with the Bureau of Fisheries activities in Southeast Alaska, arrived here yesterday from Seattle. and will remain the rest of the summer.
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Unternational Newsreeil
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-20
BOSTON CAN GO OVER
THE TOP

was used with a change in date and place,
of course), but they were able to attract many
more new elements to the meeting than the
whole Party in Boston did at their meeting.
This also shows the need of making better
preparations for our meetings by big
ger distribution of leaflets and better mob
ilization of the Party membership and mass
organizations. Despite all their shortcomings
these neighborhood meetings must be recog-
nized as opening a new epoch in the life of our
Party and must be continued.
Win Negro Workers.
We should severely criticize ourselves for
insufficient work among the Negro workers
and beginning Immediately we must pay more
attention to winning the leadership over the
Negro workers. In work among the I'M
employed we have splendid opportunity to do
this but as yet we have neglected to do so.
The Daily Worker has also been seriously
neglected by this district. Many of the men,
bers are not yet subscribers and this is mex
cusable. A comrade has been sent out by the
district office to cover the outlying cities and
we expect these units to give this comrade all
cooperation possible and to see that every men,
Der Immediately subscribes to the Daily Work
err.
The following are the main tasks for this
district during the remainder of the period
during the recruiting drive: % More
cruiting of new members in the shops. (2)
Mass meetings in working class neighborhoods
by all units to mobilize the workers for the
March demonstration and to recruit members
for the Party. (3) Units in Worcester, Prov
idence and Negro section in Boston to immed-
lately organize mass meetings of this char
acter among the Negro workers. (4) All shop
nuclei to meet Immediately and prepare to is
sue shop paper. Those units that have al
L,- H. eIo
the second issue before March g. (5) Every
member not now subscriber to the Daily
Worker to subscribe Immediately. Every men,
Der to get a new reader for the Daily Worker
within the next ten days. g. Every effort
to be made by the members and units to keep
all new members. CD Every member to get
into action to help build the Party and pre-
pare for the mass demonstrations against I'M
employment March 6.
By carrying out the above the Boston Dis
trict can go over the top in the recruiting
drive and together with other districts be in
a much better position to go forward to build
ing our Party into mass Communist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-20

the Russian workers and peasants must be sup
ported by the workers in the imperialist and
colonial countries
2-There is immediate need of the forma-
ton of Anti-War Committees in the shops,
factories and mines for defense of the Soviet
Union.
3.-There is immediate need of the COmmu-
mist Party and Young Communist League reach
ing the armed forces of the government with
Communist propaganda, so that they will re-
fuse to shoot on our Soviet brothers.
4.-There is, immediate need of the creation
of Workers Defense Groups, for everything
possible will be done to keep the Communists
from leading the workers in demonstration.
(Already it is known that the National Guard
has been given notice for service on Unem-
ployed DayO
5.-The unemployed demonstrations and
strikes on March 6 must be utilized for con-
Meeting up closely the question of the economic
crisis, which has resulted in millions being
without work. millions working part time, and
q vicious wage slashing campaign being car
ried on against the employed workers-with the
contemplated armed attacks on the Soviet
Union. Undoubtedly the fascist of the United
States will be modified for attacks on the
Communists.
6.-The Communists must intensity their
work to expose and destroy the influence of
the social.fascst American Federation of La
bor socialist party and the renegade Love-
stoneites md Cannonites. In this period, the
imperialsts utilize their most despicable and
contemplate tools in the ranks of the working
class to induce the workers to continue capital
list rule. Matthew Vol, vice-president of the
A. r. of l.. is right when he says that the
struggle today is between the organization of
capitalist democracy and the social organ
izati0n of Communism.
THE Communists must organize the fight
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-20
By ROY STEPHENS.

THE Boston District can so over the top IN
the recruiting drive despite the fact that
it is far behind in it's quota of new members.
In order to do this, however, every member
must get busy and our work among the masses
must be intensified to a greater extent. Our
most glaring weakness at the present time is
the fact that we are far behind in the re-
cruiting of new members especially the re-
cruiting of Negro workers.
In shop nuclei and shop papers we have
passed the quotas as originally set by the
Central Committee. However, we can not be
satisfied with this for some of the shop nuclei
are not yet functioning properly and the shop
papers do not contain enough news from the
shops nor have the members been drawn in
sufficiently in issuing these papers.
Our quota at present is too high in COM
parison with other districts but we must do
everything to fulfill it. However, we must
severely criticize the sections and the district
for raising the original quota. 1t would have
been much better to have passed the quota
of the Central Committee instead of having the
quota, raised too high which has resulted in
making many of the members feel pessimistic
about the possibility of fulfilling the quota as
it now stands
A Slow Start.
We were too slow in getting into mass work
and as a result we got off to slow start in
the recruiting drive. During the first weeks
of the drive most of the new members re-
cruited were sympathizers of the Party who
had been very close to the Party for some
time. While it was essential to bring these
elements into the Party nevertheless the most
important WELD of activity of the Party, that
of winning the masses thru participation in
their struggles has begun only during the last
few weeks. We have been quite successful in
recruiting members at meetings of the I'M
employed but not very successful in recruiting
members in the shops. Here is where the basic
Communist activity must be done and the COM
rades in the shops must intensity their activity.
Many units have held mass meetings of their
own to appeal to the workers to join the Party
but most of these meetings were poorly pre-
pared. That good meetings can be arranged
in neighborhoods was proven by the success of
the Lenin Memorial Meeting held in South
Boston at which over $50 workers were pres
ent. This meeting was arranged week after
the Boston Lenin meeting and the same leaflet
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-20

against the use of injunctions, Paragraph 600
in New York, the sedition and criminal syndi-
calism laws, the registration and deportation
of foreign born workers, the organized employ
ment of gangsters and the underworld in at
tacks on the workers.
The fight against unemployment, against the
offensive of the, capitalists on the conditions
of the workers still employed, against imperial
list war and for defense of the Soviet Union
this is one fight of the working class led by
the Communist Party against the capitalist
class AMI the capitalist government
AS this is written, Premier Tardeu declares
that he will not resist the rising tide of de-
mand for severng relations between the French
imperialist and the Soviet government A few
days ago he admitted that 'the question of a
break with the Soviet government would have
to be solved not from the French, but from
the European angle"
Simple, plain Language! This will not be a
war of French imperialism alone against the
Soviet Union, but a united force Of the world
mperialist powers against the Workers Father
land.
Our answer must be: immediate energetic
mobilization of the workers in the shops for
defense of the Soviet Union!
Immediate organization of anti-war commit
tees in the shops and mines for defense of the
Soviet Union. Intense mobilization of the UNI
employed and employed workers for demonstra-
ton and strike on March 6! Immediate organ
ization of powerful workers defense groups
to protect the workers against the fascists!
Mighty demonstrations of unemployed and
employed workers throughout the country with
the slogans work unemployment insurance
defend the Soviet Union the workers father
land
The time is short-the danger is great! The
Communist Party and the workers must get on
the job!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-20
BY N. LENIN.


THE speech of the deputy Surkov in the
Duma debate on the budget of the Synod,
and the discussions in our Duma fraction over
the draft of his speech, have raised an ex-
tremely important and at the present moment
topical question. Interest in everything con-
nected with religion has today undoubtedly
taken hold of considerable sections of so
cety," and has also made its way into the
ranks of the intellectuals who stand near the
labor movement, and even into certain work
ing class circles. Social democracy must def
nitely make clear its attitude to religion.
Social democracy builds its whole world con-
ception on scientific Socaism-that is to say,
on Marxism. The philosophic basis of Marx
ism is, as Marx and Engels have repeatedly
pointed out, dialectical materialism which has
taken over the historical traditions of eight
eenth-century French materialsm and of the
materialism of Feuerbach in the early nine
teenth century-that is, of materialism which
is absolutely atheist and definitely hostile to
all religion We recall to mind that the whole
Of Engels' Anti-Duhring, which was read in
manuscript by Marx, accuses the materaist
and atheist Duhring of the inconsistency of
his materalism, because he leaves backdoor
open for religion and religious philosophy. We
would further call to mind that Engels in his
work on Feuerbach brings against the latter
the reproach that he fought religion not in
order to annihilate it. but in order to revive
it. to discover a new elevated" religion, ETC.
Religion is opium for the people-this Marx
list fundamental principle is the pivot of the
whole Marxist world conception in questions
LOT religion Marxism regards all present-day
religions and churches, each and every reli-
gious organization without exception, as in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-20
The Relation OF the Workers
Party to Religion

struments of bourgeois reaction, which serves
as a shield for the exploitation and deception
of the working class.
At the same time, however, Engels repeated
ly condemned the attempts of those who
wished to be more Left or "more revolu-
tionary" than Social Democracy and to intro
duce into the program of the workers party
a direct confession of atheism in the sense of
a declaration of war on religion. In 1874, in
the discussion of the famous manifesto of
the Communist refugees, the Blanqusts, then
living in exile in London, Engels treats their
noisy declaration of war on religion as folly,
and expresses the view that such call to war
is the best means to revive interest in reli-
gion anew and hinder the actual dying out of
religion. Engels blames the Blanquists for
their inability to see that only the class strug-
gle of the working masses, which draws the
widest numbers of the proletariat into a con-
scious and revolutionary political activity, that
only this is able really to free the oppressed
masses from the yoke of religion, while the
declaration of war on religion as political
task of the working class is piece of anar-
chistic phrase-making Also in 1877, in the
Anti-Duhring in which Engels flags without
mercy the slightest concessions of the philoso-
pher Duhring to idealism and religion, none
the less he condemns the would-be revolution
airy idea of Duhring that religion should be
forbidden in the Socialist society. Such
declaration of war on religion, he declares, is
'to out-Bismarck Bismarck" i.e. to repeat the
folly of Bsmarck's "Kuturkampf" against
the cericals, the fight which Bismarck in the
Seventies waged against the German Cath
Ollie Party, the "Center," by means of police
prosecutions of Catholicism. By this fight
Bismarck only strengthened the militant cler-