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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-21
Bv JORGE PAZ.

IT would appear that America was not dis
covered by Columbus by America YES
pucio; neither the Spaniard nor the Italian.
But it has been discovered by the Communist
international, at least as far as the problem
of the Latin American Indian masses are con-
cerned. Until recently we were most ignorant
of the existence of primitive rural economy
worth taking into account in the later solution
of the agrarian problem.
The men who tore away the mystery of the
ocean, breaking the limits of the known world
in the discovery of the land of golden legends,
shattered completely the toneless multitude of
Peru and Mexico, impelled by the hydropic
thirst of metal riches.
Speedy horsemen climbed the mountains,
forded the rivers, lost themselves in the i'm
mensity of the desert or in the labyrinthine
forests, possessed by devouring fever of en-
richment. Such was the spectacle Latin Amer
lea offered at the beginning of the Spanish
Conquest.
The rowdies, the ruined and ragged mobiles,
the ambitious captains thrown rut of impover-
ished Spain, travelled the tempting routes of
the Valley of Anahuac in Mexico or the Tiawa-
naku Valley of Peru, tracing their destiny and
synthetizing the motive of their enterprise in
the lines that they marked with their swords.
They poured into Latin America, more especial
Mexico, countries where "gold blossomed from
the ground" to make themselves rich.
If the legend of the existence of gold in
great quantity had not been woven as it really
was, America would have had another destiny.
Hence the massacre of hundreds of thousands
of Indians, by Occidental civilization" then
represented with territorial eloquence by Spain
of Ferdinand VII later by Phillip the Second
But when the gold did not sparkle in the
required quantity for the satisfaction of all the
adventures, the requirements of the kings and
the grand feudal senors of the metropolis, these
audacious adventures transformed themselves
into peaceful" landholders, a royal commits
sioners.
The sword of the legendary noble was hung
on the wall the initial impulse was halted and
the noble armed himself with the pillow and
learned to turn the sod by the methods of
another culture The bull was yoked; the war
horse hitched to the wagon. Along with MAIZE
native of America, shines the golden sheaves
of wheat From the sword and armor, tools
were made; the soldier and royal commissioner
became governors. An occidental government
with all its system supplants the regime of
primitive Communism that ruled in these two
civilizations.
In fact, the Spanish found two civilizations
in America, one a little different from the
other The Inca in the area which today is
Peru, Bolivia and North Argentina; and the
Aztec, where today are Mexico and Guatemala,
included in the last the Magyar civilization.
Industrious the first; industrious and warike
the second.
In Peru, the center of Inca civilization there
existed in the pre- Columbus epoch, the follow
ing rural system: lands of the king; lands
of the Sun, and lands of the community. The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-21
LATIN AMERICAN INDIANS
AND THE PEASANT PROBLEM

first belonged to the king, the Prince of Tawan-
tinsuyu in Peru, and to the native nobility
and warriors. One can say that the native civil
zations in these two parts of America lin the
rest of the continent the Indians were, in gen.
eraf nomads) were Enthusiastically of small
rural proprietors and communal owners, whose
greater pat were Pueblo Gown Indians. Hence
the tendency is found that tries to return to
this Inca Communism, which was nothing more
than the Russian "artel" These lands the Pueblo
Indians cultivated.
The other lands, those of the Sun, were dedi-
Gated to the gods of the Indians and their prod
ucts were destined to the church. We are not
forgetting that all the primitive peoples were
ruled by system of feudo- theocratic govern
ment. Another part of the products of these
lands were destined as reserves for times of
bad harvests
The lands of the communities pueblos,
in Peru called "Ayllu," belonged to the agra
rian communes and were worked in common
by family portions. These, as all the lands,
were cultivated by the people. By preference,
they worked first the lands of the Sun, then
those of the old, the sick, the widows, orphans
and soldiers in active service
Afterward, the people cultivated their own
lands and were obliged to aid their neighbors.
At the last, they cultivated the lands of the
Inca, the king. And as the lands were thus
divided, so were divided all kinds of wealth,
mines, herds, etc. The Inca state had no money.
One rule provided that any deficit in the con-
tributions of the Inca were covered from the
granaries of the Sun. No one able to
transfer land or to increase their holdings.
When anyone died, the land was returned to
the Inca.
This same form of community agricultural
I'LL: IL aao o,,I
the Council which administered it, the "call-
pullalli" The Council members were the old
men of the village or community. In the pre-
sent epoch of economic colonization by cap
italist imperialism, the national reformists
of our countries try to turn back to this an
cent rural system. They wish to go back to
the economic system now fallen astern of the
ship of history.
Chauvnist Attitude Toward Latins.
The presumptuous adventurer taught us to
despise the Indian. We spoke of the Indians
Glow passions" with emphasis, in the same
moment in which the picks of occidental (cap-
italist) destruction were tearing down all the
fortresses and temples of the Indians. To-
day, here in the United States, and even in
the ranks of the Communist Party, 1 have
noted with pain that there exists for us Latin
Americans, Olympic scorn, dangerous
tendency tnaI lnose comfadeS VINO are al
fected by it must manage to overcome as they
overcome white chauvinism, a prejudice of
the occidentalist, that is to say, of capitalist
culture, which must be replaced by the full
acceptance of the Party policy and the culture
of the proletariat, internationasm. This pre-
judice towards comes from the latent and
perhaps unconscious supposition that in our
veins there runs the blood of an enslaved and
outcast race.
(TO Be Continued)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-21
(To Be Continued)

the Soviets. In all 100000 women took part
in the work of the Soviets here. Compare this
with the United States.
Our first task is to organize them as work
ers in the unions, to fight their economic
battles.
To teach them independent political action.
To organize them for the world revolution
They are an immense factor. They are:
1. One-half of the population. 2. They are
now working in semi-war industries or indus
tries that can be Immediately turned into war
industries as they are 100000 in iron and
steel, 100000 in food, $4,000 in rayon, which
can be turned Immediately into gun cotton.
Bosses Want to Use Them in War.
In times of war they run not only the war
industries but all the mills, factories, trans
ports, etc. They unfortunately are the ones
who buy the Liberty Bonds-they help fight
the capitalist war To turn the wars of the
capitalists into civil war-into proletarian
dictatorship-they can refuse in times of war
to run the war and other industries for the
capitalists.
Our main and basic task is to orentate our
selves to the factories, mills, ETC. They are
the basis for work--to the unskilled and
semi-skilled This is the basis for the entire
work of our Party.
Every Big Factory Must Be Communist
Fortress.
But the question of housewives is an i'm
portant one, too. More and more, by the
thousands, are being forced into the factories
among the Negroes so per cent of the women
workers are also married.. The family as an
economic unit is breaking up. The women
1ust know that the old refuge of marriage is
one away with by the capitalists themselves
they go back to the factory the day after
icy are married. 1t is no more temporary
ate, which is one of the reasons hithertofore,
: was difficult to organize the women.
We cannot ignore the hundreds of thousands
wives of working men, for they are part
Of the working class, and as Marx said they
are the "slaves of the slaves" 1t is they who
help the men on the picket line. 1t is Ella
May, mother of five children, an ardent union
worker who was shot by the bosses thugs.
ford, Gastonia, in the dressmakers strike, etc.
And last but not quite least, they teach the
young to become Pioneers, Young Communists
and the future of our Party.
Women workers and working wives, rally
together with the men as fighters and COM
rades for the social revolution and proletarian
dictatorship, for only then will you emanci-
pate yourselves. Emancipate the working class
and you are emancipated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-21
AGAINST THE ANTI-SOVIET
AGITATION OF THE CLERGY
ABROAD

The Soviet law does not forbid religious
parents to bring up their children in rei-
gious spirit at home But schools in the
USSR are secularised, instruction in the school
is based on science, and therefore, the teach
ing of religion in school which clashes with
science, is considered harmful by our consti-
tuition. Let the grown-up person decide at the
age of IL if religion is necessary for him or
her or not. Neither is it prohibited by law
in the USSR for children to attend church and
listen there to the sermons of the clergy.
You ask what, in our opinion, will be the
result of the Crusade" announced by the
clergy abroad with regard to the activity OF
the League of Militant Atheists. / must say
that this campaign has given an impetus to
atheist propaganda, has given it political
character, has been and is to atheists an in
centive to explain to the workers the reac-
tionary character and the danger of this cam
paign for them. The political aims of thisN
Campaign" are so obvious that this gives us
an opportunity of exposing the religious or
CARNATIONS abroad as being in their entirety
in the service of the capitalists. This makes,
of course, all workers beware of any religion
and any religious organization. The sequel
of this "world protest" will be growth of the
anti-religious movement throughout the world.
The church will lose everywhere millions OF
members, and the atheists will get them.
The League of Militant Atheists is not Or
ganizing any campaigns in connection with
the Forthcoming day of international prayer
protest" This device of the clergy abroad is
already partly divulged. That which under
lies this buffoonery and which serves as a
cloak to certain capitalist organizations
and others, is becoming more and more clear.
In the press and at meetings, we are only ex-
planning the true meaning of this Campaign"
Our strongest weapon is-science and satire.
To both these weapons the campaign planned
by the clergy offers wide and fruitful field
of struggle
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-21
Women Workers Are Fighting
By ETHEL SHOR.

THERE are nine million women workers in
the United States-they are in the shops,
mills, factories, etc.
They are the most exploited section of the
working class. The most underpaid and most
beaten. They get the first wage cuts and first
speed-up systems.
Her oppression is double-first, she is
plotted as worker and then oppressed as
woman. Often she is a wife and mother at
the same time. Working in the factory long
hours under most unbearable conditions, COM
ing home after working cooking and cleaning,
and in addition is mother, bearing and rear
ing children.
The bourgeois laws for women are only
laws for the bourgeoisie women, granting
them big alimonies etc. The working woman
is oppressed on all sides. There is no ma
ternity protection, very, very few safety de-
vices, no time off to nurse her child Nor is
she given additional pay during the nursing
period. In fact, she hurries off the childbirth
bed in order not to lose her job.
Womens Position in Soviet Union.
In the Soviet Union-in addition to the ad-
vantages and the fact that the land belongs
to all workers and she as a worker shares
there is equality of woman and man in law.
1. Absolute equal pay. 2. Special mater
nifty protection-eght weeks off before and
after, with pay. g. Special time off for nurs-
ing. A. Additional one-third pay during nurs
ing period, etc. Social and sick insurance
etc., the same as the men workers, for only
with economic equality can come socis
equality.
There are 26 per cent of the women organ
lied in unions in Soviet Russia where thel
are only l per cent in the United States
50.7 per cent participated Town Soviet Elec
tion-in the needle trades 1872 per cent tool
part in election, altogether 71.9 per cent pollet
their votes. $4,000 housewives (you know how
much housewives count for here) took part in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-21

to pay union wage for shorter work week.
Naturally, only the overthrow of capitalism
can wipe out the unemployment and misery of
miners, but the demands outlined above will
help, and are worth fighting for.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-21

Fight the Right Danger. A
Hun dred Pr0letarians for
Every Petty Bourgeois Rene
gade!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-21
Workers! Join the Party of
Your Class!

Communist Party U. S. A.
43 East 125th Street,
New York City.
!. the undersigned, want to Join the Commu
nist Party. Send me more information.
Address .....;.........-.... City.........
Occupation ...................... Age......
Hail this to the Central Office. Communist
!ssg, 43 Fest 125th St., New York, N. X.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1930-07-17
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS

Notice is hereby given to all tax payers that the assessment roll of the Town of Wrangell for the year 1929 is now in possession of the Tax Collector o4 the Office of the Muni- cipality in the City Hall where taxes may be paid daily between the hours of to 12 A. M. and 1 to 5 p. m., Sundays excepted.
 All taxes are due and payable by August 1 without discount. One half of this amount may be paid by August 1 without discount. One- the balance paid by October S1st, but if no payment is made by Au- gust 1st taxes become delinquent and a penalty of fifteen (15) per cent will be added to the amount thereof, and interest on said tax and penalty shall be charged at the rate of eight (S) per cent per annum from date of delinquency until paid.
 L. B. CHISHOLM,
 Town Clerk.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1930-07-17
LIBRARY ACTIVITIES

Reports of library activities for both May and June were received at the July meeting of the Civic Club as follows: Books issued dur Ing May numbered 9S and maga- zines 63 with cash receipts of $4.75; during June, only 50 books and 40 magazines were issued and $3.45 received in cash.
 The library board has ordered magazines for the reading table for the coming year and is still engaged in cataloguing the old books in ad- dition to ordering new ones for each month. The last books ordered in- elude: The Courage of Marge o'Doone and The Wolf Hunters by Curwood; Alias The Lone Wolf by Louis Joseph Vance; Alabaster Lamps by Margaret Turnbull; A Modern hronicle by Winston Churchill; My Garden of Hearts by Margaret E. Sangster, and Anthony OVerman by Miriam Nicholson.
 The subscription for Hunter, Trader and Trapper has been al- lowed to expire because that maga- zine is removed from the reading table as soon as received. It is the wish of the club sponsoring the li- brary to give the patrons of the reading room the magazines they prefer but these magazines are not supposed to be carried away by thoughtless or interruptions indi- viduals. If they cannot be kept on the table for those who enjoy read ing them there evenings, it is use less to continue the subscription, and the above magazine has, there fore, been dropped for the present.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1930-07-17
RAsMUsoN OFFERS FINE GOLF
 TROPHY FOR LADY PLAYERS
Anchorage Timesl


 The most successful lady golfer of Anchorage is to be the recipient this year of one of the finest tro- phies ever offered for athletic abili- ty, and one which, unlike most tro- phies offered for similar effort will become the permanent property of the victor.
 The trophy has been presented to the Anchorage Golf club by D. A. Rasmuson. president of the Bank of Alaska and has attracted considera- ble attention because of it's beauty since being placed on exhibition at the bank here yesterday.
 Play for the trophy will be made at the same time the men golfers are competing for the governors cup and the same rules vii apply to both matches except that the lady win ming this years tournament be- comes permanent holder of the tro- phy, while in play for the gover- nor's cup the winner holds it for one year only until won for three successive seasons.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1930-07-17
BEAR GIVES CHASE
 TO FOREST RANGER

The Alaska brown bear seems to have taken decided grudge against Forest Service officers, says a state ment issued from headquarters at CordOva, which cites the latest at- tack. On June g, last, Ranger Chas. H. Forward and Trail Foreman Paul Jones were charged by a brown bear. a5
 Forward, who was armed, dropped the brute about 15 feet away. The supervisors office reported the incl dent to Regional Forester c. H. Flo ry as follows:
 Forward and Jones were locat- ing trail on the southeast end of Hinchinbrook island. They had just left the beach and were progressing some five hundred feet, following a grade along the sidehill. Jones was unarmed. Forward was carrying a .30-06 Winchester. Jones' attention was attracted by a movement on a cliff forty feet above them.
 At Jones' cry of warning, For ward whirled about just in time to see the bear leave the top of the cliff and make toward them. For tunately, instead of launching his attack directly over the cliff on top of them, MT. Bear angled around the end of it. This placed him out of Forwards sight for second or two and gave time to prepare for the re- ception. The bear made the bottom of the cliff, turned sharply ard made directly for the two men. As soon as he did so Forward "let have" taking the beast above the eye and stopping him within fifteen feet of his intended victims,
 "The bear proved to be a 500- pounder, which is small for adults of the species. He had two old bull let wounds, one of which was through the forearm an0 unhealed. This probably accounts for his vii cious mood and likewise for the fact that he went around the cliff in stead of hurting directly down 1t.
 "The fact that the men were nlak- ing considerable noise and that the wind was carrying directly to the bear indicates that the attack was made deliberately and with malice aforethought."
The Wrangell sentinel., 1930-07-17
J. K. NEv1LL DEAD

Word has been received in Wran- gell of the death of J. K. Nevill which occurred in the Seattle Gen. eral Hospital on July 4.
 Mir. Nevill's son, Jesse L. Nevill, was not in Wrangell when the ca- blegram announcing the death was received at the local cable office 80 did not learn of his fathers death until nine days after it had oc- cured.
 J. K. Neyill was born in West Texas 66 years ago. In the early days when West Texas was a wild country Mir. Nevill served as Tex as Ranger under his brother who was captain of the rangers. Later Mir Nevill turned his attention to mining and followed that line of business the greater part of his life. At various times he had charge of mining properties in the states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada.
 In 1906 Mir. Nevill came to Alas ka to take charge of a mining prop erty in the Valdez district. Later he had charge of property on Lem on Creek. After that he became in- terested in timber and engaged in logging operations for four years During the World War he entered the service of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries in the capacity of war den.
 In 1923 MT. Nevill came to Alas Wrangell Telephone Exchange con ducting 1t successfully until 1928, when he sold it to Charles Darwell, the present owner. Shortly after disposing of his interest here MT. Nevill moved to Seattle where he has since resided.
 MT. Nevill is survived by two sons, Jesse L. and W. R. Neville, both of whom are residents of AL aska.
 He was a member of Ketchikan Lodge No. 1492, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1930-07-17
INDIAN FISHERMEN BURNED
 IN EXPLOSION ON GASBOAT

JUNEAU-James Sharp and Eli Katanook, two Indian fishermen, were brought here Saturday after noon from Tyee, suffering from se- were burns about the head, arms and hands. Physicians after a first examination said they are in a se- rIous condition.
 The injuries were suffered on board the gasDoat Clara Blanche at the Iyee cannery when an explosion occurred. There is some mystery to the affair as there were no fires aboard the boat at the time. The Indians were taking their gasoline aboard when the explosion occurred blowing them off the deck. Imme- diately atterward the vessel sank.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1930-07-17

The special municipal election held at CordoVa recently to vote on a bond issue of $50,000 for a trunk sewer system and new bulkhead on First Street was overwhelmingly defeated. There were 197 voters registered and 148 ballots cast. Of the latter but one vote was in favor of the issue, and 147 against. It is believed, however, that the city council will find a means of repair ing the present bulkhead without a bond issue.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1930-07-17
Leaves For Seattle

Mrs. L. B. Cornelius of Peters burg was aboard the Alameda Thursday morning. She was en route to Seattle to join her husband who has succeeded the late Carl Schifferman as Seattle manager of the Alaska Glacier Sea Food Com pany of which Earl Dinner is the principal owner.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1930-07-17

The floating cannery Information al of the International Packing Co.,, has shifted her base of operations this year from the Ugashik to the Kuskokwim, taking advantage of the recent opening of the latter stream to commercial fishing for the first time since 1925.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1930-07-17

Arthur Evans, two-year-old child of MT. and Mrs. Arthur Evans of Koyukuk Station was bitten by dog at fish camp located at Bishop Mountain. The child was brought to Ruby by a gas launch for medi- cal attention but died just as the boat landed. Abdominal wounds caused his death.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1930-07-17

Canned salmon is by far the most important commodity produced by the fish canning industry in the United States, with 1928 valuation of $56,OS5,697, of which $40,469,- 3o5 was produced in Alaska and $15,616,312 in Washington and Oregon, with a very small amount la California.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1930-07-17

ws., was thin and underweish'' To me my mother said; ,ra.d .nst . niece of shonwaid's Oreao Before you go to bed followed nay mothers aus,'e, And ate shonwald's bread every
 night.
 You ought to see me now
 I certainly am fat siSh''
The Wrangell sentinel., 1930-07-17

NOTICE: Don't forget to get ,oar ., hread today at the American Bakery. It sure is good bread
The Wrangell sentinel., 1930-07-17

Fo1JND-Cash register Key. own may recover at Sentinel office os paying for this ad.
The Washington times., 1930-08-25
LADS Compel TE
TOMORROW

Playground athletes are await
ing the annual city-wide, field and
track championships which start
tomorrow morning on the Plaza
Oval at 10 o'clock. Iowa Avenue
will defend the title gained last
year. The leet Is expected to at
tract over 1900 youngsters with
SO teams competing.
Officials are: Starter. Harry G.
Helme; 'ju !ses at the finish. Ches-
ter Freeman. Chester Miles, Rob-
ert Wilson: timers, Holden
Ourand. Joe Mitchell, Paul Cas-.
sasa; recorder, Walte- Haight:
running broad jump, Herman
Riley, James White and Arthur
Hepburn; r1nning high jump, Ben
Kali, Arthur Marks and Robert
Costello; custodian Of prizes, Rer-
nard McCarty: clerk, Miss Maude
N. Parker; information, Roscoe
Conklin: referee, Richard s. Ten.
nyson: marshalS, MessrS. Gran.
dall, Price. nean. Lehr, Dobbs,
Wolfe, Tabler. Brandt, Tardusno,
Nally. Peak, DeBoskey and Me.
Cullough.