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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-10
VIII. BUILD THE T.U.UL., ESTABLISH
COUNCILS OF UNEMPLOYED.

(a) Our tasks in connection with the T.U.U.Le
The T.U.UL. is the organizational coordin.
ator and leader of the unemployment Campaign
and struggle. Under the leadership of the
TU.UL. we organize and unite the struggle
of the unemployed and the employed workers.
Simultaneously with the development of our
unemployment campaign we carry on more in
tensively than ever before the campaign for
the organization of the unorganized, for build
ing the new industrial trade unions and the
revolutionary Trade Union Center in the United
States.
(b) The councils of the unemployed.
The Party members must take an active part
in the formation of councils of the unemployed
Through the activities of the members of the
Communist Party in various mass organizations
and trade unions, we strive for the affiliation
of the organized workers with the councils of
the unemployed and support the struggles of
unemployed. Definite organzational CONSOLE
dalton and the developing of the political char
acter of the movement of the unemployed must
receive the major attention of the Party.
TX. TASKS OF COMMUNISTS IN THE
FACTORIES.
(a) The slogan must be in the present cam
paign concerning the activization of the Party
membership:
l. Every Party member into active work
in carrying out the campaign.
2. From Communist theory to Communist
action
(b) Every Party member must be engaged
in the distribution of literature, FASTING Ct
posters circulation of leaflets, gathering Of
workers correspondence for the Party pres
and shop papers. In this work we can very
well utilize the women, children and the youth.
(c).Appeal to and organize workers to come
to our demonstrations to come to the meetings
prior to the general demonstration.
(d) To dramatic these demonstrations in
front of factories. and in the streets by using
of drums. lanterns flags, posters, which will
make our demonstrations impressive and call
them to the attention of the working masses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-10
By Fred Ellis

their armed forces and in many cases engaged
in an actual fight. 1t would be very instruc-
tive for revolutionary workers to learn about
all the details of the bourgeoise's mobilization
and use of its forces before and on August 1.
From the great abundance of material on this
subject we quote, as a characteristic illustra-
ton, from the issue of July 31st, 1929, of the
French newspaper LIE Messenger dAthene, pub
lished in Athens
Yesterday evening, at the Home Ministry,
a long consultation took place under the
craftsmanship of the minister ArgyropOulos.
There were present the commander of the
LIST Army Corps, the Projects of Attica and
Boetia, the commanders of the Gendarmerie,
the police presidents of Athens and Pyrea,
leaders of the security services" and min
isterial departmental chiefs. The discussion
dealt with the measures that should be taken
to maintain order tomorrow, August LIST, in
connection with the events announced by
the Communists. The Minister for
Home Affairs accepted the plan of M. Caly-
Wits (Athens police chief to suppress any
Communist demonstration in Athens. Ac-
cording to this plan the capital will be d.
vided into twelve sectors; in each of which
groups of police will be concentrated, while
gendarmes will patrol the rest of each Sec
tor. . Each sector will be placed under
the command of high police officer, who
will have at his disposal a company of in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-10
STARVE OR FIGHT!
A Challenge to the Unemployed

off or been put on part time with correspond ]
ing reductions in wages.
Then came the crisis. The government antk
cipated the rising temper of a working class :
made desperate by the spectre of mass unen-
ployment Conferences were hurriedly called.
Such mobilization of business magnates had
never before been resorted to except IN emer-
gency. The government was determined to
shift the burden of the crisis on the workers
through wage cuts and intensified production
drives, but at the same time it wished to create
the illusion of continued prosperity to blunt
the edge of the fighting spirit Of the workers
Officials of the American Federation of Labor
were called in for this purpose. They respond
ed with pledge to ask for no wage increases
and to prevent strikes. ~, e.. -
Wage cuts Immediately followed the confer
ences Further intensification of labor con-
tinued to increase unemployment The Chrysler
Corporation in Detroit closed down and laid off
some ten thousand men. Ford laid off 10000
in his River Rouge plant "in preparation for
another new model" Many textile plants
which had already shut down one week month
during the summer decided on a four-day week
schedule The minimum amount OF curtail-
ment agreed to by certain group OF Southern
cotton mills was q per cent In November
the Victor Talking Machine Company laid off
5000 of its $4,000 workers, 20 per cent Of the
working force. Similar reports come from
hundreds of plans in various industries thru
out the country.
Hoovers mobilization of the captains OF in
dustry to stimulate construction projects and
thus take the edge off the threatening en-
ployment slump failed miserably. The Annultst
summed up the situation and showed the fulfil
ity of such panaceas in its issue of November
%, 1929, when it said: "The depression itself
is in large part dut to what is now proposed as
the remedy namely, expansion in industrial
production"
Unemployment will be the greatest problem
before the United States in the next decade"
according to experts of the American Economic
Association and the American statistical Asso-
citation who discussed this subject at their an
nual convention in Washington, December 80,
1929. Unemployment, now the nightmare Of
five out of every ten Europeans, has never
been a problem for sufficiently long period
in the United States to influence our political
thought, but it is doubtful if that blssful state
will continue" said Robert W. Warren. He
foresaw more or less chronic state Of indus
trial unemployment during the next ten-year
period.
The American working class must face the
facts. Unemployment is no passing phase in
its life. For increasing millions of the less
fortunate, it has become permanent certainty.
For Lillions more it constitutes constantly
recurring menace. :.
ITO Be Continued)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-10

(e) Verbal agitation in the factories, read
ing aloud of our papers, discussion of the tasks
of the workers, the achievements of the Soviet
Union etc.
X. MOBILIZATION OF AGITATORS AND
PROPAGANDISTS.
(a) Every district is to call special meetings
of all speakers, editors, discussing the unem-
ployment campaign and how to bring it to the
masses.
(b) There must be special meetings of edi-
torial committees of all our language press.
(c) Every language bureau is to call meet
ing of all speakers and editors in their Ian
guage, where the unemployment campaign is
to be taken up.
In reports to the units, the following main
points must be discussed and brought out by
the speaker:
1. The political significance of the campaign
and the chief problems outlined in the statement
Of the Central Committee.
g. The organizational forms and methods
of work among the broad working masses, mob
ilzing them for the February 26 demonstra-
ton.
8. The necessity of drawing every Party
member into active work in carrying out of
in accordance with his political development
and ability in the performance of one kind of
work or another.
XII. HOW THE PARTY WILL JUDGE THE
SUCCESS OF THE CAMPAIGN.
The success of the campaign will not be
judged only the basis of the number of
meetings and demonstrations we hold The
uccess Of the campaign will be judged on the
ass of its organizational and political re-
ults. In other words, the unemployment CAM
aign will be judged by its results in the draw
ng in of new prolctarian elements into the
Party, the building of the mass organizations,
particularly the Trade Union Unity League,
the increasing circulation of our Central Organ,
the Daily Worker, and Strengthening the in
fluence Of the Communist Party.
Agitprop Department
Central Committee CP. Of LISA.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-10
BY GRACE M. BURNHAM,
Labor Research Association.
The Certainty of Unemployment.

Inc certainly Oh OHeHpiOy meht.
UNEMPLOYMENT is inherent in the capital
list system. A job today depends on the
most intricate organization of raw materials,
machinery, specially constructed buildings
adapted to the particular product to be manu-
featured. These industrial tools" are pri-
vately owned When the employer considers
it to his financial advantage to use this ma
chinery, he takes on men, pays them wages and
pockets the difference between what they pro-
duce and the wages he can force them to ex-
list on. When the employer considers 1t un-
profitable to operate his plant, he closes down
and fires his workers.
In the United States. where capitalism has
attained it's most complete development, the
government leaves the fate of the thirty four
million workers dependent on their jobs, en-
tirely to the private arrangements of the en-
ploying class. The transfer of the discharged
worker to another job lis in the hands of fee
charging employment offices, VIGOROUSLY un-
scrupulous, and often functionng as direct
strike breaking agencies for the employers.
Maintenance of the vast army of unemployed
left to private charity. Unemployment flour
ishes in such SOIL The number of workers who
lost their jobs through technical changes, mer'
gers, speed-up devices and the territorial shifts
of industry, has mounted into millions and the
number is constantly increasing.
The creation of a vast reserve army of the
unemployed is fundamental to capitalism. The
employing class depends on and does every
thing to stimulate unemployment. Women and
children are hired to replace the more highly
paid men workers. Negro Chinese, Filipino,
and Mexican workers are drawn on to repress
wages Advertisements in Southern papers
are made use of to get unskilled labor to come
North and flood the labor market. In this
connection, it is not the inclusion of these
groups of workers into industrial life which
renders unemployment more acute. 1t is the
fact that they are unorganized, forced to ac-
cest low living standards, and threatened with
starvation in order to provoke the competitive
struggle between them.
As the employers increse their efforts to
stem the tide of capitalist decline, the unen1-
ployment situation is bound to become more
acute The stock market crash of October,
1929, represented for the worker only the cul-
mination of months of industrial curtailment.
Hundreds of thousands had already been laid
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-10
The Question of Proletarian
Defense

- In the first instdllment Conrdde L. Alfred
pointed out: 'The organization or proletdr-
ian defense is a practical necessity in the
qUhole capitalist 1Uorld" The following IS
the second instollment:
-
(Continued)
In the question of workers defense as in all
practical questions of the class struggle, we
must first of all decide on the nature of the
question in the present phase of the struggle.
We can only find the answer to this question
by thorough examination of the peculiarities
of the present moment
Today the preparations for civil warfare
have passed beyond the scientific and organ
national stage they have entered upon new
stage. The whole machinery of bourgeois
suppression is finding more and more practical
employment, acts of open violence are daily
occurrence all over the capitalist world, even
in "civilized' countries, in countries of COM
plete bourgeois democracy, such France
and Austria, where, few years ago, they were
rare and isolated cases. Every day the news
papers publish reports of such acts of violence,
of armed attacks on workers meetings and
demonstrations, of the armed occupation of
local headquarters of workers organizations,
of mass arrests of the most active revolution
airy workers, etc. The international character
of this attack was demonstrated on August ],
when the capitalists everywhere modified
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-10
The Importance of the Feb
ruary Issue of the Communist

For the first time in the history Of the Party
we are now presented with a draft program on
American agriculture. This question was
grossly neglected and with the existing sharp
crisis in American agriculture, it is absolutely
essential that every Party member should ia
miliarize himself with this draft program and
begin real work among the oppressed and ex-
plotted millions of American farmers
The February issue of the Communist" is
also continuing interesting articles on the Ne
gro question, devoting special attention to the
tasks of the Party in this work among the
Negro masses in the South.
The article by Comrade Zinoviev: "Are New
Revolutions possible Without War" is a good
feminist expose of the opportunist theory Of
Lovestone and the International right wing,
concerning the primacy of external contradic-
tions in the capitalist development and decline
The February issue of the Communist" is
concluding the valuable and interesting article
by Comrade Buchartzev on the Theoretical
Knights of Opportunism' This latter part de-
votes special attention to the role Of Lovestone
and the opportunist anti-Lennist character Of
his program. y
The Second Congress of the Anti Imperialist
League, held in Frankfort, Germany, was in-:
sufficiently discussed and presented in the
United States The decisions of the Second
Congress of the Anti Imperialist League are be-
coming especially important in view Of the
growing attacks of American Imperialism upon
the colonial countries and development Of the
revolutionary movement in the colonies in the
struggle against American Imperialism,
In addition to that the February issue Of the
Communist" also contains interesting informa-
ton in the "News of the Month";" as well as in
teresting book reviews.
Hyder weekly herald., 1930-11-15
Salmon. River Road
 Work Closed Down

Work on the Salmon River 'oad improvement project was
 losed down Wednesday by the Johnson Gardner road con- .racting firm as a result of the indictment weather of recent days. The crew came into town Thursday ana Curtis Gardner managing superin- tendent of the contracting firm left for his headquarters in Portland, Oregon, Thursday morning. The company plans to renew activities as early next spring as climatic condit- ions permit,
Hyder weekly herald., 1930-11-15
Alaska Census Shows
 7.7 Population Increase

The Director of the Census has announced that the popu- lation of Alaska in 1880 was 59,278. This was gain of A. PAP over the census of 1920, when the population was 55,- 036.
 The figures disclose that the rate of increase in the territor- ial population was very small during the decade from 1920 to 1880, amounting to only 7.7 per cent.
 In the two previous decades, from 1900 to 1920, the terri tory sustained large population losses and the present populat- on is still considerably small ' than in 1900 and 1910, the census returns for those year> having been respectively 63.- 592 and 64,356. Between 1S90 and 1900 the population in. creased from 32,052 to 63, 592 In 1880 the population 33,42e and it was estimated that there were 30,000 people ic he Territory when the United States too it over from Russia.
Hyder weekly herald., 1930-11-15
Prominent Stewartites Welded

Miss Muriel Mary Crawfor i became the bride of MT. Will jam T. Esselmont at pretty church wedding in Stewart last Monday evening. The church was beautifully decorated for the occasion and the nuptial knot was tied by Rev. Moody of the Church of England. The ceremony was witnes'e'! by the largest wedding gathering ever assembled in the district, the church being literally packed to the doors. Being an exceedingly popular young couple, the wedding gifts W ,'e numerous and costly, consist ing for the most part of sterl- ing silver ware in varied hand some forms. The wedding w followed by a reception at the home of the brides pareots. MT. and Mrs. w. J. Crawford after which the happy couple sailed on the Catala for a hon. eymon trip in the south. They will return in about threC weeks and make their future home in Stewart.
Hyder weekly herald., 1930-11-15

Encouraging discoveries are reported in the September of ficial progress report of B. c. Silver Mines, Ltd, a copy of which was received from Lon don this week and is printed in full below.
 All work confined to No 6 level. Some further work done in Drifts 644, 645, and GAY, in- vestigating main zone to north west of 637 Drift. Encourag- ing country encountered, show ing low values.
 Drifting along zone exposed in 689 crosscut( AIS fit. from shaft) has shown this mineral ised section to be at least 70 fit. long, carrying heavy sulphides and showing low values. Some sideswiping done in 636 drift, commencing at junction of 631 and 636 drifts. This has exposed zone up to footwall and back shows heav- fly mineralised porphyry which will average $9.22 for length of 35 feet and an average ! width of 5 fit.
 A northwesterly crosscut is being driven, No 69S, at GIG fit from shaft, off Drift 631, to in vestigate area close to this drift.
 A total of 200 feet of drift ing, crosscutting and side swiping done.
Hyder weekly herald., 1930-11-15
Progressive. Farmer Does
 Well On Alaska Farm

The possibilities of progress i've farming operations in the Alaska Railroad belt are dis closed in a news report from Seward stating that A. A. Shonbeck practically cleared a $1O,000 farm investment in that locality in one season by employing modern farming methods.
 Shonbeck purchased 320 ac- res of partly cleared land last fall, and installed full equip ment, including a thresher, in- vesting total of $10,000. He cut during the present season 200 tons of wheat, oat and vetch hay, selling at $40 a ton.
 The Alaska Railroad offic- ials and the staff of the govern ment agricultural experiment station are said to be greatly interested in Shonbeck's oper- ations. E
Hyder weekly herald., 1930-11-15
Seven Lives Lost in Alaska :. Commercial Air Accidents.

Although airplanes have been flying commercially and regu- larly in Alaska for over a half decade, not single passenger has been killed during a con- mercial flight and the most ser ious accident sustained by a passenger on such a flight has been a scratched nose, accord ing to an interesting article on Alaska air accidents in Stroll CTS Weekly.
 Seven Alaskans have been killed in aerial accidents in the last three years and five of the number were aviators. The re- cent acident at Kotzebue add ed three to the death toll, but this accident was to a private plane which was not carrying passengers for hire.
 Pilot Danforth was the first aviator to die as a result of a crash. Russell Merrill dis D. peared last summer near An chorge. A piece of his plane was found later in Cook Inlet but his body was never located.
 Carl Ben Eielson and Earl Borland were killed a few days later when their plane eraHhee in Siberia, bringing the num- Der of Alaska's air dead to 4.
 The number was raised tn ' on October 12, when Pilot Ralph Vein and Fathers F. I. Delon and William L. Walsh were killed at Kotzebue.
Hyder weekly herald., 1930-11-15
GOOD PROGRESS ON
 POWER LINE SURVEYS

Continued favorable weather up to Friday has enabled the Portland Canal Power Comp any survey crew to practically complete the preliminary sur veys for the power transmiss- ion lines in the Hyder district and work on similar surveys in the Stewart district will be under way next week, accord ing to present contemplations.
 Surveys for the transmission lines from the site of the pro- iected 15,000 horse power hy- ro-electric plant on Davis Riv- CT were completed during the past week, as were also the line surveys up Salmon Riv- CT. Similar activities on Texas Crek were concluded some days ago. The latter survey ex- tended to the head of Texas Creek, while that up the Sal mon was run to the vicinity of the Big Missouri mine.
 A crew of six men has been employed on the line survey work. The company expects to place ten more men on the job in day or two in order to con- clude the local work as soon as possible in order to complete the line surveys up Bear River and along the east shore of Portland Canal to the Marmot before snow conditions become too severe.
 The survey crew at Davis River is reprted concluding the survey of the storage basin boundaries, w h c h extend about six miles up the river val ley. The survey will outline the storage basin boundaries at an elevation of 600 feet above the valley floor.
 The company now has 35 men employed on the various sur vey operations under the di- rection of Edwin R. Wright, resident engineer.
 Willis T. Batcheller, presi- dent of the company, is expect. ed to return from Seett,e lar. ing the coming week.
Hyder weekly herald., 1930-11-15
RYDER, ALASKA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER Is, ls3O
ELECTION RETURNS

Territorial election returns up to to. day, as received from the Juneau Elm pire this morning.
 Wiekersham, R., 5254;, Grigsby, D. 5034.
 Hardcastle. D., 33S1: Smith, R.. 6O40. Cole, R., 5342; Gaffney, D., 4514. Hesse, D., 4571; Johnson, Ind, SS3; Ullmer, R., 3S11.
 Karnes, D., 461S; Keller, R., 4S21. With only three precincts in the First Division unreported, Shakan, Port Al sxander and Coppermine. Boyle has 2323. Johnson. 237S; Judson, 2142 Mccormack, 1062; Paul. 2102. Samp. son. 2O67; Scott. 2072; Winn. 2333; Zeigler, 2445.
 For Senator Frame has SIS; Gard ner. 2906. Shattuck, 2305. Gardner has one vote lead.
Hyder weekly herald., 1930-11-15
First Alaska Long Distance
 Is Marriage Reported

While the minister and bride }tood behind a telegraph in- .trument in Minneapolis tel. egraph office and the bride groom was in the U. s. Signal Corps office at Anchorage, Alaska, William Kinsell, head )f the motor equipment depart ment of the Alaska railroad, md Vivian Brown, Minneapo- is girl, were married recently, according to Minneapolis press reports.
 Standing beside the operator n the Minneapolis office, the minister addressed the quest ons to the groom in Alaska. The messages went by wire to Seattle, by cable to Seward, md by land lines to Anchor age. The replies came back promptly. It took about ten minutes to put the questions and about the same time to re- ceive the answers and the whole ceremony was complet- I'd in less than an hour.
 n less than an hour.
Hyder weekly herald., 1930-11-15

Alex. N. Mcdonald, we'll known mining man, left Satur- day evening for Seattle. Rumor has it that he is making the trip in connection with an impend- ing deal for his mining ground in the Salmon glacier section.