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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-14
CUT BUDGET AGAIN
PASSED IN CHICAGO
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, January l4.-Mayor Will
liam Hale Thompson and the econ
omy faction" of the city council were
at loggerheads again today.
The mayoralty forces in the council
were unable to halt passage last night
Of a budget calling for approximately
SIS ,0OO, 900 in appropriations and SUBJ
stantially the S. re as that vetoed last
week by Mayor Thompson.
The threat of the mayors veto power
dispelled any air of quietude that
might have followed passage. While
Mayor Thompson would give no inkling
of what he would do he said he would
speak in q message" at a recessed ses-
sion of the council Saturday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-14
NEW RULES OF ROBBERY LEFT
BEHIND FOR VICTIM TO READ
Notebook Per,lsed With Solemn Men Before 1923 L
Taken in Lunch Room.

book. Mr.. Solomon watched him curl
ously.
Suddenly the milk drinker came to a
passage that seemed to interest him.
He concentrated more than ever; then
leaped from his seat, flashed a menace
ing knife and ordered Solomon to hand
over his money.
When the robber had duly executed
not Solomon but his mission and had
departed with S293 of lunch room re-
ceipts, Solomon picked up the note book
which vIns lay open on the Punter' He
'Delicatessen, robbery q, with knife
or pistol -" and called the police.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-14
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, January IA rule book
for robbers was left behind last night
by one of that ilk, but he took Henry
Solomon's $293.
The robber sat at Solomons lunch
counter and ordered milk. What he
ordered is really irrelevant. but 1t gives
an idea Of what the 1890 robber is
drinking.
note book which he perused with
solemn nliefa.. He would take swallow
Of milk and then concentrate on the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-14
Home Town boy" Aids Village.

BARGA. Italy (P).-An anonymous
emigrant from this town, now in Amer
ice contributed 5000 toward restora-
ton Of Barga's historic cathedral. His
gift reached the mayor while the latter
was giving out prizes at the agricultural
fair
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-14
PLYMOUTH PLANS WELCOME.
Mayor Will Greet U. s. Delegation in
Name Of City.

PLYMOUTH, England, January IA (H1.
The municipality is arranging for an
official welcome to the American naval
delegation when 1t debarks here from the
S. s. George Washington, probably Fri
day, en- route to London. The mayor
of Plymouth will greet the delegates in
the name of the city.
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Mrs. Mates that her sons hair would
return under proper treatment.
Henry at first was bashful about his
mishap and did not go to the Park
View School kindergarten for several
weeks. He got over his bashfulness,
however, and returned to school.
The hair started coming back about
two weeks ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-14
Latvia-U. S. Treaty Signed.

RIGA. Latvia. January IL (P).-A
treaty of arbitration and Cancellation
between Latvia and the United States
was signed today by Foreign Minister
Balodis and American Minister Cole
man,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-14

South Africa will spend 100000
toward the proposed London-Cape
Town air service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-14
LOBBYISTS CALLED
GRAFTERS BY HEAD
OF INQUIRY GROUP

Continued From First Page.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-03
A Letter from Moscow
Moscow, June 1, 1880,

Moscow, June l. 1880,
Dear Mark
To begin with few general impressions:
Moscow is a lively, cosmopolitan city. In
America, we are still under the impression that
the Russians are slow moving. Well, that is
soon dispelled on arriving here.
Then, again, the foreigner is greatly i'm
pressed by the contrast of the old, side by
side with the new. Fzvoztchicks (teamsters),
flat carts, heavily II, with driver walking
beside the horse; wo; il with shawls over their
heads and faces so that only the eyes, tip
of nose and mouth are exposed; bearded old
men with heavy, dirty boots and long coats,
with sack on the back and shuffling for
ward, falling walk.
All this, and more, side by side with beauti-
fully painted new taxis buses, big heavily
laden trucks rushing through the streets at a
speed that New Jersey motor cycle cop would
not without question; bobbed haired women
with and without hats; men, neatly dressed
and clean Standardization style, without
mustaches, sturdy and brisk looking komso-
moltzes; groups of Red Army soldiers march
ing and singing-singing is part of the Red
Army; rushing and busting people.
The contrast is striking but every day one
sees more and more of the new, while the old
is surely diminishing and declining.
Moscow is buzzng with activity. New con-
struction everywhere Street after street is
ripped open, the narrow sidewalks are being
widened; the old cobblestone roads are repaved
with asphalt or flat stones. New sewers, cleo.
trio ducts, etc., are being laid out at the same
time. New routes for street cars are surveyed
and new tracks put in place. Brick buildings,
modernly equipped with steam heat, etc, are
erected in great numbers.
The day here is very long-it dawns at two
so that two and three shifts are used to speed
things up. In the center of the city, there are
many alterations and extensions There is
hardly a street in Moscow where there is not
some construction going on.
BREAD Lines?" No!
Another thing that strikes the foreigner here
is what is called here the otchered. This is
what the American newspapers often refer to
and misrepresent as "bread lines" This is an
absolute untruth. There are no bread lines
or soup lines here; there is no basis for such
things here. (Of this more la;er.) What, then,
is this otchered? In America we call it slime"
On Sunday evening before the Capitol
Theatre in New York, there is almost always
. big line, waiting to get in, or at Washington
Square. particularly on a Saturday afternoon
in summer. thc~e is always line '~c;tir~ 20
get on Fifth 1elu'e bus Nov ther sr.h
waiting lines are very GUS here. They
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-03
are called otchered.

are called otchered.
1t might be we'll at this stage to point out
the reasons for these waiting lines. In Amer
lea the lying newspapers give the impression
that these waiting lines are due to the ration
ing cards. That is not so at all, for there
lines even where no rationing cards are needed.
The reasons are the following: In the first
place, the demand for goods here is enormous.
Everybody works There is no unemployment
herein fact there is shortage of labor-of
this, too, l shall write subsequently,, every
body has money and wants to buy things. The
Russians don't save mon they don't need to.
So div ; Z resV' 80 - v-oo'-
there are every day at least 20 per cent of the
workers off duty. There is therefore "shop-
ping day" every day-not only Saturday after
noon as in the States
Thirdly they have a system here of "pay
first" waiter or salesman will not serve on
anybody unless he had paid the proper amount
to the cashier, and obtained a ticket for the
particular meal or article. So the line forms
going in, instead of coming out. 1t backs up
outside where you can see it, that's all.
Everybody here recognizes that this "pay
first" system only increases the waiting lines,
but they say that it cannot be changed now.
In time, it will undoubtedly be changed In
fact, there are already many restaurants where
one can get served and pay after. 1t is the
foreigner who makes a fuss about the whole
thing and not the Russians. The Russians
don't mind it. They know the reasons for its
present existence and also know that it is tenn
porary and will not last much longer.
Here there are no factory districts or bust
ness districts as there are in the States. Here
the factories are more decentralized in location,
and the workers, as a general rule, live within
their factory neighborhood This is particularly
encouraged now The new workers homes are
being built around the factories. New factories
are built in different sec; ions with new work
ers' homes around them. To make this decen-
traized factory system effective, each fac
tory area is made self-sufficing.
So You Can Walk to Work.
That is, within that area, there are built
workers clubs, movies, theatres, parks, hos
pitfalls, Schools Fairgrounds, ETC. The workers,
therefore, even now to "a great extent, do not
waste much time in travelling to and from
work. To spend thirty minutes on the street
car to go to work is considered excessive here
| live what is considered here very far from
the place of work, AMI it takes me just 35
minutes to walk it.
The enthusiasm and optimism displayed here
g beyond descrip ion. One sees it everywhere
shops in the clrhs. in the street. in short
eare one ~ MS to-
In substance, the ple .ailing sentiment may
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Grievance Committee were "What about the
remuneration for my services?" Cappelini is
not going to behead this movement without
being paid to do so from the very people he
is going to sell out! The miners, of course,
will have to pay this crooked fiddler for play
ing his fascist tunes
concentration Of all the forces of the
state took place the day the strike broke. In
Pttston picketing was prohibited, miners were
arrested and slugged, the state troopers and
coal and iron police began to play their usual
strke-breaking role The terror against the
N. M. U. was and is even more severe and
conscious--its meetings have been smashed, it's
literature confiscated and the mayor of Pitts
ton has promised that it's street or indoor
meetings would be Smashed" Once again
we see the speed with which every economic
struggle takes on political character.
The strike in the anthracite has raised great
and difficult tasks for the N. NJ U. and the
Party. The organization must be built in an
immediate strike situation Our prestige must
be raised by daily routine organization work,
by practical leadership and by sacrifice. We
must win away the leadership from traitor
Gus crew of misleaders who still enjoy great
confidence with the masces. We must buck
up against the state, the operators and the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-03
Navy Yard Nucleus Greets XVI.
Congress of Soviet Union c. P.

less fight against the right wingers, we the
Navy Yard shop nucleus are carrying on our
fight against the bosses and the A. F. of L
takers and misleaders. We have succeeded,
although are small in plumber, to organize
a shop committee. We have succeeded in ex-
posing the fake American Federation of Labor,
which is rejected openly by the workers
of the shop, and have been able to draw a
small number of workers into our ranks (the
Metal Workers Industrial League)
We the nucleus, pledge ourselves, G)--to
organize the workers of the Navy Yard in
Philadelphia under our banner and build
powerful fighting Metal Workers Union, (2)
To bring to these workers the program of
Socialist Construction, and the ever lettering
of conditions of the workers in the Soviet
Union, in contrast to their own ever worsen-
ing conditions, under the damnable bosses,
system (3)-to organize them for the defense
of the Soviet Union, so that when the i'm
perialists make their attack, we workers, sail
ors, and marines, will stand solid, as one in
the ranks of the working class, fighting side
by side with the workers of the rest of the
world for the defense of the Soviet Union.
Nothing will stop US in our work, and we
ready to do our part in burning the COM
ing imperialist war into civil war for the
defense of the Soviet Union and for the es-
adjustment of the rule of the working class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-03
June %, 1880

June 70, 1851
Dear Comrades:
THE United States Navy Yard Nucleus of
Philadelphia Pennsylvania, greets the Six
teenth Congress of the Communist Party of
the Soviet Union. Our nucleus is operating
in one of the biggest Navy Yards in the
United States, employing at the present time,
some two thousand, five hundred workers.
This Navy Yard, as the rest is being pre-
pared for the world attack against the Soviet
Union. New machinery is being introduced
daily. Workers are being sped-up more than
ever to complete what little work is left and
big lay-off, and possible closedown of the
Yard is expected within about two months.
This is due to the intensified speed-up, and
the fact that the U. S. Navy Dept. is giving
the work to the private boss-controlled ship
yards There the workers get lower wages,
work longer hours, work piece work There
the speed-up is already becoming unbearable.
About two thousand marines and sailors are
on hand all the time to be used against the
workers. These enlisted men get two dollars
a day for the same work a civilian gets the
low average wage of four dollars and fifty
cents day (including apprentices and young
workers).
While you comrades of the Communist
Party of the Soviet Union are discussing the
building of Socialism, and carrying out ruth
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Boylan machine, besides the Cappelini crew.
We must make up for months of delay in
practical organization work.
For the Party, as a whole, we must learn
this important lesson. That in places and
situations where big struggles loom our Red
unions and the Party must pay special at
tention, sending in forces, strengthen the or
ganization, prepare the masses for struggle
Without organization we are helpless to give
leadership in any strike. Without organza-
ton we cannot hope to lead any struggle
Without day to day work, building mine and
factory committees, without building up our
revolutionary trade unions, we will simply
have more repetitions of Elizabethtons, New
Orleans, Marions, Aberles Tin PHILADELPHIA
and anthracite. Then the forward surge of the
radicalzed masses will sweep on--not with us
at the head--but rushing behind and trying to
catch up The fight is still in it's elementary
stages, and, with proper attention, correct lead
ership, intensive work and preparation we can
ard will lead the American workers into rev.
olutionsry battles against the capitalist class
because the objective situation is such that
the masses have no other recourse but to bat
tie ana must see to it that it is under
revolutionary leadership and along revolution
airy lines.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-03
By p. FRANKFELD.

WITH the opening of the Party Convention
" on Saturday last we received wire in
forming US of strike in the Penn. Coal Co.
collieries involving thousands of miners. This
article is being written while our Party Con-
vention is still in session, discussin and laying
down the Party line for the next immediate
period.
1t is of the greatest Importance for our
Party as a whole to consider we'll and seri-
ously the lessons of this spontaneous strike
that broke out in the hard coal regions. 1t
is of the greatest Importance for our Party
to profit from these experiences and to note
the danger signals contained in this struggle
for our Party as the leader of the working
class.
The rehabilitation of the masses through
out the country is proceeding at rapid though
uneven tempo. The rehabilitation of the work.
ers is mounting to much higher stage as a
result of their rapidly deteriorating conditions.
The attack of the bourgeoisie against the work
ing and living standards of the workers is
entering much acuter stage due to the grow
ing intensity of the present economic crisis.
Our Party must realize that the wage-cutting
campaign of the bosses is really only begun,
and the wage-cuts announced by the Rookie
Teller interests in West Virginia, the 10 per
cent cut in Minnesota, ETC., are only the pre-
liminary steps of what is to follow for the
rest of the working cass.
In the anthracite, the last five-year "agree-
ment' is coming to an end on September ]. A
new agreement must be drawn up. The coal
operators have openly announced that the
cost of production of anthracite coal must be
lowered in order to be able to hold onto the
rapidly contracting home and foreign mar
kets. Competition is rife. Lowering the cost
of production of coal is being accomplished
by (a) wage-cuts which is being given daily in
different forms; (b) speed-up, (c) introduction
of labor-saving devices in the mines. The mar
rowing markets, the further increase in the
use of substitutes for coal, the general indus
trial crisis which affects the big and small
consumer and which still further limits the
consumption of anthracite, the great increase
in production of Russian anthracite under the
Five-Year Plan; all necessitates an intensifi-
cation of rationalizing of the anthracite coal
industry in order to be able to alleviate the
growing crisis to some small extent.
Slogan of General Strike.
The Party and National Miners Union, re-
alizing the situation, raised the slogan of
general strike on September 1, in order to
mobilize the hard-coal miners against the new
agreement which will undoubtedly mean wor-
sened conditions for the miners. In spite of
the fact that the anthracite was to be the
base of the general strike in the fall, and in
spite of definite symptoms of rehabilitation
OF the anthracite miners, nevertheless the N.
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be described as follows: "Things are not so
good yet, true, but they are getting better and
better every day, and we shall make them still
better" When foreigner some old woman
point out some shortcomings here or talks about
the shortage of some of the essentials (of this
| shall write later) the invariable answer is:
at is nothing. 1t will be improved in due time"
Very often a Russian countered by asking,
"Well, and do you have -? and then he would
sing out long list such as, unemployment
insurance, old age pensions, two-four weeks
vacation for every worker, free medical and
dental treatment, workers rest homes, kinder
gartens, etc. etc.
Not only are the Russians enthusiastic and
optimistic, but they are also proud of their
achievements. "Give us three more years and
we shall show you what proletarans can
do" Truly, cannot help but admire them
and agree with them They solve their prob
lc~,s ard push ahead.
v'"l, t''"t is o'o.'~N Cor one sitting
Sincerely yours, N. Stevens.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-23

FIRE ALARM CALLS 1-3 Third and Franklin. IA Frcnt and Franklin. 1-5 Front, near Ferry Way. 1-6 Front, near Gross. Apts. 1-7 Front, opp. City Wharf. 1-8 Front, near Saw Mill. 1-9 Front at A. J. Office. 2-1 Willoughby at Totem Gro-
 cery. N 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. 3-9 Fifth and Kennedy. Al Ninth, back of power house. Az Calhoun, opp. Seaview Apts. 4-3 Distin Ave, and Indian Sts. AS Ninth and Calhoun. 4-6 Seventh and Main. AT Twelfth, B. P. R. garage. Az Home Grocery. 5-1 Scatter Tract.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-23

THE EMPIRE
 Is the Medium Through which the general public can always have its wants supplied.
 Closing time for classified advertisements: P. M. Closing time for display ad- vertisements: II A. M. Ten cents per line first in- eertion.
 Five cents for continuous Wubsequent Insertion. Count five average words to the line.
 Minimum charge, 50 cents.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-23
Marine News
 Steamer Movements
NORTHBOUND

. Alameda in port bound west ward. . Norco due late Friday or Sat . urday. . SCHEDULED SAILINGS Q Queen scheduled to sail from Seattle Dec. "A at 10 am. . Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver Dec. 26 at 9 pm. . Northland is scheduled to sail from Seattle December 29 at . g pm. . Northwestern scheduled to sail from Seattle December 31 at g am. SOUThBOUND SAILINGS Admiral Farragut scheduled southbound Jan. 3. LOCAL SAILINGS . Estebeth leaves every Thursday . night at 6 pm. for Sitka and wayports. . Pacific leaves every Thurs
 day at 10 am. for Peters, burg, Rake and way ports,
 ssesss oss s.s
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-23
LAST YULETIDE
 BOAT,ALAMEDA, COMES TO PORT
Seattle Freigh ht and Mail Aboard Craft Are Christ
 mas Character

Juneaus last Christmas boa of the present year-the Alameda, Capt. c. V. Westerlund-put into port at 2 o'clock this afternoon enF route from Seattle to Seward. She brought fair cargo, consider able mail and IA passengers for discharge here. While her freight and postal matter was chiefly of Yuletide character, their amounts were considerably below the de- liveries by other craft late last week and early this week.
 After unloading for several hours at the City Wharf, the vessel was scheduled to shift to the dock of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company to put off equipment for it. She is due to resume her voyage to the Westward at 8 o'clock to- night. Her passengers for this city Were:
 K j. w. Britt, J. M. Cramer, H. c. Hurlbut, Luis B. Egan, Freida Jo- hapsen, Margaret Metzgar, Mrs. L. c. Shaver, Miss Jessie Blake, Mrs. Anna Shudshift, Clarence L. Dunn, N. C. Doolittle, MT. and Mrs. J. A. Safoulis, Mrs. R. E. Robertson.
 sHhe Alameda has 30 passengers from Seattle for Cordova and Sew ard. She will be at Cordova Christ mas morning and will spend the holiday voyaging to Seward. She expects to be back here on her return to Seattle late Monday Or
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-23
ESTEbETK FROM SITKA DEPARTS
 FOR SKACWAy
Will Return Here from Lynn Canal
 Ports Tomorrow

With 13 passengers, the motor ship Estebeth arrived in Juneau yesterday from Sitka and way ports. Her list consisted of William Biggs from Hirst Cove, Michael McKallick from Chichagof, MT and Mrs. B. F. Ficken from Hidden Falls, MT and Mrs. Charles J. Springer, A. Smith, George Schlot- ter, R. w. Farrell, J. Farrell, Mrs. M. Blankenberg and J. Blanken- berg from Tenakee and Ben See from Hoonah.
 The Estebeth left for Skagway and Haines at o'clock this after noon, having delayed her departure to get mail off the Steamship Ala meda, which came into port from Seattle at 2 pm. The Estebeth will return here from her Lynn Canal voyage at ? o'clock tomorrow eve- ming.
 The craft will sail for Sitka leav- ing Juneau at pm Thursday
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-23
ELKS' SANTA
 DUE MONDAY

Santa Claus is coming to Ju- neau for the usual Elks' Christmas festivities. He has announced to the committee in charge he will arrive at Elks Hall next Monday night at 8 o'clock and he expects all the kiddies of Gastineau Chan nel to be there and the yearly re- membranes will be distributed.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-23
NOTICE TO SHIPPERS

All freight for Motorship PA CIFIC must be on wharf not later than pm. Wednesday afternoon. .s- PACIFIC TRANPOR- adv. PATTON co.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-23
TIDES TOMORROW
PACIFIC IS LEAVING
 EARLIER THAN USUAL

The Motorship Pacific has chang ed the schedule this week for leav- ing for Petersburg and way ports. Owing to the City Dock being closed Christmas Day, the Pa cific will leave at ' o'clock in the morning instead of 10 o'clock. All freight must therefore be on the dock Wednesday afternoon.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-23
ALASKAN SNOW COVER

The following amounts of snow in inches, were on the ground at various Alaskan stations Monday evening December g: Barrow 6, Bethel 9, Cordova 3, Eagle 16, Fairbanks g, Fort Yukon 13, Nome 6, Panama II.
 Ice on the Cinema Slough at Fairbanks was 24 inches thick, and on Snake River at Nome r inches thick.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-23

early Tuesday. She plans to reach Puget sound New Years Day.
 The next vessel to arrive in Ju- neau will be the motorshlp Norco next Friday or Saturday. She sailed north from Seattle last night.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-23
NORCO SAILS NORTH; } PASSENGERS ABOARD

SEATTLE, Dec. Relationship Norco sailed last night at 9 O. clock for Juneau and wayports with good freight cargo but only three first class passengers. Claude Cole is booked for Juneau.