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The Alaska fisherman., 1930-08-15

to marker as the warden ex- plains it, but on catching the boat of MT. MOrriSOn'S OUTSIDE the line, he arrested him and by methods akin to BLACKMAIL forces a plea Of guilty and puts the great United States Govern ment in the position of stripping a citizen of his entire earning even in a case where the local warden himself believes no law was violated.
 It seems to us that this pro- test is so well founded that you must by it's force lend our poor people the aid of yorr powerful influence.
 Yours respectfully,
 William l.. Paul, E. F. Morgan,
 Acting Secretary of Commerce, Washington, D. c.
 Dear Sir:
 Re: Your Letter of March 7th
 Last
 Either you did not read my letter of Feb 25th or else some body else dictated the reply and you simply signed without read ing it. In either case, your treat ment of the case is with the same indifference With which our complaints have usually been handled.
 You talk about the guilt of the accused E. Morrison as if that were a fact and not a result of your blackmailing policy. Of course the record shows that Morrison plead guilty, but that he did so to avoid a heavier penalty which he would have suffered if he had stood on his rights because of the unfair ,o,o ot;ooc of 1,o,,r C1oYoo rt roooot
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-10
French Government Hints At War on Soviet

PARIS, Feb. 9.-While the fran
tic conduct of the White Guard
Czarist Russians to "prove" that
Communists, or even more particu-
larly, the Soviet Ambassador, is re-
sponsible for the Disappearance"
of the white guard general Koutie-
poff, may be scorned, the fact that
the French government itself is TAX
ing up the absurd yarns is menac-
ing symptom of the intention of
France to seek the first chance ex-
cuse for a break with the Soviet
Union as a prelude to war.
Thus it is seen that the paper,
Temps" which speaks as a semi
official organ of the government,
editorially on Friday, INDUCED in a
violent and vicious attack on the
Soviet Government and it's embassy.
After a long diatribe against a
straw man of it's own making, en-
bracing charges that the O.G.P.U.
Of the Soviet Union is active in
Paris 'corrupting our workers, per-
lpetrating crime and then sheltering
under the fiction of diplomatic i'm
'munity," the Temps says, signifi-
cantly that it is necessary to end
such state of affairs"
Evidently the corruption" of
French workers by their voluntary
turning to the Communist Party of
France is what gals the French
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-10

in Great Britain on January 81
tota1ed 1,491, 500, compared with
1,473,400 on January 20-7an increase
of 1900 in one week.
1t is evident that the dozens of
unemployment demonstrations held
in various parts of the country have
shown the capitalists the militant
mood Of the growing army of I'M
employed. AS usual, the first to
rush in in order to foster the illu-
sion that the workers should look to
these capitalist politicians and their
fake tariff remedies" for solu-
ton Of their miserable conditions,
ar those who parade under the
labels of ''liberal," socialist and Ga
bor."
The fake Opposition" of these
elements to the Hoover machine
against the workers, will only add
to the determination and militancy
of the Unemployed Councils, More
than ever it is clear that the work
ers themselves through mass organ
ization and militant action will be
able to force the capitalists to pay
the jobless unemployment insurance.
Mobilization for the worldwide I'M
employment demonstrations on
FEBRUARY 26, must be pushed with
full speed!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-10
German Workers Defy Prohibition of Rights

the post and telegraph offices and
brought armored cars onto the
streets.
In Koenigsberg demonstrations
took place on the streets in three
places. They were organized by
the workers children and hundreds
of boys and girls marched through
the streets.
In Gumbinnen severe collisions
occurred between police and demon
strating. workers. A number of
workers were injured.
A street demonstration also took
place in Halberstadt.
Over 100000 Jobless.
According to official figures there
were 2,050,000 workers in receipt
of unemployed pay on the 18th inst,
plus 100000 receiving so-called
crisis support which is paid out
after the unemployed pay has been
exhausted. The "Rote Fahne"
reckons that the number of unreg-
istered unemployed is about mil
lion and the total therefore about
3,250,000.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-10
FOSTER TO TELL
HOW USSR Bull DS
Unemployment Drops
Where Workers Rule

With 100000 workers walking
the streets Of capitalist America and
the number constantly mounting, the
message that William z. Foster, ma
tional secretary of the Trade Union
Unity League will bring from the
Soviet Union at great mass meet
ing Wednesday night in Central
Opera House, 9th st. and Third
Ave, is Of vital significance to all
workers both employed and unem-
ployed.
Foster has just returned from a
visit to the Workers Republic and
he returns full of enthusiasm for
the gigantic Five-Year Economic
Plan of Socialist Construction of
which he made a special strudy. On
Wednesday night he will tell of the
wonderful progress in the building
of Socialism being made under the
Five-Year Plan, progress which has
astounded and filled with new fear
and hate the entire capitalist world.
All the proceeds of the Foster
meeting will go to build and
strengthen Labor Unity, weekly or
gan of the Trade Union Unity
League, and the meeting will initiate
a campaign for 5000 subscriptions
to Labor Unity. Tickets at 25 cents
are on sale at the TUUL, 26 Union
3d.; Workers Bookshop, 26 Union
3d.; Needle Trades Workers Indus
trial Union, 131 w. 28th ST.; Hotel,
Restaurant and Cafeteria Workers
Union, 16 W. 21st st
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-10
SOVIET SEES THREAT
OF WAR in CAMPAIGN
OF LEAGUE OF NATIONS
international Capitalism's Basis on Kulak to
Be Wiped Out By CoIlectivization Drive
Zone From Baltic to Black Sea To Be Speedily
Cleansed of Kulak By Socialist Advance

are regarded by capitalism as an inn
portant support in its struggle
against the Soviet Union. We must
draw the consequences from this
fact.
In order to consolidate our de-
fensive capacity the whole western
zone of the Soviet Union from the
Baltic to the Black Sea must be col
lectivised at high pressure. The
whole frontier zone must be COM
pletely collectivised in the shortest
possible space of time.
Tractors, combine machines and
everything necessary for the collec-
tivisation must be poured into this
district. In the frontier districts
the Kulaks must be completely eli
minated. That must be our answer
to the attempts of international
capitalism to find a basis inside the
Soviet Union for an intervention
against US.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-10
Church Spurns the
Unemployed Workers

Continued from Page One)
them but chloroform to dope them
and make them helpless before the
attacks of the bosses and their gov
eminent.
The gravity of the present crisis
of capitalism was also stressed and
the workers were asked to join the
Unemployed Council and fight for
"Work or Wages"
The fight for "Work or Wages"
must be a real and stubborn fight
to compel capitalist industry to sup
port jobless workers with unem-
ployment insurance, and this must
be linked to and demand for emer-
gency and immediate relief from
capitalist treasures. While capital
ism cannot solve unemployment, it
is responsible for it, and must be
held responsible by the working
class, which must not allow itself,to
be victimized and have the burden
VI ILG CIlSlo I'LL uSL upOll lCf DuG liitsob
demand relief from the capitalists
and their government.
The TU.U.L. Secretary also
pointed out that capitalism was I'M
able to solve unemployment, that
the working class must carry on its
struggles, aiming at the overthrow
of capitalism and the establishment
of Workers and Farmers Govern
ment-a Soviet.
hurry Melvin, member District
Buro, Y. C. L., discussed the posi-
ton of the young workers in the
present crisis and urged the work
ers to join the Vel. Twenty-Five
young workers and IL adults joined
the Unemployed Council, majority
of whom joined the Communist
Party and the Young Communist
League.
The Unemployed Council of
jamestown will hold another mass
meeting before the February 26
demonstration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-10
Murder, W.I.R. Says
of Utah MineExplosiOn
Continued from Pane

Continued from Page
criminal consequences of this policy
and has supported the militant Ma
tional Miners Union which fights
against the fiendish speed-up
schemes of the bosses, demands
proper safety precautions and COM
pensation insurance when workers
are injured. The struggles in the
Illinois and West Virginia coal
fields now being led by the National
Miners Union are therefore directly
connected with the Standardville
disaster and with the struggles of
workers in every industry. The
Workers International Relief has
established four relief stations in
southern Illinois and is preparing
to aid the striking Moundsville, w.
Va, miners. Every contribution to
the W.I.R., 949 Broadway, Room
512, New York City, is contribu-
ton towards the victory of the
striking miners and towards the
wiping out of such conditions as
made the Standardville disaster
possible"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-10

BERLIN (By Inprecorr Mail Ser
vice) Under the leadership of the
Young Communist League protest
demonstration against the police
bloodbath in Hartmannsdorf took
place there yesterday. After the
meeting the workers marched in
procession through the streets.
Yesterday workers demonstra-
tions took place on the streets in
Halle despite the police prohibition.
The attempts of the police to dis
perse them only attracted new
masses of workers. In face of the
determined attitude of the workers
the police did not dare to make any
arrests.
In Mischovitz in Upper Silesia
collisions occurred between demon
strating workers and police who at
tempted to dispense them. A num-
Der of workers were arrested and
many injured. A policeman was
also injured.
In Schneidemuehl over 1000
workers marched in procession thru
the streets. The police occupied
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-10
Textile Strike Starts
at Call of Union Board
(Continned from Pane Onel

Continued from Page One)
women and yet the old Associated
Silk Workers and the dead A. F. of
L. union, the United Textile Work
ers, never did anything to organize
the women. Only in the N.T.W,U.
do the women workers find equality
and find that their demands receive
full attention. Equal pay for equal
work and abolition of night work
for women are among the specific
demands Of women workers in Pat
erson.
Bart reported that 45 per cent
of all silk and dye workers were
young workers. Speed-up of these
young workers is especially intense
and the dye houses are worse of all.
Pay is only ST a week for girls
and boys who are expected to work
1916 hours a day and do the jobs
of men. The union fights for these
demands for all young workers;
minimum wage of 500 a week;
higher wages for all workers; equal
pay for equal work; 8-hour day, s.
day week for all workers; 6-hour
day, 5-day week for all young
workers under IS years; abolition
of child labor under Is years.
The convention instructed the in
coming district executive committee
of the National Textile Workers
Union to take all necessary steps in
preparation for a strike, the date of
which will be set by the committee,
acting in consultation with the ma
tional executive committee. Resolu-
tions adopted instruct the incoming
committees to intensity organiza-
ton of mill, shop and building COM
mittees. Called to action in readi-
ness for strike struggle, silk and
dye workers in the Paterson dis
trict of the N.T.W.U. are thus
Strengthening their forces. Many
new members have lately joined the
union and new speeding up of or
ganization work was made certain
by the convention.
The convention, which started
Saturday, was still continuing at
late hour this afternoon, but was
expected to end this evening. This
afternoon reports from other dis
tricts, especially New Bedford and
the anthracite coal region (Which is
also a big silk manufacturing re-
gion) were being discussed, and a
resolution for action was being
taken up in detail.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-10
NO u. S, AID TO
UNENIpL Dyed
Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page One)
help the Uorking class.
Neither La Follette's kindly crit
icism of his fellow parasite, Hoover,
nor the boss collaboration of the A.
F. of L., and the Socialists" will
prevent the mass mobilization of the
unemployed under the leadership of
the Trade Union Unity League and
the Communist Party for deter
mined fight for work or wages"
for unemployment insurance, and
this fight will be carried on to a
finish, in spite of Senator Fess'
statement that the Hoover admins
tration would not do anything sin
the line of granting unemployed
doles," for the jobless millions.
Another capitalist politician who
suddenly happened on the unemploy-
ment question was Governor Roose-
welt of New York, prop of the very
Tammany machine that uses its po-
lice force to attempt to smash the
demonstration of unemployed in New
York City. Gov. Roosevelt's bril-
liant scheme for the relief of I'M
employment is headed by the pro-
posal that "it would be better to re-
duce employment for all workers
rather than to eliminate any jobs"
This so-called dividing up the
work" is precisely what nearly all
the capitalists are doing now. Be-
sides firing hundreds of thousands
of workers those left on the job work
from one to four days a week--with
sharply reduced wages and are but
little better off than the unemploy-
ed. This little trick is just one of
the capitalist devices to forestall the
demand for the payment of unem-
ployment insurance. demand that
is burning itself into the minds Of
the American workers.
Those workers who are asked to
accept part-time work should above
all realize that the part time pay"
which goes with it is not just a
temporary arrangement, as unem-
ployment is permanent, and part
time pay is permanent aOage cut,
capitalist attempt to permanently
to,oer the living standard of the
aohole aCorking class.
No amount of lying by the CAPT
talist politicians on unemployment
or the crisis hides the fundamental
fact that capitalist economy in the
United States, as we'll as throughout
the entire world, is sinking deeper
into depression.
Even Capitalists Expect Two Years.
Lord Rothermere in an article in
the London Sunday Dispatch, while
echoing the optimism" of the Wall
Street spokesman, reveals the inter-
esting fact that even the exploiters
in the United States expect the cri-
sis to last at least two years.
Rothermere, however, overlooked
the fact that the crisis of capitalism
is not restricted to America alone,
and that right under his nose unem-
ployment is growing by leaps and
bounds. The registered unemployed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-10
JOBLESS RALLY ;.
IN CONNECTICUT
Militant Action Makes
Jail Doors Open

Continued from Page One)
workers, and pledged a fight for
unemployment demands, asking
SIS a week, and an additional So
per week for every child, and calling
for a fight against evictions for
non-payment of rent. The resolu-
ton was accepted unanimously by a
rising vote.
Tremendous cheers followed the
announcement of the slogans of the
Communist Party against imperial
ist war and for the Defense of the
Soviet Union. The disruptive ac-
tivity of the cops and stool-pigeons
was quickly squelched by the ex-
cellent discipline of the workers
present.
=. Greet Released Leaders at Jail.
Twenty-seven joined the Party at
the meeting. The two arrested
workers were released at 10 p. m.
A large group of workers waited for
them outside of the Jail and gave
them an enthusiastic reception.
The unemployed mass meeting is
a turning point in the class struggle
in New Britain. A Council of I'm
employed has already been formed
in Waterbury, Conn. Several fac
tory-gate meetings have been held,
and daily meetings are held at TIA
Bank st.
The mass meeting yesterday aft
ernoon endorsed the demands and
plans of action of the T.U.U.L., and
the Unemployed Councils, and for
the organization of all workers.
There are $4,000 unemployed in
Brass City, Conn. The factories are
running only three and four days a
week. The bosses are attempting to
utilize the army Of unemployed to
force down the already intolerably
low standards of the workers Many
jobless have already committed sui
eide. Six hundred families received
charity in recent weeks. The hos
pitfalls are crowded with starving and
sick unemployed.
Rose Ross and Chaunt were the
speakers at a mass meeting in Brass
City, Conn. Many unemployed
workers were present. There was
lengthy discussion and militant
spirit for immediate action. A reso-
luton formulating demands and ex-
pressing solidarity with the New
Britain, Bridgeport and other I'm
employed Councils, was adopted
unanimously.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-10
u. S. Holds 7 in Detroit
for Fight of Jobless

Continued from Pace One)
missioner, to Washington recent
ly, unquestionably to arrange the
present attack on Michigan work
ers, and their leader, the Commu-
mist Party.
Two other successful meetings
were held the same evening at Mar
tin and Yeman's halls. Over two
thousand workers attended the three
meetings. One hundred and forty
three joined the Communist Party.
This is only the start Of the work
ing class reply to repression, and
through the organization of the
Unemployed Council and the cam
raaign to organize the unorganized,
tho defense Of the Party is to pene-
rahe more deeply into the masses.
The Party is modifying against
this attack and will organize fur
Their mass meetings and demonstra-
tions for the struggle against the
Criminal Syndicalist laws and to
prepare for the International DEM
onstration on February &c to de-
mand work or wages.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-10

MOSCOW (By Inprecorr Mail
Service).-The Soviet economic pub
LEGATION, "Ekonomicheskaya Zhisn,"
deals with the appeal issued by the
secretary Of the National Minority
Congress of the League of Nations,
Evald Ammende, for relief action
under the leadership of the U.S.A.
on behalf of the Kulaks.
"Ekonomicheskaya Zhisn" writes:
In the present situation when Bit
Ter class struggle is proceeding in
the village, this appeal of Ammende
can only work as an active support
of the counter revolution and an
encouragement to the Kulaks to in
crease their attacks on the Soviet
power.
Ammende has disclosed one of the
most important details of the stra-
tegy of the capitalist world. His
appeal shows that the Kulaks and in
particular those of western origin,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-10
WOYReYShOus
Ub the Bosses
Pei Charity
(By q Worker Correspondent

by Worker Correspondent
CHICAGO.-I wish ever so much
you would publish my letter, because
l want the starving thousands and
deluded millions of workers to know
what awful fakes and imposters the
Salvation Army are.
Not so long ago l was discharged
from hospital, weak and crippled
with no home or residence to go to,
with neither money, job or anybody
to take care of me.
| had a few cents in my pocket
and with these 1 paid a car fare to
take me to the Salvation Army Re-
lief Department When l got there
l found many more men waiting for
relief. was cross-examined and a
note was taken of all my statements,
even my description was taken, and
then after they had the impertinence
to ask my history, pedigree and
more description, it was decided to
give me some form of relief.
was given meal coupons for
meals in the very worst possible
restaurant in the city. With them
1 could eat two meals at Is cents
each and one at 20 cents every day.
The hotel, was a dark, gloomy,
filthy and badly ventilated building,
unfit for human habitation. Most
of the beds were infested with YER
min. The floors and walls of the
building were all the time covered
with CRIME and spittle. The bed
room window had not been washed
in three years.
After week of this christian
charity 1 was told by the salvation
army considered they had done
enough for me and could not afford
to take care of me any longer, al
though they had recently raised sew
eral hundred dollars in Chicago.
The reason the salvation army
cross-examines applicants for charity
and puts them through a sort of
criminal investigation is, first, to
prevent any relief going to revolu-
tionary workers; second, to detect
those social outcasts styled "crimi-
mails" under capitalism and turn
them over to the police for the pro-
lection of the property-owning class,
and third, to prevent any workers
from trying to live of charity when
they could be making useful slaves
Of themselves in mill, mine or fac
tory, helping to pile up profits for
the capitalists.
Not a penny will I ever give to
help the salvation army and such
grafters, but many pennies l will
give to destroy them and help make
this a fit world for workers to live
inn. D. C.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-10
Red Army Journal Foresees War
Led by u, S.

Reports of the United Press on
Friday from Moscow stated that the
"Red STAR" organ of the War Com
missariat, points out that American
imperialism ''has assumed the lead
ing role in the effort to organize
intervention against the
Soviet Union" The report states
that Soviet opinion is that U. S. is
trying to settle the conflict between
Poland and Germany as the main
obstacle to a united armed attack on
the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-10

dren and family? I suppose we can
get along without money. Well
maybe Big Bill can, but there are
hundreds of poor men that were out
shoveling snow and didn't have cof-
fee and money even then. Organize
into Unemployed Councils, led by
the fighting Trade Union Unity
League!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-10
Phila. Police Out to Arrest All Knitting Mill
Hands
Hands

by q Worker Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA.-The police of
Philadelphia are running wild. Not
content with arresting strikers, any
hosiery knitter is liable to be picked
up and arrested, simply because
they are hosiery workers.
This actually happened when four
workers searching for a boarding
house were arrested by the notori-
Gus detective, Mike Slavin. AS a
Philadelphia policeman he is a
watchdog for the Aberle Hosiery
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-10
Pope for Holy War
on the Soviet Union
Continued from Paqe

Power of the workers and peasants.
While the letter drips venom
against the Soviet Union, where the
government of workers and peasants
is abolishing unemployment as it
builds socialized industry, and takes
care of what unemployed there are,
the Pope, has no word of anxiety or
concern for the over 100000 job
less and starving workers under
capitalism, and the day that his let
ter was issued the Catholic church
at jamestown, N. Y, was locked in
the faces Of the unemployed at the
order of the Catholic priest who
joined with the Chamber of Com
merce to thus show American work
ers that the church is on the side of
capitalist society.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-10
CHICAGO GRAFTERS
REFUSE TO PAY
SNOW SHOVELLERS
will Mail Pay When City Gets Money Starving
Unemployed Workers Are Told
Organization Into TUUL Only Way to Halt
This, Says Worker Correspondent
By a Worker Corrcspondent.)

by a Worker COrrespondent.)
CHIC A G o. w e unemployed
workers of Chicago shovel snow
and then starve. After shoveling
snow for the city during a recent
snow storm we are told that the city
will mail our pay to US when they
get the money. How about the chill
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-10

MOSCOW (By Inprecorr Mail
Service). he building of the most
modern and complicated agricultural
machines, the so-called combine ma
chimes, will be carried on at "Kom-
munar" works in Sapproshye and
It the new factory in Saratov. The
sKommunar" works will produce