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show considerable acreage of timber being planted on other wise worthless land in the South and east. They also show a tre- r enduous acreage Cf growing timber on cut over land that has not been claimed for other uses.
 The acreage of tirlter in the United States is shrinking, of course, and in the future other materials will have to replace at least a part of the present uses of wood. Substitutes are making their presence felt even today in the lumcer markets and will increase in volume as lime passes. Personally I refuse t0 get excited over the possib- illty of a timber shortage in the future. I am willing to leave the handling of that crisis to science.
 Meanwhile the worlds de- mands for timber products are Eeing filled and will continue to tc filled as long as there is a tree available and a dollar prof 1t to be made in the transaction;
 he same thing applies to any of the basic products including oil and coal. The filling of the de-
 1and for basic products and the ability so to do, is the basis of our national prosperity today. Withdraw that ability and the COuntry's commerce and pros perity is at a stand still.
 Under the name of Conserva- ton of National Resources, Alas ka is being deprived of that pr
The Alaskan., 1930-02-14

the Menominees of W1sconstr are working for a bill similar to the one above.
 Full citizenship theirs with out the rights of citizenship. But with passage of this bill will come citizenship to the Indian as enjoyed by immigrant who becomes a citizen by adoption or the American born.
The Alaskan., 1930-02-14
Petersburg, Alaska
 Feb. 10, 1880
The ALASKAN,

The ALASKAN,
 Petersburg, Alaska
 Gentlemen:
 I have no quarrel with Forest " as a national function. I be- licve that there is a need for Su- pervision of timber cutting to prevent deforestation, although it has been proven that the puny efforts of man are of little avail if nature ordains other wise.
 It has been proven that all that is necessary to insure a new
 Ith of timber on land natur- Iy adapted to the growing of Der is the leaving Of seed trees and the protection of the young growth from the hazards c fire and the axe of man.
 Along the line of fire protec- ton of the Forest Department las done good service and would I~ better were it better f1nalc- ll which it deserves to be. We in the Tongass National Forest not have the fire hazard of Q Grver country, but we should and do appreciate the gcod work llg done along this line. But against the axe of man it is DOWerlesS. The sooner this is generally understood, the better.
 When land is more valuable for other purposes than the rais- ng of timber the economic pres are demands the removal of the timber, also vice versa, statistics
The Alaskan., 1930-02-14

Might is right;so it is-the right to bear the burdens of the weak, to cheer the faint, to up- lift the fallen.-Napier.
The Alaskan., 1930-02-14

Self love is not so vile a sin as self neglecting. Shakespeare.
The Alaskan., 1930-02-14
A STEP AHEAD

The rOttenness of the Indian Bureau was exposed last year by Senator Lynn Frazier of North Dakota and Burton K. Wheeler of Montana. It brought forth the promise of new conditions in the bureau by Secretary of the Interior Wilbur.
 Now comes Senator McNary of Oregon with Senate Bill S-2142 which is for the purpose of in cooperating the Klamath Indian tribe of Oregon. Which incor- poration will be under a board of supervisors s-one to be appoint cd by the President, one by the District Court and the third by shareholders of the incorpora- tion.
 The control by the bureau and Department of Interior to cease with appointment of the Board. Which board shall have all pow CTS as a municipal corporation with the added power to control
The Alaskan., 1930-02-14
\ SLIGHT MISUNDERSTAND-
 ING

Young Lady: Druggist, can you fix up 9 dose of castor oil Q that it will not taste?"
 Druggist: Certainly. If you will wait few minutes I will fix you up. Will you have a drink of soda while you are waiting?"
 Young Lady: Thank you, yes
 Druggist disappears behind the partition to reappear a few minutes later. "Is that all you require?"
 Young Lady: "Yes, thank you. Is 1t ready?"
 Druggist: "You've just drunk it."
 Young Lady: Goodness gra- cious, that was for mother"
 (Editor's note: The druggists diplomacy and tact" was al- right but it's results were not as anticipated by him.
 The Ketchikan citizens are considering adoption of an "ob- Sentee voters ballot" along the line followed by Petersburg ci- tiznnS
The Alaskan., 1930-02-14

M IHn FUNDAMENTALLY I11n InrTl !. 5=
The Alaskan., 1930-02-14

HENS GREEN HOOD SHIRTS 75c ea ? for 76c VEINS SPOR TSHIRTS CWhite) S1. ea ? for S1.Ol IEN'S RAINCOATS Sz.5O ca. 2 for S75 HENS CAPS S15O ga 2 for Sl5l GIRLS UNION SUITS (Wo0D S1.75 suit 2 for S1 76 CH1DL'S STORM CAFES AND RUBBER
 S2.25 for S226 LADIES NU STYLE RAINCOATS SS ea ? for $6Ol
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-24
DESCRIPTION RATES:
By ]. ]. BANTER.


7 THINK the Party is guilty of grave neglect
of duty in its work on unemployment. The
Party organized dozens of local unemployment
demonstrations terminating in an enormous
climax on March 6. 1t is now June. April 6,
May 6, June have come and gone. What has
the Party done about unemployment in these
three months? Nothing! Has the plight OF
the unemployed been ameliorated to any extent?
Not one whit! Then, wherefore the disparity
between the objective economic and industrial
conditions and the fight of the unemployed for
jobs and bread?
The Party and its membership are resting on
its laurels, sapping itself on the back, living
on its past successes. Meanwhile the army OF
unemployedy has increased from about 7,0OO,-
900 to about 5000, 900 and the local and ma
tional governments have done nothing to help
the unemployed-can't even get law passed
providing for the recording of unemployment
statistics. In other words, the political effects
of our efforts have been practically nil. And
capitalist sources themselves do not expect a
quickening of industry for at least six months!
What is the Party going to do during these
six months? Is it going to continue to talk
about March and the Katovis funeral? The
Party press and organization discussions are
replete with lamentations for the deterioration
and disappearance of the Unemployment Coun-
ellis And why should these Councils not have
disintegrated? Does the Party expect an or
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-24
PRE-CONVENTION DISCUSSION
The Party and the Unemployed

ganization composed of such organizations
al and political material to maintain itself
without a militant program of political action?
Of course mott If the Party wishes the Unem-
ployment Councils to continue, it must give it
some reason for it's continuance And the only
reason for its continuance is to fight mill
family for the alienation of the dreadful con-
dition of the council members and their fam
lilies.
In other words, as long as and wherever
widespread unemployment exists, we must fight
mihtantly against it. Not merely in the Party
press and in unit discussions, but in deeds.
We must Immediately organize local unem-
poyment demonstrations all over the country
and all over the world-wherever unempoy-
ment exists These local demonstrations should
be dramatized by eliminating in simultane-
GUS worldwide demonstration (similar to
March g. scheduled for about two months from
now-in August-perhaps combined with the
August 1 agitation. In order to prepare for
the demonstrations against unemployment by
the unemployed as well as by the employed,
the Unemployment Councils must be revived
This will mean hard work for all the Party
forces.
Any other course of action by the Party will
be an outright betrayal of the millions of UNI
employed and an undeniable rightward political
trend of the Party. Remember, we must fight
unemployment. not up to a certain date las
March g., but as long as it existsi
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-24
Party and League Relations

also of great organizational value in the build
ing of the League.
This is a real step forward and is the best
proof that the Party of this district UNDER
stands the important position of the youth in
industry and also the necessity of having
mass Y.C.L. The Party in other districts
should take the Chicago district as an example
and realize that the Y.C.L is a section of the
Communist Party and that at present the
League is of greater Importance than it ever
was before. But it is not enough that the
Party should admit the necessity of helping
the Y.C.L., by mentioning it in a resolution.
The thing to do is for each district to set itself
definite quota of young workers that it must
recruit for the Vel.
If this is done it will mean great step for
ward in getting the League out of its present
isolated sectarian position, and making it real
mass organization which will win the young
workers for the revolutionary cause Of the
working class.
Of course, the recent lately improved rela-
tionship between the Party and the League
in our district has not as yet reached the entire
membership. Recent events in the Party and
the League life are only the very first step
in this direction. 1t is absolutely necessary
that all hope should be put in continued i'm
provements of the relationship.
Forward to better Party and League rela-
tons in deeds!
Forward to a mass vel.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-24
For a Communist Weekly in
the South

The Communist Party will not be stopped. 1t
is one of the conditions of revolutionary work
that it must meet the persecution of the enemy
of the working class. But it must create the
best possible conditions under which it can meet
this enemy. The Communist Party knows that
the establishment of a weekly revolutionary
workers paper in the South will be power
full instrument in the organization of the work
ers in the South. We must have such week
ly paper. We must create for the southern
workers mouthpiece, an agitator, an organ
zer that can discuss their specific problems,
with them and for them. We must have in the
South paper able to speak the language of
the masses of workers and analyze and explain
their problems.
Such weekly revolutionary paper in the
South will add very considerably to the strength
of the revolutionary movement in the United
States. Every revolutionary worker should
therefore contribute to the fund for the estab-
lishment of such a paper. Every revolution
airy worker should raise in his union, in his
club, in his benefit society, the question of
the contribution to the fund for the establish
nent of a revolutionary weekly paper in the
South. Every reader of this paper should con-
tribute to this fund.
All moneys thus collected shall be sent to the
Daily Worker and will be publicly receipted
in its columns.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-24
By NORMAN SATIR.


WITHOUT going into details as to the i'm
IMPORTANCE of close cooperation between the
Party and the Young Communist League,
want to bring to the attention of the other
districts the good advance that District has
made in this direction. Unlike the attitude
maintained in the past, and still to an extent
being maintained in some districts-an attitude
that the League is some sort of step-child
and nuisance, the Chicago District has come
to assume very healthy and correct attitude
on this matter of Party and League relation.
The Party, seeing the weakness of the Y.CL.
in this District, its isolation from the young
workers and its apparent inability to grow for
the last year, has undertaken to recruit 100
young workers into the League. But this is
not ALL This district has also shown that it
understands the importance of the weekly
Young Worker, and has decided that, while
carrying on its Daily Worker campaign, the
Party shall also have quota of 800 subs for
the Young Worker.
In connection with the recent District Pie
mum in Chicago held in preparation for the
District convention, special youth conference
was arranged. This conference was attended
by the district committee of the League, the
Party section organizers, section agitprops
and leading members of the Party district COM
mittee. The conference was a real step not
only to bring ideologically closer the Party to
the League, and the League to the Party, but
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-24

duction was 90 for May, 1880, as against 100
for May, 1929.
CZECHOSLOVAKIA.-" anticipated re-
vival in general business has not material
ized." GU. S. Department of Commerce.)
ITALY.-"With few exceptions, all branches
OF industry and commerce are depressed,
money is scarce, collections slow, protested
notes and small failures frequent" (Com-
merce Reports.)
Exports for the first four
months declined 81 per cent from the same
period last year."
BRAZIL.-Coffee shipments have been COM
paratively light, with prices dropping.
NICARAGUA.-"The previously existing
depression in Western Nicaragua caused by
low coffee prices has been accentuated by the
seasonal slackening of business" (U. S. De-
partment of Commerce.)
SPAIN.-Business continued to contract
during May, and a further decline in imports
resulted from weakness in exchange and low
consumers income
r JAPAN.-Industria inactivity is being ac-
companied by increasing unemployment and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-24
Some Features of the Growing
World Crisis

THAT the world crisis is becoming worse, is
shown from various reports of the U. S.
Department of Commerce, and the latest
cable reports of the Wall Street financial
papers. In brief, this is the situation re-
ported from boss sources:
GREAT BRITAIN.-Severey depressed con-
ditions continued to prevail generally through
out British industry in May. Sales of domes-
tic and imported merchandise are reported
at sub-normal. Especially dreadful" reports
the N. Y. Annalist, "were the fallings off in
export of cotton and wooden goods" April
steel output was 696,10O tons, as against
$4,000 tons for March, 1880; May, 1880, steel
output was 692,s00, as against S4O,4oo for
May, 1929. Total unemployed registered
(Which does not include all jobless workers)
was 1,739,500-an addition of 634,83S in one
year.
GERMANY.-Says the Annalst: "At the
end of April, 20.5 per cent of labor union
members were fully unemployed, and III per
cent partly unemployed" May, 1880, pig iron
production was S59,675 tons as against 1,150,-
be6 for May, 1929. The official index of pro-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-24
By THEO. BERNER.

THE problem of work among the forelgn-born
workers is in fact of the greatest import
ance and it must be welcomed that the theses
as we'll as the pre-convention discussion deal
with this question. | am also of the opinion
that this side our Party work is being under
estimated, more by the membership itself than
by the leading committees. / base this on my
experience in work among the German speak
ing workers.
German speaking workers who join the Par
ty here are as rule already trained class
fighters who know very well that they must
not isolate themselves in foreign-language or
CARNATIONS from the general movement, but
on the contrary must in the first line be active
in the latter one. This standpoint is correct,
and the German Language Buro has always
considered it its task to bring the German
speaking workers into the general Party move
ment.
But here too, one can move too far to the
left and take a position which is in reality
injurious to the Party. Starting from the cor
rect position that work in the general Party
movement comes first, comrades often take the
view that work among the foreign-born work
ers is not so important, or, which shows an
opportunist position, that at is of no use."
Often these comrades are looking for reason
to avoid the increased work which activity in
the foreign-language organizations carries with
it.
This has two bad consequences. First, that
some comrades are too overloaded that with the
best of intentions they cannot participate in
the general Party movement, which is abso-
lutely necessary, as the convention theses state
correctly. Second, that work in the foreign
language mass organizations, activity among
the foreign-born workers in the factories suf-
fers, as there are not enough forces to do this
important work so that it could promise some
> success.
There are many factories in the United States
which employ predominanty German speaking
workers. especially in the machine, aeroplane
and textile industry. The writer has already
made proposals to the Party how, with the help
of worker correspondence in the "Arbeiter"
successful propaganda work among these ele-
ments could b. conducted. Just now, when a
new metal workers industrial union is being
built, such propaganda work is of the utmost
Importance. But it can only be carried on with
full cooperation of the Party itself.
Certainly, it is absolutely necessary that the
foregn-language Party members participate
more in the general Party work. They would
like to do that, if only they had not two, three,
and more times the amount Of work as the
members who participate only in the general
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-24
By MAX BEDACHT,


THE capitalist class in the South has greeted
the entrance of the Communist Party into
their territory by systematic campaign of
persecution. The bosses Of the South see very
well how the miserable wages they pay and the
rotten conditions they maintain in their shops
are radicalizing the workers. They see the
danger of this rehabilitation developing into
sentiment for organization: for trade union or
ganization as well as for workers political aC
ton.
Yet the bosses of the South hope that wit
the help of their politicians, their preachers ant
their newspapers they can stem this tide il
they only succeed in sitting the voice of the
Communist Party. The ruling powers in the
South therefore concentrate all efforts on the
suppression of the Communist Party.
The Georgia capitalist government has re-
vived an old law originally passed against the
chattel slaves, and has indicted trade union
and Party organizers under this law. For the
"crine" of organizing meetings and speaking
to the workers about trade union and Party
organization, these comrades are threatened
with a sentence of death--for "inciting to in
surrection." This persecution is not mere
gesture. 1t is serious attempt to intimidate
the masses of workers and to illegalize the
revolutionary unions and the Communist Party
in the South.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-24
Intensity Our Fight Against
Lynching!

of last year" decrease of nearly one-third
and still steadily falling.
The narrowing of the home market is vivid
ly shown by figures in the same journal,
which gives the total receipts since August,
1929-June 1880, of 8,072,184 bales, against
8,945,346 bales for the same period of 1928
20, showing a decrease since August 1, 1929,
of 873,162 bales. This lack of markets, the
lowering of the price of cotton forces the CAPT
talists to attempt to place the entire burden
of the agrarian crisis on the poor farmers and
the Negro tenant farmers and share choppers
in particular, by increasing the terror against
these workers to force them into actual
slavery. The small and middle farmers are
rapidly being dispossessed and their land is
being gobbled up by the big plantation own
ers who are able to use labor saving machin-
cry which enables them to market their pro-
ducts much cheaper than these poor farmers
who are forced to depend on hand labor.
These increased lynchings and the race riots
which the capitalists are melting place our
tasks, as leaders of the revolutionary strug-
giles of the workers, squarely before us. We
must intensity our anti-lynchng campaign!
We must Immediately go about the tasks out
lined for US at the recent anti-lynching con-
ference Our immed:cte tasks are to broaden
this campaign and secure the whole-hearted
support of every working class organization
in preparation for the great national anti
lynching day which will soon be announced.
Our recent anti-lynching conference, al
though there were many shortcomings, was
fairly successful, with 400 enthusiastic dele
gates present A resolution against lynching
was adopted, also a resolution declaring the
solidarity with the revolutionary struggles of
the Indian and Chinese workers, was adopted
unanimously. We cannot be satisfied with
enthusiastic meetings and merely adopting
resolutions. Our weaknesses at this confer
ence must be overcome by hard work to
broaden the conference and every delegate
that was present at this conference must
carry this enthusiasm back to his or her or
ganization and mobilize the workers 100 per
cent behind this campaign. We must imme-
diately organize our defense groups of Negro
and white workers to fight this capitalist
terror. We must put into action our program
of social, political and economic equality for
the Negro workers and we must support the
struggle of the Negro toilers in the South, for
self-dsterminatio
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-24
labor unrest. Shipping is quite dull Raw
silk prices are the lowest in fifteen years.

labor unrest. Shipping is quite dull Raw
silk prices are the lowest in fifteen years.
CHINA.--General import and export bust
ness in Shanghai is practically at standstill,
with extreme pessimism and depression ruling
in all markets. Credit conditions are strained,
owing to the failures Of several large Chinese
banks. (Strange, this was never mentioned in
the capitalist press reports!y These condi-
tions result from the heavy slump in silver.
lack of demand for foreign import goods and
a marked absence Of demand from abroad Of
Chinese products.
"Repercussions Of these conditions" says
the U. s. Department Of Commerce, "un-
doubtedly account for the falling off in Amer
lean export trade. 1t seems very likely that
depression in other countries is operating to
retard the recovery from Industrial recession
in the United States through failure to alb
sorb the surplus products of our farms, mines,
cotton fields, forests and manufactures"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-24
BY OTTO HALL.

by OIIO HALL.
BRYAN, Texas, town named after the late
William Jennings Bryan, notorious bull
thrower and fundamentals, recently con-
tributed its bit to the wave of lynch terror
that has made Texas famous and is now
sweeping the country.
A mob of Civilized cannibals," satiated with
hunting rabbits, methodist camp meetings,
and, deciding that this form of sport was too
dull, set out to look for larger game, and
Negro whose identity is not yet known was
seen walking along the road by this mob who
chased him into the woods about five miles
from Bryan, Texas, where they cornered him
and riddled his body with bullets. AS re-
ported in the yellow, prostitute capitalist
press, he was suspected of having attacked
white woman.
For the real reasons behind these lynchings
we have not far to seek. The deepening eco
nomic crisis which has hit the cotton belt par
ticularly hard and in futile attempt to check
the crisis the government advised the cotton
growers to limit their production, which is
throwing the burden of the crisis on the backs
of the Negro and white toilers, who, subse-
quently, are developing resistance in joint
struggles under the leadership of the Commu-
mist Party and revolutionary trade unions.
The following figures quoted from "The
Financial Chronicle" of June IL, 1880, show
that "The exports (raw cotton) from the week
ending this evening a total of 46,767 bales
against 64,202 bales in the corresponding week