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The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-23
LIGHT IS IN JUNEAU

s. A. Light, former resident of Juneau, is an arrival on the Ala meda Mir Light is on business con- nscted with his company.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-23
STILL RECOVERING

Wm. Ott, local theatre manager was reported progressing slowly in recovery from the burns which he received about ten days ago and should be able to return home the first of next week.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-23
TO TEACH AT CHICHAGoF

Miss Alberta Gallwas has ac- cepted position to teach in the school at Chichagof during the term just approaching. Miss Gall- was taught at Gustavus last year.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-23
Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal Church
Fourth and Seward s.reeta

REV. G. E. JAMES, Minister.
 "The church with the cordial welcome"
 Sunday School at 10 o'clock a. m.
 Morning worsnIp at Il a. m. Sub- ject The Challenge of the Christ" :"
 Epworth League at T D. m. The league subject for study is "The Relation of Poetry and Religion. !" Miss Magic Rogers is leader.
 Evening worship at p. m. Suo- ject, New Through Christi The young people will lead the singing in tine evening service.
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Resurrection Lutheran Church
Corner Of ThIru ana Main Sts.

Corner of I'nIro ana Main Sts.
 REV. HARRY R ALLEN, Pastor
 9;45 a. m-Sunday School.
 HOO a. m. Morning worship. Subject. If Thou Hadst Known. ," 800 p. m. Evening worship. "The Safeguarded Life" Come to the services Sunday and with us It will make you feel better and happier all week. A hearty welcome awaits you.
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Presbyterian Native Church

HARRY WILLARD, Lay WorKer I0:30 a. m.-Morning service. Il 30 .. m.-Bible School.
 FOO p. m.--Wednesday-Midweek prayer service.
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Notices for thls church cu1umn must be received by The Empire not laser than 10 o'clock Saturday morning to guarantee change of sermon topics, etc.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-23

The Northeastern the mouth of the Columbia cc Ocean Rain has fallen most Alaska except the Gulf of Aaska the Southwest. weather the Interior and considerable Alaska Temperatures fell Southern Alaska
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-23
 Bethel Pentecostal Assembly
121 Main Street

l21 Main Street CHAS. c. PERSONGUS, Pastor. Sunday services: 1l:00 a.. m. - Morning worship. 12:15 D. m.-Bible School. 800 D. m. Evening service. Services Tuesday and Friday evenings at 8 o'clock. The Lords Supper the first Sun day of each month. Everyone is cordially invited to all of the services.
 NOTICE Those driving cars without li- censes and those not having city license plates on cars are warned to attend to same at once or they will be fined.
 By order of Police Department.
 GEORGE GETCHELL,
 Chief of Police
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-23
TRAVELLER RETURNS

Aaron E. Johnson returned home yesterday after an absence of ten days.
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Congregational Community Church
REV. PHILLIP E. BAUER. No services tomorrow.
NOTICE

Having decided to become re- quisitor, I hereby give notice that on and after September 1st, no labor or merchandise charges of any description will be honored unless covered by a requisition if ordered for my account by others than Mrs. Femmer or myself.
 adv. D. B. TRIMMER.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-23
Douglas Church.
 Seruices

Notlce- Tor this cndrcn column must be received by The Empire not later than 10 o'clock Saturday morning to guarantee change of sermon topics. etc.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-23
Holy Trinity Cathedral
CHARLES E. RICE, Dean
 Phone GOA

800 a. m.-Holy Communion. 11:00 a. m.-Morning Prayer and Sermon.
 No Sunday School.
 Evening service at Douglas.
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ANNUAL MOOSE DANCE
 Labor Day, September 15t. Re- serve the date. adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-23
The Salvation Army

Public meetings:
 Sunday-2:00 D. m. Sunday-7:30 p. m. Tuesday-7:30 p. m.
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! St. Luke's Episcopal Church |.
 Evening Prayer and Sermon T 30 o'clock.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-23
Douglas Catholic Church

7::30 a. m.-Confessions. 800 a. m.-Mass.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-16

thousands out of work. Factories
idle. Mines shut down. Tough"
'eWell, it can't be any tougher
than it's been here" And he opened
with a long, tragic story of his
dogs life, endless work, all hours
of day and sometimes of night, too.
He worked on the fields for a big
landowner. an whole week we
don't earn enough to buy one single
shoew he cried Indignantly. His
son in New Jersey worked in an
oil refinery. He was in America
many years and had saved little
money. "He sent me my ticket.
the old man said. "But most of
these people here sold all they
owned to pay their way across the
ocean,"
They would escape poverty by
fleeing to America, that land of
promise. Alas, it promised only
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-16
By STANLEY DE GRAFT

is relayed down the line. "Hey,
Useless! Telephonew ''Hey, Use
less! Up in front" ooh, Useless!
Your last job got caught in a snow
STORM" "Useless! If you don't
want to work, go home!" The party
so designated runs down the line
toward the body in question, shout
ing, Glow in hell can 1 keep up, if
you're going to chalk the whole job
over?"
AS time goes on, the teams of
firing roughnecks gradually move
farther toward the inspector, who
becomes annoyed and yells at the
laggards, "Work back, there!"
"Sleep nights" or "Come down this
far on the next one and I'll give
you a pass to go home on!" etc.,
emphasized by profanity.
Too Tired to Eat.
At last the noon whistle blows
and most of the gang drop their
rags with a yell and plunge toward
the timeclocks at the entrance, ir
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-16
RED SPARKS
By JORGE

recently, so the Mexican capitalist
press tries to make us believe. How
come? Easy! The Mexican peas
ants made a revolution, rather they
mistakenly thought they did, to get
land. But under Gales the revolu-
ton missed fire. Revolutions for
land, when successful, naturally get
the land. But Gales, Portes Gil,
and now Rubio, being bourgeois, de-
cided that it was not polite for peas
ants to get land without paying for
it. So they agreed with Morrow that
Mexico would borrow money to pay
for the land "giyen" to the peasants.
The peasants got darn land, 80 per
cent stones in the desert. Began
to complain, asking for good land
like the gigantic plantations stolen
by Gales and friends. So Gales
spoke: "To give more land to the
peasants, the government must pay.
As it has no money, it would have
to borrow from Wall Street. Wall
Street is imperialism, and as the
daddy of the revolutionary family,
Pm against Imperialism. So let thu
peasants get along without land
There! Who says Pm an imperialist
lackeyw Great revolutionary" is
Gales. The peasants get stones and
experience. Gales gets married.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-16
PRAYERS IN ARKANSAS


Down in the Arkansas hills they
still take god seriously, as we were
reminded by seeing that at Claren-
don, Ark, a district conference of
the C.M.E. church, Negro, looking
over the corn crop, decided to and
did pray for rain. An item from
Mountain Home, Ark, tells how the
Commercial Club there held 4 meet
ing ITO take care of the stringent
situation, caused by the drOuth,"
and whether or not the failure of
god to squeeze out bit of moisture
is the cause of unemployment or
not, is hard to say, because the
meeting elected committee on I'M
employ to see if the local
power company would begin work
on 'the Wild Cat dam" While it
don't do much good, prayerful
people surely have lots to do these
days. But about Wild Cats and
dams, some of those thousands of
Chicago Negro workers, who lost
what little they had saved through
robbing their bellies, when The big
gest Negro bank of the country
went bankrupt, can pray that the
wild cat will come back, but it won't
help damn bit. Anyhow, they will
soon have lots of company, as the
closed season on banks is just be-
ginning,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-16

share of the surface before it gets
to the inspector who marks chalk
on all places that are not polished
enough.
Inside an hour, the men are be-
ginning to sweat in spite of the
GOODNESS of the weather and their
scanty attire. The talk died down
after the first few minutes and has
been replaced by grunts and the
clang and bump of metal surfaces
rebounding as the rags dash madly
back and forth over them. The men
hold their own against the tide of
metal waves poured down the track
by the truckers for the first two
or three hours, then, under the
strain of aching muscles, here and
there worker begins to shyster;
to let up a little in places where it
won't show too much.
The inspector uses his chalk
more frequently and now and again
calls out, "Tell so and so he's got
some chalk to rub off" The call
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-16

men sat on straw baskets sucking
powerful pipes, talking amid low
hanging smoke. Large-breasted
women nursed babies; tried to
pacify the bigger youngsters whose
intimacies with one another had
reached the scalping stage. These
were evidently refugees fleeing
from some invading army; every
thing hurriedly scrambled together
III terrific confusion and disorder.
"Where are you moving?" 1 in
quired of a seedy old man who APP
peared quite lost amid this strange
encampment.
"To America" he said, 1--WE were
to leave for Danzig last night, but
for some reason we're still here.
1 don't know what's the matter!'
Conditions IntOlerable.
cts not so easy in America
these days." I reminded him.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-16
RUSSIAN WORKER TELLS
OF WONDERS OF TURKISH
Correspondent Points Out the Importance of
Achievement to Workers State

earth for the cultivation Of cotton
and our country will not have to
depend in the future upon the sharks
of capital, will not have to give her
gold to America and Egypt ana get
for it cotton of the worst quality
as America and Egypt consider
themselves as monopohsts of cotton
on the world market and are sure
that any cotton will be accepted.
The last researches have proven
that in Middle Asia on vast areas
of quicksands is growing a rubber
plant called "Handrilla." This plant
is pressing out 20 per cent rubber
So the Turkish will in the same
time help our country to get from
Middle Asia the large amounts of
rubber it needs.
Comrades, do not think that the
prosperity of Asia is being achieved
without difficulties. We have dis
ruptors that are trying to sabotage
the wor. But we are fighting them
with the greatest energy.
The cossacks-nomads are leaving
their camps and entering the collec-
tive farms. According to our Five
Year Plan ~ milliards roubles will
be invested in the cossack republic.
The czarist government was inter-
ested to leave all the small nations
in a backward state. The Soviet
government has a quite opposite
aim. Our government is interested
to improve equally the life of the
Russians, Jews, Gypsies, Ukrainian,
Tshetshentsy, Cossacks, Aisor, Oriat
and many other nationalities living
in the Soviet Union.
Why is it so? Because in our
country the power is in the hands
of the workers and every measure
is introduced Immediately without
delay. On the construction of the
Turkish there was a close contact
between the working masses and the
technicians and specialists. All the
Soviet sociability followed with the
greatest attention to the construc-
ton of the Turkish, Everyone was
ready to help by all means that
were in his possession, The Turkish
was finished II months before the
term fixed in advance. Actually on
the line of the Turkish are built
new workers dwellings,, hospitals,
sanitariums, health resorts, post Of
fees, clubs, schools, theatres, etc.
All this Asia will enjoy quite free.
A. BEGOUNOFF.
worker from the factory
"Krasny Viborjetz.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-16
SOUlet Novel
COming

The growth of collectivization in
the U.S.S.R. is the subject OF
"Brusski: the Soil Redeemed" a
new Soviet novel by F. Panferov,
soon to be issued by International
Publishers. The title of the book is
taken from the name of a bit OF
fertile soil, once the property OF
local lord who, on his death, left
1t to his steward, now kulak, who
still hopes for counter-revolution
and his own recovery of the land
he has never used. But the poor
peasants finally secure farm rights
from the local Soviet.
The novel illustrates in graphic
and moving form much of the So
Wet life and theory which is of the
most immediate interest. There is
an invasion by a band of white
guards and we see the villagers d.
vide in their allegiance to the So
viets-the poor and middle peasants
remaining loyal and the wealthy
farmers turning to the whites only
to renounce them when it becomes
clear that the invasion is failure
At the climax of the book there is
a drought. The priests pray and try
to convince god that he should send
them some rain, to no avail. Then
the leader of the collective brings
the peasants together to build 8
dam which will allow irrigation tC
the fields and help save the district
from famine.
"Brusski: the Soil Redeemed" has
already been published in England
and Germany as well as in the
U.S.S.R In all these places it has
been hailed as probably the best Of
the recent Soviet novels. Here it is
issued as the fourth of a series o.
Soviet fiction, which already in
cludes the collection of short stories
"Azure Cities" and the two novels
Cement" by Feodor Gladkov anC
"The Nineteen" by A. Fadeyev. In
formation on these books and Others
on Marxism, the Soviet Union ant
labor will gladly be sent by Interna
tional Publishers, 381 Fourth Ave.
New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-16
LABOR SPORTS

the organization from its present
narrow language base into one of
the American young workers. Alto
gether there were Al delegates rep
resenting six L.S.U. districts. The
conference also repudiated the OPP
position tendencies of some of the
L.S.U. members as tendencies a
ing from the social basis of some
Of the members.
A real base was laid by The con-
ference for the organization of a
mass L.S.U. Convention which will
be held in Cleveland, on September
26-27-28. To this Convention the
L.S.U. expects at least 200 dele
gates.
Track and Field Meet.
The Eastern District of the L.S.U.
is holding championship track and
field meet mex month, to oe held
at Ulmer Park, on September 10
The program consists of al track
and field events for men and women
as well as boys and girls. All
workers are invited to enter this
meet, and especially those from the
trade unions. Write for entries to
the Eastern District of L.S.U.,
West 18th ST., Room 300.
Training For Class Struggle
The National L.S.U. five weeks
instructors school has just ended
in Detroit but the L.S.U. is on the
job in training instructors and COM
rades who shall be able to lead the
work in the L.S.U. and build Work
ers Defense. Plans have already
been mapped out for a similar five
weeks course in the Eastern Dis
trict. This school will be held
starting the 18th of September, at
Camp Kinderland, one of the finest
workers camps in this section of the
country.
The fee per student to this five
weeks course, including all expen-
ses, is only $50. Each workers
sport and fraternal organization as
well as every trade union should
send at least two worker studc,
to this school. Workers Defense
must be made a reality through the
training of leaders for the defense
movement. Send all applications to
the Eastern District
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-16
Sbeedub at Sbayy0Ws Point

reason they have tried to console
themselves with the idea that they
are lucky for not getting laid off
like the other workers. The unem-
ployment situation here is forcing
the men to accept more speed up
and wage cuts and all because the
boss has only to open the doors to
replenish his mill with new workers
that are unemployed.
Nevertheless there are some mil;
liant workers in this department
that realize there is only one way
to fight the bosses in their attempts
to lower the standard of living Of
the workers and they are spreading
the message of the Metal Workers
Industrial League throughout ths
plant rousing the workers to thu
necessity of organizing the Negro
and white workers together to strikS
against rotten conditions in ths
Metal Industry.
"A WORKER CORRESPONDENT
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-16

those nearest strain their ears for
the bad news. He yells at the in
spector, "the jobs are coming rot
tenl You saps are laying down on
the job. Use that chalk! What do
you suppose you're here for" "But
the gang is short-handed; only four
teams! They're doing the best they
cant" "T'ell with that abb! If they
can't get 'em down there's thous-
and guys outside waiting for job;
if some of them burns are tired
give 'em a weeks lay-off to rest
up in! Now, hear down on that
chalk; don't let 'em so to sleep!"
AS he swaggers away, faint whisp-
ers reach his ears, whose source it
would be useless for him to try to
discover.
Chalk BegiTs 10 Fly.
But then the chalk baGa1 to fly.
The cry goes up that Decoration
Day" has arrived! There is weeping,
wailing and gnashing of teeth, as
the rubbers bear down to hold their
places in the line, between trips to
the front. As the struggle goes on,
the dripping sweat and set jaws
reveal the tension of aching muscles
and painting lungs. Some begin to
crack under the strain and snarl at
each other, like dogs guarding a
bone. Brief tussels take place, now
and then, as two fellows try to work
in the same place at the same time.
Cries of "Slow that line down."
go up from the weaker members;
cynical "hard guys" counter with
"Speed up that line! Put 'em on the
hook!" They wouldn't speak so loud,
of course, if they thought their de-
mand would be taken seriously!
Line Plunges Dizzily On.
The line plunges dizzily on, and
the men stagger from one job to the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-16
NEGRO STEEL WORKERS
+ ARE WORST EXPLOITED
Kept At Hardest Jobs Without Promotion; &c
Lowest Pay; Work Longest Hours

the workers to live in compan
houses, the Negro workers ar
grossly Disseminated against, bein
housed in the worst shacks out o
the unsanitary collection of decrepi
and ancient houses furnished tn
workers. In Birmingham, Negr
steel workers living in compan.
houses are housed in fifty-year oil,
shacks.
Negro steel workers, especial.
in the South, are regularly de
frauded out O. compensation whel
suffering injuries, which are quit
frequent in mills having old-fash
toned processes.
The plight of the Negro stee
workers arises out of their unor
ganized condition and the Preacher.
of the American Federation Q
Labor which has all along refuse
to make the slightest attempt t
organize these workers but delhi
erately leaves them at the mercy o
the imperialist bosses, whose ideol
ogy of Negro inferiority the Amer
lean Federation of Labor openl
supports.
The hope of these workers lies i
militant organization and aggres
sive struggle such as is furnished i
the trade union field today by tn
Trade Union Unity League. O
by militant struggle, side by sid
with the white workers, under tn
leadership of the revolutionar
unions can the Negro workers brea
down the wall of prejudice erecte
against them by the bosses and tn
bureaucrats of the A. F. of /
Negro workers! Join the Trad
Union Unity League!
Fight side by side with the revc
lutionary white workers agains
race prejudice, lynching, unemploy
ment, imperialist war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-16
By CYRIL BRIGGS

WITH the rise Of Negro prole-
w tariat as a result of war time
industries, the stoppage of immi-
grafton and the rapid industrializa-
ton of the South, thousands of
Negro workers were drawn into the
steel industry of the country. In
some sections of the country they
represent a fairly large proportion
of the steel workers. In a number
of southern mills they compose
nearly one half of the unskilled
workers in steel.
Conditions, hellish as they are for
the white steel workers are several
times worse for the Negro workers
in the industry. The victims of
persistent and vicious sdiscrimina-
ton on the part of the bosses, the
foremen, the American Federation
Of Labor and backward white work
ers still under the influence of the
imperialist ideology of race hatred
and prejudice, the Negro steel
workers are confined to the hard
est and worst jobs in an industry
notorious for nerve-wrecking speed
up, inhuman long hours and HARD
work under terrific heat. In most
mills they cannot rise higher than
keeper at the furnace, and even this
is possible only with an all Negro
crew. Like Negro workers in other
industries, the Negro steel work.
ers usually receive lower pay foi
the same work. In many plants
especially in the South, they are
forced to work longer hours thar
the white workers; in some of the
Birmingham plants, for instance
Negro workers are made to toll II
hours day in contrast to eight
hours for skilled white workers or
continuous process.
Is Even where, under the guise Of
welfare schemes, the bosses force
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-16
Across the
Frontier
By ED FALKOWSKI.

(EditOr'S Note The JUriter IS
q newspaper man at present IN
Europe. While he is not a Com
n'unist, his article affords a SHARP
contrast to the rule of capitalism
on the Polish side of the frontie,
and the aoorkers' rule in the Sor-
let Uniou.)
THE atmosphere was rather tens"
in Warsaw. Immense posters
offered 10000 zloty for the capturr
of the ghostly culprits who had
planted bomb in the Soviet Con-
sulate. High and low sought, tn
innumerable police, sniff-snuffino
into back alleys and among garbagc
cans, but the conspirators were no
where to be apprehended. If any
one knew where they were, this per
son had apparently collected a bio
ger bride for keeping quiet than tn,
chill-fisted government offered fo
exact information. . Strange the
police, who can smell a Communi
underground; who can locate tin
printing presses in the remotc-
corners of the cities, in cellars ar
attics, could not locate scoundra}
who had attempted their BASTARD,
deed in broad daylight. One sus.
pected the sincerity of the govern
ment, although the pantomime o..
investigation went on merrily.
Some police even guarded t.
Soviet embassy. One was not Ger
tain, however, whether their pre-
ence was for threat or safety {
the Soviet officials.
Newspapers commenting daily on
Russia never failed to scare NJ
goos-pimples on ones flesh. One
read of Undesirable atrocities, I'M
emotionable horrors. Travellers dis
appeared, traceless in that goddess
country. Churches were being
blown to smithereens, priests and
all. Going to Russia was to put
ones head on chopping block and
invite the main performer to make
the ultimate gesture.
The grotesque civilization pic
tured on the other side of Poland's
borders was cultureless barbarism,
controlled by bearded giants, long
on whiskers and short on brains,
with an endless thirst inside of them
which only vodka could soothe.
Workers Fleeing Poland.
In the primitive shed which
serves as Warsaw's largest rail
road station hundreds of ragged,
louse-bitten families were gathered
III one section on the stone floor.
Amid a wilderness of trunks and
baskets and blankets and infants
yelling inside dusty blankets, old