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The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-07
c LOSING PRICES TODAY

NEW YORK, Nov. 7-Closing quotations of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is IS, American Can 86, Anaconda IFS, Bethlehem Steel 31A CurtissI Wright 2b, Fox Films 8 1s, General Motors 29 as, Inter national Harvester 36A, Kennecott no sale; Packard Motors 5ss, Stan dard oil of New Jersey 37ls, Unit ed Aircraft 18, United States Steel 72B.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-07

California dairies ship butter val ued at more than $1,0OO0oO to for eign ports annually.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-07
RALPH CAPoNE
 OFF TO PRISON
 AS TAX D0DCER
Brother of 'Scarface Will Serve Three Years
 at Leavenworth

CHICAGO, Nov. 7.-Ralph Ca pone, public enemy No. 3, of Chi cago, also the older brother of ."Scarface" Al Capone. left last night enroute to Leavenworth pen itentiary, as an income tax dodger, to serve a three year sentence.
 Capone left for the penitentiary in company with sixteen narcotic peddlers, bootleggers and counter feiters as his berthmates.
 There are about 12,340 building and loan associations in the Unit ed States.
 Between 90 and 95 per cent Of the watches made in Switzerland are exported. the United States being that country's best market.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-07
J. WILL TAYLOR
 OPERATED UPON

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Nov. 7.-Rep- resentative J. Will Taylor, Repub- lican, Second Tennessee District, is said to be doing splendidly today following an emergency operation for appendicitis. His physicians said his recovery is practically certain
 A dog, a cat and a rabbit are playmates on the farm of Henry Mahoney, near Shallowater, Tex.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-22
PARTY LIFE
Conducted by the Organization Department of
the Central Committee, Communist Party, U.S.A.
Uniting Employed With
Unemployed

IN the Fisher Body Co. in Cleveland the Party
puts out monthly shop paper called the
Spark Plug" This paper has taken pains to
convince the workers in the shop of the neces-
sty of solidarity between the employed and I'M
employed workers.
In the February issue, the paper carries a
statement by the Collinswood Unemployed Con-
Gil which includes laid-off workers of the Fisher
Body Co., encouraging the workers to strike
against their wage-cuts and assuring loyalty.
The statement follows:
Workers of Fisher Body:
The bosses tell you that if you don't like the
wage cuts, you can get the hell out and they'll
get the unemployed in your place.
The bosses will get stung!
We, the unemployed workers. are organized
into the Fisher Body Unemployed Council We
fight for unemployed insurance.
At the same time we in the council know that
unless the employed workers stick with US.
We know that victory FOR the 7-hour day will
mean hundreds of jobs for the unemployed.
We will not be used as scabs. If you strike
we'll help you. Well be on the picket lines We
will fight against the bosses. Organize! Don't
quit. Organize for a strike against wage cuts!
The unemployed are with you!
Signed:
Fisher Body, Collinwood Unemployed Council.
This is a concrete example of how to line up
the shop workers in the struggle of the unem-
ployed, and how to get the unemployed workers
to show their solidarity with the employed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-22
ORGANIZE FOR MAY FIRST!
PREPARE STRIKES, DEMONSTRATIONS AND MARCHES!

Against all this the 1aboring masses must
strike and demonstrate on May 1St These
strikes and demonstrations must be really or
ganized! They must mean not only the bring
ing Of tens of thousands of workers into the
streets; they must mean the beginning Of the
workers counter offensive the beginning OF the
workers fight to end hunger and starvation.
In the first place emphasis must be placed on
the necessity of setting up committees and
groups in the factories and Mines May First
Committees, which can prepare and carry
through one-day strikes on May LIST and later
become groups of the T. U. U. L. which can
organize and lead the struggles of the workers
against wage cuts and the speed-up.
Unemployed Councils and special committees
of unemployed workers at flop houses and bread
lines must be set up to rally the jobless workers
on May First and to carry forward the struggle
continuously after May First for immediate relief
and for unemployment insurance.
The League of Struggle for Negro Rights must
be given great impetus in the ScottSboro
cases, rallying white and colored workers against
the legal lynching of these 9 Negro boys and
for participation in the May First marches and
demonstrations which everywhere must ener-
getically bring forward the demand for the i'm
mediate release of these innocent boys.
All other workers organizations-the. L L. D.,
F. S. u, w. I. r., I. w. o., locals of the A. F.
of L., all leagues and unions of the T. U. U. L.,
workers fraternal bodies-must be rallied, and
in turn must rally their members and sympa-
thizers, for the May First demonstration.
Finally all these organizations and groups
the workers from the shops the unemployed
workers, the members of the workers mass or
ganizations-nust be brought together in a great
revolutionary united front movement, all united
ly working to rally hundreds of thousands in
the streets in well prepared carefully organized
marches and demonstrations on May First.
OrganizatiOn-this is requirement for May
First! This must express the workers deter
mination to fight against the capitalists for the
right to live!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-22
Government by the Kluxers

In the U. S. Supreme Court brief was filed
April 10. by attorneys for one William Rogers,
a former xxx. member of Indiana. Rogers
had originally sued Senator Watson of Indiana,
one of Hoover's hot supporters, for $4,000. Be-
cause Watson had said Rogers testimony in
1926, before a Senatorial Investigating Commit
tee, headed by Senator James Reed of Mis-
souri,, was IAN infamous lie" and has perse-
cuted Rogers.
Rogers had testified that D. c. Stephenson,
Indiana Grand Dragon of the Khan, who was
sent to life imprisonment for raping and muir
dering white girl (take note of this you who
mask your terrorism of Negroes behind babble
about 'rapistS"D sent him, Rogers, to Wash
ington to see Watson about government job.
Rogers showed Senator Watson his Khan card,
and Watson exhibited one of his own So Rogers
testified. After this testimony, Rogers says he
was prosecuted and threatened. He was called
to the Federal Building at Indianapolis and
shown an affidavit with what was supposed to
testimony.
fused to change his testimony, tried to have the
grand jury indict him for perjury. But the
grand jury refused.
Rogers suit dismissed by the Federal
Court in Indiana, and his lawyers are asking on
petition of certiorari, the U. S. Supreme Court
to take Jurisdiction The brief says that Rogers
cannot get relief in the courts
Because of the dominance of the political
power of the defendants in the government Of
the United States, and especially in the De-
partment of Justice"
Just chew over that workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-22
Rr C. A. HATHAWAY.

MAY FIRST, this year. must reflect the ability
II of th- workers, hard pressed by the bosses
starvation offensive, to organize their forces Tor
a powerful counter-attack. Great mass parades
and demonstrations are important, but only
through organization can they be carried
through, only through real organization IN the
shops and among the unemployed can these
marches and demonstrations mark the beginning
of effective struggles against the bosses.
There is to be no let up in the hunger drive
of the capitalists. There is no end of the crisis
in sight. On the contrary the trend of the crisis
is still downward; the drive of the bankers and
manufacturers against the workers is proceeding
with greater vigor and determination.
The pious fakery of Hoover and Green about
no wage cuts is exposed; the wage cutting CAM
paign, now openly and brazenly carried on, is
daily effectng thousands of workers in all
industries.
Unemployment now that slight spring sea-
sonal improvement has passed again increases.
The greedy capitalists, unwilling to bear even
the slightest crisis burden, are everywhere dis
continuing even their miserable charity relief,
In the factories and mines, taking advantage
of the growing unemployed army at the gates,
the profit-hungry owners are everywhere in
creasing the speed-up and killing stretca-out.
Their war plans are likewise being rushed for
ward at a feverish rate, directed chiefly against
the Soviet Union, though already the imperial
lists are concentrating military and naval forces
in the colonies shooting down native workers
now in rebellion against vicious imperialist eX-
ploitation and robbery; marine murders in Mica
ragua are only the immediate American express
sion of the bloody war plans of the imperialists.
In the United States to prepare for these
wars, and to force the workers to accept the
hunger and misery resulting from wage cuts, I'M
employment and speed-up the capitalists. with
the aid of the government the A. F. of L. and
the socialists" have introduced an alarming
terror campaign - Imprisonment deportations,
beatings and lynchings
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-22
ORGANIZE FOR STRIKE ON
MAY DAY!

ishers" started in again for the price of $275 per
job-finishing roof-rail, door-pillarS and weld
seam on the backs. This price gave an average
OF 30 cents per hour. During the first week this
price was cut to $780, then $3.50 the following
morning and then again to $225 the same week
Now since March 3rd Balloons" are finished
on conveyors and this under the worst condi-
tons that have ever existed in an Auto Body
Plant Formerly the jobs we're being finished
on the 4th floor on benches and now on the
first floor press Room, on a conveyor. This
conveyor-the symbol of speed-up and modern
slavery-is set up in rotten drafty and crowded
space where it is easy to contract pneumonia, as
the job Of metal finisher means sweat to the
bones and work under these conditions means
ruin to the health of every worker. On top of
this, with the introduction of the conveyor, the
price again was cut from $2.25 to $1.4O.
These facts shown above hold true in prac-
ticaly all other automobile plants. In addition
to these wage cuts and speed-up, unemployment
is increasing in spite of all the propaganda of
the capitalist papers to the contrary
What Is To Be Done?
The dissatisfaction and mass discomfort among
the auto workers is increasing rapidly, and de-
mands organization and leadership in order to
lead this militancy into fighting channels. The
Auto Workers Union is concentrating and be-
ginning 10 apply the poncy Oh the Trade Union
Unity League in building elementary shop Or
CARNATIONS through the setting up of grievance
committees and other shop organizations in the
most strategic sections Of the automobile plants
May Day is set as our immediate aim to develop
fighting movement and to organize strikes
against the increased wage cuts and speed-up.
Mass distribution of leaflets as well as open air
factory gate meetings are part of the program
for the purpose of setting up and developing
shop organizations. Forward to gigantic class
strugglesl Organize and strike on May Day!
Increase the building of Grievance Committees!
Demand and fight for unemployment insurance!
Rally to the International May Day movement!
Build the official organ of the Trade Union
Unity League-the Labor Unity.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-22
Well. That's Good!

Dear Jorge: I'd
"The only mention of the TWO. in your coll
umn was some reference and criticism of Jew
ish Branch that invited an English-speaking
audience, then gave an all-Jewish program. The
rebuke you gave them was more than justified
But Jorge, there is a struggling English
speaking branch of the TWO. that is trying
ever so hard to make a go of it, and give Eng
lish speaking audiences (and SCOTCH an ALL
English, or American program
"Well, we want new members We would like
to recruit all Of the readers of your column as
members including yourself You know the
Two, its aims and ideals. Every worker, en-
ployed and unemployed, should belong to it, 1t
is the only revolutionary working class fraternal
organization in the country And the English
speaking branch ought to become one Of the
biggest and most active units
"Will you help us grow? And II anyone can,
come down to 108 East 14th st. (Jewish Workers
Center), room 202, Thursday, April 30, $50 p. m.
After our short business meeting Vern Smith
will give lecture on the Significance of May
Day.-M. c."
Sure we will help the Two. grow, not only
in English but in all Languages. And we are
glad to learn that provision is made for the
several Cd workers in New York who can savvy
only English. But for ourselves we are prob
ably bad risk AS keeper OF the crocodileS.
we are engaged in an xtra-hazardous occupar
ton. Doe, the LW.O. insure against n1lr6eEo T.
>---A.--x G1a4Lai2 1.z&ks3At Nv M
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-22
Prepare for May I
with the "Daily"
BY CYRIL BRIGGS

WITH nine Negro workers being railroaded to
W the electric chair in Alabama, with five silk
strikers facing death in New Jersey, with for
eign born workers being arrested and deported
illegally as is now admitted by Hoover's Com
mission on Law Enforcement. with scores of
workers facing long prison sentences under the
criminal syndicalist laws, with the boss terror
against the working class becoming greater day
by day as the bosses intensity their efforts to
smash the mass revolutionary struggle against
starvation, the fight for cash relief for the I'M
employed, and the growing unity Of Negro and
white workers, it becomes more than ever neces-
sary to mobilize the workers for resistance to
boss terror.
In this situation the Importance Of getting the
Daily Worker into the hands of the masses
should be realized by every revolutionary worker.
The masses must be modified for the cam
paigns of the Party, for the May Day demon
strations for the fight against lynching, against
persecution of Negro and foreign born workers,
for cash relief and unemployment insurance,
for defense of the Soviet Union, for the fight
to save the nine Negro youths in Alabama, the
five New Jersey silk strikers, and the score of
other workers facing death, Imprisonment and
deportation for their working-cla activitie5
For an example of what can be done and
Is noI DelIg zone we nave only 10 Iurn 10 t1dT-
lem IN. " where, within the past few days
hundreds of copies of the Daily Worker could
have been sold daily and their sale used to
mobilize the white and Negro workers of Har-
lem for defense of the Alabama victims of boss
Justice by acquainting them with the facts
in the case which they are not getting through
the capitalist press and the Negro reforn1ist
papers.
These shortcomings must be overcome and
every effort made to get the Daily Worker to
the masses to mobilize them for May Day and
the struggle against starvation Every revolu-
tionary worker should appoint himself a COM
mittee of one to push this work Every Party
unit and leading committee should overhaul its
methods of handling the Daily Worker to see
that more results are obtained.
Get the Daily Worker into the hands of the
workers! Mobilize the masses for May Day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-22
Too Much Song

workers of Seattle, citing our Spark Of April
5th complaining that "our movement has not
learned to sing" tells us that they spread it on
thick in Seattle.
"A certain speaker seems delighted to start
Singing Marathon that lasts from Is to 80
minutes. / confess that love revolutionary
songs, but when they murder them and try to
sing the ones they know to death, then 1t gets
monotonous and ridiculous"
Well, yes The thing can be overdone, and
certainly can be done badly. Our idea is that
bit of singing is an aid to the struggle But if
it is to be made substitute for struggle, then
we're against it. 1t should inspire revolutionary
spirit, not depress it by an overdose
The certain speaker should take note But
in the majority of localities, the movement could
profit by bit more.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-22
&4a..4
OnnOtO-KyO
By JORGE

From the Hawaiian "Hochi" of March 9, we
learn the religious preference of the infamous
cut-throat Russian White Guard Czarist Cen
eral Semenoff, whose butcheries in eastern ST.
IBERIA OF the peasantry, and in Mongolia, Sowed
the land with dead. And endeared him to the
hearts of Imperialism, particularly Japanese i'm
perialSm.
According to the "Hochi," this bandit the
skulls of whose victims are today bleaching by
thousands in little valley just outside Ulan-
Bator in Mongolia Geaders who have seen the
Sovkino film storm Over Asia should know
that the sand pit executions we're real mass
MURDERS was some months ago in Kameoka.
country town near Kyoto, Japan-that land
where Prince TakamotSu comes from.
When asked why the town was so "honored,"
Semenon replied that he was seeking religion
in quest of peace of mind" More, he declared
most emphatically" that the Omoto-kyo suited
him best"
In this, Semenoff varies from his fellow mass
murderer, Chang Kai-shek of China, who en-
braced Christianity recently. The "Hochi" says
that the Omoto-kyo is a branch of Shintoism
and lis noted for prophecy of world conquest"
Omoto-kyo followers are to dominate the earth"
and Kameoko is to be the world capital"
Mr.. Fish, of course, doesn't get alarmed about
that although he trembles all over when repeat
ing the lie that the Communists want to make
Moscow "the world capital" We will move it
to the Empire State Building right here in New
York with pleasure, but the Fish, always obstin-
ate, objects to that, too.
Anyhow from Soviet sources, we hear that
this Semenoff is now starting out again with
Omoto-kyo ideas, and is again over in Man
churia, again trying to start trouble along the
Chinese Eastern Railway on this Soviet frontier.
Undoubtedly, with japanese support.
Our guess is that it's long, long way to
Moscow for this blackguard white guard, but
short way to hell if he gets in the way Of
the Red Army. Let the Red Army lads know
on May First that we're on their side!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-22
Seventh National Conference of
Great Britain Unemployed

itself as the mass fighting organ of the I'M
employed in their daily struggle with their
exploiters.
The report Of progress during the previous year
was very encouraging. Early in 1890 the NUWM
had already forced the ministry of labor to recog-
nize it as the official organization of Britains
unemployed. This carried with it the right of
the NUWM to send its representatives to local
government bodies and to fight the individual
cases OF its members against relief cuts vic
limitation and disallowance of benefits etc. The
N.U.W.M. legal department had fought no less
than S12 cases in 1880, got 638 definite decisions
won outright 10 cases. with ITO decisions still
to be declared In Bradford city, where dem
onstrations sometimes 1000 strong were held. the
local council was forced to grant a free hall
rent free, with free gas light for UNEMPLOYED
meetings. In the Vale of Seven, another i'm
portant center, paid up membership of 1884
dld excellent work. In Barnsley, out of an &C
tive membership of 400 about $50 are women.
Splendid reports were also registered in from
Edinburgh, Tyreside, Dundee and other very
important parts of Great Britain. During six
weeks commencing December, 1890, no less than
80 new branches were formed which proved the
organization to be in solvent condition while
the high level of political discussion at the
conference showed clearly the growth of class
consciousness among Britain's unemployed
Among the immediate decisions agreed upon
were the following: To organize the unemployed
IN conjunction with the employed against wage
and relief cuts. To demand for all unemployed
work or maintenance at full wage rates. To
tight against relief grievances employed on
government relief work. To raise the standards
OF relief To oppose strongly the policy of forcing
unemployed women into domestic service.
To support the Daily Worker" and the
Worker as useful organs in the workers strug-
gle. To organize more branches in fresh parts
of the country, especially among skilled workers
unemployed because Of recent decentralization
To make special efforts to mobilize the active
support Of unemployed women and youth. To
create united front between employed and
unemployed, get inter representation between
their groups, and to rouse the unemployed
against the peaceful liberation of poverty and
educate them as a realization that only the
complete destruction of capitalism and the con-
quest of political and economic power by the
workers will lead to the solution of unemployment
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-22
By JOHN sCHMIEs.

MAY DAY must bring in increased class battles;
AVA May Day, the international revolutionary
holiday, must be made into q fighting day
against the wage-cuts, speed-up and Stagger
program in the auto industry. Organize and
strike against speed-up and wage cuts together
with our struggle for unemployment insurance
and this must be made into real call and must
get the attention Of the masses to build mass
movement among the great masses of the auto
mobile workers, both employed and unemployed
wage cuts IN the auto industry is the order of
the day. Increased unemployment and part
time is being intensified. The lies and mis-
information, especially of Henry Ford must be
exposed. All for the purpose of actually laying
the basis for militant fighting union in the
industry.
The following are some new facts of the wage
cutting campaign: Ford has cut and does cut
wages. He does it in way that other corpora
lions are beginning to use. He takes a worker
who is receiving $40 day and transfers" him
to another department where he gives him 40
cents or 30 cents day less, or he takes a worker
and fires him from $40 job. He then hires
a new worker for that job at SIS a day. OF
course, Ford can say he didn't cut the wages of
the first worker. He only fired him!
Or Ford may cut wages in still another way.
He fires worker making 81 and later hires the
same worker again at S.. All this is old stuff
at Fords. But workers now say that Ford not
only resorts to these older methods but that he
also cuts hourly rates. For example, last month
workers making more than 81 an hour at the
Lincoln plant were cut to that or less.
But the real big wage-cutting hits the work
er's pay envelope through outright unemploy-
ment or part-time employment. Normally Ford
employs 10000 workers in the Detroit plants
A recent check-up by Federated Press showed
barely 25,0e0 in those plants-not the 10000 Ford
mentions, The Detroit City charities estimate
that they spend at the rate of about $8OOo.Ooo
year to keep the jobless armies of Ford.
Briggs: About month ago the Balloon Fin