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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26
Party Recruiting Drive
January. II March IS, 1882
DIRECTIvEs ON THE RECR UITING DRIVE
ISSUED BY THE CENTRAL MTTEE CT Q. S.

the Communist Party and fight for the freedom
Of the colonial peoples
g. For Communism through a workers and
farmers government; join the Communist Party
TO- Emancipation Of the working class must
be accomplished by the workers themselves;
Join the Communist Party-the only Party of
the working class,
H. Defeat the starvation program Of hte Hoo
ver-Wall Street government, the bosses and their
socialist lackeys; join the Communist Party-the
leader Of the mass fight for Unemployment In
surance.
10. Workers defeat the bosses campaign Of
speed-up, wage cuts lay-offs. Enter the Com
munist Partyi Organize Communist Party nue.
lei in the shops, mills and mines.
Is. Join the Communist Party-the stalwart
leader against imperialist wars, and for the de-
Tense of the Soviet Union.
ID Smash the terror Of the bosses and their
government, by building mass Communist Par
ty in the shops.
IS Strengthen the fight for the defense Of
workers rights to speak, assemble, organize and
strike Join the Communist Party.
16. Negro workers-into the Communist Party,
which organizes and leads the struggles against
lynching, for equal rights for the Negroes and
the right of Negroes to self determination in the
Black Belt.
II. Smash the system Of persecution terror,
deportation Of the foreign born and the slave
plans of the Hoover hunger and war government.
Join the Communist Party.
10. Fight all forms Of discrimination against
women; fight for equal rights. Women workers
Join the Party Of your class-the Communist
Party.
49, Militant agricultural workers and poor
farmers join the ranks of united struggle against
the Hunger and War government, against the
trusts and banks-Join the Communist Party
(Also appeal to share-croppers and tenant
farmers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26

We Made a Mistake

Recently we said, in comment about capitalist
medicine men looking for a. cause of the crisis,
That some holy man" of the. Virgin Islands had
said that the crisis was due to sex laxity" Well,
we were mistaken, having read the thing and
then n1islaid it, we erred
1t wasn't preacher said that, but Governor
Paul M. Pearson of the Virgin Islands, who, bless
you, is appointed by President Hoover. And he
SAID 1t IN his annual report to Hoover
To bring prosperity back, Governor Pearson
recommended to Hoover that the sad state of
affairs which permit the people to have chill
dren without benefit of clergy be changed by
setting up an er-denoniinational welfare
commission of clergynen." We presume that
this won't limit the production of children, but
only give them the benefit of cergy"-and, of
course, stop the crisis
However, from the way the crisis is hitting
the United States, there must be lot of "sexual
laxity" running loose here in spite of the over
production of clergymen. Maybe, better said,
because of them.
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Ey 5, ZTEBEL


THE Shoe and Leather Workers Industrial
Union has passed a year OF struggle, and we
can draw valuable lessons for our future work in
building our revolutionary union.
After the dsfeat suffered in the 1880 lock-
out the shoe workers of New York we're ex-
hausted and to some extent demoralzed If the
Independent Shoe Workers Union that led the
struggles of the workers had organized a re-
treat when it realized that the workers would
not be able to defeat the combined forces of the
bosses, police labor department, courts and the
reactionary boot and shoe scab union" the
shoe workers would have remained In the union
saved from Generalization, gathering strength
for another fight, organized and prepared better
shan before.
The condition Of the shoe workers worsened.
Wage-cuts Of 40 to SO per cent speed-up ard
lengthening OF the hours were forced upon the
workers. In addition to that, the economic crisis
has thrown thousands Of shoe workers into the
streets.
The Boot and Shoe Union" which came to
New York in time Of the struggle of the indie
pendent to help break the strike by sending
workers to scab, helped the bosses to enslave
the workers. These takers had and still have
the Lovestoneites to help them; these renegades
"l0 OoFVi'AAs lively "0VAeS Will AFOloVHonalJ
pf1rass.
The terror and the wage-cutS OF the bosses in
crease every day, and the shoe workers in New
York must realize that something must be done
10 stop it.
The Shoe and Leather Workers Industrial
Union, that came in place Of the Independent,
have learned from the mistakes OF the latter,
determined TO organize the shoe workers for
struggle against the bosses and all the takers
in the ranks of the shoe and leather workers.
1t is true that not many workers we're in the
ranks Of the S. l.. w. l. q. when 1t organized
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26
The Law Is Impartial

Maybe you read the other day about Negro
workers who, penniless and shivering with cold
from going barefooted in winter, stole" pair
OF shoes from house-and faces execution for
breaking and entering with felonious intent
or some such rubbish --.
The same day, we saw that a World War vet
who had "trespassed"--on what we don't know
had been sentenced to the prison farm in
Georgia, and while there had had been flogged
1t appears that the American Legion had made
gesture at interceding on the ground that the
law had been violated But the State Prison
Board replied that neither the law of the state
nor the rules of the prison had been violated
That is, under the law and the rules Of capt.
talsm and its institutions, which the Legion
upholds 100 per cent, whipping or flogging of
prisoners is quite legal
This recalls to our mind the fact that recently
the N. Y. Bar Association whitewashed Tam
many judge who had issued q writ protecting a
crook from questioning by the Seabury Com
mission, the writ being issued at the request
by phone of the Tammany boss, Curry. The
Bar Association said that Cug~, was a vile per-
son for making the request, but that the Judge
was quite o. K. in granting it.
Since then another nice example WIS that OF
a flock of shyster lawyers who had bribed a
prosecuting attorney named Weston to throw
the cases theypad him to handle that way Most
of these were prostitution cases mixed up with
the notorious vice squad graft ring. The pros
ecutor had confessed, and in detail, specifying
the amounts paid and when and who paid them.
But the gink who is known as referee" a
sort of judge in New York's godawful legal
system, says that the lawyers are innocent be-
cause Weston, who admits taking brides from
them, by his admission labels himself as a crim-
inal and a criminals word is no good
And to think that ara ~vyx,~
who beliese that capitalist courts are "impartaal-
between capitalist crooks and workex,
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Hunnbug

unprecedented opportunity to star in the world
famous Massachusetts drama as the champion
OF humanity. The danger to his job? Well he
needed the money-there was that Thanatopsis
poker session next evening--but when did cash
ever weigh with personal glory in the eyes of the
butfoon? He was not interested in Sacco and
Vanzetti as symbols of the working class seeking
to rise above the level Of grinding slavery and
being crucified for its efforts.
Ones heart can't warm to a symbol and we
must always bear in mind Pagliacci's heart
which is bigger even than Big Busness-yea,
which is big enough to INCLUDE Big Business
In the same way, Tom Mooney as prosecuted
human being causes rush of sympathy to his
welI-known heart.
The clown, filled as he is with the romanti-
bringing, believes irresistbly that the individual
Suffering must be dramatized in a spotlight be-
fore he responds to it, but the drab, day by day,
unromantic poverty and drudgery that are the
rocks from which the supreme peaks of cruel
fixion arise-that is beyond his emotional grasp
God speed you and do your BEST" he writes to
Jimmy Walker. "The most important thing Is to
get Mooney out" Pagliacci, stirred to the depths
by the misery u one unfortunate caught in a
train wreck and overlooking the hundreds of
others,-overlooking the cause of the wreck:
the twisted track of capitalism
Here is the crlx Of liberal theology Here you
have its table of values. Contrast it with that of
the Daily Worker
"The important thing is to get Mooney
out and help smash the system that produces
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26

pare-was secured by the Tampa cigar manufac-
turers on the grounds that the newly-forr
Tampa Tobacco Workers Industrial Union is an
Organization advocating or encouraging belief
in the destruction by force of organized govern
ment or in the destruction of private property
as means to that end"
AS a result, deportations proceedings imprson-
ment, the formatin oof secret Vigilant's Com
mlttee polite term for lynch squad. sluggings,
and general terrorization was brought into play
against these workers whose only crime consists
of being members of union that defends their
class interests. The statement of principle of
the union was "The Tobacco Workers Industrial
Union of Tampa endeavors to organize all to-
bacco workers, with the shop as the basic unit
and democratic Capitalization the guiding rule.
Our union realizes that successful struggle can
be conducted only when all workers in the in
dustry are united nationally and internationally
with workers in all other industries to combat
capitalist exploitation throughout the world
eve are affiliated with the Trade Union Unity
League, militant leader of the trade union move
ment in this country. The TUUL in turn is
affiliated with the RILU. Through these affil-
iations we are part of the working class united
front against the entire system of capitalist wage
slavery and oppression"
Because of this the bosses have brought for
ward a barrage of deportations, imprisonments,
chain-gang sentences, white terror. The Inter
national Labor Defense calls on the American
working class to send protest kilograms to Mayor
Chancey of Tampa, Governor Doyle E. Carleton,
at Tallahassee, Fla, Secretary of Labor Doak
and President Hoover in Washington. The lid
also calls upon workers to hold protest meetings
particularly in neighborhoods where Spanish
speaking workers live. Mobilize the foreign born
as well as the native workers to protest this at
tack OF the bosses and their government against
the working class and the revolutionary trade
unions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26
Let's Look at Brisbane

A conrade sends in a link of Arthur Bris
bane's sausage, clipped from a Boston Hearst
paper. Let's look at it:
Nobody quarrels about salt water and fresh
air, there are plenty of both for everybody,
The day is coming when nobody will quarrel
about property or take any, special interest in
IT. There will be enough for everybody, enough
food, good books, music and leisure, the only
things really important"
Sounds kinda liberal eh? Some people might
think: Gosh, Brisbane is going Bolshevik!" Not
SO fast, brother! Let's take this stuff apart and
see what it's made Of
So nobody 'quarrels" about salt water and
fresh air, Ell? Well, just try to get little bit
OF beach along Long Island Sound so you can
dip your hide in that salt water-and find out
how every damned inch of beach is OWNED
by somebody, and what's more somebody Just
like Arthur Brisbane!-who don't permit COM
mon people to get anywhere near salt water
It's their PROPERTY, and either they're SO
rich that they shut everybody out and reserve
miles OF beach for themselves and their poodle
dogs or they want to be rich, and set up bath
houses where they charge you Six Bits for q
towel-and get away with it. 80
Oh. MOI Nobody quarrels about salt water!'
And then about fresh air.~We suppose Arthur
Brisbane never heard that landlords who rent
flats charge more for places where you have
windows; there are thousands of families right
here in New York living in cellars where there
is neither windows nor any ventiaton-because
they have no money to rent places with fresh
air. Fresh air might, If they could get it, turn
the balance toward health for literally millions
OF the poor who are sick from being deprived Of
everything else-and are deprived of fresh air
in addition
Sure! There are ''plenty of both for every
body" But under capitalism they are monopo-
LIKED by the few and sold and measured out for
dollars. And if you have no dollars you get no
salt water nor fresh air.
Then about that "day coming" when as
Brisbane says, There will be enough for every
body, enough food" etc. What darn his pic
ture, there's enough RIGHT NOW! Who doesn't
know that there is "overproduction" of food and
nearly everything else? Don't Brisbane know?
OF course he does Then why does he lie about
it in this chatter about 'the day is coming when
there will be enough?
The answer is: To make you keep quiet be-
cause YOU haven't got enough NOW HE has
enough, you bet your boss! But he ladies out
this bunk for you workers who haven't either
enough-or anyi
And he tries to cover up the robbery by cheap
philosophy that sounds radical And to side
track you from joining the Communist Party
and organizing to get what you need in fighting
trade unions and unemployed councils he wi;sds
up by telling you that: The change vi come"
by some miracle of Intelligence and science"
which he infers you needn't do anything about.
Hokum! What's needed is a revolutionl
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Mooney and the CloWn---A Note on Socialist

By p. p - $50
THE World Telegram clown has been at it again.
i This time it was Tom Mooney and Mayor
Walker who supplied the circus material.
It seems that the Daily Worker refuses to
shed tears Of gratitude over Jimny's trip to
California. The clown Is indignant because the
Daily Worker urged the working class to EXPOSE
the latest trickery of such capitalist politicians as
Walker and Walsh who are attempting to use
MONEYS imprisonment for their own political
ends"
Pagliacci, you see, is not interested in move
ments, in mass struggles, In social forces. Like
the good, sweet Harvard bourgeois humanita-
Ran that he is Pagliacci is interested essentially
in individuals, and mainly in one particular In
divdual Chat Is why the letter "I' on his
typewriter has to be repaired a dozen times each
year)
Were two innocent Italians, Sacco and VAN
zetn, about to be burned to death on trumped
up charges? Pagliacci rushes splendidly to their
aid, grease-paint and somersault temporarily for
gotten. Why, one might have properly asked him.
the sudden excitement? Are Sacco and Van
zetti the only rebels against the horrors of capt.
talism who have been bounded to death by
Special Privilege? d. ''
Was 1t the first time in the land OF the free
that labor leaders have been kicked, beaten, de-
MED elementary legal rights, railroaded to jail
and slaughtered for daring to question the
tyranny Of Big Business? Not that Pagliacci
would have listened to you; he didn't have time
There was the deadline to beat, the lecture en-
gagement that evening, the radio talk the night
club appointment, the play that had to be re-
viewed, the preface to 1.-THE Failure of Prohibi-
tion," by A. Bourgeois, Phi. D., that had to be
written.
Besides, this case was different; it offered an
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26
Series Of Articles On Fight
to Defend F0reign-Born to
Start in Daily on Monday

In Mondays Daily Worker, on this page, will
be printed the first of series of three articles,
"The Fight Against the New Offensive on the
Foreign Born, by F.. Brown. In view of the re-
cent utterances of Hoover and Doak calling for
a federal system Of finger printing and regis
tering Of all foreign born workers, and also In
view Of the huge increase in the federal gov
ernments attempts to deport militant foreign
born workers active In recent strikes, the impOr-
lance of this series of articles cannot be over
emphasized. These articles are part Of the cam
pain worked out by the recent conference Of the
Council for the Protection Of Foreign Born held
on December 20 In New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26
Statement by the international Labor
Defense on the Tampa Arrests and Terror

THE death sentence Cthrough deportation to
fascist lands) Is the penalty for organizing
into the Trade Union Unity League in Florida
This Is another attempt Of the administration
to outlaw the Trade Union Unity League on the
basis Of membership in that revolutionary trade
union center. Murdoch, Berkman and Devine
r. U. U. l.. organizers, are being deported for
their activities in strikes. Secretary of Labor
Doak has as his aim the illegalIng OF the 7. U.
u. L.. through prosecutions Of this type-and by
means of reigns of terror in strike situations as
in Tampa, Florida.
This region, another OF Americas famous Sum
shine States, has broken out in terrorism ex-
ceeding that Of its rival California, where GRIM
inal syndicalist laws are the order Of the day
where the Imperial Valley organizers are still
sweltering In the Noathsome holes Of San QUEEN
tin and Folsom prisons.
Doak's deportation to-death policy which the
International Labor Defense and the militant
workers movement has been bitterly combating
has lowered in the semi tropical city of Tampa
Here, where rs per cent OF the population are
Spanish-Speaking colonial workers, six workers
face deportation to Cuba and other fascist Latin
American lands. Two already sweating I'M
der the hot Florida sun in chain-gangs-wh
As others are still in the antiquated dungeons of
that state.
The attack Of the Southern ruling class struck
Tampa after Nov. 7. At meeting of commence
ration Of the, Fourteenth Anniversary Of the
Russian Revolution the workers OF this city were
attacked by the police. the deputy sheriffs and
the American Legion. Twenty-Five workers were
arrested at this time and policeman shot, most
likely by his own gun-toting companions Since
then a wave of terror has descended upon
Tampa
72-hour political strike as a protest for the
arrest Of IT workers on Nov. was answered with
lockout. sweeping injunction-against which
those infamous ones Of the North hardly COM
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26
Salvation
n. H. LEWIS


To lowly dupes in blood and tears
Salvation like the sun appears:
Our day breaks, our might wakes,
Mass-inspiration rears,
Closing the toil-subjected con;
Five thousand years
Go down in paean.
Through all OF historys ups and downs.
No UP like this:
Ahead CLEAN OF brother towns.
Behind, the dark abyss!
How foods thing to tantalize
The God-forsaken hunger-eyes,
How droolers dog the smell:
Today, abundance; hell
Tomorrow abundance paradise
With thoughts of food obsessing me
utopia shining unabstract,
A perfect bowl of stew, in fact
Yet but vision to devour),
That part of us have taken power
And left czar-dust behind?
Then reinsurance trumpets through,
And could shout, it's true, it's true!
AS Marx divinedl
Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia,
Mighty example force,
Russia. Russia, Russia, Russia,
Blazing the epic course
booming the Morgan band:
Defend herl
Defend herl
She's our motherlandL
Seward daily gateway., 1931-11-09
SS STARR ARRIVED FROM
 WEST SATURDAY NIGHT

The SS Starr, Capt. Arthur Ryn- ing, master, arrived in port late Saturday evening from one of it's regular trips to the Westward The present trip took the Starr as far west as UnalaSka.
 Incoming passenger arrivals were as follows: Dan Ross and Ed Klein ger, from Unalaska; John Erikson, from Unga, Norman Noble, Fred Beyers, Mrs Alice Beyers, Miss Helen Anderson, from Kodiak, Linn Kim, Chas. Petry, Thos. Webb, from Chignik; Mrs. John Reft, AL bert Reft, from Uyak.
 Other passenger reserva tions were R. D. Mathews A Roberts, Fred Karo, David Hughes, J. Jacobsen, J, Moen, Ray Olsen, Olaf Johnson, H. Dennis, Gus Antoman, Alfred Gunderson, Geo. Olga, John Pe- troilinl.
 The Starr is taking on huge cargo of freight and mail and is scheduled to sail for the Westward at o'clock tonight.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-11-09
PENGUIN LEAVES

me Bureau of Fisheries vessel Penguin, Capt. Elias Boe, in com mand, which arrived in Seward rom the Pribilof Islands last week left for Seattle Sunday morning. Besides the Is passengers that the vessel brought from Westward points, the Penguin also picked up some passeng 4rs and some mail from the SS Starr. The Penguin will remain in Seattle for few months before returning to Alaska again.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-11-09
TOO LATE ID. CLASSIFY

BARGAIN - Radio, complete; two floor lamps; portable Victrola Inquire Apt. 10, J. l.. Graef.
 EXPERIENCED bookkeeper wants either full or part time work. Inquire O'Neel residence, next to Seward Hospital. Tom Nicholas.
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GOLD FIND REPORTED

Receiving word from a partner, Henry Males, on Afognak Island, that he made gold discovery which promised well and would warrant his giving up his position on the Outside, Sam Gilmore to- night leaves on the SS Starr enroute to Afognak to join his partner, No further details were given. Sam Gilmore arrived on the SS Alaska last week and has been registered at the Overland hotel
Seward daily gateway., 1931-11-09
hT I'll: HOTELS

VAN GLIDER - Norman Noble Dan Ross, Wm. E. Estes, Robt Will lis, MT. and Mrs I. c. Jacobsen, N. I. Aucbald, R. R. Estes.
 SEWARD-Oscar Dahl, Mir. and Mrs. 2. W. Rogers, Fred K Chihe- may, Alfred Gunderson, Gust An tonson, Andy Simons.
 OVERLAND-L. A. Gassage, John Patrochin, David Hughes, Harry Miller, E. Shellhorn, E. Roberts.
 GILLILAND-F Nelson, R Small wood, R. D. Matten, Helene Ander- son, Leo OhnhauSer.
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SITUATION HOPEFUL
WASHINGTON. Nov. g.

WASHINGTON, Nov, 9, P)- Smaller wheat plantings in the southern hemisphere and world production somewhat lower last year, were held out as reasons for taking a more hopeful view of the
 grain situation in a survey of world conditions made by the De- partment of Agriculture. Stiffen- ing of wheat prices at Liverpool were given as a sign that further improvement might be expected.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-11-09

Andy Simons, commissioner of the Third Division for the Alaska Game Commission and a resident at Lakeview, Alaska, was an ar rival in Seward last evening on the train.
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BEATEN TO DEATH

NEW YORK, Nov, g, (P-Patrol man Howard Peterson was beaten to death by a gang of a dozen men who set upon him when he tried to give a taxicab driver a ticket" for reckless driving.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-11-09

Send your cleaning and pressing in on Monday to the Seward Steam laundry and take advantage of our special one half regular price offer. Seward Steam Laundry.