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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-19
Concentration in American Industry
H. w. Laidler-S3.75
By JAMES LERNER

Concentration in American Industry
H. w. Laidler-S3.75
When the presidential candidate,
Hoover, in 1928, posed as the defend
err of rugged individualism" he was
only reviving the old shibboleth Of
competition is the life of trade. 1t
may have been a good campaign slo-
gan but competition in capitalism
began to give way to monopoly at the
end of last century.
In 1916 Lenin proved in his I'm
perialism" that imperialism is in
its economic essence, monopolist cap
itaisrn". Mergers of corporations are
nothing unusual. Ladder (of the So
cialist party) has gathered great
deal of matter on every important
industry, and shows quite conclusive
ly that dominant role of monopoly in
present day capitalism.
U. S. Steel With its 100000 workers
and almost two and a half billion
dollar assets controls half Of the iron
ore reserves. Two corporations con-
troll So per cent of the steel produc-
ing capacity of America. General
Motors and Ford produce IA per cent
of Americas automobiles. The Stan
dard Oil group of companies control
half of the total oil output. Anthra-
cite coal lies in the hands of seven
railway systems. These lines are con-
trolIed by the Morgan Co. On and on
1t goes, "..
Nickel, sulphur, aluminium, all vir-
tual monopolies, the last owned by
Andy Melons family. Borden's, be-
sides selling large part of America s
milk owns the Horton and Reid Ice
Cream Co. Radio, movies. cereals,
newsprint all controlled by large
trusts. Ladder has done research
workers quite a service in collecting
all this material. He has taken d
great deal from the books of Labor
Research Association. ("Labor and
Coal, Labor and Textiles, and with
a cry grudging note acknowledges
part of this) from dozens of other
sources and combines them in this
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-19
Observation-Disclosures
Detroit Worker Starves
Neutrality-suspicious.
One Days Toll Of ClpDincs Sent In By
Workers Show Huge Increase In
Starvation and Suicide Deaths
Capitalism With It's Starvation Program. Is
Responsible For Every Such Death: Suicide
No Way Out; Must Fight Back

CHICAGO, Sept. 17.-Albert Kopp.
40, of 11733 wentworth Ave. a la-
borer who had Just landed a job with
Swift & Co.. collapsed on the job
and died as a result of long months
of Unemployment and privation.
Denied relief and forced to steal
milk for his 3-months-old baby.
Michael Monahan, unemployed work
er of 5343 Winthrop Ave. Chica go.
was trapped yesterday by police. He
was arrested and threatened with
imprisonment. Because of the rising
anger of the masses against the
bosses starvation program, the boss
court dared not sentence him but put
him on 6 months probation. In the
meantime, the court had no advice
on how he is to feed his baby, and
its mother just recovering from the
ordeal of child birth.
4
DETROIT, Sept. IA physician
in the Receiving Hospital in Detroit
admitted to Federated Press man
that four people day on the
average are brought to the hospital
too far gone from starvation for
their lives to be saved.
On the basis of facts that have
come under his personal observa-
ton, he states that at the lowest
possible minimum one working
class victim of capitalism starves
to death every ! hours and Is min
utes in Detroit.
With even the meagre relief for
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through the head. Thompson had
zen unemployed for over a year.
Kenneth Latimer, of 1921 Stoepel
Ave- Detroit, and an employees of
the Department of Public Works,
until a year ago, committed suicide
by inhaling carbon monoxide gas in
a garage yesterday.
In the meantime, Mayor Murphy
after a conference with city bank
err, announced the opinion of the
conference as being sin brief, that
no relief from official sources can
be obtained in time to relieve the
hunger and suffering that this
Winter will bring with It,"
CHICAGO, Sept, 17.-In a half
inch note at the foot of an inside
page, the Chicago Tribune reports
the suicide of Harry Ladimer, I'M
employed worker and an inmate of
the Bureau county home. The bur
led story was headed "Pauper Ends
Life" His labor had gone to enrich
the bosses. He was thrown out of
work and denied relief by the bosses.
And when discouraged he took his
life, these very bosses flung the insult
of 'pauper" i'll his dead face.
Peter Kaupas. barber. yesterday
gave up the struggle to make a iv-
ing through his little barber shop at
1888 West 14th Place, Chicago, and
committed suicide by inhaling gas.
An unemployed man, who was
registered as Jay Myer, 1eaped to
death early yesterday from the ninth
floor of the Hotel La Sale, Chicago
In the pocket of his Fuit, police
found a cheap wan and 81. Nfyer
registered the day before he COM
mitted suicide.
Workers! Every worker forced by
unemployment and starvation to
commit suicide is worker murdered
by the vicious capitalist class who
throw millions of workers on the
streets, deny them Jobs and then
deny them relief and evict them from
their homes. Fight for Immediate
relief for the unemployed, and
against wage cuts for those still in
the shops! Stop the murder of I'M
employed workers and their children!
Organize and fight against capital
ism and its starvation program!
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/ VI VIZ CO'-S1 PeSpSlSs--k1l.I .t'sf 3
Leninsk is a coal mining town
Mining industry was started here
about 1912. BY Russian army gen
eral, a ca-it7l;st who made him
self famous. by making slaves cut of
his workers. Nest of the work
ers were conTicts. or exiled people
The workers we're forced to toll in
the mire fourteen and sixteen hours
day If thov were not able to pro-
duce certain norm of coal, they
were whipped ard he'd to go to sleep
without fcod. Under this cruelty OF
the bosses the workers suffered much
from ell kind CT dt9sa~es. They we're
treated lfe DOES. svch labor power
didn't cost much to the mine owner,
because eli the work was done with
out machinerv. even removing the
coal was done by hand. t
The 1877 revcl'tion overthrow the
capitalists, They took the mines, the
same az ell Other means of prodtlc-
ton, ard turned it over to the work
ers' government. It was soon realized
that it is impossible to use old meth
DDS (the same system the former
owners had used. They had the
task to build a new system from the
bottom to the top Modernize the
production. improve work. by render
ing machines to ease the work OF
the workers. During the five wear
plan. when more and more factories.
furnaces. and mills are being built
in the Soviet Union and partly in
Siberia, much more coal is necessary
for the new industry. The workers
government was compelled to buy
new machinery from the capitalist
countries. The Soviet Union needs
many workers to industrialize the
country.
Communists and the sy1npathizers
of the Soviet Union, understand the
situation of the workers in the So
Wet Union. They started to organ
ize certain groups to help the Soviet,
Some of these organizations collect
ed money, bought machines, and sent
them to this country. Other groups.
personally came to this country to
work, and help to complete the five
year plan. The first group left New
York the 23rd of May, numbering rs
persons, including wives and children.
They arrived in Leninsk, June oath
The second group arrived in Leninsk
July Ath. number IS persons, includ-
ing wives and children; the third
group arrived July 11th, IA persons,
and more are coming yet.
Every person who came to Leninsk
understood the situation of the So
Wet Union. To most of the workers
it was very clear, even before they
departed from America. They real
lied the Importance of the five year
plan, and came to this country to
help build the Soviet Union, to in
GU trialize the country, and increase
the production. We came here to
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The successes of the third and de-
ciSive year of socialist construction
in the Soviet Union have stimulated
great interest and enthusiasm among
the working masses throughout the
world. This is but natural, when one
considers the huge industrial adj
vances, AMI its positive economic,
social and cultural gains to the Soviet
prcletariat, as compared with sharp
and steady decline in the standard
CT living Of the working class in the
capitalist countries
1t is with view to the Soviet
developments in general and its
sport achievements in particular that
group of New York worker sports
men have organized themselves to
tour the U. S. S. r. and several other
European countries. The initiative
for the organization of this group
was taken by a number of athletes
of the Red Spark A. G. and these
comrades are now working emerge
tically to draw in other athletes, in
diWdual members of l.. S. u. clubs,
as well as sportsmen from oponent
organizations.
The purpose of this delegation is
not only that which its name above
implies. OF course, we will compete
on the sports fields of the Soviet
Union, France, Germany and Great
Britain, in games such as soccer,
baseball volley ball, ping pong, etc.
running and bicycle events, but we.
have also another aim in view. And
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-19
Lenin's what
Is to Be DOne?!"

LeninS fundamental writings, has
recently been put ont in a paper
editio by the International Pub
fishers. No revolutionary worker
should he without this handbook of
the principles of Bclshevism which
has now been made available at
only SOC per copy. We are printing
below the fOreWord to the booklet
written by Alexander Trachtenberg
which shows how valuable this
book is to every class conscious
worker
What Is to Be Done? is one of
henin's outstanding revolutionary
writings. It has long been classic
in its field The first generation of
Russian Bolsheviks, which includes
many of the present Soviet leaders,
have been brought up on this bril-
liant exposition of the policies and
tactics of the revolutionary Socialist
movement. It's uniqueness in Russian
Marxlst literature is due to the way
it treats the role Of the Party in the
revolutionary struggled subject to
which slight attention was paid UP
TO that time. The subtitle, Burning
Questions OF Our Movement, which
Lenin gave to this brochure, indi-
oates how deeply he felt the need of
calling attention to the problem of
organization.
What we're these burning ques-
items" which Lenin, soon after his
return from Siberian exile, posed and
to which he gave answers, first in
articles in the Iskra C'The Urgent
Tasks of Our Movement, December,
1900; Where to Begin?", May, l901
and finally developed in What Is to
Be Done?, published in March, 1902?
1deologically, Marxism has won a
decisive victory over Populism which
exercised hegemony among advanced
Russian society and revolutionary in
telligentsia during the seventies and
eighties. In his early writings Lenin
himself carried on sharp polemics
against Populist and other utopian
perversions of Socialism, thereby
contributing to the Marxist literary
campaign designed to check their
influence on the nascent revolution
airy workers movement.
The Marxist movement at that
time suffered, however, from two
basic weaknesses. The first was the
tendency prevalent in a section of
the movement and characterized as
Economism, which maintained that
the economic struggles of the workers
for the improvement of their imrne-
date working and living conditions
should be the chief preoccupation of
the labor movement. The struggle
against tsarisn, the Economists pro-
posed to leave to the liberal bour-
geoisie to whom they ascribed mo-
nopoly in that field. Lenin and other
revolutionary Socialists could not but
consider such policy as travesty
on Marxisrn, as a complete break
with the nature and aims of the rev.
dictionary labor movement, the very
essence Of which, they held, was the
struggle for power Lenin goes ham
u1er and tongs after all those who
attempt to separate the struggle
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speaks with SO much ease and free
dom knows what their task is. He
knows what is expected of them,
these young cadres, and that from
this school the door opens immedi-
ately to the factory, to a factory
whose proud task will be to contrib
ute good deal to render Soviet
economy independent of the capt.
talist countries.
At the back of the hall there stand
the parents Of the scholars, smiling
proud fathers and mothers. The
painful worry and care about, the
future of the child. which every
worker in the capitalist country
knows, does not exist for these pa
rents, Their children are assured of
their schooling, development and flu
ture, a future regarding which they
have no doubt because they them
selves are helping to build 1t up, the
future of the socialist world.
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What American Workers
Write from the U.S.S.R.

tHe reproduce here a letter from
group of workers WHO went to tie
Soviet Union. This Letter was orig
inaliy pribiig,2ed in English in one
of the Soviet papers.-Ed.) a..
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-15
ee . . . 0eo O . .
 Steamer Movements
NORTHBOUND


 , Princess Norah scheduled to . . arrive Thursday afternoon . , or evening. . . Ncrthland scheduled to arrive . . Friday noon. . . Admiral Evans scheduled to . . arrive Friday. . . SCHEDULED SAILNGe . . Norco scheduled to sail from . . Seattle December 19 at 9 . D. m. . . Victoria scheduled to sail . . from Seattle Dec. 20 at g . . a. m. . SOUTHBOUND 3ALNGs . . Northwestern scheduled to . sail southbound December . . 20. . . LOCAL sAILN0s . . Estebeth leaves every Saturday . night at pm. for sirks and . wayports. . . Pacific leaves every, Satur- . . day at 10 am. for Peters- . . burg. Kake and way ports. .
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-15
TWO STEAMERS
 ENR0UTENORTH

SEATTLE, Dec. Relationship Northland sailed at g o'clock last night for Juneau and way ports with 22 first class passengers and no Steerage.
 Passengers booked for Juneau are Anna A. Myers, N. O. Hardy and wife, Mrs. J. M. Clark, Mrs. c. l.. Crozier, F. Fagerson and wife. Fagerson is taking a dog North with him.
 Evans On Way
 Steamer Admiral Evans sailed for Southeast and Southwest Alas ka ports at 10 o'clock this fore noon with p first class passen- gers and nine steerage. Passengers booked for Juneau are: Miss Marie Nelson, Miss Fern Nelson, F. R. Townsend, Bill Skreffes, Hans Nil- son.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-15
THERE IS TIME. YET FOR POSTING YULETIDE MAIL
Letters and Packages Will Go on Norah and
 Northwestern

Further opportunity will be af- forded residents of Juneau and the other principal communities in Southeast Alaska to send Yuletide mail to Seattle in time for dis tribution and delivery there before Christmas day.
 The steamship Princess Norah is scheduled to said south from Ju- neau late Friday night or early Saturday morning. She will take letter and package mail, not only for Prince Rupert and Vancouver, B. C., and Seattle but also for Al aska ports south of Juneau. Her mail is due to reach Seattle next Tuesday night, and will be avail able for carrier delivery there a week from tomorrow, or two days before Christmas day.
 Northwestern's Departure
 The steamship Northwestern is scheduled to depart south from Juneau late Saturday night or early Sunday morning. She will be due in Seattle on Wednesday forenoon. Her mail will be given carrier de- livery not later than a week from Thursday, the day before Christ mas day.
 The Juneau postoffice is clear of all work in connection with recent incoming and outgoing mails, and will be able to handle expeditions ly all incoming and outgoing mail late this week and early next week
 No Danger of Congestion
 There is no danger of conges-
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 ton in the postoffice," said Post master Josephine Spickett. We shall Joe able to distribute incoming malls on the Princess Norah due here northbound Thursday and on the Admiral Evans due here northbound Friday night, without delaying the dispatch of outgoing mails on the southbound Princess Norah late Friday night or early Saturday and on the southbound Northwestern late Saturday night or early Sunday morning. x.
 If folks will securely seal or wrap, stamp and plainly address their mail matter, it will be start ed south by the postoffice with out delay"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-15
CAPT. "JACK' HUGHES
 PASSES AWAY IN SOUTH

Capt. John H. Hughes, pioneer of Dawson and Fairbanks where he was engaged ir mining and the transportation and wharfage busi- ness in the early days, died re- gently at his home in Manor, Cali fornia. He was with the Alaska Railroad, with headquarters at An chorage, during the administration of Col. Landis. He was well known throughout Interior Alaska and Yukon Territory. The breezy and genial Jack Hughes will be sadly missed by hosts of friends.
 Quartz ana placel location mo- tices at The Empire.
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NoRTHLAND DUE FRIDAY

Announcement was made today by David Femmer, freight agent of the motorship Northland, that the vessel will arrive in Juneau from Seattle next Friday noon. She will discharge as quickly as pos sible at the Femmer Wharf and then depart on her return voyage south She is scheduled to be back in Seattle not later than Thurs day, December 24.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-15

fONESOME-JOIN Ohio's largest correspondence club. Members ev- erywhere. t5D ladies names. ad- : dresses and descriptions $1.OO. 1adies 5Dc). Give age and occu- pation with remittance. J. E. Donald, Box 825, Dayton, Ohio.
 PIANOS, Radios, Sewing Machines. Monographs, Expert Piano Tun- ing. Radio and photograph re- pairing. Anderson's Music Shoppe.
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WANTED

QUICK SERvICE-Furniture re-
 pairing, upholstering, kalsomining. : Repair work of any kind. Phone
 137, H. c. Gorhan1.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-15
CARD PARTY

The Ladies of the Catholic Church will give a Card Party in the Parish Hall on, Tuesday night at 8 o'clock. Refreshments served. Good prizes. Everyone cordially invited. " W -adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-15
TIDES TOMORROW

High tide, 6:23 a. m., 14.0 feet Low tide, 12:30 p. m., 5.6 feet High tide, 6.1l p. m., 12.3 feet
Seward daily gateway., 1931-09-10
ANYONE WANTING 4 BUFFALO MAY HAVE
 0NE FREE OF COST

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10. (R II One hundred buffalo, fine speci- mems from Uncle Sam's famous herd in Yellowstone National Park, will be given away for the asking this Fall, Acting Director Demaray of the National Park Ser vice announced.
 There are two strings to the gift of a buffalo. The animal must not be killed but must be used for ex- hibition Or propagation purposes and all costs of handling, crating and shipping must be borne by the recipient.
 Buffalo from the Yellowstone herd are given away on request as a part of a plan adopted by the Depart ment of the Interior for keeping the size of the herd sufficiently small to insure proper winter graz ing. The herd now numbers more than 1,200.
 The public has been warned re- peatedly by the National Park Ser vice that buffaloes do not make sat- isfactory pets. Requests for the gift of a buffalo have sometimes been received from families with no lar ger estate than a city lot who wish ed pet for the children.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-09-10
WHISTLE ON VESSEL
 REFUSED ID PERFORM

SEATTLE, Sept. 10. (H-The SS. Admiral H. F Alexander of the Pac- fife Steamship Company, plying in Southeast Alaska waters, has a whistle toned to the pitch or timbre so that when blown in the vicinity of Columbia Glacier it would cause the glacier ice to fall crashing into the water and give tourists an added thrill
 However, the Alexander's whistle did not function properly on it's last visit to Columbia Glacier, the repeated whistling was too much for the whistle and it broke down and gave forth only a sour note.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-09-10
EARLY THOUGHTS OF CHRISTMAS TREES
 ARE NOT 50 HAPPY

WASHINGTON, D. O., Sept. g. P)-First cool spells are already bringing thoughts of Christmas, snow and Santa Claus-at least to the minds of conservation of ficerS.
 With reforestation programs now large item in the budget figures of number of States, recent laws reveal that conservation de- partments are tired of playing Santa to commercial and private vandals who yearly strip the young trees from areas bordering thoroughfares.
 A new law adopted in Wisconsin requires license of all Christmas tree dealers and the written con- sent of landowners before any trees may be removed
Seward daily gateway., 1931-09-10
CALIFORNIA GOLD
 PLACER REGION Is
 GOAL 0F POOR MEN

RANDSBURG, Calif., Sept. 10. LP}-Cooler weather on the desert means many ventures in the chase for gold Reports from all of the old placer camps, from Red Rock Canyon to the Barstow placer field, tell of the little dry washers operated by hand, and by small motors; of the incoming gold-sav- ing dredges and drag lines.
 More gold nuggets have been found this summer than any other year since the RandSburg Stam- pede of '95. In that year hun creds and hundreds of placer min CTS made good, for the reason they found ground worth work ing, and stuck. Sometimes the going was tough, with little or nothing to show for a days work, and at times the grind was hard for a week, but in the long run, pay dirt was found and camps like the Summit, Goler and it's many gulches, Last Chance, Red Rock and other canyons of the north paid we'll in coarse gold.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-09-10
WAITING CROWDS IN
 SEATTLE CEASE WATCH

SEATTLE, Sept. 10. (P) The crowds waiting here until last night have given up hope to welcome Moyle and Allen who were hop ping from Tokyo to Seattle, and have melted away.
 Many believed that the fliers last night were resting beneath the waves of the Pacific. Others, how ever, have hope that a plane seen over Port Townsend may have been them and the fliers-if this were them-may have been forced down in an obscure valley in the vicinity.
 Coast Guard cutters have start ed to search for the airmen.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-09-10
THREE TEAPOT DOME CASES REMAIN; WILL
 BE HEARD NOVEMBER
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10, (P)

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10. P -
 Only three of the so-called Tea pot Dome oil cases remain in liti- gation, two of which are awaiting final action of the Supreme Court of the United States, and the third will be heard before the Federal Court at San Francisco, on Nov. g, Atlee Pomerene, counsel for the Government in the cases, stated at the White House, following 8 conference with the President.
 MT. Pomerene said the Govern ment is awaiting the final action of the Supreme Court of the United States on the certiorari proceedings in the case of H. N. Blackmer, of Denver, Colo, former official of the Sinclair Oil Company, who, MT. POmerene said, is still in Paris. He said the Government seized $100,- 900 of 3A per cent Government bonds of MT. Blackmer and that supersedeas proceedings in the Su- preme Court have stayed the final disposition of the seized property.
 Besides two Blackmer cases, MT. Pomerene said that the only other case is one of the so-called Doheny oil cases, involving three leases executed in 1921 and 1922