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The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-06-17
MOTORSHIP ON FIRE;
 GOES DOWN AT PIER

HAMILTON, Bermuda, June IT. The motorship Bermuda of the Furnes-Bermuda Line, sank at the pier here. The superstructure was burned away. The stern was rest ing on the bottom. The sinking followed a three and one-half hour fire. No passengers were aboard at the time.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-06-17
SEATTLE BOAT OWNERS
 ARE NOT TO TIE UP

SEATTLE, June 17-The total halibut catch brought here so far this season is 3,911,700 pounds as against 4,478,875 pounds for the same period last year The prices last year averaged 10 and 13 cents. This year the price has been aver aging and Il cents.
 Seattle boat owners said they do not see their way clear to tie up now as in Prince Rupert. They as sert they are delivering sufficient fish to- supply the North Pacific and coast needs.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-06-17
SAVE THE DATES

Friday, July srd and Saturday
 July 4th. Dancing at Moose Hal
 under the Auspices of June u Lodge No. 700, LOOM. Poppy and up-to-the- minute music by Smok- ey's Melody Orchestra. Scandinav- ian dances n everything. (adv.)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-06-17
WOULD BAR
 U. s. BOATS AT RUPERT
Canadian Halibut Fisher men Put Proposal Be-
 fore Canadian Govt.

FRINGE RUPERT, B. O., June TIA tie-up of 20 days between selling of each American catch and return of the same boat is pro- posed in a ruling requested from the Government by Canadian hal ibut fishermen in an effort to get better prices.
 This would mean temporarily barring this port to American hal ibuters.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-06-17

The trouble with the average family budget is that it insists on setting aside too much of the in come for mere essentials and ignores the necessity for things that will make the neighbors turn green with envy.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-06-17

You can tell by meeting the wife that a man doesn't have to turn on the radio to provide busy evening for his ears.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-06-17
TIDES TOMORROW
HALIBUT PRICES

PRINCE RUPERT, B. O., June 17.-Eighty thousand pounds of halibut were received here yes- terday. American fish sold for 5 to 10.30 cents a pound and Cana dian for to BIO cents
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-06-17

SEATTLE, June 17.-Six vessels with 58,OO0 pounds of medium hal ibut and 37,000 pounds of small arrived yesterday and sold for 5 to E cents.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-06-17
WOMEN OF

Mooseheart Legion will m e t
 Thursday night, Moose Hall, at 8 o'clock. Initiation followed by So-
 cial. All husbands invited. l4 GERTIE OLSON, (ady.) Recorder.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-06-17

The North Carolina senate de- feated a sales tax bill that had been passed, by the house. #'
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-06-17

ONESOME-JCIN Oilio's largest correspondence club. Members ev- anywhere. 150 ladies names, ad- dresses and descriptions $1.o0 Qadies 50c) Give age and occu- patton with remittance. J. E. Donald. Box 825, Dayton, Ohio.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-06-17
FOR SALE

FOR SALE-Large wardrobe trunk in good condition. Apply 52S East Street.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-06-17

FOR SALE-Adsit property on Sec aS ond Street Downstairs suitable
 for store; modern living quar- ters upstairs. Large storeroom at I back of building Inquire up-
 stairs at premises after 5 pm.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-06-17

CLUB Gale TOT lease to responsible parties or for sale. Apply Robert T. Kaufman at Gastineau Cafe.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-06-17

Old papers at The Empire.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-06-17

FOR SALE-House for sale. 9th and Park. Telephone 4005.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-06-17

PIANOS, Radios, Sewing Machines, Photographs. Expert Piano Tun-
 ing. Radio and pnonograph re-
 nairing. Anderson's Music Shoppe.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-06-17
MISCELLANEOUS

iCatc, iHC. Oicdt Diitdiu tikhts scSSi 'es
 ------ ------------, :.
 MISCELLANEOUS LONESOME-JOIN Oilio's Largest correspondence club. Members ev- anywhere. 150 ladies names, ad- dresses and descriptions $1.00 Qadies 50c) Give age and occu- patton with remittance. J. E. Donald. Box 825, Dayton, Ohio. CLUB Gale TOT lease to responsible parties or for sale. Apply Robert T. Kaufman at Gastineau Cafe. PIANOS, Radios, Sewing Machines, Photographs, Expert Piano Tun- ing. Radio and pnonograph re- rairing. Anderson'S Music Shoppe.
 FOR RENT FOR RENT-Store room for rent on Seward Street; good loca- tion; reasonable rental. Apply Capitol Electric Co.,, End and Seward.
 FOR RENT-Furnis he'd steam heated rooms, close in; newly renovated; reasonable rates. Gas tineau Rooms, over Gastineau Grocery.
 FOR RENT-Furnished, steam heated sleeping rooms, suitable for men; close in. Call at 326, Second Street.
 FOR RENT-Furnrsned, steam heat ed sleeping room; close in. Phone 537.
 FOR RENT-Three room furnish cd apartment. Electric range. Telephone 138.
 FOR RENT-Fu he'd Apart ment. Tel 103. Mrs. Chas. Hoxie. FOR RENT-Large furnished room for rent. $12.00 month. Close in. Telephone 2551
 FOR RENT-Cne, two or thre e room furnished apartments, in- cluding lights, water. Newly fin- ished, close in. Very reasonable monthly rates. Also furnished cabins. Inquire Seaview Apart mentS, No. 18.
 FOR RENTLCompletely furnished house; also furnis h e d apart ments Tel. 2004.
 FOR RENT-Fur nished steam heated apar tn ts. Bishop Apartments.
 FOR RENT = Comfortable heated furnished apartments; $50.00 and $60.00. Nugget Apartments.
  FOR RENT-4 room furnished, heated apartments; splendid view. Inquire 115 West 9th St. Phone 330. FOR RENT = Single apartments. MacKinnon Apartments. Apt. Furnished. Heated. Tel. 570l. FOR RENT-One two-room furn- ished apartment vacant. The Eureka Apartments, a bachelors paradise. Willoughby Avenue. Fireproof building.
 LOST ANU FOUND LOST-Eagle watch fob; probably on lower Front Street. Please re- turn to Empire Reward.
 Old papers at the Empire office.
 The Best Laundry Il At 2 Fair Price Fl 1 WHERE? l CAPITAL LAUNDRY 1 l Phone 355 Franklin St.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-29
THE CAPITALISTS SAY "No~!

Of course the capitalist class and all of it's
spokesman are against any such real relief and
social insurance for the workers.
All proposals made by capitalist politicians,
so-called Socialist" reformists and business
leaders" are entirely different and sharply op-
posed to these fundamental demands of ra-
tiOnaIy constructed social insurance. All of
such proposals are made not in the interests of
the working class, but solely in the interests of
the capitalist class. The capitalist proposals
arenOt proposals for social insurance, but are
intended to prevent and defeat social insurance
to protect the capitalist class from. the neces-
sity to provide real social insurance against
the most Immediately destructive effects of
the capitalist wage slavery upon the lives and
health of the working class. For instance, these
capitalist proposals never propose an assurance
of full wages for workers who through no fault
of their own are denied an opportunity to labor
They usually touch upon only one or two as
poets of insurance, and adopt the most mis-
cradle standards of semi-starvation as good
enough" for the working class-victims of the
system of capitalism They usually leave out
of consideration the great mass of the work
ing class and especially those who are most in
need Of social insurance agricultural workers,
itinerant laborers, and even workers in basic
industries).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-29
SOCIAL INSURANCE FOR WORKERS!

While demanding the above mentioned i'm
mediate emergency relief measures as abso-
lutely necessary as the first steps to grapple
with the problems of starvation and death
which face our class today as result of two
years of starvation in which the government
has refused all RELIEVE demand also that
the system of Social Insurance shall be estab-
hshed Immediately.
What is social insurance? And why is it
necessary?
That portion of the wealth produced by
wage worker which he receives in the form. of
wages is so insignificant that it hardly suf-
fces for the satisfaction of his most essential
demands of life even in times of so-caled
prosperity" A worker is deprived in this
way of every possibility to save from his
wages for the event of losing his capacity to
labor. He may lose his ability to labor
through injury in the factory or sickness, old
age, invalidsm or he may lose the opportunity
to labor through unemployment which is in
separately connected with the capitalist sys-
tenn of production. Such social insurance has
always been need which the workers should
have fought for at all times. But now, in the
ni9st of the present desperate plight of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-29
WHAT SOCIAL INSURANCE rs

The best form of social insurance for work
ers is a federal government insurance, to be
constructed upon the following basis
/. 1t must insure the workers against ali
cases of loss of their capacity to labor (in-
jury, illness, old age, invalidism and, for
women, in addition pregnancy and childbirth,
and should include compensation of widows
and orphans from the death of the breadwin
ner)-and must insure all workers against the
loss of their earnings through unemployment
2. Social insurance must include all per-
sons who labor for wages and their families
8. All of those insured must be compen-
stated on the principle of the government re-
placing their full wages; and all expenses of
insurance must fall upon the employers and
the government. r.+
A. Social insurance in all of its phases
must be supervised by single insurance organ
izations constructed on the territorial basis,
and managed entirely by the insured workers
themselves. SCe;i;t (. :. ~ ~ i34 sfts fsf,t
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-29

ton of higher rent for Negro tenants Negro
share-eroppers and tenant farmers to receive
full relief without discrimination.
8, Against the Hoover schemes of public
works which are designed as preparations for
war, as wage-cutting expedients and systems
of forced labor-we demand the Inauguration
of the program of building workers homes to
replace the present horrible slums and bar
racks inhabited by millions of underpaid and
unemployed workers. building of workers hos
pitals nurseries, etc. All public building to
be at trade union wage rates and the 7-hour
day
9. Absolute prohibition of all forms of
forced labor or coercion of any kind in con-
nection with relief and insurance
10. Development of trade relations with
the Soviet Union Gncluding the demand for
recognition of the Soviet Union, not only as
a fundamental requirement of international
working class solidarity, but also as vital i'm
mediate economic need of the starving masses)
in order that the idle factories may work, fill
the constantly growing demands of the sue
cessful construction of the workers govern
ment and it's five year plan.
The Communist Party demands the financ-
ing of all forms of insurance and relief by
aversion TO TINS purpose OF all mlntafy, naval
and police appropriations, sharp reduction Of
official salaries, sharply graduated income tax
on all incomes above $4,000, graduated capital
levy on all fortunes above 100000,
The struggle for these demands shall be
organized around the Unemployed Councils and
carried on by mass demonstrations in cities,
counties and states by hunger marches includ-
ing national hunger march to the opening of
Congress; by signature campaigns delegations
to governing bodies, and the use Of referendum
laws in the various states and by supporting
the Communist Party in the coming elections.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-29
FOR INIMED late RELIEF OF
UNEMPLOYED

The Communist Party declares that no re-
lief can be obtained except by the masses or
ganizing and fighting for it.
The first necessity is the organization of
powerful Unemployed Councils. Unemployed
Councils have already been formed in many
cities.
They must be ten times more powerfully
organized. They must include the wide masses
of the workers both employed and unemployed
The Unemployed Councils must be activized
Working class democracy must have full sway
in them. Through the Unemployed Councils
the workers, employed and unemployed must
act solidly together, Immediately taking UP
every issue arising out of unemployment and
suffering of the working class and farmers.
The Communist Party declares that the
masses must demand, through the Unemployed
Councils:
l. An immediate grant from government
funds of $3.50 to each unemployed worker with
no discrimination as to age sex or color and
$50 additional for each dependent of such UNI
employed worker. This is necessary imme-
date emergency relief
2. The immediate stopping of all eVictons
arising out of unemployment or out of condi-
tons created by strikes, or out of pon-payment
or rent because OF low wages or part-tlme en-
ployment. Free rents, gas, lights, water, ETC.,
for the unemployed at expense of the govern
ment. Free distribution of milk for children
of unemployed.
g. Unemployment insurance by the gov
eminent, guaranteeing full wages to all work
ers unemployed from any cause whatever, this
to include agricultural workers, clerks, office
employees and all other categores of wage
labor.
A. This unemployment relief to be admin
istered by the insured workers organized into
self-directing bodies on territorial basis.
s. The shortening of the present excessive
hours of labor by the introduction of the T.
hour day, without reduction of weekly earn
ings, throughout all industry; except that for
mining and other dangerous occupations the
6-hOur day; abolition of child labor under "A
and provision of government vocational train
ing with government support; the 4-hour day
for youths up to 16, and the 6-hour day for
youths from Is to 20.
g. Adequate relief to all farmers who are
without proper food clothing and shelter for
the winter by the government.
r. The stopping of all discrimination
against Negroes; the breaking up of the sys-
tenn of jim-crow segregation and the proven
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-29
CAPITALIST FRIENDS OF THE
WORKING CLASS AND
WHAT THEY PROPOSE
REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATIC
STARVATION PLAN

A. The Openly Capitalist Spokesman: The
capitalist class and all of its spokesman adhere
to the one main policy. Hoover gives the main
lead-nO unemployment relief, no social insuro
ance, no undertaking by the federal gOvern-
ment of responsibility for the starving Millions
But in the complex life of capitalist poll
tics, many other spokesman for capitalism
arise to offer proposals which appear as in ''op-
position" to Hoover's program
Some capitalist spokesman speak as though
they were "in favor" of unemployment relief
by the federal government together with some
vague suggestions of social insurance. The
Tammany Senator Wagner and Governor
Roosevelt of New York and the liberal Re-
publicans, Senator LaFolette of Wisconsin and
Governor PinchOt of Pennsylvania with croco-,
ollie tears speak for measures vaguely sug-
gesting such relief But above ALL these de-
tenders of the capitalist system try to break
up the mass movement of the workers, they
try to prevent demonstrations, to prevent the
organization of Unemployment Councils, to
prevent any action that will result in winning
unemployment relief and social insurance.
These supporters of capitalism help Hoover's
program of starvation by creating the illusions
that the masses, in hopeless diSorganization
can idly wait and starve and depend upon the
good wilp of the capitalist government whose
program is: the masses ra@st starve 1t is
these same men who support and order the
clubbing and shooting down of workers who
demonstrate and petition for real unempoy-
ment relief-the Tammany Hall of Governor
Roosevelt and Senator Wagner were directly
responsible for the clubbing and riding down
of the unemployment demonstration Of March
6, 1880, and the heavy prison sentences to the
leaders of the unemployed, whilst Governor
Pinchot is now engaged through his police in
the shooting down of striking miners in
Pennsylvania.
No matter what promises, no matter what
demagogy may be necessary, these "beral"
capitalist and socialist" politicians know that
with the masses unorganized, with no mass
pressure brought to bear against the capitalist
class and government, the workers and farmers
will be defeated in all efforts to obtain real
relief.
The demagogue Mayor Murphy of Detroit
was put into office by the automobile manu-
facturers as the one who could best pose as a
friend" Of the workers, who could best de-
ceive the masses with scraps of charity" the
distribution of garbage to the unemployed
workers as food in the soup line, the cheap
herding of thousands of suffering men in dirty
barracks. All such devices are intended to
save the big automobile manufacturers real
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FROM organized and determined millions of the
working class and farmers can any real con-
cessions be forced from the reluctant hands of
the cold-blooded ruling class and its govern
ment.
The masses must act.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-29

taiism needs hungry millions begging for work
at the factory gates-in order to reduce the
wages of those who are at work inside.
For these reasons the capitalist ruling class
and its Wall Street government at Washington
will not willingly do anything to bring real re-
lief to the unemployed. Only under pressure
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-29

working class, it has become lte-and- death
necessity.
Evening star., 1931-11-29
FINANCING Of HOME
WILL Be DISCUSSED
Hoover Conference Here Is
Expected to Attract
1000 Delegates.
BY WILLIAM LEE.

Within the next few weeks more than
1000 men and women, representing
every State in the country, will flock
here to attend President Hoover's Con-
ference on Home Building and Home
Ownership. which will hold its opening
session next Wednesday.
For more than year the rs commit
tees appointed by the President to or
ganize and prepare for this conference
have gathered from every community
within the borders of the United States
all pertinent facts and statistics which
can aid them in drafting program
designed to improve housing conditions
and to facilitate the financing and con-
struction of new homes.
The President himself is primarily
interested in the financial problems
which arise in accordance with nome
building. and he plans to ask Congress
when it conveneS to set up q system OF
credit institutions designed to hberalize
the terms upon which the prospective
home owner can obtain FUNDS Win
which to erect a dwelling.
The work of the Presidents confer
ence will not, however, be limited in
any way to the field Of finance ana
credit. Almost every problem which
arises in accordance with home owner
ship will be reported on by committee
which has devoted more than year to
the study of each of its phases.
The first general session OF the con-
ference, which will be attended by more
than 500 real estate and building OPP
orators from New York State alone, Is
to be held on Wednesday night, when
President Hoover will deliver the open
ing address. =,
Several correlating committees Will
devote their time to assembling the
work of the other individual groups and
will also attempt to draft a compre-
hensive plan for rendering effective the
conclusions and recommendations OF the
special committees.
In a large measure the success OF the
conference will depend upon the man
ner in which individual real estate men,
contractors, architects and private
bankers receive the suggestions OF the
conference. A program of State and
municipal legislation will also doubtless
be recommended, while some national
legislation may be expected, particularly
in respect to the matter of financing
construction.
The conference will adjourn on Sat-
urday.
(Copyright, l93l)
Evening star., 1931-11-29
RETAIL TRADE GAIN
REPORTED FOR WEEK
Mercantile Reviews Find Evidences
of Upturn in Certain Lines
of Business.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, November 28-Somt
improvement in retail trade, giving evi-
dence that holiday cheer is entering
this phase of business, is reported ir
the weekly mercantile reviews.
Dun's finds that few of the depart
ment stores in the New England States
report volume up to that of year ago
Mems cold-weather apparel is moving
in few territories west of the MiSSis-
sippi River.
In the Southwest confidence has re-
placed fear to large extent and bust
ness seems to be definitely on the up
grade.
In the South nearly all lines of trade
have improved, and an improvement in
employment also has been noted with
textile mills increasing their operations
to almost 100 per cent during the last
80 days
And on the Pacific Coast heavy rain
fall in many sections and snow in the
Sierras have stimulated business in
the fruit and farming areas.
BradStreet's reports that retail trade
has not suffered from the depression
to the same extent as the heavy in
duStries, and that food stores eyery-
where have been active due to Thanks
giving.
In New York City the review adds,
the shoe trade has been equal to last
year, and freezing weather in the West
has been a distinct help to seasonal
lines and rains In several cities of other
sections have benefited the sale Of ap-
parel and footwear.