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Seward daily gateway., 1931-01-14
MASTER UR|E |S HOST
 ON HIS BIRTHDAY

Martin Joseph Uric entertain ad at his home on Third Avenue in event Of his fifth birthday, on Tuesday, Jan. l2. Miss Elsie Leslie, Mesdames Thomas, sand- beck, FIihnala and Uric assist ing in making the party sue cess
 Those present were Masters Charles Lechner, Johnnie Paul. steiner and Reisner, Bill Court land, Jackie Erwin, Sidney Uric, Robbie Gilliland, Seward Shea, Jerry Protzman andv Raymond Stanley; Misses Lanette Hagen, Jane McMullen, Danese Johnston, Jacqueline Colwell, Orlette Tllo- mas, Betties' Neville and Lan- der, Barbara Chilberg, Wilma Lee and Sanna Uric.
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ABAS INTERFERENCE

Every radio owner in town is urged to be present tonight at the Arcade Club Rooms fol the purpose of discussing radio inter ference problems and means of getting rid of them. The meet- ing is called for 8 o'clock with representatives of the Radio club the City Council and the Cham Der of Commerce. It is hoped that something definite can be done.
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EMIL JANNINGS
 An HE THEATER

Booked for this evening at the Liberty theater .is the great Emil Jannings, the actor of unlimited roles. who is rated now as the greatest character star. The fea- ture K "The Patriot,' V super- feature play of Russia It is rat- ed as a powerful and absorbing drama that aIl .adults Would en- joy bat it is not made for chill dren
Seward daily gateway., 1931-01-14
THE. WORD OF GOD

The way to peace Acquaint now myself with him, and be at peace; thereby good shall come unto thee. Job 22:21.
 Prayer May the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, keep your hearts and minds i'd the knowledge and the love of God which is in Jesus Christ.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-01-14

Join the Cleaning and Pressing Club of the Seward Steam Laun- dry: S5 month entities you Go send suit, dress 0F hat each week.
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Wo1IEN,s CLUB MEET

The Seward Women's Club will meet Thursday at 2 p. rn. at tha home Wi Mrs Charles Lechner, The meeting will be a combined business and soeial affair
Seward daily gateway., 1931-01-14

The United States geological survey hasc completed a lO-year job of mapping the Hawaiian Ts- lands.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-01-14
ALAMEDA TONNAGE

The SS Alameda. of the A. s. lS. O., due in port Friday or Saturday from the South, will discharge total of PTS tons of general cargo for local and rail points: 24O tons, to be exact, is billed for Interior destination, and 35 for local merchants. The BARGAIN TABLE at the Alaska Shop Is worth looking over.
 Ask about the Seward Steam Laundry Cleaning and Pressing Club. It will pay you.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-01-14

HAVE YOU HEARD THE NEW -OKEH" RECORDS at SYLYIA'S? !? EHEY ARE WONDERFUL.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-02

We wish to speak here of the sincere believers in
nonviolence; of those who earnestly believe that war
can be combatted by simply "abstaining" from taking
part in it. This again is illusion, and danger
GUS illusion.
Let's analyze the question and see where it leads
to- AS long as the policy of "abstention" that is,
fusal to bear and in any way participate in the
war, is confined to small number of individuals, 1t
obviously offers obstacle to the warakers and the
imperalist The experience of the conscientious
DIRECTORS in the late war should suffice prove that
Moreover, the presence of couple of hundred
thousand of such directors in capitalist as during the
proves helpful to imperialism by quoting
many disturbed conscience the battlefield duing
the will to resist more effectively
But-the pacifist will say--let us spread this policy
Of abstenton among the masses; let make it real
obstacle to the carrying Of Our is if
the Masses that is millions should all at adopt
the policy of absenton then either of the two things
must happen. Either the ruling class and its govern
men will succeed in breaking the will of the
by setting in motion all the of violence at the
disposal of the government on the eve of the
masses will pass from peaceful resistance to
militant attack, and break capitalism In the first in
stance, capitalism wins and the is carried until
the rise in revolutionary way. In the
instance the masses win, the mperialst is stopped
by becoming transformed into civil against capt.
talism and capitalism is destroyed
Thus we come to the conclusion that individual
peaceful non-resstance to mperiast war is futie it
full non-resistance may play positive part in the
fight against imperias war, but only transition
to militant attack, uprising and revolution against
capitalism.
But this transition from mass peaceful non ress-
lance against to revolutionary action against
and capitalism, in order to be really effective
be well prepared and organized way ahead of the time
of the actual outbreak of the Those old enough
to recall the entry of the United States into the late
mperiaist war in 1917 will remember the wave of gov
ernmenal terror and persecution that signazed the
entry into the They will recall the arrests
and jaings of opponents the gagging of the
1utionary and ant-war press, the mad howl of the
capitalist and imperalst press the lynching atmos-
phere created for all those who wouldn't support the
war etc
The will be repeated at the outbreak Of the
next war, only on larger scale because of the
advanced state of development of the revolutionary
working class movement What chances are there
under such conditions for millions of people, who are
unorganzed and disconnected from each other to begin
all at passive resistance to the mperiais war?
And what chances there for these people, in the
face of the terrific pressure and attack of the govern
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-02

All this the petty bourgeois pacifist ignores An
other thing that the pacifist ignores is the fact-the
most important fact-that the world today is much
war-like place than before the last" i'm
perast war First and foremost because of the danger
of capitalist against the Soviet Union This is
new" kind of war, the possibility of which not
present before 1917 when the Russian workers estab
Ished their rule For this war-military intervention
capitalism is preparing with all its might American
capitalism playing leading role Secondly because
the of the imperast powers against the rising
colonial peoples. Such the American, British and
French imperialsts carrying in China;
such British Imperialism is carrying in India;
French imperialism in Indo China and Morocco Amer
lean Imperialism in the Philippines Haiti Nicaragua
ready to engage in similar war against any of the
peoples of Latin America rising against foreign op-
preston. These are also new kind of wars not so
characteristic of capitalism before the war ito end
war"
All these wars are produced by and inseparable
from imperialism the present epoch of the decline
of world capitalism and of the growth of the world
revolution Only the proletarian revolution against
capitalism will make end to and establish peace
The illusions cultivated by the petty bourgeois paci
fists dangerous precisely in this that they paralyze
the will of the to fight the real and only
of thus helping the imperalsts to carry their
criminal game
Another dangerous illusion spread by petty
bourgeois liberal pacifism is the idea that imperalst
be conbatted only by peaceful and non-volent
means We do not speak here of such champion
preachers of non-vioence in resisting the Of
fetal church The hypocritical preachings of this and
similar agencies rotten that they stink to heaven
They condemn the violence of the to resist
and capitalist exploitation while blessing the violence
of imperiaiSt and capitalist dictatorship Nor do
speak here of the non-voence bluff of Gandh who
by his admission had helped British imperialism to
mobilize and drive the Indian workers and peasants
into the slaughter of 19141918 to save the British
Empire. Such preachers of "non-Vioence" takers.
This same Gandh who had sent thousands of In
dian workers and peasants to their deaths to the
British Empire; who has several times betrayed the
national revolution of India, in order to prevent the
liberation of the Masses who had refused to lift
finger to the lives of the Indian workers and
utionists recently executed by British imperialism this
person Gandh whom the pacfists carrying their
shoulders is fake preacher of non-vioence. In reality
he is the representative of the Indian capitalists and
landlords who expressing with violence the Indian
workers and peasants. In reality he had Just made
bargain with British imperialism whereby the native
Indian eXpoiters will jointly with British imperialism
continue to exploit rob and murder the Indian
by of the army, police spies and all the means
of violent oppression
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-02
The Economic Crisis and Starva-
ton in Los Angeles

of the Municipal Social Service Bureau in the
Los Angeles Evening Express of June 3, 1881:
The total number of applicants that applied for
relief to that institution during May of this year
was 1877 per cent greater than in May, 1890"
Such an outrageous Indictment of capitalism is
brazenly camouflaged by the Los Angeles Cham
Der of Commerce, the bosses and their hirelings
the press with optimistic hokum such as, t'Con-
ditions in the Los Angeles continuously i'm
proving"
$4,000 Workers Starving in Los Tngeles
Try as the capitalists may to cover up the miser-
able conditions of the working masses, the deep
ening of the economic crisis compels the boss
press to bring some news about the urgent needs
of the thousands of workers and their families,
who are facing hunger and starvation.
The Los Angeles Times of June S, 1882 reports
"The machinery of the County Charities Depart
ment, which is dispensing aid to approximate
10000 individuals suddenly stopped due to lack OF
funds People are calling me up and telling me
their aid has been stopped and they are facing
starvation What did this department do to
remedy this situation Supervisor of County
Charities Department stated: "Out of the $125 900
appropriated by the Board of Supervisors for
charities, week ago last Wednesday (About May
81, 1881 $4,000 of this amount officially went
to cover salaries in the County Charities De-
partment"
Realizing the danger of an army of $4,000
starving workers, the pious grafters made another
camouflage gesture by appropriating latter
stormy session behind closed doors, $25000O to
come from the county's unbudgeted reserve" At
the same time, more jobs created for grafters
At the same time the $2500oo were appropriated
the order was given to 'instaE at once new
accounting system in the charities department"
so that they can better cover up the graft and
inefficiency. Also to appoint five persons who
shall make survey of all cases handled by the
department" More graft!
Over 10000 School Children Starving in "AngeI'
City
The Los Angeles Evening Express, which is
notorious enemy of the Soviet Union, Mr. Knick-
erbocker, under the title of Flight the Red Trade
Menace" spreading false propaganda among the
workers of Los Angeles against the only workers
fatherland in the world, has the following to say
in its June 4th edition:
The problem of feeding 10000 Los Angeles
school children, who are dependent upon the
Parent Teacher Federation for their meals while
in the school, was still unsolved today" This boss
charitable organization, which provides fat Jobs
for number of grafters, had to suspend its
activities, like the County Charities Department
because CT 'lack of funds" In most cases these
dccaitute children depended on the school lunch
as their only meal of the day. The same boss
press tells US Many of them have been unable
10 attend school because the association has not
hid the funds to furnish them with carfare"
This. gruesome .sltpation. is existing in the u S.,
ta'the Rssmshtnee cHy d Cop Apgsles end .pp4
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-02
e. S. ImbeyiaHsts
Mobilize G.. SCHUYLER

THE American imperialists have modified
II George Schuyler. notorious Negro white rul-
ing class toady, to cover up their responsibility
for the shameful conditions of slavery and
forced labor which exist today in the Liberian
dependency of Wall Street.
Under the pretext of exposing" these condi-
tons Schuyler has written series of six arti-
cles for the New York Evening Post
That Schuyers task would be to support the
hypocrisy of Secretary of State Stimson in deny
ing American responsibility for slavery in Lii
IBERIA and in fastening sole responsibility for the
crimes of the Firestone Company on their ma
tive tools was already indicated in an article in
last weeks Baltimore Afro-American in which it
was reported:
"Mr. Schuyler has nothing but praise for the
interests responsible for the establishing of the
Firestone rubber plantation"
In his first article in the Post, appearing last
Monday, Schuyler continues his attempt to
cover up the crimes of the Firestone Company.
While exposing the soroid role played by the Ne
gro officials of the Liberian puppet government
In enslaving the natives, Schuyler has no single
word of blame for the Wall Street masters of
these officials.
He expresses great surprise at the infamy of
the Liberian bourgeosie, as if ignorant Of the
fact that the Negro bourgeoise, whether in Lii
IBERIA or in the United States, had always lent
themselves to the oppression by the imperialists
of the masses of their race as is happening to-
day in this country where the Negro bourgeoi-
sic, with the aid of Schuyler and other prosti-
tute intellectuals, are cooperating with the
Southern boss lynchers in their attempt to le
gally lynch the nine Scottsboro Negro children.
He pretends ignorance of the notorious fact
thai Libra and Abyssinia ase governed by pup
pet governments doing the bidding of various
imperalist governments: the United States in
Liberia, the United States England, Italy and
France IN A5yssin.a. He naively states;
"n-yse,f, Negro, Rad firm belief in
the CLASSICAL rc.ion tha., aside from Abyssinia.
IL tLiberia-C. b. was the sole spot in Africa
ybers BE black paaa gss t5es sassstsssds ssd
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-02
Despite the Terror

dog looked at him few moments pointed his
gun at Vargas chest and fired again. the bullet
going through. Then he left the young miner for
dead. mo information has been preferred for
Wilson'S arrest" writes the Brownsville Tele-
gram More of Pinchot's "impartiaIty"
1t is hard for worker outside the strike zone
to realize the extent of the terror even workers
who have had experience on picket lines and
who have fought the police.
At Arnold City one of the miners who was on
the porch of the little store when Philpovich
was riddled with bullets and killed told the story
of the murder.
eve was a-standing on the porch here about
six o'clock in the morning talking about the
strike. Philipovich gave us his basement for a
National Miners Union relief station. He took
us down to the low stoop at the side of the small
store. In scraggly red paint a small white sign
reads: Relief station. National Miners Union"
This was PhilipoWchs death warrant.
About ten deputies came up within eight feet
of us" the miner continued. Some kid threw an
egg at them and their leader yels out, Shoot the
bastardsr Then the shots begin to fly. Ben Davis
was shot in the back; three others was hurt
and Philipovich was killed They fired fourteen
shots at him. Here look" he said, marking the
bullet marks on the wall, they surely shot to
kill, ten shots right at his head, four hit him
there, and one through the chest" His crime
was relief for the miners, doing all he could to
keep the miners from starving while they struck.
They nearly got me, but they was bad shots
at distance the miner said
Philipovich left a wife and five children. and
despite the murder of her husband Mrs Philippe
vich said the miners could still use her base
ment as relief headquarters for the National
Miners Union.
The capitalist press as well as Governor Pin
chot knows about the terror. Pinchot, the hypo-
critical liberal tries to gloss it over by saying his
deputies are fair" He means they are Shiny,
doing the job of the company gunner but un-
der fake show of duty"
The Pittsburgh Press on June % sees the ter
ror but fails to tell its readers that it is exclu-
sively against the striking miners. The headline
reads: "2 Dead SIS Wounded Toll OF Violence in
the Coal Strike" An effort to make the readers
think the strike is the thing that is terrifying
The fact is, the two dead were on the side of the
striking miners; of the SIS wounded, so were of
the striking miners, and about deputies, who
despite the guns in their hands threatening and
attempting to kill miners, were resisted and
showed away
In the wildwood section, miners who were shot
and left lying on the ground for 30 to 40 min
utes have very little complaint to make They
don't complain about their injuries or about the
danger of death from the company gunner.
Here's their complaint: cts damn shame I
didn't have cup of coffee. We could put up
much better fight if we had little food in cur
stomach
Mass pcketing working class solidarity. the
spirit OF fight the miners have will defeat the
terror, as sharp as 1t is-if the workers every
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-02

Only artly Correct
By JORGE

Comrade Albert P c., writes in differing with
OR "derogatory manner" with which we call
toned readers not to waste" $3.50 briyine the
ruopshy anti-Soviet book called "The Com
munist Shakes His Fist"
MOI That he contends it to be a good book
NO. out because it is bad, so fearfully bad and
so utterly preposterous that, says he, "it has
served 10 humor me for many an evening and
mas peen used by me as an effective b,Ittress
against some of the most antagonistic onnisi.
ZION nave ever met" And he goes on to quote
some additional absurdties which wa. did NOT
cover IL our comment
we agree that IN special circumstances an
tagonlstlc elements might be put to silence bv
a Communist, who however must hs c,,,.h,e
OF skilltu argument, by comparing these an
CagohlSts to the moron who wrote ths hoo1
mentioned 49,
But all these factors are rarely present and
Che comrade Veers to the "left"-which no one
must oeneVe Tor moment is any better than
veerng to the "right"-by imagining that averv-
one would react to the book as he does Carry
this idea to its logical conclusion, and we would
nave to say that the more anti-Conom,,nist
BOOKS published, the better for Communism
Much the same error is made by Comrade
~ H. of Arlington, Mass, who writes lis that
Cne capitalist press is not responsible for the
~--'NNA Va
struggle that the blame lies entirely on it's
readers And he cites the silly factory girls,
who simply won't read anything but rubbish
This comrade is veering to the right
But, you'll ask perhaps in a. bored NAV univ
all this right" and cleft" business. can't wa
be friends, etc, Sure we can be friends but
we need not be fools
Comrade Albert P. c., indicates that he thinks
all workers are as radical and therefore az
immune from being affected by counter-revo-
lutlonary rubbish as he is he over-estimates the
revolutionary current of the masses hence ba
Is left" Comrade NJ H. indicates that ,,ohodv
is as revolutionary as he is, and that readers
OF the capitalist press never will be. esnecia,,v
those factory girls, Understanding the revo-
luClonary current of the masses, hence he is
right" az -
Followed by the logical conclusion both
wrong viewpoints meet on a common hut dan.
gerous ground Comrade Albert would relv
upon anti Communist books to make r,o,,,,,,,,
IStS' and Comrade N. H. says further in his
letter that amy worker who reads the "Red
Trace Menace Will be won over to Communism.
ana addS-of all things!-shat "manv Com
munlsS began reading the Daily Worker be.
cause they were Communists rather than be-
coming Communists through reading it," Z
Inc meat OF both arguments is the same No
need OF Communist paper or Party to contra
act and counterfeit the theological rule of the
MINDS OF the masses by the capitalist press: no
heeo OF the dictatorship of the proletarist to
suppress counter-revoludonary propaeands
WHICH 10 one con1rade is only humorous stuff
ana 70 the other isn't counter-revolutionar At
oil we oont think the comrades dream of pro-
DOSING Sucn Incubation but some hard thinking
VIII snow them that is where such errors lead
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-02
BY HARRY CANNES

MO doctor can tell you whether Joseph Vargo
IL will live another day. This 15-year-old young
miner is dangerously wounded. A capitalist
newspaper reporter who had last seen him at the
Brownsville General hospital summed up his
condition saying hanging on by a thread"
Young Vargo was plugged twice by yellow
dog" deputy sheriff. The Brownsville Telegram
June 26, 1880 says that Clyde woodrow" Will
son, the deputy sheriff who shot the young min
er, became excited and pulled a revolver" This
is lie, the part about becoming excited" Will
son stepped up to Vargo and first shot him in
the arm. Vargo fell to the roadside. The yellow
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-02
PARTY LIFE
Conducted by the Org. Dept Central Com
mittee, Communist Party, U. S. A.
Negro Work Directors in Sec.
ton and Unit

DEAR Comrades:
- Please put this criticism in Party Life"
Some time ago, was elected Unit Negro Work
Director went to the Section Negro Director
and asked when there would be meeting of
Unit Negro Directors. She put me IF, and two
weeks later approached her again. telling her
I have some concrete proposals for building an
L.S.NR. in this section. was told 81 would be
notified"
Later, at unit meeting, I learned that an
L.S.NR. branch was organized in this section. 1
was asked to report about it, but naturally could
only report how I approached the Section Negro
Director, but had never been called to meet
ing.
The unit instructed me to report this pro-
cedure in Party Life" don't know who is to
blame for such indifference or negligence but
feel that such an attitude is absolutely wrong.
If there is necessity for Unit Negro Directors,
then the sections should be informed to that eff
feet. Our unit is especially limited in forces, so
why should I be assigned to function that does
not function? If Unit Negro Directors are need
ed, then why not see to it that they attend meet
ings and report to their units? This sort of thing
is very demoralzing to the membership of the
units, especially the new members
Comment: We not printing the numbers
of the unit and section concerned since there
have been several changes in the section since
the date of the letter.
The attitude of the Section Negro Work Di-
rector was entirely wrong. Yet, this is a concrete
e example of gross underestimate of the impor-
lance of Negro work. The full burden of criti-
cism is not, however, to be placed upon the Sec
ton Negro Work Director. 1t is the task of the
Section Buro to check up on Negro work and
to see that the Negro Department is functoning
Failure to do this is itself an underestimaton of
the importance, well as neglect of this ex-
tremely important phase of Party activity.
The Section Negro Work Directors should call
meetings of the Unit Negro Work Directors at
least every two weeks. The Section Negro Work
Directors not responsible for the Negro Work
of the Section. This responsibility lies with the
section whole. But the section Negro Work
Directors have the responsibility of supervising
and stimulating Negro Work. Theirs is the duty
of checking up on the other departments Of the
but in supplying what the miners now need
above all else to win their strike-food, and
other forms of relief The evicted miners need
tents to house their families. The families are
game in the fight. They come out on The picket
line they face the guns, they go hungry ard
complain very little. They must have tents when
they are evcted. The miners must have food
Every worker should rally behind the campaign
for relief end there Is no time to lose, DAY or
run yvs}12nsf a b3ta az brad r. tk{<a eiffe6bneA
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