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The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-08-28
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Leo Mccormack left on the Prince Rupert Sunday for brief visit to Seattle.
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A German inventor has designed an alarm clock that switches on an electric light when the bell rings.
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Mrs. Lyle Hibner, Miss Cherry Sorset and Miss Nellie Prescott left on the Dorothy Alexander Sunday for a visit to ketchikan.
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Philip Hooker, who is a patient in the tuberculosis annex of the government hospital at Juneau, is reported to be in very serious con dition.
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It often shows a fine command of language to say nothing.
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SERVICES
Territorial Notes

A plane, radio and boat com biped forces last week to rush c. NJ. Christner, of the Naval radio compass station at Hinchinbrook to Cordoya to undergo an operation Tor acute appendicitis. In response to radio message a boat was sent from Cordoya. The patient condi- tion grew worse and further mes sages requested that a plane be rushed immediately. A plane and doctor lett Anchorage and the dif- ficult task of transferring the helpless patient from the power boat to the plane was accomplished safely despite heavy ground swell. The plane was pushed to a speed of 40 miles an hour Tor part of the flight.
 Not often is Anchorage visited by professional shark like the one of a few weeks ago. Came man of good appearance into town with a poke of gold nuggets. This he proudly exhibited to a banker after banking hours asking if he could get the money On the lot O0AhIA 1SPAAC0 that they must be assayed first, but he gave the man receipt for the poke after weighing. Showing this receipt he raised $15O. He sold a nugget chain to a woman for the sum of $40. The nuggets were assayed and found to be copper. But in the meantime the man had vanished.
 Forty hours flying time out of New York, Pilot and Mrs. Frank Dorbrandt landed in Cordova last week for refueling, and an hour later continued on their way to An ChOrage, their home Pilot Dor brandt brought with him a new Pilgrim" monOplane, powered with Ia 420 h.p. Pratt and Whitney en- zine. He will fly the plane for personal use during the coming fall and winter, he said, but can not enter the commercial service, under the contract which he signed when he sold out his interest in the Pacific International Airways a year ago.
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in the tuberculosis annex of the government hospital at Juneau, is reported to be in very serious con ditiOn.
 4 marriage license was issued Thursday to Joe Fernandez, Mexi- can, and Matilda Burke. native, of Ketchikan. Both parties have been residents Of Wrangell for some time.
 The following persons took pas sage to hetehikan on the Northwest ern Friday evening: Jack Mason, Mrs. QueeRie King, Mrs. Eva Blake, Budd Smith, Mrs. Henry Bowman.
 P. R. Mcclure, General Alaska Agent for the Northern Lie h. surance Company, is Wrangeu visitor this week. He is accom- panied by his daughter, Mrs. A. l.. Pinet ot Minneapolis, Minnesota.
 The Aleutian arrived in port early Tuesday morning. 4. B. Gray was the only passenger from Seattle for Wrangei. Passengers leaving this port were Miss Vera Boyers, Mir and hirs Arnold Olsen, HaroId Or sen.
 Chris Wedo, who suffered a broken ankle about five weeks ago while working on the new school house, Is able to make trips into town with the aid of crutches. He expects to need but a cane within another week
 c. E. Lusby, assistant cashier Of the BelIingham National Bank, was a passenger aboard the steamer Prince Rupert Sunday afternoon, southboGnd, from the southeast AL aska tour. While the Rupert was in port he was the guest of C. P. hirtland.
 Miss Sylvia Odenheimer Of St. Paul, Minnesota, who made the southeast Alaska tour on the Doro- thy Alexander stopped of1 in hran- gen Sunday to Yiist her aunt, Mrs. the round trip up the Stikine thIs week. Miss Odenheimer will re- turn south on the steamer Queen.
 Mrs. Grant, Billy Grant, Alex Gouets and Mrs. J. c. Johnson left on the Northland Thursday night for Petersburg.
 Mrs. Conrad Nelson, accompanied by her little son, arrived from Ket- chikan this week to attend the fu neral services of her sister, Mrs. David F. Lewis.
 The Beilby made trip to Pe- tersDurg Tuesday with the follow ing passengers: Mrs. Ernest Camp bell, Leonard Campbell, Charles Moore, Fred Cunningham, Frank Denny, Miss Glenora Waters, Mir. aud Ms. G. L. Rich, Billy Grant, Malvern Skelton.
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TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: I have purchased the Pt. Ward can nery and warning is hereby given not to remove or pilfer anything from the premises or prosecution proceedings will be instituted at once. T. ]. CASE
 Passengers aboard the steamer Derblay, enroute from Kotzebue to the states reported that they had witnessed a spectacular display on the Alaska Peninsula when passing the famous volcanic katmai noun tain where sixty peaks gre smoking.
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THE SALVATION ARMY
 Captain Warrington
 Commanding Officer
 SERVICES Friday 7:30 p. m. Sunday 11:00 a. m. Sunday 7:30 p. m. Sunday School Sunday. p m.
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The Beilby made 8 trip to Pe- tersDurg Tuesday with the follow ing passengers: Mrs. Ernest Camp bell, Leonard Campbell. Charles Moore, Fred Cunningham, Frank Denny, Miss Glenora Waters, Mir. aud Ms. G. L. Rich, Billy Grant, Malvern Skelton.
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Mrs. Grant, Billy Grant, Alex Gouets and Mrs. J. C. Johnson left on the Northland Thursday night for Petersburg.
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Mrs. Conrad Nelson, accompanied by her little son, arrived from Ket- chikan this week to attend the fu- neral services of her sister, Mrs. David F. Lewis.
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c. E. Lusby, assistant cashier Of the Bellingham National Bank, was a passenger aboard the steamer Prince Rupert Sunday afternoon, southboGnd, from the southeast AL aska tour. While the Rupert was in port he was the guest of c. P. hirtland.
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Chris Wedo, who suffered a broken ankle about five weeks ago while working on the new school house, Is able to make trips into town with the aid of crutches. He expects to need but a cane within another week.
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4 marriage license was issued Thursday to Joe Fernandez, Mexi- can, and Matilda Burke, native, of KetchIkan Both parties have been residents Of Wrangen for some time.
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The following persons took pas sage to hetchikan on the Northwest ern Friday evening: Jack Mason, Mrs. Queenie King, Mrs. Eva Blake, Budd Smith, Mrs. Henry Bowman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-16

Should one under all circumstances condemn
a member of the Social Democratic Party now
the Communist Party-Jorge), for the decara-
ton, Socialism is my religion as one would for
the propagation of points of view which
respond to that declaration? Oh, no. devia-
ton from Marx and therefore from Socialism is
very definitely here, but the making of this de-
Walton, its specific gravity as it were, vary
in different situations.
1t is one thing when an agitator or someone
coming before the masses speaks in this way, in
order to be better understood to draw interest
into his subject-matter, to express his point of
view more wildly in forms which are more &C
cessible to the undeveloped mass; it is quite an
other thing when writer begins to propagate
some god-construction, or god-constructing So
cialsm. Just as in the first case censure would
only be captious cavilling or uncaed for Ii
imitation of the freedom of the agtator, the
freedom of the teachers methods of work. so
in the second case, censure by the Party is ne
cessary and obligatory. The maxim. Socialism
is my religion is, for the one, form of tram
stion from religion to Socialism. but for the other
from Socialism to, religion" = Lenin. in The
Relation of the Workers Party to Religion" (The
emphasis is ours-Jorge).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-16
The Socialist Party in Action

my opinion that we should have come out open
ly stating our position and why that bill was
no good and why we opposed it. AS it is how
ever we will have to expose the fake bill and
the lake move of the socialist party on Unem-
ployment Insurance by other means.
Why is this fake move on the part of the
s. p? The following will prove that and it will
also prove that we must not be overwhelmed by
parliamentary trickery in being afraid to come
out openly against such bill. I have ment-
Toned above that that bill will not come up
in the house until the next session of the legis-
lature, If it comes up at all since the local news
papers come out openly stating that it will be
shelved by the committee. The socialists knew
that, they also know that bill for unemploy-
ment insurance can only be passed not through
the speeches of politicians in the legislature
even if we had some Communist members
there; but the organized mass pressure
of the workers, both employed and unemployed,
under militant leadership, backing workers rep
resentatiVes in the legislature Such leader
ship cannot and will not be given by the S. p
1t can only be given by the Communist Party
and the Revolutionary Trade Unions affiliated
10 the Trade Union Unity League. This action
then is only taken by the S. p in order to ap-
pear before the workers as the champion of their
cause in order to betray them later This is SO
especially when one can see the socialist party in
Reading where they are in control of the city
administration. They are evicting workers lust
as it is done in other cities in the state. Even
the relief which was forced out of them
through the mass activities of the Unemployed
Council of Reading is now being cut off.
such actions of the socialist party make it more
incumbent upon the Communist Party and the
Revolutionary Trade Unions to intensity our
fight against the tratorouS third capitalist party
They must be exposed to the utmost This
double policy of ''championing" the cause of the
workers in the parliaments and suppressng the
workers wherever they are in control must be
taken more seriously than ever before. We can
not consider the socialist party as party which
takes part in the elections only. The socialist
party has entered actively upon the same road
as its brother parties in Europe namely that
OF saving capitalism for the bosses
In view of that we must utilize all means at
our disposal to destroy the illusions among the
workers that the socialist party can do some
thing for them The best way of doing that is
to engage the Unemployed and Employed work
ers in mass struggle for Unemployment In
surance and Immediate Relief and the whole
program OF the revolutionary movement. We
must not be cowed by some capitalist politicians
into position where we couldn't come out OPEN
ly against that fake bill on Unemployment In
surance OF the socialist party.
The coming Hunger March in the State Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-16
international Pamphlets Issue
First History of May First

The publication, by International Pamphlets,
799 Broadway, New York, of Comrade Alexander
Trachtenbergs "The History of May Day." for
the first time makes available in English COM
pete record of this traditional working class
celebration. Like all others of the volumes in the
International Pamphlets Series, the little book,
while brief and popular, is at the same time
complete and accurate. This is No IA in the
series. having been preceded by youth in
Industry"
Comrade Trachtenberg deals with the struggle
for a shorter work day, which began with the
8-hour day movement and is indissoubly
bound up with the First of May as day of
working class political action and demonstra-
ton. He shows the complete course Of the
battle for a shorter work day, starting with
the introduction of the factory system in this
country and definitely formulated more than
forty years ago.
This pamphlet is particularly important be-
cause May First as a working class holiday is
the outgrowth of the struggle in this country
"The Paris decision (to adopt May First)," says
Comrade Trachtenberg, "was influenced by a
decision made at Chicago five years earlier by
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-16

We didn't happen to be listening i'll Saturday
when WCBM was broadcasting from Baltimore
but we have heard that stuff before, SO we missed
nothing
This is about the Third Annual Conference
of the intercollegiate Liberal Conference" held
at the John Hopkins University at Baltimore
where among the list of liberals" were the fol-
lowing two social fascists: Jay Lovestone and
Norman Thomas.
No doubt that this is according to the Love-
stone ideas of the united front" Which re-
minds us of the dilemma the renegades must
find themselves in. They are continually belly
aching because the Communist Party insists on
making united front with honest workers, and
for action against capitalism, instead of making
a united front with such counter revolutionary
LEADERS" as themselves to discuss" how to save
capitalism
But we wonder, when Lovestone expels BERTHE
Miller, and Cannon expels Algernon Weisbord,
whether these renegades are clamoring to get
into united 'front.' with the renegades who
expelled EN-, and whether they are received with
the same hearty welcome as all honest" social
fascists, such Normie Thomas There ought
to be some rules to go by.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-16

From the demagogic World Telegram" OF this
village, we extract a tidbit from Augusta
Georgia. where on April Ia, Rome c. Stephenson
president OF the American Bankers Association
spoke in favor of wage cuts for the workers To
justify this point of view, we are told the fol-
lowing:
HE pointed out that both bank money and
invested capital had already taken some very
serious cuts in the form of lowered interest
rates and reduced on omitted dividends"
How dreadful Let us take, for example, the
impoverished family of Henry Ford, composed
of three hard working capitalists. The Ford
family in 1929 took $800OO,OO0 in profits out Of
the hides of the Ford workers, but just look how
they, suffered during $780, In that year, these
three people had to get along on mere trifle
of $440oO0O0 profits!
And poor little Edsel crying for bread Nothing
to eat in the house but fried chicken, broiled
lobster, Waldorf salad and caviar! The sheriff
threatening to evict the family from Dearborn I
All, it is enough to make ones heart bleed!
How unfeeling are those unpatriotic Commu1
nistS who demand all the Fords be taxed to pay
lot of idle workers who really don't want I'd
work, unemployment insurance.! And to thinl5
that they are going to demonstrate for it right
out in the streets on May Dayi
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-16
PARTY LIFE
Conducted by the Organization Department of
the Central Committee, Communist Party, U.S.A
responsibility of Some Party
Speakers
nv n. r. (Chicago)

ONE of the big shortcomings in our work is a
" lack of responsibility on the part of Party
members. This shows itself in connection with
getting speakers for our mass meetings, election
rallies mass organizations, forums, etc. In Chi
cago we have scores of meetings every week and
this means We need many speakers. Most COM
rades who are called on to speak are naturally
busy with all sorts of work for the movement.
But too often this work serves as an excuse for
an unwilIngness to speak to the masses.
We have comrades who after they promise to
speak at meeting become "sick' a day or a
few hours before the meeting and they depend
on God or somebody else to take care of the
meeting OF course, workers come to the meet
ing and are turned away Another case.
comrade is assigned to speak at a Forum on
building the Revolutionary Trade Unions where
we are making contacts with men working in
the Northwestern RF. shops He doesn't show
up because he couldn't find out where the Forum
was located so he decided to stay home. 1t was
too hard for him to phone the District Office
to find out More than 80 workers showed up
and the Forum was called off. This is more
than lack of responsibility. 1t is criminal work
inside the Party which cannot be tolerated.
Then we have the case of one comrade active
in Trade Union work who simply would feel in
suited if asked to speak at election rally, etc.
I don't want to go into the content of some
of the speeches but even among leading COM
rades in the section, it seems from the speeches
that these comrades don't even read the Daily
or some of the District Outlines and Facts for
Speakers. 1t is no wonder they speak endlessly
on the Chinese Revolution at an election rally
and say very little about the bosses candidates.
and the local issue, let alone the Communist
Party program which has appeared in pamphlet
form.
Comrades who show responsibility when called
on to speak surely can not be depended on to
do other Party work. A BoIshevik considers il
his first duty and a great opportunity to speak
to masses of workers, to win them for revoIu-
tionary struggle, to organize them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-16
By o. EVERETT.

TRUE to its historic role that it will be called
upon to perform to save the capitalist system
from destruction by the working class, the So
cialist party is already beginning its venomouS
work This work will be increased in accordance
to the increasing resistance of the workers to the
attacks of the capitalist class. One can under
stand that and the estimation of the S. P. by
our Central Committee as well as the need to
carry on a relentless struggle against the third
capitalist party when one witnesses it in ac-
tom It's growing Importance to the capitalist
class can be seen readily i'll the pTessn. cl-s-.
and unemployment.
Particularly is it true in those places where
the S. P has any strength and especially where
they are in control OF the administration or
where they have representatives in the legis-
lature This policy of servility to the bosses and
betrayal Of the workers can be clearly seen in
PENNSYLVANIA. On January the socialist rep
resentative in the state legislature of Penna. in
troduced a bill on Unemployment Insurance.
The bill itself at first glance seems to be almost
revolutionary. Amongst other things 1t contains
such demands at $1,000 to $500 week for I'M
employed workers. 1t also contains a provision
that workers should not be forced to act as
strikebreakers and to accepting lower wages.
But on thorough examination one finds that
there is provision which states that no worker
is to receive unemployment insurance unless he
can prove that he was not at fault when he lost
his job Also that the committee which is of
course to be nominated by the government is
to investigate first. These two provisions and
most important of all that this bill is to come
up in the next meeting of the legislature which
is next year are the only Drawbacks"
On April 9th the bill was given hearing by
the house committee on pensions and gratuities.
Mr. Hopes had brought with him as supporters
of the measure six speakers All of those in
Guiding two ladies and Jim Maurer, who himself
was a member of the legislature and pro-
fessor of some research institute carried on their
speeches in a most academic manner. But all
thru the speeches you could notice one thing
and that was that they were afraid that if the
workers were left to starve something would
happen to the capitalist system. In fact Jim
Maurer who was the main speaker said as much
as that in so many words.
Upon the conclusion of his speech the chair
man asked whether there were any opponents
to the bill who would like to speak against it,
The representatives Of the Unemployed Council
of Philadelphia got to ask for the floor, Not in
opposition to Unemployment Insurance but to
the provisions in the bill The chairman asked
him whether he is opposed to the bill and when
he would not come outright with that he is
opposed TO II after some pickering he was cut
of and the hearing was adjourned. Now it is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-16
The Scottsboro Lynch Verdict
BY BURCK.

in that whole section of the South where they
outnumber the whites
But it is not enough that the Negro masses
draw these conclusions. With this legal mass
murder as a starting point there must be deVel-
oped the broadest possible mass movement for
equal rights for Negroes, including the right OF
the Negro toilers to govern themselves as they
see fit, and against the rule of the white bour-
geoisie which denies every democratic right to the
Negro people. This struggle must not become
the fight of the Negroes alone. 1t must be-
come the common cause Of every Negro toiler
and of every white worker as well. Around the
issue of this trial there must be built up fight
ing united front of the oppressed Negro masses
and the revolutionary white proletariat and
troopers, against the oppressive rule of the white
bourgeoisie.
The Communist Party in the South will organ
ize and will lead into the struggle this fighting
united front The Communist Party has raised
the fighting slogans of:
Stop the legal lynching of nine Negro work.
ing class boys!
These boys are innocent; demand their i'm
mediate release!
Demand new trial before jury composed
of workers, at least half to be Negroes, TO ex-
pose this frame-up!
Equal rights of Negroes in all courts
The National Guard is tool of the land
owners and capitalists!
An armed volunteer guard of Negro and white
workers to defend the prisoners against these
lynchers!
Landlords melting the starving white
tenant-farmers and share-croppers to lynch
Negroes; the landlords and capitalists and not
the Negroes. are starving the tenant farmers,
both white and black.
Demand immediate cash relief for starving
farmers and unemployed workers-Negroes and
whites equally!
Down with peonage, jim Crowism and per-
secution of the Negro people! For full equalityi
For fighting alliance of the oppressed Ne
gro people and the oppressed white workers
and tenant farmers
Demand the confiscation of the land from
the landlords for the Negro and white tenants
and troopers!
Negroes never get Justice in the courts
of the white capitalists and landlords!
Demand the right of self determination for
the Negro peope-the right of a Negro state in
the Black Belt!
Stop the Iynching of nine Negro working
class boys!
Death to Iynchers.