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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-07-20
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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-07-20
LATINs LOOK GOOD

Both Spain and Italy have become
excited over the fistic sport, and I
wouldn't be at all surprised If these
two Latin-speaking nations walked
of with some of the Olympic prizes.
Both countries have adopted the
American style Of mitigating, along
With the English method of boxing.
and q man combining these two styles
Is hard to beat.
"Al these European boxers with
their different ways Of boxing, alone
with the South American boxers, as
well as those Of Japan, Mexico, Canada
and our own United States boxers.
with no two countries using the same
style OF boxing, tend to make the
Olympic Games championships the
greatest amateur boxing show in the
world"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-07-20
AMATEUR SCHMELINGS

I'm Germany the simon-pures are
going at their training in q real
workmanlike manner. They are build
ing up a strong string Of sturdy SOCK
ers.
German boxers use the head-on,
glove swinging method, and while
using little science, are OF a strong.
oak-ribbed type dike Schmeling) who
a and will take any amount of
punishment and still keep boring in.
I believe the German boxers will be
among the strongest in the Olympics.
Even Scotland, England and Ire
land are working overtime develop
ing boxers with whom they hope to
win Olympic crowns. There has
never been a time when these coun-
tries failed to bring forth some out
standing products in the Olympic
Realm of Fistiana.
Those who witnessed the past
three Olympic championships cannot
help recalling the pleasing, correct
style used by the English g~lovesters.
Even the Irish lads are schooled in
this scientific method, but at lines
when stepping about within the hem
pen boundary Of the boxing ring. they
remember but two letters of the
alphabet-K. O.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-07
CONSOLIDATION OF OUR
INFLUENCE AMONG NEGROES

In the struggle for Negro rights in which our
Party has registered highly significant political
victories, the utmost attention must now be
concentrated upon consolidating our mass infIu-
ence organizationally by ca intensified recruit
ing Of Negro workers into the Party; (b) mass
recruiting of Negro workers into the revolution
airy trade unions and unemployed councils and
the development of their special immediate eco
nomic demands; (c) building Of the mass cir
culation Of the Liberator and the cTystalliza-
ton Of the LSNR groups around it. The last
traces of white chauvinism in the ranks of the
revolutionary workers must be burned out Spe-
cial attention must be given to the develop
ment Of leading cadres from among the Negro
masses in all phases of work Concentration
upon certain limited demands in special cam
paignS (Scottsboro) must be used as the start
ing point to develop the broadcast mass propa-
ganda for the whole Communist program on
the Negro question. The serious weaknesses
that have appeared at times in dealing with
the Negro petty bourgeosie Dickens, Negro
Press must be systematically and energetically
corrected-From the 18th Plenum Resolution
published in full in the October issue of The
Communist"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-07

necessary to carry into effect the following main
tasks:
l. The concentration of the demands of the
Negro miners on the basis of the local condi-
lions in each mine. To conduct a real struggle
against any attempts of the coal operators to
Victlmlze Negro miners for strike activities bv
placing our demands of mo discrimination of
militant Negro miners as a condition in local
strike settlements
2 The organization of mass actions for the
smashing of Jim Grow laws and customs in min
ing committees. (The Pittsburgh PARTY dist
riot proposes to organize broad united front
anti-Jim-Crow conferences on a section basis
picking out in this respect two sections where
jim CrowiSm is most rampant. These to be
called under the joint auspices of the NNrJ.
MWIL and LSNR, will have the task of organ
izing real campaign against local Jim-Crow-
ISM
3. Organization of sharp struggle against
all hangovers of boss class prejudices in our
ranks.
4. The organization of the more active par
ticipation of our union nthe Scottsboro and
Camp Hill campaign through the utilization of
this campaign to widen contacts among Negro
miners. in building up of the union and in de-
velopment of Negro departments and commit
Tees III Gne Union.
s. Organization of discussions in the local
unions in connection with carrying out tasks
in Negro work.
g. Building up of mass circulation of the
Liberator in the mining fields, through the utili-
cation Of the paper as an organizer for the union
among Negro miners
T. Organization of Committees for Work
among Negro Miners in each local union, for
the purpose of initiating this work.
The party through its fraction in the mining
fields, must be the main driving force in carry
ing out the above tasks.
1t is of the utmost Importance that these
lessons of the Miners Strike be energeticalIy
and conscientiously applied in the development
of our Negro work in the steel campaign, in
which industry Negroes constitute basic sec
ton of the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-07
Prepare tor the Greater Defense
Struggle Ahead

Special attention should be given to those in
dustries where wage cuts have been announced
especially steel, through building new LID
branches, reviving old branches and act.yizing
affiliations in these territories and at least de-
velopng contacts with the factories Special ael-
tation must be carried on before factories on an
increasing scale through meetings distribution of
literature and sale of the Labor Defender
Wherever strikes take place subcommittee on
defense activities must be established inside all
strike committees to work closely with the LID
This must become the basis for transferring the
mass activity in which workers are arrested
(picketing, demonstration, hunger marches, ETC.,
etc. into the mass protest for the release of the
prisoners, before jails, courthouses and delega-
tons to the governors of the states in which the
persecution takes place
Not An Outside Organization
At no time must the International Labor De-
Tense appear as an outside organization merely
coming into the strike situation. The mass ac-
tivities of the strike itself must become the mass
basis for carrying through all defense activities
including relief for prisoners and prisoners de-
pendents and even legal aid
When defense activities take on a mass char
acter growing directly out of the mass struggles,
then the basis has been found for the building
of the international Labor Defense into mass
organization. Under these conditions, and with
the carrying through of the correct defense poll
cies of the LID, it cannot then be said that
there are too many prosecutions for the LID.
to take care Of Rather the increasing perse-
cutions create in themselves the need and the
opportunities for still further building the Inter
national Labor Defense into a powerful mass
organization. trly-''The Shield OF the Working
Glass;
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-07
BY HARRY HAYWOOD

Another grave shortening of the strike was
our failure to concretize our demands for the
Negro miners. While our union placed the gen.
eral demands of the Negro miners in the strike
program no steps were taken to concretize these
demands on the basis of their local grievances.
Thus the question of segregation in the company
patches discrimination in living conditions with
in the patches. and types of work given to Ne
gro miners, the denial of the right to occupy
skilled and higher paid jobs the question Of
RELOCATING Negro to bad entries, the barring OF
them from certain so-called good mines and
numerous grievances which vary from mine to
mine, were not concretely formulated during the
strike. The question of concentration of de-
mands is question around which hinges the
difference between reformist and revolutionary
tactics The Negro miner, referred to above
correctly pointed out that the UMW.A. takers
also placed in their constitution mo discrimina-
ton on account of race, creed or color" which
of course does not prevent them from carrying
out the most vicious Jim Grow palicy in regards
to the Negro miners
The strike offers valuable lessons in regard
to the building up of the mass circulation of the
Liberator The paper was received enthusia-
stcally by both Negro and white miners and
used successfully in gaining wider contacts among
the Negro miners for the strike and the union
However this broader role of the Liberator was
not at first fully appreciated as witnessed in our
failure to organize its systematic distribution
and to make a beginning in the work of build
ing up mass circulation of the Liberator in
the mining fields. A smashing blow, therefore
was given to the tendency to regard this paper
as merely an organizer for the LSN.R and
failing to see its broader role an organizer for
our mass organizations, union, unemployed
councils, etc, among the Negro workers.
In connection with these main shortcomings
number of additional weaknesses must be re-
gistered, not one special leaflet distributed
among the Negro miners who remained at work.
explaining to them why they should join the
strike; no special discussion on the Negro ques-
ton was organized in the local union during the
course of the strike, ETC., etc.
All of these shortcomings can be largely at
tributed to our failure to place the work among
Negroes on an organized basis Only at rela-
lively late stage in the strike in fact when the
strike wave was already on the ebb, did we set
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-07
BY J. LOUIS ENGDARL

CAVAGE terror is the weapon of the bosses in
carrying through wage cuts and other attacks
upon the workers standard of living. This per-
secution drive develops into mass arrests, de-
portation drives, old-blooded killings, during
strike struggles
Thus the announcement by the great steel cor
porations, the rubber, COAL textile, automobile,
metal mining and other great profit-taldng in
terests, Of widespread wage reductions, calls for
the greatest mobilization by the International
Labor Defense of all possible forces that can be
enlisted in the defense struggles of the working
class. The militant call of the Trade Union
Unity League mobilizes the workers for struggle
against wage slashing, for resistance to greater
misery.
Utilize Mooney Harlan Campaign.
The energetic carrying through of the Mooney
Harlan-Scottsboro Campaign, which has already
developed into great demonstrations in many
cities, must become one of the major means
Of developing our defense activities into mass
movement in preparation for the struggles ahead
The affiliations Of the Trade Union Unity
League and all other organizations must be act
ivized through the proper functioning of defense
groups giving leadership to this work inside
these organizations
wherever possible there must be defense groups
within the local unions Of the American Fedora
ton Of Labor and the independent unions
(Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America,
Railroad Brotherhoods, ETC., etc) 1t is not neces-
sary for these organizations to be affiliated with
the international Labor Defense in order to have
Initiative groups within them. Several members
Or even one worker can raise defense issues with
q these organizatony -. -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-07
Chicago. LETS Co.!

1t seems to us that situation is arising in
Chicago to which some attention might be given.
one letter we have says: This is the flop dis
trlct ana there is a soap-boxer speaker here
every evening speaking to many readers of the
Daily Worker, advocating Steal it, instead of
organizing"
Well, maybe the Party can't do anything about
It, If the police puts up such people to talk. But
you workers who read the Daily, should make
such soap-boxer feel mighty uncomfortable
and let him know what you think about him.
Another, letter says, in part: 1--WE been watch
ing the meeting at Washington So. in Chicago
LOT tne past i've months. The radicals hold
meetings there each night Seven out of ten of
these speakers just talk to take up collection to
get bottle OF moonshine I know what I'm talk
ing about. I see things for myself. Just lot of
drunken buns
Il and others were going to ioin the Reds
but what we saw at Wash So would turn any
one away. Don't think I'm not in favor of Rus
sla sure hope Russia has good luck These
speakers should be exposed, they don't care
about the working class.--WCHe
Well comrade, we are doing our part in the
exposing. Only please don't get all the hole
and corner radicals" mixed up with the COM
munists. We don't believe that anyone who is
speaking for the Communist Party is taking up
collecConS Tor moonShlne. 1t must be some gang
OF radical takers" who pretend they are Reds"
but are not
And maybe the Party cannot do much about it
for that reason. But if it can do anything it
certainly should start right in. A little organized
attention to such fake Reds" would soon put
stop to this sort of thing You workers who read
the Daily and attend such meetings should do
your part in making sure that the Party oKs
the speaker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-07
&4-.~
Isn't This Beautiful!
BY JORGE

This boys and girls is all about a socialist"
party which isn't a socialist party Perhans
you've heard that before but this is a new wrtr,
kle on it. We take you by the nape of the neck
and drop you forthwith into the middle of an
argument, the following being written by a gent
in Utica N Y, to the local capitalist press. the
Utica Press:
ITO the editor of the Press-As member Of
the socialist party, take exception to the unfair.
unsportSmanke and un-American statements
published In the local newspapers regarding NY
sell and other members of the socialist party
VINO signed the socialist designating petition for
CHARLES s. Donnelley and other democrats as
the candidates of the socialist party in the fall
primary.
CAS- an American citizen refuse 10 sur-
render my right of suffrage to Otto L. Endres or
any other publicity seeking spokesman of our
party The real socialist believes in PRINCIPLES:
and one OF these is opposition to dictatorship
1t Mr.. Endres believes himself to be a car
or king, let him retire to a foreign country
| don't have to take my choice for mayor from
the committee of the socialist party -. Is it a
crime to be a Democrat? I will support
Mayor Donnelley, for his record justifies the
support of all real American members of the
socialist party"
This above, dear reader, was signed by one
John Esposito, on August 26, 1881, AID at Utica,
Y. And as it reveals, upholds the heaven born
right of American socialists" to nominate Dem
ocrats on the socialist" ticket.
But that isn't all From the same Utica Press
of September 20, we nip the following bit of
sequel to this socialist" democrat letter: :"
The socialists, unsuccessful in their effort to
have Ezra flanagan, Democratic candidate, de-
cline the socialist nomination for sheriff will
seek his scalp at the general election by encour-
aging their members to temporarily depart from
party principles and vote for the Republican can
didate, it was stated yesterday by Otto L. Endres
socialist county chairman"
My gawd, WHAT A PARITY
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-07

Ito Be Concluded m Subsequent Issue,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-07
The Fight Against the War Danger

Nevertheless it must be stated that the in
tensity of the struggle against the danger of
war and against the danger of intervention
against the USSR does not all correspond to
the intensity with which the imperalistS are
preparing for war against the USSR. The agi-
tation against the war danger is not carried
on Systematically and in many cases only from
campaign to campaign. The fundamental
weakness of the work of the Communists is
that the concrete measures being taken in
preparation for war in parliamentary commits
sions in the imperialist armies and in the war
industries, are not sufficiently exposed to the
masses The Communist Parties have not yet
learned how to explain to the masses suffi-
GENTLY clearly the connection that exists be-
tween the war preparation of the imperalists
and the growth of the exploitation of the OPP
pressed masses. They have not yet learned
how to expose by concrete illustrations the fact
that social democracy is the support of imper-
ialiSm in the preparation for counter-revolu-
tionary war against the USSR.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-07
On the Carrying Out Of the
18th Plenum Decisions
LESSONS OF THE MINERS STRIKE AND TASKS OF THE
NM.U AMONG NEGRO MINERS

up Negro Department in the Union and work
out concrete program for the development of
this work.
This program, adopted by the Central Rank
and File Strike Committee has until now been
but weakly put into operation.
At the present time, the union is faced with
the tasks of overcoming its isolation and in
trenching itself in the mines among the main
masses of miners who have been driven back
to work. Under these conditions, it is urgently
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-07
Holy Christofer!

christopher Christ, forty EIGHT, who said he
had lived until recently at 24S w. 4Sth St, col
lapsed early today on Eighth Ave-, just below
AID ST. Physicians said Christ was suffering
from starvation. Christ said he had spent yes
terday walking about the city seeking employ
ment. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital
From the N. Y. Post of Oct. l.
However although Christ came to Manhattan
and found no place to lay his head, it was not
for lack of good hotels. While Christ was wan
dering, homeless and starving, through the
streets, from Washington the voice of President
Hoover was booming over the air. saluting the
opening of the new Valdorf-Astoria Hotel
Why should Christ have no bed? Here 10000
guests assembled in the forty-seven stored pal
ace of exclusiveness, to listen to the fat-head
Executive OF American capitalism gable from
Washington, as follows:
"Our hotels have come to be conducted In
far larger vision than mere profit making. =.
The opening of the new Waldorf Astoria
carries on great tradition in national hos
pitality."
But Christ held no invitation. National hos
ptaity" did not register.
The N. Y. Times sang thus of the opening
night:
Every dining room has been engaged for to-
night. For the fruit cocktail only, there
will be 10000 oranges, pears, apples and pine
apples. There will be 200 gallons of soup, 100
pounds Of fresh Russian caviar, and 1900 lob
sters. Vegetables and meat run up into the
TONS"
But Christ was broke. Christ didn't even hear
Hoover's speech from Washington telling how
the Waldorf-Asto was not at all interested in
mere profit making Thus 1T came about that
the papers reported:
Physicians said Christ was suffering from
starvation"
Jesus Christ!
Talk about cheap lot of stick-up men, two OF
EN- in wyoming went three times through the
pockets of forty unemployed workers-and got
only thirty cents.
Mishter Shouse. we shee. ish for Beerl
Seward daily gateway., 1931-01-28
HICHGRkDERs DYNAMITE M. UNDERGROUND VAULT

An underground storage vault in which bonanza gold ore was stored for safe- keeping, was dy- namited by highgraders and robbed recently at the famous Ibex mine at Leadville, Colo, ac cording to the Denver Mining Record
 The highgraders escaped with Is sacks of ore. Some of the ore in the Ibex group has been so rich that the streaks of gold have had to be chiseled out.
 The vault from which the pre- cious ore was taken is heWn from solid rock and was guard ed by steel door. It lies 100 feet below the surface in No. 2 shaft of the mine and IS 150 feet back in the mountains. It is be- lieved the haul amounted to between $2,000 and $5.OOO.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-01-28
TWO LOG DISKS BE
 SENT ID PARIS FAIR

Two log spruce disks, from the forests of Southeastern Alaska, will be exhibited in the Alaska exhibit at the Overseas Colon ial Exposition to be held in Paris, France
 The Forest Service has been asked to obtain the disk and turn them over to the Governors of flee to be forwarded to the Am erican commission
 One of the disks will De from a 85 year old Sitka spruce, illus trating the type of timber to be used in pulp manufacture. The other will be from the oldest and largest spruce possible to obtain. The face of one of the disks will contain a recounting of the historical events coinci- dent with age rings.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-01-28
ANNUAL BALL

The Twenty-fifth Annual Ball of the Juneau Volunteer Fire De- partment will be held at Elks' Hall on the night of Lincoln's birthday, February F, according to Stroller's Weekly Committees have been appointed and approv- ed by Fire Chief Dolly Gray, and this years affair promises to eclipse anything that has pre- viously been held The committees were chosen on past records for their perspicuity of handling af- fairs of this kind
Seward daily gateway., 1931-01-28

SNOW sRoEs AT J [. Graef
Seward daily gateway., 1931-01-28
PRETTY WEDDING

A pretty wedding took place at the st- Elizabeth Episcopal church when Miss Della Williams. the daughter Of MT. and Mrs. George J- Williams, of Ketchikan, became the bride of Wilbur s. Ridley, the youngest son of MT. and Mrs Robert Ridley, also of that city. says the ketchikan Tribune.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-01-28
FUNERAL SERVICES

Funeral services for the late N J. sharick, who passed away at his home at the age of B, were held from the Charles W. car- ter Mortuary Chapel in Juneau. The rites were held under the ri- tualiStlc service of the Pioneers of Alaska of which the deceased was a member, says Strollers Weekly.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-01-28
THIS DAY IN HISTORY

Cornerstone of the En- glish cathedral at Jerusalem laid
 1855 First train ran over the Panama Railroad.
 193l Miss Halibut sailed away for winter quarters in Seattle. see you in the interim" hailed MT. Horseradish How shocking, ]" calculated Mis Halibut, as she mistook the quake for a hug.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-01-28
FORMER CORDOVA I.. WOMAN LICENSED
 RUN MOTOR BOATS

For the third time in the his tory of Alaska, a woman has been granted a navigating op- orators license, says the Cordova Times of recent date. She is Mrs. M H Crawford, wife of Capt. James R. Crawford of the B. Of F. motorship, Kittiwake, who with her husband resided in Cor dova for 9 couple of years when the boat was stationed there.
 " The office of the steamboat inspection service took great pleasure in the performance of it's official duties declared Capt. Higgins and Newmarket. U. s. inspector of hulls and U. S. in- spector of boilers.
 The two other women who have received operator licenses in Alaska are Edna A. Smith of Juneau, and Mabel R. Borland of Dillingham;
Seward daily gateway., 1931-01-28
ORPHAN HOME

Noting the increasing amount of delinquency among Natives in the Southeastern part of Alaska not including white delinquents in Juneau which are mounting to proportions-Rt Rev. Bishop Cri- mot, of the Catholic churches of Alaska, is almost nearing a long, felt desire of erecting an orphan age under tn eCatholic Mission jurisdiction in the First Division and if reports coming to Stroller's are not to far fetched, Skagway will have just that kind of a home, according to the Stroller's Weekly.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-01-28

In the account of the wrecked boat yesterday, which was found south of Kanatak, and with ref erence to the wheel the MS Chase had, the description should have read Hyde wheel and not Chase.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-01-28

List your labor wants with Us; we will endeavor to secure for you the help deslred. Phone Adams 126 or cs.l at the M " IVY Club, Seward. Alaska.