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The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-22
Have Studied Hard

The young folks have studied hard. They have mastered thelr lines, and have perfected themselves in the art of enacting their roles Most, if not all members of the cast, are making their first appear ances on the stage.
 Capable Instructor
 Training and instruction have been given the youthful actors by Mabel Nigh Ranum, capable and experienced teacher of the drama.
 With promises of good play, and of a carefully guided cast ol young folks, prominent in high school circles, tomorrow night IS virtually certain to have delightful entertainment.
 The production will be presented only once. The performance will start promptly at 8:15 at the Coli scum.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-22
RETURN HERE BY PLANE

With R. D. Baker, superintendent for Sales for the Standard Oil Company in Alaska, and George B. Rice of the Rice & Ahlers Com pany of this city, as passengers, the seaplane Petersburg, Pilot Robert Ellis and Mechanic Brian Harland returned to Juneau from Sitka late yesterday afternoon. MT. Baker and MT. Rice were passengers on the plane when it went to Sitka yesterday noon. r z Af
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-22
DRIVING WORK ENJOYED
 BY LOUNCE|:R!'S; 1:
Work on Pacific Steamship Wharf IS Heavy, Slow,
 Easy to Watch

Nowhere are clouoiess skies more entrancingly beautiful, effulgent rays of the May sun more de- lightfully warm. soft southern breezes more gently. caressing than along the harbor front, particularly upon the wharf of the Pacific Steamship Company, where work men are driving new fender piling.
 Erecting, driving and boiling pll- ing, none less than .66. feet in length is a heavy task, and neces-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-22
COLISEUM HAS
 STAGE PLAY
 TOMORROW EVE
Ruth in a Rush" to Be Presented by Amateurs
 Only Once

Occasionally, in these days oi continuous screen entertainment, a stage production is pleasant di- versicn. The plays the thing, pro- viding it is not lacking in merit or. presentation. Ruth in a Rush y has everything to recommend it.
 The play is fast moving com edy replete with humorous lines and situations. All the parts are taken from Juneau High School students.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-22
Chapter 13 JULIAN'S FINE FAMILY"


 JULIAN'S FINE FAMILY" Jonathon left her at the sta- tion to look up the address of Emily Durant and soon they were moving along the busy thoroughfare in a taxi
 T haven't seen Aunt Emily since I was eight" Nora explained. I only know they live in an enormous white house with a great many servants"
 "Yes?" Jon said indifferently. T don't think I've heard of any Du- rants here"
 If he had not heard of them they were cast forever into outer dark ness.
 My grandfather was governor of the state" Nora said, her cheeks hot, but driving herself on.
 Jon made some polite sound of interest. They had passed through
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-22

up the second, where Frances stood waiting in a lighted attic room, so exquisitely clean and bare its pow erty smote her afresh. Jon put down her bags and stood waiting to say good-by to her. She knew he was pitying her. She stood staring with angry brows at the picture on the bare walls. Watts Hope. What 2 forlorn creaturei
 Jon said with compassionate smile that made her dislike him even more violently, "I'll come for you tomorrow afternoon then?" She would have liked to tell him that she never wanted to see him again. But Jon was only eager tc be off; and after saying goodnight to her cousin he turned and rar down the stairs as though he were rid of a painful duty. She wondered if he were not say ing to himself, Thank God, that's over!"
 Copyright, 1930, Jesse Douglas Fox
 Troubles? In that drab
 house others are afflicted,
 Nora learns tomorrow. Mean | while-what will Nicholas peo-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-22

CLYDESDALE VISITS JUNEAU
 On a short visit to Juneau, the Clydesdale, tender of the Pyramid Cannery at Sitka, arrived today. She is moored at the City Float.
The Washington times., 1931-06-10

NEW YORK, June 10.-LightS
all over the theater dim swiftly
until only the orchestra pit is
bright; a gigantic mechanical
hand glides under it and carries
it's six-score swaying musicians
aloft, and a spotlight stabs down
from a trap in the ceiling to
set a hundred polished instru-
ments glittering. and then to
concentrate it's glare on a great,
golden harp and a serene, slender
girl. That's Florence Wightman,
the girl who hated the harp.
Well. she's a solo harpist IN
Emo Rapee's orchestra at Roxy's
now. and a featured one. She
doesn't hate the harp now-she
loves it.
OF course, the hating was sev.
eral years ago. She was still
in her teens then, when her
mother took her to the great
master Of the harp. Salzedo.
Florence had studied the piano
when she was 5: at II she was
winning prizes in Philadelphia.
She saw a career stretching away
from the keyboard, a sure and,
The Washington times., 1931-06-10
Speakeasy Patrons
Are Freed From
Being Searched

PHILADELPHIA, June 10.
Judge Lewis scored a legal point
for speakeasy patrons yesterday.
He told a policeman never again
to stop a man on the public
highway suspected Of having
been in speakeasy and search
him for whisky.
where did you get the
authority to search persons on
the public highway?" Judge
Lewis asked the policeman.
"You have not a shadow of right
to do such a thing and under
such conditions q man would
have the right to shoot you"
The Washington times., 1931-06-10
81 GRADUATED
IN TAKOMA

Fifty-two seniors of the Ia
koma-Silver Spring High School
last night heard DIR. Walter Mar
shall William Splan, dean of
American University, deliver an
address at commencement exer.
cises. Diplomas were presented
by Mayor Ben G. Davis of Ia
koma Park.
Doris Buddecke was salutator-
ian and the valedictory was pre-
sented by Louise Beall.
The following honor awards
were made: Scholarship, with in
scription on the plaque at the
school, Louise Beall; Sons of the
American Revolution citizenship
medal, Mary Louise Miller;
scholarship to Strayer's Business
College, Edith Baker; best all
round athlete in the senior class,
Lloyd Fitzgerald: boy who has
done the most for sports in the
hgih school, Woodrow Thomson.
The Washington times., 1931-06-10
SUIT LOST, WIFE
KILLS SPOUSE

FREEPORT, Ill, June 10
U.N.sJ.-A few minutes after
she lost a suit for separate main
tenance, Mrs. Vera Witte, 26,
shot to death her husband, Will
liam Witte, SIS.
The couple left the courtroom
together apparently on good terms
but Mrs. Witte entered her car.
procured a gun and shot Witte
three times. Then she handed
her gun to the sheriff and said
she was ready to 60 to jail.
The Washington times., 1931-06-10
SHRINE
WATTS HOOVER

SPRINGFIELD, H., June 10
U.N.SJ.-Plans for the dedica-
tion Of the renovated tomb of
Abraham Lincoln have been ap-
proved by President Hoover, who
will come to Springfield June IT
to deliver the dedicatory address.
Illinois has expended approx
mately G250,000 in renovating the
tomb. The shaft and its terrace
have been repaired. Unused gal
leries in the tomb's interior have
been opened.
The Washington times., 1931-06-10
s HELD IN MAIL
THEFTPLOT:

LOS ANGELES, June 10
UN.SJ.-Three men and three
women, suspected Of stealing
100000 worth of checks from
letters which overflowed from
stuffed. mail boxes, were rounded
up by Postoffice inspectors today.
According to city detectives,
the group took mail from the
tops of corner boxes or from be-
side office building chutes, then
forged endorsements on checks
found in the letters.
The Washington times., 1931-06-10
Girl Who Detested Harp
Now an Artist on 1t

for her, delightfully."- easy and
pleasant path.
But her mother wanted her to
be a harpist. There was consid.
erable family argument, but she
took harp lessons and now is an
outstanding artist on the instru-
rnent
The Washington times., 1931-06-10
"FIFI" LEASES FLAT

CHICAGO, ILL.,, June 10.-Mrs.
Anne "Fifi" still9an Mccormick
and her new millionaire husband,
Harold Fowler Mccormick. jr.,
have leased an eight-room apart
ment in Drake Towers here.
The Washington times., 1931-06-10
ALIEN GROUP TO DANCE

The June dance Of the Ameri.
canization School Association Of
the District will be held tomorrow
night from $3.50 to IL o'clock, at
town today with State Senator
The Washington times., 1931-06-10

See the pretty new frocks that we are
offering tomorrow at this special low
price-and you will readily see why our
sales of tub frocks are so popular! You
will certainly want two or three for
yourself-and will find plenty of smart
selection.
Crisp, fast colored prints in dots,
florals and figured patterns that will
launder nicely. Cleverly made up into
dainty short sleeved models that are
piped and collared and otherwis e
trimmed in many attractive ways.
Goldenberg's-Man Floor Second Floor
The daily worker., 1931-05-18

the campaign for the election Of committees OF
the unemployed, local unemployed councils ETC.
The unemployed councils must concentrate on
the struggle for unemployment insurance as the
central demand. They must fight for immediate
relief, against evctions, for free pubic services
to the unemployed workers electric light gas
water, free Street-car transportation feeding of
school children, exemption from rent payments,
opening up public buildings for housing unem-
ployed, for cash relief as against food doles,
etc). The unemployed councils must take the
lead in the formation of Tenants Defense
Leagues
The unemployed councils must conduct con-
slant wide campaign exposing the exploitation
Of the unemployed by government agencies, po-
lice ETC., and by the Red Cross, the Salvation
Army and all other bourgeois bodies, and rails
ing the campaign against all forms of compul-
sorry labour for the unemployed.
In all the work of the TU.UL in the struggle
for the demands of the unemployed, every effort
must be made to establish the unity of the en-
ployed and unemployed, by drawing the en-
ployed workers into the actions of the unem-
ployed and by support of strikes by the unem-
ployed, mass picketng, etc Every effort must
be made through the branches and councils to
win the unemployed, particularly those recently
thrown out of work, for membership in the reVo-
lutionary unions and leagues.
1.-The Fight for Social Insurance.
In the present economic crisis, and in face of
the general lowering of the standard of living of
the masses and the maneuvers of the bour-
geosie the fight for social insurance will play
decisive part in the building up of the revolu-
tionary trade union movement. II is essential
that the TU.UL. shall come forward before the
masses as the only resolute fighter for and
champion of social insurance for the workers
This fight should include the demand for social
insurance of all workers, including agricultural
workers, both native and foreign born, Negro
and white, during the entire period of unem-
ployment; for insurance entirely at the expense
of the State and the employers: for the COM
plete administration of the unemployed funds by
the workers through bodies especially elected
for the purpose; for rates of insurance equiva-
lent to full wages for insurance to cover unem-
ployment, sickness, invalidity maternity, old
age compensation for accidents and industrial
diseases In addition, every opportunity should
be taken to press for enactment or extension of
protective legislation of all kinds of workers
particularly in the South, and demands in all
these respects should be worked out clearly and
popularized. In the popuarization, it is neces-
sary to give vivid exposure Of the conditions ex-
listing III the United States, to explain the So
cial-insurance systems which exist even in
very stunted FORM in other capitalist countries
and to draw sharp contrast between the con-
ditions in the U.S.A. and the complete system
fort must be made to draw the workers them
The daily worker., 1931-05-18

which no real mass unions can be built up. in
attention until quite recently to the organization
of the unemployed.
VI.
The daily work Of the League in the factories
is extremely weak In addition to the general
defects above mentioned, this is a direct conse-
quence of the confusion existing in the ranks of
the League on the question of organization, par
ticularly as regards shop committees and the
united front from below. The opinion is wido-
spread that shop committees are shock groups
or committees Of the revolutionary unions (e.
g., needle trades, textile workers. metal workers
and publications of the National Bureau and
that if a group of the revolutionary union is
formed in an undertaking and recruits work
ers for the union, carries out League cam
paigns, etc, the workers require no other or
ganizaEon Similarly, correct attempts 70 set up
groups of members of the revolutionary unions
and yellow unions in the factories are incor-
rectly regarded as shop committees needle
trades. The result of this confusion is that
not only do we fail to carry out elections for
committees representative Of the workers in the
shop, but we likewise fail to build branches of
the unions in the shops and factories and Sc
cure loose organizations that is neither
shop committee nor union branch.
very weak spot in the work Of the TUUL
is the organization of oppositions in the re-
formist unions-a branch of work which has al
most completely disappeared. There is q wide
spread fernent among the members of these
unions forcing their leaders to haze recourse TO
all kinds of "left" nlaneuvers conferences of
bureaucrats in the Railway Brotherhoods and
Metal Unions about the reduction of working
hours. leadership of some strikes in the South
by left elements of the A. F. L.. The A. F.
L. is spreading broadcast the watchword Of re-
duction of working hours and the stagger sys-
tenn. behind the demagogic screen of dividing
work with the ulemployed"-a maneuyer in
tended In reality to carry out severe reduction
in wages. However, all these maneuvers are
very feebly exposed by the League and in many
cases are not even mentioned in its press For
this reason, the social-fascst policy of deceving
the workers and creating confusion does not
meet with effective resistance
VIII
Arising out of the existing situation in the
TUUL, and with view to the necessity of
bringing about a radical turn of the work of
the TUUL, and achieving concrete results as
rapidly as possible, the Executive Bureau Of the
RIL.U. endorses in general the resolution on
the situation and tasks OF the League, adopted
at the last Plenum Of its National Executive At
the same time it deems essential that broad
discussion be carried through in the League and
revolutionary unions, on the weaknesses which
have been pointed out. This discussion must
be carried out not merely around weaknesses.
The daily worker., 1931-05-18
Resolution of Executive Buro, Red International
of Labor Unions

selves into discussion of the slogans and meth
DDS of this campaign Particularly acute at the
present time is the question of unemployment
insurance In the course of the mass campaign
for this it is advisable to build special commit
tees for social insurance. with the widest pos
sible appeal, going beyond the unemployed coun-
cils to give the movement as wide basis as
possible Secondly it is necessary at the same
time to develop the sharpest possible struggle
against and exposure OF the counter-proposals
of the bourgeois parties, the social fascists ETC.,
exposing their inadequacy, their mercenary char
acter and the purpose which they pursue, name
ly, of establishing capitalism.
S-Immediste Tasks, the Fight for the Shorter
Working Day, Against Wage Cuts Speed-up, etc.
The T. U. U. L. must now more resolutely
and skillfully take up the fight against wage
cuts, speed-up, combined wage cuts and speed
The daily worker., 1931-05-18

but around a positive program of action based
on the immediate tasks CT the League. The aim
Of this discussion must be TO mobilize all the
members and supporters of the League and rev.
olutionary unions in struggle for concrete I'M
provements in the work of the TUUL inlme-
diately. The Executive Committee considers it
essential that special attention be given to the
following tasks:
1.-The Fight Against Unemployment
Mobilization and organization of the work
ers in the fight against unemployment is the
main immediate central task of the League at
the present time. The improvements in this
respect in recent weeks must be regarded as an
additional incentive for further concentration
on this question. The revolutionary unions and
the T. U. u L. must play the leading part in or
ganizing the movement of the unemployed
Their members should be the driving force in
The daily worker., 1931-05-18

own organization. There are in the United
States a considerable body of RIL.U. support
ers who are not members of the revolutionary
unions or leagues. In the TUUL, we find fire.
quently that policies and decisions of higher
bodies are carried out formally, without due
discussion by members of the unions and fire.
Quently without knowledge of the work of
pIenurns and conferences apart from reports of
the leadership. In number Of unions, there
are no regular meetings of locals, and there are
no reports OF their activity in the press Union
Secretaries and other officials are changed
without any explanation to the membership,
Closely connected with the question of trade
union democracy is the question of organiza-
ton. CThe small number Of district committees
and central departments of the TUUL which
function regularly, great laMty in financial
questions, particularly collection of dues, without
The daily worker., 1931-05-18

Reaction In All Languages
By JORGE

The pope yesterday spoke in three Languages
Italian, French and German Why didn't he ID.
clude Polish too? It was in this language, We
understand that he blessed and encouraged the
Czarist white guards and counter revolutionary
army that invaded the territory of Soviet
Ukraine in 1920 in an attempt to overthrow the
workers Soviet Power
The pope was then the archbishop or "big
shot" Of the Catholic church in Poland. He may
have changed the language since then but he
is the same old counter Revolutionary, and while
the capitalist papers say he stresses labor
rights" nevertheless, he is really stressing its
supposed duty" not to destroy capitalism.
Well we guess that the little demonstration
OF the Spanislsworkers is getting under the hide
and his pontifical hypocrisy is put out in de-
tense. So, regardless of pretty words, we can
be sure that the fellow who urged on the armed
attempt against the First Workers Republic il
1920 is just as much a reactionary today.
The daily worker., 1931-05-18
By BURCK

up (Stagger SYSTEM, part time employment ETC.
1t is essential to put forward the clearest and
simplest slogans, capable of mobiizing the widest
masses The main slogans are : (a) Against
wage cuts in any form; (b) Full wages for short
time work; (c) The 7-hour day without wage
reductions Is hours for the miners for youth
and in injurious trades, (d) Against speed-up
and for the abolition of overtime; (e) Equal
wages for equal work for Negroes women, for
eign born, etc; dD Abolition of injunctions right
to strike, etc.
In the struggle for the reduction of hours,
the I. U. U. L. must vigorously put forward the
7-hour day Is hours for injurious trades and
youth as central slogan for uniting the strug-
giles of the employed and unemployed. In the
South where industries are working the 10 or
11-hour day, the slogan of the 8-hour day must
be put forward, taking care not to do so in
such way as in effect to demand the 7-hor
day for white workers and hours for Negroes
In industries where the 8-hour day. 5-day week
is being worked, the slogan of the 7-hour, 5-day
week should be put forward.
The demagogy of the A. F. of L. Railway
Brotherhood leadership and the Music wing cen
tering around the shortening of the work day
must be exposed as a method OF furthering wage
reductions. The question of the length of the
working day must not be confined to the gen.
eral program Of the T. u. u. L., but must be
embodied in the local slogans fer factory strug-
glcs against the sharpening of the rationaliza-
ton drive.
Considering the present forces at the dis
posal Of the T. U. U. L. and the need for achiev-
ing substantial results in the most important in
dustries and districts in the shortest possible
time, ii is essential to concentrate fon the inu,c-
diate future upon five main industrial ccnters
Chicago, Pittsburgh Detroit, Cleveland and
Philadelphia. Six months plans of work should
be drawn up for each of these areas to ensure
concentration on main industries, such as min
ing. metal, automobile, textile, marine and chem
ical. special plan should be drawn up for work
In the South for the immediate months. There
must be suitable division of forces to strength
the district and local leadership of the un-
ions and I. U. U Il. in carrying out these plans.
The planned program of work must be used to
establish locals of the revolutionary unions and
groups or leagues in the industries The locals
of the Red Unions, and T. u. U. l.. supporters
where no local unions exist, must strive to set
up grievance committees Gas transition forms
to shop committees) elected by the workers on
the basis of day-to-day issues. The large body
of supporters of the r. /. l.. u. who do not be-
long to the revolutionary unions leagues. must
be brought into League organizations All con-
nections in the factories readers of our pa
pers members OF workers clubs and fraternal
etc. must be utilized TO establish locals of the
unions and leagues.
The 7. u. u. L. and It's unions, Leagues and
The daily worker., 1931-05-18

We Suggest

This problem of King Carols wife or wives Is
bothering us. It seems that nothing will be
accomplished in Rumania until it is decided
whether Queen Helen or Madame Lupescu viii
finally recline in the royal bedroom.
After worrying about it all week. we finally
came to the conclusion that Aimee Semple Nc
Pherson should be sent over with the Kemmerer
Commission to establish Four Square or rect-
angular gospel out of this tiresome triangle
The daily worker., 1931-05-18
We Nominate

We nominate for the Pulitzer prize for the
best murder in 1881 the one recounted in the
Associated Press dispatch from Blue Mountain.
Mississippi, May g. as follows
r "A farmer, A. w Carter, whose mind was af-
fected by intense religious fervor killed his wife,
their two children, a boarder and himself in
their home near here today"