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The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-15
JUNEAU MAS0NS
 OFFICERS FOR NEXT YEAR

At the regular annuai meeslng or the Juneau Masonic Lodge last evening in the Scottish Rite Tem. pie, officers were elected for next year. They are:
 John J. Fargher, Worshipfui Master; M. L. Merritt, Senior War; den; L. E. Hendrickson, Junior Warden; Wallis s. George, Junior Warden; J. w. Leivers, Secretary.
 H. L. Redlingshafer is Past Mas ter
 Joint installation of the new of ficers of the Masonic Lodge and Of the new officers of the Order of Eastern Star will take place next month. The joint installation. date has not yet been fixed.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-15
GEORGE MAX ESTERLY
 DIES IN OREGON

George Max Esterly, well known Alaska mining man for many years and for the last dozen years en- gagged in mining at Waldo, near Grants Pass, Oregon, died at his Waldo home, December 2. The funeral was at Grants Pass, De- cember 5, and was under the aus pices of the Masonic Lodge.
 Graduated as an electric engin- ger at the University of Wisconsin he left shortly after his graduation for Dawson. After a few years he went to Valdez where he had charge of placer properties in the Chitina Valley At Dawson he had been associated with the late Dick Trenholme in the installation oi the first electric light plant
 He had ben engaged in success ful hydraulic placer mining al Waldo, Oregon, since 1917, retain ing for a time after that his Val 1ez interests. He is survived by his widow, daughter, Mrs. H McCaughey, and a son, George Maj Esterly. Jr. The daugf.Jer and son are residents of Los Angeles.
 MT. Esterly was a picturesque and colorful character. Filled with energy and the spirit of goodfel. lowship, he made friends of all ac- quaintances and held them to the last. His Southern Oregon estate where he mined. raised fine stock and engaged in many activities, was open house to his many friends He is mourned by thousands.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-15
p R|N. SOPHIA DAMAGE CASE
 IS UP AGAIN
Maximum of $10,000 for Heirs of Victims Is
 Now Sought

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Dec. 15 An attempt by the heirs of the persons drowned when the Princess Sophia sank in Lynn Canal be- tween Skagway and Juneau, Alas ka, in 1918, with loss of 353 lives, to obtain a maximum dam age of $10,000 a victim from the Canadian Pacific will be made in the United States Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday. This will
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-15
Bridge Experts Are Virtually Tied M Quarter Sketch

NEW YORK, Dec. 15.-Just .
 . past the quarter pole in their .
 . 150-rubber match of contract .
 . bridge with Sidney Lenz and . . Oswald Jacoby, MT. and Mrs. . . Culbertson were only Is . . points behind. The culbertsons . . won six out of seven rubbers . . in the sixth session and re- . . duced their deficit by 4,825 . . points. . . At one time during the . Q sixth sesion they were ahead . . 845 points, but later lost their . . margin Out of the 40 rub . . bers played to date, Lenz and . Q Jacoby have won 21 and the . . Culbertsons 19. .
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-15

be an appeal from the decision of the Ninth Circuit Court, at Se- attle, which held the Canadian Pa- cific was entitled to limit it's lia- bility to the value of the vessel and amount earned on the voyage.
 The heirs maintain they are en- titled to a maximum damage due to lack of legal precautions and safety of the passengers.
 Attorney William Martin, of Se- attle, representing the heirs, said he will seek to show the vessel was not provided with a sufficient crew, most of them being of high school age; that the lifeboats were not floatable and buoyant; the life preservers were of an inferior grade and useless in the storm, and also there was too much delay in preparing for rescue of the pas sengerS.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-15
ANNOUNCE CUT
 IN AIR RATES
Express Charges Reduced by Five Lines Span
 ming Nation

CHICAGO, H., Dec. 15.-Radical reductions in air express rates, some as great as 80 per cent, were announced today by the Railway Express Agency of five air lines, reaching IF cities.
 AS an example of the reduction, a 10-pound package from Chicago. to Seattle was SPA and the new rate is $11.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-15
CLOSING PRICES TODAY

NEW YORK, Dec. 15.-Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 12al, American Can 63B, Anaconda Copper 10, Beth lehem Steel 21%, Curtiss-Wright Is, Fox Films 3, General Motors 22K, International Harvester 24A Kennecott 95s, Packard Motors AS, United States Steel 4112.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-12
CONGRESSMAN FEARS JOBLESS TURNING TO COMMUNIST
"The EmancipatOr"

TODAY birthday high priests capitalist wage
slavery slnnlonng the to tribute he
emancipation"
difficult doubt 100000 obess
workers. Who with their families
exhaustion with cut to the BONE sweated behind factory
guarded by private detectives
their freedom" be pictured more than cruel joke
The historical forces which have made this fact
Importance than the personality
letter of Karl Marx during the Civil
North the
on the banner Of armed revolt
But it is matter prime
abolition of slavery but rather the preservation
early emancipation decree OF one military commander only signed the
socaled Emancipation military
expediency
MOI; although then, majority population of
the southern states Negroes did he
determination of this nationality right
adhere separate from the
mnt" the Negro question the
to Africa
Despite inherent in the yet ascendant
manufacturing capitalism of the North
those reaconay the
South indeed plantations the
basis for remnants Slavery
and cannot be wiped out by capitalism.
Capitalism the however playing progressive role
both economically and socially Can the thing
oeclded not! nstncty
ecaly the workings of historical changing
their lives easily the fact capitasms
system that millions
not able maintain its slaves within its
decay And all the spoung day the effort
and justify the
of its progressive past
capitalism decay
advanced while the country where capitalism has been overthrow
is there economic and social progressn the Soviet Union
The workers of the United States Negro and white know
they not free with International Fighting
Against Unemployment February 25t they with
the
Historical working
just chatel slavery required four civil blot the
struggle today of between the working class the capitalist
class And it that the ranks of the the
streets February Is, to battle for bread and
Organize for February 25th
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-12
Help Daily Worker By Returning
All the Red Shock Troop Lists

NEW YORK.-The Red Shock
Troop cartoon just above is our ap-
peal to all the readers of the Daily
Worker. Only about SO lists have
been returned. Most likely the work.
ers are all busy getting other work
ers to make contributions There
should be no delay in getting dona-
lions and in sending in the Red Shock
Troop lists. The Daily Worker got
by this week by running into a fur
Eher deficit and we now owe the
press around $4,000. This could be
avoided if our last appeal that is
now In the field would be answered
promptly.
The results of the Washington
Delegation must be broadcast every
lay throughout the country. The
1esults Of their work must lead to
lurther organization and preparation
or Feb. 25. The dressmakers' strike
n New York City must be given full
publicity, not only to the workers
1 n New York City, but throughout
he country. 1t means the building
lp of the Needle Trades Workers In
lustrial Union against the right
wing and the bosses.
| Immediate answer to the above
artoon will make this possible. Send
our contribution Immediately to the
Daily Worker, so E. 18th ST., New
Fork City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-12
TIMES" FEARS
REVOLUTION If
WAR BREAKS OUT
But Go Right Ahead
With War Moves

While Hoover pushes the navy bill
III Congress, so that war prepara-
tons in the United States can be
Speeded up, the New York Times de-
plores the fact that the British for
eign secretary's speech can be twisted
into the belief that war is imminent.
Arthur Henderson, Labor foreign Sec
rotary, on Monday tried to absolve
the Labor Government for the re-
sponsibility of the coming war by
saying mo government can control
itr
But the New York Times, realizing
the growing d.iFa to war, fears the
increased revolutionary struggle of
the masses and the danger of revolu-
ton.
"A destruction more thorough will
be effected by populations arising in
fury and despair against the govern
ments that would lead them to an
other catastrophe, complains the
Times. 1.-THE world revolution of
which Moscow abandoned hope in a
peaceful Europe, would have to be
reckoned with if the nations were
mad enough to fling themselves at
each other"
Quilted of this hypocrisy, the above
question actually means: imperialist
countries need war; they are driv-
ing to war, but what they fear most
is the revolutionary uprising of the
masses under the leadership of the
Communist International.
In the United States the war prep
arations are going ahead rapidly.
Congress is debating the $1,000, 100000
naval building program, that grew out
Of the London Naval Conference.
Hoover pulls all the necessary wires
to get it over with quickly. He fights
with all his might against any form
of relief to the unemployed, but for
the machinery of slaughter he and
the rest of the capitalist rulers can
find billions.
To further the war preparations,
the United States fleet is now around
the Panama Canal zone carrying out
war maneuvers. Everything is being
done to make ready for this war,
even the suppression of the Commu-
nists whom the Times fears will lead
uprising sin fury and despair against
the governments" that go to war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-12

The dressmakers marched
into the Arena in groups from
their shops. Irving Potash,
secretary of the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union, was
chairman of the meeting. In a fiji
teen minute address, he described the
near-slavery which is the lot of the
dressmakers, their starvation wages,
their inhuman Speed-up, their long
hours. He told of the various tricks
the needle trades employers used to
exploit the needle workers to the
limit, and of how they open shops
in outlying sections of the city and
in the suburbs, where they pay the
workers $40 and SIS a week. He also
told of the great help that the I. l..
G. w. Ghe company union) was to
the bosses, aiding them in every
(CONTlNL ED ON PAGE TWO)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-12
FRIDAY MEET TO
PROTESTEMBARGO
Workers to Hit Bosses
War Move

NEW YORK. - Rallying to the
defense OF the Soviet Union, the
workers of New York will voice a
mighty protest against the treasury
departments embargo on Soviet
lumber and pulpwood at a big mass
meeting tomorrow F'riday) night at
Central Opera House, 9th ST., near
Third Ave.
This mass meeting, called by the
Friends of the Soviet Union, will give
the fighting reply of the New York
workers to the latest step in the cap
italist war campaign against the first
workers republic.
"All workers must recognize this
embargo as war measure" declares
a statement issued by John J. Bal
lam, national secretary of the F. S.
U. "Behind it stand the National
Lumber Manufacturers Association,
the multi-millionaire Secretary of the
Treasury, Mellon, and his Wall Street
colleagues, the Fish Committee, Mat
thew Woll, Ralph Easley and the
whole crew of professional red
baiters. 1t is the latest in a series
of steps toward breaking off all trade
relations with the Soviet Union
toward war against the U. S. s. r.
Speakers at the meeting will be
Robert Minor, leader of last years
March 6 unemployed demonstration;
Richard B. Moore, National Negro
organizer of the International Labor
Defense; and I. Amter, New York
District Secretary Of the Communist
Party.
The meeting will give workers of
New York an opportunity to hear
the famous Hall Johnson Negro
Singers IN a program Of Negro labor
songs and spirituals. A mirthful
satire on the Fish Committee will be
presented by the Workers Labora-
tory Theatre.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-12
WOMENS COUNCILS
IN ANNUAL MEET
To Map Out Program
for Coming Year

NEW YORK.-at the annual con-
ference of the United Council of
Working Glass Women. to be held on
Sunday, Feb. Is, at p. m, at Stuy-
vesant Casino, Second Ave. and
Ninth St. delegates representing
various women's organizations will
discuss how best to organize the huge
mass of .proletarian workers wives to
fight for immediate demands of the
workers.
The United Council of Working
Glass Women is a revolutionary Or
ganization which organizes and leads
the proletarian housewives in their
struggles. The U. c. w. G. w. leads
the workers wives at demonstrations
on picket lines, hunger marches etc.
II organizes IT,. --------.-.@, Ten
ants leagues, and fights against evic-
tons of the unemployed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-12
DELEGATES GO
TO ORGANIZE
H O | d Final Session
Ac:er Congress
Bars Committee

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. IL
The 140 delegates to the National
Unemployment Conference here are
on their way back to the hundreds
of thousands of the unemployed who
sent them and the ten million job
less they represent, also the other
millions on short time.
They go, after being thrown out
of the U. S. capitol when presenting
bill for unemployment insurance,
which had been voted for by 10000
workers and unemployed workers.
They go fresh from their final ses-
sion. they held after being elected
from Congress, and in that meeting
they pledged to rally great masses for
demonstration Feb. IS, International
Fighting Day, and with the deter
mination to organize the,jobless into
unemployed councils and the workers
into militant unions.
Special meetings are already being
held in many cities to hear the re-
ports of the returning delegates.
Many will report at the huge mass
meetings after demonstrations on
Feb. Is.
1t was resolved in the final session
after the capitol incident to empower
the small delegation to draft a state
ment embodying the sentiments of
the delegation and based upon their
experience with the capitalist con-
greSsnen.
1t was decided that all delegates
return to their cities, mining camps,
and factory towns, and there inform
all workers and workers organiza-
tons that not a single congressman
or senator in the capital is inter
ested in the starving and dying
workers, their hungry children and
babies,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-12
FASCISTS BACK
UP ON WALk-OUT
Rumors Of Uprising in
SaXoiy
Gable BY InprecOrrl

BERLIN, Feb. 1.-THE Nationalist
deputies to the German Reichstag,
who walked out with the fascist dep
uties yesterday, decided to return to
the Reichstag today, thus isolating
Hitler.
The fascists, also, produced an anti
climax to their pompous exodus by
announcing today they would return
to the Reichstag in case of major
ity plan involving further attacks
on the people"
The capitalist press regards the
fascist threat of establishing a coln-
parliament at Weimar as bluff.
The anti-fascist committee of &C
ton is organizing mass demonstra-
ton in the Lustgarten for Sunday.
Rumors of a fascist putsch EARNED
uprising) are current. Saxon fascists
issued an appeal mobilizing all mill
tary fit supporters. Police are re-
ported to have arrested numerous
fascists in the Hamburg district.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-12
Walker, Hiding Behind Police
Dodges Subpoena By Jobless

NEW YORK.-Mayor Walker is
trying to dodge out of appearing as
a witness at the trial of Sam Nesin,
Milton Stone and Robert Lealess, the
three leaders of the unemployed dem
onstration of Oct. 16, whim Tam
many is trying to send to long Jail
terms on charges of unlawful assem-
bly,, outraging public decency and
endangering public peace.
When Lealess went to the mayors
office yesterday to serve him with
a subpoena requiring his appearance
at the trial which will be held Mon
day, Feb. Is, in Special Sessions
Court, Part 6, he was directed around
the building to police captain. The
police captain wanted to know all
about it and then obligingly offered
to deliver the subpoena to the mayor
or his secretary. But Lealess didn't
fall for this ruse; he demanded a
signed receipt if he was to turn over
the subpoena to anybody but the
mayor.
What do you want a receipt for?"
asked the police captain.
"After the way we've been treated"
Lealess replied, latter being beaten
up and then arrested because we de-
manded immediate relief for the I'M
employed, we have no faith in your
institutions or your promises. We
want to be on the safe side"
"Come friday"
The captain went to consult some
body and then returned with the in
formation that 48 hours in advance
is enough for the serving of sub
pcena. He. told Lealess to come back
Friday.
The three defendants are on the
watch now for further receptions and
intend to do everything possible to
force the mayor to appear. 1t was
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-12
Hoover OK's Wagner Bills
They Are Against Jobless

WASHINGTON, Feb. II. What
Senator Wagner's bills on "unem-
ployment" actually amounts to so
far as relief for the unemployed is
concerned is now being shown up
by the fact that most Of them have
already gone through and Hoover
just signed the last one on building
construction"
Senator Wagner, Tammany
henclman, spread lot of phrases
about demanding action on the I'M
employment situation. He put thru
a lot of bills, but they were not in
the interest Of the workers. One
was for Studying unemployment
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-12
DISC OLIVE A. r. L. LOCAL
GIVE TREASURY TO
T.U.U.L. WORKER PRESS

NEW YORK.-Hmgarian Local
No. 4 of the Amalgamated Asso-
citation of Iron, Steel and Tin
Workers (A.F.L) dissolved itself
on Feb. 8 and the members voted
to turn over so per cent of the
funds of the local to the Metal
Workers Industrial League of the
Trade Union Unity League, Is per
cent to the Daily Worker and Is
per cent to the vi Elore, the Com
munist Party's Hungarian Ian
guage paper. There was $73 to
be divided.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-12

the mayor who on Oct. Is ordered
Nesin, Stone and Lealess thrown out
of the Board of Estimate meeting
and beaten up. The New York Dis
trict of the International Labor De-
Tense, which has been handling their
case, has decided that the three
workers should appear in their own
defense instead of depending upon
attorneys. They are being denied
jury trial and are being tried by the
same gang of Tammany judges who
sent Foster, Minor, Amter and Ray
mond to Jail for leading last years
March demonstration. Only mill
tant action on the part of the work.
ing class will smash the efforts to
railroad Nesin, Stone and Lealess to
long prison terms.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-12

insurance. That passed, and the
senators will have a ten-year uni
versity course studying" how to de-
feat unemployment insurance.
The next was to count the unem-
ployed". The government is count
ing" the unemployed, but only the
number it wants, and not the actual
number out of work. Under no cir
cumstances do they permit a figure
higher than 100000 to be published.
Now Wagnor's final bill goes thru
TO push up public building con-
struction. But that was done, or sup
posed to be done, years ago. There
is less building today than ever be-
lore --.----A----------4-----------
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-12

The new measure does not provide
any cash bonus relief. 1t merely ex-
tends the old plan Of loans on
bonus certificates. The bankers win
out this time. But the fight is not
over. The "loans" will not more
feed the hungry ex-servicemen than
do the loans for Give stock" feed the
farmers.
All worker ex-servicemen must be
modified for a fight to demand the
cash bonus and unemployment relief,
together with the unemployed work
ers who are fighting for unemploy-
ment insurance. ~ ---s~ -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-12
Young Plan Winning Against
Vets Demands for Cash Relief

WASHINGTON, Feb. II. Again
the bankers wishes will be obeyed
against the demands Of the ex-
servicemen. A plan has been worked
out by the republican and democratic
representatives in congress to put
into effect the suggestions of Owen
D. Young. Morgan associate. to de-
lcat the cash bonus demand.
This is the natural process, in view
of the fact that most Of the ex-serv-
icemen relied on the promises of the
congressman and senators, instead of
mobilizing. their own class forces to
force the measure through
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-12
ILiue Sat. Feature
Page; Order Noev

"Chain Gang" a story of the
South: "Strike Secret" chill
dren's story: "Yetta," telling of
the experiences of an old wom-
an against the landlord: and
Letter to the Fed Army" by
May'n Gorky, 4 remost rrole-
tay.An writer In the Soviet
Union are among the articles in
next Saturdays feature page.
Book reviews, caroons and
poems are added to this at
tractive section of the Saturday
edition.
Orders for extra bundles at
one cent for five or more, IS
per 1000 received until Friday,
8 p. m. 100000 circulation week
ly report, page 81.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-12
Convict Labor in
Guatemala

Over 100000 Indians in Guate-
mala are held in bondage and
forced to labor mainly by the Wall
Street firm, the United Fruit Co.
In Cuba and Guatemala convict
labor is one of the main sources
of profit to American bankers.
Read about 1t in a special article
on page 3 of this issue. Read about
children being forced to labor to
pay off tn e"debts' Of their pa
rents to the feudal landlords and
the big fruit companies.
Matthew Vol, who lies about
the Soviet Union, is silent about
these facts. The Daily Worker
publishes this feature story to
show how American imperialism
creates convict labor and makes
huge profit from It.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-12
AMTER TO SPEAK ON "REVO-
LUTIONARY TRADE UNIONISM."

NEW YORK; Amter, organizer
of the Communist Party of New York
will speak Sunday, Feb. Is, p. M, on
Revolutionary Trade Unionism" at
the Open Forum organized recently
by the Youth Department of the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union, at 131 w. 18th st.