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CAPT. TIDBlTS,
 CITY Pl0IlNE { ER, DIES E:'S SUDDENLY } N
Pioneer .Ferryboat Opera tor Succumbs to h. firmities of Age

Capt. Charles Edward T.fobits, 70 years cid, a long time resident of Juneau, died last evening in St. Ann's Hospital of a quick pilysi.al breakdown occasioned by adsanccd age Complaining 2f feeling. qu.te III, he had entered the institution ,nly yesterday nc1n. The remains are at the Charles w. Carter Nor tuary. Funeral arrangements await word from two surviving relatives, Mrs. Cecilia Harcid, of Edmunds, wash, and Mrs. Alice Wyfde, of Entrance Island. Alaska, daughters.
 Came 40 Years Ago
 Capt. Tibbits came 't9 Juneau more than 40 years ago. He was a mariner. He was associated in the ownership and operation of the first Juneau-Douglas ferryboat company. Subsequently, for num- Der of years, he was skipper of crafts of the Juneau Ferry and Navigation Company, which took over the ferryboat service between Juneau and Douglas.
 With Fisher1es Bureau
 Afterwards for seven years he was in command of craft of the United States Bureau of Fisheries In the last few years, until this summer, he conducted at the cor ner of Main and Third Streets candy store that he had acquired from William Taylor.
 Capt. Tibbits was a member o1 the Masonic and Elk orders and oi the Pioneers of Alaska.
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Of a total highway mileage of 3,030,000 in the United States, 100000 miles are surfaced,
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Hospitality Cannon
 Asked by Brazilians

RECIPE, Brazil, Oct. 6.-Arma- ment for courtesy's sake is sought by this port for old Fort Brum at the entrance to the har- bor. .u
 Local commercial interests ap- pealed to the minister of war at Rio de Janeiro to man the now abandoned works with a battery of artillery.
 National defense was mentioned in the petition, but the chief argu- ment was that foreign warships coming to Brazil naturally stopped here first and fired 21 guns in salute to the nation. Without men or cannon in the old fort Brazil can make no reply to these greet ings.
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More than l2,000 tons of coal are awaiting shipment from nine pitt heads of the Ruhr.
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ToDAY'S GAME
 BY INNINGS

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Old papers for sale at The En-
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B. M. Behrends Co.,, Inc. Juncau's Leading Department Store
 

censes: WLW, Cincinnati; KWK, WILL and KNOX, St. Louis; WGN, Chicago; WJR and WXYZ, Detroit; WCAO. Baltimore; WING, Memphis, and WMCA, New York.
 Engineers of the radio commits sion say they are not yet ready to recommend that picture transmits sion be placed on commercial basis, thereby giving it the same status as sound broadcasting.
 Removal of the experimental re- strictions, they, explain, would give the impression that television had been recognized as possessing gen. eral entertainment value. They take the position that television has not yet arrived"
 Big Problem Finding available and suitable frequencies, or picture tracks" is one of the commissions big prob lens.
 Engineers now are turning to the very high frequencies as a much more "roomy" place for picture transmission. Twenty-one of the 39 licensed stations have been assigned high frequencies in three big bands, from 43,000 to 46,OO0 kilocycles, 48,- 800 to 50,3o0 kilocycles and 600O0 to 80,000 kilocycles. F 7 t
 Whether these ultra short waves can be "harnessed" for clear picture transmission is to be determined by experimenters in all parts of the country.
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STATIONS RUSH
 LICENSE PLEAS
 FOR TELEvISI0!NN N
Getting Picture Track
 Practice for New Entertainment
ts WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. By Alexander George

By Alexander George -Broadcast stations in increasing nslmbers are getting picture track" practice in preparation for the debut of television as an enter tainment medium.
 lsTwenty applications for visual spation licenses are pending before tie federal radio commission. Ten were filed by operators of sound program stations in various parts Of the country.
 Television stations in operation 0 with construction permits now total 39. While many of them are located in the New York metropoli- tan area, Boston, Washington, Pitts burgh, Schenectady, Chicago, Mil w1ukee, Los Angeles and Lafayette, Ind., have picture transmitters in cperation or in the process of. con- struction.
 ~ Have Applied
 uo1perk of the following sound sta- tions have applied for visual H.
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KETCHIKAN MAN IS
 SENTENCED TO JAIL

John D. Spencer, Ketchikan, held there under a larceny charge, yes terday entered a plea of guilty to petit larceny in the United States Commissioner Court there. accord ing to advices received by United States Marshal Albert White.
 Spencer was sentenced by Judge Patrick Gildea to serve a term oi seven months in the Ketchikan Federal jail.
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ST. LOUIS: Martin up-strike l
 missed: doubles to the left field wall. Wilson up-ball 1, high inside: out, flied to Miller in short right
 Gelbert up-strike 1, missed; bal 1, low wide: out, foul fly to catch CT. who made a great catch close .o the screen in front of the grand stand. Collins, batting for Lindsey hits left handed. Collins up-strike
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TRY CRUDE ]! D|l!!E|:
 OIL MOTORS 10

BERLIN, Oct. 6.-In an effort to cut down fuel costs and to mini- mize fire hazards Junkers are test ing crude oil motors with a view to making this type of power plant optional equipment on their air planes. 3-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-17
Hayward JobleSs
Council Doubles
Answer to Jail Term
for Two Speakers

HAYWARD, Calf, April 16.--La-
cey and Mckinney, speakers at the
unemployment meeting here in the
City Plaza April 5, were railroaded
through the police court here yes
terday and sentenced to so days inn
prisonment or 500 fine each.
The council of the unemployed has
doubled in membership during the
last ten days, and the agricultural
workers, many of them Spanish
speaking, have certainly not been
terrorized by the attack by police
and fire department on their meet
ings.
They are preparing a great mass
meeting April 26, todemand relief and
to protest the conviction of their
speakers, also to prepare for May /
demonstrations.
The jury which convicted the two
workers was made up entirely of bust
ness men. The prisoners defended
themselves and brought out the de-
mands of the jobless. Many work
ers attended the trial.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-17

NCON lin L ED FhUh EAUE oREt
continue to pour in on the governor
Of Alab- ma who has so far refused to
raise hand to save these nine in
nocent boys,
Additional organizations to send
protest kilograms SO far, include the
Young Defenders, youth branch of
the International Labor Defense,
which last night wired Governor Mil
Ter vigorously protesting the attempt
to legally lynch these nine youths on
frame-up rape charges.
Arrange Protest Meeting!
Throughout the country protest
meetings are being arranged, and
must be arranged on an increasing
scale. Pittsburgh workers will hold a
protest mass meeting at Pythian
Temple, 2008 Temple Avenue, on
Wednesday night, April q.
In New York where several pro-
test meetings have already been held,
there will be another this Friday eV-
ening in the Dunbar Center, 6C5-7
Herkiner Street, Brooklyn, and one
next Friday, April "a, at st. Luke's
Hall, 125 w. 130th Street, in Harlem.
Chicago workers will rally to a
mass protest on Wednesday night,
April %, at Forum Hail. 1922 E. 43rd
ST., against the boss terror against
the Negro workers and tenant farm
ers and share troopers of Alabama
and other parts Of the South, and
against the cold-blooded shooting
down of Negro workers in Chicago
by the boss police.
Negro and White Workers Uniting.
| In the South, the citadel of boss
prejudice and race hatred, white and
Negro workers are joining hands iil
common struggle against the boss
system of starvation, wage cuts, ter.
ror, and persecution and lynching OF
Negroes. Several meetings protesting
the Scottsboro outrage have beer
held in Birmingham, Chattanooga
and other points.
In every section Of the country, and
throughout the world, as we'll, the
2xploite masses must be rallied tt
the defense of the nine Negro youths
and for the smashing of this muir.
! derous me-up and .railroading tc
the electric chair!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-17

earnings have already been cut by
scores of dollars a month, through
mileage limitation and other devices
urged upon them by the Brotherhood
leaders to divide up the burden of
unemployment among the men and
avoid placing it upon the company
stockholders. Now the Brotherhood
leaders will have to make a show
of fighting the cut If they are not
to lose the members confidence
completely. But many of the men are
already suspicious that with their
company loving record these leaders
will try to put over the cut on the
men in a modified form, instead of
fighting against it.
Big Railroad Bosses
The Van Sweringens are now the
largest railroad owners in the coun-
try controlling the Nickel Plate, the
Chesapeake and Ohio, the Denver &
Rio Grande Western, the Erie, the
Kansas City Southern, the Missouri
Pacific, Pere Marquette, Texas Sc Pa
cific, and a score of other smaller
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-17
CONVENTION" OF
HOWAT MEN FL0PS
NMU Makes Appeal to
Rank and File

ST. LOUIS, Mo, April 16.--When
Howats international convention of
the re-organized U. M. w" got un-
der way here yesterday with only 100
delegates present instead of the huge
numbers promised, the National
Miners Union got a good response
by distributing copies of the Daily
Worker t delegates and audience
and miners in town. The N. M. u.
also distributed a leaflet exposing
Howat's misleadership III the past,
as we'll as the thievery of both the
Lewis and Fishwick gang, and call
ing on the miners to GUST Howat,
elect their own rank and file COM
nittee and form a united front with
the N. M. U. to fight against the
Wage-cutS, lay-offs and other imme-
date grievances of the miners. This
also went very well.
The convention was called to Or
der by William Daech, Howat man
of Southern Illinois, and Howat made
the main speech 1t was a oolorless,
apologize talk, showing keep disap-
pointment at the poor response to
the convention call. Howat made no
fundamental criticism of Lewis or
harrington, and only complained that
heWas not consulted before Fishwick
and Walker ordered the "Reorganized
U. M W. back into the Lewis slave
pen. HoWat did not say that Fish
wick and Walker refused to call a
strike in Kansas against the black
listing of $50 miners there, but he
gaveno explanations of his own be-
trayal of the Kansas miners when
he went back to Lewis himself two
years ago in return for district
job.
A. j. Music, chairman Of the
conference for Progressive Labor
Action" (the Music movement")
was an honored guest of Howat and
made a speech laying down the posi-
ton of the reformists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-17
Bellingham, Wash. Charity Forces Work
From IObIess

er mentions organizing, the foreman
sends his name to the City Mission
and the slave is Immediately fired.
Probably the foreman expected a
raise, but all he got was beans.
The workers here are only those
who have families ranging from one
to ten in each. They are beginning
to wake up, since they find that
even though they work they are
good and hungry.
However what the workers here
must do is join the neighborhood
Unemployed Council where the
workers must unite and put up a
fight for streaP' relief, instead of
this lousy pittance of third rate
groceries in exchange for two days
of hard work, from these rotten
missions and charity institutions.
We call ON the unemployed and
employed workers to organize and
fight for immediate relief through
the Unemployed Councils and the
Trade Union Unity League. Apply
at SS1 State Street, BeIlingham,
Washington. 4
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-17

Beliingham, Wash.
Daily WORKER
The capitalist press lies and
sQuawks about Ffforced labor" in
The Soviet Union. What would you
call this situation i'm BelIingham?
No work, nothing to eat. We have
several charity outfits, here that
pretend to give relief. Here's how.
They hand out jobs, very difficult
ones at that and in return for work
ing two days, they give us three dol
lars worth Of groceries. Old canned
fish dog salmon, beans of which
they have plenty including worm
holes in them, and bread which is
nouIdy.
After we have worked two days,
they believe we've received enough
relief and wen live forever now.
They're also afraid well die ON the
rotten food they give us and so lay
us off.
Another kind of relief is Shaving
on an Industrial farm where they
give us five dollars a month, gar
bage and beans. Every time work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-17
Lot Of Women Laundry Workers In Portland
Hard One

Since I first began working in the
laundry it has increased In size, in
work and also added a few employees.
There has not been the slightest in
crease in wages. We are getting %
cents an hour and out of it have
to support three children, pay rent,
buy groceries, clothes, pay the nur-
sery and street car fare. There are
many other women working here who
are in the same predicament.
Our foreman is a close relative of
the boss and this makes our work a
great deal harder. They are both
strong church members and believe"
in the golden rule, Do unto, etc. But
I am sure If their incomes were cut
to 1925 day, as is our wage that
he is paying us, he would begin to
realize that it was time for him to
join a union or some organization
that is working for better condi-
tons.
On our busiest days, when the work
seems hardest, We do our best 10
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-17
Akron Bosses Threaten to Shut Down Charity
'ReIief"
(By Worker Correspondent
Relief


enough, for there is profit ON the
side from the apple sellers that are
spread out every few yards along
the principle streets, at the schools
and factories. Now in order to get
a permit to sell apples you must
sign up for a vacant lot and raise
garden. This will make more
profit for the city selling seed, etc,
to the gardeners and, of course, the
farmers around viii lose much of
their market vegetables and be
pushed a little closer to the soup
lines.
Conditions are rapidly becoming
worse with more and more lay offs
and Goodyear announcing a wage
cut of from to 20 per cent, fol-
lowed by Goodrich and FirestOne's
taking the same course i'm day
or two. The witty is forcing work.
ers to take vacations without pay
and reducing the jobs for there is
no money to pay with as collections
are poor.
The Unemployed Council is going
to keep up and increase to strug-
gle for bread and mobilize Ahron's
workers against the policy Of the
bosses to starve thousands and
make hundreds work for nothing
We must fight.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-17
Even Forestry Report
Contains Facts of the
Misery of Porto Ricans

WASHING$TON.--Not even a. re-
port on forestry. in Porto Rico, can
avoid description of the economic
misery of the working class in that
island, now 80 years under American
rule.
1.-THE population, now nearly $780,
900, is feeling the pinch Of wood
scarcity" says w. K. williams Of the
Forest Service, Department of Agri-
culture, home from an inspection. TN
small, matched houses of the country
there is scarcely Of even the simplest
furniture. Often there are not suf-
ficient benches to sit on at meals, or
for the women to work on.
Children in many homes must
sleep on the floor. The adults usual
ly sleep in fiber harnmocks. Wood
is in great demand to make charcoal
for use in primitive cookstoves."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-17

Wy g w Ol hSA
AKRON, o.-The last available
funds have been apportioned, ac-
cording to the local newspapers, and
soon the charities must shut up
shop or find additional money.
THE public Golfers are drained, and
an emergency campaign is the only
apparent answer unless relief comes
through-giving a job to aid some
one in need.
The Department Of Public
Charities comes along and asks
those in receipt of charity to report
for work in the city parks. But no
wages will be paid. You are given
the opportunity" to donate a days
work to the city in exchange for
the help you have received from
the charities. So "Akron, the City
of opportunity offers the workers
a job: and the workers are expected
to be generous enough to work for
Z nothing. No cash, the city is broke,
the charities are bust and so the
workers are asked to give and give
till it hurts.
And then see how efficient the
Eity officials are, getting work done
For $3.50 in enthusiastically
Sabout $3.50 i'm groceries--actuaiIy
about S2.0O-that would cost them
$500 i'm cash. But even this is not
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-17

VAC NAlLJC bElAO4 Va t4AC ib1Gkl Ia
Dor" government and demands the
immediate release of the Meerut
prisoners.
The appeal is as follows:
For over two years 81 Indian
working class leaders have been de-
tanned in Meerut Jail, going through
the farce of a trial" The charge
against these brave fighters, amongst
whom are also three British work.
ers, is in the terms of the prosecu-
ton conspiracy against the King"
This charge has been brought against
them because of their successful ac-
tivities in organizing and modifying
the Indian masses for the struggle
against British imperialism and cap
italist exploitation.
Most Of the 81 Meerut prisoners
are young workers. We remind the
youth of the whole world of the fate
of the young revolutionaries already
executed by the British labor gOv-
eminent in Sholapr and Lahore.
The latest execution, in face of the
tremendous national upheaval, is a
warning that it is not beyond the
imperialist 'labor' government to
demand the lives of some of these
comrades.
1--WE call upon the young workers,
young peasants, soldiers and revolu-
tionary students Of all countries and
all nationalities to participate in
large masses on April 10 in demon
STATIONS and mass meetings to de-
mand the unconditional release OF
the Meerut prisoners whose con-
tinued Imprisonment is a serious
blow to the working class movement
"The fight for the freedom of the
Meerut prisoners is an essential par
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-17

articles, news items pertaining to
neighborhood unemployed workers,
etc.. to circulate special page for
getting subs, building routes" Direct
unit deliveries ordered for more ra-
pid, effective circulation, beginning
April 20. j. Mankin, rep, out of jail,
rounds up three lost ID. w. sellers,
promises bundle increase soon.
DAILY" Spreads Out
Desire to stretch the Daily to four
corners Of the U. S. is apparent in
today's mail. B. r., Fort Lauderdale,
Fla, orders 100 copies over four
weeks "for distribution to our
friends" Oscar S. orders for 20 to so
readers in Danville, Ill. I'VE think
this would stimulate circulation and
get subs" he says, offering advance
payment and postage for notifying
readers. Otto v. ", Chicago Stock
Yards vicinity, slaughters capitalist
hokum by ordering 100 a week for
Sunday distribution. ELS, Omaha,
Neb., shows irritation for not receiv-
ing IS daily, and rightly so, for 1--WE
have comrade willing to sell, but
losing confidence" We fastened to
correct situation. George l.. in New
Castle, Pa, in giving literature OF
the Party. whirl," reports part
time jobs wrecked plans. Cuts bundle
to Is, right-about-faces, recorders So
More stable help, George, will steady
the figure or send it to the top. o. j.
Arness between two fires, Minnea-
polls and Superior, Wis, expects lat
ter to be final resting" place. He
will boost order from rs to 50, and
raise all the he'll we can for the
rest of the month" Newly organized
Party unit in Collinsville, Ill, gets
5 daily as a started, and Oscar l..
on the job in Centerville, Ia, orders
eight-a-d day until further, notice. We
suggest TO new sellers that revoIu.
tionsry unions, Unemployed Coun.
ellis be introduced to new readers Of
our revolutionary press, pointing out
these main campaigns the Daily car.
rieg on. 4~---.'~-~ ~"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-17

Portland, Ore.
At the age of seven. my mother
died, leaving us three children alone
with our father. A few years later
my older brother died, and at this
time my father deserted my younger
brother and myself. We were taken
and given a home by our grand
parents. They were poor and in ILL
health and could not do as they
would like to have done by lis. They
hied within "a hours of each other
Ind were buried in 1920 on New
Years Day. I was then ID. My
brother was placed out among some
strangers and / was put into an or
bhanage run by the Salvation Army.
remained there until was II.
Placed In Laundry.
When | was only few days past
n The matron called me in and
.sked me If thought would be
lble to take care of myself. ] told
Aer yes, and 7 was released. l
ltarted working In the laundry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-17
RED FLAGS CARRIED BY MASSES
THROUGHOUT SPAIN ASSOCIALISTS
AND NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Large. Landowners and Catholic Church Left
Intact to Exploit Masses; King Is Ready
for Counter-O Offensive

Mass surging through the streets
carrying innunerable red flags cry
ing death to the monarehists and the
fascists, strikes and clashes in vari-
Gus parts of Spain, while the provi-
sional Republican-Socialist govern
ment attempts to quiet the people
down SO that they can carry on the
work of defeating the real purpose Of
the bourgeois democratic revolution,
is the picture contained in the cable
dispatches from Spain to the CAPT
talist newspapers.
The New York Times corTespon-
dent in Madrid gives a graphic des-
cription of the intense feeling of the
masses who are not content with the
phrases slung about by the Repub-
lican bourgeoisie and their Socialists
supporters. Statements by provi-
sional president Zamora say they are
trying to do all they can to "quieten
the people" and send them back
to work" A manifesto issued by the
provisional government declares that
there will be national elections, relig-
ious freedom, constitutional gov
eminent, and an adjustment" Of the
great landed estates question.
The women who have been kept
down in Spain took a prominent part
in the demonstrations, expressing
their active interest in the political
struggles now going on.
"These demonstrations have been
going on for forty-eight hours, ?
writes the Times correspondent, "and
show now signs Of diminishing, al
though the government promises to
have every one back at work TO-
morrow"
Meanwhile, King Alfonso, who has
arrived in France, declares he did
not abdicate and is already prepar-
ing for an armed reactionary out
break to bring the monarchy back
into power. In this the Republican
and Socialists are aiding the feudal
forces by trying to quel the revolu-
tionary temper Of the masses.
William Phillip Sirnns, Foreign
editor Of the Scripps Howard service
says that "the new Spanish Repub-
lie will for some time be in constant
danger of an explosion.
''InnumerabIe disrupting forces are
at work within and without the re-
! ginle and only by miracle of lead
ership can further disorders, and
perhaps bloodshed, be prevented"
An Associated Press story from
Madrid tells Of Communist disturb
ances" in Seville. Martial law was
proclaimed in Seville after Commun-
ist rioting." Details, however, are
lacking.
Under the guise of claw and Or
DER the provisional government is
taking strong measures to suppress
the separatist movements in Cata-
lonia and the Basque province. The
Communists are calling on the work.
ers to come out on strike.
The large landowners still have a
strong grip on Spain. The Catholic
church, likewise, is strongly en-