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the general run of commercial business. In fact, if it may be so stated, the $20.67+. fixed price for gold represents practically it's Etrinsic value, as by and large the world over, it probably costs that much, or more, to produce an ounce of gold.
 lther Industries. 1922-3l Inclusive
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and sink shaft few feet back of Front Street near Steadman Avenue on the property known in the hurrah days of the camp as the Oliver and Blatchford Barrel Bar.
 --- N-ro .. N srs
 Hewlng are running in vast num- bers at Cordova and many fish ermen are dipping them up in netfuls from the City Dock.
 Farmers of the Tanana vaaley are harvesting an unusually big potato crop. There was plenty of rain for growing this year and the tubers escaped the usual mid-Aug- pst froay.
 Peter Kariskos died at Cordova of heart disease.
 Mining claims were staked and samples of gold ore obtained on Middleton Island, desolate spot about 50 miles south of Hinchin- brook Entrance, by Lee Albin and
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BE YOUR own boolskeeper. You will find that check book makes your bookkeeping job easy, one that keeps you posted always in your expenditures and your bank bal ance Men and women, in business, at home and while travelling find that checking account is the safe and accurate way of keeping and paying accounts To keep a check on bills pay by check.
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Lure Of Gold Is Discussed In Interesting Article
 Written byF. ", Bradley

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In comparison with the gold because a the hard required mining profits listed in Table is to beauty
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tarily. reducing its value nearly 30
 per cent. On an International or
 gold exchange basis she should be able to produce for 30 per cent less
 than before if she were not obliged
 to buy also on a gold exchange basis. It seems probable that ev- .entually the gold content of the
 sovereign will be reduced to ap-
 proximate the new value of the pound.
 Adopted Gold Standard
 After the opening of the Com- stock lode and other great sources of silver. the Western nations, be- ginning with Germany and the United States about 1873, and with the Latin Union nations following soon after, adopted the single gold standard. It is probable that these acts actually brought about what the nations had feared, severe fall in the price of silver measured in gold. All down the history of money, and of gold and silver min- ing. occurred similar fluctuations and similar fears (some of pan icky and hysterical nature) in the relative values and supplies of the two metals. After the spanish conquest of the Americas the first effect was a fall in the price Qfl gold measured in silver Later from the same source, chiefly Mexico came great floods of silver, which turned relative prices in favor of gold, stu later came more gold
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-07
By J. LAUso tChicago)

ONCE the 18th Plenum of our Party the slogan
y of face to the shops is beginning to assume
some concreteness. The Party organizations,
section and units as well as the membership as
a whole in the Chicago District, began to deve-
op a better attitude towards factory activity,
But the results as far as actual recruiting from
large factories and building shop nuclei are still
tagging behind. In connection with the present
membership drive which must be basicaIy di~
rected towards the factory it is essential that we
review some Of the main shortcomings OF our
recent work in this direction,
The actual results Of the past two months
show not only that we can recruit workers from
large shops but that we have neglected the great
possibilities Of roofing our Party IN the shops.
The majority OF those recruited with just
little effort on our par0 during the recent pc
Rod from large factories, come from shops
where we have had no organization. Workers
from large shops where we have shop nuclei,
Join the Party without any efforts or knowledge
OF the shop nucleus, without knowing there is
Party organization inside, or without being able
to locate it.
The idea prevails that shop work is a separate
campaign This is definite hindrance in our
shop work While we need the zeal and con-
centration of energy exerted by the Party for
proper work around the shops as in other cam
paigns of the Party, this is not separate cam
paign The factory must become the concen-
tration point of all campaigns Of the Party.
Instead of approaching the workers in the
shop on their particular conditions, explaining
the causes and developing these logically, giving
our Interpretation and the subsequent tasks, VIC
come to the workers with our general program
which seems remote and far-fetched to the aver
age worker.
The question OF what comes first, the building
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-07
Why the Terror Against
Red Unions?

Telegraphic deportation warrants we're then
for the first time issued to rob the strikers of
their red leaders" The scare of deportation
for belonging to a Trade Union Unity League
Union was introduced The American Fedora
= ton of Labor was called upon by the mill own
erS to come to the textile field to stop the work
ers from strikers (After the Lawrence strike
our union led strikes in Maynard Rhode Is
land, Connecticut and Paterson. Many of the
strikes we're partial victories)
But when the ten per cent cut was given to
the Lawrence workers, even though the A. r. of
L. was in Lawrence and the whole government
machine was there, the workers followed the
leadership OF the ''red union and walked out on
strike week before the wage cut was in effect
But in order that they may break the strike
they, the nnllowners, got their federal court to
arrest the leaders of the strike Murdoch and
Berkman. With the organizers who were known
to the workers Of Lawrence, the A. F. of L. be-
came the "misleader" of the strike At the same
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-07
The Regional Party Training
School

Strengthening the Communist conception OF
the Party in theoretical work, against any con-
cilistion and rotten liberalism towards all de-
Viations from and distortions of Marxism and
Leninism."
1t is therefore incumbent upon the Party TO
proceed energetically with the preparation OF
material mentioned above.
The experience of the Regional as well as the
National School has proven conclusively that
whenever and wherever we conduct full-trne
training school either on national regional or
district scale, we must have one (conrade theo-
retcally and practically equipped to be in charge
of the school and be ready to aid the students
in their work, answer questions, clarity things,
etc.
1t is also my opinion that schools Of the char
acter we had up until now can be and should
be conducted on district basis, in certain
cases combine two or three districts together,
especially If the districts are near each other,
such as Cleveland and Detroit, perhaps Detroit
and Chicago.
If school is to be held on national scale,
it should be for the training of higher func-
tionaries-district organizers, organizatonal Sec
retaries agitprop directors.
This means that comrades who have had some
training already, who have been in the Party
a considerable time, should be sent to such
schools. The number OF such students will be
necessarily small; it will be easier to handle
such school, and the need for it is quite obvious.
Whatever we do we must not relax in our
efforts to carry on the necessary theoretical
training Of our members the training of more
and better cadres for our movement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-07

What's In Name: From Edinbug, TeAs
comes the Associated Press dispatch Veh 80
saying that 16 members Of the "Good Govern
ment Party are now residing in the local
hoosegow, charged with conspring to hire some
body to murder all the office holders OF the
"city" of Donna, Texas. The idea being TO seize
the city government" also control OF some irri-
cation system. A typical bourgeois idea Of
SEEKING the government" and one which has
nothing IN common with Co,~--,,nist policy oS
action by the masses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-07
Party Recruiting Drive
January II March Is, 1892
THE RECRUITING DRIVE MUST BUILD THE PARTY IN
THE SHOPS

of the shop nucleus OF TU.UL. group, Is still
one of the questions posed when considering
shop work. 1t is incorrect to place trade union
versus Party. Our approach to the workers in
the shop must be on the basis of specific con-
ditons in the shop. 1t is the task Of the Party
members to build grievance committees, shop
committees etc. But it is also the task of the
Party members to polticalize the events in the
shop and bring forth the political role OF the
Party as distinct from the trade union organi-
cations and this way win over the best elements
into the Party,
The third and most harmful feature is the
negligence on the part OF the Party to do this
work Very few sections leading comrades
in the section ever take up the problems con-
fronting the comrades working in the large
shops When a certain campaign is started, do
we discuss with our shop nuclei or individual
comrades working in shops as to the ways and
means of bringing this campaign to the workers?
In the present Party recruiting drive we must
aCtvize the comrades who work INSIDE the
shops To assign quotas by the District or Sec
ton and leave it go al that is absolutely insult
ficient. The comrades employed in the given IN
dustry and shop Of concentration must be called
together to discuss the campaign. The work
must be coordinated by assigning a definite
group of comrades from the section and units
to meet every SO often with the comrades work
ing inside to review the work accomplished and
prepare the work for the next week or two This
coordination must also be carried out in con-
junction with the trade union fraction OF the
given industry of concentration.
This planning must necessarily include the
campaigns Of the period of the drive. Around
these campaigns, concretely linked up with the
conditions i'll the shop, the workers will be mob
ilized for struggles and members recruited into
the Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-07
BY BURCK

time the A. +. of L. brought to Lawrence the
socialist A. F. of L. members" and it was these
socialists who sold the workers out.
In conclusion, the terror against the "red
unions" and the scare of deportation for foreign
born and death to our heroic organizers who are
American born (Kentucky, etc. or foreign born
must be answered with more energetic struggle
right in the mills, mines and shops and ships.
The "red unions" are the only unions that
are fighting unions. Unions who have declared
war" against the bosses And while fighting
for economic demands, of course, we learn that
every economic struggle is also political
struggle.
Don't we see the part the government" plays
in all strikes? Yes, the deportations and the
rulings against the T. U. U. L. in the courts are
because the bosses and their agents are SCARED
to lose their power, their economic ana poll
teal power
Let us answer their attack against tha Trade
Union Unity League with the organization of
grievance committee in each department.
Let us answer the arrests with fight TO free
those who are now class war prisoners
And let us answer the murders of our fighters
with an increased membership drive to fill the
places of those who are killed and jailed in this
class war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-07

shoe and marine workers. Outstanding among
the weaknesses of the recruiting drive is the in
sufficient popularization of the drive among
the broad masses of the workers very few
posters, a very small number Of recruiting
pamphlets distributed and the failure to suffi-
GENTLY mobilize our fractions in mass organiza-
tions.
How We Can Overcome Our Shortcomings.
The above analysis speaks for itself and gives
the clue to the answer as to what confronts us
as our major tasks in the present period. Per-
haps the addition Of one more outstanding les
son from the drive will complete the picture. OF
the ITS new recruits, Section l with units re-
crlited about 20 members. OF these, one unit
alone recruited II. Section 2 with units re-
cruted about SIS members. Two units in Section
2 lead the rest Of the section with total OF 40
members out Of the SIS. Section 3 with units
has so far to its credit only II recruits with
the Lynn unit having gotten in 8 out of the
II. Section has one unit in Providence which
has gotten in 20 members while the Pawtucket
unit has been fast asleep. In Section S, the re-
suits so far are negligible. In Section 6, only
Gardner made fairly good showing by recruit
ing ID new members, while Fitchburg and Wor-
cester units are very very slow.
This shows that our membership whole
has not yet been modified in this drive. BY
overcoming this shortconling, by initiating and
carrying out of consistent campaign Of strug-
gle against opporturism in practice, by exposing
all those petty bourgeois elements who resist
doing mass work who refuse to break with the
past traditions of working within our own cir
Gle ana resist to go out among the masses and
mobilize them for struggle, by mobilizng our
membership politically for our Party campaign,
by improving our methods Of leadership and
inner life in the units and Section, we will lay
the basis for the building OF mass Party in
District One.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-07
&4..A
How the Rich Suffer"

ALAS, and also slack Earl CAROLS gilt
- edged leg show, the "vanities," Is so hard
UP that the outfit had to give up the patriotic"
blowout on Washington's Birthday, which last
year cost $4,000, and even has to move out of
the theatre Carroll built especially to tickle the
bourgeois taste, for lack OF 100000 But, then,
the poor fellow still has his pork chops
Also, our heart is wrllng with pity at the sui
eide of a native New Yorker in California,
a broker named Walter M Stettiner, who i,lst
couldn't stand life any longer and blew his
worthless brains out because, so It's said, "rIis
once large income had been reduced to a few
hundred dollars a month"
Now, workers, hadn't you ought to be ashamed
OF yourselves, for striking against wsge-cuts.
when your poverty stricken bosses have to get
along on "a few hundred dollars a monitor
commit suicide! AS for us, we're In favor of
more strtkeS-and capitalists can commit sui
eide all they wish. Let the CALLED jade vince"
We can also worry along without Earl CAROLS
leg show, if he insists on killing himself
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-07
A CRITICISM OF A COUPLE OF NEW
PARTY MEMBERS

The following letter was received by the
Chicago District Committee:
Dear Comrades:
We Just wanted to let you know that We are
gong 10 quit the Party. We joined the Com
uunist Party months ago. Why do we quit
The Party? Because you have no system in
your party 1t has to be syStematized before
you will lead the masses and get the American
| clements into the Communist Party.
! We we're born here in Chicago. We are will
ing to work but not as long as you have that
kind Of system, the system made us disguised.
For instance the units do not function right
the meetings start too late, and there is no
end to it'll or IL p. M, late at night, etc
Another example: The last district member
ship meeting In Section S, we came there at
p m. and the meeting started at 2:45 p m.
and adjourned at 1880 p. m Just imagined
There were 3 speakers. Comrade spoke
for 81 minutes and Comrade for rs min
utes and another conrade for Is minutes Then
a discussion over and over, then Comrade -
spoke for 10 minutes. Then after the discus
sion Comrade -, the Chairman, gave -
another 10 minutes to speak and - from 10
! to is minutes. but Comrade spoke for
half hour.
IS mouth goes like a sewing machine but
it don't mean anything at all-ar this could
be said In 20 or 80 minutes.
We both joined together and ne will get out
Of the Party and will come back when your
Party is better systen1ized. Take for instance,
the capitalist parties, they have better systems
/ than you have. Az this should be taken in
/ confederation by The Party Leaders and chould
| be taken up in your units about loo much
squawhng in meetings.
| Conlradely yours,
TWO NEW MEMBERS.
This lister speaks for itself.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-07
BY A. MARRIOTT

II.
THE weeks Regional School of the Central
Committee, which was held in Detroit was
generally very satisfactory. We have dealt with
the composition, structure work and method OF
teaching at the school in another article. In
todayS article we will point out some Of the
shortcomings OF the school
The Trade Union course was the weakest It
received very little time This criticism was adj
vanced by the students at the final meeting
The situation in connection with the trade I'M
ion course became worse towards the end when
conlrade Schmies met with an accident.
Another defect from which we suffered for a
long time, was the lack of material written for
workers, we mean material written so that the
workers coming from the shops. factories, mills,
mines, ETC., would be able to understand without
having to consult an encyclopedias which they
do not know how to use. This is such an inn
portant problem that it seems to ME our Party
must take notice of Immediately 1t cannot be
postponed any longer The Party Organizer and
The Communist we're of tremendous value in
the school. Here would like to urge every
district, in fact every section Of the Party to
establish files of the Party Organizer, The Com
munist, Inprecor, The Communist Interna-
tional, etc.
We should urge every comrade to subscribe to
it for reference The policy of reprinting i'm
portant documents in The Communist is good
This work should be kept up. We reprinted
several of the theses of the Second Congress OF
the CT. 1t is very urgent that we now begin
reprinting the theses of the Sixth Congress of
the CT. especially on War Danger and the
Colonial Thesis.
In addition to this we need material on Par
ty Structure, Trade Union Movement, and Lenin-
ism. This material must be written in as simple
style as possible and illustrated with examples
from the class struggle in the U. S.
In the letter from the CT. printed in the Daily
Worker, January q, we find the following:
The Communist Parties must above all,
strengthen the fight in their own ranks for
the theological purity of Marxism and Lenin-
ISM against the underestimation Of revolution
airy theory against the separation Of theory
from practice Of the revolutionary fight, for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-07
Uncover Starvation and Misery

Visit the homes OF the unemployed workers. List
all cases Of starvation. undernourishment, made
quate relief. Garry on sustained and steady
struggle for unemployment relief for the
starving families from the city government,
the large corporations and employers.
Have large delegations of unemployed
workers present at every meeting Of the
city council to fight for adequate re-
lief for all cases Of starving and
undernouyishsd workers families.
Evening star., 1932-05-12

WUcu tAkG bCh
has stood until too strong, merely re-
duce the amount you pour into each
CUP and nll with boiling water. This
tea extract will make good tea II the
water added be boiling-and vile tea
If the water be merely hot. At the end
of 10 TO Is minutes, fresh tea should
be made.
Tea can, Of course, be made In the
kitchen. but 1t must be carried into the
living room the moment the water has
been poured over 1t, and drunk at once.
Never dilute tea with water that Is not
boiling, II the person you are pouring
for cares anything about the flavor OF
tea. Personally, ! don't care at all so
long as It Is very weak, but for these
who do care and for whom you provide
good tea these directions are essentially
It In well Of course, to have q small
amount Of especially good tea In the
house. It win keep fer years In any
metal alright container. But II is of
greater importance TO make ID properly
than to provide any especial brand.
Unless you are inviting people to tea,
1t Is not important what YOU serve with
it. Any cake you have, or thin bread
and butter. Don't serve soda crackers
cold and dry. Butter them first and
Evening star., 1932-05-12
SPRINCTIME
BIZ ID. C. PEATTIE.

Y ONGFELLOw has chanted. "a
Sabbath sound as of doves in
quiet neighborhoods. OF q
- fine Spring morning in Rock
Greek Park, about 6 o'clock,
when the dew is giistening ON the
leaves, the sunlight flltering down
through the high trees in shafts of
misty light, and only few equestrian
enthusiasts and bird lovers are abroad.
you may hear the mourning dove. He
Is not mourning. however. The song is
a most contented, even a self-satisfied
little lay of praise. He is praising the
day, or his maker. or his mate, Just as
you choose to think, but at all events
it's sweet almost q sentimental sound,
and has for me something old world
about it, like the cooling of stock
doves once heard in Europe.
Most Of the sounds Of the New World
field and forest are more wild and
untamed than the civilized restrained
performances of the continent that
man mastered earlier Our mourning
or Carolina dove is an exception, and
wherever the shade is deep, the air
still and the mood is pensive, you may
hear the soft cry ringing out-ah-coo,
COCO, coo, coo. He lets each note drop,
one would say. with conscious effect
to please.
Though our doves say sort Of COO
COO, they are not cuckoos by any means,
although they resemble the cuckoos in
fashioning jerry-built and inferior
nests. We have also, occasionally in
the District. the ground dove. In con-
trast with the Carolina dove, they do
not seek the loftiest elm tops, but
content themselves with a home upon
the ground, in thin woods or even in
cultivated fields. This is distinctly q
rare bird, If you're passionate about
raritieS
We do however. have cuckoos in the
District. They are among the last OF
cur Summer birds to arrive from the
tropics, averaging May tor both
species, the yellow-billed and black
billed. But what they utter is far less
like our idea of a cuckoo's note than Is
the song Of the dove. For our con-
ception of a proper cuckoo is one that
says his name like the cuckoo clocks
and SO, indeed. the European cuckoo
does, his haunting voice ringing down
On fine April day from the nearest
wooded hillside.
Our cuckooS say sharp rafting cry
like "kuek, kuck, kuck-kuh, kuhkuh-
kuhkuh," at first each note loud and
distinct. then gradually running down
and running together and growing
softer, as if the bird were tired or
deSpondent.
Singing often as they do on sutry
July afternoons. they have received
the name of rain-crow, and under this
title all country folk know them. If you
talked Of yellow-billed cuckoos to some
of the old cabin squatters along the
canal towpath where our cuckoos are
most abundant, you would not, think
be understood by one listener in 20.