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different sort. They slept four in
bed, and tried hard, despite the doubt
full and limited privacy, and the crude
toilet appurtenances, to keep them
selves presentable. Stockings we're
drying over the little stove which fur
nished their only means OF heat. and
on which, to supplement the ail's
nondescript stews, they managed to
cook occasional vegetables brought by
friends.
But they were all constantly active,
letters, kilograms, protests, poured out
Of the little jail to the Daily Worker,
to the International Labor Defense,
to the Workers International Relief,
to friends, to government officials, to
the local papers. Dozens of messages
we're thrust into my hands for mail
ing or telegraphing, in diStruSt of the
turnkey on whom at times they were
compelled to rely. And these efforts
produced effects. They broke though
official smugness again and again.
Their statements appeared III the
Open Forum Of the Middlesboro
Daily News and in the Knoxville News
Sentinel, filtered through converse
tionally to townspeople, impressed Of
ficials despite themselves, forced num-
bers Of business men to discuss, Sc
riousIy and doubtfully, the justice of
the arrests, the constitutionality of
the criminal syndicalisrn law, the le-
gaHty of the attacks on the National
Miners Union.
The Court
Tuesday. January IL, was the fourth
date Judge Van Beber had set for
the hearing Of the arrested strike
leaders, already held without trial
for much longer than the prescribed
seyenty-two hours. The other hear
ings we're postponed because at each
time there were thousands of miners
in town who were determined to wit
ness the proceedings and by their So
hdarity offset legal trickery. The
attempt to slip over the hearing on
Friday, a different day than the one
announced, had failed, and even to-
day, Tuesday, long before the court
was to convene at ten o'clock, seven
or eight hundred grim and cynical
miners were gathered on the court
house square
The County court was a small room
that would hold hundred people if
half Of them stood up, as they did.
Local business men were admitted
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ZEN PICTURES OF THE KENTUCKY TENNESSEE STRIK

tuous offices in the National Bank
building on the afternoon before, I
had seen, under the elegant glass
top, many poems clipped from papers.
one was Sweetest Things of EARTH
"A fragrant rose that hides a thorn,
Riches of earth untouched by Scorn"
Again, toward the end Of Tuesdays
sessions, Benthall delivered a master
ly address, holding the entire crowd
in awed silence, pictuwing the poverty
of the miners and the greed OF the
operators, and dwelling on the just
ice of the miners demands and their
right to join the National Miners
Union if they wished, and even to
join the Communist Party. In at
lacking the charge of criminal syn
dicalism, and defending the right Of
Communists to teach their doctrines,
Benthall quoted the famous Section 4,
of the Kentucky constitution, the Sec
ton headed Power Inherent In
People, Right of Revolution" which
declares that the people have the
right to alter. reform, or abolish" the
government whenever and in what
ever manner they deem advisable. On
Wednesday, at another tense moment
in the hearing, Vern Smith, the Daily
Worker reporter and one of the de-
PENDANTS, himself questioned the
Judge as to his mine holdings, and
challenged his moral competency to
conduct an impartial trial
But the Judge, as one of the local
defense attorneys told me before the
hearing began, had made up his mind
as soon as the arrests we're made.
Regardless of the arrest without
warrants, the detention in Jail far be-
yond the prescribed number Of hours.
the righteousness of the charge. and
the flimSinesS of the evidence, the
Judge refused to dismiss the case, but
bound all defendants over to the
Grand Jury. Nothing in the world is
clearer than the determination of
the officials to send these young men
and women to prison, if they can pos
Sibly do it, for the full twenty-one
years demanded by the criminal syn
dicahsm law.
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BY DOUGLAS MCDONALD.
Kentucky Constitution, Section 4;
"An power is inherent in the
peaple, and ~ they have at all
times an inalienable and indie
feasible right to alter, reform or
abolish their government in such
manner as they may deem proper"
The murder of Harry Simms, 20
year old young miners organizer, the
kidnapping and flogging Of Joe
Weber and Bill Duncan, National
Miners Union organizers, the sup
preston OF a mass demonstration at
his funeral by armed force, and the
terrorizing and arrest OF the Negro
miner, Gil Green, are among the
most recent events Of the class war
which began in Harlan, then spread
to Pineville, and is now rapidly eX-
tending throughout all of eastern
Kentucky and Tennessee. The con-
viction Of Jones and Hightower at
Mount Sterling is an ominous fore
cast Of the punishment the mine
owners Of Pinnevlle how to inffict on
the nine National Miners Union Or
ganizerS arrested on January 4th and
remanded to the grand jury on Jan.
10. charged with criminal syndical-
ism and liable to prison sentences OF
twenty-one years. Nevertheless, be-
tween eight and ten thousand mill
tant miners were already, when I
visited Kentucky, out on strike.
Their demands are for the simplest
rights of employment and existence
"a living scale Of wages, payment in
money not scrip, no discrimination
because of unionization or color, rec
ignition of the National Miners IN
ion. They are fighting for the sheer
right to live to thing for themselves,
a to associate fraternally with others
of their own class.
I arrived in Pineville on Sunday,
January 10, and went first to the
headquarters of the National Miners
Union and to the Workers Interna-
tional Relief station In the latter,
an old musty warehouse, were huge
bundles of mems shirts and suits and
shoes, and bundles of children's
clothin, being sorted for distribution.
There were brew discussions Of the
apportionment Of the relief money,
which was turned over daily by the
committee. in proportionate amounts,
to the chairmen of the various strik-
ing groups, VINO bought food locally
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worked in the mines During the
Herrin strike in 1923 my father and
brothers were taken by gun thugs
into an automatically mother was
with EN- at the tire, but they let
her go-she told ma afterward it was
just gettin' dusty dark--and took
them of. They had two other men,
too, Bob Rains and Elmer Jackson.
About six daya later we found their
bodies, the five of them, in a patch
of woods outside Herrin. I was mar
ried back in 1919. / was too young
to be in the war, but both my broth
ers were in the army. ;. After the
Herrin strike moved with my moth
er and my wife to Kentucky, and
worker for the Harlan Fuel and Coal
Company till the strike last spring.
About 400 of us came out, but after
two weeks half of the men went back
vecause there was no relief, I was
one of those that stayed out. The
gun thugs went around to the miners
homes and told them to go to work.
went to Norton, Virginia, and my
wife and mother are there now. In
December, went to work at Straight
Greek and worked three weeks before
the strike began January 1. For
three weeks work. worked three
or four days a week, every day there
was work,-after the company took
out my board and other charges,
got $3.50 for my pay Yes, you can
put my name in, it won't hurt me
any"
The Jail
The jail is a small white-painted
wooden building about two doors from
the square. 1 went there Sunday
evening, after long talks with the
miners, in the company of w. F..
Stone, one Of the local defense at
torneys.
I read in the Pineville Sun (Jan. y
the city's own admission that the six
women and three men whom I came
to see had been arrested on a search
warrant only on a raid on the head
quarters, the individual warrants
charging Criminal Syndicalism' being
made out after they were in Jail. In
the same paper was a grudging des-
cription Of the tremendous mass meet
ing on the courthouse square at
which the miners denounced the ar
rest of their leaders. In the Com
berland Courier (Jan. y, another local
paper which got hold OF, Judge Ge-
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ORGANIZATIONS
I.W.O. Branch, Brooklyn ......15.75
Ukrainian Labor Club .... 81. 90
Coop Colony
Slovak Workers, Branch 10 ..25.OO
A. Friend, Long Island ........5.0O
fremont Workers Club .....3.OO
Arbeiter Bund of Brooklyn 1880
Workers ExService's L. Br. 2...S.00
District 2 Forwarded ....... $37166I
New York City
Organizations, cont
Russian Mutual Aid Soc Br. &C .6.75
scandinavian Workers Club $500
FRIEND ..........,....1.0 90
Union Avenue Workers Club. 800
Plum bers Union TUUL ........2O0
Freiheit Gesangs Fareign
Cooperative Section ......700
Boro Park Workers Club ...6.00
Russian Mutual Aid Soc. Br. SIS. II SO
section l. Unit S-B ''...........6,0o
1-B 6O 90
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Workers School Br. 1913 ....2.o0
F.S.U. BIB. Br. Brighton Beach. 400
Coney Island Workers Club 800
fremont Workers Club .....s.66
Chinese International League $50
Two. Branch 500 90
Ukrainian Educ. Workers Society
Brooklyn ..................5 500
Middle Bronx Workers Club 49,. 800
Freiheit Mandolin Assn. 90
B. p. School 2 90
Ukrainian Wrs. Club, Harlem. II 90
Ukrainian Benefit Soc. N.Y.C... 1880
Green Red Builders .....,.. "a
Polish knowledge Club .......25.O0
brownsville Open Forum .......4 90
Pansiprian Club $50
Mapleton Workers Club, B'lyn 800
Washington Heights School 4, 200
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Brownsville School 5 800
Prospect W'krs Center, Bronx 1900
Coney Island Workers Club. 500
Slovak Workers Society ..2.00
Yorkville Workers Athletic Club 200
Brighton Beach School ..5.00
Brighton Beach Workers Club 800
I.W.O. Branch 1875 ..............5.0 90
Bronx Workers School 1 ...5.00
LID. Greek Branch ......3.00
Chechoslovak Workers School 1850
Brownsville School 3.00
Brownsville Workers Club 1900.
Central Body, Council of Work
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workers School, Bronx Coop 8. .2.s5
a Comrade ...,............. 90
Chechoslovak LID. Bronx Br.. 10 OF
. klyn Scandinavian Wrs Club 100
Coop Schulz - % 40
CaF pehtefs Group ......,......1 90
The Kusko times., 1932-10-15

other purposes" do hereby divide the above-named Recording and Election District into three voting precincts. whirh shall be known as follows:
 l. That said McGrath voting pre- cinct is bounded as follows: From Swift River to. Big River and tribu- taries, except Takotna river.
 And 1. hereby. specify that certain building known. as U.. s. Commis- sioner's Office, situate at McGrath, in said McGrath voting precinct, as ths polling place for said voting. precinct. 2. That said Takotna voting pre- 'cinct is bounded as follows: From the head of Moore Creek, or the Ta- kotna river, and all of it's, tributaries except Nixon river.
 And l. Iaherahy specify that. certain building known as Pioneer Hall, situ-- ing precinct. as ethe polling place for said voting precinct. B. That said Nixon voting precinct River to the head of Kuskokwim River and all it's tributaries.
 And l hereby specify that certain 1uAAUAAAk hAD~NA. ho NACokSCAC AALoS House, situate at Nixon Mine, in said Nixon voting precinct. as; the polling place for said voting precinct. 9th day of November, A. D. 1882, an of electing
 A Delegate to Congress-;
 An Attorney General. for the Ter@ ritory: of Alaska;
 An Auditor for the, Territory. of Alaska;
 A Commissioner of. Education. for the Territory of. Alaska;
 A Highway Engineer for thh Tor ritory of Alaska;
 One Member of. the Senate of. thR Territory of Alaska. lonsgterm3ss;
 Que Member of, the Senate of-the Territory of Alaska (short tspm,;-
 Four Members of the House of Representatives of the Territory of Alaska;
 Two Road Commissioners for Road District No. :.
 The said election, will be in the voting precincts above mentioned and at the polling places hereinabove specified. The said polling places will be open between the hours of 8 o'clock a. m. and z o'clock p. m. of said day.
 Dated at McGrath this 9th day of Octber, 1882.
 w. T. VANDERPOOL,
 U. s. Commissioner for the
 Territory of Alaska, Mt.
 Mckinley Recording Dis
 arict, residing at McGrath.
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A Relief to Everyone.

The members of one of New York's most somber and ancient clubs were recently amazed to. observe that the doors. to- the. cluh's bar were standing open. For nearly, three years those doors had lheeni kept ,discreetly closed
 The harkeeper. was asked the req son. for the daring innovation. He replied: "You see,, sir,, MT. Wicker sham is. one of our. members, and while the Law Enforcement Commis- sion was in existence, sir, we thought it best, out of regard for MT. Wicker sham, to see that the doors were kept shut. Naturally, we shouldn't wish to afford embarrassment to anyone of our members. But, fortunately, the necessity is now past. It's a re- lief to all of us, sir"
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ORDER AND NOTEE OF GKN-
 ERAL ELECTION To Be Held On TUESDAY NOVEMBER 8. l932.

In the Commissioners Court at Me-
 Grah.. Fourth Division, Territory 3 of Alaska. e
 I. w.. T. andc1pool. Cnicd States Mckinley Recording District. Fouzth Division. Territory of Alaska, pur- suant to an Act of Congress, ap- proved May 7th, 1906 entitled An Act Providing for the Election of . Deegate to- the Housa of Representa- tivesl from the Territory of Aaska,' 2 and m Act of Congress approved August 24th. 1912, entitled "An Act to Create . Legislative Assembly in the Territory of Alaska, to confer legislative powers thereon. and for
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gaining prominence in official life in Washington. Major John C.. Gotwals, as a part of the District of Columbia government, has the title of engineer commissioner. He is also a member of the public utilities commisiosn, the district Zoning commission, and the National Capital park and planning commission. Major Malcolm Elliott, who recently returned from Alaska, has been assigned to important duties with the. Rivers and Harbors Engi- neellng Loard. Maqor D. H. Gillette, at pl sent in charge of the engineer
 ng u yisio nof the office of public bu .cings and public parks, and as s.s.ant executive. officer of the Arling- to.. Memorial Bridge Commission, is sa1ad m December to become assist ant director of puhiic buildings and pubic parks, according to the tenta- eve program of Col. U. s. Grant, 3d. director
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pers were sent to the. State Depart ment in Washington, with an appeal to Delegate Wickersham from MT. Hanlon to get him back to this coun- try, as he wished to return to, Fair banks. While the State Department is sympathetic in the matter. there IS no substantiating. evidence upon which a passport can be- issued. but the Delegate has made such representa- tions to the consul at Dublin that it IS expected he will issue visa that will allow MT. Hanlon to sail across the Atlantic so that he may proceed to Alaska.
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NOTICE oR E0e1RrTUM.

Notice k Aess6v givon b F. V. Carter, A K F6rgnseo. ceocge 0 Friend, cad K Cea1s Hid, end uhe1r hefrs and asGi1D, th1t their pox<2DnS 1924 b ies1. inclusive, dsoe en ths oisi.a, sitsats1 sa Pat creek, triazs. tary o( O44ee creek, in the Otter Re. Tsrrissrx of Xiss,., mnss se pad within ninsky GO, days from datA hereof. or forfeit all right and 6fdo to said placer mining claim.
 PATRICK SAVAGE
 Datsd HlAt, Alasxa. Jan. lS, I98&.
 Riret publication. March $, 1aa2.
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CUR INTERESTS AT
 THE NATIONS CAPITAL
eContinued. from Page 8.l

.reIaTy ..ol tne Interior Wilbur, will prove interesting reading to Alas kaas. This is paticular,y true by reason of -the.4declaration made. in the. -SSnata of the United States on July b.. l9a2,. by one of the leading Dep ocratic members, the Hon. Wm. H. .Mng,s of Utah. Among many. otne- statements made, Senator King. decsared: "I shall oppose any further. apI.oprlatlon for the Alaska Rail roaa, and l shali offer a bill, if no one else aals, and at the December ses- scu pI Ihe Congress, calling for the. sac ot. th,s. rai.road.."
 hs report Of Col Ohlson shows that 4se, JOSS suffered by the Govern me.s n the operation of the railroad aering the fiscal year ending June 3G,.l9a2, was S1T7 7,283,. or 30 per cent lower than ever before in the history of .hs road. The operation deficit for the wear, exclusive of capital invest meut, in fact was but SAP, ,466.75, as contrasted. with $589,750.55, for the fiscal year ended June 30. 1881. 1t. was l1ss than one-half the deficit w1.eh the Government has been called upon to make ill any year pre- vlous to 1881. It appears that the operating deficit for the present fiscal year will be about $30O,O0O. The table for the. operating deficits. of this. Government-owned road for the past three years IS as follows: 1850, S1,237 ,12O.12; 1881. $5S9,75O.55; 1882. $4l2,4o6.75.
 The Alaska. Railroad, which is, 47O, miles long and has a branch 38 miles. long to the coal mines in the Mata- nuska district, was begun in. l9l5' and completed when President Hard ing drove it's gold spike in 1923. The purpose of it's construction was to- open che way into the heart of Alaska. and connect with the river traffic of the inland streams. Private capital declined to build it because, obviously. 1t could not, until the country is de- veloped, become. a revenue producer. Realizing. that it woud have to bear the burden of an annual deficit, the Government built it in tn einterest of the development of the. interior territory and in the hope that mining and agricultural activity would eventually make it pay.
 At Nenana, 412 miles from Seward. and 50 miles short of Fairbanks, the railroad reaches the Panama river, which leads into the Yukon. During tn eopen season, May to September, the. railroad operates river. steamers from Nenana, down the Panama and Yukon rivers, by way of Hoy Cross to Marshall, 858 miles,. These boats serve a, large territory, with. its niners, missionaries, prospectors., traders, lshermen, woodchoppers, trappers and Indians. Nenana. isa a. terminal point. for White Pass and Yukon Route steamers, operating from Whitehorse and Dawson, on the Yukon river. A. considerable number. of passengers, mainly tourists, are exchanged between these. steamers, and. the. railroad. In the interest of economy. every expenditure that could be spared was cut off during the last year, and. so the losses have been have been brought to the lowest. fig ure in it's history.
 Former experiment. Army, officials. of the Alaska Road Commission are
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Good Reason

Good Reason
 Mother (to. >xaal daughter who Eants the ligistss left on)-But you sleep ins tie e:dxrk rt home, darling. Small Dzughte1-Yes, hut it's my oun dark at home., ,nsummie--Londoa
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The Federal Radio. Commission has granted the application of the An chorage Radio Club. Inc.. for a li- cense covering changes in. equipment and increase in power to 1230 kc.. 25O watts, from p. m. to midnight.
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Former .zxominent Army, officials of the Alaska Road. Commission are
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olrector.-
 How the Democratic "pep" is "fiz- zling out" over the recent local local victory in Maine may be determined from statement in Hearst's Wash lngton paper of October G.. which says: Maine certainly belongs to Hoover Herald's poll shows Maine is Republican. Tabulations give Hoover Pine Tree State by from 20,- GOO to 6O,OOO votes on November S." But then likely our good friends on the Juneau Empire will designate this as "Hot Air from Washington" {" And, speaking of prognostications, that good friend of Alaska, Senator Key Pittman., who spent some of his early days in Nome, does not measure up to- the. powers of the present-day Roosevelt estimators in the States and Alaska, who have the strength to claim everything in. sight and out of sight. Senator Pittman has heen se- verely reprlmanded for publicly intti- mating that three of the Midwest States may be carried by President Hoover. Speaker Jack Garner con- 1identiallY informs his listeners that Roosevelt. and Garner will carry every State in the Union, and yet the coun- try seems to he settling down to the general belief that Hoover and Curtis will continue. in. office another four years, although they may not be overwhelmingly" reelected. as the Juneau Empire seems to really fear.
 Some of the oldtimers in the North will remember Robert Lee Paris, who assisted in the early days in making survey of the Yukon delta and the north coast of the Boring Sea. He died in Washington on October 5, and for the past 15 years had been assist ant director of the Coast and Geo detlc Survey.
 Thomas F.. Hanlon spent. 35, years of an. active life in Alaska, much of the time in the Fourth division, ,,,, but some time ago. he came to Philadel- phia, where he. received. word that a brother in Waterford county, Ireland, was seriously ill. He decided to cross the pond to see his brother, when the quesction. of a passport arose. He was naturalized in San Francisco in 1893, but the records there were de stroyed in the 1906, fire and earth quake, and the papers that he had were lost in a. fire at Ruby. It was finally arranged with the State De- partment that, he be permitted to go to Ireland for six months. but he overstayed the time, and. when he ap- piled to the American consul in Dub- lin recently for a. passport the pa=
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granted the appllcatlon or the An chorage Radio Club. Inc. for a, li- cense covering changes in. equipment and increase in power to 1230 kc.. 25O watts, from $ p. m. to midnight.
 In one of the morning, newSpapers, in Washington there appeared the other day an illustration. of. Dr.. Ales Hrdlicka, curator of physical. an thropology at the Smithsonian Lnsti- tuition, with some of the ivory art he recently brought back from. Kodiak Island, where he discovered many yaluahl relics. The Doctor has re- turned after spending several months on his exploration trip. He declares that back some centuries Kodiak Island was teeming population cen- ter from which Asiatic migrants may have peopled North America. He found scores of ancient village sites that showed the Island to have been inhabited by two successive peoples. The earliest were of high cultural type, but apparently were wiped out. to be succeeded later by lower order of primitive people.
 The Federal Home Loan Bank Board expects to open the regional bank, in a few days, of the eleventh district, which includes Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho. Utah and Wyoming It will be located in Port land and will have minimum cap italization of $6,OOO.O0. The directors named are J. Philip Weyerhauser, of Lewiston, Idaho; L. H. Hoffman, Portland. Oregon; Frank s. McWil- Hams, Spokane; J. T. s. Lyle, Ta- coma; Worrell Wilson, Seattle; Ben H. Hazen. Portland; w. c. Schuppel. Portland; P. c. Bulen, Great Falls, Mont: l. H. Andrews, Ogden,, Utah;- Edward s. Jenkins,. Salt Lake City, and Frank E. Burns, Seattle