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The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-12-24
GOVERNMENT SCHOOL PROGRAM SCHEDULED
 FOR THIS EVENIN C

The pupils of the Government School will give Christmas pro- gram tonight at 8 o'clock in the A. N. B. Hall. School is now closed for the Christmas vacation, to open on Tuesday, January 3. The program tonight follows: Little Town of Bethlehem, School.
 Holy Night" School
 The Christmas Story, Jessie Val loria.
 The Luther Cradle Hymn, Prl- mary Room.
 Christmas Carol, School
 "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing, " School.
 Star Drill, by ten girls,
 The First Noel, School,
 We Three Kings of the Orient, group of boys.
 Recitation, Merry Christmas, ' Mathew Wanamaker,
 Recitation, I'll Tell Santa" John Garcia.
 Motion Song, Up So High" Pri- mary group.
 Motion Song, "Ting-a-ling,' Pri- mary group.
 Holly Drill, 12 boys and girls. Deck the Halls" School.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-12-24
LETTER WRITERS MUST LET EDITORS
 KNOW

The Empire cannot print communications no matter how worthy unless it knows who wrote them. If "an Old Timer" who requested the publication of communication in todays Empire would disclose his identity, as an evidence of good faith he might get what he wants The signature to communica- tons need not necessarily be attached to the letter or published. The name of the writer is needed as an evidence of good faith: to prove the com muncation is not hoax.
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must be to Santa to have a hus- band who's industrious. A gust of rain slashed across the window. He re'seated himself, making his new role of friend of the family more evident. Till the storm lets up, I'll chat with Santa"
 Give felt that he was dismissed that he was being politely in- formed that his room was preferred to his company. It was slightly comic. AS he left, he sought his wife's eye. She was well away with a gripping question.
 Surely, Dicky, after all the promises you made at St. Jean, you're not still drifting?" Copyright, 1881, 1882, Coningsby Dawson) Santa's conversation with
 Dicky Tuesday, takes strange turn.
 Go window shopping in your easy chair. Read the advertisements.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-12-24
WATCH TO BE GIVEN
 AWAY TOMORROW EVE

At the Coliseum Theatre tomor- row evening, award will be made of the watch offered by the Wright Shoppe, of which Paul Bloedhorn is proprietor. The timepiece is O. l4-karat gold and is set with 5e diamonds,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-12-24
NOTICE TO PAY CITY
 AUTOMOBILE LICENs

City license has been reduced to S5.0G per year by the City Council and will fall due and payable Janu- ary l, 1883, along with the Terri torjal license. No City license plate will be issued but former City li- cense number will apply.
 H. R. SHEPARD, ---adv. City Clerk.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-12-24
A PATH PARADISE|
tyCoans.Iy

SYNOPSIS: Give begins to suspect that Santa has not capitulated whoIeheartedly to his desire for simpler mar ried life, free of the presence of Santa's first husband, Dicky Dak. But he suggests, while preparing to spend the evening working at home, that they leave their New York apart ment and take a house in the country. The telephone rings.
 Chapter 37
 BAD PENNY BACK
 "It's Dicky,p said Santa. Tell him to buzz off"
 But Give, after dining with him we can't"
 Don't see it. Besides, you've not told me what he wants"
 Seems to think he's become one of the family-that he's taken us unde ais wing, as it were" "Ts.i him we don't need his wing"
 He's waiting" She bit her lib Think up some excuse that's plausible"
 Say that enough's as good as a feast"
 She withdrew her hand from the 
 Gives awfully sorry; he's brought home work from the office that? Yes, I'm free. want ed to help him, but-Well, you know how it is-you've been mar ried; no husband believes his wife has brains. All right. Only foi a minute. Glad to see you" What on earth made you say that?" Give rested a hand on her 
 She smiled up.
 What else could I say? You welcomed him so heartily yester-
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fields and four free throws for eight points.
 At the quarter, the School led 5 to 4 increasing it to 16-8 at half time; to 33-15 at the three quarters; and making it 45-l9 in the home stretch.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-12-24
Alumni Evens Score

Substitutions: Henson for Folta CD Winn for E. Jackson; Rocovich for DeVighne.
 Field goals; Folta l, Carlson 5; SWeum 3, Mover T.
 Free throws made: Henson |, Folta l; Mover l.
 Referee: Engstrom; Umpire: Os- borne; Timer: Bloomquist; Scorer. Tewkesbury.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-12-24

Al Smith has decided that as the leader of community singing he may be pretty good sort of A magazine editor Cincinnati Enquirer)
 Our idea of real job is employment manager at the first brewery.-(Dayton, Ohio News0
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-12-24

President Hoover hardly be blamed Ii he wanted to associate briefly with the biggest dam in the world Washington Post.)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-12-24
20 YEARS AGO
 From The Empire
December A. 1912.

 To accommodate persons for , whom there was Yuletide mail. Postmaster Earl Hunter announced the postoffice would be open be- tween 12 and o'clock Christmas Day.
 Christmas Eve dinner at the Occidental Hotel dining room was to be the last meal served there. Ernest Warren, proprietor of the dining room, was to open the Com mercial Cafe in the Occidental Annex with dinner Christmas day.
 Table d'hote Christmas dinners, with roast turkey and mince pie or "Ye Olde English Plum Pud- ding with hard and brandy sauce were advertised for 75 cents by leading restaurants.
 Dr. w. w Council, prominent physician at Cordova, was appoint ed physician of the Bureau of In dian Affairs for the Prince Will liam Sound district.
 Among three attorneys, who op- ened law offices in Valdez, was Anthony J. Dimond.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-12-24

Nine of every ten automobiles in Switzerland are American.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-12-24
Second Straight Win

belnikoff; Haglund @ for Hem ming; Hanson for Nikish; Paul for Behrends; Nixon for Marshall; Lowe tsl for Hall Herrin for Brown; Hall for Lowe; Lowe for Peterson; Peterson for Herrin; Brown for Hall
 Referee: Engstrom; Umpire: Os- borne: Timer: Bloomquist; Scorer: Tewkesbury.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-12-24
ALUMNI BEATS
 SCHOOL CIRLS;
 BOYS COP GAME
I. H. 5. Girls Lost l7-2l and Boys Beat United
 Meat Five 45-l9

The Alumni girls last night even ed the gams score with the High School sextette. winning 2l to IT, and the High School Boys trounc- ed the United Meat 45 to l9, lead ing at every quater-post. Coach Burns used her second string team for the first three quarters then substituted first strlngers in the fourth periods just before the end, but it was too late to overcome the Alumni's lead.
 The second squad romped off with the first two quarters but cracked wide open in the third when the Alumni maidens scored nine points and held the School to two. The old grads added another point to their lead in the final quarter
 Boys Show Improvement
 Jay-Hi Boys played aggressive and intelligent ball in their game with the Butchers, and were at least 50 per cent better than in their initial game early this week against the DeMolays. Henning was high point man with IS points. Nikish trailed with II, and Kara bclnikoff was third with 8. Lowe was high for the losers, caging twol
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Read the classined aos.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-12-24

Among three attorneys, who op- ened law offices in Valdez, was Anthony J. Dimond.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-12-24

Go window shopping in your easy chair. Read the advertisements.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-18
SOCIALISTS CAT WORK"
Ask Workers to Concert, Beat EN- Up

utes of quietude relgned over the dig.
nified assembly.
Not a word for immediate cash re-
lief for the starving millions of Negro
and white workers! Not a word for
Unemployment Insurance for the IS
million jobless! Too impatient to fur
ther listen to his demagogy, the part
of the hall which was slightly sprin-
killed. with workers, uprose, like one
man and booed him several times!
The army of gangsters were called
into action; black. jacks and chairs
were flung freely!
Panken stopped speaking, as pale
as a ghost. The fight was on in
full swing A pillar of capitalist jul
dietary was crunpling; the dignity of
the court suffered a setback. Slo-
gans of Long Live the Communist
Party!" Down with the Socialist
takers" and singing 'of Solidarity
Forever" was heard in and out of
the hall. The meeting broke up in
wild uproar!
The police were instantly put on
the job. We attempted to hold an
open air protest meeting. Swinging
their clubs left and right the police
protected their" socialists Thus we
saw the socialist at work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-18
A Letter from z Worker

The Socialist Party held a meeting
and concert on Friday, June 10, in
Casa D'Amor, West 31st St, Coney
Island. Admission free. The speak
ers we're: Panken, Chas. Solomon, B.
Vladek, and Chanin was chairman.
Being anxious to enjoy a free con.
cert, a group Of workers and I de-
cided to 60 Near to the entrance
a bakery boss's son, recognizing us,
Immediately rushed ahead into the
huge hall to warn them Scattered
one here, one there, we entered a
narrow stairway, which was sentin-
elled by a double row of gangsters.
Inside, in the forefront, sat the bu-
reaucracy Of the Socialist Party and
their women folks. White shoulders,
arms in white kid gloves, round white
Threats, a misty simmer of pearls,
and in their hair fire of diamonds.
They wore cloaks of sable and er
mine. AS they moved little swift
darts of color sprang from their
jewels,
Solomon had just finished speak
ing Dressed in white vest, white
flower in the lapel Of his fllll-dress
suit and sparkling diamonds, Panksn
rose He began to speak, a few min
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-18

places the regular court. The press,
public opinion, the fascist organiza-
tons. the Ku Klux Klan whip up a
fanatical race hatred against the IN
fortunate Observation-Disclosures Of
the slaves transplanted from Africa
into the southern states.
"To the Honor of Communist
International
TT will be to the honor Of our
Communist international to have
made vigorous protests against this
1gnoble and barbarous survival Brav-
ing through the prejudices which have
been in existence even among the
white working class of the United
States, the International has called
for a common struggle of the white
and black workers. Its efforts have
already succeeded to a large degree
and in order to symbolic the soli-
darity already attained with the Ne
groes, our American comrades are
putting up two candidates in the next
elections for the White House, a
white man and a black man.
1.-THE scandal Of the sentencing of
the Scottsboro boys shows up Amer
lean Imperialism in plain view. In
asking the workers of the whole world
to show their solidarity with the nine
young innocent Negroes who are
threatened with the electric chair, the
International Red Aid is calling upon
us to act from the highest human
and revolutionary motives.
Shameful Record of U. S. Imperialism
Ada Wright, unhappy mother, a
black working woman, the daughter
of chattel slaves sold for a few dol
lars, speaks to the French workers
to ask them to help her save her in
.nocant children threatened with death
in the electric chair. Wi the hearts
and the ears of the workers remain
closed to this appeal? Let us remem-
Der that our duty is not merely to
answer this mothers anguish. 1t is
necessary to attack and crush this
most brutal imperialism This i'm
periaIsm has in its records shameful
lynch murders: the murder of Sacco
and Vanzetti, the life Imprisonment
of Tom Mooney, the assassination of
Harry Simms, the death of hundreds
Of thousands of militant white and
black workers.
Because it is a matter of a trial
involving social conflicts, Yankee
class justice is accompanied by pro-
vocations and cynical corruption.
Only International working class soli-
darity by immediate and energetic
action will snatch these nine new vic
TINS away from the assassination
which is planned for them"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-18
MILL WAGES CUT 40 PC.
Profits in Tenn. from 9 Cent Hr. Pa,

per cent have brought workers down
to Shaving for SOC day. or nine cents
an hour Workers who used to make
SIG a week. do well now to make So
and 81. Workers living at dis
ance, who have to pay zoe for lunch,
go home with 10 after ten hour day.
The speed-up and stretch-out are
unbearable. Workers who used to run
two speeders now run four. Spinners
have to run six sides and also have
to clean up. Workers are so tired at
the end of the day, they can hardly
drag themselves home.
Cherokee Spinning Co., which gave
the biggest cut, does an average busl-
ness of around sl,2oo,o0o. Most OF
these mills have interlocking director
ates. The directors and owners are
among the wealthiest residents OF
Knoxville, swilling the best food
wearing the finest clothes, and riding
around in tbs most expensive cars
while the workers are given one pay
cut after another.
Knoxville mill workers, to prevent
further wage cuts, and get better con-
ditions, must organize. They must
prepare to fight back against the con-
tinued attacks of the mill owners
They must join militant union, 6
union controlled by the rank and file
the National Textile Workers Union
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-18
Den0nnceS Murder of
Strikers in Monterey
By Guggenheim Trust
Mexican Governor Justifies Terror Against
Workers In Shifty Letter to Foster

The Trade Union Unity League on
receipt of news Of the murder and
wounding of workers on strike
against the American Smelling and
Refining Company Ca Guggenheim
CONCERN in Mexico and the decision
of the Mexican government arbitra
ton board in favor of the company,
sent telegram of protest to the
governor OF the state of Monterey
and one of solidarity to the striking
workers
Arouses Great Enthusiasm.
The pledge of solidarity sent by
Comrade Foster in the name of the
TUUL was received with tremendous
enthusiasm by the workers The pro-
test to the governor aroused his
anger as the reply shows.
We publish below the reply of the
strikers and that of the governor of
Monterey:
A Letter from the Workers.
Trade Union Unity League
Yesterday we received your tele-
gram signed by Con1rade Foster
dated the 4th in which you send us
declaration of solidarity with the
sharp struggle we are carrying on
against the in1perialist enterprise Of
the American Smelling Co. The tele-
gram in question was read at the
general meeting of the strikers and
gave great stimulus to the struggle.
We have printed and circulated
and posted it in many different Wis
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-18
AUSTRIAN C. P. ISSUES APPEAL
AGAINST WAR.

VIENNA.-The Central COMMITTEES
of the Communist Party of Austria
has issued an appeal against the
threatening inperialist war on the
Soviet Union in which it calls on the
Social Democratic workers to hold
hands with their Communist fellow
workers in the factories and to hold
factory meetings to deal with the
war danger and express their readl-
ness to defend the Soviet Union.
we propose joint demonstrations
to the social democratic workers
against the sabotage of the trading
negotiations with the Soviet Union.
I'VE propose to them that they
elect with us in all important fac
tories and on the railways united
front committees to control whether
the Austrian bourgeoisie attempts to
supply the anti-soviet armies with
war materials, and to oppose any
such attempts With mass protest,
demonstrations, organized mass &C
tions and any other measures which
may appear feasible, including the
strike weapon"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-18
BlacHjacks and Hunger
Rule Wichita Camp He'll
Beatings and Extra Work Dealt to Sick
Prisoners
PRISONERS

WICHITA, Kansas, June 17.-De-
tails Of fiendisl tortures at the Wit
chita Prison Camp continue to seep
through despite the denials by Bert
G. Wells and Chief of Police O. w
Wilson, in charge of the farm. The
Daily Worker of May 81 published
the story on forced labor at this camp.
Failure to perform the forced labor
either because of sickness, weakness
or lack Of good physical condition is
punished by bread and water and a
so per cent reduction in credit al
lowed for serving out fines paid, it
is revealed.
A prisoner just released has de
scribed the brutal beating of another
prisoner, Peter j. Gentle, as follows:
'Curley,' as we called him, was
on bread and water for IS days when
they took him out to work He could
not stand the potato hoeing. When
he gave up and started for the shade,
Moody the guard, grabbed him as
if to drag him back. There was a
bit of struggle and Moody knocked
him down with blackjack 1t peel
ed a long piece, hair, hide and all,
off Gentile's head.
Knocked Down and Beaten
Then, when Gentle taunted
Moody with using a blackjack on a
weakened man, Moody handed the
weapon to Superintendent Tom Cas-
ner and lit into the prisoner, knock
ing him down and beating him. Cas-
ner stood close to Gentle with the
blackjack but the man was too weak
to be dangerous.
After it was all over, Casner
cursed Gentle and told him he would
see to it that the prisoner served
every day of the ia it takes to serve
out his fine on half pay, that he
would stay on bread and water every
day Of it.
Hands Cracked and Scared
Another man, who worked in the
kitchen Is hours day to get double
time on his fine, said he was re-
CURED to scrub three dish drying
towels for three hours steady on a
dashboard and in I've water. He
showed his cracked, SCARED hands.
ct couldn't have stood it another
day, he said, although I worked every
day I was there
"Casner gives you sugar sacks fol
dish cloths and makes you even wash
out the printed name on them.
Il know of one boy whose fingers
we're cracked down to the bone back
to the first joint He couldn't work
any more in the kitchen so he tackled
the job of pulling the plow. His Sin-
gers would bleed from the strain Of
pulling with his hands behind hi,
back and the blood would drip dow
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-18

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, June H.
Cotton mill workers of Knoxville have
just received some more merciless
wage cuts. The Brookside Mills, nor
mally employing 1900 workers, got a
20 per cent cut; the Appalachian
Mills, employing 1900, got a SO per
cent cut; and the Cherokee Spinning
Co., employing 500 got a 40 per cent
slash These mills have thrown so
many out of work that they are only
running half to two-third of normal
At Brookside, the workers also got
a ten per cent cut last January. Even
before this last 20 per cent cut, work
ers only made Sc to SO week. Rent
and water for the company houses
are deducted from this meagre pay.
The company gets more graft by
holding back weeks wages from ev-
cry worker. Workers are forced to put
out twice as much work as formerly,
and are speeded up beyond the en-
durance point. Brooks.de Mills is
listed as having authorized capital OF
81 500, 900, and carries $5,5Oo,ooo worth
of insurance. In 1881, the company
set aside for depreciation reserves
So, $780, 900.
Nine Cents an Hour
At the Appalachian Mills, worth ST.
9so,531, conditions are even worse.
The last two cuts amounting to 80
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-18
BOSSES LACK
COURAGE, SAYS
RICH PARASITE
He Pays Girls So a
Week in Marshall
Field Store

CHICAGO, III. - James Simpson,
chairman of the executive board Of
Marshall Field and Co., back from a
pleasure trip which included big game
hunting in Africa and India, declared
that the business men and politicians
of the country are sadly laeking in
courage and leadership, because they
are making gestures of trying to re-
lieve the widespread misery and I'M
employment in this city and through
out the United States.
Mr. Simpson can afford to take
pleasure trips at the expense of the
help employed in what is boosted as
being one of the largest department
stores in the country. The underpaid
girls who earn from SO to SIS cannot
afford to take vacations, to say moth
ing of the thousands of extra sales
girls who are kept on tap and are
called down when a rush is expected
at a special sale.
II the rush isn't as large as was
expected they are told to go home
If they are fortunate enough to get
a days work they are paid the grand
sum of $3.50 day. Yet Mr.. Simp-
son has the brass to come out against
any sort of appropriation to take care
of the unemployed, declaring that q
national financial disaster will &C.
cur unless the government stops is
suing bonds for unemployment re-
lief, farm relief, soldiers bonus ano
other reliefs."
The underpaid slaves of M shall
Fields and the 100000 unemployed ir
Chicago will answer Mr., Simpson by
! organizing in ever greater numbers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-18

ible outstanding places, we have
taken advantage of it to, show the
contrast that while the working
class of the U. S. is with Us in our
struggles, the authorities of the
country support by all means at
their disposal the imperialists of
that country. Ff
Information on the Strike.
Two hundred ninety workers went
on strike against decision of the
fascist court of Cancellation and Ar
bitration, which reduced the working
days from 30 to 20 days a month.
The struggle against this decision
was linked up with other demands
in the factory. This is the first
strike in any innperialist enterprise
carried without taking into consider
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-18
Cachin, French Leader,
Calls for World Fight
for the ScOttsborO Boys
Says Lynch Scandal Shows Up Imperialist
Brutality; Greets Mrs. Wright

IL 'Humanite," French Communist
newspaper, in recent issue which
has just reached the United States,
carries an account Of a tremendous
.Scottsboro demonstration in Paris at
which Mrs Ada Wright, mother of
two OF the Scottsboro boys. was given
a tremendous reception by Partisan
workers. 'Humanite" quotes Mrs.
Wrlght's speech at length and pub
fishes an article by Marcel Cachin,
a leading French Communist, calling
upon the French workers to rally to
the world wide mass fight to free the
Scottsboro boys,
Reporting Mrs. Wrtght's speech,
L Humanite' says.
THE speech of this courageous
mother who is travelling over the
world in order to save her two boys
and their seven comrades from the
electric chair was Of a simplicity that
was very affecting. All the horror of
the oppression OF the Negro workers
in the United States, all the violence
OF the class struggle in the country
Of the dollar we're pictured in her few
words. Every one Of her sentences
translated by Comrade Maibille was
interrupted with applause
Cachin in Stirring Appeal
Other speakers at the meeting in
Guided Favy of the French Red Aid,
Marcel Cachln of the Communist
Party, Richstta of the Red Trade
Unions. Daniel Renault of "LHu-
mantle and a delegate of the Young
Communist League. Mrs Wright was
cheered when she mounted the plat
form. The audience rose and sang
the Internationale
In his appeal published in "L'Hu
mantle" Marcel Cachin writes, in
part:
"A mother IS touring the world in
order to ask the workers of all coun-
tries to snatch her two innocent chill
dren from death. She defends her
children Us and II years ODD in a
simple, poignant pathetic talk. She
tells the facts from which it is plain
that we have to do once more with
the drama of the class struggle in
the United States, that is to say in
a country where social conflicts have
always been attacked by capitalism in
the most bloody manner.
Furthermore. it is matter of
young Negro workers. 1t is not neces-
sary to recall that in the United
States the war Of the classes is ag
gravated by a terrible war of races.
The 'accursad children of Ham have
always been treated as pariahs by al
the churches In the great Yankee de-
mocracy; for them, lynch law re-