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Seward daily gateway., 1932-09-01

The rainfall of Alaska varies from IS to 200 inches, so that there are almost unlimited possibilities in the development of water pow CT. With 26,OOO miles of seacoast, the annual harvest of fish alone is now worth $5O,OOO,OOO. Its glaciers offer unparalleled. mountain scen- cry. rfH
Seward daily gateway., 1932-09-01

SAVE your money by having your old shoes repaired. Every job that is turned out by the SEWARD LEATHER WORKS is made to wear and look as near new as pos SibIe.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-09-01

The fishing vessel Valencia arriv- ed at noon today fro mthe deep seas.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-09-01

Mrs. w. Chovan was able to leave the Seward General Hospital and return to her home at Kodiak, on the SS Admiral Evans.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-09-01

Thunder crashed in the noun tains this morning when black clouds claShed.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-09-01

Flowers made to order for all occasions. Sylvia's.
Evening star., 1932-10-02

who played the immediate decisive part 1t
was instead certain pious Congressman from
New York Stephen Van Rensselaer, by name
abetted, 1t would seem. by the Almightys
prompt reply to his prayer for guidance.
Van Rensselaer's unexpected vote for Adams
turned the scale and made him President
He had not intended to vote for Adams; was
definitely opposed to him, in fact.
New York's delegation of which he was a
member supposed to be divided as follows:
for Adams, II: for Jackson 2; for Crawford,
IS. Thus Adams appeared to have plural
ity but not the required majority: hence New
Yorks vote would not be counted.
The detailed story of this sudden Inspiration
which elected President was related to Mar
tin Van Buren,. later himself President of the
United States. by the chief human actor in the
drama, Stephen Van Rensselaer, Van Buren,
wrote it down in his autobiography. where it
may still be perused in the Library of Congress
Evening star., 1932-10-02

ON the morning of the voting as Van
RENSSELAER, went up to the place where
the House was assembling he was waylaid by
two giants, Henry Clay and Daniel Webster
bent on persuading him to abandon Crawford
and support Adams. Notwithstanding the best
efforts Of the Jove-like Daniel and the ire
sistibe Harry he continued firm in his re-
solve not to vote for Adams at any rate not
on the first ballot. The rest Of the story will
De mere related in tfe very words of the Van
Buren manuscript in order that it NAV be
somewhat less difficult to believe
He took his seat, fully resolved to vote for
Mr.. Crawford, but before the box reached
him, he dropped his head upon the edge of his
desk and made brief appeal to his Maker for
guidance in the matter-a practice he frequent
~ observed on great emergencieS-and when
ne removed his hand from his eyes he saw on
the floor directly before him ticket bearing
the name of John Quincy Adams This oc-
,urrence at the moment of great excitement and
anxiety he was led to regard as an answer to
his appeal, and taking up the ticket he put it
IN the box. In this way it that Mr.. Adams
was made President"
Adams already had the votes Of II OF the
"A States then in the Union. This unexpected
addition Of New Yorks ballot gave him the
necessary 13, a majority
Though Van Rensselaer,, the Almighty
cast the deciding vote it was Clay's influence
majority In securing the election of Adams
Clay disregarded the wish of the people IS
SHOWN by their votes Jackson had received
more of the electoral votes than any other cam
didate, and also, in all probability more of the
popular vote. Some of Clay's contemporaries
notably those who favored Jackson argued that
this mandate of the people placed a moral. if
not actually legal obligation on the House
to choose Jackson
Clay thought otherwise; and his interpreta-
ton of the undemocratic intentions of the franz
ers of the Constitution seems to be the more
reasonable one
HERE are several things about this election
OF 1925 that most Of Us would not like to
see repeated in any subsequent election For
instance, it seems greatly undesirable that the
selection of President Of the United States
should be suddenly accomplished by the un-
expected change of the vote of one Congress-
man. even though that Congressman felt him.
self to be divinely guided
Further, cannot but regard as deplorabIe
set of circumstances which puts it within the
power Of single political leader, whether q
Speaker Of the House or a candidate in pres
idential campaign Cat the moment, John N.
Garner happens to be both), to decide which
Of several more or less eligible persons shall be-
come President
Thirdly it seems both democratic and de-
sirable that cases in which Nevada, with
90 900 population weighs equally with New
York, having 12.7s6,o0O, in electing . Pred
dent, should be ~ and far between.
Evening star., 1932-10-02

and disputes" He duelist and had killed
his man In rough and tumble encounter with
the famous Senator Thomas Hart Benton and
the Senator's brother he shot in the
shoulder and one of his antagonists was
stabbed.
Jackson's formal education of the
slightest, and there is no indication that he
ever sought to make good his deficiencies. He
never wrote correctly. was notoriously bad
Speller, knew almost nothing of science. liter
lure and the arts and had no taste for books.
He was, in short frontiersman. at heart one
OF the vast multitude that supported him, with
out special advantages of birth or breeding,
but very democratic and human.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS on the contrary,
- was not quite human. This misfortune
came to him because he was too wel-born and
too well-educated He specialized in virtue so
successfully that he crowded out all the
pleasant vices. and at length found himself
rather lonely in a world hopelessly below his
moral and intellectual plane
From his early days. he drove at a danger
ously high speed up the steep grade of learn
ing. At seven he writing 12-year r-old
letters to his father and those he wrote at
10 have the flavor of middle life. At IL he
accompanied his father to France on diplo-
matte mission, and at IA he went to Russia
as secretary OF the american envoy. AT only
y years of age he began that 12-volume diary
which was to claim his spare hours during
nearly 10 years. Along with writing in his
diary, it was his nightly practice throughout
his long life to repeat before retiring the simple
childhood prayer:
Nov I lay me down to sleep.
pray the Lord my soul to keep.
If should die before I wake.
pray the Lord my soul to take"
we should expect Henry Clay to be enthusi-
for the presidency in this tied election He
felt that Adams knew the presidential job
far better than did Jackson. He feared more
government, and he was impressed with JEFF
prospect Of seeing Gen Jackson President.
He is one OF the most unfit men 1 know for
the place. He has had very little respect for
able military chieftain''
to support Adams however, than he was
charged with having made a corrupt bargain
by which he would Che later actually did) re-
ceive the Office of Secretary of State in Adams
cabinet. Clay hastened to brand the framer
of this accusation base and infamous
calumniator, bastard and liar" demanded
look ridiculous
presidency, it was not Henry Clay, however.
Evening star., 1932-10-02

HE honor Of choosing John Quincy
Adams to be President of the United
States in 1925 must be divided be-
tween the remarkable political in
1uence If Henry Clay, Speaker Of the
House Of Representatives, and the
still more remarkable answer to the prayer OF
Stephen Van Rensselaer,, pious Congressman
from New York.
The campaign Of 1924 had presented four
nresidentlal candidates. each Of whom won
block of electoral votes: Andrew Jackson SO;
John Quincy Adams, "a; William H. Crawford
Al: and Henry Clay, 81. Since no one had
ma jority the election had to be completed by
the House as provided in the following section
Of the twelfth amendment to the Constitution:
:. if no person have such majority, then
from the persons having the highest numbers
not exceeding three on the list OF those voted
for as President the House Of Representatives
shall choose Immediately, by ballot, the
President But in choosing the President, the
votes shall be taken by States the representation
from each State having one vote and a
majority Of all the States shall be necessary to
. choice
Clay was not among the three highest in the
electoral vote: hence he was out Of the running
in the House election. AS the veteran Speaker of
the House. however, and the trusted leader of
many of its members he held in the hollow of
his hand the choice of the next President. Not
the people of the United States, nor their duly
chosen electors, but the Congressman who had
been elected two years earlier, were exercising
this sovereign power Of choice, and Clay's in
f1uence over them was paramount
Naturally. everybody began suddenly to love
him. even his former enemies Supporters OF all
the candidates walked softly In his presence,
and figurativey speaking, handed him fragrant
bouquets.
OF the three contenders in this election,
- Crawford rapidly fading out, partly
because Of his serious illness. The real strug-
gle was between Adams, the Puritan in politics.
who specialized in virture and superiority, and
Jackson frontiersman and war hero whose
specialties were duels and democracy.
Jackson admitted readily enough in private
that he was no statesman. When, in 1924 a
friend told him that he mot safe from the
presidency" he replied, Il really hope you don't
think that am damned fool enough to believe
that. No, sir; may be pretty well satisfied with
myself in some things, but am not vain enough
for that" And this was no false modesty He
had held no important legislative or admin
istrative position in his own State and his
brief career in Congress had shown him to be
only rough backwoodsman. His military
victory over the British in a critical moment
in the War of 1912 had, however made him a
popular idol
President jefferson had once refused to ap-
point Jackson to the governorship Of New
Orleans Territory, because he was said to be
disposition, and frequently engaged in broils
Evening star., 1932-10-02

Tan Rensselaer, took
his seat, rcsolrpd to
rotc for Crawford,
bm before the boz
reached him he made
a brief appeal TO his
Maker for guidance
!. and uhen he re-
moued his hand from
his eyes he sa,r on
the floor directly be-
fore him a ticket
bearing the name Of
John Quincy 4dams.
Evening star., 1932-10-02

With the House Of Representatives
Trying to Choose Between John
Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson,
New Y York Congressman, With the
Deciding Vote in His Power, Prayed
for Divine Guidance Opened
His Eyes to See a Ticket Bearing
the Name Adams.
Evening star., 1932-10-02

. HE honor of choosing John Quincy
Adams to be President of the United
States in 1925 must be divided be-
tween the remarkable political in
fuence If Henry Clay, Speaker Of the
rJo,,ea ~ papraeentatiyaS and the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-17
Defense Organization Was In the Forefront of
Recent Election Campaign

for the International Labor Defense
in the United States, where a pres
idential election is raging in the
midst of new, ever more ferocious
attacks upon the working class,
mobilization of the army against
the world war veterans in Wash
ington, everywhere attacks on the
unemployed, terror against the
strikers, deportations, the Scots
boro and many other prosecutions
with lynching attacks upon the
Negroes, the continued imprison-
ment of Mooney, Billings and scores
of other longtime prisoners, saw
age repression of the campaign &C
tivities of the Communist Party,
the Party of struggle against the
growing terror, against the lynch
mobs, against oppression.
The German Red Aid q. L. d.
was in the forefront of the Reich
stag election campaign. Not only
through its central organ, Tribunal,
but also in a flood of pamphlets
and leaflets, and the tireless activ-
tiles of its nearly 100000 members,
the battle flags of the Red Aid, as
a militant organization of class
struggle, were raised higher and
higher. The Red Aid gave voice
to the agony of the widows and
children left fatherless by the Hit
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-17

Ter murder gangs GOO workers
have been done to death by the
Hitler assassins since 1890. 1t was
the voice Of the 5000 working class
political prisoners, who watched
the election campaign from behind
their prison bars, that could not
shut out the growing cry for cam
nesty!" In one week during the
election campaign prison sentences
totalling 300 years were melted out
to workers. On the day the Papen
emergency DEGREES went into effect
there were 140 arrests of workers
in Berlin alone. The Red Aid be-
came mighty bulwark of struggle
against the whole system of fascist
terrorization.
Previous Inactivity in Elections
In this sense it must be stated
that the International Labor De-
Tense has never sufficiently partici-
pated in the election campaigns,
raising its own program before the
working class in the United States.
1t is clearer this year than ever
that the carrying through of that
program calls for the most ener-
getic support of the candidates of
the Communis Party. All members
of the International Labor Defense
must be so convinced of this that
they will become among the best
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-17
High Point, N. c. Workers
Prepare Coming Struggles

their own tools. Their helpers get
II cents an hour.
Durham gives unemployment re-
lief" of 75c week. Mill workers
earn S. and Sc week with mills
on two and three day-basis.
Workers complain of unsani-
tary conditions in the workshops.
Toilets with vermin are a common
sight. Floors are not scrubbed for
years and accumulated filth helps
to bring "TB" to weakened bodies.
BABY DIES
In Marion where six workers
were murdered in the 1929 strike,
a baby died because its mother had
"to be at the mill on time" Mill
Mill whistles blow at 7 a. m. while
workers actually start in by $40
a. m.
These are conditions. Out Of
this horror is rising the heroic
spirit of the southern workers.
They will strike back! 1t is up to
the workers of the country to see
that they receive full support in
their fight against the textile
barons. To do this they must be
in touch with the militant union
movement. The betrayers of labor
are active. They are on the scene.
They must be exposed in action.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-17
BY BURCK

fighters in the electoral struggle.
1t is to be regretted that the July
issue of the Labor Defender" the
central organ of the I. L. D., it's
agitator and organizer, carried no
article on the nomination of Will
liam z. Foster for President and
James w. Ford for Vice. President.
The call for the Fifth National
Convention, october 80, in itself
mobilization against every phase of
the growing terror, does not men
ton the election campaign, al
though it will be held on the very
eve of the elections, and it's prepar-
atory campaign parallels the grow
ing electoral struggle.
Strength of Movement.
The strength of the anti-fascist
struggle in Germany is to be found
in the fact that the more than five
millions who voted the Communist
Party ticket have no parliamentary
iilusi0es. The weight of this power
is, therefore, all the more signifi-
cant.
While the mounting wave of fas-
cism in Germany broke on the bull
wark of revolutionary information
alism; the capitalist ruling class,
with the elections over, increases
its campaign of repression against
the revolutionary workers and their
Party. The Rote Fahne has again
been suppressed, this time for ten
days, along with the suppression Of
many other Communist organs. The
proposed outlawing Of the Party
and all other militant working class
organizations is again raised. But
the workers continue their struggle,
more actively, everywhere, for an
end of fascism, for socialism and
for workers and peasants govern
ment.
Cites Sacco- Vanzetti Murder
1t is in this sense that the Inter-
national Labor Defense in the
United States approached the Fifth
Anniversary of the burning alive Of
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Van
zetti in the electric chair on the
night of August %, 1927. On this
I. R. A. anniversary, especially this
year, the I. L. D. in the United
States, and the International Red
Aid on the eve of its World Con-
gress in Moscow, in November,
everywhere brings forward it's
whole program of struggle, into the
center of which the I. L. D. in the
United States must place the 1893.
election campaign. The intensifi-
cation of the struggle may then
reach proper proportions in the
mighty demand that must be raised
before the United States Supreme
Court on Oct. 10, for the freedom
of the Scottsboro Negro children,
when this highest tribunal of dollar
capitalist class justice meets to
hear the I. L. D. appeal against the
judicial lynch DEGREES Of the white
supremacy" courts of Alabama.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-17

ance committees in the shop and
by forming shop branches of the
Steel and Metal Workers Industrial
Union, the Singer workers can pre-
vent their bosses from forcing them
to buy stock in the company.
Struggle against the Singer ex-
ploiters, not the buying of their
stock, will bring better conditions
to the workers in the Singer plant
in Elizabeth. And the only guar
antee of the Singer workers of a
permanently improved standard Of
living-such as is now enjoyed by
the workers in the Podolsk plant in
the Soviet Union-is to rally behind
the election campaign of the Com
munist Party in the fight for the
overthrow Of the entire hateful
system Of capitalism and the erec-
ton Of a workers and farmers
government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-17
BY JOHN STEUBEN


The injunction Menace, by Unar-
lotte Todes, International Pamphlet
NO. HZ,.. cents.
"0N strike against a wage cut.
" Holding their banners aloft the
strikers picket, grim and determined.
Between rows of blue uniforms,
swinging clubs and hostile glances,
the line of ragged men, women, young
boys file past the factory gate.
millions in profits; wage cuts for
workers.
"The factory windows cape, the
smoke from the chimney stacks fades
into thin gray streaks. Not wheel
of machinery turns.
"The picket line comes to a sharp
halt A policeman on horseback
blocks the way. The blue uniforms
close in on the pickets menacingly.
You can't picket here. There is an
injunction"
That's the way this pamphlet
starts. Even though the pamphlet
consists of only fifteen pages, it is
full of facts on the injunction men
ace. Not only does this pamphlet
give facts as to where and when this
judge-made law was applied against
workers, but also analyses why the
bosses and their courts issue injunc-
tons against striking workers:
"The resentment of the masses has
found expression in growing strug-
giles under the leadership of the mill
tant unions, affiliated with the Trade
Union Unity League. 1t is not sur
prising, therefore, that such militant
unions as the miners, and the unions
in the food, shoe, metal, furniture,
needle, textile and other industries
have been the special target of attack
by the employers and the govern
ment. Injunctions have been one of
the instruments of repression along
with criminal syndicalism laws,
frame-ups, deportations and terror
ISM"
1t gives detailed description Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-17
Singer Bosses Out to Trap
Workers With Stock Scheme
"Podolsk" Series Contrasted Conditions in us.
With EX-Singer Plant in U. S. S. R.

Coincident with the series of ar
ticles that have been appearing in
the Daily Worker on the Podolsk
plant in the Soviet Union-a series
which has portrayed the sharp in
crease in the standard of living of
the workers today as compared with
the Czarist days, when the Podolsk
plant was owned by the Singer
Sewing Machine Company the
Singer Sewing Machine Company
in Elizabeth has announced that it
will present plan to its employees
which will enable" them to buy
stock in the company.
! The employees stock purchase
plan is an old scheme to draw
workers deeper into the barbed-
wire embrace Of their exploiters.
Far from increasing the income of
workers, the purchase OF stock in
the company they work for actually
reduces their income and amounts
to wage cut. particularly unen-
durable wage cut in the Singer
plant, where wages are as low as
81 and $40 q week.
BY trying to force workers to buy
stock in company, the bosses en-
deavor to SOW the illusion among the
workers that they have an interest
in the company's profits - that
greater profits for the bosses mean
more wages for the workers. After
the workers buy the stock, the
bosses introduce still greater speed
up and wage cuts under the pre-
tense that even though the workers
are working harder and for less
wages, they are doing so for their
own benefit because they are part
Owners" of the company.
The workers in the Singer plant
must oppose any attempt on the
part Of their bosses to force them
to accept the virtual wage cut
hidden In the employees stock-pur-
chssa plan. By organizing griev-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-17
INJUNCTION MENACE
A Review of a Neav, Timely Pamphlet

the injunctions issued against the
National Miners Union, the Tobacco
Workers Union in Tampa, Fla, the
Shoe, Food, and other unions in New
York.
The pamphlet also contains an i'm
portant chapter on the A. F. of L.
bureaucrats and injunctions, exposing
the sharp battle the A. F. of L. has
put up against injunctions, while at
the same time resorting themselves
to injunctions against the militant
unions of the T. U. U. L. like the food
and needle unions.
The recent so-called anti-injunc-
ton bill passed by Congress is also
dealt with in this pamphlet, pointing
out that:
I'm face of the sharpening crisis,
the resulting unrest and leftward
movement of the masses, the govern
ment has been forced to adopt this
so-called anti-injunction law as a
smoke screen to cover it's hostile &C
tons against the workers Further
more, the law covers only the federal
courts, where a relatively small num-
Der of injunctions re issued. The
state courts remain free to continue
issuing injunctions without restric-
TONS"
Events have already proved the
correctness of this analysis. The
anti-injunction law is only several
weeks old, and already numerous in
functions were issued against striking
shoe and food workers.
In recent years, many books were
written on the injunctions and how
to defeat" them, proposing new laws,
bills, petitions, ETC., thus limiting the
struggle to legal" means only, in
Guiding the Civil Liberties Union
This is the only pamphlet that pro-
poses class struggle methods, namely,
a mass violation of injunctions.
When this review is written new
injunction epidemic has spread in
New York. The strikers of the An
drew Geller and I. Miller shoe fac