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Seward gateway., 1933-10-26
INTERESTS
By Bob BartleL.

A visitor in Washington is Mrs. Arthur Mellick of Sand Point on Popotf Island in the Shumagin Island group. Mir. and Mrs. Mellick operate a trading post there, and also have fishing interests. She is the daughter of the late Andrew Grosvold, colorful and prominent sea captain and pioneer of West ern Alaska.
 Mr and Mrs. D. E. StubbS of Mo Kinley Park are in Washington for stay of indefinite length, having motored from the Pacific Coast. They were delayed a week at zanesville, Ohio, by ptomaine poisoning and are not entirely off the sick list yet. Since he recover ed sufficiently to be out. MT. Stubbs has spent much time at the De
 paftment of the Interior. in con-
 neetion with: Mckinley Park af-.. fairs. U. s* <: sl. l.. ':: x.<* #x :t:' . k !Chas. o. Thompson of Fairbanks Shas arrived in Washington. He is registering in the Foreign Service School of Georgetown University. Mrs. Thompson and baby son are in Detroit visiting friends and will come to the capital city soon. Mir. Thompson is a graduate of the Alaska College and was formerly with the F. E. Co.
 1 1 <; <: \, *. E
 r Harold T. Jestland has been ap-
 pointed acting postmaster of Beth ! el, succeeding Claud M Link. This is a presidential office.
 Edward Berg, of Anchorage, has been a visitor in Washington for the past week. He is a member of
 the mechanical force of the Alas
 ka Railroad and left Anchorage in 1 May on his first vacation in 14 1 years. Since leaving Anchorage Mr. Berg estimates he has, travelled 3o,- i 900 miles. t$ *a*t The Senate Committee on h.
 dian Affairs will not go to South 1 eastern Alaska this year as had
 been planned. Lateness of the sea-
 son prompted the change but it is
 planned to come North next year.
 The primary purpose of the trip
 was, to hold hearings at Metiakat-
 la
Seward gateway., 1933-10-26
REGRETABLE ACCIDENT

Stepping outdoors for a moment, Mrs. Ethel Roberts slipped on the snow Tuesday, at Mile IA, Moose Pass, sustaining a broken ankle and possibly a break of heavier bone. Mrs. Roberts was rushed to the Seward General Hospital from Moose Pass station on a railroad Speeder.
Seward gateway., 1933-10-26
NATURAL DUCK REFUGE

Lower Kenai lake has become natural duck refuge and 1t is not unusual to see large flocks within a stones throw of residences. Dur ing the summer mother sawbills and their brocds disported them selves along the shore among the moored skifs and power boats. No one shoots at, or molests the ducks.
Seward gateway., 1933-10-26

Moose are still clinging to the high plateauS at the base of noun tairs owing to the light snowfall and abundance of exposed grass.
The daily worker., 1933-10-12
S. p. Uses Thugs
to Silence Workers
at Street Meetings

NEW YORK.-Organized goril-
las are being used by the Socialist
Party at Street meetings to silence
workers asking their speakers en-
barrassing questions, it was charged
yesterday by the Communist Elec-
ton Campaign Committee of 799
Broadway.
The Committee, through its
manager, Carl Brodsky, cited many
instances in which groups of thugs
beat workers at these meetings.
Brodsky said that Tuesday night a
worker, George Chakin, received a
possible fracture of the nose after
he questioned a Socialist speaker
at 18th st. and End Avenue on the
Socialist Party's stand on the N.
R. A.
On the same night, said Brod-
sky, woman distributing leaflets
was set upon and badly beaten at
a Socialist meeting on Second
Avenue and 9Th Street. A mem
Der Of the Food Workers Indus
trial Union who rushed to her de-
tense was also severely hurt.
Brodsky urged the forming of
workers defense groups to ward
off the attacks of the Socialist
hired thugs.
The daily worker., 1933-10-12
Silk Strikers Reject MIRA. Board Sell Outs

delegates demanded that the union
demands shohld be the basis for dis
cussion, and not wage cut offer OF
the bosses. Wagner ignored Burlak,
The manufacturers then withdrew
for a lengthy conference, and later
reported that because they want to
help Senator Wagner" they "in-
crease" their offer to So per 100000
picks, the same offer made five
weeks ago and rejected. The workers
from all unions summarily rejected
the manufacturers offers this morn
ing.
Wagner Denies Floor to Militant
1t was obvious from the conduct
of the proceedings that one important
aim was to try to Isolate the left
wing leadership, representing 10000
strikers, and clear the road for U.
T. w. national sell out. Ballam,
leader of the left wing strike COM
mittee, was repeatedly denied the
floor by Wagner toward the end of
the session, and throughout Panken
was played up by Wagner in every
way, given the floor constantly for
lengthy speeches. At the end of the
conference, when it was proposed to
elect a committee of 10 to meet with
the manufacturers, Wagner proposed
one representative of the United Ma
tional Strike Committee and nine
of the A. F. of L. Finally, 1t be-
came so obvious that the left wing
represented large masses of strikers
committee of five and five was
proposed. The refusal of the manu-
facturers to make any further offer
cut off negotiations and the con-
ference ended with strikers of all
unions standing firm to reject the
manufacturers wage cut proposals.
1--WE will settle this on the picket
lines" the strikers declared as the
meeting broke uI
The daily worker., 1933-10-12
Red County Official
Organizes Fight on
Foreclosure; jailed
Arrest 5 Others Also;
Use Fire Hose on
Farmers

BRENTWOOD, Wis. - Arvid
Salonen, Communist County Su-
pervisor of Tripoli, and member
of the United Farmers League, was
arrested with five other farmers
while leading a militant farmers
demonstration which succeeded in
stopping a foreclosure sale Mon
day at Phillips, Wis, in spite of
the fact that the sheriff., police
and American Legion were mobil-
lied to terrorize the farmers.
While a free-for-all fight was go
ing on, the fire department turned
the hose on the farmers.
The agent of the Federal Land
Bank was used rather roughly
when he refused to consent to a
moratorium demanded by the
farmers, and he left town in
hurry, so the sale was indefinitely
postponed.
The other five arrested were
George Maxi, Senja Maxi, Hugo
Henderson of Brentwood, Jim
Bernard of Fifield and another
farmer whose name was not
known.
A mass meeting was immedi-
ately arranged in Brentwood,
Tuesday night, to arrange for bond
and defense, and a demonstration
was called in Eagle River for the
following day.
The daily worker., 1933-10-12
LOngShOreman Of
Hampton Roads, Va.
Urges Organization
Wait All Day to Get a
Few Hours Work
on Docks

NORFOLK, Va. - The time has
come for the male sex of Hampton
Roads to prove to our families and
the City of Norfolk that we are real
men that God made, and not gen.
tlemen who man has made. How
can we prove this? First, by organ
izing under the program of the
Marine Workers Industrial Union.
The situation in Norfolk is bad and
especially with the unorganized docks,
the Merchants and Miners Trans
portation Co., P. and N. Line, Old
Bay Lines and Chesapeake Lines.
Suppose we look around very close
ly at the Norfolk and Western piers,
especially Pier 8. Whenever there
is change to be made that will af-
feet the men what will they do?
First, they will call all hook men to
the front Chose are men who have
been in service from to Is years. to
tell them of the change that is about
to be made. They know that these
men will accept this change without
asking any questions whatever, for
IedT OI lOSlllS ILlelT JODS.
In leaving home for work at the N.
and w. the men sit around from 2
to 3 and some 4 hours before going
to work. Would you be compelled to
do that if you were organized? No
comrades, you would not, and not
only that--organizing is no disgrace
you are only fighting for right to
live and unless you do organize and
fight, suffer you must because the
bosses don't care if you die, their
profits has got to be made.
Last Saturday at the Merchant and
Miners dock the car gangs stood by
all day with only hours made for
a days work.
Think 1t over and discuss it with
your fellow workers. Read the Marine
Workers Voice and Daily Worker and
you will see that this is true. These
papers are the ones that send mes
sages to our fellow workers all over
the world to help us as unorganized
workers and especially on the water
front of Hampton Roads. 1t brings
us the program of the Marine Work
ers Industrial Union and shows us
how to organize to get our rights.
Once we start action and get Or
ganized don't be afraid, we will get
support from our fellow workers all
along the entire Atlantic Seaboard
and you know this is not a back
yard in a private home.
Longshoremen (unorganized)
Hampton Roads, Va.
The daily worker., 1933-10-12

armed owners and their night riders
by mass picketing and paradeS.
Eighteen thousand striking San
Joaquin Valley cotton pickers are
determined to win their demands. The
slogan of the strikers is mot an ounce
of cotton for less than a dollar hum
dred pounds" The pickers are now
receiving starvation wages of sixty
cents a hundred pounds.
A mass march of three thousand
striking cotton pickers to Bakersfield,
the county seat of Kern County de-
manded relief for the strikers from
the county and immediate release of
the prisoners. A mass march will
take place today on Visalia, Tulare
county seat, to demand the release of
twenty strikers arrested and charged
with first degree murder. The strike
stands solid in the face of the dis
trict attorney openly calling for lynch
law and calling on the large farm
owners to take the law into their
own hands. Relief is urgently needed
for the strikers.
The daily worker., 1933-10-12

in the anti-war congress, the struggle
for the defense of the Soviet Union,
and the fight against Fascisnl.
N. Silverblatt, member of the left
wing opposition in local %, in answer
ing Zimmerman's falsifications said,
Zimmerman, in speaking on the anti
war congress, has left out anything
about the question Of the defense of
the Soviet Union and the fight against
Fascism. Zimmerman no doubt has
reasons he did not give for leaving
out any mention Of the heart Of the
conference"
The slanderous opposition of Zim-
norman against the anti-war confer
ence, was expressed when Zimmerman
falsified from beginning to end. He
claimed that he broke through the
Communist wall' and was "cheered"
when he spoke. Zimmerman, who was
seated at the anti-war congress as
delegate from local %, in his sup
posed report" tried to give the exec
utive board the impression that only
Communists we're delegates. 1T waSs
not properly organized and did not
represent the workers." he said.
1T is significant that Zimmerman
did not mention in his report the
delegates to the anti-war conference
from the armed forces" Silverblatt
said in refuting Zinlmerman's falsi-
ficatiors. HE ignores the fact that
the bulk Of the $500 delegates were
rank and file representatives Of Strik-
erS and workers from the shops, ur-
employed delegates, students, youth.
women, farmers and many liberals,
including Music followers and Soci-
alist Party members.
No Mention of Barbusse.
Zimmerman who is supposed to be
reporting on the anti-war congress
lies about the delegation. But he does
not even mention the fact that Henry
Barbusse of the world committee
against war was present" Stiverblatt
said. "This in itself proves that Zim-
merman's sole idea is to attack and
destroy the work of the snti-war
congress"
When executive board member
Rosenberg, also of the left wing, tried
to get the floor to answer thinner
mans statements, he was ruled out
Of order, and when he insisted on the
floor Nelson, another Loyestonite,
took hurried and confused vote,
ruled Rosenberg was suspended for
the session, and denied him the floor,
although only 3 voted to suspend the
left wing member. I'VE cannot dis
cuss the anti-war congress any fur
ther," Zimmerman said. I'VE have
more important things to discuss"
When Rosenberg then asked to know
whether the anti-war congress would
be discussed at the next meeting he
was ruled out Of order.
In his speech on the anti-war con-
gresS Silverblatt pointed out that the
Communist Party policy of the united
front against war was chiefly re-
sponsible for the splendid success of
the anti-war congress. The Loves
stcnites, he said, were the chief dis
ruptive element. s
The daily worker., 1933-10-12
Potash Battles Code
of Open Shop Fur
Dyers at Hearing
Attacks Trick follower
Wages of Skilled

NEW YORK.-A scathing attack on
the attempt of the open shop fur
dyers and dressers to establish code
under the N.R.A. fixing a starvation
wage of SIS for skilled and unskilled
workers in the trade and on their
racketeering activities was made by
Irving Potash, secretary Of the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union at
the hearings in Washington on Mon
day.
At the very outset of the hearings,
Potash challenged the right of Pietro
Lucchi, president of the defunct In
ternational Fur Workers Union "a,
F. of L. to represent the workers.
Colonel Conklin, NR.A. chairman OF
the hearings who had designated
Lucchi as spokesman for labor,
overruled these protests and declared
that if Lucchi had not been author
ized by the workers to represent them
that he would give that authorization.
Conklin openly showed his partiality
to the employers by further ruling
that Potash would not be given the
floor. Despite this tactic, the rep
resentatives of the Fur Dyers and
Dressers Industrial Union spoke sew
eral times and compelled Conklin to
appoint Potash to one of the sub
committees.
Represented as the hearings, with
Potash were Samuel Burt, manager
of the Fur Dressers and Dyers In
dustriaI Union, affiliated with the
Needle Trades Union; David Wiener,
shop chairman and Morris JOHN,
active fur dresser. Five employers
association and independent groups
were also represented.
The major discussion at the hear
ing centered around the attempt OF
A. Hollander and Sons, open shop
employers, to dominate the industry
through their association. They were
aided by Conklin in this move. The
proposal was made that Hollander's
association be recognized as the con-
trolling association, but various rival
groups of employers opposed this.
Hollander, who was responsible for
the murder Of four strikers, pretended
generosity in offering the workers a
35-hour week, but this was a cover
in order to put over $15 minimum
weekly wage for all the workers in
the trade and for refusing to set any
minimum scale for the skilled work
ers. The proposal was seconded by
Conklin, the open shop employers and
by Lucchi, who, it was disclosed, had
concluded an agreement with the
Alaska Fur Dressing and Dyeing Co.
on a similar basis. Only the Indus
trial Unions delegates made sharp
fight on this proposal, showing how
the union had established scales for
the skilled workers and demanding
The daily worker., 1933-10-12
BY CARL REEVE

NEW YORK, N. Y, Oct. 11.-All
atetmpts of the National Labor Ad-
visory Board, with Senator Robert
Wagner presiding, to break the front
of the national silk strike were
beaten back by the solidarity of the
workers delegates at the session here
in the New York State building, 30
Center st.
1t was woman textile weaver
from the bench, who at five o'clock
this morning summed up the un-
shakable unity of the workers in the
face of seemingly endless barrage
Of strikebreaking maneuvers. After
these delegates had been up for two
nights, with the Washington hear
ing, travelling to New York by auto
and trucks, they were kept in con-
tinuous session from two o'clock yes
terday afternoon until five o'clock
this morning.
Would Starve First
1--WE are not scum" this textile
weaver told the manufacturers. She
is member elected to represent the
United Textile Workers Union Of
Easton and Phillipsburg. and a men,
Der of the left wing United National
Strike Committee. "The offer that
you make us-$2 for 100000 picks,
was offered by you five weeks ago
and unanimously rejected by the
strikers. You do not offer decent
living wage. You know in your
hearts that none Of you would work
for $18 week. Like Miss Burlak,
we weavers say that 1t is direct
insult to make us this offer. This
meeting is ending in squabble. We
will starve before we will return to
work on this scale. You have got
70 com, c'""n and wat or demands
Oh we are through. We will settle
The daily worker., 1933-10-12

was suicide, but the workers claim
he was murdered. Posses Trail Red
Killer" is the typical headline all
papers screamed out as a statewide
man hunt was staged to whoop up
anti-red hysteria. Fifteen thousand
cotton pickers in San Joaquin VAL
ley are on strike under the leader
ship of our union and have tied up
all picking.
Big growers, with the open aid Of
local police, are forming vigilante
mobs to evict workers and chase
them out of towns. The workers are
solid l-r one dollar per hundred
pounds. They were offered only sixty
cents. The strikers, including Span
ish, whites, Negroes and many from
Oklahoma and other Southern States
resisted vigilantes courageously. Even
the MIRA mediator here, Reichert,
was compelled to send letter to
Rolph demanding that he restrain
the terror against strikers force.
The acceptance of mediation" was
already refused by the growers.
Eight thousand are striking in
Arizona cotton and lettuce fields also
under the Cannery and Agricultural
Workers Union.
One thousand and seven hundred
fishermen are solid, most Of them al
ready are in the union. All sardine
fishing is tied up.
In the cotton situation, the work
ers are demanding that the finance
companies increase the process to
small farmers. Our union is recruit
ing thousands.
The daily worker., 1933-10-12
Racine Radiator Plant
On Strike When Piece
Work Rates Are Cut

RACINE, Wis.-One hundred and
seventy-four workers of the Young
Radiator Co. of this city walked out
on strike against low wages and
speed-up. Some jobs that formerly
paid rs cents per 100 are now paying
cents per 100. This is the first strike
here and the police are well at hand.
The night before the strike was
called the police were notified by the
leaders of the A. F. of L. to be at the
plant to prevent any disorder. The
plant is being picketed by few. No
mass picketing started 50 Tar.
The workers are demanding a Is
per cent increase in wages and the
reinstatement of eight workers who
we're discharged for union activity.
So far no broad strike committee has
been elected, except small commit
tee of four which directs activities.
The daily worker., 1933-10-12
this on the picket line"

this on the picket line"
There were several attempts by the
N. r. A. Board to make a break in
the ranks. Judge Jacob Panken, a
Socialist Party leader, representing
the A. F.. of L., was obviously work.
ing hand in glove with the stage
play of Chairman Wagner. They
continuously praised each other
throughout the session. the terms
"judge" and senator" flying thick
and fast. Panken, put forward be-
cause MacMahon is so discredited he
could not appear himself, punctuated
his maneuvers to approach break
in the ranks with militant sounding
words.
Idle Promises
The attempt to make break in
the strikers demands was put for
ward by Panken, Wagner and the en-
ployers. 1t was that a settlement
might be reached which included the
South, and small committee" was
proposed to go to Washington to dis
cuss changing the code. The plan
was to try to get the workers back
to work under cover of talk of get
ting settlement through on some
future change in the code. This was
spiked when the delegates of the
United National Strike Committee
made it clear that the workers will
not return to work until after a set
tlement and that a settlement will
include those now on strike and will
not accept any temporary agreement
pending future struggles or scales,
but will settle for those now on
The daily worker., 1933-10-12
Maneuvers of Wagner, Panken and Bosses
Fail to Break Unity of Workers After All Night
Session Shows Only Wage Cuts Offered

strike. The N T. w. U. will see to
it that the gains of the workers in
this strike will be spread to the
South and elsewhere, and that the
strike will now be spread.
Panken Agrees to Split
The second attempt to break the
ranks was the separation of the Jac-
Guard silk weayers and the agree
ment of Panken, for the U. T. W..
leadership to enter into a small con-
ference to try to send 6,000 jacquard
weavers back to work. Moe Brown Of
the N. T. w U. and other delegates
declared that this is an attempt to
break the ranks of the national silk
strike, but Panken agreed to try to
negotiate a separate settlement OF
Jacquard workers. The rank and
file must answer this attempt of
Panken and the U. IT. w. leaders to
split the ranks of the silk strikers.
Like Auction Sale
Wagner and his aide, Jesse Miller,
cleverly tried to maneuver the con-
ference into position where the "of-
fer" of the manufacturers which is
really an offer of wage cuts, would
be accepted. In this maneuver Pan
ken remained silent and did not pro-
test. Miller, conducting the chair
like an auction sale at this period,
said to the employers, Come on
now, make any offer. which can be
used as a basis After much dick
ering, the manufacturers finally "of-
fered" $18 a week. Ann Burlak, on
behalf of the United National Strike
Committee, and other rank and file
The daily worker., 1933-10-12
Cleveland Y. C. L. Meeting

CLEVELAND, o. - Tonight the
Young Communist League, Unit 6,
and the Rainbow Serenaders will
hold a report meeting for Earnie
Murdock, a Negro youth delegate to
the Anti-War Congress held in New
York.
A dance will follow. Admission 7
cents, the two cents goes for the
Young Worker. The n2seting is called
at the Workers Neighborhood Center
at 3843 Woodland Ave-, 7'30 pm.
The daily worker., 1933-10-12
Steel Conference in
Minneapolis on Sunday

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.--A call for
a District Conference of the Steel and
Metal Workers Industrial Union was
issued to the steel and metal workers
of Minneapolis, st. Paul, Duluth and
Gary, MINI. The conference will be
held on Sunday Afternoon, October
18th, at the I.O.G.T. Hall, in this
city.
The Steel and Metal Workers In
dustrial Union has been growing very
rapidly in the Twin Cities, recruiting
hundreds Of members and organizing
many shop locals in the metal in
dustry. The union has led some
struggles and won Important victories
for the workers in many shops.
The daily worker., 1933-10-12
Doll Makers Continue
Strike at ROsenberg's

NEW YORK Striking doll and
toy makers employed at Rosenberg's
shop have decided to continue their
strike and refuse to go back on the
terms of the sell-out agreement ar
ranged by the Cannon-Ferrula group
in control of the Doll and Toy Makers
Union. The recent attempt of the
boss to split their ranks by address
ing kilograms to individual workers
urging them to return has not affect
ed the decision of the strikers. They
intend to hold out until their shop
committee Is recognized.
The strikers are appealing for funds
and food to be sent to the Jugo Slav
Club at 108 w. oath st.
The daily worker., 1933-10-12
John Reed Memorial

CEICAGO.-An extraordinary pro-
gram has been arranged by the John
Reed Club this year. for memorial
meeting for John Reed, writer and
revolutionary. The macting is to
take place this Saturday at the John
Reed Club. 1875 S. Michigan Ave
Admission 25 cents.
The daily worker., 1933-10-12
National
Events
CLEVELAND BANQUET

CLEVELAND, Ohio.-A mass ban
quet arranged by the Communist
Party in Cleveland as a send-off by
B. D. Amis, who was District Or
ganizer for IT months, and to well
come the new District Organizer,
John williams from Chicago will
take place tonight at o'clock at Car
penters Hall, 1851 Kinsman Rd.
The daily worker., 1933-10-12
their recognition in the code.

Potash made sharp attack on
the racketeerlng employers a8socis-
tions, such as the Protective Fur
Dressers Association, represented at
the conference. who had been given
full recognition b. the N.R.A., and
charged them with responsibility for
the murder of Lanser, the raid on
union headquarters last April, result
ing in the murder Of worker, and
gangster terrorism in the fur market
When he demanded to know what
the MIRA. was going to do about it,
Conklin declared that they would
have to wait on the action OF the
Grand Jury Lucchi and Mar,cowitz,
injunction lawyer, remained
silent, revealing their alliance with
these racketeers.