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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-14

GONE of the dirtiest tricks ever
" played on workers of any
country or race" This was the
opinion expressed by the National
Bureau Of the Marine Workers
Industrial Union, in New York, re-
garding the sudden seizure Of the
Chinese seamen brought here to
man the Dollar Line ship President
johnson and the Panama Mail
liner Santa Lucia.
These men we're brought here,
thinking they had positions guar
anteed them. The letter they
wrote to the Union indicates they
believed the companies had g. law
full right to hire them. Yet, when
they came here, Andrew Furuseth,
president Of the American Sea-
mems Union, could only condemn
the poor Chinese instead of con-
demning the rich shipping COM
panies that brought them here.
Furuseth complained that the
Chinese sean1en were going to work
for ~ a month Hut he made no
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greater the desire, the more fam
tastic, I must acknowledge, are the
plans of escape, which are often
doomed to failure by their very ma
ture. While in the pavilion of the
Warsaw citadel, where we were
imprisoned during the preliminary
examination, We planned to escape
by filing the grating in the win
dows of our cells, although the pa
Vilion was situated within a fort
ress, the walls and the windows OF
which we're watched by sentries,
while the bridges leading to the
fortress were drawn up during the
night. On our way to Siberia, we
made plans to escape from the
barges, expecting to be able to.
jump out and swim across the
river Obi.
THERE is many a tale Of escape
L that still remains to be told.
But the story is well-known by
hearsay to nearly every prisoner
and exile. could recount here
many attempts to escape which
ended in failure not only due to
carelessness, but also because the
plans were not worked out in de-
tail, nor were the final prepara-
tions carefully checked. Prisoners
tried to escape by way of the Arctic
Ocean, without studying the mouth
OF the river on which they sailed
and thus lost their way among the
numerous interlacing arms of the
delta; they set out to cross the I'M
paSsable taiga (Vast marshy for
est in Siberia.-Ed.), and after ten
days of wandering found them
selves not far from the place they
had started from. Efforts were
made to liberate our comrades from
prison through persons who Inn
personated officers in charge of
Conveys but whose uniform, defec-
tive in some minor detail, caught
the experienced eye Of the military
in charge and thus the whole plot
was spoiled Plans were. made In .
haphazard way. without organized
preparation.
DURING 20 YEARS"
returned from Siberia 20 Nenrs
after my arrest, on the eve Of tho
revolution of 1905. During these
20 years we learned a great deal
The more recent escapes from ST.
IBERIA proved more successful be-
cause we thought out every trifling
detail, organized secret lodgings,
where the escaped prisoner could
safely remain during the period OF
pursuit and search and fugitives
Wert supplied with reliable address
Ses and documents
-. Sro BE 0oNyrNpxns
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ion will do what it can to force the
Panama Mail Company to live up
TO its contract with the Chinese
seameu, and pay them the two
years wages agreed on in the con-
tract.
The Marine Workers Industrial
ONION points out that the only way
to protect the american standard"
so called, IS to organize all seamen
into a union that will fight to
raise standards to the western level.
Otherwise the western level will
drop, as it is fast dropping now,
to the coolie standard. The let
ter of the Chinese seamen is, as fol-
lows:
Marine Workers Industrial Union:
Friends We are compelled by
need to come far away to work.
But, upon arrival we found that
the so-called Strong people" Gre
ferring to the American Searnen'S
Union) opposed our starting work
and the company employing uS
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-14
A FARMER WRITES US
FROM KOOSKTA, IDAHO

Kooskia, Idaho.
Editor Of Daily Worker,
I have sent in my last dollar for
your paper. A good many farm
ers read the Daily Worker, as I pass
it on and so do they. They all like
the paper but none have any
money.
The Daily Worker IS the only
paper for farmers and workers re-
CARELESS of color, sex, age, creed
or nationality.
Your Daily" is doing splendid
work; there seems to be Commu-
nists everywhere. I wish to add
my opinion on the last election.
The big boys stole thousands of
red votes. I'm sure, To say moth
ing about disfranchising Negroes
and those depending on charity.
Also the migratory workers.
Comradely, r. T.. b.
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accusation against the companies
that hired them. In fact, one Of
the companies, the Panama Mail
Company, was not brought into the
controversy.
This Panama Mail Company,
when the furoYe rose over the Chi
nese seamen, abandoned them en-
tlreiy. II never even sent an agent
TO let them know what was hap
pering TO them.
APPEAL TO M.WLU.
The Chinese seanen appealed
to the Marine Workers Industrial
Union because this union sup
ported the 90 Chinese whom the
Dollar Line held prisoners on the
johnson last year for several
months and forced the company to
grant their demand to be sent
home.
The Chinese we're held incon-
municado, and the letter never
reached the Marine Workers III
0ustrial Union till after the ship
had rallied, Ncverthelssg, tras Or
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-14

through a proletarian dictatorship
into socialism. The social democrats
disregarded this MARKHAM truth;
they declared democracy as the To-
connective of history, with the help
of which they pulled society over
the dead bodies of revolutionary
workers back into the dictatorship
of capitalism.
The contents OF the history Of
Germany within the last fourteen
years are the development of the
natural consequences of the social
democratic treachery. At every new
phase Of this development, the
social democratic party held both
OF its wings, the right and the left,
protectingly over capitalism. From
the rebellion of the navy detach-
ments in Kiel, in 1918, to the anti
fascist struggles of 1882, social
democracy of Germany was always
found on the side of German CAPT.
talism. So persistently did the So
cial democrats play this role of
SaviorS of German capitalism, that
it is difficult to distinguish the
saviorS of capitalism in 1918 from
those Of 1888. Hindenburg for
Ebert, Hitler for Noske, Won Papen
for Schneidermann, different names
different persons, different times,
but the same purpose.
Noske murdered the German
workers in the threatening revo-
luton of 1918: Hitler is numbering
them in the threatening revolution
of 1888. Ebert embodied paralyzing
bourgeois democracy in 1918, Hin
denburg enbodies it in 1898; to
make the comparison unchalleng-
able, we mention that both Ebert
and Hindenburg were the presiden-
tial choices of the social democratic
party.
But times have changed. What
in 1918 only social democracy could
accomplish, in 1888 only Hitlerism
may try to accomplish: To save
capitalism.
COCIAL democracy, in a sense, is
" a victim of its own historic
mission. In spite of their readiness
with gun and club against the
workers, their phrases make the
social democrats efficient only as
the leaders of a disguised counter
revolution. Now the time has ar
rived when capitalism must con-
cider the disguise a weakening
victor. Too many workers have
been disillusioned. At this moment,
therefore, open counter revolution
is in order. The bearers and leaders
of that are the fascists.
The social democratic bullets
fired by Noske in 1918 we're wrap
ped in democratic illusions. The
history of Germany since 1918 has
largely liquidated these illusions.
The undisguiSed bullets of the ca
pitalist dictatorship OF today re-
quire different guns to fire them.
Fascisrn, therefore, replaces social
democracy as the savior of capt.
talism. That is why the people and
the names at the hell ON German
capitalism have changed. That is
why Ebert now spells Hindenburg
and Noske spells Hitler.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-14
SOUR SOUP"

MARTINS FERRY, o. Among
the many well deserved complaints of
the baskets Of food given here for
relief, one of the strongest recently
was the complaint of "sour soup"
Health Commissioner John Dono-
van, purported friend and promoter
Of the pure milk campaign, came on
the scene after the sour soup charge
had received widespread publicity.
He pompously and sneeringly made
a sweeping denial Of the charge and
dismissed the whole matter officially
by saying that those seeking relief
had presented "lnclean buckets"
Worker Correspondent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-14
The German Social
Democratic BETRAYAL

extremes, capital and wage labor,
but for the mitigation of their
opposition, and for the trans
formation of their discord into
a harmony. Various ways of at
tanning this harmony may be
advocated, and the different pro-
pOsals may be adorned with a
more or less revolutionary trim
ming, but the substance is always
the same. The substantial aim of
social democracy is 10 transform
society by the democratic me-
thod, the Transformation being
always kept within the petty
bourgeois orbit"
Marx had long debunked bour-
geoiS democracy of all its phrases.
He had exposed it as a form of
capitalist class rule. The German
social democrats rewrapped bour-
geoiS democracy again into all OF
the old phrases and presented it
as an aim in itself which would
transform class struggle into class
harmony. Since the empty Sto-
machs protested against the dreams
of harmony in the heads of the
workers and drove them into strug-
giles in spite of all theories of
harmony, the social democrats
practiced the enforcement of class
peace on the workers by pitiless
class war against them in the in
interests of the capitalists and with
the arms of the capitalist state.
Marx had declared revolution to be
the locomotive of history which
will pull social development over
the dead body of bourgeois rule
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-14
RAISED QUESTION
OF CLASS STRUGGLE

The zeal of the police was due to
the fact that unlike the socialist
groups which had previously ex-
listed in Poland, which tried to
combine patriotism with Socialism,
and for this purpose tried to OBJ
scure class antagonisms, the PRO
Ietariat" Party began to raise the
question of the class struggle and
strongly stressed the international
character of the struggle. The for
mer groups carried on propaganda
for the emancipation of Poland
from Russia and ignored the Rus
sian revolutionary movement. The
Proletariat Party, however,
strongly insisted Hpon the necessi-
ty OF a joint struggle with the Rus
sian revolutionaries for the over
throw of the tSarist autocracy.
Though the 'Proletariat" was
class party, which cannot be said
of the Russian "Narodnaye Volvs"
("People's villa revolutionary
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-14
Reporting the Struggles of
Labor Turnout the US.

daily paper in the United States
which consistently supported the
efforts Of the bonus marchers. Eye
witness accounts of the attack upon
the veterans on July %, appeared
in the Daily on August l and 2.
The first was written by a veteran
himself, the second by Nathaniel
HONG, special Daily correspondent.
THE SOUTH
RIVER STRIKE.
On August %. 1892, more than
100 needle trades workers at South
River, N. j., struck against wage
cuts. The Daily devoted more space
than any other paper to this strike.
The murder of 9-year old Walter
Roiek, the wounding of another
youngster, 13 years old, and 10
others on September 10, were re-
ported in the Daily the following
day. Reports on the strike con-
tinued until it ended on Septem-
Der q.
THE NATIONAL
HUNGER MARCH.
The Daily gave magnificent sup
port to the national hunger march
to Washington. AS early as Oc-
tober "a, it printed a map show
ing the different routes TO be taken
by the eight columns of the march.
From then on came day-to-day re-
ports of the preparations and pro-
gress of the march and, as on No
vember and 5, maps of the routes
individual columns were to take.
The capitalist press, on the other
hand, not only distorted and mis-
represented the marchers and their
purposes, but reported only the
sensations such as clashes with
the police, and the propaganda OF
the government and its officials
who were attempting to prevent
the march. From November Is,
the day the Daily reported the
start Of column No. l, it gave daily
and adequate factual descriptions
Of the whole movement.
Still more important, the Daily
smashed the lies and Hbels of the
capitalist press. Bill DUNES ar
ticle, December 8, effectively eX-
posed the vicious fabrication by the
New York Sunday News of an al
legged speech by Herbert Benjamin,
march leader.
ATTACK ON
SHARE CHOPPERS.
The few reports in the capitalist
press about the attack on Negro
share choppers in Tallapoosa Coun-
ty, Ala, December 10, have been
brief and fragmentary. They have
obscured the issues, the extent of
the struggle, the conditions against
which the troopers were struggling,
the unity of black and white farm
ers and the savage terror they
faced. In the Daily, on the other
hand, news of this event occupied
the most prominent position on the
front page from December q to
January 2. Besides, there were edi-
torialS and many articles, includ-
ing a special series by Nat Ross.
To this day the events surround
ing the struggle would be practical
ly unknown if workers had to de-
pend on the capitalist press, or the
socialist and so-called labor press,
for information about this impor-
tant struggle.
These events, and countless others
of the same kind, show clearly the
service the Daily performs in
the day-to-day struggles of the
workers.
The Daily Worker will not be
able to continue to perform this
service unless workers everywhere
answer its call for the funds that
will enable it to live. Save the
Daily Worker.-Editor.
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cover any clues. For this reason,
when Warynski fell into the hands
of the police, he was put on sort
of mass identity parade for a whole
day, before all the janitors and
house-porters of Warsaw, in order
to get evidence from them as to
what houses he had stayed in, and
in these the police made further
arrnetg
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-14
Letters from Our Readers

number of other descriptive phrases
that are far more definite in their
meaning used? Why was this
weak SLAM used when the Daily
Worker has the ability and phrase
ology to strike clear, ringing blows
at capitalism and its adherentS?
S,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-14
OBJECTS TO CAPTION,
LOOKS LIKE A BOSS

New York City.
Editor OF Daily Worker,
1t was surprise to find the
Daily Worker resorting TO such
petty caption as Looks Like a
Boss, over a picture Of Norman
Thomas in one of It's recent issues
Why wasn't "Betrayer OF Work
ars,r Bosses Friend, "Boss Pup
pei" Workers Enemy" pr any
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-14
ASKS ABOUT COMRADE
FOSTERS HEALTH
New York, N. Y.

New York, N. Y.
Editor Of the Daily Worker,
Dear Comrade:
Ever since the announcement of
the illness of Comrade Foster, fol-
lowed several days later in answer
to the SANDER Of the Socialist
Party, there has been no news Of
Conrade Fosters physical condi-
ton.
] have met many Workers-Party
end non Party-Who are constantly
inquiring about Comrade Fosters
health. Being as equally in the
dark on this matter as those who
asked me, I have not been able to
give any information.
Can it be that the bolrgeoisie is
more concerned with its leaders
than we are? When some leader
Of the boss class takes i'll, daily
health bulletins are blasted all over
the newspapers, Unfortunately,
our Daily Worker does not seem to
think that the workers who sup
port our Party and who are seri~
ously concerned with the condition
Of one of its most outstanding
.caders, need be keut informed.
May I suggest that at least a
weekly health bulletin should be
prominently displayed in the revo-
lutionary press containing a sum-
mary OF the progress or lack Of
progress of Comrade Fosters re-
covery. I genuinely wish for Com
rade Fosters speedy recovery and
that he speedily returns to his
leading role in the revolutionary
movement,
:. =.
We agree absolutely that more
frequent news on Cornrsde Foster
should .ppess in the Daily Worker.
Tbs Last statement or Connrade
Fosters health appeared on the
FIRST page OF ths Daily Worker, is
sue Of Fee. S.--EdItct's Note.
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authors Preface.)


THE episode here related occurred
in 1906--in my second YOUTH"
as like to call it, or it might be
called, my resurrection from the
dead"
7 was arrested for the first. time
in 1884 for being q member of the
social-revolutionary party known as
the "Proletariat," the first socialist
party in Poland. AS a rule, social
list propaganda at that time was
confined to study circles, and such
existed in a number Of factories in
Warsaw, LODI, Zgierz, zyrardow,
Bielystok. Through the medium Of
these circles we contrived from
time to time to stir up the masses
to action and in this way we began
to rally the workers around our
Party, if only in small numbers.
Such was the case, for instance, at
the time when ButMlin, Chief of
the Police Of Warsaw, issued the
order, prescribing that working
women be medically examined in
the same way as prostitutes. The
masses of the workers responded
SO forrnidably to our appeal to
them to protest, that the authori-
ties were compelled to withdraw
this disgraceful order. In connec-
ton with this incident, the Party
membership doubled, or even
trebled.
This was remarkable thing for
that time-remember it happened
48 years ago. When the police &C
cidentally succeeded in arresting
acknowledgement the leader of
the "Proletariat" Party, who per-
iShed later in the Schlusselburg
Fortress, huge demonstration Of
protest was organized and over a
thousand workers were arrested in
Warsaw alone. The police were well
aware of the connection which eX-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-14
By LABoR REsEARCH AssN.


uERE is some evidence showing
~ the Importance Of the Daily
Worker in the everyday strikes and
struggles Of the working class. We
nave examined the news columns
Of the national and city editions Of
The Daily for only two months, Oc-
tober and November, 1892. We
found, during this brief period, re-
ports on a total OF IS strikes. OF
these, five were larger strikes such
as those Of the Illinois miners. The
other 63 were smaller local strikes,
more than half of them in the New
York district, such as the strikes
OF clothing, shoe, food, marine, fur
niture, metal and building workers.
These figures do not, of course, in
clude the reports on other forms
Of struggle involved in evictions,
local hunger marches, political
demonstrations and the like.
But these total figures on strike
ceVerage do not give an adequate
Idea of the character and quality
Of the reporting on particular
strikes and struggles. We may il
luStrate from the history Of 1882,
taking just i've typical examples
that show the indispensability of
the Daily in the major campaigns
and struggles OF the year. The re-
porting Of these events was made
possible IN part by the loyalty and
competence Of the local workers
correspondents.
KENTUCKY STRIKE.
A front page streamer In the
Daily announced the strike in Har-
Ian and Bell counties, Kentucky,
Jan. I, 1882. For two months there
after the strike was featured. Every
angle was coVered-condition of
miners and their families, relation
OF the mine operators to the local
officials, the arrests, jailings, trials,
frame-upS and general terror and
killings by operators agents. E.s-
pecially did the Daily concentrate
its reporting on the big job of rails
ing and delivering relief.
The Daily labored under the most
extreme difficulties in getting its
reports through. Vern Smith, its
correspondent, and eight others
we're arrested, January 4, charged
with criminal syndicaliSn", and
lodged in the county Jail at Pine
vile. Yet the Daily managed to
give uninterrupted reports of events
even when, as happened on Jan.
"a, the miner who was smuggling
out the dispatches had to go to
city so miles away because three
gun thugs were waiting to get
him" at the Pineville telegraph Of
ice from which reports were usu-
ally sent.
THE DAILY'S effectiveness was
L seen in the $4,000 suit entered
against it on January %, by Floyd
Broughton, chief deputy sheriff of
Bell County. The summons was
handed Vern Smith through prison
bars! AT the same time, the I'M
partial Associated Press CORES
pendent in that section was Hern-
don Evans, former mine operator,
who was one Of the mob which
beat up the writer, Waldo Frank,
and Allen Taub, attorney Of the In
ternational Labor Defense.
The Labor Research Association
has prepared an exhaustive p.
lysis Of the reporting done in ~
strike. which exposes the utteas
prejudiced and distorted accounts
appearing in the reputable" n. Y.
Times and N. Y. Herald Tribune.
The need for the Daily was never
more clearly illustrated than dur
Ing this strike.
The Daily Worker was the only
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-14

The Daily Worker today be-
gins the publication of the dram
attic memoirs of Felix KOhn, an
associate of Lenin for many
years, and at present leading
member of the Society of Old
BOlsheviks in the Soviet Union.
Escape from the GalIOws" is at
present available in pamphlet
published by the Workers Library
Publishers, P. o. Box 14S, Station
d, New York;
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The Daily Worker will not be
able to continue to perform this
service unless workers everywhere
answer its call for the funds that
will enable it to live. Save the
Daily Worker.-Editor.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-09-14

Matt Sefervich is placing a new foundation un der his home on Fourth Avenue.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-09-14

week to the day from the time of his departure from Ketchikan. Af- ter leaving Ketchikan on a Tues day young Gilmore arrived in Spo- kane the following Saturday morn ing. He visited friends there until Sunday nigh t, flew to Chicago, spent few hours viewing the fair, took off again for Pittsburgh, and there, with the weather indictment, boarded a train to complete his journey to Washington. He plans to enter Georgetown Law School this month.
 s j: <
 Sigurd Hopstad, of Aklak, h s been granted authority to operate point to point telegraph station at Akiak on a frequency of 425 kilocycleS and a power of 10 watts to communicate with Bethel and other point to point telegraph sta tions in the vicinity.
 * j: < $
 E. J. Beck, superintendent of the Nome schools, spent couple of days in Washington last week and then left for the West en route to the Sew ard Peninsula city. MT. Beck attended the National Edu- cational Association convention in Chicago and then took advanced work at Columbia University in New York City. While in Washing ton MT. Beck called at the Office, of Indian Affairs with Delegate Di- mond and conferred with Commis- sioner John Collier.
 <
 The letter quoted above from Congressman O'Connel is only one of scores which have been receiv- ed by the Delegate regarding the Pacific Yukon Highway. The re- sponse has been splendid and al- most without exception the writers have expressed themselves in fav- or of the project.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-09-14
HorIuck's Ice Cream; Assorted F1avors. Alaska Shop.

Next Monday Sept. IS, will again be one-half PRICE SPECIAL DAY for Dry Cleaning. Send your "dry clean" to the Seward Steam Laun- dry on that day and have it done perfectly and to your entire satis- faction at one-half the regular price. Remember, next Monday!
Seward daily gateway., 1933-09-14
CAPITAL INTERESTS
(By Bob Bartlett)

Distance means nothing these days with modern transportation facilities. That was strikingly l- lustrated by Patrick J. Gilmore, Jr., son of Mayor Gilmore of Ket- chikan and Mrs. Gilmore.
 Pat arrived in Washington a