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Evening star., 1933-01-20
ANCHORAGE UTILITIES
PURCHASED BY CITY
Phone and Light and Power Sys.
TENS and Equipment Acquired
From Alaska Railroad.

BY the Associated Press.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, January 20
All utilities here were under public
ownership today, through the final ac-
quisition Of the telephone system and
the light and power system and equip
ment.
With the approval Of the Depart
ment Of Interior, the sale of both sys-
TENS by the Alaska Railroad to the
city was consummated Wednesday. OFT
F. Omlson, general manager Of the rail-
Evening star., 1933-01-20
AYRES AND WIFE PART
Divorce Suit Against Motion Pic
ture Actor Is Prepared.

LOS ANGELES, January 20 (P.-
Lew Ayres, the actor, and his wife,
known on the screen as Lola Lane,
have come to a parting of the ways.
In divorce suit prepared for filing
no longer cares for her and considers
marriage a "millstone around his neck"
The actor, she relates. left her home
for days at a time. Miss Lanes real
name is Dorothy Mulligan.
Evening star., 1933-01-20
Ragland, Film Salesman. Dies.

LOS ANGELES, January 20 R.-
John G. Ragland, 40, once prominent
in the sales branch of motion pictures,
died yesterday after an operation. He
was at one time Western sales manager
for the. old Realart Co. and later was
associated With Harold LLOYD.
Evening star., 1933-01-20
Kitten on His Chest
Saves Sleeping Man
From Mad Tarantula
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN YSIDRO, Calf, January
20.-S. c. "Scotty" Macintosh,
retired animal trainer, was
awakened by a commotion on his
bed. In the dim light he saw his
pet kitten fighting a hopping
mad tarantula on his chest.
The tarantula leaped toward the
kitten and MacIntosh's face. The
kitten side stepped and, in the
nick of time, reached out its paw
to send the deadly spider rolling.
Macintosh ran to a doctor, but
he had not been bitten.
The kitten had no battle scars.
Evening star., 1933-01-20
ODD FELLOW HONORED
Surprise Reception Given George B
johnson. Past Grand.

Officials and prominent members of
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows
and all its branches attended a su:-
prise reception Wednesday night in
honor OF George B. johnson, past grand
OF Eastern Lodge of the organization.
Mr.. Johnson, who has retired from
his duties at Soldiers Home after many
years service, has been active in the
Evening star., 1933-01-20
Mexico Denies Deportation.

MEXICO CITY, January 20 (R.-
Reports that Henry Jean Julescu,
alleged international check forger, had
been deported to the United States, were
denied by police here last night
Julescu, Rumanian wanted by New
York police, will be held for extradition
later.
Evening star., 1933-01-20
NAVY ORDERS

Admiral William v. Pratt, on Feb
ruary %, detached as Chief of Naval
Operations, Navy Department, to home;
relieved Of all active duty.
Chaplain Corps.
Capt. Hugh M. T. Pierce, detached
Navy Yard, Mare Island. Calf; con-
tinHe treatment, Naval Hospital, Mare
Island Calf.
Comdr Maurice M. Witherspoon dis
patch orders October 10 and II modi-
fed; to Navy Yard, Mare Island, Calf
Warrant Officers.
Acting Pay Clerk Charles F. Ueltzen
detached U. S. S. Colorado. to U. S. S.
Oklahoma.
Deaths.
Capt. Roscoe Charles Moody, U. S. N,
retired, died January IA, 1888.
Comdr. Charles Stanley Keller, q. S.
N, died January 13, 1888, at Naval
Training Station. San Diego, Calf.
Lieut. Comdr. Carl Hupp, u S. N,
died January II, 1888, at San Pedro
Bay. Calf
Chief Carpenter Frederick George
Mckay, U. S. N, died January H. 1888,
at Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa.
Evening star., 1933-01-20

order for more than half . century,
Members and friends presented Mr..
Johnson many gifts. He and Mrs. john
son plan to leave soon for Fallon, New,
to make their future home.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-11
Garage Worker Tells
How Restaurant Cuts
Pay by Stagger Plan

BY Garage Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK; am employed by
bus company of this city, where
conditions of labor and wages are of
such nature that, in order to sus-
tain my family, I am forced to seek
extra jobs.
l am night worker, leaving the
garage at am. and the only job
1 could get for a few hours to help
me make the balance of my budget,
was a job as extra counterman,
Now this boss of mine, who signed
the agreement" with our President,
has hired me as an extra" counter
man. for the hours of from IL am.
to 2 pm. at the tremendous wages
of 81 per week, for five days week.
The boss promised me that he
would raise my wages to IS, but his
promise did not materialize.
Fearing that he is playing the game
on me, I inquired from other workers,
countermen and dishwashers from
the restaurant, as to the system of
work there. They did not think much
of the MIRA. They told me that the
boss had before the application" of
the agreement" with the President
full time countermen, at $11 to SIG
per week, and steady full time dish
washers, at SO to $13 per week. But
American efficiency, NRA plus bust
ness interests, told him that he could
serve all, If, instead Of a full time
counterman, he can hire two Eek
tras" for the few hours of lunch and
supper, at 81 piece, that is So.
Moral Workers, organize against
the MIRA.
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and also Tor the men working below.
Some of the men make as low as
$40 month. The seamen, deck
hands, coal paSsers, and firemen arc
Negroes. Also all of the stewards ex-
cept the head steward, are Negroes.
In the steward department there
isn't any pretense of watch. You
work just as long as there is anything
to do. 1, myself, have worked as long
as Is hours in one day.
1t is almost impossible to work
more than one season on any pas
senger boat, as your hours are so
long, the speed-up SO fast, that it is
impossible to work more than three
month. 100
Forced to Gamble
The walters work on the tip system.
This is practically the only source
of income unless you can gamble.
Gambling is bossed over by the head
waiter, who cuts every game, and
derives a nice profit, any man refus-
ingto gamble is discharged on his
return trip to port.
You also have another petty Off
Get VIII pooClesS "A4Shey, JIG ASSIST
ant steward, selling his rot-gut to
the men, and also deriving nice
profit.
There is little if any organiza-
ton among the men, but through
the efforts of the Marine Workers
Industrial Union they are begin
ming to talk about organizing.
There is one ship, the S. S. Ontario,
sailing from Philadelphia to Boston,
of which the crew went out on
strike in the port Of Philadelphia for
higher pay. The ship was tied up for
six hours. until the port captain in
formed the men that their salary
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-11
Fishermen and
Cannery Workers
On Coast Organize
(By a Worker Correspondent

SAN PEDRO, Cal-The fishermen
and cannery workers of San PEDRO
have been feeling the crisis intensely
during the last four years. The price
of fish has been cut so low that it is
impossible for them to make a liv-
ing. In 1929 the price of tuna was
$3.50 per ton for bluefin and $140
for yelloWfin. In 1881 it was cut to
$50 a ton and the Van Camp Can
merry, which is the biggest buyer here,
held out 35 per cent of the catch with
the promise to pay after the season.
They accumulated half a million dol
lars in this way, but the fishermen
never got back a cent. Now they are
paying $50 ton, but the fish are
not running, so the fishermen have
not made a cent this season.
Sardines, in 1929, were S13 a ton,
that is, the boat owners got $13, but
the boat pullers only received $11. In
1881 the price of sardines was cut to
Sc and the same price is offered this
year. At this price it is impossible
for the fishermen to make living.
Speed-up In Canneries
The most oppressed in the fishing
industry are the cannery workers.
The crowded conditions they work
under, the smell of the fertilizer, and
the speed-up are terrible. Most Of
the workers are women. The wages
are 2712 cents per hour. But they are
working under the contract system
A worker has to pack IL boxes of 48
cans in an hour to get the 274s
cents. Very few can do it.
The pay is according to the punch
es. Thus many times worker puts
in Is hours work and only gets paid
for 10.
The workers are at the call OF the
cannery bosses day or night. Many
times the workers have to stand for
hours around the cannery after they
have been called to work before they
get an hours work or SO. No pay for
lost time. If machine breaks down
for minutes, half hour is deducted
from the pay.
Industrial Union Formed
The Fishermen and Cannery Work
ers on the Columbia River and Puget
Sound struck for higher wages and
U6UGeT COllulblUllo. Oub VI JlllS oOI uS-
gle the Fishermen's ana Cannery
Workers Industrial Urion YVES organ
lied. It has enrolled in its ranks
thousands of workers from Alaska to
San Diego. The fishermen and can
merry workers of San Pedro heard
about the strike and how the workers
won all their demands under the
leadership of the Fishermen's and
Cannery Workers Industrial Union.
When an organizer of the Fisher
mems and Cannery Workers Indus
trial Union came here, Al joined at
the first meeting. A meeting was
called for Sunday, August 81, at the
same hall, Carpenters Hall. Sunday
morning when the workers came to
the hall the doors we're closed and
Mr.. DAILY, the business agent of the
Carpenters Local here, who is in
charge OF the hall, told them that
they cannot have the hall for their
meeting unless they join the A. F.
of L.
Another hall was secured and the
meeting held and SO more Joined at
this meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-11
Where the Workers
and Farmers Rule
By a Worker CORRESPONDENT

KISHEMA, Soviet Union.-I am a
Bashkir, and in the tsarist Russia the
national minorities were extremely
oppressed. But now we work here joy
fully, because we know that all the
resources of our country belong to the
proletarian masses.
I am working in small ship-re-
pairing works in Kishema. When the
ship-reconditioning campaign will be
over, we will get leave Of absence
for one month. The most Of us will
spend it in rest house or in health
resort.
Six Dwelling Blocks Built
Six big dwelling blocks have been
built this year for our transport work.
ers. We are all provided now with
convenient lodgings.
1t has been made possible for our
children to go to school. In the schools
they are provided quite gratis, not
only with the necessary school books,
but also with shoes and clothes. Be-
sides this they get hot lunches at
school.
Our workers usually spend their
time after work in the trade union
club. They have study circles to in
crease their knowledge and raise
their qualifications. There is a good
library and reading room at the club,
where we read newspapers and mag
azines. Jussupov.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-11
Letters from Our Readers

line. Employment in July stood at
an index figure Of 67.3, compared
with an index figure of 66.8 for June,
IAN increase OF 10 per cent"
Well, comrade, am no Einstein'
but 67.3 does not represent an in
crease of To per cent over 668 re-
CARELESS of how you figure it, but
only 7/10 of per cent, which is
ten times less.
They also present some figures on
payrolls. Though the rate OF increase
by the figures they show happens to
be correct / was moved to go back
to the Sunday Times of July 80 in
the special features section. where
an article bf Russell Owen attempts
to show by charts the advance the
country is supposed to be making in
production, employment. payrolls.
etc. There find the following:
That the payroll index for June,
1888. stood at 45.9 instead of 43.1 as
the Times of August II shows.
These figures were obviously
twisted around. to hide the fact that
while there are men going back to
work, the payrolls remain at the
same approximate level, while pro-
duction is at an index figure OF 80.
Here you have it all. Not only the
stagger plan but speedup to killing
degree. More men working, but the
buying power remaining the same,
which of course results in more dis
astrous consequences when wages
compare with relief in money STAN
dards.
N. I. r. A.? Bah! N. 1. 6. A. and
nothing else but.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-11
Open Letter Being
Put Into Practice
by Unit Discussion

The views expressed by Unit IL,
Section l, District g. in connection
with the discussion of the Open Let
ter that took place at a recent open
unit meeting, clearly showed that the
extraordinary document was, and
will be more so in the future, fruit
full of results. Judging from the
serious approach to the questions
discussed, we may fairly assume that
our Party members are firmly de-
ternined to bring about thorough
change in their attitude toward
the fulfillment of the great tasks the
Party is confronted with
Further, not only were the Party
members keen to the present Situa-
ton Of the class struggle, but the
non-Party workers PRESENT at the
unit meeting also evinced a desire
that the instructions of the Open
Letter be incorporated in the daily
activities of the revolutionary move
ment.
1t will not be amiss to cite a few
critical remarks by the comrades to
prove the healthy spirit in which
the discussion of the Open Letter
was conducted. For Instance: A
comrade plainly and unequivocaIy
criticized our unit organizer, an
American born conrade, with mas
terry of the language and fair un-
derstanding of the Partl line-for
her persistently refusing to speak on
the platform, because of stage fever"
Where is her revolutionary fervor
and bolsl1evik zeal to overcome her
weakness?
Again, another comrade, while
praising the Daily Worker in its
achievement of influencing the M.
Colds to become contributors of our
paper, nevertheless expressed fear
that the Daily Worker might go to
the other extreme and become a
paper of and by the M. Colds. He,
therefore, urged the comrades to
write more often of shop struggles,
Of block activities, so that our daily
organ really and truly mirrors the
struggles of the workers.
The plan of work for our unit for
the next three months adopted by
the unit meeting and the control
figures guaranteeing that this plan
is lived up to, will undoubtedly be
means Of helping US make the es-
.sential change in our work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-11
Try to Round Up
Transient JObless to
Scab in St. Louis, Mo.
BY a Worker Correspondent

ST. LOUIS, Mo.--The Blue Buzz
Yards picture is up in every place
you go here in St. Louis. 1t is in all
stores, bakeries, butchers and res
taurants. 1t is also up in the M. p.
R. R. shops and was on there right
away.
Thousands or more unemployed
workers pass through this city daily.
Most of these workers are young
just in the teens. Some have suit
cases, some are in rags. When they
ask for food or means of earning
food from any of the places where
the Blue Buzzard is in the window,
they get turned down.
The railroad dicks and city cops
ride the freights out 10 miles and
make the train riders get off and
walk back to town. At present here,
there are many strikes, but the
bosses can't get any of the unem-
ployed to do any scabbing. This is
a way the bosses intend to get the
migratory workers to scab, by beat
ing them off the freights and starv-
ing them while in the city.
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workers paper that they ever had
chance to put their hands on
and l can say that we will see to it
that the Daily" continues to grow
as it has in the past month or so.
Don't you comrades think that If
we would have column of organ
izational questions that this would
help very, very much? Now when
I say organizational questions I
don't mean questions that are al
ready "clear" to the leading func-
tionaries, but, instead, basic ques-
tons on organization that would
help us overcome some of the diff
culties that confront us
This applies more or less to the
Black Belt. In this part of the coun-
try we are infants, so to speak, in
the Revolutionary Movement, but
must say we are willing to learn,
and to have questions like the fol-
lowing ones, I believe, would help
very much.
1. The Unit. What is a unit?
And above all-what is a unit buro,
and how should it be elected, and
after elected what are the specific
tasks that it must carry out.
2. Centralized leadership. On
this question there should be a
thorough explanation on just how
our Party functions, beginning at
the very bottom, the unit, and ex-
plain step by step until we get to
the e. G. G. I.
Now, comrades. I know very we'll
that it would be foolish to think that
these two questions could be run in
the Daily" every day, but what 1
am hitting at is that 1 believe that
We should lay base, more or less
using the above questions, and then
from day to day have some questions
revolving around these two points.
Before I close 1 must say that we
here in the South do not have the
opportunity to attend any kind of
Workers School, and a very, very
little time to do any studying, as we
are on the go from in the morn
ing until 10 to IL at night I there
fore say again that questions on Or
ganization should occupy Just as
much space in the Daily as any
thing else. 1t is needed very much
Editors Note: We certainly agree
that it is important for the Daily
Worker, Central Organ of the Com
munist Party, to publish clear, simple
explanations of organizational prob
TENS as suggested in this letter. We
are now attempting to do more of
his, and have recently published let
aers from units. AS soon as possible
we will run such material system
stically as Comrade Simmons sug-
gests.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-11
Food on Banana
Liner Not Fit
for Seagulls
By DAN RICO
BY a Marine Worker Correspondent

BY Marine Worker Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-The S. S.
Yoro, of the Di Giorgio line, runs be-
tween Philadelphia, Mexico and Gu
ba, carrying bananas. The company
is making money on these ships, but
they are not paying the crew any Of
it. I am signed on for lousy s45
q month and even then they steal
part of my wages by paying me $203O
every ID days, thus cheating me out
of 10 cents each two weeks.
There is no messroom or mess boy
on the ship. Only two pounds of
cheap Mexican coffee week is al
lowed for eight men. One can of sar-
dimes a week is handed out, and
there is no night lunch or coffee. In
the morning the crew gets two eggs
and a half cup of weak coffee. Every
day for dinner we get pea soup, beans
and rice, and on Sundays, we get
the bones, wings and necks of the
chickens. The officers get the good
par of the chickens. What little
meat we get is rotten. Sometimes
they mix everything up in a sea
pie" and even the sea gulls can't
eat that.
We have to work hard and do a
lot of unnecessary work. For in
stance, the cylinder tops have to be
cleaned every watch on our time,
and we don't get any overtime or
time off. The sailors work nine hours
plus overtime, and the quartermas-
tiers work four hours on and four off
~ hours day.
This ship flies the Honduras flag,
but is owned by American capital
lists. There are several members of
the Marine Workers Industrial
Union on this shin now
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-11
BY PAUL LUTTINGER, MD.
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
Cancer and Capitalism

Leorard S.-Sorry we cannot use
your elaborate treatise on Cancer
and Capitalism. There is no ques-
ton that under capitalism, the occu-
pational forms of cancer tend to
increase. But there is relatively
larger percentage of the bourgeoisie
who die of it. Savages and bar
barians die of cancer. People died
of it in the middle ages and the
number of deaths from carcinoma
(cancer) in Soviet Russia does not
show the decline registered in those
diseases which can be definitely pre-
vented. Writers and other artists
who express themselves fully are not
immune to cancer, nor are the wom-
en- who express themselves sexually
to the highest degree. There will
be an article on cancer in due time
which will discuss briefly what we
know about this dreadful scourge,
and more fully what we don't know.
We are returning your manuscript
because it is not sufficiently sub
stantiated by facts. The writer at
one time edited quarterly journal
on cancer. You may trust his opin-
ion.
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would be raised when they reached
Boston. The Marine Workers Indus
trial Union was active during the
strike, talking to the men, and tell
ing them how to form committees.
There is a possibility that these
men will line UP in the union in the
near future. The men have agreed
to fight for higher wages, the stop
page of gambling, the stoppage of
bootlegging, and all are dissatisfied
with the tip system.
A Waiter on the S. S.
Ontario.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-11
A CLEAR EDITORIAL

New York City
Editor OF the the Daily Worker:
l liked your editorial in the Sept.
z Daily Worker-"Hands off Cuba
This editorial explained the Cuban
situation to me SO that I really I'M
derstood it for the first time. Can't
we have all our editorials of this
is giving us real detailed
information and explanation.
NEOL.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-11
NEW YORK CITY.
Comrade Editor:

Comrade Editor: ,i,.
Before proceed any further with
the main thought of my letter, I
offer you my "congrats." It's a swell
job, this new 6-page Daily.
Get hold Of the Times of August
II and look to page 1, column 7, and
you will see a headline which reads
Factory Jobs Rose u per cent in
July. There you have to wade
through a mess of figures about how
the unemployed are starving without
government help and then you come
to page 2 and right upon the first
line you see the basis for the head
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-11
Railroad Men
Club Together for
Daily Worker Sub
(By a Railroad Worker
Correspondent

ROANOKE, Val think the
six-page Daily is fine. 1t has been
displayed to number Of railroad
men on the Norfolk & Western,
and they like it so well that they
have made a collection and in
the few days you will receive the
inscription to place the Daily on
the reading tables of the Norfolk
&c Western YMC.A. in Ohio and
West Virginia. How's that for
start?
I have three or four good pros
poets in line for party member
ship. They are old timers in the
railroad and are well known for
their work in behalf of the work
ers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-11
WHERE WAS 'CNE DAILY?
Queens, N. Y.

Editor, Daily Worker:
Saturday night, Sept. 2, attended
a street corner meeting of the Com
munist Party at 47th st. and Grecn-
point Ave-, Queens. The purpose of
the meeting was to open the election
campaign of the Party. Mrs. Bur-
roughs and others spoke. Over 200
people listened attentively to the
speakers, including five policemen,
whose noise failed to drive the crowd
of workers away.
Not one copy Of the Daily Worker
was sold or seen. This is a great
error because the listeners are not
followed up with the valuable infor-
nation and instruction which only
Il workers paper can give them.
Neither do these listeners, who are
mainly workers, get the application
blank for the Party which is printed
in the Daily Worker. u.s..