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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-31
600 Cleveland Adopt Of Struggle Against R. A.

being be raised. An outra2ec usly low
standard Of wages is, however, set by
the codes and employers are thus
helped to smash the remnants OF the
old wage standards. Hours OF labor
are not reduced to such point that
any substantial percentage of en-
ployed can be given jobs. Actually a
stagger plan spreading work more
thinly than ever is being enforced.
"Where codes have been adopted,
employers are guilty OF general vio-
laticns. cutting wages by laying of
experienced wcrkers and rclliring
them as learners etc.
THE small percentage OF workers
who have been called back to jobs
receive miserable wages and are
subjected to a merciless speed-up.
They slave much harder in order to
get but pittance more in cash than
If they were on relief.
Meantime prices of food and other
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at this time last year. Occasionally
as many as $4,000 grain cars are
loaded in day and $1,000 could be
loaded if the cars were available.
All engineers have been taken out
of the central offices and put on
duty at division points to take care
Of the traffic.
Continued favorable reports on the
harvesting are coming in. The whole
Ukraine and central black soil region
have over-fu1filled their deliveries by
1916 per cent of the August require
ments.
| The income of the Dniepetrovsk
collective farms, after delivery of
grain to the state, is not only double
the amount of grain of last year, but
also includes 40 per cent higher
cash return. 'Pravda," organ of the
Communist Party, states that four
times as much grain had been deliv-
cred to the state in Dniepetrovsk on
August 20 as on the same date last
year. BY August Is, Dniepetroysk had
delivered over 81 per cent of the an
nual requirement.
"Prayda" gives the credit for the
change from a formerly backward
district to this years splendid success
to the political departments of the
tractor stations, which broke through
the old routine, fought bureaucracy,
reconstructed the Party life in the
villages, and achieved the leadership
of the masses of collective farmers,
placing the emphasis on discipline
exactness, and decisive fight against
theft and 1oafing.
| A new technique Is being developed
for the next crop. The first electric
tractor station in the Ukraine will
begin blowing by electric power in the
Autumn. There will also be elItrifi-
cation of ensilage machinery, and ex-
periments in the electro mechanical
milking of cows.
'Isvestia," the newspaper of the
Soviet Government, today declares
that the rising standards of living
Of the Soviet workers now make the
use of semi-tropical products, includ-
ing oranges, lemons, grapefruit no
Ienger luxury, but a part OF the
daily life of the masses.
Is2estia' announces that the gov
errmert has appointed commission
to stimulate such production, and also
industrial semi-tropical material such
as rubber, vegetable oils, cork, and
bamboo, which the Soviet Union need
not import.
I'VE must create our own Florida
and California in the Soviet Union
in short time" it says. 1t points
out that the Black Sea shores, the
Caucasus, the area around the Cas-
plan Sea and Central Asia are suit
able, and that, according to the de-
cision Of the Sixteenth Communist
Party Congress about always growing
the most valuable crop in any region,
these areas must grow semi-tropical
cultures.
1t point out that the development
OF the state collective farms and
Soviet-manufactured machinery make
large scale semi-tropical agriculture
possible for the first time.
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are moved by the conviction that
these extraordinary times create an
emergency for the trade unions and
for the entire working class which
demands the most earnest efforts to
break down all barriers to united
struggle Of the broadest masses in
order to protect themselves from
hunger and betrayal.
"As the program of the New Deal
unfolds, 1t becomes clearer each day
that 1t brings no relief, but rather
increasing misery for the workers.
Unemployment continues en- a
vast scale. A nationwide drive to
cut down relief is on. The reef
wages Of the unemployed on public
works are viciously reduced. Evic-
tons and foreclosures multiply.
"Under the codes enacted by the
recovery administration, the nominal
wages of a few workers in the most
sweated industries may for the time
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-31
CIT Y CUTS
DAY LABOR
Per CENT
All Men on Day Rates
Reduced to Five-Day
Working Week

NEW YORK, Aug. 30.-All city
departments must reduce the
wages of their day workers by
cutting the work week to five
days, it-was learned today.
This will mean reductions of at
least $3.50 a week for those af-
fected, cut of about Is per cent.
This is the first step in THE
Economy program of the City by
which the Tammany administra-
ton hopes to pay the huge loans
to the bankers, without at the
same time cutting into the fat
graft and large salaries of the
favored Tammany officials. Other
wage cuts among school teachers,
engineers, etc. on the city's pay
roll are openly predicted by city
officials.
Peter Grimm Of the Untermeyer
Commission for economy sugges-
tions, has already said that no
wage cuts will be considered "un-
till other means have been ex-
hausted. Then Eve are sure" he
said, "the city employees will not
object"
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Discuss Codes, N.M.U. Tells
Miners; Form Committees
Check-Off Gives
Coal Operators a
Knife to Slash Pay
NMU Code Shows Up
Lew is Treachery
Against Diggers

WASHINGTON, Aug. 80. =
Details of the coal code pub
lished yesterday, show that
John L.Lewis and other UMWA
officials completely abandoned
their so-called wage demands,
fully agreeing to the starva-
ton scale asked for by the coal
operators.
AS against the s5-a-day, Lewis told
the miners would be the scale in the
coal code. the code provides for wages
as low as $500 a day in the South
$4.36 in West Virginia, and $3.50 in
Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Lewis has agreed to the 48-hour
week, and eight-hour day, when he
told the miners to expect 30-hour
week
What NMU Demanded
The miserable conditions in the
code adopted contrast sharply with
the code presented and fought for by
the delegation of the National Min
ers Union which went to the Wash
ington code hearings on August 9
The outstanding demands OF the
NMU was: Basic dayssscale shall be
a minimum of Sc for six-hours work
a day, and days week. A minimum
of 40 weeks year shall be guar
anteed to each miner Tonnage rates
shall be determined by a joint meet
ing of miners representatives and
employers in each vein of coal.'
Wage-cut Check-off
At the same time, the code signed
by Lewis opens the way for wage
cuts through the check-off. The
operators and Lewis very cleverly
connected the check-of for UMWA
dues with deductions for rent, light,
powder supplies land other items"
In return for the right to deduct
a rake-off for the UMWA officials,
Lewis agreed to permit the coal oper-
ators to take off of the miners pay
any amount they could and cover it
up by rent, and other means
BY raising rent, and the cost OF
other supplies, the operators are given
an effective means of reducing even
the low wages agreed to in the code.
1t is distinctly provided that there
can be no check-off of dues, with
out other deductions.
Against this the National Miners
Union at the hearing demanded:
mo check-off from the minerS
pay to be made for rent, company
insurance, or doctor, accumulated
debts, union dues, or anything else
The miners shall receive their fun
earnings and shall be paid every
two weeks in U. S. Currency only
The National Miners Union foresav
that Lewis and the coal operators
would permit the check-off in order
to lower wages and warned the min
ers against it, as well as called on
the miners to fight it.
The NMU now points out to the
miners. that the coal operators, work
ing with The UMWA machine, won
this point
At the same time, the NMU points
out that several of its demands, un-
der pressure of the miners strike. as
we'll as the fear of the pending strike
in the coalfields, were granted. They
are:
The miners shall have the right to
a checkweighman Of their own choos-
ing. to inspect the weighing OF coal.
and the payment every two weeks
in U. S. currency, though the opera
tors are given the right to pay in
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Cleveland Conference Issues Manifesto tc
All A. F. of L., T.U.U.L, Independent
Unions, and Unorganized on MIRA

CLEVELAND, Ohio.--A plan of
united struggle Of all workers
against the NRA, breaking through
the barriers set up by the A. r. of L.
burcaucrats, Is contained in Mani
festo unanimously adopted by 600
delegates who met in Cleveland Aug.
rs to n, at the United Action Con-
ference.
The Manifesto exposing the pur-
poses Of the MIRA Is addressed to all
working class organizations, parti-
cularly trade unions and unem-
ployed organizations. II is likewise
addressed to all workers, organized
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-31

necessaries are forced upward by the
government through initiation. price
fixing and destruction OF commodi-
ties. so that real wages are heavily
cut down and starvation stares the
workers in the face.
cat the same time a gigantic e.
fcrt is being made to take FL wa
ons Of resistance out of the haui5
of the working class. A bitter war
of determination against genuine
fighting unions is being launched, I'M
der cover of the very act which sup
posedly guarantees the right to Or
ganize and bargain collectively
This was dramatically illustrated
by the report from New York re-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-31
sl3,OOO,OOO Tied
Up in Three New
Bank Failures

BRIDGEPORT, Conn, Aug 30.
AT the same time that rumors
of increasing bank difficulties are
coming into prominence, new S
came today that three banks were
closed by the orde of the State
Bank Commissioner. TIE banks
arc the Commercial Bank. the
West Side Bank, and the Amei-
can bank. Aboat S13.000,0O0 in
deposits are tied up by the clos
ing of the banks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-31
Gunner Hold Utah
Coal Fields; New
Mexico Miners Out
Wire Protests for the
Workers Rights
to Picket

GALLUP, New Mexico, Aug.
30.-Thousands of miners here
struck, closing tightly the AL
lison, Gamerco, Mentmore,
Southwestern and Mutual
Mines, when the companies
rejected the demands of the
National Miners Union pre-
scented simultaneously with "a
hours notice.
The mines are heavily picketed
on the 24-hour basis. Sheriff Rob-
erts has called for troops, and Gov
ernor Seligman has ordered the mo-
Utilization of two cavalry and one
machine gun regiment to be ready
to go within six hours.
Brigadier General Osborne
Wood, head of the National Guard,
and Ralph Davey, Labor Commits
sioner, have been rushed to the
strike area.
The governor is reputedly in
censed at the alleged NMU snub-
bing of the mediation efforts OF
Wood and Davy, because the NMU
demanded they keep their hands
off the strike.
No news has reached here yet
of latest developments in Utah. 1t
is absolutely necessary to mobilize
a national protest against the
threatened massacre and terror in
Utah.
Threat Massacre in Utah
HELPER, Utah, Aug. 30.-Coal
operators, backed by armed United
Mine Workers of America thugs,
and deputy sheriffs with machine
guns, supported by Governor Blood
and NRA officials, are preparing
to repeat the Ludlow massacre
against the thousands of coal min
ers striking here at Spring Canyon
under the leadership Of the Ma
tional Miners Union.
On the very day that the coal
code was adopted in Washington,
providing that the miners have the
right to join unions of their own
choosing, the coal operators here
were preparing for a bloody attack
to wipe out the NMU which has led
the miners to victory. The present
strike is directed against the oper-
ators for violating the agreement
with the NMU.
Thousands Of pickets are staying
on the line day and night making
the most desperate resistance, and
are in no mood to surrender despite
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-31
Present Plan Of Action to Preserve Workers
Rights, to Mobilize Unions for Struggles
for Higher Wages, Better Conditions

ceived in the very midst of our con-
ference. stating that Grover WhalSn,
MIRA administrator for New York has
announced that NRA forbids strikes
snd even "pickesing in an orderly
,,--r',a~H OF employers who have
IN tnr ~cIon % Grover Whalen,
siccd MA ocdcs
ti,crc : e.;ce-sd the true intention
Of tbs capitsliat rulers OF the U. S. A..
to use the MIRA to enslave the work
ers still further. to intensity their ex-
ploitation. and TO withdraw from the
workers all their democratic rights.
While On the surface this attack is
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leading politicians and bankers. One
prominent Wall Street broker was re-
ported to have been in close touch
with close friend of Roosevelt, Inst
before the announcement. The ruror
was denied.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-31
Sun Shipyard Strike
Ended; Sd Raise
Granted to Workers

CHESTER, Pa, Aug. 30.-After
. strike Of few days the workers
Of the Sun Shipyard returned to
work on Tuesday with 81 a week
wage increase.
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and un0rganixed.
The Manifesto in full reads as
follows:
TO all American Federation of La
Dor Unions; Railroad Brother
hood Lodges. Trade Union Unity
Leagues Unions, independent
Unions and Unemployed Organi-
cations: to the workers OF the
United States, organized and UNI
organized
"rhe over 600 representatives of
trade unions-A. F. Of LIS, TUUL. in
dependent and of unemployed or
ganizaticns gathered in the confer
ence for United Action at Cleveland,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-31
Soviet Rail Wages
Raised so Percent;
Loading at Record
Collective Farmers Grain and Cash Income
Nearly Doubled; Plan Electrical Flowing,
and Semi Tropical Agriculture
By vERN SMITH.

Correspondent
MOSCOW Cable)-The all
es have been increased so
the
OF the
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WEATHER

EASTERN NEW YORK:
Fair Thursday
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-08-24


 places have been called the Tux uries of education. That is, the extra-curricular activities, such as dramatics, musical clubs, reading clubs, nature clubs and art clubs.
 "Naticn of Bleacherites"
 Without doubt one Of the ma- jor problems is how much can the schools be responsible for the cre- ation of desire upon the part of the individual to participate in &C., tivities, when broadly speaking we are a nation of bleacherites.
 Another grsat problem is that of allocating public school resource es, buildings, teachers and finance to adult education That to my mind is the greatest opportunity ahead of us
 T would stress improvement of oral conversation. A failure to carry on an enjoyable conversation is one of the outstanding defects of the average American.
 T think that certain amount of time could well be spent in loafing. Loafing implies recreation, and we all need certain amount of that.
 Organization Held Important Unless the community is wise enough to organize in a whole hearted and wholesale way rich program of leisure activities there
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is danger of creating youthful de- linquents and criminals
 The day may come that in or der to take up the danger of free leisure, the community may sup ply recreation to compete with commercialized affairs. Why not free music, free movies, free shows for adults as well as children?
 I'm no. Ioar1ui of the inevita- ble criminal results of increased leisure. I doubt very much that increased leisure would increase drinking or gambling"
 pr. William H. Kilpatrick says: One of the main things we want
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is not to break life up into two parts one part drudgery in which we make the money, the other fun in which we spend the money In the future we want people to engage more and more in msaningful work which will be interesting to them"
 Unprepared For Leisure
 The leisure that has already come, says Dr Harold Rugg, caught the average man unaware and un- prepared.
 Millions of paople,' he said, nave resorted to experiences which are little less than sheer
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-08-24
By the World FORGOT
A New Serial by RUBY M. AIRES

I SYNOPSIS. Geofoie BdncroH hds had to tell clifford Asher thdt she cannot mdrTy him because she fouGs onother man. The other. man fn Germany trDirg to hdue re- mloved the scar that has ruined his career as film. star. What IS aoorse, he is ndrricd. On her tody home from the ddnce qohere .Chf- ford proposed, Georgie fnds e scrap Of neiospdper ioith the head 7ine "MoUie Star Dies Sudden 1y." She is horritied, until ffndlly Bishop, her stepfdther, finds pd- per, and she ledrns it is not Ntcho- las. She suddenly realizes Bishops underlying Kindness.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-08-24
DOUGLAS NEVIS
JOHN CARLSON IN HOSPITAL

Misfortune overlook John Carl son the first of the week while he was at wol-s at repair job in the Owl Restaurant, and since then he has been in St. Ann's Hospital with Dr. w. W. Council in attendance. Insecure footing on step ladder precipitated Carlson to the floor, causing him to break his right arm at the elbow. He will probably be laid up for some time on account of the injury.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-08-24
MAY SOON TALK TO
 POINT BARROW
Seattle rimes)

Hello, central, give me Point Barrow" may soon be heard over the telephones of Seattle and the rest of America when the newly planned radio telephone system of the Alaska Washington cable goes into operation, it was revealed to- day. The system win replace the present wireless telegraph system from Seattle to points in Alaska.
 An extensive survey of the sys- tem's equipment in Alaska has been made this summer by Col. George, E. Kumpe, Signal Corps, United States Army, in charge of the radio, who will return to Se- attle aboard the Yukon tomorrow Colonel Kumpe came here recent ly from Washington, D. c.
 The system, which is still known as the Washington- Alaska Cable although the cable was actually abandoned year ago when the wireless telegraph was substituted, already has radio telephone com munication with Ketchikan. Col orsl Kumpe has been studying the possibility of installing similar sta- tions at Fairbanks, Nome and Ju- neau, eventually extending as a radio telephone axis through the whole of the Territory.
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VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
 TOMORROW EVENING

The Douglas Island Woman's Club is asking for volunteers among the men to go to the Tread well beach Friday night to com plete work started some time ago on the bath house. Coffee and sandwiches will be served by mem- bers of the Club during the even- ing.
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anaesthesia. Witness the daily milling about of restless crowds in athletic fields, the experiment tation with new concepts and forms of sex life, the gin parties and the betting parties in which all ages and all social classes in- dulge.
 Our chief cultural goal is not goods but men"
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COMING HOME

Mrs. Joe Reidi is expected home Saturday on the Northland, ac- cording to news received from her in the last mail, and the name of Miss Vera Kirkham appears in the passenger list of the ship on the present voyage north
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By HOWARD M. BLAKESLEE Associated Press Science EditOr)

NEW YORK, Aug. 24-A new era in leisure is forecast by a group of professors of education of teachers college, Columbia Univer- sity, as the nations business and industry turn to shorter hours of work as an aid to national recov- cry.
 Novelties of this era are free shows for adults, Americans pro ficient in the art of conversation
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Our NeU ''Spme Time'--Ho,u WiH We Spend 1t?
 Erase Barrier Between Work and Pa Professors
Erase Barrier Between

Extra leisure for American woikors-wll it be gain, logs or gamble? Obviously, the na- turc Of the use Of this prom iaed new "spare time" will decide. This article, third of a ,ccries, presents the views of three professors as to the ave- nIas into which new leisure opportunities should be dirsct- cd.
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c. OF c. MEETING

The regular meeting of the Doug las Chamber Of Commerce will be held this evening in the City Hall, and, according to the off cers, it will ba an important and interesting session.
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Necessities are art, music, read lng, nature study md play. Most particularly n Q " play ideas for hard shell adult heads.
 The era, as the professors see it, is likely to kill the old, old di- ' l sion between work and play. Take the drudg- cry out of work. Put purp o s e alongside pleas 1re in play.
 A difficulty now, :" says Dr Daniel H. Kulp, advises from the fact that certain forms of leisure activities t h a t may be provided in schools are not accessible to large portions of our population after they leave , c h ool because of lack of public facilities.
 n Q Il C e our schools S h oul d stress those acti- vities which re- gently in hi cago and other
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-08-24
MISS YEAKEY RETURNS

Miss Margaret Yeakey, conner cial instructor in the Juneau Higil School ie a passenger aboard the Prince Rupert arriving from t.ae south tnis afternoon.
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WAKE UP YOUR
 LIVER bILE- WITHOUT CAL0MEL And YouT Jump Out of Bed in
 the Mornin8 Karin to Go

n yuu isl Bow md sunk nd the world ioolu punk, don't swallow . lot of saftn, mineral water, oil, laxative candy or chewing yum and expect them to make you suddenly sweet and buoyant and full of sunshine.
 For they can't do 1t. They only move tho boveis and . mere movement doem't get at the cause. The reason for your dovn-and-out feeling b your liver. It should pour out two pounds of liquid bile into your bowels daily.
 If thb bfle is not Aowins freely, your food doem't digest It just decays In the bowels Gas bloats up your stomach. You have [ thick, bad taste and your breath is fouls skin often breaks out in bbsmishes- Your head aches and you feel down and out. YoW vhoas system is poisoned.
 1t tahes thoee eSo1, cld CAMPERS LITTLE LIVER PILLS to get these two pounds of bile flowing freely and make yor lea '@up and up" They contain wonderful, hafmiez, gentas vegetable extrsets, amazing when it comes to making the h1e how freely.
 But don't ssk for livsr pm. Ask for CutxS Lltfis LvE P5lls. Look for the nams Cartzfs IT, ". FL g fhs fse hhk Hne | uossAs~ss --.-------->-zr--
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Louisiana has 4,700 miles of nav igable streams in bayous, rivers and lakes reaching almost every section of the state.
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BEACON LIGHT IS
 TURNED ON BY MRS.
 MORGAN OF JUNEAU
Fairbanks News-Mmer)

On top of the Federal Building last evening. the Fairbanks beacon light to serve as-guide to avlators at night was turned on for the first time. The occasion was at tended with some ceremony. Pres ent on the platform structure were Gov John W. Troy, Collector of Customs James J. Connors, Mrs. Dorothy Morgan, the Governors daughter. and Mrs. Connors and group of prominent residents of the city
 Mrs. Morgan Turns on Light
 Mrs Morgan pulled the little switch that let loose a long broad beam of electric illumination and set the large instrument in it's re- volving motion. The strength of the beacon is 100000 candlepower.
 According to present plans, the big lamp will be kept lighted from the fall oI darkness until g o'clock every evening, and thereafter can be turned on by the pressing of a button in the telephone office whenever the arrival of plane is expected.
 Beacon of Standard Type
 The beacon is of the standard type furnished by the Department of Commerce for aviation fields throughout the United States.