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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-15
HOLD 2 i. S.
DELEGATES
IN CUBA JAIL
Grau Answers Work
ers on the Rights Of
Their Organizations

HAVANA, Dec. 14.-Henry
Shepard and Alfred Runge,
two of the Anti-Imperialist
delegates arrested by soldiers
of the Grau regime are still in Prin-
cipe fortress.
Today President Grau made his
answer to the workers delegation
that demanded he state his position
on the rights Of workers organiza-
tons and on unemployment insur-
ance.
On the lega1ization of all workers
organizations, Grau said that abso-
lutte freedom has been granted to all
labor organizations, though this is
not true.
They have been granted legal rec
ignition he said. and a department
of labor especially created to deal
with all problems affecting their well
fare.
Free To Choose Quarters
On the question Of assigning suit
able quarters to all workingclass Or
CARNATIONS, he answered that they
are free to choose and occupy such
quarters as they may see fit in con-
formity with the foregoing,
Replying to the question Of the
freedom of the workers press, he re-
piled that it now exists and will con-
tinue to exist as long as this govern
ment is in Office.
Regarding the proposed percentage
law which provides all employers
must employ so per cent Cubans, an
effort to split the ranks Of the work
ers, Grau said that the goal of the
government is the protection of Gu
ban citizens against foreign competi-
ton. He said the question is under
consideration Of raising this TO 80
per cent.
Unemployed Fund
On the question of an unemployed
fund to provide a minimum of S.
weekly for adults and Is cents daily
for dependents, free gas, light and no
evictions, the funds to be raised by a
capital levy on all foreign corpora
c-.7 I'd q 70 +-,cf-l iroCn1e tax on
foreign concerns doing business in
Cuba, Grau answered that nothing
/ has BE- I ca? n thi- --esr5ct. The
workers had demanded that the fund
be administered by a committee of
workers and peasants.
| He said the whole matter was not
under consideration.
The Anti Imperialist League and
the Cuban National Confederation of
Labor declared they should be given
the right to arrange for the elections
and the setting up of the commissions
to administer the unemployment fund,
since the Confederation represents the
majority of the organized workers in
Cuba.
Not Considered
Grau answered that this was not
under consideration.
Demand Release
NEW YORK. - The International
Labor Defense cabled protests to Pres
ident Grau demanding immediate re-
lease of the two delegates. A similar
wire was sent to the Cuban embassy
in Washington demanding their free
dom.
A mass meeting to hear the re-
port of the five delegates who went
to Cuba viii be held at New Star
Casino, 107th st. and Park Ave,
Sunday, Dec. 18th, at p. M.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-15
Especial to the Daily Worker)

AT THE GERMAN BORDER, Dec. a.
Via Zurich, Switzerland)- Death was de-
manded today for the German Communist
leader, Ernst Torgler, head Of the Communist
fraction in the Reichstag, by the bloody Nazi
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-15

Send your greetings to the "a
page Tenth Anniversary edition of
the Daily Worker. Rush them to
us before Dec. 30.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-15
NAH FRAME-UP PROSECUTION DEMANDS DEATH FOR T0RGER
FORCED TO ADMIT INNOCENCE OF DIMITR0FF POPOFF TANEF
German Communists Leader Faces ExeCntiOners Axe;
Mass for International Protest on December 10Th !.

Death Demand Intended as Threat Against
Growing Influence of German c. P.
Not Bit of Valid Evidence Produced Against
T0rgler During Two-Month Trial"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-15

A mass meeting to hear the re-
port Of the five delegates who went
to Cuba viii be held at New Star
Casino, 107th st. and Park Ave-,
Sunday, Dec. 18th, at p. M.
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The Wrangell sentinel., 1933-10-27

The $13,6OO, ,6OO allotted to the navy department for construction and repair at the wards and shore stations will provide 266.000 man working weeks of work.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1933-10-27
MIRA NOT A CURE-ALL

One of the disappointments of the MIRA program up to this time has been it's failure to raise the price of the things the farmer has to sell in proportion to the things which he has to buy. This has caused a great deal of resentment in farm circles, according to reports coming from the rural districts, and has inspired in great measure the demand for outright currency in- flation. While the codes have doubt less helped many of the big indus tries such as the textiles and the coal trade, the resultant rise in the price in the finished goods has not been followed by corresponding increase in purchasing power The difference has been felt chiefly in the rural districts, but there are thousands of people in the cities and towns too who have been cores bonding rise in incomes.
 One of the chief causes for such disappointment as there is may lie
The Wrangell sentinel., 1933-10-27
RIGHT TO BE HANGED

Three prisoners at the Colorado state penitentiary, all convicted murders, are under sentence to die by hanging in November.
 The state recently abandoned hanging, substituted lethal gas, that method being considered more humane A lethal gas chamber has been constructed at the peniten- tlary but the three men in question must hang because they were con- victed before the lethal gas pro- vision became a law.
 The more humane method of dy- ing is denied the three prisoners as it argued that their constitu- tional rights would be violated were the death penalty inflicted by any other mode than hanging.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1933-10-27
Is YEARS AGO THIS WEEK News Items Taken From The Sentinel Files Oct 24 1s1s

In a blinding snow storm, the steamer Princess Sophia, Capt. J. P. Locke in command, went ashore on Vanderbilt reef about half way be- tween Juneau and Skagway at two o'clock Thursday morning, Oct. 24. 1918. She carried a crew of 75 and had aboard 26S passengers taken on at Skagway. There were S4 officers and members of the crew of the White Pass and Yukon company aboard from river steamers.
 The calls of the Sophia's wireless were heard in Juneau Is minutes after striking and the Peterson from Fort Seward, the Estebeth, Amy Lone Fisherman, King and Winge went immediately to her rescue Other gas boats left later in the day and the |. S. Lighthouse Tender Cedar arrived there that night.
 A heavy sea was running and as the Sophia was resting easily, Capt Locke did not deem it advisable to transfer the passengers. Friday the storm became terrific. The boats which had been lying by all the time sought shelter that night. Late in the afternoon Capt. Locke wire
The Wrangell sentinel., 1933-10-27

can be done. Neither do they. Their duty is not to say how a thing should be done but what ought to be done.
 MT. Wallace was unskilled enough in political lore to admit that the present government plans for agri- culture would not make the farmer rich over night. You will not make money, now perhaps" he is quoted as saying, but your children and grandchildren will get the benefits if this effort succeeds"
 Small wonder then that a farm group in MT. Wallace's own state immediately passed a resolution de- mandlng that he resign from the cabinet If Mir Wallace had con- suited a skilled farm politician, he would never have admitted that his farm program would not work im- meaiately at a 100 per cent clip. He would have declared that the pro- cessing tax and other phases of farm recovery program would make agri- culture prosperous overnight and that every farmer would awaken with a pocketful of money on day after tomorrow morning Of course, the prediction wouldn't prove true, put that wouldn't matter to a pro- tessional farm politician. He would nave been out of town before day after tomorrow anyhow, and busy promising something to somebody else.-EX.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1933-10-27

belief among the political forecast CTS, at the time this is being written. is that there will be no currency in flation for the present at least. In fact, it is thought that the Presi- dent has definitely turned his back on this kind of effort to raise prices and bring back prosperity, and most thinking people heaved sigh of relief upon getting this infor- nation.
 It is generaly conceded that the business revival which started early in the summer has not been carried out at the same pace during the re- cent weeks. and that the looked for revival had not materialized. Every body is hoping that it will come later. And a great many observers are of the opinion that the clarifi- cation of the nations monetary pol icies will have a very desirable effect on business. A great deal of the doubt and hesitation, they be- lieve. is due to the fear of some radical form of imitation. FIX.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1933-10-27
CRITICISM IS NECESSARY

President Roosevelt in a recent press conference expressed amaze ment at the unanimous support of his policies accorded by the press of the nation. But he urged the press to criticize wherever neces- sary. As he put it, We don't know that all our policies are right; when you see us going off on the wrong track, let us know about it"
 That was a statement of the high est intelligence. It will stand ever lastingly to President Roosevelt's credit. The chief executive of this nation realizes that in honest criti- cism this nation has it's strongest safeguard As long as there is free and outspoken press in this nation, the welfare of the people can never be successfully subordinated to die tatorship.
 The Roosevelt idea is a pleasant contrast to the press muzzling in Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia, and other nations in which the rulin g powers are evidently afraid of the slightest breath of criticism. Messrs. Hitler, Mussolini, Pilsudski and Stalin might ponder Roosevelt s statement with profit.-Ex.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1933-10-27

lessed Juneau that the condition of passengers was normal and that the vessel was not taking water. That was the last that was heard from the scene until ' o'clock Saturday morning when the Cedar wired that she was leaving for the Princess Sophia. About two hours later came the fateful wireless despatch saying that the vessel had sunk and there were no survivors. Every available boat was sent to the scene of the disaster. Over two hundred bodies have been recovered and brought to Juneau and the work of identifi- cation started at once by means of leters, registration cards and con- tents found on bodies
 Many valuables and much money were found on the bodies and it is safe to say few vessels ever carried the same number of passengers with larger average in money As each body was identified. a careful mo- tation was made and the valuables filed away. The City of Seattle which left Seattle Tuesday after noon is bringing 200 caskets to Ju- neau.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1933-10-27
MIR. WALLACE'S TROUBLES

Secretary of Agriculture Wallace is finding that the direction of farm activities of the government is not altogether journey down a path of thornless roses. In fact, of late, since the farm recovery program has failed to lift agricul- ture out of the depression, and MT. Farmer has found that the price of the things he buys under the Blue Eagle is going up as fast if not faster than the things he sells, MT. Wallace has found his path be- set with many difficulties.
 There have come demands for the elimination of the processing tax and for imitation enough to bring cotton up to twenty cents pound and wheat to a dollar and a half a bushel MT. Wallace, no doubt sees the fallacy of the arguments that the adoption of currency infla- tion would help the farmer. But it
 
 to the agriculturist while he is in an angry mood.
 For example, MT. Wallace in recent speech at Chicago outlined his views on the question of agri- cultural recovery. He declared that if the farm prices are restored to the 1926 level farmers will have to cut down production in order to hold it there. But this is not what the professional farm politicians ask. They demand a restoration of the prosperity price level with bumper crops to go along with it. MT. Wallace doesn't know how this
The Wrangell sentinel., 1933-10-27
INITIATION FEARED

Events are moving so rapidly at Washington nowadays. and through out the country for that matter. that it is a little difficult to predict very far ahead It is a fact, however
 that from present indications, the inflationists, who have been con- ducting a terrific drive at the nation al capital, have temporarily Host possession of the ball" The general
The Wrangell sentinel., 1933-10-27
HEADLINE IN MICHIGAN PAPER:
 OBITUARY: UNUSUAL BUT TRUE

DETROIT.-Recently there ap- peared in the Clio (Mich.) Messenger a death notice, headed "An Obituary: Unusual, but True" which said
 "Montrose lost one of it's former residents this week when Peter Leonard died at the home of his daughter in Flint Pete was prob ably one of the worst old reprobates that ever graced the streets of Mont rose. Always a trouble-maker with out a good word for man, woman or child, words of truth probably never passed from his mouth for many of the fifty years of his depredations on earth. Uuprincipled from the years that the writer knew him, meaness far surpassed any thought of goodness that the average person would command and 'exemplify. He has passed on, and it is not likely that Montrose will ever have an- other resident his equal-at least, most people have their moments of dencency' May his sojourn in h-l be as lengthy as his cursed days on earth is the wish of his many enemies''
 The publisher of the Clio Mes senger, Ralph Gillett, was formerly publisher of the paper at Montrose so undoubtedly he knew the de- ceased and whereof he speaks in the death notice quoted above.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1933-10-27
SUNDAY FUNERALS BARRED

SUSANVILLE, Calf. - Sunday funerals have been barred by minis ters in this Sierra Nevada moun- tain region. The ministers decided that only emergency cases, such as contagious disease and shipping eases, should occupy their attention OFT the Sabbath.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1933-10-27

IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA DIVISION NUMBER ONE, AT JUL NEAU. BANK OF ALASKA. a corporation
 Plaintiff,
 vs G.S. CHAPIN and JOHN McCALLUM
 Defendants
 No. 3357-A
The Wrangell sentinel., 1933-10-27
SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION


 To G. S. CHAPIN, defendant above named, GREETING:
 IN THE NAME OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, you are hereby commanded to appear in the above entitled court holden at Ju- neau in said Division and District and answer the complaint of plain tiff filed against you in the above entitled court, within thirty days after the completion of the service of this summons and a copy of the complaint herein upon you, and, if you fail to so appear and answer, for want thereof, plaintiff will take Judgment against you for the sum of S2100 with interest thereon from August 3. 1880, and plaintiffs costs and $250 attorneys fees, and foreclosure of a certain attachment lien upon 234 shares of the capital stock of the Wrangell Packing Cor poration, a corporation organized under the laws of Alaska, as evil denced by certificates Nos and 2 now in the possession of the United States Marshal, and issued in the name of G. s. Chapin; and will cause said stock to be sold pursuant to said judgment. Reference is made fer the judgment demanded to the complaint on file herein, a copy of which is served herewith and to which, reference is hereby made for a full statement of the relief demanded
 The date of the order for publica- tion of this summons is October 21, 1883. The period of publication prescribed is four weeks. The first publi ation of same is October 27, 1888, and the last publication is November IT, 1893; and the de- fendant is required to appear to answer this summons within thirty days after the completion of the last publication.
 Dated at Juneau, Alaska, 0cto- her 21st, 1933
 ROBERT E. COUGHLIN
 Clerk of the District Court for the Territory of Alaska, Div. No One.
 By J. W. LEVERS, Deputy.
 (Seal)
 Dates of Publication, October 27 November 3, 10. F, 1888.
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 q cook and hake for you and
The Wrangell sentinel., 1933-10-27

in the fact that many of the pro- moters of NRA promised too much in the first place The act contains many admirable features. but some of its proponents advertised it as cure-all Disappointment naturally follows when it does not live up to
 Il advance notices. something which it couldn't have done under any circumstances.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1933-10-27

T. T. Meredith, TO, ended the longest term of any postmaster in the United States recently, when the postoffice at Widnoon. Pa, was discontinued. Meredith served as postmaster for 30 years.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-03-17
Mrs. Holmes to Read
Another Language" Sunday Evening
at the Playmakers Theatre

Mrs. Urban T. Holmes will
read Another Language" by
Rose Franken, at $3.50 Sunday
evening in the Playmakers the
atre.
This comedy was passed
around the producers Offices for
months, until Arthur ]. Beck
hard gave it a trial in Wood
stock, N. Y. Opening on Broad
way last April, it won an i'm
mediate success and ran all
through the summer.
1t tells q story of divided 10y
alties among the Hallams, a
m0dle-class family of the pres
ent day.
The author of Another
Language" is the wife of DR..
Sigmund Franken, distinguish
ed ear surgeon Of New York and
is the mother of three children.
This is her first play.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-03-17
Robbery under the Guise of Law

property. That is, you continue
to pay the same ad valorem taxes
that were levied upon the mill
before the corporation was
formed. What the Everett bill
does, if it becomes a law, is to
make you pay ad valorem taxes
twice on the same property sim
ply because you have stock GER
tificate instead of the deed you
formerly had. The certificate is
merely a piece of paper that
serves as evidence of ownership.
In Virginia you are paying taxes
on your property, and this bill
would make you pay in North
Carolina taxes on a piece of pa
per as if it were the property it
self.
Let US assume that the mill is
valued at $4,000 and that, af-
ter all the expenses of operation
have been paid-labor, insur-
ance, taxes, depreciation, and va
rious other charges included in
overhead-the net earnings are
sufficient to pay you a dividend
Of 5 per cent, or $500. Under the
proposed law, North Carolina
would take from you anywhere
from 5000 to $3.50 of that $500,
depending upon the tax rates
where you live. Here in Chapel
Hill, where the combined town
and county rates amounts to
1922 on the $100, the amount of
which you would be robbed un-
der this double-taxation measure
would be 1922. In effect, you
would be subjected to an income
tax of around As per cent.
The levy would be much heav-
ier in some North Carolina COM
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The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-03-17

The amendment to the reve-
nue. bill introduced by R. O.
Everett and passed by the state
house Of representatives is a
thoroughly vicious measure. The
levy that it imposes is nothing
more or less than legalized rob-
berry.
This amendment, which we
hope the senate will have de-
cency enough to disapprove, lays
a tax upon so-called foreign
stocks; that is, stocks in corpora
tions outside of North Carolina.
1t is as unfair as if your town
and county, at the same time
that they tax your home, should
also tax the sheet of paper that
you hold as a deed to your home.
The simplest way Of explain
ing the nature of this bill is by
illustration.
Suppose that you have a house
in, say, Virginia. You lived in
it last year. This year you move
to North Carolina. OF course
you still pay the Virginia ad val
orem taxes on your Virginia
house, but you do not pay in
North Carolina any taxes upon
it. Likewise, if you are the own
er of mill in Virginia-an own
er as an individual. not as one of
a company of stockholders-you
do not pay in North Carolina any
ad valorem taxes upon your mill.
Now suppose you decide to in
corporate your mill. The town
and county in which the mill
stands continue to levy ad val
orem taxes upon it, as before, in
addition to whatever taxes ap-
ply to corporately owned as dis
tinct from individually owned
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-03-17
Garden Plan Explained
Food Production at Home Discussed
at Meeting Monday Evening

About 200 men and women of
both races, of Chapel Hill and
Carrboro, assembled in the Old
Methodist church Monday eve
ming to hear Colonel Pratt,
George H. Lawrence County
welfare officer), and Don Mathe-
son County farm agent), ex-
plain the graden plan which is
part of the program for the re-
lief of the unemployed.
Hence forward the relief or
ganization in the county, acting
under orders from the national
and state organizations, will re-
quire all families asking for aid
to make the most of their op-
portunities to produce their own
food.
The farming and the non
farming groups are managed
separately. The persons at Mon
day evenings meeting were not
farmers. They have plots of
limited area for gardening.
Albert McCauley, who is serv-
ing as assistant to Mr.. Law
renee and Mr.. Matheson, has q
list of rs town-dwelling families
who are prepared TO go ahead
with gardening. The national
and state governments are to
provide seed.
Some of the families have al
ready broken ground. Mr.. Law
renee is seeking to arrange for
the plowing of the plots of those
who cannot have it done for
themselves.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-03-17
Banking Operations Are
Resumed Here; Deposits
Far Exceed Withdrawals
Chapel Hill Chaf

Often, when I turn into my
yard at night, I see a rabbit
scamper down the road in the
glare of the headlights and dis
appear into the darkness, and
now and then l have heard q
neighbor talk Of seeing rabbits
around his place. But did not
realize until one day this week
that they had become plague to
Chapel Hill gardeners. Mrs. D.
D. Carroll showed me a plot
around which she had had to
build a wire fence in order to
protect her plants from rabbits.
Young John Kenfield began
taking piano lessons from Mrs.
Fred Mccall a few weeks ago.
He was jealous student for a
while. but his interest in music
faded perceptibly when he won
prize at school in contest in
building bird-houses. He came
home and announced to his fam
lily at the dinner table: II have
decided piano-playing is not the
thing for me. I'm going to be
a carpenter"
Miss Harriet Elliott, who
drove down from Greensboro
Sunday afternoon with Mrs. Lu-
lu McIver Scott, told a group of
her friends here how she man
aged to get to her seat at the
Inauguration parade on the 4th.
When she approached the en-
trance to the stand by the Treas
ury building, with her ticket in
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