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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-10
On the
Funny
Side
MEMORY

The school inspector had been
questioning the class for consider
able time. Presently he said:
Il wish | were a boy again and
back at school," He paused. do
you know why | wish that?"
For a second or two there was ST.
lenee. Then grimy hand went up.
"Well?" asked the inspector.
"'Cos you've forgotten all you
ever knowed,' said the youth.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-10
Callatin Nav Chicks

are easy to raise. grow fast. mature
early, heavy layers all fall and winter.
Best breeding quality accredited blood
tested. Every order routed to avoid
unnecessary delay. Write for Gallatin
Chick News, and reduced May prices
Gallatln Chick Hatchery
Boxcman, Montana
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-10

Mrs. smart-My husband consid-
cred a long time before he proposed
to me. He was very careful not to
get involved.
Mrs. Sharp-It's always those ex-
ira careful people who get taken In,
isn't it?-pathfnder Magazine.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-10

An old-timer, meeting a young fell
low at the racetrack, affably In
CURED: Joe, how are you axed7"
well, I've got five tips In SIX
horse race. louisville Courier-Jour-
nal.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-10
Fellow Feeling

Lawyer-Your wife asks for heavy
alImony and fear she will get 1t.
Bob Speeder-Can you get 1t be-
fore some Judge who Is paying all
mony elf?--Brooklyn Eagle.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-10

Your local dealer carries Ferry's
Pure Bred Vegetable Saeds. Now
only cents a package. Adv.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-10
Striking an Average

Son-Dad, what is meant by the
expression, THE average MANI?
Dad--An average man, my son, Is
one who isn't as good as his wife
thinks he Is afterwards.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-10
Might Lend Him a Razor

The office boy took off his cap.
presented the bill and said: MY
boss says I'm not to 90 back until
you give me the money you owe
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-10

Indeed !" said the debtor. II
wonder Ii he'll recognize you with A
beard"
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-10
Completely Revived

Grandpa awakening from gland
operation) dear me, know I'm
going to be late for school today.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-10
PERFECT LOVE

Kate-Would you leave your homa
for me?
Frank would leave the LNme In
the ninth inning with the score a tie.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-10

HEN the special Mothers day
stamps were placed on sale re-
Gently, there was added another
chapter to the romantic story of
woman who Is undoubtedly Amer
ica's most famous mother For
the stamps bear the reproduction
Of James Abbott McNeill Whistler's
famous painting which is called
Arrangement In Gray and Black"
but which Is more familiar to his
fellow-Americans as sWhistler's
Portrait of His Mother" or, more
simply still, THE Mother"
Although Anna Matilda Mcneil
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-06

Two hundred and fifty thousand
L copies of this issue of the Daily
Worker! This means that thou
sands Of you fellow workers will
see for the first time the paper of
which you have heard so much, but
which you have never had an op-
portunity to read. It means that
thousands Of you will see the Daily
Worker for the first time and many
of you, because of prejudice against
the paper Of the reds" will be In
doubt whether or not to read 1t.
Fellow workers, read it; it is the
paper Of workers for the workers.
1t speaks your language. You will
find in 1t many of those ideas that
are going through your mind. You
will find the cz,Dlanation of many
OF the problem lat concern you
directly, that shows the way to free
dom.
The Daily Worker? Yes, it is the
organ Of the reds, of the real ones,
Of the Communists. Who are we
! Communists that speak to you
through the Daily Worker? What
do we want?
| We are workers ourselves. We
want better conditions for the toll.
ing masses. We want to enlighten
our fellow-workers and all those who
toll, who suffer, as to the causes
that bring about a condition where
in the midst Of plenty, while the
bosses are dividing millions in prof
its, wages are cut and workers are
walking the streets because Of I'M
employment, their children crying
for milk. for bread, for shoes, for
warmth. We want that the large
masses Of workers who are laboring
| for a meagre wage while the bosses
are accommodating millions, shall see
that these conditions are brought
about by the system of society I'M
der which we are living, by the capt.
taiist system existing in this coun-
try and in others.
The same bosses who own the
money. the factories, the banks, the
homes where millions of exploited
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-06
THE DREAM OF LENIN

tempt. But Is there really q cap
italist country where newspaper
men are so completely owned
by the newspaper magnates as In
the q. S.? Where do the writer's and
papers sell themselves to the high
est bidder with less Scruples with
more eagerness than in the U. ST.
Precisely because in the U. S. the
rule Of the bankers and trusts, the
rule Of finance capitalism Is most
highly developed, our great press
is so completely sub jected 70 the
dictates and Whi14s Of the financial
iictators.
Why this need for SensationaHsn1
in the capitalist press, why is it of
such great benefit to parasites and
exploiters, why is it consciously
stimulated and organized? Lenin
gives US a clear answer:
"In all capitals. countries and
democratic republics the atten-
ton Of the population is at such
moments economic crisis and
wars. d. diverted by the mer-
ce1aEy capitalist press, which
calls Itself a free press, by con-
cocting and putting in circulation
stories that will cheat ard deceive
the Masses
Note how Lenin always en-
phasized the deceitful and mercen-
" character Of the capitalist press.
Lenin always emphasized that the
Communist press must, in the first
place, devote its major attention to
the actual lives, conditions and
thoughts of the workers, as against
the SenSationalism of the capitalist
press, against its deceitful class
cl,ar. ct :. T1at is why Lenin also
attached such great importance to
Workers Correspondence.
Without deceit and corruption the
ruling class could not exist. It's
best organized weapon of public
deceit is its press. When the Amer
lean ruling class modified for par
ticipation in the last world war, was
not the press the loudest in de-
ceiving the masses as to the i'm
perialist nature Of the war, and
aided in creating the illusion that
it was war ito make the world
safe for democracy"
Deceit and more deceit, promises
and more promises-this, in the
r2o n, is the foundation of Roose-
velt's program for the toilers. The
N.R.A. as an instrument of oppress-
ing the workers will go down in
history as one clothed in the great
est demagogic fakery. Can the
II .R.A., with its lying promises to
the workers, spread its poison in
any form without the aid of the
9? Of course not.
Stain pointed out that deceit
discrepancy between word and
deed, is one of the main features
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-06

OF the intellectual life and politics
of the capitalist parties. This is
true Of the capitalist parties be-
cause they are dying parties and
their politics are based on deceiving
the masses. But, to quote Stain
own words:
This is not how our Party I'M
der any circumstances posed the
problem because we are a Marxist-
feminist Party, 3 growing Party,
that draws its strength from the
fact that there is no discrepancy
between its words and deeds, that
it does not deceive the masses,
that it tells them the truth and
builds its politics not on dema-
gogy, but on the basis Of the
scientific analysis Of the class
forces"
And here hes the difference be-
tween the capitalist press and the
Communist press. The former is
based on deceiving the masses, on
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-06
BY F. BROWN

are living, are also in power in the
various institutions in the city and
state government, as well as in the
national government. They are the
rulers, they are those at whose COM
mand the city and state apparatus,
the police, the army, the courts
and during strikes forcefully dis
band the pickets, break the strikes,
imprison and murder the most mill
tant workers.
Fellow workers! You who read
the Daily Worker for the first time,
you know this very well. You know
who drive us while we work. We
know the effects of the speed-up.
We know how careful our wives
must be with the few pennies we
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-06

I workers in motion.
But we have not sufficiently
valued, developed, and used the
Daily Worker as the collective or
ganizer."
Note that Lenin always UNDER
scores the word real" What did
Lenin have in mind? 1t is the need
Of organization of the workers in
,ile s.r2tegic position, in the basic
industries. IF our Daily Worker
would have been circulated in large
numbers amongst the workers in
the basic industries, how different
would have been the character of
the strikes that swept the country
and in many basic industries still
continue to spread? We lament
continually that we must establish
contacts. But the Daily Worker,
one Of the very best weapons to
convince the workers, to organize
them, is, in many instances, GRIMM
ally and shamefully neglected.
Can any Communist worker, any
militant worker consider himself
fighting capitalism, If he does not
fight the capitalist press with it's
most demoralizing, corrupting in
fluence amongst the workers.
Lenin, who valued so highly the
newspaper as collective organizer,
paid the most detailed attention to
the question of distribution and
circulation. AS far back as 1902 he
wrote:
g. as regards the District
groups, one of their most i'm
portant functions is properly to
organize literature distribution.
This is an extremely important
duty, for if we can secure contact
between special district group of
distributors AND all the factories
in that District, and of the largest
number of workers houses in that
district it will be of great value,
both in case of demonstrations
and in the event of uprisings."
This IS how highly Lenin valued
the distribution of literature. And
he especially emphasized distribu-
ton around factories and workers
houses.
Our Communist Party has local
organization in about 500 cities. The
Daily Worker circulates in about
1000 cities. If we, in the near future
would develop mass circulation in
all these localities, in the first
place in basic industries, struggles
would indeed sweep throughout the
country, and what deep roots the
Communist Party would take among
the masses!
What is one of the sources of our
lack Of appreciation Of the Daily
Worker as a collective Organizer7
Continued on page l4)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-06

earn, how not only the smallest lux
ury is denied to us, but also the
most vital necessities because of our
small wages. You and we, who par
ticipated in strikes, know how the
police, the city and state govern
mentS cooperate with the bosses,
how treachery and violence are used
to break our strikes and destroy our
organizations, at the moment we
come forward with a militant pro-
gram.
Unemployed fellow workers: you
and your families have suffered for
years without money, and at times
without food and fuel. You are ask
ing the same question that is being
raised BY the thousands and thou
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-06
CIRCULATION.

0AES& OA4A AOxNs
How can we win the American
workers for struggle against cap
italism? How can we win them for
the proletarian revolution, If we
leave them to the daily poisonous
agitation and propaganda of the
capitalist press? To be a Commu-
mist, to be a Bolshevik, to be in a
position to be a leader amongst
masses, means that we must be free
from bourgeois and petty bourgeois
ideas. The capitalist press is the
main weapon Of the bourgeois in
demcralizing and disrupting the
masses with its theology. Every one
of us must consider it his duty as
Bolsheyik to wage a ceaselesS, I'M
relenting struggle against the cap
italiSt press.
This is why Lenin attached so
much Importance to the establish
ment of revolutionary proletarian
newspaper. This is why he dreamt
about the building of such
paper.
ENIN taught US that Bolshevik
Il newspaper is the collective agita-
tor, propaganda, and organizer. To
be more exact, Lenin said:
''The role Of a newspaper does
not limit itself only to the
pTopa eating Of ideas A news
paper is not only the collective
propaganda and agitator but
also the collective organizer"
Lenin in his what Is To Be
Done?" firmly emphasized the inn
portant role that a working-class
newspaper can and must play as a
collective organizer. He said:
"And 1 continue to insist that
we can START establishing REAL
contacts only with the aid of a
common newspaper, as a single
regular, all Russian enterprise,
which will summarize the results
of the diverse forms of activity
and thereby STIMULATE our
people to march forward untir-
ingiy along ALL the innulnerabIe
paths which lead to the revolution
in the same way as all lead to
Rome the mere function of
distributing a newspaper will help
to establish REAL contacts"
What is the central idea here?
The establishment of real contacts
with the workers that viii build or
ganization, and establish revolu-
tionary party.
How did we in the U. S. break
through the conspiracy OF silence"
of the capitalist press on unemploy-
ment, on the Scottsboro case, if not
BY means of the Party local or
ganization and the Daily Worker,
which, through its contacts, in
hundreds Of cities, organized mass
actions and set large numbers of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-06

demagogy, the other on issuing true
slogans for action based on the
needs Of the masses. The majority
OF the capitalist press maintained
complete silence on the Scottsboro
case, particularly in its first stages,
and on many other important work
ing-class issues. But despite their
million-fold circulation, the slogans
raised by &he Communist Party,
published in the Daily Worker have
reached millions. Why? Because
these slogans were based not on
demagogy, on deceit, but on the
true needs of the masses! THAT IS
WHY 1T IS so IMPORTANT TO
HAVE THE DAILY" AND ABOVE
ALL TO INCREASE ITS PRESENT
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-06

sands of those who are still working
under slave conditions: how long
will this impossible situation last?
You also feel that something must
be done. Many of you were hoping
that help and salvation will come
from the Roosevelt administration.
Eut what has happened? What has
been done to improve the condi-
ton of the toiling masses? Today
We can already see the results Of
the famous New DEAL: the rich
are getting richer, the employed are
more exploited; unemployment is
again increasing, the slight rise in
wages does not at all correspond
with the rise In prices; violence is
used against the strikers. Every eff
fort is being made to smash the
militant unions Of the Trade Union
Unity League. the independent
unions that fight against the policy
Of the burocrats Of the A. F.. of L.
officials who work hand in hand
with the government and the bosses.
Every effort is made to organize
company unions.
THE situation has not changed for
the better; on the contrary, in
flation makes the prices soar up,
while our standard Of living is con-
tinually getting lower. Again we
have proof that We workers, poor
farmers and all who toll can expect
nothing from the boss government,
from the capitalist Parties. The
partial victories here and there and
the increase Of wages was due only
to our struggles, to the big strikes
that swept the country from coast
to coast. But now, the increase in
prices is sweeping away even this
little gain Against those who toll,
2 campaign of terror is launched to
prevent them from organizing and
struggling for better conditions. The
lynching of our Negro fellow work
ers are everyday occurrences. They
are prosecuted and terrorized; lies,
fra~tsauaS ~ D.co 10Y
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-01-08
COMPROMISE
SUGGESTED IN
MILK STRIKE
Acute Situation Arises in
Chicago House De-
liveries Stopped

CHICAGO, Ill, Jan. GA posi-
bility of peace doomed today in
Chicago's milk strike. coming in
the form of proposal by the Pure
Milk Association, which called the
strike. to compromise on the de-
mand for $2.10 as the basic price
for 100 pounds and accept $1.85.
The offer came when the city
was facing an acute shortage of
milk supplies and the apparent
success of 1000 farmers and pickets
swarming the highways to the city.
One unofficial estimate was that
100000 quarts of milk were dump
ed Sunday alone so tight was the
blockade.
The Milk Council, Inc, represent
ing Us of the largest diaries of the
Chicago area, decided not to at
tempt any ordinary home deliveries
of pastuerized milk today There
is enough milk for hospitals, in
firmaries and orphanages allowed
to reach the city while receipts of
cream received by train is being
used as whole milk
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-01-08
President and Wife Are Told
About Alaska by Slim y Dog
Musher; Dimond Seeks Aid

WASHINGTON, Jan. g. The
beauties and opportunities of Alas
ka were described to President and
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt last
Saturday by Clyde G. Slim VIII
liams, who drove his dogteam from
Copper Center, Alaska, to Wash
ington, via the Chicago Worlds
Fair to advertise the proposed high
way from Puget Sound to Alaska.
Williams, who met Mrs. Roose-
welt in Chicago, said he did not
speak to the President about the
proposed road but talked just
generally about what great coun-
try we have"
The proposed highway will ex-
tend north through British Column
bia with Fairbanks, Alaska. as the
immediate goal, a distance of about
1900 miles, approximately half of
which is completed.
Delegate Anthony j. Dim n d
plans to ask Congress for 81 100000
to construct the Alaska portion of
the road Immediately.
The highway will open vast
area of rich timber and mining
land.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-01-08
BRIDGE PLANS
ARE APPROVED
BY WAR DEPT.
Dimond Advised Gastineau
Channel Bridge Plans
Are Given Okay

Tentative plans for the Juneau
Douglas bridge across Gastineau
Channel have been approved by
the War Department and the Ter
ritory's application for permit
granted, SO Delegate Anthony J..
Dimond has been advised, accord
ing to an Associated Press despatch
from Washington to The Empire.
Funds for erection of the bridge,
$3.50, 900, were recently allocated
by the Public Works Administra-
ton.
Preparatory to drafting fina
plans and making detailed specifi-
cations. a survey is now being
made of the area between Ninth
and Twelfth streets by o. H. Strait
ton, bridge engineer just added
to the staff of the Alaska Road
Commission under whose direction
the bridge win be built. Mr.. STRAIT
ton started taking soundings of
Gastineau Channel in that area
last week. He will have completed
these in another day or so. In the
meantime, he is also working ON a
design for the structure Final
plans will be completed and the
project in such shape for call
for bids within 80 days.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-01-08
NOMINATIONS
CONSIDERED IN
SENATE TODAY
AIaskans Holding Recess S
Appointments Are Up
for Confirmation

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. The
Senate proceeded today to ask the
Administration more questions
about policies before undertaking
consideration of a huge batch OF
nominations.
Among the nominations received
were those heretofore given recess
appointments and included the fol-
lowing from Alaska:
George F.. Alexander, of Oregon,
Judge Of the First Division; Joseph
Kehoe, United States Attorney,
Third Division; w. T. Mahoney,
u. S. Marshal, First Division;
Thomas Gaffney, U. S. Marshal,
Second Division; c. J. Todd, U. S.
Marshal, Third Division.
Confirmation of Henry Morgen-
THAI, Jr., to be Secretary of the
Treasury, is expected late today
The Senate sought report from
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace on
the operation of processing taxes
by which reduction in acreage is
promised. Wallace is also asked in
another resolution for the sharp
decline" in hog prices in October
and November"
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-01-08
LABOR Is IN
FULL ACCORD,
RECOVERY ACT
President of United Mine
Workers Makes Point :.
ed Address in East

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Jan. g.
Declaring that organized labor is
in full accord with the Recovery
Act, John L. Lewis, President of
the United Mine Workers, in an
address before the American Acad-
envy CT Political and Social Science,
said it is the opinion of union la
Dor that the practical application
of the law has been too restricted
and too lacking in uniformity and
comprehensiveness for the human
welfare and economic freedom and
standpoint of labor"
The United Mine Workers Ex-
ecutive said further: II am con-
vinced there has been no legal in
strument comparable with the
economy law since Lincoln's En-
ancipation Proclamation"
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-01-08
MORE
ALLOCATED FOR
eva PROJECTS
Prevents Closing Down Of
Projects in Territory
at Early Date

To enable continuation of the
Alaska CWA program beyond the
middle of this month, an addi-
tional 100000 was allotted to the
Territory last Saturday by Harry
L. Hopkins, CWA Administrator.
This was disclosed in a news re-
port from the Associated Press to
The Empire, which was later con-
firmed by a radiogram from Mr..
Hopkins to E. w. Griffin, Acting
Governor.
This brings the total for the
Alaska CWA to 100000, 100000
having been previously allotted.
Hawaii was given $45O.000 addi-
tional for the same purposes.
The new allotment does not in
crease the number of men author
lied to be employed on Civil Works
projects in the Territory. This was
emphasized by Mr.. Griffin. 1t
merely makes available money with
which to meet payrolls under the
authorization given late in De-
cember.
Had the funds not been forth
coming, it would have been neces-
sary to discontinue many OF the
projects now under way after jan
uary Is. Mr.. Griffin added.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-01-08
U, S. OFFICIALS,
GANGsTERS, KILL
over WEEKEND
Several of Nation Grim
inals Lose Lives or
Are Under Arrest
TRI-STATE TERROR
DIES In HOSPITAL
Escaped Convict Captured
in Gun Fight Chap
mans Pal Murdered

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Jan. g. The
weekend saw the Nations motor
ious hoodlums materially reduced
through police bullets, gangsters'
guns and arrests.
Saturday night Wilbur Under
hill, tri-state terror, died in the
McAlester, Oklahoma penitentiary
hospital, after his transfer from
Shawnee, where Federal Authors
tories sent 10 bullets into his body
early last week when he tried to
escape in a raid on his headquar-
ters A woman companion was
also fatally injured in the fight.
Underhill was transferred to the
penitentiary in an ambulance when
it was learned pals were planning
his rescue.
Sunday night, Homer Inman, one
of Underhil1's confederates, was
wounded and captured in a gun
fight near Seminole, Oklahoma.
Handsome" Jack Klutas, for
mer University of Illinois student,
rated by the police as the smartest
head of gangster gang, was gum
ned to death by the police in Chi
cago Saturday night.
Trapped with Klutas, was Walter
DERRICK, escaped convict from In
diana, and a member of the John
Dillinger gang.
Frank Schaeffer, who escaped
with Gerald Chapman from the
Atlanta Penitentiary in 1928. was
shot to death early Sunday in the
New York theatrical district by an
unidentified gunman, in a taxi
cab.
Schaeffer was 40 years of age,
and has been a criminal for %
years. He sprawled on the side
walk with a bullet through his
head. Chapman was hanged for
murder several years after his es-
cape from Atlanta where he had
been imprisoned following convic-
ton Of murder.