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Evening star., 1934-08-30
IN CAPITAL LETTERS
Reporters Go Boom in First Strike Violence as German
Holds Conference-Hopkins Explains Food
Situation in Walkout.

the strike Is not held unjustifiable
Then no Federal relief at all.
Might Be Confusion.
And who decides whether a strike
is justif1able or not?
1.-The National Labor Relations
Board" says Mr.. Hopkins.
What about Miss Perkins?" some
body queried.
And the Secretary Of Labor also
has that power" supplements Mr..
Hopkins.
And what If the Labor Board says
one thing and the Secretary of Labor
says the opposite? Does the striker
get fed?
Spontaneously, from his corner,
Chicago Daily Newsman Fred Reed re-
marks: Put 'em on half rations."
Harry Hopkins smiles. Although he
is just as much all business as Fran
els Harmon.
Evening star., 1934-08-30
Bow Singer Honored.

Frank Cady. IA, of 251o K street,
was announced as winner of the
Rev. Joseph Lannsinger Trophy at
the amateur night" performances
of the Holy Name Church, Eleventh
and K streets northeast, in connec-
ton with its garden party yester-
day evening. Frank won the trophy
by his singing. Judges of the affair
were Rev. John W. Bowling, church
director; Rev. Paul Daugherty and
Rev. Lannsinger. Joe Brown was
master of ceremonies.
Evening star., 1934-08-30

Of Gorman's close-clipped sentences,
bang down goes the table. Several
journalistic walking sticks hit the
dust. ..
One wise-cracker can't resist. First
strike violence" he quips. Francis j.
German does not smile. He's all
business.
It's an hour later; and we're all over
at Harry Hopkins conference. We
want to know if the Federal Emer-
gency Relief Administration intends to
feed the strikers. Mr.. Hopkins re-
iterates-no striker is entitled to re-
lief because he is striker per Sc. The
yardstick Is his need. All provided
Evening star., 1934-08-30
SYLVAN THEATER EVENT
PLANNED TOMORROW
Cadet Band and Entertainers to
Provide Talent in 14th Week
by Festival Offering.

The Fox Theater Cadet Band and
entertainers from the Salvation Army,
Friendship House and Neighborhood
House will present a program at 1880
o'clock tomorrow night in Sylvan
Theater as the fourteenth weekly
event in the outdoor festival season.
The events are arranged by the Com
munity Center Department In CO.
operation with the National Capital
Parks.
Tomorrow nights program will be
opened by the cadet band with half
an hour of music. including trumpet
solo by Fred Miller. The Friday
Evening Club of Friendship House
will present THE Feast of the Little
Lanterns" and young players from
Evening star., 1934-08-30

I should love to make some remarks
about the plight of the Persians. First,
the wife of the Persian Minister loses
her pet dog. For that am truly
sorry. Then Mr.. HusSien NaVab, Sec
retary of the legation, ipnocently
answering a knock at his door, is
slugged by a thug; all very mysterious
ly. But dare not comment.
For the Persians are persnickety
Evening star., 1934-08-30

Neigl1borhood House Will offer scenes
from the operetta, Bobby Shafto."
The life saving scouts of the Saliva
ton Army viii close the program with
an Indian skit entitled, "JuSt in
| Time"
The public has been invited to at
tend.
Evening star., 1934-08-30

men. Flames spread on the north
west into the Slate Creek basin.
A flve-hour drizzle over the Selway
Forest In Central Idaho aided the
1000 men striving to control the
Pete King fire.
Evening star., 1934-08-30
"CULT BOY" RECOVERING
Physician Says Temperature Has
RAceded to Almost Normal.

FORT PAYNE, Ala, August 80 LP).
Wallace Doyle Sharp, jr., the "cult
boy" is recovering and his tempera-
ture has receded to normal or within
a fraction of it, DR.. w. T. Miller.
attending physician, said last night.
Barring unforeseen complications
from the operation necessary after
a faith cure" failed to heal a leg
infection, the boy should continue to
recover rapidly, local physicians
agreed,
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time, ne was left lying on the pier
unconscious and near death.
Hans shipmates, kept at bay dur
ing his tortures by the guns of the
lynchers, swarmed up the pier. They
wrapped him in blankets and
carried him to the hospital. The
doctor there succeeded in bringing
Hans into delirlous consciousness in
which he shouted, "Ay WON'T fight
dirty capitalistic vars, you bastards.
Ay WON'T go kill fellow workers for
you parasites" At break Of day
Hans Olsen died.
TENSION gripped Ketchikan from
i end to end in the days that
followed the news of Hans lynch
ing. Despite the eyewitness ac-
counts of Hans snipmates, Fight
ing Bob" DickerG knew nothing.
Neither did the commander Of the
coast guard vessel. Rover Palen
had disappeared. The coast guards
men remained on shipboard.
Only Fighting Bob" dropped into
the Northern Bar. the towns social
center, to remark over a glass that
Hans had been Stacker"
Gradually. from maze of fever
ish rumor the facts behind the
lynching began to appear. From
down the line" came a girls story
of Rover's frequent Dragging, in the
midst of his debauches, that he and
Fighting Bob were going to clean
up on every Wobbly Stacker in
town"
It became known that the mo-
ment the Molly RS siren sounded
through the stormy bay that night
Rover and the sailors mad rushed
from a brothel to Rover's garage,
from which he phoned Fighting
Bob" that We're gonna get him
tonight"
Confronted with this story at the
Northern Bar the same night that
it became known. Fighting Bob's"
lips quivered cruelty as he let out
a crafty, defiant, "Well?" at his
questioners. Several men started at
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WHAT'S ON
Monday

MOVIE BALL AND ACTION COMMIT
TEE meeting ct 10 East 18th St, 73O p, m.
YC.J. UNIT 49, open meeting against
war at Burnside Manor, IS W. Burnside.
Speaker, James Lerner. national organizer
Youth section of American League Against
War and Fascism Admission 10 cents.
MASS MEETING for adoption of Unem-
pIoyment Insurance Bill 5000 Coney Island
Ave, Brighton Beach. $50 p. NJ auspices
women's Council No. II and Brighton
Beach Unemployed Council.
j. GILBERT OF the Taxi Drivers Union
will speak on the Taxi Strike and the
Press, at regular membership meeting Of
Press League, 9 p. m, at Unity Theatre
Studios. 2e E. 23rd st.
BORO PARK BR. American League
Against War and Fascism, meeting for
new officers and report. 1880 seth st., at
8 p. m.
MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE IN U. S. A.
and Soviet Russia" second Of a series OF
lectures by Alfred G. Morris at Browns
vile Br F. S. o.. 800 Glenmore Ave.
Bklyn., at $40 p. m. Admission Is cents.
MASS MEETING against high cost OF
living, at 226 Throop Ave, Bklyn Promi-
nent speakers, auspices Action Committee
Of Williamsburg. T:s0 p m. Admission free
CLASS IN POLITICAL Economy. IA Sec
ond Ave. cor. 9th St., American Youth
Federation, 8 p. m.
VOLUNTEER ENTERTAINMENT wanted
Immediately for Red Builders affair. April
Al. Communicate city ONCE, IS &. 18th
st. (storel.
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Stage and Screen
Gilbert & SuIIivan Operetta
Pirates of PenzU1ce" Opens
Tonight at Majestic Theatre

The second of the group of Gill
bert & Sullivan light operas TO be
presented by former members of
the Aborn company will be THE
Pirates of Penzance" and will open
this evening at the Majestic The
stre. William Danforth, Vivian
Hart, Roy Chopper, Vera Ross and
Allen watreous play the leading
roles.
Wife Insurance, a farce comedy
by Frederick Jackson, will open on
Thursday night at the Ethel Barry
more Theatre. The players include
Kenneth McKenna, Ilks Chase,
Harvey Stephens, Walter Abel and
Helen Huberth.
Vivian Kilian has been added to
the cast of "Stevedore, the new
Theatre Union play which opens at
the Civic Repertory Theatre on
April II.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-09
Fay Wray in MADAME Spy
at the Jefferson

The jefferson Theatre is now
showing Madame Spy" with Fay
Wray and Nils Asther, also THE
Poor Rich" with Edna Mae Oliver
and Edward Everett Horton. Tues
day and Wednesday the program will
include The Cat and the Fiddle
with Ramon Navarro and jeanette
Mcdonald and Six of a Kind fea-
turing Charles Ruggles and Alison
Skipworth. The screen program for
Thursday and Friday includes Jean
Parker and Tom Brown in Two
Alone and Midnight with Sidney
Fax and Harry Hull.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-09
Carmen" To Be Offered
Tonight by Hippodrome
Opera Company

Carmen" will be presented by
the Hippodrome Opera Co. at the
N. Y. Hippodrome this evening with
Castagna, Monroe, Errolle and
Royer. Bamboschek will conduct.
Other operas of the week include
La Traviata," Tuesday night;
Fora del Destino." Wednesday
evening; Carmen" Saturday after
noon and "Cavslleris Rusticana"
and "Pagliacci' on Saturday night.
Three debuts will mark the COM
ing weeks performances at the
Broadway Opera House. Allessan-
dro Granda as EIlzio in "Gioconda"
on Wednesday night; Mario Flor
ella, baritone of the San Carlos Of
Naples in the title role of "Rigo-
letto" on Friday night and Sonia
Yergin as Traviata on Sunday
evening.
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ALASKA LYNCHINC- Model 1917

loaded to the gunwhaleS with her
catch. Climbing up the docks lad
der ahead of the rest came Hans.
AS his broad shoulders rose above
the piers edge, a moose was slung
about his body and drawn tight by
half dozen men who had appeared
suddenly from the shadows. A muf-
fled automobile motor roared and
started full speed, jerking Hans up
the rest of the ladder. Landing him
with a thud on the pier, the auto
dragged him a full hundred feet
over the rough plsnking of the
main street. Rover Palen, who was
driving, jumped from the drivers
seat and kicked the PROSTATE Hans.
Palen was joined by half a dozen
men wearing Navy regulation slick
erS. These menaced Hans with
drawn revolvers, shouting at him,
will va fight for your country, you
dirty foreigner"
Hans, pain-racked but determined,
answered, Nav, sy WON'T" Then
let's go, boys" Rover commanded.
The car started up the main street
again. Hans form lurched and
bounced helplessly in its wake.
Palen drove SO that the body was
dragged by violent jerks across the
uneven planking which covered the
main street. Hans flesh was ripped
by exposed spike heads IN the worn
and rotting timbers. After they
mao dragged him thus for so yards
they stopped to repeat the question,
will you fight for your country?"
Still Hans answered family, Nav,
ay WON'T"
Then, doubling back to the piers
end, the gang stopped Raging
against Hans steadfastness, the
diabolical crew lowered his blood
soaked, lacerated body into the icy
Alaskan waters and kept him sub
merged for long seconds. When
they hauled him up and repeated
their fiendishly persistent demand
that ne flight for his country"
Hans still answered weakly, nav"
Again he was submerged and when
he YVES hauled up for the second
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-09

Cutter pulled into port with a crew
supplemented by picked Arkansas
farmer boys rarin' to go at the
"furriners m slackers." A horde
Of Department of Justice blood
hounds filtered in under the famous
college full-back, Fighting Bob"
Dickert, freshly appointed Special
Federal District Attorney.
A veritable reign OF terror was
instituted. The resistance, while
practically unorganized, was con-
slant and fierce. Hardly a day
passed without its hand to-hand
encounters between outraged work.
ers and Diekert,s provocateurs.
Every known Wobbly or synpa-
thizer was marked for visit" and
an arrest on any or no charge.
But Fighting Bob" was I'D
against a brick wall each time he
brought a worker to trial for anti
war activity. The defendants red
Wobbly card, which Dickert gen.
orally offered in evidence, seemed
TO affect jurieS in a manner pre-
cisely opposite to his expectations.
Welcomed to Ketchikan by the
noisy handful of hundred per cent
ers, he soon learned that these did
not represent the temper of the
general citizenry from which his
1uries were drawn. These iuries
time and again registered, by their
mot guilty" verdicts, strange in
difference to his patriotic spiels
about strangling "the enemy within
our gates" these foreigners these
traltorous reds" etc.
The regularity of these defeats
drove Fighting Bob" to his wits
end His vision of quick clean
up" of Ketchikan's reds" and a
fat political reward was fading fast.
Something must be done and done
quick. An example must be made
to re-establish Flaw and order"
THERE had always been in the
town an insignificant vigilante
group This group was openly
headed by the main hotel keepers
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son, Rover Palen. This proud ma
tive son" was an undergrown be-
specialized mean-lipped man whom
war hysteria alone could afford the
opportunity for a bloated notoriety.
Until the advent of the war he dis
tinguished himself entirely by his
carousings, in the course of which
he often encountered some out
ragged proletarian fist. In these en-
counters he always came off second
best. He usually carried an old
mark to meet the newest sinner,
The war gave him an opportunity
to be a herman.
For weeks he had been strutting
about the town, mostly down the
line" as the red light district was
called, in the swanky uniform of
a military aviation student. He
felt that the town did not appre-
ciate him and he ragged inwardly
because ne knew he was powerless
to change the towns mind.
All of Rover's rage was now con-
centrated upon Hans Olson. Hans,
on his last trip in town, was on
a rampage and, Rover, in the full
swagger of his bright uniform had
eSsayed to assist the police force
of four in subduing the fisherman.
Hans had laid hold Of Rover's arm
in the struggle, nearly tearing it
from its socket, and had sent him
sp1awling, uniform and all, into
mud puddle. Rover was carried to
the hospital while Hans got away
to his ship.
Fighting Bob" visited Rover
every day and so did the Arkansas
farmer boys from the coast guard
cutter. In week Rover was about
the town again, his arm in splints
and a cock-sure expression on his
face. He was exceptionally I'M
communicative. The coast guards
men were the same way. The
whole town felt something was
brewing.
ABOUT two O'Clock one stormy
n morning, Hans vessel, the Molly
r." was made fast to the pier
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-09
Workers School Opens
Spring Term Tonight
With I,500 Students

NEW YORK.-The Spring Term
Of the Workers School, IS East 18th
St, opens tonight with advance
registration Of 1900 students, the
highest number ever registered for
8 Spring Term. A number Of
classes have been closed for some
time. Registration for classes which
are still open is being taken up to
the beginning Of the first session.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-09
By ]. Abr0n

him spontaneously, but number
of vigilantes closed in to protect
him with hands gripping their
sheated revolvers.
High-tensioned days followed and
not an arrest of anyone connected
with the lynching. Not so much
as gesture by the authorities to
appease the outraged sensibilities
of even those who opposed the con-
victions for which Hans Olson was
martyred.
On the night of the sixth day
after Fighting Bob's" defiant
Well at the Northern Bar, six
shots rang out on Ketchikan's main
street. A man fell under dim
arc lamp while another ran down
a side street with a smoking re-
volved in his rand. A crowd gath
cred around the fallen man. His
head lay in pool of blood. Plainly
revolver had been emptied flush
into the face and forehead at close
range. A woman in the crowd
stopped over the bleeding corpse,
spat squarely into the CHASTITY face
from which the blood was still
trickling and remarked half-systeri-
cally, Fighting Bob, huh, huh,
'Lynching Bob is the real name.
The lousy rat got his at last"
christensen, q shipmate, who
had seen Hans lynched, surrendered.
ano 8 Ketchikan jury found him
insane. He was later discharged
as cured.
THE halibut fishermen of Alaska
1 are mostly Scandinavians. They
are a modest lot who don't mix
much with the English-speaking
workers. Probably because they
are too tired when they come ashore
after one of their toilSome and
hazardous trips to try to learn a
new tongue and mix with unfa-
miliar workers.
These days of unemployment and
agitation and education for soil
darity of the workers, native and
foreign, must have changed this
condition up North.
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700 p. M.-Amos m Andy
7:15-Baby Rose Marie, Songs
7:3O-George Gershwin, Piano; Concert
Orch.
7;45-Mario Cozzi, Baritone; Lew White
Organ
8:00-Denny orch.
830-The Current Chapter Of the Air
Mail Trsdegy- Warren r. Aus
tin OF Vermont
9:00-MinStrei Show
s.30-Pasternsek Orch.
s:sO-Pasternsck Orch; Theodore Webb,
Baritone
Symphony Orch, Walter Dsmrosh-
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10;4S-Ozark Mountaineers
II ;00-RamonA, Songs
l1:15-News Reports
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American labor history offers
countless instances of bloody per-
secution waged against those
workers who resisted the World
War. Witness the murder of
Frank Little and Wesley Everest
and the Imprisonment of Charles
f. Ruthenberg, Eugene V. Debs,
and scores of other working class
leaders. Today the Daily Worker
publishes the record of another
and heretofore little known Incl
dent Of wartime terror against
American workers. This account
Is published not merely because of
its general historical value, but
because 1t offers demonstration
of working class spirit which may
be of practical value to the grow
ing ranks of those workers who
have pledged themselves to a
stubborn fight against the next
war.
HANS OLSON was a hardy raw
IL boned Norwegian deep-sea fish
erinan whose vessel put into Ketch-
kan. Alaska, with its halibut catch
every two weeks or SO during the
Winter following Americas entry
into the World War.
Hungry for recreation after two
weeks at sea, the fishermen were
an easy prey to conniving saloon
wolves. So when Hans had few
drinks he went looking for the
sheriff to tell him what he thought
of the war and of everything else.
When the sheriff could muster
enough help Hans would land in
jail until he sobered up. The police
force and it's assistants bore ample
marks Of combat after each en-
counter with. Vans.
The war was on that Summer,
and there had been suspiciously
little of the Stacker" bounding
which terrorized every nook and
Granny of the States. In the Fall
however, the forces of espionage
began to flow Ia Coast Guard
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-09
FESTIVAL DELEGATES, NOTICE

NEW YORK-All New York dele
gates to the Chicago Theatre Fes-
tival. to take place April 13, IA and
Is. must register without fail to-
night at 7 P. M. at the Offices of
the League Of Workers Theatres, ~
E. 18th St., New York.
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loose. fellows with hands and with the wild drunk
utiOuness of Oncomng you should be
stOrmbirds7-ROBERT MINOR in the Daily Worker
Well, friend what is it to be poet?
This. to be always close to hell
to know The word price
That's why means, friend time to be where
they say you don't find the conditions quite nice
No, we not dealing pleasant distractions
There is quick live something
n-eating fight for
when their have 10
there is stomach of the mind
that goes hungry when the COWS are cornered
by the swine
What is it to be poet frend7
It is not to be behind
steel armor,
it is not be end
but beginning it is a Joke
on the family. 1t is privilege
jealousy loaned by the race.
The question is friend in view of all this
you loaned poetry, have you the face
10 say you belong to yourself, to q few,
10 -?
But let us leave this argument
look at this it lies before you.
Straight ahead. It is not the path to the moon =.
Straight ahead, something smash soon,
all the way through, do not think Of persons;
some natures hndrance.
Smash with what is you
Unfeeing. mistaken, strong.
to be broken to awaken, rising and falling
your body Is the song.
But this is not enough;
there is something you thinking Of
To be put in the oss7
To sing while you sink9
Yes, in the incoming tide in the swell dip guIlwse
drownless or drowned sing ahead the storm
human bird be naught be the voice unnamed
sormbrd,
be the word Of the red rain rending
the hurricane renewing the world
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"ChaIutzim In Second W eek
at the Acme Theatre

"Chalutzim" pioneers Of Pales-
tinel. the first Hebrew talkie pro-
duced in Palestine, is being held
over for a second week at the
Acme Theatre.
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