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The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-02-23
SHAATTUCk BLDG. WILL HOLD OPEN. HOUSESATURDAY. L.. as .. a.l a.l :. t.a :.
Latest Store -Office Build ing to Be Ready for h.
 spection of Public

Juneau's newest office and store building will be officially opened to the public for inspection tomor- row The invitation is extended by Allen Shattuck Incorporated, to all residents of Juneau interested in the development of the city
 The Shattuck Building, construc- ton of which started October 1, has been completed and is already more than half filled with tenants The building is one of the most modern structures on the Pacific Coast and the latest equipment has been installed making it compare favorably with up-to-date office buildings in the States.
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-02-23

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17
Telephone Owners
Get S42,OOO,OOO in
Usual Dividends
Special Fund Protects
Stockholders from
Crisis

NEW YORK.-By drawing on
special reserve fund set up to guar
antee the payment of dividends
when earnings are low. the Amer
lean Telephone and Telegraph Co.
today declared its usual quarterly
dividend of SIPS share to stock
holders. This maintains the usual
SO a year rate, and will give
100000 to about 6oo,o investors
The A. T. & T. which is Wall
Street-Morgan monopoly controlling
practically every telephone in the
country, has a sort of special "un-
employment insurance" fund fol
stockholders to take care Of divid-
ends when business is slow. This
fund totals over $500, 100000. Despite
the crisis, not a penny has been
taken off the ATT dividends.
ATT has accumulated enormous
reserves and SURPRISES despite an
unbroken line Of dividends stretch
ing back many decades. 1t has sue
cesSfully resisted all attempts to
reveal its huge hidden funds, or
any serious regulation Of its rate
structure which today gives the
original stockholders huge returns
on their investments.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17
Alaska Herring Fishing
Tied Up AS Fleet Strikes

SEATTLE, Wash, May 16.-For
the first time since the beginning
of herring fishing in Alaska the
fishermen have organized and the
entire fishing fleet of 40 vessels is
tied up on strike in the harbor here.
The strikers demand recognition
of their union, six cents per barrel
of $50 pounds of herring and a
crew of eight men on each vessel,
and already the packers have
granted an increase of one cent
over last year and an eight men
crew.
The morale Of the strikers, who
are under the leadership of the
militant Fishermen and Cannery
Workers Industrial Union, is high
and they are determined to stick
until their demands are granted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17
MdrtyrS-VictinlS
OF Company Thugs
And Police Terror

Strikers murdered by police
and company thugs during the
present strike wave.
Murphy Humphrey, Negro
longshoreman, 81, murdered on
the New Orleans waterfront,
May 8.
Rich Foster, Negro picket, shot
to death by thugs in Birming-
ham, Ala, May 8.
Henry Witt, Negro picket,
shot to death by thugs in Biz
mingham, Ala, May 9.
George Bell, striker of the
Sloss Ore Mine, Alabama, MUIR
dered on the picket line by
agents of the mine owners on
May 10.
w. H. Ford, striker of the
Muscoda Ore Mine, Alabama,
shot down in cold blood while
on picket on May 10.
Charles Sharlo, Negro long
shoreman, murdered by special
guards of the Mallory Steamship
Company in Galveston, Texas.
John Elmore, Negro longshore-
man, killed by company guards
at Galveston, Texas.
Dick Parker, 20 year old long
shoreman, shot to death by San
Pedro, Cal, police.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17
Thugs Kidnap,
Beat Packers
Strike Leader
St. Louis AFL Cangsters
Torture Pelman, YCL
Organizer
Special to the Daily Worker

ST. LOUIS, Mo, May 16.-Mall
Pelham, Missouri organizer of the
Young Communist League, mill
tant leader Food Workers Union
and many strikes was kidnapped
yesterday afternoon at the indie
pendent Packing House plant by
A. F. of L. Meatcutters Union
thugs, pulled into car from the
picket line, slugged, tortured for
hours riding around town then
taken to the country on Delmar
Road.
There he was severely beaten in
an attempt to secure the names
of militant workers in the indie
pendent Packing plant. When tor
lures failed he was kicked uncon-
scious and left on the road side
during the night.
Earl Jackson, International vice
president; Mike Roth, local chief i;
Bill Tate, Negro misleader and
gang of hired thugs attacked
the mixed Negro and white dele
cation and forced them out of hall
amidst uproar of workers
Cora Lewis, leader of the Nut
Pickers Union; Earl Pulley, LIS.
Mr.. secretary, and especially Peter
Chaunt, Communist Party district
organizer we're the center of physi-
cal attack.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17
Call Meet to Protest
Longshoremen Murders

NEW YORK-To protest the
brutal killing of striking long
shoremen on the West Coast and
gulf port docks, Section of
the Communist Party is calling a
mass meeting at 18th Ave. and
18th ST., at IL o'clock on Friday.
The section committee has is
sued a call to all mass organiza-
lions to wire protests to the
Mayors of San Pedro, Cal, and
Galveston, Texas, against the bru-
tai killing of the two longshore-
men who were killed by gangster
and police guns.
All members of Section of
the Communist Party and mem
bers OF working class mass organ
izations in the territory have been
asked to assemble at the Spartacus
Club, 269 w. 25th ST., on Thurs
day at pm. to prepare for the
protest meeting which will be held
the next day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17
Officials Send Japan Moves
Thugs Against Army to Grab
Auto Strikers More of China
RecOinnoiters at USSR
Border; Japanese
Soldiers Mutiny

SHANGHAI, May IS, (By Radio
The situation in Northern China
and Mongolia continues ex-
tremely tense with Japan actively
preparing the seizure of new ter
ritories and war against the Soviet
Union.
Reports from Peiping, the ancient
capital of China, and Tsientsin de-
clares that all information is to
the effect that japan intends at the
first opportunity to wrest from
China, the provinces of Shensi,
Kansu, Sinkiang, Hopei, ShanSi,
and Shantung.
First of all, the Chinese and for
eign press reports, Inner Mongolia
will be occupied. The Japanese
plans forecast the utilization of
Monaghan princes to form a new
puppet state with their cooperation.
The japanese want to convert
Kansu province, and neighboring
districts, into "Mohommedan"
state; Sinkiang into an Eastern
Turkistan Republic" When all prep
arations are completed, the Jap
anese will begin military operations,
invading Inner Mongolia from the
province of Jehol which they now
control.
simultaneously, Japan is inten-
styling military preparations in
Northern Manchuria, towards the
Soviet border. Japanese military
planes are accommodating along the
Northern frontiers of Manchuria,
on the border of the U. S. S. R.
The japanese are again forming
special detachments of Russian
Whiteguardists, supplying tn e m
with money and arms.
Shanghai newspapers declare, &C
cording to information received
from people coming from Man
churia, that serious unrest took
place among Japanese troops trans
ported into Northern Manchuria
Twenty soldiers and officers tried
to organize a revolt while troops
were boarding a railway station at
Mukden. They we're accused OF
being Communists and sent tc
Japan for trial.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17
BY MARGUERITE YOUNG
DAILY Worker Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON, May 16.-Sec-
rotary of Labor Frances Perkins,
hearing 40 women Needle workers
stories of their own experiences
under the terror of gangsters, po-
lice and Federal officials deter
mination to break their union,
thought it very kind that you
want to hear from me-" but she
couldn't promise thing except
to make a study and report
to various agencies.
The women workers, having no
titled Miss Perkins of their COM
ing repeatedly for two weeks,
gained an audience only after an
hours quiet insistence that they
would see the woman Secretary
who spoke so synpathetically over
the radio of her special interest
in women, and no one else.
I'm sorry this platform is SO
high Secretary Perkins said. sit
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17
Perkins Sidesteps Charges
Of W0men Needle Workers

ting on dais above the girls
and women. When we get into
our new building we shall have a
platform more-human."
Forty women mark the word.
HUMAN" Forty women who
have been in the needle trades
for from seven to 20 years.
Protest Against A.F.L. Attacks
eve are the Needle Trades Wo-
mems Committee of Action of New
York. We have come to protest
aga, INST the attacks of the American
Federation of Labor officials, the
Joint Council of the fur bosses, and
your own assistant, Edward F. Nc
Grady, upon our union, the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union
particularly the fur workers"
Violet Leen, the spokeswoman, is
tiny young girl, barely five feet.
but her voice reaches up and
around Miss Perk ms. She summa-
Continued on Page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17
Clamp Fascist Rule.
On Latvia by Coup
OF Military Clique
Nazi Influence in Baltic
Increases Danger of
War on U.S.S.R.

RIGA, Latvia, May 16.-A mill
tary coup by the capitalist and rich
landowners early today instituted a
fascist dictatorship here, with Pres
ident Alberts Kviesis of Latvia at
the head, and Col. Jacobson, acting
as the chief of military forces.
The whole country of Latvia was
placed under martial law. Under
the pretext of "forestalling unrest
the dictatorship was clamped down
without any warning.
All activities of Parliament and
all political parties, excepting the
fascist Katsuelit, we're suspended.
In Riga the garrison was modified
and public buildings including Par
lament were occupied and sur
rounded by picked troops. Police
and soldiers, supported by armored
tanks, patrolled the streets.
Soldiers armed with machine
guns surrounded the headquarters
of the Socialist Party and arrested
some of the leaders, including DR..
Pauls Kalnins, speaker of the Lat
Wan Parliament, known as the
Saeima. The Socialists had 81
members out of 100 in the parlia-
ment and were supporting the fas-
cist President Kviesis, as the 'lesser
evil
With the increased preparations
for war against the Soviet Union
by Japan in the Far East, and the
German fascists in the West, work.
ing through the Baltic countries,
the danger of war against the U. S.
S. R. is greatly intensified by the
fascist coup in Latvia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17
Police and Dicks
Bring Scabs Into
Chicago Factory
A. F. L. Does Nothing
Move on for Rank,
File Leadership
DAILY Worker Midwest Bureau)

DAILY Worker Midwest Bureau)
CHICAGO, May 16.-The Darling
plant at And st. has been turned
into a dormitory for fifty scabs
and company dicks who work and
have made it possible for these
scabs to get into the plant, and
some work is going on.
Pickets fought police last night
when a group of scabs was rushed
into the plant under armed escort
This fact, with the lack of collec-
tive leadership, no relief, no strike
committee, has weakened tn e
morale of the men around this
plant. Workers at the other two
struck plants of the company are
standing firm and the plants are
shut down.
The workers will have to go into
the plant today to get their pay
The American Federation Of Labor
strike leaders have not organized
them for this return, with the re-
suit that the workers will go inside
the plant as individuals. Militant
workers fear that exposure of in
dividual strikers, to bosses talk and
threats, added to the demoraliza-
ton of the And st. strikers, may
result in the breaking of the strike
A move to have the rank and file
take over the strike leadership and
carry on the campaign of organiza-
ton has been started among the
strikers, many of whom are dis
satisfied with the leadership of the
A. F. of L.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17
Birmingham Cops in
.NewRaids AHenlpt to
Isolate Party, Unions
VenOmOus Stories in
Boss Press Help
Gun-Thug Rule
Especial to the Daily worker)

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, May To-
Aware of the impending renewal of
the coal strike and the even more
militant continuance of the ore
strike, local authorities today we're
intensifying tn eir campaign,
through press and police raids, in
an attempt to isolate the Commu-
mist Party from the unions and to
bring prejudice to bear on the trial
of Communists tomorrow by raising
the race issue.
Under the heading Communist
Agitators and Labor Troubles" the
Birmingham News editorial states:
Communism is something to be
reckoned with in Alabama. Union
men should by now be aware that
radical agitators are at work among
them, spreading their propaganda
and fomenting strife. They are no
friends of theirs but distinctly their
enemies"
They are also telling men to wait
until 1885 to be recognized.
Conditions inside the Tennessee
Coal and Iron plant increasingly
resemble an armed camp, workers
forbidden to talk to each other. The
place is swar1ning with armed dep
uties. The International Labor De-
tense is playing a great role in the
ore strike, rallying workers on the
picket line, bringing women out in
large numbers.
Four Negroes were arrested in
raids in EnSley, Tennessee Coal and
Iron territory. Police Chief Hol-
lums plays up confiscation Of litera-
ture of the League of Struggle for
Negro Rights, using this as an ex-
cuse for an open appeal to race
hatred and as an indication against
defendants to be tried tomorrow.
The Communist Party is working
solidly at meetings and calls on the
masses to answer these attacks and
to lead the coming strike struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17
Death For
C.P. Leader
May Come
In Ten Days
Int ational Group
Calls for Immediate
Mass Protest

NEW YORK. - A cabled
warning that Ernst Thael-
mann, heroic leader of the
German Communist Party, is
in danger of summary trial
and execution within the next
ten days, was received yester-
dav by the national Office of the
International Labor Defense. The
cable reads:
"ThaeImann is in danger OF
losing life. Authorities plan YER
dict of death in summary court
in next ten days. Immediate ma
tion-wide action and mobilization
of all forces cen hinder this
crime.
"(Signed) International Liberia
ton Committed"
Immediate protest actions against
this monstrous conspiracy by the
Nazi butchers is urged on all work
ers and intellectuals and their or
carnations. on all anti-fascist
groups and I. L. D. districts and
branches in a call Immediately is
sued by the I. L. D. upon receipt OF
this sinister news. Immediate or
panization and holding of protest
meetings in front of the Nazi con-
sulates in this country, and flood
ing of the Nazi consulates and the
Nazi authorities in Germany with
protests are urged. The I. L. D.
points out that no time is to be lost
in carrying through these protest
actions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17

WILMINGTON, Del, May TO-
officials of the E. I. du Pont de Ne
mours Co., munition manufacturers,
today tried by lying statements to
cover up their active profitable aid
to Japanese imperialism in arming
for war against the Soviet Union.
Investigations in Japan, by Amer
lean military officers, revealed that
the du Pont Co. had sold patents
and machinery to the Mitsui Mining
Co. for the manufacture of nitrogen
in huge quantities.
The combination of nitrogen and
hydrogen is the prime raw material
~ explosives.
Du Pont officials declared that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17
Manchurian Rebels
Shoot Down Two
Japanese Planes

TOXIC, May 16.-Two japanese
army flyers, bombard.ng insurgent
peasants and Manchurian soldiers,
were shot down today and killed,
reports here said.
Dispatches from Hardin to the
newspaper Asshi said that the
planes were flying over rebellious
territory west of Hailar when the
planes we're shot down,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17
E. l. Du POntM1nitiOnCO Go. Arms
Japan for Var against USSR

the plant was built to make nitrogen
for fertilizer" But reports in To-
kyo state: "Du Pont engineers did
question the Mitsui concern on the
reason why so large and expensive
a plant was to be constructed. Some
of the machinery, for example, was
far more expensive than du Pont
considered necessary for the manu-
facture of commercial nitrates
which are used extensively in Japan
for fertilizer"
The du Pont company is making
millions of dollars by shipping war
machinery to Japan, and by send
ing engineers there to supervise the
factories producing explosives chief
ly for war against the U.S.SR.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17
Flint AFL Heads Choke
All Criticism; Let
Scabs Through

FLINT, Mich, May 16.-While A.
F. of L. leaders are maneuvering
with the Automobile Labor Board
behind the backs of the auto work
ers to break the strike Of the 5000
workers of the Fisher Body plant
here, they are refusing to organize
effective mass picketing and are
using strong-arm methods against
workers who voice any criticism.
A. F.. of L. strong-arm men. oper-
ating on picket lines have beaten up
several workers.
At last nights meeting of the
Fisher Body Local two young work
ers selling the Rank and File Fed
erationist outside the hall were
seized by police called by A. F, OF L.
leaders. They were later released
Workers took the floor at the
meeting and asked who was doing
the negotiating, and why picket
lines were so formed as to permit an
opening for scabs to get into the
plant. The A. F. Of L. leaders
lodged the questions and closed the
meeting quickly to prevent real dis
cussion. The workers, however
managed to put through a motion
that there was to be no compromise
settlement of workers demands
without a majority vote OF the
strikers.
The strikers demands are for
restoration of old wage rates, which
were cut Is to 40 per cent, slowing
down the speed-up, reinstatement
of Is victimized workers, and union
recognition.
About three hundred picketeo
four entrances to the plant this
morning, but again scabS managed
to get through because of the fall
ure of the A. F. of L. leaders Uc
throw solid lines around the entire
plant. Tactics of A. F. of l.. ottl-
Gals. such as secret chickering's with
the Labor Board, refusal to spread
the strike and failure to organize
effective mass picketing and to give
leadership to the fighting spirit OF
the workers is tending to create
suspicion and distrust among the
strikers.
The real sentiment Of the strik-
ers was demonstrated at a meet
ing Monday night, when big ap-
plause greeted the statement ny
a worker: "By God, we're going to
settle this strike on the outside,
not on the inside. We don't care
what YOU q. e., leaders, think
about 1t; it's what we think about
it,"
At the same meeting the woman
workers who called for militan'
picketing with husbands bringing
their wives to the picket lines were
also loudly applauded.
The chief weakness of the Flshel
Body strike is the lack of organiza-
ton among the militant rank ano
file forces. 1t is clear that the tao
tics of the A. F. of L. leaders, who
did everything in their power tx
prevent the strike, is to allow thc
strikers to become demoralized anc
then to bring in the Labor Board
10 effect a settlement similar to the
che in Cleveland, st. Louis anc
Tarrytown-settlement that gives
workers. nothing
The rank and file must rouse tt
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17
TeanuSterS, Dock Clerks,
Marine Engineers Join
Coast LongshOre Strike
Strikers NJ axe Heroic
Stand Against Police
Rifles, Tear Gas

SAN FRANCISCO, May Is. -
Transfers, marine engineers and
dock clerks have joined with the
longshoremen in the great strike
which has tied up the entire mer-
chant marine of the west coast.
The only workers who are loading
scab goods are the Belt Line en-
ployes, who are operating freight
cars under a yellow dog contract
with the state.
After a final check-up on the
shooting on the San Pedro docks
it was established that the long
shoreman who was killed, was Dick
Parker, 20, who had joined the In
ternational Longshoremen'S ASso-
citation the day he was killed. United
Press reports and the report car
ried in the Daily Worker that a
man by the name of John Knudson
was also killed have proven to be
incorrect.
Altogether a score were wounded
when the red squad officers fired
on the picket line at San Pedro.
Workers Resist Fascist Attack
The strikers made an heroic stand
against the rifles and tear gas of
the police. A fence put up by the
ship owners around the living quar-
ters of the San Pedro scabs was
torn down by the strikers. The
tent where the strikebreakers were
fed, went up in flames.
The Grace Line and the Panama
Pacific Line have formally can
celled all steamship schedules in
the port of San Francisco. Many
unloaded ships are laying by the
docks in a helpless condition.
Strikers eagerly grab the reg
ular special issues of the Western
Worker, official organ of the
(Toufia1aJod mn po0o 0l
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17
Admits Receiving Wire
From Gov. Rol ph for Aid
To Break Dock Strike
President Also Comedies
War Danger Growing
More Serious Daily
WAR MOVES co ON
Arm Appropriations
Program Unhindered
BY SEYMOUR WALDMAN
Daily Worker washington Bureau

DAILY Worker Washington Bureau)
WASHINGTON, D. c., May
16.-President Roosevelt de-
clared today that he has done
nothing thus far about the
numerous gun murders and
smuggling of strikers which
have occurred in quick sue
cession in Galveston, San Pedro,
Buffalo. Birmingham and other
strike sectors of the nation.
Asked in his press conference
this morning whether he was con-
sidering an investigation of the
criminal activities Of the police and
deputized thugs, the President in
formed your correspondent that he
had seen nothing except what had
been brought to him. He seemed
to be aware only of the situation
| in California. whose Governor,
Sunny jim Rolph. who approves Of
llynching and keeps Tom Mooney in
| Jail, recently wired him requesting
presidential intervention to help
the Pacific Coast shipping mag
mates break the longshoremens
strike.
No Reference to Lundeen
Resolution
No reference was made in the
press conference to the Lundeen
resolution, introduced yesterday in
tn House of Representatives,
which condemns the use Of the
private armies and authorizes a
Congressional investigation of "ex-
IRENE terror of the police, militia
and special armed deputies"
The President announced during
his conference that Norman Davis,
the Hoover Roosevelt "disarma-
ment" expert who figured with the
late eX-President Coolidge last sum-
mer as one of the prominent CAM
basSadorial" financiers on the pre-
ferred money list of j. P. Morgan
& Company, is writing statement
on the corpse called the disarma-
ment conference. When completed
it will be submitted to Roosevelt
for acceptance or revision and
possibly joint rewriting.
Secretary Of the Navy. Claude
Swanson, former Hoover Disarma-
ment Conference delegate and one
Of the fire-eaters on the late war
Policies Commission, however. once
again made the war nature of the
Roosevelt administrations "disarm-
ament' policy perfectly clear.
War Program Goes m
plans will go forward for the
immediate construction" of IL de-
stroyer leaders and six submarines,
Secretary Swanson announced to-
day. The cost will be S4O000,000
and will be only part of the re-
placement program authorized un-
Continued on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17
Moscow Subway Nears
Completion; 2 Miles
Already Constructed
Especial TO the Daily Worker)

MOSCOW, May is (By radio) =
The Moscow subway construction is
rapidly progressing. Almost two
miles of tunnel of the first line are
completed. Besides another 1920
feet have been propped, and 8,349
feet of wall in a double-lined tunnel
have been completed.
About $1,000 workers are en-
ployed in constructing the subway.