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The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-09-07
EARTHQUAKE IN
 ALC|ERS TAKES LIVES OF FIVE
Score Reported Injured in Severe Tremor-Ter-
 TOT Reigns, Region

ALGIERS, Sept. Five persons have been killed and 20 injured in violent earthquake that rocked the town of Orleansville.
 The tremblor shook houses and sent French colonists and natives fleeing into the streets.
 Many more persons are be- lieved to have been injured in small towns between here and Or leansville. The latter town has a population of 900.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-09-07
JAMES ELWELL DIES SUDDENLY
 AT FAIRBANKS

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Sept. 7.- James Elwell, aged 79, died sud- denly, as the result of heart trou- ble, while making candy in his store.
 Elwell came north in 1894, going first to Fortymile, then to the Klondike. AS an early stampeder he mined on Eldorado Creek. Elwell came to Fairbanks in 1903.
 Survivors are his widow, and two brothers, one in Nenana and the other in Wisconsin. Elwell was a member of the Masonic Lodge.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-09-07
TROOPS CALLED OUT, TEXTILE STRIKE
JAPAN PLANS TO BUILD LARGE NAVY
Tears and Blood Shed by Woman; Doctors Puzzled

KANSAS CITY, Sept. 7.- Tears and blood shed once a day by Mrs. Eula Santa Maria, aged 28, puzzle physicians.
 The tear and blood shed is accompanied by severe pains in the head.
 The tear water and blood flow is about ten cubic centi- meters each time and generally occurs at night.
 Physicians said the tears do not come from the tear duets.
 The woman said she first wept tears and blood about six months ago.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-09-07
Fire Goddess .Giues Message
 To Ha,Uaiidns

HILO, T. H., Sept. 7.-The spec tacular eruption of Kilauea is the signal that the Hawaiians' Fire Goddess Pele is pleased with them, according to local belief. The white and green sulphur fumes rising high above the Halemaumau fire pit carried the message, the natives declare.
 The earthquake, preceding the eruption, split 600-foot crack in the walls of the fire pit. The flow of lava has stopped.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-09-07

NEW YORK, Sept. 7.-Closing quotation today of Alaska Juneau mine stock is 1873, American Can 97, American Power and Light 47s, Anaconda IFS, Armour B 61A Bethlehem Steel 28%, Calumet and Hecla 3A, Curtiss- Wright 2A, Gen. eral Motors 28s4, International Harvester 25%. Kennecott 1872, United States Steel 8, Pound $499a, Bremner bid .25.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-09-07
GEO. EMERSON
 IN NEW DEAL
Oldline Republican Is Pick. ed for Veterans Board
 by Pres. Roosevelt

WASHINGTON, Sept. 7.-George Akerson, at one time a secretary of former President Hoover, has been moved into the New Deal.
 President Roosevelt was legally compelled to choose Republican for the bipartisan Board of Veter- ans Appeal and the Chief Execu- tive picked one whose Republican ism is well known.
 Akerson was an active campaign CT against Roosevelt in 1882.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-09-07
MCCORMICK RETURNS
 HERE WITH PRISONER

Les Myers, arrested recently at Seward on fugitive warrant from here, was brought back to Juneau yesterday by John Mccormick Deputy United States Marshal.
 Myers is charged with violating the internal revenue laws. It is alleged he possessed and trans ported intoxicating liquors last May.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-09-07
GUILTY OF MURDER;T0
 PAY BY DEATH

COPPERSTOwN, N. Y, Sept. T. Eva Coo was convicted by a jury last night of the insurance murder of Harry Wright and sentenced to die in the electric chair at Sing Sing the week of October l5.
 A few minutes later, her former friend, Martha Gift, who turned states witness, was permitted to plead guilty to second degree murder charge, and was sentenced to 20 years.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-09-07
Aluninum Plants Are Reopening After One
 Month, Workers Strike

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Sept. 7.-The Aluminium Company of America reopened their plants today after a month-long strike of 8,700 workers.
 Officials said a week will elapse before the maintenance men will be able to prepare the machinery to resume capacity operations.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-09-07
SENATOR LONG THREATENED BY
 BUSINESS M AN
Will Be Shot Down Like Any Other Mad Dog
 If Son Is Harmed

BATON ROUGE, La, Sept. !. Alfred Stamannt, business man, said this afternoon that he has wired Senator Huey Long that he will personally kill him as he would any other mad dog' if any harm befell his son, a member of the Na- tional Guard, as the result of the primary election mobiliza-. tion.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-09-07
|D|MOND HELD
 UP AT NOME

NOME, Alaska. Sept. 7.-Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond is held here by bad weather after planning to fly to Fairbanks fol- lowing a public address in the in terests of the Democratic Party.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-09-07
MRS. PETERSON RETURNS

Mrs. Walter c. Peterson, wife of Walter O. Peterson, of the Piggly Wiggly staff, returned to Juneau on the Aleutian after three months visit with friends and rela- tives in Oregon and Washington.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-09-07
65,OOO Harvest Hops

PORTLAND. Ore, Sept. 7.-An estimate of 65.000 harvest hands were needed to handle Oregon's a. .000-acre crop of hops.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-09-07
BENEDICT IN TOWN

M. F. Benedict, wholesale com mission broker, returned to Juneau on the Dorothy Alexander and will remain here for several days before proceeding to Seattle.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-09-07

Dolph Camilli. promising young first baseman of the Phillies. is a brother of Frankie Campbell. the boxer who was killed in a ring encounter with Max Baer.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-09-07
Rain Ends Dry Period
 in Western Washington

SEATTLE, Sept. 7.-Rain fell in Western Washington today ending a 33-day dry period. Continued showers are forecast.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-09-07
LEAVES HOSPITAL

Cliff Mason left St. Ann's Hos pital this morning after receiving treatment for an injured foot since September 1.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-09-07

Farmers near Estill, s. C., ex- in the growing of flax, recently harvested their first crop.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-09-07
STOCK QUOTATIONS

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The daily worker., 1934-06-25

dealing with all such problems they
carefully overlook. Here it is:
Such squirting on from out
side can never be too excessive;
on the contrary, so far there has
been too little, far too little of it
in our movement; we have stewed
in our own juice far too much, we
have bowed far too slavishly be-
fore the spontaneous economic
struggle of the workers against the
employers and the government"
We professional revolutionaries
must continue, and will continue,
this kind of 'spurring' and a
hundred times more forcibly than
hitherto. Because you select SO
miserable a phrase as squirting
on from outside" which cannoot
but arouse in the worker lat least
in the worker who is as ignorant
as you are yourselves) a feeling
of distrust towards all who bring
him political knowledge and rev.
olutionary experience from out
side, and rouse in him an instinc-
tive resistance-for that very rea-
son you are demagogueS-and
demagogue is the worst enemy of
the working class.
"Oh, do not take offence at my
'unccmradely method of arguing.
I am not trying to cast aspersions
upon the purity of your intentions.
AS 1 have already said, one may
be demagogue out of sheer poll
tical simplicity. But 1 have shown
that you have actually descended
to demagogy, and I shall never
tire of repeating that demagogues
are the worst enemies of the
working class. They are the worst
enemies of the working class be-
cause they arouse bad instincts in
the crowd, because the ignorant
worker is unable to recognize his
enemies in men who represent
themselves, and sometimes sin
cerely represent themselves, to be
ihs friends. They are the worst
enemies of the working class,
because in the period of doubt
and hesitation, when our move
ment is only just beginning to
shape itself, nothing is easier
than by employing demagogic
methods to sidetrack the crowd,
which will only realize its error
after it has undergone bitter suf-
ferings." (What Is To Be Done
Vol. l = Pages 142-43-Interna-
tional Publishers)
pY the way, what has become of
- that militant A. w. P. connec-
tion in the steel industry-Cope?
The daily worker., 1934-06-25

paper-B. d. wished to get the plat
form to answer Eggert's remarks
about all the labor union speakers
being "sellers-out," and he was
granted that privilege. (He has
since indicated that A. w. P. meth
DDS get results for the working
class)"
Eggert had not attacked all the
labor union speakers. But this kind
of distortion is necessary for the
tactic of letting the reformist lead
ers expose themselves"
The strike was strangled. The
Electrical workers had a 20 per cent
wage cut restored-which they would
have got anyway-and were isolated
from the rest of the struggle. The
compulsory arbitration agreement
was signed, the five per cent in
crease granted the Auto-Lite work.
ers (the increase in living costs has
eaten it up since the strike began)
the company union remained, no de-
mands were made for compensa-
tion for the two murdered workers
and the scores wounded by the
troops. The union officials who sa-
botaged the strike from the begin
ming remained in control. Nowhere
is to be found any warning to the
workers issued by the A. w. P.
But the A. w. P. is jubilant. They
acted positively" The only fly in
the ointment is the increased mem
bership, activity and influence of
the Communist Party in the ranks
of Toledo workers.
I EFT us now consider the A. w. P.
II leaders and the situation in
steel. On June Is, one day before
the date set for the steel strike, when
it was clear to everyone but the
A. w. P. leaders who were acting
positively, that the Committee of
Ten of the Amalgamated Associa-
tion had gone over bag and bag
gage to Green of the A. F. of L.,
Mike Tighe and Roosevelt and were
being used to strangle the militant
movement in steel, Karl Lore wrote
in Labor Action:
indications are that the mill.
tapt COMMITTEE of Ten will
not be satisfied with any minor
concessions that the government
may persuade the American Iron
and Steel Institute to give, but
will insist on and fight for recog-
milton of the union by the lords
of the industry"
Is this warning the workers of
misleaders? The writer continues:
Mike Tighe, old and reaction
The daily worker., 1934-06-25

forced to give the appearance of
turning left"
Again We agree-that under these
circumstances all groups-outside of
the Communist Party-"are forced
to give the appearance of turning
left"
Left Turns and Slander
Against C. P.
OF course, since these groups out
size the Communist Party represent
the influence of the capitalist class
and its institutions upon the work.
ing class acting to prevent the win
ming of the majority Of workers to
the c. P. and its program for the
overthrow of capitalism, there is no
real contradiction between their
left turn" and their s'anderous at
tacks on the Communist Party.
This is the reason why we find,
in the same issue where Music and
Budenz discuss with paranoic SOL
emnity the tactic of letting reform
ist leaders expose themselves" the
question Of THE American ap-
proach," etc., such statements as
the following:
You imply in your letter that
the Daily Worker is interested in
facts. That is one Of the things
that caused me to laugh hard.
You are right when you say that
"The role Of the Stalinists in the
Toledo strike was the role of
counter r-revolutionists." You are
right again when you say "the
Stalinists were more interested in
dubbing Ramsey as a misleader
and in calling the police scab
herders than they were in winning
the fight for the workers
But the Communists were right.
The facts are beyond dispute. The
A.W.P. leaders in Toledo dragged
at the tail of the cowardly and
treacherous union bureaucrats who
with the aid of the government,
strangled the strike.
Calling us counter-revolution
serves only the interests of the cap
italists and the government of
monopoly capital-Roosevelt and his
program of hunger, suppression and
imperialist war.
This is the real A.W.P. contribu-
ton to the class struggle which it
attempts to disguise on the trade
union field by its tactics OF Letting
the reformist leaders expose them
selves"
How nice-for these leaders,
The daily worker., 1934-06-25
Hand-TO-MOuth Work
flinders Party From
Winning the Youth

Who fails to understand this
decisive role Of the youth in the
class struggle, fails to see what
is necessary for the successful
economic and political struggles
Of the working class and for the
ultimate victory of the prole-
tartan revolution. The Eighth
Convention emphasizes that
there are still remnants of re-
formist theology in our ranks
which underestimate the i1npor-
tance and role Of the youth. The
convention empha sizes the neces-
sity Of conducting a sharp strug-
gle against the methods Of work
ing hand-to-mouth without per-
spective or goal, which hinders
our Party from real Communist
work among the young genera
tion.'-From the resolution of
the 9th Party Convention on
"The Winning of the Working
Glass Youth"
The daily worker., 1934-06-25

ocrats who behind the theory of the
lesser evil supported Hindenburg
and thus paved the way for Hitler.
1t is they who are responsible for
the regime of Hitler. 1t is they who
are responsible for the fact that the
greatest hero of the German working
class, Ernst Thaelmann, today faces
death at the hands of the fascist
madmen.
But 1884 is also different from
1914. Today the working class has
fatherland-the Soviet Union. In
every capitalist country Communist
Parties exist. Parties that have Or
years proven their unfiinching 10y
atty to the working class. We also
have Young Communist Leagues
who have already proven their mettle
in countries such as Germany,
China, Japan.
And in the United States we also
have Young Communist League
which is following the leadership of
our Communist Party and is prov
ing in the daily class struggle its
right to be section Of the heroic
Young Communist International
In the past three years our
League through its militant fight
against the boss class has increased
its influence and organizational
strength. We have grown from an
organization of 5000 to one of more
than 6,0Nl. We have made impor-
tant inroads in roofing our League
in the important shops, mines and
mills. Through the struggle for the
united front we have succeeded in
leading thousands Of youth in the
struggle for relief, have organized
many actions for the defense of the
Scottsboro boys, have helped build
The daily worker., 1934-06-25

ary president of the A. A. has
been showed further and further
into the background, as the young
militants, unawed by the forces of
the government, etc, etc."
These leaders were neither young
nor militant. They were representa-
tives of the hidebound A. A. craft
policy. They were, for the most
part, up to their ears in New Deal
politics in their communities. They
goldbricked for weeks around Wash
ington instead of being in the field
organizing and preparing their
brother steel workers for the strike.
They are so ignorant or corrupt that
they told workers that Roosevelt is
their friend and an enemy of the
steel barons. They surrendered with
out a struggle.
Contrast the policy of the Daily
Worker and the Communist Party,
for which it speaks:
The Committee of Ten was not
condemned in the Daily Worker un-
til it had shown in it's statements
and actions previous to the conven-
ton that it was not representing the
interests of the steel workers as a
whole or even the membership of
the A. A. Steel workers were urged
to select rank and file committees.
to take the affairs of the union and
tyil itN
hands. They were warned that
nothing of value could be expected
from the Committee of Ten.
Had it been left to the leaders of
the A. w. P. the betrayal of the
Committee of Ten would have
struck the steel workers like a bolt
from the blue-and been so much
more effective in demoralizing them
in discrediting the very idea of
unionism as the steel companies are
moving heaven and earth to do.
What is this policy in essence?
1t is, masked under talk of posi-
tive" action, coarse and opportun-
istic surrender to the official lead
ers and disgusting patronizing of
the rank and file who might be
offended" by open criticism of
these leaders. Rather than risk Of
Tending workers, the A.W.P. leaders
prefer to allow them to be betrayed
without having been furnished with
the names and addresses of those
who are going to do the betraying.
Pretending great respect for Lenin
because it would be fatal to do any,
thing else, the A. w. P. leaders try
to twist Lenin's writing on work in
the trade unions to suit their own
purposes. But the basic quotation
The daily worker., 1934-06-25

a strong movement against war and
fascism. We have built a children's
movement Of more than 10000, and
have made important headway
among the students in colleges and
high schools, winning thousands of
them for support of the revolution
ary class struggle.
In the struggle of the past three
years we have proven that the revo-
lutionary youth Of America, also do
not lack heroism and courage. Some
day in the not distant future, when
historians will write of the glorious
history Of the American working
class - they will OF forg t
the devotion, loyalty and heroism
of scores of young Communists.
What about those young Commu-
nistS who without fear entered the
heart of the reactionary South,
where for generations Southern
white gentlemen have taken fiendish
delight in roasting alive Negro
people2 How many silent deeds of
courage went into the building of
the union of sharecroppers in which
we today have in the very heart of
the Black Belt $500 young members
under our leadership? How many
years of Jail sentences, hours of
torture and misery, went in to build
ing the agricultural workers union
in Sunny California, the land of
oranges and jails?
And that bloated pig, the honor
able Mayor of New York, dares to
accuse Communists of cowardice.
Why there is more courage in
Angelo Herndon, the 19-year old
young Negro leader, who is serving
sentence of 20 years on the chain
gang, than in that whole degenerate
The daily worker., 1934-06-25
'Ietting the Reforn.ists Expose Themselues"

EDITORS NOTE.-This is the
second of a series of two articles
by Bill Dunno on the lessons of
the Toledo strike and the role of
the Musteites in this struggle.
DEGRADING the general strike
N call which the 10000 Toledo work
ers were waiting for on June /,
Budenz says: Aubrey, Green's per-
sonal representative, Taylor, and
another Central Labor Union
speaker avoided all mention of the
question
end now we come to the final
proof that the A. w. P. tactics
u "Iet ing the reformist leaders ex-
pose themselves" amount in prac-
tice to united front with these
leaders and permits them to split
the workers ranks without being
called to account, if it should hap
pen that no Communists are pres
ent.
Continuing his version of the
great mass meeting of June l.,
Budenz says:
"a young worker, c. p. member,
got the platform through using
his card as member of the A.
F. of L. auto union in Detroit.
He brought greetings and then
ATTACKED THE ROOSEVELT
SETTLEMENT IN DETROIT.
Thereupon, Aubrey took the
megaphones away from him. But
Music, Pollack and the union
militants insisted that he should
speak (tolerantly condoning his
grievous error of exposing Ro0se-
velt-B. d. and he got few
more minutes"
"Thereupon, at Muste's sugges-
ton, Pollock took over the chair
manship. THE CENTRAL LABOR
UNION SPEAKERS ABAN-
DONED THE MEMORIAL HALL
PLATFORM AND CONCEN-
TRATED ON THE MCKINLEY
MONUMENT"
In other words, the local A. F. of
L. officials, in spite of all the posi-
tive" action of the A. w. p, in spite
of the fact that the A.WP. leaders
considerably had not exposed
them, split the meeting at which
the general strike was supposed to
be called.
A. w. P. Heads Rided A. F. of L.
Chiefs
But they had the assistance of the
A. w. p. leaders in attacking the
Communists. Budenz writes: Cum
truo f~-'i--~ e 49, local A. F of L.
The daily worker., 1934-06-25

Where was he during the struggles
previous to the Pittsburgh SELL
out convention? On this the
A. w. P. record is silent, except
for the Budenz demand that he
get arrested so money could be
raised.
1t seems clear that the A. w. P.
tactic is one that welcomes the
opportunity to laud or refrain
from criticism Of any leadership
that has not yet been exposed so
clearly that workers can identify
it as in the enemy camp. They
are not "disrupters." The A. w. P.
prefers that workers should be
led to defeat before they say any
thing about the leaders respon-
sible for it. In the case of Toledo,
they conjure up victory in order
to excuse their lack of criticism
OF the leadership. The Trotskyites
also use this method. The in
terests of workers are not con-
sidered at all.
But the contradictions between
the professedly revolutionary" A.
w. P. and its reformist policy of
placating and crawling before the
labor bureaucrats, compels it to
whip the devil around a stump.
Writing in Labor Action" on the
Socialist Party Convention, Music
saws unctiously.
The real test of the character
of every working class organiza-
ton of the workers and farmers
and toward the terrific struggles
taking place on the economic bat
tie field. An organization which
declares that its aims are revolu-
ticnary but does not take a cor
rect revolutionary position in
these matters is suspect"
We could not improve upon this
characterization - when applied to
the A.W.P. Their position in regard
to the union bureaucrats, "the main
social prop" of the present imperial
ist order, is not a revolutionary po-
siticn. Their deliberate refusal to
criticize and expose the Toledo mis-
leader, their attacks on the Com
munist Party that did, is not revo-
lutionary. The A.WP. is more thar
"suspect"-it is guilty.
Writing of the S. P. Conventions
Declaration of Principles, Music
says:
"Unquestionably, it is another
indication of how, under the pres
sure of the economic situation and
of the present wave of rebellion
among the workers, all groups are