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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-08-24
WHAT WOULD THEY CUT OFF?

Republican critics of the New Deal in Alaska
and elsewhere condemn it for interference with
private initiative and riotous expenditure of public
funds. Yet the charge made at local c. 0. +.
rally that the New Deal would sacrifice all that is
precious to Americans is without foundation The
ideal that this will always be land of freedom
and opportunity is the thing that the New Deal
is trying to preserve that is what it is designed
to do; not to destroy but to the liberty OF
thought, of action and of speech for us and those
who follow
All of us want private initiative but when the
other fellows initiative runs to speeding on the
other side of the road, as the New York World
Telegram points out call loudly for government
interference in the form of traffic control Traffic
regulation often becomes inconvenent to us but we
bear with it's restrictions the price of survival
The farmer wants freedom of initiative to plan
as he pleases, the business man to manage his
company he desires, the investor to take flier
in his pet stock But when the free farmer cannot
meet his mortgages, when the business mans market
vanishes, when the investor finds the entire
securities structure upset. these rugged ndvduaists
call for government help.
The Government today is helpng-not because
It is it's duty to save individuals from overdose
of private initiative but because the innocent are
suffering along with the foolish and the nation has
been imperled by the misdirected initiative of the
IL u. ~. +.
will permit the insults and the Harrmans to con-
tinue their freedom of exploitation and pundering
without depriving the rest of the country of the
freedom to work and the opportunity to live there
will be need for government interference to save
America That system wasn't devised when the
G. o. P was in power and exploitation and plumber
ing went unchecked if not encouraged. That was
what caused the depression not government inter-
ference The proponents of the old system sincerely
believed it could rebuild on its own ruins. They
waited and wated-almost too long.
Now that the menace of destruction is removed,
the Old Guard, those who see their freedom TO
control things to their own benefit coming to an
end clamor of government interference with ndi-
vidual initiative. What part of that interference
would they stop now? None has said
Would they stop RFC loans to banks to the
detriment of the depositor? Would they with
draw PWA money, factories revived by construc-
ton orders and merchants selling to PWA workers
would be free to go bankrupt? Would they close
the ECW camps here that the men employed
would be free to congregate in our communities to
become charges local authorities? Would thel
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-08-24
A BETTER HUNTING SEASON.

Although we believe that curtailment of the
hunting season in Alaska on migratory wild fowl
unnecessary and not justified under existing con-
dtions it must be admitted that could hardly
escape the restrictions that have been placed upon
the entire country Excepting Alaska would be
difficult to explain to millions of people in the
States who are densely ignorant of conditions here
that call for all of the berality that can be exer-
cised in such things regulations on hunting.
Still, under the seasonal arrangement just adopt
ed for Alaska by the United States Biological
Survey upon the recommendation of the Alaska
Game Commission, we have not Jared too badly.
Most of us will get as much hunting as we did
under the 60-day season, despite the fact that we
are limited to 80 days of actual hunting. The open
season, beginning on September l. will close on
November S. Three days out of each seven, Satur-
DAYS Sundays and Mondays the killing OF migratory
birds is permissible during the 60-day period. That
is as much bird hunting most people will want
to do 1t ought to make it possible for everyone
to enjoy the sport much as would be possible
under the old 6O-day continuous hunting
In Southeast Alaska closing date around
November Is, would be much preferable to the
earlier one But with no coming of the Territory
possible to open the later here would deprive
interior residents of practically all legal hunting,
which of course is not to be considered. Between
now and next year every effort should be made
to have the Territory zoned that in 1885 we can
have a season that is more fitted to conditions
here.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-08-24
Factory Safety VS.. Highway Recklessness

DAILY Journal of Commerce, Seattle)
During recent years the accident rate in industry
has steadily declined There is a constantly growing
list of manufacturing industries employing thou-
sands of men which operate for month after month
without a single serious mishap
The accident experience of individuals meas
ured by the automobile toll, is the direct reverse
of this Men who lose sight of safety when
at work become careless and reckless when they
get behind the wheel of a Men who would
never think of taking a chance in handling a piece
of factory machinery will try to save five minutes
on the drive home by cutting corners, passing on
curves and at intersections, doing one of the
many other things which our annual auto
mobile death toll to disgust all thinking people.
There is a sound for this contrast. In
our factories arrangements have made every effort
to inst safety consciousness" into workers, and
they have succeeded. They have found that guard
ing and perfecting machinery is important-but that
the proper attitude of knowledge and watchfulness
on the part of those who the machines, Is
vastly important.
A percentage of automobile drivers, on the other
hand feel little of responsibility Consciously
or unconsciously they figure that it is up to the
"other driver" to take precautions. And the in
evtable result of that attitude is soaring auto
mobile accident record.
| If drivers would make safety first their motto
as it would be in their work if they were factory
employees the highways would not be the slaughter
lanes they are becoming IN this so-called enlight-
,ened age. No piece of machinery is more poten-
TALLY dangerous than the automobile
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-08-24

Mining Location Notices at EN-
pire office.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-08-24
20 YEARS AGO
From The Empire
AUGUST "a, 1914.

hO0OS1 "a, 1914.
The Foonah salmon pack had
been most satisfactory, according
to G. J. Alexander of the cannery
there, who was in Juneau. We
have $4,000 cases already and ex-
pect to make it $4,000 by the close
of the season. The extra large run
of reds has in measure made up
for the shortage of pinks," he said.
Capt. John Rex Thompson.
potentate of Nile Temple, Order
of the Mystic Shrine, arrived on
the City of Seattle and the Shrine
degree team consisting of the Of
ficers of Nile Temple of Seattle
was to arrive in few days to
conduct new class across the
sandy desert" There were ex-
pected to be between 40 and SO
pilgrims from Juneau and other
Southeast Alaska towns escorted by
the guides, who were prompted en-
tirely by gentleness.
American vessels were notified
by the U. S. Customs office that
when at sea they would be spared
inconvenience and delay by dis
playing their colors Immediately
when called upon to do so by war
ships. The instructions came from
Washington, d. c., and had been
sent to all collectors of customs
on the Pacific Coast.
James McCloskey arrived from
Skagway on the j. B. Stetson.
coming directly from Atlin, B. C.
He had been relieved at the mines
there by his brother John. A
good cleanup was predicted in the
Atlin district.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-08-24

call back, if they could, the half billion dollars
worth of government interference in drought relief
SO the victims would be free to watch their crops
shrivel into dust soil blow away, livestock thirst AND
die? Would they revoke government interference
that closed sweatshops increased minimum wages
and banned child labor, that the INSCRIPTIONS
competitor would be free to drag down the honest
business and that children would enjoy
the freedom of shaving in the mills and throw more
men out of work?
Naturally, they do not mean they want to do
this But whether they know it or not, the freedom
they pirate about is the freedom to hunt for a
job that doesn't exist, the opportunity to starve.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-08-24

One solution for the Louisiana squabbe would
be to give the State back to the French. Maybe
they wouldn't take it, however if the Kngfish went
with it.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-08-24

Weather for the preceding "a
hours was cloudy with rain. There
was a maximum temperature of
SO degrees and a minimum of At.
Precipitation was AZ inches.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22
By Bill Gebert

THE Daily Worker received a six
page article written by a Detroit
auto worker who is a representa-
tive of the workers in his depart
ment in the company union. This
worker takes issue with my article
as it appeared in the Daily Worker
September l, under the title "Sys-
tematic Activity Urged in the Com
pany Unions by the Communist
Party"
This comrade polemizeS against
the article on the ground that it
is useless to work in the company
unions, that it is impossible to work
in the company unions, that work
IN the company unions will give
prestige to the company unions. To
quote his letter:
i have arrived at these con-
clusionS from my personal exreri-
ence as representative in the COM
pany union where I work with the
cooperation of the members of the
C.P.-but where we ACCOMPLISHED
very little, aside from giving the
company union some prestige
among the workers in the shops
who had known US as militant
fighters in their behalf. Therefore.
I say, don't get mixed up in the
company union whatever the pur-
pose may be-"
Then he further declares:
"All sincere workers now serv-
ing as representatives [meaning
in the company union-BG1
should resign from the company
union. Representatives REFUSING
to do so should then be them
selves exposed to the workers in
the shop"
l am not in a position, naturally.
to discuss how the members of the
Communist Party, with whom he
works, as a representative on the
company union, functioned. This
we will leave to the comrades in
Detroit to explain. Maybe the
of work were not good.
Maybe the attitude of this worker
toward the work in the company
unions contributed to the fact that
no results were obtained. Maybe
there were other fsctcrs. We nnly
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22

the plan, they only took into con-
sideration the slight majority of
those who voted Yes" disregarding
the voided ballots and those who
abstained and therefore proclaimed
that this Decentralization plan of
the company union has been car
ried.
After this, what shall we do?
Shall we drop our struggle against
the company unions? Shall we en-
gage in the general shouting of
slogans Smash the company
unions" Boycott the company
unions?" This would be incorrect.
Such slogans will lead to passivity
instead of activity. Therefore, it
was absolutely correct for us to
enter into the elections, just pre-
cisely because, as the Detroit worker
correctly states in his article, the
workers are forced to vote in cleo
tons and abstention means to throw
suspicion on the workers. There
fore we put up candidates, worked
out concrete demands, and in some
of the departments workers on
their own initiative printed plug
gecs, stating demands of the work
ers in the departments, calling
upon the workers to vote for the
given candidate. In the depart
tnents where we placed candidates
we were able to organize groups of
workers around the issues raised by
us and in one department elected
a representative to the company
union. tt is quite clear that such
policy is a very correct one and we
further say that as a result of this
we were somewhat strengthened in
the shop.
The aforementioned worker also
takes issue with the question of the
metal shop in Chicago where more
than six months ago we participated
in the elections in the company
union. Here, too, we participated
on the basis of a struggle against
company unionism and we placed
candidates in the departments. We
elected them. A majority of the
departments did not subscribe to
our program. But because of the
conscious policy on the part of those
who were elected. the company
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22

know one thing, that the company
unions in the auto factory in Detroit
are the same company unions as we
have in steel, railroad and metal
and other Industries. They axe no
different.
The worker correspondent takes
exception to the struggle against
company unions which we carried
in some steel mills, that at one time
we call upon the workers to vote
mo" and the proposed democrat
lzation' of the company unions and
then participate in the elections of
the company unions. He feels that
this is very inconsistent. 1t is
clear that this worker does not as
yet understand the methods of work
IN the company unions.
Why Do We Vote mo-?
First, as to why we carry a cam
paign to vote mo" and the ques-
ton of so-called decentralization"
OF the company unions, and at the
same time paste stickerS on the bal
lots Il Vote against all forms of
company unionisln. l stand for the
rights of the workers to join genuine
trade unions" The proposed dem
ccratization" was, in the words of
the General Superintendent of the
Illinois Steei company Subsidiary
of the U. S. Steel Corporation
deemed desirable by the recent in
terpresaticns of the N.R.A.," that is.
to make the company union appear
as complying with paragraph IA
and therefore really representative
Of the workers.
Naturally, against this we under
take a sharpeSt struggle. In reality
the majority Of the workers re-
sponded to our call and voted mo"
or pasted the stickerS on the ballot.
The figures of this election was
given by the company itself: 4,279
votes were cast for the amendments,
1872 against them, with $50 ballots
voided, primarily because of stickers
on them, and LOO workers did not
participate in the elections at all.
That is, either they we're not work
ing at the time the elections took
place or refused to vote. But de-
spite this, which shows that the ma
Jorlty OF the workers we're against
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22

union was exposed before the work
ers as an instrument of the bosses.
A relatively strong local of the
Steel and Metal Workers Industrial
Union was built in the shop. Then.
when the company attempted to re-
Juvinate the company union. which
was undermined and crippled by the
work of our people-then it was the
proper time to call upon the work.
ers not to vote and the workers
understood us very well. Because
of that out Of 600 workers in the
shop, less than $50 workers rar-
ticlpated in the company union
primaries.
We can very cstegorically declare
here that if six months ago we
would not have entered into the
elections, the company union would
still be a company union in that
shop. Now it is a small minority.
And we mast continue to work in
this minority! The other workers
have been won over against the
company union.
This is sufficient proof how cor
rect our policy is.
We can report that since the
article appeared in the Daily
Worker on September 1, in one of
the important plants in the S ate
of Indiana, we entered into the
elections in two departments. Our
candidates have been elected on the
principle of struggle against COM
pany unionism and for immediate
demands. After the cleo ion, these
representatives called meeting of
the workers in their departments.
Twenty workers came to the meet
ing. They set up grievance COM
mittee to raise the problems of the
workers, to popularize demands, to
rally the workers around them,
preparing them for struggle and to
undertake to build a trade union
group. Being elected as repre-
sentatives it was possible and rela-
lively easy to undertake This &C
tivity. If we did not enter into
the elections in the company union,
if we did not participate in the
activities we would have isolated
ourselves from the basic sections of
the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22

withdrawal of all U.M.W.A. off,
Gals from the N,R.A. Labor
Boards.
Against discrimination and
for full rights for the Negro
miners, against lynChing and for
support of the Negro Rights Bill.
5.-To sanction the organization
Of Womcn's Auxiliaries and youth
sections of the Union and for
equal pay for the young miners.
6.-For the right Of every local
union and district to elect their
own officers. For rank and file
democracy and against appointive
power.
7.-Against the use of armed
forces in strike and against war
and fascism.
8.-To reinstate all miners IN
justly expelled from the U.M.W.A.,
and to unite all OF the miners
driven from the U.M.W.A. by the
policy of John L. Lewis into one
union of all coal miners.
The complete slate of national
candidate nominated by the Rank
and File Committee follows:
For president, John F. Sloan, Lo-
cal No. $500, ia Illinois ST., West
vile, Ill.
For vice-president, Oscar Guynn,
Local No. 3917, Lansing Ohio.
For secratary-treasurer, George
Green, Local No. 1443, 524 West
Washington Ave, Shenandoah, Pa.
For tellers, James Emery, Local
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22
Farley
Against " ar
In Coal Area
Elect Delegates to the
Chicago Anti Var
Congress
BY AGNES SMEAR and
LEILA r. JACKSON

FAYETTE, Pa. - Forty delegates,
representing 81 organizations, at
tended the conference of the Ameri-
can League Against War and Fas-
ciSm in Uniontown. Pa, on Sunday
September IS. These delegates
worked out a program in the fight
against War and FasciSm in the
Fayette coal fields and sent five
delegates to the Second U. S. Con-
gress in Chicago.
Many more organizations would
have attended the conference, but
there was terrific rain on this day
Mrs. Leila r. Jackson, President
of the Grindstone Auxiliary of the
United Mine Workers, and a dele
gate to the Paris Womens Congress,
was elected chairman. Comrade
Croushore, woman member of the
Socialist Party, was one Of the vice
chairmen, and Bob Washington, a
Negro leader of a local of the U. NJ.
w. A, was the other vice chairman.
The secretary was Agnes Smear, one
of the leaders of the Womens Auxi-
liary and a Communist candidate
for the state legislature.
The five delegates we're: Mrs.
Jackson, Agnes Smear, Frank Neffs
of the Braznell local of the U. NJ.
w. A., Paul Valentine, local So
cialist leader and coal miner, and
E. c. Cup, Negro mine leader and
Vice President Of the National I'm
employment Councils.
A good discussion was held on the
report Of Comrade Smear. Many OF
the miners brought out the terror
on the part of the H. c. Frick coal
company and their company union
the Independent Miners Brother
hood. 1t was also pointed out that
the coal company is again reviving
the Ku KluX Klan, and other fascist
organizations. Mrs jackson re-
ported on the Paris Congress Against
War and Facisnl.
Among the resolutions that were
adopted were those pointing out
the work of the Fascist organiza-
tions in the United States and espe-
cially Fayette County, a resolution
on the youth, call to the leaders
of the trade Unions and one to the
churches. The sum of SIS was
raised to send the delegates to
Chicago.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22
?earcy Opens
AParleyBy
Assailing Reds
Is Not Even Elected
Delegate, Records
Indicate

GILLESPIE, Ill, Sept. II (By
Maid The Second Constitutional
Convention of the Progressive
Miners OF America opened this
morning with around 200 delegates
representing 10000 employed and
5000 unemployed and blacklisted
members. The machine succeeded
in electing Pearcy as chairman of
the convention.
The first clash at the opening
between the opposition delegates
and officialdom came on the ques-
ton of expenses of those delegates
coming from unemployed and strik-
ing locals. In order to narrow down
the convention to those who sup
port the Pearcy machine. Secre-
tary Treasurer Keck sent out let
tiers to all unemployed and black
listed locals asking them to suspend
provision of the constitution which
calls for one delegate for every
hundred members, and instead, to
elect one delegate for every 500
members, supposedly to save ex-
pense. Many locals, however, re-
fuse to fall for this trick, and sent
the regular quota of delegates al
lowed by the constitution.
The question arose as to who will
pay The expenses who did not COM
ply with the arbitrary decision of
the off1cialdom. Motion was made
by the Pearcy machine that only
one for every 500 be recognized,
whereupon Layerne Pruitt, delegate
from Local S., Pana, Ill, and Com
munist candidate for Congressman
at-large, took the floor explaining
the viciousness of such arbitrary
decisions of the officials, and moved
an amendment that all delegates
sent by the local unions from strik-
ing and unemployed locals be seated
as regular delegates with board,
lodging, and pay during the course
of the convention, to be paid from
the district treasury. This amend
ment was carried by an overwhelm-
ing majority vote.
Pearcy AsSailS Militants
In statement to the press,
Pearcy attempted to raise the red
batting campaign against the mill
tant rank and file delegates. Pearcy
said:
Complete harmony and accord
is expected from those delegates
who may have come under the
influence of the Communist Party,
which group has seriously hin
dered the progress and efficiency
of the organization during the
past two years. This red group
(Continued on Page 81
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Finally we have to discuss one
very important question raised by
the worker correspondent, namely
that if we raise demands of the
workers in the company union, as
they have been listed in my article
quoting the leaf1et of the S.M.WI.U.
in the Chicago Hardware Foundry
Company, How long do you think
the representative would last if we
were to present these demands as
listed in this leaf1et?" Naturally, if
the representative, without consult
ing the workers, without organizing
the workers in the department
would present these demands from,
literally speaking, the blue sky, then
he can be very easily eliminated
from the shop. But if this repre-
sentative ties himself up with the
workers in the department, Or
ganizes them around these demands,
if these demands will come from
the workers, the workers will not
only support these demands but will
fight, in the case of firing of this
worker, for his reinstatement.
Must Broaden Our Work
Our opinion on the matter is thai
not only must we work in the COM
pany unions, but we must broaden
cur work. 1t is our opinion that
the tasks of the Communist Party
and Young Communist League,
unions of the Trade Union Unity
League, and revolu ionary forces in
the American Federation of Labor
is to develop united struggle against
company unionism, to smash the
very structure of the company
unions by means of establishing a
system of calling meetings Of the
workers in the shops, demanding
exclusion of the representatives of
the company, that is, representa-
tives of the management, foremen,
etc. from such meetings, to formu-
late demands that the workers
really wish to fight for. Bring them
to such meetings, elect delegations
to go to The meetings of the repre-
sentatives and fight for these de-
mands, participating in every elec-
ton in the company union, and
if we would develop real work in
the company unions, it is possible