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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-01-05

cord with that sentiment. The
Committee, it said further feels
that wishes of the voters cannot
be accomplished by the retention
in office of persons who by their
political beliefs and office-holding
under Republican administrations
are not in sympathy with the
herculean efforts of our great
President and illustrious leader, but
who secretly hope and conspire
for a resumption of Republican
political control"
In concludes: I'VE . declare
that we are in favor of the APP
pointnent to Federal and Terri
torial offices in Alaska only bona
fide Democrats who will give the
fullest measure of support to the
National and Territorial Admins
trations, and who have resided in
the Territory at least one year
preceding their appointment, and
we urge that all Republicans hold
ing office under the Democratic
Administration be dismissed and
replaced with capable and desery-
ing Democrats"
Discuss Job List
The precinct committeeman stud
led the local patronage situation
carefully last night. In anticipa-
ton of an early change in the
United States Marshals office, it
considered applicants for endorse
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-01-05
WI M ANS CLUB
TO HAVE SEWING
Demonstration
Needlework Prob lens to
Be Solved at Open
Meeting, Jan. 30

On January 30 the Juneau Wom-
ans Club will sponsor an American
Home Demonstrated to be held in
the afternoon at the Legion Dug
out, according to an announce
ment by Hazel James Ferguson,
club president Mrs. Kate Jarman
will have on exhibition samples of
all stitches used in plain needle
work and will explain them during
the demonstration.
ALI women of Channel commun-
tiles are invited to attend the
demonstration and to bring any
sewing problems with which they
would like assistance. Mrs. Jar
man will take up the questions and
explain them during the meet
ing.
Plans for the demo n t r ton
were formed at a recent meeting
of the Woman's Club
Christmas Work
Twenty people were recipients of
boxes of varied goodies, distributed
by the Christmas Cheer committee
of the club and seven needy fam
lilies received boxes of staple gro
ceries, according to a report made
by the committee.
Gifts, games and puzzles were
given to all patients at the Gov
eminent Hospital by those of the
club who were in charge OF the
work and both food and clothing
was sent to many of the sufferers
of the recent tide flat fire, it was
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-01-05

IS SPENDING
LARGE sum S
Treasury's Annual Report
Is Sent to Congress
Debt Peak Forecast

WASHINGTON, Jan. s. The
Government is spending more than
one billion dollars monthly for the
first half of 1884 and a new peak
in the National debt is forecast in
the Treasury's annual report to
Congress.
1T is estimated the Government
will spend nearly three times as
much in the six months to June
30 as the first half of the fiscal
year for emergency purposes alone
and the spending will be about five
times as fast.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-01-05
DEMOCRATS TO
STAGE CAUCUS
HERE JAN. II
Will Name Delegates to
Convention-Pass Sew
eral Resolutions

Continued from Page One)
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-01-05
TWINS ARE BORN

Twin boys, weighing Az pounds
each. came as a Christmas gift
to Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Fortuna at
Ketchikan. The mother of the in
fants is white and the father is
Filipino. The family already in
Guided three small children. The
father, unemployed, was so flaber-
gasted he is said to have delayed
visiting the hospital for at least
a day after the twins arrival.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-01-05
IMPROVISED TRAIN"
USED TO HAUL SNOW
ATTRACTS ATTENTION

Interest of pedestrians in the
business district was greatly in
trigued yesterday and today by the
improvised train" with which the
city workers are hauling accumu-
lated snow from Front Street to
the Channel where it is dumped.
lowed by a tractor, the train
consists of three box-car-like sleds
capable of holding a large amount
of snow. With this efficient sys-
tenn the high drifts have rapidly
disappeared and the streets i'm
proved both in appearance and
for pedestrian and motor car traf-
fic.
The same system was used in Ju-
neau several years ago and was de-
cided upon by Mayor i. Goldstein
and Olaf Torkelson as the best
means of dealing with the heavy
snow.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-01-05
DEAD,
ALASKA TRAIL

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. s.
The body of Charles R. Clark, re-
cent Alaska Railroad employee
has been brought here. He was
found dead on the trail near Can
yon Station, near the railroad. An
investigation has been ordered.
Clark was a native of Clayton
New York, and is survived by a
daughter there.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-01-05

ment for positions as Deputy Mar
shals, Jail guards and matrons.
Several candidates for these jobs
were endorsed.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-01-05
Little Alaska
Community on
NetU Government

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan.
5.-The community of Ninil-
chilx, on Kenai Peninsula, is in
the process of an experiment
on Co m m u n ity Government
while awaiting prosperity. Nils
Nordin is President, and Bert
Harris, Secretary, of the Com
munity Society. There will be
one huge garden supply farm
established and the products
will be for all.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-01-05

The 70-piece band of Texas
chronological college will wear uni
forms made from cloth woven in
the schools own mills.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-01-05
Production Increases IN 1888
ShOlUn for Is Basic Industries

81 10 industries
reported New showed strong
1888 from fractions of cent to as high
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-01-05
NOTICE

Finding it necessary to liquidate
on coal and feed accounts, on and
after January End, 1884. coal and
feed will be sold for cash only.
adv. D. B. FEMMER,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
AAA Farm Report
Hides Slash in
Real Farm Income
Crop Destruction Has
Raised Food
Prices

WASHINGTON, March 26.-The
annual report of the Agricultural
Adjustment Administration has
Just been issued giving the figures
on nine months of acreage reduc-
ton. The report claims that the
farm population has received one
billion dollars more in cash income
during 1888 than In 1882.
The farm population received the
report states, sS,271, 100000 esti-
mated cash income as compared
with estimated income Of $2,113,-
100000 in 1882.
What the official report does not
state is how the figures we're ar
rived at, nor what sections of the
farm population received the cash
benefits. The method used, 1t would
seem, to arrive at these conclusions
is simply to multiply the farm crop
by the current prices. This in no
way gives an accurate picture of
farm income since it assumes that
all crops will be sold at the current
price.
Real Income Lower
In addition, the report wholly
ignores the crucial factor of the
relation of farm income to the farm
expenditures, which have been ris-
ing faster than the income as a
result of the Roosevelt price-rais-
ing program under the N. r. A.
codes. This has raised the cost of
manufactured articles that the
farmer must buy to such an extent
that his real income in most cases
has shrunk below last year.
Also, the official A. A. A. report
ignores the class differences among
the farm population. While it is
true that rich farmers have bene-
flied by the high prices, the vast
majority of small farmers and farm
workers have had their incomes and
wages cut through declining markets,
which are shrinking as a result Of
the rising prices.
The report reveals that the Roose-
welt administration is responsible for
the destruction of from 20 to 40
per cent Of various leading crops,
such as cotton, wheat, tobacco, and
corn. This has caused the retail
price of food to rise in the cities.
The report fails to reveals that
100000 1000 is now taken every year
from the consumers in processing
taxes to pay for the subsidies to the
rich farmers for crop destruction.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
Prepare To Garry
Fight for Mooney
TOUS. Supreme Ct.
Appeal Action Based on
Partial Victory in
ScOttsboro Case

SAN FRANCISCO, March 2e.-
Plans to carry to the q. S. Supreme
Court the fight for the release of
Tom Mooney were being pushed, it
was learned today with the arrival
of John F. Finerty of Washington,
D. C.
Finerty interviewed the famous
class-war prisoner at San Quentin
Prison where he has been held for
over II years despite overwhelming
proof Of his innocence of the
framed-up charge on which Cal
ifornia bosses and their courts rail-
roaded him to a death sentence,
which was committed to life follow
ing the vigorous protests Of Lenin-
grad workers under the leadership
of Lenin.
A petition for a writ of habess
corpus will be filed in the U. S.
District Court here, charging that
Mooney has been denied his liberty
without due process of law.
The new proceeding is based on
the tremendous partial victory of
the International Labor Defense.
backed by worldwide mass protest,
in forcing the U. S. Supreme Court
to order new trials for the framed
up Scottsboro boys.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
Fur Workers Rally
Tomorrow Against
Bosses BetrayalS

NEW YORK.-The Fur Workers
Industrial Union issued call yes
terday to all fur workers to mass
at an open-air meeting tomorrow
at IL, noon, at goth St. and Seventh
Ave, to protest against the at
tempts by manufacturers and police
to break the unity of the workers.
During the last two weeks the
Industrial Union carried through
$50 shop strikes the statement
read. I'm many shops the bosses
were forced to increase the wages
of the workers up to the minimum
wage scale. Members of both bosses
associations have signed agree
ments. The Industrial Union
will not give up any one Of the
gains won by the workers through
heroic struggles. :. The union will
mobilize all forces in a struggle
against the INSCRIPTIONS bosses,
who are acting as organizers for
the underworld Joint Council"
Ben Gold, general secretary
treasurer of the N. T. w. I. u, sent
telegram yesterday to Mayor La
Guardia protesting violation of the
agreement by the bosses and the
breaking UP of meetings by police.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
Nurses LeagueHits
.LaGuardia Pay Cut

NEW YORK.-Aroused by a wage
cut imposed by DR.. Goldwater,
Commissioner of Hospitals, in ac-
cordance with his econornizing pol
icy, the organized nurses held a
protest meeting Friday called by
the Nurses Section of the Nurses
and Hospital Workers League. The
following resolution was adopted:
1--WE, who serve the city in one
Of the most important phases Of
social service, are by far the most
overworked. Hospital workers are
the only section of city employees
who work IL hours a day. We are
the lowest paid section.
1--WE declare our inability and
refuse to shoulder the burden of
meeting the city's obligation to
the bankers or the burden of
maintaining public institutions"
The decision will be conveyed to
DR.. Goldwater and Mayor La
Guardia tomorrow at 2:3O pm, by
a delegation of nurses representing
city hospitals. The American Nurses
Association and the Association of
Graduate Nurses of Manhattan and
the Bronx have been invited to par
ticipate in this action.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
Workers To Flay
RA at Hearing
Thursday Night
Dunno Will Report on
Wagner Bill Session
in Washington

NEW YORK-What has the N,
r. A. done to the wages and work.
ing conditions in the shops?
Those most capable of answering
this question, the workers, will tes-
tify at an open hearing on Thurs
day at pm. in Irving Plaza, r.
wing Place and 18th st. The meet
ing, arranged by a trade union
committee representing American
Federation Of Labor unions, Trade
Union Unity League unions and In
dependent unions, has for its pur-
pose the exposure Of just how the
N. R. A. has affected the lives of
workers and their families.
william F. Dunno, who recently
returned from Washington, where
he testified against the Wagner
Bill, will speak at the hearing. r.
wing Potash, district secretary of
the Needle Trades Workers Indus
trial Union, will be chairman. Joe
Kiss of the Furniture Workers
Union, Lustig and Matlas of the
metal workers, Biedenkapp and
Rosenberg of the shoe and leather
workers, and others will speak
Rank and file workers from various
New York shops will testify as to
their conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27

to break the ranks Of the strikers,
issued statement yesterday plead
ing with the hackmen to return to
work. "You don't have to belong to
any union to work for Parmelee,
said the statement. We'll have a
union in the Parmelee garages be-
fore we're through" said striker
at the 18th st. strike hall.
In accepting the plebiscite plan
in revised form the strikers have
shown their strength. They are not
demanding the impossible. They are
demanding plebiscite where all
workers of the three big companies
will have the right to express them
selves while they are on strike and
without coercion.
In an attempt to provoke the
strikers, the Par1nelee bosses sent
taxicabs loaded with thugs to patrol
in front of the various strike head
quarters. The strikers seeing that
these cabs we're being used to trap
them, let them alone and directed
all their efforts and energy towards
organized picketing of the garages.
The Workers International Relief,
which is working with the union,
leading in the distribution Of re-
lief, issued call to all workers to
assist in collecting food and to bring
it to the strike hall at 18th st. and
Third Ave.
The striking taxi drivers of the
Taxi Drivers Union passed reso-
luton thanking the Jewish Work
ers' Club and left wing organiza-
lions for financial aid and moral
support in helping them carry on
the strike.
The strikers we're specially CRATE
full to Robert Sindell, who worked
for more than % hours at stretch
raising money and food for the
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27

background, aside from being
a "glamorous" fighter Tin the
fans estimation) who mingles
studying at N.Y.U. as a side
line with fancy rope skipping, pull
ing heavy weights and doing road
work in heavy sweat shirts.
He might be troubled alright with
professors flunking him for splitting
inflnitives and for sparring around
with Milton and Shakespeare and
dealing heavy blows to economics,
sciences and foreign languages; but
all this is made up when he dons
fighting toys and when he begins
to weave and duck and counter
punch until his studies are kayoed
out Of his mind by his hefty blows.
IN little card received, 1 find
out that maybe my previous
conception of this champ might
be slightly erroneous. 1 begin to
think that maybe Bob Pastor was
in on some lengthy conversations
about the contradictions that exist
in capitalist society, that maybe
he knows, as an athlete, that he's
also subject to those contradic-
tiOns, that maybe he knows how
he and other athletes are being
exploited for profit. But I'm dis
illusioned as 1 read the card
further.
Here's the inside dope on him:
Dear Comrade Ross:
Did you know that Bob Pastor
who won the Golden Gloves heavy
weight crown. is a nephew of Rose
Pastor Stokes? AS far as I know
he is not in the movement He
must have inherited his fighting
spirit from Comrade Stokes because
he not only can box but he can also
play bang up game of football. He
won scholarship to N. Y. U.
whicsh was the college that was
going to cut out athletic scholar
ships-remember?
u. I. K"
I MIGHT be disillusioned, but I'm
1 not. However, the fact remains that
athletes, some who would never had
the idea Of ever rising to the
glorious pedestal of collegedom'
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
Examiner Reports
1,5OO City Teachers
Mentally Defective

NEW YORK, March ga report
ostensibly intended to prove that
about 1900 school teachers out OF
the $4,000 in the New York School
system are mentally incompetent
has just been published by DR.. Emil
Altman. chief medical examiner Of
the public school system.
The criteria and methods used in
arriving at this Judgment were not
revealed in the examiners report
1t is undeniably true that there are
hundreds Of incompetent, and even
mentally unbalanced teachers to be
found in the present school system
These are, for the most part, senile
teachers who maintain their jobs
solely through the fact they have
corrupt political connections with
the Tammany political machine
Despite the fact that the incom-
petence of these Tanmany-pro-
tected has long been known to the
Board of Education, it has refused
to take any steps to replace them
by new forces. There are more than
10000 young, and fully qualified
teachers now without Jobs in the
city. With the full approval OF
Mayor LaGuardia, the Board Of
Education is curtailing appropria-
tons for new jobs, at the same time
that 1t is appointing more super
visors in the higher salary brackets
Wage Cut Strategy
1t is pointed out that the report
of DR.. Altman occurs peculiarly at
the time when the City adIninistra-
ton is striving to pass the so-called
Economy Bill" which provides for
another wage cut for all city teach
ers. The intended effect Of the re-
port is to isolate the present teach
ing force, to undermine the con-
fidence of the city parent popula-
ton in the teaching force, and to
demoralize the relations of the en-
ployed teachers to the jobless
teachers.
1t is also pointed out that the
threat Of being judged mentally in
competent can become a menacing
weapon against militant teachers in
the schools. Comparison is made to
the present case of Mrs. Porteous, 8
teacher who was declared unfit
because she refused to give up part
of her salary in voluntary contri-
button" to the City relief funds.
At present thousands OF teachers
are burdened by classes twice the
normal size - classes which have
from so to 70 pupils, doubled-ur
and cramped In small classroomS
whose desks should only accommodate
80 pupils at most. This widespread
practice, which LaGuardia has ig-
nored. is ruinous both for teachers
and pupils. 1t could be remediec
without delay If the 10000 young
teachers we're employed to do away
with this crowdedness and to re-
place the old and mentally I'M
balanced teachers, who could bt
retired on pension.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27

because Of their poverty, are ex-
plotted for the interests of the "bif
business" tied up intimately wit
college athletics. These schools g
about, through their network o.
alumni, PROSECUTING high school stars
by underhand means in order to
give dear old Siwash some color In
their stadiums, in the classrooms, In
the pages of the press, all Of which
attracts more students and thous-
ands of dollars in gate receipts.
WHAT do athletes get in return for
W their serucesP They are loaned
tuition fees to be paid back upon
their graduation. They are told
they don't have to pay the money
back after they get their sheep
skin" But Immediately after gradu-
ton, the athlete who was cheered
to dizzy heights on the football
field, who was PARTED and toasted
around, begins to receive a pes
tering barrage of letters telling him
to pay back the borrowed money or
else they'll have to resort to the old
method Of squeezing blood out of
turnips.
He is given decent job too; but
just gets enough money to barely
sustain him during his stay at
school. An AlI-American football
star gets around $500 a year Of
wages from his job, which he gets
only by reaching stardom. In re-
turn, he gives the university thou
sands of dollars Of free advertising
and publicity and prestige. He puts
the school on the map. College pro-
fessOrs who write books and who
are brilliant lecturers and who are
authorities" might get a few
lines of notice once in a couple Of
full moons. The star athlete has
his picture plastered all over pos
tiers, stadiums, newspapers and
folders nearly every day, con-
tinualIy as each sport has its sea-
son.
COLLEGES, if they want to exist,
v must bride athletes. Athletes are
easy prey for glib-tongued alumni.
They're led to believe they's getting
something for nothing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
Socialist andA.F.L.
Workers To Join
Loop C.W.A. March
Continued from Page y


and the Workers Unemployment
and Social Insurance Bill.
In a frantic effort to check the
rising mass sentiment in support Of
the March 81 demonstration, Chi
cago relief authorities are already
making concessions to the unem-
ployed workers. Transfers to relief
for fired c. w. A. workers are be-
ing speeded up, and relief work is
being made available in many cases.
Demand Permit
No permit has thus far been is
sued by the police. Committees rep
resenting the united front confer
ence which planned the march, the
A. F. of L. Rank and File Commit
tee for Unemployment Insurance
and the International Labor Defense
will call on Police Commissioner
Altman today demanding the per-
nit be granted.
Meanwhile the conference COM
mittee of action has issued a call
to all workers organizations to
send independent committees and
kilograms demanding the right to
march and demonstrate.
A committee elected by Local IL
of the Chicago Workers Committee
on Unemployment appeared before
the county executive Of that organ
ization Saturday, asking that the
entire organization join the march.
They were unfavorably received by
the executive, who have amongst
their members the Democratic poll
tician, John Duffy, and members of
the Socialist leadership.
The demonstration and march on
Saturday will place the following
demands:
/. Continuation of G. w. A., with
30-hour minimum week at union
wages.
2. Jobs or adequate cash relief,
single workers included.
3. Unemployment and Social In
surance Bill (H. r. 1899.
4, Against discrimination of Ne
gro or foreign-born workers on Jobs
or relief.
5. For recognition of grievance
committees of all workers organ
izations on the job at the relief
station.
At the Cook County Unemploy-
ment Council many workers re-
Gently fired from G. w. A. jobs re-
port that within three or four days
after being fired they were assigned
to weeks work of "a hours at so
cents an hour, with a promise of
more work when the week was up
Many others have been granted i'm
mediate relief.
That these concessions are re-
suit of the mass power behind the
march is shown by the fact that
workers fired two or three weeks
ago had with very few exceptions
been told that they could not get
relief for two to four weeks.
A. Guss, organizer of the Cook
County Unemployment Councils. in
a statement yesterday said. THE
Chicago workers are not being
fooled by these crumbs that are be-
ing thrown to them in an effort to
head off the mass sentiment for
the march, The workers realize
that only through a determined
struggle for Jobs and cash relief, for
unemployment insurance d
against discrimination can the I'M
employed workers make any real
gains"