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The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-09-14
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SEPTEMBER fl, 1914.


 The United States revenue cut ter Bear arrived in Nome from Wrangell Island, bringing twelve persons, the remainder of the crew of the Karluk, of Stefansson's ill., starred exploration expedition. All of the rescued men were i'll from lack of food and the seal, bird and bear diet they were forced to exist on. Nothing had been heard of the two parties, of four men each, which had set out over the ice when the Karluk was lost, seeking to establish a base on Wrangell Island.
 The Battle of the Marne was characterized as The battle of the ages" by the London Telegraph, based on the number of fighting men engaged, the extent of the battle line and the terrific slaugh- ter.
 The Pacific Alaska Navigation company's Admiral Line steamer the Admiral Watson, sister ship to ths Admiral Evans, was to sail in the evening from Seattle on her maiden voyage to Alaska. Capt Edward Hickman was in command opd T|hOnnor I Keboa n0r)l1lar purser on the ill-fated Admiral Sampson, was aboard.
 Postmaster Earl Hunter and a party of friends, left on hunting cruise aboard the gas boat Querida belonging to MT. Hunter They were headed for Rocky Pass and ex- pected to be gone about a week.
 The Juneau Elks were to give another of their popular dances and social sessions following lodge meeting two nights hence. Al members, including visiting mem bers from out of town, were ex- pected to be on hand with thei1 lady guests.
 Weather for the previous 2t hours was partly cloudy with rain The maximum temperature was 62 degrees and the minimum was 3e
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-09-14

Weather for the previous 24 hours was partly cloudy with rain. The maximum temperature was 62 degrees and the minimum was 39
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-19
Herndon Protest Meet
Called for Saturday
Night in Harle m

NEW YORK.-The Herndon De-
Tense Committee, a group sponsored
by the International Labor Defense,
the National Committee for the De-
Tense of Political Prisoners, the
League of Struggle for Negro Rights
and other organizations, is holding q
Herndon mass meeting at the Har-
lem Y. w. G. A., IA West 13sth ST.,
at pm. on Saturday, May 18th.
Admission is free.
The purpose of the meeting is to
interest more people in the case of
Angelo Herndon, young Negro or
ganizer of the Atlanta Unemployed
Councils, who was sentenced to Is
to 40 years on the Georgia chain
gang, and has now been in jail for
more than two years, solely because
of his activities among the Negro
and white unemployed of Atlanta.
The meeting will be addressed by
speakers who were in Atlanta at the
time of Herndon's arrest, who have
kept in close touch with him since
he has been in jail ana are tamlllar
with the latest developments in the
case.
The principal speakers will be T.
Harvey Burris, Negro law student
from Atlanta, and Caroline Drew.
Sadie Van Veen will act as chair
man.
Belle West will give a reading Of
new poetry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-19
Expose Alaska Hoax
Especial to Daily Worker

SEATTLE, Wash, May 18.-In an
attempt to break the longshore-
mems strike here, state and city
officials and leaders Of the Inter
ternational Longshorenlen'S As5o-
ton are raising the cry that food
must be sent to the Starving
Alsskans."
On this flimsy premise I. L. A.
leaders made a special agreement
to allow the steamer Victoria to
take on cargo for Alaska. The
food" for the starving Alaskans"
included cannery machinery and
pipes. Resentment is strong among
the workers.
At the last meeting of the Ferry
Bosrdmen's Union in Aberdeen the
membership went on record almost
unanimously for strike action in
support OF the longshoremsn. The
Waterfront Unemployment Council
has organized 100 unemployed sea-
men to demand relief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-19
.JObIess Answer Roosevelt attacks With Strikes

Polk County in which Negroes are
not permitted to stay over night.
Pittsburgh, Kansas, storm the relief
station. Des Moines, Iowa, relief
workers strike. Three hundred Ne
gro and white workers march on
the Fort Smith, Ark. city hall, de-
mand relief and wire Roosevelt.
Throughout the country the jobless
translate the hunger program Of
Roosevelt into fighting program
against hunger.
Work will be given to an in
dividual for a period not to ex-
coed six months. This is in order
that it may not be considered or
utilized as permanent method
of support" Roosevelt stated in
his work relief" message of Feb.
2S.
In other words, six-months
period Of semi-starvation 10 be
followed by a complete denial by
the federal government of its
responsibility TO the unemployed.
Roosevelt DEGREES relief cuts,
forced labor and starvation to the
unemployed workers. In the face of
his starvation DEGREES it is neces-
sary for the employed and unem-
ployed workers everywhere to or
gani5e and carry through the fight
against relief cuts, for cash relief,
for union wages and conditions on
all job projects and relief work, and
for the enactment Of the Workers
Unemployment Insurance Bill III.
r. 7593). The united front, led by
the Unemployment Councils and
instituted on widely scattered ac-
tions throughout the country must
be cemented by joint actions of the
and unemployed on the
picket lines in strikes and in actions
in the neighborhoods and at the
relief bureaus
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-19

end of G. w. A. Boggs, of the Ohio
Relief Commission, told a workers
delegation that all workers would
receive relief according to their
budgetary needs'-this amounts to
81 week per person. F. E. R. A.
jobs are given to those who can
work forced labor IL hours a week
or more. These receive about 40
cents more a day. Thus, FAM
lily Of five is rated at 40c a week,
and If the head of a family works,
he gets IA hours work at so cent an
hour. Evictions continue, and at
every eviction about 80 motor cops
and three police cars are mobili5ed."
Wholesale Arrests in Topeka
In Topeka, Kan, the strike Of
5000 relief workers was beheaded
by wholesale arrests after which the
leaders we're tricked into pleading
guilty to charges Of riot" Criminal
syndicalism charges, bearing prison
sentences of 20 years we're dropped.
A reign q terror was instituted.
National Guard troops and police
tear gassed and dubbed strike
meetings of men and women. One
worker from Wichita writes. THE
workers will meet again this after
noon May 81 and march through
the city. This will be the second
city-wide demonstration within the
past three weeks. We got our de-
mands the first time, but this week
the pay was cut in half. Pay ranges
from $190 for single men to S6.25
for those with families with eight"
st. Joseph, Mo-, workers storm
the city hall and are repulSed by
the police who earlier in the year
turned a victim over to lynch
gang. Eight hundred Negro and
white workers and farmers dem
onstrate in Russelville, Arkansas, q
few miles from the "lily-white"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-19
Ala. Court IssuesNew
Warrant For Arrest
OfLOuise Thompson
John Reed Club Wire
Protests Against
Terror

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, May Ia
Louise Thompson, Negro organizer
for the International Workers Or
der, was released today after su-
liberties we're forced to drop the
trumped UP vagrancy charges on
which she was arrested
A new warrant was immediately
issued for her arrest by 2 ruling
class trembling in deadly fear be-
fore the growing unity Of white and
Negro workers in the fight against
starvation, Fascism and imperialist
war.
NEW YORK-A vigorous protest
against the Alabama steel bosses
and the arrest of working class Or
ganizers and John Howard Lawson,
q member Of the John Reed Club
Of New York, was wired yesterday
to Gov. B. M. Miller Of Alabama by
the John Reed Clubs Of the US.
AS a result of the SANDERS
against Negro workers printed in
the Birmingham News, white
miners are calling on Negro min
ers to boycott this paper, one
striker correspondent from Besse-
mer, Ala, reports to the Daily
Worker, in an article printed on
page six Of this issue.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-19

granted. The Harrison County Cen
trail Labor Union CA. F. of L. has
endorsed this conference and will
send elect delegates. Similarly, it's
affiliated unions will independently
send delegates.
Where actions have been initiated
to defeat the starvation work relief
wages and forced labor schemes,
they have received the active sup
port of the workers in the A. F. of
L. unions. Notably in Butler Coun-
ty, Ohio, where, despite every effort
of the police and relief officials, the
strike of the F. E. R. A. workers
has remained solid throughout five
weeks of terror. Strike-b breaking
officials Of the A. r. of i. were
ousted by the membership who
intellectually entered into the
struggle for decent wages on work
relief. Mass meetings we're for the
first time held in Middletown, Ohio,
a company town owned and domi-
mated by the American Rolling
Mills. Strikers won full relief for
all striking workers.
One worker writes from Fort
Pierce, Florida: "There are no
more relief jobs here. Here is
what two men received for relief
for one week: three pounds Of
smoked meat, two pounds of
'Milkwheato,' one can of meat, one
pound of lard, two pounds of but
ter. No bread, no potatoes, no
vegetables"
In Tampa recently, the unem-
ployed refused pay checks of SO
cents for a weeks work. School
children went on strike. Police
men, women and children,
and arrested school children as
young as seven years.
From Columbus, Ohio, another
worker writes: April 1 brought the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-19
Continued from Page u

fees Act by which the jobless are to
be made to bear the burden of the
pay reservations.
On the same day that Roosevelt
launched this latest attack upon the
unemployed, Harry L. Hopkins an
nounced that relief needs had risen
SO per cent in 40 cities and urban
counties between March and April.
The reason" given in the official
dispatches is the closing of G. w. A.
Yet. compared with November, 1898,
before the c. w. A. program was
launched, relief cases throughout
the country, which in no case re-
feet actual need due to the sys-
tematic denial of relief to millions
Of unemployed, had risen II per
cent by April, 1884.
A few instances from widely scat
tered sections of the country will
best illustrate the starvations stand
ards being used on forced labor
work relief" In Clarksburg, West
Virginia, one month after the dis
continuation OF g. w. A, the Rar-
ri5on County Relief Administrator
announced the wage scale for Fed
ersl Emergency Relief workers.
Under the c. w A., laborers in this
section were paid As cents an hour,
skilled workers S1.10 an hour for a
30-hour week. Under the F. z. 4. A.
laborers will receive s. cents an
hour, skilled workers so cents an
hour, and work will be limited to
Is hours a month! Under c. w. A,
workers earned $3.50 to s33 week;
under F. E. r. A. they will get
$3.50 to So a month.
On May 20, a united front confer
ence will be held in Clarksburg to
determine strike action if the work
ers demands for pay equal to c.
". A. wages are not Immediately
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-19

u ONtlHUEQ from NQt
court on Thursday morning. the de
mand for equal rights for Negroes
for complete racial equality. for
self-determination for the black
belt. struck like lightning through
the toggy prejudice Of the jim-croW
courtroom.
Make no mistake about the
strength of the working class in
Alabama. The awakening workers
are aware that the Communist
Party IS leading them in their day
to-day struggles. They are deter
mined to smash the jim-crow preju-
dice Of the oppressor class.
Worker Guard Their Leaders
Following his historic declaration
of Communist principle in Judge
Abernathy's court on Thursday
morning, Ralston left the building,
still under bail. He walked through
jeering, threatening mobs of white
legionnaires. 1t was well-known
that his life was indanger. He paid
no attention to the thugs around
him. But for blocks along his path,
the streets were lined with appar-
emily indolent men-several thou
sand men were lounging on both
sides of the street, watching intently
ragged men, C.W.A. workers, men
from the unemployed, from the coal
and ore mines, from the Sums. from
the picket lines, from Coal Valley
and Red Mountain and Ishkooda
and Tewent City. Negro and white,
they formed 2 solid wall along the
/ street-they simply watched, follow
ing Ralston with their eyes as ne
passed. Not a word was spoken;
but a glance at their faces told the
story Of a class that cannot be de-
feated.
The struggle IS particularly in
tense and particularly brutal in Ala
bama because of the yoke of slavery
which has long been fastened on
white and Negro workers in this
state. AS the struggle grows, all
the forces of reaction in Alabama
Join with the White Legion in
screaming for the blood of the
workers. The lynch spirit is being
whipped up on every side. Every
worker, every honest intellectual
/ should be aware Of the seriousness
! Of this issue. A motion has already
been made in q public meeting Of
the White Legion to burn home.
and kill the families of every Negro
Communist in Birmingham. Thi,
motion was actually voted on at the
White Legion meeting of April 3Oth
and lost by not-too-gres margin
The militant workers of Alabama
are in danger. The race issue j,
being proposed as an excuse TO,
brutal and cowardly attacks upon
the most advanced sectors Of the
working class. We must help them.
We must mobilize the greatest DOS.
sible force Of opinion against these
murderous attacks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-19
Bloody Attack Is
Made by Cops on
Anti-Nazi Workers
Continued from Page y

Down With Hitler!" the cops at
tackled and arrested several.
Workers blood spattered the halls
of the West Side Court as cops and
detectives set upon workers who had
come to court to witness the trial
of their comrades arrested at the
Garden. Wildly swinging clubs and
"billies" on the faces Of the workers,
they charged into groups Of workers
standing on the steps Of the court
room. A police inspector had order
ed them to round EN- up and bring
'em in" in their most effective fash
ion.
One young worker was pushed
into corner by several detectives
and beaten in the face with billies
until blood spurted from his
wounds.
Like wild beast made mad by
the sight of blood, one detective
drew a gun from his pocket, but
his slightly saner cronies stopped
him. Five cops had to bring him
to the floor, so crazed was he.
The young anti-fascist lay
bleeding on the ground for a half
hour before any attention was
given to him.
Another young worker. at
tackled by police, ran into the
courtroom to escape. Blood
streaming from his face and head,
the boy yelled to Magistrate An
thony Burke; your honor, stop
this murder, help mel" Burke, no.
torious reactionary red-baitcr,
ordered him out, and Immediately
20 uniformed and plain clothes
policemen jumped on him and
dragged him out into the hall for
another beating.
Six workers who came up for
trial yesterday afternoon charged
with "disorderly conduct" had
their trial postponed. They were
George Mehlinger, as; Robert Pc
tiers, "a; Sam Levitt, AZ; William
Gruen, 33, and Rose Schwartz,
IS, held on SO bail, and Phil
Pappas, II, held on $500 bail. All
of them, except Gruen who had
paid his bail, were defended by
Joseph Tauber of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense.
In court yesterday, Judge Green
span paroled them until Wednesday,
May %, at 2 pm.
Two Nsz leaders, DR.. Ignatz T.
Griebl and Fritz Gissibl, created a
runpus in the anterocm Of the Bar
Association building, AZ W. 44th st..
where they we're waiting to be called
by the Congressional Committee in
vestigating activities of the Nazis
in the United States.
When a newspaper photographer
sne pped their picture both leaped
to their feet shouting; Smash that
camera Start q fghtl Let's start a
lghtl You get away with things like
that!"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-19
HGWU Left Wing
Calls Conference
In N. Y. May 26th

NEW YORK-A Rank and File
Conference Of the International
Ladies Garment Workers Union has
been called for Saturday and Sun
day, May rs and 27, at Irving Plaza,
18th Sreett and Irving Place.
New York by the Central Committee
Of the Left Wing Opposition. The
Conference is scheduled or the
same time as the International Con-
vention. It begins at 2 pm. on Sat-
urday, May rs.
The statement Of the Left Wing
opposition in the I.L.G.WU. reads
IN part:
The purpose Of this Conference
Is to promote and stimulate Ma
tional broad rank and file move
nent within the 1nternational-for
I struggle to preserve the conditions
won as a result Of strikes, for real
trade union democracy in the Or
ganization and for converting the
International into a weason in the
hands Of the workers for the pro-
lection Of their interests.
The Convention, on the other
hand will be platform for all the
reactionsry working class fas-
cist elements. All Of them together
with the leadership of the Interns-
tionsl will indulge in an orgy Of
praise for the MA. and the New
Deal that has brought enormous
profits for the bosses and more mis-
cry for the workers.
The Conference of the Left Wing
Opposition will consider ways and
means Of bringing about the neces-
sary unity of all members irres-
pective of political Affiliations for a
militant struggle against the attacks
of the bosses and for the mainten-
ance Of union conditions. 1t will
also try to exert pressure upon the
Convention Of the International for
the abandonment of the ruinous
class collaboration policy with its
splitting tactics Of explosions.
The agenda for this Convention
Includes
L. Program for National Left
Wing Opposition movement.
2. The struggle for the unity
In the shop TO maintain condi-
tions,
:. Dual unionism and the role
Of the Left Wing Opposition.
4. Coordination Of activities of
the Left Wing on national scale.
5. The problems Of the une1n-
ployed.
6. Monthly bulletin
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-19
Veterans March
5 Miles Through
Washington, D. c.
Continued from Page ~
By del


Hickerson, Secretary-treasurer Of
the committee; Captain w. L. Pope
Of the World War Veterans Of At
lanta. Ca. g Negro vet group.
The medal men marched behind
the rank and file leaders behind
them we're the carnp committee of
eleven rank and filers. OrCsniza-
tions represented were: the Ameri-
can Legion; the Veterans of For
eign Wars; the Disabled American
Veterans; the Spanish War Vet
Grams; the Workers Ex-Ssrvicemen's
League and the Legion Of Valor.
Twentv-eight disabled veterans
rode in the line Of march in seven
automobiles.
at was one Of the finest ex-
ampleS Of Negro and white soli-
darby 1 have seen in America"
Hickerson declared enthusiast
tically to the Daily Worker, short
ly after reaching the end of the
march.
Though the militant ex-soldiers
RESPONDED precisely to the sharp
military commands Of their leaders,
the parade showed a distinct class
conlposition-non rnilitaristic. Over
ais, blue denin1s, sornbreros. fe-
dcras. jaunty overseas caps, chill
dren, and whole families, colored
the parade with an atmosphere
s1ldom seen in stuffed-shi Wash
ington, where metallic commands
and the sleam Of unsheathed bay
onets ere always on the order of
the day for parade.
Tribute to Hushka
Perhaps the most moving part
of today's march was the two min
utes during which the veterans
naid silent tribute to William
Hushka and Eric Carlson, the two
comrsd DIES who were shot down by
Eoover's police in July. 1882. AS
the marchers reached Fourth and
Constitution AYES, Beatty SANG
out: Parade rest: music; taps"
Six-year-old Christeuher
Thomas, son Of Darsder Michael
Thomas and the bearer of q pIa-
card reading: "Give my daddy
his bonus 50 can have my milk"
was visibly impressed by the SIM
pie ceremony
The medal men included Harry
Reach of Ohio, who wore the Dis
tinguished Service Cross; Fred Car
reno, the possessor Of the Purple
Heart, five-bar medal, and one of
the editors Of the camp bulletin,
THE Rank and File Vet''; and Ser
geant Jack Siegel, Of the First d.
vision of New York, who wore g
valor medal.
All the placsrds demanded pay
ment of the balance due on the
adjusted compensation certificates
(the bonus). The repeal Of the
Economy Act. and FEDERAL Unem-
ployment Insurance. Some read
I'VE demand our back pay now;
repeal the Economy Act; Unem-
ployment Insurance"
The convention opens tomorrow
at Fort Hunt, with preliminary
check-up and conferences of the
various organizations presented
There are about 1900 veterans here
for the convention.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-19
Call Lower Manhattan
Conference to Speed
Fight Against Fascisnl

NEW YORK. = The American
League Against War and Fascism
is calling regional conference for
lower Manhattan on Friday. Nav
2. at Irving Plaza. It'll st. and Irving
Pl., at 7 p. m. The purpose of this
conference is to strengthen and
coordinate the fight against war and
fascism in the neighborhoods, and
to mobilize for the city-wide anti
war demonstration on August 4, be-
hind the slogan 100000 Workers
on the Streets on August Fourth"
All organizations below And S.. are
asked to select two delegates to this
conference, and to communicate in
mediately with Norman S. Tallen-
tire, Secretary, American League
Against War and Fascism, liz E.
10Th St.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-19
TugbOat Men Strike

CLEVELAND, May Following
walk-out of tugboat men in Buff
falo, members of the Licensed Tug
mems Protective Association called
q strike here, The strike in Buff
falo was followed by walk-out Of
tugboat men at Erie, Pa. and Con-
neaut and Fairport Harbor, Ohio.
The strikers are demanding the
1929 wage scale and the hour day.
Reports indicate that other lake
harbors will be affected shortly.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-19

unions exist, to develop Joint action
committees Of the workers of both
organizations, to initiate local con-
ferences towards the same end and
to address the committee of 10 of
the A. A. convention, with the pro-
posal for united action, demanding
a definite stand on all the basic
questions and reply TO the request
for a joint meeting to discuss these
problems.
A number Of other decisions were
made dealing with the question of
it's presentation of demands on May
81, mass delegation Of steel workers
whenever negotiations are under
taken, etc All these decisions ap-
pear on page 4.