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The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-02-15
BILL" JONES LIKES
 HIS TACKLES HEFTY

BATON ROUGE, La, Feb. 15.- Casting his eye over the 1894 foot ball material at Louisiana State University, Coach Eff" Jones has picked Garland Pickett, PIT pounds, for try at tackle to replace the ponderous Jack Torrance, whose eli- gibility has expired.
 Pickett, who is 59 pounds light CT than Torrance, was used at end last season. Like Jack, he is speedy for his weight. Temple, Texas, is his home.
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CONTROL SITUATION

VIENNA, Feb. 15.-It was an nounced late this afternoon that von Starhemberg's troops are re- ported to be in control of the situation at St. Eyre and he is returning to Vienna.
 Women in an apartment house at St. Eyre manned machine guns last night and threw hand gren- ades after the men fled to the hills.
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RED INK BONANZA

It's all very strange and compli- cated even for the insiders to try to figure out, although it is obvious that politics and personalities are involved in blocking the proprie- tors of the $6,000,000 arena on Eighth Avenue.
 So what? So opposition simply mush-roomed again and has now grown to such an extent that the Garden. heavily in the red, can no longer swallow anything but it's pride and deficit.
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ROB FARMER
 OF FORTUNE

SPOKANE, Wash, Feb. 15.- Robbers beat Charles Blakem, aged 78, retired farmer, and stole cash, stocks, notes and diamond. He values the loot taken as worth $22,O0O.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-02-15
.s4OO,0OO GOLD
 CROSS STOLEN

CARAVACA, Spain, Feb. 15.-A gold cross jewel, inlaid with dia- monds, has disappeared from Cara vaca Castle. The jewel is valued at $400,00O.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-02-15
JOHN F. CHAMBERLAIN
 RETURNS ON VICTORIA

John F. Chamberlin, merchandise broker, arrived here on the Vic toria from Petersburg and other Southeast Alaska cities.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-02-15

at Laaberg is apparently the first group complying with the offer.
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M MERCY OFFER
 EXTENDED IN
 AUSTRIAN WAR

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Furnishin Arms

Rumanian and Italian newspap- CTS are accusing the Czechoslovakia Government and other unnamed countries with supporting the Aus trian Socialist rebellion and giving weapons to the Socialists to wage a civil war.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-02-15
CALL GEORGE ANDERSON

Expert piano tuning, guarantee, service. Phone 143. --adv
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-02-15
WATCHING AUSTRIA

LONDON, Feb. IS. = European Governments with one eye on their own internal affairs, watched Aus tria with the other eye.
 It is reported here that Czecho- slovakia workers struck for five minutes today out of sympathy with the Austrian Socialists.
 German newspapers expressed re- sentiment today against Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss because he ap- pealed to his people to aid the Government
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-11-09
THERE ARE CLASSES
AMONG DOGS, TOO

In the very fashionable shop of
Lord nd Taylor's, a "lady" took
her dog and let him drink out of
the water fountain. When the floor
walker of the company kindly in
formed her that the fountain was
for customers, the lady arrogantly
exclaimed: ooh, and I thought it
was for employees only"
A New York waiter of a rather
exclusive restaurant, where wait
ers, cooks and dishwashers receive
extremely low pay for extremely
long hours, reports another little
story of another lit lie dog of the
class aforementioned.
After having dined herself, a
lady orders a steak for her dog.
When the steak is served for his
lordship the dog, the waiter has to
run again to fetch "clean knife"
for the lady refuses to use the
knife she had used with her own
dinner. The cur just had to have
a clean knife.
The price of the steak was slips.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-11-09
HOW THEY BEAT
THE LAW

On the Oriente, sister ship of
the MORO Castle, the Ward Line
pays the following princely wages:
Qartermasters, $55; "ablebodied"
seamen, $50; other seamen, $35;
watchmen, $50; five cadets, each
$50. Unders, and, monthly, not
weekly.
Musicians are on the pay roll
with one cent per man and per
month, $0.01 in U. S. money. 1t
seems impossible, but here is the
explanation.
The Ward Line makes an agree
ment with an agency, hiring the
band for a lump sum. Now it has
happened time and again that mu-
sicians had worked for weeks and
when they came on shore and tried
to collect their money, there was
no agency-the racketeer had dis
appeared. Finally law was fore
ed through which decided that mu-
sicians had to be on the pay roll
of the company.
But it is not so hard for the
shipping interests to beat the law
when it is not in their favor!
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overrule any decision of the direc-
tor.
In addition to this each ward of
this city and each township has a
committee selected by the rank
and file farmers and workers. The
duty of these ward and township
committees is to bring grievances
from their respective districts to
the county grievance committee.
All rank and file farmers and
workers have voice and vote in
the mass meetings, both township
and county. By crank and file''
farmers and workers is mean all
working farmers except those who
operate a farm primarily by hired
labor; all wage workers and un-
employed except those who work
in a supervisory capacity.
F. N. C. A. Supports Plan
The Farmers National Commit
tee for Action supports this re-
lief plan and calls upon all groups
of farmers to put across this plan
in their county. We are glad that
the state organization of the Far
mers Union is on record in favor
of this plan and urge farmers who
are not members of the Farmers
Union to cooperate with teh Far
mers Union locals in the struggle
for adequate relief this winter.
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also in this relief program and to
elect their committee to work with
this joint committee.
"The way of united action is the
way toward winning relief at this
time. We urge all other farm or
CARNATIONS and cooperatives to
join with US in the campaign for
relief this winter"
Signed by
N a t. onal Holiday Association,
Minnesota division: John Bosch,
president; Walter Groth, state
secretary; Robert Hanson, mem
Der.
Farmers National Committee for
Action: Lem Harris, executive
secretary; Alfred ITALIA, national
executive committee, national
president of the United Farmers
League; Mrs. Ella Walstad.
member of South Dakota United
Farmers League; George Adler.
president Miner county Is. d.
Holiday Association; Homer Az
ers, member South Dakota State
Committee for Action.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-11-09
EVEN A DOG COULDN'T
STAND TT ANY LONGER

A newspaper In San Diego, CAL,
reports: "The first suicide of a dog
happened here when a big gray
dog jumped off the Gabrielle
bridge at the same spot from
which already several people have
ended their lives by jumping into
tn river. 1t seems that the dog
had been abandoned by his mas
ter. He was hungry and old.
Passers-by saw him leaning a.
gainst the railing of the bridge
and then suddenly jump the $50
feet to his death"
In this capitalist paradise Of
ours, not only men and women
commit suicide by the tens of
thousands, but even dogs get sick
and tired of this life. Who knows.
maybe his master also finished life
himself or starved to death. Ano
after some contemplation the dog
came to the conclusion that even
hell for dogs couldn't be any worse
than hell on earth for the under
dog.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-11-09
CIVILIZATION
Kearsarge.

kearSarge, Mich.
II any young worker goes in deep
thought he will find some countries
are not civilized. Why aren't they
civilized? Why do they have great
wars so the big shots can make
money? Why are so many honest
and innocent youth and men killed?
On account of them dirty rats who
are so greedy for money or gold.
OF course you know that we work.
erS must fight the wars for them.
Why are there so many criminals9
Under this government there must
be these problems. Because, you see
II this country was a Soviet and had
q workers government, problems like
these wouldn't exist. Every worker
is treated alike under a Soviet so
you see there are not big shots
criminals or war then. How can
there be? Because the workers are
satisfied and they are in a paradise
That is why.
Why Is a worker hrutally beaten
and jailed while fighting for better
conditions, not only for himself hIIt
Tor others too? This shows that the
workers are treated as slaves and
must obey their masters. Don't no
BODY forget this. The workers are
going to have a paradise on earth
some day and put an end to the
masters, the big shots, and the ter
rible wars and the hunger.
It tells in the constitution that all
people should be treated equal Are
they? Is a worker treated right9
Has he part in anything3 No.
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our loyalty does not belong to the
rich who make our fathers slave,
but to our fellow workers Of every
country"
In our everyday life we can find
the true meaning of international"
too. All around us we can see what
the bosses teach. They teach Irish
to hate Hungarian and Poles to hate
Russians. Then, the workers will
not unite to demand better wages.
Also, in times of war, national
hatreds are encouraged to stir up
patriotism. We have been taught
IN school that some nationalities are
inferior. This we know is all wrong.
Nobody Is worse or better than any
one else, just because he is Ger
man or Finnish or American or
Italian, or anything else.
whenever we see among orr
friends IN school or on the street.
an example of anyone looking down
on other nationalities, or a Negro
inSulted because he is q Negro. we
must not ignore it. We must fight
against It, and actually prove to
ourselves and others that this is
al q lie, one Of the many lies the
rich rulers would like us to believe.
October 8 to Is is set aside by the
workers and farmers children all
over the world as international
Ohildren's Week" During this week
they make special efforts to make
everyone realize how very necessary
it Is Tor children Of all countries to
stick together.
There win be a real International
Children's Congress in New York
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-11-09
In the Land of the Hottentots Did
1t HGppen---In the u. S.
1t NeUer Occurs
CULTURE

In Kentucky two men were to
be executed IN the electric chair.
The first one, Win Clancy, receiv-
ed two charges. The physician
takes one look and orders another
charge which, however, cannot be
sent for the chair is out of COM
mission. Fortunately" for the
benevolent authorities. the man is
dead.
George w. Tincher had to wait
one hour and a quarter until the
electric chair had been patched up
again. During this time a chorus
of Negroes outside sang spiritual
songs.
Outside the death house they
sing pious songs. In the murder
chamber mechanics hammer the
electric chair into shape again.
And a human being has to wait
until our splendid "justice" can
proceed.
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CONTINUED from last week.


reached Khoziat's village. There
were rumors OF fights and battles
in the surrounding hills. Then a
band of counter-revolutionary que
rillas appeared. The village was
terrorized. Markulanov and many
other workers were killed. 1t was
whispered that the bandits had sent
out agents to look for pretty wo-
men. Khoziat's uncle heard it in
the chai-khana (tea room) and he
hurried to Khoziat's house that
night and he brought his daughter
with him and insisted that the
girls be hidden. Khoziat and her
cousin dressed up like old women,
padding their backs with heaps Of
cot on, and, accompanied by Kho-
ziat's mother, they fled that night
to Kokand.
The refugees walked two days
and two nights before they reach
ed their destination. In Kokand
they had neither relatives nor ac-
ouaintances, but it was big city
and they felt safer there. Kho-
ziat's mother then decided to hide
the girls in the household of the
famous local ishan, Rokharatub,
who consen' ed to take them in as
servants. Striking his long, care
fully combed beard and rolling his
clever little eyes to heaven, the
ishan said: "The flesh is ours, the
bone is yours" By which he
meant to say: "While they live,
they work for me; if they die,
they belorg to you"
The ishar~ household was a
busy hous e.-Old. Many miurids
followers of an ishan) came to
visi TIE holy man, bringing all
kinds of gifts in meats, fruits,
vegetables, and so or. Every night
the ishan, surrounded by his miu-
rids, sat on a mountain of quilts,
ate fat pilaf, and recited the Kor-
an. For him and his fanatical
miurids every night was a feast
night. But for the women in the
household it was endless drudgery
cooking, and baking, and clean
ing, and washing dishes from ear
ly morning till late at night. The
girls received no pay; they were
MT even given any clothes. They
ate only the left-overs and were
chased and bounded by the ishan's
two senior wives. Every night
Khoziat and her cousin would shed
furtive tears on their pillows.
After a few months, the ishan
gave Khoziat's pretty cousin to
one of his old miurids, Hokim
Saidov, who had only one wife.
The girl was afraid to refuse,
though she hated the sight of
Saidov. A few months later, Kho-
ziat's uncle came and brought her
regards from her mother. His
daughter whom he also visited i'm
plored him o take her away from
i Saidov. But the uncle said it was
bad this way and it was bad the
other way. But he thought that
Saidov was the lesser of the two
evils, and he said that he couldn't
take his daughter back before ii
was all over with the Basmach
bandits.
Vague rumors would sometimes
penetrate the walls of the ichkari;
Khoziat heard the old women curse
the infidels, the Russians, The
"Bolshevois." One day there was
a great commotion in the ichkari;
someone brought the news that he
had seen a whole group of young
Moslem women strutting brazenly
through the street. with their faces
uncovered, like shameless harlots
The onlv one who did not appear
to Re outraged was the ishan's
youngest wife, a pale little Great
ure not much older than Khoziat
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international ChiIdren,s week

What does the word 'interna-
tional" mean to you? 1t can be Just
a big, Understanding word, and
that's aIl-or it can have q very
great deal Of meaning.
The dictionary says that 'inter-
national" means affecting all ma
TONS" Now here's a guess for you.
What Is one thing which affects an
nations? The danger Of war. The
workers IN every country have the
same enemy-the rich owners who
make war for their own profits. To-
Gay, 1t Is particularly important
that we strengthen our feeling Of
brotherhood with the workers IN
other countries. Then we can fight
better against war. When the bosses
want to make another war they VIII
ten rs to hate other nationalities
ana say to our big brothers and
fathers, 'Killl KIN the enemy, thew
are savages and beasts" we win
answer: I'VE do not believe IN
hatred Of nationalities. we hate
only the ruling classes, the can
italists in every land. They are the
true beasts and savages. We know
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Old Men Are Made
to Dig Their
Own Graves

BILLINGS, MOnt.-(FP)-
Yellowstone county is sold on
the idea that the unemployed
should produce their own
needs.
A survey at Poor Farm No.
l last fall showed that seven
men would die during the win
ter. So these seven men were
sent out to dig their graves.
Ihey dug them and went hack
TO sit in the windows over
death. 20
However, the planned econ
omy broke down. No one has
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NEW WOMEN IN OLD ASIA

a little guiltily, fumbling for the
proper word. She spoke Of the
sorrows of the woman's life. Of
ignorance, and darkness. Of how
children die by the thousands be-
cause the mothers don't know how
to take care Of them. She spoke
of the humiliation of wearing a
paranja.
When Ibrahimova finished, Kho-
ziat felt drawn to her, like to a
mother. To her she could tell ev-
erything, of the terrible life at
the ishan's, and of her fear to go
home. She sought out Ibrahimova
in the crowd and anxiously touch
ed her arm. She said only few
words and the older woman un-
derstood everything. "You have
no one in Kokand? You are a
widow? You live at the Ishan's?
Don't worry, my little woman, do
not tremble so. Well take you to
our girls dormitory. Well take
care of you. Well teach you; we'll
train you; we'll make something of
you"
Khoziat cried with happiness
when she entered the girls home
on Karl Marx Street. She was
taken into a nice, clean bathroom
and shown how 10 use it. She was
given clean underwear, European
clothes, bed, quilt-everything.
On the very next day, Khoziat's
teacher gave her the first lesson.
Things came easy to her. In a
couple of weeks she knew how to
read and write. She soon started
arithmetic and elemen4 airy polit-
gramota (civics). The girls used
to have long talks with their teach
er. She was a very intelligent
woman, and one of the first wo-
man Communists in Central Asia.
Her name was Makhi Djamal Sci
futdirova. Size had seen a great
deal in her life. She had been
woman's delegate in Samarkand
and in Tashkent. And she had
been a member of the first dele
cation to the First Congress OF
Eastern Women in Moscow. She
often spoke of the life in the var
ious big cities she had visited, and
she very often spoke of Lenin. 1t
was through Seifutdinova's corver-
sations that the girls came to
know and love Lenin. She des-
cribed how well they had been re-
ceived in Moscow, how Lenin and
his wife, Krupskaya, came to visit
them. On the sight of Lenin, one
of the Uzbek women fell on his
shoulder and began to cry, and she
couldn't stop until they gave her
some drops. Then Lenin convers-
ed with the women, and told them
what the Soviet government was
trying to do for them. Then Kol-
lontai spoke to them. Then they
were taken to museums, and the
aires and factories. They stayed
in Moscow twelve days.
Khoziat lived in the dormitory
for nine months, and was very
successful in her studies. She got
encouragement OH all sides. Am
ong her teachers there was a youne
man by the name of Fcizula. He
was also the superintendent Of the
dormitory. He took a special in.
terest in Khoziat and helned he1
erea' deal. Once she had to fill
out QUESTIONABLE; and n help
ing hen fill In the answers, Feizrl:
learned much about her farmel
lire.
"Does your mother know abou-
YOU, where you are" he asked
Khoziat. "Don't you hink yo1
are a little unkind to your mother
From what you tell me, she is {
very good and kind woman. Don
you think we better notify her al
to YOUR whereabouts ?"
Khoziat felt ashamed before Fei
zula for being SO callous, but sh,
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WITH OUR YOUNG READERS ~ s . .rs 97 7. en-

because he is a slave. WhyP Be-
cause he has no power.
They sure have the big shots al
together in one class, mo workers
allowed" Comrades, wake up and
look in front Of you. You win see
something. You are q slave. You
know it. So long Comrades.
EMO JOHNSON.
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S. D. FARMERS
CONTINUED from page y

help prepare the farmers for the
fight that is coming.
Fascism Destroys CO-Ops
The proposal for more and
stronger cooperatives has more to
say for itself. Cooperatives, when
controlled by the rank and file of
its membership, can band the farm
ers into strong groups against the
AAA and similar attacks upon
their standard of living. But can
we accept the idea which Cowden
of the Union Oil Company put be-
fore the convention that coopera-
tives can gradually compel the
giant monopolies to cut down their
profits? He painted a pleasant
picture of cooperation in Sweden,
Denmark and England. But also
he said: "The cooperatives in Ger
many and Italy were destroyed by
ugly fascism." Fascism is the
steel fist of the giant capitalists.
Every time farmers or wage work
ers have organized themselves eff
fectively, as was the case in Italy
and GERMANY, a military figure is
found to crack down and attempt
to smash the workers organiza-
ton at the point of the bayonet
We have a perfect example of that
in the United States, when Gen
eral Hugh Johnson cracked down
on the San Francisco strike where
wage earners, agricultural work
ers and some farmers were coop
Grating in a great struggle for
better standards of living. Coop
eratives are too mild a medicine
to bring about the collapse of the
giant monopolies.
And so the program for the flu
ture offered by the leadership CON
sisted of legislation, cost of pro-
duction, and cooperatives. Why
not mention in any of their
speeches of a program for relief
action? National President Ever
son told of 1900 farmers whom he
had talked to in Iowa where not
one had enough feed for the stock
TINS winter or enough seed for
next spring nor the money to buy
1t. Why not a word from the plat
form on the fight for ADEQUATE
reilef? 1t may we'll turn out that
the most important resolution
passed by the convention was in
troduced by one of the locals on
the Dawson county plan for re-
lief. The following is the plan
which the county endorsed:
Dawson County Relief Plan
The Dawson county plan has
come into being as a necessary
means of meeting the disaster
which is looming this winter
Farmers are entering the winter
without much food for their stock
or cash for their groceries. Wage
workers face absolute restitution.
Adequate relief is a necessity.
The first step in carrying out
this plan was the circulation of a
petition signed by 500 rank and
flle farmers and workers. The pc
tltion asks the governor of South
Dakota to officially appoint a
committee of three which had been
chosen by the mass meeting and
a relief director also chosen bv
the mass meeting. The governor
has appointed the committee Of
Three known as the grievance com
mlttee and also the mass meetings.
choice for relief director II IS
the duty Of the director to direct
al relief work in the county The
grievance committee is empowered
to handle grievances, cases Of dis
elimination and so forth. and can