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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-14
By PEDRO G.

In two months, from the Nov. 5
Congress of the *. A. p" or Philip
pine Proletarian Labor Congress, to
Jan. 5, there were 81 mass struggles
in the city of Manila alone, some
as in the case Of !, 300 cigar makers
of the La Helena factories embrace
ing real numbers in this colonial city
Of 100000 population. OF these 81
strikes, only two were led by reform
lists, while the K. A. P. led all others
directly-and won most of them.
Most of these strikes were against
wage cuts or disnissals, but some Of
them were for wage increases and
for shorter hours. The masses are
showing distinct tendency to go over
to the offensive. That the important
strikes of seamen and dock workers
were won, is most significant.
Rising Wave of Struggles
The Fifth K. A. P. Congress,
marked a great improvement of the
trade union work, and early in jan
uary a real effort was made to or
ganize the Communist Party frac-
ton work in the red trade unions
The red unions improved their work
greatly during 1888. The Congress
of the K. A. P. gathered 500 del
egates, coming in from the most
bitter struggles the movement has
experienced, who confirmed the anal
ysis of rising revolutionary wave
and took steps to better the organ
ization. At this congress there were
some women delegates, big pro-
gress. considering the feudal back
wardness Of the country.
Women Delegates Attend
A larger percentage of women
delegates attended the TX Congress
of the National Confederation Of
Peasants, which met about the same
time as the K. A. P, and the trade
union congress and the peasants
congress held a joint session, with
800 delegates from both showing the
deepest determination to carry their
struggles to victory. Every woman
delegate had been tested in the fire
of ruthless suppression and mass
fighting.
The Joint session attacked the
native bourgeoisie fiercely, for its
subservience to American imperial
ism, and opened fire on the widely
circulated fiction that the Filipinos
have IAN American standard of liv-
ing" eve are worse off, even that
the 100000 unemployed workers
Of America" they declared, "for we
work IL and even more hours a day
for wages of one cent in American
money, two centavos in Philippine
money" Further, Filipino workers
have not even the fundamental
rights of human beings under Amer
lean colonial oppression.
Party Leaders Sentenced
Despite threats of mass arrests, no
less than 1000 people gathered in
the working class district at the
Plaza Moriones on Nov. T. to cele-
brate the 10th anniversary of the
Bolsheyik Revolution, to denounce
the infamous "Hawes-Cutting" Act
of fake independence" and the
native bourgeois-landlord exploiters.
This was held under auspices of the
K. A. P.
Nor was this high spirit wanting
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-14
Filipino Struggles hUoIue Nero
Masses, Reach Higher Levels

when, on Dec. 81, the Oldest and
best leaders of the Communist
Party, headed by Crisanto Evan
gelista were finally subjected to the
sentences Of the imperialist-native
bourgeois courts. Eight were sent
into Bilibid Penitentiary for long
terms, after which they are to be
banished to remote provinces, and
eight were Immediately banished.
On Dec. 81, the militant peasant
leader, Feleo, entered prison to serve
eight years On Jan, II, another
worker leader, Tolintino, was i'm
prisoned.
Mass Protests at Sentences
But on Dec. 81, when the SEN
fences against the Communist Party
leaders were carried out, a mass of
1000 workers (even the bourgeois
papers admitted this many surged
around the court, then marched to
the Offices Of the Secretary of In
terror and Labor, from thence to
the new deal Governor Generals
office, then across the city to the
working class district where giant
mass meetings Of protest were held
Written demands and mass petitions
for release of the imprisoned class
fighters we're presented 10 the au-
thorities.
In all these actions and congresses
the masses show distinct enthusiasm.
A peasant delegate from Tayug,
Pangasinan Province, where in 1880
an armed rising occurred, expressed
at the joint K. A. P. and N. G. P.
session, deep resentment at the ira
ditional SANDER Of peasant risings,
that calls them "risings of religious
fanatics" 1--WE are not religious
fanatics" he declared, but we are
ready to lay down our lives for our
revolutionary movement"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-14
Railroad Profits
Leap LII Per Cent
Under New DEAF
Wage Cuts Swell Huge
Profits of Wall St.
Stockholders
By SEYMOUR WALDMAN


WASHINGTON, March 13.-The
net railway operating income Of
the Glass I railroads in January
amounted to $30,931, 205 as compared
with 1886, 010 for the same month
of 1888, an increase of 1877 per
cent, the Bureau of Railway Eco
Monies, the Washington statistical
representative of the roads, an
nounced last week.
These Glass / roads, whose rev.
enues and expenses are SO per cent
of the total of all railroads, en-
joyed a net operating income in
1888 of $474, 1853 ,438 against $685.
317,936 for 1882, according to the
statistics bureau of the Interstate
Commerce Commission.
Despite the fact that the roads
have received hundreds of millions
of dollars from the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation, and have cut
expenses from $2,403, 543, 795 in 1882
to $2,249, 318,750 for the following
year largely at the expense of the
workers and of public safety, the
roads announced early last month,
that they plan to increase the
existing 10 per cent wage cut to IS
per cent when the agreement with
the Railway Labor Executive Asso-
citation expires on June 81.
President Roosevelt issued letter
almost coinciding with the railroad
magnates' announcement, proposing
as compromise" the continuation
of the 10 per cent temporary" wage
cut. This move dovetailed nicely
with the scheme of the railroad
owners to forestaH demands for
wage gains to meet the greatly in
creased cost Of living which has
mounted so rapidly since the inau-
guration of the New Deal, and espe-
cially since the bitter protests of
the rank and file workers over the
June 81 Railway Labor Executive
Association agreement with the
owners.
F. H. Fljozdal, president Of the
Brotherhood of Maintenance Of
Way Employees, said last December
that section men were receiving as
little as cents an hour, that they
were getting $40 week on the big
roads, and in some cases Sc week,
He declared that las result of in
adequate wage rates, part-time
employment and the 10 per cent
deduction, thousands Of railway
workers are failing to earn suffi-
Gent to keep body and soul
together"
Joseph B. Eastman, AdminiStra-
ton Transportation Coordination,
last July listed the 1882 salaries of
some of the leading railroad presi-
dents as follows:
L. =. Loree, President of
the Delaware and Hud-
son, ............... SSU,V0U
F. E. Williamson, Presi-
dent of the New York
Central, ........ 800. SsO,00O
w. w. Atterbury, Presi-
dent of the Pennsylvania S121, 500
Fairfax Harrison PreSi-
dent OF the Southern
Railway, .............. $67,SeO
Daniel Willard, President
of the Baltimore and
ONO, ........... -. $I2O,OVO
L. A. Downs, President of
the Illinois Central, -. $4,000
Ralph Budd, President of
the Burlington System, $4,000
A. ID. Mcdonald, Vice
Chairman of the Execu-
tive COMMITTEES of the
Southern Pacimic, $50. S7s,5oO
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-14

for stopping the march, but I also
helped and deserve some credit"
81 February Scale Convention
Pearcy tells the men to cooperate
with the small coal operators and
advises community gardening in
stead of struggling for relief or I'M
employment insurance.
~ July 21st Mass Meeting at
Nillwood, Ill.-On the demand Of
the rank and file for militant class
struggle policies, Pearcy comes out
in the open as a tool of the coal
operators. He said: I'VE must make
the Progressive Miners of America
a conservative union" He endorsed
Roosevelt N.R.A. program 100 per
cent.
50 August 1, Anti-War Meeting,
Gillespie, ILL.,: At this meeting about
1000 miners were present. Demon
stration was broken up at the insti-
cation of the off1cialdom because
it called for struggle, against the
MIRA. and the proposed Coal Code.
Ddl4 InSSt1Ay Ol1iOlhl Oe1O1, anu WIZ
President of Local No. / led 200
deputies together with Progressive"
Sheriff in the attack upon the
miners. Two workers were arrested,
In Jail, sheriff and states attorney
openly stated that only those whom
Pearcy O.K.'d will be allowed to
hold meetings.
g. First anniversary of PIMA,
Sept. All rank and file was ex-
cluded from platform. Typical Lewis
parade, with glory to MIRA. Sheriffs
and politicians were the principal
speakers. Attack was made on
Reds" and several miners were at
tackled by the deputies.
y October, Springfield March -
Final betrayal of the Midland strik-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-14
COpperCOdeSORaw
EvenBOSSeS'A Agents
Cannot Swallow 1t
Cuts Pay, Suits Hours to
Seasonal Needs of
Copper Trust

Daily Worker Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, March 13.-The
labor provisions of the proposed
copper code, submitted by the En-
ployers' United States Copper AS
ISOLATION, are so raw that both Ari-
IONA senators and even Representa-
tive Isabella Greenway, wealthy
Arizona copper widow, were forced
to repudiate them at yesterdays
opening public hearings on the code,
For the Eastern wage district, the
code proposes 80 cents an hour for
surface labor and IS cents for I'M
foreground labor; for the South
western wage district 30 cents an
hour for surface labor and 38 cents
for underground labor; for the
Northwestern wage district, IS cents
an hour for surface labor and Il
cents for underground labor. The
code provides for a maximum week
Of 40 hours, averaged over three
month period, nor in excess of eight
hours in any 24-hour period except
as therein otherwise provided"
The present scale is about $S.75
a day on the surface and $4.24 for
underground work for unskilled la
boz for an S-hom day. A miner
gets about $3.50.
Vicious Time System
Thomas A Brown. representing
the International Mine MIL and
Ssnelter Workers Union "a. F. Of IL
told reporters that he will ask for
$3.50 a week, a 30-hour week and
6-hour day, the abolition of con-
tract mining and a safety clause.
The hour provision permitting 10
hours over three month period is
vicious in that it allows the owners
to drive their employees at least So
hours a week during the busy times
and lay them of during slack
periods, rather than take on more
men.
Senator AshburSt, Democrat. who
could not hold his seat without the
goodwill Of the copper kings, de-
clared that this code is lacking in
fundamental essentials" and recon-
mended a code which should en-
brace an American STANDARD of
living minimum wage rate for each
Wage-earner sub division, both I'M
foreground and on the surface. -
Senator Hayden, Democrat. found
the code thoroughly Objectionable. I"
While millionaire Congresswoman
Greenway characterized the pro-
posed code as impossible and of
course not acceptable for minute. !"
Obviously, the three legislators
hoped to appease the big miners
vote and at the same time not
offend the master copper barons by
speaking generally
1t Is not generally known under
what terrible atmospheric condi-
tons copper workers slave. The
temperature in the mines is usually
around 100 degrees, with an at
tendant high humidity and high
water temperature. The miners
are prey to silicosis, the lung dis
ease caused by inhaling mine dust,
the product of blasting operations.
1t is to avoid this dreaded disease
that the workers are asking for
mine spraying under the supervi-
sion of the United States Health
Service as well as a four hour
period between blasting operations
1t is apparent that the copper
owners, in proposing a wage cut,
are attempting to play off the large
number Of unemployed against the
employed. Only 10000 copper work
ers are now employed as compared
with 10000 in 1929, according to
the figures of the U. s. Copper AS
ISOLATION.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-14
WIN KNIT GOODS STRIKE

PHILADELPHIA, March 12-The
strike at the Harder Knitting
Mills, Broad and Washington Ave-,
was settled with the strikers go
ing back to work with partial in
creases in pay. The strike was led
by the Knit Goods Workers Union.
Send us names of those you
know who are not readers of the
Daily Worker but who would be
interested in reading it. Address:
Daily Worker, 50 E. 18th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-14
Workers Storm Hearing on Ambridge Steel Massacre
U.F.L. Farmers Send
1000 OTIS. Free Milk
To Striking Auto Men

KENOSHA, Wis, Mar. 13.-The
farmers of the United Farmers
League here voted last week to
send 1000 quarts of milk free
every day to the workers who are
now out on strike at the Nash
Automobile plant in this city.
The United Farmers League is
organizing nason committees of
farm and city workers for united
struggle against the Wall Street
monopolies.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-09-19
BOESEKE REACHES TOP

Boeseke, still loping along and having a splendid time. for him. self, began to make up for lost ground when he accompanied an American team to the Argentine two winters ago. The Americans won the Argentine Open and the Cup of the Americas. Returning to the United States, Boeseke went through an unbeaten tournament season which included the East West series at Chicago, the Open championship and Monty Water bury Cup tournaments on Long Island
 Forthwith his handicap was rais- ed to the 10-goal peak. along with Cecil Smith. Pedley, who had been paying more attention to business than polo, was set back to eight goals, thereby trailing his Califor- mia rival for the first time.
 Pedley can play No. or No. 3 and has done so frequently but he is at his best at No. 1, where his hitting accuracy is best capitalized. Boeseke has played every one of the four positions. He was at No. 2 on the Western team last year but he will play back this year, supplanting "Rube" Williams, the colorful Texan.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-09-19
Pacific Coast League (CnoD-I uoIfN
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS

City of Douglas asks bids on the following project: Salvaging and removing approximately 400 feet of 12 in. casing pipe from Treadwell beach at Ready Bullion and installing same in the salt water system of Douglas. Inquire for particulars at City Clerks office.
 FELIX CRAY, adv City Clerk.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-09-19
TROOPS CALLED 0U 1T IN M ANNE,
 TEXTILE STRIKE
Mobilization Results from Fray Between Police,
 Idle Worker
BAYONETS ARE USED
 BY NATIONAL GUARD
Hopes of Peace Action Now Centered on President
 Report to Be Given Him

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.-Riot- ing broke out at Waterville Maine, new scene of violence on the textile strike front, and Guards men were ordered there for duty The mobilization followed bitter fray outside the Lockwood Manu- facturing Company's mill where the police fought a hand to hand bat i t,e with pickets at the mill gates.
 Tear gas was used and guns parked.
 Stones were hurled and hundreds of windows were broken during the outbreak, the worst in Maine
 Killed by Bayonet , The strike death toll mounted as Ernest Riley, aged 40, of Mount Hclly, North Carolina, who suffered a baycaet wound last night in riotipg at Belmont, died in the hospital this morning. Other dem onstra.ors were pricked by bayonets of the Guardsmen who were hold ing back the advancing crowd of strikers.
 The hope for peace move is cen tered on President Roosevelt as the report to him by the Strike Media Ltion Board neared completion.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-09-19
GEORGE ABBOTT IS
 SHOWN AROUND CITY

George Abbott, former Juneau young man, now residing with his parents at Bellevue, near Seattle. and who has been working during the summer with the Alaska Road Commission out of Cordova. is a passenger for the south on the Yukon. While in Juneau. during the stay of the steamer, he was taken auto riding by Billy Friend. Young Abbott is the son of Paul Abbott, Dupont representative in Alaska.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-09-19
17-YEAR-0LD NOW LEADING
 1884 JOCKEYS
By ORLO ROBERTSON

Associated Press Sports Writer)
 NEW YORK, Sept. 19.-From out of the west, cradle of the riding profession, has come Dublin Tay- Tor l7-year-old 10O-pounder, te show the way to the jockeys in the race for 1884 honors.
 A performer on the big time only a little more than year, the light complexioned baby-faced lad from the cross-road town of Hominy Okla, has booted home ITO win ners since Jan. 1. Silvio Coucci enc of the few products of the metropolitan New York to make good, is his closest rival and trails by more than 30 winners.
 Dublin comes by his ability to ride honestly. He was only eight years old when his dad tossed him over a quarter-mil horse and sent him out to win a race at the coun- ty fair. It was many years, however before he came to the notice ot Dave Ahern, who in his hey-day rode successfully for E. R. Brad ley.
 Started in 1883
 "I rode my first winner August II last year on that little bitty Chestnut hoss, Ruane, in mile and a quarter race at Thistledown Ohio,' Dublin explained. "Tha was my eighth mount on the big time circuit"
 But it was not until he arrived at Saratoga that the lad received his greatest thrill.
 Gee, it's fine, swell" he said a: he stood in awe, looking over tht beautiful Saratoga course.
 .,. Who's Coucci? He was in ecstasy after finish. ing second with his first noun at the spa. After weighing out, ht became lost for a few minutes ane had to- be directed to the jockey. quarters.
 Despite the fact that Coucci i. the closest of his rivals, Dublin can't tell you much about the vet erans riding.
 'To te1l you the truth, I haven really watched Coucci ride yet"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-09-19
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GENERAL LAND OFFICE
 District Land Office

Anchorage, Alaska.
 July Is, 1884.
 Notice is hereby given that John Burwash, entryman, has made fina, proof on his homestead entry, An- chorage 07929, together with his witnesses Lewis Lund and Lockie McKinnon, for a tract of land em- braced in U. s. Survey No. 2137, located along the Glacier Highway within Survey No 2121 in latitude 5800 21' p" N. longitude 134' 21' w. containing 2.26 acres, and it is now in the files of the U. s. Land Office, Anchorage, Alaska, and if no protest is filed in the local land office within the period of pub lication final certificate will be is- sued and final proof accepted.
 GEO. J. LOVE,
 Register First publication, Aug. l, 1884. Last publication, Sept. 26, 1884.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-09-19
WOULD ABOLISH TRAPS

The Cordova Chamber of Com merce went on record at its meet ing September as favoring the immediate abolition of fish traps.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-09-19
GIANTS SPLIT
 DOUBLEHEADER
 WITH GIN. REDS
Detroit for Second Straight Game Whitewashes
 New York

NEW YORK, Sept. 19-The New York Giants, still in a batting slump, squeezed out an, even break with the last place Cincinnati Reds yesterday afternoon in double header and maintained their three and one-half game lead over, the St. Louis Cardinals.
 The Reds won the ten-inning opener 8 to 2 when Chick Hafeys homer broke up mound duel be- tween Benny Frey and Fred Fitz- simmons. The Giants took the second game to 2.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-09-19
WILEY POST IS l ON WAY NORTH
Famous Flier Coming to Alaska to Hunt Bear
 with Pilot Crosson

SEATTLE, Sept. 19.-Wiley Post, record breaking globe girdling pilot, is now enroute to Alaska to hunt bear during pleasure trip with Joe Crosson, well known Alaskan aviator of Fairbanks
 Post said he will stay in Alaska until T bag a bear"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-09-19
CARD OF THANKS

I wish to thank my many, many friends for the wonderful reception and patronage accorded me and my booth at the Southeast Alaska Fair and particular thanks for the help rendered me by Mesdames Hillery, Mclaughlin and Kendler. -adv. MINNIE FIELDS.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-09-19

the second and deciding match.
 All this helped raise Pedley's handicap to nine goals, one short of being on level with Tommy Hitchcock, and California hailed Eric as its White Knight" of polo.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-09-19
TIGERS BLANK TANKS

DETROIT, Mich, Sept. 19.-For the second time in two days the Detroit Tigers whitewashed their only remaining challengers for the American League pennant, the New York Yankees, winning yes- terday afternoon by score of 2 to and advancing another step toward cIinching the flag.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-09-19
SPORT. SLANTS

There's no need to ask Where's $ Elmer?" when the forces of Vest ern polo are foregathered, either at the luncheon table or on the fled of play.
 If you don't spot 6-foot 4-inch Elmer J. Boeseke, Jr, at first glance you are fairly certain to hear his rich baritone voice rising above the general tenor of conversation The ten-goal Californian is as gen. .ial companion as he is resource ful in the game that has brought his international fame in this country, England and the Argen- tine.
 "Yes,p he grinned, "I'll admit to having seen and played a lot oi polo in the past few years. I've been lucky to be with quite few first class teams It's a lot of fun and it's healthy, you know-plenty of fresh air and brisk exercise"
 How did he start his polo career seriously or otherwise?
 Well, I guess it was just fam fly affair between the Boesekes and the Pedleys during my early days can't remember when I first rode a horse or swung mallet. I must have been pretty young because it seems now, as I recall it, that we have always been playing the game
 My father and two of my uncles played with me- The Pedleys lived nearby and they naturally liked tc play polo, also, because Eric: father learned the game while with the Royal Engineers in India and was keen to develop it when he moved his family to California Our ponies used to come by the carload from Texas, at no more than $l5 or $20 head We trained them ourselves"
 Right now, incidentally Boesekt has pony named Red Ace, TO- year-old Kentucky bred horse, fol which he probably would not take $l0,000 if anybody happened tc have $10,000 that they wanted tc pay for a polo mount. A few years ago Jupiter. an Argentine pony went for $22,000 at an auction or Long Island. It's the all-time high
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-09-19
FOOD SALE

The Martha Society viii hold a
 Food Sale at the Sanitary Grocery Saturday. Sept. p. A variety of good things on sale. You are solicited to call. -adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-09-19
BOTH MOVE UP


 There is a curious contrast in the polo fortunes of Boeseke and Pedley California's foremost two contributions to the top-ranking American players.
 Boeseke first attracted attention when he accompanied Tommy Hitchcock's Olympic team of 1924 to Paris. He seemed definitely head ed for the peak as his handicap was jumped from five to seven goals in 1925. Pedley, however, kept one jump ahead of his friend by having his handicap lifted from six to eight goals and was picked ir preference to Elmer as a spare on the 1927 international team. Three years later, while Boeseke was still making no pronounced headway Pedley won the No. berth on the reconstructed American Big Four and starred in the 1890 conquest of England, tallying nine goals ir
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-09-19
GAMES TUESDAY National eLague

New York 3, 4; Cincinnati 8, 2. Chicago 2, l; Philadelphia 3, 8. Pittsburgh 4; Brooklyn 9. St. Louis-Boston, postponed on account of weather.
 American League Detroit 2; New York 0. Washington 4, 6; Cleveland 5, g. Philadelphia 6; Chicago 0. Boston 9; St. Louis l.
 Pacific Coast League Portland B. Hollywood '. Seattle 5; Missions 3. Los Angeles 6; Sacramento 4. San Francisco 5; Oakland g. Game went IT innings.