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The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-09-20
STOCK PRICES ARE AFFECTED,
 PROFIT TAKING
Some Rails and Merchan- disc Issues Improve
 Greatly in Tone

NEW YORK, Sept. 20.-Scat- tered profit taking gave the stocks a moderately mixed tone today,
 A few rails and merchandise is- sues improved.
 The market was dull and the close today irregular.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-09-20
MRS. WILLIAM E. BRINK LEAVES FOR KETCHIKAN
 AFTER TEN-DAY VISIT

Mrs. William E. Brink, of Ket- chikan, who was house guest of Mrs. Percy Reynolds for ten days, left for her home on the Yukon.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-09-20

The barometlc aska the Interior Southeast Alaska with light Teme Western Alaska Prince Rupert The moderately high the Pacific Ocean and Southwestern with Temperatures yesterday Boring
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-09-20

merchandise, 14767. Anyone hold ing these numbers is requested to speak up.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-09-20
NU WAY HOT SPRINGS

Famous Soap Lake Mineral Sol arium Baths, Drugless Institute.
 adv.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-12
Build United Front to Aid
Our Austrian Brothers!

mn THE very morrow of the heroic battles in which
the Austrian masses rose with arms against on
coming Fascsm the sections of the International
Red Aid parent body of the International Labor
Defense. raised powerful voice in appeal for the
victims Of the Dollfuss- Fascist terror.
sTOiers Of all countries" it eried-"In this SER
ious hoar the International Red Aid appeals to
yoH and asks you 10 to the aid of your broth
ers who have fsHen into the hands Of ferOciOus
enemies as well their families and the families
Of those who have fallen heroicaIly the barri-
eades.
Long live the united front of the tOiIers,
CARELESS Of political and trade union tendency and
aIiation for the relief of the victims of the bloody
repression by Austrian Fascism."
Comrades of America: The need of the Aus
TRAN workers was great at that time 1t is greater
still today.
The terror which took its toll of thousands with
machine guns and bursting shells has given way to
~ more hidden terror OF wholesale arrests and
tortures. ections, discharges deliberate systematic
starvation of the wives and children of revolution
airy workers by the thousands
LOW have We responded to this fervent appeal this
IL call from our class brothers tortured and tor
mented by the iron fist of Austrian Fascisn?
Already in the first days, we contributed good
sum at the Bronx Coliseum, which was rushed to
Austria
In many meetings and shops since sums have
been collected and turned over to the International
Labor Defense to be transmitted to the International
Red Aid Committee for Austria
But, comrades this is not enough We have not
done our share.
Thousands upon thousands of workers, men,
women, and children, need our aid. They need our
aid in defense, to snatch them from the murderous
fascist vengeance which seeks to bury the best, the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-12
By OSCAR RYAN
Especial to the Daily Workerl


TORONTO, Canada, March IL
THE greatest victory in the history
of the Canadian labor movement"
is how A. E. Smith, veteran labor
leader and General Secretary of
the Canadian Labor Defense League,
characterized his acquittal by jury
in the sedition trial by which the
Canadian government sought to
illegalize the Canadian workers de-
Tense organization.
1T is a victory for the right of
free speech, and vindication of the
demand for an open investigation
on the attempt on Tim Bucks life
in Kingston penitentiary," con-
tinued Smith.
Victory Result of Mass Pressure
Canadian Labor Defense League
officials this evening declared
Smiths acquittsl the result Of the
great mass sentiment aroused
throughout Canada and the United
States and expressed the pro-
foundest appreciation of the solid
arity of U. S. workers who sent Leo
Gallagher, International Labor De-
Tense attorney, to represent them in
the legal defense of Smith.
The verdict of Not Guilty was
returned by the jury despite the
ed-baiting, flag waving speeches of
the Crown counsel and the highly
prejudiced charge of Chief Justice
Rose. The trial took four days.
Smith took the witness stand in his
own defense on the second day and
speedily put the capitalist system
on the defensive. Answering a
question regarding his intentions in
making the Hygeia Hall speech for
which he was indicted, he declared !:
My view is that ill-will and dis
content arise out of economic con-
ditions and not through speeches.
We have today suppression of free
speech, suppression of organization,
suppression of assembly. This more
than anything I can say has set
class against class and created i'll
will and discomfort, in addition to
economic conditions
Smith Puts Capitalism on Defensive
The crown prosecutor then in
jected the question of religion, de-
handing of Smith why did you
leave the church?p
Il left the church in connection
with the big strike in Winnipeg, .
Smith answered.
Did you feel your position in
that matter was not consistent with
your place in the church,"
This position of the church
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-12
Smith Acquittal Greatest Victory in
History of Canadian Labor, Defense
Secretary Says; Thanks US. Workers
Smith, Stand Capitalist System Defensive,
Starvation of Masses; Contrasting Cond-
In the Soviet Union

production and exchange based on
production for use and not for
profit"
Controlled by whom?"
by the workers"
And the capitalist CLASP" quer-
ulously demanded the spokesman of
Canadian capitalism.
Gas a class is going out of ex-
istence," replied the veteran work
ing-class leader.
Defense Attorney In Eloquent
Appeal
In one of the most eloquent
speeches heard in years before an
Ontario court, E, J. McNIurray,
chief defense counsel, riddled the
testimony of the crown witnesses,
traced the long fight for free speech,
the persecution of fighters for free
dom and demanded if the court still
believed it was possible to drive
ideas into peoples heads with po-
licemen's clubs.
The jury brought in its verdict
after being out for six hours, dur
ing which it had returned for addi-
tional Instructions from the judges,
and for reading of the record of
the crowns cross-eXamination Of
Smith.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-12

report to the recent field day of
critics" meeting in Washington, pre-
sided over by General johnson.
They declare that by Spring. all
merchants admit, prices will rise
faster than ever before, lowering the
workers living standard.
The increased prices that the
workers are forced to pay for less
goods, has resulted, furthermore, in
a big rise in profits.
Reports from worker correspon-
dents in all parts of the country
to the Daily Worker on actual prices
paid in stores, especially in COM
pany controlled stores, show that
prices of food, clothing and other
goods, are even higher than the
doctored government reports con-
cede.
Can't Hide Facts
The results OF the MIRA. are al
ready playing havoc with the whole
working class. The government can
no longer conceal the lowering of
living standards. At the same time,
hundreds of thousands are losing
their jobs. and with relief cut every
where, millions face starvation.
1t is against these conditions that
the epidemic" of strikes admitted
by General johnson to be the most
severe in the history Of the coun-
try, is mainly directed. The work
ers are feeling the mountainous
burden of the New Deal and are
fighting back.
The Communist Party from the
beginning showed that this would
be the effect of the New Deal, with
its initiation and the. NRA. Now
more than ever the workers should
be modified to increase their strug-
giles for higher pay, to meet the
rising cost of living, for organiza-
ton. to rally their forces to win bet
ter conditions from the bosses who
have profited so heavily from the
NRA.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-12
''New Deal, No DEAL
Blasphemes Coughlin

WASHINGTON, March II, =
Father Coughlin, the demagogic
radio minister, reached a new height
of sensationalism when he de-
nanded in a recent radio speech
that President Roosevelt keep his
pledges to the people, "or else the
New Deal will be no deal"
Waving an admonishing finger in
great demagogic style, he asked
that the early promises for the New
Deal be remembered and placed in
operation by the Roosevelt admin
istrstion. The fiery" minister at
tacks Roosevelt, and points as way
out: Naturalization of currency
and credit
He and the President, the press
fears, are nearing a break.
Coughlin, an erstwhile ardent
supporter OF the New DEAL is be-
ginning to feel the discomfort with
the MIRA. among the workers ano
is therefore conducting the sham
battle with Roosevelt, it is minated
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-12
Austrian Workers Break Through Is Years of Bauer Preacher

Union and consoled the workers
with the idea that If this we're
really the case and if it were sue
cessful then the workers of other
countries might be able to try it
too.
They did not even reject the idea
Of the dictatorship of the proletariat
on principle. God Forbid In their
opinion the proletarian dictatorship
was something like an umbrella, to
be kept in reserve for a rainy day.
II it rained, then one would put
up the umbrella. otherwise one
kept 1t neatly rolled in corner.
If the bourgeoisie refused to permit
the development to socialism along
peaceful lines, then even Mr..
Bauer would order to put I'D the
umbrella of dictatorship However,
the dictatorship was difficult bua-
ness and could be overdone. It
must not last long. just long enough
to intimidate the bourgeoisie. The
bourgeoisie would let itself be in
Inundated easily. The struggle
would not last long and then the
clouds would pass and the sun
would shine, and then. OF course.
the umbrella could be neatly folded
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-12

against an enemy equipped with all
the modern weapons of warfare
machine-guns, artillery, armoured
cars and aeropiares, and fought for
days, announcing thereby to the
workers of the world that the tide
of rroletarian resistance to fascisn
is rising.
The proletariat is adopting
counter offensive. The armed ris-
ing of the Austrian proletariat was
an advance guard battle, Just as
the general strike Of the French
proletariat was preliminary
skirlnish in the advance of the pro-
letariat against fascism.
Fascism in Germany has re.
Vealed its features in all their hide
GUS brutality to the workers of the
world and the international pro.
letariat is drawing its own con.
illusions in action.
The weak Communist Party OF
Austria, laughed at by its enemies
proved to be the heart and soul
of the Austrian proletariat. It is
leading the struggle of the Aus.
trian workers against fascisn and
! for socialism
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was not consistent with the adj

NolfbE VI SOtACOts SAAAltA ICbOA OCus
Although he had got his fingers
burned for injecting the religious
question, the prosecutor Numbered
on, asking Smith how often he had
visited the Soviet Union, and for
what purpose. Smith who had been
in the U. S. S. r. once, replied:
81 had the honor of being elected
a delegate of the World Congress
of the International Red Aid. 1t
is the workers defense movement
on world scale. The Canadian
Labor Defense League is part Of
thet movement of 100000 workers
what is the Soviet Union?' the
prosecutor ingeniously asked.
1T is q federation of some Sc in
dependent, autonomous states, or
ganized as a workers republic and
united into a federation known ss
- rT1'~'r r. Soviet Socialist Re-
publics," Smith enlightened him. 1T
-as q population Of ITO to 180 mil
lions and covers one-sixth of the
$3.50 snr'ace."
Tells of Workers Rule In Soviet
Union
What is the object of the Soviet
Union?" the prosecutor queried.
"It is a workers state. whose OBJ
ject is to build social system OF
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-12

where 1900 workers took part ard
demonstrated entirely under Gem
munist slogans and resisted the
efforts of the police to break up
the demonstration"
In Linz, in particular, the local
Communists have succeeded, de-
spite the weakness of their organ
i7ations. in approaching the social
democratic workers and establish
ing close contact with them, leading
to the setting up of a real united
front from below BY their armed
resistance to the attempt of the
fascists to occupy the local head
quarters of the workers, the work
ers of Linz gave the signals for the
armed rising of the Austrian pro-
letariat.
The bourgeoisie is doing its best
to represent this struggle of the
Austrian workers as rear-guaro
action of an army in full retreat
That is lie. The poletariat OF
Austria, a country in which the
Communist organizations are weak
rose in a heroic struggle against
the forces of the bourgeoisie
"a gainst numerical superiority
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-12

up again and the proletariat would
rule like all decent respectable
people by means of democratic in
stitutions.
Workers Demand Action
But the workers of Vienna de-
manded to see action. They felt
that in order to be able to put up
the umbrella it was first necessary
to have it. SO they demanded the
formation of armed organizations
of the proletariat. The leaders OF
the social democracy were willing
to oblige up to point. They
founded the Republican Defense
League which, in their opinion, was
to be a sort of plaything, sort
OF safety-valve for the martial
spirit of the workers.
In the meantime the reaction
went steadily about It's work until
in 1927 the Vienna workers rose
spontaneously against the Seipel
government which sought to crush
the proletariat by administrative
terror. This rising Of the Vienna
workers was crushed by the social
democratic Mayor Of Vienna, Seitz,
with the troops Of the Austrian
bourgeoisie.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-12

masses and the beginning of
new revolutionary advance
A process of disintegration is
beginning within the social demo-
cratic party +. The petty bour-
geois supporters of the social
democrat are beginning to
abandon the party and join the
Tatherland Front of DoIfuss.
The main tendency. however, is
The left wing rehabilitation of the
social democratic workers, which
is finding its expression in in
creased activity, in the breakdown
of democratic illusions and in a
growing sympathy for the Com
munist Party. There have been
many cases in which social demo-
cratic workers have taken our IL
legal literature and distributed it
in their factories. There have
been cases in which our comrades
were invited by social democratic
workers to attend the social demo-
cratic branches and speak at
them. There have been cases of
joint demonstrations carried out
by social democratic and COmmu-
mist workers, for instance, in Linz,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-12

Mary Koski
member of the Federation in Fitch
burg, Mass, is one of the leading
sub-getters for the Daily
The Finnish workers are showing
through real action that they real
ize the Importance of our Daily
Worker in the struggle against de-
portations of militant foreign born
workers, and in the campaign for
united struggle by native and for
eign-born workers against hunger
war and fascism.
But the comrades of the German
Hungarian, Lithuanian, Russian
Jewish, and of other foreign Ian
guage organizations are doing very
poorly so far, to get new subs for
our Daily Worker.
Follow the Bolshevik example SET
by the Finnish comradesl Make
more powerful our revolutionary
movement by seeing to it that your
English speaking children, your
friends read and subscribe
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than at the worst point of the crisis
in 1881
Surprise was expressed at the
Washington conferences by gov
eminent officials writes c. F.
Huges, in his column The Mer-
chants Point Of View" New York
Times, Sunday. March II, when
they were told by retailers that,
while dollar sales had been rising,
the actual amount of merchandise
being moved was less for the
country as whole.
The figures now available for
February Illustrate this condition
again and emphasize the danger
to which attention was drawn.
THE gain Of Is per cent in de-
partment store sales last month
was made possible by an advance
of about rs per cent IN prices over
the year. The loss in unit volume
was therefore about I per cent,
which means that per cent less
merchandise was sold than last
year, with unemployment at
peak and the banking situation at
its crisis"
In short. while more workers wert
employed than last year, less foot
was eaten and less clothes bough
by the working class because theil
real wages Cthe purchasing power O.
their wages had been definitel,
lowered.
The ooSevelt government
achieved this lowering of the work
ers' living standards, mainly, by twt
moves: First, by initiation, loWerinl
the value of the dollars paid to thu
workers, and second, by giving tn,
big trusts, and other bosses unde,
the NR.A., tremendous power 70,
raising prices through N.R.A. codes
while holding wages down to thu
coolie level of the minimum scales.
However, the rise in prices is jus
beginning. as admitted by the NR.A
Consumers Advisory Board in it
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-12
BY KARL RADEK
Continued from Page 81

the pride and JOY Of the interna-
tional social democracy as its one
achievement.
Masses Versus Leaders
However, the Austrian proletariat
was not to be duped quite so easily
and persistent struggle went on
in the ranks of the Austrian social
democracy between the rank and
file members and their treacherous
leaders. The masses favored the
idea of a proletarian dictatorship
and demanded struggle for its
establishment. The leaders of the
Austrian social democracy were
compelled to take this powerful
feeling into consideration and in
consequence, fearing to lose their
influence on the masses, they dared
not oppose the idea of the prole-
tartan revelation so openly as the
leaders OF the German social
democratic party, They expressed
feelings Of friendship" for the
Soviet Union, they even admitted
that perhaps socialism was really
being established in the Soviet
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-12

Still, for a time, the Vienna in
surrection of 1927 held up the
advance of the counter revolution,
but the coming Of the world eco
nomic crisis strengthened the fas-
cist tendencies both in Austria and
Germany. When fascism came to
power in Germany, the Austrian
working class was deeply moved
and apprehensive. 1t called on its
leaders to show some signs of fight,
to organize an effective resistance
against fascism. But the Austrian
social fascist leaders abandoned
one position after the other with
out fight. They watched the forces
of fascism grow steadily stronger
and held the workers back from
action with strong hand on the
bride. They even proposed an al
lance with the Austrian fascists
against the German fascists and
the only condition was that the
Austrian fascists should give the
social democracy in Austria a
breathing space.
However, the Austrian fascists,
who were preparing deal with
the German fascists, were unwill-
ING to grant the Austrian social
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-12

democracy even honorable terms of
surrender. They feared the social
democratic workers would use their
organizations for resistance. The
Austrian fascists prohibited the
Austrian Communist Party and
then began to occupy social demo-
cratic and trade union quarters
And as the social democratic lead
ers even then showed no signs of
resistance, the workers Themselves
took hand in the game at the
very last moment. In Linz the
rank and file of the Republican
Defense League, formed by the
social democratic leaders to hold
the workers back from the revolu-
ton, went into action independ-
emily.
United Front in Linz
1t was. not fortuitous that the
great struggle began in Linz. In
his speech to the Thirteenth
Plenum of the E. G. C. I. the Aus
trian Communist leader, Koplenig,
declared on Dec. 2, 1888
"Of decisive importance for
Judging the situation in Austria
Is the rapidly growing process of
rehabilitation among the working
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-12
First Lady" Gives
Cheer" To
DyingPOrtORicanS

SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Mar.
11.-Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt
tripped dsintily through the
squalid slums of this chastity
island victim of American i'm
perialism, and piously expressed
the hope that something can be
done to end these conditions
which are a menace to the gen.
eral health"
Her visit to this most horrible
example of whole people en-
during slow death under the de-
stroying hand of American i'm
perialism has aroused hopes in
the minds of thousands of the
Porto Rican masses.
These hopes are as tragic as
the unparalleled hunger, misery,
and disease under which they
suffer, for the only hope for the
Porto Rican masses is the revo-
lutionary smashing Of imperial
ism in the island, and this is just
what she came to head off with
her demagoglc hypocrisy.
The sugar companies have not
left a foot of this fertile island
to the native population, and the
American shipping companies have
a strangle-hold monopoly on sup
plying food at immense prices
from America, since the sugar
companies allow none to be grown
here.
One of the major industries
here is the sweatshop needle
trade industry, of which one of
the chief exploiters of Porto Rico's
Socialist congresswoman. Wages
are so low that it is cheaper for
New York firms to send work
here than to have it done in the
starvation sweatshops of New
York's East Side.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-12
n axis Kill
Red Leader
.OfHanburg
.
Struggle for Thaelmann
Must Be Intensified
In Face of Terror

HAMB URIC By MaiD Will
Dolognor, political leader Of the
Communist Party for the waterside
district of Hamburg, was arrested
on the evening Of Jan. 16. The
next morning he was dead.
The police rc-3rt said probably
suicide" The body was hurriedly
buried. but his relatives forced an
exhumation permit. An examina-
ten - ~ presence of the police
showed that one-half of the face
was completely covered with thin
49,. ~he uncovered eye on the
right side, was injured by deep
lengthwise wound. There was no
sign of suicide whatever.
Will Dolognor was not only
murdered by the Hamburg State
Secret Police, but he was also
robbed. Party records show that he
had a large sum of money on him.
His relatives were given 10 pfennigs
by the police. A bag he carried,
containing personal property, was
also kc~t hv the NsZi ghouls.
Bolshevik Since 1917
Dolognor had been one of the
Party's most devoted fighters since
1917. when, as a prisoner of war in
Russia, he met the Bolsheviks. He
was born in Wedding, Berlin, and
worked in the AE.G. General Elec-
trio Co.., where his mother also
worked, and as a seaman. He
fought in the revolutionary upris-
ing in Berlin in 1918, and Joined
the German Communist Party
when it was founded in 1919.
He was one of the leaders of the
Red Unions, and led the Mansfield
miners strike.
He worked with the Berlin or
gsnization of the Party after Hit
Ter came to power, until he was
sent to Hamburg to become head Of
the organization.
Fight for ThaeImann
This murder Of another leader of
the Communist Party in Germany
emphasized the determination of
tire Na2Is to destroy every Commu-
mist leader they manage to seize.
1t is another Nszi promise not to
leave Ernst Thaelmann, leade of
the German Communist Party, alive
ct TIE e,ca Of the farcical trial"
they are preparing for him this
month.
Only the power Of mass pressure
all over the world has restrained
the hands of the Nazis until now.
Only an immensely intensified cam
paign of protest can save Thael-
mann now