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The Indianapolis times., 1927-02-04

/. c. C. values the railroads at about
twenty-five billion dollars. Argu-
ments have just been completed be-
fore the Supreme Court in the Los
Angeles and Salt Lake railroad case.
This case may determine whether
the I. C. C. valuation shall stand.
Public utility values. and railroad,
light, power and gas rates will all be
increased as result of the Indian
apolis decision" Rev. Ryan said, "un.
less State Legislatures and Congress
enact definite rules for the determin-
alton of fair value
''In the Indianapolis case. the value
confirmed by the Supreme Court
gives the owners of a public utility,
although they possess a monopoly
of public necessity, and although
their money is practically guaran-
teed, return Of no less than 80
per cent on their actual investment.
alton Of railroads and other public
utility property, particularly electric
concerns, could take place under this
precedent. The public will pay
higher rates to give what is con-
sidered fair return on these valu.
ations.
This is the most important politi-
cal question now before the Ameri-
can people and will remain so for
many years."
Ryan said the Supreme Court had
formerly ruled that the fair value
of public utility is somewhere be.
tween original cost and reproduction
cost.
He asserted the Indianapolis COM
pany's property actually cost $12,-
$4,000, including the company's S
land at present value, actual invest
ment of the owners being $2,502, 200.
The Supreme Court ruling allows a
return of $SO5,617. The court placed
the valuation at SIS, 900, 900.
The Indianapolis water case de
cision was written by Justice Butler,
with Justices Brandeis and Stone
! dissenting.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-02-04
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

The bill calls for the election of
all State officers under the primary
law. At present the Governor is
the only one placed under the pri-
mary provision.
f. First and second choice votes are
provided in the measure. If no can
didate receives a majority 'of first
choice votes, then the candidate
with the lowest vote is eliminated
and his second choices added to the
other candidates. This process of
elimination is continued until a
nominee is determined.
Another provision is that-a vote
at the primary automatically regis
ters q voter for the general election
following. The nominees of the pri-
mary are required to meet and
draw up a platform for the coming
campaign.
Representative Walter Hunt has
another primary bill which he plans
to introduce. 1t provides for chang
ing the date of the primary to the
first Saturday in September.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-02-04

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The Indianapolis times., 1927-02-04
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Advertisement.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-02-04
$3.50, ,OOCAdded to
"Daddy's" Woes

BIZ United Press
NEW YORK, Feb. 4.-Some
one is picking on Edward West
Browning again.
Arthur Meffcrd, a reporter.
has had papers served on the
wealthy real estate broker
whose difficulties with Frances
Peaches) Browning have been
the subject of a few whispers
of late, in a s25O,O00 damage
suit.
Mefford alleges Browning
falsely accuses him Of -kidnap-
ing Mary Louise Spas at the
time Miss Spas whom Brown
ing had adopted, severed her
connection with the Browning
household.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-02-04

The cars must be equipped with
bullet.proof windshields, sirens, extra
heavy eight.ply cord tires, four
wheel brakes, and bumpers for extra
heavy duty.
Hawkins is making a determined
effort to-break up speeding and boot
Logging activities on county roads.
The commissioners will consider
bids for fencing at the infirmary and
repairs for the court house.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-02-04
PAGE II

ming, dancing, tennis and golf and
a playground for children.
This is the final stroke to Mayor
DuvalPs alleged pet" plan that the
park board purchase the Casino and
add it to the Coffin golf course.
The new club has a ninety-day op-
ton on the property, according to
Flemming. Stock in the organiza-
ton will be limited to 300 members,
and the capitalization is $125,000. "a
GIFT
The Indianapolis times., 1927-02-04
RALLY TODEFEND
PRIMARY SYSTEM
Bills Ask Fertilization of
Present Voting Law.

Friends of the primary system
have taken the aggressive, demand
ing extension and strengthening of
the present law. The attack was
begun Thursday with the introduc-
ton Of bill in the Indiana House
of Representatives by Representative
Edward B. Bender Dem). and j.
Frank Smith Rep). A similar meas
ure followed in the Senate, intro
duced by Senators William I. Quill
lin (Rep). and Thurman, A. Gott-
schalk Dem).
The Indianapolis times., 1927-02-04
Fast Autos Asked
by Sheriff HaWkins

Sheriff Omer Hawkins is seeking
Valentines.
On Feb. IA, Valentine Day. Marion
county commissioners will consider
an order of Hawkins for two touring
cars that will maintain" speed of
eighty miles an hour.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-02-04
NEGRO CLUB PLANNED
Option Held on Casino for Golf
Course and Fairgrounds.

Organization of the Spring Hill
Country Club by number of promi-
nent Negroes to purchase Casino
Gardens was announced by Henry
A. Flemming, president. The club
will be operated as a Negro recrea-
ton center, with facilities for swim
The Indianapolis times., 1927-02-04
LOCAL CASEUSED
FOR ESTIMATE OF
i RAILROAD VALUE
indianapolis Water Com
pany Decision Raises Is
sue on Utilities.
BY Roscoe u. Fleming

WASHINGTON, FEB. 4.wif prec-
edent established by the Supreme
Court in the Indianapolis Water
Company case holds, railroads will
get valuation of thirty-three or
thirty-four billion dollars, according
TO Rev. John A. Ryan, director of
every great increases in the valu-
the social action department, Ma
tional Catholic Welfare Council. The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-17
The Decline Of Prosperity. "

In spite of the frantic endeavors of the ruling their
political henchmen maintain the illusion that there wide
spread prosperity in the country embracing all classes the real
facts gradually coming to light Colonel Leonard P Ayres
vceresdent of the Cleveland Trust Company frankly states
Our prosperity getting showing
of fatigue 1t earlier vigor but
/ S Enthusiastically slowing
Contrary the asfed reports from the United States
parment of labor issued for the specific purpose furnishing
arguments for the administration which bases its claim to
stence the prosperity that has been howered upon the
tion the bankers their statements face the facts
ATes declares that employment of labor has declined and
that there of money seeking employment That
that approaching period of industrial crisis when
widespread unemployment will grip the workers The stats
clans maintained by the great banking combines keep
formed the condition of industry reported world
market overlooking with industrial products
in important industries will prove total loss The banks
have devised of protecting themselves from
trous effects of everrecurng industrial crises by Withholding
capital The only class that seriously suffers is the working
Scientific organization shields the banks
capitalist machine The application of scientific organzational
principles labor organization would go long
ablng the workers to assert their power
In the last analysis labor only struggle effectively against
the Of capitalism by creating great unions
through the amagamang of the unions building
up class party labor will represent interests of
the workers and exploited farmers the the parties
capitalism represent the class interest of the master class
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-17
A Lesson the Socialist Leaders Ought to Learn

anything required emphasize the bankruptcy of
tactics the socialist leaders of New York have been pursuing
their renzed desire utilize the Sacco and Vanzet agta
for their purposes the failure of their
meetings that they held number OF halls simultaneously with
great demonstration in Union Square week today
They thought their meetings would reduce the crowd at the main
demonstration held by the Emergency Committee
noticed their absence the simple that
rank and file OF the socialist bur
attendance the meeting Union Square
While the leaders unity of action in this that is
vital to the working class the rank and file achieve unity in
action Theoretically leaders supposed to lead the
the rank and file but in this the refused to fol
their self chosen leaders The socialist leaders ought to learn
lesson from their former supporters and abandon their odous
trying divide the labor and agree to parc
the united front for the coming demonstrations in behalf
and Vanzet which eliminate great strikes
in this and other cities
SO determined the socialist leaders fulfill to the last
their repuve roles ackeys of the labor bureaucracy
the Green's the VOLS the Fraynes the Sgmans and McGrady
trying destroy the vre elements in the labor
that they will not abandon their tactics when two
vctmized woen face the electric chair Either these leaders
should be forced to unite the demand for the liberia
ton of and Vanz stand forever exeaed by all class
conscious workers aiding the Massachusetts boodhouns
their attempts to murder these tortured workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-17
Substituting Capitalist Protest for Mass Strikes and
Demonstrations.

One of the obstacles that has stood the path the develop
ment Of the fury the part of the working class into
strikes and demonstrations against the murder conspiracy to
Sacco and Vanze death has been the actions of the Bo
ton Defense Committee in basng practically its
whole campaign upon legal aspects of the When Fuller
announced that he would investigate the the policy of the
Boston Committee refrain from criticism of him his
called advisory committee.
This action might have been atoned for if the
me had after the vicious decision of Fuller devoted all
its aiding the drive for strikes in behalf of
these victims the Massachusetts moners Instead appeal
definitely the power of the workers. which alone
Sacco and Vanze the committee in its August bulletin
does not mention strikes and other forms of protest but
devoes its small space repntng articles from the notorious
Springfield Republican, of the most spokesman
big capital America advocating that Fuller
the of death to life Imprisonment The Republican
able defender of interests Fuller
It of the fact that after all the worldwide agitation in
behalf of Sacco and Vanzet their execution would dscred the
whole administration justice while them
living death behind prison walls would the purpose
trying workers who dare challenge the supremacy
the of the slave pens Not any does the Spring
field Repubcanquoted without comment in the August number
of the official bulletin of the Defense Committee
advocate freedom for these workers who have been proved
of the crime of which they convicted before
ctve preudiced Judge vicious jury
doubedy bought and paid for by the hrengs of the mill
and the agents the United States department justice
Only the of the working class has thus
Sacco and Vanzet from death and that still
Their developed and intensified order merely stay the
hand of the execuonr but to open the jail doors and permit
tortured workers to again take their places in the ranks of
~0or.
Instead Of relying upon the adverse elements of the capital
st Defense Committee of Boston should
into the great strike thruout country
August % the day last for the execution of
Vanzetti.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-17

{ 1t is strikes and mass demonstra.
tons in the United States and in many
other countries which have dealt the
/ body-blows to Massachusetts CAPT
talst justice and have heightened the
! lives of Sacco and Vanzetti.
The New York demonstration, hay
/ ing at least over fifty thousand par
/ Elephants, is perhaps the biggest mass
protest that the streets of the metro
( polls have yet seen. In Chicago, many
! thousands Of workers spontaneously
demonstrated on the streets thei1
vehement opposition to legalized
murder of proletarians. In Gary, for
7 the first time since the big steel
strike, thousands of workers went
out on the streets to protest to the
steel barons against murder cloaked
by employing class justice. In New
York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and the
anthracite coal regions, thousands of
workers struck.
There is nothing the capitalists
fear more than thousands of workers
pouring out from the factories to the
streets in mass protest against the
exploiting class rule.
Here we should not hide the fact
that certain elements, parading as
champions and defenders of Sacco and
Vanzetti, have been only a hindrance
to this great mass movement of the
American workers. The fact that
/ these petty bourgeois liberal elements
have been in strategic positions in
the Sacco and Vanzetti defense and
have been tainted with anarchist
sympathies not only does not make
them less dangerous but actually
makes them more dangerous to the
class basis, to the only sound basis
which can beat back the hangmen
Of innocent workers.
More strikes. More demonstra-
tions. Bigger strikes, Bigger demon
strations. These are the weapons
with which the workers can paralyze
the hands of the killers.
Some Friends" Who Need Watching.
THE official socialist party bureau
cracy has played shameful role
in the Sacco-Vanzetti drive. Their
propaganda has tended to make work
ers put faith in capitalist class JUS
tice Their propaganda has only
served to blur the class issue. Such
help for Sacco and Vanzetti only
hurts them and the interests Of the
class for which they may be muir
dered But the most despicable role
in the whole Sacco and Vanzetti
campaign has been played by Mr..
Green and the rest of the agents of
American imperialism in our move
ment At the time when the eXecu-
TONERS were about to put their hands
| on the. switch to electrocute Sacco and
Vanzettf, the arch-reaetionary presi-
dent of the American Federation of
Labor could do nothing more than to
beg that these men should be sem
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-17
By B. SKLAR.

The attack of the federal govern
ment against The DAILY WORKER
the persecution of the Workers
(Communist) Party in the state of
Pennsylvania manifested in the fran
ing up and sentencing of members of
the Party for alleged seditious activi-
ties; the vicious attacks upon our
Party in New York by the joint forces
of the police, the courts and the trade
union bureaucracy; the campaign
against our Party by the American
Federation of Labor-all of this
brings to our recollection the days of
1922.
This was the time when the Party
was struggling to find its way into
the open, to function legally and just
that time was chosen by the federal
authorities to make an attack upon
the Party, to create a new red scare
in the country and to maintain the
isolation of the Communists from the
broad masses of workers.
How did the Party meet the situa-
ton in 1922? 1t met the situation
by the organization of broad united
front movement against the forces OF
reaction. It's appeal for such a united
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-17
Some Lessons from the Sacco-V anzetti Case

fenced to living death, should be
jailed. At this very moment, Mr.
Green felt that even such dastardly
conduct on his part might be in
terpreted by his masters as biting the
hand that feeds him and therefore
declared his complete dissertation
from Sacco and Vanzetti.
American Democracy" On the Job.
EVERY wheel of the government
l. machinery is rolling at full speed
towards the numbering of Sacco and
Vanzetti. The church is working
overtime. The press is doing more
than its bit Witness the case of the
so-called liberal New York World,
firing one of its outstanding contrib
utors, Haywood Broun, because of his
powerful messages in behalf of Sacco
and Vanzetti. Mr.. Coolidge is too
busy pardoning boot-leggers and ex-
traordinarily desperate plain Grim
inals to Consider" the Sacco and
Vanzetti case. Government prococa-
tours are busy manufacturing bomb
ing exploits in order to demoralize
and destroy the workers protest
movement. It is seldom that Ameri-
can democracy, the American govern
ment, shows it's brute force, its ugly
class fist, against the workers with
such painful clarity as it has been
showing in the case Of the plan to
murder Sacco and Vanzetti.
Significance of Mass Movement.
THE main features of the tremen-
L dous dimensions of the Sacco-
Vanzetti movement are: Q) 1t is a
powerful radicalizing force for Amer
lean labor. (2) The use of the strike
for political purposes is strengthened
by its application to the Sacco-Van-
zetti case, even on the limited scale
to which it has been resorted in this
instance. 60 The Sacco and Van
zetti movement has destroyed still
further some of the illusions regard
ing American democracy, not only
among the more relatively class con-
scious workers in Europe and else
where, but even among the more po-
litically backward American working
class masses. (4) For the first time
in decades, the American proletarian
masses have participated in a move
ment of international dimensions on
so large a scale simultaneously with
great masses of workers throughout
the world in behalf of working class
interests. No one can underestimate
the Importance of this breath of in
ternational proletarian solidarity for
our working class.
The workers of America and other
countries have shown how Sacco and
Vanzetti can be saved. Now we must
strengthen our efforts manifold in
order to save Sacco and Vanzetti
from capitalist justice, in order to
protect the basic interests of the
working class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-17
A UNITED FRONT FOR DEFENSE AGAINST The ATTACK
UPON THE FREEDOM OF PRESS

front was based upon the correct
viewpoint that the attack against the
Party was but a part Of an attack
against the entire labor movement
and that it was an expression of a
growing reaction. Labor and liberal
organizations adopted this viewpoint
and responded to the call of the Par
ty. The drive of reaction was stopped.
The Party not ony weathered the at
tack but made great progress. The
Party proved itself the true vanguard
of the American working class.
attack against the Party at present is
general, similar to the situation at
the time of the Bridgeman raid. The
attack against the Party at present is
also part of an attack against the
entire labor movement; it comes in
the wake of an intense class strug-
gle in the needle industries, in the
coal mining industry, in the textile
industry; it comes at the time when
the pace of industry is slackening and
when a general intensified drive may
be expected upon the wages, working
hours and conditions of labor. 1t
comes therefore at a time when a
further sharpening of the class strug-
gle is to be expected.
The vicious attack of the labor
bureaucracy of the American Fedora
ton of Labor may appear as dis
tinguishing feature of the present sit
uation as compared with that of 1922.
But even this is a difference only in
degree, for in 1922 the Party was
also faced with the attack of the
trade union bureaucracy against the
Communists and the left wing. The
raid upon the conference of the Trade
Union Educational League, the 'acti-
vities- of Gompers against the Trade
Union Educational League and
against the Communists furnish the
proof of this.
There is, however, one feature that
distinguishes the present situation
from that of 1922. The offensive of
the American imperialism in South
America, China and in Europe. This
factor is of Importance because it
signifies the further sharpening of
the class struggle in America >and
carries a danger of much fiercer
attack against the Party than in 1922.
That in time of "peace" an attack
should be made against a newspaper,
while nothing Of the kind happened in
the other drive is in itself remark
able fact deserving attention.
Our Party must utilize the past ex-
periences and again adopt the tactics
which proved so effective in the past.
We must mobilize labor, fraternal,
liberal organizations in defense of
the freedom of the press. We must
mobilize all Party members and SYM
pathizers for this united front drive.
We must make the defense of The
DAILY WORKER a part of the de-
fense Of the entire labor movement
against t@e =. tack of the ruling class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-17

Since Mr. Ralph Pulitzer Of the New York World asserted his
rights in demanding that all his writer's conform strictly
established rules of journalistic prostitution by refusing
sh the articles Of Haywood Broun the
certain Mr. Frank Sullivan also protests but against the
inflicted two worngmen His protest is of type
that will in offend the murder of Massachusetts
In yesterday mornings World Mr.. Sullivan declares:
against the boiling of the
a a Island"
This nnocuous scrbber objects because he fears that when
he lobster in restaurant the will be
served
This nauseatng drive only emphasizes claim that the
only obtain information and honest Interpretation
of events of the working class the columns of the
working class press.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-17
y DRAMA IN
"Reyelry" Here Next
Month Chevalier to
Tour America

Sydney Shields and Marie Carroll
will be co-featured in "Such Is Life"
which opens at the Morosco theatre
August 81. Peter Glenny and Marie
Armstrong Hecht are the authors
of the new piece.
A. H. Woods new production goes
into rehearsal today. 1t is a new play
by Bayard WELLER and titled, "The
People VS. Mary Dugan." Ann Hard
ing, Rex Clergyman, Arthur Hohl
Cyril Keightley and Robert Cummins
will have important roles in the cast.
Maurice Chevalier, the well known
French music hall and revue come
dian, is planning vaudeville tour of
the United States, appearing at the
Keith-Albee theatres, beginning early
in 1923.
Maxwell Anderson has just finished
the book and lyrics of musical
comedy dealing with censorship. The
opus is titled ga Maiden's Prayer"
"Revelry," based on the novel of
the same name, which is to be pre-
sented at the Masque theatre by
Robert Milton shortly, will have the
following players in the cast: James
Crane, Charles Waldron, Rose Hobart
and Harry Bannister. The dramati-
cation of the Samuel Hopkins Adams,
novel was done by Maurice Watkins.