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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-17

This Army and Navy reception
was the last State function of the
winter and the first Mrs. Coolidge
missed since she became "First
Lady" She was confined to her
upper floor room with the last
traces of a cold.
Physicians feared the strain Of
so many handshakeS would have
proved too much for her.
To guests who inquired after
the missing J hostess health. Mr..
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-17
IA DIE IN SHIP { BLAST
Cargo Of Petroleum ExpIOdes;

Cargo Of Petroleum ExplOdes;
Fishermen Save Twenty-one.
TOXIC, Feb. 1.-THE captain
and thirteen members of the crew
Of the British Tanker Chuky were
killed when the ships cargo Of
10000 cans of petroleum exploded,
a telephone message from Nojima,
in Chinba Province, said today.
Fishermen, Fastening to the
rescue, saved twenty-one officers
and men from the iu-fated ship.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-17

While a slight social importance
is attached to them, the break
fasts' chief function is to furnish
the President with f1rst-hand in
formation on national political
end legislative developments.
Occasionally, the guest list is
confined to a limited group inter-
ested in one particular issue, such
as the recent flood control"
breakfast.
The guests rather than the
President are relied on to suRpy
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-17
HOOVER ENDS OUTING
Secretary Cuts Short Fish
ing Trip in Florida.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
KEY WEST, Fla, Feb. 17.-Secre-
tary Of Commerce Herbert Hoover
cut short his fishing trip today and
arranged to leave tonight for Wash
ingtcn, D. c.
Tuesday night he will address the
American Institute of Mining and
Metallurgical Engineering at New
York.
His address will not touch on pol
itics, Hoover said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-17

Coolidge replied with a smile,
"She's much better, thank you"
Il n
TODAY : the President con-
Il tinued his famous waffles-
and-sausage breakfasts for Con-
gressmen, which have been an
almost daily feature for some
time.
More than 100 members OF
Congress already have been guests
at such breakfasts and the rest
!, viii attend IN turn
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-17
BIZ United Press

By United Press
SPRING LAKE, M J., Feb. IT.
For years scientists have debated
whether shark will attack hu-
man being unless provoked, and
Van Campen Heilner, field repre-
sentative of the American Museum
of Natural History, has determined
to find out for himself.
Heilner left here today to sail
from New York for the Bahamas.
Armed with only a sharp dagger,
he will plunge into shark-infested
waters of the tropics until the ques-.
ton of sharkly appetite is answered.
A motion picture cameraman will
accompany Heilner. The former
wal be placed in a glass-bottom box
of the scientists own design and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-17
Stays MATE
WITH KNIFE
after Fight
Woman Declares She Fails
to Remember How She
Killed Husband.
3RAWL IN MOOSE CLUB
Man Stabbed in Heart Is
Found by Police, With
Wife by Side.
9RAWL IN MOOSE CLUB

They had been drinking. Her hus-
band wouldn't go home with her.
He wanted more liquor and when
she repeated her plea, "Joe, I don't
want you to get picked" he struck
her.
AS she fell, her hand rested on a
butcher knife.
She remembers nothing of the
next brief moment. Then she saw
blood spreading over his shirt, flow
ing from a wound in his heart.
This is the explanation of Mrs.
Joseph Carson, 25, of 1888 S. Me-
ridian ST., of what happened in the
refreshment room of the Moose
Club, 13r N. Delaware St., before
police found her there by the side
of her dead husband shortly after
midniL 1T.
Holding Mans Head
She was holding his head in her
arms, careSsing him, when police
arrived. The eight-inch knife lay
at his feet.
She had called city hospital for an
ambulance and police had been
sent.
At first she said three men had
been in the club and quarreled with
her husband and stabbed him.
Police learned these men were
John McCarty, 46 N. Walcott ST.,
and Orlie Condiff and ]. H. Collins,
residents at the club They went TO
Condiff's room when Carson and his
wife started to quarrel, and stayed
there until police arrived, they said.
Gives Signed Statement.
Later Mrs Carson made a signed
statement to Detectives Peats and
Schulz. r
She and her husband, who was
%, had been married two years and
a half and formerly lived in Gin
cinnati, she said.
They had no children. Carson
was night bartender at the club.
Thursday afternoon she played
cards at the club and attended a
lodge meeting there that evening,
remaining to accompany her hus-
band home.
Formally charged with murder to-
day, she sobbed:
Il don't know why I did it. Joe
and 1 never quarTeled.
Tells Her Story
"Joe, myself and John McCarty
drank al half pint of liquor just be-
fore closing time.
After he put the money in the
cash register, instead of going home
with me, Joe intimated that he was
going to get some more liquor. You
know I was afraid that he would
lose his job, as they don't allow
liquor at the club.
when I insisted that we 60
home and said, Joe, I don't want
you to get pickled,' he struck me
Somehow or other, when I fell
my hand rested on large butcher
knife used to cut bread. I don't re-
member striking him with the knife
My first realization was when I saw
blood on his shirt"
She waived preliminary hearing
and was held for the grand jury
without bond by Judge Pro TEN
Thomas Whalen
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-17
CITIZENS VISIT SLACK

South Side Delegation Presents
Resolution Of Confidence.
A delegation Of South Side citizens
called on Mayor L. Ert Slack this
afternoon to present resolution
adopted at recent south side mass
meeting, recognizing Slack as legal
mayor and flaying the councilmanic
moves which resulted in unrest. at
city hail.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-17
SCRIPTS BONDS SOLD

OversubscriptiOn Is Reported BY
Managers of Issue.
By United Press
NEW YORK, Feb. 1.-THE Guar
antee Company Of New York today
announced:
1.-THE issue of the E. w. Scripps
Company has been very success
fully marketed, substantial excess
subscriptions having been received
by the managers"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26
YOUNG Miners TO
HOLD conference
Prepare for Big Meet
at Belleville, June 9

BELLEVILLE, O., May 81 (By
MaiD.-A conference of all youth
delegates attending the special dis
trict convention of the United Mine
Workers of America, District II, was
held during the second day of the pro-
cesdings.
Over twenty delegates from every
part of the state took part in the con-
ference Recognizing that the young
miners were not sufficiently drawn
into the struggle to GUST the corrupt
officialdom in the union, the youth
delegates took up the question of mo-
hilizing the young miners turnout the
state in some organized manner.
To Hold Enlarged Meet.
The conference went unanimously
on record for the holding of an en-
larged conference embracing Belle
vile and the surrounding territory
Organizers were selected to immedi-
ately go back into their localities and
begin to work for the conference,
Methods adopted for this work was
the organization of young miners
groups in the local unions, confer
ence committees. and mass meetings
called to rally the young miners be-
hind the conference.
The date for the conference has
been set for June 9th to be held in
Belleville, Ill.,, at ten o'clock in the
morning. Already Local 705 in ORAL
lon has endorsed the young miners
conference and has elected two dele
gates. The conference has also been
endorsed by Local 303, Orient, Ill.
Important Role.
Gerry Allard, secretary of the pro-
visional committee, in making his re-
port for the convention showed how
the youth in the coal mining industry
have never been considered in the
union activity. He pointed out how
necessary the youth is in the industry
and how it plays an ever greater
role in the affairs of the union, maxi
ing all the more necessary for the
progressive forces to win over the
young workers and draw them into
the struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26

which benefits not only the litera-
ture department, but the Party as a
whole, we must depend upon the help
of the section literature agents.
This means that there is not enoug
initiative in the units and that the
literature agents are not yet on the
job. This of course must be re-
NEEDED.
The unit literature agents must
begin to take their work seriously,
develop more initiative, watch over
their squads, see that they are on
the job, and that more comrades are
drawn into literature work. Espe-
cially now in the summer months
approaching, when many open-air
meetings in the various parts of the
city will be held, it will be necessary
to cover all of these meetings with
literature. We must emphasize the
Importance of the literature squads
working more Systematically than
ever before.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26

Party of America on the prohibition
enforcement, because further per-
sistence in this tragic farce threatens
complete breakdown of law and
order" Many members of the employ
ing class also, who favor prohibition
from the point of view of capitalist
efficiency, are against strict enforce
ment, because they realize its impos-
sibility under present conditions and
likewise are concerned lest tile faith
of the masses in claw and order" be
shaken.
Alcoholism is one of the most ter
rible social diseases of capitalist So
ciety. Alcoholism is caused by capt.
talism itself. Insecurity of life, the
monotony of standardized factory
work, the low cultural level of the
masses and desperate poverty are the
reasons for this social disease, Only q
Communist society can cure alcoholism
by elevting the cultural level of the
masses, by diversifying labor, by put
ting an end to insecurity of life, and
by graduating poverty. The struggle
against alcoholism is a part of the
general struggle against capitalism
Only the overthrow of capitalism will
sweep away the despicable bootleg
ging industry and the equally despic.
able, corrupt, hypocritical capitalist
prohibition enforcement.
Demands.
1. The Workers Communist
Party favor the repeal of the Volsteac
Act and the Eighteenth Amendment.
2. Dissolution of the federal anc
state prohibition enforcement appar-
atus.
3. Energetic propaganda against
alcoholism as one of the most malig.
nant social diseases under capitalism
Forward to Workers and Farmers
Government.
This is the platform of the class
struggle. These are the demands the
Workers (Communist) Party puts
forward in the present presidential
election campaign. But none of these
demands, and not even the total Of
these demands, exhaust the program
of the Communist Party. We cal
upon the workers to rally around the
Communist Party in a relentless
struggle for these demands which
realized, would nfotect the toiling
masses against TIE most harmful eff.
fects of trust fled capitalism. But
even the realization of all these de
mands would not liberate the work
ingclass from the double yoke of CAPT
talist exploitation and oppression
| Only the full realization of the entire
program of the Communist Party car
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26

bring about the emancipation of the
working class. The Communist Party
has the following aims:
The formation Of the proletariat
into class;
The organization of the toiling
masses in an independent political
party which combats all capitalist
parties;
The representation of the most
general international interests of
the workingclass as a whole as ex-
pressed in the principles and prac-
tice of the Communist Interna-
tional;
The overthrow Of capitalist rule;
The conquest of political power
by the workingclass.
American Imperialism is very pow
erful. Capitalism in this country is
still on it's upward grade, but it is
becoming more and more part and
parcel of world capitalism, which on
the whole has entered into the last
declining stage of its development.
United States imperialism will not
be able to bride broad sections of the
workingclass for many more years
1t is not the sole workshop in the
world as Great Britain was for de-
cades. There are other mighty inn
perialist powers limiting the expan-
sion of United States imperialism
competing with it on every front. The
menace of new imperialist wars is
looming up ever bigger on the hori.
zon.
The very existence of the Socialist
Republic of the Soviet Union, which
freed one-sixth of the earth from
capitalist Influence and expansion, is
again a limitation to the growth OF
United States Imperialism. The forces
of the proletarian revolution are gath
ering in other countries, too. The
more, than three million votes of the
Communist Party of Germany, tbs
over one million votes of the Com
munist Party Of France, the election
victories of the Communist Party oil
Poland, which, though driven under
ground, was able to rally the majority
of the Polish workingclass-are al
many induces of the growth of the
legions of the workingclass revolu
ton.
The struggle for liberation of thu
oppressed peoples of Asia, and tn,
growing resistance of the suffering
peoples of Latin America constitute
another limitation to the upward de
velopment of United States imperial
ism. There are inherent contradic
tons within American imperialism
which work with irresistible force t,
break up the whole system. Tn,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26

anarchy created by the private owner
ship of the means Of production re-
suits inevitably in murderous compe-
tition, crises and wars. The class
character Of American capitalist So
cietv must lead without fail to class
wars. The sharpening contradictions
within American capitalism will
arouse gigantic forces which viii be
strong enough to overthrow it. The
alliance of the IT million industrial
workers, the 10 million Negroes, and
the 2 million exploited tenant farm
ers and agricultural workers will con-
stitute powerful bloc which will be
able to crush the present dictatorship
of the bosses.
The upheaval of these exploited
and oppressed masses, who will estab-
lish workers and farmers govern
ment, will organize their own state
apparatus in the form of workers
councils and will break the monopoly
of the capitalists over the means Of
production.
A Workers. and Farmers Govern
ment of the United States will ex-
propriate all large-scale industries,
railroads, super-power plants, meat
packing plants, grain elevator COM
bines. It will nationa1ize all large
land estates, and will hand them over
to the mortgaged and tenant farmers
and agricultural workers. 1t will ma
tiohalize all banks and commercial in
stitutions. A Workers and Farmerss
Government of the United States will
free all American colonies Immediate
ly, will grant the right of full self
determination to all Latin-American
peoples, will realize full social equal
ity for Negroes. 1t will disarm the
master class and will arm the work
ing masses.
Forward to Workers and Farm
ers' Government Forward by means
of relentless class struggle. The
| Workers (Communist) Party is the
party Of the class struggle. 1t is the
! deadly enemy of capitalist society. 1t
fights for the complete unity of the
working class, for the united strug-
gle of native-born, foreign-born, and
Negro workers against the common
enemy: trustified capital.
The Workers (Communist) Party
calls upon all workers and exploited
farmers to leave the old capitalist
parties.
! Workers and exploited farmers.
vote for and join the Workers (Com-
munist) Party!
| Rally around the platform of the
class struggled!
/ Down ithocapitalist rule!
Forward to Workers and Farm
ers' Government.
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and equal education from the elemen-
tary schools through the universities,
(b) Immediate relief from over
crowding by building new schools. (c)
Abolition of religious and Jingoist in
struction; abolition of Jim Grow
education, (c) No discrimination
against teachers on account of Sub
versive" political opinions; right of
teachers to organize.
Housing.
Nothing brings out into holder re-
lief equality" under capitalist con-
ditions than the matter of housing,
The members of the master class
dwell in the SWEETEST apartments, in
the most luxurious places. They mo-
bilize the clean, broad streets of the
respectable" residential sections. The
workers are segregated into the most
disagreeable unsanitary sections of
the crowded cities.
Congested tenements, miserable
Sums are the main quarters for pro-
letarian homes. Death has a bigger
toll in the workingclass sections,
especially among the children. Rent
is unbearably high for workers. On
the average the worker is compelled
to spend more than 25 per cent of his
wages on rent. According to the law
of social justice in capitalist society,
tlo b;crbo,, +bo ;,,oo,>,o +bo 1o,,,o,,.,,o1c
lively the rent.
The government-federal, state and
municipal governments alike-are do
ing nothing to relieve the housing
shortage and to reduce the high rents
Building spectators do not construct
homes for the workers, because the
poorly paid wage-earner is not able
to pay the high rent demanded. Scores
Of thousands of workers are forced to
live in lightless rooms without ade-
quate plumbing and heating, with in
sufficient ventilation and water sup
ply.
In striking contrast to the criminal
attitude of the American capitalist
government towards the housing stu
alton are the measures of the Work
ers' Government of the Soviet Union
The Workers Government of the Sow
Eiet Union nationalized ALL dwellings
of the capitalists to the workers. 1t
turned over all the palaces and villas
of the capitalists to the workers. 1t
lowered the rent for wage-earners SO
much that unskilled workers pay only
a nominal rent. The building of
homes for workers is an essential
part of the whole constructive pro-
gram Of the Soviet Government,
which spends hundreds of millions
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26

he buys for his wages forces him to
sell his labor power again. 1t does
concern the capitalist how the worker
eats and drinks. If the worker spends
his wages for liquor, if he gets drunk
Sunday night, if he is not fit for
work Monday morning-that does not
constitute violation of the interests
of the worker but it constitutes high
crime against capital-it amounts to
a LIBERALIZATION of the labor power
which belongs to the capitalists.
These and none other are the views
of the capitalists concerning the
private life of the workers. Prohibi-
ton is nothing but the realization of
these views.
On the other hand, the driving
force behind the movement against
the enforcement of prohibition, for
the repeal of the Eighteenth Amend
ment and the Volstead Act, is the
powerful alcohol capital which still
has tremendous vested interests in the
beverage industry.
The enforcement" of prohibition
created huge governmental machine
of prosecutors, spies, provocateurs
and courts. This machine tends to in
crease the power of the capitalist gov
eminent and is virtual part of its
strikebreaking apparatus.
The lack of enforcement of capital
list prohibition has created a powerful
Bookkeeping industry with a capital
of hundreds of million dollars. The
hazards of this industry are compen-
stated by extremely high profits. Ar
elaborate system of an underground
capitalist world is hiding itself under
the surface of respectble capitalist so.
ciety. 1t has its own spies, provoca-
tours and gunner, who are otter
utilized against the labor movement
against striking workers. The com.
binatiOn of the twin brothers, capital
list prohibition enforcement and CAPT
talist bootlegging, has created an un
heard of amount of corruption, crime
and hypocrisy.
The stand of the republican anC
democratic parties on the prohibition
issue is model example of capitalist
demagogy. It is not an issue between
the two parties but rather one within
both. Very often from wet throats
issue dry voices. The playing up Of
prohibition as major political issue
serves only one purpose. 1t covers W
the lack of any real difference be
tween the capitalist parties, and dis
tracts the attention of the worker,
from the real major class issues o
the toiling masses. Especially shame
full is the position Of the Socialist
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26
zoo ATTEND BIG
SAVE UNION MEET

WHEELING, w. Va, by Mail)-
The calling of a mass meeting at May
nard, Ohio on Monday by the sub
district officials to distract the mem
bers from Save the Union" meet
ling failed completely. Only six loyal"
members were present to hear Davis,
International organizer, speak.
Not far from the Polish Hall where
the six "loyal" members of the union
sat and listened to the speech of
Davis, the S. U. C. held their meet
ing and over 200 rank and file miners
attended.
This shows clearly that the rank
and file is with the S. U. C. and that
they know that the sweet sounding
phrases" of the sub-district officials
are nothing more than promises which
will not be carried out,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26

yearly to erect houses for wage-earn-
ers.
Demands.
1. Municipal fixing of low rents
for workers. Rent for wage-earners
should not amount to more than 10
per cent of their wages.
2. Municipality built houses should
be rented to the workers without
profit
3. Tax exemption for all houses
rented to wage-earners.
4. Immediate enactment of state
laws providing for the abolition of
the right Of eviction of landlords
against wage-earner tenants.
5. Compulsory repair by the land
lords of all workingclass homes in bad
condition.
6. Immediate establishment by
municipalities of homes to shelter the
unemployed.
7. Municipal aid to workers build
ing co-operatives.
Prohibition.
Prohibition, as it is enforced" and
violated in this country is one Of the
most outstanding examples of capital
list corruption and hypocrisy.
The Workers (Communist) Party
takes the following stand on the pro
hibition issue
Prohibition was introduced in the
interests of the manufacturers. As
the Pennsylvania Manufacturers
Journal put it: eve believe there is
no question of greater importance to
American manufacturers, the great
employers of labor, than prohibition
The prohibition of the consumption
of liquor decreases the needs of the
workers, and thus tends to decrease
the price of his labor power. The in
PRODUCTION of prohibition was part and
parcel of the big naturalization cam.
paign of the employing class. II
makes the worker more efficient
more adaptable to the machinery. II
IS the link in the chain of the genera.
speed-up. The enforcement Of pro
hibition is typical class measure
Rich people are exempt from its en-
forcement. It's whole burden falls
upon the proletarian elements.
Prohibition embodies in the most
classic manner the basic views of the
employers toward the workers. The
worker gives his life not only during
the working hours but all day anC
all the time to the capitalist. Eating
drinking and sleeping, the worker
serves only one sole purpose: the
maintenance of his labor power fol
the capitalists, The very fact that
the worker consumes the food which