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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-27
MAP F0REMEN TRAINING
Metal Trades Association to Open
Course Here Oct. Is.

Good Foremanship, Industry's
Asset" will be subject of George
Seyler, official of the Lukenheimer
Company, Cincinnati, at the Fore
mems Club of indianapolis dinner
at the Chamber of Commerce Fri
day at $3.50 p. m.
Seyler is member of the Ma
tional Metal Trades Association in
dustrial education committee, which
will begin "foremen conference lead
er training courses" here Oct. Is.
An industrial film, THE Jewels of
Industry" will be shown through
courtesy of the Carborundum Com
pany of Niagara Falls. Plans for
the annual convention of the ia
tional Association of Forelnen here
next May also will be announced.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-27

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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-27
G. O.. P. CLUB TO MEET
DIR. Harry E. Barnard Will Address
WOmen's Group Tuesday.

DR.. Harry E. Barnard, former
food and drug commissioner of In
diana, personal friend of Herbert
c. Hoover, Republican presidential
nominee, will be the principal
speaker at a dinner meeting of the
Statehouse Women's Republican
Club at the Columbia Club Tues
day evening, Oct. 2.
Republican State candidates and
their wives will be guests. Mrs
Grace Urbahns, State treasurer and
club president, will preside.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-27
Blind Baggage

NEW YORK, Sept. 27.-Mary
Josephine Polly" Lauder,
Gene Tunney's fiancee, took a
strange mans evening attire
abroad with her when she sail
ed Friday on the Saturnia.
The clothes were in a suitcase
which was included mysterious
ly in her luggage.
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be held in San Antonios 100000
municipal auditorium, said to be the
finest structure Of it's kind in the
South
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-12
The "SlaUe Market

With unemployment mounting tremendous figures the
capitalist sezes piece of cruel fakey that
play to the attention of the unemployed workers Urban
edoux meaningless street faker is given the cachname
M Zero by the press which tries make him national
of the unemployed That because Ledouxs activities do
lead to the organization of the obess workers. but only their
Generalization with stimulated hopes of Individual escape
unemployment
But when the international Workers Relief honest work
class institution which the real relief
in times OF stress and in this it only supplies food
obess thousands but also looks the organization the
employed is not looked avoaby by the capitalist press
yellow tabloid newspaper of New York few days ago. pub
fishing photograph of the endless procession of unemployed
workers taking their portions of food the International
ers Relief station called it "Nr Zeros slave market"
The cheap fakery of auctonng slaves appeals capitalist
papers because it sufficiently insulting the unemployed work
sufficiently indvidualstic to discourage organization and
sufficiently futile to be harmless.
Workers with selfrespect and intelligence will support the
international Workers Relief Organization and
auctions is the word for the four million and obess men
and Not to have few individuals "sold lat reduced
wages to few half time diswashng ots III the missions
the charity hut support at the of industry and the
state the right Of the workers whose only ofense they
have created oo much wealth and therefore thrown
the streets.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-12
ANDY $4,000"

there burglar pckpocket any jail who does not feel
flush of pride in his relative honesty when reading OF the Cool
idge cabinet?
Andrew w Mellon American captaisms white god, who
down from the heavens of big business to enter into the
direct administration of government the presidential cabinet
aditsater being caughthat his hands have touched the
Calvin Coodge ograf election fund of 1920 When John
Pratt brother of the president of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana
died he left little pencled memorandum which noted the name
list OF those stolen
Harding and Coolidge through the Continental Trading Co.
Andy who holds his position in the cabinet by violation of
law ab-he the bonds back But only after being
caught did he admit having received them Does imagine
that Mellon didn't know of the senate investigation of the graft
the Sinclair graft bonds which he had his hands on?
Why did Will Hays lie in the first investigation to conceal the
trail of the Continental Trading Co. seang from Sinclair to
the republican national committee?
Why did Hays lie again just few days when conessng
his lies but emitting Mellon whom he
$4,000 allotment of the Sinclair bonds?
What Coolidge doing now? Does anyone imagine that he
does not know that the senate investigation going and that
the committee pretends to know about the other $O
the Continental loot? think that Cool
dge who for eight has been first nonvong member of
the Harding cabinet and then the chief of the ograf admins
rationho has three members of his cabinet go
down exposure direct bberydoes anyone imagine
Coolidge knows nothing about the sordd eight years of graft
mysterious DEATH suicide and efforts to conceal criminal
activities which has been the fabric of his life during that peod
Will Coolidge admit something about the $4,000 unraced
balance Of the oil graft moneyas he is caught?
But the committee will Coolidge Walsh may
down few republican cabinet MEMBERS but he will avoid
the trail to the white house This his patriotic duty The
United States capitalist class must be protected The
rlng of this country not be allowed that
IS of the United States is exalted and pure
Tuition above the classes but that is committee for
naglng the affairs of the capitalist class
plotted Masses machine the suppression
of the working and farming facilitate their exploitation
by the Sncairs the Rockfeer and the Morgans and Coolidge
and who will buy and his And maybe that
will be Walsh.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-12

3. As an unstable element, that is
disruptive in his activities no matter
in what organization he may belong.
q. For attempting to carry over
fractional activities to the Workmen's
Sick and Benevolent Association.
Becker had been warned against
these activities on many occasions by
the Party and in spite of admitting
that he had made Menshevik and even
counter-revolutionary statements, has
continued with his descriptive work
Despite the fact that he had been re-
moved from the leading bureau of the
Hungarian section one year ago for
carrying on this fractional activity
lie has defied the warning of the
Party and challenged its authority by
openly breaking its discinlina
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-12
SID BUSH--
A Tribute
BY MANYA AIRoFF.

At last, dear comrade, you are at
rest AS I stood by your coffin and
looked at your face for the last time,
it still expressed the determination
with which you carried on your revo-
lutionary activities and the defiance
with which you met the onslaughts
of the master class.
/ recall your favorite saying which
you always used at committee meet
ings, etc, "My name may be Bush,
but 1 do not run around the BUSH"
No, dear comrade, you did not twist
nor turn Yours was the true, Marx
list feminist road and with care and
devotion you led your comrades and
fellow workers along this road. You
absorbed the theory of our great
leaders for the purpose of conveying
this knowledge to your fellow work
ers to that they may free themselves
from the capitalist system and build
the Communist society.
Energies UnbOunded.
Even when your unbounded energy
gave way, you insisted on exhausting
every reserve of it at your task of
building the revolutionary movement.
Your heart was enveloped in a re-
volutionary flame thruout your life
and it was, therefore, befitting that
flame should also eat up your body
when your last breath left you.
Beside your ashes, dear Comrade
Bush, all your comrades pledge to
carry forward the banner which you
were forced to lower at such an early
age. We shall carry on the struggle
to it's successful conclusion with the
aid of the inspiration and knowledge
that you have left with us.
We are joining with your revolu-
tionary spirit, dear comrade, and
say:
Long live the revolutionary move
ment of America.
Long live the Communist Interna-
tional, leader of the revolutionary
movement of the world.
Long live the social revolution.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-12

system of class collaboration which
has been tested during a period of
prosperity is now to be tested during
a period of depression, during a
period of hard times.
The party is fully aware that in the
coming period particularly large Sec
Itions of unskilled and semi-skilled
workers will be forced by conditions
to figth against the capitalists.
The capitalists also aware of this
fact are preparing to meet it. In pre-
pairing to meet the coming struggles
of the workers, the labor bureaucrats
and the leaders of the Socialist Party
are doing yeoman service to the CAPT
talists. The socialist party is be-
coming more and more subservient to
the labor bureaucracy while the labor
bureaucracy continues to swing more
and more to the right. The labor
bureaucracy has abandoned every
preteXt of working class trade
unionism. The pronouncement of
William Green is as follows:
upon the very threshold of the
New Year, Organized Labor in the
United States challenges the owners
and management of industry to CO.
operate with it in the establishment
and maintenance of sound economic
standards and industrial peace. We
welcome the opportunity of giving
our collective skill, training and
technique to the development of in
dustrial and individual efficiency"
This is an open plea by the bureau
cracy of the A. F. of l.. to work for
industrial peace and for individual
efficiency (speed up) in the interests
of the imperialists. 1t is an offer by
the bureaucracy to become the direct
agents Of the bosses in industry, to
turn the unions into company unions,
to look out for the interests of the
owners of industry and not of the
workers.
The latest phase Of the capitalist
offensive against the workers are the
proposals of the Bar Association.
These proposals have the endorsement
OF the labor bureaucracy. They provide
for compulsory arbitration through
the agencies of the courts as an effec-
tive measure against strikes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-12
Statement on Disciplinary Move
by Executive of District 2

The District Executive Committee
n rs meeting Monday, February 10,
o2S unanimously expelled John
Eecker from membership in the
Party:
4 For conducting open activities
against the Party together with a
handful Of renegades and non Party
members. trying to organize opposi-
tion on the issue of support of the
Russian opposition undeh the guise of
establishing an "open forum" in the
Hungarian section.
2. For organizing fractional ac-
tivity in the Hungarian section and
adopting a Menshevik attitude re-
gariing discipline. and the right Of
continuing fractional activities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-12

fective competition of rationalized
Europe in industry, is faced with the
necessity Of meeting that competition
by intensifying it's exploitation of the
workers. Hence the offensive against
the workers, and the intent of Ameri-
can imperialism to smash the unions
in order to reduce wages, lengthen
hours and further speed up produc-
ton.
The War Danger
THE crisis facing the imperialists,
the war danger, is the central
point of the present situation. The
Communist Parties must put this in
the forefront of the consideration of
their tasks. This especially is true
for the Communist Party of the
United States. This was fully APP
preciated by the Plenum because the
starting point of the thesis is the war
danger, with clear indication of the
leading role to be played by Ameri-
can Imperialism as a factor making
for world war.
How to prepare for the world war
and mobilize the workers against it
therefore becomes the most important
task before the Party.
War ON Soviet Union.
At the same time a war against
the Soviet Union is always imminent.
The imperialists in order to lengthen
the period of sterilization, secure re-
action in the saddle crush the rising
revolutionary movements in China and
elsewhere, are preparing to make war
against the Soviet Union, so that the
extensive territories of the Soviet
Union with its enormous population
can be added to the sphere of i'm
perialist exploitation.
They hope by such a war to wipe
out the center of revolutionary in
spiration to the exploited and OPP
pressed masses all over the world.
The defense therefore of the Soviet
Union is part of the whole war
danger problem.
This fact the plenum emphatically
stressed.
Now every effort must be made to
win the support of the masses for the
Soviet Union. Everything must be
done to combat as counter-revolu-
tionary and as an aid to the inn
perialists. those Tros skyite tendencies
OF pessimism and doubt about the So
Wet Union, the Communist Party of
the Soviet Union and The Comintern
that find expression in the labor
movement. The fight against
Trots.syism is linked up with the
right in defense of the Soviet Union.
The Growing Depression.
A MEXICAN imperialism has passed
"a through a period Of great pros
perity. This period has now come to
close. A sharp decline has taken
place in American industry. Millions
are unemployed. The bottom of the
downward trend as the thesis puts it,
has not yet been reached.
These factors present many prob
lens. 1t marks turning point for
our Party. The growing depression
in the United States and its conse-
quent effects upon conditions in the
United States and particularly upon
the working class was the main fea-
ture of the plenum discussions.
1t is a recognized fact that Ameri-
can Imperialism will utilize the de-
preston to intensity its offensive
against the working class, The whole
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-12

ME must, as the Plenum indicated,
" become the organizer and leader
in the present period of struggles on
the part of the workers against the
capitalists.
We must turn our attention more
to the large masses of unskilled and
semi-skilled workers in the basic in
dustries.
Does this involve the abandonment
of the existing trade unions?
Quite the contrary.
Recognizing the crisis facing the
trade union movement and the pos
sibility of the trade unions being de-
stroyed by the treachery of the re-
dictionary officialdom and the blows
of the capitalists, we must do every
thing to fight to keep and maintain
the unions as militant fighting or
CARNATIONS of the workers. AS Com
munists, we do not abandon the mass
organizations of the workers. We do
not recognize them as static bodies. 1t
was no accident that the plenum de-
voted so much time to our fight to
save the Miners Union. At the same
time, we also repudiate the conten-
ton that because the trade union
movement in the United States is
facing a crisis which may destroy it
completely, we must therefore start
the organization of a new trade
union movement in opposition to the
A. F. of l..
Unskilled Workers Important.
The unskilled and seini-skilled
workers, who are almost totally I'M
organized, are the big reservoir of the
working class with which we can or
ganize to revitalize the trade union
movement and mobilize for militant
action against the capitalists.
This as the Plenum correctly esti-
mated, as a major task for our Party.
We must take the initiative. We must
not hesitate. We must in this task
not be the victims of the fetish of
dual unionism. If the reactionary
unions stand in the way of organi-
zation, then we must proceed to or
ganize them into new unions.
The present period is period of
coming struggles, of more favorable
opportunities for our Party This
the Plenum has stressed repeatedly.
Our Party must be the leader in this
period of the working class. However,
we must not make the mistake that
American imperialism, because we
are in period of depression, has col
lapsed, that it has no power of re-
sistance or temporary recuperation.
Such a mistake would be due TO our
submitting to subjective mood and
the objective factors Of
American imperialism.
Equally is it wrong in the present
period to state that the situation de-
rnands fundamental revision in our
tactics on the grounds that before the
situation was unfavorable, now it is
more favorable, tremendous struggles
are ahead, we have big opportunities,
American Imperialism is declining
etc. This view exaggerates the pos
sibilities and underestimate the po-
entialities of American imperialism.
The Communist International in an
editorial in the Communist Interna-
tional" makes clear it's position on this
point as follows:
This new process is taking its
own new peculiar roads:
THE objective situation still does
not present a directly revolutionary
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-12

position, but for the workers move
ment the most difficult stage is un-
doubtedly left behind. BUT this
does not mean that the tasks of the
working class and its Communist
advance guard have been simplified
in consequence. On the contrary.
The class enemy is organized as
never before. The concentration of
capital and the fighting organiza-
ton of the bourgeOisie have made
gigantic strides forward during the
latter years. The political in
fluence of concentrated capital on
the state apparatus has grown to
unheard of dimensions. Trustified
capital is stubbornly and insistently
advancing against the working
class. This advance is being carried
on in the most varied forms; by in
tensified methods of capitalist
naturalization, frightening the
working day, and lowering of
wages, raising the cost of living, the
denial of the right to strike, de-
privation of trade union rights, high
customs duties, the growth of taxes,
the intensificatiOn of the white
terror, growing imperialist activity,
the military enlightenment of the So
Wet Union-such are the express
sions of its advance"
Says the Communist International,
the concentration of capital and the
fiuhtipn CONCENTRATIONS of A. bo,,w
geoisie have made gigantic strides.
And of no country is this mere true
than the United States.
Aware of this fact, and the neces-
sity of mobilizing the workers for
struggle against the bourgeoisie, our
Party must continue to develop those
tactics which tend to broaden it's in
fluence and give it contact with the
masses. 1t must continue the united
front tactics, to mobilize ever larger
sections of the working class against
the bourgoisie. To succumb to sub
jectivism and to ignore objective
realities is to fall into sectarianism
and isolation from the-masses, the
biggest calamity that can befall our
party.
Big Work Ahead.
We face tremendous tasks, beset
with great difficulties.
1t is not enough to be satisfied that
our Parry has been the only one In
the labor movement that can record
gains, Our Party still too weak.
We must strengthen our Party. We
must materially increase it's member
ship. We must utilize the campaigns
to consolidate the Party and build it
up. The war danger, the depression,
the growing offensive
against the workers, demand a uni
fled Communist Party.
The Plenum has shown the Party
the way. 1t has established political
unity in the unanimous acceptance of
the thesis. 1t has pointed out the
way in which the Party can take full
advantage Of the objective factors de-
veloping in the United States. By
throwing the Party into mass work,
by modelling the workers against the
threatened war and in defense of the
Soviet Union, organizing the unor-
ganized, fighting for the unemployed,
of the workers for mill
tant struggle against the capitalist
and by the liquidation of all
remnants Of factionalism the Party
under the leadership of the Central
Committee will march forward and
become the revolutionary leader Of
the toiling masses in America.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-12
By BENJAMIN GITLOW

ONE of the most important plenums
" of The Central Committee of our
party was the plenum held in
February. The Plenum discussed all
phases of the present situation and
the tasks confronting our Party. 1t
concluded the sessions by unanimously
adopting the thesis presented by the
Political Committee. The unanimous
acceptance of the thesis indicates the
progress towards notification made
since the last party convention and
is a guarantee that the Party fully
aware of the tasks before it, will be
able to take full advantage of what
ever opportunities present themselves,
1t is necessary, if we are to under
stand fully the significance of the
plenum, to consider the present sit
uation in the light of the thesis. The
outstanding points brought out by
the thesis are the following:
l. We are facing a new imperial
list world war, and the danger of
war against the Soviet Union. The
United States will be an active and
leading factor in the war situation.
2. The peak of prosperity has
been passed and sharp decline has
taken place in American industry.
3. That as result of the grow
ing capitalist offensive against the
workers, the worsening of cOndi-
tons on account of the depression,
we can expect large and important
struggles to take place against the
capitalists on the part of the dis
contented workers. These struggles
will present many opportunities to
the Party.
4. That our Party is the only
factor in the labor movement that
has been gaining and not losing
ground.
5. That in order to take full adj
vantage. OF the opportunities that
are bound to present themselves, we
must concentrate on the big masses
of unsailled and semi-skilled work
ers, organize them and lead them in
their struggles.
G. At no time was it as neces-
sary as now to liquidate completely
all remnants of factionalism that
still remain in our party. In facing
the period of struggles we must
have complete unity and the steps
I already taken in this direction at
and since the last convention must
be energetically followed up and
concluded.
Sharper Antagonism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-12
Sharper Antagonism.

The significance of the present sit
uation is the fact that the very tenn
porary sterilization Of capitalism has
given rise to new difficulties for the
imperialists. The contradictions and
antagonisms between the imperialist
powers is marked by the sharpening
antagonism between Great Britain
and the United States. The need for
markets for its manufactured goods,
sources Of raw materials for it's in
dustries, fields for the investment Of
its finance capital, are the factors
that are forcing American Imperialism
into sharp conflicts with other i'm
perislist powers, notably Great
Britain.
At the same time, American i'm
nerialism faced with the growing ef-