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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-04
DELAY LAWS ON
COAL INDUSTRY
Watson Thinks Action to
Come in Hoover Regime.

BIZ Times Special
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.-Legisla-
ton to regulate the bitumir 0uS coal
industry will be postponed until
President Elect Hoover's admins
tration, in the opinion of Senator
Watson, Indiana, chairman of the
committee which conducted the coal
investigation last session.
When congress adjourned in June
special subcommittee was ap-
pointed to study the evidence and to
confer with operators and miners.
1.-THE committee has taken no &C
ton since congress adjourned"
Senator Watson said. There was
no meeting because all of the men,
bers were engaged in the campaign.
Neither the miners or the opera
tors have submitted new proposals
since their suggestions before con-
gresS adjourned. The attitude of
the operators now is the same as
last spring; they don't believe in
federal. regulation and they are OPP
pose dto our activities.
Senator Watson said he will call
the committee together soon to dis
cuss the unfinished investigation
and determine whether anything
can be done at this session. 1t is
his opinion, he said, that the COM
mittee will do nothing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-04
BOULDER dam
WINS APPROVAL
OF ENGINEERS
Black Canyon Recommend
ed by Board as Best
Site.

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. A board
of five engineers appointed to con-
slider the engineering and economic
feasibility of a dam on the Colo
RADIO river at Boulder, or Black can
yon, reported to congress today that
a dam of the type proposed by the
interior department could be built
across Black canyon.
"It is the opinion of the board
that a dam of the gravity type is
suitable for the site in question,
and that such dam built across
Black canyon would be safe, pro-
vided the maximum stresses allowed
90 not exceed those adopted in
GanGsrd practice" the board said.
550-FoOt Dam Suggested
It is feasible from an engineering
standpoint, the report said, to
5t.Hd dam across the Colorado
river to an elevation of $50 feet
above low water.
The estimated cost of the pro-
posed dam was placed by the board
at $176,0 100000 for a dam structure
in accordance with the plan out
lined in the Swing Johnson bill now
before the senate.
Safety Factors Stressed
The site in the Black canyon,
about forty miles from Las Vegas,
New, was favored by the board
over the proposed site at Boulder
canyon. The Boulder canyon site,
however, safely could be used so far
as geological conditions are con-
cerned.
The board discussed engineering
questions involved in construction
of dam at length and concluded
that the danger from earthquakes
no longer is a serious factor.
The proposed dam would i'm
pound 100000 acre-feet of water,
and if it should fail, according to
the boards report, the flood created
probably would destroy Needles,
Topock, Parker, Blythe, Yuma and
permanently destroy the levees OF
the imperial district.
ITO avoid such possibilities the
dam should be constructed on con-
sentative if not ra-conservative
lines" the board recommended.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-04
TWO MEN CONVICTED
ON EXTORTION CHARGE

Deputy Game Wardens Get Fines
and Farm Terms at Seymour.
By Times Special
SEYMOUR, Ind, Dec. 4.--James
Corbin and Otto Kahn, deputy game
wardens are under sentence of a
500 fine and sixty days penal farm
term each following conviction on
eXtortion charges. G. L. D. Wilson
local justice of the peace tried with
them, was acquitted.
Witnesses at the trial, held in city
court here with Charles Burkhart
acting mayor presiding. testified that
despite the fact that they were
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-04

residents of Jennings county and
arrested there by Corbin and Kain
for alleged hunting law violations,
they were brought before Wilson
here and fined.
Testimony showed that in cases
where persons fined raised strenuous
objection, money they paid in fines
was refunded.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-04
Charge Shrubbery Destroyed

BIZ United Press
CONNERSVILE, Ind, Dec. A.
Police Chief Ashel r. Poe has
warned that anyone found guilty
of destroying shrubbery and trees
will be prosecuted. His action, &C
cording to the chief, resulted from
several complaints by residents that
Shrubbery had been ruined by boys.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-04
Oldest Muncie Club to Quit

BIZ IiDlCs SpccidE
MUNCIE, Ind, Dec. 4.-The Ger
man Benefit Society, organized here
in 1876, as the German Singing So
ciety and the oldest club in Muncie,
is to be disbanded. Closing of its
affairs is expected to be completed
by March 1.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-04
Store to Use Bank Building

BIZ Timec Special
KOKOMO, Ind, Dec. 4.-The
three-story building of the Ameri-
can Trust Company, bank which
failed, has been leased by Sears,
Roebuck g. Co., Chicago, to house
q department store. Opening of
the store has been set for March l.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-04

1000 new garments, unusual, at
this price. for their workmanship
and style. Finished with touches of
hand embroidery. Guaranteed fast
cOlOrs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-11

take toward such other political or
economic programs and movements.
And Be 1t Further Resolved that
the Board of Directors be authorized
and instructed to apply this resolu-
ton and to define what constitutes
such divisive or controversial dis
cussion.
We are living in a class society in
which the production relations de-
termine the division of the people
into different classes in accordance
with their specific economic in
terests. Altho all are consumers.
only a part of them owns and con-
trolls the means of production and
by virtue of this ownership this
part, the capitalist class, exploits
the working class. Naturally the
economic interests of these classes
are different and this constitutes the
basis of the struggle between these
classes.
The cooperative movement, being
a broad movement of those whose
economic interest demands a change
in the present system of society, can
not ignore these class alignments.
To pretend to be neutral" would in
reality mean the supporting of the
capitalist class.
(To BE Gontinusd)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-11
By GEORGE HALONEN

There is tendency in the CO.
operative movements of the CAPT
falist countries to reform" this
movement to make it an adjunct in
the body Of the capitalist system;
and this attempt is being done al
though the cooperative movement is
basically proletarian movement.
The economic interest of the eX-
plotted has created this movement,
and this interest still demands it to
be q movement to fight the battles
Of the working class.
Although the cooperative move
ment in America is relatively weak,
the question of the character of the
movement is of u most i'm
portance for its future growth.
Thus a step to undermine the work
ing class character of the American
movement is not to be ignored, but
on the contrary should put all pro-
cressive cooperators not only on
guard but also to enthuse them for
further struggle for genuine pro-
lerarian cooperative movement.
Middle Class Elements.
It Is very significant that the
Consumers Cooperative Services of
,ex York and the Franklin Co
,pArstire Creamery of Minneapolis
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-11
American Cooperative Movement

are the cooperatives who have in
stigated a referendum on "Neu-
trality" among the affiliated So
cieties of the Cooperative League of
U. S. A. The social composition of
the membership of these two CO.
operatives is not proletarian one.
The Consumers Cooperative Ser
vices has chain of cafeterias mostly
in non-proletarian districts of New
York City. The Franklin Coopera-
tive Creamery, although a coopera-
tive organized as direct result of
a strike, has been losing it's original
working class fighting spirit by ex-
banding with the help of middle
class elements and private shop
keepers.
These two cooperatives have sub
mitted the following resolution to a
referendum:
Resolved that in the interest of
harmony and unity, the Cooperative
League hereby directs, by action of
its constituent societies, the exclu-
sion from discussion at its con-
crosses of these two fields of
divisive, controversial opinion:
1. Communist, socialist, and
other political or economic theories.
2. The attitude cooperators and
the cooperative movement should
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-11
>&,1OM&.@
G. 0. P.'s, Democrats
Fear Communists in
POughkeepsie Debate

The Communist Party section at
Poughkeepsie held it's meeting with
out the participation of the repub-
licans and democrats, who had been
invited to debate with the Commun-
lists. No reason was given for their
failure to attend, but it is generally
supposed that they were indisposed.
Young students tried to break up
the meeting of the 400 workers but
failed after miserable showing.
The speakers were 81 Gerson, Milton
WEIGH, Rose Smith and others. A
collection towards the election fund
Of the Communist Party was taken
up and some applications for men,
bership in the Party were obtained.
The next meeting will take place
next Friday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-11

it still has huge reserve powers. At
the same time we have to emphasize
that American imperialism has its
limitations, that it is necessary to
analyze these factors which make up
for the eventual downfall of Ameri-
can imperialism. What are these
limitations?
l. The aggressive imperialist poll.
cies of the United States are Great
ing many complications in world
politics and it is inevitable that these
complications will reflect themselves
in the internal situation as well. The
very aggressiveness of American i'm
perialism calls for a growing resis-
lance on the part of the other i'm
perialist powers and of the Latin
American countries against U. S.
Imperialism. The imperialist ag-
gressiveness of the u. S. makes
necessary the building up of an ex-
tensive navy and army which means
growing instability, increasing taxa
ton, growing discomfort of various
strata of the population and growing
resistance of the masses against i'm
perialist aggressiveness.
2. The very technical progress of
Industries calls for partial crisis
which stir up broad strata of work
ers. The industrialization of the
south spells unemployment, wage
cuts, insecurity of living for hun
dreds and thousands of workers in
New England. The crisis in the min
ing industry serves as the basis for
a fermentation among the huge mas
ses of coalminers. The technical
progress in agriculture, the very
fact that in 1925 there were 100000
and in 1927 already 100000 tractors
in use makes hundreds of thousands
of farmers "superfluous" and Gre
ates a critical situation for large
sections of the farming population
of America.
8. The Capitalization and bureau
cratization of the U. S. government
is making Roadway all the time. The
government is in a growing degree
becoming merged with the apparatus
of the trusts.
a. The inter-dependence between
American capitalism and world cap.
italism manifests itself in a grow
ing degree. The decay of European
capitalism must affect the fate of
American imperialism also.
5. America does not enjoy the
same monopolistic situation as Great
Britain did for decades. America
has to face other powerful imperial
list countries to compete with and
therefore we can foresee that Amer
lean imperialism will not be in the
position to bride large sections of
the American working class for
many more years.
6. Other limitations of American
Imperialism are: the existence of the
U. S. S. R.. the growing revolt of
the colonies, and the growth of the
revolutionary proletarian movements
in Europe.
ITO Be Continued.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-11
Only a Fighting Union Can Live
in the Coal Industry

The voice of the Dictatorship of the Capt.
talist Class was heard through the mouth of
Sheriff Brown of Allegheny County, who
, in the name of the law ordered the national
convention of the New Miners Union to dis
perse.
This democratic" government, basically
an iron dictatorship of the capitalist class,
appears as a democratic government as
long as it is not necessary in the interests of
the capitalist class to show the iron fist. But
when the vital interests of the ruling class
demand it, the capitalist government appears
in the role of an unlimited power, indepen-
dent of claws" guarantees" and legal pro-
cedure" The government for two days,
and within one city, suddenly showed itself
as naked dictatorship. The coal miners
and the steel workers have seen this often
before. But the case this time is especially
clear
By learning the nature of government
learning that the state power is in all cases
merely the organized power of one class for
the purpose of suppression of another class
by every instrument including persuasion,
trickery and force and violence, the mine
workers will begin to understand better how
they can conduct their struggles more effec-
lively.
Is there already some evidence that the
coal miners are learning this lesson? Yes,
the fact that the putting of the Workers
(Communist) Party on the ballot in Pennsyl-
vania and Ohio was largely the work of the
coal diggers of those states, is evidence that
the coal miners have learned much from the
exposures of capitalist government as unim-
tied violence of the employers against the
workers.
There is still more TO be learned from the
action of the Pennsylvania authorities in at
tempting to suppress the Miners Conven-
ton.
Not all workers have been clear in the
past what the policy of the capitalist class
and its government would be in regard to
trade unions. Would the biggest capitalist
employers in the basic and decisive indus
tries adopt consciously a unified policy of
complete and frank outlawing of all pre-
tense of organization of the workers? Or
would they adopt policy of maintaining a
sham of workers organization under the en-
ployers' control, to act as a preventive of
real organization by the workers them
selves?
John L. Lewis and the bureaucracy of the
A. F. of L. in their entire plan of action,
adopt the latter of the two theories-the
theory that the employers will consent to
maintain permanently some sort of union
organization to act as subtle and powerful
police force against the mine workers, to
prevent strikes, break up all wage move
ments and to detect and expel any coal mine
worker who may show signs of rebellion
against conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-11

these partial crises is the very tech
nical progress and particularly the
shifting of the centre of gravity of
these industries to the south where
cheaper water power and cheaper
labor power can be obtained.
Imperialist Resources.
American imperialism still has gil
gantic resources and possibilities to
grow. Facts show that the present
economic depression is characterized
by the following tendencies:
1. classification is asserting itself
with irresistible power. Consolida-
lions of railways, big combines and
mergers in all industries are the
order of the day. The special feature
of the present situation is that not
only individual corporations merge
into trusts but trusts are already
merging into veritable super-trusts.
2. A process of Capitalization SIM
liar to that in production is going
on in the field of distribution. We
failed so far to give a thorough
analysis of this entirely new process
of justification of distribution. For
the first time in the history of the
capitalist world are we facing the
phenomenon of justification of dis
tribution which creates a powerful
material basis for socialism in future
America.
How is it possible for these Amer
lean comrades to have such wrong
conception of the estimation of
American imperialism
l. These comrades confuse the
present depression which is a tenn
porary phenomenon with the basic
and general decline of American i'm
perialism. They overlook the fact
that the very rapid growth of Amer
lean imperialism is responsible for
the growing antagonism between
America and other imperialist coun-
tries. They do not understand one
of the most important thoughts of
the thesis of Comrade Bukharin, ac-
cording to which the main feature of
the present situation is the growing
inner and outer conflicts of imperial
ism based on the technical recon-
struction and growth of capitalism.
This is the special feature of the
present situation in contra-distinc-
tion to the postwar crisis. Ameri-
can capitalism never needed any
sterilization because it never suf-
fered from a postwar crisis in the
same sense as European capitalism.
3. The third source of the errone-
GUS conception is the installing of
special acute decline of American
imperialism for those elements of
decline which are present in the i'm
perialist development of all capital
list countries, such as the export of
capital, the growth of parasitic ele-
ments, RENTER class, etc. The pres
ence of these elements in not equi-
valent to an absolute decline of
American imperialism, but it means
the growth of contradictions in
America capitalism.
a. Another source Of the misunder-
standing is the erroneous interpreta-
ton of Lenin's definition according
to which imperialism is generally
the period of decline of capitalism.
But Lenin never said that the period
of Imperialism excludes the growth
of capitalism or the rapid growth
of capitalism in individual countries.
Imperialist Limitations.
Summing up: American capitalism
still has possibilities to grow, it did
not reach the apex of its growth,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-11

Recent events in the coal mining industry
show that the mine operators even refuse to
accept the scab ''unionism" of John L. Lewis
& Co. Accepting Lewis cooperation be-
tween capital and labor until it had helped
them to destroy the union, they then an
nounced that they were through with the
U. M. w. Of A" and would outlaw all forms
OF organization. Other corporation heads
have long ago declared that company
unionism was no longer useful in controlling
labor, and that the danger of workers cap
turing even company union made it best
not to play with such things
The coal operators will make use of Lewis
and the officials machinery of the U. NJ w.
OF A. in many more cases. Lewis gangsters
were still active with the police and company
detectives in the bloody attack upon the
Miners Convention. The coal operators will
still use this shell of organization as long as
they can make it useful as a strikebreaking
machine against the mine workers
But the official shell of the U. M. w. of A.
is forced to act so openly as a strikebreaking
machine that it is compelled to expose itself.
The effectiveness of the Lewis strike
breaking machine in still deceiving some con-
siderable numbers of mine workers, is the
measure of its continued usefulness to the
operators. A vigorous campaign of the New
Union that was formed at Pittsburgh can
solve this question
The coal operators will use what tools thew
find handy. They will use Lewis and Sheriff
Brown, separately and in combination, or any,
thing else which may at the moment serve
their purpose.
But one thing is sure: The dominant forces
OF American capitalist industry are aiming
consciously for the complete elimination of
unlonlsm and every form of substitute for
unlonlsm-ln the great basic industries.
The mine owners, and the finance-capitalist
overlords most vitality interested, are deter
mined to stamp out all sembance of unionism
In the coal fields. Their sheriffs saw so
Their guns and their cossacks say so.
These facts taken in conjunction with the
experience IN which the United Mine Workers
crashed to its ruin under the efforts of Lewis
to make it serve the capitalist mine owners
and at the same time keep the confidence of
the mine workers, go to show that already in
the coal industry at the present time no weak
union can live. The crisis in the industry
compels the workers to fight or accept un
bearable suffering, They fight The union
that keeps their loyalty will have to fight for
them.
The great events in the mining industry.
and above all the splendid national conven-
ton at Pittsburgh which founded the new
Union, show that the only Union that can live
m the coal industry is militant fighting
union.
Such union has been founded. It is up
to the mine workers themselves to build the
magnificent structure which its broad base
demands: One million coal miners must be
reached Build the new Union!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-11
On United States Imperialism

The following speech was de-
hvered by Comrade John Pepper
at the Sixth World Congress of
the Communist International. 1t
analyses the position of American
capitalism and the nature of the
sharpening class struggle in the
United States.
Comrades: the American com
rades who spoke here took a some
what critical attitude towards the
thesis of Comrade Bukharin, l have
to state that these comrades spoke
only in their own name. In the name
of the American delegation / am
authorized to state that the Amer
lean delegation fully agrees with
the thesis of Comrade Bukharin.
Small wonder that these comrades
criticized the thesis of Comrade
Bukharin-they had a very good
reason to do that. They have an es-
timation of the present world posi-
ton of American imperialism which
differs fundamentally from the es-
timation given by Comrade Buk-
HARM.
1t is necessary to mention here
that on the same day the thesis of
Bukharin was distributed another
document was distributed in the
Anglo-American Secretariat of the
Comintern called "The Right Dan
ger in the American Party" signed
by Comrades Bittelman, Foster, Can
non, etc. This document is not with
out significance for the discussion of
the With World Congress on the in
ternational situation because it con-
tains a basically different analysis
of American Imperialism and it's
role in the general world situation
from that expressed by Comrade
Bukharin in his speech and thesis.
Outstanding Features.
The outstanding features of the
thesis are the following:
1. The continuing ascendancy of
American imperialism.
2. The shifting of the economic
centre of gravity from Europe to
America.
8. The growing expansion and
aggressiveness of American imperi-
alism, the growing disproportion be-
tween the economic growth and
power of American Imperialism and
its lack of colonies and it's "insuf-
ficient" military preparedness.
A. The export of American CAPT
tai was and is the basis for Eur
opean sterilization of capitalism.
5. The very technical progress
and increase of forces of production
serve to increase the inner contra
dictions and outer conflicts of Amer
lean Imperialism, to sharpen the
class struggle and the resistance of
the working class.
This is the line of Bukharin's
thesis regarding the world role of
American imperialism.
The line of the document of the
American comrades is a basically
different line from that expressed
in the thesis of Comrade Bukharin.
l cite first the follwoing sentence:
can analysis of the degree of
rightness of these contradictions
will show that American capitalism
is about to reach the apex Of
growth"
The document says that it is an
erroneous conception for American
Party is erroneous because it is
based on the growth of American
Imperialism instead of emphasizing
the diminishing reserve powers of
the same:
"This follows from a correct
analysis of the diminishing reserve
powers of American capitalism"
The document asserts that the
American Party has "a different
conception Of the position and pres
ent phase Of Ar,a-'ican capitalism"
and it defines this conception as
,llOws: