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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-25
stone Cutter Dies

BEDFORD, Ind, Oct. 25.-Donald
Frazer, SO. who was born in Scot
land, is DEAD here. He was a stone
cutter in The employ Of the Indiana
Limestone Company.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-25
CONDITION IS
CRITICAL At
CITY HOSPITAL
Younger Sister Resting in
Same Bed Awakened by
Thud of Weapon.
BURGLAR is BLAMED
Neither Heard Nor Saw
ASSaiIant, Victim Says;
Doors Unlocked.

Slugged with a blunt instru-
ment by a robber who at
tackled her while she slept
with her 14-year-old sister
early today, Miss May Hogan,
10, of 1880 Calhoun street, is
in serious condition at city
hospital, suffering scalp
wounds and loss of blood.
The thud of the weapon, perhaps
gun, against her sisters skull
awakened Corene. the younger sis
ter.
"Mom!" she screamed. arousing
the family. The girl heard or saw
no one. she said.
Victim Is Unconscious
The parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse
Hogan, and a brother, Luther, %,
found Mae in her bed, with blood
streaming from the wound. She
was unconscious except for a few
minutes after she was taken to city
hospital, when she mOaned to police
that she neither heard nor saw the
! assailant.
However police believed she may
have been awakened when the in
! truder tried to take a wrist watch
from her arm Two purses, con-
( tanning less than a dollar each, were
stolen. and a suit belonging to
Luther also was missing
Police found the suit and empty
purses in a coalshed back of the
house The suit was cut and torn
to shredS.
Doors Always Unlocked
The Hogans said they never
I locked the doors OF their small
house, which stands alone in a
meadow. Both rear and front doors
were open this morning.
Apparently the robber knew the
layout CT the house. He entered the
middle bedroom, in which the girls
were sleeping, and the one in which
the brother slept without disturb
ing any member of the family.
The Hogans lived in that house
only two weeks. There are four
/ younger brothers and sisters.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-25

Shorn above are six Of Wisconsins stars who
will be seen against Purdue at Lafayette today.
In the center is Bill Lusby, rated as Qne of the
outstanding triple-threat stars in the midwest He
Kicks with either foot toss long passes accur-
ately and is consistent ground gamer Iury Oman,
the "Silent Finn" is 100 pounds of bone and muscle
and an outstanding back Sammy Behr is the
Badgers defensive star against passes and star
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-28
OUR OPEN AIR SPEECHES

politicians voted for: 100000 for unemploy-
ment relief (for 100000 unemployed); $8,060,-
900 for raises in their own salaries ana 600
additional policemen to club the unemployed.
We must hammer these points home until
every worker in New York knows them.
Hoover Hunger Plan.
Hoover's hunger plans came after the mass
demonstrations of unemployed workers in
Cleveland, Boston, New York and other cities.
Hoovers main remedy" is to put the entire
burden on the working class by the famous
"stagger" plan which means that all workers
should be put on part time and receive part
wages. Which means putting the entire work
ing class slow starvation basis,
Hoovers Hunger plan in New York is being
put into effect by the big bosses and the police
while the socialists again have only praise for
it. In New York the proposals are:
To put 10000 to work at SIS per week.
To have the police register all unemployed.
To set up soup kitchens and flop houses
for the unemployed.
To create lying propaganda of promises
behind which they prepare to crush the unem-
ployed workers demands with police and jail
terrorism. ~. =
Evictions.
Our Party and the Unemployed Councils
have raised the slogan of "Resist Evictions."
On several occasions the workers nave actu-
ally carried back the furniture of the evicted
workers. This must be pointed out as the most
effective means of stopping evictions.
Mayor Walkers latest demagogy will not
stop evictions
Our speakers would do we'll to read the leaf
let Resist Evictions."
And Furthermore
Our speakers must read the Daily Worker
carefully.
Most of the Daily Worker editorials can be
used as the basis for speeches.
Read the New York News carefully and cite
facts, figures and events in your speeches often
reading directly from the Daily Worker.
Don't talk about every subject under the SUM-
Confine yourself to one two problems and
deal with them effectively.
Remember! The workers to whom you are
speaking have real acute problems facing
thin. We must know these problems and talk
about them and show how to overcome them.
Our Election Campaign speeches must deal
with concrete issues
You don't have to be a seasoned speaker to
be concrete and effective.
Talk to the workers from the platform as
you would to worker in the shop or on the
| street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-28
Murderous Speed-Up in the
Coal Mines
By F. BORICH

COMETIME ago the Joseph A. Holmes Safety
Association gave to the Ford Galleries Co.
Certificate of honor" for the "small" number
of fatalities in its three mines, In clarifying
this "honor," Mr.. C. w. LETTERS, engineer of the
u S. Buro of Mines brings out the total num-
Der of men employed, total hours worked and
total net tons produced for the last 10 years
and compares it with fatalities, However. he
doesn't even mention the casualties and in
juries although there are too plenty of them.
Premature deaths of miners, because of intense
exploitation are not considered as fatalities"
by the capitalist class and it's engineers. Many
miners working for the Ford Galleries Co.
have lost either arm or leg, or suffered
broken backs. Many of them received Slight
injuries which the Safety Association" doesn't
even put on record.
According to Mr.. Joffers figures, in 1927,
739 miners produced 34536O tons of coal in
674,776 hours of work. In 1928, 436 miners
produced 511s79 tons in 781,729 hours of
work, ,,..t-
According to these figures, in 1927, hour
and 81 minutes was the necessary time to pro-
duce one ton of coal; in 1928, 1 hour and 80
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-28
formulating" Latin-America

der, to make this a happier country for Wall
Street bankers"
The little folder of the F. o. R. naively tells
how the Mustete Brookwood College is Of
fering scholarships to knowledge hungry Cen
trail American workers, and that soon some
students will be coming to acquire practical
help at Brookwood, which, we are told, "wil
mean more intelligent and effective leadership
of the workers in their respective countries"
The kind of practical sell-outs of strikes
such as the textile workers of Elzabethtown,
Tennessee, got-and the Danvile strikers are
getting.
From Salvador, however, comes the news
(from workers there, and not from Mr.. Thorn
SOM, that when he showed up there he was
asked lot of uncomfortable questions, about
Sacco and Vanzetti, the Gastonia prisoners,
and Just what the hell he was doing running
around 'conciliating" Central Americans for,
instead of trying his hand on J. P. Morgan
and Co.
An Agent of Hoover, Too!
And, moreover, perhaps the Fellowship of
Reconciliation can explain how it happened
that this Thomson, this agent of imperialism
which is supposed to go about in the disguise
of the F. o. R., as it's representative, intro
duced himself to the trade unions of Ell Sal
vador as "a representative of President
Hoover?
True, there seems no reason why Thomson
shouldn't represent Hoover and the Fellow
ship of Reconciliation at the same time. Send
ing Marines, and sending somebody to "recon-
cile' Latin Americans to the Marines is good
team work.
But we would like to know who is paying
that supposed sum of $4,000 for "reconciliat
ing" Latin America. We would like to know
| just what connection Thomson has witt
| Hoover.
Above all, in view of the complacency will
which the F. 0. R. accepts the fact of armed
intervention by Marines in Latin America, VIII.
don't it stop the hypocrisy of saying that j
is Opposed to revolutions and the use o
Marines and state the simple truth that i
is in favor of imperialism and against revo
buttons?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-28
Unskillful Liars

Capitalist politicians are accomplished in
the gentle are of not letting their left hand
know what their right hand doeth, but we
wish the government would try, once in a
while, to agree with itself on lie and stick
to it.
For instance in lying about the splendid
accomplishments" of Hoovers prosperity
plans" for keeping up employmnt and wages
ten months ago, the N. Y. Times last Satur-
day quoted "those who worked with the Pres
ident in organizing the activities last FALL"
as saying that: Business and State and local
governments have kept their pledge" in keep
ing their former forces on the payroll and
maintaining wage rates.
But then along comes recruiting officer
for the U. S. Army and hands me a little
yaller folder, where the U. S. Army says:
"Only few firms will carry you on their
pay rolls over lengthy period. What as
surance have you that you will not be laid
off month from now-next week-tomor-
row."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-28
Today in
Workers History

OCTOBER %, 1759-Georges Jacques
Danton, popular leader in French Revo-
luton, born at Arcis-on-the- Aube. 1905
Vienna workers held great demonstra-
ton for universal suffrage. 1918-Fif-
teen thousand children's clothing makers
in New cork struck for S-hour day and
20 per cent wage increase. 1918-Crews
of German high-seas fleet put out fires
to prevent sailing. 1920-Sylvia Pank-
hurst, English Communist, sentenced to
six months in prison for articles in
Workers Dreadnaught." 1929-Alex-
ander ,Loewe, Hungarian Communist,
died in hunger strike in prison.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-28
By R. BAKER

AT THIS stage of our Election Campaign the
n Party in New York is conducting about 100
open air and about IS shop gate meetings
week in addition to scores of outdoor and m
door meetings held by the revolutionary trade
unions, unemployment councils, H.C.L and
other mass organizations.
Through these meetings each week we reach
almost as many workers as we had at the mad
ison Square Garden meeting.
Our Speeches Too General.
The new method of work and approach to
the masses which was adopted by our Party is
not being reflected in our speeches. Our speak
ers on the whole deal too much with the general
problems facing the entire working class
We deal with the international issues, India,
China, South America, Soviet Union, etc. IN
too much detail and too great proportion to
the more burning problems actually facing the
workers of New York or the definite section
of New York where the meeting is being held.
True enough, we must deal with the interna
tional issues but by no means at the expense
of the burning local problems of the workers
to whom we are speaking, which is too often
the case just now.
How to Deal With Unemployment.
The most burning issue of the day is unem-
ployment.
This must De Un6 Keynote VI ali Jul oPC0SiiNS
and agitation.
Our speakers must deal with facts, figures,
events and give definite direction to the work
ers whom we are addressing.
Read the Party Unemployment Insurance
Bill and tell the workers about it. secure details
of the local demands of the unemployment
council.
The City Budget developments for instance is
concrete illustration of the reaction of the
bosses and the socialists to the unemployment
problem and at the same time illustrates our
program strategy and tactics.
In this relation the New York City Hall DEM
onstration of October 18th must be brought out
as an historic event.
This was the first time that a delegation of
workers was actually invited into the city hall
by the mayor himself and brutally beaten up
inside the building after presenting the de-
nands of the Unemployment Council. The fact
that they were accompanied by $4,000 workers
indicated the support which this committee,
headed by Communist Candidates, had
How the demands of workers were answered
by smuggling and arrests while the socialist sat
by and smiled their approval
October 18th in secret session these same
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-28
Plumbers Hit By Crisis; Feel
Need to Organize
BY HARRY EISENMAN

WITH 675,ooo building trades workers either
totally or partly unemployed according to
A. F. L. figures, out of 900 900 in the industry
there are estimated about 100000 plumbers
and helpers pipe filters, etc. jobless. The build
ing industry feels the effects of the crisis, and
is going through one of the worst seasons in
history.
Plumbers helpers on new work suffer from
the misleaders of the ALL. who refuse to
organize them. They are thrown out of work
by automatic cutting machines.
Expulsion.
In the recent attempt to organize the plum
bers' helpers, those who fought for the correct
line for the organization, and for it to join the
Trade Union Unity League were expelled.
Freddie Broad, a militant young worker, was
expelled, but he fights on in the Building and
Construction Workers Industrial League of the
T.U.U.L.
Mortimer Jacobs, who for years was one of
the most active members was thrown out bodily
for only trying to visit some of the old plum
bers' helpers.
Ginenthal was expelled.
Hymie Reich was forced on the side lines
although at one time president, and is now a
food worker and active organizer of the Food
Workers. Industrial Union
Ben Intrator, a militant, was refused admis-
sion for IL weeks on the ground that he was
an active member of the Young Communist
League.
Renegades Unite.
And there are many more, too numerous to
mention. Assisting in all these expulsions and
outright reactionary moves are the Trotskyites.
When Mclaughlin comes on his fake campaign
to Organize the helpers" we will find united
front between him and the Trotskyites and
Lovestonetes.
But now is the time to organize. There are
militants still in the industry. The campaign
starts with a big mass meeting at Workers
Home, $50 East 81st ST., N. Y, at p. M,
Thursday, Oct. 80. All alteration plumbers and
alteration helpers, New York plumbers and
their helpers, gas filters, pipe filters, supply
men and steam filters and their helpers are
invited to come. The meeting is called by the
Plumbers Section of the Building and Construc-
| ton Workers Industrial League of the
| T.U.U.L.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-28
A!.!Assp~*A-
Little Games of Tag
By JORGE

The imperialists are having the time of
their lives trying to swindle each other. Two
little games the past week are worth notice
Both coming about a result of the knot
encountered in carrying out the Young Plan.
First, a dispatch to N. Y. Times from Paris,
talking about how the French were foreseeing
the impossiblity of collecting reparations
from Germany, saying that:
Reports from Washington reaching
Paris, to the effect that American govern
ment officials under craftsmanship of Secre-
tary Mellon actually considering the
possibility of five-year moratorium for
allied debt payments to the United States if
similar conditions were accorded to German
reparation payments, were read here with
profound interest"
Washington, of course, denied the report"
which was without doubt a little game of
agitation against war debt payments to the
United States, put out by artful French i'm
perialists
Then an even more delightful game showed
up in dispatch to the N. Y. Times from Lon
don. In brief, it related how it was thought
possible that the German Socialists" being
rather put in a hole by their support of the
Bruening relationships plan to attack the
German working class conditions to get money
to pay PREPARATIONS, might approach the Bril-
fish socialists" ruling Britain, to see if the
British government would give up it's own
reparations and bring pressure on France to
do likewise. The German Socialists" being
worried at the prospect of German workers
leaving them to turn to Communist leadership,
if the Young Plan robbery of the workers
went through.
The dispatch then told how the British $50
cialists" limited that the German Socialists"
might we'll save their carfare if they
thought they were going to gyp the British
Empire out of any cash. In the name of
George the Fifth, British Socialists" insist
on the pound of flesh-and that's that.
The whole story undoubtedly, being quite
deliberately cooked up by Ramsay Macdonald
and Snowden, to warn the socialist" boot
lckers of German capitalism that any such
monkeyshines would be "coldly received" as
the papers put it, by the socialist" bootlickers
| of British capitalism.
Remember these tricks when you read such
| things in the capitalist newspapers hereafter.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-28
The Injunction Fight---A Struggle
Against Capitalist Courts
by BURCK

cisions outawing strikes in public utilities or
government jobs.
Courts have also outlawed boycotts, meth
cd whereby labor has sometimes been helped
to win strike. They have by other decisions
made certain kinds of strikes virtually a con-
spiracy.
Devise New Ways.
In those cases where the strike actually
gets under way without the courts taking
ton against it, scores of ways to hamper it
have been devised by these judges, assisted
by the corporation attorneys. They deal out
long sentences and heavy fines to the strikers
for anything from "disorderly conduct" and
distributing literature without a permit" to
talking back to an officer" or criminal syn
dicalism' Any law or ordinance that will suit
the purpose of the bosses is called into play.
The courts apply them ruthlessly against the
workers.
Judges are also the ones who either refuse
to get bail in some cases or, in others, demand
excessively high bail in violation of all "con-
stitutional rights" They may even permit
the worker to be held incommunicado, not able
to reach even a lawyer or his defense organ
ization.
The courts have also been a party to frame
ups against workers and have gladly carried
out their part in efforts to legally lynch mill
tant workers The pamphlet by Vern Smith
on "The Frame-Up System" shows how this
has operated assisted by judges, in dozen
important cases.
Smash Injunctions.
In New York State the employers have
found Section 600" an added help in fighting
the workers. Under it the violation of an in
Sc do &c
"a criminal act, and the worker sent up for
three to six months for doing nothing more
than walking down the street! Under this sec
ton the judges and the employers can now
send worker speedily to Jail without going
through lot of the delays and formalities
previously required in injunction cases.
The fight against injunctions lis one of the
| most important fights before us today. Ir
| fighting these we fight against the capitalist
courts and the whole system that exploits ant
| enslaves the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-28
BY HARRISON GEORGE

TO those who know nothing of the "Muste-
i ties" we must explain that the Rev. Music
is guiding spirit in the fake cleft" wing of
the A. F. of L., inspirer of the social fascist
socialist" party's fake unemployment insur-
ance" scheme, master of strike sell-outs under
the plea of avoiding conflict and artistic liar
against Communism from pretended labor"
standpoint.
The Rev. Music is also the Big Cheese in
fishy organization called "The Fellowship OF
Reconciliation" the social function of which
may be summed up as appearing conveniently
on the scene of hold-up, when burly bandit
is standing on the neck of helpless victim
going through his pockets, and protesting that
the victim is squirming too much, adjuring
him that it may provoke violence if he doesn't
cease struggling and assuring him that the
Fellowship of Reconciliation will insist on
Congress passing law providing that here
after bandits before standing on their victims
necks, must exchange their hob-naied boots
for chamois-skin slippers.
Now it appears that the outfit, the T. Q. r.,
is invading Latin America. 1t has budget
of $4,000 for ''work" there. And couple of
scoundrels, Charles and Olive Thomson by
name, formulating" the victims of American
imperialism in Nicaragua, Costa RIGA, Hon
duras and other Central American countries.
Against Revolutions.
The F. O. R. program, true to the lustra-
ton mentioned above about the bandit and his
victim, has as its first point: 81. To oppose
military measures-revolutions and the use of
Marines"
Mr.. Thomson tells in folder put out by
the F. o. R., how he got along famously in
Nicaragua. True, he says not word about
an effort at all to persuade the Marines to
get out. The Marines are difficult to "con-
cilate" perhaps and it's not the F. o. RS
business to do more than just say it's against
using" Marines.
So the Marines, being there anyway, are
not to be taken to task, and all the F. O. R.
has to do is to "conciliate" the Nicaraguans
to not fight back, because that might pro
woke violence" and lead to revolution. And
the F. o. R. is against revolutions. So Thorn
son boasts of convert in Nicaragua who told
him:
eve have taken no part in the last two revo-
lutions. We refused to. We told the generals,
"You can look in our faces and see that we
are not material for cannon fodder. We know
that patriotism means loving this sky, these
trees and flowers, all the people who dwell
here and making this happier country IN
which to live"
Which, under the circumstances of Amer
lean Imperialism sitting on the neck of Mica
ragua, means nothing less than to say;
We Agree to Slavery.
"There's no necessity shooting us, Mr.. Mar
inc, you can see that in our eyes is the hui
mility of slaves, the craven fear of dog
towards cruel master. We accept your def
milton of patriotism meaning giving up the
resources, the mines, coffee fields, the canal
route and the sky and flowers to ar
armed invasion of foreign oppressors to love
everybody, whether they are workers or bosses
native or foreign, even the Marines comman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-28
They Drag About It

What kind of Socialism" the fake Socialist
party stands for came out again the other day
when one Of them, Herr Hoegner, speaking for
the socialist" party of Germany in the Reich
stag, declared that the nationalist patriotism
of the Socialists" eclipsed that of the fascists.
The N. Y. Times item told it thus:
Herr Hoegner asked the Reichstag to
bear in mind that the socialists during the
war did most to discourage subversive talk"
That is, the Socialists" were the best de-
tenders of the Kaiser during the war. And
he might have added-"and the best defend
ers of capitalism since the war;"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-28
A News Item

"One person was sentenced to death and
seventy-four others given various terms in
prison after their conviction of graft in food
and clothing sales"
No, dear reader, this did not happen in New
York City, but in Moscow. The Associated
Press tells about it in the N. Y Times of
Oct. 81.
But this may explain lot about why Mayor
Walker "don't like Communists and why he
is praised by Haywood Broun for it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-28
Jimmy Takes.the Prize

eff there is one fair city on this American
continent wherein decency controls, wherein
honesty obtains, it is the city that have the
distinction and the pleasure and the honor Of
presiding over. Mayor Walker
But exactly what, Jimmy does decency "con-
troll" and precisely what, tell us, does honesty
"ohtain 2"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-28
An Object Lesson

Even the dunlbest cops ought to know
enough to remember that jobless workers
should be given the same break as dogs. They
let sleeping dogs lie, But when Policeman
Joseph Boeger found Edward Roberts. job
less worker, asleep in Brooklyn street, he
woke him up, probably by the favorite cop
method of clubbing the soles of his feet. The
result was that the cops nose was broken and
Roberts is held in Jail, not having--strange to
say--$2, 500 bail.