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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-23
The Major Issues in the Wisconsin
State Elections

accidents and unemployment" Altho only
last March when the Party organized
demonstrations for unemployment insurance,
the social fascists helped in the smash
ing of all militant manifestations of
the workers. The growing fascist tendencies
of the federal and state powers, the smash
ing of workers meeting arrests of speakers,
right of organizing and striking-the ele-
mentary workers rights-have been "over-
looked" by the Socialist Party in Wisconsin.
Manufacturers Support Socialists
Both by its platform and its activities, the
s. P. shows that it is not workers organ
ization and is now the best weapon in the
hands of the capitalist class. 1t is of no
surprise to the workers, that their candidate
for sheriff, Al Benson, organizer of the
S. P in Milwaukee, has the wholehearted
support of the journal" outstanding organ
of the Milwaukee manufacturers.
The La Toilette platform is as devoid of
progressive measures as the socialist plat
form. There is no attempt to analyze the
crisis or predict its outcome. The only reply
the "progressives" give the impoverished
workers and farmers are old-time speeches,
typical to the La Toilette takers. The strug-
gle against monopoly in banking (chain
banks), high cost of campaigns, corruption in
"progressives" but silence on the real working
class issues confronting the workers today.
Workers and Farmers Leave Fake Progress
sive and Socialist Parties for Communist
In this situation, the Communist Party is
taking advantage of the colapsing influence
of the Socialist Party and the fake "pro-
gressves" and the growing mood to strug-
gle on the part of the workers and poor
farmers, to organize mass election cam
paign rallying the masses behind the Party's
slogans. Even in the present stages of the
campaign the Party has already succeeded
in winning masses of workers away from
socialist speakers to the election rallies of the
Party. Although the S. P, has its daily
paper, Milwaukee Leader and full support
of the capitalist press, the Party is meeting
with ever-greater success in exposing the
treacherous role of the social-fascsts.
In the coming months of the campaign,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-23
By DAVE MATES

The slogan of "class against Glass;" raised
by the Party in its election campaign is of
special significance in the struggles led by
our Party in the state of Wisconsin In the
struggle for the leadership of the working
class in this state, the Communist Party
must conduct sharp and most decisive fight
against the social-fascists Socialist Party)
and the axe capitalist progressives LA Fol-
lette).
Wisconsin, the cradle of bourgeois "pro-
gressivism" of the La Follettes and the
former stronghold of the Socialist Party, is
feeling with gross sharpness the effects of
the present economic crisis. Mass unemploy-
ment, tremendous wage cuts, terrific speed
up and naturalization, as we'll as unheard
of impoverishment of the farmers, is the d.
rect outcome of the crisis and the factors
undermining the influence of social -fascsm
and reformism.
Socialist Party Betrays Unemployed and
Boosts War
Like their llow-betrayers elsewhere, the
Socialist Party is unable to answer the burn
ing question of the day. With the mass
misery and deprivation caused by the crisis,
the socialists are doing everything in their
power to assist the capitalists in placing the
burden of the crisis upon the backs of the
workers and farmers of Wisconsin. The fact
that IN Milwaukee, under the Socialist
mayor, Hoan, the March 9th demonstration
for "work or wages" was crushed in a real
"Zoergieber manner with of its leaders
now serving sentences in JAIL proves con-
clusively the role of the Socialist Party as
flunkeys of the capitalist masters and would
be life-savers of the decaying capitalist sys-
tenn.
In the present election campaign, the So
cialist Party, despite its past traditional in
fluence in this state, is showing its COM
plete political bankruptcy and is making little
Roadway in its attempt to further mislead the
workers and farmers of Wisconsin. AS against
the Workers Social Insurance Bill, elaborated
by the slogan of "work or wages" on March
9th, the Socialist platform is satisfied with
the mention of the need of "extention of the
state insurance to include old age, disability.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-23
Farmers Plight in Connecticut.

influence of the German social-democratic
perty, pertinent phrase was omitted. That
paragraph ends: "For the socal-democrats
are losing their value as the mainstay of the
capitalist class. They can still hold back
millions of workers from fighting capital
ISM"
1t is easily noticeable that something is
missing here. In the manuscript it was con-
tinued thus: They will still be of great
use, but since the events of the last few years
they have been entirely discredited and ex-
posed and their grip upon the workers has
weakened" etc. 1t is necessary to mention
this typographical error because it was neces-
sary to underline still more, although it fol-
lows from my article that the German social
fascists will still be used by capitalism, al
though finance capital has now turned to fas-
cism as its mainstay against the revolution
lied workers. Naturally, the fight against
social-fascism will continue.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-23
CAMPAIGN NOTES
By PAUL NOVICK.

How did the German comrades do it?
One of the features of the campaign con-
Quoted by our German comrades is the way
the Party press responded to all issues of
the campaign and conducted its offensive.
Every page of the Berlin Rote Fahne, that
is, of the issues that have reached here So
far, was bristling with the Red campaign.
Articles, cartoons, poems, slogans, various
kinds of ornamental drawings-every page
was full of campaign material.
Constantly on the offensive, "Wir grei fen
an" "Das Rote Berlin grieft an 1--WE are at
lacking, Red Berlin is attac1ing). Slogans
that sink into your mind. The Communist
Party is attacking capitalism and its SER
vants-social-fascists and fascists
The Rote Fahne was in full swing of the
campaign two months prior to Sept. IA. Can
say the same about our press here in the
United States?
Some of our language papers, whether in
New York or Chicago often appear without
a line on the campaign! This is no exag-
geration. Statements from campaign head
quarters are ignored. The column From
Behind the Bars" was not started Articles
written by Comrades Foster, Amter and other
candidates are printed, if at all, very irregu-
larry. In the meantime, there are but five,
six weeks left!
The small proportion of working women
that voted the Communist ticket in Germany
must serve as a lesson.
Our German Party recruited 6S per cent
of it's votes from men, whereas the Catholic
party recruited about that much of percen-
tage from women voters. Naturally, the
high percentage of men voters on the Com
munist column is clear indication of the
enormous majority of workers in -, fac
tories, mines and mills that have voted for
Communism. If, with such low percentage
of women voters the Communist Party came
out of the elections as the plurality party of
Berlin we can get an idea of how thorough
the Communist victory must have been
among the workers in the various plants and
factories of the Red capital.
The small percentage of Communist women
voters, however, puts the Communist move
ment before the burning problem of strength
ening the propaganda work among the work.
ing women, who are still in the grips of bour-
geois influence, in the grips of religion.
Which is also true about our campaign ac-
tivity here in the United States. The ten
million women "gainfully" employed in the
various industries, in the shops, factories,
offices and stores, belong to the most ex-
plotted section of the proletarat and, at the
same time, to that section which may give
a bigger proportion of votes to the three
capitalist parties, than the men workers will
do, if we lag behind in our campaign activity
among the working women. ,
In my article on the German elections that
appeared in the Daily Worker of Sept IT,
in the paragraph dealing with the waning
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-23

through its statewide tour, its concentration
on the factories, the building of the T.U.UL.
and through vigorous struggle for the daily
interests of the masses of workers and farm
ers and thorough exposure of the role of the
SCHOLARSHIPS, the Communist Party will
emerge from the campaign with mass sup
port and be we'll on the road of becoming q
mass party of the workers and poor farmers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-23
By L. ORLOFF.

The political situation finds Conn. experience
ing the most serious unemployment situation.
In industrial cities like Bridgeport all large
plants are shut down with the exception of the
Remington Arms, an ammunition plant, which
is working on curtailed schedule. In the
Brass City," Waterbury, plants are running
at so per cent capacity. We can enumerate
city after city, such New Britain and
Hartford, with the same conditions, if not
worse.
Wage-Cuts and Unemployment Hit
High Tariff Industries.
Connecticut industries being light metal,
electrical appliances, hardware, typewriters,
etc., products which were exported to a large
extent, the tariff bill and the subsequent re-
taliation from abroad has hit these industries
very hard. The workers in the factories work.
ing part-time are continuously getting wage
cuts and speed-up to the limit. These wage
cuts range from 10 to 80 per cent. in the metal
and rubber factories and textile mills. The
Scoville Manufacturing Co.. in Waterbury,
recently gave the workers a wage-cut from 10
to 20 per cent. Sargents, large hardware
plant in New Haven, cut wages from 10 to 20
per cent; the Winchester ammunition plant,
New Haven, cut the wages 10 to 20 per cent;
The U. S. Rubber, which controls number of
factories in this district, has started a general
lay-off of all old employees and is introducing
a wage-cut which will affect all the workers
in every plant from 10 to 80 per cent. The
Remington Arms, in Bridgeport, has put over
a wage cut recently from 10 to 20 per cent.
All these cuts in the largest factories are TAX
ing place thru very efficient scheme of de-
partnent and even individual wage-cutting. in
order to try and check organized resistance on
the part Of the workers. The introduction of
fake Inventories" and two to three weeks
lay-offs are used to put thru these wage-cuts
1t is worth noting that cities like New Haven
and Hartford are becoming needle trades CEN
tiers where young girls of the age of 14-18 are
getting miserable wage of $500 to $500
week for so hours.
Farmers Plight in Connecticut.
The bad agricultural situation, which was
worsened by recent storms mourning about one
million dollars damage, aggravate the crisis.
The tobacco fields near Hartford which usu-
ally employ about $4,000 to 10000 during the
season, have hired this year greater number
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-23

The Daily Worker is the Partys best in
strument to make contacts among the masses
OF workers. to build mass Communist Party.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-29
Flare Lights Field
BIZ TimeS NnecinL

M I lHtcS SUcclHC
CHICAGO. Jan. 29.-By dropping
flare when he is from 900 to 1000
feet above an airdrome on which he
is descending, an airplane pilot au-
tomatically switches on all boundary,
obstruction and f1oodlights, says
Popular Mechanics magazine.
AS the flare drops, it comes within
range of a light-sensitive electric
cell, set on top of a concrete pill
lar, three feet high, and controlling
the airdrome lights. The location
of the pillar is shown to the de-
scending pilot by triangle of COL
ored lights.
Two hundred feet away from the
light cell the lit flare causes mi
r!:%:te electric current to pass, and
this is amplifled in series of RELAYS
until a powerful current travels
through the airdrome and switches
on all the landing lights.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-29
Arrivals and Departures

Curtiss-Mars Hill Airport-W. S.
MacTaren, pilot. and Mrs. Beryl
Hart, passenger, st. Louis to New
ark, N. j.; Lawrence I. Aretz and
Dick Arnett from Lafayette and re-
turn; j. w. Jackson and party on
fight over city, Travel Air mono
plane, Charles E. Cox Jr., assistant
general-manager of Curtiss-W Wright,
pilot; Embry- Riddle passengers from
Indianapolis to Cincinnati and re-
turn included Bernard F. Lacy, 1040
North Delaware street, ana o. l..
Hatton Jr., 1865 Kenwood avenue;
eleven passengers boarded t. A. T.
plane here Tuesday.
Capitol Airport-D. A. Mccall,
Stinson-Detroiter, Memphis, Tenn,
and return, overnight, three passen-
gers; Richard Knox, Indianapolis to
st. Louis, Ryan brougham.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-29
MEDAL TO BE AWARDED
Yale Professor VIII Be Honored by
Electrical Engineers.

BIZ Science SCFflcc
NEW YORK, Jan. 29.-For his
pioneering work in electric trans
mission, which has made possible
the widespread use of electricity to-
day, Professor Charles F. Scott OF
Yale will be honored here tonight
by electrical engineers of the coun-
trtry by the award of the Edison
medal of the American Institute OF
Electrical Engineers.
The medal( founded in 1904 by
friends and admirers of Thomas A.
Edison, recognizes Professor Scott
as a leading electrical engineer of
his generation. 1t recalls the fact
that ne was associated with engi-
neerS who built in Colorado the
worlds first long-distance high
One daughter, Helen, is in Bagdad,
Scott transformer, a connection he
invented for changing two-phase
power to three-phaSe, to the minds
of engineers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-29
- Aviation -
- Aviation -
ABANDON HOPES
FOR SAFETY OF
MISSING filters
Searchers Hunt in Snow
and Ice for EieISon
and BorIand.

BIZ United Press
NOME, Alaska, Jan. 29.-Cut off
from the world by ninety miles of
frozen Siberian tundra. sixteen men
and dogs kept up the hunt for the
bodies of Carl Ben Eielson and Earl
Borland today in the face of cold
and Snowdrifts.
Until they find the bodies of the
ill-starred aviatorS, who crashed at
full speed in an Arctic blizzard, or
abandon hope and go back to the
motor ship Nanuk, no news will fill
ter out of frozen northland regard
ing the final fate Of the airmen.
The Nanuk, with its wireless
set, is the only means of communi-
cation between the searchers and
the world. The ice-locked ship was
the objective at which EielSon and
Borland pointed their plane when
they started their errand of mercy
to take off the crew and valuable
furS.
Four airplanes, carrying eight
men flew the ninety miles between
the Nanuk and the wreck of Eiel-
sons plane, to augment ground
searching party Of eight already on
the scene.
The sixteen men hoped to have
some assistance from sled dogs,
with their uncanny scent, in finding
hOdieS nf the fiarS in the drif+ad
and ice-encrusted snow surrounding
the plane wreckage to a depth of
four to five feet.
ANY hope that the aviators, miss
ing since Nov. 9, might be safe in
some native encampnent or trap
per's cabin was gone. Every effort
was bent to find the bodies.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-29
BY KENNETH G. CRAWFORD
United Press STAFF Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.-When a
rumbling sound like distant thun-
der is heard in Statuary hall, mid
way between the house and senate
chambers, Capitol guides tell their
sightseeing parties:
John Schafer, Republican con-
gresham from Wisconsin, is adj
dressing the house on prohibition"
Schafer is the one member of the
house who can be certain of a hear
ing when he rises to discuss the pro-
hibition issue, not because he COM
mands closer attention than others,
but because the rest of the men,
bership, no matter how diSorderly,
can not compete with his booming
voice.
A former locomotive engineer and
soldier, Schafer received his forensic
training in roundhOuse and mess
hall, training which serves him well
in house debate. Interruptions from
the floor and gavel pounding from
the speakers rostrum, always fea-
lures of prohibition debate, bother
Schafer not at all. They merely
stimulate him to greater effort.
Stalking up and down the aisle
waving his arms and shouting,
Schafer denounces almost daily the
Volstead law, the eighteenth amend
ment and every one in and out OF
official life who seeks to uphold
them.
When not preaching the anti-pro-
hibition cause on the floor. he does
it in the cloak rooms, in his office
or at the neighborhood fire station
he often visits. Prohibition is more
than a political issue to him, it is
a passion.
He is an interchangeable worker as
well as a tireless talker against pro-
hibition. Often he is in his office
until late at night preparing
speeches and compiling data. Re-
Gently he gathered statistics on
drunken driver arrests from every
state in the union, particularly dry
states.
Representative Loring Black, wag-
gish New York Democrat, dubbed
Schaffer "Firpo" several years ago
because of the resemblance between
the pugilist from Argentina and the
representative from Wisconsin. Shat
fer weighs $50 pounds. stands well
over six feet and is topped by
shock of thick. unruly yellow hair.
He was bornin Milwaukee in 1898
and attended the public schools of
Wauwatosa and West Allis, suburbs
of the city. After try at Office
work, he entered the engineer corps
of the army and served on several
fronts in the World war.
Soon after returning from France
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-29
ROBBERS ARE
ROUTED WHEN
VICTIMS FIRE
Coal Firm EmpIoye, Filling
Station Aid Shoot at
Two Thieves.

Two victims of thieves Tuesday
night routed the intruderS when
they opened fire on them.
Clarence Weaver, manager Of the
Weaver Coal Company. Ill South
Leota street, fired charge from
shotgun at thief in the coal yard.
The man was attempting to take
tires off truck when Weaver, lying
in wait in the office because of
similar thefts during the last few
weeks, stepped out. When the man
fled, Weaver fired at short range.
The man escaped through a hole in
the fence.
Fires Three Shots
George Showalter, filling station
operator at 300 Troy avenue, fired
three shots at a motoriSt, who drove
away without paving for ten gallons
Of gasoline. The same man OBJ
tanned five gallons of gasoline free
at the filing station by the same
trick week ago. Showalter said.
None Of the bullets took effect, it is
believed.
Robert Petty, 10, PTS North Gale
street, was robbed of $25 by a lone
bandit at Standard Oil filling sta
ton, Commerce and Roosevelt ave-
nueS. The bandit locked Petty in
WaShroom.
Wanted Big Money
He made no attempt to take Pet
tvs small change, saying, Give me
the bills, don't want the pennies"
Home of Mrs. Chester Berry, 791
East drive, Woodruff Place, was
ransacked Tuesday afternoon and
a $50 watch was taken.
Burglars took jewelry and ar
ticles valued at $50 from the home
of Mrs. Ida Holzworth. Apartment
3. 402 East Louisiana street, Tues
Gay afternoon.
Two bandits today robbed Jo-
seph P, OCallahan, Al, attendant
at White Rose filling station at
Randolph and Michigan streets, of
$50.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-29
AUTHOR WILL SPEAK
SchooImen'S Club to Hear
John Langdon Davies.

John Langdon Davies, English
author and lecturer, will address
the Indiana Schoolmen's Club at
the Lincoln Saturday afternoon, it
was announced today by Secretary
o. H. Greist.
Davies has specialized in educa-
tional studies in England and Amer
lea. He is author of "a Short His
tory of Women" and 1.-THE New Age
of Faith"
The club will convene at 10 a. m.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-29
YOUTHFUL 'J0YRIDING'
DEFENDED BY SOL0N
Motor Theft Law Author Asks HUI
name Enforcement.

Motor Theft Law Author Asks HUI
name Enforcement.
BIZ ScripDs-Houoard Ne1ospaDer Alliance
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.-Speak-
ing a good word for youthful joy
riders" Representative L. G. Dyer
of Missouri, a prominent Republic
an member of the house judiciary
committee, has served notice on the
department of justice and the house
that he will move for repeal of the
national automobile theft act unless
it is administered more humanely
against Americas young bloods.
Although conceding the effective
ness of the law, Dyer, author of the
law, declared in a speech that too
severe application of its terms is
filling federal prisons and reforma-
tories with young boys whose chief
fault was that they were out for a
good time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-29
AIR PENETRATES WALL
Scientists Discover New Method of
Preventing Leaks.


PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 29.-Wind
blows right through brick walls. A
well-laid thirteen-inch wall in the
face of a thirty-mile an hour wind
will allow 1475 cubic feet of air to
pass through it every hour, G. L.
Larson, D. w. Nelson and G. BraatZ
reported this afternoon before the
International Heating and Ventilat-
ing exposition being held here. This
data is obtained from researches
they have conducted at the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin.
But proper plastering with gyp-
sum directly on brick, they find, will
stop SO per cent of the leakage. Less
air will leak through a wall which
has been well-constructed and in
which all spaces between bricks are
filed with mortar.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-29
Obtained Leave
HOPE TO SAVE SAILORS
IA Remain on Stranded Steamer;
Eight Taken OFF; One Lost,

BN United Press
PARIS, Jan. 29. - Daybreak
brought hope of rescue today for
fourteen men of the wrecked Brit
ish steamer Knebworth, who have
been huddled together in the for
ward part of the vessel since it
broke in two on the rocks of Bar
ritz, after fighting storm three
days.
Darkness interfered Tuesday night
with the efforts to remove the men
but it was believed they can be
saved. Eight of their comrades have
been taken off, but another was
lost.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-29
BOY HELD FOR ROBBERY
Home Set Afire Accidentally With
Matches, Police Charge.

Charged with delinquency, IS
year-old boy was arrested today for
burglary of the home of William
Pate, 1872 Barth avenue.
Pate's home was set afire by the
lad accidentally, police say, When
the boy lighted matches to search
clothing in closet in hope of find
ing money. A floor lamp was the
only article taken from the home.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-29
MERGER MOVE PR0BED
Senate Committee Asks Phone and
Radio Deal Correspondence.
Er Tnfted Press

~ United Press
WASHINGTON. Jan. 29.-Further
investigation of the proposed merger
of the International Telephone and
Telegraph Company and the COM
munication facilities of the Radio
Corporation of America is planned
by the senate interstate commerce
committee.
The committee has recalled
Sosthenes Behn. president of the I.
T. & T. for further questioning and
he has been instructed to bring with
him all correspondence in connec-
ton with the transaction, including
any letters to or from the Morgan
banking house.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-29
FILES FOR SHERIFF JOB

The fourth candidate for the
Democratic nomination for sheriff is
Frank Hurley, 704 East Georgia
street, First precinct committeeman
in the Eleventh ward.
Hurley is employed by the Indi-
annapolis Street Railway Company,
is married and has one child.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-29

and the morning program will in
clude talks on school revenues by
Raleigh w. HolmStedt, Indiana uni
versity; j. w. Jones, Indiana State
Teachers college, and Phil zoercher,
state tax commissioner. Luncheon
will be followed by an address by
Davies.