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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-21
Daily Thought

For destruction from God was
a terror to me, and by reason of
his highness l could not endure
Job 1928.
The most terrible of all things is
terror.-W. r. Alger.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-21
Is there more than one pope?

There is only one pope of Rome,
and he is the head Of the Roman
Catholic church. The head of the
eastern Orthodox church is known
as the patriarch. During the middle
ages there were several rival popes,
sometimes known as anti-popes. The
church was divided in allegiance be-
tween Avignon and Rome.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-21
Smoot and the Tenements

For the poor always ye have with you"
And always will have, at least in the opinion
Of Senator Reed Smoot Of Utah, chairman Of the
finance committee and leader in the fight for a
higher tariff.
Said Senator Sn1oot from the floor:
The unfortunate conditions in our great cities
make it necessary to have tenement houses and make
it necessary for people to live they do wish
to God they did not have to live as they do, but
civilization have it today and the congestion
of the people in great centers have brought it about
and do not know how it is going to be avoided.
"I have thought of that condition dozen times
or more. I never visit great city in this country
or any other country that do not see the same
conditions and never have been able to figure out
how going to rectfy the conditions under
our present civilization, SO called"
Shoots perplexity is no greater than that Of
other men who have given thought to the same thing
through the centuries.
Many believe, however, that it would be helpful
to refrain from raising the cost of living for ordinary
people through extortionate tariffs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-21
Ignorant of Life

PRACTICALLY all the facts of
l. life SO far have been denied to
him. His situation guards him
against the pangs of jealousy and
bans him out Of love. Pride is not
III him, or rage or admiration.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-21
Times Readers Voice ViezQS

Editor TImes-I have lived in In
diananolis for the last fifty years. I
own property and pay taxes. I've
seen Fall creek used for swim
ming hole and fishing place, but
never before have seen it used for
place to race up and down in a
motor boat. We always will have a
few high school sheiks with black
hair and roadsters who will insist
in getting up something new to keep
the north side going. From Friday
night to Saturday morning the noise
of couple Of motor boats can be
heard for at least a mile. I asked
one flne-looking boy who knew had
common sense why he didn't race on
Saturdays, and not keep the neigh
borhood awake half the night. But
he just kept on painting E. NJ. T. H.
S. on the side of the boat.
WILLIAM TAYLOR.
Editor Tines--In answering Mr.
Wietiles comments, I wish to in
form him that I am very well &C
ouainted with the methods by which
insurance rates are raised or low
cred.
He must admit, however, there
are times when agitation and propa-
ganda such as this unprecedented
attack on the fire department, are
used to the same effect, not, as a
rule, to lower rates, but to increase
them.
The fireman has a thanklesS job.
Regardless Of what he does or how
he does it, some one is ready to
criticise him. He is endangering his
life at all times, not only in answer
ing alarms, but in other ways.
I happened to see few of the
companies going through what was
termed the underwriters test" a
few years ago and some Of the an
tics these men went through caused
me to wonder they were not injured.
I passed the drill tower at South
and New Jersey streets one day and
saw company working there in the
hot sun. The men were running up
and down the four and five stories
with all kinds Of apparatus, some OF
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-21

A Chicago Judge told grand jury that every gun
man is likely to shoot citizen Oh, judge, isn't it
possible some of those fellows just taking home
the guns for their kiddies to play with2
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-21

taken the financial records which corporations refuse
to give it. the commissions solicitor replied:
The law gives us authority to do So but Mr.. Bon
ner stands in the way"
In the face of these serious charges against the
commission Of which he is member Secretary Of In
terror Wilbur has made a weak statement that IAN
unsatisfactory and nharmonious situation exists in
the staff of the federal power commission"
The situation will continue to be unsatisfactory
and inharmonious" very costly-so long the
commission consists Of three cabinet officers who have
no time to do the job and leave it in the hands Of
such an executive secretary.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-21

Bones OF a prehistoric sloth have been discovered
Wonder If 1t looks anything like congressman.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-21

The radio commission still seems to be up in the
air about rights and privileges.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-21
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ
- 3 I DAVID DIE u
The Shepherd Watching HIS
FlockS By Night in Cen
tm'ieS Far Gone Was More
Familiar With the Stars
Than We Are.

NNE OF my regular readers writes
~ me a letter, asking that I print
comparison which I frequently
use in lectures to illustrate the size
OF the universe. He is a fine old
scholarly gentleman who has a tele-
scope mounted in tiny observatory
IN his back yard.
He has been wise man who has
not allowed the bright lights of the
city to crowd the light of the stars
out of his life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson. the great
American poet and philosopher, once
observed that If man were per-
united to gaze at the stars only
once in his lifetime, he would spend
years preparing for that one won
dertu glimpse of the night skv with
It's golden array of twinkling stars.
But because the wondrous piano.
rama Of the heavens is spread out
Tor US every cloudless night, we give
very little thought Of it.
The shepherd watching his flocks
by night in centuries gone by was
far more familiar with the stars
than most of us are today.
This is one of the paradoXes of
modern life.
The modern astronomer is busy
pushing out the limits OF the uni
verse. His telescope reveals to him
stars that always must remain in
visible to the unaided eye. He sees
stars which the ancients did not
know were in existence,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-15
FARMERS AT Nd.
ANTI-WAR MEET
Communist Ele ctio n
Campaign on Farms

MIN0T, N. D., Aug. 1.-THE
anti-war meeting in Williston,
North Dakota, while not suffi-
GENTLY well organized, was remark
able. Hundreds of unemployed
workers joined with the poor farm
ers in their protest. The pamphlets
"Another War Coming" and our
election program, were sold in
large numbers, the speakers COM
rade Omholt and Bloor, held the
workers enthusiastic interest for
hours.
At every mention of a tenant and
poor farmers strike against evic-
tons, great response came from the
farmers. AS the election ratIfica-
ton picnic, also an Anti-War DEM
onstration, was to be held $50
miles from Williston the next day,
the speakers drove far into the
night, sleeping a few hours in
hay stack, then on to the big picnic.
Hundreds of farmers travelled
many miles, to this demonstration
At a meeting Monday, of a farm
ers union, where we had been in
vited to speak on "The Farm
Crisis" the county president of the
Union was "also present" and tried
to interest the farmers in a recent
speech he had heard by Legge. No
one paid any attention as he droned
on about Legge's remedies" but
when the Communist speaker was
introduced the men who had been
in the harvest fields all day view
ing their burnt out acreage" and
in cases where crops were better,
facing the price of IS cents per
bushel these men Strengthened
their tired backs, opened their eyes,
and eagerly listened.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-15
ALL. PRINTERS SCORE
W0LL'S WAR ON U.S.SR.

ROCHESTER, N. Y, Aug. IA
Rochester Typographical Union, Lo-
cal Is here has adopted resolution
scoring Matthew Woll for his anti.
labor activity and his attempts to
start an imperialist war on the So
Wet Union. The resolution refers
to the apparent (only apparent
Ed division in policy between Woll
and Green, and says:
Matthew Woll has taken it upon
himself to speak for organized labor
through the American Wage Earn
ers' Protective Conference and the
International Labor News Service,
by means of which through its news
service and syndicated editorials he
has carried on a ceaseless campaign
OF intolerance and heresy hunting,
directed against all whose economic
views and expressed opinions do not
coincide with his own"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-15
Atlanta Liberals Afraid
Open Fascism Too Risky

ocracy" from the face of capitalist
government.
We quote an excerpt from the
statement as printed in the Atlanta
Constitution;
"The undersigned do not endorse
the revolutionary philosophy and
tactics of the Communist Party and
it's affiliated organizations. Yet we
believe Communists should be pro-
tected in their constitutional rights
of free speech and free assemblage.
Raids, prosecutions and impris-
onments will only give added weight
of evidence to tn. claim that a "capi-
talistic" society is expressing the
working class. Furthermore policy
of repression will exaggerate the i'm
portance Of false ideas, and is likely
to open the floodgates for future re-
preston Of progressive social move
ments. This is an extremely i'm
portant consideration. If the pre-
cedent of repression of new ideas is
once established, who can prophesy
what good ideas may in the future
be depressed merely because they are
new?
"Finally, it is hoped that our po-
lice and judicial officers will, in the
future, protect the peace and order
of our commonwealth in the spirit
of the principles of Jeffersonian
democracy, that they will interpret
the laws against insurrection in the
light of the more fundamental guar-
antees Of the constitutional liberties.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-15
How ChangsNa
Was Taken By
10 M m IL W1StS

Most of the messages concerning
the fighting and the activity of the
revolutionary troops sent out by
Reuter- and the Simbunrengo agency
from Hankow are untruthful and
tendencious. The struggle for
Changsha began on the 26th of
July. On this day large forces Of
Red soldiers disguised as civilians
penetrated into the town. The next
day they gave sign to the main
body which had in the meantime
approached the walls of the town.
The attack commenced. The panic
in the town itself was increased by
The fact that a section of the gov
eminent troops mutinied and went
over to the revolutionaries.
The government troops suffered
great losses and retired after sharp
lighting. The governor of Chang
sha and the prominent officials had
already fled on the Goth. The Red
troops marched into the town car
rying Red flags. In a short space
Of time the whole town was deco
rated with Red flags. Large guam
titles of Communist literature were
distributed.
The imperialist agencies are now
spreading the most unlikely stories
concerning the attitude of the revo-
lutionary troops in order to prepare
the atmosphere for imperialist in
tervention. Imperialist gunboats are
at anchor on the Sien-Kiang River,
but owing to the low water the
larger vessels have remained in the
Yangtze River.
The American gunboat Guam, the
American torpedo boat Palos, and
the Italian gunboat Carlotta are in
the Sien-Kiang. The American YES
sci Palos has fired on the Red SOL
diers, wounding and killing thirty
men. Strong detachments Of Nam
king troops, with armored trains
and aeroplanes have been dispatch
ed from Hankow with instructions
to retake Changsha at all costs.
The occupation of Nanchang and
Changsha by the revolutionary sol
diers has made deep impression
on the foreign press in China. The
press writes: storm has broken
loose in Changsha which is the best
proof for the catastrophe growth
and consolidation of the Communist
movement in China. The intentions
of the Communists to turn Hankow
into the center of the Communist
movement in China may very soon
be realized. The initiative is I'M
doubtedly in the hands of the Com
munists. The press points out that
unless the Marking government sue
ceeds in suppressing Communism in
Human and Kiangsi it will lose
every shred Of authority and in
fluence.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-15
Insurance Benefits of international Workers
Order OppOrtune, Worker Says

to provide nice salaries for A. F. of
L. misleaders-fat fighters of prog
ress. To those unaware of the ex-
istence of the I. w. o. the alter
native is to take out a policy in one
of the old line insurance companies,
or some similar organization, and
thus aid in the establishment of a
huge fund which will inevitably be
devoted to the accumulation of more
surplus values, which in turn will
be used in more firmly fastening
on the workers the chains of con-
tinued enslavement.
I mention my personal experience
only because thousands of other
workers are in precisely the same
predicament. These workers, no
doubt, will be glad to join the l. w.
o. once the new organization is
brought to their attention.
D. Fl.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-15
World Crisis Worse Says Commerce Dept

World economic conditions reported by cable dispatches
u Department of Commerce. continue the
economic crisis The following the
porant countres
BRAZIL-Genera business conditions unsatisfactory
GREAT BRITAIN-Brish have been
distinctly icouaging with the position July
by seasonal factors
months Commodity continue decline The
tending
The
sections Iron and steel
% below the volume the
gated the smallest quantity shipped in the first
TTALYNO change has been recorded the
Italian situation and the
for which these responsible
seasonal inertia The which
months slightly deepened during July
betterment in the immediate ofng
JAPANCurtalmen in industrial activity Shipping
severely depressed
mills will restrict output 80 per
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS-Unemployment developing Textile
remains practically with
mens for time Cigar factories operating
days week
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-15
ILGWU Social Fascists Put
Finishing Touches to Local 50
Ruin; Must Build NTWIU

and let themselves be entrapped by
the right wing charlatans whose
only object was a sinecure on the
union funds.
At length, after falsely accusing
the 'leftists" of "Union Square"
relationships and other white lies,
the right wing assumed control over
the union. Their policy was sup
posed to be "economy"-they would
not "squander" money on organi-
cation work as did the lefts. And
they certainly kept their promise.
Right Wingers Run Local
For the last four years the local
has lain on its death bed and it
won't be long now.
Now, after several years of per-
secution and browbeating of the
lefts and their sympathizers, the
core of the union is becoming
weaker day by day.
The bosses, being class conscious,
are now anxiously waiting, like
inheritors at a relatives death bed,
for the last breath of the local.
Knowing that there's no resisting
force, since the right wing leader
ship has suppressed and smothered
the militancy of the local by ex-
pulsions, intimidations, etc., the
bosses have now presented demands
to the union for new agreement
to replace the old, September Is,
of next month.
A Company Union Now
Their demands are as was ex-
pected: discharge, reorganization,
and in general, a company union.
The union 1eaders" are really not
losing wink of sleep over the i'm
pending plunge over the precipice;
for after all they're not going to
starve. They have some money
laid by for rainy day. But what
will the proud, one-time militant
membership do about it? Ell?
A WORKER CORRESPONDENT
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-15
DEMAND SOCIAL
INSURANCE BILL
Mass Behind Workers
Social Insurance Bill

Continued From Page One.)
workers, shows how fast starvation
is creeping up on the 100000 job
less in the United States.
There is only one immediate an
swer for all workers, employed and
unemployed. Organize and fight
for the passage of the Workers So
cial Insurance Bill, advocated by the
Communist Party. Relief must be
provided to the unemployed-no
matter for what cause they are I'M
employed, whether because of ILL
ness, old age or lack of jobs. The
Workers Social Insurance Bill pro-
vides for social insurance for unem-
ployed. In all shops and factories
now a wide agitation is going on to
mobilize for this Bill. All workers
must get behind it. While the
bosses spend millions for war prep
arations, workers starve to death
or are killed because they take food
to keep themselves from starving.
The Workers Social Insurance Bill
demands that all war funds be i'm
mediately turned over to the unem-
ployed, in the form of unemploy-
ment insurance.
The Trade Union Unity League,
in order to mobilize q mass move
ment of all workers behind this Bill,
have set aside September 1st, called
by the labor takers Labor Day
but designated this year by the r.
U U. L. as Unemployment Day
as day of struggle for the passage
by congress of the Workers Social
Insurance Bill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-15
Atlanta, Ga.


Dear Comrade and Editor:
Am enclosing a clipping from the
Atlanta Constitution which carries
a more or less interesting effect.
These folks are connected with En-
DRY University of this city.
These it were who gave to Com
rade Foster an enthusiastic greeting
while he spoke here in the interest
of his late presidential campaign
they remember him and love him.
Use this in the Daily Worker if
possible. While it is only luke
warm gesture yet it has an influ
ence on this Ku Klux fascist bunch
showing them the sentiment of the
respectable higher up element--the
Iiterati who teach in Asa G. Can
dler's endowed institution of learning
Sentiment, that's what we need
here-and it's coming to us slowly
in spite of the recent beginning of
American Fascist organizations.
Forward niarch-hurrah for The
revolution!
AN UNEMPLOYED, J.LS.
Editorial Note: The clipping re-
ferred to is statement signed by
quite a few bourgeois liberals and
intellectuals of Atlanta, Ga.
They express fear that too open
show Of capitalist democratic" fas-
cism would result in redoubled ac-
tiyity among the workers, and would
tear the sooner the mask of "dem.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-15
Pravda Points Out the
Irnperialist War Moves

MOSCOW. - Pravda and other
newspapers in the Soviet Union de-
vote important articles to the grow
ing war danger between the impe-
rialist powers and the threatened
attacks on the U. S. S. r. Pravda
writes:
"The past year was a period of
intensification of all the contradic-
tions of capitalism, a period of
worldwide economic crisis and the
intensification of the danger of war.
Since the last anti-war demonstra-
ton, ornaments have increased fe-
verishly.
"The London naval conference
broke down and American imperial
ism has become more and more ag-
gressive in it's attempts to GUST Brit
ish imperialism from it's positions
on the world market. The danger
Of war between France and Italy
has also increased and both coun-
tries are arming strenuously.
France is building fortresses along
the Italian frontier and is arming
Yugoslavia with modern weapons of
war for use against its former ally.
Despite all the attempts of the in
ternational social democracy to
make light of the war danger, the
socialist party of Italy has openly
discussed the coming war between
France and Italy and decided to
adopt an attitude of defense of the
fatherland" against democratic
France. The contradictions between
the victorious and the defeated
states have not been solved and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-15
New York, N. Y.

INC" L W hs N. =
To the Editor of the Worker:
Local SO, l. L. G. w. u, which
is supposed to control the high
priced ladies' garment industry of
this city, but due to American Fed
Grafton of Labor tactics, controls a
very negligible number of dress
making shops in the midtown sec
ton, is at last nearing the preci-
pice, from which all other I. L. G..
W. U. locals have long ago toppled
from into oblivion.
From it's inception from few
hopeful ,wobblies, local No. So has
had its ups and downs with betray-
ais of one brand or another, before
and after linking up with the I. L.
G. w. U. radical section of the
A. F. of L.
Under Left Wing
For number of years preten-
tlous sort of militancy pervaded the
activities of this local until 1926,
when a real militant group emery
ed out of the chaos and became
crystalized under the influence of
the Communist Party. Then the
local began showing signs of real
strength, when the membership
elected the entire administration
from the ranks of the left wing.
Organization work among the thou
sands of unorganized workers with
j. S. Poyntz as organizer for the
dressmakers, became a fact. The
entire membership excepting the
negligible number of right wingers
became active and after one year
of Communist organization the To-
cal emerged strong and had won
better conditions for the member
ship.
Won Conditions
The forty-hour week, increases
in wages and the right to the job
after one weeks trial were among
the conditions won by the union.
But the members lacked foresight
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-15
Bristol Faker Well Schooled in Faker-in- Chief
Green's Tactics

When a worker told him to go
in Herteone shop and see the union
men working in an open shop. he
said he could not see anybody and
if a worker tries to tell him any
thing else, right away he tries to
expel him, so he will not have any
body to see what's going on.
We, the young workers of Bristol
are getting wise to these takers and
the whole leadership of the A. F.
of L., which is an organization fight
ing for the benefit of the bosses
in an underground way.
"A YOUNG WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-15
JOBLESSLITE
ON GARBAGE DUMP

HARTFORD, Conn.,, Aug. IA
There are 200 workers in this city
living on the city garbage dumps
below the Colts Munitions Plant,
near the Connecticut River. Hun
dreds of women and children go
there every day to pick up rotten
and spoiled foodstuff to keep them
selves from starving.
Besides, there are TOO families
living on Charity" Many of those
who get this munificent charity are
forced to go to the garbage dumps
in order to get food for themselves
and their families. This issue of
the Daily Worker contains photo
graphs of these Hartford unem-
ployed, fishing for food in the gar
hage dumps.
Among the photographs showing
the Hartford jobless on the garbage
piles, one shows a 72 year old
worker who spent some time in the
hospital last winter. He was dis
charged in the month of March but
was unable to find work. Not hav-
ing any money, he gains his living
from the garbage dump. He says
that he will probably die on the
garbage heaps.
Another picture shows a boy of
IA picking food for his family.
When a truckload of garbage is
unloaded the workers make rush
for it in order to be able to get
first pick at the rotten food.
This sort of thing meets with the