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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
COMPENSATION DENIED
Made-WOrk Workers Must Assume
Injury Risk, State Board Rules.

Made-Work Workers Must Assume
Injury Risk, State Board Rules.
Made-work workers are not en-
titled to compensation under a rul-
ing Of the state industrial board.
Commissioner Harry j. Mcmillan
Of the board turned down compen-
sation for Benjamin Burke, made
work employe, who was injured
while working for his poor relief
basket at city hospital, Sept. 2.
Since his injuries Burke has re-
ceived baskets at his home.
Mcmillan held that since made
work workers are paid in poor relief.
and not on a pay roll. they are not
entitled to help under the working
mems compensation law.
The ruling made By one member
OF the board will be reviewed by the
entire commission, and appealed to
the Indiana appellate court.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
JACKSON BRANDED KILLER,
PROOF OF GUILT PROMISED
BY POISON TRIAL DEFENSE
Prosecution Has Failed Utterly in Attempt
to Prove Mrs. Simmons Killed Chill
dren, Tindall Declares.
SCARS HIGH ON ORATORY WINGS
Judge Is Expected to Instruct Jurors, Turn
Case Over to Them, Late This
Afternoon.
by STAFF CORREsPONpENT

LEBANON, Ind, Nov. 3--Horace N. Jackson, Hancock
county farmer, today was accused of the poison murder of
Alice Jean Simmons, in a scene that threw Boone circuit court
into an uproar. The charge was made during the closing de-
tense argument in the murder trial of Mrs. Carrie w. SIM
mons.
The accusation was hurled by Charles L. TindaIL. counsel
for Mrs. Simmons, in an appeal to the jury to acquit her on
the charge of numbering her small daughter, June q.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
Knife Slayer Suspect Bound Over

Charged with the knife Staying of
Mrs. Hattie Harris, Negro, Sunday
night at Twentieth street and Co.
lumbia avenue, William Ray, 48,
Negro, 1927 Garfield drive, today
was bound over to the county grand
jury without bond.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
PR0CLAIMS PEACE DAY
Governor Urges Ceremonies to
Honor Soldiers Nov. IL.

HOn0r SOIuIeTS NOV, IL
Proclamation calling on Indiana
citizens to observe ArmiStice Gay,
Nov. 11,A in commemoration of the
cessation of the World war, thirteen
years ago. was issued today by
Governor Harry C. Leslie.
He urged display of the colors and
fitting ceremonies in honor of the
soldiers and the blessings of peace"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-31
Vol. VIII. No. 2O9
The Crisis Deepens---Jobless
Increase---and Capitalists
Refuse Real Relief

of Government
Service admitted Saturday that
employment Friday the had already
admitted that cuts spreading.
that August the capitalist demagogues are
onfessng will herd of suffering to the
false
that the crisis deepening
N. headlines the following
sagnant Production Dwindes Wage Cuts Elk
peedAuo Industry Condon-and along with all this and
Optimistic statement thaNormal Level OF Employ
Seen by 1888"
capitalists offer them is the hope that by two years from
now employment today tomorrow and in
the future, unemployment increasing!
attitude the capitalists their government toward
the attitude of refusal to do damned
provide starvation
concealed behind
hypoical reIif pansno OF
revolution an
occasional part capitalists admits
these hypoccal plans is of the Hoover
deliberately prevent relief particularly
But the has
competition demagogy Democrats Roosevelt OF
having headlines from Hoover with noisy
providing for unemployment relief throughout the
pocy used employ
public $20O0000 will much possible
grating this will by the
of Y Employment Agency
that there 100000 obess York City alone!
beneficiary
payment back boomerang to the liars a1ou
remind that capitcEm
battle bread for the lives of them
They other out but struggle
struggle Winter Relief for immediate
gency relief and for Unemployment Insurance
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-31
A Communist Newspaper in
the West

to the efforts of
organizing the establishment of weekly
working ogan-THE
The workers the cities and the farm
mtanc The spontaneous strikes
in strikes amongst the
involving thousands of Filipino Chi
white to shows the possibilities of revolutionary
the the movement amongst the
rapidly than Eastern cities Large
revolutionary unions and the Com
at this moment engaged in
struggle build the movement Of the
organize the agricultural
against the fight against the police
oakland the drive repeal the
Syndicas struggle against mperast
tons; campaigns greatly strengthened Party
paper unity these and other a
be undertaken.
WORKER would be great help to the DAILY
WORKER difficulties the
time be of maximum possible the ime
Communist newspaper organizer
best the must
with situation of the broad
the country sometimes difficult for
thoroughly examine struggle in each
for by this the theological and
within and outside the revolutionary
organizations S to a higher level
all WESTERN WORKER We
mpatizer help either with shop
editorial work and finances Immediately commune
CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE Is Fourth
the existence of the
needed before the first gotten out
Revolutionary sympahze will need much
make this the hand
movement
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-31

them the freshness OF adventure ana
discovery Of life; we mourn over the
disappointments they will meet =.
cherries homes produces morbid
minds. Our growth of town life
unendingly imposes such problems
as milk and food supplies, for we
have shifted these children from
a diet of ten thousand years
standing"
Here's a problem of childhood that
Hoover's government, and Pinchot's
state police and deputies have met
on picket lines, with clubs and bullets
and tear gas bombs. These children
are hungry, and they arrest men,
women and children who collect re-
lief. The Red Cross refused even a
penny's worth of milk.
Herbert Hoover need not spend
another moment wondering about
that the miners children think OF
him. The answer his government
gave them when thousands of chill
dren went in huge hunger marches
to officials for relief, when federal
agents held the Pittsburgh relief
secretary for deportation, because he
helped collect relief, when the Chill
dren's tag day was viciously attacked
and thirty children arrested-those
children have very decided opinion.
This most wholesome part Of the
race" whose freshness of adven-
ture and discovery of life" Hoover
so envies, are waking every morning
to discover hunger, a gnawing hun
ger, to discover rough treatment on
picket lines Especial trained dogs are
brought by the deputies to terrorize
the children) and warned that their
relief kitchen, where at least three
meals a week are served, will be
closed if the picket lines continue
The desolate company shacks
and frame barracks, and tents in a
rainstorm are far from cheerful, but
they produce something else beside
morbidness"- real nilitancy, a de-
termination to fight and fight, in
the face of terror, arrests, hunger,
cvictions, marching on picket lines
barefooted until feet bleed, a mill
fcnNTINITEn nv PACE THRErl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-31
San Francisco Hunger March
Demands Relief from the City
Mayor and Supervisors Run Away from Crowd
of Nearly 1000 Unemployed

pervsiors ran away before the del
egation arrived. The chief Of police
and some politician were left in
charge to notify the delegation that
the unemployment question would be
taken up September IA.
The Unemployed Council and the
Prepare Big Demonstration
The Unemployed Council and the
Trade Union Unity League are i'm
mediately making preparations to
rally the 10000 unemployed workers
here to hold the biggest demonstra-
ton ever seen in the city.
The Unemployed Council has de-
cided to call upon all workers in San
Francisco to begin immediate pre-
parations in the neighborhood to
come out in masses September IA
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-31
NTWU MObiliZes Workers to
Combat lUTW SellOut Plans
Passaic Holds Conference to Organize Relief
For Heroic Silk Strikers

unorganized shops. This will be dis
tributed in leaflet form to all work.
ers, making clear the prepared SELL
out, and explaining how only unity
in the shops can defeat this maneu-
yer. Street meetings at all hours of
the day and in all parts of the city
will be conducted to clarity the is
sues. A large open air demonstra-
ton with prominent speakers, known
to the Paterson workers from pre-
vious struggles, will bring the ques-
ton of unity in the shops clearly pe-
fore all the workers. The climax in
this intensive activity will be city
wide conference of delegates elected
from shops, UTW, NTWU, and un-
organized shops, from the unem-
ployed, from fraternal organizations,
language meetings, settled shops and
shops back either on fake settlements
or without settlements, where the is
sues will be explained, and where
concrete plans will be made to bring
about unity on the picket lines, unity
in settling the shops, united front
shop committees, united action to
prevent discrimination against mem
bers of the NTWU and active strik-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-31
SLASH WAGES
TOINCREASE
BOSS PROFITS
All Workers to Be Hit,
Capitalist Press
Admits
In R.R. and Steel Soon
Green Defends U. S.
Steel Pay Cut

NEW YORK.-Wage- for all
workers and general smashing at
tack against the standard of living
of the workers to increase the prof
its of the bosses, the stock and bond
holders, is the way out of the crisis,
according to Annaist one of the
foremost organs of the Wall Street
bosses, in it's latest issue of Aug. 49,
Coming at time when the other
capitalist papers declare wage-cuts
must come in the steel industry and
other industries, when Green tries to
cover up the drive of the United
States Steel Corporation in its
pay slashing drive, this statement is
significant in showing an increased
drive against the entire American
working class by the bosses, trans
ferring heavier burdens of the crisis
on the workers The Annalist de-
cla.reS:
whether we like 1t or not re-
duction in labor costs appears to
be the only avenue left by which
anything permanent can be ac-
cOmplished i. for the purpose of
restoring confidence In the rial
roads. Recognition of this
fact, not only as it affects the
railroads, but many other indus
tries as well, would go a long way
toward eliminating one of the
greatest obstacles of a revival in
basic industrial activities. Need
for action of this kind Is all the
mere pressing bscause of the enor-
nous surplus CT short-term funds
awaiting profitable long term in
1CONTI I'D ON PAGE THREE
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-31
Lynch 2 Negro Workers for
Self-Defense in Slave Camp

BLOUNTSTOWN, Fla, Aug. 3d.
Two more colored workers were
lynched last night in the growing
terror of the Southern boss lynchers
against the Negro masses. The two
latest victims are Richard Smoge
and his son, Charley.
Shaving in turpentine camp, they
had dared to defend themselves
against the attacks of a forest ranger
by the name Of Frazier Williams
who with other thugs we're used to
terrorize the workers. The ranger
had attempted to beat up the older
ran, and his son had gone to his
,escue. Together they disarmed the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-31
n. Y. State Labor
Federation Attacks
JObless Insurance

SYRACUSE, N. Y, Aug. 30-At
the bidding of the phrase-monger
Governor Roosevelt, and under
instructions of Tammany Hall,
the New York State Federation
of Labor changed its stand on I'M
employment insurance declaring
it opposes any form Of unemploy-
ment insurance and backs the fake
unemployment relief program of
Governor Roosevelt.
Last year at its convention, I'M
der pressure of the workers, the
New York A. F. of L. convention
gave lip-service agreement to a
vague form Of unemployment in
surance. This year, to help the
Tammany takers along they re-
voked this stand declaring it was
a "socia1istic" measure.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-31
364 Delegates at WIR Meet
Vote toPush Relief for Miners
Lay Plans to Build
Strong Organization
for Relief
Foster Greets Meeting
Is States, 102 Cities
Send Delegates

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Aug. 29.-
Bringing real credentials in the
form of tons of food and large
checks amounting to $1,000 for min
ers' relief, 364 delegates from Is
states and 1c2 cities, came long dis
tanees to the Workers International
Reflects first national convention in
Pittsburgh today. Sitting in a hall
wildly decorated with slogans painted
in solidly blocked white letters on
red bunting, "Relief Based on Soil
darity, Not Charity" and Build the
W. I. R. Into a Permanent Organ
ization" the delegates planned
program and concrete steps for max
ing the slogans actualities.
In deed the Philadelphia delega-
ton reported that a real beginning
in this direction had already been
made there. Permanent w. 1. R.
committees have been established in
IL American Federation of Labor To-
Gals as result of a joint conference
held in that city of member organ
izations of the Penn-Ohio-W. Vir-
ginia-K Kentucky Striking Miners Re-
lief Committee and the w. 1. r. last
Sunday. Trade Union Unity League
affiliations and fraternaI organiza-
tons have also done this. Another
conference promising good results
had been held in Boston prior to the
convention at which 40 delegates
representing 10000 workers were
present Every delegate today from
all 102 cities stressed the tremendous
possibilities and great strides already
made in the direction of building the
w. 1. R. into a broad, mass, perma-
nent, dues-paying organization, a
powerful weapon in the hands of the
working class.
The tw ooutstanding decisions of
the convention call for an intensifi-
cation of relief collection for the
striking miners and building the w.
I. R. on a solid foundation into a
permanent relief organization ready
for all emergencies.
Important resolutions, outlining the
concrete tasks of the Workers In
ternational Relief, the resolution on
form and program, a special resolu-
ton on the campaign for miners
relief, and resolutions demanding the
release of all class-war prisoners
were passed unanimously.
The plan for permanent organiza-
CONTINUED OS PAGE TuREEt
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-31

PATERSON, N. Aug. 30.-The
critical situation created by the OBJ
viously prepared sell-out by the A.
F.. of L. at its Thursday night meet
ing, where low price offer was re-
iected, but full power given the Strike
Committee of the United Textile
Workers to continue negotiations,
which means a sell-out only slightly
higher than the low price rejected,
IS being met by the National Textile
Workers Union and United Front
General Strike Committee by ener-
getic and thorough measures. The
activity planned between now and the
end of the week are all directed at
exposing the planned sellout, and
bringing about rank and file unity
based on the shops.
A resolution on the A. F. of L.
maneuver has been prepared and is
being circulated throughout all the
shops, NTWU and UTW, as well as
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-31
LOOT STRUGGLE
IN ACW TAKES A
SHARPENED TURN
Hillman With Police
Aid Gusts OrlOfsky
Into the Street

NEW YORK. Hillman's threat to
get Orlofsky, manager of Local T.
cutters, in order to have undisputed
control Of the graft revenue of the
ACW company union was made good
Saturday when police together with
Hillman officials broke into the Of
fees of the cutters local, ripped open
the premises and bodily ousted Or
lofsky upon the sidewalk.
Searching the offices feverishly,
Hillman supporters and the police
failed to find the books, vouchers,
receipts showing the amount of loot
Orlofsky had connected for himself
and his clique instead of passing it
on to Hillman
Orlofsky and Mechlin, his aide,
returned with their lawyer Markow-
itz and locked themselves in as de
facto evidence of their official status.
Markowitz appealed to Mulrooney to
have the police aid Orlofsky. Null
rooney with an eye for Tammany in
terests said he was neutral and sent
several dicks along with Markowitz
to maintain neutrality" in the cut
tiers offices.
HilIman Forces Modified
Two mass meetings of cutters fol-
lowed later that day as both cliques
modified their forces for fight for
the company union booty. Hiliman's
meeting at Webster Hall elected a
triunvirate as supervisors over the
local until such time as he would call
for elections. The trio are Hillman
henchmen and vicious against the
left wing.
Beckerman for the Orlofsky group,
speaking in Beethoven Hall to the
cutters he could rally, said that Hill
man had agreed with the Manufao-
turers Exchange to slash cutters
wages as soon as he was in control.
Becker1nan openly stated both
cliques would restore to gangster
warfare with police as aides IN
fighting for control Of the local and
the maintenance OF an inner racket
eering group.
Knee pants makers will meet to-
day at l pm. at Clinton Hall in an
effort to stop the trade to take up
fight against piece work that Hill
man is trying to introduce in the
shops. All knee pants workers are
urged to be at this meeting.
A meeting of rank and file work.
ers of the Amalgamated will be held
today at 7:30 pm. at 80 East 10th
st. to prepare mobilize tailors and
cutters for a mass meeting OF left
wing forces NaiaHez
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-31
SOLIDARITY DAY
Is DRAWING NEAR
All. Out to Starlight
Park, September 8

Preparations for the big mass dem
onstration and festival for the relief
of he miners at Starlight Amusement
Park, 177th 81 and West Farms
Road, Monday, September 7 labor
Day. are proceeding satisfactorily.
Solidarity Day will be remembered
as day of pledging solidarity to the
miners of Pennsylvania, West Vir-
ginia, Ohio and Kentucky in their
struggles against starvation and Eff
forts to build a powerful mass union
to defend their interests.
In true festival spirit variegated
and colorfy program throughout the
day and ight is promised. Music,
pageants moving pictures, dancing,
sports, bootn displays will be regular
features. Prominent speakers includ-
ing VIM. z. Foster VIM. Weinstone
and Frank Borich secretary Of the
National Miners Union will address
the meetings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-31
500 STRIKERS AT
PUTNAM MEET
REPULSE POLICE
Force Release of Jim
cid. NTWU Head AS
Police Arrest Him

PUTNAM, Conn. Cby maid AT
mass meeting of 500 textile strikers
held at the corner of Church and
Providence Streets police tried to
break it up by arresting James Reid,
national chairman of the National
Textile Workers Union.
More than 600 workers gathered
on the vacant lot and listened to the
N.T.W.U. organizers and local strike
leaders analyze the strike situation.
Police Arrest Reid
When j. P. Reid had spoken for
over half an hour the police sergeant
led his men into the crowd and
pulled Reid from the platfrom.
Immediately the workers swarmed
in upon the police and made de-
termined effort to free the speaker
and it was only with great difficulty
that the police finally placed Reid
in a taxi and taken to the police
station.
The vacant was Immediately taken
by Bill Siroka, who carried on the
meeting without further interference
from the police and finally led the
mass of workers to the police station
where Reid was released as the re-
suit of the workers militancy and
their refusal to leave until their
leader was handed over.
First Fleet In Putnam
When Reid was released he was
escorted to the union headquarters
by over 200 cheering singing workers.
This was the first open air meet
ing held in Putnam under union
auspices and the attempt of the
police to break it up was meant to
prevent mass demonstrations in
general.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-31
NY GOVERNOR
ISSUES FAKE
RELIEF PLAN
Roosevelt Bill Is a
Demagogic Attempt
to Fool Jobless
Proposes Graft Fund
Capitalist Parties Are
United in Attack

Governor Roosevelt has proposed a
bill fer the relief of the unemployed
in New York state this winter which
is one of the most demagogic at
tenpts to deceive the working mass
es that has yet been attempted in
the present crisis This attempt to
deceive the masses on the part of
Roosevelt is a direct result Of the
pressure of the masses who have
been modified for immediate relief
and unemployment insurance by the
Unemployed Councils, the Trade
Union Unity League and the Com
munist Party. 1t is the answer of
the capitalist politicians to the grow
ing militancy of the unemployed and
employed workers Even the insig-
nificant concession proposed by
Roosevelt has been forced from the
state by the struggle of the oppressed
masses.
The relief measure provides for Une
appropriation of $4,000 900 for relief
this coming winter. There are at the
present time 100000 jobless work
ers in the state This would mean an
appropriation of $3.50 for each I'M
employed worker. Even taking the
false figures of the state and city
administrations as basis, the ap-
preparation is revealed as nothing
but wretched pittance for the job
LESS. In his speech Roosevelt ad-
mitted that there would be 10000 900
jobless this winter in the state. This
would mean $50 per jobless worker
for the entire stark winter out Of
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-31
\ Y TTPEE'NE STIR
TOE KFnS STAND
READY TO STRIKE
Provision Strike
Committee Is Elected
At Saturday Meeting

NEW YORK.-One hundred and
fifty upholsterer5 rallied at an en-
thusiastic meeting of the Furniture
Worers Industrial Union Saturday
night at the downtown Worers Cen
ter and after long discussion on
the conditions of the workers in the
furniture industry in New York City.
the misery and slavery of piece work
and the long hours and starvation
wages decided to issue strike call
to all the furniture workers of New
York City.
A rank and file strike committee
Of 40 workers from the shops was
elected and given the authority by
the workers present to issue the
strike call Demands were worked
out including week work, against
piece work, the eight hour day and
five day week, $100 an hour minim-
UNI wage, equal division Of work (no
discriminatory, control of the Job
and recognition of the Furniture
Workers Industrial Union and the
shop committees.
Eighty-four dollars was collected
at the meeting for the strike fund
adult organizations and clubs of New
York held United Front Conference
and the provisional committee issued
a call to all the upholsterers to stand
ready to strike.
The Furniture Workers Industrial
Union calls all furniture workers to
come to the Brooklyn strike head
quarters, 427 Lorirner ST.. Monday
morning to take the final steps in
preparation for strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-31
Clifford Leads in Firing Men
and Women; Slashing Wages

NEW YORK.-Walter S. Clifford,
recently appointed by Hoover to head
the latest unemployment commission
to fight the unemployed, is shown
to be a past master in the elimina-
ton of jobs by report of the In
terstate Commission just issued.
Its summary of monthly reports OF
large telephone companies, of which
Giffords American Telephone and
Telegraph Co. is a key member,
shows that in the first six months
Of 1881 the companies cut their
traffic expenses" 1o.7so below the
level Of the first six months of 1880.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-31
New Zealand Jobless.
Drafted Into PeOnage

WELLINGTON, New Zealand. -
Unmarried male workers who are
unemployed will be drafted for road
and land construction work
The workers will receive food and
shelter and pocket money" only,
which means virtual peonage.
The Public Works Department will
supervise these camps.