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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-01
Electrical Workers Begin to
lOrganize

to admit them to memberShip-with the result
that today they are still unorganized
The last effort made in 1926. At that time
the Electrical Workers Association of Greater
New York was established and in ten weeks time
some 1000 members were recruited. The organi-
zation was under left wing leadership. Just as
the Passaic textile workers, who were organized
by the revolutionary wing of the labor movement
we're delivered to the A. F. L., so the same wrong
policy was persued in the Electrical Workers AS
ISOLATION. An agreement was made with Breach
of the company union that the members of the
association come into local as individuals pay
ing $3.50 initiation, and passing an examination.
The result was that Breach let in about 300 of
them. and kept the other 100 out and the asso-
citation was destroyed.
With the organization of the new trade union
center, the Trade Union Unity League, the Build
ing and Construction Workers Industrial League
was organized, and sanctions the organization of
the unorganized electrical wor ors, not this time
into craft union to affiliate if it can with the
A. F. L., but as part of the Building and Con-
struction Workers Industrial League and aff-
ated with the T.UUL
The unorganized electrical workers are compel
led to work for wages as low as So day, and not
above Sc day Tremendous unemployment
makes the conditions much worse.
The unorganized electrical workers are dis-
lusioned with Local 3. They are ready to Or
ganze as branch of an industrial union with
a policy of struggle for the 7-hour day, 5-day
week, increase III wages, unemployment insurance
demands etc.
At the same time a revolutionary opposition
must be organized in the company union Local
In order to win the rank and file for the policy
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-01

BY d. G.
IN Greater New York there are thousands of
unorganized electrical workers who are en-
gagged in alteration work. in finished apartment
houses, hotels factories, stores office buildings
subways, and on small new buildings under con-
struction in Brooklyn, Long Island, and other
places. tt
This is also true of the other trades in the
building and construction industry.
The unorganized electrical workers by far out
number those that are organized in the company
unonized Local of the International Brother
hood of Electrical Workers, affiliated to the A.
F. Of L. This unions membership is chiefly en-
ployed on new large building projects.
In New York, as well as in other large cities
the company union has never interested itself
in organizing the electrical workers outside Of
large building construction. j
The unions initiation fee is prohibitve, ran
ging from $3.50 up In most cases the books are
closed and new members are not admitted at all
During periods of building boom, If there is a
temporary Shortage of electrical workers in
the company union, new members are not adj
mitted but the extra" men are allowed to work
under the permit system, which mi hns they must
pay 81 up per day for the privilege Of working
In other words, the dues for these extra" work.
ers are about SOS month.
1t is known that in Chicago at one time there
were 1900 permit men working OF course, the
thousands of dollars collected on permits are very
seldom turned into the union treasury. This
money is pocketed by the business agents, and
this is but fraction of their total graft.
During the last IS years. the unorganized
electrical workers Of Greater, New York have
several times Get up craft organizations for the
.nERala q. iQraipg liz. sapEsax, n(ap lIessl Z
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-01
The Importance of the Last
Party Plenum

the necessity of building the revolutionary unions
OF leading the unemployed. the development of
the Negro movement, the building of the Daily
Worker into mass organizer of the working
class, etc.
The Plenum also gave the line to be followed
IN the discussion in the District Plenums in the
lower units of the Party. No general discussion,
no agitation amongst ourselves, no howery
speeches, phrases, but concrete discussion, severe
self-criticism of the mistakes in applying the
Party line, of the organzationaI weaknesses on
a district on a unit scale pointing out on the
basis of the resolutions, how to improve the
situation in the concrete sphere Of activity of
the districts, sections, and units. Not the gen
eral discussion OF the past, repetition of the
Plenum discussion, but a critical discussion of
the situation in the units, in the light of the
resolutions of the Plenum with the aim of dis
covering the weaknesses, the mistakes of the
recent past, and taking the necessary measures
of correction, concretzing the tasks of the units
especially in regard to the major task before
the Party, the building of shop committees of
the revolutionary unions, roofing ourselves in the
masses of workers in the shops and factories
The resolutions of the Plenum must be discussed
in practical manner, based on the concrete
experiences of the districts, as applied to the
1t is only on this basis, ON the basis of self
district, section, and unit, and units tasks.
criticism, i'll the correctness of our methods of
work in the concrete situation in the districts
that the district committees the section comnni-
tees, union bureaus, every member of the Party
will become thoroughly conscious of the neces-
sty OF doubling efforts in the line of strength
ening the whole apparatus. in the line Of be-
coming the real leader of the everyday struggles
of the working class. 1t is on this line, that the
district committees will prepare the monthly
plans of work, will learn to check up on all
activities, SO that the Party will succeed in bring
ing about the chemical union of which Comrade
Kuusinen spoke, and assume its logical position
as the leader of the entire working class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-01
The Worker-Peasant Block

Here appears, in all its magnitude and full mo-
nervousness, new and a truly historical mis-
sion of the proletariat. 1t led the peasantry in
the struggle against czarism and the feudal-
bourgeois order in pre-revolutionary Russia. In
alliance with the poor peasants, it accomplished
the appropriation of the capitalist top of the vii
lage and it exered endless efforts in order first
to secure the neutrality of the middle peasant
groups in that struggle, and then to enlist their
support and lead them on the road of socialist
reconstruction.
The idea of the leadership of the socialist city
in regard to the village in the process of recon-
struction; the idea of extensive aid given by the
proletariat to the millions of peasants in the
reconstruction of their economic and cultural life
is the outstanding feature of the Five-Year Plan
and of the process of economic reconstruction as
it develops in actual practice The expeditions of
labor brigades" into the village to help the peas
ants in their efforts toward collectivization
which have developed on such a large scale this
year. are among the many manifestations of the
growth of active leadership of the pro!etariat in
the socialist reorganization of the village.
From The Five Year Plan of the Soviet
Union by G. T. Grinko, one of the original
colaborators on the Five-Year Plan of So
cialist industrialization, a complete account
of the Plan, containing the first two years
of its operation and political estimate of
its place in world economy.
By special arrangement with Interna-
ti0nal Publishers this Sc book FREE
WITH THE DAILY WORKER FOR ONE
YEAR So in Manhattan and the Bronx Sc
outside New York. Rush your subscription
to the Daily Worker, so E. 18th ST., New
York. Mention this offer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-01

In other words, the present crisis has only one
more record to beat in order to attain the lowest
point in the entire economic history of the
United States namely, 70 OF June, 1894.
This 76 does not represent something abstract.
1t means that all industry is at the lowest ebb
since 1908. 1t means workers are starving to
death by the millions.
On the other hand, the Daily Worker at the
beginning of the crisis pointed out what it would
mean for the workers When the boss economists
were shrieking their loudest about recovery" the
Daily Worker by a Marxist-Leninist analysis of
the facts predicted the real course of the crisis,
calling on the workers to fight against the wage
cuts, and for unemployment insurance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-01
Stage Censorship

From the trade journal Vaudeville published
for the professionals and those who just hang
around we see that under the list Of things
which the management Of the R-K-O theatres
has ordered cut out Of acts, is the following
"All references to hard times and President
Hoover" Roll your own eommsnt On stAee ssnr
.Nsshin ~ wv &sl Tttsss y6 s5sts%*p9ysttts
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-01
Hoover and Casey Jones

That's mean crack which Senator Pat Haf-
rison of Mississippi got off about Hoover the
other day. 1t seems that the senator has been
picking up Wobbly songs, as he said concerning
the claim that Hoover was great engineer"
that he was "the greatest engineer since Casey
Jones'" And, we may add, even worse ass
strike breaker
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-01
Workers! Join the Party of
Your Class!
Communist Party q. S. A.

Communist Party q. S. A.
43 East l25th Street,
New York City,
munist Party.
Name .f......,............. ..................
City ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. State ,
OCCUPATION AGE
Mail this to the Central ONCE, Communist
fary. . East l2sth ST. New York. T. ~.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-01

The British premier campaigns for reelection. Prime
Minister Ramsay MacDonad driving home salient point
in his speech the coal miners of Durham when he
opened his campaign there for support of his coalition
government and his seat in the House of Commons
PreSsPh
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-01

This dairy 10 net eswNod BY ncr
connected In any cay With any
combination Of dairies. either IN
o. cut % Washington. u 10
eWned and operated exclusively
BY Washins4on psepso.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-08
ATHEARN MAKES
PLEA FOR new
EDUCATION COAL
Addresses 200 at c. of c.
Dinner on Problems
of Teaching.

1.-The present problem in Amer
lean education is not how many
things we can create, but the type
Of people we can develop" DR.. Wal
ter Scott Athearn, president of
Butler university, told more than
200 at the dinner Wednesday night
in the Chamber of Commerce.
With 100000 children now en-
rolled annually in the public schools
of America, DR.. Athearn predicts
that within ten years, two out of
every three persons of high school
age will be enrolled in secondary
schools.
This new movement toward high
er education for the masses is ex-
pressing itself in the rapid growth
of junior colleges, DR.. Athearn as
serted.
Present day trends outlined by
President Athearn are towards:
Making both elementary and
higher education the possession of
the masses Of the American people,
partly through the junior college
and the city university.
Making the social sciences rather
than the physical sciences the core
of the curriculum in all schools.
While other cities are expert
menting with mass education on
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-08
The Rev. John D. James to
Be Heard at Gospel
Tabernacle.

Floods, revolutions and starvation
raging in China are we'll known to
the Rev. John D. James, for nine
teen years missionary in the
Orient and cousin of the notorious
outlaw, Jesse James.
Friday night at 7:45 he will adj
dress members of the Indianapolis
Gospel tabernacle, North and Ala
bama streets, of which the Rev. H.
V. Cook is pastor.
Mr.. James, his wife and two chill
dren, Ruby May, 10, and Paul B., 8,
are en- route to their home in Ever
green, Ala, to visit Mrs. James
father.
The children are said to be the
youngest missionaries in the
world" They are musicians, sing in
three languages, and have appeared
before 10000 persons in chm hes.
Mr.. James and his family plan to
return to China early next year.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-08
CHINA MISSIONARY.
WILL SPEAK HERE
Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported to police as stolen
belong to:
Harry j. Emry, 634 West Maple road
Chrysler coupe 32-695. from Senate avenue
and Market street.
M. A. Johnston. 1921 North Capitol
avenue, Stakeholder sedan, $685. from
Meridian and Ohio streets.
Charles P. Bochner, 1919 Balsam avenue
Ford roadster. 51-227, from 1900 North
Pennsylvania street.
Banquet Ice Cseam Company, 1914
southeastern avenue Chevrolet coupe, 10
966, from 900 North Pennsylvania street.
Buick touring $500. from st. Clair and
G. B. France. 201O North Meridian street
Apt. 300. Ford touring 1898, from rear
OF parking lot on Capitol avenue.
Paul Eastburn, 1859 East Michigan
street. Chevrolet coach. 86-951. from Tenth
and Gray streets.
Garnett Cook 1119 Prospect street,
Chevrolet roadster, 54-044, from Fountain
Square
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-08
Ye Ode Sc0h

By United Press
SAYRE, Pa, Oct. 8.-The
ancient law providing punish
ment for a common scold"-
older than any Pennsylvania
statute-waS held over Mrs.
Frances Rosengrant, rs. today
to silence her allegedly abusive
tongue.
After nine neighbors told
Justice George Bonfoey of back
fence arguments and of an in
cident in which Mrs. Edith
Rogers claimed Mrs. Rosen-
grant drenched her with a
hose, the justice assessed the
aged woman $14 in costs. but
continued the case until April.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-08

various theories of organization,
administration and control, Indi-
annapolis, by the wise and sympa-
thetic cooperation of all existing
agencies, may contribute to the ma
ton an unique and valuable form
of urban education" DR.. Athearn
declared. 1--WE shall be co-workers
with you for common end"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-08
INSTRUCT TEACHERS

Music Fundamentals to be Taught
in Special Glass.
Under the supervision OF Ralph
w. Wright, director of music for
Indianapolis public schools, lat
teachers will meet every Monday at
Benjamin Harrison school No. 2, at
700 North Delaware street, for in
struction in fundamentals of music,
community singing, song interpre-
tation, and methods of teaching
music.
Glasses will continue until shortly
after Christmas.
The group is made up of seventy
two intermediate teachers, sixty
one primary, thirteen department,
and one adjustment teacher.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-08

Pythian Sisters. Officers of Mars
Temple No. 125 of Goodland, will
eXemplify the ballot and, with the
degree staff of Morocco Temple No.
326 of Morocco. will give the initia-
tory ceremonials.
AT an informal welcoming recep-
ton in the Denison Wednesday
night, Banner temple No. 81 pre-
Sented bouquets of roses to grand
chiefs and past grand officers of
both the Knights of Pythias and its
auxiliary order.
Mrs. Minnie Johnson, drill mis-
tress, and Mrs. Hettie McKittrick,
district deputy of Indianapolis, were
presented with twenty-f1ve-year
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-08
R0WBOTTOM PAROLE UP

Federal Board Soon to Weigh Ex-
COngreSsman'S Plea.
BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8.-The fed
eral parole board will consider at
its general meeting in few days
the parole application of former
Representative Harry E. Rowbot-
tom, (Rep, Ind, who was convicted
on charges of selling postmaster APP
pointmentS.
A representative of the board re-
Gently heard Rowbottom'S case at
Leavenworth penitentiary where the
former congressman is serving a
years sentence.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-08
Why Have COrns?
| Did. But | Don't

IT suffered TORTURE from corns.
Tried everything, but got no real re-
lief. Then friend told me of Shur-
Off. Got a package at my druggist
and used as directed. Pain disap-
peared instantly and that awful
corn was gone in 3 minutes" Don't
have corns. Get Shur-Of today
from Hooks Dependable Drug Stores
or any other good druggist and be
corn-free and care-free.
Shur-Off means cOrnS off in 3
minutes or money back.-Advertise-
ment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-08
ATTACKS LICENSE LAW
City Counsel Believes Ban on Free
Permits Illegal.

Edward H. knight, city corpora
ton counsel, believes that Indiana's
1881 statute abolishing free auto
mobile licenses for cities, school
cities, and other similar corpora
tions, is invalid, he told the works
board today in a lengthy opinion.
To buy licenses for city-operated
vehicles in Indianapolis would re-
quire about $4,000 annually.
Knight said he has conferred
with deputy attorney general and
had arranged with Grover c. Gar
rott, state police chief, to obtain an
opinion on the new law from At
torney-General James M. Ogden.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-08
PHONE MERGER ASKED
Approval Sought for Joining Ia
Small Indiana Companies.

Petition for formation of the
Union Telephone Company from
fourteen small companies in Indi-
ana was filed with the public serv-
ice commission Wednesday by the
United Telephone Company of Abb
lene, Kas., recent purchaser of the
James P. Goodrich phone interests.
Companies involved in the pro-
posed merger:
Amboy Home Telephone Com
pany; Bakers Corner-Horton Com
pany; Browns Valley-Newton Com
pany; Center Telephone Company;
Citizens Cooperative Company;
Ekin Mutual Company; and Green
town, Mellott, Mooresville, Morocco,
Newton, State Line, Veedersburg
and Waynetown companies.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-08

pain for hours at a stretch, by the
use of perfectly harmless medi-
cine called Midol.
1t acts in seven minutes. Relief is
complete. The pain is gone. You
work or play in comfort. Midol is
not a narcotic and offers no inter-
ference with nature. All druggists;
ask simply for Midol-AdvertiSe
ment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-08

and a smile plays on her full lips.
She carries a Bible in her left hand.
Her voice is powerful-magically
sweet and loving with a lit that
sets one tingling."
EnShrined in this structure,
equipped with a radio and an en-
tirely modern stage Aimee scared
to heights never before surpassed
in her field. Converts came to her
in endless succession.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-08

service pins. Mrs. McKittrick, royal
advisor Of Sunshine girls, junior or
der of Pythian Sisters, also was pre-
sented a bouquet by council No. 10.
In the name of the mayor Of In
dianapolis, Mrs. LYDIA T. Roser Of
Richmond, welcomed officers and
Pythian Sisters to the city.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-08
VOTE FOR 5-DAY WEEK
PresSmen's Union First Here to Put
Idea Into Effect.

Adoption of the f1ve-day week
Immediately as a means of meet
ing the unemployment situation
was voted by the Indianapolis
Newspaper Pressmen's Union, No.
81, Monday night.
''The union feels that its action,
followed generally throughout all
industry, is the only real solution
of the unemployment problem -
Secretary Fred Lutz said.
While number of organizations
have adopted resolutions favoring
the five-day week, the pressmen's
union is the first of the local print
ing trades unions to place the idea
in effect.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-08

ing, is Mrs. Nell
c. McCurry of
Goodland, grand
chief. She will re-
main in office un-
til Friday after
noon when in
stallation of Off
GERS elected this
a f t ernoon will
take place.
A love feast"
at the Sphinx
Arms will precede
ritualistic work to
be given in the
Denison, h e a d =
O ar terS for
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-08
Six Admitted to Roines Club

Six new members were admitted
to the Roines Club, senior boys
honorary society at Manual Train
ing high school, this week. New
members are Harold Hall, Philip
Fogle, William Henzie, Winiford
Fox, Don Linson and LaVaughn
Brabender.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-08
How Do
Chorus Girls
Manage?.

The theater knowS
no sick list" Cho-
rus girls Just can't
be absent" Re-
CARELESS of the
time of month. +"
they must be in
line. on time, on
their toes, and
smiling. How do
they do it? Ma
ture doesn't spare
them. They are al
ways smiling and
active because they
have learned 20
stop all periodic
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-08
Second LOUe Shattered, Aimee
EmergeS ON Road to Success

This is the third Of six stories on the
amazing events in the love story Of
Aimee SempIe Mcpherson Hutton. the
Los Angeles evangelist. who recently en-
barked on her third honeymoon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-08
BACK HOME AGAIN

belong to:
Burly Stacy. 2151a North Walcott street,
Buick coach, found at 1000 North Talbot
avenue.
Ford touring. 585-t67, found at Twenty
third street and Northwestern avenue.
Gay Cakes. Stutz touring found in
front of 2400 South Delaware street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-08
PYTHIAN WOMEN
OPEN SESSIONS
Love Feast on Program of
Forty-Third Convention.

Pythian Sisters from all sections
Of Indiana are gathering in Indi-
annapolis today for the forty-third
annual session of the order.
Presiding over business meetings,
which formally opened this morn
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-08
TRUCK SUIT is FILED
Action Started to Mandate Mayr to
Order Foreigners" Arrested.

Legal action was started in cir
cult court Wednesday to mandate
Frank Mayr Jr., secretary of state,
to order the arrest of persons driv-
ing trucks from Georgia, Florida,
Oklahoma and Tennessee within the
boundaries of Indiana.
Those states require Indiana We
hicles to buy licenses when driving
within their territories. Indiana
does not exact license fees from
cars from outside the state.
The complaint was filed by Ward
B. Hiner. bus line operator.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-08

In the midst of this sunshine
came storm clouds.
Next: Aimee meets Kenneth Or
mission, radio operator at the tenn
pie. Their names are linked in gos-
sip. Aimee disappears from Los
Angeles beach and returns month
later and tells of being kidnapped.
Police are informed she was at a
cottage with Ormiston.