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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-16
IndividuaIism

The propaganda to make the country safe for
rugged individualism now includes campaign
against "amateurism" in retail trade. Dr. julius
Klein assistant secretary of commerce. in a recent
statement bitterly assails the entrance into business
those who lack experience, prudence and foresight
1t would be interesting If DR.. Klein or some one else
similarly fitted to discuss the subject were to speak
with complete frankness on business individuaIsm
Are the individuals for whom the world is to be saved
he general populace or limited portion of it? IF
the number is limited who are the favored few?
Or, If DR.. Klein is convert to the idea that eco
nomc planning is necessary can he not saw so frank
y as a committee of the United States Chamber of
Commerce recently did, and narrow the argument
down to what sort of economic planning we shall
have?
Certainly, almost anything would be better than
recognized business oligarchy which men without
experience forbidden to enter and which thus
would be free to operate without the restraint of either
competition or government supervision
Cubans are growing boards to show their SYM
pathy to the revolutionary cause Rebels in Chile
also took it on the chin.
Smile AS forlorn as a fashion expert in a nudist
colony.
If mans health is under par, that's not news.
but If it is his golf score, that's something else again
Indiana will devote $75O,OOO surplus to road
building. What swell flock of detoursl
Britannia rules the waves, but sometimes when
the king cuts his income Britannia valves the rules
Some people are born great, other achieve great
ness, and still others understand what the gold crisis
is all about.
An old-timer is one who remembers when getting
away with murder" was just facetious expression.
This is the time of year the headline writer's are
asking if it is spelled Tokyo or Toxic
Times are so bad in New York that the pan
handlers are said to be using paper instead of tin CUBS
1t can not be said of those Broadway plagiarists
that they can not take joke
II some people could change their minds saws the
Office sage, it would be good thing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-16
BrOun Rests

Haywood Broun, conductor Of
1T Seems to Me-" is enjoying
his annual vacation. His COL
umn again will appear on The
Times editorial page, starting
Monday, Oct. Is.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-16
Daily Thought

Woe to the bloody city! 1t is
all full Of lies and robbery
Nahum 81.
Great towns are but a large sort
Of prison to the soul.-Charron.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-16

Cubans are growing boards to show their SYM
pathy to the revolutionary cause. Rebels in Chile
also took it on the chin
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-16

Indiana will devote $75O,OoO surplus to road
building. What swell flock of detoursl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-16

Britannia rules the waves but sometimes, when
the king cuts his income, Britannia valves the rules
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-16

If mans health is under par, that's not new
but If it is his golf score that's something else agar
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-16

Smile: AS forlorn as fashion expert in nudist
colony.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-16

1t can not be said of those Broadway plagiarist
that they can not take joke.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-16

Times are so bad in New York that the pan
handlers are said to be using paper instead of tin CUPS
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-16

Some people are born great, other achieve great
ness and still others understand what the gold crisis
Is all about.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-16

This is the time of year the headline writer's are
asking if it is spelled Tokyo or Toxic
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-16

If some people could change their minds, says the
office sage, it would be good thing
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-16

An old-tmer is one who remembers when getting
away with murder" was just facetious expression.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-16

NNE of our traditions that will not down is that
~ which says that women are mysterious as the
The daily worker., 1931-09-28
Prepare Attack on
New York JObless

Tanmany Hall is getting ready for
this winter by putting through an
other law which ON the surface has
the appearance of being directed
against criminals but which will be
used as an additional weapon to ter
rorize Nnd persecute militant work
ers.
Holding a meeting behind closed
doors" writes the New York Times, a
conference of the city's agencies con-
cerned with the enforcement of GRIM
inal law, called by Mayor Walker
yesterday, decided that "The chief
new weapon is the law which permits
the arrest and sentence of the per-
son with no visible source Of income
who consorts with criminals. This
law will be used against militant un-
employed workers, who will be SEN
fenced as criminals for not being able
to show any income
The daily worker., 1931-09-28
TRY TO FRAME
DRESS STRIKER
Knitting Strike Solid;
Underw'r Shop Drive

NEW YORK unable to stop the
determined struggle of the strikers
of Needleman & Bremmer, the bosses
and company union agents are once
more resorting to frame-ups. Yes
terday noon, Fay Losoff, one of the
active strikers, was arrested on the
picket line and brought to court in
an effort to frame her up. The
fraud was so obvious that the judge
was compelled to release her on $25
bail.
The workers are determined to go
on with the strike. Active dress
makers are called upon to support
these workers on the picket line.
Vanity Knitting Mills.
All the efforts of the bosses Of the
Vanity Knitting Mills to break the
strike of the workers who went out
to fight against the 20 per cent wage
cut have been in vain. The picket
ing of the shop continues regularly.
Knitgoods workers are called on to
support the strikersf on the picket
line.
Underwear Organization Drive.
The mass meeting of the under
wear workers held on Thursday
night at Irving Plaza was very sue
cessful. Despite the fact that the
entire officialdom of the company
union and their paid gorilla commit
tees surrounded the hall in an ef-
fort to terrorize the workers and thus
keep them from going into the meet
ing, 1t was we'll attended and the
problems of the shops we're thorough
ly discussed, also the plans for Or
ganization of shop committees for
the shop as the first step toward de-
veloping the struggle against wage
cuts.
All the speakers explained the mo-
tive for the fake strike engineered by
the company union as a means of
maintaining open shop conditions
and discrediting unionism in the eyes
Of these unorganized workers. The
meeting adopted systematic plan
Of work.
The daily worker., 1931-09-28
Upholstery Strike
In Need of Relief
AS Strike Spreads

The Furniture Workers Industrial
Union continues to spread the up
holsterers' strike. Another shop has
joined the strike, the Stern and
Erlick shop in Greenpoint.
At this time, the fifth week of
the strike, many of the strikers are
without a penny and in immediate
need of relief. The F. w. l. U. calls
upon all furniture workers, in the
A. F. of L. unions to join in with
workers of other trades in showing
their solidarity with the strikers by
sending immediate contributions to
the relief fund.
The T. U. U. L. upholsters group
in Boston has responded to the relief
call with SIS and a promise Of more,
Send all relief to F. w, I. u, S East
10Th Street, New York City.
Strong picketing must go on, work
ers are called to join the picket lines
by reporting at Lorimer and Ten
yeck, Brooklyn, the strike headquart-
ers, at $50 a. m.
The daily worker., 1931-09-28
LOFT WAGE CUT
Is 18th IN YEAR
Workers Must Organ
ize and Strike

For the fourth time in less than a
year, the workers of the Loft candy
plant (Which employs over 10000 in
Long Island City have received a
wage cut. The first one was last
Christmas, then another one was
handed out at Easter and on Moth
er's Day, the girls were given cut.
Last Saturday it was announced that
starting Monday, all the workers
would have to put in so hours a week
instead Of the 48 they have been
working. The workers are not to get
a cent more for this extra time. 1t
is direct wage-cut!
The girls at the Loft plant which
includes ice-cream, bakery and candy
departments, have only been making
about IA dollars a week. The men
from 18 to 25 dollars. They used
to get 35 before the cut epidemic
began.
When the latest cut was announc-
ed, the workers, most OF whom are
young workers, were furious. They
Immediately discussed the situation
of having to live on starvation wages
and decided not to go into the fac
tory on Monday. The Loft workers
are on the right path. The only
way of defeating wage-cuts is by
striking. But strike can only be
successful if it is well organized. The
bosses are strong and the workers
must get together in one union, re-
gardIess Of what department they
work in, so that they present a
united front against the bosses at
taCks. The only union in the food
industry that is leading the fight
against wage cuts is the Food Work
ers Industrial Union.
The daily worker., 1931-09-28
Group Theatre to Pre-
sent New Paul Green
Play Tonight

The Group Theatre, an organiza-
ton headed by Harold Clu1man,
Cheryl Crawford and Lee Strasberg,
will present Paul Green's 1.-THE House
of Connolly" at the Martin Beck The
atre this evening. This is the Group
Theatres first production in New
York, and the company includes
Margaret Barker, Franchot Tone,
Morris Carnovsky, Mary Morris,
Stella Adler, Eu1.-2e Stoddard and j.
Edward Bromberg. The play is con-
cerned with the conflict between the
old and new South. The play has
been directed by Lee Strasberg and
Cheryl Crawford; the settings by
Cleon Throckmorton, the Theatre
Guild is sponsoring the engagement.
Beginning Tuesday evening, Philip
Goodman will open Vincent Law
rence'S latest play, washington
Heights" a domestic drama, at the
Maxine Elliott Theatre. The cast is
headed by William Harrigan and Jo-
anna Roos and includes Constance
Mckay, Jane Bramley and william
Crane.
Payment Deferred, by J. E. F..
Dell, which Gilbert Miller imported
from London, is scheduled for
Wednesday night at the Lyceum
Theatre. Charles Laughton, Elsa
Manchester and S. Victor play the
principal roles.
Lee Shubert's presentation Of the
Julian Wylie production of "The
Good Companions" dramatized by
j. B. Priestley and Edward Knob
lock from the novel, will have its
premiere at the 44th st. Theatre on
Thursday night. The company is
headed by George Carney, Hugh Sin
clair, Vera Lennox, Valerie Taylor,
Frank Petley and Ernest Jay.
The daily worker., 1931-09-28
Tricks Fail On
MGlrOSe Strikers
Picket Demonstration
This Morning

NEW YORK.-The strike at the
Merose Slippers, where over 125
workers fight for recognition of the
Shoe and Leather Workers Indus
trial Union and the withdrawal of
the last wage cut, is in splendid
shape.
Within the last few days the boss
has resorted in vain to all kinds of
tricks to get the workers back to the
shop. He went so far as to take out
some machinery to make the work
ers believe that he is moving out of
town 1t was found that he placed
these machines in storage. Then he
began to ask workers not to have
anything to do with this Union,
tryiTT to scare them with talk of
Reds end Communism.
At tie shop meeting the workers
freely expressed their sentiment on
all these attempts and said that as
long as the Union fights for their
interests it is their Union and they
will strike until victory.
When groups of workers went up
for their pay they were told the boss
wants to speak to the whole shop"
The strikers were prepared for such
move. They listened for while
and then the Committee answered
that all his speeches will not help
unless he calls the union represen-
tative with the Shop Committee for
an official conference. With this an
swer they all marched out.
On Monday at TOO o'clock in the
morning all strikers will be in the
front of the shop to demonstrate
their determination to strike until
they win their just demands.
Other slipper shops are already or
ganizing to follow the splendid eX-
ample of the Merose strikers. Many
meetings of such shops will be held
tonight to mobilize the workers for
struggle.
The daily worker., 1931-09-28
.HOUSEWRECKERS
MEETING TONIGHT
$500 Jobless; All Must
Struggle
BY RYAN WALKER

NEW YORK.-With a mass meet
ing called to meet today at 8 D. m.
at Manhattan Lyceum, Sc East 4th
ST., the Trade Union Unity Council
speeds up its campaign to organize
the house wreckers.
The Trade Union Unity League cor
which the T. U. U. C. is the local
central body states:
Housewreckers who still work
get as low as 80 to 20 cents an hour
and in general do not get the dollar
an hour union scale. There are 2.5on
OF them unemployed in New York.
All the gains for which they fought
Tor Is years are swept aside. The
once powerful Local 95 is now dis
lntegrating, not through the fault of
the membership but because the
leaders are unwilling to take up the
light for better conditions. The meet
ing called at Manhattan Lyceum is
to discuss what must be done to fight
Tor piece of bread"
Every housewrecker should comet
The daily worker., 1931-09-28
John Reed Club
to Start School
For Workers Art

To develop artists for the revolu-
tionary press and to teach workers
the technical side of cartoons, post
ers, painting, ETC., which can be
utilized in the working class move
ment, the Artists Group of the John
Reed Club is opening an art school
at the new center of the Club, So
West 18th Street, where classes will
be held three nights a week in both
the elementary and more advanced
forms of art.
The various classes in the cartoon,
composition, poster, illustration and
life will be headed by group of
capable teachers consisting of Crop
per, Burck, LozoWick, Siegel, Pass,
Bard, Quirt and others who under
stand the technical side of their sub
jects as well as the needs of the
working class movement.
Glasses will be held on Monday,
Wednesday and Friday evenings with
a monthly tuition fee of three dol
lars. Registration opens on october
End from seven to nine, at the head
quarters of the club, 65 w. 18th st.
The daily worker., 1931-09-28
L'NDRY WORKERS
NOW ORGANIZING
Call Conference to
Form Union

About $50 laundry workers met last
Thursday night at Ambassador Hall,
Claremont Parkway and Third Ave,
Bronx. About so joined the organ
ization. This is the answer of the
rank and file to the betraying takers,
Brooks and Bloom, of the former
racket-controlled union.
I. Blum of the organization COM
nittee reported on the plans of the
organization committee for the COM
ing four weeks. The report was dis
cussed by the rank and file from the
floor. The main point in the report
was the proposal of the organiza-
ton committee to call a conference
on october 18, at which the union
will be definitely organized. The con-
ference is to be composed of dele
-ates from the shops, with one dele
gate to every five workers.
The former officials, Brooks and
Bloom, were further exposed when
two workers reported how these fax
ers went to the bosses to represent a
worker who was fired from the West
boro Laundry, without the worker
knowing about what. While Brooks
told the worker to go back on the job,
the boss told the worker he does not
want him. This is another example
Of the dirty work of these takers.
A membership meeting is being
called by the organization committee
for next Thursday. At this meeting
the conference will be discussed and
the question of strengthening the Or
ganization in the shops will be taken
up.
The daily worker., 1931-09-28
USE UNION FUND
TO HIRE SCABS
Members of Locals "a
and AZ to Protest

NEW YORK-The strike at the G..
j. Engel and H. A. Rosen shops, AZ
W. 39th St., continues in spite of
the efforts of the officials of Local
"a to break it.
The strike committee has issued a
special appeal to all members OF
Locals "a and AZ Company union)
1t reads in part
"When the trimmers scabbing on
us at the Engel and Rosen shops
complain about the low prices and
are unwilling to remain scabbing,
your dues payments are used to pay
them from 81 to $40 extra out of
Local "a treasury in addition to what
the boss pays them.
Instead of helping you to fight for
your prices or settling your disputes
and complaints, Miss Oppenhein1,
Mendelowitch and all the other or
ganizers spend their time breaking
our strike.
1--WE appeal to you as working
girls striking for a living wage to
sign this petition demanding that
Local "a stop sending scabs on our
jobs and to withdraw the scabs al
ready sent by your local"
Below the appeal are blanks for
signing the petition. All members
of Local "a and 42 should sign this
petition and turn it over to the
strikers.
The Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union stands ready to form
united front committees in all the
shops for the purpose of fighting for
conditions regardless of the trade
union affiliations.
All workers are urged to come to
the picket line, AZ w. 39th st.
The daily worker., 1931-09-28
Zone Big Ball" Oct. 3
Will Help Trade Union
Unity Council to Build

NEW YORK.-The One Big Ball
of the Trade Union Unity Council
to be held on october Bird, at Rock
land Palace, 155th st. and 9th Ave,
is one of the means by which funds
will be gathered to make possible
more activity and preparations for
the coming strikes and struggles.
Every class conscious worker must
fulfill his duty towards our revolu-
tionary movement by selling tickets
and getting his fellow workers to
come to the ball 1t will be the big
proletarian affair of the year with
dance music furnished by the John
G. Smith Negro orchestra, and a spe-
cial program arranged by the Work
ers Cultural Federation, including
such features as: John Reed Club
artists, who will draw cartoons, and
Workers Laboratory Theatre, which
will present a play.
The daily worker., 1931-09-28
CHAMBER MUSIC FOR WORKERS
AND STUDENTS

The Peoples Symphony Concerts
announce for the season a series of
six chamber music concerts on Fri
day evenings and a Saturday eve
ming series Of six artists recitals. The
Chamber Music Series is to begin on
october % and the Artists Recitals
on october "a. Both series take place
in the Washington Irving High
School. A club subscription for stu
dents and workers for each series is
81; for both courses. So. Tickets are
obtainable at the office Of the Peo-
pies Symphony Concerts, 80 Union
Square.
The daily worker., 1931-09-28
Food Destroyed
AS Workers Starve

SAN FRANCISCO, - Pea ch
growers will pull up 5000 acres of
trees as part of the California de-
struction plan adopted with the
support of the Gamers to halt the
surplus"
LOS ACCOMPLISHMENTS Of
cases of eggs were smashed in the
streets by business men to boost
the egg trade.
SOUTH CAROLINA-Legislat-
ure passes bill prohibiting the
planting of cotton for 1882.
BOSTON. - Fruit ship ordered
to dump a cargo of bananas.
NEW YORK-FiShermen dump
ed fish from both pond traps and
vessels because merchants pur-
posely offer low prices. This is
reported by a fisherman who says,
L know because I'm a fisherman
and at order from my boss I have
dumped tons over the tide off
Tayville, L. l.
BRAZIL. - Hundreds of thous-
ands of bags of coffe dumped into
the sea. All of this to keep up
profits for the capitalists in face
Of wage cuts, unemployment and
starvation.
The daily worker., 1931-09-28

BALTIMORE, Sept. 27-The wide
spread existence of forced labor in
the United States was further re-
vealed this week with the exposure
by the Baltimore Afro-American of
the recruitment in this city of 200
unemloyed Negro workers and their
sale to farmers of the Eastern Shore
at S1.6o per man as corn shockers.
The Afro-American received the
story Of this outrage against the
Negro workers through one of three
Of the 200 impressed men who man
aged to escape from one of the new
slave owners. The Afro-American
states:
According to the story told the
Afro American, 200 men were re-
cruited by the Chesapeake Shipping
and Employment Office at 426 E.
Pratt Street. They were told by
agents that they were needed at
Church Hill, Md, for work on farms
and would be paid 81 per day, They
we're ferried to the Eastern Shore
where some fifty white farmers met
the boat to receive them
There the workers were put on
the auction block in numbers of
fOurs and fives, while the farmers
walked up and down inspecting
them. As each farmer made his
selection he paid the slave-recruit-
ing employment agency $3.50 per
head.
Taken to the farms the men were
told by the farmers that under
the arrangement" made with the
agency, they could not leave until
the shocking and other farm work
wanted CT them had been completed.
No wages were to be paid:
"The Afro informant stated that
instead Of corn shocking the first
day he was put to work picking
tomatoes. A woman who was al
ready working on the place told
him that there was but a slim
chance Of his getting the 81 per
day"
Before being taken to the Eastern
Shore for sale to the farmers, the
workers were held at the employ
ment office all afternoon without
food, nor did they get any food from
the farmers until the next morning
when they were awakened at 4
o'clock to start their days free labor
for the boss farmers. The only food
that was given them consisted of
oatmeal without milk, black coffee
and water. At dinner very fat meat
replaced the oatmeal They were
forced to work from 5 a m. to 7.30
at night,
The three men who escaped we're
challenged by the farmer when they
slipped out that night and started
to the road. Keeping watch against
Just such an attempt, the farmer
challenged them with where are
you damned darkies going?" 1t was
only after the farmers wife came out
and pleaded with him to avoid
trouble with Baltimore niggers" who
she told her husband kill whit
people" that they were allowed to
proceed unmolested.
HELENA, Ark, Sept 27.-Unem-
ployed workers are being impressed
The daily worker., 1931-09-28
WORKERS LINED UP, INSPECTED
BYFARMERS; ARKANSAS JOBLESS
IMPRESSED FOR COTTON FIELDS
Escaped Worker Tells Story of Forced Labor
Recruitment to Baltimore Afro-American
Phillips County, Ark, Orders Unemployed tc
Accept Starvation Wages for Picking
Cotton of Face Arrest

by Phillips County authorities for
forced labor in the cotton fields. In
their campaign to supply planters
with laborers during the cotton pick
ing season, the county authorities
have ordered all unemployed workers
to report for work picking cotton at
the starvation wages set by the
planters or face arrest. Several
truckloeds Of impressed workers left
here today for the plantations. Of
ficers followed the trucks to arrest
those workers who refuse to accept
the starvation pay of the planters.
The daily worker., 1931-09-28
Rogers to Speak On
Socialism In U.S.S.R.

Recently returned after spending
over a year in Soviet Russia, Pauline
Rogers will describe her own expert
ences as a participant in the great
work of building Socialism in a talk
tonight (Monday) at 8 o'clock at La
Dor Temple, 14th st. and Second Ave.
Her talk, which is being given under
the auspices of the Friends Of the
Soviet Union, will be illustrated with
slides of the latest economic and cul-
tural developments in the U.S.S.R.
The daily worker., 1931-09-28
KNITGOODS WORKERS,
ATTENTION,

NEW YORK-The Knitgoods De-
partment of the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union calls on
knitgoods workers to come to the
union office, 131 West 29th ST., Tues
day at 7:30 a. m. for special work
that will last not more than 80 min
utes. Unemployed knitgoods work.
ers are asked to report daily.