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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-03
STEAL GOODS CLOTHES
Auto Robbed as De PAW University
Student Visits Friend.

Theft Of $3.50 worth Of clothing
from the auto of Miss Virginia Nor
gan Of Jonesboro, De Paw univer-
sity student, was reported today to
police Miss Morgan and her father
we're calling on a friend Of the girls
at 81 East Fourteenth street when
the clothing was stolen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-03
RALSToN FILLS POST
Named Member of City Board of
Electrical Examiners.

Emmett G. Ralston, Indianapolis
Power and Light Company executive
vice president. has been named a
member Of the city board Of cleo
trical examiners.
Ralston fills vacancy caused by
death Of William F. Hah-7ey. The
board examines applicants for mas
ter electrician hcens' j. Other mem
bers are William F. Hurd, building
commissioner; Otis Porter, Otto NJ.
MuellerE9nd Ford H Moore
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-03
ASSAILANT IS SOUGHT
Woman, Hit With Glass or Bottle
Is Treated at Hospital.

Police today sought a man whom
they will accuse as the aSsailant
who struck Mrs. Thresa Morrison,
40. of 1913 West Henry street, with
water glass or bottle in a house
at 1914 West Washington street
Thursday night. She was treated
at city hospital.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-03
DELAY T. H., |. & E. CASE
Public Service Commission Grants
More Time in Service Fight.

Ten days extension for fling
briefs has been granted attorneys
for the city of Greenfield in the
Terre Haute, Indianapolis g. East
ern traction abandonment case be-
fore the public service commission.
The city Is fighting to keep service
to Greenfield from indianapolis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-03
BUILDING TO BE TALLEST
Empire state Building Will House
10000 People.
n Unltea press

bV United PrcSs
NEW YORK, April 3.-The En-
pire State building, taHest struc-
ture in the world-erected by a
company of which Alfred E. Smith
is president-will house between
10000 and $4,000 persons when all
offices are rented, agents estimated
today.
Workers will pour into this small
city by all Of New York's three sub
way systems-the Seventh avenue
line, the Lexington avenue line and
the Brooklyn-Man Broadway
system
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-26
YONKERS ,JOBLESS
IN COURT TODAY
Boss Attack on Refusal
To Starve

YONKERS, Feb. 25.-The trial of
Milton WEIGH, organizer of the I'M
employed, and William Walters, I'M
employed carpenter, arrested on Feb.
II during an unemployed meeting at
Larkin Plaza, comes up tomorrow at
10 a. m. at City Court before Judge
George w. Boote. WEIGH is charged
with disorder1y conduct, Walters with
interfering with policeman in his
rights" to beat up workers.
The International Labor Defense is
defending the case and plans to sub
poena Mayor Fogarty in an effort to
force the city to openly declare it's
attitude towards the unemployed
workers in their struggle against
starvation and to force the mayor to
admit responsibility for the police
terror which has been loosed on Yon-
kers workers at all meetings held
in support of the demand for unem-
ployment insurance.
The police have terrorized the own
ers IF halls into refusal to rent their
balls to the Unemployed Councils.
An affidavit to this effect, signed
by hall owner, is in the possession
Of the I. L. D.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-26
LESS JOBS IN NY.
OFFICIAL ADMITS
Situation Worsens All
the Time

NEW YORK.-Unemployment is
getting worse here all the time. said
Ed ward c. Rybicki, director of the
City Free Employment Agency Tues
day, in statement to the capitalist
newspapers. Though tens of thou
sands keep on applying for work,
Rybicki stated that the number of
jobs available have dropped from 400
to less than $50 day. Most of these
too, he added, were just a few days
work.
At the same time the. Salvation
Army, which is making fortune
buying property on money collected
supposedly for unemployment relief"
said at the same time there is no
improvement in the unemployment
situation"
Instead Of providing relief for the
admittedly growing army of unem-
ployed, as admitted by the city Of
ficials, the city government is plan
ming fake drive for jobs. knowing
that the factories will not start up,
and not wanting to give the I'M
employed real relief. the city is pro-
posing the creation of "odd jobs"
at which the workers will slave at
practically no pay.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-26
ALBANY HUNGER
MARCHERS LEAVE
200 In March To Fight
For Relief

Marching against hunger, the
delegation of 200 jobless, represent
ing the unemployed of New York,
left the city today on the first stretch
of their five-day march to Albany,
where they will demand from the
state legislature immediate relief and
unemployment insurance.
Marching through crowded streets,
carrying placards and banners that
gave their slogans, they indicated
their determination to bring to the
attention of the bosses state govern
ment that the jobless were prepared
to make an organized fight for I'M
employment insurance, against star
Walton.
The marchers will reach Yonkers
by noon, where the workers at the
Cooperative Club will feed them.
BY tonight the Hunger Marchers
will have reached Mohegan, Ossining
and Peekskill, where they will hold
meetings, in which the Unemployed
Councils, the unemployed and en-
ployed workers of those towns will
participate.
The mayors of all the towns along
the line of march have refused the
marchers the use of the armories
and city halls for shelter, condemn
ing the marchers as Migrants. But
the workers, rallying with great en-
thusiasm, have indicated their soli-
darity with the fight for unemploy-
ment insurance by offering their
homes, their clubs, etc.
Meetings will be held in all towns
along the line of march. Tens of
thousands of workers and jobless
will be modified for solidarity along
CONTINUED ON PAGE TwO)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-26
THOUSANDS OF JOBIESS PLEDGE TO CARRY ON FIGHT
On With the Fight!

ALMOST simultaneously yesterdays demonstrations
starvation reports yet this
the Salvation York City issued the following
nouncement:
There is no Improvement in the unemployment situation.
Thercare a Iimte men
day jobs ON THE DECREASE.
sign o upward industries"
This estimate
Employment
that the daily the have fallen from
400 a day to $50 day"
the time Commissioner of Markets Dvyer announced that
the needy families occasional baskets of food by the
$1,000 now
1T had been the expectation of
smaller said Dryer BUT THE
CONTRARY HAS BEEN TRUE
When these facts for York City weighed together
reports published
Illinois other states then the lying character of
situation becoming More workers
being laid off Suffering from hunger increases
Yesterdays demonstrations involving of thousands of
prove powerful forcing
their hng consider the workers demands for adequate
immediate relief and for unemployment to meet this
stanty worsenng situation
demonstrations Yesterday must be followed
energetic
employed sody organizing them for still greater struggles against
me bosses Starvation still remains the main task OF the dis
c sections units of the Communist Party and the Trade Union
Unity And organization must receive the major emphasis
the present period.
past Party T. U.
the Unemployed Councils organizing the struggle for the unemployed
eophg the 'iase u Inc uhenpioseu e ose pe
drawn into widest participation formulating demands in the
unemployed councils include hundreds of thousands of the than
100000 ess workers in the United States The tendencies
afraid
unemployed into the for fear the
everywhere
widest initiative and paici-
patton in phase of the growing struggle of the unemployed
against hunger and starvation the fight for immediate relief
and for unemployment insurance
day the need for immediate relief becomes greater Every
the demand unemployment Despite the
propaganda of the the braya Of the socialists and the
of msleades and the erosc attacks of the police the fight for
two months subsidy to every unemployed worker and for
insurance must forward With stronger organization with
initiative we say on with the fight!
the relief
Garry forward the fight for unemployment insurance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-26
BULLETIN.

LAWRENCE. Mass, Feb. 25.-The
full strike committee met the em-
pIoyers at 8 a. m, but only ON con-
dition that the mounted police be
withdrawn and the electric power
shut off in the mills.
The committee recommends the
strikers stand firm for the de-
mands: time and half overtime,
double time for holidays, no eff
cheney experts, no discrimination,
recognition of the mill committees
and departmental committees to
settle special grievances.
Thousands were on the picket
line this morning. There is tense
situation here. The strikers hold a
mass meeting tonight.
LAWRENCE, Mass. Feb. 25.-Mass
by thousands yesterday, the
ines being formed morning, noon ano
night, in the face of the charging
police, and with mass pick
cts again entering one of the mills
and cleaning it out, blocked the
American Wooden Companys .boasted
attempt to reopen the mills.
Instead of breaking the strike by
the offers to grant part of the de-
mands made Sunday by the heads
of the wooden trust> and by the po-
lice threats, the strike actually grew
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-26
$4,000 MASS IN
UNION SQUARE
Organized Marches To
Demonstration

NEW YORK.-Over $4,000 workers
packed Union Square yesterday at
4:30 p. m. enthusiastically shouting
their solidarity with the world DEM
onStrationS against hunger and cap
italism. 1t was mass rally to spread
the fight for unemployment insur-
ance and to give a send-of to the
200 hunger marchers who leave for
Albany today. When the Gordon Of
police saw the huge masses of march
ing workers come into the Square,
choking the side streets, they roped
of the streets, preventing thousands
from Joining the demonstration.
Altogether at least 10000 workers
were either in the Square or stand
ing in large groups on side streets
and on all corners approaching the
scene of the demonstration.
Disciplined Ranks.
From al sides, the workers marched
into the Square with remarkable dis
cipline, singing and shouting slo-
gans for unemployment insurance
and relief. Each time a group, with
its banners and placards, arrived at
the Square, it was greeted with
enthusiastic cheering.
Throughout the demonstration,
these organized groups that had
marched through the city kept their
ranks solid.
The entire Square was covered with
a sea of placards blazoning the slo-
gans of the unemployed: Don't
starVe, Fight! Demand a lump sum
for 2 months support from the boss
government! Spread the Fight for
the Unemployment Insurance Bill
Stop Evictions Build Unemployed
Councils! All War Funds to the Un-
employed for Relief! Defend the
Soviet Union!'
Fight Hunger!'
Particularly outstanding were the
two large colored banners, one with
a deaths head and bones with the
slogan: Eight Hunger" ana the
CONTINUED ON PAGE Two)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-26
Expose Bloody Tyranny and Forced
Labor Under US. Tool In Venezuela

his private plantations, on the roads
and on port-works--driven under the
lash, loaded with chains?"
Beals then cites many authenti-
Gated cases of the most bloodcurdling
fortunes, of bloody terror, of whole
sale arrests and Imprisonment in dun
geon cells, Of wholesale robbery of
the masses, of forced labor and other
forms of slavery, Of suppression of
strikes and the putting "of hundreds
OF workers to work on the roads in
chains for having protested against
their slipcriors pockcting part of their
wages" of "thc sight Of two political
prisoners hung up by meat-hooks
through their jaws to die of oyer
800 students put to forced labor UNI
der the lash on the roads, Of the
riveting to an iron bar in the Rot
unda Of 63-year-old man who was
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREEl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-26
|. L. G. Gangsters Try to Prevent
Dressmakers from Joining Strike

NEW YORK. The successful pick
citing of the striking dressnakers
here is causing the I. L. c., the COM
pany union, to come to the aid Of
the needle trade employers with
choice collections of muscle-bound
gangsters.
Hiring gangsters to help the poor
bosses is an old I. L. G. custom, one
that isn't meeting with very much
success during the present strike.
The militancy of the strikers guard
against the attacks which strikers in
the needle trades have suffered in
the past. The gangsters, however,
are having some success in another
direction; they are preventing, by
force, dressmakers who want to join
the strike. The employers in many
instances are actually keeping all
their doors and fire escape exits
locked, in direct contravention of all
safety rules, for the same purpose.
GGfGidt ClelSllGo DC1NCC4l dAll
company union gangsters have al
ready occurred, with the strikers CIV
ing a good account of themselves on
every occa sion. The picketers are at
disadvante e. however, inasmuch as
the police ai.est every picket they
see defending him self. Thus, Is pick
cts were arrested yesterday, one for
assault, though not single gangster
was taken in.
Shops Settle In Bronx.
Nine of the IS dressmakers were
arrested in the Bronx, where strike
activity has increased notably in the
last few days. The militancy of the
picketing here forced two employers
to settle yesterday on the terms laid
down by the Needle Trades Workers
Industrial Union, affiliated with the
I U. U. L., and several more shops
CONTINUED ON PAGE TWOl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-26

i'll the wages of the miners is signed
by the Supreme Economic Council
of the USSR, the Soviet Central
Council of Trade Unions, and the
Central Committee Of the mine work
ers union, and reads:
For the purpose of increasing the
productivity of labor and increasing
the output of coal, and likewise for
further improvinb the material posi-
ton of the basic cadres of under
ground workers in the coal mining
industry, men on mechanical coal
cutters, hewers, haveurs, shoppers,
timber-setters, borers, haulers, con-
veyor mechanics and scrapers, I'M
derhand stopping hewers. horse-driv-
ers: the presidium of the Supreme
Economic Council of the USSR, the
Soviet Central Council of the trade
unions, and of the Central Com
mittee of the mine workers union,
hereby resolve:
l. To increase the average tariff
rates of those categories of workers
by 20 per cent, the amount of in
crease in the rates for each individual
category be established in agreement
with the Central Committee of the
Mineworkers' Union and the economic
organizations.
2. To propose to the board Of
Coal and to the All Ukrainian
Committee Of the Mineworkcrs In the
Don Basin and the corresponding
economic trade union organizations
in the other coal basins within five
days to conclude supplementary
agreements and to carry them out as
from February 18th inst.
Chairman, Supreme Economic
CouncilUSSR,
S. ORDJONIKIDzE.
Secretary Soviet CCTU,
WEINBERG.
Chairman, CO. Mineworkers'
Union
....,x.,.1 y, 6MIRNOYs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-26
Thousands On Chain
Gangs and in
Dungeons

tools in the effort to cover up the
connection of American imperialism
with Liberian slavery, Beals satirical-
ly inquiries:
"Can it be that Mr.. Stimson is as
ignorant of Venezuela as he was OF
Brazil and Guatemala? Is it pos
sible. that nc knows nothing
OF the five thousand political pris-,
oners in the Roturda hcll-hole and
the various fortresscs, undergoing the
morst torturing conditions existing
anywhere in the modern world; moth
ing of the ten thousand prisoners
and worker, conscribed at the whim
OF the Dictator. who are toiling ON
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-26
100000 in new YORK; $4,000 in
PHILADELPHIA; 10000 IN BOSTON;
DEMAND RELIEF IN ALL CITIES
American Workers
i'm the Soviet Union
Greet Jobless Here

NEW YORK.-"We greet the
workers fighting in the capitalist
cities of America on Feb. rs, the
day of struggle against capitalist
starvation and slavery, fighting
also against the campaign against
the Union of Socialist Soviet Re
pubiics, the only country where
the workers are free and there is
no unemployment"
This is the cablegran1 received
yesterday, International Fighting
Day Against Unemployment, by
the Trade Union Unity League
National Office here. 1t was sent.
by the American workers in the
Auto and Tractor Plant at Mini
Novgorod, U. S. S. r.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-26

NEW YORK.-Asking Secretary of
State Stimson "Why is forced labor
unholy in Liberia, Mr.. Stimson, and
holy in Venezuela" Carleton Beals,
in recent issue of The New Free
man. gives a detailed exposure of the
revolving conditions in Venezuela I'M
der the murderous rule of the Die
tator, Gomez. who was ushered into
power over 20 years ago under the
auspices of American gunboats and
has since been kept in power by Mr..
Stimson and his fellow impcrialists
who preceded him in the State De-
partmcnt and all of whom faithfully
pursued the policies Of Wall Street.
Correctly assuming that his expos
urc Of conditions in Venezuela will
have no effect on Stimson, who ma
turally prefers peddling lies about
forced labor in the Soviet Union or
discrediting his America Liberian
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-26
BEN B0LOFF IS /
CONVICTED BY I
SEATTLE BOSSES

PORTLAND, Ore. Feb. 25.--Ben
Orloff, one Of the thirteen militant
workers first tried under the "crinu-
nal syndicalist" act for his working
class activities has been found guilty
her today after q two hour "deliber-
alton" by packed jury. The ''crim-
inal syndicalist" act of Oregon carries
a sentence of up to 10 years in the
penitentiary.
The trial and conviction of Zen
Boloff paves the way for the state
for an immediate railroading of the
other twelve workers who have been
indicted under the same bosses law.
The capitalist press in Oregon who
have paid considerable attention to
this trial is limiting that the authors
ties in Oregon are not only going
through imrpediately with these cases
but will arrest and prosecute all the
workers affiliated with militant or
CARNATIONS.
The witness brought forward by the
state against Boloff were two stool
pigeons from the Portland police de-
partment and an immigration in
spector, and the evidence introduced
against this militant worker we're the
standard pamphlets issued BY the
Communist Party like tho ABC Of
Communism The Communist Mani
festo. State and Revolution and co.
pies of the pailJ worker Irwin
Goodman attorney for the Interna-
tional Labor Defense insisted all
through the trial thai the doors
should be kept open so the hundreds
of workers crowdlng the corridors of
the court can listen to the proceed-
ings ,l......
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-26
STOPS EVICTION
OF UNEMPLOYED
Sick Mother and Child
Put on Street

NEW YORK.-The Downtown I'm
employed Council today at o'clock
moved the furniture of an evicted
jobless laborer, Tony Romano of SO
LUDLOW st. back into his rooms on
the fourth floor of the tenement.
Romano had been jobless year
now and his dependents are a sick
wife and child. He had been un-
able to pay any rent for two months.
After putting his furniture back, the
Council. of which Romano is mem
Der, held meeting ON the corner
and were enthusiastically acclaimed
by the workers i'll meeting.
After. the spontaneous meeting at
the corner, the council marched to
Cooper Square where they held
mass meeting. From here they
marched to Union Square where the
main demonstration was soon to
start Il Fl 1 TTsHa az
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-26
Mathew Wolf and Socialists
Work for War on U.S.S.R,

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.-Matthew
Woll took the occasion of discussion
on the Kendall Bill in the Senate,
barring Soviet products on the fake
ground of convict labor" to launch
one of his bitterest attacks against
the workers republic. Vol calls for
war against the Soviet Union, APP
pealing to the wage-cutting bosses
to use all their might to crush the
Union of Socialist Soviet Republics.
His letter written to President Hoo
yer, the prime mover in the war prep
arations against the Soviets, is an
hysterical cry for armed struggle OF
the imperialists against the workers
government. Vol says that "A ma
tional emergency exists" To Vol
it is not the emergency of 100000
starving unemployed workers who are
fighting for unemployment insurance,
but it is the advance of the Soviet
Union under the Five-Year Plan.
This he calls an economic war"
against capitalism, He ends up his
letter by an appeal to the American
patriotic societies, American business
and commercial organizations and
American religious bodies" in short
all the enemies of the workers, to
further the war against the Soviet
Union.
Supporting the active war prepara-
tions of the Hoover, Vol, Green out
fit Is the socialist party. 1t is true
that Vol is a little more blunt in
his method but the. socialists, who
hate the Soviet Union just as rabidly
as Mr.. Vol, of the Civic Federation,
do their utmost to bring about war.
The New Leader recently reprinted
the manifesto of the labor and So
cialist international calling on the
Russian workers to join the counter
revolution. This manifesto which
was ordered by BRAND, as proved at
the wreckers' trial in Moscow. meets
with the full approval Of the socialist
party, and was recently endorsed
again at the New York City con-
vention James Oncal, editor Of the
New Leader, criticizes the Conference
for Progressive Labor Action because
it says 1t is against those who "join
In the hue and cry against Russia"
Oneal becomes indignant over this
and does his bit to ensure socialist
support to the Intervention schemes
Of the imptnslists by yelping about
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-26
TRAIN DISPATCHES DO DOUBLE
WORK.

NEW YORK. - Train dispatchers
are being made to handle too large
a territory, so that the safety of those
who operate and ride the trains is
menaced. said p--- ' Of
the American Train Dispatchers As
ISOLATION in the current Train Dis
patcher. Luhrsen added that wages
of unorganized dispatchers through
out the country are being cut.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-26
10000 Laurence Strikers
Picket Mills, Close Them
Strike Spread Tuesday in Spite of Company
Offer and Police Terror; Force Police To
Withdraw Before Conference Starts

on the critical day, yesterday. Even
the capitalist press now admits there
are more than 10000 out.
The three American Wooden Com
pany's mills here, Washington, Wood,
and Aver, are closed down tight once
more. In addition. 20 Operators in
the Selden Worsted Mills at Methuen
walked out yesterday. And word was
received that some 400 additional in
in the Atlantic Mills are ready to join
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-26
Mayor Grants Larkin
Plaza to Workers Ex-
Seryicemen's League

YONKERS. N. Y.-The mayor Of
Yonkers granted workers a permit to
have Larkin's Plaza today at II noon.
The permit was given to the Work.
ers Ex-Servicemen's League to speak
on the bonus and Unemployment In
surance. The Unemployed Delega-
ton will march through Yonkers in
the afternoon.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-26
800 STRIKE AT
EVERETT, MASS.
Joining Metal League
Of the T. U. U. L,

EVERETT, Mass, Feb. 25.-Eight
hundred are on strike at the radio
factory here. Many have joined the
Metal Workers Industrial League
of the Trade Union Unity League.
The employers are back of an at
tempt to deport Joseph Lemieux, a
Canadian young worker, for his &C.
tivity in Everett.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-26

terror" in the Soviet Union, con-
veniently forgetting the socialist ter
ror in India against the Indian work
ing masses, while the Soviet terror"
is directed against the bosses and
their agents.