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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-01
BRANDS THUGS EDWARDS
No Such Thing as Bravery Among
GangsterS, Asserts Baker.

There is no such thing as heroism
or bravery among gangsters. Grim
inal Judge Frank P. Baker told the
Mems Brotherhood of the Uni
versity Heights United Brethren
church Monday night.
THE gangster is no hero, as
movies often picture him. He lives
in constant fear of his own life and
is a most craven coward.
MY experience in court has been
to find that criminals don't stick
together when caught, but each
tries to double-croSS the other to
save his own hide" the judge said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-01
LARRY RICH HAS BIG
VARIETY REVUE NOW
PortIy Comedian and Band Master Has Unit Now That
Is Bound to Be the Talk of the Town.
BY WALTER ID. HICKMAN

AIRY RICH big comedian ability
has surrounded himself
experience.
Rich brings about forty entertainers before he
proceedings
He takes these individual
the
the longest shows have the
unable to all the that take
think his Dand the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-01
Christmas Bonuses Announced

ny OHtIeU RfeSS
NEW YORK, Dec. 1.-Christmas
bonuses ranging from four weeks to
four months salary for employees
have been announced by Gertlee,
Devlet & Co., bond brokers with
offices in Chicago, Kansas City, st.
Louis, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Phila-
delphia and Boston.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-01

Maxine, a wire
walker, to singers,
harmony girls, a
little fellow and
dancers.
I admire the
work of Maxine
on the wire. I
believe that he
has every right to
be considered a
wizard in his
c h os en- work.
There are wire
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-01

That has always been my favorite
in all the things that Rich has done.
He gives them melody and action
and the result is pleased audience.
The featured acts run all the way
The daily worker., 1931-02-23
Belgium Furniture
Workers Strike to
Stop Wage Cutting

BRUSSELS.--The ranks Of the
striking furniture workers in Mecheln
have now grown to 500. The workers
organized In the christian, liberal and
social democratic unions are taking
part In the strike. The reformist
leaders Of the three unions involved
did their best to prevent the workers
from striking. The revolutionary
trade union opposition is fighting to
secure the LEADERSHIP Of the strike.
The employers announced wage
cut Of per cent in the Bronzeworks
Roussel-Servais in Brussels, to come
into operation on February 14th. A
section of the workers under revolu-
tionary leadership ignored the efforts
of the reformist leaders to prevent
the strike and decided to go on strike.
These workers were threatened with
dismissal by the employers, where
upon all the workers in the factory
came out this morning. A proposal
of the reformist trade union leaders
to go to arbitration was rejected by
the workers whA decided to continue
tbA StSlke .--.--s--~- - -a-a :
The daily worker., 1931-02-23
CANADA LOGGERS
HIT LIES ABOUT
FORCED LABOR -
Work in Soviet Union
and Know Facts

MOSCOW.-At present there are
Canadian loggers at work in the So
Wet Union. They are operating in
the Matorssk and Pryashinsk dis
tricts in Carelia. A correspondent
of the telegraph agency "Rosta" has
sopken with these men concerning
the allegations of forced labor" in
the Soviet logging camps. A Can
adian lumber jack named Harvey,
answered the correspondent in the
name of all the Canadian loggers at
work in the district:
eve have been working here for a
long time, but we have seen no signs
Of any forced labor. The conten-
tions of Senator Fish and other capi-
talist politicians concerning the al
legged use of forced labor in the Soviet
logging camps are nothing but in
solent. However, in the United States
and in Finland, where I and my
fellow workers have been, forced la
bor is actually used"
A second Canadian lrmberjack
named Lachde, described how he had
stood bail for political prisoners en-
ployed on lumber work in the United
States. In the United States, he de-
clared. very much prison labor was
used for the production of agricul-
tural machinery. Lachde also de-
scribed how he had worked in South
American lumber camps where many
prisoners, mostly political, had been
compelled to work. They we're very
badly treated and their quota was
placed much higher than that of the
normal workers. When they failed
to produce the quota they were beat
en- up.
The daily worker., 1931-02-23

job, it is usually for $40 to SIS a
week, and is job that someone
previously had been paid about S25
or $50 week. Many have been
here week after week for over six
months and never been handed a
job yet. Most of the fellows here
are young workers. Besides the $50
to $50 unemployed men that come
here daily at 9 a. m. there are so
to $50 unemployed girls also coming
daily at p. M. seeking work.
If Polin comes across a militant
worker who reads the Daily Worker,
he refuses to register him on his list.
This bureaucrat also has a way of
acting hard boiled to the unemployed
workers, refusing to register an un-
employed worker because he comes to
the office few minutes after 9 a. m.
Each day, it is common sight to see
hungry unemployed workers who did
not have carfare to ride to the unem-
ployment office and who therefore
had to walk the distance from their
homes, thus arriving few minutes
after a. M, begging Polin to be
registered. He, however, refuses to
do so without exception.
This unemployment bureau seems
to be conducted for the purpose of
keeping the unemployed off the
streets as the business men are
afraid of hungry, desperate work
ers turning to "crime" in order to
exist. So the policy of the bureau
is to make bluff at registration
and to just leave you hang around
in the office until about noon time
when you are told to go home.
1t is high time that these unem-
ployed be organized into Unem-
ployed Councils. A demonstration
of the local Unemployed Council
outside the unemployment bureau
would have a very good effect and
would result in thoroughly expos
ing Polin's outfit for the miserable
boss crew that they are. ! am sure
if this were done, many of us
would join the Unemployed Council.
-Worcorr.
The daily worker., 1931-02-23
BUILD FAST SHIPS
FOR COMING WAR
Anti-War Paper Sup
pressed in School

The French imperialists have
launched what is called the fastest
ship. The Aigle was launched We'd
nesday at Dunkirk, as part OF the
speed-up naval building program of
France. Italy threatens increased
armaments, and this sets off whole
wave of naval building in the United
states and Britain.
While dozens of bills for increased
naval building are pending in Con-
gress, the Navy Department is or
dering the construction of new large
submarines. This is just part of the
ST 900, ,00o, 900 naval building program
that Admiral Pratt said was immed-
lately necessary.
Stressing the fact that war was
just as imminent today as it was in
1914, Admiral Reginald r. Belknap,
of the United States Navy, in a
speech before the New York Exchange
Club on Thursday said peace talk
was just as prominent in 1914 as it
is today and things are hardly as
peaceful now as they were then"
AS part Of the militarization cam
paign, the authorities of the College
OF the City Of New York have con-
fiscated the first issue of a magazine
gotten out by the Social Problems
Club of the university. entitled
Frontiers" This issue dealt with
the war danger and exposed the rapid
militarization of the youth in prep
aration for the coming war.
The daily worker., 1931-02-23
CAINST HUNGER AND EVICTIONS! ALL OUT FEBRUARY Is!
.Lay-Otts, Wage.
Cuts Rage in
Mansfield, O.
Mansfield, Ohio.

Mansfield, Ohio.
Dear comrades;
Every day we have more men out
OF Jobs in this 100 per cent typical
city. Recently the Cleveland South
western Electric Railway quit the
lines for good, throwing hundreds of
men on the streets. Lots of the men
worked as long as 20 years, one OF
them "a years.
In local rubber plant they are
placing all girls ON mems jobs; that
is in the tube department.
More Wage Cuts
In the Empire Steel Corp. there is
talk of putting in lot of automatic
machines so we will still have more
men out of jobs.
Every factory cuts the wages (the
Westinghouse local plant just recent
ly), some men received two cuts in
three months.
There is not one plant working
more than three days. The watch
workers, the American Cigar Co. and
others quit altogether.
The bosses idea is to give just
enough work so you have no right
to ask for charity.
Bosses Relief
Our city relief here is boasting
of helping 400 needy families. but
here is the way they did it and of
course, they don't print this. For
two months they gave the men
with large families every other
week three days work, spent total
of $4,000 and now they ran out of
funds. Less relief, and more un-
employment is the order of the
day. Many small home owners are
losing their homes.
The only place which is very much
lively is the Ohio State Reformatory
which is located here in Mansfield. 1t
was built for 1900, but no it houses
3,400 prisoners.
o d.
The daily worker., 1931-02-23
BUNDLES UP
FOR DISCUSSION

We quote extracts from letter OF
L. S. Wood, Buffalo, N. Y. in reply
to the article on Buffalo in the Feb.
13 issue:
"At a membership meeting a red
hot comrade arose, stating that he
had got over so Daily subs with pros
poets of getting $50 in a few days.
Orders to increase the bundle to $50
was Immediately given and before the
order was received this comrade drop
ped to 10 per day. K. Ilmoni new
d. w. rep had adopted him as pri-
vate student. The excuse was he had
to study"
Wood continues, explaining that
the comrades finally convinced him
that in order to be good BolShe-
vik, he had to work little along
with his studies, and was Just about
to leave for canvassing, when IL
moni quickly seized his protege
stating he wanted to instruct him
how to draw up a feafIet."
We understand P Chaunt, District
Organizer of Buffalo has done much
to establish some machinery for
Daily Worker sales, calling a meeting
of Daily Worker vendors and laying
plans of work.
The daily worker., 1931-02-23
Slavery in Washington Lumber Camps

these camps are Communists: for the
work is very hard and the pay for
the work is too small and the COM
pany agents treat the workers just
like slaves. I never heard a true
friendly word spoken from a COM
pany agent to a worker.
One Of the lumber workers told
me that couple of months before
! came to that lumber camp three
Russian generals of the czarist army
worked there but when they saw how
hard the workers work in capitalist
United States lumber camps they be-
came Communists also. And after
they worked three months the hard
shaving work to make just enough for
their expenses to return to Soviet
Russia, they left this country and
returned.
M. s.
The daily worker., 1931-02-23

and snoop around the rooms. Not
satisfied with this, they even inquire
1f ones neighbors all sorts of infor-
nation about the family.
This outfit conducts a Jewish Free
Employment Bureau in the same 10
cation headed by a man named Polin.
This person is typical bureaucrat
and faker of the worst sort. He
draws a nice salary doing nothing
but bull-dozing the unemployed day
after day, giving them fake prom
sses, etc. He has as his helpers about
a half dozen girls who also draw
aice salaries and do nothing for the
jobless. All of.them are middle class
Elements and got their jobs through
rdrag."
Wait in Cold
At a. m. the doors open each day
for the unemployed to come into the
building and to register Though the
Weather may be severely cold, this
Bcomdrel Polin and his bureaucratic
butfit refuse to have the doors opened
foT the unemployed to- enter. When
lhe doors finally are opened, about
so to $50 rush in and register daily,
These unemployed are made to wait
Around in rooms until their names
ire called. Often no names are called
u all until the jobless get disgusted
fld gradually leave. When names
are called, most of the time without
further ado, the unemployed worker
s told there is nothing doing. and
10 come next week" Sometimes,
they call up one small firm, and
when they get the usual answer that
mo help is wanted" they try to tell
he unemployed worker, that they
have done all they can for him."
1t Is well known that the Jewish
Free Employment Bureau informs
the various small business men in
the vicinity, that they will supply
him with very cheap help whenever
he needs same have been here
time after time, week after week,
and know that most of the time
they have no jobs TO give out. When
they do send someone down for a
The daily worker., 1931-02-23
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bids it," Here the A. F. of L. execu-
tive council holds its meetings.
Fooled Too Long.
The jobless have been fooled long
enough with public work promises
and silly arguments about the ode
grading dole" Under cover of the
Hoover Green agreement, the en-
ployed workers have been forced to
accept wage-cuts and speed-up. The
war veterans have been told: "You
cant get the cash bonus because it
might hurt the rich bankers bond
market"
Not cent is really being given by
the government TO feed the hungry
but millions are spent for the next
war Every day there are war provo
cations against the workers coun-
try, the Soviet Union--the only coun-
cry where there is prosperity for the
workers.
World Demonstration.
The unemployed councils lead DEM
onstrations in every city Wednesday
for the demands of the Workers Un-
employment Insurance Bill, for SIS a
week additional for every dependent
of jobless worker. They demand
no evictions, no vagrancy sentences,
no cutting off of light, gas or water
from the homes of the jobless work
ers. They demand free meals and
clothing for the school children of
the jobless and free fare on the street
cars for them. This world demon
stration was called by the Commu-
mist Parties and militant unions in
every capitalist country.
The jobless have demonstrated on
city-wide, statewide and nation
wide scale. They have sent their
elected representatives to city halls,
state houses and to the national cap
itol at Washington. The elected gov
ernment officials, representing big
business, have answered in effect,
"You must starve so that profits,
prices Of the bonds, the wealth of
the rich, shall not be lessened."
The workers, facing wage-cuts and
speed-up while employed, and star
wing by millions when forced out of
jobs, nannot take that for an an
swer. All out on wednesday, Feb.
25, International Fighting Day, to
get relief! Build the unemployed
councils. organize the militant unions
and stop the onward sweep of star
yation and wage-cuts!
The daily worker., 1931-02-23
PICKETS BREAK
INTO MILLS
CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNE)

by the American Co., was feared to-
day Saturday" against the speed
up, which here takes the form of the
9 comb system, driving by efficiency
experts. The strikers demand time
and a half for overtime, and recog-
milton of the National Textile Work
ers Union.
The strike started in the combing
department of the Washington MILL
and other departments and mills have
been joining in Thursday, Friday and
Saturday.
A broad strike committee is in
charge, elected from among the
Friday morning the strikers forced
the American Woolen Company to
agree to meet the joint strike COM
mittee of all the mills, instead of,
as the employers had been insisting,
meeting the stikers mill by mill and
dividing their forces.
Voice Demands
The committee was accompanied by
hundreds of pickets, led by the union
organizers, the young workers sing
ing and all shouting, Demand time
and half overtime, recognition of
the union, no speed-up'! Police
threats we're ignored.
The employers tried to compromise
on part of the demands, but the strik-
ers are determined to hold out for all.
The strikers are joining the N. It.
W., and more halls have been obtained
for the large strike meetings. The
police have been used in a futile eff
fort to keep the pickets away, and
pickets and the N, T. W., organizer,
Edith Berkman were arrested the sec
ond day of the strike. Berkman was
framed for "disorderly conduct" but
the miitancy of the strikers was such
that the Judge thought best to "file"
the case.
Charlotte Workers Support
A telegram has been received from
Charlotte, N. c., near the scene of
the Gastonia strike in 1929. saying
that the Charlotte mill workers send
greetings, pledge solidarity, and that
the National Textile Workers Union
district there is arranging mass meet
ings in Charlotte and Greenville, to
support the strike in Lawrence.
The daily worker., 1931-02-23
New York.

New York.
% the Editor:
Conrade-After reading in the
ally Worker. Of the ban on Soviet
lumber in this country by the capi-
hist United States government on
he ground that the lumber is worked
I forced labor ! would like to see
lblished in the Daily Worker about
he conditions in the U. S. lumber
amps in the West, in the State OF
Fashington.
I worked there a couple of years
70. believe that slaves never
orked harder than the free workers
lat work in the lumber camps.
slave Driving
After working a couple OF days in
he Of these lumber camps I under
and why most Of the workers In
The daily worker., 1931-02-23
OR G A ME TO END
STARVATION; DEMAND
RELIEF!

same work for considerably less wages
When we consider that the wages of
the men are already on a starvation
level, it can be readily understood
how much worse the women are ex-
plotted. There are shops employing
many women and young girls with
practically no sanitary provisions for
the health of the workers.
1t is the duty of every woman
worker to take part in the demon
stration and meeting on International
Women's Day March 9th.
The daily worker., 1931-02-23
WOMEN RALLY
FOR MARCH STH

Throughout the world the working
class will celebrate March 9th as the
International Women's Day, and mo-
bilize the working class women to
fight side by side with the men work.
ers for better shop and living con-
ditions.
There is no industry In which the
women are more exploited than in
the shoe, slipper and leather indus
try. Every day we witness more and
more women and young girls enter
ing the shops and factories to take
the place Of men workers, doing tn
The daily worker., 1931-02-23
"COPS CAN'T BLUFF
AGENT" KANSAS CITY

"The cops of Kansas City tried to
throw a scare into our Daily Worker
agent selling the paper on the
streets" writes E. ]. Evrard Of Kan
sas City, "but they learned that
neither the Daily Worker or its agents
can be bluffed."
Evrard continues, reporting that a
policeman stopped the agent, looked
the paper over, then had him ques-
toned at the station before releasing
him. Our comrade showed them
that the Daily Worker is not only a
legal paper but that it is supported
by the working class"
The daily worker., 1931-02-23
Dies of Starvation in Oakland, Cal.

Frank Linton, 80, 722 Washington
st. succumbed to exposure, result
ing from his suicidal leap into the
bay from the ferry boat. He was
rescued by the crew after being in
the water 20 minutes. He told the
officials that he was i'll from hunger
and respondent.
Workers, stick together. Don't
starve-fight for relief. Demon
strate February 25th with the I'm
employed Councils.
The daily worker., 1931-02-23
Boston Jobiess Prepare.

BOSTON. Mass. Feb. 22.-Demon-
strate Wednesday at noon at Park
man Bandstand, Boston Common! is
the word of the thousands of hungry
unemployed workers here. The call
of the Unemployed Councils is ad-
dressed to employed and unemployed
workers and to world war veterans.
Tell your rich exploiters to stop
their flow of bluff Join hands with
the workers of every land! You can
get It if you fight!" says the call,
Special leaflets are issued to the
young workers, Of whom 10000 are
jobless In Boston, urging them to
Join in the demonstration Feb. Is,
and also to come to a preliminary
mass meeting for young workers.
Tuesday, at 3 p. m, at % Harrison
Ave. The call to young workers is
issued by the Youth Committee of
the Unemployed Councils.
The Women's Committee of the
Unemployed Councils addresses a
special call to working class women,
employed and unemployed, remind
ing them that while the family in
come dwindles, rents, grocery bills
and the public utility prices are as
high as ever.
"Our fathers are out OF work, we
have nothing to eat" begins leaflet
Of the Unemployed Councils to work.
ing-class children, featuring the de-
mand for free food and clothing for
children of the unemployed.
Children are urged to come to a
mass meeting, preliminary to the
Feb. 25 demonstration. The mass
meeting is today.
The daily worker., 1931-02-23
CALGARY, CAM
CUTS BUNDLE

at has been necessary TO cut down
the order from Is to 5 copies per day
If the demand for the Dailies should
increase we shall be only too GLAD
to let you know."-L. L., Calgary
Branch, Communist Party, Canada.
A Red Builders News Club would
have prevented this cut in bundles.
Comrades of the Calgary unit should
draw in jobless workers to sell the
Daily Worker on the streets, from
house to house and before factory
gates. Edmonton. Vancouver and
several several other Canadian cities
are selling the Daily Worker and
getting subscriptions. We look to
Calgary for rapid increase.
The daily worker., 1931-02-23
CAL. POST OFFICE
DELAYS BUNDLES

Through the fault of the local posi-
Office here the readers of the Daily
Worker missed seven issues" writes
G. G. of San Diego, Cal, explaining
that o. E, Daily Worker representa-
tive recently changed his mail ad-
dress to General Delivery.
Every day he called for the bun
dies, but was told they we're not
there. Then finally he was handed
seven bundles $50 papers in each
bundle) with the excuse that the
'O' and Sc of his name ran to-
gether. But this excuse doesn't
stand up, as you can see from the
enclosed label taken from one OF
the bundles"
This explains why some bundles are
not delivered on time.
The daily worker., 1931-02-23
Defy San Jose Police.

SAN JOSE, Cal, Feb. %. De-
manding $1,Oo0,0o0 from the city
treasury as an unemployment relief
fund, demanding free gas and elec-
tricity, no evictions, and no vagrancy
arrests for the jobless, the unem-
ployed and employed workers of San
Jose are getting ready for demon
stration February Is. Chief of po-
lice Black has issued instructions;
ANY attempt to parade by Reds,
radicals, or unemployed will be brok-
en- up.
Demonstrations here February 10
were also threatened by police, but
they were held. just the same, with
Earl Holden and Carl Howe making
the main speeches, and announcing
the February Is demonstrations.
The daily worker., 1931-02-23
(By q Worker Correspondent

tBy . Worker Correspondent
OAKLAND, Cal.-Matthew Ban
on, IS, of 1884 San Pablo Ave-, died
OF starvation. He went several
times to the Associated Charities
for aid. All the red tape and wait
ing was too much for him--when
starvation portion was finally allot-
I'd him and he received an order
for groceries, he could not reach
home in time, dying at 18th and
Franklin Sts., with the order in his
pocket.
The daily worker., 1931-02-23
Lead Mines in Idaho Closing Down
Gem, Idaho

Gem, Idaho
To the Daily Worker:-
This section here is the Occur
'Alene mining district Of northern
Iaho. There are a great many
ines shut down and those that arc