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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-03
NezU MUentiOn Bar to
Windy Dinner Speakers
Improved Garrote Chokes
Bore When Clock Gets in
Work.
after-dinner

The glue-footed after dinner
speaker who treats watches with
contempt today found science Of the
nation aligned against him
In fact, members of American
Chemical society attending their
eighty-f1rst annual meeting here are
so much his enemy that one of their
number, c. NJ. Hoke, of New York
City, industrial chemist, announced
the invention of an improvised gar
rote for the malefactors.
AT the beginning Of the program
the chairman of the meeting will
insert the speaker in the rope Of the
garrote, set an interval-timing clock
a certain number Of minutes limited
for the address, and say Co., Hoke
explained.
Clock Stops Talk
When the clock goes off," Hoke
added, "the windlass in the rear will
be activated, the rope will tighten,
and if the speaker has not by this
time removed himself, the problem
will be automatically solved when
the speakers time by the clock is
up.
AS soon as my patent is granted
I intend to assign it to the Amer
lean Chemical society. Sales to the
United States senate alone will carry
the overhead for the first year and
the society need have no fear of
debts or deficits.
Luncheon Club Boon
Church associations and espe-
cially luncheon clubs will find it
worthwhile as an invention. I don't
believe the Anti-Saloon League
would be interested" Hoke said.
Other chemists attending the con-
vention exclaimed at report of the
invention, But who's this G. M.
Hoke, the INVENTOR"
A check revealed that c. NJ. Hoke
is Miss Calm Hoke, president
of Hoke, Inc, of New York City,
industrial chemist and one of the
few authorities in the nation on
platinum and the platinum group
of metals.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-03
PREPARE EASTER EGGS
Thousands Painted TO Be Used
in Children's Programs.

Thousands of eggs today were
being transformed into brilliantly
colored objects in preparation for
the annual egg hunts Saturday and
Sunday in various sections of the
city.
Program includes hunts at Fall
creek, Riverside and Municipal Gar
dens at 2 Saturday. Hunts at other
parks will be Sunday, Rhodius at 2
Garfield at 2:30 and Christian
Brookside and Douglas parks at 3
The hunts will be conducted by
various civic organizations in the
several communities.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-03
ROCKS DEATH GETS
HEADLINE SH0UTER
He Has Yelled Extra" on Some Big
Stories, but This One Hurt.
a tribute to q great man!

A tribute to a great man!
They make EN- pretty calloused
in a newspaper plant, from the city
editor down to newsboys brawling
in an alley while awaiting the next
edition
But today at a desk in The Times
city room one of the city's oldest
headline shouters paused
II was shoutin' extras when Nc
Kinley was assassinated, when Har-
ry Thaw shot Stanford White, and
ever since, but the only time I ever
yelled an extra that got me was
Tuesday, he said.
Every time I bawled the name
of Rockne it hurt"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-03
TIRE EXPL0DES; MAN
TREATED FOR INJURY
Taxi Driver Uses Too Much Air
and Is Knocked out"

What's an extra hundred pounds
Of air in an auto tire?
If you ask Frank Stewart, %, of
263 South Keystone avenue, taxi
driver, he'll tell you it's bad.
Driving to a filling station at East
and New York streets, Stewart in
f1ated tire on his cab. The au-
tomato pump gauge showed 14o
pounds when the tire exploded.
He was taken to city hospital,
after he regained consciousness, to
have debris washed from his eyes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-03
TEACH BLIND TO COOK
Cuts, Burns Rarest of Accidents at
Junior League School
By United Press

81 nlted Prcss
MEMPHIS, April 3.-The Mem
phis Junior League maintains a
weekly cooking school for the +. nd
where the rarest Of accidents are
cuts and burns.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-03
speed UP enough to absorb an ap-
preciable number OF the unemployed.

According to the treasury depart
ment, the President Of the United
States receives his saiary e1recK
semi-monthly. He receives q check
for S3,l25. signed by the treasurer
OF the United States.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-03
WORKERS GET PAY HIKE

of Employees 1914 Per Cent.
BIZ United Press
NEW YORK, April 3.-Employes
OF M. j. Meehan g. Co., Wall Street
brokerage firm, discovered an in
crease in their pay envelopes
amounting to 1872 per cent this
week. The increase" actually
brought up the employers salaries
to normal scale, and was considered
as an indication that the Meehan
firm visualizes good business ahead.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-21
Call Iron and Bronze
Workers to Rally on
Tuesd'y to Gust Takers
fRx : worker Correspondentl

NEW YORK.-Over rs per cent of
the iron and bronze workers in greater
New York are unemployed. Those
who are still working find that their
wages have been cut more than half,
Good mechanics are working for $1s
per week, the speed-up In the indus
try is terrific and the abuses from
the bosses are unbearable.
All the union conditions that tbs
workers won through hard struggle
are wiped out. Workers are fired
every minute of the day. AL this be-
cause the iron and bronze workers
are completely disorganized, the union
in existance, the Iron and Bronze
Workers Union, being only a shadow
of an organization, the leadership car
rying a wholesale policy of expulsion
of all militants.
1t is now time to defeat the cor
rupt leadership. Elections of officers
will be held at a. membership meet
ing December q. The iron and bronze
workers should rally to this meeting
and by unanimous vote sweep the
corrupt takers, the socialists, out of
Office and elect militant leadership.
Now is the time to begin building a
strong fighting union that put up a
real struggle to better the conditions
of the workers in the industry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-21
FORCE CHARITY
TO GIVE RELIEF
B row nsville Jobless
Organizing Fast

NEW YORK. The Brownsville
Unemployed Council last Sunday Or
ganized 125 jobless workers of this
section to go down to the rake relief
agency, the United Federation Of
Charities at 2095 Atlantic Avenue,
and demanded relief for specific cases
Of starving families.
The Federation has posed as non
sectarian, but has actually refused
relief to eJwish families, while at the
same time doing off with a little to
keep them quiet, some of the Gentle
families.
The mass pressure of this delega-
ton caused the charity to hand over
So piece to the cases presented.
They did this, though they had as
sembled police lieutenant, uni
formed policeman and squad of
dicks downstairs evidently to do
things to any small delegation that
might come.
The same sort of pressure brought
good results two weeks before at the
Jewish Aid
The Brownsville Council is conduct
ing a rent strike and has one block
organized already, for a strike against
evictions, high rents and raised utility
rates.
The Council meets every day at
II a. m. at $40 Rockaway Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-21
Laundry Scabs Use
Fake Union Books
to Fool Customers

Scabs in the Active Laundry are
fooling their customers with fake
union books. The scabs are showing
their customers union books paid up
to date of the Greater New York
Laundry Workers Union, Inc, q
racketeer union which is out of ex-
istence for some time. This union
was organized by the racketeer, Larry
Fey, through Brooks and Bloom, for
merly laundry workers and now in
the employ Of the bosses associa-
ton. The books and stationery of
this farmer union are now in pos
session of the association.
Some scabs also have books of Lo-
cal $40, A. F. Of L., which has an
office in Brooklyn, but has been out
of the Bronx for the last two years.
All workers, are warned against these
fake union books. The only union
now in existence Is the Laundry
Workers Industrial Union.
A special membership meeting OF
the Laundry Workers Industrial
Union will be held Wednesday, Dec.
%. at 8 pm, in Ambassador Hall,
Third Ave. and Claremont Parkway.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-21
Strike at Lyon
Dress Won; Other
Strikes Continue
Frame Up of Ben Gold
Follows That of
Schneider

The strike conducted against the
Lyon Dress Co., 145 w. 30th ST.,
against wage reduction, which has
been in progress for the last 3 days,
was settled yesterday afternoon. The
firm withdrew the wage cut and REC
ognized the shop committee and the
workers have returned to work on
union conditions. The strikers of this
shop are mainly italian girls. The
misery In the industry is teaching
this new element the need for organi-
cation and their successful strike has
taught them the role of the Indus
trial Union and its struggle for bet
ter conditions. Workers OF other
open shops are called upon to follow
the example of the workers Of the
Lyon Dress Co. and bring their COM
plants to the Office of the Union so
that they may be given assistance in
unionizing their shops.
:. Workers Called to Picket Shops.
Active Needle Trades workers are
called upon to report to the picket
line Monday morning at the follow
ing shop strikes:
/. London Dress Co., 245 Seventh Av.
Ia. Robinhood Hat Co., IS w. 37th st.
Is. w. r. Dress Co., 253 w. 26th st.
Gold Case Up Today.
Following the unsuccessful attempt
at framing Jack Schneider the fake
union agents of Schlesinger and
Kaufman are now trying to send Ben
Gold, secretary of the Needle Work
ers Industrial Union to prison. The
case comes up In the Special Ses-
sions Court today.
Furirers Unity Conference Meet.
In accordance with the decision Of
the Unity Conference held on Thurs
day, December Is, the Joint Co,m-
Gil of the furriers and the Trade
Committee are to elect 10 delegates
each. which together with the 10
elected at the Unity Conference will
| carry on the struggle Tor UNION Con-
ditions in the fur trade and repre-
sent the workers in the negotiations
with the bosses at the expiration OF
the agreement. Special meetings OF
organizations will be held Monday
night, right after work.
Dressmakers Unemployed Council.
The Dressmakers' Unemployed
Council meets at 422 Seventh Avenue
on Monday at o'clock. At this meet
ing the unemployed dressmakers will
discuss the demands they are to pre-
sent to the employers at the expira-
ton Of the agreement.
The Executive Council Of the Needle
Trades Union meets Monday at
O'Clock.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-21
TAMMANY HITS ON
NEW RELIEF PLAN
AS GRAFT SOURCE
Vote 5 Million for Half
Year Relief of Mil
lion Jobless

The Board of Estimate approp-
rated five million dollars for the re-
lief of families suffering from I'M
employment. This pitifui sum for
the relief of over million unem-
ployed in New York is not to be given
at once but divided up in monthly
payments from now through the
month of May But the workers are
not even to receive cash. They will
get tickets emitting them to GER
tain amount of food at a local store.
This, of course, will put them at the
mercy of the storekeepers' prices,
besides the grating police and other
city departments who are to super
wise the whole scheme.
The Tammany officials know what
a source of funds for their various
hangers-on this is to be and one ad-
mitted that the reason he voted
against this meesly relief was be-
cause of scandals in the past"
Mavor Walker came to the defense
of his pets and assured EVERYONE that
most scandals--were based ON I'M
supported charges
The city administration is forced
to admit that the city is facing a
"major social calamity" but never
theless, the same person who made
this statement, Mckee, added that
he wished to dIspel the idea that the
city had opened its treasury for I'M
limited relief funds.
This voting of relief funds was
asked for by the charity organiza-
tons who are being forced to give
more and more of their own funds
by the organized action of the unem-
ployed workers under the leadership
of the Unemployed Councils.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-21
FORCE CITY TO
GIVE COURT FOR
MARCH REPORT
Jamaica Negro, White
Workers Denounce
City Starvation

JAMAICA, L. J., Dec. 18.-Three
hundred workers, half of them Ne
groes, met Thursday night in the
Jamaica, Long Island Magistrates
Courthouse to greet the National
Hunger Marchers, among whom were
elected delegates from workers or
CARNATIONS in Long Island.
The local administration was forced
by the mass pressure of the workers
to grant the use of the Courthouse
for this meeting. In the very room
where the bosses Judge Issues eviction
orders against the unemployed every
day, the workers representatives at
this melting denounced the failure of
the city to provide unemployment
relief.
Anna Petkos, a woman Hunger
Marcher, told Of the police mobiliza-
ton of the workers forced out of the
bosses in various towns, food and
sleeping quarters for the rnarchers.
Carl Winter, secretary of the I'm
employed Council of Greater New
York appealed for membership In
the Jamaica Branch. Seventy-three
workers filled out applications dur
ing the meeting. A Negro worker
from the audience reinforced the APP
peal by jumping to his feet and urg-
ing all Negro and white workers to
unite in the struggle for immediate
relief and unemployment insurance.
Twenty-Five workers were elected
by the gathering TO present the de-
mands of the Unemployed Council to
Roro President Harvey Friday morn
ing. This delegation will also appear
before the editors of the Long Island
papers to protest the boycotting of
news of the unemployed struggles by
these bosses sheets.
The next meeting Of the Jamaica
Branch of the Unemployed Council
will be held Monday at 1926 Union
Hall st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-21
No Relief at All for Mass
OF JoblesS Girls in NeaV York
Central Trades and Labor Union Hears of
Plight and Gives It's Sympathy

ems Trade Union League, another A,
2. T.. Organization which Speeializes
in misleading women workers, never
thCl.ss had to report that hundreds
Ct J7ouas unmarried women factory
workers come to her office daily beg
ging Tor relief Of some sort.
Hoover's Gilman Committee has
rothing for industrial women work
ers. only for office and professional
women.
Roosevelt's Strauss Committee has
nothing for unmarried women.
Walkers Bliss Committee has not
even started functioning, and anyway,
will have nothing for unmarried
women.
The result is that the girl workers
are in probably the worst plight of all
the miserable unemployed masses
here.
A long leisurely discussion by the
fat boys resulted, In which much
sympathy was extended, and many
crocodile tears shed.
When the delegate Of the Postal
Clerks presented a resolution from
his local demanding immediate win
ter relief of the city, and unemploy-
ment insurance, Gar Ryan, president
of the C. T, g. l.. c., killed 1t by
handing if over to the resolutions
committee, and told the delegate to
sit down.
A perfunctory motion to memoir
ialize congress asking for heavier tax
alton on incomes over 100000 a year
was passed, and another to ask Gov
ernor Roosevelt to move for approp-
ration of $2o,0oo,o00 from the state
for relief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-21
What's On

DAY
workers, Attention.
he Pageant rehearsal for the
lal of the Yellow Press,' to take
. re at the Eighth Anniversary of
Daily Worker, will be held at the
y.'0rkers' Center 35 z. 18th st. at 8
+ :. sharp. Eighty parts ready TO
"Hunger March"
VIII be the topic of q lecture 81
$50 Grand St at 8 pm. All workers
invited.
October Branch, LID.
TO hold an interesting educational
meeting at 1915 Grand Concourse on
the Russian Revolution at $40 pm
Food workers. Fraction
Important meeting will take place
tonight at the Workers Center, S5 f..
teth ST., at pm.
~ EDAy
tghs workers Forum
VIZ 10 h-id on De- % at pm.
at llS r. 4th ST., third floor, Dele
gate Of the National Hunger March
NJ Warrington TO speak. ---~--4..4--
a aAs4asAs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-21
ADOPT ACTION PROGRAM FOR
FIGHT ON ALIEN PERSECUTION

ing of protest resolutions Of affiliated
organizations TO all government and
Civil Service bodies prosecuting the
foreign born; the carrying on OF a
vigorous campaign for the affiliation
of organizations not present at the
conference; arranging mass protest
meetings during the months of jan
uary and February eliminating In a
huge mass meeting to be called by
the New York District Committee for
the protection of the Foreign Born;
the carrying on Of widespread edu-
cational campaign to rally both ma
tive and foreign born workers in a
united struggle against deportations
and other forms of terror directed
against foreign born workers.
The conference unanimously adopted
a. resolution calling for a united front
of all workers to beat back the at
tacks directed upon foreign born
workers by Hoover, Doak, Fish and
other leaders in the campaign of per-
secution and terror.
Demand Right of Asylum.
The Conference demanded the right
of asylum for political refugees, and
the immediate cessation of attacks
upon the foreign born in this coun-
try. 1t further demanded from the
municipal government of New York;
!. Abolition of the discriminatiVe
laws against the foreign born like the
paragraph contained in the Labor
Law, page 81, stating that non
citizens can get jobs ON public works
only when there are no citizens avail
able,
2. An end TO the discrimination
against foreign born unemployed
workers who apply for relief,
3. The payment of an equal wage
for equal work for the foreign born.
4. Abolition of the special bureau
Of the Police Department ito check
UP on alien criminals, which is being
used exclusively against foreign born
workers.
5. Abolition of all vagrancy laws
used especially against foreign born
Wcx'kerS- -y~-s.---r -p=-ssA~zs=Hsz
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-21
Recognize Bread
Strike Committee
ALL. Working with
Bakery Bosses Assn

The bakery bosses association of
Coney Island has recognized the
strike committee and has held an Of
fetal meeting on Saturday afternoon
at the Casa D'Amore Hall. The con-
ference proved that the bakery bosses
are not ready to come to terms for
settlement. They offered the same
Price, 20 cents on rolls and Z cents
on bread. The strike committee re-
jected these terms, because it is
practically the same price workers
were paying before the strike.
Local sos "a. F.. OF ID again raised
the question of breaking their union.
They are working hand in hand with
the bosses association, now more
than ever, I obreak the strike.
The strike committee calls upon all
the bokery workers and all other
workers Of Coney Island not to be
fooled by the cry of breaking the
union. sour fight is a fight against
the high prices of bread" the COM
mittee declared.
The International Labor Defense,
in conjunction with the strike COM
n1ittee. is calling a mass meeting for
Monday, Dec. 81, at the Boardwalk
Hotel, 22nd st. and the Boardwalk.
We urge all the workers, and bakery
workers especially, to come to the
meeting and not to attend the fake
mass meeting of the bosses associa-
ton and the A. F. of L. union lead
ers. Come to the strike committee
meeting and prove once again to the
bakery bosses that we are still deter
mined to win the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-21
Second Highest Vote
in BrickIayer Union
for Militant Slate

NEW YORK the grow
ing trend for militant struggle to
maintain their living and working
standards, among the building trades
workers, A. Severino, rank and file
candidate for chairman of the New
York Executive Committee of the
Bricklayers. Masons and Plasterers'
International Union, received the
second largest vote at the elections
held in all locals December IL.
Severino running ON clear cut
rank and file program received 2,732
votes and in three locals, including
his own rolled up big pluralities.
Toner, the incumbent and supported
by the International Union bureau
Gratis, received 1890 while Cleland,
supported by those wanting a change
of officials and not yet definitely
committed to q militant program, re-
ceived the winning vote of 3716,
Try to Gag Militant
Severine was kept from speaking at
many local meetings by the bureau
Gratis but in spite of that his big vote
is hailed as victory by the develop
ing movement for militant struggle
in the building trades.
Elections for other offices split the
vote along the same lines as the vote
for chairman of the New York Execu-
tive Committee.
The program on which A. Severino
was running, and which 2,7S2 brick
layers voted to back includes the
following:
Jobs to be given in rotation; rank
and file control of the employment
bureau: officials to be paid no more
than the regular scale; all unem-
ployed bricklayers to be in good
standing during time of unemplOy-
ncnt; struggle for unemployment
relief from the employers; against
sIl forms of overt and covert wage
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-21

Iotat e..ss s'sssssssssss TSV.1o
Hard Life
The New York World Telegram re-
ports the actual living conditions of
such a family under this budget:
"For their $3.50 week they get
walk-un cold water tenement.
There is a bedroom for father and
mother, another for the boys and a
cot for the girl either In the kitchen
or the living room, II they are lucky
and get one.
Have No Bathroom
There Is no bathroom. The tub in
the kitchen Is used for the family
laundry and bathtub. The toilet is
down the hall.
1.-THE furniture is starkly simple.
There is a gas stove and oven. A tiny
coal stove heats the apartment,
Around IL the family groups at night,
They buy bits OF clothing, plain
and strong, for cash. Ultimately it
will be nended until 1t consists of
one patch upon another.
1T there Is illness the miscellane-
Gus account must provide medicines.
II 1t Is serious they must appeal to
a clinic"
Organize and Fight!
No bed OF rosesl And only provided
for one week as far as food goes
for only two and a half days for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-21


sifaace and immediate relief has the
weapon Of deportation been applied.
Anderson ended with a ringing ap-
peal for unity between native and
foreign born workers in the fight
kgainst deportations, fingerprinting
and registrations of foreign born
workers
Anderson's report was supple
Inented by that of j. Horowatt, local
secretary of the Committee for the
Protection of Foreign Born Workers.
Carl Hacker and Siskind brought
greetings to the Conference from the
International Labor Defense and the
New York District of the Communist
Party.
Adopt Program of Action.
The afternoon session was devoted
to discussion on the reports, resolu-
lions and findings Of the various
committees. After a wide discussion,
the Program for immediate action
We adopted by the Conference.
program called for the send
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-21
NY. Anti>Soviet Meet to Be
Led BY Fish and Matty Vol

of the American Federation of Labor,
and his eminence Cardinal Hayes.
Besides, there are representatives OF a
number of veterans and patriotic Or
CARNATIONS.
The bill which Ham Fish recently
introduced in Congress, calling for
the establishment OF department of
Justice red hunting section, together
with this meeting, indicates that the
enemies of the working class govern
n1ent are gathering their forces for
more intensified anti-Soviet and
anti working class propaganda.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-21

A half-page advertisement in the
white guardist paper, Novoye Russ
koye Slovo on Sunday announces a
meeting TO be held at the Waldorf
Astoria on Jan. IT by the Joint Com
mittee of Unified Patriotic, Civic,
Church and Labor Organizations.
The purpose of the meeting is to or
ganize protest against Communism,
Included in this collection of anti
Soviet scum are Hamilton Fish, Mat
thew VOL, the white guardist DIAM
garoft, Joseph P. Ryan, the racketeer
president OF the international Long
shoremen's Association; Hugh Frayne,