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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-18
SMITH, FEDERAL
POWER CHIEF. is
ASSAILED AGAIN
Accused of star Chamber
Agreements With Utility
on Public Business.

BIZ Scripps-HofCorf NciCspoper Alliance
WASHINGTON, May 18.-George
Otis Smith. whose position as chair
man Of the federal power commits
sion recently was upheld by the
supreme court despite the senate's
recall Of his confirmation. today
was again uncomfortably IN the
spotlight.
In District Of Columbia supreme
court Tuesday, Smith was accused
Of Offering TO transact public busi-
ness with "a representative Of the
Niagara Hudson power interests be-
hind closed doors.
The accusation was made by
Charles A. Russell. whose dismissal
as solicitor Of the power commits
sion-one Of the first official acts OF
Smith and the new commission
caused the senate 10 repudiate
Smith.
Appearing as attorney for the city
Of Lockport IN. y IN mandamus
suit against the commission. Russell
read a CODY Of a letter alleged 70
have been written by Smith 70
Randall J. lie Boeuf Jr, general
counsel to the Niagara Hudson pow
or corporation. New York.
AT the hearing Of the Niagara
case next Tuesday" said the letter,
dated Dec. 3, 1881, the same pro-
cedure may be followed if found
desirable. as in recent hearings in
Milwaukee and in the one now IN
progress here in Washington: that
Is. if counsel feels that disposition
OF any Of the questions Of fact at
issue can be expedited by prelim-
mary conferences, a continuance fol
that purpose may be granted imme-
diately after the opening Of the
hearing.
While conferences have been
open, we have experienced no diff
Guilty thus far in the matter OF dis
turbing interruptions from outside
sources.
This" said Russell, lis an illus
tration Of the attempt Of the fed
eral power commission to conceal
from the city of Lockport the COM
missions negotiations with the
Niagara Falls Power Company.
NO such letter was sent TO the
city officials Of Lockport, nor TO the
public service commissioners Of New
York state. They we're not invited
TO the star chamber proceedings.
The city Of Lockport consistently
was deceived and misled as to the
true facts of this case"
Russell asked the court for a writ
compelling the commission to hear
Lockport's application for prelim-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-18
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-18
HONOR PARDON
HOPES ARE DIM
Hawaii Governor Indicates
InterceSSion Unlikely.

By Tinted Prcss
HONOLULU, T. H. May 1S. -
Governor Lawrence NJ. Judd indi-
Gated TO the United Press that he
would not pardon the four honor
slayers of Joe Kahahawst
Judd said he had explained his
attitude to Ray Lyman Wilbur, IN
terror secretary.
He inferred that If civil rights are
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-18

restored to hrs. Grace Hubbard
Fortescue, Lieutenant Thomas H.
Massie, and A. o. Jones and Z. J..
Lord, naval enlisted men, the ac-
ton must come from congress or
from Governors Of The states in
which they live.
The four were convicted Of man
slaughter in the death Of Kaha-
hawai-. one of five asserted at
tackers of Mrs. Thalia Massie.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-18
AL SMITH GAINS
81 DELEGATES
IN TWO STATES
Meanwhile, Roosevelt Total
Boosted tC 338 in Tues
days Primaries.


Alfred z. Smith added 50 votes
to the total pledged 70 him in the
Democratic national convention,
and Franklin D. Roosevelt added
fourteen to his total in presidential
primaries and conventions Tuesday.
The two New York candidates for
the Democratic presidential nomi-
nation as a result had these instruc-
ed and pledged votes:
Roosevelt, 338.
Smith. SO.
New Jersey, long counted in the
Smith column. added its So votes as
a mere formality.
Connecticut, where the Democrats
engaged in a bitter factiona, light
featured by compromises, pledged
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-18

daughter Of Mrs. Fortescue and
wife OF the officer.
Montana labor news., 1932-05-26
INTERNATIONAL EMPLOYER CONSPIRACY
AGAINST LABOR.

The refusal of those who own and operate industry to
reduce hours according to the larger output of labor due
to chronological progress, and increase wages to what
ever extent may be necessary to provide a market for
the output, is evidently an international conspiracy OF re-
dictionary employers in every country.
When Mr.. Chamberlain, Chancellor Of the Exchequer,
explained the British budget in the House of Commons,
Mr.. Lansbury, leader of the Labor opposition, succinctly
til the consumption of goods matches the production Of
goods. The Opposition does not agree that the world is
suffering from want. The world is suffering because
mankind has not yet discovered how to distribute the
abundance which it is possible to create"
Mr.. Lansbury should have added for the sake of the
clarity that both the production and distribution plan
lessness of our industrial system is a scheme devised by
those who own and control our industrial establishments.
The workers in mill, mine, and factory produce COM
modities for wages. The commodities are the private
property of the owners, and the extent OF distributor
depends on the purchasing power OF the masses, winch
is arbitrarily restricted in at least two ways by those who
own the industrial plants and the labor-produced COM
modities.
The owners reduce the distribution of goods to a nullity
for over eight million workers by refusing to employ them
at all, and reduce it drastically for many millions more
by compelling them to accept wage cuts and part time
work.
Putting all the jobless to work and reducing the length
of the work day and work week to whatever extent may
be necessary to keep them at work is Labors way, and
the only way, to settle the unemployment question.
Adjusting wages so that the people Will have buying
power sufficient to purchase all the commodities of mass
production is Labor's way, and the only way, to settle
the distribution problem officially.
Those who own and control industry refuse to apply
these principles to our industrial system.
The great question is, Will Labor and thousands OF
other intelligent and forward-looking citizens permit
these hidebound reactionaries to carry us all down to
mir in their endeavor to save a form of production and
distribution that has neither sanity nor ethics to support
it?
Montana labor news., 1932-05-26
THE GOVERNMENT IN BUSINESS.

Mr.. Fred w. Sargent, president of the Chicago &
Northwestern Railway, told the delegates to the annual
convention of the United States Chamber of Commerce
in San Francisco that the Government must be taken
out of business. He stressed the railroad transporta-
ton industry as the principal business from which the
Government should be removed.
About the first major bill the present session of Con-
gress passed was the measure establishing the Finance
Reconstruction Corporation with an initial fund of $780,,
000,00 furnished directly by the Treasury of the United
States and with authority to sell what are in effect l.
500, 900, 900 Government bonds to bring the total funds
of the Corporation up to $1,000, 100000. The law au-
thorizes the officials of the Corporation to loan the en-
tire two billion dollars to banks, railroads, and other pi-
vate business concerns which would face failure unless
the Government supplied them with money with which
to meet their obligations.
From the day the Corporation was established rail
road executives have besieged it for millions and millions
and millions of dollars Of Government loans to save the
railroads from bankruptcy. The loans are such poor
risks that the private banks refused to take the chance.
In view of this railroad executives drive for the Al
mighty Dollar on the Reconstruction Finance Corpora
ton, it is apparent that Mr.. %Sargents talk to the Cham
Der of Commerce about getting the Government out of
business must have been made at a session consecrated
to wit and humor. Undoubtedly it will appear in the
comic" chapter of the conventions proceedings.
Montana labor news., 1932-05-26

the Ways and Means Committee of the House of Repre-
sentatives and the Finance Committee Of the Senate.
Special pleaders for the rich have met these attempts
with the claim that increasing the taxes would be I'M
wise from the viewpoint Of the Governments interest
because the rich would shift their investments from tax
able securities to %taX-exempt bonds and thus nullify the
attempts of the Government to tax them.
This sort of ~sophistry can not be permitted to pass
without challenge.
One would think from this argument that there exists
somewhere a flexible collection of tax-exempt bonds to
which rich tax-dodgers may run when the spirit moves
them. The facts are just the reverse.
All outstanding tax-exempt bonds are owned by some
body. They are tax-exempt regardless of who owns
them. If the rich tax-dodger who owns taxable securities
desires to shift his investment to tax-exempt bonds, he
can do it in one of two ways. He can sell his taxable
securities and buy tax-exempt bonds from some one who
now owns them or buy new tax-exempts when they are
issued. In either case there is no increase in tax-eXempt
securities and no decrease in taxable securities.
Montana labor news., 1932-05-26
REPRESSION INSTEAD OF FOOD AND WORK.

The use of Government force to repress demonstrations
of the iobless instead of providing them with work or
decent subsistence is cropping out with menaclng fire.
ouency in the industrial centers of the United States.
The same reactionary method has now appeared in
New Zealand after certain militant protests against the
inadeuuacy of Government relief.
The New Zealand Tory Government presented a bill to
Parliament comforting authority on the Government TO
proclaim a state of emergency if public order or safety
are imperiled or if the community is threatened with
deprivation of the essentials of life by interference with
the supplies of food, fuel, light, or means OF locomouon.
To give the measure a semblance OF Justlflcatlon, the
bill includes the occurrence of an earthquake or otner
catastrophe in the list of events coming under the term
emergency"
Representatives of organized labor in the Parliament
declared that instead of getting ready to use violence
against the iobless, the Government should remove the
source of trouble by paying the unemployed sustenance
benefits rather than the paltry amounts that cause the
manifestations of unrest among the out-ot-works.
Government violence against unemployment demon
STATIONS will neither stop them nor settle the Jobless
problem.
1t is within the power of industrial and political states
manship in every country, including the United States,
to prevent demonstrations of the unemployed by the
practical method of putting all of them to work at rea-
sonable wages. Unless this is done, unemployment
demonstrations will increase and with growing vigor.
Montana labor news., 1932-05-26
BUDGET BLUDGEONING THE WORKERS.

Arthur Greenwood, Minister of Health in the last Labor
Government of Great Britain and recently sent back to
Parliament by a pronounced majority over his Conserva-
tive opponent in a by-electOn, described the %budgeting
and not fewer burdens on the backs of the working peo-
pie. "The budget" he said, was balanced by blud-
geoning the poor"
The British scheme to budgeon the masses in budget
balancing was adopted in the United States by the Presi-
dent and the Economy Committee of the House of Rep
resentatives in their proposed wage sashes for hundreds
Of thousands of efficient and already ~underpaid employ
es of the Government.
The President suggested compulsory furloughs with
out pay with the abolition Of annual vacations, sick leave
and other improved working conditions which Labor has
secured through years Of unremitting struggle. The
Presidents budget balancing would take around $780,
OOO,O from the annual pay of Federal employees.
The House Economy Committee proposed an eleven
per cent pay cut for all Federal employees paid in excess
of 81 900 year. This cut would slice around $67,OO0,-
900 annually from Federal employees.
Due to the persistent and unrelenting pressure of Or
ganized Labor, the House of Representatives voted
against the Presidents compulsory furlough budget bal
ancing and the Economy Committees eleven per cent
wage slash with the $1,000 minimum exemption. The
House raised the minimum to $4,000, but unfortunately
voted against overtime pay. The entire matter was re-
ferred to the Senate Economy Committee
Bludgeoning the workers with the budget is a policy
which should be avoided.
The Government is the largest employer in the United
States. It can not afford to establish a policy Of lower
living standards for any Of its employees.
Such a policy would not only be a gross injustice to the
Federal workers, it would also be used as an excuse
for wage slashing by many private employers who up to
the present have not yielded to the reactionary clamor
for lower living standards carried on by anti-labor ele-
ments.
The Senate should not use the budget to ~bludgeon the
workers.
Montana labor news., 1932-05-26
CAPITAL POLICE "SEE REDS"
TWICE in THREE DAYS

police have jump nerves these days, as
demonstrated by the false alarms over imaginary Communist raids on the
Supreme Court and IN the White House to which they responded N May
is and May 10 respectively. When the Supreme Court convened on Mon
day, a heavy police guard was there, in answer to a tip that the "reds"
would demonstrate in demand for summary action in defense of the Scots
boro Negro prisoners. On Wednesday a police radio car sighted a bus-load
of dangerouslooking strangers headed toward the White House, and sent
in an alarm which brought police reserves rushing to protect the person
and dignity of Nh. Hoover. The bus proved to be the transport for 20 war
veterans from Chattanooga, Tenn, arriving in the capital to petition for
payment of their bonus. They carried credentials to prove that they were
not radical
The Scottsboro case-in the form of a motion for a writ to stop the x
cution of the seven prisoners-has been filed but not argued in the Supreme
Court. Unless the defense counsel present their case quickly in time for
action by the Supreme Court by May 81, when it adjourns for the summer,
the Alabama authorities argue that Alabama law will not permit a stay
of the executions, set for June.
Montana labor news., 1932-05-26
IT'S A GREAT SYSTEM
(By JACK HEARLY, Federated Press.)
Triumphs of Capitalism.

W c1ASA
Triumphs of Capitalism.
In the last five years, Is per cent of the farmers in
South Dakota have lost their farms by foreclosure; in
Montana % per cent; in North Dakota, 22 per cent.
Progress-But Which Way?
In some sections farm prices are down to the 1882
A survey of West Virginia school children showed
25 per cent were more than 10 per cent underweight.
Depression's Moral Effect Will Offset Physical Ills.
Mary Glenn of Family Welfare Assn. of America.
Will Mrs. Glenn prove it by joining the bread line for
On the other hand: Il say to you ~advisedly, gentle
men, that unless you furnish relief quickly, the doors of
revolt in this country are going to be thrown OPEN
Edward F. McGrady, A. f. of L. legislative representa-
tive, to a Senate committee.
Believe IL or Not Department.
Half of 1882 Fires Called Incendiary-Headline.
Nothing Left But Insurance.
In times of prosperity, so we learn
The great middle classes have money to burn
But here is the part where our system is funny;
In time of depression they burn to get money.
Help Andy Make More Dough.
Sign on the New Kensngton, Pa, (MellOn Aluminium
town. school bulletin board:
While you work for a concern, work for their inter-
est, speak we'll of them, stand by them.
Thanks, Says Andy.
And so two-thirds of Melons Aluminium workers have
been fired in the last two years.
The Incurable Optimist.
From my observations in travelling around the cOun-
try, l believe an upturn in business began about six
weeks ago."-W. D. Danforth, director, N. Y. Life In
surance Co.
"The depression has practically obliterated all class
distinctions. In their place has come a ~brotherly feel
ing. l think we are living in a better day today than
we have had in - continued.
"a certain scion of wealth has $50 pair of creased
trousers. "-press report.
Oh, class distinctions gone, he chants
But all, distinctions of the pants!
While millions have one patchy pair
One-fifty for the millionaire
With creases.
What Would the Brotherly Scion Say.
If a worker asked, Lend me one, buddy, till my next
pay."??
1--WE have an increasing group of paupers and a large
waste of public money with no result except to keep
people alive. - worker, w Va.
So it's a waste of money to keep people alive, Ell?
First you underpay workers in good times so they
can't buy back the equivalent of what they produce. Then
the wheels stop turning.
Then the public funds" contributed out of the wealth
these workers created, is doled out to them in starva-
ton rations.
And you blame the unemployed for being "%paupers'
and call the money spent in keeping them alive wasted"
IT'S A GREAT SYSTEM!
CAPITAL POLICE "SEE REDS"
TWICE IN THREE DAYS
Montana labor news., 1932-05-26
FLIGHT OF THE RICH TO TAx-ExEMPT BONDS.

Several attempts have been made in Congress during
the consideration of the Revenue Bill to increase the taxes
on larger i~ncomes-those running from $500, 900 to ST.
600, 900 a year and more-beyond the rates agreed to by
Montana labor news., 1932-05-26
Nothing Left But Insurance.

In times of prosperity, so we learn
The great middle classes have money t
But here is the part where our system
In time of depression they burn to get
The Washington times., 1932-01-08

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Evening star., 1932-03-06
NEW YORK WILL ACT
ON lame DUCK" PLAN
Norris Told Legislature Will Be
Given Proposal When Motif
cation Is Received.

Senator George W. Norris Of Ne
braska, chairman of the Senate Com
rnittee ON Judiciary and author OF the
lame duck" constitutional amendment
which has Just been submitted to the
States by Congress, has been advised
by Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt Of New
York that he will submit the proposed
amendment to the Legislature as soon
as official notification Of submission
has been received from the State De-
pa1tment.
Senator Norris has advised Gov.
Roosevelt that the Legislatures can
proceed without awaiting official notice.
Gov. Roosevelt congratulated the
Senator on his success in having the
proposed amendment submitted to the
States after a prolonged fight.
Senator Norris expressed much salts
faction yesterday over the action OF the
virginia Legislature Friday in ratifytng
the proposed amendment.
The Virginia Legislature had as ev-
dence of the action Of Congress the Of
ficial record of the proceedings of the
senate and House. It did not have the
preamble to the amendment, but GER
fified copy was sent by wire to Rich
mond by Senator Norris secretary.
Evening star., 1932-03-06
FATAL EXPLOSION
CAUSES 2 ARRESTS
Manslaughter Charged in Garage
Accident Which Caused Death
Of Martin Swan.

A coroner's jury yesterday held two
men for the grand jury in connection
with the death Friday Of Martin Swan,
%, Of 1857 Oates street northeast, from
injuries received Tuesday when q gaso-
line tank near which he was working
exploded.
Abraham Schumaker, So, 100 block
of kenyon street, manufacturer of the
tank, and Charles Putnam, AZ, 5000 block
of o street, manager of the Washington
Rapid Transit Garage, where the tank
was located, were charged with man
slaughter.
1t was testified at the inquest that
Schumacher and Putnam were negli-
gent in that they failed to examine
the tank before it was brought to the
garage, 46l5 Fourteenth street. At the
time of the explosion the tank was
lying on the ground near a bus in which
it was to have been installed. The
tank at the time was believed TO have
been empty.
Eugene Longpue, 80, of 1902 Fifth
street. was slightly hurt in the explo-
sion, which was caused when spark
from an acetylene torch reached the
tank
Evening star., 1932-03-06

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Evening star., 1932-03-06
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Evening star., 1932-03-06
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Evening star., 1932-03-06
Kilbv Seeks Senate Seat.

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Maru6 A5.
Former Gov. Thomas E. Kilby, who,
while chief executive of Alabama,
signed the State prohibition law, today
announced his candidacy for the Demo-
cratic nomination to the United States
Senate on a platform which included q
referendum on prohibition.
Evening star., 1932-03-06

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Evening star., 1932-03-06
SPAIN TO CUT EXPENSES
Budget Body Studies Cut in Papal
Missions Funds.

Missions Funds.
MADRID, March 5 CP).-The Con-
gressional Budget Commission is plan
ming to reduce by half the annual ap-
preparation Of $1,000 gold pesetas (about
100000 for the Papal Diplomatic Mis-
sion, 1t was learned today, and eventual
ly to eliminate the appropriation
entirely.
The custom Of giving food to diplo-
matte missions passed out in the last
century, except in the case of the Papal
Nuncio, who received, instead Of food
10000 pesetaS year Members of his
staff received smaller salaries.
Evening star., 1932-03-06
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Evening star., 1932-03-06
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