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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-01
AA THE STRUGGLES
ILL ON THE SOUTH SIDE
NEGRO REDS
OF CHICAGO
Bg MICHAEL GOLD.

and freedom, and the bold Rabbit
ty three minute men made their
fiery speeches-well, comrades,
could not resist, and joined up for
the slaughter"
He served in the 3o7th Infantry,
a Negro regiment attached to the
10th French Army He went thru
the battles of scissors, Metz, the
Argonne, and was wounded and tn=
valided home.
Much tJ his regret at the time,
'the war wasn't SO bad, I wanted
to be a soldier" He was mustered
out in July, 1919, year of the race
riots in Chicago. These made q
deep impression on him; killed
some Of his orthodox faith in
Christ. and reused his race consci-
BUSINESS.
Macdonald had been working for
years as O. butcher in the Chicago
stockyards when Carney came to
town. The man swept him off his
feet; he was ready for this mes
sage, and soon became an active
speaker and organizer at night,
rising to the position of Colonel In
Garvey's fantastic empire,
Whatever the crimes and mis-
fake of this misleader Garvey, I
learned q lot about organization
from him." says Macdonald. II was
completely upset when the whole
thing collapsed, and / learned of
Garvey's secret deals. I could see,
too, that all this talk of returning
to Africa was a false solution liz
IBERIA was a, slave holding colony
controlled by the United States
government; the rest of Africa was
owned by other white irnperialists.
We were IS ens1aved in Chicago as
we could hope to be there; like the
Jews, We would have to fight for
our freedom in the place We lived"
BEwILDERED
FOR A TIME.
1t was then Macdonald joined tbs
Mohamnedans. When that failed to
satisfy his clear, hungry mind, he
felt lost, bewildered. In his bewil-
derment he took to the soapbox and
every night, after his days work,
he talked to the south side crowds.
He was thinking aloud, trying to
find his way. He discussed the
racial problem, the social problem,
he read every book or pamphlet
that came to his hands.
One night some heckler shouted
at him, You talk like one of those
damn reds"
do I?'' Mac answered in amaze
ment. do 1? If SO, 1 am going
to study the matter, and see
whether I am a red"
This taunt opened his eyes to
the work of the Unemployed
Councils. Now he first began TO
see the mass funerals, the DEM
0nstratiOnS of the Reds. Re be-
gan to discover Lenin and Marx,
it all beat on him like cloud
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-01

Minerville Section ........ 500
WHAT conclusions can we draw
W from these figures? ~ In
comparison with literature sales for
two months previous there has
been slight improvement. ~ Sec
ton II, with three shop nuclei and
approximately 100 members prr-
chased only SO cents worth Of liter
allure for two months.
The only bright spots are Chester
and Baltimore. While in the pre-
vious two months Chester sold
practically no literature, today it is
the beacon light of District 8.
Chester must share this honor with
the unit in Wilmington.
The Baltimore Section in the last
two months set the pace. Over
three times as much literature was
sold there than in the entire dis
trict combined. OF course some Of
the comrades will say that an alb
normal situation was existing there
that there were 10000 ex-soldiers
concentrated there. This is true.
Certainly, 10000 ex-soldiers camp
ing around the capitol is not a
every day event. But precisely
because the comrades approach the
selling of $178 worth of literature
by the Baltimore section in two
months as phenomenal that our lit
erature sale is not Of a mass char
acter.
Why should not the Baltimore
section or any other section sell
sl78 of literature every two
months? They could with ease, if
they would change their methods
of approach. Today the workers
must mag" us Communists to Sc
cure our litterature-they must
come to our headquarters they
must come to our bookshop-they
must come to our meeting or else
they don't get our literature.
MUST GO TO
WORKERS HOMES
If we are to give life to the de-
ciSions Of the 14th Plenum as ap-
piled to literature, certainly we
must not depend solely on the
workers coming to us. We must go
after the workers with all our
might. Visiting committees to
workers homes should be supplied
with literature and given definite
instruction how to sell literature
while making contacts. Broad
Neighborhood Study Groups should
be organized. Our sections and
units must draw them closer to us
through our literature. A pamphlet
or book will get us acquainted
with each other.
ABOVE all, our comrades should
n get into the habit of carrying a
pamphlet or two with them at all
times. On many occasions we meet
sympathetic workers, but we are in
a hurry, we thereby lose that con-
tact, but If we were to reach in our
pocket and sell the worker a suit
able pamphlet with our unit or
section headquarters stamp on the
back, we would be able to win q
large percentage of these workers.
Each section should analyze its
literature sale as given in this
article. Thus they will see in black
and white that they are not even
approaching the carrying out of
the 14th Plenum decision of mass
sale and mass distribution Of our
Iitatrofyfrp
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-01
WHAT CHECK UP
REVEALS

A check-up reveals that these
comrades have stretched their Inn
agination entirely too far. The
Literature Department reserves q
duplicate receipt for every penny'S
worth Of literature sold to the Sec
ton or units.
Our record points out a deplor-
able situation in the sections and
units in the actual sale and distri-
button of literature. Let us exam
inc literature sales in our district
nationally and free from an inflated
Imagination. What do our dupli-
Gated receipts show:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-01
They Speak of Him
With Affection
Capitalists Haze Nothing to Fear From S. P
Candidate, Writes Leading Republican
By Burck

ton Finance Corporation are pre-
sented to the workers as samples
of the government going into bust
ness-laying the basis for building
Socialism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-01
Literature Sales.
Philadelphia proper, for two month
June and July, 1882

Out of Town Section, Same Period
Chester, incl Wilmington .,.$ 1915
Baltimore, incl Washington,
D. G. ($138) ....,......... 1898
Minerville Section ......s,. 500
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-01

TO BE CONTINUED
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-19
BUSINESS MEN TO GET
AID FROM TWO GROUPS
Chamber of Commerce, Secretaries
Organization Pledge Help.

Organization Pledge Help.
Two leading national business
groups will join with the govern
ment's department of commerce to
aid business men combat their prob
lens, it has been announced here
by Kenneth D. Dame, manager Of
the local office of the bureau Of
foreign and domestic commerce.
The groups joining the commerce
department are the United States
Chamber of Commerce and the
National Association of Commercial
Organization Secretaries.
All local chambers will be
equipped with established market
ing information for the aid of
merchants and manufacturers. The
plan has been submitted to all
bureau managers in the country ny
F. M. Feiker, Washington director
of the bureau of foreign and domes-
tic commerce.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-19
MANDATORY DEATH
STATUTE is. UPHELD
DEPRESSION BLAMED
ON G. 0. P. POLICIES
Richie Declares Republicans Hold
No Secret Prosperity Formula.

RItch1e Declares Republicans Hold
No Secret Prosperity Formula.
By United Press
NEW YORK, March 19.-Eco-
nomic policies of the Republican
party largely were responsible for
the present depression, according to
Governor Albert G. Ritchie of
Maryland, candidate for the Demo-
cratic presidential nomination.
Now that it is too late. we know
that the Republican administrs ton
had no secret to prosperity after
all" Governor Ritchie declared
Friday night on radio speech
broadcast over the Columbia net
work.
Ritchie urged the return of pro-
hibition control to the states, a re-
duction Of federal bureaucracy, and
opposed cancellation of war debts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-19
BUDGET SLASHES URGED
Chamber of Commerce Group Says
(1it.r,aa CaI..o...--

Chamber of Commerce Group Says
City's SOlvency Is at Stake.
Indianapolis governmental bud
gets for 1888 must include drastic
economies if we are to remain a
solvent government" members OF
the civic affairs department of the
Chamber of Commerce declared
Friday.
The movement for budget slashes
is nationwide, the committee as
serted, quoting from survey made
by research agencies of several large
cities.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-19
SALES TAX is
BATTERED BY
HOUSE VOTING
Leaders Sponsoring Meas
ure Are Detected on Pros
poets for Revenue Bill.
BY PAUL r. MALLON
United Press STAFF Correspondent

WASHINGTON, March 19.-The
sales tax appeared to be badly bat
tered if not beaten, as the house
started the second day of voting to-
day on the billion dollar revenue
bill.
Leaders who sponsored the new
levy of "a per cent on manufac-
turerS' sales frankly were rejected
A Republican leader privately ad-
mitted there appeared to be no
chance for its adoption after Fri
days unruly session.
The rank and file are bent on a
program of more drastic taxes on
the rich and elimination of the sales
levy. Their next move will be to
boost the estates and gifts tax up
to the IS per cent maximum war
time level they fixed Friday for
SurtaXes. The sales tax probably
will be reached Monday.
May Go Back to Committee
If that is eliminated the bill will
be so emaciated it may have to be
abandoned and sent back to the
ways and means committee for or
6erly rehabilitation of it's schedules.
That is the purpose announced to-
day by the opposition leader, Repre-
sentative Fiorello H. La Guardia
Rep., N. ".
After the sales tax is beaten" he
said, "the bill ought to be taken
back by the committee and other
provisions for raising revenue calm
ly considered. We shall be ready to
cooperate with the committee to
balance the budget"
The leaders who framed the bill
were dubious. They have never be-
fore been at the mercy of their fol-
lowers as they are now. Acting
Chairman Charles R. Crisp of the
ways and means committee an
nounced he would plod along with
the bill until the end, doing my
duty until the mob gets through
tearing the bill to pieces.
May Boost Estate Tax
Speaker John N. Gamers only
comment was statement that the
budget would have to be balanced,
and it was "a debatable question
how it should be done.
The two inSurgent amendments
now inserted in the bill will produce
$3.50, 100000 a year more in revenue
than the coalition bill provided.
AS it stands now the bill woulc
raise $1,233,OOOOOO a year. The
sales tax is worth $685., 100000. If
no other changes are made, and
the sales tax is eliminated, the bill
will be about 100000 below the
amount fixed by the treasury as
needed to balance the budget.
Boosts in the estates and gifts
taxes, contemplated today, may
make up some of this lost revenue
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-19
Visitors Urged to Select
Week Days to Avoid
Holiday Crowds.

Check Of attendance at the 1892
model home, 5240 Cornelius avenue,
today showed that over $1,000 per-
sons have inspected it.
Attendance has exceeded all an
ticipation,' j. Harry Miles, presi-
dent of the Home Builders Asso-
citation, said. 1--WE are sorry that
the immense crowds have prevented
careful scrutiny Of the house. With
so many people going through at all
times it has been impossible for
any one to get more than a GEN
eral idea of what the house is
like
Miles urged that any one plan
ming to visit the house should go
on week day afternoons and
evenings. There have been such
tremendous crowds on Saturdays
and Sundays and holidays that
visitors can scarcely get through, y
he said.
J. Frank Cantwen, program
director, has arranged several
activities for the next few weeks at
the house.
Various women's clubs in the city
have been granted the privilege of
holding their meeting in the social
room of the house.
Several clubs have availed them
selves of this opportunity, and
others are completing arrange
mentS. Among those who have
definitely arranged for their meet
ings are: Amicitia Club, which will
meet March %; Independent Social
Club, which will meet on March %;
Minerva Club on March 80, and the
Alpha Iota Latreian on April 5.
Miss Helen Ready will be at the
house Wednesday afternoon, March
IS, and talk on interior decorating.
All women interested in the sub
ject are invited.
Girl Scouts of America will be
hosteSses at the house the week of
March n, doing work which will
be associated toward merit badges
in home economics.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-19
ENGINEER WILL SPEAK
Metal Trades Group to Hear Ohio
Economist at Annual Meeting.

Samuel S. Wyer, industrial re-
search engineer and economist of
Columbus, o., will speak at the
twenty sixth annual dinner meeting
of the Indianapolis branch of
the National Metal Trades Asso-
citation at $50 Thursday at the Co.
lumbia Club.
He will speak on Startling Facts
in Today's Economic Middle"
Resume of the cause, effect and
remedy of industrial ills will be
given by Homer D. Sayre of Chi
cago, association commissioners, and
w. E. Odom, director of industrial
relations. Sayre and Odom recently
completed a survey of conditions in
large industrial centers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-19
Drastic 1929 'HartzeII Act
Is Constitutional, Says
State Supreme Court.

Constitutionality Of the 1929
"Hartzell" act making the death
sentence mandatory for any per-
son convicted Of killing while per-
petrating robbery, burglary, arson
or criminal assault, has been upheld
by the supreme court
The court also ruled it is within
the province of the legislature to
make mandatory sentences and that
they must be carried out by the
judge in passing judgment after the
defendent had been found guilty by
the jury.
Case in point was the murder ap-
peal of Ulysses Mack, giant Gary
Negro, convicted of Staying Joseph
inc OodoriZZi, 20-year-old Italian
girl, while committing robbery and
criminal attack. Conviction was
affirmed and Mack is to die in the
electric chair at the Indiana state
prison July /.
ConStitutionality of the manda-
tory sentence law had been attacked
by Mack's attorneys on four points.
They were:
The statute deprives the accused
of life and liberty without due pro-
cess of law.
1t takes from the court or jury
all discretion.
1t gives the trial court the right
to pass sentence upon the accused
and deprives the jury of its con-
stitutional rights as judges of the
law and facts.
1t deprives the jury of the right
to fix the penalty and denies it the
right to differentiate between the
lesser and greater degrees of the
offense.
The opinion, holding that the
prescription of penalties is a legis-
lative function, was written by
Justice Clarence r. Martin.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-19
BRAND to BE Buried April 10.

DEldiu 70 DC OuiiCu Apih III.
PARIS. March ia RI ii d q
BRAND will be buried in the church,
yard at Cocherel, the village whera
the veteran statesman owned a
farm. on April 10. The burial cere-
mony will be simple.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-19
HAM CALLS FOR EGGS

So Produce Dealer Advertises Them
Free to Thief Who Stole Meat.
By United Press
QUANAH, Tex, March 19.-Floyd
Snyder has advertised that the thief
who stole some hams from the Sny-
der Produce Company is invited to
call to receive several dozen eggs so
he can have ham and"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-19
STUDY RAILWAY AID
Hoover, COnfereeS Ponder
Problem of Loans. =
By United Press

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, March 19.-In =
new effort to help the railroads,
President Hoover is comforting with
leading railway executives, heads OF
the reconstruction finance corpora-
ton and members of the inter-
state commerce commission.
The primary issue involved is
understood to be the question OF
how large a share of railroad
financing shall be borne by the re-
construction corporation.
The initial arrangement was THAI
the railroads own credit corpora-
ton would make loans to enabls
railroads to meet their interest
charges, while the reconstruction
corporation would advance funds
necessary to meet operating ex-
penses and bank payments.
Now, however, the railroad credit
corporation has found itself overs
whelmed by the demands upon it,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-19
WOMEN'S CLUBS TO
SEE MODEL HOME
Rolling ONn
United Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON, March 10
Hard-up America is rollong its
own cigarets and spending eco
nomical evenings playing
cards if internal revenue bu-
reau figures for February are
any criterion.
During that month, accord
ing to the bureau, 1855, 1880
fewer ready-made cigarets were
smoked than during February,
1881. That is a decline OF
62,786, ga packs.
The sale of playing cards. on
the upgrade for some time,
continued to advance. A total
OF 5,424,156 packs we're sold in
412 in February, 1881.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-19
BACK HOME AGAIN

belong to:
:, Fred Bergman, 72s South Noble street.
Shelbyville. IND. Chevrolet coach, found
at Alabama and Ohio streets.
E. Stone. Danvile Ill. Gardner sedan.
found at Alabama and Market streets.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-19
REALTORS IN INSPECTION
City Men Guests of Milwaukee
Board at Home Show.

A group of indianapolis realtors
today visited the Milwaukee home
complete show as guests of the Mil
waukee realty board
The delegation included Lawrence
G. Holmes. realty board executive
secretary; J. Frank Cantwell, home
show director, and Edgar E. Brod-
beck, realtor.
The trip is for an exchange of
ideas in connection with the annual
complete exposition April to 10 at
the state Playground. Last week
committees visited shows in Detroit
and Cleveland.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-19
WHAT'S THIS; A GAME?
Cops Accompany Thief to Recover
Loot; End It's Stolen Again.

Loot; End It's Stolen Again.
By URitcd Press
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, March 10
An arrested man admitted he stole
some tomatoes from the truck of S.
Females. But when police went
with him to recover the tomatoes it
was discovered they had again been
stolen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-19
Buyers Shop for NezC Homes

Fine homes always have
ready market as is evidenced by
these three attractive pieces of
property recently sold in North
indianapolis.
Left-Home of j. willard Pipes
at 5415 Washington boulevard,
sold by J. H Albershardt of the
Hoosier Funding Corporation.
Center-Seven-room brick We
neer English type home at 1913
North Delaware street, sold to
Albert S. Birchett by F. B. Kel-
logg of Gregory & Appel.
Right-Home of Ralph E. Rea-
hard, 1889 Ruckle, sold by Joe
Argus of the American Estates
Company.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-19
Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported to police as stolen
Elliott Buckner 214s schrieber avenue.
Buick coach, 5S-666, from 1922 North West
Emma Cornwen, 2955 Beuefontaine street
Ford coach from 2055 Bellefontaine street
Carl Schloesser. Shelbyville. Ind Chew
roIet coach. 255-658. from Shelbyville.
street. Apt. 20, Ford coupe. 58-342, from
1928 North Pennsylvania street
Jack w Fletcher. 6214 Carrollton ave
nue.. Ford sport coupe, 63-177 from 2345
Broadway.
Albert Mcbride. Mitchell. Ind. Chevrolet
special sedan. 221-062. from Mitchell Ind
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-19
URGES CARE IN VOTING
Judge Baker Tells Political League
to Spread Organization.

Scrutiny of the record of all can
didates for public Office with a view
OF supporting only those best quail
ned was recommended by Criminal
Judge Frank Baker at meeting of
the Workers Nonpartisan Political
Action League Friday night at the
English.
He advised the league to have an
organization in every precinct of
the county to make its work effec-
tive.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-19
PAGE Ia ----
SCHOOL OPENS
FOR EXPLORERS
AT HARVARD u.
Students Will Learn How to
Search Far Places
of Earth.

By Times Special
NEW YORK, March 19.-What is
said to be the worlds only school
for explorers has been opened at
Harvard university under the name
Of the institute of geographical re-
search.
Here young aspirants for adven-
ture in strange lands will learn how
to- read a compass, set up radio
communication with civilizations
outposts, make their own weather
forecasts, and record valuable scien-
tific data. A graduate will be quail
fed to command an expedition.
Opening of this school serves as
a reminder that. even in this age Of
sirplanes and fast travel, much of
the world remains unexplored.
And no one knows what may be
found in some Of the vast areas OF
the earths surface that still await
the tread of the white man-per-
haps strange tribes, great natural
wonders, or untold treasure from
bygone ages, says the April Popular
Science Monthly.
Inspired Conan Doyle
Because of their inaccessibility,
unexplored lands are the more like
ly to hold strange sights. Viewing
the isolation Of steep-sided Mt.
Roraima on the Venezuelan border,
the late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
imagined its wild life untouched
by outside forces Of evolution, and
therefore different from any to be
found elsewhere.
He made the plateau the scene of
his famous novel, THE Lost World, .
and peoplsd it with cave dwellers
and dinosaurs surviving from pre-
historic times. That his idea had at
least some scientific basis was
shown several years ago, when ex-
plorers found birds and animals en-
tirely new to science, though no
dinosaurs, upon the summit.
Meanwhile monsters not unlike
dinosaurs have been discovered in
another part of the world. Natives
Of the little Dutch East Indian is
land of Komodo told of seeing
dragons" bigger than men.
Giant Lizards Found
Investigating, explorers found the
island inhabited by giant lizards ten
feet long, by far the largest in the
world, Several were caught alive
and brought to museums.
Only further exploration can
verify or disprove equally bizarre
legends, such as that of the Man
Eating Tree" of Madagascar. Ac-
cording to native myths, its octo-
pus-like tentacles close upon and
crush human victims, and legend
speaks Of a little-known tribe that
offered human sacrifices to the tree.
SO far this botanical horror, a
gigantic counterpart, if it exists, of
"carnivorous" plants that trap and
eat insects, has proved elusive to
those who have searched for it.
Find Great Wall in Peru
How near home some finds" may
lie was demonstrated recently by
the discovery of a Great Wall of
Peru" equaling, as a worlds Won
der, the celebrated rampant of
China, in an area already thor
oughly crisS-crossed by expeditions
Why it remained unknown until
now is as great puzzle as its
origin.
Thus fascinating mysteries await
the Marco Polos of the future. Huge
blank spaces remain to be filled in
on the map of the worlds face. to
say nothing of the unexplored vast
nesSes of the sky ten miles or so
above the earth and the sea, but a
quarter-mile beneath the waves.