The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-19

HEAR JOBLESS
RELIEF PLEAS
Blue Line of so CopperS
Stands Between Thronq
and StatehouSe.
ASK FOR rs MILLIONS
Mass Starvation MenaceS
Indiana, Warning of
Gary Speaker.

Warning of mass starvation" I'M
less needy in the state are given
financial relief, a committee of I'M
employed today pleaded with men,
bers of the house of representatives
to answer Immediately their call
for aid.
While five of them faced 100 non
committal representatives in the
legislature, hundreds of other I'M
employed, their crowd augmented
by scores of curious, congregated
on the east steps of the statehouse.
The crowd was faced by blue
line of sixty police officers, armed
with riot clubs and carrying tear
gas bombs, preparatory to trouble.
Inside the statehouse, machine guns
were set up, in case the demonStra-
ton broke into violence.
Representatives Criticised
However, there was no outbreak
and the hot sun melted the crowd
to few hundred before the COM
mittee came down from the house
with the word that representatives
had adjourned Immediately after
Wenzel Stoker of Hammond, their
spokesman, closed his appeal. The
representatives we're criticised for
taking no action.
The committee to call on the
house was cut from twenty-seven to
five by state officials. Ofacials who
ordered the committee reduction
were branded takers" by many of
the speakers.
A red flag fluttered over the
speakers and no American flag was
IN the group. The unemployed had
marched, cheering and yelling. from
their hall on South Capitol avenue
to the statehouse, shortly before IL.
After the statehouse demonstration
they paraded on downtown streets.
Many placards demanding relief,
and warning state officials to pro-
VIDE, were carried in the crowd.
Workers Are Dying
Stoker, in his address, said Gary
workers were dying and that mass
starvation and suicide" would be
the result unless the unemployed's
demands for 5000, 900 relief funds
were answered.
Don't follow the Hoover policy
OF 'do-nothing," Stoker warned.
Wen be back, not with delegations.
but with thousands of the unem-
ployed masses. We will Starve on
the steps of your Statehouse."
In addition to the huge relief
fund, the marchers asked for I'M
employment insurance, provided bv
the state and employers; tax ex-
emptlon for burdened farmers: re-
lease Of Theodore Luesse, Indian
apolis labor leader; and a state
conuS for war veterans.
THE bankers can pay the bonus. )
Stoker said. The war veterans
protected them in 1917 and now
they can take care of the bows
Stoker said he represented 600
600 starving unemployed in Indi-
ana"
Legislators Make Sport
Other members of the unem-
ployed committee were James Miles.
Indiana Harbor; Dan Wininger.
Bicknell; Dave Mates, Gary, and
June Roberts, Terre Haute.
When the jobless first swarmed
at the doors of the statehouSe.
rlbaldry prevailed in the house as
a result of motions which followed
a proposal to appropriate $1,000 for
the needy idle.
The proposal, in the form of
resolution by Representative Fred S.
Galloway Dem) indianapolis. who
is confined to a hospital, was lost
when Representative Martin T.
kreuger Dem) Michigan City. pre-
siding, ruled an appropriation could
not be made by resolution.
Representative Miles j. Furnas
winchester, Republican whip. then
proposed that each member con-
tribute IS.
DELPHI L. McKesson, Plymouth.
Democratic floor leader. amended
the motion to have Furnas make
the collection. Then Gerritt M.
Bates, Dem), Indianapolis, pro-
posed that for every SIS Furnas
failed to collect, he would have to
pay himself.
Despite a chorus of "ayes" when
the roll was called, all the motions
were declared lost by Kreuger.
The professors arrived at the
legislature as attempts were being
made along two lines to obtain
S8,000,000 from the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation to provide re-
lief for needy this winter.