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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-14

asked for public cooperation in his
battle TO stamp out kidnapers.
keenan,, on the JOB as special
assistant to Attorney General Ho-
mer Cummings for less than a week
said Thursday he was devoting all
his time to the war against kid
naperS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-14
PAGE 10
Child Bitten br Dog

Alfred Sorrentino. 4. of 1929 East
Washington street, today was bitten
on the cheek by dog belonging to
Herbert Buchanan. 6'2 Johnson
avenue. Police ordered the dog
penned for ten days for rabies ex-
animation
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-14
GUARD AGAINST
KIDNAP BLOW
AT ROOSEVELT
Secret Service Men Ordered
to Protect Presidents
Grandchildren.
BY HARRY FERGUSON
United Press staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON. July 14.-United
States secret service agents have
been ordered to guard the grand
children Of President Roosevelt
against kidnapers, it became known
today.
Fearing that abductors- increas-
ingly bold in recent weeks-might
strike at the family of the head of
the nation, the department of JUS
tice dispatched guards to watch the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-05
Hold Conference
in Illinois for
Jobless Insurance
Police Bar Delegation
From Legislature

SPRINGFIELD, H., Oct 4-Carl
Lockner, state chairman Of the IN
employed Council, was arrested here
today, while heading delegation of
fifteen to the state governor and the
state legislature to present the Work
ers Unemployment Insurance Bill.
The delegation was met at the state
house by state police and barred from
entrance.
The unemployed conference opened
this morning with 1876 delegates rep
resenting $4,000 organized workers.
There were delegates from local
unions Of the Progressive Miners of
America, the UMWA, Unemployed
Councils, Unemployed Leagues, IN
employed Unions, the Trade Union
Unity League, the Communist Party,
the rank and file of the Socialist
Party. Lockner made the report deal
ing with the need for and the prog
ress of the campaign for unemploy-
ment insurance.
The convention unanimously en-
dorsed the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill and adopted an or
ganizational plan for the carrying on
of the campaign. This convention
passed a resolution greeting the
workers of Cuba and demanding the
withdrawal Immediately of all armed
forces of the U. S. from Cuba.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-05
Torgler Proves He
Wasn't in Reichstag
When BrOke0ut
Van der Lubbe Says
He Set Fire Himself

AT THE GERMAN FRONTIER,
Oct. (via Zurich, SwitzerlanO The
Reichstag fire trial re-opened today,
after five days adjournment, with
Ernst Torgler, Communist Reichstag
leader, on the stand.
Torgler stated that he left the
Reichstag building at 800 pm. on
February 27, or nearly an hour before
the incendiary fire broke out.
Prosecution witnesses say they saw
you in the building at 8:40," said
Presiding Judge Buenger, in an effort
to bolster the Nazi case, but Torgler
maintained that he was eating in
restaurant when the fire broke out.
Torgler scotched the Nazi lies that
he had been seized by the police,
proving that he went to police head
quarters the very next morning to
protest against Nazi charges that the
Communists had set the Reichstag on
fire.
The police manf1andling of George
Dinaitroff, Bulgarian Communist de-
PENDANT, last Friday, was read into
the trial record when Judge Buenger
introduced a telegram signed by Leo
Gallagher, Chicago attorney, and
several other foreign lawyers, protest
ing against such police brutality in
the courtroom.
Buenger declared that there had
been no manhandling" and expressed
extreme regret" that the protest
telegram had been sent, but Dimi-
troff arose and said, 81 was knocked
down and removed by force" when
he tried to speak to Bulgarian law
yer whom the court had refused to
accept as his trial counsel.
Marinus van der Lubbe, half -witted
Nazi tool, stubbornly insisted that he
had set the Reichstag on fire alone
when he resumed the stand. Judge
Buenger tried to get him to say that
Torgler had helped him, but van der
Lubbe said that he hadn't even seen
Torgler in the Reichstag, or at any
time previously.
Buenger: us Torgler completely
unknown to your"
Van der Lubbe: yes"
Buenger: did you set fire to the
Reichstag alone, or did anyone help
you?"
Van der Lubbe: mo"
Buenger urged van der Lubbe ITO
tell the truth" adding: "You know
the experts say 1t was impossible for
you to have set the Reichstag on fire
by yourself"
Van der Lubbe, smiling idiotically,
answered, Yes"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-05
McAdoo Wants u. s.
to Recognize the
Soviet Union Now
Everybody Naturally
Has Job in Moscow"
Says Senator

PARIS, Oct. 4.-Senator william
e. McAdoo of California has been
strengthened in his conviction that
the United States should recognize
the Soviet Union by his visit to Mos
COW. according to an interview print
ed in a Paris newspaper.
Moscow is the busiest place have
seen in long WHILE" said the Sen
ator. 1.-THE streets are full Of people,
all occupied and apparently happy.
Everybody, naturally, has job"
run Their Own Country
What is more, they seem to be-
1ieve that they run their own coun-
try, that they are protected against
impoverished old age, and that their
state is better than it was under the
Czars.
II went to the opera and was am
Azed at the audience. They were the
proletariat, yet all were decently
dressed.
II believe" McAdoo added that
recognition would provide machinery
to expedite the trade we now have
with the Soviet Union. I can see no
reason to withhold recognition. It
viii enable us to extend credits which
vii promote our business THERE
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-05

LOS ANGELES, Cal, oct. I'm
voluntary suicide!"
This is how Fire Chief Ralph Scott
characterized the burning to death
of between SO and rs unemployed
workers who were yesterday trapped
while carrying out orders, under pro-
test, to extinguish a blaze in . box
like canyon in Griffith Park here.
Nearly 100 jobless workers were in
jured, and many Of these may not
live.
All the victims of this needless
tragedy are martyrs to the rugged
individualism" program of the
Roosevelt administration which
substitutes forced labor for unem-
ployment insurance.
Their bodies burned to a crisp
many Of them beyond recognition
the workers lost their lives after q
foreman had ordered them to ex-
tinguish a blaze in the canyon.
1T was compelling these men to
commit suicide" said the Los An
geles fire chief, ito send them into
= valled-in canyon whose entrance
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-05
Tom Mann Is Not a
ssTired Radical"

TOM MANN nearing year he
the English coal pits Practically his life active
Twenty States
against oppressors
years
and Jailed by the British imperialiss.
WHO blame if Comrades
W tired
Many have said Many have
in the class struggle.
WHEN opening
Friday Square badly money
the told
will raise funds for the revolutionary what did
he had to rest before rushing Washington speak there the
night?
Immediately speak
M Immediately after his speech he will have hasten
to the station to catch the train for Washington.
TOM has joined revolutionary
Barbusse help keep
modifying organizing oppressors
drive to keep the DAILY WORKER ALIVE.
Both of them fighters
working class HAVE YOU DoNATED9 HAS YOUR ORGANIZATION
DoNATED2 HAVE YOU ASKED YOUR FRIENDS, YOUR FELLOW
WORKERS IN THE SHOP TO DONATED
this today. the coupon
Wednesdays receipts s374ss
Previous Total 42es61
TOTAL TO DATE s4s445s
/ Editor, Daily Worker
so E. 18th st, New York City. -E~9~--------
| ANSWER TOM MANNs oppEAL
address ........
City and State
Amount s..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-05
Will Place Jobless
in New York City
on Basket Rations
"Such Diet Will Cause
Scurvy," clearinghouse
Worker Writes

NEW YORK.-Food basket rations
as relief to the unemployed, which Is
proposed in the Roosevelt program,
will be carried into effect here this
winter, according to the announce
nent of Mayor C,Brien. Families
who had to get along on the miser-
able Home Relief Bureau grocery
order will now have to forego even
the right of selecting their food, and
live on regimented rations decided
on by welfare officials.
This plan has been used for con-
siderable time in Pennsylvania. Ire
mendous opposition was developed
against it by the UNEMPLOYED. Fam
lilies Of various nationalities who are
used to certain foods were compelled
to live on diets which are totally I'M
palatable to them. Besides. the food
is usually of the lowest quality and
totally inadequate to satisfy the needs
of the unemployed.
The quality of the food which will
be distributed by the federal govern
ment for use here is described by
packing-house worker in letter to
the Daily Worker. He says: 1.-THE meat
saved Is not being cured in the regu-
lar fashion employed BY the packers
for light sides of pork, which is a
pickle cure. Instead it is being given
a dry salt cure, that is, the salt is
rubbed into the meat before being put
into a pile. AS the sides are thin they
soon become so thoroughly saturated
with the salt that nobody will care
to eat it,"
r,uses BLOOD n;se,se
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-05

as a result of their experiences, sur
vivors described the horrors of the
fire. One of them, Wilfred Singleton,
told of seeing the ground dotted with
bodies and heard the piercing shrieks
OF men who fell and couldn't get up.
Sometimes I tripped and would
put out my hands to break my fall
and / would feel the hot clothing Of
a dead man."
Noel Gregg, another survivor, said
that he saw three men on the ground,
their heads down. The flames we're
getting them. My tongue began to
swell and thought my eyes would
pep out of my head. I heard a ter
rible scream and I tainted"
The men dropped one by one, W.
Il. Woods said. '"They would crawl
little way and then lie still. Then
the fire would catch up with them
The inevitable whitewashing of re-
sponsible high officials and the Sc
lection OF few minor goats" loom
as the only consequences Of this
criminal tragedy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-05

Bureau acting as Sergeant of arms
for this Parliament Of Labor"
The ballroom balcony was closed
to visitors and at the rear entrance
"Charly the Greek and Postello of
the Red Squad we're posted to repel
anyone who looked like worker. An
assorted collection of detectives and
Department of Justice Operatives
were located at strategic points in
the grand ballroom and in and
around the Willard Hotel
Weinstock was roughly handled and
pushed back into the elevator. but
the statement of the conference of
the A. F. of L. Committee for Unem-
ployment Insurance was thrown to a
number of spectators and grabbed up
eagerly. Many visitors in the lobby
congratulated and shook hands with
him.
Delegate Walks Out.
Reuben Suny, official delegate to the
A. F. of L. Convention in the Willard
Hotel, strobe out of the meeting from
which the rank and file representa-
tives were excluded and Indignantly
announced that he will make a fight
for them on the floor.
THE program which those brothers
tried to present today will come be-
fore the entire A. F. of L. Conver-
ton" Suny asserted. 9TH take it
there and fight for it-and I expect
lot of support from other dele
gates"
A Strike Leader.
Suny represented the Cleaners, Dy-
ers, Spoilers and Pressers' Union No.
1928, of Philadelphia. Youthful and
militant, he led his fellow workers,
last August, in a strike which COM
pletely shut down the Philadelphia
Pressing Shops and won all demands
by the 1900 workers, including full
recognition of their union.
He protested against bureaucratic
tai tics of A. F. OIL. leaders, asserted
thIit their system of apportioning
vcies in conventions is unjust to the
rank and file delegations. He said
that he will speak on resolutions en-
bldying the rank and file program
when the official conventions reso-
tdtions committee reports next week.
HI has introduced these resolutions
elfeady
"Are in Good Standing"
Those excluded brothers were A..
r. of L. members in good standing,
representing more than 1900 local
unions with about 100000 members
6uny continued, They were pre-
vented from even entering the con-
vention hall-and by police and thugs
acting on behalf of A. F. of L. lead
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ed about the county rnorgue and
hastily improvised mortuary.
The bodies OF the victims were so
badly burned, that not single VIC
time Of the fire had been recognized
this morning.
According to reports Of survivors,
the men had been ordered to ex-
tinguish q small fire in the mineral
wells canyon, and hundreds streamed
in. Deep in the canyon . small area
was burning. There was little or no
wind, the flames and smoke from the
burning scrub oak shooting straight
upward.
Suddenly, however, wind whipped
down into the canyon, and famed
the blaze into q roaring furnace. In
a few seconds, the nearly 1900 men
who had entered were franttcauy
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-05

NEW YORK. The Welfare Island
penitentiary, known as 'The School
for Crime" lost three of its inmates
today when yet-unidentified trio
escaped from the prison through a
subway tube.
This Is the place where James
Matthews, young North Carolina
Negro, was wantonly murdered by a
guard last fall--as exposed in recent
issues of the Daily Worker.
While the Tammany district at
torney's office and Harold 2.
Medalie, U. S. Attorney, continue
to make vague promises that they
will continue the investigation"
into the Matthews case, Harlem
workers are proceeding with plans
for . mass trial Of all officials re-
sponsible. The trial Is scheduled
to take place Oct Is.
Responding to an alarm, sent out
for the escaped prisoners, scores Of
policemen rushed into the tunnels in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-05
Fascist Trend in
Speech of Perkins
Welcomed by Green

WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. A.
The clearest formulation yet of
the fascist tendencies inherent in
the N. r. A. was made by Frances
Perkins, the Secretary of Labor
in Roosevelt's Cabinet, speaking
to the American Federation of La
Dor Convention now in session
here. She said: "The greatest
opportunity lies in the indignation
of labor with the modern state"
President Green of the A., r. of
L. gave another clear statement
of the policy Of the A. r. Of L.,
saying, in reply: Together we
will endeaver to make the N. r. Al.
full and complete success
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-05

crambling up the steep sides of the
canyon.
Go down and smack it out with
your shovels," a foreman ordered the
men when he saw the fire.
Doctors today told hair-raising
stories OF wild attacks by burned,
crazed workers upon would-be res
cuers.
Don't touch mel Don't touch mel"
shouted a man who was brought In
screaming. He seized a shovel and
tried to beat those who we're trying
to aid him.
Another worker told of seeing one
Of his companions drop a huge
rock on his head, to fall uncon-
scious IN the path Of the flames,
and thus die without PAIN
Exhausted and still terTor-styicksn
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-05
Unemployed Forced Labor Crew Trapped When Ordered Under
Protest. to Extngush Blaze in Canyon in Griffith Park

was blocked by raging flames and
whose only other means Of exit was
a winding cowpath up the wall Of the
ravine."
Thirty-six charred bodies have been
recovered, but there are at least 20
more still laying in the deep ravine,
county officials said.
Although the order to enter the
blazing inferno was given by FORE
mana straw boss"--responsibility
for the wanton murder Of these un-
employed workers clearly lies with
the administrators of the Roosevelt
relief" program.
Nearly 1000 jobless men had been
engaged in Reconstruction Finance
work on the roads Of the park, and
when news Of the fire spread through
the city, hundreds Of relatives crowd
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-05
Herndon New Trial
Appeal Is Up Today

ATLANTA, Ga, Oct. ben Davis,
Jr.. and John Geer, Negro attorneys
of Atlanta, representing the Interna-
tional Labor Defense will appear
before the Georgia Supreme Court
here today to make application for
a new trial for Angelo Herndon,
20-year-old Negro unemployed or
ganizer who has been sentenced to
1920 years on the chain gang.
Herndon, now confined in the
Fulton Towers Prison, one of the
Oldest and worst prisons in the
South, has already served nearly a
year, pending the fight for new
trial for him.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-05
TUJJL Urges Unity
to ALL. Convention
in Miners Strike
JointSupportW illForce
Operators to Yield
to Demands

NEW YORK.-The National Board
of the Trade Union Unity League adj
dressed telegram to the 53rd Annual
Convention of the A. F. of L. calling
for united front in defense of the
miners and steel wNkers' strikes.
The message is Also addressed to
a number of material labor organi-
cations. The fun text of the tele-
gram Is:
To the third annual con-
vention of the American Federation
Of Labor.
Copy TO the ALL. Rank and File
Committee for Unemployment In
surance.
Copy to the striking miners Of
Pennsylvania, care Of Ryan, Union
town.
Copy 70 the National Miners
Union.
The Trade Union Unity League
greets the striking miners OF Penn
sylvania in their determined fight for
the right of the miners to organize
and for the recognition Of the union
of their choice, in this case, the
United Mine Workers OF America. All
labor is heartened by the heroic and
militant struggle Of the miners who
are holding steadfast despite the
provocations Of the powerful operators
and steel trust, the strikebreaking ef-
forts Of the MIRA officials and the
open alliance of the Lewis, Murray,
Pagan, Feeny leadership Of the
UMWA with the operators and the
government in an effort to break the
miners strike. The miners in their
fight are blazing the road for all
labor and deserve the utmost support
OF all organized and unorgani7ed
workers throughout the country. The
Trade Union Unity League is CIV
(COntinued ~, pSHe p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-05
Trio Escape from Welfare
Island Via Subway Tunnel
Prison Was Scene of James Matthews Murder;
Harlem Workers Plan Mass Trial Oct. Is

the belief that the fugutives were hid
ing somewhere in the Queens branch
of the municipal subway.
The escaped prisoners made their
escape from Welfare Island through
one Of the many tunnels leading to
the subway 100 feet beneath the
surface OF the East River.
When they encountered a subway
foreman as they were walking to-
ward Manhattan the latter de-
inanded to know what they were do
ing there. The I. r. r. straw-boss
was promptly bowled over by the
prisoners, who ran ahead.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-05

Delegate Challenges Brocracy at A. F. of L. Convention
Barbusse, Tom Mann,
Hathaway, Speak at
Phila. Meet Friday

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Oct.
4.-Henri Barbusse, noted French
Communist writer and world
leader in the fight against i'm
perialist war; Tom Mann, veteran
militant laborite of England, and
Clarence Hathaway will speak
at a meeting Friday evening
called to hear the report of the
Philadelphia delegates to the re-
cent U. S. Congress Against War.
Other speakers will be David
H. H. Felix of the Socialist Par
ty, Rabbi H. Fineshriber, as well
as a number of rank and file
delegates to the Congress.
The meeting is being held at
Turnegemeinde Hall, Broad and
Columbia Avenue.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-05
War Games With
Plane and Ship
Acted i'm Pacific

NAVAL DRILL GROUNDS, off
Southern California.-War man
euvers were played today in the
Pacific.
Most OF the Nations sea de-
Tense units-120 war vessels and
$50 fighting aircraft-were en-
gagged in the Pacific beyond San
Clemente and Catalina Islands.
The forces were divided into
two sections. One represented a
powerful fleet from across the Pa
cific, and the other defense
group.
Today the maneuvers were prac-
tice. Tomorrow they may be grim
reality.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-05
Barbusse's Appeal for
"Daily" Stirs Workers

NEW YORK. - Martha and
John Aswelt, of this city, re-
ponded among the first to the
appeal by Henri Barbusse for
support of the Daily Worker.
They sent in IS, with the fol-
lowing letter:
''In answer to believer and re-
spected Comrade Barbusse's ap-
peal, please find five dollars en-
closed for our splendid "Daily
Worker"
The contribution Was sent on
the same day, Barbusse's appeal
appeared in tbs Daily" ysster.
day,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-05
Mine Picket Killed.

SULLIVAN, Ind, Oct. frank
Stadler, miner picketing the nom
union Starburn Coal Co. mine
here, was today killed when he was
deliberately run over by an auto
mobile driven by Creole Fitzpatrick,
mine superintendent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-05
BY HARRY CANNES.


AMBRIDGE Pa. Oct 4On ab dying, pkets wounde
with his side by dumdum bullets fired Deputy Sheriff
at the SpangChant Mill here this when attempt
yesterday Drawn
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-05
2 STRIKERS WOUNDED BY
DUM-DUM BULLETS; $4,000
MINERS WALK OUT IN VIVA.
Will Not Go Back Until Prick Men Win;
Murray's Treacherous Efforts Fail
Miserably; All Miners Stand Solid
BULLETIN.

GREENBURG, Oct Alive the United Mine Workers
joined Foundry swelling
picket lines
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-05
DENY RANK AND file
DELEGATES ADMISSION
TO FEDERATION MEET
That Big Insurgent Movement Is Spreading
Throughout Country Is Shown in Remarks;
Weinstock Elected from Hotel
From Our Special Corresnondent

WASHINGTON 4-Lou Weinstock, Secretary of the
the right
the Federation Convention
William the Washington Crime Prevention
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Madison to

Get Your Unit, Union Local,
Branch or Club to Challenge
Another Group i'm Raising Subs
for the Daily Worker!
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1933-11-15
TEACHERS END
2-DAY SESSION
Professor c. w. w. SchantZ,
Superintendent of Smyrna
High School, President
PROMINENT SPEAKERS

Prof. c. w. w. Schantz, super
intendent of the public schools of
Smyrna, was elected president of
the Delaware State Education AS
ISOLATION at the annual meeting of
the representative assembly of the
association held in b Nwark Spc-
ial District School auditorium at
a two-day annual institute last
week. He succeeds George T.
Macklin, of Bridgville and was in
Quoted into Office at final session
of the convention Friday after
noon. R. N. Foulk, principal of
the Thomas F. Bayard School,
Wilmington, was elected vice-pres-
ident, succeeding Prof. Schantz.
E. Paul Burkholder of George
town, was reelected treasurer, and
Miss Evelyn j. Tubbs of Bridge
vile, was reelected secretary. One
of the features of the opening ses-
sion in Mitchell Hall, University
of Delaware Thursday morning,
which was presided over by the re-
firing president, Prof. Macklin, was
an address by Lowell Thomas,
writer, traveller and radio COM
mentator. His subject was "A