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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-08

Michigan street, where the Negroes
drove his car.
McNichols was charged with
drunkenness by police.
Charles Best, 1907 West Thirty
third street, told officers that two
Negroes, both armed. leaped to the
running board of his car at North
western avenue and the boulevard,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-08
Committee Is Named

Members of the university CO.
ordinating committee and the
group which they represent IRE.
DR. w. ID. Catch. dean of the
school, chairman: State Superin-
tendent George c. Cole. DR.. Joseph
Fl. Weinstein. president of the
Indiana State Medical Associa-
ton Miss Lulu v Cline. president
of the Indiana State Nurses Asso-
citation; DR. Voyles. Or. Torian. Mrs.
Glenn Clifford. Upton. American
Red Cross: Mrs. w. J. Hockett. Ft.
Wayne. Indiana Congress Of Par
ents and Teachers. Peter c. Reilly.
trustee of Riley hospital. Robert f.
Cavanaugh. director Of Indiana uni
versity extension division; Judge
George D. Silver. Goshen. Ameri-
can Legion: DR. John II. Hara. SUI
perintendent OF Evansville State
hospital and Dean Stanley Coulter.
Indiana tuberculosis Association
and Purdue university.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-08
WE DO
OUR PART

The theatres OF Indianap-
oils have always been leaders
in patriotic and civic activ-
tiles. Their splendid record
in this connection goes back
TO the earliest presentation of
this form Of entertainment in
this city. and during the
World War was publicly rec
ognized by the government.
AT this time the theatre
owners take pride in backing
the national administration
in its courageous and. we be-
lieve. undoubtedly successful
effort TO end the depression in
this country. Indianapolis
theatre owners pledge their
unqualified support of Presi-
dent Roosevelt and the NRA
in the recovery program.
Charles r. Metzger.
Attorney indianapolis
Theatre Owners
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-08
ATTORNEY Is CLEARED

1HVfA UuIttNSs OF dIst
Pretense Charge.
M. w. Franklin, attorney, with
offices at 806 New City Trust build
ing, charged by police with obtain
ing money under false pretense. has
been freed Of all charges by the
Marion county grand jury, it has
been learned
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-18

linery Workers (A.FL0 put over a
fake stoppage TO stabilize the in
dustry." 1t ended with a collective
agreement which on paper at least,
provided minimum wage, 40-hour
5-day week, no overtime while there
are empty machines or benches, etc.
Actually Very Different
But, in reality, this was all just
demagogy, which the left wing was at
that time not militant and active
enough to thoroughly expose. The
hours are actually as much as go or
60 a week, whatever the boss and
union officials want to put over.
The agreement provides that the
union and employers association
shall set up system OF unemploy-
ment insurance. In the whole year
not the slightest beginning has been
made on that,
In Local "a and Local ~. trade
union democracy is absolutely abol-
ished, and no regular meetings are
held, officials of Local "a. elected
for one year only, have held Office
without new elections,
In the cap industry, under such
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-18

an agreement, the sweat shop condi-
tions have returned, full force. The
union officials propose only one way
QUITO legaliZe piece work and re-
duce union shop conditions to the
level Of the sweat shop.
Union Wrecked
The union officials themselves, In
their eagerness for the good will OF
the boss, have smashed locals all
over the country. In such centers
as Philadelphia. Boston, Cleveland
st. Louis and Chicago there is only
mere senblance of the union.
Mems hats have been under con-
troll Of the United Hatters Of North
America. Now two-thirds of that in
dustry Is unorganized, union men,
bership declines steadily, and wages
are slashed. The union officials are
serving the bosses openly, against the
interests of the workers.
All these problems, and program
Of united struggle for better condi-
tons and wages will be the main
topics at the conference today and
tomorrow, The conference is called
by the Headgear United Front Rank
and File Committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-18

in Kilby prison, but will enable de-
Tense attorneys to discuss their case
with them privately, without inter
ference by prison officials and guards
"a situation which has existed duf-
ing the entire time the boys have
been imprisoned,
The trial is scheduled to begin on
March ~. Some time before that
date the Negro boys will be removed
to the Morgan county jail from which
they will be taken to Decatur where
the fight to free the boys will be
made by the International Labor De-
tense. Decatur, which Is only Sc
miles from Scottsboro. is the place 10
which the trial scene was moved
after the defense attorneys sought
unsuccessfully to win a change OF
venue TO Birmingham, one Of the
large industrial oenters Of the South
Protest Drive On.
Meanwhile, from its national office
in New York, the LID. urged an
intensification of the protest cam
paign against the legal lynching OF
the Scottsboro boys. Recently Gov,
Miller of Alabama admitted that he
had received mo less than 10000
protest wires and resolutions" de-
inanding freedom for the framed-up
youths.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-18

The economy bill stands out before
the masses clearly, as class legisla-
ton against the toiling masses. In
substance e consists of taking away
from the victims Of the last world
mperialist war, the wounded, the
gassed, thu broken down veterans,
about faH billion dollars. This
means starvation, continued suffer-
ng from disease. and starvation to
hundreds Of thousands of veterans,
The cry is raised that these veterans
IRE grating on the government. This
a brazen lie. These veterans ex-
ept for the high officers who receive
arge sums, have come to their
present conditions because Of the
var. They are most Of them unable
o work even II they could secure
york, which Is not the case,
They are dying away even today,
Unable to get into the overcrowded
ospitals. They receive a nneasly a1-
owance. which does not even make
possible for them to get the most
rgent necessities.
The second part Of this bill is a
rect wage cut Of an average of
per cent upon the already poorly
aid government employees.
It Is interesting to note that the
Iocialist leaders did not have a word
0 say against this bill in their audi
nee with President Roosevelt. The
,ocialist leader Haywood Broun
rote special column in the World
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-18

created about the big undertaking,
Roosevelt announces that the actual
amount is not yet decided upon. But
already the impression is created
that a big undertaking is being con-
sidered which will result in employ
ment for millions. But even II the
full amount Of billion is considered,
what does 1t really amount to? AS
a ready part Of this program Is to
regiment some 100000 to 300, 900
workers for the lumber camps, forests
and farms at the rate Of 81 per
day. These unemployed, thru the
same announcement we learn are
to be chosen from those who are not
on the relief lists and not doing
anything, So that in reality the
workers thus recruited will Of course
receive less than those receiving
relief now in some OF the larger cities
And In addition they will have to
perform hard forced labor in camps
removed from their families, regi-
mented, to military rule, as part OF
the war preparations program. They
will in many cases replace labor now
receiving many times the wages these
regimented workers will receive. OF
the SO called two billion dollar pro-
gram 500 millions Is allotted to this
phase Of the program. But 1t Is
clear that this will not mean any
extra expenditure on the part Of
the capitalists and the government.
On the contrary it will be merely a
means to provide cheap labor.
The second part of the program
calls for one billion dollars to be
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-18

shops throughout the city who
brought messages of solidarity
in the fight against the COR
ruption.
Conference Sunday
The workers voted to call a con-
ference of the shop committees Of all
Gibson Red Cross plants for tomor-
row morning at irving Plaza Hall,
18th Street, corner Irving Place. at
II am. TO plan immediate action.
Hoffman and other workers thor
oughly exposed the type Of coTup-
tlcn. which included the pronouncing
of workers who know too much" In
sane by Mr.. Huston, Gibson's assist
ant, and the hiring Of International
Ladies' Garment Workers Union Elk
ecutive Board members in place OF
militant workers who are fired with
out cause. and their time cards
punched each day thereafter to fill
the pockets Of Gibson's officials. The
unofficial" Gibson representative
took the floor
He asked the workers how they
knew there were dummy" time
cards. He asked, innocently. Don't
you sign when you get your pay?"
They Didn't Sign
The answer Of the workers was,
mo, for IL weeks the officials simply
called the names Of workers and
handed out the pay Last week, when
the racket was brought into the open
the officials got frightened and had
lis sign for the first time, and one
worker Harry Goldman, said he did
not want his pay, and therefore did
not go up to sign for it,
The Gibson man said they would
have to prove the charges and his
committee would investigate.
Hoffman then told the workers the
type of investigation" they could eX-
pect of the Gibson gang, He said:
When it comes 10 accusing a
worker, Mr.. Huston requires no de-
finite proof. But when it is his own
committees graft and corruption, he
asks for black and white proof. He,
Of course, doesn't ask the same of
Mr.. Katg, his timekeeper.
The girl Beatrice, card No. l,
quit 7 weeks ago, her card was being
punched every day.
Mr. Huston will have to take the
word and proof OF the workers in
the shops. But we have no faith in
the Emergency Relief Bureau doing
any thing about it,"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-18
.FINGERPRINTING
RELIEF WORKERS
To Save Grafters and
Scare the Witnesses

NEW YORK.-The system of es-
pionage introduced by the Erner-
gency Home Relief Bureau two
months ago among its employees. is
being developed to include finger
printing and lengthy questionaires in
order to eliminate those Of their
workers who expose the graft and
corruption Of the Tsnmany relief
machine.
In precinct 5, located at 2ol Eliza
beth Street, Manhattan, flngerprint-
ing has already become an actually
with the vague promise that the EN-
ployees will be under the Jurisdiction
Of the Civil Service Commission.
The queStionaires, supposedly for
the Civil Service Commission, will be
used as weapon in firing workers
on the grounds that they do not
meet Civil Service requirements"
Employees suspected Of exposing TO
the working class the burocracy, in
efficiency, graft and corruption Of the
officials, will be ousted by a "Civil
Service" rejection. The political ap-
pointees Of Tammany Hall will, Of
course, be unmolesJed in their blood
sucking activities on the workers Of
New York.
In almost every instance. the re-
cent disclosures of graft and crooked
dealings in the Home Relief Bureaus
which resulted in arrests, were the
relief activities Of Tammany APP
pointees. ...
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-18

NEW YORK.-Workers Clubs here
are speeding their work in the Daily
Worker drive for $4,000 in response
to the papers appeals for funds to
put the drive over the top. Origin
ally given a quota OF $500, the clubs
themselves have determined to go
far beyond this,
So far, however, only four OF these
clubs have gone above the 100 per
cent mark. These are Middle Bronx
Workers Club, which has raised
$S0.87; the Hinsdale Workers Club,
S71.54; and the Bronx Workers Club,
$i57,78 and the Prospect Workers
Center.
Altogether, Sc per cent, roughly, of
the present club-quotas has been full
filled.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-18
CONTINUE SHOE
STRIKE, BOSTON
1000 Reject Sellout By
National Assn

BOSTON. Mass, March i7.-4s00Q
Of the Boston shoe strikers are still
out after having emphatically reject
ed the proposals of the officials OF
the National Shoe Association to &c
back to work on the basis OF the
Lynn agreement, which calls for
submitting their wage demands to
the State Board Of Arbitration for
settlement while continuing work at
the existing wage scale.
Instead the strikers stand firm on
their demand for a 25 per cent in
crease IN wages right now, and re-
cogrition of shop committees.
The Shoe and Leather Workers
Industrial Union has exposed the
seli-out agreement and is organizing
the strikers to take rank and file
control OF the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-18

Roosevelt program.
This struggle must take on con-
crete form in each factory, at the I'M
employment relief stations and veter-
ans relief organizations. This fight
must be brought into every local Of
the ALL, into all workers mass or
CARNATIONS. Special attention must
be given to the drawing in of Soci-
alist workers into the struggle.
AGAINST HUNGER AND
WAR PROGRAM
1t IS necessary to connect up the
deepening crisis in the U.S.A. with
the whole world situation and expose
the war preparations of the U. S.
government. To contrast the pro-
letarian prosperity in the Soviet
Union with the hunger regime in the
U. S. To show to the masses how
it is not some loose screw that Is re-
Sponsible for the present situation,
but that the whole capitalist order
is dying. To expose the attempts Of
the capitalists to get out OF the crisis
thru new attacks on the masses. thru
fascist reaction and imperialist war.
To show to the masses that they
must resist every attack and fight
for every concession, and at the same
time build their organizations.
Thru the immediate struggles 10
prepare the workers for fight to the
overthrow of the whole rotten system
Of capitalism, which brings only
starvation, and war to the masses.
and that only thru the abolition OF
capitalism can there be for the
masses peace and prosperity
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-18
General Strike Red Cross Shops Gibson Doesn't Stop GRAFT
SCOTTSBORO BOYSREMOVAL HELD UP
Trial in Decatur to Begin March 27

NEW YORK. - ScottSboro De-
Tense mass meeting at $3.50 pm.
Sunday, at Cooperative AuditO-
rum, called by Ronald Edwards
Group Of the L.S.E.R. Speakers: F,
Z. A. Welsh, Louis b. Scott, and Al
bert Glassford, member of the La
Dor Jury just returned from Ala
bama.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, March II
Following the victory of the at
torneys of the International Labor
Defense in compelling Alabama's at
torney- general, Knight, TO consent to
transfer the Scottsboro boys from the
death house in Kilby prison to the
jefferson county Jail in Birmingham
Ala, legal obstacles have been placed
in the way which will postpone this
action.
Two eircuit judges as well as Sher-
if McBryde Of Jackson county
where the original frame-up of the
innocent Negro youths first origi-
mated, must sign the consent" Or
der before they can be removed to
the Birmingham jail.
VIII Be Taken from Death Cell.
Not only will the removal take the
Scottsboro boys out of the death cells
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-18

District international LABOR Deltilse
will hold tonight at st. Nicholas
Arena, 66th st. and Broadway.
For Scottsboro Boys
Celebrating the establishment of
the first workers republic by the
Partisan working class in March,
1871, the Paris Commune Festival
will be in addition powerful de-
monstration by workers here against
the bosses threat to electrocute the
nine innocent Scottsboro boys, and
against the vicious reign Of terror
by the Hitler fascist gang against the
German working class.
Speakers will include Michael Gold,
Waldo Frank, Mrs. Lincoln Steffens,
well known writers; Irving SchWab,
attorney for the Scottsboro boys just
returned from Alabama; Richard B.
Moore and Albert Glassford, member
Of the Scottsboro Labor Jury. John
J. BALKAN, District Secretary LID.
will preside as chairman.
The march of the Soviet cavalry
troops and their triumph over the
enemies Of the workers fatherland,
the U.S.S.R., will be synbolized in
dance titled RED Cavalry" staged
by the Red Dancers under the di-
rection Of Edith Segal. This dance
group will also present BLACK and
White" and Southern Holiday"
Endorsed by a large list of mass
organizations, among them the In
ternational Workers Order and the
Trade Union Unity Council, the cele-
bration is expected TO be one of the
largest of its kind held in this city.
Arrangements have been completed
for seating comfortably 1000 at st.
Nicholas Arena this Saturday night.
The program is scheduled to begin
at 8 pm.
< Staten Island Meeting
A Paris Commune Memorial Meet
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-18

country.
The keynote of the recon-
mendations made by Roose-
welt working closely with professional
farm" leaders, Is the problem of low
prices and surplus production. With
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace as
actual dictator-and invested with
sweeping powers-the muoh-touted
program" enables him to employ
parts of several plans, including the
Smith cotton method, the Domestic
Allotment bill, the leasing Of lands
for the purpose Of curtailing produc-
ton upon them.
Reduce Cultivation.
The withdrawing of land from cul-
INSTRUMENTATION of crops-is the
chief intention of the bill, the pur-
pose being arNficially to raise prices,
presumably for the farmer, but ac-
utally for the benefit Of the market
ing agencies and the trusts.
Curtailment OF production, one Of
the chief aims Of the bill, will strike
the heaviest blows at the millions OF
poor farmers with their small acreage
and give increased advantage to the
wealthy, large-Scale farmers.
Another aspect of the bill is the
taxing Of the processing (such as mil
lirg inNthe case of wheat) of wheat,
cotton, corn, hogs, tobacco. rice, cat
tie, sheep, and milk and its products,
$50 as to bring about a gradual in
crease in their prices to a point where
the purchasing power of such COM
modities will be at parity with the
industrial commodities the farmers
buy
False Hopes.
That this holds out false hopes, TO
the impoverished farmers is espe-
cially evident, with the country al
ready launching into an initiation
period. thus making it more and
more difficult for the farmers to pur-
chase his commodities with the con-
tinually lowered value Of the dollar.
The farmers are fighting for higher
prizes from the market agencies,
while at the same time the workers
Consumers must demand lower
prices from the distributors who rob
both the farmers and the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-18
Meet Scores Harlem
Hospital Conditions

NEW YORK.-Thursday night q
large room of Lafayette Hall was
packed full of Negro and white work
eTs at a meeting of the Peoples
Committee Against Discrimination in
Harlem Hospital. The meeting went
on record condemning the conditions
in Harlem Hospital, which we're sole
" responsible for the death Of Mrs
Cummings and her child, by blood
poisoning.
The meeting voted to hold another
meeting this coming Thursday, at 8
pm, March %, at Lafayette Hall
1855 w. 131st st.
More than 20 workers joined the
committee.
NEW YORK.-In order to avoid
any misunderstanding, it must be
stated that part of the article by
Sol Harper was omitted from yes
terday's Daily Worker for lack oil
space. The author wishes to make
it clear that the reference to Tam
many agents" was about those who
made false statements against the
Peoples Committee to the family oil
Mrs Cummings. Mrs, Cummings
died Of blood poisoning in Harlem,
Hospital last Sunday as a result OF
lack Of proper treatment immediately
by the hospital authorities. These
authorities refused TO admit her when
her husband first brought her there
FOR treatment
Mrs. Sadie Hayes, 5o-year old Ne.
gro woman recently committed sui
eide from a window of Harlem Hos
pital; she was the second in the
last three months to commit suicide
from this Tanimany controlled in
stitution.-City Editor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-18
.LL.G.W. CHIEFS
REPLACE TOILERS
Take Jobs and Money
In Red Cross Shops

NEW YORK.--Supposedly into the
pockets Of the unemployed needle
trades workers for whom they were
intended, but in reality into the
pockets OF the Gibson gang and the
Executive Board of the International
Ladies Garment Workers Union
Local %, go the Gibson Committee
Red Cross Cloth funds.
Charles Zimmerman, Charles Mar
COLES, Pearl Halperin, Barber, Far
Der, and Koppelson, the latter a
former member OF the Local % Ex-
ecutive Board, have replaced work
ers who were unjustly fired in Gibson
shops. Two Lovestonite friends OF
Zimmerman came up to the S and
G shop Thursday to take the jobs
of other workers, but decided to go
easy because Of the exposures.
The Essex Street Gibson shop is
now having an investigation" rush
ed through 10 cover UP the graft and
the fact that two brothers Of the
Gibson Committee tinlekeeper, Kate
work there.
The following is the story Of the
worker, Morris Goldberg, who M
Huston, Gibson's assistant, wishes to
send to an insane asylum because
Goldberg exposed the racket in the
Gibson S and G shop. zone worker
woman, is already in an asylum
because she also dared fight the Glib
SON gang.
CORRECTION: - Yesterdays ar
ticle should have said that Hoffman
spoke to Houston, instead of Glib
son. Houston Is Gibson's assistant
In charge Of distributing work or
u ~ Tyoaz Cloth
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-18
How the T.U.U.L. Trade Unions and the Oppo-
sition in the A. F. of l.. Should Beat Back
the New Drive of the Bosses On
Their Living Standard

loaned thru the Reconstruction Fin
ance Corporation for certain public
projects. 1t is already announced
that this may not be spent now but
at some other time. Here is another
fraud in the name Of relief to the
unemployed, thru which over a long
er period subsidies may be given to
the railroads and the other big
corporations. The third phase Of the
program calls for the appropriation
Of half billion for loans to the vari-
GUS states for direct relief But this
is already being done now and does
not represent anything new.
We see that even II the SO called
two billion dollar program were ac-
tually adopted, which is not yet the
case, it represents really very little
new. 1t will not relieve unempIoy-
ment, It will not mean adequate re-
lief to the growing army Of unem-
ployed. The only thing new, is the
new attack against the unemployed
In the form Of regimented. forced
labor camps.
SHELVE UNEMPLOYMENT
INSURANCE
1t is interesting to note that Roose-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-18

Workers and shop chairman Of
each Of the other Gibson Red Gross
factories promised the solidarity Of
their shops If general strike Is call
ed to smash the Gibson racket.
Zimmerman, one Of the Local %
International Ladies Garment Work
err leaders, promised his "co-opera-
ton" but did not deny the charges
of an agreement between the Glib
son Official, KATE, and the 1L.G.W.U.
heads to replace 80 workers with the
latter's union officials.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-18
Prospect Club Adds to
"Daily" Drive Total;
Plan to Double Quota

NEW YORK.--The Prospect Work
ers Center has contributed another
$3.50 to the Daily Worker, making
its total donation 10 date $2oe.50.
The members of this club, whose
original quota was SITS, plan to
double this sum in actual achieve
ment.
For this purpose. they have issued
a challenge TO all the other New
York clubs, asking: Which club is
ready to accept our challenge to
bring the largest donation to the
Daily Worker banquet on Sunday,
March 1872"
Tonight a Marionette Play and
Dance will be held at the Prospect
Workers Center, 1857 Southern Blvd.