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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-13
BY DR.. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal OF the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.

Two investigators, Mallory and
Irvine, after reaching $4,000 feet on
Mt. Everest, lost their lives in at
tempting to climb the last 1000 feet
without the xygen-breathing ap-
paratuS.
Because of the shortage of breath
at these immense heights, the OBJ
servers find it practically impossible
to live, and it is only with the help
of proper apparatus that they are
enabled to do So
One British investigator found
that degeneration of the organs
through deficiency of oxygen begins
at height of about 10000 feet and
gets steadily worse as one goes
higher.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-13
NJ.

n REPRESENTATIVE JAMES M. BECK re-
N CARDS the Constitution as doomed, eSpe-
cially since the new deal was authorized by
CONGRESS He can see nothing ahead but a
speeding up of the destructive processes which
have been in evidence for fifty years, and for
which he holds changed public attitude more
definitely responsible than the present crisis.
Quite possibly Mr.. Beck is right, though one
prefers cambridge Colbys opinion that the peo-
pie are seeking recovery rather than revolution.
Meanwhile, is it not rather silly to suppose
that the Constitution is beyond change, or that
it's adaptation to altered conditions means de-
struction of the republic?
Great as our forefathers were they were not
omniscent and no one realized it more frankly
than themselves. knowing the temporary char-
acter of all human achievements, they made
provisions for changing the Constitution when
ever the people of this country SO desired.
THOMAS JEFFERSON went so far as to as
i sert that the Constitution well might be
revised every twenty years or so, because no
living generation should be bound by the rules
of a dead generation
Constitutions like governments are designed
TO safeguard human rights, not against theo-
retcal invasions, but against such real infringe
ments as the drift of events implies They must
give wav to the demands of progress and yield
to the laws of evolution.
The only way we can nope 10 keep II Gull
stitution is by modifying it in response to
changed conditions and it makes little differ
ence whether the change is brought about by
some emergency, or by a new viewpoint.
Nothing rigid or inf1exible can survive. The
thought that it could is blamable for the break
down of most systems which failed.
Men have no right to assume that they can
invent or perfect anything beyond improvement.
Principles may be immutable, but their ap-
plication is not.
THE government has become powerless to do
what it ought for people with the simple
machinery with which it originally was provided.
Statecraft must develop with the problems 1t
was intended to solve, must take advantage of
accumulated knowledge the same way that pri-
vate business and voluntary organizations do.
There was no need of a traffic system in the
horse and buggy era. Our grandfathers would
have laughed at red lights and rebelled at park
ing regulations. But that is no reason why We
should refuse to adopt practical methods for
making the roads safe in an age of speed.
The only alternative to altering laws and
the Constitution is to forbid ali undertakings and
activities which threaten to change the habits
Of life
If we could make life stand still. we could
keep our government as 1t is, or as it was.
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A Woman's Viewpoint
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

been responsible for insanity, pre-
mature old age, and early death
among women in the past.
The drudgery now endured on the
tenant and poorer farms in the
United States is too we'll known to
require discussion here.
z
INSTEAD of railing at women, in
l. telligent men like Mr.. Borsodi
should set themselves the task Of
making the American farm home as
comfortable, as sanitary, as beauti-
full, as the mediocre city apart
ment
Those who return to the farms
will be or at least should be the
white collar workers, since they rep
resent an intelligent national ele-
ment and intelligence is what we
must have in the country if farm
ing is made to pay.
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panies, which today are holding the
bag.
1 regard this movement second
only to the reinstatement of the
Fletcher American National bank,
which was in my mind wonderful
piece of headwork.
Our President and his co-workers
deserve the hearty support of every
man, woman and child in the
u. S. A.
Should the above be managed
properly, every man out of work in
indianapolis could be put to work
and there would be no need of aid
in our community.
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Questions and Answers

Q-What is the correct term to
designate native of Switzer-
land?
"A native of Switzerland is a
Swiss"
Q-Are non-navigable rivers
under control of the federal gov
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4 Deep Hole IN Ground

7 AM not alone in the well. The
Il place is filled with newspaper
men. A few agile ones crawl out
occasionally by fashioning a rope of
short stories, or they may use a
novel, as a ladder, or tunnel under
ground and become counsel of pub
lie relations"
But the great ma jority of us are
permanent boarders. AS such I
think we ought to grow more COM
panionable and learn one another's
front names and favorite hobbies.
AS far as 1 can ascertain, America
is the only land of journalistic lone
wolves. In other countries there are
guilds, Institutes, associations, and
what-not. There is a sense of CO.
hesion and pride in the craft.
1t might be good idea to change
newspaper work into a profession.
Then, like lawyers and physicians,
we could have academies and
learned societies, through which dis
tinguished service might be re-
warded with laurel sprigs. And we
could also be pretty stuffy with re-
calcltrants who do those things
which no newspaper man ever
should do.
But even if we are not profess
SIGNALS, at least we might have as
much pride of craft as plumbers and
masons. 1 do think that in a hit
or-miss manner we Il must insist on
being inclusive) have arrived at a
surprisingly high standard of work.
ing conduct.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-13

Chicago man smoked his first cigaret the
other day at the age of 60 Be interesting to
see If it stunts his growth. :.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-13

Scientists steamed up again over whether
they can create life Most of continue to be
interested only in whether we can support it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-13
Member of the Press

A FTER each fresh triumph 1
L A uttered my jubilant war cry,
Member of the working press!' But
as I reached the policeman and
bawled my slogan in his ear he
showed me to one side and said.
Just minute, young fellow: give
the newspaper men a chance to get
in"
Almost instinctively the cop
seemed to know that 1 was not au-
chemically a reporter, but only one
of those blamed columnists. I didn't
belong And on several occasions
since the fact has been borne in
upon me that even in the craft it
self the members of the Il" cult are
regarded as curious amphibianS. The
columnist has not the legs of a dis
trlct man, the sharp ears of the re-
write staff, or the all-Seeing and
powerful eye of the trained observer.
Such progress as he seems to make
from time to time is done in sudden
froglike hops, and worst Of all, he is
a frog living at the bottom of
we'll. He jumps ten feet the first
day and falls back eighteen.
How long will it take him to get
out of the we'll? Anybody but the
columniSt himself could give you the
answer. He isn't going to get out of
the we'll.
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Limit them to ESQ 4oords or lesS.)
The daily worker., 1933-10-12
Dismiss Case of Potash,
2 Fur Workers, Press
Frame-Up of 3 Others

NEW YORK.-Charges of felonious
assault against Irving Potash, secre-
tary of the Needle Trades Workers
Industrial Union, William Greenberg
and Julius Schwartz, active fur work.
ers were dismissed after hearings in
court on Tuesday. They were arrested
on July at the instigation Of Off
cials of the International Fur Work
ers' Union.
Two active workers, Oscar Milaef
and Benjamin Young, were detained
for q further hearing. This arrest
took place in the midst of the strug-
gle this summer, when the Interna-
tional officials, in collusion with the
Association fur manufacturers, at
tempted to force the fur workers into
the international
An attempt will be made to press
the frame-up against Milaef and
Young. Realizing that to press the
charge against all of those arrested
would easily expose the frame-up ma
ture Of the charges, the instigators
have selected two of the five against
whom to press the so-called COM
plants.
The Industrial Union is making all
preparations to provide ample de-
fense to these workers and expose the
frame-up
The daily worker., 1933-10-12
1900 SPURN
SILK TRUCE
IN PATERSON
Parade Under NTWU
Leadership Is the
Answer to MIRA
BY MARTIN RUSSEK.

PATERSON, N. j., CcS. 11.-Twelve
thousand strikers, members of the
National Textile \}orl.er5' Uni, A..
F. of L., Associated and unorgan4zed
workers gathered at Sandy Hill Park
here this morning in militant demon
stration called by the National Tex
tile Workers Union. An unusually
large number of Associated and A. F..
Of L. members attended, deserting the
Associated Strike Halls which at
tempted to hold simultaneous meet
lngs.
Ann Burlak, the main speaker, was
greeted with great ovation. She
reported on the conferences held in
Washington and New York exposing
the N.RIs., manufacturers and U.T.W.
officials. Making a stirring appeal
for ever stronger unity, spreading the
strike and holding ranks in de-
termined struggl9 for victory, her
statement of the N.T.W.U. policies
was hailed with enthusiastic applause.
Other speakers included rank and
file strikers, Moe Brown, organizer of
the N.TW.U. in Paterson; Rebecca
Grecht, district organizer G t. New
Jersey Communist Party.
The meeting was followed by a
Surging parade of thousands under
the N.T.W.U. banners through the
Paterson streets with hundreds of
Associated members participating At
the same time of the demonstration
and parade, the A. F. L. committee
was again in a secret conference here
with Moffit, for new attempt to
break the dye strike.
This morning Robert Gaffney, Or
ganizer of the U.T.W. Upholstery
Union of Philadelphia ordered three
hundred Paterson jacquard Uphol-
Stery Weavers back to work on fake
settlement. Bitterly enraged, hun
dredS of Associated workers in a mass
picket line, prevented any return to
work to these shops, with the strik-
ers winning a pitched battle at Dob
lin Hill.
Reports have been received here
that the State U.T.W. Shop Delegates
body in Rhode Island voted to strike,
effective this afternoon, with de-
mands for $50, 30-hor week and
three loom system. This would add
over 5000 thousand to strike in the
only important silk center not yet
struck due to traitorous U.T.W.
Now in its seventh week, the great
silk strike stands absolutely solid in
all New Jersey and Pennsylvania silk
centers and has defeated every at
tempt to open any mill and every
move of the manufacturers, MIRA.
and U.T.W. officials at disrupting and
breaking the strike.
The daily worker., 1933-10-12
Join Nazi Unions
Here, Is Order
Daily Worker Prints
Letter in Full

Clerical Employees Union) in Ger
many, all the union rights of the
same have been transferred to the
German Nationalist Shop Assistants
Union by the new trade group of
the Labor Front.
1t is therefore indispensable that
all GERMAN CITIZENS who are
members of our union join a trade
union group recognized by the Labor
Front, if they want to keep their ma
tive and union rights. Members of
our union, if American citizens, can
also ensure their trade union rights
by joining the authorized union
group.
The authorized trade union group
in New York for commercial en-
ployees is the German Nationalist
Shop Assistants Union.
We are informed that GERMAN
CITIZENS who are members of our
union, who do not hand us their
transfer to the GN.SAU. by Sept.
80, 1888, lose the above rights.
In order to learn the attitude Of
the majority of our membership, it
is of the greatest Importance to every
single member and in the interest of
the union that the questions on the
enclosed card be filled out and the
same sent back to us at once. The
executive will make it's decision and
take steps on the basis of the execu-
tive.
Unpaid dues for the current half
year are to be paid to our union now
as in the past. Dues paid to us by
members vino may transfer will cover
the current higher dues in the G. N.
S. A. U. until Sept. 81, 1888.
Members who wish further explain
alton are requested to meet in the
Hotel George Washington, Lexing-
ton Ave. and 23d St., New York, N. Y,
on Friday, Sept. 2'f, 1888, at pm.
Asking that the filled out card be
sent in at once we remain,
With fraternal greetings,
Commercial Union of 1858,
The Executive Board.
The daily worker., 1933-10-12
Club Striking Painters
On Picket, Line as the
Terror Drive Continues

NEW YORK.-Polioe and gangster
terror against the painters on strike
under the Alteration Painters Union
continued unabated. On Tuesday.
John Swire Negro picket, was at
tackled with two other pickets and
SO severely slugged by gangsters hired
by zausner, secretary of Painters
District Council 9 of the Painters
Brotherhood, that he had to be taken
to the Columbus Hospital. The work.
ers were picketing at building at
6l4 w. 152nd St., owned by the Sun
Leasing Corporation.
Yesterday Henry Galig, picketing
together with SO other workers at
26th st. and Kings Highway, de-
Tended himself when an officer at
tempted to club him. He was arrested
after scab agents inside the house
had rushed out to aid in the attack.
At the police station, IL cops pounced
on the worker and dubbed him ner-
cilessly. He was held on $1,000 bail
on charges of assault and his case
is to 90 to the Grand Jury.
The daily worker., 1933-10-12
Ford Picket Line
Maintained Despite
A. F. Of |. Officials
Rank and File Taking
Over Leadership
of Strike

EDGEWATER, N. j., Oct. 11.-Be-
tween eight and nine hundred work.
ers participated in the picket line at
the Ford plant today. The strikers
maintain that they VIII pull out ev-
cry scab in the plant and completely
tie up production.
Some $50 are back in the plant ac-
cording to reports. Among them
about 80 have been misguided and
would undoubtedly join the strike if
the program of a united struggle is
explained to them. The return of
these men is due to the A. F. of L..
officialdom's policy of no mass pick
citing.
Hugh Reilly, A. F. of L. organizer,
attempted to stop meetings of strik-
ers. However, the rank and file ac-
ton committee with the direct guild
ance of the Auto Workers Union re-
iected this plan. Members of the ac-
ton committee called the meeting
and spoke to the strikers. Petrow,
who is well known as stool pigeon
and under the A. F. of L. misleaders,
was made a strikers Representative"
and tried to interfere with the speak
er but was howled down by the men,
who shouted "Let him speak,"
The program Of the rank and file
committee was greeted with approval
by the strikers. This program calls
for mass picketing and pulling out
of the workers in the plant as a pre-
requisite for winning the strike The
men are also warned against secret
negotiations by the officials.
The committee urges the spread
ing of the strike to the main Ford
plant in Detroit with the co-opera-
ton of the strikers in that city. The
rank and file is calling for the Or
ganization of department committees
and the men formulating their own
demands. The A. F. of l.. officials
kept the strikers in the dark as to
their demands. Workers understood
that the demand originally was for
S. day, yet number Of them re-
ceived this wage before the walk-out.
The Daily Worker was distributed
at the A. F. of l.. meeting and was
gladly taken up by the men.
The daily worker., 1933-10-12
Tom Mann's Farewell
Meeting Sunday in
st. Nicholas Arena

NEW YORK.-The veteran Brit
ish working class fighter, Tom Mann,
whose farewell mass meeting will be
held this Sunday evening at st.
Nicholas Arena, Goth st. and Colum-
bus Ave, will participate in the re-
port Of the WITH deleoeticn Just
returned from the WoIli C--,1cc;
Against War and Fascism in Paris
at the same meeting. This will be
Mann's final address in this coun-
try, as the immigration Department
limited his stay to only Is days.
Besides the two youth delegates,
Thomas Joyce and Lonnie williams,
the other speakers, will be c. A.
Hathaway, editor of the Daily
Worker, Frank Olmstead of New
York University and Donald Hen
derson Of the American League
Against War and Fascism.
The daily worker., 1933-10-12
Communist, Teacher
Leader, Denounce Cuts
in Education Budget

NEW YORK, Oct. 1l.-Speaking
before the Board Of Estimate, Will
ana Burroughs, Communist candidate
for Comptroller, and expelled from
the public school system by the Tam
many City government for protesting
against teachers wage cuts, today de-
nounced the city government for its
failure to provide adequate relief and
educationay facilities for the Negro
and white children of the city.
In blistering attack on Mayor
O'Brien, who smiled mockingly dur
ing the protest speech of Mrs. Bur-
roughs, she declared:
This attitude of mocking indif-
ference is responsible for the hum
ger and stunted educational facili-.
ties Of the Tammany city govern
ment. 1t is in this way the city
meets the needs Of the Negro peo-
pie who apply for relief against
starvation"
Isidore Begun, representative of the
Unemployed Teachers Association,
presented program of seven de-
mands, among which were relief for
$4,000 unemployed teachers who are
being pauperized, and funds for
starving children, restoration of last
years wage cut, and the restoration
of all the various school services that
the city has eliminated.
Other organizations represented
protesting against teachers wage cuts,
demanding free food and clothing for
the children of unemployed workers,
and against any cuts in the appro-
priations for education, were Corona
Parents Association, Brighton Beach
Parent-Teachers Association, Bronx
P. T. A., Harlem P. t. A. and Queens
P. S. $50, and United Council of
Working Glass Women
The daily worker., 1933-10-12
WhaIen Calls A.F.L.
Break Shoe Strike
Thousands to Co m e
Out in Protest Friday

NEW YORK.-The latest strike
breaking move of Grover Whaler
against the big shoe strike involving
10000 shoe workers was revealed in
the announcement yesterday that the
N.R.A. administration "had called q
hurried conference of representatives
of the Boot and Shoe Workers Union
and the Shoe Manufacturers Board
of Trade at NR.A. headquarters to
avert a strike of $4,000 shoe workers
Coupled with this attempt to break
the strike is the plan to foist the
A. F. of L. Boot and Shoe Union on
the workers not employed in the
shops, with the usual tactics of in
timidation and terrorism.
In a statement today on Whalen's
newest union smashing, strike break
ing program, Fred Biedenkapp de-
clared that the union would mobilize
Immediately for mass demonstra-
ton at Hotel Pennsylvania on Fri
day noon in protest and calls the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union and every working class organ
workers to the demonstration in sup
port of the right of the shoe workers
to join a union of their own choice.
Pointing out that the Boot and
Shoe Workers Union made an open
statement in the presence of Henry
Wolf, N.R.A. mediator and 20 shoe
worker delegates that they had moth
ing to do with the present strike and
further that the Boot and Shoe Union
is practically nom existent in the shoe
shops, Biedenkapp's statement de-
clared in part: Grover Whalen did
not find the time or think it Of i'm
portance to pay any attention to the
eight-week strike Of nearly $4,000
shoe, slipper and stitch down workers
but openly connived with the manu-
facturerS to break 1t. Like that arch
strike breaker, Charles G. Woods, who
told the manufacturers in 1929 to
lock out every worker in their employ,
Whalen has told the bosses to hold
out until the workers are starved
into submission. Failing in this das-
tardly attempt to defeat the strikers,
he plans now to help the bosses and
the Boot and Shoe Workers Union
organize the scabs and strikebreakers
in the shops on strike, together with
the fey workers being forced to join
in the shops not on strike. This COM
prises not more than 800 altogether.
These are the $4,000 shoe workers
Whalen refers to when he rushes to
press with the news that he is to
avert big strike.
The Shoe and Leather Workers In
duStrial Union calls upon all shoe,
slipper and stitchdown workers to
beware of the trickery of the local
N.R.A. which, in conspiracy with the
bosses and the A. F. of L., has Gre
ated fictitious membership in the
Boot and Shoe Union, fake strike
situation, fake settlement and then
declaring all strikes ended, will make
another attempt through injunctions
and police terror to drive the workers
back to the same slavery and starva-
ton as before.
"On Friday, Oct. 12 at 12 o'clock.
tens of thousands must turn out in
a colossal demonstration in front of
N.R.A. headquarters at Hotel Penn
sylvania to express their determina-
ton to maintain their own organiza-
ton and to put stop to the strike
breaking, starvation program of the
bosses supported by Grover Whalen."