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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-27
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
MORRISSEY IN
CAPITAL; URGES
CURB ON RADIO
City Police Chief Pleads for
Bill Against Police Sets
in Private Cars.
By Times Special

DH 4 unto 'Pt'Aut
WASHINGTON, April 27.-The
story of how the gangster slayers of
Police Lieutenant Lester Jones were
able to elude capture by intercepting
police radio messages was told to-
day by Police Chief Mike Morrissey
of indianapolis, testifying before a
congressional committee.
MorrisSey appeared before the
merchant marine and fisheries
committee of the house to urge APP
prevail of Representative Louis Lud-
lows bill forbidding the installation
of short-Wave radio receiving sets
in all automobiles except those
driven by officers of the police
MorriSsey and Robert H. Bats,
who has charge of radio work IN
the Indianapolis police department
exhibited before the committee
receiving set which they said was
taken from an automobile contlS-
Gated in Kentucky identified as the
machine used by the gangsters who
killed Lieutenant Jones and escaped
The Indiana state law prohibiting
short-wave radio sets in automo-
biles, which has not yet become eff
fective, Chief Morrissey said, will
not meet the situation confronting
the police, since it will not apply
to out-of state automobiles.
I'VE have but little trouble with
our own organized mobs," said Chief
Morrissey. But we need some kind
of federal law to reach the gang
sters who come in from other states
Their radios intercept our police
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-27
Skin-Itch Torture Ends:
Millions Praise Zemo

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and similar skin troubles. For % years
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millions as a clean, safe, dependable
remedy for family use to relieve and
clear away skin irrtations. A trial
will convince you of its great merit
Insist on genuine Zemo; it's worth the
price because you get relief. 35c. Coo,
81. Al druggists .-Advertisement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-27

in the door and that when Otto
Wentworth, a roomer, went to the
door to demonstrate, he was dragged
outside, slugged and knocke
against fence with his eye cut.
Police said they found sixty gal
Ions of beer brewing at the Capitol
avenue address, and from 200 to 300
bottles of brew and about 400 emp
ties. In addition, Dean said, about
three gallons of white mule" had
been dumped before the police got
inside.
Today in municipal court four, all
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-27

of the defendants were dismissed
when the state decided it could not
make cases on the vagrancy, tres
pass or blind tiger charges
However, Epstein was ordered to
pay $115 in fines due since 1923
when he was convicted in court
three by Judge Clifton R. Cameron
on gaming house charges. Epstein
was placed in Jail when he was I'M
able to produce the $115. He had
paid only IS on a total of $3.50 in
fines and had failed to report to
the probation department.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-27
GUN BARREL SAVES LIFE
Detective Uninjured When Five Bull
lets Fired Are Stuck in Pistol.

Ell PASO, Tex, April 27-W. G.
Woolverton, FL PaSo detective cap
tain, believes he owes his life to the
good steel in the barrel of his pistol.
Captain. Woolverton fired five
times rapidly at a target. All five
of the lead bullets stuck in the bar
rel, which swelled up, but did not
burst.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-27

broadcasts and keep them informed
Of the movements of our police
cars"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-08

However, he has already given the
actual tabulation Of C.WA. workers
as 248,5T1. So, subtracting the 248,5T1
from 260,S44, you find another 11,773-
totally unexplained, apparently just
thrown in for good measure. And
this number, 607, 1867, this number, the
next column of figures asserts, gives
you 1902, 1876 indirect" employed! So
Ickes adds the two and obtains
presto!-the total of 1,810093, the
total number of men at work under
P.W.A. Allotments."
His Figures ConSradicted by Facts
But that is not all. Ickes figures
also the actual value of contracts
awarded under the P.W.A. program.
He picks out dates arbitrarily and sets
down the value of contracts awarded,
including everything from battleship
building to airport construction.
1t is possible, nevertheless, to show
how these figures compare with the
Dodge reports. long accepted as the
most accurate construction guage
available. If you take Tckes' figure
for contracts awarded on October 28-
1925, 100 ,s07-and subtract his figure
for october 5-s216,o96,247, you get
the amount supposedly awarded in
contracts during the 81 calendar days
covered. Divide this amount, sll0,-
$685. 800, by the 81 days, and you get
the daily average OF contracts
awarded, SIS ,26T,936 This. says Iokes,
goes for federal government projects
alone. But the Dodge reports for the
same period show daily average for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-08
Photo Engrayers
Threaten Strike
Matt VOLTS Machine
Cannot Stop Members

NEW simultaneously with
the preparations of newspaper print
ers for strike, photo engravers in
the newspaper plants have warned
the publishers that they will strike
unless a settlement is made on their
contract which expired last July.
The membership Of the union,
which has long been under the domi-
nation of the Matthew Vol machine,
is demanding a 32-hour week at the
1881 weekly wage and opposes the
employers offer of a 40-hour week
with 10 per cent increase in the
hourly rate.
To prevent strike, officials of the
union have dragged out the scale ne
gotiations and have urged the work
ers to wait for the MIRA. code.
The last membership meeting de-
cided that unless a satisfactory deci-
sion on the code is received in 8
days, the local will insist on permits
sion from the International to strike.
Rank and file militant members of
Typo Union No. 6 and the photo en-
gravers' union are discussing joint ac-
ton to enforce the shorter work week
without reduction in pay and unem-
ployment insurance paid by the en-
ployerS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-08
Central Committee Stresses
Work in Shops and Unions

der destination Of the building Of the
Party in the course of the workers
struggles, which was branded by the
18th Central Committee meeting as
a "Mensheyik opportunist" concep-
ton, must be stamped out in the
present recruiting drive.
1t is only in the course of these
struggles that the Party can be built
If Party members withhold the Daily
Worker from strikers, for fear of be-
ing red" if the face of the Party
is hidden, how can our Party exercise
its leading role in the workers stru-
giles.
In order to recruit the most active
fighters in the workers struggles into
the Party, in order to equip the Party
for leadership Of the growing strug-
giles that are coming, the Central
Committee decided upon this inten-
led recruiting drive.
Mobilization of Party
The recruiting drive Of the Party,
to achieve its purpose, viii first have
to mobilize the entire Party, every
Party committee, every Party mem
Der for full and complete under
standing OF the leading role Of the
Party and the significance Of the
present recruiting drive. Every Party
member should under tand the nee
essity for strengthening the Party in
the view Of the Sharpened class strug-
gle, the increased militancy and radi-
calization Of the workers, to be able
to answer with struggle the intensified
attacks Of the Roosevelt government
Of finance capital.
A dead nucleus cannot gain active,
fighting elements into its ranks. The
recruiting drive will fail if it does
not first activize every Party unit,
section and district in the workers
struggles. The next task of the Party
in the recruiting drive IS to throw
the entire Party more actively into
the struggle for the daily needs and
demands Of the workers-in the
shops, in the unions, in the unem-
ployed fights, in the neighborhood
and among the farmers. Only when
engaged in struggle can the unit build
the Party and gain new members.
The recruiting drive is being car
ried on on the basis Of the tasks laid
down in the open Letter and in the
directives of the 18th c. c. Plenum.
This means that during the recruit
ing drive we shall concentrate on the
building of shop nuclei in the de-
cisive industries, in the concentra-
ton points of the Party. The already
existing shop nuclei should be built,
and in addition new shop nuclei in
the most important concentration in
dustries The slogan should be strong
shop nuclei in every concentration
factory. Concentration should also be
on the most important political cen
tiers, the districts headquarter cities,
etc.
Circulate Daily Worker
The building Of the Young Com
munist League shop nuclei in the
concentration factories is an i'm
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-08
BY MARGUERITE YOUNG
DAILY Worker Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON, Dec. THE man
ufacture of sunshine statistics has
become basic industry of the Roose-
welt administration. Harold l.. ("Fig-
ures'o Ickes, Secretary of Interior and
Public Works Administrator, Is one
OF the biggest producers.
In a statement on employment by
actual count" Ickes has Just made
the heartening announcement that
approximately 100000 men have
been recalled to work for wages from
the Public Works Fund" The en-
couragement eyaporates, however,
when Ickes' own figures are examined.
Ickes Sees Double
His total includes an estimated
two for every one job actually counted
on Civil Works Administration pro-
jects; and an estimated" fraction less
than two for every one counted on
Civilian Conservation Corps work!
His figures on the value of con-
struction projects awarded by the
government show = bigger daily
amount for federal construction
alone than the F. w. Dodge Cor
poration reports show for construc-
ton Of all kinds, both public and
private, throughout the country.
1t should be noted in passing that
the numbers back on jobs, however
honestly and accurately reported, do
not tell thimbleful of the real story
OF public unemployment work relief.
Authorities in the District Of Columbia
realized that when they went
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-08
Open Letter Points to
Concentration on
Basic Industries


NEW YORK.-The Central Com
mittee Of the Communist Party, U.
s. A, has launched a recruiting drive
for thousands Of new members, which
continues to the Lenin Memorial
meetings.
The situation was never more favor
able for the building Of the Party.
The New Deal, the N. R, A., is break
ing down in its endeaYors to carry
through the capitalist solution to the
crisis. The workers and farmers, in
ever sharper and bigger struggles, are
resisting the offensive Of the capitalist
class and its government with in
creasing militancy. A wave Of strike
struggles, organization into the unions
in masses, unemployed strikes and
demonstrations, farm strikes is the
answer of the workers to the inten-
sified assault of the government Of
finance capital.
ROoseVelt's Hunger Program
The Roosevelt government, trying
to overcome the failures of the N. r.
A. deals one blow after another at
the workers and farmers. The ". r.
A. has intensified its wage cutting
drive. Amendments to codes 1egalize
wage cuts, speed up and mass layoffs
The government is attempting to
,outlaw all strikes. The fascist ten
denotes are increasing. murderous ter
ror and violence against strikers, d.
rect and open strikebreaking attacks
of the government on the workers and
farmers. The rapid imitation now
being put through by Roosevelt, fur
ther cuts wages by raising prices
on necessities. New schemes of pub
lie and civil works" which give the
employers millions in loans and gifts,
fail to check the rising wave of I'M
employment. The economy" program
adds tax burdens. Relief and veterans
compensation are being cut. The
farmers are dispossessed and pauper-
lied.
In this situation Of sharpened class
struggle, the Communist Party has
the historic task of leading the strug-
giles, of the workers and farmers on
all fronts. The tasks laid down for
the Party in the Open Letter and
in the resolution of the 18th plenum
of our Party. the leadership Of these,
and even greater struggles which are
now approaching, cannot be fulfilled
unless the Party is built and strength
ened.
Build Party During Strikes
Too often, in the mass struggles of
the workers, in the mining, silk, shoe,
needle, packing house, marine and
other strikes, in the Hunger Marches
and unemployed campaigns. Party
members say. I'VE W7~a t.
rying on struggles TO recruit new
members into the Fa,l 49,
of the struggle, the Party has not
been built. This conception, an I'M
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-08
NRA Aids in SeIlout
Of Hosiery Strike

READING, Pa, Dec. THE strike
Of hosiery workers against the Rose
dale Knitting Mills continued today
after the company refused to rein
state two discharged workers ordered
by a National Labor Board decision.
The strike was called when the COM
pany fired two A. F. of L. workers
for collecting dues in the plant for
the union, although it permitted this
activity for its own union"
The National Labor Board ruling
denies the strikers the right to COL
lect dues, the main demand of the
strikers. The strike was ordered
called off by the decision, and pref
erence was to be given to strikers in
hiring new workers. The company
refused to accept these decisions and
refused to hire anyone who in their
opinion is guilty of an covert" act.
The N. r. A. announced that it
would continue conferences and thus
aid the company in their plans for q
complete defeat Of the strikers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-08
His Figures for Construction Value of PW.A.
Are More Than Total Construction
Carried On in United States

p. -. -, -, -,
70 FEDERAL OFFICIALS hs week WIN
arnis1ul OF problems. Ihe 81 Genus
an nour minimum Tor women ano 10
cents an hour Tor men, all limited
70 80 hours work a week, was attacked
even by George 5. wilson, director or
public welfare in the Capital, who
raised the question OF its being insult
1lcient. Commissioner George T.. Al
len, OF the District OF Columbia, ad-
mltted TO local newspapers tnat tne
meagre C.W.A. wages would not sup
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-08
Roosevelt Aide Merely Took Estimate" of
Those Re-Employed and Multiplied by
Three, Mixing Well With Blather

public and private construction Of all
types Of only $5,14S,0O0 1t is true
that private construction has prac-
ticaly ceased, but even so it is ridi-
culous to say that government con-
struction alone actually amounts to
MORE than government and private
construction together.
Who Is Liar?
Conservative observers say that
Ickes' figures for employment on
P.W.A. projects are padded by at
least 100000 AS for the figure for
C.W.A. employment, it's anyone's
guess how much local and state Of
ficials have frightened their reports
to Washington.
Another question rises Green re-
ported that employment throughout
the country declined about 10000 dur
ing the month Of October-the same
time in which Ickes insists 100000
went back to work. Therefore one of
them is misstating unless it be adj
mitted that employment in private
industry fell off more than 2,000,0o1
during October
II was the same Ickes who put out
the blather about IS per cent Of all
money spent for public works twill go
for wages"-an outright misstatemeut
which was parroted by the capitalist
press without Qualification despite the
fact that the last available scientific
estimate. that Of the Bureau OF Labor
Statistics, said that survey of con-
struction costs showed that an aver
age Of 364 went for labor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-08

That was last Saturday, at mass
meeting. Since then the A. F. of l..
Cab Drivers Union officials have per-
mitted the arbitration" to be shunted
from one MIRA. department to an
other. Now they are waiting for the
National Labor Board to act.
In the meantime no mass picketing
has been started to effectively cripple
the taxi monopoly Of the PRT. The
mechanics and other helpers of the
garages have not been called on to
help support the strike. Union cabs
have been burned. the drivers beaten
up and then arrested by the police
and held incommunicado. The union
men militantly attack any ScabS seen
on the street, but they have no lead
erShip to lead their strike to sue
cessful conclusion.
The lockout took place on the
night of the Army and Navy game.
without notifying the P.R.T. that a
union was being organized, the A. F.
of L. instructed the men to wear
union buttons on the day Of the game.
They were told this would win them
recognition of their union. No other
demands were raised before the work
ers, and when they turned their cabs
in that night they were locked out for
wearing the union button.
Following the lockout, the de-
mantS of the cab drivers as set up
are, Csc an hour, a 45 hour week and
free uniforms The PR.T. charges
monopoly fare rates Of Csc for the
first mile and Csc for each succeeding
mile, and has control of the yellow
Cab, Quaker City and Brown and
White, all operating in the city.
The strikers should Immediately set
up their rank and file committees
and start mass pickei ng, not waiting
for the MIRA. arbitration board to
sell out their strike. The sell-out
policy OF the MIRA, the A. F. of L.
officials has been proved in a
thorough going manner by what hap
pened at the E. G. Budd plant strike
and that of the Ford parts strike in
Chester. They should establish i'm
mediate contact with the Trade Union
Unity Council at 40 North 9th Street
in Room 210, for the successful guild
ance Of their struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-08
Recruiting of Negroes,
Building of Vel.
Important

portant task in the recruiting drive
Build shop papers in every concen-
tration factory. The Daily Worker is
the mass organizer and agitator OF
the Party. The securing of wide
circle Of Daily Worker readers in
every concentration factory and in
the neighborhoods is an essential to
a successful recruiting drive. Con-
centration on securing large numbers
Of Negro workers into the Party, the
best elements from the unemployed
workers, is an important task.
Work In Unions
The Party fractions in the trade
unions should play an important part
in the recruiting drive. A definite
plan should be worked out by each
Party fraction FOR recruiting
into the union, as well as in all mass
organizations where the Party func-
tons.
Recruiting should be carried on on
the basis of the mass activity of the
Party. Concentrated attention should
also be given to securing the best
fighters in the rank and file Of the
A. F. Of l.. unions and the best ele-
ments inside the Socialist Party.
These honest elements must be re-
cruited on the basis of a consistent
exposure of the betrayals of the A.
F. of L. officials and S. P. leaders
as key supporters of Rooseve1t's Hun
ger drive.
The best fighters in the working
class struggles should be individually
approached by our comrades every
where in an effort to win them for
the Communist Party.
The district committees and lead
ing fractions should at once begin TO
write articles for the Daily Worker
on the plans and progress of the re-
cruiting drive, especially in the CON
centration centeTs.
Build and strengthen the Commu-
mist Party.
Recruit thousands Of new mem
bers into the Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-08
lckes Fajied Figures Unemployment Millions Cheb Shoavs

Two figures make up his total:
1,S32,267 employed by the Civil Works
Administration under an allotment of
5000, 000;" and 1,810,093 at WORK
under P.W.A. allotments."
AS for the first figure, he simply
makes the assertion. AS matter Of
fact, was informed today by the of
flee of Harry l.. Hopkins, director of
the C.W.A., that the estimate is based
upon figures telegraphed into Wash
ington headquarters by state and
county authorities. They just take
the words of every local offiical-that
is the actual count" reported by
Figures" Ickesl The number OF UNI
employed who have been put on fed
eral projects under the C.W,A., per-
hitting direct checkup here, is ex-
actly 229,892. Federal Officials send
the paychecks for the others, but the
figures Ickes used were based not on
these amounts, but on the numbers
local officials sent in.
MuItiplies by Three
But waitl Look at the other half
of the grand total: 1t is based ON
the most fantastic juggling that I
have yet encountered in Washington
handouts including Secretary
of Labor Frances Perkins produce
lions. And there is a note in Ickes'
statement which boldly declares as
much. 1t says, Indirect and indus
trial employment estimated on the
basis of two men off the site for each
workman on the site-the figure uni
versally accepted as conservative for
the type of work undertaken There
fore Ickes takes the figure 248,571. the
actually employed on C.W.A.
projects, and simply multiplies by
three, obtaining 745,713--the number
he sets down as employed
Then comes another division OF the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-08
Officials in Deal
as Tannery Strikers
Battle With Cops

NORWOOD, Mass, Dec. while
union officials were accepting SELL
out settlement agreeing to arbitration
of their demands, $50 militant tan
merry strikers stoned automobiles tran
sporting scabs and were attacked by
squad of police.
The officials of the National Leather
Association, which is leading the
strike, accepted the N. r. A. proposals
that the workers be sent back to
work and that their demands for a
rs per Cent increase in wages and
union recognition be left to decision
of an arbitration board which Is to
report in January.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-08
National
Events
Y.C.L. Memorial Rally

CHICAGO. - The Young Com
munist League of Chicago is call
ing a mass rally on Sunday, Dec.
10, at / p. M, at the Workers
Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Blvd, to mo-
bilize them around the Liebknecht-
Luxembourg Lenin memorial meet
ing on Jan. Ia. Jack Killing, district
organizer of the Y. G. L., will speak
on the heroic and memorable strug-
giles that these great leaders of the
proletarian youth and adult move
ments of the world conducted. The
Young Communist League invites
all it's friends to attend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-08
NRA Ruling Breaks
So. Textile Strikes

WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. T.
Strikes involving 1900 Southern cot
ton textile workers have been smashed
by recent decision of the Cotton Tex
tile National Industrial Relations
Board set up by the N. r. A. The
decision affects strikers in South
Carolina and Tennessee, some of
whom have been on strike since Oc-
tober 20.
The N. r. A. ruling sends the work.
ers back with the typical order that
there shall be mo discrimination ="
All other demands of the workers are
to be submitted to arbitration.
At the Akin and Brookside Mills
in South Carolina, both involved in
the decision, the workers were re-
ported as having called the strike
against the companys persecution Of
union workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-08
Chicago Furriers
Celebrate Strike Gains

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Dec. THE Fur
Department Of the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union is to
celebrate the gains won during the
seven months of its existence at a
dance at Mirror Hall, 1875 North
western Ave, Saturday evening,
Dec. 8.
The furriers have conducted sew
eral important strikes, during which
wage increases, the 40-hour week
and union recognition have bee
and union recognition have been
won. All furriers, regardless of
union affiliation and all other work
ers are invited to participate in this
celebration.