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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-29

the gangSterS were routed and some
of their number had to be carried
away. For many workers this is
their first strike and first encounter
with gangsters.
Police who we're conveniently alb
sent at the time of the attack ar
rived on the scene later and assisted
the wounded gangsters, held a con-
sultation with the rest and freed
them all. The police then invaded
the headquarters and arrested %
workers, charging them with hold
ing an unlawful meeting and pro-
voking fight with passers-by''!
Two lines OF attack were used by
the bosses paid thugs. First they
entered the headquarters, command
ed the workers to line up against the
wall and one of their members made
a speech claiming they were only
friends of Frank Thompson, a worker
who was sentenced to 10 days on a
frame up charge, and that they
would help free Thompson if the
workers ended the strike. The speaker
produced written statement from
the boss stating that those arrested
in the last few days would be freed
If the workers returned. Receiving
no response the gang left.
Two hours later they returned and
without warning began wreclling the
hall and using their knives, bottles
and clubs on the defenseless workers.
Four Of those arrested cannot be
located. Persistent demarlds by the
LID. attorney Samuel Goldberg
forced authorities to order the APP
pearance of the gangsters in court
Friday morning.
Police are intimidating that the
injured gangster may die, in event
Of which they will frame-up homi-
eide charges against some of the
workers.
The II strikers charged with dis
orderly conduct will be tried in
Bridge Plaza court Wednesday. and
those framed up on felonious assault
Thursday, May 4. Workers are urged
to be present in court on both days,
and through the duration of the
trials.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-29

May Day demonstration on Boston
Commons.
The textile workers have sent their
delegates. From the shoe plants del
egations are on their way to join
the state hunger march.
Before the Governor and legisIa-
ture they will present their demand
for unemployment insurance. The
employed and unemployed will tell
the legislature to grant unemploy-
ment insurance at the expense of
the government and the bosses. The
state to pass this measure until fed
eral UNEMPLOYMENT insurance is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-29

adopted.
Other demands of the state hun
ger march include immediate cash
relief of $40 a week, plus one dollar
additional for each dependent. Six
dollars minimum for single men and
women. Abolition of all discriminate
CRY practices against Negroes. No
forced labor or discrimination for re-
fustng to go to the forced labor
camps.
Out to the demonstration on May
Day in Boston Commons. Unite to-
gether with the hunger marchers in
one mighty demonstration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-29

DILLONVILLE, Ohio, April I'll
Agnes Jursik, militant member OF the
Women's Auxiliary OF the National
Miners Union died April 9, as a result
Of heart trouble. Comrade Jursik was
active in modifying the women in the
National Miners Union strike in 1881
and has played a militant role in
many other miners struggles.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-29

were called, with hundreds of miners
attending. The superintendent Of the
Copper Range, who is a clever dema-
gogue, attempted to disrupt the unity
Of the miners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-29
WORKERS BEAT GANGSTERS WHO
RAID PAPER STRIKE MEETING

NEW YORKDupcating the
Industrial Monday,
clubs and their pockets bullying significantly
of the Equitable
boldt Street, Wednesday
Again the workers showed their me heroay
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-29

''The Chicago Mooney Congress,
April 80 to May 2, will be big step
toward my freedom. Tom Mooney.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-29
PennsylvanidMine
Strikers Compel
Rent Cuts, Relief
Led by Their United Front Strike Committee
Organize Hunger Marches

ANELLA
Giles relief to the striking
ship OF the United Front Strike Committee
strike In the Avea section involving
forced offer
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-29
HUNGER MARCHERS FROM ALL OVER
MASSACHUSETTS TO BE JOINED BY
MAY DAY DEMONSTRATORS IN BOSTON

BOSTON,
will ring through Boston parts of
delegations elected by unions meetings
CARNATIONS coming
There they will in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-29
Neev England Tannery
Strike Is Spreading
AS Terror Increases
5000 Fight Use of Scabs; Haverhill Workers
Strike; Employers Get Injunctions

Mass, Peabody annery
strike faced the
operating with strike breakers The attack
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-29
JOBLESS MINERS ON MICH. COPPER
RANGE ORGANIZING DESPITE TERROR
Copper Trust Lays Off Men, TIL n Sta1ves
Them Through Control of Relief
lBy Mime worker Correspondentl

HANCOCK, Mch-Snce incIudi
SELF laid off from the Champion
still employed subjected
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-29
NOTE:

Letters from miners are publish
ed every Saturday. Get them "a
MS by the previous Tuesday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-29

Police are intimidating that the
injured gangster may die, in event
Of which they will frame-up honli-
eide charges against some of the
workers,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-10

to pacify the outraged French Notwithstanding that
with the Joint blessing of Wilson and Lloyd George
Bill didn't seem to mind that spill, so far he
personally was concerned; he did think the French
had made fools Of the other allies.
Life hasn't been dull for Buitt. Born on Abra-
hams bosom, they say of those fortunate Phila-
delphans who first meet the world in Rttenhouse
square, he probably has caused more misgivings in
that select community than he ever will in Senator
Robirsons baiwick. 1t about his own kind of
people that he wrote bis devastating novel, TT
Isn't Done"
Since the and the peace he has divided his
time between the United States and Europe. During
the recent campaign he showed up frequently close
to Roosevelts elbow. And now he's skating around
Europe visiting friends. including prime ministers
and the like
He may be doing it in his capacity Of journalist
for he always good one. Or he may, as SEN
ator Robinson eagerly fears be the secret agent
Of Colonel House or, once removed, the President
elect.
Senator Robinson, trusting soul, shouldn't take
the official disavowals on that point too seriously
If the colonel and the Presidenteec desire to know
what Europes thinking, BuIitt is the boy to find
out for them.
And Bill doesn't mind header into the snow
now and then. It's part of the grand fun of skiing
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-10
WHEN RELIEF STOPS

Haf-relief for needy families has become COM
monplace in this land of plenty. Some American
cities and states facing empty treasures may be in
terested to know what happens when relief is shut
off entirely. This has occurred no less than four
times in Philadelphia
What did its $4,000 destitute families do when the
City Of Brothery Love failed them? The Commun-
ity Council set out answer this question 1t stud
led the condition of 400 typical forgotten families
1t reported:
People do not starve to death when relief stops;
they just starve by the margin with which life per-
sists, maintained by the pity Of their neighbors and
by sort of scavening the community.
The families rustled for themselves as much as
they could. A common source of supply for one
group was the docks where fruit and vegetables for
market are sorted. Children and adults hung around
the stalls and snatched at anything that was cast
out Street begging occasionally was onlv re-
sorted to- likewise the petty thieving of milk and
groceries from doorsteps
Children, it seems, had the habit of going to a
store and by pleading hunger inducing the grocer to
give them a little food. Children ran errands
watched pushcarts, did anything in exchange for
1rult or vegetables. The myriad WAYS in which q
family, its entire attention concentrated on food
just 1ood-Succeeded in obtaining it constitutes
abundant evidence of the ingenuity and persever
ance of these people,
what meals did they get and of what did these
meals consist? About per cent were subSstinp on
one meal day Thirty-seven per cent of all
families were not getting the normal three meals
DAY They kept alive from day to dav. catch
aS-catch-can, reduced for actual subsistence to
something of the status of stray cat prowlinr for
food"
chairman Miller of the R. F. c. admits that the
governments hunger relief loan fund will he ex
hausted by June. If congress adiourns without 70
plenlshlng that fund through passage of the Costi
gan-La Toilette and Wagner bills it will helm tu,,
more American families into such as these.
Maybe Willie didn't get those new skates he uanted
This winter, but he didn't have to take piano essons
It's hard to tell which faction makes the biooer
commotion-those who shout for Technocracv or
thoSe who are tech" knock-crazy
They say automobile can go fifty miles on
gallon of gas with correct streamlining Maybe the
engineers could do something for the dollar
The fellow who can't make up his mind ought to
be whz at designing jgsaw puzzles.
1t might not work in bridge, but clearing the
throat still is good signoff bid three party line
It's probably unnecessary to point out that when
senators talk Of cutting expenses they don't refer
to the $1,000 annually paid the five senate BARRIERS
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-10
OUT OF STEP

Everybody, it seems, is out of step but President
Hoover
Since last october he has been running tenn
perature the imports about to flood the United
States from countries of deprecated currencies.
Once a tariff moderate, he has emerged as a sort
of latter day Smoot
Now he is leading rather hopeless drive for the
Crowther bill to place deprecated currency countries
under penalties of higher tariff duties. He ignores
the fact that while deprecated foreign currencies
have lowered our ad vaorem rates, they have hiked
our specific duties out of sight
Although backed by certain near-sighted house
Republicans, the Presidents own official family is
cold to the campaign. Secretary of Treasury
Ogden Mills refused to appear before the house
committee in support of the bill.
Chairman Robert Lincoln OBrien of the tariff
commission buntly told the committee hat the
figures show America is not being flooded by cheap
commodities from cheap money lands. Even Sec
rotary of Commerce Chaplin avoided putting his
name to his report theorzing the probable dire
effects from a world trade one-half of which is
carried on with deprecated currency
AS an auto manufacturer Mr.. Chaplin doubtless
hopes for better methods Of restoring world buying
power than by adding bricks to towering tariff
wall
Our total imports last year amounted to only
$1,323 OOO compared with $4,000 100000 in 1881,
S3o6OOOO 900 in $780, $4,000 100000 in 1929 In the
first eleven months of 1882 imports from the United
Kingdom dropped from $126,OOOOOO in 1881 to $7o,-
100000 Even JapanS imports in that time, although
increased in volume because of her desire to estab
lish dollar exchange to buy cotton for purposes,
totaled only $122OOOOOO, compared with $187OOOOOO
in the previous year
That Secretary Chaplin considers the subject is
largely academic is shown by the admission in his
report that IAN examination of the latest avail
able foreign trade statistics does not indicate that
We are experiencing what might be termed flood
of imports
The house Democrats in caucus voted to oppose
the Crowther bill Their vote of 161 to against it
about expresses the feeling Of the country at large
against such ill-consdered and itimed legislation.
High tariff barriers the report of the Interna-
tonal Chamber of Commerce just has proved, are
major cause Of the world depression.
Even Mr.. Hoover's protection predecessor, Nc
Kiney declared in his last speech before assassina-
ton:
If we will not buy. not sell"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-10
FRIDAY. FEB. 10. 1893.
SLASHING EXPENSES

Something queer is happening in Indiana In
stead Of handing out bigger pieces of pie to the
boys in the political trenches, the McNutt admin
israton is cutting wages and salaries of the faith
full and deserving"
Practically all county and city officials in the
state members of the party which elected the
Governor.
They were the boys who sat at the meetings
last fall and cheered the references to jefferson
and Jackson and loudly endorsed the new deal"
They will probably still endorse Jackson and jeff
erson, but probably not enthusiastic about
the new zeal, which has hit them where it hurts.
From time immemoral the custom has been to
raise the salaries and fees and perqusites Of the
Office holders
Very swiftly and without notice the smooth
working legislative machine has recorded the wish
of the master and the salaries of Office holders in
the counties have been cut saving the taxpayers an
estimated million The city and town officials are
next in line.
The cut in these salaries is the only way in
which taxes can be reduced. Unfortunately there
is something so sacred about interest that neither
counties cities trim their expenditures this
item The only saving that can be made is by re-
duced salaries
There is no injustice in this move. The incomes
of all citizens have been reduced. The cut still
leaves the public employe in enviabe position.
He is sure Of his job. He has steady income His
dollar buys more
What the drastic action may do to the political
fortunes of the Governor remains to be seen. 1t
requires courage to cut the wages of your best
friends and supporters.
But the people who pay taxes will undoubtedly
applaud the action necessary and wise.
The times demand prompt action if orderly gov
eminent is to be maintained. The tax delinquencies
produce grave problems of meeting public pay rolls
Putting public affairs on a business basis is
necessary Today private business is forced to wage
cuts in order to live. The Governor has applied the
same method to public business
Evidently he believes that the way to reduce taxes
is to reduce costs
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-10

an international meet, it seems a
little silly to say that they can not
participate in a game between the
Chicago White Sox and the St.
Louis Browns.
I am told by some of my friends
among the experts that it couldn't
be done. They say some of the
players would object. would be
all for another Brotherhood enter
prise, but as things stand now I
was of the opinion that ball play
ers object to many things which
still take place with a high degree
of regularity.
Players object to being fined
and suspended. Ever so many
players object to having their sal
aries cut for the season of 1888,
and yet there seems to be ample
reason to believe that their SAL
aries will be cut just the same.
The introduction of a few star
Negro ball players would do a
great deal to revivify interest in
the big leagues. 1t would attract
a number of Negro rooters. And
it would be a fair and square
thing. If baseball really is the
national game, let the club owners
go out and prove it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-10

Bill Bulltt, the cables flash the news, is scoot-
ing up and down the Austrian Alps a pair of
skis This information is doubtless unimportant
to you but it may the peace Of mind of Indi-
anas Ku-Klux senator, Arthur Robinson. Robinson
fears Bill may be taking tea with one of those
tricky European diplomats and perhaps compromis-
Ing the international purity of these United States.
Bills surely having good time, but not good
a time as he'd be having if he knew how hot and
bothered about him the Indiana senator has become.
It's good time for Bill when he zings through the
high cool air. q good time when he lands his
head in q snow bank
The most notable adventure of his lively career
ended with his head in the snow. That when,
during the peace conference, he came back from
Russia with all the inside dope conditions behind
the forbidden frontier including the earnest desire
of the new Soviet government to kiss and make
friends with Russias late allies.
Wilson and Lloyd George disayowed his mission.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-10

be protected from erosion on
sleeper slopes by proper terracing
and planting" DR.. Woods says.
I'VE lose by erosion twenty
times as much fertility in large
areas of fertile soil as is taken
out by crops, and worst of all we
gradually lose the soil itself. This
usually can be prevented by proper
cultural practice.
We know, too, that fertility is
itself a complex matter involving
mlcro-organismS, bacteria, proto-
goa, worms, algae, fungi, and nu-
merous other kinds of living or
ganisms, some harmful, some help
full.
These have their effects on the
inorganic materials forming the
body Of the soil. If conditions
are right, fertility may be main
tanned and improved. If they are
wrong, fertility may be lost.
These problems are too COM
pick for the farmer to work out
for himself, so there has been a
wise provision by the federal gov
ernmient and the states to pro-
vide for such study through the
experiment stations, the land
grant colleges and the research
bureaus Of the United States de-
partment Of agriculture.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-10
Anesthesia Is Boon to Mankind

a MONG the most interesting of
N the developments are the use
of so-called basal anesthetics,
which are given to produce
drowsiness or sleep, thus causing
the patient to be unaware of the
giving of the general anesthetic
and entirely without apprehen-
sion, and thus also permitting the
use of much smaller amounts Of
ether, nitrous oxide, or ethylene
than otherwise would be required.
Of particular interest is the
attempt to find new methods Of
ISOLATION or anesthesia that will
permit something resembling pain
less childbirth.
Unfortunately, most anesthetic
substances used in childbirth in
terfere also with the muscular
action necessary for a satisfactory
result.
For this reason the problem
has been one Of the most difficult
undertaken by the medical pro-
fession, and the search for suit
bic methods Of controlling pain
Of childbirth continues.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-10
Just Plain Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

HERE are two items for today's consideration:
= = For the first time birth control bill is be-
fore the senate judiciary committee for vote"
And this: After four years of cotton picking at
Springfield, S. c.. the family of Mr.. and Mrs. A.
is broke The sixteen hiking to Springfield
o.. in search of better fortunes The youngest child
is months old"
The juxtaposition of these two bits of news should
make further comment unnecessary
And the birth control bill should be passed. In
the first place although several sections of the
United states penal code prohibits traffic in con-
traceptives the giving of information concerning
them, very large part of the population disobeys
these laws.
1t is not to be disputed that millions of Ameri-
cans not only believe in but practice birth control
Keeping the laws on our books therefore constitutes
stupidity Number One.
CTUPIDTTY Number Two: We still have federal
~ statute passed in 1873 that classes birth control
with obscenity-do we believe that now?
Stupidity Number Three: Physicians who realize
the dire necessity of prevention of conception are
forced to bootleg supplies and information although
in private practice they may violate the law they
can not do in endowed hospitals and public dis
pensaries; thus poor often are unable to OBJ
tain the needed knowledge.
Stupidity Number -Four: Commercial agencies
masquerading under misleading names exploit the
needs of these poor women.
Stupidity Number Five Although medical organi-
zations favor amending these laws the politicians
still afraid to substitute scientific knowledge for
superstition.
And $4,000 women die each year from criminal
operations in the United States Does not this
constitute form of legal murder that at least
matches the crime of birth prevention?
We who use the forces of nature and life to suit
our most ignobe ends. who torture men with ma
chimes and starve them in depressions and murder
them in wars-still prattle foolishly about the sin
of birth control, while the waing of starving babies
and the sobs of hopeless mothers a drge in our
ears.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-10

NEW persons realize that less
l. than one hundred years have
passed since the boon Of aneS-
thesia first was conferred on
mankind.
Before anesthesia, the operating
room was a place of terror for
those who had to submit to sur
gical operation so life itseh might
be saved. and with the great diff
ficulty of doing delicate surgical
work under such conditions.
Today anesthesia has developed
to include not only the use of
nitrous oxide oxygen gas, ether,
and occasionally chlorOform, but
also new gases. such as ethylene.
There also are new chemical
substances which make the use Of
anestheticS safer and even more
satisfactory than they were when
the method first was developed.
Perhaps the greatest contribu-
ton Of scientific medicine TO hu-
man happiness has been the work
that has been done on this sub
iect,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-10
When I Was ON ETpert

TN 1915 in Marlin, Tex, I fancied
Il myself as judge of recruits in
the raw. 1t was my custom to
stand behind the screen whenever
any of the new pitchers we're
showing their stuff, and 1 would
nod sagely and express my opinions
freely.
There was one young man in
the troupe who caught my eye.
1.-The lad will go far" I said. HE
has a world of stuff. That's the
best fast ball I've seen in a season.
Only let him acquire a curve and
he will stand the National League
on its head" And in those days
that was more of an achievement
than it has been of late.
Within month my pick of the
puppies had been farmed out, and
within six months he never was
heard of again in organized base
ball. His name was Lieutenant
Williams, and he has become one
of the greatest speed filters in the
world. Well I knew from the start
that he had something.
But to get back to McGraw and
my excellent and coolly received
suggestion. Every speaker men
toned the fact that McGraw had
color. He certainly did. He was
a man who could grow passionate
about practice games. He could
even fight about fungoes.
have few more exciting
memories of the world of sport
than the picture of McGraw adj
vancing menacingly upon an
umpire. 1t was even dramatic
when he advanced slowly away
from the umpire, after sentence of
Punishment had been passed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-10

TOR three depression with orthodox
neocne bur have succeeded only making
mas increased unemployment while higher
soyed private income without producing revenue
The unusual facilities has resulted in little more
than the shifting dollars which the federal
government has tried mobilize the stimulation of work and in
duSry few have purpose
Right now considering
discharge of thousands public employees what we save will he
more than offset by relief appropriations
AS general proposition every an old tax or tho sn
cation of leads of business
or source OF revenue on which levied
Last supposed the federal budget
by certain the
other without
taxes just though they and of relief
nations had been paying us large of money