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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-14

To the Indiana Democrat, who
had witnessed loosely-knit ma
chimes struggling against the old
guard clan, the New York political
machine was an inspiration. 1t
moved smoothly, each man click
ing in his appointed place like
powerful, invincible football team.
There were no public chickering's
and petty rivalries. All disputes
were ironed out in the secluSion of
Judge Olvany's office and at cleo
ton time the machine moved
masterfully and confidently.
Shooting up in the elevator, the
Indiana politician with a mission
recalled his instructions from Tom
Taggart, Hoosier political wizard.
TAGGART had begun a boom
4 for the nomination of Evans
Woollen for President. Mr. Wool
len was and is a sober, business
man, prominent and beloved by
all those who know him. He is
not a political type, but is rather
an intelligent business man who
quietly and thoroughly studies the
issues, political or commercial.
He is an opposite type from the
breezy, winning, spellbinder Al
Smith, who had stepped up from
the sidewalks of New York. Mr..
Woollen is a member of an old,
aristocratic Indianapolis family
which has been prominent in the
civic life of the city for years.
Mr. Woollen had accepted the
support only in the hope that it
might benefit his state.
Taggart was a keen politician
and had baffled his opponents by
starting the Woollen boom. No
one could find out just what Tag
CART was playing for. 1t seemed
doubtful whether Mr. Woollen was
we'll enough known nationally or
had enough popular appeal to
obtain the presidential nominal
ton in 1923. Yet the astute Tag
CART was out conducting a cam
paign for the nomination.
There is a political strategy of
new candidate into the field
against an established machine
for the purpose of effecting COM
promise agreeable to the strate-
gist. Sometimes, the bewildered
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-14
NEW TRIAL Is ASKED
BY PAPPAS ATTORNEY
Defendant Refused Right to Have
Interpreter, Is Charge.

Refusal of Criminal Judge Frank
P. Baker to name an interpreter in
the trial of VaSil Pappas, charged
with the murder Of his landlady
Belle Brown, was the basis of allie
cations of error today in the mo-
ton filed in criminal court for a
new trial.
Pappas was given life impriSon-
ment at his trial before Judge Ba-
ker. Seth Ward. attorney for Pap
pas, charged in the motion that
Judge Baker refused 10 grant the
defendant the right of an interpre-
ter and that much valuable evidence
was prevented from reaching the
ears of the jury due to lingual
difficulties of his client.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-14
CITY CHURCH WOMEN
NAME NEW OFFICERS
Mrs. r. r. Mitchell Elected Pres
ident at Annual Session.

ident at Annual Session.
The indianapolis Council of Fed
Grated Church Women chose Mrs.
r. R. Mitchell as president for the
coming year at the thirty-sixth an
nual meeting yesterday in the
Third Christian church.
Other officers elected are: Mrs.
o. H. Greist, first vice president;
Mrs. William Calvert Hartinger,
second president; Mrs. Ernest
Piepenbrok, recording secretary;
Mrs. George Burkhart, correspond
ing secretary; Mrs. F. L. Warner,
treasurer; Mrs. J. F. Morrison. his
torian; Mrs. George Davis. auditor,
and Mrs. George Van Dyke, parlia-
mentarian.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-14
Enjoys Body on Way Home

QUEENSTOWN, Ireland. April IA.
The body OF Walter w Mcdowell,
American minister, was on its way
to the United States today in the
steamship Manhattan. High tribute
was paid by the government to the
minister, who dropped dead at a
state banquet in his honor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-14

a gllded stairway and greeted
the senators and secretaries and
the dukes and the dowagers of
Washington.
Even the cliff dWelIers nave
turned out, said Paul Z. Ande--
son in some surprise.
And who are they?" I in
quired dutifully.
The cliff dWellers are the old
ladies of this town who have not
been to a public reception since
the first administration Of Cen
eral Grant. They decided that
the General was not quite a
gentleman"
I was little surprised myself.
If anybody had told me three
years ago that I would oe stand
inc IN = OOld-ar6 -Uf7itp Sow Of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-14
.ESTBROQK PEd[ER

NTIANII April IA suppose some Of our solemn,
4V1 old country families will be boiling into print
with protests against the ppant cracks OF Professor
Donald Richberg of the NRA, in the speech which
he telephoned from Miami to New York TIE other
evening.
Big Bill Thompson discovered long before Rich
berg did that the best to criticism when you
haven't the right answer is line of irrelevant in
suits Thompson answered one Of his political critics
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-14
S25 Loss in Downtown Fire

SIS Loss in Downtown Fire
Toys and stationery valued at $25
were destroyed when a fire occurred
in the Periodical shop at So South
Illinois street, owned by Ralph D.
Morford. The fire started when an
oil stove accidently was overturned.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-14
They We're Missing

T NEEY had arrived in Miami late in the afternoon
L and had become misplaced somehow, for an hour
or so while the journalists of the White House de-
tail who have been covering Mr.. Roosevelt's vaca-
ton by remote control searched the town for them
Although this has been a nice. white pants sort
of assignment for the White House detail calling for
golf swimming in the morning cocktails on the
patio at half-afterhour and dancing with dinner
to the music of a Mexican band it has been head
ache too.
The President too far away Some dumb,
$40-a-month third mate Astor's ship could have
ripped the belly out of a small boat some rock
while he was out fishing and spilled him among the
sharks or some japanese nut could have torpedoed
him or a roll of the ship could have thrown him
down a hatch.
These were improbabilities, of course, but McKin-
ley never had been shot before he was shot in Buff
falC and a man on the White House detail likes to
keep close to his assignment. Rumors were coming
in that MIR. Roosevelt running a fever of 1903
and these hard to handle tactfully because the
President is touchy on the subject of rumors as to
his health and any way President or a heavyweight
champion always is being reported seriously i'll or
dead. Jack Dempsey used to turn up dead in the
most obscure places at least once a month.
They finally induced the boss to let them go out
and take close peek under the jocular pretenSe Of
checking up on his fShernlanshp. if that is what
you would call it, But they weren't giving a damn
about his fshernlanship They wanted to see how
No. looked.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-14
HJeemC bM
By
Haywood BROUN

Z AIBASsY OF THE UNION OF SOVIET So
L CIALIST REPUBLICS, Washington, April II
Shortly before dawn Alexander Antonovich Troy
anovsky, ambassador extraordinary and plenipoten-
tary to the United States, joined revolutionary
movement against czarsm 1902 sent to Siberia 1909,
escaped following year, lived in exile, joined Red
army 1917. And last night Alexander Antonovich
Troyanovsky, who hid in bitches at night and walked
softly the alleys Of the town. stood at the top Of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-14

one year by yelling that his OPP
ponent went around with egg on
his necktie.
Richberg banded together the
objects of his diSpleaSure in a
league of stuffed shirts, which
would have been a better crack
if there had been anything origi-
nal about it. Thompson couldn't
take 1t. though, and he was
stopped abruptly when another
Of his adversaries. deciding that
the only way to fight a gutter
fighter was to roll in the gutter
with him, got up before a big
meeting and declared that
Thompson had the hide of
rhinoceros and the brain of a
babOon.
Richberg's chief, General
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-14

The measures are: Tax, tariff
and stock exchange control.
Unless the President is prevailed
upon to make additions, the rest
of the pending social and reform
bills are doomed to the dump
heap.
The list which faces scrapping
is imposing. On it are: The Wag-
ner labor disputes bill, the Tug
weu-Copeland pure food and drug
bill, the Wagner unemployment
insurance bill, the Mcleod closed
bank payof bill, the communica-
tons commission measure, and
the Connery thirty-hour bill.
The one measure in the group
with a good chance of a reprieve
is the unemployment insurance
proposal. The President has pub
licly Endorsed it, and if the three
must" bills are disposed Of early
enough it is not improbable that
the Wagner project will be al
lowed to come up.
The aim Of the administration
is to wind up congress by May Is
June l is a better guess. But the
drive is for the 18th, with the
idea that the gavels can be
dropped by the 1st.
A RIZONA'S f1uffy-haired con-
n gresswoman. Isabella Green
way, may be a school girl friend
Of Mrs. Roosevelt, but it is not
keeping her from working hand
ln-glove with the administrations
bitterest foes. Mrs. Greenway's
LATEST is to Join in the Wall Street
drive to mutilate the securities
act. Pugnacious Senator Bone
of Washington comes by his fight
ing qualities naturally. He has.
ancestors who fought in every
American war, beginning with the
Revolution.
North Cardinals booming sena-
tor, Bob Reynolds, is showing his
colleagues some new tricks in the
art of glad-handing. Bob
greets constituents, newspaper
men, all callers, as colonel" or
cousin Kingflsh Huey Long
recently gave the senate a new
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-14
ROUNDING ROUND
THEATERS W UIT H1 T41 M1E

Once Katharine Cornell turned them Eng
~ by the hundreds
Street New York manage rubbing their
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-14

embassy in Washington listening while the
orchestra played Il Can't Give You Anythir
Love, Baby" you could have knocked me ove
a couple Of quarts of vodka
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-14

Johnson showed some Time ago that ne can't take It
although he likes to dish it and Rchbergs rritated
retort TO the phrase brain trust" shows that be
can't take it, either. The phrase brain trust" is
beginning to annoy the cocky comrades of Mr.
RoOsevelts Soviet" and few more repetitons will
have them wild
But they like to dish it They we're dishing it.
in fact, when Mr. Richberg was talking about his
league of stuffed shirts
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-26
United Front Widened
By Unemployed Groups
In Chicago Actions

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Nov. 25.-United
action between the Chicago Work.
ers' Committee on Unemployment,
Local "a, and the Unemployment
Council has led to unity in the new
struggles confronting the member
ship of both groups.
When the membership of both
groups picketed the lakewood relief
station last Tuesday, six were ar
rested. The pickets were bailed out
by the Chicago Workers Commit
tee, and food was brought them
by til South Side International La
Dor Defense.
At the last regular meeting of the
Workers Committee on Unemploy-
ment, Local "a, two resolutions were
adopted; one Of thanks to the LID.
for the aid sent, and one to the
central body of the Chicago Work.
ers' Committee for their prompt re-
Spouse in raising bail for the ar
rested workers.
1t was also decided to establish
a local Prisoners Relief COMMITTEES
to cooperate with the Prisoners
Relief Committee of the I. l.. D.
The committee will meet tonight at
7:30 o'clock at the home of Phrona
Morris, IT'S lakewood Boulevard. All
members of Local "a have been
urged to attend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-26
Death Probe
Is Demanded
In St. Louis

ST. LOUIS, Mo, Nov. 25.-De-
mand for an inquest into the death
Of Sylvester Crowder, Negro worker
arrested here on election day, is
being made by the League of Strug-
gle for Negro Rights and the inter-
national Labor Defense.
Crowder went to the police sta
ton at Tenth and Carr Streets,
to arrange bail for a friend. He
was promptly arrested and was
beaten continuously throughout the
night until he almost lost his mind.
He was kept in his cell until morn
ing before being taken to the hos
pital. Hospital records state that
he died of "tubercular pleurisy." The
L. S. N. r. and the I. L. D. point
out that although Crowder had
been arrested and held in jail over
night, police did not register him
at the hospital as a prisoner, but
merely as a sick man.
Friends of Crowder state he was
in good health when he went to the
police station on Nov. 6. A delega-
ton from the L. S. N. R. and the
I. L. D., which attended the fune-
raj, noted a severe cut on the left
side of his upper lip and bad
bruise on the left side of his face.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-26
Negro Leader
Is Acquitted
vi Franle-up
Charge Against Johnson
Thrown from Court
by Jury

BUFFALO, N. Y, Nov. 25.-Man-
ming johnson, until recently Buffalo
district organizer of the Communist
Party, yesterday was acquitted of a
frame-up charge of malicious mis-
chief" by City Court jury after a
trial lasting three days.
On August 9, Johnson visited a
cafe with a friend and was served
soapwater instead of beer by the
owner because he is a Negro. When
Johnson refused to drink it, Dan
ahy, the owner, threw the glass at
him, smashing the window of the
door as Johnson ducked. johnson
then left the saloon and was ar
rested on the street by Lieutenant
Dempsey from police headquarters.
He was SO beaten up that he was
forced to spend two weeks in the
City Hospital.
Stanley Chmiell handled the
case for the International Labor
Defense. The court room was
packed every day with a heavy po-
lice detail on guard because as the
newspapers claimed "a possibility ex-
listed that Communists would stage
march on the court room in an
attempt to free Johnson"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-26
Hooded Mob
Attacks Negro
InBirmingham

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Nov. Is
You god-damned black niger
you know you can't have social
equality in this country" a group Of
hooded Klansmen told Steve Sim
mons, local Negro worker, after they
broke down his door and invaded
his home in Lewisburg, mining sub
urb of Birmingham. I'VE ought to
kill you, you black son-of -a-b-,"
they shouted at him as they be-
labored him with blows.
Turning. on Simmons wife, Mrs.
Alice Simmons, the Klansmen
struck her and called her a dirty
black b" They then beat Sim
mons until he was unconscious,
leaving him with great cash in
his head and welts on his body
where their blows had rained on
him.
Among the Klansmen, Simmons
recognized two white men, Earl
Walker and Dunk Shields. It is also
reported that Charlie Sanders, a
Negro stool-pigeon, was with the
raiders. The authorities, while
carrying out mass arrests of mill
tant Negro and white workers, have
made no effort to arrest any Of the
fascist Klansmen.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-26
Pathe Movie
Would Justify
Lynch Terror

The hideous lynching of Claude
Neal in Florida on Oct. 81 is glori-
fled in a news reel recently released
by Pathe, the Crusader News Agen-
cy, 1852 Seventh Ave, reports.
''The reel is so complete that it
justifles the belief that photograph
ers had advance information as to
just when, where and how the
lynching would take place. In fact,
the commentator says that the only
reason the body of the lynched man
is now shown is that the sight is
too gruesome."
Pointing out that the news reel
actually attempts to justify the
lynching of the Negro worker the
news agency states: This piece of
propaganda is a particularly vicious
sample of the manner in which the
movies play their part in keeping
up prejudice" The news service,
which is promoted by the League of
Struggle for Negro Rights, calls on
all opponents of lynching to pro-
test the showing of the film.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-26
Obless
Mass atRelief
Headquarters
Demand so Per Cent
Immediate Raise
in Relief

AKRON, Ohio, Nov. 25.-Five
hundred unemployed men and
women from all parts of the city
demonstrated here last Wednesday
in the building housing the Sum-
NIT County Relief Administration.
When the Unemployment Council
leaders, Fred Seibert and Ben
Atkins. rose to speak to the assem-
bled workers, the police guard
rushed forward with a blackjack.
The workers pushed the guard
aside and prevented an assault
upon Atkins.
A committee was selected to pre-
sent the workers demands to
George Missig, administrator. He
agreed to some of the demands. but
to that calling for a so per cent in
crease in relief, he said that he was
powerless to act. He was forced to
agree that henceforth the Unem-
ployment Council committee would
be recognized on grievances, and its
representatives heard.
Although the police were called
in, they dared not modest the Mill
tant assemblage. Scores of workers
joined the Unemployment Council.
A conference was held here today
to plan wide representation from
Akron and the adjoining area at the
National Congress for Unemploy-
ment Insurance, which will convene
in Washington on Jan. 5 for a
three-day session.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-26

COMMITTEE of the Philadelphia
League Against War and Fascism.
This conference is scheduled for
Sunday, Dec. 8, at l pm, at Hos
iery Workers Hall, $3.50 North
Fourth Street, and will be addressed
by DR.. Harry F. Ward. Ella Reeve
Bloor and other local speakers.
Delegates have already been elected
by farmers organizations in Per-
kasie, Pa; Kellers Church, Pa;
Chester, Pa, and Philadelphia or
CARNATIONS.
The conference will be followed
by a mass meeting at the Hosiery
Workers Hall at pm, Dec. 9,
where prominent speakers, includ-
ing the above mentioned, will dis
cuss the problems of the struggle
against war and fascism, and the
necessity of building branches Of
the American League Against War
and Fascism in all principal cities
and towns of this district.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-26

It is needless for the Daily
Worker to reiterase the necessity
for Cleveland to finish its quota
by the end of this month. 1t has
one of the largest quotas in the
country and the Daily Worker re-
lies mostly, of course, on the large
district for funds.
Cleveland must not fail the
Daily Worker!
The Cleveland table follows:
Young Worker Benefit
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 25.-As a
benefit for the Young Worker and
California supplement Of the ma
tional Young Communist League
organ, the Young Communist
League is planning a dance at Gull
tural Center, 230 South Spring
Street, Saturday, Dec. l, at 8 pm.
The program will include floor
show and dance contest.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-26
Secret Deal of u.s. Officials Seanen

for these takers to be of great help
to the shipowners in the major
to the shipowners in the major
strikes.
While recording the strikebreak-
ing activities of the I.S.U. leader
ship, we must note that their role
is not yet thoroughly understood by
large numbers Of seamen, since in
some sections there has been a sub
stantial growth Of the IS.U. for the
first time in many years. The eff
fective strikebreaking activities of
these gentlemen, as we'll as the
growth of the I.S.U., make it neces-
sary for more effective, systema-
tic and concrete exposure of them
to be carried on. Furthermore,
there can be no talk of organizing
united struggles, and of defeating
the labor takers, unless the most
serious attention is given to helping
the rank and file membership of the
I. S. U. to organize an opposition
movement to the policies OF the
bureaucrats. There must be no un-
derestination of work inside the
I.S.U.
At the same time it would be a
serious mistake in the present situa-
ton to exaggerate the position
of the IS.U., or to base our tao
tics upon speculations that the I.S.U.
will get job control. The new tao
tics of the IS.U. leaders and their
use Of demagogy have undoubtedly
fooled some seamen and won them
support. Likewise the support given
by the government, shipowners and
N.R.A. have undoubtedly strength
ened the position of the IS.U. lead
ers. Nevertheless, there has not
been large influx of seamen into
the I.S.U. in the East, and although
there has undoubtedly been an in
crease, in the Gulf the I.S.U. is still
extremely weak. This is the case
even on the Pacific Coast, where
large numbers of seanen entered
the ISU.. which is the official
union" and has a semblance of Job
control.
Nevertheless, the M. w. I. u, in
spite of the fact that it was the cen
ter Of attack and for over month
was practically Illegal with all it's
halls closed. has mass influence and
in some ports there has been de-
cided Improvement in the organiza-
ton Of ship committees, the leader
ship Of ship strikes and the recruit
ment Of new members.
Campaign Against M. W. I. U.
Combining terror with support TO
the IS.U. leadership, the shipown-
ers for over six months have car
ried on an attack to smash the M.
w. I. U. But the East Coast strike
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-26
Reasons for the Deadlock

Reasons TOT the DEADLOCK
The truce engineered by the
N. R. A. has not brought increased
wages or better conditions for the
seamen. Neither has it solved" the
demands of the I. S. u. officials.
Why have the I. S. u, the ship
owners, and the arbitration board
been unable to arrive at an agree
ment as yet?
l. The I. S. u. leaders in the East
have already drastically reduced
the demands of the Seamen, and as
if this reduction is not acceptable
to the ship owners, the I. S. U. lead
ers have offered to submit these and
other demands to arbitration, whose
decision would be final.
2. A sell-out agreement can more
easily be enforced by dragging out
the negotiations and dispensing the
forces and organization of the sea-
men.
8. The ship owners also wish to
avoid having the seamen's and long
shore agreement expire at the same
time.
4. The major reason for the de-
lay is over the question of union
recognition. Many companies are
utilizing the delays for the purpose
of organizing company unions. De-
spite the fact that under extreme
pressure the ship owners agreed to
negotiate with the I. S. U. leaders
in order to end the West Coast
strike and avert one in the East,
many major ship owners have
forced deadlock over the question
Of complete open shop versus the
I. S. u, even though the I. S. U.
leaders have given every guarantee
that insofar as thy are concerned
recognition of the I. S. U. would
mean nothing more or less than a
company union under an A. F. of L.
banner.
The open shop policy of the ship
owners is best reflected in a state
ment (which was never made pub
lic) submitted to President Roose-
welt and the N. r. A. by Victor
Olander, where he reviewed the