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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-22
NEWS ATTACKED FOR
POWER. COMPANY STAND

By Times Reader.
For the reason that the News edi-
torial staff will not and never has
inserted in its Voice Of the People
section any communication contrary
to its own ideas, and can not, by
any means, be regarded as sports
men, I ask you to give me the OPP
portunity to reply to an editorial
appearing Jan. and also a news
article on page l and continued on
page 4 headed Light Cut Pales
Before Earnings"
Regarding the editorial, the News
states that the commission can be
lured into speaking Of an 8 per cent
reduction when, in fact, it is moth
ing Of the kind, but varies from less
than 8 per cent to about 8.3 per
cent" From this statement I as
sumo that the total estimated re-
duction of S525 900 should be spread
equally over the rate schedule for
power, commercial and domestic
users of current. I believe I am
correct in assuming that the do
nestle patrons will get 8.3 per cent,
and the large commercial and power
customers will receive reductions
down to per cent, according to
their consumption.
The articles appearing in the
News, relative to public utility law
and the method adopted by COM
mission in asking the utility to show
cause why their rates should not
be reduced, were absolutely right;
but. if legal procedure had been
followed, consumers would have had
no reduction for year, at least, I'M
less the company had come in and
volunteere4 a miserable reduction
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-22

are 100 per cent union. Go and
order a minute steak in one of
these places and see if it takes
you half an hour to get it. Why?
Because the houses pay liv-
ing wage, and the employe does
not have to panhandle the patrons
for his livelihood.
There are some restaurant men
in indianapolis who say they
can not operate union house be-
cause they belong to the restau-
rant association. If any one de-
serves a radical union forced upon
them, they sure do, for they are
forcing radical injusticeS upon the
employees.
There are mattresses working
for as low as S475 a week. If
this won't make a panhandler
out of them, I'll treat.
I am for Haywood Broun. I
wish he was On the NRA with
General Johnson. I think he
would be of some help to the
"panhandlers."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-22
FATHER SEEKS TO
PROTECT OTHERS
BY Roger S. Lawson.

BY Roger 5. lawson.
Last week you had an article in
your newspaper regarding the death
of my son from electric shock in
a bathtub. the details of which, how
ever were not given. Since that time
have had a number of people ask
how this possibly could have hap
pened. The fact is that an electric
heater fell into the tub while ne
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-22

The neutron, smallest particle of matter,
is said to weigh 1876 billion-billion -billionths
OF gram. Mighty heavy figures for so light
a weight!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-22
The Message Center

(TimeS readers are inUited to cypress
their rtetoS in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can hare a chance.
Limit them to $50 qcords or leSS.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-22

Colonel L. H. Brittin, sentenced for de-
stroylng air mail files, has been made file clerk
IN the District of Columbia JAIL That's max
ing the punishment fit the crime.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-08
Britain, Italy To
Oppose France On
Nazi Armament
Fren C h Rivals Seek
Balance of Power
On Continent

LONDON, Jan. More aggressive
the German arms demands was IN
dicated in several quarters today
support by British Imperialism for
following the return of Sir John
Simon, British Foreign Minister, from
Rome, where he discussed the increas-
ingly critical international situation
with Benito Mussolini, fascist dictator
Of Italy.
Both the British and italian gov
ernn1entS are anxious to establish q
new balance OF power on the con-
tinent to undermine the present
military domination of France ami
its vassal states. A rearmed Ger
many would help to offset the French
military power, and at the same time
strengthen the hands OF the Nazis
for their projected invasion of the
Soviet Ukraine. In recent negotia-
lions with the French Government,
Hitler declared his readiness to abide
by the Versailles frontiers on the
west, if given free hand in the East.
This Nazi proposal was supported by
the British from the start, but the
French imperialists, while favorable
to the anti-Soviet project, were dis
trustful Of the Nazi designs in rela-
ton to France.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-08
A Secret War Memorandum

RAINING proof Of the war character of the Roose-
welt government is contained in the latest news
from Washington regarding the secret memorandum
handed to President Roosevelt by his economic ad-
yiseTs, George N. Peek and Prof. TugweH.
The fun contents of this document have not been
made public but the Wall Street Journal, organ of
big capital describes its contents as follows;
Industries will be classified according 70
their suitability to the United States as measured
by efficiency; POSSIBLE CONTRIBUTION OF IN
DUSTRY TO NATIONAL DEFENSE; wage scales
and general social utility; geographical distribution;
alternate Of foreign supply and dependence
on effectiveness Of each industry the others
rs it possible TO mistake the war intent of this
economic survey? Is it possible not to see in this
/ document the actual proposals for an examination
and organization OF American industry with a view
toward gearing the entire economy to war level?
The Roosevelt government Is aggressvely getting
tha whole range of American production into line for
immediate use for war necessities Roosevelt wants
to know the exact character of every factory where
It gets it's materials, whether it will not be necessary
10 establish domestic Of supply for those fac
tories which are Indispensable in times of war ETC.
etc.
All this preparation for war is concealed behind
the usual Roosevetan hypocrisy of social planning
Planning indeed! But planning" for war for the
establishment Of military terrorism in the factories
and intensified slavery and hunger for the entire
telling population, while the best Of the working
class are hurled into the shanbles Of inperianst
slaughter
The social planning" Of Roosevelt Conceals the
most gigantic program for preparations that this
country has ever seen. II Is sinister challenge to
the welfare the lives OF the working class It must
be rlst.
il can be met By intense, organized effort Of the
masses. The Communist Party must lead the way IN
tae struggle against the Roosevelt war preparations
Bgs-y worker in the shops and factories must be
Informed to what is behind this Roosevelt plan
iA The workers must be shown that war will
not mean higher wages, but that the Roosevelt gov
ernment is already planning to enforce starvation
wares in the factories through military terrorism
Nl9r Hln moi mean prosperity" and jobs for the
.4ls3tons Of jobess workers. because the Roosevelt
gc7oTnjeht is already organizing American industry
to genres Of efficiency that will permit enormous
epens4on OF production without proportionate in
crease in employment. It is by inhuman, murderous
sFsed-un that the rulers of Wall Street will reap
their bloody profits in the next war out Of the sweat
and agony Of the working class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-08
S Soviet Workers Get
Complete Cultural
Advantages

They found that about 20 per cent
OF the outside walls is devoted to
windows, in addition to skylights.
The delegation also found thai
there are fifty-six apartment build
ings for workers, with two more be-
ing built, each with forty eight flats.
1t found there is special centralized
heating plant for dwelling houses, and
centralized sewage disposal, that in
addition to first aid stations in every
department, there is a hospital on
the plant grounds.
It found that there had been only
two fatal accidents since construction
started on the plant in 1880.
The factory kitchens provide 100,-
600 dishes of cooked food day; that
tie plant has several state farms sup
plying 1t, one a dairy farm. with TOO
cows, another for pigs, rabbits and
small stock, and one of $4,000 acres
for vegetables.
Seven Year Children's School
The delegates heard that special
seven-year schools had been built for
children of the tractor plant workers,
that the>a was a study combinate at
tached, which includes university
and tractor building technical schools
They found 1000 studying at the
factory school, with 300 taking courses
at the apprenticeship school and do
ing several hours factory work as
part of their technical training every
daN
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-08
Important for Miners

"T BELIEVE now the most important question con-
corning the miners is the coming international
convention Of the q. M. W. A." writes member of
the U. M. w A. in Princeton Indtana, to the Daily
Worker
I'm view of the dissatisfaction existing in the ranks
Of the miners" he adds ut is surely possible to Or
galize the rank and file TO have really good op-
position delegation Jan. 2Srd in indianapolis at
the U. M W. A. Convention"
This feeling Of dissatisfaction among the miners
is widespread in every field and in no place GER
tainly as much as in Western and Central Pennsyl-
vania
But still from there though the convention is less
than four weeks of, we have received no news what
ever from the responsible Communist leaders active
in these fields.
Every miner knows decisive questions will be taken
up at this convention. The whole long fight which
the miners carried around and against the coal
codes and wage agreements will come up
EVERY bit Of news we do get shows great symptoms
- OF discomfort among the miners and desire for
struggle, as the letter which we quote here shows
In me DanVe, Illinois, sub-diStSct all u delegates
elected were chosen on program of struggle against
LewsS strike breaking
The convention will be forced to deal with the
checko the right to strike the preparation for new
strikes, the scale in the or rising prices
and thousand and-one other questions that the
miners want answered.
The central question facing all miners is the n
r. A. codes and agreements around which the strikes
developed last year These strikes were slanaeessly
betrayed oy John L. Lewis, particularly in the cap
tive mine fields, where the MINERS were bound over
to the big coal operators
10 tight against this whole slave apparatus the
miners must organize to defeat the agents OF the
H. a, the coal operators, and the National strike-
nreaking) Labor Board within the o. NJ WA
The Daily Worker has printed a series of resou
lions covering many Of these questions for introduce
ton into local unions and presentation at the in
ternational convention.
We would Like to hear about the discussions on these
resolutions in the local meetings that are called
10 eject delegates to the international convention
These experiences OF the greatest importance
1or the development and building up Of the rank and
file opposition in the q NJ W. A. to the Lewis strIke
breaking machine
from all available information, the conclusion is
unacceptable that the work Of elecng opposition dele
gates Of developing the struggle against the Lewis
TeacneFous leadership is going all too slowly
It is not only a question Of preparing for the con-
Venton-though this is of the highest immediate
importance 1t Is mainly a question of organizing
the miners for the struggles which are bound To
come soon as conditions inevitably become worse under
Cne slave N r. A. codes and the no-srike agreements
Speed the fight against the Lewis strike-breakino
outfit
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-08

now subsly suggestive the phrases regarding the
New York subway fare which are beginning 70
appear with carefully calculated frequency in the
capitalist press!
First It was LaGuardias own pA-sse, IAN adequate
fare" that gave warning Of the approaching T-cent
fare.
Yesterday LaGuardis held a 4s-minute conference
With the representatives OF the Morgan Rockefeller
Wall Street banks. And the Herald Tribune reports
the conference as follows:
while nothing was said yesterday concerning the
Scent fare the impression gained that the de-
sire to preserve this shibbOIeth VIII not be per
mitted to stand in the way Of znRIcatiOn. There
is to believe that the subway security
holders less insstent upon self Sustaining fare
. . unless the administration was willing to raise
the fare negotiations, Is said, wouM prove
futile. E. ="
A "self-sustain4ug fare" An adequate tare"l Does
any have to be instructed to what that means?
Is 1t not clear day that the LaGuardia admin
istration behind its talk Of "unifcaton and budget
balancing" is driving straight ahead to giving the
bankers what they want to protect their investments
a 7-cent fare?
The subways are making bigger profits than ever.
They rotten with all kinds of plunderng, of fat
leases, renting agreements, bond payments etc. ETC.
The subways are controlled by two groups, the
Chase National Bank crowd dominated by the Rookie
fellers, and the J. P. Morgan banks.
were Charles Hayden, multi millionaire Wall Street
stock gambler, representing the Rockefeller Chase
National Bank, and Arthur N. Anderson Of the
house Of ]. P. Morgan.
It is to keep his pledges to these capitalist exploit
ers and plunderers that LaGuarda is going to wiring
millions Of dollars in higher fare through chisellng
the pennies Of the vast majority Of the citys toiling
population who travel the subways to and fro from
their wage slave jobs
The Communist Party in New York has alone
presented program Of opposition to the LaGuardia
subway fare swindle. It has issued a call for or
ganzed struggle against raising the fare 1t demands
a unihcation of the cty's subways by wipng out the
fraudulent and eXtortionate claims Of the Wall Street
security holders. It demands that the subways and
"er' lines be for the ctys workers and not for
the bankers
The 7-cent fare will mean hardship and skinping
it will mean that every worleing-cass family where
several use the subways will be forced to give up
hundreds Of dollars year to the Wall Street stock
holders. 1t will mean in every working-class home
that there will be less for food.
Against the 7-cent fare robbery!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-08
BY vERN SMITH

The grounds are spacious, and are
being "greened'' in summer, that is
flowers and trees will be planted. A
big tribune and band stand, modern
istic in design, rises in the very cen
ter of the grounds, among the shops
on the edge of big square. There is
good moving picture house, two
lighthouses with showers, and several
clubhouses.
All these means Of living for the
workers were established even while
they were, one might say, not even
operating the factory. The first units
described above, forming a section
which can produce tractors but by no
manner of speaking more than a
small part of what the plant will put
out when completed, started work
June l, of this year.
1t is expected to put out only 1000
tractors by the end of the year,
whereas it is expected to bring forth
1900 next year. After that, the plant
will be completed to the point Of
producing 10000 a year. So what they
are obviously doing this first half
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-08
Soviet Factory Provides Not Only York, But Life

year is to teach the use of compli-
Gated machines to several thousand
peasants.
Thousand Ton Steam Presses
And the machines are the most
modern. The delegations going
through saw thousand ton steam
presses for pushing red hot steel into
the shape of a crank shaft. Such a
press works as one unit in battery
Of an oil oven to heat the steel bar,
the press itself, and a stamping ma
chine to trim excreScences. Such units
prevail throughout the plant, and
there is straight line production, all
material for the various parts NOV
ing from process to process with &
minimum Of shifting around and fin
ally arriving at the assembly room,
to emerge from its conYeyor as a
finished 60 horsepower, nine and a
:alf ton, caterpillar tractor.
But the chief admiration of the
two American metal workers was for
the tool and die shop. That die, into
which the steam press showed metal
for crank shaft was made right
here in the shops Of the tractor fac
tory. Austin saw two finished dies
lying ready to be used when those
now in use wore out
How long did it take to make
them?" he demanded.
Both were made in weeks time,
was the answer.
IT just put in two months with a
milling machine making one die
smaller and simpler than these in
America" he said.
Few Such Machines in the World
They showed him the machine with
which it is done in Cheliabinsk. It is
an ingenious device, by which one
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-08
Brooklyn College
Students Vote To
Fight Against War
To Aid Strikes Against
Making, Shipping
Munitions

I'VE will not support the govern
ment Of the United States in any war
it may conduct" the pledge taken by
the Columbia ana New York Univer-
sity Anti-War Conferences, was
unanimously passed by ZIG delegates
representing campus clubs and class
room groups at the Brooklyn College
Anti-War Conference that took place
Friday and Saturday, Jan. and g.
To make this resolution more en-
phatic, the conference adopted
motion from the floor that
the conference go ON record
as supporting any strike Of
workers against the manufacture or
shipment of munitions
Among other important resolutions
were those demanding the repeal of
the Plat amendment and the re-
moval Of American battleships from
Cuba, the transfer Of all war funds
for unemployment insurance and for
educational purposes, abolition of the
r. o. T. c., and utilization with the
Youth Section of the American Com
mittee Against War and Fascism.
A motion made by a National Stu
dent League member, to send tele-
gram to the German Embassy de-
manding the release and safe conduct
out of Germany for George Dimi-
troff, Ernst Torgler, Blagoi Popoff
and Vassil Taneff, was passed.
The delegates also voted to hold
an anti-war demonstration on April
6, the anniversary Of the United
States entry into the World War.
This same resolution was passed by
the anti-war conferences at Column
bia and N. Y. U. and will become the
day of student protest against i'm
perialist war.
Brooklyn College is the third school
in New York City to call such a con-
ference. It marks another step in
the development of a real united
front Of students against imperialist
war that was begun at the American
Congress Against War and Fascisn,
at which students played a very i'm
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-08
a Socialist in SHANGHAI

NOT often docs the American Socialist press write
about China. But when it does it makes I'D in
venality what it has neglected in space
The Socialist ex-polce chief of Berlin Albert Cries.
insBd shows up in Shanghai to help organize the
Chinese police the chief bloodhomds of the butcher
Chang Kai Shek the executoner Of the revolutionary
leaders Of the Chinese people
Socialist workers who have hardly gotten over the
shock Of the MISUNDERSTANDING incident now have
thrust at them the fact that Socialist becomes aide
oc-camp to the worlds most notorious and barbarian
hanglnen Of the imperalists in China
The New Leader" tackles the Job of EXPLANATION
in particularly vicious manner of distorting Chinese
history in order to hide the heinous deed of the
Socialist Grzesinki The New Leader" on December
3ot 1888 tries to justify this event to Socialist work
ers as follows:
"TEistOry records that the military expert of the
Russian Communists General Calm known at pres
emit General Butcher, commander chief of the
Red Array in the Far Fast, was instrumental in
training the army Of the Nationalist government in
China.
Not to be Outdone by the Russian Communists
The German Socialists have permitted one of their
members, Albert Grzenski to reorganize the Chinese
police system The former Chief of Police of Berlin
and his deputy, Bernard Weiss are said to have
reached Shanghai"
DUT what the massailabe facts?
From 1925 to 1927 Commander Calm helped 10
tory to drive against the Chinese land-captaliSt-
compradore militarsts, in order to unity China At
that time. there revolutionary upslIrge In
China When the armies reached Shanghai Chang
Kai Shek, fearing the Communist Party leadership.
and the carrying through Of the real agrarian anti
imperialst revolution began his slaughter of Connnu
nists
For six years now Chang Kai shek has been
saughtering Chinese revolutionary workers and peas
ants
History knows OF no more fendisa police than the
hounds Chang Kai Shek has dogging revoiutionists
in China.
1t is to help these murderers these tortIrers and
executors of tens of thousands OF the flower of the
brave Chinese that the Socialist expoice chief
Grzesinsk goes to Shanghai.
He will help Chang Kai Shek arrest jail torture
and execute trade union leaders Their crime in the
eyes Of Chang Kai Shek was that they led strikes
OF cotton mill workers, rickshaw coolies silk flature
workers tobacco factory workers-an fighting for a
few pennies increase in wages for few more grains
OF rice, for few minutes less Of back-breaking killing
labor for the imperialist enslavers.
DERHAPS Grzesnsd will instruct Chang Ksi shek
in more scientific methods of tort1ring Paul Ruege
and his wife Gertrude who have been Jailed for three
years in Marking prison for the crime of supporting
the struggles Of the Chinese masses against iperi-
aiism?
Or viii Grzesnki do for Chang Ka sheks police
what Hitlers aid, General Won seeckt is doing for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-08
United Farmers League
Endorses Convention of
Friends of Soviet Union
Elect Two Delegates
Hail Achievements
Of u. S. S. II.

NEW YORK-The United Farmers
League, with membership among
the farmers in all of the northern
states from coast to coast, has en-
dorsed the national convention OF
the Friends Of the Soviet Union, to
be held in New York on January
26th, 9th and 18th, and elected two
members of the national executive
committee, as delegates to this con-
gress.
A letter sent by Alfred Hiala, ma
tional secretary of the United Farm
ers League, to the acting national
secretary Of the Friends Of the So
Wet Union, Herbert Goldfrank, states
in part:
1.-THE United Farmers League
heartily endorses the convention
called by your organization for jan
uary 26th through the 18th.
1.-THE development of collective
farming in the Soviet Union Is Of
extreme interest to the farmers Of
America and our farmers are eager
to learn more abOut the develop
ment of the collective farms and
eager to learn about the conditions
existing among the Soviet collect
i've farmers.
Throughout the land among oHf
farmers feeling of sympathy to-
ward Soviet Russia is growing. We
hail with gladness the recognition OF
the Soviet Government by our gov
eminent, hoping that it will materi-
ally help in the preservation of world
peace which is being threatened from
many angles.
THE United Farmers League Will
be officially represented at your con-
vention by two members of our Ma
tional Executive Committee - Mr..
Henry Puro, from the eastern states,
and Mr.. Arthur Timpson of Wis
consin."