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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-06
TRIBUTE
BY VIOLA BARRETT

BY VIOLA BARRETT
I want TO grow old in garden
AS the years finger my face
And hold a red rose close
To share its color and replace
My own that fades and leaves me
then
Dull as parchment beneath a
sharp. full pen;
want to sit within the shelter
OF the wall-though seen by all
who pass
To lift my lined eyes, 'softened
In the shadow. and with distorted
lips-alas
To smile, that they seeing me may
say
She is old and yet-she has not
rotted away.
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INQUIRIES ABOUT KHAN
AND ROBINSON
BY a Y9ter.

BY V5ter.
What are Senator Arthur Robin
sons actual connections with the
Ku-Klux Khan? Every one speaks
of him as former KluXer and some
persons say that Stephenson had
Jackson appoint him to the senate
III the first place. All this talk
seems to be merely hearsay.
Not that I doubt that he was
Kluxer. When people who are for
him tell me that he never has been
connected with the Khan and that
all the talk is merely mud Singing
by his enemies, 1 don't know the
answer.
Perhaps if you print this in your
Message center, some of your Khan
readers will give me the facts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-06

BY Fair Play.
The action of officials at the
Real Silk Hosiery Mills in barring
sixteen former employees from re-
turning to work because they had
been arrested during the recent
strike is a clean cut example of
the vindictive spirit of many
American employers.
One young fellow I know was
present as a bystander when some
trouble occurred and was ar
rested. When his case was pre-
sented in court, it was dismissed,
clearly absolving the young man
Of any connection with the trou-
BILE, on the evidence presented.
But Real Silk officials decided
they did not want him back,
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INDUSTRIAL BARONS
HOG THE ROAD"

10y - l. IL
The arrest Of Alfred M. Bingham
for picketing peacefully, and his
sentencing by a New Jersey court
for thirty days on that score, in
dictate that our courts may be ditch
ing the constitutional guarantees of
liberty Of the person, for the sacred
rights" of inaninate property.
That's good way to start, if We
want another revolution to re-estab-
lish the rights Of persons, as they
are now guaranteed by our present
constitution.
Dollar diplomacy seems to have
bred dollar justice. Perhaps the
New Jersey commonwealth will an
nounce where the United States
Constitution applies, and it's bound
airy limitation.
The castles" of our industrials
barons seems to include the public
thoroughfare, and the public officers
appear to be dummies Of the feudal
lords. Have they forgotten the Bos-
ton tea party?
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ASSERTS MOVIES SUFFER
FROM UNFAIRNESs
By Theater Owner.

BY Theater Owner.
May protest against the unfair
impression given by almost every
newspaper Of the quality of enter
tainment being produced by the
major film companies of Hollywood
and New York?
These pictures are, for the most
part, not immoral They are not,
for the most part, obscene. They
are not, for the most part, obiec-
tionable.
know. I have to see more
movies in year than any church.
man, care not what his faith,
will get to see in ten years.
I have no fight with any church,
but I do call for fair treatment
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regarded class of citizens in the
country. I'm just taxpayer.
All we do is supply the money
spent by the class of misnamed pub
lie servants.
It's about time somebody con-
Sidered us.
ThereIl be plenty of trouble if
they don't. Communists may not
be able to stir up their beloved
proletariat to the point Of revolu-
ton, but history shows overtaxa-
ton has led to revolution more than
once.
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ONE WHO PAYS SEES
OVFRTAXATION
Rv Just-a-Taxpayer.

By Just-a-IaXpayer.
James A. Collins said a mouthful
Tuesday when he told the Rotarians
that it was silly to spend $4,000 for
a primary election.
And, William Fortune said a
mouthful when he said Wednesday
that s9,000.000,000 was too much to
pay for government.
OF course, my protest is unimpor-
tant. I'm a member Of the least
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London police got excited recently by a
false report that Dillinger was over there.
Wait, he isn't through with the United
States yet.
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The Message Center

(Ttmes readers are tnvtted to cypress
their vtetos In these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can have O chance.
init them to ESQ toords or less.J
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A specialist says it's perfectly possible to
sleep with your eyes open. That's what Europe
has been doing for several years
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The father of quintuplet daughters in On
tario is worried Well he might be. Imagine
five sons-in-law coming on, all at about the
same timel
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for a great industry which has
given employment. and well-paid
employment, to many thousands of
persons.
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The Irish Free State has taken a step closer
toward being a republic by abolishing the
senate. There's an idea for US, only here
we'd have to abolish the house, too.
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Strange that everybody should list what
congress did during its recent session, and
then blame it all on the President.
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again, but had I got a job that lit
tie pittance would not have marred
me.
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How long Hitler will continue to play Der
Fuhrer would seem to depend a good deal
on German financial and economic develop
ments The mark is tOttering. The world
boycott is tightening. For lack of foreign ex-
change. necessary raw materials and food
stufs are not obtainable in sufficient guam
tity. Hence industry is suffering. prices are
rising. unemployment threatens to mount, and
the masses are increasingly uneasy.
Abroad Hitlers policies have played similar
havoc. Europe is so frightened by his gestures
that a circle of alliances has formed about
him. Even the Soviet Union, once Germanys
warmest friend. has joined hands with France
and the French coalition against the Hitler
menace.
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Hitler's peril. however, is Europe's peril.
Already the uneasy Nazi chieftain has be-
gun to accuse "a certain foreign power Of
plotting against the German state. And that
is dangerous business.
There always is a chance that, to save
himself. Hitler may go a step further and
start trouble with "A certain foreign power"
and rally the German people once more to
his standard.
Men are the sport of circumstance when
circumstances seem the sport of men," So
SAYS the poet.
For fifteen years. Adolf Hitler. humble
Austrian house painter, bent circumstances to
his own ends Now circumstance, in turn,
seems destined to use him as its pawn.
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Hitler rose to power BIZ climbing upon the
shoulders Of his Brown Shirts. whom he Gre
ated and used TO win the streets" Having
reached his goal. he now kicks his Brown
Shirt props from under.
Today he must depend upon the regular
army. the magnifcently trained and equipped
reichswehr. the police. and the war veterans,
or Steel Helmets, to whom he turned a few
days ago to save him from his own followers.
The reichswehr therefore. now is master
in Germany. not Hitler. And to the reichs-
wehr. the police and the veterans Field Mar
shall Won Hindenburg is God-as Hitler was
aware when he dealt with the case Of linden
burgs protege. Vice-Chancelor Won Papen.
1t may suit the reichswehr very we'll to use
Hitler for some time to come. When he ceases
to be useful. however. he in turn may be
"liquidated."
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LITTLE MAN, WHAT NOW?

q DOLF HITLER no longer is boss in Ger
L many.
Like Frankenstein and his monster Hitler
has created a situation with a capital S. and
this situation now holds him in the hollow
Of its hands
For him the future holds triple menace.
One is the domestic political crisis. now
sinmering but still unsettled. Another is Ger
manys international isolation. The third is
her financial and economic plight which now
threatens 70 throw her into chaos as terrible
as anything experienced since the World war.
The firing squad has liquldated tempo
rarily some Of Hitler's political worries at
home. but bullets Will not help him much
when he comes to deal with the others
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-14

they know the National Textile Work
ers Union fights for the interests of
the workers and not for the bosses.
The LaSalle does the printing and
the Blue Bird does the finishing and
dyeing. These workers have the same
chairman. The workers are so dis
gusted with the chairman that rs
workers signed petition asking Tony
to resign as chairman. But Tony said
it would be taken up at the next
meeting.
The A. F. of L. leaders have told
their shop chairmen to try to force
the N. T. w. U. members and the
unorganized workers into the A. F.
of L. so that they can have closed
shops. The class-conscious workers
know why the A. F. of L. leaders are
doing this, because a lot of their own
members are not paying dues. If they
could get closed shops they could
force their members to pay dues and
again they could help the bosses give
the workers a wage-cut, which the
bosses have been trying to give the
workers since the strike.
Let us see real united front of all
the workers for better conditions
higher wages and less hours
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tons under which these workers have
to work.
In the finishing department the
workers have to run two frames, and
if one of these frames should stop,
one of the two night bosses, Joe or
Ben, would hurry to the frame to
get it started again. And these two
night bosses now come in in the day
time to show the day bosses what
Speed-up is and how to do it. These
night bosses often send the workers
home early and run the frames
themselves. They must be afraid that
the workers Win make too much
money in their pay.
In the Blue Bird Dye Shop most
of the workers are in the A. F. of
union. 1t took Tony Autieri two
months to get four girls back to work
after they were laid off. 1t was the
unity Of the workers that kept after
Tony till he girls go back work.
Why is 1t the 80 workers in the
LaSalle Print Shop and the 80 work
ers in the Blue Bird Dye Shop will
not join the F. of L. union? Because
these so workers are class conscious
workers, and they understand the role
the A. F. Of L. leaders play. Because
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-14
A. f. L. Increases Efforts to Tie Hands of Paterson
Workers As Dye Bosses Look for Way to Cut Wages

At the textile dye shop the bosses
are trying every possible way to speed
up the workers. 1t is said that the
A. F. of L. chairman does nothing
about it. The shop is divided between
the A F. Of L. and the N. T. w. U.
The A. F. Of L. does not want unity
with the N. T. w. U. There have been
hundreds Of workers laid of in this
shop, A. F. of L. members and N. t.
W. U. members. The boss laid off the
workers because he knew they were
not united and therefore he could get
away with it.
In the boil off department of the
Weidemann dye shop there we're
about 700 pieces of goods a day. The
boss laid off IA workers, and makes
the workers still on the job do 1000
pieces. They have to rush around like
a bunch of wild men to get more
work done with less men to do it.
The chairman, Frank Ryan, who
belongs to the A. F. Of L., does
nothing about this, and most of the
workers in this department are A. F.
Of L. members. The A. F. of L. dele
gates in this department only talk
about dyes and not about the condi-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-14

By a Textile Worker Correspondent
KENOSHA, WIS., work at the
Allen-A Hosiery Mill here in Ken
osha, Wisconsin. Back in 1928 there
was a strike here in the full-fash-
Toned knitting department. The COM
pany wanted to introduce the
stretch-out, making one man operate
machine, without a helper, as it
had been before. The leaders Of the
Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers
Union affiliated to the A. F. of L.
prevented the strike from spreading
to the other departments, using the
excuse that they were not interested
in organizing the "unskilled" labor.
In the opinion of most Of us work.
ing in the old plant (the unskilled
departments this failure to organize
and pull out the entire plant was
what caused the strike to be lost.
Today the Full Fashioned knitters
are making only about so to IS cents
an hour, where back in 1927 they
made as high as SIPS an hour.
Pressers on full-fashioned stockings
today make only 40 cents an hour,
and work under real speed-up sys-
TEN.
A group Of about to 10 pressing
mock-seam stockings make only 30
cents an hour.
The full-fashioned loopers doing
work that is very hard on the eyes
and very tiring) make only IS cents
an hour at the very most.
SeamerS working on heavy silk
full-fashioned stockings are not
making more than 35 cents an hour.
Members have it much worse than
years ago. They have to do three
times as much work for less money.
Where before they only had to slip
the stockings on one hand, then
mend any small holes they found,
marking the large ones, runs, ETC.,
for the day worker to do: now they
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-14
By a Textile Worker Correspondent

PATERSON, N. jim the Arrow
Dye Shop most Of the workers belong
to the A. of L. The chairman is
forcing the National Textile Workers
Union members into the A. F. of L.
The chairman does nothing for the
workers when the bosses tell the
workers they have to run two dye
tubs, or when the bosses make the
workers rush like hell. It is plain to
see that the chairman is trying only
to get his share Of the dues.
The National Textile Workers Union
got leaflets in this shop to ask the
A. F. of L. members to back the N.
T. w. U. members, because in section
Ia of the N. r. A. the workers have a
right to join the union of their own
choice. These workers like the N. T.
w. U. better because 1t is working
mems union
In the Victory Dye Shop they have
an A. F. Of L. chairman with the
N. T. w. U. policy, who is fighting for
the workers interests every time
trouble bobs up. The workers in this
shop ought to join the N. r. w. u,
then they would not have to fight
the leaders as well as the bosses. but
keep up the good work.
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Little Work in AlIen-A Hosiery Mill, Yet
Work ers Are Speeded U to Cut Pay Further
A. F. L. Union Splits Ranks by Craft UniOnism;
Rank and File Organization Urged

have to put 1t on a machine which
turns the stockings inside out, and
they must mend every hole, not Just
the small ones. This throws the one
who before used to turn the stock
ings by hand, as well as the inspector,
out of work.
One Of the worst things about con-
ditions today is the few hours that
we get to put in each week. Some
times we go in in the morning and
wait around and are then told to
come back in the afternoon. OF
course we don't get paid for this
time we have to put In waiting
Many weeks we only get II to Is hours
and we can't live on this little
amount.
In the press department the air is
so stuffy as to be almost ,unbearable
The ventilation is awful. There are
no fans and in the summer months
working in this room is like being
in hell. Even In winter when it is
below zero the windows Of the press
department have to be kept open in
order to keep it cool enough to work
there. And the floors throughout the
plant are filthy with dirt, tobacco
juice and general CRIME.
Recently the company tried to form
a company union. They issued a
printed pamphlet called Suggested
Plans for Employe Representation
Plan" and called us all to a meeting
to decide on this. But we were too
wise for this trick Of the company
So few showed UP that 1t had to be
called off.
What we have to do here is to or
ganize our own department commit
tees to take up these grievances and
work toward the building Of fight
ing industrial union, like the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union, that
will organize all textile workers,
skilled and unskilled alike.
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Letters from,
Our Readers
PRAISES ANTI-WAR ISSUE;
URGES PAMPHLET BY GARLIN

Comrade Editor
feel that it is only right that
should congratulate the staff of the
Daily Worker on the way that our
paper is forging ahead. 1t now gives
a fellow confidence to open it wide
up in the subway, and let all who
look, see, wonder, and maybe learn
The change in the makeup is evil
dent, and if it keeps getting better
like this all the time, shall have to
stop buying the New York Times.
The anti-war issue of Saturday
(Fleb. 10) was real tonic The ar
ticle on the Technique of War
Propaganda" by Sender Garlin was
the real goods. His exposure of
George Creel was the thing that a
fellow needs who knows lots of So
called liberals" May I suggest
that Sender Garlin write a series of
articles on this type of mind. He
should do one on the Berries, the
Tugwells, the Ickes, etc., as these
are the most dangerous people that
we have to contend with. With
their radical utterances." They are
the smoke screen laid down by the
Roosevelt Administration to fool the
workers, and the puzzled misled
middle classes"
The photographs of the war post
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corr eAcN IN 70
TWO MEEkSvT@

project be opened Immediately where
workers can get Jobs at union scale
Of wages, the shoes to be distributed
among the unemployed men, women
and children.
The committee of shoe workers
appeared at the G. w. A. office, 18th
St., before Kitzkaufman, demanding
Jobs for the shoe workers. We were
referred to the c. w. S. When the
shoe delegation demanded a definite
answer from the G. w. S., all we
again got was another promise, that
the shoe project Will be opened for
1000 shoe workers. with 500 Jobs for
the shoe repairs at first, and that a
committee Of six will furnish de-
tailed plans and figures Of opera
ton.
After weeks of rosy promises to us
that the project will materialize, we
insisted on knowing when it will open
They then came out openly and re-
jected the project, blaming Congress
for no funds.
VIC 4IAAlACNlAdbSlJ plOSEcQGQ W Or
ganize into stronger delegations. We
called upon the w. I. R. for help
The w. I. R. encouraged us to form
a stronger committee to go down tc
the c w. A. and demand immediate
relief, kitchen food, etc. The C.W.A
saw that we meant business and sent
representative down to investigate
But we told him that we know who
needs relief Immediately, and de-
manded that the tickets be given tc
all applicants without discrimination
We demanded 1900 food tickets, but
all we got was $50 the first week
With more pressure, we received
about 400 the second week. AS fol
the kitchen, nothing has been done
yet. They still keep promising that
to us. The Shoe Workers w. I. r
Committee will not walt much
longer, but will again elect delega-
ton to the c. w. A. to see about the
kitchen.
The Importance of the w, I. r
can be seen by this. The w. 1. r
has also helped us to collect food and
is strengthening our committee tc
carry on the struggles for our de-
mandS to the G. w. A.
We will continue our fight for oul
project and for unemployment insur-
ance. We call upon all workers to dc
the same.
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Mrs. PinChOt SewS
Slavery Label on +
Dress in Philal..
(Isy q Needle Worker Corresnondent

(By Needle Worker Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-The Off
Gals Of the International Ladies'
Garment Workers Union celebrated
an important event this week. Mrs,
Pinchot, the first lady Of the state,
came to PHILADELPHIA to sew on the
first label on a dress, thereby giving
her sanction officially to the misery
and low wages which the label with
the blue eagle on 1t spells. e'tN a
A day before the event took place
the factory was made spick and span,
windows were washed, floors
scrubbed, even the elevators were
decorated. Two o'clock promptly she
came and the ceremony started,s
The press turned out in full force,
including the Socialist reporter Of the
liberal Philadelphia Record. The
unions, too, turned out en- masse,
managers, business agents, the. en-
tire joint board; even the complaint
clerk came 1t is important to note
that the only Lovestoneite on the
joint board took a half day off TO
witness the ceremony. sirss,
Needless to say, we got q holiday
that day. We didn't work Only we
have to make up the time by work.
ing an hour overtime for the rest. of
the week every day. ~,
Mrs. Pinchot performed the cere-
mony Of sewing on the label against
a background decorated with an
enormous American flag, also flag
with the blue buzzard on it. r
The participants in the event were
dressed in their best. Among them
was Mr.. Lenitas Of the Eastern Code
Authority, one Of the Gimbel Bros.
and Mr.. Reisberg, the manager Of the
union. All made speeches, including
the boss, and all emphasized the
same thing; namely, that the work
ers gained more from the new deal
and the blue eagle than any group
involved in the industry. Mr.. Refs
borg was too elated to be able to
make an inpromptu speech. He read
his from a carefully prepared paper,
reiterating his old policy Of class coll
Liberation, and promised that the
union will do all in its power for
the benefit Of all involved in the
industry.
The climax Of the affair was
reached when Reisborg purchased the
dress on which Mrs. Pinchot sewed
on the label-in the name Of the
union and presented it to Mrs. Pin
chot as a gift. He also made her an
honorary member Of the union, pre-
senting her with a union book. --..c
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How SCab Union
Was Put Over in
|. Miller ShOr

BY a Shoe Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK.-Two days before
the vote was taken, at the I. Miller
shoe shop under the auspices of the
National Labor Board, we were all
called together to listen to a speech.
The first one to speak was zasofsky,
the chairman Of the fitting room.
He said mouthful of nonsense
with grin, and ended by saying,
Vote for the Boot and Shoe (scab)
Union"
Then came a Mr.. Matthews, who
shed crocodile tears about how the
strikers called off the strike, and his
words were as follows:
You all know that the Boot and
Shoe is an American union, and l..
Miller & Sons have signed q three
year contract with them. II YOU
vote for the United Shoe and
Leather Workers Union, you will
have lot Of trouble. So to avoid
all trouble and have peace and a