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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
Japanese Masses
Raid Warehouses;
Italian Crop Fails

TOXIC, June 24.-Fifteen to 30
per cent of Japan's population lacks
rice due to the artificially boosted
price of that grain, it was learned
today when reports of rioting in
rural districts reached here.
Government warehouses in many
districts have been raided by hun
CRY peasants and workers, it was
learned.
Famine was reported in wide
areas as government measures, fol-
lowing those in many other coun-
tries, served to relieve only the large
landowners and big farmers.
ROME, June 2.-Premier Musso-
lini admitted to the permanent
wheat committee yesterday that the
Italian wheat crop would be a small
one and limited that the rural popu-
lation would have to supplement the
anticipated 1876 100000 bushels of
wheat with maize and rice. Thus
Italy's Battle of Wheat" was again
shown to be a process of driving
down the wheat consumption of the
masses in favor of inferior cereals.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
Associated Clubs Call
Free Thaelmann Conference

NEW YORK.-The City Council
of the Associated Workers Clubs is
calling a Free Thaelmann and
Anti-Fascist conference of all its
clubs. The clubs are instructed to
send a minimum of three delegates.
The conference will be held Satur-
day, June, at 2:30 pm. at the Coun-
Gil office, II w. 18th st.
The Brooklyn section of the
Council is arranging a free Thael-
mann demonstration for Friday,
June %, at pm. at Rutland Road
and Rockaway Parkway. All Brook
Ign clubs and other organizations
are urged to participate.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
Chicago Workers Prepare
July 2 ThaeImann Protest
DAILY worker Midwest Bureau)

DAILY Worker Midwest Bureau
CHICAGO, ILL.,, June 25.-Fifty
police were modified Saturday
night to smash a Free Thaelmann"
meeting called by the Albany Park
Anti-Fascist group. Several hun
dred workers found the vacant lot
where the meeting was to be held
filled with blue-coated thugs.
Two workers we're picked up, one
for distributing leaflets, the other
for the remarkable offense of
looking on" Both were dismissed
in court this morning. Police Cap
tain Goldberg had told the com
mittee that he would smash any
meeting of protest against the
frame-up of Thaelmann, even
though it was on private property
A very successful anti-fascist
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
ITALY WORRIED OVER NAH
INROADS IN SWITZERLAND

MILAN, June %. - The inspired
Popolo dItalia today issued warn
ing against German penetration of
the Swiss canton of Tessin now
largely Italian speaking
Numerous purchases of land by
Germans were cited, and the news
paper declared that Italy could not
remain indifferent to German
penetration to within one hours
journey of Vernonap
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
Paint Free ThaeImann'
Sign on NaM Consulate

Especial to the Daily Worker)
PHILADELPHIA, June 25.-The
Consul arrived at his office this
morning to find huge Free
Thaelmann" sign, painted in foot
high red letters on the wall of his
office building. Frantic rubbing with
turpentine failed to remove the sign,
all passersby seeing clearly this ex-
preston of the rising demand of
Philadelphia workers for the free
dom of the leader Of the German
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
John Reed Delegates to
Consulate Arrested

Especial to the Daily Worker)
DETROIT, June ga John
Reed delegation Of seven, picketing
the Nazi Consulate in the Hammond
Building, was arrested Saturday
afternoon while entering the build
ing to present demands for the re-
lease of Thaelmann.
Released later, the delegates are
to be tried Thursday morning on
charges of disturbing the peace"
The delegates are Esther hickman,
B ess Bavley, Benjamin Bavley,
Carol Standish, James Lindahl,
Richard Carlson, and Paul Seridin.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
Ddnsig Stree City,
Being HitLerized
With High Speed
by Linbach

DANzIG, June 25. = Madame
Meta Totzki, Communist Deputy
in the Danzig Diet, yesterday
was sentenced to three years inn
prisonment for distribution of
banned Communist literature, it
was learned today.
Danzig. falling at an increas-
ing tempo under Nazi domina-
ton, today ordered the estab-
lishment of labor camps to
which all citizens would be re-
quired to report for service at
stated times.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
Thaelmann Meet
In INDIANAPOLIS

INDIANAPOLIS, June Is. - A
Free Thaelmann mass meeting was
held here last Friday night at the
John Reed Club, 318 to 322 Column
bia Securities Building. William
Galatsky of Chicago spoke on the
Anti-Fascist Forces in Germany"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
Life Begins at Sixty

out at Minneapolis, the mortgage ridden,
v drought-stricken farmers of the coun-
try are now laying the plans in the national
convention of the United Farmers League
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
Continued from Page y

ton of the American League Against
War and Fascism over 1000 young
and adult workers demonstrated in
Military Park last Thursday for the
freedom of Ernst Thaelmann. The
meeting was addressed by Sam
Strong, Peter w. Rodino, and Sylvia
Sleeves.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26

demonstration was held in Wash
ington Park Saturday night, and
the hundreds of workers present
shouted their approval of resolu-
tons condemning the frame-up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
On the
World Front
Bv HARRY CANNES

L. BY HARRY CANNES -
Peace Talk Deadly in ChacO
Goering's Field Hunters
Socialist Hospitality
The King of Sinkiang'
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-26
SATURDAY, MAY 2s, 1884.
THE FAIR. 1884 MODEL
,RIPPs-HOWARD NEWsPAPER)

~HICAGO'S worlds fair, reopenlng To-Day
~ will reveal this country's progress not only
over the past century, but over the past year.
More than 5000, 900 has been spent IN rem
oyations. The added crowds riding Chlcago-
ward in new cars will demonstrate the advent
of better times.
Chiefly progress has been made in taste
The nudities and crudities of last year nave
beer. deleted. Gayety, not jazz and olatancy'
will be reflected in softer colors, better music
more temperate amusementS.
Thre will be a new street of villages, pic
turing the native lift of the worlds countries
America has made progress in one year.
Perhaps before another Century of Progress
exposition is staged social progress comparable
with the material advance of the past century
will be recorded. Then America may polnt
with greater pride.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-26

democracy in government is the Lea resolu-
ton, pending in the house. 1t provides that a
states electoral vote shall be apportioned
among presidential and vice-presidential can
didates on the ratio of popular votes received.
That was what the Norris resolution originally
provided.
Senator Norris, master of the technique of
compromising details without sacrificing prin-
ciple, seems to have compromised on a prin-
ciple when he consented to revision of his
resolution. But Senator Norris works in mys-
FERROUS ways his wonder to perform" For
years he compromised all over the Capitol on
his Muscle Shoals bill, but the measure finally
enacted was much the kind of a law he had
always wanted. So too with his lame duck
amendment.
We believe he will yet succeed in introduc-
ing democracy into our election system.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-26
THE ARMS INVESTIGATOR

TN Stephen R~aushenbush the senate NUM-
tons committee has found, from all &C
counts, a capable and thorough investigator.
The committees decision to appoint an adj
visory board, however, seems less praise
worthy; not because of the membership of
that board, but because the old saw that too
many cooks spoil the broth" is still true.
Senator Nye, the chairman, and Chief IN
vestigator Raushenhush will have their hands
full when they start their investigation of the
steel and the chemical makers, the ship
fabricators and the airplane builders.
But, with the Presidents leadership, and
his public appeal for support, they should not
hesitate to get at the bottom of the munitions
racket if and as it exists in the United States.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-26
A NEIGHBORLY NOTION

OUR Canadian neighbors, who have a
genius for good will, are planning a cam
paign to educate the citizens of both the
United States and Canada on the desirability
of visiting each other.
1t is to be a sort of See North America
First" movement among potential tourists on
both sides of the border.
Can we do less than reciprocate this
gracious gesture of our good neighbors and
customers, who motor by the thousands every
winter to Florida and Southern California, and
who buy from us twice as much as they sell
to us?
AS the sun shines warmer over these United
States, there are many appealing reasons Why
Americans may think of v%acationing some
where in the cool expanse of Canada.
There is the lakes region, where it is said
a fisherman may fish all summer, each day
in a different lake for different kinds of fish.
There are the gorgeous Canadian Rockies,
the scenic dominion parks, the pleasant eli
mate of British Columbia.
There are the quaint villages of Quebec.
more French than France.
And-not the least argument-the Amer
lean dollar still rings true upon Canadian
counters. Our dollar will still buy one
Canadian dollars worth of goods or service.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-26
CENTURY OF PROGRESS

THE innumerable labor troubles of the day
make dismal reading. Now and then,
however, it is instructive to compare them
with the labor troubles of a century ago.
The following story, printed in the London
Times of May 2, 1884, makes interesting read
ing:
80 great is .he prevalence of the spirit
promulgated lately by the unions as to wages
that all classes appear to be actuated by a
spirit of opposition to their employers. Even
the washerwomen have not escaped the sys-
TEN.
mo fewer than seventy of this useful class
of females struck at Kensington for higher
wages. 1t appears that 2 shillings 6 pence
per diem and two half pints of beer has been
the regular scale of wages, but a revolt was
agreed upon and the price to be demanded
fixed at 3 shillings per diem and the usual
beer allowance.
After a considerable time had been occu-
pied in parleying, the washerwomen gained
their point, and after taking copious liba-
tions of gin returned the following day to
their tubs as usual"
That little story presents a striking picture
of the labor movement of a century ago. The
improvement since then is too obvious to need
comment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-26
TRACKLESS CARS
ARE POPULAR

BY South Meridian Patron.
In reply to Mr.. T. F. Class article
of April 26 in regard to the track
less trolley licensing, I wish to ad-
wise Mr.. Glass of the conditions
surrounding the trackless trolley.
In the first place, the majority of
the people of indianapolis who do
not own automobiles and who rely
soley on this kind of transportation
are heartily in favor of the new
equipment and the demand is so
great on the Riverside and South
Meridian lines that the street a
company is going to equip almost
all lines with these new buses. We
are sure proud of them on South
Meridian.
We taxpayers only paid 10 per
cent of the cost of the paving of
South Meridian street and the street
car company paid Is per cent. Isn't
that fair, MI. Glass?
The operators of these BUSES go
through a complete and strenuous
examination before they are quail
flied. First, they must know how
to drive an automobile and second,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-26

have the prosecutors and judges
recommendation on a statement
that they had no objection to her
sons release. She did that. Now I
want to let the readers of The
Times judge for themselves whether
this boy should have a chance to
restore himself to society again.
Here are the facts:
There is a prominent doctor here
who wrote his desire to give this
young man work as an assistant in
one of his clinics.
The man who was robbed also
wanted the boy released.
The prosecutor and Judge had no
objection.
This young man has a son who
needs his support and guidance.
He has an absolutely clean in
stitution record for three years.
A denial like this is what makes
John Dillingers and God knows we
don't want any more of them.
Wayne Coy's statement to MI.
Dean when asked in the board room
if he had any comment to make
was, with a gesture of his hand,
mo, no, not interested"
Well, he should be interested if
he's going to be trusted with the
destiny of some 5000 of u young
men. 1 urge that every interested
citizen of this state get behind their
representatives and insist upon an
automatic parole system that will
save this state the expense of a
clemency board such as we have
now.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-26
HARRY HOPKINS
THIS country owes an uncommon debt to
Harry L. Hopkins, now finishing his first
wear as IInnle Sam,S relief direction

THIS country owes an uncommon debt to
Harry L. Hopkins, now finishing his first
year as Uncle Sans relief director.
This is not because he's spent more money,
fed more people, salvaged more homes than
almost any relief worker of history. After all,
spending money-even 81, 500, 900, 900 a year
may not be so hard. What makes his lanky
harness-maker's son from Iowa unique is his
CHEEKY, common sense kindness. He hands out
bureaucrats, and he admits that "undoubted-
ly we did make mistakes"
1--WE all get balled up because we get too
formal about a problem that's really quite
simple" he told state relief directors the other
day. IF a destitute rural family needs a house,
a COW or work implements, go and get it. Just
cut out the red-tape and get down to work"
That does not mean he is careless with
public moneys. When he found politicians and
petty grafterS muscling in on CWA jobs he
cracked down with scant ceremony and with
no buster.
The FERA chiefs task is far from finished.
Probably the most difficult part is ahead.
About 1000, 900 people have been taken off his
hands, but there still are 4,OOO, 900 families to
be fed. The drought in the northwest makes
relief this summer largely a rural problem, a
more complicated one than feeding city desti-
tute. Also there is likely to be another big
work-relief plan, similar to CWA, next winter.
But there is real assurance in Hopkins as
sertion, "Nobody's going to go hungry: don't
worry about that"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-26
POINT OF VIEW

THE italian newspaper II Popolo dItalia,
which is owned by Mussolini himself,
f~oresees the decline and fall of the United
States. Why? Because the birth rate is
falling.
This, says the paper, shows a paralysis of
energy" and will result before long in ma
tional decadence.
Within several generations" it adds, the
births and deaths will be equal, and then
the crumbling of Americas skyscrapers will
Begin
Before getting too gloomy about this, it
is well to remember that Mussolini is con-
stantly telling the Italians about the beauties
of a high birth rate; and when one recalls
that Italy is already overpopulated, and that
further population pressure can only add to
the disastrous tensions of European politics,
one suspects that Americas falling birth rate
will prove less dangerous thar Italy's rising
one.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-26
SAFER RAILROADS

THE American Railway Associations safety
section is out with figures indicating
amazing progress over the last decade in re-
ducing deaths and accidents among railway
workers. In 1928 there were 15O,O12 rail en-
ployes killed or manned. BY last year this
number had been steadily reduced to 1885.
BY 1889 the safety section hopes and expects
to bring this number down to about 10000.
In these days of employer liability, safety,
of course, pays. Not all employers. unfortu-
nately, can boast of such enlightenment as this
record diScloses.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-26
The Message Center

Times readers are tnUited to cypress
their Uiet1s in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all cGN have a chance.
Limit them to $50 words OF Less.J
BY Hiram Lackey.
The prominent space which you
gave H. D. Kissenger's letter on the
Red Flag Menace" is indicative of
your fairness. For the growth of
modesty and clear thinking among
college professors, ministers and edi-
tors, it is we'll for them to view with
retrospective eye this picture Of alb
surd thought.
AS an exercise in intellectual dis
cipline, let us American Christians
cast aside our prejudice CT yester-
day and state the facts about Rus
STA with fairness and with force. 1t
is we'll for us to remember that both
Americanism as advocated by Mr..
Messenger and communism are re-
ligions. Justice demands our adj
mission that both religions need the
application of the entire gospel of
Christ.
by their fruits, We shall know
them" Viewed in the light of His
word, Russia and the red flag is
more truly representative of the
Christian spirit than is America and
the rest of the world.
Religion without the injection of
economics is absurd hypocrisy and
impossible of successful practice.
God will not soil His immaculate
hands with the touch of the leprous
h%ypocrite. God can and does shake
hands with the pagans.
The boosted patriotic nationalism
of Mr.. Kissinger is the avowed
enemy of Christianity. This Amer
icanism contains all of the evils OF
individual sel1shness c~aricatured in
their ugliest aspects.
AS did the college professors of
an anemic age, so does Mr.. Kissen-
ger worship at the shrine of the
liberal George Washington, the
while muttering curses against the
flag of oppressed peoples, made red
by the blood of multi-colored races.
Had Mr.. Messenger lived in the days
of the American revolution he would
have been a tory.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-26
ONE COLLEGE TOO MANY

BELIEVERS in democracy, who hope for the
day when the people shall elect the Presi-
dent and Vice-President of the United States.
need not be discouraged because the senate
has rejected twice the Norris resolution SUBJ
hitting a constitutional amendment abolishing
the electoral college.
1t is an emasculated resolution, and would
give the people no more voice than they now
have. 1t would do nothing more than abolish
the antiquated electoral college, and cause the
names of the presidential and vice-presidentiaI
candidates, instead of the names of the
electors, to appear on the ballot.
A candidate winning a bare plurality of a
states popular vote would still get that states
total electoral vote.
a real reform in the direction OF greater
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-26
A H WORLD

ONE of the results of the present perloo Oh
~ uncertainty and confusion may eventually
he a so11nder and more realistic educational
system in the United States.
The recent report of the social studies
commission of the American Historical Asso-
citation calls for such change, and demonstrates
that some educators, at least, are aware OF
our need for a method Of teaching which Will
really tell pupils what kind Of world they are
inhabiting.
For instance, the report urges that school
children be taught to study their own COM
munities in a realistic manner. 1t suggets that
they look into the i~nef1ciencies, the corrup-
tions. the tensions, the conflicts, the contra
d~ictions, and the injustices of the age" in
addition to "the material and spiritual poten-
t~ialities implicit in mans mastery of natural
forces"
One need only compare that program with
the general custom at present to see what a
change it would involve.
Nowadays the youngster in the grade
school or the high school learns all the
theories of democratic government perfectly.
He is shown how our American system is
meant to work-how it would work tomorrow,
if it could be set down in vacuum. free from
the stresses and tensions of everyday life.
Then, after a while, he finishes his school,
ing and goes out into the woodland discovers
that his teachers didn't tip him off to the real
way in which things get done.
He finds that they forgot to tell him any,
thing about ward politics, about the devious
business of city contracts and honest graft"
about the power that predatory wealth can
exercise in government, about the favors and
deals and compromises through which politics
is commonly run.
He has to discover those things for himself;
the discovery usually comes as a shock, and
the contrast of reality with the ideal he
studied in school is so distressing that the
youngster likely is to conclude that politics is
a dirty business in which a gentleman will not
dabble.
The natural result is that politics remains
the happy hunting ground of those whose
scruples are less sensitive and we go on
having our Tammany halls, our Ware ma
chimes. our Big Bill ThompSons and our Huey
Longs.
Nothing could help the country more than
an educational revolution that would teach
pupils about the world as it really exists.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-26
T
BREEDS

BY Charles Burton.
Poverty is a disease caused by the
unjust wage system of competitive
capitalism for producing and dis
tributing the necessities of life, food,
clothing and shelter for the profit
capitalist, the few who live by own
ing the material and machines OF
production and distribution.
This blighting malady can not be
cured by charity, but it will spread
until this system is supplanted by
the just one of cooperative indus
trialism, a system by which these
necessities shall be produced and
distributed for the use of laborers,
those who live by making and oper-
ating machines.
Every gift to charity by a rich
man is a robbery of a poor man.
You will not see this at once, if
ever, and 1 shall not blame you for
the failure to do so. 1t was not seen
by me until I was older than you,
but 1 now see it as clearly as 1 ever
saw the sun on a cloudless MONDAY
and this is true of rapidly growing
millions who resolutely have deter
mined to do away with the prevail
ing conception of charity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-26
Socialism and Capitalism IN Contrast

there is no possibility of expan-
sion, and no possibility of such
an enormous export trade as
would be necessary to balance
discrepancy between wages and
prices.
In the Socialist state, the pay
rolls will equal the sales value
of the goods, and production may
thus be raised and lowered &C
cording to the peoples needs, in
dependently of everything else.
The only limitations for produc-
ton will be the supply of raw
materials and our own desire for
commodities.
While capitalism is pitifully in
efficient, Socialism will be exceed
ingly efficient. By improving our
industrial plants and increasing
their number, and also by produc-
ing durable goods instead of junk,
we will, under Socialism, be able
to establish a standard of living
which will make 1929 look ridicu-
lous in comparison.
Such things as Hoover's Chick
en- in every pot" sound rather
cheap to a Socialist. He could at
least make it a turkey. We want
things like air conditioning in
every house, a grand piano in
every home, golf for every garbage
collector, Beethoven for every coal
miner, Shakespeare for every prize
fighter and Florida for every silk
knitter.
1t is, however, no easy task to
make people understand what So
cialism means to them. The an
swer is often the same as that
which their ancestors gave when
Christianity was introduced-"Our
fathers belief is good enough for
u.s."
Nevertheless, Christianity is an
h1ichod fort