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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-22
THREE PLAYS
SCHEDULED BY
SENIOR CLASS
Annual Dramatic Offering
Will Be Made at
Warren School.

Members of the senior class Of
Warren Central high school will
present their annual dramatic pro-
duction tonight and tomorrow night
at 8 in the school building. Three
one-act plays, will be given by dill
ferent cast each night.
Mrs. Belle Luse, faculty sponsor
of the play, Thanks Awfully," an
nounces the following cast:
Harry Nord Ann Bowman. Mary Hin,
Dorothy Harlan, Grace Stow. Marjorie
West. Ethel Harrison. Almanac Kennedy.
June Dauford. Audrei Johnson, Edna Bull
man, Doris Woempner Lois RicharasSon.
Helen King. Irene Schaekel Edna Aver
son Thelma Peak. Margeret Xeilhaoer'
Elizabeth Lynn. Doris Woempner and Mag
Fred Pierpont. faculty sponsor,
has the following cast in Funny
Business:
verna Waterman. Chalmer waddy.
Irene Prange. Louis Miller, Ruth Gene
Malck. Herman ASkren, Walter Howard;
Whichmeyer. Alfred Mithoefer, Nellie
Raible, Hubert Crays Laurden Enochi
Bhomas Mysr Naomi W V4Sin,a H AMOS
irwin Woempner. Iden Rapler and Harry
Smith.
Bargains in Cathay." under the
direction of Miss Clara Thormeyer.
has the following cast:
Virginia Rabbit Orville VandeEgrif.
Juanita Fall. Gordan- Amos, Doris, Booze
Weller Eugene Harmon, Gaynele Brink
man Chalmer .Schlosser. Mildred Witte'
Harry Sims and Charles Robinson.
Proceeds from the plays will be
used in donating a gift to the school,
as has been the custom of the grad
uating class since the school was
built in 1924
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-22
Girls, Party Scheduled

At the last meeting of the Phila-
teron. Shortridge girls athletic or
SANITATION. a party was planneo
which is To be held by the girls
varsity basketball squad.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-18
Win Relief i'm
Pennsylvania
Coal Fields

WEST BROWNSVILLE, Pa, Sept.
II. Led by the Unemployment
Council here, a broad committee of
rs unemployed workers met with
County Relief Director HibbS and
won 50 weekly cash relief and in
crease of so cents a week for all
single workers, clothing and house
hold utensils for unemployed fani-
lies and other demands.
Under this arrangement, unem-
ployed will not be penalized, as in
the past, for owning COWS, chickens,
hogs or canned goods. In the past,
jobless families owning cows were
penalized as much as 81 day from
their food checks for milk which
they could not sell. A deduction
was made on all canned goods.
In the future, clothing will be fur
nished within two weeks after ap-
plication is made, and emergency
clothing orders will be issued to
school children.
Part time workers, mostly miners
in this section, will be granted re-
lief on the basis of their net earn
ings after rent, lights, powder, ETC.,
are checked off. Since many of the
miners work part time and live in
company houses, the Unemployment
Council forced granting of this sup
Elementary relief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-18

4. f. Of L. Record Strikes, Unemployment Insurance
And Ani-Red DriUe Is Cited as 54th COnOenhOn Nears

Workers trying to put into prac-
tice the vague collective bargain
ing" phrases Of Section IA found
themselves confronted by employers
organized better than ever before,
they found themselves facing en-
ployers who had quicker and more
open backing of the police, troops
and other armed forces than ever
before.
Workers trying to organize to step
out Of the pit of hunger and slow
starvation, found the employers bull
warked by phalanxes of federal
mediators, conciliators, arbitrator
and A. F. of L. officials pleading
for peace in industry in the in
terest Of national recovery" for
faith in the President pleading,
cajoling, threatening and bludgeon-
ing for peace in the abstract, adYo-
eating every kind of settlement ex-
cept that providing for union rec
ignition, job control, settlement of
all questions by negotiation directly
between employers and organized
workers, and wage increases.
Workers organizing, workers de-
handing wage increases, workers
demanding union recognition never
saw the recognized leaders of the
legitimate labor movement" until it
was question of preventing or
stopping strike. (Steel, auto,
etc.
Industrial Centers Battle Fields
American industrial centers be-
came battleflelds. The list Of killed.
wounded, gassed and jailed workers
reached the thousands. The blood
Of Negro and white workers. of ma
tive and foreign born, flowed and
mingled in the cutters of hundred
cities.
But the ballyhoo of A. F. of L.
of1cialdom for N. r. A. never ceased
even when it was drowned out by
the thunderous tramp of stern-eyed
workers marching behind their
murdered dead as in Toledo, Min
neapolis, Cleveland, San Francisco,
New Orleans, New York, Philadel-
phia, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Detroit,
Woonsocket, Providence, Seattle.
New Leadership Arises
The battle lines extended. Some
thing was happening that all "the
faith in the President" could not
stop. A new leadership was aris-
ing from the ranks of labor. New
tactics were being discussed, adopted
and practiced. Glass lines became
more marked.
The strike on a 1000 mile front
of the Pacific Coast maritime work
ers-ten unions in the first united
front of its kind and the SYM
pathetic general strike in San Fran
cisco and the Bay Counties of some
$4,000 workers can be said to
mark the entry of the American
working class into a new phase of
the mass battles against the N. r.
A. hunger program and against the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-18
BigAttendance
Urged at Film
On Thael1nann
Turn 4 Showings Into
Anti-Fascist Rallies,
Sponsors Appeal

NEW YORK Every individual
anti-Fascist worker in this city and
every organization opposed to Fas-
cism, have before them in the next
few days the great possibility of
rallying 10000 to 10000 workers in
a gigantic Free Thaelmann" rally,
This statement was issued yestsr-
Committee in an appeal to all anti
Fascist organizations to convert the
showing of the new film Ernst
Thaelmann-Fighter Against Fas-
cism" into an immense public dem
onstration against war and fascism.
1t is a call to every anti Fascist
in New York to his friends, fam
lilies and shopmates to the four-day
showing from Sept. 10 to %, at the
Twenty Eeighth Street Theatre, at
Broadway and 18th st.
Earl Browder, general secretary
of the Communist Party, will ap-
pear on the screen to introduce the
film.
The Thaelmann Liberation Com
mittee also stated that the theatre
has a maximum capacity of $500
seats per performance, or 5000 a
day. Arrangements can be made by
organizations for theatre parties at
the special midnight showing Sat-
urday, Sept. 2, under the auspices
of the Youth Section of the Ameri-
can League Against War and Fas-
cism, 2l3 Fourth Avenue.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-18

representation (as at the Vancouver
convention), by trying to shift the
issue to the various state legislatures
Gas at the CINCINNATI conYention),
by ignoring it as at the washington
convention Of last year, President
Green and his conspirators fought
and continue to fight the demand
for compulsory unemployment in
surance at the expense of the en-
ployers and their government.
IS Per Cent Unemployed
Their own figures Of we leave the
printing trades out Of the general
average) published in the Sept.
issue Of 1.-THE Federationist," show
that more than IS per cent of the
union membership is entirely un-
employed, that the percentage of
part time workers reaches a stag
gering total. Yet, to minimize the
need for unemployment insurance
for all workers in the gigantic army
OF permanently jobless workers,
these labor leaders keep their es-
innate of the number of unem-
ployed around the minimum figure
Of 100000 900. Every research worker
in America knows that in this, the
fifth year Of the crisis, the total
number of unemployed - workers
who had jobs in 1929, workers who
were unemployed in 1929, boys and
girls who have reached working age
during the crisis, ruined farmers,
bankrupt businessmen, wives and
daughters compelled to seek outside
jobs for the first time because of
unemployment of the breadwinner,
etc.-is anywhere from 10000, 900 TO
$4,000, 900.
In many large cities so per cent
of the entire population is officially
registered on the relief rolls-to say
nothing of those living on the
charity Of relatives and various in
stitutions. On San Francisco, where
the 54th Convention will meet, in
August $1,000 persons were on the
relief rolls - only 5000 of whom
were single men. The rest were
heads Of families. Multiply $4,000
by 4 and one gets 232,OO0-or Just
about half the population of the
shining city on the Golden Gate.)
President Green and his col
leagues had cleared the way for the
enthusiastic support of the shorter
work week and reduction of wages
under N. r. A.-the share -starva-
ton plan on a nation wide scale.
disguised by new garments labelled
increase of mass purchasing
power" the Spread of employ
ment," etc.
Employers Were Organized
The employers were organized.
under the various codes, on scale
they themselves had never dared to
dream of. The codes were power
full weapons in the hands of mono
poly capital for shaking down the
middle class employers and further
ing the Capitalization of capital.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-18
New Leadership Arises
i'm Workers Battles
Throughout U. S.
By Bill Dunno
By Bill Dunno

The American Federation of Labor
of1cialdom land included in this
term are the leading officials, with
some minor exceptions, of all the
national and international unions)
agreed fully with and adopted as
the basis Of their program, as men
toned previously, the description of
the relations between the unions,
the employers and the government
as stated and restated by President
Roosevelt:
Nov, to be more specific in re-
gard to N. r. A. itself. You have
set up representative government in
industry -. Your industrial groups
are composed of two parts - labor
and management; the Government
is a participant in this organization
in order to carry out this mandate
Of the law to promote organization
of industry for the purpose of CO.
operative action of labor and man
agement under adequate Govern
ment sanction and supervision"
IN. Y. Times, March g.
This description of the role of
labor" under N. R. A., taken in
connection with the elaboration of
and emphasis upon this funda-
mental point in the speeches of
General johnson, Senator Wagner
and Secretary of Labor Perkins to
the 53rd Annual Convention of the
A. F. of L., remembering the labor
management cooperation" theory
and program Of the officialdom
which came to full bloom during
and after the world war, represents
a fascist conception of the relation
ships between labor, capital and
government.
But this is the program of Presi-
dent Green and his partners in
crimes against the American work
ing class and their organizations.
Endorsed Hoover's Program
Before the dawn of the New Deal
they had endorsed the no wage in
creases, no strikes and no wage
cuts Hoover camoufage for the
most sweeping and drastic wage
cuts in history affecting like num-
Der of workers. They had endorsed
the stagger plan Of Walter G.
Teagle, head Of the Standard Oil
Co. of New Jersey, the share the
work" plan which workers promptly
dubbed the share starvation" plan.
They endorsed the Black 30-hour
week bill--a legislative variation of
the Teagle plan as the Trade Union
Unity League and the Communist
Party at once pointed out.
BY whole series of maneuvers
ranging from brazen lying and mis-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-18
IllinOisBOsses
Seek to Keep
C.P.OfBallot
Voters Warned Against
Attacks by Horner
Political Gang
tpaiIr worker MIdwssl Bureau

CHICAGO, Sept. 1.-THE danger
that the State government, con-
trolled by banking and utility in
terests through Democratic Coy
ernor Horners political machine
would attempt to keep the Com
munist Party off the ballot on tech
nicalities was seriously warned
against today by A. Guss, State
election campaign manager.
For this reason, GusS pointed out,
collection Of nominating signatures
for local candidates must go on un-
flaggingly until Thursday.
Horner, using his reputation as
great humanitarian" to sponsor
large appropriations for national
guardsmen to police" the mining
districts, is an ardent supporter Of
the New Deal" and as such Is
prepared to strange any protest
against it made by Illinois workers.
The clear-cut demands Of tbs
Communist Party for unemploy-
ment insurance and other forms Of
social insurance, for the right to
organize, strike and picket, for the
end Of camouflaged attacks on liv-
ing standards by initiation and crop
reduction" Guss said, make the
Party a threatening rsllying point
in the election campaign for the
fight Of Illinois workers to end the
continued precipitated fall Of their
living standards. Only the mass
support of the workers Of Illinois,
can bring sufficient pressure to pre-
vent the Homer machine from car
rying out its plans to force the
Communist candidates off the bali
lot"
More than 1000 signatures have
already been collected and turned
in to the State election campaign
committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-18
Structure of ALL. and
Other Issues Loom
at National Farley

sabotage Of these great struggles by
the A. F. Of L. bureaucracy. The
West Coast struggles took place in
spite of all that President Green
and his henchmen in the various
unions and Central Labor Councils
could do.
The RED" Scare
1t was time for the alarmed and
trembling bureaucrats to try once
more to shift the issue, to try to
add to their role as the chief sup
porters Of N. r. AS program of
hunger, fascism and imperialist war
that Of sayiors of the nation.
The new Red Scare, the an
nouncement of the drive TO purge"
the labor movement of Communists.
was the result.
1t seems that the elimination of
the Reds" from the unions-sup-
posed to have been successfully &C
complished in 1928 -24-has to be
done all over again. There can be
no doubt that this will be one of
If not the main issue in the COM
ing Fifty-fourth Annual Conven-
ton.
Other Issues Loom
But there are other issues that
cannot be downed even by the
Red" Scare although this is con-
sidered by such experts as William
Randolph Hearst, the National
Civic Federation staff headed by
Matthew Vol and others of their
ilk as most potent weapon.
There is for instance the ques-
ton Of the American Federation OF
Labor and its affiliated unions-in-
duStrial unionism versus craft
unionism, the question of more eff
fective organization to combat the
onslaughts Of monopoly capital, the
question greater solidarity and more
militant methods of mass struggle
as against division into a hundred
separate organizations and depend
ence upon "the goodwill of enlight-
ened employers" and faith in the
President"
These issues will be before the
San Francisco convention. They
will arise in distorted form be-
cause of the almost purely official
and consequently unrepresentative
composition of the convention. But
they will be there because they are
already issues in the minds of many
million American working men and
women, organized and unorganized,
because they arise directly out of
the widest and highest wave of mass
struggle in American labor history.
The next article will deal in more
detail with the question of new
leadership and the strike record of
A. F. of L. offlcials.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-18
Troops Will Be Used
to Break Strike Lines,
Saws Arizona Governor

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 16.-Gov
Moeur of Arizona will support ito
the fullest extent the use of troops
and police" in breaking and at
lacking workers picket lines and
the terror of vigilante bands against
strikers, it was said today by the
International Labor Defense.
The Governors position was re-
vealed in a telegram he sent to
Pettis Perry, organizer of District
IA, of the International Labor De-
tense.
On Sept. 4, Pat Callahan, Section
Organizer of the Communist Party
was kidnapped and beaten i'll
Tuscon. Three days later the police
viciously attacked Phoenix workers.
Gov. Moeur issued orders to the
National Guard to standby and
commended the arrest of all known
Communists.
The I. L. D. wired a protest to
Gov. Moeur, who replied:
THE laws of Arizona are going
to be enforced to the full letter of
the law and whenever we need any
advise from you or any of your
bunch we will wire you for it"
The I. L. D. is answering these
attacks on the working class by
mobilizing the workers in a huge
protest movement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-18
State Parley
Urges Locals
TOBackA
Announces Support of
Congress Against War
and Fascism

PINE BLUFF, Ark. Sept. IT.
The Arkansas State Federation of
Labor, meeting here on Sept. 10 to
u, endorsed the Workers Unem-
ployment and Social Insurance Bill,
sent resolutions of endorsement to
the Arkansas Congressman, recon-
pnended that all locals affiliated with
the State Federation likewise
endorse the bill and notify their
congressman, and instructed the A.
F. Of l.. officials to introduce a
similar bill into the state Legisla-
ture for adoption pending the en-
actment Of the Workers Bill on a
national scale.
The convention endorsed and sent
greetings to the Polk County Relief
League, militant farmers relief
organization, demanded the aboli-
ton Of the state poll tax which dis
franchises so per cent of the voters.
and sent greetings to and demanded
the release of Tom Mooney.
Greets Anti-War Congress
Another resolution endorsed and
sent greetings to the Second Ma
tional Congress Against War and
Fascism to be held in Chicago.
All these resolutions were intro
duced by rank and file locals of the
U. M. w. A. (anti-Lewis machine)
and by Commonwealth College Local
1874 Of the American Federation of
Teachers. Rev. Claude c. Williams,
ousted from his church in Paris,
Ark, for his activity in behalf of
the miners autonomy movement,
was also instrumental in drawing
up the rank and file resolutions.
Miners Fight Lewis officials
The rank and file miners, whose
autonomy movement has been tenn
porarily suppressed, opened a Wig
orous fight on the convention floor
upon the Lewis-appointed officials
Of District 81 of the U.M.WA.
The Workers Unemployment In
surance Bill, which was endorsed by
the Arkansas Federation of Labor,
the sixth State Federation to thus
far back the Workers Bill, calls for
unemployment insurance to be en-
acted on a national scale. Under
House Resolution 1898, as intro
duced into Congress last Febru-
airy by Congressman Lundeen of
Minnesota, the bill provides for
minimum weekly insurance of ten
dollars to all unemployed, and three
dollars for each dependent. The
committees of workers will control
Workers Bill provides that elected
the funds, no worker will be dis
eliminated against because Of race,
religion or color. 1t is the only I'M
employment insurance bill which
provides benefits to all workers re-
CARELESS of the nature of their past
employment or because of sickness,
old age or maternity.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-18
Fur Workers Union
Forces Boss To Rehire
Worker and Raise Pay

NEW YORK. - The Fur Workers
Industrial Union gained a signi-
ficant victory in its fight to organize
floor workers and shipping clerks
when it won one-hour strike for
the reinstatement of Coleman Reiss,
a floor-boy discharged for member
ship in the union.
Although NR.A. code regulations
provide that unskilled workers in
the fur industry shall receive SIS
for 40-hour week, the eleven floor
workers in the firm of Harry Lymet,
$50 Seventh Ave, where the strike
occurred, receive only SIS for a work
week of so to 10 hours.
When Reiss was discharged the
ten other floor workers went on
strike and were joined an hour later
by the 40 skilled workers in the
plant.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-18
Initiate Forced Labor
Farm for Homeless Men
in X o hler, Wisconsin

KOHLER, Wis, Sept. ia gov
eminent forced labor project, at
which homeless men are being
made to work IS hours a week for
their board, lodging and 81, is being
developed here on the property of
the Kohler Company.
Under the plan, a 45-acre farm
is being rented from the Kohler
Land Improvement Company on a
share basis and is being operated
by the Sheboygan Federal Tran
sient Bureau.
A group of 45 men was employed
there when the harvest of navy
beans and cucumbers started. This
force has now been cut to Is and
will be reduced to eight during the
Winter. Working hours are from
7 to II am. and from l to pm.
Many have refused to work under
the forced labor scheme, demanded
living wages and the right to live
where they wished, but more men
were sent to the farm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-18
Yorkville Council Calls
Meeting on La Guardia
Relief Tax Schemes

NEW YORK.-A mass meeting on
the LaGuardia relief tax schemes
will be held tomorrow night at 8
o'clock at the Yorkville Labor Tenn
pie, 247 E. 84th St., under the aus
pieces of the Yorkville Unemploy-
ment Council.
Speakers will include James Gay
nor chairman of the United Action
Conference on Work, Relief and I'm
employment; James Hogan of the
Irish Workers Club; Joseph Moiers
of the German Workers Club, and
Michael Cassidy of the Unemploy-
ment Councils.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-18
Herndon, Mrs. Norris,
to Speak Wednesday
at Chicago Meetings

CHICAGO, Sept. II. Angelo
Herndon, Mrs. Ada Norris. Scots
boro Mother, and Richard B. Moore,
national field organizer of the In
ternational Labor Defense. will
speak in this city Wednesday at two
meetings being arranged by the I.
L. D.
A central meeting will be held at
the Peoples Auditorium, PAST West
Chicago Ave, and another at the
Pilgrim Baptist Church, 33rd St.
and Indiana Ave. Both meetings
will start at pm.
A call sent out by the I. L. D. to
organizations appeals for support
Of the mass fight for the freedom
of Herndon, the Scottsboro boys.
Ernst Thaelmann and other class
war prisoners, and asks that Or
CARNATIONS send delegates with con-
tributions for the Herndon- Scots
boro appeal fund. Fifteen thousand
dollars is needed to carry the ap-
peals to the U. S. Supreme Court.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-18
Dayton County
Board Backs
Workers. Bill

DAYTON, O., Sept. 17.-After q
prolonged struggle, with constant
committees and delegations visiting
them, the County Commissioners of
Montgomery County, individually
and collectively have endorsed the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill, after its presentation by the
executive board of the Montgomery
County Unemployment Councils.
The resolution adopted and signed
by the Commissioners follows:
I'VE, the County Commissioners
of Montgomery County, state of
Ohio, individually and collectively
do hereby endorse the Workers IN
employment and Social Insurance
Bill, H.R. 1898, introduced in the
72nd Congress by Representative
Lundeen of Minnesota.
1--WE recognize the fact that of all
unemployment insurance bills so
far introduced, the Workers Bill is
the only one that adequately pro-
vides security to all the workers
and farmers now unemployed be-
cause of no fault of their own.
I'm recognition of this fact, we,
therefore, request that you use all
the influence your official position
affords, to have this Workers Bill
enacted into law of the U. S. A, at
the coming session of Congress.