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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-10
Labor Official Pleased

William Fortune. chairman of the
Indianapolis chapter American Red
Cross sums up the charges of pol
itics entering the relief admin
istration with: There is bound
to be a certain amount of politics
in any dealing with such a large
number of people. and complaints
must be expected. While I have
no exact knowledge Of any of these.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-10
Officers Attend School

Officers and first SergeantS of the
151st Infantry yesterday attended a
school to promote their teaching
efficiency. Glasses were held in the
Indiana National Guard Armory.
The regimental commander,
Colonel Albert H. Whitcomb, In
dianapolis, was in charge of the in
Struction and lectures were given
by the battalion commanders, Major
Walter S. Fowler and Major Raj c.
Paddock, Frankfort; Major Norman
L. Thompson, Indianapolis, and the
regular Army instructors, jor AL
bert E. Andrews and Capt. George
E. Kraul.
Short Talks were given by Maj
Gen. Robert H. Tyndall, command
ing officer of the 18th Division, and
the 18th Brigade commander, Brig.
Gen. D. Wray De PREF, Shelbyville.
Instruction methods we're ex-
planned by Major Earl E. Weimar,
Shelbyville, plans and training
officer; Capt. Carrot w. Olds, as
sistant plans and training officer;
Capt. Layton R. Mottern, adju-
tant, and Lieut.. Harold N. Fields,
personnel section.
A test mobilization of the 152nd
Infantry was conducted yesterday
morning Regimental headquarters
here sent kilograms to all organiza-
lions of the regiment. Units assem-
bled at their armories throughout
the state, rolled their packs and pre-
pared to take the field. AS soon as
a company was formed and ready to
move the unit commander sent a
telegram to the adjutant in Indi-
annapolis giving the time of forma-
ton and the strength of the COM
pany. Colonel Clyde E. Dreisbach,
Ft. Wayne, is regimental COM
mander, and Capt. Leonard E. Web
ster is adjutant.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-10

in some hospitals, has aided in re-
lieving the charity wards of their
load
A birth control clinic in Indianap-
oils is said to have done much in
keeping down the rate in families
on poor relief.
Birth records of the city hospital,
which comes into contact with fam
lilies on poor relief, shows the hos
pital had 1873 maternity cases under
its wing in the first 10 months of
1888 to 1861 in the same period in
1884.
Naturalization of Relief by Re-
employment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-10
MURAT STEWARD Is ILL
Robert Zehlicke In Serious COndi
ton. Is Report.

Robert Zehlicke, steward and GUS
todian of Murat Temple Mosque
from 1917 to 1888, is seriously i'll
at his home, 900 East-dr, Wood
ruff Place. No improvement was
seen in his condition today.
Mr.. Zehlicke,, a native of Ger
many, was connected with the In
dianapolis Maennerchor for a num-
Der of years. He makes his home
with a nephew, Karl Schlueter.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-10

continue to increase their efficiency.
The active list lost 5000 reserve Of
flcers last year through lack of in
terest," he said. This will have to
be remedied."
Miss Bonnie Farwell, representing
the Daughters of the American Rev.
olution; Capt. R. L. Queisser, ma
tional president of the Sojourners;
Colonel T. L. Sherburne, chief of
staff of the Indiana Military Area,
and Commander c. c. Baughman.
chief of staff of the Ninth Naval
District, also spoke.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-10
New Zealand Volcano Erupts

New Zealand Volcano Erupts
By United Press
WELLINGTON, N. T., Dec. 10.-<
Mt. Ngauruhoe, New zealand's only
active volcano, was in eruption t9#
day, throwing boulders 100 teet into
the air and sending up a smoke cole
umn 5000 feet high.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-10
RICE TO BE SPEAKER
Shortridge Vice Principal Will Talk
to De MOlayS.

Emmett A. Rice, vice-principal OF
Shortridge High School, will speak
tonight at the Parents Day program
of the indianapolis Chapter, Order
of De Molay, in the chapter house,
1017 Broadway.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
Local z Leaders
Scheme to Cut Pay
Plan Exposed by Lefs
Wing Workers

NEW YORK. At a meeting of
the Joint Board three locals Of the
International Ladies Garm en- t
Workers Union held Thursday night
at the Mecca Temple, left wing
workers assailed the proposals of
Manager HICKMAN that the scien-
tific schedule be put into operation
in the trade.
K. Abramovich pointed out that
the schedule proposed by the lead
ers Of the union would mean more
speed-up, will thrown thousands of
workers out of a job and will I'M
dernine the wage scale won dur
mig the last strike. He demanded
that the union at once take steps
to enforce the minimum wage scale
and to establish week work for the
finishers, the most exploited section
of the trade.
Zimmerman, ochman, Max
Cohen and Antonini, leaders of the
union, in supporting the scientific
schedule. attacked the militant left
wing, which is fighting for better
conditions in the trade, as "a danger
to the union"
Many of the left wing members
who wished to speak on the question
Of the schedule were not permitted
the floor, The meeting was packed
with strong-arm men.
In summing up the question,
HICKMAN said Although some are
against the scientific schedule, It is
not necessary for vote. We will
carry it through. 1t will be intro
duced,"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05

regard the sport of kings"
as their divine endowment.
Being a follower Of the race
track has always been re-
gard2d by thoughtful and
sensitive people as a dishonorable
trade, like the trade of qusck
doctor or editor of a liberal weekly,
but this has not prevented the
newspapers from featuring whole
pages Of racing news. 1t is not from
them or from the movies that we
get any serious verification of the
general picture of the habitual pro-
fessional of the race track-the pic
ture of a gaudy tout, involved in
shady manipulations with Jockeys
and statesmen, doping horses and
batting every weak minded pool
room hanger-out in the territory.
When the movies present us with
pictures Of such characters they are
always rare in the crowd of honest
beings associated with the game,
and are always deposited in ash
cans at the end. The newspapers
never discuss these types. save when
a scandal gets too loud to hide.
HORSE racing, in itself, is as thrill
III ing and pure a sport as any
other; but the pages devoted to it
recount simply the connections of
the elite, AS with yacht-racing the
worker has nothing to do with it,
save if he can raise the price, be
allowed to attend or to bet. Horse
racing, however, is purely not a
workers sport. 1t is not workers
sport because no worker, If we ex-
clude the jockeys and stable men,
can participate in it, as he can par
ticipate in boxing or baseball or
basketball.
1t is not the workers that the
Kentucky Derby will attract to-
day, but the idlers and the para
sites. Most of these VIII come
from New York, flushed with
liquor and some carting precious
ladies Of the chorus. AS we can
see by the newspapers, Louisville
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
Hit Injunction in
COney Island Meet
Mass Today at 18th St.
and Surf Avenue

NEW YORK.-The N. Y. Trade
Union Anti Injunction Committee is
holding mass demonstration this
afternoon, in front of Nathan's
Famous, Inc, 18th st. and Surf Ave,
Coney Island, to protest an injunc-
ton issued against the workers who
are on strike against the sweatshop
conditions.
After nine days Of peaceful picket
ing, Nathan's, through his political
pull, obtained an injunction pro
hibiting workers from picketing.
All workers we're urged by the
Committee to mass in front Of the
stand.
On Sunday, 2 pm, the Committee
is holding a conference to discuss
ways to defy the injunction at 291s
30th St., Coney Island. Protests will
be made against the issuing of in
functions by Brooklyn judges.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05

is one hell of a town on Derby
Day. -.
The sports columnists of New
York. being men of education and
refinement concern themselves with
the proper subjects, of course. What,
indeed, interests these Homers?
Does it occur to them to point out
that in the town of Louisville, where
the sports forgather, conditions are
so bleak, as they have been for
years, that the native worker is
seething with excitement but not
over q horse race? DO they mention
the terrible exclusion of Negroes
from every place where the white
man celebrates? Or do they relate
little anecdotes about important in
dividualS, in order to give these per-
sons free publicity and get a favor
in return out of them some day?
THE publicity the newspapers give
4 the horse races is one of the
means utilized by the gamblers to
work their way into innocent and
susceptible pockets.
There is not an important
gambler ON Broadway who does
not cultivate newspapermen The
representatives of both professions
patronize the same places, as do
the keepers of brothels and stock
brokers. Rothstein was on genial
terms with most of the well known
reporters Of New York
1t was a naive young woman on
the Morning Telegraph a number
of years ago who was unable to
see how the land lay. Sent to in
veStigate a suicide she discovered
that the victim had been fleeced Of
his inheritance at the various race
tracks throughout the country. She
duly wrote the truth, beginning her
story with the sentence, Betting
on horses took another life yester-
day. :" She had forgotten that
the Morning Telegraph contained on
its masthead the information that
it was the greatest track newspaper
in the country. Need I add that she
was fired promptly the next morn?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
Features In Mondays
n. Y. Trade Union Section

NEW YORK. - The New York
Trade Union Section, which first
appeared in the Daily Worker on
May Day, will continue to appear
each Monday,
Aside from giving a general re-
view of the activities Of the unions
in the metropolitan area for the
proceeding week, next Mondays
Trade Union Section will contain
special articles on trade union prob
lens of interest to all workers in
New York.
One of the features that will APP
pear in the Trade Union Section on
Monday will be a thorough analysis
of the New York taxi strike, by
Rose Wortis, Assistant Secretary Of
the Trade Union Unity Council.
This article, which deals with the
tactics and strategy of the strike in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
Clash Over World
Markets Leading
To New Slaughter
Continued from Page y

p
uary. 1889. In the Panama Canal
Zone the JsDanese IMPORTS increased
from 40 478- yen in 1881 to 1,110,-
145 yen last year.
In the Philippines IMPORTS Of
japanese goods rose from 20,425, 900
ven in 1881. to 2AO50000 ven in
1888. Similar increases were r.
corded in other markets claimed by
Wall Street as its exclusive prop
ertv.
In London, reports were made that
Japanese goods. especially textile,
were ousting British products in
India, Malay States and Africa.
The purpose of the Roosevelt gov
eminent in publishing these figures
at the present time is to arouse the
American workers to chauvinistic
feeling against Japan, and to SUD-
port American imperialism in its
drive for markets and plumber as a
way cut of the crisis.
Wall Street is rapidly preparing
for war in the Far East, to slaughter
off tens Of thousands of American
workers to insure not only markets
in China. but the enslavement of
the Chinese people.
The sharp battle for markets has
been going on quietly ever since
the first days Of the crisis, but now
the struggle Is reaching the stage
Of the imminent danger Of armed
conflict.
In Japan, speaking before gov
errors of the prefectures at their
annual meeting, Foreign Minister
Hirota declared that the time for
underwriting was past, that Japan
would maintain its policy Of dom
nation in the Far East.
It is clear, also, that similar con-
illusions have been made in London
and Washington. and that the open
battle for markets will soon be fol-
lowed by provocative incidents lead
ing directly to war.
The purpose of the imperialist
governments in scrambling for mar
kets at this time is at the expense
Of undermining the living standards
of their own workers and flooding
the markets of the world with their
goods to preserve their rotten CAPT
talist system.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
JObIeSS from Gold
DuStLOdgeDeman
Relief and Clothing
Urge Full Mobilization
at HodsOn's Office to
Back Up Demands

NEW YORK 300 single I'M
employed workers living at the Sal
walton Army Gold Dust Lodge who
marched on Commissioner Hodson' s
Office at so Lafayette st. and won
immediate relief demands will again
mobilize at Hodson's office today. de-
handing clothing to all men living
in the Lodge, and workers control
Of the administration of relief
The men marched on the Welfare
Offices. Hodson assured the delega-
ton from the Grievance Committee
that three good meals a day would
be served in the future instead OF
the two meals as in the past.
He also was forced to assure them
that there would be no more dis
elimination because of race, political
convictions or organizational work
The city was forced to raise the
amount allowed for each man from
30 to As cents a day. For the first
few days the meals were fairly salts
factory, but the Salvation Army
again started its belly-robbine
schemes of starving the men and
pocketing the money.
The Salvation Army in its recent
financial drive has collected thou
sands of dollars from donors in the
past few weeks, but refuses to supply
clothing to the ragged army of mer
at the Lodge. The city is paying
as cents a day for food, but the mer
in the Lodge are given corn meal
mush and a few pruneS for break
fast.
When the Grievance Committee
meets with Hodson today at 1:3C
pm. they will demand the oustine
of the Salvation Army control Of
the lodge or the setting up of new
houses for the men with workers
control, clothing for all men living
in the lodge, the unqualified right to
organize. and that all promises made
to the men be kept.
The Gold Dust Lodge men ask
that all organizations which helped
them in their fight mobilize theil
entire membership at so Lafayette
St. at noon today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
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critical manner, should be read
by all workers, especially workers in
the trade unions.
Among the other features that
will appear on the trade union
pages of next Mondays city edition
will be an article on the situation
in Local 302 of the Cafeteria En-
ployees Union, an analysis of the
N.RA. Code for Printing Employees,
an article dealing with the prob
lens of the rank and file in Local
% of the International Ladies Gar
ment Workers Union and an article
dealing with the struggles of the
New York bargemen.
Read about your union in the
Trade Union Section. Order special
bundles of Mondays New York edi-
ton and spread the paper among
the members Of your union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
NY. TaXinlen
ChalkUpNew
Union Gains
Force Reinstatement of
Negro Garage
Chairmen

Another victory was chalked up
for the Taxi Drivers Union Of
greater New York when Timothy
Hill, discharged Negro shop chair
man Of the Liberty Garage in
Harlem, was reinstated on Satur-
day. April 18th, a day after Ne
gro and white hackmen had served
notice on the boss Of their in
tention to strike.
The company unions campaign
received severe setbacks during
the same week at meetings in the
Arthur, Crown, Greenwald and Ben
God Garages where hackmen took
the floor, denounced Kamm, head
of the company union and former
Superintendent Of the Terminal
Corporation, and unanimously voted
down proposals to join his group.
The Socialist-racketeer controlled
20 St. clique also met with reverses
when their Brooklyn, Harlem and
East Side locals closed up. Sam
Orner, President Of the Taxi Drivers
Union, intimated that their remain
ing branches in the Bronx and at
AZ st. will not last long.
Meanwhile the T. D. U. Is begin
ming to organize field branches. The
first one will be located in Harlem
where Negro hackmen have enthu-
siastically received the union.
New Local in Boston
Joseph Gilbert, General Organizer
recently established a local in Bos-
ton after a militant meeting of
hackmen. A meeting in Albany this
week at which Gilbert will speak
Is expected to result in the forma-
ton of another local.
A campaign to enforce the union
agreements in 40 shops settled
during the recent general strike is
now being undertaken, following the
confusion created by the splitting
attempts of the AZ st. crowd.
Victory Over Company Unions
The union also won two important
histories by hating the bosses from
establishing company union in two
garages.
A meeting was called by company
men at Arthurs Garage on 23rd
Street. When a company union plan
was presented to the men they
walked out of the garage. The same
thing happened at the Crown Gar
age. Witlock Ave. and 1876 Street.
The Union Hackie, official organ
of the Taxi Drivers Union, now ap-
pearing in four pages twice month
will expand to 8 pages and appear
weekly within the next month.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05


WATERBURY, Conn.-400 DEM
onstrate 80 at S. P. meeting.
NEW ORLEANS, La.-1,000 in
demonstration.
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.-15,0O0 in
demonstration; 1000 parade.
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio.-1,000 in
demonstration.
BUFFALO, N. Y.-5,500 in dem
onstration.
MILWAUKEE,, Wis-10,00o in
demonstration 5000 parade.
FAIRMONT, w. Va.-5o0 in dem
onstration.
MORGANTOWN, w. Vs,-4OC
demonstrate.
CLARKSBURG, WVa,--l0O DEM
onstrate.
Usage, w. va.-1OO in demon
stration.
NEWARK, N. 5000 in demon
stration; 300 in parade,
CAMDEN, N. 300 in demon
strstion.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill-25O in DEM
onstrstion.
ARGO, Ill.-150 at May Day
meeting.
DECATUR, Il.-1,OOO in demon
stration.
WASHINGTON, D. Goo al
May Day meeting,
ATLANTA, Ga.-200 at indoor
May Dey meeting.
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah.-25o In
demonstration.
PORTCHESTER, N. Y.-250 dem
onstrate.
BEACON, N. Y,-25o in demon
stration.
MINEOLA, L. Parade. Nc
estimate of numbers.
GRAND ISLAND, Neb.-Broker
up by police.
HELPER, Utah.-Broken up by
police.
PAWTUCKET, R. 1000 in
demonstration.
WILKEs-BARRE, Pa.-Soo dem
onstrate.
SCRANTON, Pa,-Demonstration
and parade, No estimate of num-
bers.
NEW BEDFORD, Mass.-4oO dem
onstrate.
PASsAIC, N. J.-1,O00 in demon
stration.
NASHAU, N. HIS at indoor
meeting.
NEW HAVEN, Conn-1,Ooo dem
onstrate.
NEW BRITAIN, Conn.-1,oo0 IN
demonstration.
HARTFORD, Conn.-soo demon
strate.
SPRINGFIELD, Conn.-l50 at
demonstration with YP.S.L. ac-
lively participating.
CHICOPEE FALLS, Mass.-50 at
indoor meeting.
ALLENTOWN, Pal, 900 in DEM
onstration. 300 in parade.
WAUKEGAN, Ill.-250 demon
strate.
JAMESTOWN, N. Y.-1,500 in
demonstration. 500 in parade.
CINCINNATI, O.-One thousand
in demonstration, 300 in parade.
RICHMOND, Va. - Open-air
demonstration No estimate of
numbers.
ALBANY, N. Y.-Indoor meet
ing. No estimate OF numbers.
ROCKFORD, Ill.-Four hundred
in demonstration.
WATERBURY, Conn. Four
hundred demonstrate.
E. ST. LOUIS, Ill. sixty at
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05

for big business as official cogs II
the N. R, A. machinery,
Workers total income in in
dustrv today is still IS per cent be-
low 1929 and even in 1920 We still
had 100000 persons living below
the minimum level for health and
efficiency" the report says. "It
seems likely that the pesk Of the
Spring business rise has hsen
reached and that We must look for
ward to a period Of gradual decline
through May and June"
Speaking as the N. R. A. associ-
ates Of the industriahsts. the William
Greens and John L. Iewises warn
the administration and the various
millionaire Elue Eaglers that eve
cannot expect to escape labor diff
ficulies" if the Administration plans
for officially legalizing the company
union are executed" In other words,
please take lis, the A. F. of L., in
stead. We're safe and opposed to
the strike Virtually advising the
government and the owners to in
tensify anti-strike preparations for
the rising strike wave, the A. F. Of
j. leaders say: "At present, serious
labor troubles threaten to check
/ progress toward recovery.
Stand on n. r. A.
workers throughout the country
are indignant over the effort to
side-step union recognition, to avoid
collective bargaining. and to force
workers into company unions. Their
patience has been tried to the break
ing point. Unless employers are
willing to deal with trade unions
when they represent their en-
ployees. we cannot expect to escape
labor difficulties"
Despite public acknowledgements
by N. R, A. Administrator General
Hugh S. johnson and big business
men that the N. R. A. was planned
by leading industrialists and fin
anciers, the A. F. of L. Survey as
serts that the employers +. with
out program of their own
had no alternative but to accept the
Presidents program" 1t is only
since October, it declared, when
the blanket code began to lose its
Importance" that there twas a
change Of policy in N. R. A; en-
phasis was placed on assistance to
vested interests rather than balance
in interests and the emergency
problem Of putting men to work. .
Realizing that the N. R. A.-A. F. of
L. game is clear to many workers,
the A. F. of L. finds it necessary to
invent the fiction Of "a change of
policy
The Rail Agreement
Commenting on the Roosevelt
Manager Brotherhood "Railwa Y
Wage Decision" accepted bv the
anti-strike Whitney crew of Rail
way Labor Executives" as "a restor-
alton Of the 10 per cent wage cut"
The fact is, however, that this
restoration" is spread over an en-
tire year so that the railway work
ers, many of whom barely exist. do
not get more than two and a half
or three per cent at time-in the
teeth of the clustering Whitney an
nouncement some months ago that
he and his associates" would de-
mand a 20 per cent increase over
basic rates on the expiration of the
present agreement en- June 30, 1884.
The A. F. of L. figures on income
are from government records COW
ering 1890 firms in 105 industries,
the Survey says. '"They are adjusted
by cost of living figures from the
N a t i n al Industrial Conference
Board"