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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-23
THE RAILROAD DEADLOCK

D ABROAD labor's threat to strike is i'm
~ portant, but not Immediately dangerous.
Failure of labor and railway arrangements to
come to an agreement on wages with Joseph
Eastman, federal lco-ordinator of transporta-
ton, leaves the way open for President Roose-
welt to appoint the impartial fact finding com
mission he proposed last Friday evidently in
expectation of the present deadlock.
Labor wants its pay back; more, it want a
10 per cent increase in pay A 20 per cent
hike, altogether. Management wanted a Is
per cent cut; but under White House pressure
finally agreed to a continuation of the pres
ent 10 per cent deduction from basic pay scales
for another six months.
With the President favoring this continu-
alton. in order to permit his recovery program
to 60 along unhampered for another six
months, there was, in fact. little to negotiate
between labor and arrangements. Mr. East
man used his good offices, although he must
have realized his hands were tied. Now he has
withdrawn from the picture.
Because railroad earnings are increasing
there is much to be said for labor's demands
for restoration of the pay cut. Whether the
full 10 per cent is possible we do not know
On the other side of the picture is the
railroads argument, also stated by the Presi-
dent
The employees are part of the railroad in
dustry" he wrote Mr.. Eastman. "and are tied
to its future. 1t is essential that the railroads
should be able to meet effectively the severe
competition by which they now are faced, and
inability to do this will inevitably react on the
men. The railroads need the next few months
to put their houses in order for this purpose"
The President put his finger on the crux
of the issue however, when he wrote in the
same letter to Mr.. Eastman: have
felt that the welfare of the employees, and par
ticularly the welfare of those at the bottom
of the heap. is the vital thing to have in mind
in this wage controversy"
But this controversy can not, we believe. be
considered outside of the plight of the railroads
as an industry. The President has proposed
cabinet committee to study whether or not
railroad fixed charges can be reduced by reor-
carnations of their capital structures as labor
and others demand. He wants to put the car
rierS on their own feet.
Just why he picked a cabinet committee to
do this Job instead of Mr.. Eastman is not clear.
Mr. Eastman generally is credited with know
ing more about the railroads than any other
nan in the government. and has the respect
Of arrangements, investors and labor.
The report will carry more weight if the cab
met committee calls for Mr.. Eastman's CO.
operation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-23
aOhOUy disapprove of a0hot you sag and 10iU
defend to the death your right to sag it-VoItGire

the union scale and Real Silk
charges as much or more for hosiery
than any one else, who gets all the
profit? Certainly not me, and all
the girls who work from 10 to 25 per
cent below the union scale, and
union shops pay dividends. 1t is the
E. M. B. A. that costs so much to
operate?
The issue is this:
A printer makes $44. Gee, that's
a lot of money, but he gets lead
poisoning so he earns it if he lives
through it.
Sunnyside is the reunion place
for knitterS. Do you want to work
for $50 a week with the white plague
as your constant overseer? 1t would
be interesting for the public to know
the number Of knitters, girls, too,
who are taken away from their
work by this dread disease every
year. Then maybe you would I'M
derstand why they want the same
wages that SIS per cent Of the in
dustry gets.
Editors Note: Commercial plant
printers earn S44 a week for a
full 44-hOur week. Newspaper
plant printers earn 1888 week
for a 38-hOur week. Newspaper
printers voluntarily take one day
a week off as a Spread -the-w0rk"
movement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-23
MONDAY. APRIL %. lss4.
THE ONLY ANSWER
"a sCRIPPs-HowARD NEWSPAPER

DEATH has Overtaken several men in the
last few months as an army Of law en-
forcement agents and private citizens have
attempted to halt the activities of John Dill
linger and his gang
When the gang first started its inroads into
peaceful communities, its members devoted
majority of the time to stealing from police
stations and footing banks.
Today the story has changed. Dillinger
and his companions now are fleeing from the
law. and no price is too high for them to pay
for the freedom they have grabbed but do not
deserve.
More men died early today in a Wisconsin
woods as federal agents sought to entrap
Dillinger. Somewhere in that desolate area of
lakes and pine forests, Dillinger and his COM
panions are endeavoring to snake their way
out of this trap
If past performances mean anything, Dill
linger and his companions will be successful
again. And if they are successful they will
increase the already appalling death toll be-
fore they are captured.
There is only one solution to the horrible
problem now. DiIlinger and his gang must be
caught IMMEDIATELY
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-23
LAFAYETTE WOMAN
LAUDS THE TIMES
By Mrs. Joseph F. Chittum

BY Mrs. Joseph r. Chittum
We should appreciate seeing some
thing of the following printed in The
Times. AS you are no doubt aware,
our local paper is impossible as far
as printing anything that a decent
and intelligent person might want to
read.
May I congratulate you on the
success of your subscription cam
paign in our city.
I can not recommend The Times
too highly to my friends. 1t is re-
freshing to read a really liberal pa
per, one that gives us the news fair
ly and intelligently.
We enjoy the syndicated articles,
Of course, but I should like to par
ticularly commend the editorials
which are so far above what can be
read in any other paper in this vi
ciniIy that we are continually sur
prised that a newspaper editor could
have such liberal point Of view.
Believe me, that there are more
persons than some imagine who
want that sort OF thing.
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way. Are you father, Mr.. Taylor?
If you are, don't see how you can
be so narrow minded. Dillinger
comes from a nice family. He got a
raw deal in minor offenses and you
can't blame him now. I would like
to see you in his position.
My children don't honor Dillinger.
They are taught differently. We
have always had crime and that is
no reason children should be in
fuenced by it if they are taught
otherwise.
What do you mean, politicians
are unfolding the country?" Don't
be so dense. If it weren't for
crooked politicians, Dillinger would
Mt be out now.
Personally, don't think Dillinger
is as desperate as he is made out to
be. If there was any way could
help him legally, I certainly would
do it. I wish him lots Of luck and
may he never be captured.
Now call me an idiot, Mr.. Taylor.
If you are supposed to be smart,
I'm glad I'm ignorant.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-23
Poverty IN Indianapolis Described

five hours week for a weekly
wage ranging from IS cents to
$1.35; of skilled wood workers
employed in shops flying the Blue
Eagle, working eight hours day,
under the speed up" for week.
ly wage ranging from ST to So.
The sight of women fishing in
garbage cans for a morSel of food
is common. Thousands of per-
sons are occupying houses unfit
for human habitation. Some of
the houses have neither windows
or doors.
Perhaps some of the $4,000 I'M
employed can give Citizen" some
pointers on the simple life"
The present economic system,
built upon the law Of the jungle,
broke down almost five years ago.
A new one must be built to take
its place. The new one must not
be built upon the law of the jun
gle and the simple life" 1t must
be built upon the brotherhood Of
man and "the life more abund-
ant"
So long as there is hungry
child in indianapolis, our boosted
civilization and culture is fraud.
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world price levels or trade activities is in pros
pect.
1t represents a cutting down of national
levels to meet the level produced by a world
crisis.
The American program follows the opposite
notion: that the world depression is coming
to an end, and that its end can be fastened
by rise in prices and business activity in
individual nations,
Instead of adjusting domestic affairs to
meet a depression level, it seeks to adjust the
depression level to jibe with local needs.
In both cases. drastic action by the central
government is required. And it probably will
be several years before we can get definite
idea which program is the more effective.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-23

By Ernest E. Owens
Citizens" statement in your
April issue that poverty in Amer
lea does not mean an actual pow
erty of lack of food, clothing, and
shelter" shows a blissful ignor-
ance of conditions existing in the
city of Indianapolis and vicinity.
According to a statement issued
by the school board of Indian
apolis a few weeks ago, one-third
of the school children of this city
are undernourished.
AS to clothing, witness the re-
cent drive for cast off clothing
for the benefit of those who re-
fused to lead the Simple life
AS to shelter, walk up and down
the banks of White river any day
and have a look at "Hooverville'
or "Rooseveltburg."
AS to food, look at the contents
of the baskets issued under the
damnable system of relief hereto
fore in vogue.
The writer personally knows Of
men with families who have
worked for the sum Of 20 cents a
day for months; of women who
worked in garment factories fifty
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-23
LABOR AND TARIFF

MATTHEW WOLL, as head of the wage
earners' protective council" is attack
ing the administrations reciprocal trade plan
Mr.. Vol seems concerned with protecting
from foreign cheap labor our present stand
ards Of life and work" What standards?
Those of 100000 unemployed wage-earn-
ers, whose plight is due partly to the stagna-
ton of world trade brought on largely by our
own tariff policies? Those of the 100000
people on relief. some of whom are receiving
doles as low as 81 month? Or perhaps those
OF the 1929 workers who in the height of
prosperity were averaging S14OO a year, or
$500 less than the United States department of
labor's minimum standard for comfort and
decency? Or those of the farmers on rural
slunls, whose SURPRISES lie rotting because
there is no foreign market in the sixty-f1ve
countries that have set up tariffs against us?
Agriculture Secretary Henry Wallace says
there are between 100000 and 100000 wage
earners affected by export markets who would
be benefited by the reciprocal measure Per-
haps 100000 or 100000, he says would be
adversely affected if all tariffs were removed.
course not contemplated by the administra-
tIOn. ana oo,uUU,OOO otner Wage-earnerS would
he benefited as consumers.
We have tried the Grundy way World
foreign trade dropped from s4OOOOOO 900 in
1929 TO less than s12oOO,OOO, 900 last year. Our
own exports fell from $1,000, 100000 to 81 $780,
100000; imports from s4.SOOOOO 900 to 81 ,1OO,-
100000
When Mr.. Vol worked for the Grundy bill
four wears ago he was CHALLENGED as snol-ee
man for the American labor movement He
is hardly speaking for labor or in its interests
now.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-23
CONSIDERS PARADE
MARKS NEW ERA

BY Elated
Two thousand orderly and opti-
mistic Real Silk strikers paraded
through the downtown section of
Indianapolis Wednesday, to en-
throne those who have waited so
long for labor's new deal. 1t was
indeed an inspiring sight.
We saw marching there-men and
women-who have courageously and
determinedly thrown off the yoke of
the company union and declared
themselves free American citizens.
For such a parade to take place
in city as anti union as Indian
apoliS, is indeed miraculous. Their
action shall go down in the history
of this city as the fatal blow to the
company union, for such a demon
stration will lend courage to others,
who have been dropping under tho
yoke so long.
So We say, on to victory, Real Silk
strikers. Every free thinking man
and woman in Indianapolis is be-
hind you.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-23
TWO DIFFERENT PATHS

4 GOOD idea of the contrasting courses
open to a government which seeks to
promote national recovery can be had by COM
pairing the policies of the American NRA with
those recently put into effect by Mussolini
in Italy.
In each case the general objective is the
same-to get back some sort Of decent equi-
librium between what the citizen gets and what
he spends, between income and expenditure,
between the price level and the debt level.
There are two ways OF doing this.
Everybody is familiar with the way the
NRA is trying. 1t is using a kind of controlled
inflation-or relation, perhaps, if you like
that word better.
It is trying to boost wages and prices, hop
ing that it will be able to send the former up
faster than the latter.
Mussolini is attacking the problem in the
opposite way. His program. the latest details
of which have just. been announced at Rome,
is strongly defiationary. Salaries and wages
are being cut: rents are being cut; commodity
and retail prices are being lowered.
In instituting this program, MuSsolini
avowedlv has his eye on world trade. With
domestic prices and wages lowered, he be-
ueves italy viii be in better position TO bid
for world markets.
Now It is extremely interesting to study
the contrast between the American and italian
recovery programs.
The Italian government seems to be geared
IN the idea that the world depression is still
in fun force and that no very speedy rise in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-23
To April
BY MARY B. MOYNAHAN

BY MARY B. MOYNAHAN
Fair are the flowers you scatter on
your way
Earth hears no sweeter. But, you
babe me pay
A price-too great. And shall ever
see
A frown behind your lovely veil
for me.
And midst your dreamy sprays Of
smiling green.
Cling all the shadows you have left
between.
And you reopen with your robins
song.
The aching wounds you gave-un-
healed-so longl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-23
HIGH WAGES NEEDED
FOR PROSPERITY

BY E. Archer
Your message center is wonderful.
Real Silk Seamer, I am asking
you these questions. Didn't the
knitterS take three cuts before the
NRA, and when they protested
didn't j. A. Goodman tell them if
they didn't like it they could quit?
Is your job safe? Can't they fire
you any time they wish? Can you
make a living for a family, buy a
home and have a few of the lux
uries of life which every worker is
entitled to?
Those knitters have a trade. It
takes from six months to three
years to learn the trade. I have
made from $50 to $50 a week. Why
should they be satisfied with the
wages they get? With times as
they are now, workers need more
wages to bring back prosperity?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-23
INSIDERS" DISCUSS
REAL SILK PAY
By Two Insiders Who Know

By Two Insiders Who Know
We wish to state that the sean1er
has been sadly nisinformed as to
the conditions existing in the E. M.
B. A., company union, and Amer
lean Federation of Hosiery Workers.
The so cents E. M. B. A. dues pay
your insurance, but it does not pay
your doctor bills.
The wages at Real Silk should
not be compared with other con-
Germs in Indianapolis, but with the
other hosiery mills in the United
States.
Mr.. Hoagland forgot to consider
that there are a great many other
departments besides full-fashion
knitters who are not making half
of S35 a week.
Any one who is satisfied with a
pittance of $35 a week has not the
backbone and the ambition to bet
ter himself and should therefore
keep his peace and let those who
have courage and the ambition to
make a decent living have a few
necessities Of life that they deserve.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-23
FRIEND OF DILLINGER
SPEAKS HER MIND

BY Mrs. Betty Crawford
I read your Message Center every
day, but I must say some letters GER
tainly show ignorance.
1 refer to one in Wednesdays
paper by one Jerry Taylor. don't
know this person and don't care to
know any one as narrow minded.
Something must be wrong when Mr..
Taylor openly calls other persons
ignorant and brainlesS idiots. He
must be speaking of himself.
AS for crime-I am not in favor
OF it, either. Some people are born
criminals and others are made that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-23
CHARGES WAGES PAID
UNDER CODE LEVEL

BY Reader
How can companies pay such
small wages? The men who helped
to wreck Block building worked IN
der the code. The code wage is 40
cents an hour, and the men re-
ceived 80 cents an hour.
Should a man lose time by going
to a doctor when hurt on the job?
In this case I heard Of several who
did.
I understand from some of the
laborers who were employed en- this
job were told to hold their slips and
the last pay, there were no slips.
Men coming into this city always
fare far better than the ones whose
homes are here and have been mere
for sometime.
Will The Times please investigate
the wages and injury situation?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-23
Capital Capers
by GEORGE ABELL------

IA MINISTER MICHAEL MAC WHITE of the
4VA Irish Free State departed for Memphis,
Tenn, where he attended as representative of
his country the funeral of American Minister
Mcdowell, who died recently in Dublin.
while I'm in Tennessee he announced, "Iu
just have look around and see if there are
any Irishmen in those parts
"Oh you won't find many Irish down there,
Mr.. Minister" said friend.
why not?" queried Michael. "You know
the first Governor of Tennessee was of Irish
origin"
who was that?"
Sam HouSton!"
Il thought he was a Texan"
mot at ALL" said MacWhite. did you know
that Sam Houston became Red Indian and
Rogers possibly collateral ancestress of Will
Rogers . Oh, Sam Houston was remark
able man."
Envoy Michael thereupon launched into
American history and continued to discuss the
early history of Tennessee and the pioneers.
When he had finished, his audience concluded
that he will be able to teach most Tennesseeans
more than they know themselves about their
state.
Note-Suggestion was made that a debate
about Sam Houston be staged here between Min
lister NacWhite, Secretary of State Hull, ma
tive Tennesseean, and Representative Tom
Blanton of Texas. The odds were overwhelm-
ilgly on MacWhite.
EORMER Secretary of State Stimson, who
l. has been living in. seclusion in his old
Georgian mansion, Woodley on Cathedral ave-
nue., is again poisoning forth as bon vivant
Of Washington society.
The first intimation that Mr. Stimson gave
of a renewed interest in diplomatic and official
parties was his appearance at 2 luncheon recent
ly given by Secretary of State Hull in the Carl
ton patio for the retiring ambassador Of Turkey
Ahmet Muhtar
The other day. Mr.. Stimson again made his
bow at a formal luncheon in the British en-
bassy. He sat beside Mrs. Herridge, wife of
the Canadian minister, talked world politics
with Lady Lindsay, his hostess, and cordially
shook hands with the Coolidges of Boston and
the undersecretary of state. The ladies found
him charming and the young men sat open
mouthed at his eloquence.
A edict of the new king of the BelgianS,
L n Leopold II, has shortened court mourning
for his father, the lamented Albert, to three
months of senli-mourning-wh means that
Belgian diplomats in Washington will breath
easier this summer
May II, after which time the Belgian embassy
will be able to resume normal garb.
At present, all the kingdoms diplomats are
forced to wear black bands on their sleeves and
black ties. Younger members Of the embassy
staff here have regretfully been obliged to can
eel social engagements and content themselves
with small, informal parties-which, however,
are often more interesting than large ones.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-23
THIS WRITER DOESN'T
LIKE DILLINGER
By E. N. E

By E. NJ. E.
Mrs. T. M. J. who wrote April 10,
must be very ignorant. I wish to
ask her if she adnires Dillinger
enough to let her boy or girl, if she
has any, accompany him on his trail
of bloodshed and robbery? 1t is
some ones son or daughter who has
been led into crime by him. He
usually leaves one woman a widow
and some child or children an Or
phan or orphans.
The sooner they get him behind
bars, the better for the whole
country.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-23
CRITICISM AIMED AT
MERRY-GO-ROUNDERS
Bv Anthony in Reverse

BY Anthony in Reverse
I have enjoyed your new feature,
Washing Merry Go-Round, very
much. But the column Of April 10
gives jolt to my confidence in its
accuracy and impartiality.
The radio broadcast, March Of
Time" sponsored by Remington
Rand, enacts current events Of the
week and has for the last three
seasons been dramatized news hap
penings. Actors have well initiated
the voices Of Coolidge, Hoover,
Roosevelt. Smith, Johnson. Hull and
dozens Of other national and inter-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-23
HOUSEWIFE WANTS
SERIAL STORY

By a Housewife
Seeing several letters lately in this
column favoring a serial story in
The Times, wish to say I also
would enjoy another one. Maybe
you would publish one by Kathleen
Norris.
The Times is our favorite aper.
We have read it for thirteen years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-23
TUBERCULOSIS STALKS
HOSIERY WORKERS
IN ReaI SiIk knit

BY Real Silk Knitter
I am a Real Silk knitter of eight
years record. I am also great ad-
mirer Of The Times, a subscriber Of
two years.
A knitter might earn S38 one week
but the next might be SIS. There
are plenty of knitters who can't
make $33 and 1t is not their fault
either.
If work for 20 per cent less. than
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-23
The Message Center

(Times readers are tnvited to cypress
their Uiet0S in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can have a chance.
Limit them to ESQ 40ords or less.J
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William Philin

William Philip Simms calls Chinese Turk
estan the country that God forgot" Maybe
that's where the forgotten man will be found
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-23

a new Streanlline train made a record
speed of l04 miles an hour. in a recent test
run. But it will still arrive late, we'll bet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-23

Wilbur Glenn voliva, famous overseer of
Zion, may believe the earth still is fiat. but
he's bound no one viii ever catch him fat,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-23

Harvard professor has gone to Ireland in
search of the typical Irishman. What waste
OF effort. when all he had to do was go to
Boston.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-23

Columbia university physicists find a neu-
tron is one ten-trillionth of an inch in di-
ameter With their instruments they might
be able to measure the size of an NFA vio-
lator.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-23

A Chinese women's bank in Shanghai was
opened with prayer, but it isn't known whether
the prayer came firm the bank officials or
the depoSitors