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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-26

and Recorder Ira Haymaker are
among the men he boasts are on
his bandUacO7 now
Evening star., 1934-10-12
LABOR SEES FRESH
WAVE OF STRIKES
Indicated Unless Roosevelt
Is Successful in Industrial
Truce Plans.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Several leaders OF organized labor
indicated today they expect a fresh
wave of strikes within the next six
months unless President Roosevelt is
successful In arranging the industrial
truce he proposes.
This attitude became known as re-
ports were heard that the President is
not overgratified at the results thus
far of his suggestion that employers
and labor attempt "a specific trial Pc
riod of industrial peace"
It is said the President would like
to see men outside governmental cir
cles exert more spontaneous leadership
toward such an armistice.
johnson Seen Advisor.
The reports coincided with talk
that Hugh S. johnson, resigned N.
r. A. head, Is considering establish
ing himself as an expert extraordinary
to advise industry and labor. In this
private and unofficial capacity. friends
indicated, he would work toward es-
tablishing friendly relations between
employers and employees and thus help
attain the peace the President desires.
Among labor leaders there was a
disposition 10 doubt whether unions
and employers could find common
ground for a truce, with many is
sues undecided.
Foremost among these is union rec
ognition. In steel, for instance. one
of the Presidents special labor boards
Is blowing through a mass Of COM
plants that men were discharged for
union activity and that steel COM
paines refused to deal with unions as
representing their men.
| Several companies have indicated
they want to test the boards authority,
as well as the constitutionality of the
recovery act, in the courts.
Another point of dissension Is the
30-hour work week. Organized labor
demands it. Industry says it could
not bear the increased cost.
No Major Strikes.
At present, however. the industrial
front is more peaceful than it has
been for months. There is not single
major strike.
A decision by the Justice Depart
ment that it will not prosecute the
Houde Engineering Co. Of Buffalo-at
least for the present-added a new
complication today to the disputes
raging around the collective bargain
ing provisions Of N. r. A.
The National Labor Relations Board
in q ruling hailed by union labor
as an important Uctory-ordered the
Houde Co. to recognize the United
Automobile Workers Federal Union
as the agency of the employees for col
lective bargaining.
Declaring representatives chosen by
a majority Of workers in plant shall
speak for all, the board asked the
Justice Department to prosecute on
the ground the company refused to
bargain collectively within the mean
ing Of section IA of the recovery act
Evening star., 1934-10-12

Executive Council, each to be labeled
a vice presidency, were expected to
60 to John Lewis Of the United Mine
Workers, William Hutcheson Of the
Carpenters, to which Duffy also be-
longs; Daniel J. Tobin of the Team
sters' Union, Daniel Dubinsky Of the
Lady Garment Workers, Harry C
Bates Of the Bricklayers and prob
ably George L. Berry of the Printing
Pressmen.
The race for the other position
leaders said, would be between
Charles P. Howard of the Typo
graphical Union, M. ]. McDonough
now president Of the building trades
department, John Hynes Of the Sheet
Metal Workers, I. M. Orburn Of the
Cigar Makers. John PoSsehl Of the
Operating Engineers or Elmer MILL
man Of the Maintenance Of Way En-
ployes.
As the convention moved into It's
closing sessions, 1t went on record as
approving pensions for mothers with
| dependent children, old-age pension
laws and sickness and unemployment
compensation measures.
AS at previous conventions, the big
labor body refused to uphold plea
for formation Of a labor political
party. The viva voce vote on the
! resolution brought out a large mum.
Der of dissenting votes, but President
Green ruled that the ayes" had car
ried. Previously the Resolution,
Committee had recommended that
the organization remain non-par-
tisan.
Continuation Of a boycott against
German goods because Of the as
serted oppression Of German trade
unionists and the Jewish people was
| voted.
Evening star., 1934-10-12

The attitude Of the Justice Depart
ment Is that, regardless of the merits
of the case from an administrative
standpoint" there Is insufficient evi-
dence to warrant prosecution. Ofiicials
said the Labor Board had agreed with
this conclusion.
Union leaders did not comment i'm
mediately on the Justice Departments
decision, but they are known to favor
majority rule strongly.
A victory for labor apparently was
in the of1ng today in another case
Informed sources said the new In
dustrial Recovery Board, after an in
quiry conducted by special COM
mittee, has approved reduction In
| the cotton garment work week.
The decision was said to provide for
| cut of 10 per cent, reducing the hours
from 40 to SO, with no loss of pay.
President Roosevelt had ordered such
cut to take effect October /, but, In
response to protests from employers,
he delayed 1t so the inquiry could be
| made.
The same sources said the recon-
mendation to President Roosevelt
would have the reduction take ef-
feet December 1. The special In
vestigating Committee - comprising
D. M. Nelson, Willard Hotchkiss and
William j. Laucke-reported to the
board Wednesday and Clay Williams,
chairman of the Recovery Board, took
the sealed report to the White House.
Adds Own Recommendations.
The President returned it for the
board to add its own recommendations.
This was done yesterday. The report
itself was kept secret, but it was under
stood the board simply added its ap-
proval to the committees findings.
In connection with the reports con-
cerning Gen. johnson, it is known that
a number of outstanding industrialists
and labor leaders have approached
Johnson, seeking the dynamic gen.
erals services as a special advisor after
he formally quits N. r. A. next Mon
day.
Evening star., 1934-10-12

the committee would request en-
largement of the committee to Is
members, besides the three ex-officio
members, providing for election Of
seven new vice presidents. Approval
Of the committees report was con-
ceded by labor leaders.
Under the alignment worked out
before the committee made its re-
port a tremendous change in the
Executive Council was provided under
which the mine workers and the car
penters would be granted two votes IN
the all-important Executive Council,
governor of the federation between
conventions.
Reelection Conceded.
Green, Secretary Frank Morrison
and Treasurer Martin F. Ryan were
conceded reelection by virtually all
delegates. Whether the convention
of 1885 would be held at st. Louis or
| Cleveland still was undecided, with
most of the odds being laid on st.
Louis.
Likewise the present vice presi-
dents of the convention were due to
be reelected. They include T. A.
Rickert, Matthew Woll, John Corfield,
Arthur o. Wharton, Joseph N. Weber,
G.. M. Bugniazet, Frank Duffy and
| George M. Harrison.
Six of the seven other seats in the
Evening star., 1934-10-12
FIVE D. C. MEN CHOSEN
BY CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Drs. W. D. Appel, II. T. Herrick,
C. A. Browne, A. Fl. Emery and
C. S. Hudson Elected.

Five Washington men have been
elected to fill posts in the American
Chemical Society, DR.. Charles L. Par
sons, secretary, announced today.
They are DR.. william D. Appel Of
the Bureau of Standards, who will
head the Division of Dye Chemistry:
DR.. Horace T. Herrick of the Color
and Farm Waste Division, Bureau OF
Chemistry and Soils of the United
States Department of Agriculture, sec
retary of the Dye Division; DR..
Charles A. Browne, also Of the Bu-
reau Of Chemistry and Soils, mem
ber of the Executive Committee Of
the Division of History and Chemis-
try; DR.. Alden H Emery of the
United States Bureau of Mines, re-
elected secretary-treasurer of the
Division Of Gas and Fuel Chemistry,
and DR.. Claude s. Hudson Of the
Hygenic Laboratory will serve on the
Executive Committee of the Division
Of Organic Chemistry.
Evening star., 1934-10-12
NEW WORKERS ELECT

Joseph e. Sherkey was elected pres
adent of the New York City Society
at q meeting held recently in the
Hamilton Hotel. Installation will
take place at the hotel October 10
at pm.
Other officers elected were: Mrs
Herman Bernstein, vice president:
J. F. Sullivan, treasurer, and Irving
Nusbaum, secretary.
Evening star., 1934-10-12
Pastor Hits Fortune Tellers.

CHICAGO up. Fortune tellers
aren't helping the happiness Of Chi
cago homes, Rev. Clinton C. Cox, pas
tor Of the DreXel Park Presbyterian
Church, says he has learned by sub
mitting a QUESTIONABLE to 600 couples
in his congregation.
Such statements as There is an
other woman in your husbands life"
and Beware Of tall, dark man." he
says. are disturbing factors.
Evening star., 1934-10-12
INDUSTRIAL UNIONS
INDORSED BY A.F. l.;
GREEN SEES GAINS

Continued From First Page.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-28
SAVING THE LAND

IT seems odd to think that land itsef-sold
enduring, part of Mother Earth can
actually be destroyed. But it can; and
Secretary of the Interior Ickes asserts that the
future usefulness of no less than 173OOO,0OO
acres of public land depends on passage by
congress of the administration grazing bill.
This area - larger than all of France - is
deterioratng, says the secretary, because of
Overgrazng by livestock.
Removal of the forage crop makes the land
a prey to wind and water erosion; if left to
itself, it will eventually become a useless
stretch of desert.
The pending bill would regulate grazing on
the land, keep it in use to the limit of its
potentialities, and save it for future genera
tons 1t ought to get congress approval
without delay.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-28
A MIRROR TO AMERICA

THERE is more than shallow meaning to
the regional exhibits of the paintings
and sculpture done by jobless artists under
the public works of art project
The 500 works of art. selected from the out
put Of $500 artists on federal relief pay rolls,
hold mirror to the soul of America. Since
these artists were in such desperate need that
they gladly accepted low weekly wage their
canvases might be expected to- display some
rebellion. even despair. They do not
Without exception, as President Roosevelt
remarked of the Washington exhibit, their art
is that of hope and courage. Furthermore, it
is robust and American. 1t lacks both slavery
to classical standards and the decadence
common to much European art.
Even the picture, unemployed Boy called
by Mrs. Roosevelt almost the SWEETEST thing
in the exhibit" shows face, as she said,
more baf1ed than resentful.'
The PWAP is an inspiring adventure. It
marks the beginning of a publicly-aided folk
art that in time will embellish many of our
public buildings. 1t has fired hundreds of
hapless artists with new hope and faith.
We trust that some way will be found to
carry on this type of project through the COM
ing years Without vision the people perish.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-28
REAL HISTORY

ONE Of the. things that makes ordinary
~ history seem unreal is its habit of try
ing to put its characters into full dress. The
school books are full Of stately utterances and
lofty poses; and while they sound and look
very fine. most of US have trouble believing
that they ever actually were said or done
Now MacKinlay Kantor who recently
wrote Long Remember" fine novel about
the battle Of Gettysburg rises to show that
our suspicious can be pretty accurate.
In studying the battle Of Gettysburg, Mr.
Kantor devoted especial attention to the first
days fight. when an advance guard Of Union
cavalry under General Buford tangled with
the Confederates and got showed under.
Most histories, he remarks, represent Bu-
ford's superior General Reynolds, as galloping
forward and saying something like this:
General, the fate Of the Union is at stake
At all costs, you must maintain your present
lines until renforcements are brought for
ward"
But at last in an old book of records, he
found out what they really said. Said Reyn-
olds, arriving amid the confused clamor,
What's the matter. John?" Said Buford,
There's hell to pay" Said Reynolds, Think
you can hold out until the first corps comes
up?" And Buford replied Reckon I can"
And all of this, somehow, is rather COM
forting. There's he'll to pay . . reckon I
can"-that's the way men really talk, in mo-
ments of stress.
1t sounds human, realistic; we suddenly
see Gettysburg, not as a historic pageant, but
as it really was enacted by men who weren't
worried about striking attitudes for the history
books but who we're trying to get on with the
job at hand.
Probably we'd find the same thing true of
many other historic and picturesque occasions.
Did John Paul Jones coolly say, Il haven't
begun to fighter did he damn the British
er's eyes and invite him to climb a tree?
Did Ethan Allan say, open, in the name
of the Great Jehovah and the Continental
Congress-" or did he, as a Yale professor once
suggested, say something like open up there,
you blankety-blank blank"
Scrape away the historic trappings and
you'd probably find something very like this
underneath many Of those great moments.
The fine phrases are made later, by men who
weren't there.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-28
SATURDAY. APRIL %. 1894
CALM DIPLOMACY

WHEN Japan created another crisis in far
w eastern affairs by series Of trial state
ments asserting special interests in China the
Washington government did not lose its head.
1t did not buster 1t did not permit itself to
be Unanswered into an exposed position
either by Japan or by the European powers.
For all of which the American people can be
very thankful.
The far eastern situation is increasingly
serious. 1t can be handled safely only with the
greatest of skill.
America is strong. America has no selfish
interests to serve in the far east. Therefore we
can afford to move in this matter-as Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull are
moving calmly and with caution. The more
irresponsible japanese militarists become the
more necessity it is that we refuse to be hur-
ried into false move.
In the end if Japan is determined to domi-
nate China only China herself can prevent it.
Meanwhile, however there are the treaties
in which Japan agreed with the United States
and other powers to respect Chinese integrity.
AS part of the bargain for peace treaties in
the Pacific the United States agreed to refrain
from fortifying her eastern bases and agreed
to limit the American navy to a ratio favorable
to Japan in eastern waters. The peace and
+ naval treaties will stand or fall together
However it may appear to japanese ex-
tremists, the rest of the world has supposed
that the destruction of those treaties would in
volve a greater hazard for Japan-the small
est and poorest of the naval powers-than for
any other nation. Nevertheless if the Japanese
government is bent on destroying the treaties,
and the conditions which make such treaties
possible, the United States can not stop her
America is anxious to stand by the treaties
along with the other powers and cooperate to
the full But America has no desire to stand
out alone. deserted by Great Britain and
France as happened for so many months dur
ing the Manchurian affair.
In fact Britain and France have definir
imperial interests in Asia. and we have none
we even are getting out of the Philippines.
What Japan does is more their concern than
ours.
Our primary interest is peace. That peace
can be preserved only by the equal co-opera
ton of all the treaty powers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-28
VOLUNTARY CONTROL

nAIRY farmers have turned down a $685.
- 100000 benefit plan that the federal
government wanted to institute under the
agricultural adjustment act
The dairy farmers have lost; not the
government as represented in this instance by
Agriculture Secretary Henry Wallace For
it is not impossible to foresee the time when
the milk farmers will be going to Triple A
begging for some sort Of help.
The point of this controversy. temporarily
settled. is not in the fact that nationwide
program for milk production control has been
postponed. although that is important enough.
The fundamental thing is the new demon
Stration that the Roosevelt recovery program
in agriculture is voluntary, fact that critics
have either ignored or forgotten.
The milk control plan was mapped after
Triple A had heard innumerable suggestions.
1t was offered frankly to the industry for it to
approve or disapprove. 1t chooses to disap-
prove So. Secretary Wallace has dropped it.
The cotton plan now in operation is volun-
tary. whatever the critics may say. Neither
the secretary nor his department went out and
sought passage OF the Bankhead cotton con-
troll bill, by the terms of which recalcitrant
farmers may be compelled to join the cam
paign for the general good. The south volun-
tary asked for this measure, and got it over
Wsllaces disapproval
The wheat control program is voluntary,
and so are all the others.
It is the only intelligent approach, the VOL
untary one. In time-who knows?-compul-
sion may be necessary. Bat, if it is. we be-
lieve the first cry for it will come from the
farmers themselves
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-28
PIE FOR AMERICANS!

DR. DUDLEY REED. director of physical
- education at the University Of Chicago.
seems to have raised a standard about which
all good men and true can rally in these
troublesome times.
DR.. Reed wants to get back to that good
old-fashioned dessert. which was rich, heavy.
conducive to overlooking and probably
more or less unwholesome, but which was both
delicious to eat and satisfying to the stomach.
In fact. It is DR.. Reeds notion that pie is
the only really satisfactory dessert. He men
tons the fact that too many desserts are
built up around fluffy egg-whites and de-
signed to please the eye rather than the pal
ate; and he says. I'D rather die on cherry
pie than live OF floating island"
Here is a little campaign which deserves a
lot Of support. Let pie be restored to its
traditional place in the American scheme of
thingsl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-28
ASSERTS LOAN COMPANY
PATRONS USUALLY LOSE
BY I'm No Fish.

BY I'm No Fish.
After reading the letter by loan
company supporter, I should like to
know If this person is an employe
of loan Office or if it's just an
other guy trying to start an argu-
ment?
Will the reader kindly state just
what we'll established "31a per cent,
$10-$30 company" ever failed? How
come? Did they die?
You bet the loan companies help
the poor fellows, so that the poor
fellows can support the worst organ
ization of chiselers in the country;
organizations employing less work.
ers than any other considering dol
lars invested; organizations which
carry on their business only with
the unfortunate, without a chance
Of loss and, in many cases, they
receive 81 for each 81 loaned before
the contract is closed.
They hound men from their jobs,
cause social embarrassment, dis
honesty, neglect of decent debts,
ruin credit, break up homes and
show a handsome profit while the
POOR fellow" is rarely benefited in
the least.
If the loan companies were hon
est and benevolent, they would do
business only with honest persons
who need not pawn their souls to
borrow money.
When one signs a time payment
contract of any kind, you are in
cold blooded deal, but with a loan
company, you can't be benefited.
The statement that loan companies
lose only one-half of l per cent is
proof enough. What other bust
ness shows that small a loss?
When you speak Of helping poor
devils" ''benevolence," restoring
prosperity" interest not high" or
any other utterance in defense of
the business, suggest that you be-
come better informed before you
enter upon any discussion on the
subject.
Don't worry. my friend, the loan
shark is going. If the NRA don't
get him the American people will
when they wake up.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-28
BASEBALL, MULES
AND POLITICIANS
BY Jimmy Cafouros,

BY Jimmy Cafouros.
It warmed ones heart to see Kate
and Queen, ancient mules of the
Polar Ice Company, back in the
baseball opening parade. After years
and years of pulling mayors and
Governors in parades they still ale
alive, but unable to draw the cigar
putting bigwigs.
The time-worn hides and the
melancholy mien of the beloved
mules was far more touching to the
observers of the parade than all
the patronizing smiles of would-be
pudges, prosecutors and what not.
Some politicians went to great
expense to put up a big front for
the parade. Consider why they are
so anxious and eager to get elect
ed? Why will they spend so much
money? Does that bode good for
the people
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-28
WE ARE THE PEOPLE!

1.-THE core of the American tradition" says
l. DR.. Rexford G. Tugwell lis to be found
in a kind of defiance to fate"
DR.. Tugweu, who is either smart young
man in a big Job or a fearful DOGGY man with
claws and cloven feet. depending your point
of view, made this remark before the conven-
ton of the American Society of Newspaper
Editors in Washington.
He was trying to make clear that the adj
ministration welcomes criticism. and that any
attempt at RECOMMENDATION of American life in
defiance of the will of the masses would be
foredoomed to failure.
And in this remark there is a shrewd APP
probation of fundamental part of the Amer
lean character-a part which both radicals
and tories tend to overlook.
we will not do what we do not want to
do, and coercion can not make us" adds Dr.
Tugwell. we can be fooled. but not for long
We have a precious inventiveneSs which gets
us out of holes We have saving irreverence
for authority"
Here is an excellent point for everybody
concerned to keep in mind. 1t makes these
terrors of Communism, Fascism, and so on
much less terrifying: for all such schemes
must, sooner or later. run their keels on to this
hard rock Of stubborn contrarineSs-the fact
that. in the long run. we will not do what We
do not want to do. which is just another way
of saying that in the end the honest wish of
the majority vii prevail.
1t reminds one somehow of that old story
of the Fourth of July celebration in a small
midwestern town half a century ago. The
Governor, a senator, and couple of represen-
tstives were to address the citizens in q public
park.
Pretty soon they started making their way
through the crowd to the speakers stand and
some lunky or other who was trying to clear
path for them called out, Make way for
the representatives OF the people"
Instantly some one in the crowd called
back Make way yourself. We ARE the
people!"
And that's what it all comes down to. The
peoples representatives, down at washington.
may advance any kind of theory or noStrum
they choose; eventually if their fellow citizens
don't ike the looks Of it, they will hear that
old cry-Make way yourselves We are the
peOplei"