The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-31
Friend of American Labor
Pleads for Election
of Minton.
TOBIN FLAWS ROBINSON
Gigantic Parade and Bombs
PreCede Speeches; 1000
Hear Van Mugs.
BY JAMES DOSS
Times staff Writer

Squarely on SenatOnAArthur Robinson
last night when almost 10000 turned
out to hear Senator Robert F.
Wagner, New York, in one of the
largest and most enthusiastic po-
Iitical rallies Marion county has
witnessed in some time.
Cadle tabernacle started filling
more than an hour before the pro-
gram opened and before marchers
in a huge torchlight parade were
able to reach The meeting. So ire
mendous was the crush that APP
proXimately 1000 of the overflow
crowd we're sent to TomlinsOn hall,
where Senator Frederick Van Mugs
spoke until Senator Wagner's adj
dress was put on the air at $50.
Bombs Herald Parade
Aerial bombs signalized the ap-
proach of the parade in which bands
and floats interspersed blocks Of
marchers by WARDS and TOWNSHIPS.
A stunt flier zoomed over the
tabernacle, flares burning on the
| fuselage of his plane. A toy can
non roared and brass bands, jug
bands and drum corps competed
with the music inside the tabernacle
as the marchers drew near the meet
ing place.
And II there was any doubt about
| the way the Negro vote is going
in Marion county, it was dispelled
last night. There were huge blocks
of Negro marchers, bearing flags
and banging away at tin pans. There
was uniformed Negro band, too.
Officials Are In Van
No formal march music for them
they played "hi-de-ho" strains,
led by a struttlng drum major
topped by a rakiSh dolman.
An hour was required for the
marchers to pass a given point and
the program was through Ludlow
and almost to Kern when the last
float and last marcher had reached
the tabernacle.
Presiding in the gaily decorated
tabernacle was Mayor Reginald H.
Sullivan, who introduced Superior
Judge John w Kern, mayoral nom
inee; Louis Ludlow, Twelfth district
representative; James Shanessy,
president of the International Bar
bers Union; DR.. S. D. Merriwether,
head of the Negro division of the
Democratic county committee; Dam
lei j. TObin, president of the Inter-
national Brotherhood of Transfers
and Chauffeurs, and Judge Earl r.
Cox. Mayor Sullivan explained that
DR.. William H. Larrabee, Eleventh
district representative, was i'll and
unable to attend.
The mayor also presented state
Senator Jacob Weiss, speakers
bureau chairman, who was a. leader
in arranging the meeting; Walter
BOetcher, county chairman; Omer
S. Jackson, state chairman, and Tall
colt Powell, editor of The Indian
apolis Times. Mr.. Powell inNo-
duced Senator Wagner.
Kern Speaks Briefly
Judge Kern spoke briefly, renew
ing his challenge to the Coffin ele-
ment in the Marion county Repub-
lican government and pleading for
a continuation Of the good gov srn-
ment policies which have marked
the Sullivan administration Judge
Kerns voice almost broke and he
was visibly affected when he men,
toned the name Of his father, Sem
ator John w. Kern and the impul-
sion ne feels to pass along that
name untarnished to his own son.
His position Of vice-president of
the American Federation of Labor
lending added weight to his words.
Mr. Tobin assailed Senator Robin
son as an enemy of the working
man.
Endorsing Sherman Minton, the
Democratic nominee for senator,
Mr.. Tobin arraigned Senator Rob-
inson for his failure TO support
labor's new deal
The working man, the friends Of
( organized labor. hold in their hands
today a noble heritage that Senator
Robinson never thought of giving
Z Ileuls MI. 4ODlI declared.
Assails LII Arthur
In Section IA of the National
Recovery Act, the American working
man has a declaration by his gov
eminent that it is national policy
for labor to have equal privilege
with capitalize right to collective
bargaining.
Can labor turn its back upon the
first man ever to occupy the White
House with the courage and fair
\ ness to give labor equal opportun-
tiles? Can the friend Of labor vote
against the greatest friend labor
ever had-President Franklin D.
Roosevelt?
Every laboring man knows, or
should know, that the policies OF
former President Hoover, Andrew
Mellon and Ogden Mills favored the
1 interests OF capital as opposed TO
the interests of labor. Every labor
ing man in Indiana should know
that Senator Arthur r Robinson
lined up with Hoover, Mellon and
Mills when the Smoot- Hawley tariff
act was passed which destroyed
American foreign markets. lost 70