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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-30
Baltimore Seamen Powerfully. Lobby
Fight to Control, Seeks to Throttle
Administer Relief Govt Wage Survey
Secret Influences Out
To Kill Startling
Facts On Wages
lsneciaI to the nnlIr Workerl

NEW YORK, April 29.-Powerful
forces high up in the government
are deliberately throttling the COM
pleting and publication of remark
able survey of railroad wages and
working conditions covering the last
ten years, it was revealed today to
the Daily Worker by authentic
sources.
Three months ago, the Federal
ORIGINATOR of Transportation,
Joseph B. Eastman, began a survey
of the employment, wages, and pen
sion records of 100000 railroad en-
ployees. More than 500 statisticians
have at work on these records here
in the Office of the Federal Co-Or-
dinator. Almost 100000 has already
been sent on the project, and rec
ords going back to January 1924
have been studied.
The survey is the first thorough
attempt ever made to really get at
the truth on railroad workers death
and sick benefits, pensions, real
wages, furloughs, ETC., etc.
At the present moment the sur
vey is about three-fourths COM
plete. But already this survey
reveals an extraordinary history
of exploitation, a history that has
never yet been made public. II
reveals that the present agree
ment on wages conceals the in
tense robbery of the workers by
the arrangements.
Suddenly, the appropriations for
this immensely important survey
have been stopped. The project will
close down on May l with its main
task of establishing its findings I'M
completed.
Who has ordered the death of
this project? A powerful railroad
Lobby in Warrington knows full
well of the work CT as survey. It
is succeeding in its efforts to
smother from the public eye the
true situation of railroad labor.
The officials of the Railroad
Brotherhoods have thus far given
no sign that they are aware of the
project or Of its sabotage. The
Brotherhood paper Labor is silent
on the subject.
But this survey is precisely what
the railroad workers need to blast
the false propaganda OF the railroad
msnagements.
All workers should write to the
Federal Cc-Crdinater OF Transror-
tstion at Washington. demanding
that the survey be completed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-30
Dillinger 'Located'-But
Not Found-In Indiana

FORT WAYNE, Ind, April %
Federal authorities. who have been
shooting up innocent people in their
huge man-ilurt for john Dillinger,
elusive gangster whose reputation
for giving the authorities the mer-
riest chase of their lives has al
ready been made, have concentrated
in the northern Indiana lake region,
believing Dillinger to be in hiding
there.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-30
Notorious Stool Pigeon
Lets Cat Out of Bag On
Couzens May Day Ban
CHICAGO WORKERS
WIN RIGHT TO SITS.
Milwaukee Workers to
Hear Earl Browder
BULLETIN

Workers and their organizations
throughout the whole country are
urged to Immediately protest the
provocation against Detroit work.
ers by the auto bosses and their
agents at the head Of the Detroit
city government. Support the
determination of Detroit workers
to demonstrate May Day despite
the police ban and arbitrary abrO-
CATION of workers civil rights.
Rush protest kilograms TODAY to
Mayor COuzens, Detroit, Mich,
demanding the granting of per-
NIT for the use of Grand Circus
Park for the May demonstra-
ton.
DETROIT, April 29-Jacob
Spolansky, notorious stool
pigeon, lets the cat out of the
bag in regard to Mayor
Couzens' ban on the use OF
Grand Circus Park for the United
Front May Day demonstration Tues
day The May Day Committee has
announced the demonstration viii
be held there nevertheless.
In an article in the Detroit Sat
urday Night" Of April %. Spolan-
sky shows the alliance Of all the
anti-labor forces in a calculated
polly of clamping down on work
ers' activities.
This disreputable spy, who is a
direct agent of the Open Shop man
ufacturers and is on the inside OF
the Shiny workings of the gang of
scab employers that dominate the
city, writes about the ban on Grand
Circus Park:
ut marks a definite turning
point from the policy inaugurated
three years ago by the then
mayor. &. For the courage to ac-
complish this change we may ex.
press gratitude to the Mayor and
his new Commissioner of Police.
The intelligent employers in all
parts of America are alert to the
crisis now impending in Detroit
and in no quarter Is it expected
that the properly constituted au-
thOrities are planning to capitu-
late to the red leaders. Detroit is
due for hectic day"
Big Evening Celebration To Follow
Demonstration
The May Day Committee has ar
ranged an evening celebration in
the Arena Gardens, following the
demonstration in Grand Circus
Park. A group of workers choruses
will sing and a one-act play will
be put on by the local John Reed
Club, while music will be provided
by the Workers Orchestra.
BrOwder In Milwaukee
MILWAUKEE, Wis, April o.
The largest May l assembly ever
held in Milwaukee is expected to
turn out to hear Earl Browder,
General Secretary of the Commit
mist Party, speak at the Milwaukee
Auditorium, Tuesday evening, at 7.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-30
Tool Men
Vote Down
Expulsions
MESA. Local Z, Gives
One Vote for Smiths
Attack on Militants
BULLETIN

DETRO IT.-Four thousand
workers have been laid off at the
Hudson GratiOt Body Plants, with
more coming. Wage cuts and lay
offs have been announced at
Budds, where the workers are be-
ing asked to sign slips accepting
the IS cents minimum wage scale,
which means a 25-cent wage slash
for the higher paid workers.
The May Day conference here
Sunday wired the Mayor, affirm
ing the decision to demonstrate in
Grand Circus Park for the May
Day celebration. Meanwhile ar
rests and police terror and intimi-
dation face every attempt of the
workers to rally and mobilize for
the May Dey demonstration.
The Communist Party is circu-
Iating $4,000 leaflets calling for a
mass meeting at Arena Gardens
to follow the May Day demon
stratiOn which will be held at
Grand Circus Park.
BY A. B. MAGIL
DETROIT, Mich, April 29.-Local
Seven of the Mechanics Educational
Society Of America, on Friday night
voted to reject the expulsion policy
initiated by Secretary Smith ano
the district committee, aimed tc
throw out the militants. Only one
vote was cast for Smiths proposal
Three hundred voted with Smith
present, that all workers have the
right to belong to the union. This
is the local in which Anderson
militant organizer, belongs. Ander-
son spoke on the policy of Smith
pointing out the methods used to
expel Mack, militant worker, We'd
nesday, from Local by using the
police.
Police also were present around
the hall, which caused great re-
sentiment of the rank and file, who
demanded to know who brought the
police, after Anderson stated that
the same police club workers heads
Smith and other henchmen in turn
denied they had anything to dc
with the police, although it was
obvious that they were brought
down to do similar work at at Lo-
cal 8. Smith, sensing the resent
ment of the membership at the
rialroading A. F. of L. leadership
tactics, put on pious face and
tried to appear as peacemaker. but
this was evident camouflage, since
the whole expulsion policy is part
of the game to cover up the treach-
erous strike policies and pave the
way for bringing the organization
into the A. F. of L.
Ever more workers are under
standing that Smith is developing
bureaucracy and wiping out the
rights of the rank and file, COM
bined with his no fight policy, is re-
sponsible for weakening the organ
ization. Smiths camouflage of peace
is only a cunning maneuver better
to carry out his continued attack
wedding out militants. The neec
is for militants to clearly expose
the whole policy of Smith and bet
ter organize the ranks against tht
machine of Smith Griffen. M
measures were taken to strengthen
the Michigan Stove strike. It il
evident the Smith machine wants tt
get rid of the strike and will not
even take steps to protect the work
ers against discrimination of thu
tool and die strike, going the samt
path because of the A. F. of L
methods used by Smith in the lead,
ership of the strike.
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All Out to Madison Square Garden Tomorrow Night!

CIRCULATION DRIVE
NEW SUBS RECEIVED YESTERDAY
Daily ...... 49 Saturday ....... 81
Total to date 49, 37A Total ....... 2,SA
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-26
SANTA TO Be GIVEN
GALA GREETING HERE
Many Civic Groups to Take
Part in Parade.

Santa Claus and his colorful en-
tourage will learn just what Hoosier
hospitality can mean when they ar
rive in indianapolis, Friday morn
ing.
A partial list of the organizations
that will form Santa's reception
committee and participate in the
parade to be given in his honor con-
sists of the Indianapolis Chamber
of Commerce, the Junior Chamber
of Commerce, Childrens Museum,
Marion County tuberculosis ASsoci-
alton, Seventh District Federation of
Women's Clubs, Boy Scouts, Girls
Scouts and the City Recreation de-
partment.
Striking floats are being planned
in addition to the many beautiful and
unusual features Santa will bring
with him from his headquarters at
the North Pole.
Santa's parade will be gala event
worth coming many miles to see.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-26
CAPTIVE GIRL CASE
SCHEDULED TO OPEN
Father. StepmOther to Get
Hearing Today.

Nervous excitement claimed Helen
Mack this afternoon as the trial Of
her father. Harry Mack. and her
Stepmother. Mrs. Ora Mack. on
charges Of child neglect before Ju-
appeared restless and shyly uneasy.
nearer.
Helen. the blond l6-year-old girl
who was released last week from an
eight months imprisonment in a
room at 1862 West Market street.
appeared restless and shyly uneasey.
scctrding TO Miss Anna E. Pickaro,
superintendent of the juvenile de-
tention home. where Helen has been
STAYING since her release.
Yesterday the young girl. into
whtse emscisted cheeks a new bloom
has spread in the short while that
she has been free. attended Sunday
school and church. said Mrs. Pick
ard. and devoted the remainder OF
the day TO drawing pictures.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-26
CITY MAN is FOUND
DEAD AFTER CRASH
Victims Body Half Mile
From Accident Scene.
BvUnited Pre-.

b. United Press
SHELBYVILLE. Ind, Nov. 20
Apparently the victim of an auto
mobile accident, the body Of James
o. johnson. 43, indianapolis, was
found beside State Road %. seven
miles northwest of Shelbyville, early
today. The discovery was made by
two hunters. Floyd Barbee and Ide
Holmes. both of indianapolis.
Mr.. johnson was lying about one
half mile southeast Of the place
where his car had been wrecked
against a telephone pole. Coroner
Thomas Hartmel said Mr.. Johnson
apparently was hurt in the accident
and died while attempting to obtain
aid.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-26

from the chest cavity. An assist
ant fed the blood back into the
boys veins through an artery in
the right arm while the surgeon
sewed the heart.
Charles asked for drink CT
water when he was returned from
the operating room. He got it.
He asked for corn fakes the next
morning. He got them as well as
any other foods he has asked for.
in moderation. The operation
called for no restricted diet, at
tending physicians said.
Although the boy was permitted
to sit on the edge of the bed for
while Friday. and his improve
ment has been slow but steady"
doctors pointed out that he was
far from being out of danger. AS
far as the heart is concerned, they
were satisfied 1t is mending. But
the danger Of infection from the
meat knife still exists
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-26
BANKER, WIFE, TWO
CHILDREN ARE SLAIN
Suicide, Murder Are Be-
IieVed Death Causes.

b. uitcd Press
DEMOPOLIS, Ala. Nov. q. -
Authorities today interpreted the
deaths of F. Clements Smith, bank
cashier, his wife and their two small
children as murder and suicide. The
motive was mystery.
The four bodies were found in
the bedroom of the Smith home by
Gertrude Robertson. Negro cook.
yesterday. Mrs. Smith and her A.
year-old son, Frank. lay on bed.
The mother was fully dressed. She
had been shot twice in the chest.
The boy. wearing his night clothes,
had been shot once in the head.
In her crib was the body of Sabra
Smith. 2 months old. She had been
shot once in the. head. Mr.. Smith,
dressed i'll pajamas. lay on the floor
beside the bed. His head was pierced
by bullet and on his forehead was
a bruiSe where another bullet might
have grazed him. A .32-caliber
pistol, from which six shots had
been fired, lay at his feet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-26
Photo by Ames.

Germ with SiO,OUOOOO outstanding
policies.
While Vernon Thompson, assist
ant states attorney. who uncovered
the plot after a 23-year-old bank
clerk became conscience-stricken
and told him some of the details,
would not say exactly how many of
the men would be named before the
grand jury, he indicated that he will
seek indictments for Joseph Biata,
and confidence man
named as the arch conspirator of
the plot; Gustav Lindquist, former
Minnesota insurance commissioner
and since October president Of the
Abraham Lincoln Company, and
Hayden Sanders, once assistant
cashier of the Amalgamated bank
and since treasurer. of the insurance
company.
Biata and Sanders are under ar
rest. Lindquist. who with Sanders
was ousted from office in the in
Surance company FRIDAY, Wnen IL
was merged with the Illinois Bank
ers Assurance Company, disap-
peared from his home Thursday and
is fugitive.
Mr.. Thompson and Dodd Healy,
assistant states attorney, asserted
that they have a full confession
from Sanders that he and Lind
auist, under Baiatas direction. drew
fraudulent checks on the insurance
company to make a SIS 5000 pay
ment on its purchase at a price of
100000. They also claimed a con-
fession by Otto Van Derck, the 3D.
vear-old bank clerk. whose bothered
conscience started the investigation.
Thompson said action might be
DELAYED against Dave Long Count
Barry. prize fight referee and Sa-
loon keeper: w. w. EhlerS. estab-
lished as a broker by Baiata and
given a $4,000 check. issued by the
insurance company. which he tried
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-26
Five Stitches in Heart, Youth Looks
FOrlUard to Genuine Thanksgiving Day

At 7 p. m.-three hours after
Charles was stabbed-he was ad-
ministered a local anesthetic. At
8:15 he was back on his hospital
cot, with the five stitches in his
heart, and his head in an oxygen
tent.
Charles watched the operation
unf1inchingly. A staff surgeon
laid back about nine square inches
Of flesh around the cash. The flap,
which was folded back toward the
armpit, was 3-inch square,
folded on the fourth side.
n
THEN the surgeon sawed
4 through three ribs. about an
inch from the breastbone, and
bent them back. exposing the
slowly pulsing heart in well of
blood.
An aspirator was applied. and
a pint and a hrf of blood drawn
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-26

laws pending against him.
The white-haired little martinez
of La Sale street in better days ex-
ulted volubly at his acquittal Sat
urday with his son and fifteen
friends, of swindling investors in his
$150000,000 Corporation Securities
Company, and predicted confident
ly that other charges will be dis
missed.
Another trial-if there is another
one--will bring the same verdict"
he chortled. THAT verdict Saturday
was the beginning of my complete
vindication.
With a deal of hearty chuckling
and rapid fire chatter he posed at
length yesterday with his wife, his
son, his grandson and Colin Glen
cannon the scottie. for newspaper
and newsreel photographers.
Sporting a white waistcoat, a
gardenia and pearl spats to Offset
his modish blue suit, he was the pic
ture of a happy man. A snappy
lake wind had pinked his cheeks on
a pref breakfast constitutional, his
snowy muStache and hair we're
freshly barbered and his eyes
snapped with energy.
He demonstrated CALAMITY when
Mrs. insult, a stage beauty of the
nineties and still outStandingly at
tractive, exclaimed:
my, I wish I could change my
face for all this" She remarked TO
the photographers that he always
was nice like that, but you can't fool
a camera"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-26
OPEN WAR ON
ST|CKER-FIxING
Conference Held, Proposals
Made to Abolish Evil
of Politics.

Plans to eliminate the evil of
fixing" stickers issued by police for
traffic ordinance violations we're I'M
der consideration at police head
quarters today, along with the pos
Sibility that existing traffic laws
might be made more stringent, fol-
lowing a conference Saturday be-
tween Chief Mike Morrissey and
City Prosecutor John E. Lotus.
The conference. which Traffic
Captain Lewis johnson also attend
ed, followed by twentyIfour hours an
editorial demand by The Indian
apolis Times that sticker fixing" be
ended
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-26
SEEK TO NOTIFY SON
OF FATHERS DEATH
Edgar E. Young. Sc. Suecumbs in
City Hospital

indianapolis Railway officials to-
dav we're seeking Donald Z. Young,
formerly Of 2eI6is North Illinois
street. TO notify him Of the death OF
his father Edgar E. Young. Sc. Of $50
West washington street. a PEN
stoned employe.
Mr.. Young. who was pensioned
after serving twenty-one years as
a conductor for the street railway
company. died last night in city
hospital Of natural causes. All ef-
forts 70 locate his son have failed
although he is said 70 have visited
his father yesterday afternoon.
My. Young accompanied group
Of street railway employees on 4 trip
Friday 10 die turnips for use IN
company Thanksgiving baskets and
appeared in good health at that
time. Last night he collapsed and
VAS taken 70 the hospital.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-26
BIZ Trited Press

By United Press
DITTSBURGH, Nov. 26.-Five
i stitches in his heart did not
prevent Charles Cepak, is, from
anticipating a genuine Thanks
giving today.
Rather. the five stitches in
Charles heart brought home TO
him the real import OF Thanks
giving. He has two things TO be
thankful for-his life, and the
wonders of surgery.
While in his fathers butcher
shop. Nov. II. Charles was stabbed
in the heart by friend-a play
full lunge with a meat knife. and
Charles fell 70 the floor uncon-
scious.
Customers gathered up his limp
form and rushed him TO Presby-
terrain hospital. Admitted to the
emergency room. his skin was
cold and clammy. His pulse was
so feeble that physicians could not
count it accurately.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-26

He believed she was the
companion of three children
brought by him into Pennsyl-
vania from New York five
days ago.
The chief lines of investiga-
ton pointed from Carlisle to-
ward New York City and
possibly from there to New
England.
Paul w. White, the bus driver.
identified the photograph of the
woman, who apparently was the vic
tim of a murder suicide pact, as a
passenger who rode. with three
children resembling the girls found
dead Saturday, from New York into
Harrisburg on Wednesday, Nov. 81.
Their tickets, he said, called for
transportation to Pittsburgh.
Labels Are Traced
A second bus driver remembered
carrying the four passengers farther
along on their journey to Pitts
burgh, and said he believed they
left his bus near Altoona. Labels on
the children's coats also were traced
to New York City.
Another report Of the possible
wanderingS of the family was re-
ceived from Boston, where it was
said a woman and three children
purchased steamship passage to Net
York on the Eastern Steamship
Lines. This report said, however.
that the passage was purchased
Wednesday afternoon, which would
be in conflict with Whites story.
Another possible clew was thai
the children lived with their mother
and stepfather in Jamaica, Long
Island, a year ago. Police at New
York checked that possibility.
Find No Trace of Poison
An officials report of the toxi-
%CACSAoCo WIN nave StdICIlEu IOI
traces Of poison or evidence of vio-
lenCe, disclosed that there was no
indication Of carbon monoxiGe or
any other poisoning, and that none
OF the children had been assaulted.
The three coats worn by the chill
dren, two of green cloth and one Of
blue, and all edged along the collar
with brown fur, we're traced by their
NRA labels, which bore the letter
XWA, to H. 81 J. Block, New York
garment manufacturers, and from
other numbers an attempt was being
made to trace them to customers.
Detectives also were checking the
origin of the three pairs of shoes.
one an auburn square grape spud.
the others pumps.
No labels were found on the chill
dren's underwear.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-26

Spiked last week in an sudacious
alleged attempt to buy three In
disnapolis banks with bonds stolen
from an insurance company, at least
three of an alleged gang of seven
today faced grand jury action IN
Chicago where the plot was I'M
covered.
States attorneys there said they
would ask the jury to indict the
three for passing $4,000 of bogus
checks through the Amalgamated
Trust and Savings bank of Chicago
in part payment for the Abraham
Lincoln Insurance Company OF
Springfield. Ill, a s13.OO0000 con-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-26
Indictments to Be Asked of Grand Jury
in Probe of Plot to Plumber Banks

unsuccessfully to cash, and Abra-
ham Karatz, former st. Paul lawyer
and reported associate of Baiata.
Van Derck may be exempted from
prosecution.
The prosecutors said the accused
men planned to finance the balance
of the insurance company purchase
price, as we'll as of the indianapolis
banks, by buying stolen bonds from
criminals at 10 and IS cents on the
dollar and substituting them for
legitimate assets of the institutions
portfolios.
Chicago prosecutors refused to
name. the three indianapolis banks
involved.