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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-10
$4,000 WAGE
ROLL CHEERS
CONNERSv|LLE
Auburn Motor Co. Leads
Spring Tonic Drive at
HoOSier Town.
BY ARCH STEINEL
Times staff Writer

CONNERSVILLE, Ind, March 10.
Sulphur and molasses may be the
sole spring tonic in some Indiana
communities, but in this city a
$4,000 weekly pay roll has mer-
chants doing business handsprings.
Nor has the tonic bottle, labeled
Wages" been drained, for by sum-
mer the 5000 men now carrying the
dinner bucket will be almost 1000.
Seventeen hundred jobs are in the
making as the Auburn Motor Car
Company swings into the biggest
production era and largest pay roll
since its first wheels turned in Con-
nersville. The p4esent force of 1890
men will be liked to 1000.
But again comes the warning
ladled out in all Of Indiana's boom
cities: Don't come looking for a
job. We've people here to take care
of those jobs"
Necessities, LuxurieS Alike
Connersville merchants have felt
the first signs of pep carried in pay
roll dosages this month.
The butcher, baker and butter
and-egg man are the first to feel
the loosening of the purse strings.
Necessities are being bought.
But in the same breath, the radio
and refrigerator dealers tell of pros
perity with capital letters like this:
1--WE sold ten radios last week.
More than at Christmas. Haven't
got a radio in the house that isn't
sold" says c. E. Hamilton.
Then" continues Mr. Hamilton,
"the man who handles refrigera-
tors, R. B. Tope, sold but one re-
frigerator at this time last year.
He's sold ten up to today"
Houses at Premium
Houses are at a premium. Only
undesirable houses without modern
cOnvenienceS can be had
Two and three families are dou-
bling up in homes.
Renters are, in some cases, forced
to purchase their homes, if they
want to insure keeping them for liv-
ing quarters.
"Collections have picked up.
Credit is being used and it's not all
for necessity only says Don F.
Henthorn, manager Of the Corners
vile Credit Bureau.
They're spending money-not
boarding it," adds Mr.. Henthorn.
Church Collections Grow
Even the church collection plates
and campaign pledges for funds for
the ensuing year are feeling the
greenback Cruel being fed by the
citys automotive industry.
Our solicitation for church funds
is larger and even the collection
plates feel the better times" says
the Rev. j. S. McMichael pastor of
the First Presbyterian church.
CWA work is given the blanket
comment as being primarily for
aged men and those unable to hold
down jobs in the plants due to all
ments."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-10
City Woman Stumbled of SIS, 900 in Matrimonial
Racket, Police Charge; ShelbyUilIe Man Is Held

formerly worked the card sales
man" racket on trains.
Weintraut has been held in the
Marion county Jail under $4,000
bond, which he was unable to pro-
vide.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-10
BLINK AIDED DILLINGER
IN ESCAPE, ACTED LIKE
PAL PRISONER CHARGES
Deputy Easily Could Have Frustrated Break,
but Instead Chatted Amiably With
Desperate, Negro Claims.
CAHOON ALSO REPORTED INVOLVED
4 Can't Go Through With This Trusty Is
Quoted as Saying; Complete Details
of Walkout Told Officials Say

Conclusive evidence that Ernest Bunk fngerprint ex-
pert for lake county sherfs office aided John Dinger
and Herbert Youhgbood escape from the Crown Point
Jail week. claimed today by Edward j. BARGE deputy
attorney general
Mr. BARGE said he obtained the evidence at Crown Point
yesterday lengthy gring of James Posey 26,
Negro cellmate of YOungbood
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-10
ROBBERS MISS CHANCES
California Town Police Find 1O1
Unlocked Doors in 1893.

y = NIFTW ITHH
VISALIA, Cal. March 10-Burg-
lars had 101 chances to rob Visalia
stores during 1888, records of the
police department revealed today.
Officers reported they found 101
doors to business houses unlocked
during their night patrols.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-10
CITY RESIDENT KILLED
John o. Collier. 40, Dies in Auto
Crash at Greencastle.

By United Press
GREENCASTLE, Ind, March 10
John o. Collier, 40, Indianapolis,
was killed last night in a collision
between an automobile driven by
Walter Edwards and a truck driven
by r. A. Gregory, both of Indian
apoliS.
The name OF John o. Collier does
not appear in the indianapolis di-
rectory.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-10
HORACE GREELEY GOES
SOUTH FOR JAIL TERM
Namesake of Famed Publisher Be
comes Involved With Law.

comes Involved With Law.
By United Press
WASHINGTON, March 10.-Hor
ace Greeley, would-be disciple of the
nineteenth century publisher, has
changed his itinerary.
Arraigned before Police Court
Judge Schuldt on charges of in
toxication, Horace was asked:
Young man, I thought you were
to go west?'
L missed the train" replied the
VOL thy.
We'll countered the judge, 'in
that case you are going south-for
ten day"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-10

Ten army pilots have been
killed flying the mail or in
flying duty connected with the
air mail.
Mr.. Roosevelt transferred the air
mail to the army. Feb. 10, after
summary cancellation of private air
mail contracts on the ground that
they were tainted by fraud ana
collision.
Colonel Lindberghs conference
today with Secretary Bern was on
the general subject of aviation, the
secretary said after the famous
fliers mysterious appearance at the
war department had given rise to a
variety Of rumors, including the
possibility he might be named as
sistant secretary of war for aero
nauticS.
Mr.. Dern said neither cancella-
ton Of commercial aid mail con-
tracts nor possible restoration of
air mail to commercial companies
was discussed at the conference.
One of the sensational develop
ments of the air mail controversy
was a White House rebuke given
Colonel Lindbergh when he pro-
tested against contract cancellation.
Stephen Early White House sec
rotary, complained Colonel Lind
bergh had ignored the proprieties in
making his protest public before it
reached Mr. Roosevelt, to whom it
was addressed.
Army Chiefs Confer
Mr.. Early also made today's an
nouncement that army air mail fly
ing would be curtailed. He said the
President acted today after confer
ences with General Douglas Mac
Arthur, chief of staff, and Major
General Benjamin B. Foulois, chief
of the army air corps Mr. Earlys
statement rather placed on the war
department responsibility for the
surprising difficulties encountered
by the air corps in attempting to
fly the mail.
Details of the curtailment plan
were expected later today.
1t was emphasized at the White
House that Mr.. Roosevelt has been
assured the army could carry the
mail. Whether army pilots should
have been charged with such re-
sponsibility is a subject of bitter
dispute today in the capital.
Flight Formations Stressed
Many persons argue that the
armys flying job is unique and that
army pilots are excellent in their
own type of work but that schedule
flying b. single planes as is required
for the sir mail is a different prob
lem altogether
The emphasis of military flight
training is said to be formation fy-
ing generally conceded to be more
difficult and dangerous than the
individual fight problems encoun-
tered by air mail pilots on their
lonely routes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-10
TOOL INVENTOR PASSES
Robert GiIray Made Landing Hook
for Lumbermen.
By United Press

bU JHIIfu FftSS
AMIGO, Wis, March 1O.-Robert
Gilray, inventor of a logging tool
known as the "gilray," died recently
at Lily, Wis. The landing hook
which he invented was used by
woodsmen and rivermen on rollways
and in jams on rivers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-10
Flight Formations Stressed
LIFT RESTRICTIONS ON
LIQUOR APPROPRIATIONS

Agriculture and Treasury Secretaries
Issue Joint Order.
BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, March 10.-The
secretaries of agriculture and the
treasury today issued joint order,
permitting unrestricted Importation
Of foreign distilled spirits and wines
into this country from May l to
June 30.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-10
EXHIBITS KEPT II YEARS
Cotton Waste Civil Suit Evidence
Fills Courthouse Room.

~ Jhfed Press
NEW ORLEANS, March 10.-A
room in the district courthouse here
is filed with samples Of cotton
waste, exhibits in a civil suit which
has been in litigation for twelve
years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-10
Two Refuse to Escape
Grand Jury TO Hear

The Negroes statement also re-
futed CalhounS claim that Dillin-
gers cell had been searched thor
oughly twice during the week pre-
ceding the escape.
Mr.. BARGE said PoSey had watched
the cell examinations and that Ca
hoOn had been extremely lax.
Posey made his statement TO MI.
BARGE. Prosecutor Robert C. Estill
OF Lake county and Sander Singer,
chief OF detectives at Hammond.
The Negro viii be one Of the first
witnesses TO testify before a special
grand jury investigating the break
when 1t meets Monday, Mr.. BARGE
said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-10
CROP PRODUCTION BILL
SIGNED BY Roosevelt
Farmers to Receive S4O,OOO,OOO in
Loans This Year.
BIZ JHifed Press

BIZ LHited Press
WASHINGTON, March 10.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt today signed bill
appropriating S4O,OOO,OOO for crop
production loans to farmers this
year.
The loans we're authorized by a
recent act of congress. The Presi-
dent has declared that this years
loans will be the last made by the
overnment under this system.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-09

the MultipleX page, in which tele-
grams are typed on rolls Of paper,
and are torn off the machines,
counted, checked up for errors, and
released by receiving operators.
The other called the Multiplex
tape, pounds kilograms on tape
which must be gummed with ut
most care on telegraph blanks, &C
cording to specified form which
may not vary by the merest frac-
ton of an inch. The receiving OPP
orator must also count, check err
rors, note the class of telegram,
whether rush, superrush, or any
of various categorieS, must call at
tention of supervisor to certain mes
Sages, and release letter perfect at
the rate of two or more kilograms
per minute.
In addition to this performance
Of what seems to be physical i'm
possibility, operators must also do
the work of supervisors, because the
telegraph companies, in their mad
drive for profits, have reduced the
number of supervisors till it is i'm
possible for those remaining to do
the work expected of them. 1t is
an actual fact that operators work
ing on the fastest circuits cannot
even breSthe naturally, and most
accelerate their breathing to keep
up with the rhythm and speed up
of machinery.
My picture would not be complete
if did not mention the elaborate
system devised by the companies
for checking up on the work Of the
operators and keeping them con-
tinually on trial for their jobs. The
sending sets are plugged in on a
machine in some other part of the
building, and a monitor checks up
with the utmost RIGHTEOUSNESS for
errors, breaches of routine, Slight
infractions. Later these are used
as an excuse for reducing salaries,
and even for discharging operators,
and replacing them with new OPP
orators, at a lower rate, the N. R.
A. minimum of $12 to SIS per week.
Now, perhaps you are thinking
that telegraph companies must pay
very high wages to Include people to
work for them under such inhuman
conditions. Well, the average wages
of telegraph operators are from SIS
to $50 per week, in Postal Tele-
graph, or an average of about SIT
per week with the rates somewhat
higher in Western Union, ranging
from $15 per week to $29.
Postal Telegraph operators re-
ceive no vacations with pay, and
are compelled to take some holi-
days off without pay. Western
Union workers are slightly better
off, getting two weeks vacation with
rs per cent pay.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-09
A LESSON BY COMRADE
BROWDER

New YORK, N, I.
Dear Comrade Editor:
The speech by Comrade Browder.
delivered October IS, and published
in the Daily Worker, October 30.
ought to be carefully read over and
over again by every Party member.
This not because this speech can
not be readily understood in one
reading, but in order to make the
method of approach, the simple Ian
guage and simple style a part of
ourselves.
This speech ought to serve for all
comrades as a model of Commu-
mist speechmaking. 1t ought to be
pasted on the walls of every Party
section headquarters and the COM
radeS encouraged to read it. This
speech ought to be read and dis
cussed at unit meetings. Every
thing ought to be done to encourage
Party members to acquire the i'm
portant qualities embodied in this
speech.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-09

3. From 2 to 5 and a quarter
ounces of tobacco, 2 extra razor
blades.
4. Immediate issuance Of tooth
paste, tooth brushes, etc.
Then finally Miss Charles, the ex-
ecutive secretary of relief, was
forced to send our demands and
complete data on relief to Wash
ington with a request that the
present budget be raised to meet our
demands.
At the open air meeting Thurs
day night the Seamen voted to con-
tinue and strengthen the fight till
our demands are met fully.
So, comrades, rest assured that
now, with the sentiment for action
growing, now that the struggle has
really started, we are going to push
our demands to the hiit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-09
Dust Ryan
Says
ia Decker
Urges Local 1858 Men
To Support Rank
And Filler
By a Marine Worker Correspondent

BY q Marine Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK. N. Y.-This month
Local 1858 of the lila. is a half
year old. Ever since its beginning
the local has been represented on
the district council by John 'Pal'
Sullivan, an ex-longshoreman on
the Mallory docks, who,
through playing ball with Ryan,
was elected as the delegate. AS
far as we've been able to see, which
isn't very far on account of the
fog that surrounds our delegates,
Sullivan has done absolutely Moth
ing in the interests of the union
men.
He has repeatedly knitted in the
back any struggle that the bro
theirs have taken up on the dock
or on the floor of the local. He
has deliberately sabotaged our
fight against the grating steve
dore- bosses, against discrinina-
ton, against speed-up and for
higher wages.
In the six months that Pal"
Sullivan has been our delegate, he
has learned his lesson we'll from
Papa Ryan, the great anti-fas-
ctst fighter, who, as chairman of
the committee on Russian Affairs
for the National Civic Federation
is associated with notorious fas-
cists like Ralph Easley and Mat
thew Vol.
The brothers in Local 1858 have
not missed any Of our delegates
tricks. This is seen by their will
hngness to support Frank Kenney,
a rank and file longshoreman. in
the coming election for the office
of Business Agent.
The Rank and File Group in Lo-
cal 1858 is calling on the brother
members to join it in support Of
Kenney on condition that he car
ries out his promises to fight for
and with the rank and file long
shoremen.
We further pledge ourselves to
rally the brothers IN support of
Kenney in a struggle for our in
terests.
If Kenney neglected to do this
we again pledge ourselves to or
ganize around us all of the bro
theirs in the local and fire Kenney
out of our union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-09
RI Workers
Hold Meet
In Frisco
Leave Conference Set
On Building Unity
Movement
By a r. B. WORKER COrrespOndent

BY a r. b. Worker Correspondent
SAN FRANCISCO, CALI h
Railroad Unity Movement had g
conference in San Francisco, Sun
day, October %, 1884. The confer.
ence while it did not have such 2
large attendance, did represent
six crafts of the industry as vel
as five division points in the state
Discussion was very interesting
as well as healthy and enthusiastic
The brothers present went home
with a program and determin-
alton to build the Railroad Unity
Movement in the State of Cali
fornia.
The conference elected Is to a
temporary State Committee which
will be responsible for the coordi-
nation of the work and who will
work with groups that are organ
lied, and build more groups.
The conference adopted a four
point program.
l.-6 hours per day; no reduc-
ton in pay.
2.-PenSiOn:
(a.) That no more than eq6
can be taken from the pay.
co., Money taken from the
pay to be refunded with inter
est If for any reason he or she
may leave the service Of the
company.
(c.) To get the amount pay
able to the pensioner increased
to meet the high cost of living.
3.-The return of the 1917 wage
cut at once and a 300 increase
of pay to meet the rising cost of
living.
4.-Une1nplDyment Insurance
Bill H. r. 1898.
Meetings are already being ar
ranged in three different division
points in the state where the
chairman Of the newly elected
State Committee will speak.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-09
byNevO 1leansS Wins Relief Concessions
WORKERS HEALTH
Conducted by the
Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board

On the other hand, when abor-
tions are done by skilled physicians
under Surgically clean conditions
and at the proper time, the dangers
from abortions are minimized.
You are really not to be blamed
or reprimanded for what YOU have
done. You are victim of the vi.
cious capitalist system under which
we live. We must condemn our
present economic society.
You have two children already.
and undoubtedly could not afford
to have any more. Birth control
methods were denied you by the ex-
iSting laws. When you became
pregnant again; you were unable to
pay the exorbitant fees that are
demanded in order to have an abor-
ton done properly through illegal
channels. You are not alone in
your distress. Millions of other
working class women are in the
same predicament.
You state that you were operated
on twice to drain the abscess and
now the doctors advise another op-
GRAFTON because of the severe pains
in your left thigh and you were in
formed that after the operation YOU
would not have any more children.
Naturally, we cannot tell whether
your present trouble is the result of
the infection after the abortion.
Most likely it is. In doing the op-
Grafton, the surgeon apparently
plans to remove the organs which
are vital in collaborating either the
tubes, the ovaries, the womb. or.
perhaps even the entire works"
This is the price that countless
women are forced to pay. It is high
time that an effective, Organized
mass movement is developed. par
ticularly by the Women's Councils
and Unemployed Councils to de-
mand the legahzation of birth con-
troll and contraceptive methods and
to demand that this be obtainable
at little or no cost to those that
cannot afford to pay.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-09

takers.
- Topping off an intensified men,
bersip drive, open air meetings, etc
we organized for the big push.
Last Tuesday, October %, over 125
seamen marched from the union
hall to the Canal Bank Building,
where the Office of Mr. Early, state
administrator, is located, and pre-
sented our demands to his secretary
Mr.. Early, we later learned through
the local paper, took the back way
out when learning of our coming.
After an hours wait in the building
corridors, our elected committee OF
five seamen finally forced the
fiunkeys to set the coming Thurs
day for a definite appointment TO
consider our demands.
During the interval we popular
lied and organized our fight
stronger than ever. Thursday
morning the committee of five sea-
men, elected at a previous meeting,
again went with our demands to
present them to the relief officials,
backed by the entire beach, with
254 signatures on a petition list
demanding the granting of our de-
mands. We were determined to
throw a mass picket line around the
entire building if our demands were
not given consideration.
After two and half hours OF ex-
posing the present relief system and
its corruption, and insistent demand
for the adoption of our demands,
the seamen's committee wrung from
the relief takers concessions, which
considering the character and set
up of the present relief racket here
in New Orleans, is big victory for
the Waterfront Unemployment
Council, and a smashing blow to
the grating political machine Of the
state.
Following are the concessions we
gained:
Il. From S6c. to 45c. day for
food allowance.
2. From $1.OO to $3.50 a month
clothes allowance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-09
Western Union r. r. COmnany
Hiring Scheme Coerces Vote
Cuts W ges Of Employees
By R. R, Worker Correspondent

BY r. r. Worker Correspondent
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. = Under
the guise of the Southern Pacific
Club, the Southern Pacific had in
formed their employees that they
expected them to vote for Merriam.
Not in SO many words, but the
printed matter that came with their
letter was the thing that told us
how to vote; not only ourselves, but
they urged us to get our friends
and relatives also.
Let me quote just two paragraphs
of this letter:
The situation Is not political.
1t is essentially economic; it is a
payroll question. Is California
with the assistance of and in CO.
operation with the National Gov
ernment-tO return to prosperity
in sane and normal way, or
shall its industries, including the
company for which you work, be
crippled or wrecked by untried,
impracticable and visionary
schemes that are Communistic in
result?
By National Law, labor has sue
ceeded in shutting out oriental
and other immigration which
would lower standards of living
and depress wage levels. The Sin
clair D0wney scheme will flood
California with an army of I'M
employed from O. states and
have a much more acute effect on
employment conditions in Cali
f0rnia than unrestricted immi-
grafton would have on the nation
at large.
The letter would leave one with
the impression that the foreign
born are the cause of lower wages,
etc.
What we want to know. is this
recent lay-off of so percent of our
Shopmen here San Francisco
also caused by the immigration
they speak about? Did we make
the loan OF 10 per cent of our wages
to the Orientals! No, we made it to
these big capitalists, that control
our wages and railroad companies.
Did the company say when they
laid us off that We could have the
10 per cent they took from our pay
for the past two years when they let
us go? No. they did not, even
though the Southern Pacific made
a profit in the month of September
of one million dollars.
Let us answer these big boys. fell
low workers, by organizing. JOIN
THE COMMUNIST PARTY! Don't
let them split us up, one race
against the other