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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-06

was off one-third from the pre-
ceding week and was less than
half the volume of a year ago.
Bond transactions declinedA also
but to a less degree. Brokerage
loans declined and so did the
amount of member banks security
and commercial loans. New York
pank clearings were larger than
the week before, but smaller than
a year ago.
Steel ingot production amounted
to 1,251,630 tons in September,
a decline from 1,363,359 tons IN
August, and from 2,283,079 in Sep
TENDER, 1888.
DIG IRON production fell to
L 998,O43 tons from a total of
1,054,382 in August and 1,522,257
year ago.
In September 174,451 automo-
biles were produced as compared
with 244,713 in August, but in this
industry the seasonal decline is
normal. In September, 1888, how
ever, 197,608 cars were produced.
Private construction slumped
last month also. Building permits
in 215 cities totaled s26, 500, 686. In
August the total was S34,452, 1913
and in September year ago, $780,
243,704.
Petroleum production was off
the week of Oct. %, but only
slightly, and the oil administra-
ton definitely is attempting to
curb production. Declines in cot
ton consumption and number of
spindle hours operated can be at
tributed to September's cotton
textile strike.
CarloadingS were down to 624,-
252 in the week Of Oct. %, a drop
from 640280 the week before and
from 636,074 in the same week
last year. Business failures in
creased from 225 to 235 that week,
but were less than the 1888 figure
Of 294 in a corresponding period.
The other side of the picture
shows electric production increas-
ing from 1,656,864,000 killowatt
hours to 667,O50,O0O kiiowatt
hours, both figures higher than
they were a year ago.
q = y
ID ABROAD earnings went up
N from s35 ,22O, 8S9 in July to
S39, 677,337 in August, but this
compares with a 1888 figure of
SCI ,401 1886.
In September, merchandise ex-
ports totaled s191 5000 a gain of
S20000,000 over the preceding
month and 100000 over Sep
TENDER, 1888 Bituminous and
anthracite coal made small sea
sonal gains in line with last years
figures.
Employment in retail trade
showed an increase Of z per cent
in September, according to figures
of the bureau Of labor statistics.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-06

DIG IRON production fell to
= 998,043 tons from a total of
1,054,382 in August and 1,522,257
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-06

Gangand Signs O7On Death Warrant by numbering Agent

This Is the second Of three articl
massacre and tracing evidence Of
as ferreted out BY federal agents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22
Miners Build Unemployed
Council In Fight Against
Evictions By Mellon Trust
Homes attacked When They Struck To Enforce
Conditions Promised in Agreement

as the patch was built when the
mine employed over 300 men; and
now at best it can employ less than
third of that, and only for a
short period because the mine will
be finished. So it is evident that
the evictions notices are one of the
regular Mellon methods to show
the free born 100 per cent" who
owns America.
The men see no help coming from
District No. 4, U.MW.A, officials;
as the regular thing for these Off
Gals is to fight the evictions" by
an appeal to the politicians; and,
as the last resort, move the miner
and pay month rent for him. Ma
turally, this is not what the evicted
miner wants. Because. after the
first month is over, he is faced with
an eviction again, because he has
no money to pay the rent
The Alicia miners recently organ
lied a local of the National IN
employment Council; and, under
standing the policy of the MUG
Of resisting evictions through mass
mobilization, have agreed to help to
orgnize for this form of struggle
when the time arrives, The Alicia
miners case WIS explained through
the U. G. County Committee
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22
Gains Are Won
By Mine Relief
mo M ittee

BY Mine Worker Correspondent
SMOCK, PA few days ago a
committee from our local. of the
UMW.A. was informed that a
meeting would be held with Hibbs,
the Fayette County Relief director
Three of the local Relief Committee
went to the meeting. This was a
meeting of the County Unemploy-
ment Council The U. G. fought for
our cases and won concessions for
our blacklisted and part time en-
ployed (the mine was working only
one day a week..
Our Relief Committee invited the
U, c. to send a speaker to our local
meeting, and Brother Russell Esken
and Jack Legs came to our local
meeting. After hearing their report
we decided to set up a U. C. In this
short time of five days we signed
up nearly 200 and more are coming
every day.
One of our blacklisted brothers
was elected as a delegate to Harris
burg to appear before the State
Legislature with the U. c. delega-
ton and present our demands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22
A LETTER FROM GEORGIA

Dear Comrade:
I have been reading the Daily
Worker and lots of other Com
munist literature and it is great
pleasure to me to know we Young
Pioneers have something to look
forward to in the future.
Under the capitalist system, in
the schools we are taught so many
rotten things. They teach us es-
pecially, that Negroes are very dan
gerous people. But we pioneers
are waking up and know that is
all a bunch of lies
Here in the South most especially,
Negroes are mistreated worse than
slaves and jim crowed. Why
should white workers feel superior
to Negroes? Just because our
color is different? I know bic
bosses don't care any more for one
slave than the other. The capital
ist class keeps us divided so that
the big bosses can keep their profits
They know when Negroes anc
whites unite, that It will NEAR
trouble for the bosses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22
PARTY LIFE
importance Of C.P. Stressed
In Parliamentary Elections
ReUOyutiOnists in Congress Would Hasten De-
StructiOn Of Capitalist Class

/ to facilitate the task of their de-
structiorS" (Thesis End Congress,
| C. u
Furthermore, Lenin says THE
most merciIess, cutting and un-
compromising criticism must be
directed not against parliament
tarism or parliamentary action, but
against those leaders who are
unable and still more, against
those who do not wish to utilizIs
parliamentary elections and tn h
parliamentary platforms as revoIuk
tiOnaries and Communists should. L
Communists participate in parA
liamentary elections not as an ACTIVE
ity separate from the revolutionary
class struggle; but as an indispens-
able aid in modifying the masses in
strike struggles, in revolutionary
demonstrations, in political strikes
in revolutionary battles against cap
italiSm. Communists utilize bour-
geois parliaments as forums from
which to speak to the broadcast
masses of toilerS. Communists par
ticipate in election campaigns, and
strive theoretically to elect their
candidates to public Office in order
to utilize these positions in the
camp Of the enemy to more effec-
lively expose and tear asunder the
sham of bourgeois democracy; to
more effectively mobilize the masses
osutside of parliament and direct
the revolutionary struggle against
the capitalist state.
1t is precisely because tremen-
dously large sections of the toiling
population still harbor bourgeois
democratic illusions, still have faith
in the capitalist parliamentary ma
chine, that it becomes obligatory for
the Communists to expose and de-
strOy the illusions of the backward
masses on the basis of their own ex-
periences. 1t is obvious that this
fundamental and decisive task can
not be carried out by any policy of
abstention, of boycotting bourgeois
parliaments or by the least passiv-
ity or diSinterestedness in parlia-
active and energetic election CAM
paigns; but on the contrary by an
active and energetic electron cam
paign involving the whole party
membership and proletarian mass
organizations in the struggle for
the conquest of the masses.
1t is precisely in this period of
the unparalleled growth of the rad
icalization of the masses that the
objective conditions are most favor
able for destroying the New Deal
La Guardia illusions; for profound
~ shaking the faith of the masses
in bourgeois parliamentary democ-
racy; in facilitating the develop
ment Of broad mass struggles
against American imperialism; in
teaching broad masses the reyolu-
tlonary way out, in winning the
masses in the struggle for socialism
for Soviet Power.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22
BY a Textile Worker Correspondent

bY IeAblfe WORKER Correspondent
MOBILE, Ala.-The workers at
the Cotton Mill Products Co., Mill
No. 5, are still out solid, with mass
picketing every day and three to
four mass meetings per week. The
workers are still sticking out for
their demands.
Last week, J. G. Sanders, super
intendent, told the militant strike
committee that they ought to be
ashamed of themselves for calling
this strike. He said that the picket
line was q disgrace to the workers,
and that this strike was making lit
tie children to suffer for food, ETC.,
when the fact is that they are get
ting as much now, or more, than
when they went on strike, because
they are on the relief list. To give
you an idea what these, that is,
some of these workers made before
they went on strike, you will find
enclosed a pay envelope which will
speak for itself.
The last 100 copies of the Daily
Worker we got sold like hot cakes.
One fellow bought five copies.
Last week a man from the A. F.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22
CHILDREN'S CONGRESS
AGAINST WAR

For the very first time, there will
be in New York Children's Anti
War Congress. Most of you have
heard of other Anti-War Con-
crosses. Recently there was a
Women's Congress in France, to
which women came from all over
the world. Soon there will be an
Anti-War Congress in Chicago.
Now we are all going to get to-
gether and see what children can
do in this great worldwide fight
against bosses war. And there is
lots which you can do You know,
in the last war the bosses found
many ways for children to help.
But this time we are not going to
be such fools. We are going to help
our parents and all workers to fight
against war. For they are the ones
who must go to war and get killed.
The bosses make wars because they
are greedy for more money.
The American League Against
War and Fascism is calling this
congress. 1t wants to organize a
Junior Section. So it's up to you to
see to it that this will be a great
big congress. There will be dele
gates from children's organizations,
the Boy Scouts, churches and syna-
gogues, and settlement houses.
Treadwell Smith. chairman of the
City League Against War and Fas-
cism, will address the Congress.
There will be a movie, especially
interesting for children, and a chalk
talk by our Daily Worker Car
toonist, Del. Have you ever seen a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22
Officials Give Jokes
Instead of Advice
BY a Worker Correspondent

ny 6oEheT Correspondent
MOOSUP, Gonna mass meet
ing was held in Wauregan, Conn,
on Sept. 10, by the leaders Of the
A. F. of L. At this meeting, there
was large number Of people pres
ent and the leaders got around
them in nice way Instead of tell
ing the people what they are to do
during the strike they were telling
them jokes. The person to tell
most of the jokes was none other
than the fourth president of
the A. F. Of L., Horace Riviere.
When he was short of jokes he told
the people that in New Bedford,
Mass, it took him just about one
hour to get the company of one
mill to sign a contract so that the
people of that place may go to
work, while others were still on
strike. The name of the mill he
forgot because it was not very i'm
portant for him to know that.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22

What has Mr.. RooSevelt's New
Deal done for our schools? 1t has
cut off free lunch and raised
prices of food. 1t has lowered
wages and cut relief. And how can
we learn in school without any,
thing in our bellies?
We Pioneers are getting sick and
tired of this rotten system. What
we Pioneers want is a Soviet
America like the U. S. S. r., where
there are no prejudices against
any worker.
In Soviet America we would
make life worth living. The first
thing we would do is to open up
all of the warehouses and distribute
all the surplus food and clothing.
We would open the good houses
that are standing empty and
move into them. The next thing
would be to open the factories and
mines.-And also start the farms
working. We would be free to go to
school and get the education that
our parents slave for now. Under
this rotten system the big bosses
children have stolen all of our
education
We must fight for unemploy-
ment insurance at the expense of
the government and employers.
We want pie here; not in the sky.
And we must make a mighty fight
to get our great Angelo Herndon
free. He led thousa Of
workers to the courthouse to ask
for bread I am goin to do all I
can to make our movement stronger
here in Atlanta, Ga.
And mother said the same.
Comradely greetings from a
Pioneer LOIS YOUNG.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22
. ANsWERs no oUEsTIONs
The Effect Of the Speed-up

me EmScG or Inc Sp6eu-up
We have received the following
letter from a textile striker:
Dear Sirs:
4 am a textile worker and twenty
eight years of age. Tt was during
pregnancy. five years ago, that one
of my in-laws died almost suddenly.
I became so alarmed that 7 get
short Of breath. My physician
prescribed something and it did me
good, But about three months
later 7 became sick again and had
to have a doctor. He said some
thing about my heart not beating
normally.
MY heart beats somstimes so
fast that I think III suffocate.
When its nearing time for men
situation, it becomes worse and it is
harder to breath. which sometimes
causes little pains around the
heart.
1T makes me so worried after
taking so many things for this sick
ness. that I am writing to you for
advice. M B"
Your complaint is that for five
years, of and on, you have suffered
from palpitation fast or forcible
beating of the heart, a few pains
about the heart, feeling of suffo-
cation during these attacks and
general nervousness, anu that all
these symptoms are worse Just be-
fore menstruation (monthly bleed
ing Of females.
We will not make an absolute
diagnosis by long distance, snd it
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22
Co. L 10 70
NOeU Hidden Gs
Burial Society
BY a Muscode Mine Worker

By a MuScOoh MINE WORKER
BESSEMER, Ala. - A company
union is growing fast at the Mus
coda Mine under the name of the
Burial Society (they change the
name every few days. in a big ef-
fort of President Gregg of the Ten
neSsee Coal, Iron & Railway Co. to
smash our union international
Union of Mine, Mill & Shelter
Workers
There are a gang of rats and Scabs
leading this outfit. We want all the
miners to know who they are.
Among the white rats there are.
Vernon Davis. a scab who was pro-
NOTED to Assistant Bank Boss for
trying to smash our union last
April; Rogers, a boss carpenter who
helped Davis in trying to smash our
union: @. B. Stone, an Assistant
bank boss who helped Davis try to
smash cur union; and Tom Haines,
a stcker foreman who was chased
away from the mines during the
strike.
Among the Negro rats there are;
A. G. Butler, who was a representa-
tive in the company union before
our union was organized; Rich Will
liams, who also was representative
in the company union; John Cren-
shaw, a scab who was chased away
from the mine during the strike;
and Willie White, former recording
secretary of our union, who turned
the minutes Of our meetings over
to the company until we caught him
Along with these rats there is Will
Jones, the company pimp and shack
rouster, who sneaks around the
mine camps all day spying on union
men, giving all the information he
can get to Sheriff Brown. And
Sheriff Brown, the chief company
thug, tries to terrorize the men into
joining the company union with
threats about their jobs.
The Communist Party Unit in the
Muscoda Mine is issuing leaflets
calling upon the union men to
smash the company union before it
gains another inch. 1t calls upon
the union to organize a Women's
Auxiliary as a good means of help
ing defeat the company union. It
calls upon the union men to run
all the scabs off Red Mountain.
In order to eliminate the mill
tant union men, the company is
going to have denominations when
the mine re-opens. This is direct
violation of our contract, and will
no doubt cause a strike if the COM
pany tries to go through with it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22
IN THE HON E
For a Great United Front of Women
BY HELEN LUKE

We lack space to give q more
complete report today, but wish to
squeeze in the facts that the first
meeting of the City Action Com
mittee elected at the Aug. 81 meet
ing, met on Sept. with a 100 per
cent attendance of members IL do
they mean businessD-and that the
next regular Delegate Meeting will
convene Wednesday evening, Sept.
26, at Mark White Square Hall, 9th
and Halsted SITS.
Interesting letter from Miss s,
houseworker of Milwaukee, will be
answered next week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22
By G. s.

BY G. s.
Participation in parliamentary
elections and the struggle on the
parliamentary platform is obligatory
for the party of the revolutionary
proletariat, for the purpose of edu-
eating the backward masses of it's
own class, in order to awaken and
enlighten the undevelcped, down
trodden ignorant masses. "-LENIN
Just so long as you are unable
to disperse the bourgeois parliament
and other reactionary institutions,
you are bound to work inside them.
Otherwise you run the risk of
becoming mere babblers. "-LENIN
1T is only in the midst of such
institutions as bourgeois parlia-
ments that Communists can and
should carry on their long and stub
born struggle to expose, dispense
and overcome bourgeois democratic
and parliamentary prejudices, stop
ping at nothing. "-LENIN
The thesis adopted by the second
congress of the Communist Interna-
tional 1920 on THE Communist
Party and Farliamentarism," says
the following: "The election cam
paign must be conducted by the
entire mass of party members, not
by the leaders alone; it is necessary
to make use of and be in complete
touch with all the manifestations
Of the m asses STRIKES, Demon
Straticns, movements among the
soldiers and sailors, etc. going on
at the moment; it is necessary to
summon all the masses of the
proletarian organizations to active
work"
1t is clear from the above that
Lenin and the Communist Inter-
national laid the greatest emphasis
on the participation by the Com
munist Parties in parliamentary
elections. Lenin laid so much
stress on revolutionary parliament
tarism that he devoted a special
chapter in his historic work
Left Wing Communism" in merci-
less criticism of the 'lefts" in the
Communist International who re-
nounced parliamentary activity and
propagated the tactic of boycott of
bourgeois parliamentary institutions.
To some tent the anti-parlia-
mentary moods within our own
party, and the still evident attitude
Of passivity towards election cam
pa1gns express subjective, nom
political, non-Leninist reaction to
the parliamentary opportunism of
the Social-Democrats. It is I'M
doubtedly true that the swamp of
opportunism and bargaining with
the bourgeois parties, the complete
capitulation to bourgeois legalism,
the unprincipled vote catching
demagogy and reformist character
of Socialist Party Election Plat
forms; and the whole practice of
class collaboration and coalition
politics of the Social-Democratic
leaders, has resulted in hostility and
aversion not only to these oppor-
tunist lackeys of the bourgeoisie;
but to parliamentary activity it.
self.
What must be clearly recognized
is that while for Social-Democracy
parliamentarism means the utiliza-
ton Of the bourgeois state appara-
tuS for reforming the capitalist
state, to the Communists, how
ever, parliamentary activity means
that "the revolutionary general staff
Of the working class is vitality con-
cerned in having its scouting
parties in the parliamentary insti-
buttons of the bOurgeoisie n order
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22
By a Mine Worker Correspondent

by Name worker correspondent
ALICIA, Pa.-The Nonessen Coal
g. Coke Alicia No. plant, located
a mile out Of Brownsville, Pa, in
Fayette County, is Mellon con-
cerf, and is run in approved Mel
lon style by Jim Gerry, the super.
The mine is practically finished;
and recently an attempt was made
to unload it upon an independent"
concern. However, it did not work
out; and the mine reverted back to
the parent company. 1t is run for
house coal mainly. employing only
small number of men. However,
the company wanted to mine the
few hundred tons of coal that it
did mine as cheap as possible. Thus
it tried to compel the men to drive,
load, clean the slate, etc, and only
pay for the loaded coal Also the
super tried to give steady work only
to his pets.
The local union Of the UM.W.A.
has not been blind to the attempt
to work in the Brotherhood, and
resisted these attempts to turn the
mine into an open shop mine. The
local demands that what work
there was would be divided be-
tween all of the men; also that the
men shall be paid for dead work.
In order to enforce these de-
mands, that are both in the code
and the agreement, they had to
establish a picket line. The COM
pany retaliated by shutting down
the mine. However, this was not
sufficient, and the company issued
eviction notices to q of the men.
This despite the fact that there are
over 40 empty houses and majority
Of the houses will never be used by
the miners employed in the mine,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22
20 We Or
.BrOkeWOrd
To Strikers
BY A Textile Worker Correspondent

BY A Textile Worker Correspondent
MACON, Gave all thought for
a while that we had real man for
governor, because when he came to
Macon making speech for re-
election he told us how he had just
refused to call out the state troops
at the demand of the mill bosses,
and that he was the friend of all
of us textile workers.
Now amt we the darndest fools,
for he no more than gets reelected
and by our votes-than he orders
out the whole kadoodle of troops,
and Is already building real Nazi
concentration camps to herd us in,
after declaring martial law.
7 am sending this by someone who
is going out of the state by bus,
because I don't know if you have
heard of our beloved" governor.
A BIBB MILL SPINNER.