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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-06
QUESTIONS MINTON'S
SINCERITY ON BONUS
BY an Ex-Gob.

BY an Ex-Gob.
indianapolis papers carried an ac-
count of an address made by e.
mer w. Sherwood, Republican nom
inee for clerk Of the supreme and
appellate courts, at Indianapolis.
I think Mr.. Sherwood IS abso-
lutely right in his Interpretation Of
Mr.. Minton's stand on the bonus.
If Paul McNutt's puppet, Sherman
Minton, means what he says, namely.
that he is in favor of paying the
bonus when warranted by national
financial conditions, of course he
means to repudiate payment even
when due in 1915, because the way
the administration is throwing away
money, financial conditions will be
worse and worse.
We knew the administration was
opposed TO the war defenders Of
the nation, but this statement Of
Mr.. Minton is the crowning insult.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-06
Pork and Hog Price Spread Discussed

but figures of the bureau Of labor
statistics for Aug. Is. 1884, a high
point in the recent increase in
pork and hog prices, show that
prices at that time were 81 per
cent lower than prices on Aug.
Is, 1929, and 3 per cent under the
1880 to 1888 period, the four years
Of depression.
1t is true that the prices which
the farmer has been receiving are
low, but so have been the prices
which the consumer has been
paying.
Of interest also is Mr.. Highlen's
statement that the city house
wife should not be paying more
for pork chops than she did in
the period from 1909 to 1914"
This shows clearly the representa-
tives of livestock groups, unless
they have had broad experience in
problems of the meat industry,
which includes all divisions, live
stock, packer processing problems
and retail meat dealer problems.
fail to take into consideration that
the standard Of living is much
higher and that the packer and
retailer paid far more to their
employees the last five years than
they did in 1909 to 1914.
For instance, the persons who
cut those pork chops in the retail
meat shop in 1909 to 1914 received
a wage of S12 to SIS a week. The
retailers rent was S25 to $40 a
month. The employee, with his S12
to SIS week, could rent fiat
for S12 to S14 month. He could
purchase a pair Of shoes from the
finest leather for $3.50; a tailor
made suit Of the finest material
from s18 to $25, and so on.
Today the retailer pays a wage
instead of $12 to SIS a week, S35
to $40 a week, and all other ex-
penses are from 200 to 300 per
cent higher.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-06
PROPOSES PAGE ONE FOR
MESSAGE CENTER
By H. l. Osgood.

BY H. 1. 0sgood.
The writer wishes to offer sug-
gestion on the makeup Of The
Times that viii be appreciated by a
majority of its readers.
It is that you devote the two left
hand columns of the front page to
The Message Center.
The spirit Of that old Roman
wisecrack. "Vox populi. vox Deis, -
was not idle truism but reflects in
all time the stern sentiment that
popular opinion is the most power
full force in any civilized COM
munity, hence is deserving Of
prominence in any metropolitan
newspaper.
Too much importance is given to
the commission of crime, the say
ings and doings Of politicians. the
states worst enemies, sports and
general gossip.
The valuable and really important
letters, for want Of time are over
looked and the moral force Of the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-06
PLEADS FOR TRUTH
ABOUT ECONOMICS
By Hiram Lackey.

By Hiram Lackey.
Last Sunday I visited an adult
Sunday school class in wealthy
Indianapolis church. I feel that it
is my duty to know the thoughts Of
all classes. The teacher discussed
President Roosevelt's mechanical
methods Of solving the greed prob
lem in the class struggle.
In his seemingly fair discussion Of
the seldshness Of the employees and
employers, it was easy to see where
the teachers sympathy lies. In
that sympathy he can find the chief
obstruction to the restoration Of
economic justice.
1t is true that the greed OF en-
ployes will be our future problem.
because slavery makes tyrants. And
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-06
Grey Visitor
BY HARRIET SCOTT OLINICK

BY HARRIET SCOTT OLINICK
Death came walking in my garden;
Found my wealth of flowers there.
Cleaning gold of black-eyed susans;
Asters with their purple stare.
Death came walking in my garden;
Walked and killed without a
sound.
Now the rich blood of my zennias
Lies in splotches on the ground.
Blue bells of my slender larl<spur
VIII not ring again for me.
Sharp winds howl and tear TO
ribbons
AL the leaves upon my tree.
Death came walking in my garden;
Came as still as a grey mouse.
I stand and view the deSolation.
Win he come into my houses
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-06

By John A. KOtal. Executive Secretary,
National Association of Retail Meat
Dealers.
I noted with a great deal of in
terest an article which appeared
under the heading, Indiana in
Brief" in the Sept. 4 issue of The
Indianapolis Times. 1t quotes Lee
R. Highlen, director of the Indi-
ana Farm Bureau livestock mark
citing department, on the subject
of retail prices of pork as related
to hog prices. The last paragraph
was of especial interest to me. 1t
read:
During the last few years the
retail prices of pork have been
practically as high as when hogs
we're $40 a hundredWeight, yet the
farmers received prices that grad
ually were bankrupting them. The
present economic distress will not
be removed until farmers receive
a profit above the cost of produc-
ton, and the present prices Of
IlOSS QO llOO lCGu1 IL UlldO 4IACCAl.
The department of agriculture,
however, has issued figures which
show that the spread between hog
prices and pork prices show rela-
lively little change from year to
year. Unfortunately the figures I
have are only for the higher
priced cuts of pork, but they show
the price trend rather clearly. 1
have chosen Sept. /, 1880, because
it was one of the last days that
hogs sold at $40 hundredweight.
Percent
1880 1884 Lower
Hogs. per cwt.. $1,000 s781 %
Pork chops, per ID. SO IS 80
Ham. per Id. ..... .26 %
Picnics per lb..... ri II 19
II is easily seen from the fore
going figures that the consumer is
not paying as much for pork now
as he did when hogs were selling
for $40.
Much has been said lately about
the increase in the price of pork,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-06
OTHERS LEAD, WE FOLLOW

TN a state plagued with general strike men,
l. cries, "Utopian" schemes and "epic" plans,
Secretary of Labor Perkins spoke intelligently
to the American Federation of Labor conven-
ton in San Francisco.
She pictured the New Deal not as plunging
into painless economic jungles, but Flooding in
the paths of reconstruction. She stressed the
Importance of the administrators forthcom-
ing social security program. In this reform it
appears. our country is following paths long
since worn by Others
In Europe more than 10000, 900 workers are
insured against the hazards of unemployment
Here, only Wisconsin has such system
The significant fact now stands out" Sec
rotary Perkins said, that in no country which
has experimental with unemployment insur-
ance has the system broken down, even in the
present world depression, and in no country
has the public treasury been called upon for
amounts to relieve distress approximating our
expenditures for relief"
The secretary recalled that even among our
own states social insurance is not unknown.
Here twenty-eight states have some form of
old age pensions; forty-six have mothers PEN
Sions forty-four have worknen's compensa-
ton
To tell in the saddest words what might
have been. Miss Perkins quoted from unem-
ployment insurance studies in Ohio and Min
nesota Had Ohio begun in 1923 to set up
security funds based on per cent of indus
trial pay rolls, with benefits of so per cent of
normal wages lasting sixteen weeks, its fund
would have remained solvent through two
years of the depression and started 1882 with
100000 balance. Had Minnesota in 1926
adopted a plan for pay roll contributions of
2 per cent each from workers and employers.
with benefits of 40 per cent of normal wages
beginning in 1927 and running for forty weeks
of unemployment, the fund would have entered
1882 entirely solvent with a net surplus of
$50. 100000
The next congress should enact a program
covering at least compulsory unemployment
insurance and old age pensions, with some
federal aid to mothers pensions. To make
possible the cooperation of the states in their
1885 legislative season the Presidents program
should be ready before congress meets to pro-
vide time for the inevitable public discussion.
Social insurance is a better and cheaper
way than unemployment doles and poor
houses
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-06
mind?" Mrs. Eddy says-"Mind is

mind?" Mrs. Eddy says-"Mind is
God"
Again, on Page 465 of this text
book, in answer to the question,
What is God?" she says: God is
incorporeal, divine, supreme, in
finite mind, spirit, soul, principle,
life, truth, love-" using the proper
noun in each instance.
1t is not in accord with the teach
ings of Christian Science to use, in
the deif1c sense, any of these seven
synonyms for God as a common
noun or in the plural number. No
where does Mrs. Eddy define mind
as spirit, soul, principle, life, truth,
love-" using these words as common
nouns.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-06
AUTHORSHIP OF
LETTER DENIED

Editors Note-Margaretta Ger
agility, 7O9 East st. Clair street,
states she was not the author of
the letter which appeared in the
Message Center Wednesday with
the name of Margarete Clarity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-06

Travellers leaving Germany are not allowed
to take more than ten marks with them. Ger
many, instead of initiating its money. has in
stead inflated its opinion of it.
With President Roosevelt planning another
s2.OOOOO00OO public works program. We'll have
to admit he's giving the unemployed the
works
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-06
The Message Center

(2tmeS readers are MO4ted to eOpress
their Utetos IN these columns. MGke your
letters SHIRT, so all can hare chance.
Limit them to ESQ sooTdS or Less.I
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-06
THE SPANISH REVOLUTION

d EVOLUTION again sweeps Spain. And
~ now-as FIVE other times since the over
throw Of the monarchy in l9sl-the fight is
TO save the second republic. But for the first
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-06

Brigadier General William Mitchell says
he'd like to see the United States build fifty
dirigibles like the Inflated Akron, which is all
right if We have few more like him to initiate
the bags
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-06

Soviet and Japanese soldiers shot at one
another across the Manchoukuo border, but
both nations were caught of guard So there Il
be no var.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-06

Winter is just around the corner. but you
can bet it won't be as elusive as prosperity
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-17
UNION CONVENTION
TO VOTE ON ACTION
AGAINST WAGE CUTS
A. F. of L. Rank and File Supports Fight
for Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill-To Send 500 Delegates

plan The Wagner-Lewis measure
excludes so per cent Of the work
ing population from unemployment
benefits, while those entitled to I'M
employment insurance would get it
at some future date and even less
than the present meager relief.
Green and the official family Of
the A. F. Of L. have gone even fur
Their than a mere formal endorse
ment of the Wagner bill. Official
communications were sent out to
5000 local unions, Central bodies
and State declarations asking them
to endorse the Wagner bill. 1t was
a challenge to the Workers Unem-
ployment Insurance Bill. Mr.. Green,
however, failed mise.'sbly. In local
unions, as well as in Central Labor
Bodies, wherever both bills were
presented, theWorkers' Bill received
the endorsement of the membership.
In reading the proceedings Of the
54th convention of the A. F. of L.
we find that delegates representing
federal locals introduced the Work
ers' Bill. The delegates from the
Molders' Unions, from the A. A. Of
Steel and Tin Workers, from the
U. T. W. A. and Mine, Mill and
Shelter Union failed to carry out
the mandates Of their respective
conventions, which had endorsed the
Workers Bill. At each of these
International conventions the dele
gates voted unanimously in sup
port of the workers bill. Had the
delegates to the Saith convention
carried out the wishes of their mem
berShip, the Workers Bill would not
have been disregarded by the reac-
tionary resolutions committee
headed by Matthew Vol and David
Dubinsky.
The A. F. Of L. Trade Union
Committee for Unemployment IN
surance and Relief held a conference
on Octobe:. u and 2S in Pittsburgh,
Pa. This conference unanimously
endorsed the Workers Bill and the
Unemployment Insurance Congress
to be held in Washington, D, c.
Already on the initiative of the
Detroit A. F. of L. Committee q local
conference was held on Nov. 18th at
which were present delegates rep
resenting A. F. Of L. local unions,
independent unions, T. U. U. L.
unions and fraternal organizations.
Plans we're made at this conference
for large delegation to attend the
Washington Congress representing
A. F. of L. locals in the city of
Detroit.
The national Committee of the
rank and file movement in the A. F.
of L. set as a goal 500 official dele
gates from A. F. of L. unions and
Central Labor Bodies to attend the
Washington Congress.
While the A. F. of L. chiefs to-
gether with Secretary Perkins and
with the commission appointed by
Pres. Roosevelt are scheming and
conniving how best to defeat q
genuine Unemployment Insurance
system, the rank and file workers
all over the country are modifying
for the support of the Workers
Unemployment and Social Insurance
Bill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-17
The full text follows

To the establishment
insurance, and for other purposes
Be it enacted
United States of America in Congress assembled
That this Act shall be known by the title THE
ployment and Social Insurance
SEC The Secretary directed
to provide for the immediate establishment
ment social the
all workers and
amounts equal to local
nnsered by
rules and regulations prescribed by
insurance commissions of
workers farmers
hereafter be provided at the the
pcyers and the
taxing individual and
No contribution
Of this Act unemployment
be less than $40 week
SEC g. The Secretary directed
the establishment
like amounts and governed by the conditions
Ct this Act for the
for loss Of because part-te old
maternity.
The benefits extended to workers and
farmers without discrimination because color
religious political opinion aation
agricultural domestic professional workers lost No
fu place strikers normal trade-unon
rates under unsafe unsanay conditions
than the prevailing particular locality
or al reasonable distance
Fease inform the following your endorsement of this Bill
Your local Congressman Senator
The Hon MIR. CONNERY, Chairman House Committee of
Labor, Washington G..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-17

MARY VAN KLEECK, Chairman,
Inter Professional Association for
Social Insurance
JULES KORCHIEN, National Sec
rotary, Federation Of Architects,
Engineers, Chemists and Techni-
clans.
JOS. KISS, National Secretary, Fur
rliture Workers Industrial Union.
CORLISS LAMONT, Author, New
York City.
J. j. LEONARD, President Phila-
delphia Local, United Brotherhood
Of Carpenters and Joiners Of
America.
EMIL LINDEN, National Secretary,
Fishery and Cannery Workers
Industrial Union.
HARRY L. LURE, Economist and
Social Worker, New York City.
DAN McBAIN, Secretary, Concord
Branch, Granite Cutters Int'l
Assn OF America.
THOMAS MCGEE, President, West
inghouse Federal Union No. 1892,
Philadelphia, Pa.
WALDO McNUTT, National Chair
man, First Natl Youth Congress.
w. H. MURRAY, Chairman, Unem-
ployed Citizens Leagues, Seattle,
Wash.
@. MORTIMER, White Motor Fed
eral Local, Cleveland.
BROADUS MITCHELL, Socialist
Candidate for Governor of Mary
land.
JAMES MURPHY, National Secre-
tary, National Lumber Workers
Union.
CHARLES MIXER, President, Lo-
cal No. 2242, United Mine Workers
of America, Curtisville, Pa.
ESTHER PENN, National Secretary.
American Federation of Govern
ment Employees.
GEORGE PRIMOFF, Secretary.
Fraternal Federation for Social
Insurance.
LAVERNE PRUETT, Secretary, Lo-
cal No. Sc, Progressive Miners of
America, Illinois.
E. T1LDEN HANDLES, Chairman,
Relief Workers Protective Union,
California.
JAY RUBIN, National Secretary.
Food Workers Industrial Union.
M. A. SHARPE, Chairman, United
Workers Leagues, South Dakota.
JOHN F. SLOAN, Candidate for
President, United Mine Workers
of America, III.
j. STENGLEIN, Secretary, Bakers
Union No. IA, Rochester, New
York.
WILLIAM 3. SPoFFoRD, Execu-
tive Sec'y., Church League for
Industrial Democracy.
BEAUMONT SYKES, Trustee, Lo-
cal No. 252. Int1 Oil Field and
Refinery Workers of America,
Phila., Pa.
ALEXANDER TAYLOR, Executive
Sec'y, Ass'd ONCE and Profess
sional Emergency Employees, NY.
AUDLEY THORPE, Switchmen's
Union of North America.
L. WEINSTOCK, Natl Sec'y., A. F..
Of L. Committee for Unemploy-
ment Insurance
F. WILLIAMS, Sec. Treas, Gallup,
New Mexico, Sub district, Ma
tional Miners Union.
JAY WILSON, Natl Secy., Auto
Workers Union.
ALFRED G. WINTERS, Personnel
Director American Association of
Social Workers.
DR.. REUBEN YOUNG, Natl. Treas,
League Of Struggle for Negro
| Rights.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-17
By LOUIS wEINsToCK

On Jan. S. 6 and It'll a National
Congress for Unemployment snc
Social Insurance will take place in
Washington. D. c. which will brins
pressure upon the o. 8. Congress tc
adopt measures for an unemploy-
ment insurance system based on the
Workers Unemployment and Social
Insurance Bill.
The call to the Congress for I'm
employment Insurance is signed by
representatives of A. F. of L. unions
Independent Unions, TUUL unions
by political parties and by fraternal
and unemployed organizations The
members of these organizations are
carrying on a fight for unemploy-
ment and social insurance and for
immediate relief to the unemployed
The rank and file members of the A.
F. Of L., despite the opposition OF
the reactionary Executive Council
Of the A. F. of L., support the Work
ers' Unemployment and Social In
surance Bill.
In the coming National Congress
for Unemployment Insurance Cen
trial Labor Bodies and local unions
AFFILIATED With the A. 2. of L. will
participate in large numbers TO
help in the success of the congress
The A. F. of L. Trade Union
Committee for Unemployment In
surance and Relief, a rank and file
organization endorsed by thousands
of local unions affiliated with the
A. F, Of L., in the last three years
has been carrying on a relentless
struggle in the A. r. of L. for the
endorsement Of the Workers IN
employment and Social Insurance
Bill. AS a result of this fight more
than $500 local unions, State
Federations of Labor, 5 Interna-
tional Unions representing 100000
members and scores of Central
Trades and Labor Councils have
endorsed the Workers Bill.
The tremendous support given by
hundreds of thousands of rank and
file members to the Workers Bill
made it very difficult for the reac-
tionary leaders Of the Executive
Council to keep up the fight against
unemployment insurance. William
Green and the rest of the members
of the Executive Council of the A
F. Of L. have used every opportunity
to attack even the principle Of I'M
employment insurance. One con-
vention after another has gone on
record against any kind Of unem-
ployment insurance, The chiefs OF
the A. F. of L. we're the first ones
to support Mr.. Morgan in his
block aid" campaign, and Walter
G. Teagles share the work plan
was hailed by them as a new solu-
ton to unemployment. The sc
hour week bill Of Senator Hugo
Black had the unconditional support
of Green and the Executive Council
of the A. F. of L., although the bill
If adopted, would reduce the wages
25 per cent and more. When all
these schemes failed, however, and
mass sentiment was growing for a
genuine unemployment insurance
system, Senator Wagner introduced
his famous unemployment insurance
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-17
National Congress for Unemployment and Social
Insurance in Washington, D. C.
JANUARY 5th, 9Th. 7th

This Congress, meeting at the time when the Con-
of the United States begins its 74th Session. will
to-
Bring together consolidate and demonstrate the great
and growing movement for Federal system of
ployment and social insurance.
Provide the possibility for jointly formulating COM
prehensive plan for all forms of social insurance
Exert pressure upon the 74h Congress of the United
States to act without delay upon such program as is
formulated.
Deepen, broaden and strengthen the movement and
devise program for the necessary further struggle that
must be waged in order to win greater measure of
social security through unemployment and social in
surance
We cordially and earnestly invite all who need and
all who desire to help advance program of adequate
protection against the hazards of unemployment indus
trial accident Sickness old age and maternity to par
cpate in this Congress by eectng delegates from their
every organization Let demonstrate that we are united
in the determination that those who are willing to en-
gage in useful labor shall not be forced to suffer hunger
want and dread of insecurity in the midst of plenty
We call upon all national and local organizations in
all cities and towns to join together in united Congress
Arrangements Committees for the purpose of assuring
united efforts and struggle for unemployment and social
insurance We appeal to every interested individual to
begin Immediately the work of building mighty united
nationwide movement that will win for the wage and
saaried workers in all industries occupations and local
tiles of the United States of decent existence
and freedom from the fear of want and restitution
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-17
American W orkers'
Delegations in USSR
Pay Visit to Kharkov

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 16.-Fol-
lowing the successful Communist
election campaign in the state Of
Ohio, open fascist expressions have
been made against the Communist
Party during the past week
Speaking at the Franklin County
Republican Club, Ronald Kingsley,
execu tive president of the
Americaneers, a patriotic organiza-
ton, urged to check "the rising tide
of Communism sweeping the coun-
try" He referred to the American
Federation of Schools as having
a radical platform, communistic in
principle and aiming at the elin1i-
nation of private and parochial
school system This has all the
signs of fascist organization.