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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-12
NO HURRY

INTERIOR SECRETARY HAROLD ICKES
has important aims in view when he pro-
poses to strengthen the production control sec
lions of the oil code and have them enacted
into permanent law. Eventually, we believe
such a law must be passed; and cover other
phases of the oil industry as we'll as production
But we question whether this is the time
to change a voluntary agreement into fixed
law.
AS administrator of the oil code, Mr. IckeS
sees its weaknesses better than any one else
But. while the code is being praised and
damned, it appears too early to see all its
flaws, all its strength. Like naval vessel, by
the time the next congress convenes. bill draft
ers can write a more intelligent and compre-
henSve oil law than today.
Meanwhile, the administrator should re-
ceive the fullest cooperation from the in
dustry he is helping to help itself. Otherwise,
it will founder and great exhaustbe natural
resource will be dangerously wasted.
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and her air force; Poland has increased her
forces by $1,000 men; Poland, Belgium and
Czechoslovakia are spending huge sums on
forts: England Japan and the United States
are working fast TO build up their navies
This certainly is not picture Of world
getting ready for a long era of peace and
cooperation. But no greater mistake could
be made than to suppose that these armies
and navies are being strengthened out of
sheer wrong headedness, or to crafty the
vhims Of despotic statesmen.
The nations of the world are arming be-
cause they see trouble ahead; and they see
trouble because there are in the world to-
day innumerable situations which cry aloud
for settlement - Polish corridor and trade
wars, disputed territory in Manchuria and in
Silesia and along the Adriatic and heaven
knows where else, oppressed national minori-
ties, onerous treaties, and so on.
1t ought to be clear by this time that in
viting the nations TO disarm without first set
ting straight these causes of trouble is futile
The armament race is a dangerous and
distressing thing, but it has certain definite
and obvious causes. Before it can be stopped
there must be intelligent and far-sighted ac-
ton to set the fundamentals straight.
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the employees should be forced to
strike to obtain the liberties which
were granted to them under the
NRA as American citizens.
In the employ of Real Silk there
are 564 full fashion knitters and it
is these knitters who form the back
bone of the hosiery industry. 1t
was mainly upon the insistence of
these knitters that vote was taken
to determine who should represent
them.
In the MIRA election there were
cast for the Hosiery Workers union
1852 votes; for the company union,
2,07O votes.
1t is a known fact that the COM
pany Immediately preceding the
election hired many new employees,
the bulk of them boys and girls, and
since it is also fact that the Office
workers, foremen, supervisors, JAM
tors and cafeteria employees we're al
lowed to vote, and the company
used open discrimination against
union employees, it is not surprising
that the vote cast for the company
union was so large.
AS an example of this company's
attitude toward union labor 1 need
only cite the cases of the National
and FulCon-Real Silk owned mills
where the employees unanimously
voted for the hosiery workers union
and to whom recognition never was
granted.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-12

BATTLING A BLIGHT

MATURE, that old girl Of the lsissez-faire
school. is all set TO dry up our wheat and
corn and show us what real crop reduction is
like!
As George E. Farrell, chief Of the wheat
section in the AAA, says. that might be all
right "if farmers weren't people AS it is,
farm family sees blight Of scorching heat
come TO destroy all the labor Of their hands,
leaving them without hope or assets. 1t is a
bitter experience, leaving its results for years
TO come.
Fortunately, this year there is one ray Of
hope for the drought-stricken regions. Those
who have signed the wheat or corn reduction
contracts will get their money-the benefit
pa yments-on the basis of the past years
average production. South Dakota had
drought last year, so that the actual wheat
grown brought in only a little over three
million dollars. while the adjustment pay
ments to South Dakota farmers will total
five millions
The AAA program includes crop insurance.
Such benefits are very comforting when
calsmites strike farmers, whether they grow
cotton, hawgs and cawn tobacco or wheat.
The amendments now proposed to the
agricultural adjustment act would make it
possible to extend such insurance to producers
Of the nonbasic commodities.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-12
ARMAMENTS-THEIR CAUSE

A SURVEY Of national ornaments these
days gives scant reason for any one to
hope that the approaching Geneva conference
will be successful.
Far from preparing for armament reduc-
ton, the major powers seem to be almost
unanimous in their determination to increase
their strength.
A glance around the arena, for instance
shows such phenomena as the following:
France has built great chain of frontier
forts and has increased her army by $1,000
men.
Germany has boosted her army and navy
budget from 1858 100000 to s35S,OOO,OOO.
Russia has increased her army by more
than 100000 men.
Japan has added somewhere between 1OO,-
600 and 100000 men to her armed forces in
three years.
Italy has added 5000 men to her navy
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DEMOCRATS VS.. PROGRESSIvES

MACHINE politicians are reported to have
A'A blocked in Wisconsin and New Mexico
the movement to draw Republican Progress
sives into the Democratic party
James Farley, the Democratic national
chairman (and United States postmaster
generaD, has failed to make the most of an
opportunity to establish the Democratic party
as the majority party of the nation through
fusion with the Progressives.
In California. apparently, fusion is be-
ing accomplished through the nomination of
Senator Hiram johnson by both the Demo-
cratic and the Progressive parties. 1t is such
an obviously good political move that the Re-
publican party in California may forget its
pque against the boiling Hiram and also give
him the Republican nomination in order to
Offset the effect of the Progressive Democratic
coup.
Credit for the California fusion goes, it
seems, to the long headed Senator McAdoo
who saw the advantage to be gained by making
California a Democratic state in other than
landslide years.
In wisconsin, fearful of losing party con-
troll through cooperation with the La Toilette
Progressives, Farley is encouraging the Demo-
cratic leaders to pursue a course that in the
long run can only return the party to its
miserable minority status. The same thing is
happening in New Mexico
Men like Senators Cutting and La Toilette
were the advance guard of the new deal. They
helped President Roosevelt to bring it into be-
ing If the Democratic party of the future is
to be a Roosevelt Democratic party, the Pro-
gressive leaders will be needed in the front
line trenches.
Defeat of Senator La Toilette and Senator
Cutting by reactionary Democrats would do
more harm to the Roosevelt program than the
loss of any half-dozen of the conservative
Democratic senators up for reelection this
YEAR
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Education, Destroyer of Prejudice

norance of individuals. But we
do become tremendously inter
ested in destroying prejudice, and
in giving the blessings of educa-
ton to the children of men.
One could scarcely conceive of
a nobler, more abundant life than
may be found in Wiggam's con-
ception of the joys of the mind
and soul of the truly educated
man. Let us light our smoking
torches from those who carry thii
flame. What privilege to hold
this light aloft in the dark places
of the world!
Then let us carry these glad
tidings to our friends who read
the editorial pages of the so-called
conservative Indianapolis news
papers.
If you will but open your minds,
The Times will educate you.
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YOU'RE MISTAKEN;
HERE'S YOUR LETTER
BT q Looper.

BY a Looper.
To v. F. H:
You speak of knitting as if it
took a college education to do it.
I suppose it takes education to run
knitting machine and stick your
head out the window half of the
time to make "wisecrackS" at girls
as they go to work. If you have so
much education, why are you knit
ting? You should be President of
the United States.
You speak OF j. A. Goodman as
if he should work for SIS a week.
I suppose you would work fifteen
years to build a hosiery mill up TO
where Real Silk is and not ex-
pect TO make a profit.
I have seen Kentucky folk with
more brains in a minute than some
of you fellows have in a week. You
are like a lot more persons who
have worked at Real Silk, take and
take, and when you amt getting any
more, you squawk your head off.
We need protection. You only
fight when you have six TO one IN
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-12
MORE TIME FOR FLOWERS

From Memphis Scmitsr)
TENNESSEE valley housewives will have
i more time to tend their flowers this
summer.
Household drudgery with its backaches is
disappearing.
First, the Tennessee Valley Authority
brings the price of electricity tumbling down.
Then the Electric Home and Farm Author
ity follows through with its campaign to cleo
trify the American home by selling electric ap-
planes cheaply on easy-payment plans.
Displays will be opened this month in
Tupelo. Chattanooga, Knoxville and Wilson
Dam.
Ultimately electricity Will:
Wash the dishes,
Heat the water.
Cook the meals,
Make the ice,
Toast the bread,
Sweep the floors,
Lsunder the clothes,
Cool the air in summer,
Heat it in winter,
Play the radio.
And at Tennessee Valley Authority rates,
all this may be brought within the reach of
millions who otherwise would go through life
thinking of the mysterious electric current
simply as luxury to serve the rich.
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Liberal Viewpoint
by pR. HARRY ELMER BARNES

TN most parts of the civilized world women
now have won the right to vote But this
does not get them very far If it does not also
insure them the capacity to eat. The undeniable
facts about the inadequate financial reward of
women workers makes it perfectly clear that
there is a bigger job ahead for our feminists
than the crusade for the right to vote
One of the major contributions of the indus
trial revolution was that it took tens of millions
Of women out Of the home and put them into
industrial occupations. The census of 1880 re-
vealed the fact that out of 43.820,000 persons
gainfully employed in the United States no less
than TO- $4,000 we're women. We can not ignore
the question of the purchasing power of so large
block of wage earners. II their income is
seriously restricted, American prosperity is bound
to be impaired.
Those interested in the industrial status and
well-being of women workers in America may be
earnestly urged to read the thorough recent
work of Miss Grace Hutchins ("Women Who
Work International Publishers So Miss
Hutchins gives US thorough and up-to-date in
formation relative to every phase of woman's
part in contemporary economic life. Her figures
on women's wages Chapter VID are challeng-
ing and disconcerting.
CHE shows that even under the new deal the
- average wage of women workers in the
Indeed, in the first three months of 1893, the
average was $1062 week. Women's wages in
the United States today average from 20 per
cent to 10 per cent below the wages paid to
men for comparable types of work
Here is a phase of "women's rights" which
should engage the attention and enlist the activ-
ity of our women's clubs and all others inter-
ested in lettering the condition of the female
population Of our country In some cases the
discrepancy between mems wages and Women's
wages is truly ScandalouS. In the New Ken
Sington (Pa) plants of the Aluminium Company
Of America women were paid $145 a day in
1888 for work for which men formerly received
S. a day
These figures are not only significant with
respect to justice for women. They also in
dicate how the purchasing power of the Amer
lean public as whole is being depleted. Every
time man is supplanted by woman who re-
ceives wages, purchasing power is reduced to
just this degree
IN some industries since the depression par
l. tcularly in restaurants and in sweatshops
in the clothing and dress industries wage pay
ments to women and girls have been criminally
low
Even under the new deal there is no assur-
ance that women will be paid adequately The
minimum wages run in the codes from $40 so
to $l4 week. In many cases, men who earned
more have been turned out and replaced bv
women paid according to the code minimum
Just how far we from social Justice for
women workers in American economic society
today may be seen from two budgets The first
is the weekly budget of woman worker re-
ceiving $17.20 a week-better paid by far than
the average woman:
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-12
ASSAILS ADVERTISING OF
BUSINESS BUILDERS

BY an Ex-Standpatter.
The all-time low in Indianapolis
advertising seems to have been at
tanned for the Associated Business
Builders compaign against the "agi-
tator," which means directed against
union labor and a fair wage for
labor, and with no apparent cog
nizance that prosperity, more than
anything else. depends upon fair,
decent wage for the workers.
Indianapolis is no mean city, as
Benjamin Harrison said of it long
ago. But it would have ranked
higher among American municipali-
ties if workers had been given their
just share of the profits and had
not organized attempts of certain
employers been directed to suppress
ing, so far as possible, the ambitions
of the workers.
Are we sometimes hypocritical
and illogical when we pirate of
American labor as superior? Indi-
annapolis has imported Anglo-SaXon
labor from Tennessee and Kentucky
and these workers are getting, if
employed, low wages.
Union labor is not perfect in or
ganization or perhaps in theology.
Neither are union labor leaders. But
union labor has cried out for decent
working conditions in mines ard
shops and has looked after the in
dustrial welfare of the women and
children in industry
Haven't men and women toilerS,
protecting their interests and the
interests of their children, the right
to their "agitator,' the business
builders word for their leader or
business manager, even as the en-
ployers' organization has the right
to paid executive secretary?
The advertisement quotes from
the city directory as follows:
Indianapolis is generally about
95 per cent open-Shop and nom
union, industrially and CONNER
cially." That is the kernel
The advertisement before me re-
fers to the teamsters' strike of
twenty years ago, "fomented by an
Col iICL OIGc0 VI bIlGSG dSIOdbOIo.
Look up the names of the promi-
nent ministers and social workers,
the local humanitarians who we're
with the striking transfers and
compare them with the business
men who armed and patrolled the
streets to control the lawlessnesS
inspired by these strikers"
If my memory is exact, the team
sters were striking for a raise of
50 weekly, from S12 to $14, which
latter wage would not have sup
ported a family of three in decent
circumstances.
I remember one of these business
men-he was the leader of a squad
modified at the Chamber of Com
merce building. He then was lin
the money" but his daughter is
striker now, which proves that
generation may bring changes that
is we'll worth while for us COM
placent ones to contemplate.
I'm no union man. suppose I'm
on the side of the employer, for 1
have shares in big industrial in
stitutions, and they pay dividends,
which are nice to receive. How
much of these dividends should 60
to larger wages for the workmen, I
don't know. But certainly some.
Wages are nobler than profits.
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Capital Capers
by GEORGE ABEL.

ME ambassador of Argentina and Nine
u FeIlpe ESpn entertained at party for the
retiring minister of Norway and Nine. Bachke
Lovely Nine. ESpil stood at the top of the stair
way dressed in printed chiffon and fanked by
the wife of the Argentine counselor. receiving
her guests.
1t was good party. The cocktails were be-
yond reproach. The sandwiches tasted like
sandwiches, instead of sand The ices looked
good. The conversation, enlivened by such witty
conYersationalistS as Colonel John. Philip Hill
progressed satisfactorily.
Colonel Hill was in full dress uniforn-bright
blue, with gold epaulets, a gold stripe down the
breecheS, and brightly polished boots with spurs
Earlier in the afternoon he had introduced
pretty girl models at the fashion show at Walter
Reed hospital.
Gorgeous girls!" enthused John Philip Hill
He removed his white gloves
1 am a White House aid" he announced
triumphantly Lets have liuueur." foot
man proffered a dry Martini
"Garcon a vodkal' he ordered
They handed him a Martini cocktail.
Colonel Hill is running for the governorship
OF Maryland on the Republican ticket He gave
a republican flourish to his gold epaulets.
Have glass of wine with me?" he begged
The girls were gorgeous. Garcon, two glasses
of wine!7
They handed him two Martini cocktails.
dump, rosy-cheeked Minister Bostrom of
Il Sweden wandered through the crowd
L have just been to the cinema" he an
nounced in his gravy-like Swedish accent Il
saw Mr.. ArliSs in The House of Rothschild
1t is not historically accurate"
BoStrom looks like Charles XII of Sweden
historically accurate" whispered a history ex-
pert.
GRAY is the prevailing shade apparently for
" masculine fashions.
Sir Ronald Lindsay, his Britannia majesty S
ambassador, wore gray herringbone with
handkerchief to match.
Senior Rubio Vivot. Argentine crack pistol
shot, wore a taupe-colored tie and gray silk
socks.
Lieutenant Colonel Pat Day military attache
Of the British embassy, favored gray tweeds.
Winant Johnson, young man-about- town.
was a symphony of silver-grey. red riband
flashed in his coat lapel
Legion of Honor?" inquired friend
yes The Junior Legion of Honor"
replied Winant
Greek Minister Charalambos Smopoulos had
donned a checked gray suit a la prince of Wales
and looked Hellenicly distinguished with the tip
Of Sapphire-b ordered handkerchief peeping
from his coat pocket.
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your favor. I am sticking to Real
Silk and proud of it.
I am not a pet. I go there to
work not to stick my head out OF
the window and expect 500 a week
for it.
am not from Kentucky. How
ever, if I was would be proud OF II
I am not against the union, but
do not believe in acting as you tel-
lows do.
doubt if The Times will print
this, as it only prints the strikers
side of the story.
I am also a loyal employe.
make from $25 to $50 week, ano
that looks better to me than walk
ing for nothing and losing all J
have.
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BY II. L.
Who is educated and who is I'M
educated? A burning interest in
this all-important question has
famed again and again in this
column. At no time has this fire
been so deeply buried beneath the
rubbish of petty hatreds, sarcasm
and prejudice, but it's light or
smoke has revealed that encour-
aging longing for the things
which are fine and worthwhile.
Let this best which is within us
now come to the front and lead
us to the library Call for Wig
CAMS book, THE Marks of an
Educated Man" Study it dill
gently and return it quickly.
After you have read this thrill
ing book, you will never be quite
the same person you we're before
One no longer finds the same
pleasure in pointing out the ig-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-12
POLICE ACCUSED OF
BRUTAL ATTACK
By a Times Reader.

By a Times Reader.
was bystander on the after
noon of May 8 at North street and
Massachusetts, avenue when a boy,
causing no disturbance whatever, was
brutally attacked by six policemen
acting like a pack of wolves on a
scene.
They used riot clubs freely. Natu-
rally, protected by a uniform and
a badge, these men we're not him
dered.
Not satisfied when the boy fell
they continued beating him.
After staging a grandstand play
they did not even take him to the
hospital for medical aid, which the
city and American citizens would
gladly pay for when an incident
like that occurred. Down TO the
Jail they strutted for more Of the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-12
WORRY AND MISERY
LAID TO STRIKES

BY Bystander.
wonder how many men now
walking the streets are eligible to
become union knitters. If my under
standing Of the requirements of the
American Federation Of Labor of
ll-FaShioned Hosiery Workers
Union is correct, there are very few.
have been secretary to an eXecu-
tive of manufacturing concern for
several years and have had access
to all of the books. If J. A. Good
man made an enormous profit dur
ing the past four years, I will say he
is wonderful business man.
1t hardly seems reasonable to me
that one company could have made
such big profit when all other
firms, with few exceptions, we're los
ing money.
There are two sides to every con-
trOverSy. IF any one of the strikers
had as much money invested as J.
A. Goodman and the other Real
Silk stockholders, would he permit
some outsider to come in and tell
him how to run his business? He
would not, neither would l.
l do not know Mr.. Goodman per-
sonally but I certainly think he is
deserving of great deal Of credit
to have been able to provide a lv-
ing for 5000 persons during the So
called depression. When l say liv-
ing, do not mean merely keeping
the wolf from the door.
He has paid the highest average
wages in this city. If this is not
true, how could his employees drive
good cars, have nice homes, and be
well dressed?
The knitters may have felt justi-
fed IN walking out but how can
they feel justified in damaging
property and endangering lives.
In my opinion, nothing ever has
been accomplished by a strike but
worry and misery
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cruel punishment and fairy tales
that were sure to be told to the
judge upon arriving.
Reverse the circumstances. judge.
and let the big, bad wolves take
off their uniforms and badges and
see how it works.
am wondering which one OF
them would have the nerve to at
tack his equal alone. Maybe they
would, but 1 doubt it.
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Reciprocation
BY VIRGINIA KIDwELL

BY VIRGINIA KIDWELL
Once I was weary with this weight
of love
q bore not only mine, but your
share. too,
So tired felt some ike disposing OF
The entire load and going far
from you.
But suddenly you took from me
your share
And walked with me on paths
that do not part,
And then the load I bore grew light
as air,
A Joy and a treasure IN my heart.
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EMPLOYER CASTS
DECIDING VOTE
By A Times Reader.

By Times Reader.
Does the public understand the
inside of some company unions?
Here is an example of one in a
major oil company in Indianapolis
Four men represent the employees
and four represent the employers.
If these can not come to decision,
the management has the deciding
vote. Just like the good old game
"heads I win, tails you lose"
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DEFINES ISSUE IN
HOSIERY STRIKE
By a Reader.

By a Reader.
In the controversy which has
arisen between the employees and the
management of the Real Silk
hosiery mills, it is well that the pub
lie should know that the one OBJ
jective first and foremost in the
minds of the striking employees is
recognition of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor Hosiery Workers
Union.
1t is to say the least very unfor-
tunate and very ul-Americaa that