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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-11
DROUGHT VIEWS
ARE FEATURED
IN NEWSREEL
Times Universal Picture
Shows Devastation in
Stricken Area. '

Views of the effects of the great
drought which has kept the United
States in its grip for many days,
causing the deaths of 200 persons
and the destruction of crops valued
at one billion dollars, are to be
seen in the current issue of The
Times-Universal Newsreel, which
has Graham MeNamee, noted radio
announcer, as its talking reporter.
Thousands of acres of grain are
shriveled by the torrid sun that
sends the mercury soaring to new
heights. Rivers are dried up and
parched cattle vainly seek water.
Millions of farmers are left poverty
stricken by the disaster.
Other important events in the
reel include scenes at Millinocket,
Me-, where a terrific forest fire
sweeps thirty acre area; views at
Corbeil, Ont, Can, where quintup-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-11
Beta Chanter to Meet

Beta chapter of Beta Sigma M
will meet at the home of Ed Har-
rington, 631 North Hamilton avenue,
at tonight.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-11
FORMER KAISER
PRAISES HITLER,
FLAYS LEAGUE
Wilhelm Discusses World
Problems, SCOTS at
Geneva Farley.
By United Press

By United Press
LONDON, June IL Former
Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany, in
exile at Doom, Holland, seemed to-
day to retain the sweeping view of
world politics that characterized
him when, before the war. he sought
"a place in the sun" for Germany.
A special correspondent of the
Daily Mail quoted the former en-
peror as reviewing the problems of
China, Japan, India, the League Of
Nations, the wheat and coffee sit
uations in Argentina and Brazil,
modern youth and NaziSm.
Japan seemed to impress him
most.
Approves Japan'S Stand
1T is useless to think that the
growth of japanese power in China
can be prevented" he was quoted
as saying. Japan is as capable OF
giving China peace and order as the
British were in giving them to
India. Moreover, Japan constitutes
in the east bulwark against Boil
shevism as strong as Germany is
in the west
But he emphasized that he looked
on the world entirely from the
standpoint of private gentleman.
He was vigorous, alert and gay, the
Daily Mail correspondent reported.
He started out by discussing his
own position and that of Germany.
The German people turned me
out and if they want me back they
will have to come and fetch me- he
was quoted as saying.
Hitler has done marvelously in
putting new life and soul into the
German people. If ever they felt it
right that his endeavors should be
crowned by the return of constitu-
tional monarchy, I am sure my
family would not fail in their duty.
Amazed by Crop Destroying
Wilhelm expressed amazement
and horror at what he called the
folly of the world in attempting to
reotore prices by destroying goods,
the correspondent said.
He thought no more of the
League of Nations than does Chan
cellor Adolpf Hitler, he indicated.
THE talking circus at Geneva
has done nothing but bring inter-
national cooperation to ridicule,"
he said. The trouble with Europe
today is that there are plenty of
politicians but no statesmen"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-11

@ 1884. LIeezrT & MYzRs TosAoco Ca.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-11
Air Rides Offered
By Times Special

d y IHtUo NpUCtWE
MUNCIE, June 11.-Members of
the Grand Army of the Republic
attending the annual encampment
of the Indiana department of the
organization here June II to 81, will
be invited to take airplane rides.
Between fifty and seventy-five
planes will participate in a show on
June II. On either Monday or
Tuesday hight following, fireworks
will be set off from planes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-11
Love Suit Filed
By Times Special

7 tFNIo NVtJIUE
E SHELBYVILLE, June 11.-Alleg-
ing alienation of the affections of
his wife of more than forty-fve
years, Elmer Crisp has filed suit in
Shelby circuit court here asking
$4,000 damages from Edgar Hoop.
The wife, Mrs. Martha Crisp, is the
mother of five children.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-11

university, as chairman Of the In
dianapolis regional labor board, SEN
ator Robert F. Wagner. national
labor board president, announced
today.
DR.. Beckner is a graduate of But
Ter and holds a degree of master of
arts and doctor of philosophy from
the University of Chicago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-11
AIR MAIL LINE OPENS
Chicago washington Route Through
City Is Resumed.

Air mail service to Chicago and
Washington, through Indianapolis,
now is in service. This service, one
of those awarded under recent re-
organization of contracted lines, was
opened officially when the first
plane cleared municipal airport
yesterday. The line is operated by
American Airlines.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-11
302 to Get Degrees
By Times SpeciaL

By Times Special
MUNCIE, June 11.-Annual COM
mencement exercises of Ball State
Teachers College will be held
Wednesday morning with Governor
Paul v. McNutt as the speaker. A
class of 302 will receive degrees.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-11
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
Indiana in Brief
Lively Spots in the States Happenings Put
Together Short and Sweet
BIZ Time SpeciaI


Newcastle"
IN 20 under of the
S o expand housing facilities
The council in letters announcing the campaign stated that 1000
Newcastle compelled
sufficient
Newcastle S estimated $1,OOOOOO annually
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-11
OMAN GIVES ADDRESS
De Paw Head Commencement
Speaker at Ohio State,

President G. Bromley OMAN of
De Paw university will be the prin-
cipal speaker at the graduation ex-
ercises of Ohio State university to-
lay. A class Of 1900 will be grad
uated at the fifty -seventh annual
commencement exercises.
Among the graduates is william
H. Freeman, indianapolis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-11
HOSPITAL CONCERT SET
PostOfice Band VIII Play for
Veterans Thursday.

Indianapolis postof1ce band will
play under the auspices of Federal
post, No. So, American Legion, in
an open air concert at the United
States Veterans hospital Thursday
night. The 50-piece band will play
a varied program.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-11
JUNE II, 1884

let girls have shattered medical rec
ords by remaining alive after birth,
and scenes at Goshen, N. Y, as
trotters make their 1884 debut in a
thrilling race around the historic
track.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-11
LABOR LEADER NAMED

Butler Professor Selected TO Head
Regional Board.
DR.. Earl r. Beckner, associate pro-
feSsor of economics at Butler uni
versity, will succeed DR.. Stanley
Coulter, dean emeritus of purdue
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-11
CITY MAN OBSERVES
HIS 103D BIRTHDAY
jeremiah WeIIman Celebrates An

Jeremiah WeIIman Celebrates An
niversary at Home.
Many birthdays probably were cell
ebrated in indianapolis yesterday,
but first honers went to jeremiah
L. Wellman, who observed his 103d
birthday anniversary.
Mr.. Wellman lives at the home of
his grandniece, Mrs. Isaac S. Haver-
stick, 1915 North Belle Vieu place.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-29
Trenton C.. p.
to Hold Rally
and Banquet
18th Anniversary Ban
quet to Follow Ratifi-
cation of Candidates

TRENTON, N. j., Sept. %. "A
mass ratification conference for the
endorsement Of the Communist cleo
ticn program and candidates will be
held here on Sunday night at
pm. in the Arcade Hall, Is E. State
Street.
A call has been sent out to all
working class youth, trade union
and fraternal organizations. and
5000 leaflets have been distributed
urging the individual workers Of the
city to attend.
Delegates are expected from Roe
bling, Princeton, Chambersburg,
East Trenton and other neighbour
ing communities.
The report on the immediate tasks
of the conference and of all work
ers participating in the campaign
will be given by Joseph B. Olden,
election campaign manager. Other
speakers will be Alex White, Section
organizer of the Communist Party
of Trenton H. SAFER, district organ
izer, and Thomas McNally, Con-
gressional candidate.
Following the conference. there
will be banquet in celebration Of
the 18th anniversary of the Com
nunist Party in the same hall.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-29
Philadelphia Strike Firm

fSpecisi to the Daily WorShTl
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Sept. 2S.-
Sentiment for the general marine
strike is developing rapidly. Nearly
300 strike pledge cards issued by
the M. W. L U. have been signed
by sesmen of ships and beach. A
committee Of the M. w. 1. U. has
been elected to approach the I. S.
U. and the I. W. w. on the united
front. A mass meeting is called
for tonight with Roy Hudson as
speaker, to elect a strike prepara-
tons committee.
Longshoremen are still picketing
the Ericsson Line, although pickets
have been reduced to ten on agree
ment by L L. A. delegates with the
police. The longshoremen of the
Southern Steamship Co., who are
organized in the M. w. I. u. ap-
preached 1. L. A. Coastwise Local
No. 1882 for a united front on
wages, conditions and strike prepa-
rations.
meeting.
The workers greeted the united
front proposals and elected COM
mittee of ten from I. L. A. Local
1882, with a similar number OF
Southern Steamship workers, to
meet tomorrow night.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-29
Daily Drive Action
Needed in Chicago

Continued from Page u
Communists and revolutionary
workers may donate to the Daily
Worker.
Our motto, in the Chicago Dis
trict-and elsewhere-is spread the
financial drive for the Daily Worker
to the broad masses of the toiling
population" in our district.
Finally, we want to say, basing
our resolve on previous experience,
that the drive must not be con-
fined to the city of Chicago. The
Party units and sections and frac-
tions in Southern Illinois and IN
diana must likewise develop the
campaign
Our past experience shows that
outlying sections did not participate
in the campaign, with the excuse
that the workers are too poor to
contribute. The quotas assigned to
the outlying sections must be filled!
We are in the drive for 100000
for the Daily Worker-and $4,000
is the quota for the Chicago Dis
trict-with the full conviction that
the task can be achieved and in
relatively short time.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-29
Big Rally
Closes Tear
Gas Factory
Especial to tn. Daily work.r>

NSpCOiht W INC DhHS horserl
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 28.-work-
ers Of Pittsburgh held q protest
demonstration on Wednesday at the
Federal Laboratories factory st
Forty-f1rst Street, where most of the
tear gas used against strikers is
manufactured, forcing the owners
to close down for the day.
Speakers denounced the manufac-
turers and exposed the role of their
statesmen in promoting the interna-
tional sale of gas and arms for use
against the workers and farmers of
various countries. The meeting was
held under the auspices of the
American League Against War and
Fascism.
Ben Careathers, Fred Kearns,
Doran, and OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
the League, the Vets Rank and File
Committee, the Young Communist
League and the International Labor
Defense, addressed the assemblage
Of workers. Their remarks were
greeted with enthusiastic applause
as they described the activities of
Federal Laboratories as revealed by
the testimony of John M. Young,
president of the company, before
the Senate munitions investigation
All the employees of the gas factory
had been sent home for the day
and their places in the Office and
shop we're filled by squads Of Mayor
McNair's police. Other patrolmen
stood around the outskirts of the
crowd as the speeches were made.
Employees of the plant, some of
whom attended the demonstration,
stated that the occasion marked
the first shutdown of the plant for
three years.
A leaf1et was distributed exposing
the international scope of the tear
gas makers activity against the
working class, calling on all workers
to
stop this use of gas bombs
and machine guns against strik-
ing working men and women
Block the shipment of war sup
plies to the oppressors of the
bitterly exploited workers and
poor farmers in Cuba, and the
other countries Of Central and
4 South America, Of India, and of
other lands"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-29

Convention
Set for To-day
Thousands Expected al
Ratification Rally
The Next Day

NEW YORK. - The Communist
Party's election program, rep
resenting the immediate burning
needs Of the American masses, will
be presented by the Partys leading
State candidates to thousand5 Of
workers ct the mass ratification
rally in the Bronx Coliseum at 2
D. m. tomorrow, which will mark
the formal opening of the broadcast
and most determined Communist
election campaign ever conducted
in this state.
The formal nomination Of the
Party's candidates will be made by
delegations Of Party and non party
trade unionlsts and other workers
at the New York state nominating
convention, which opens at noon
today, in the New Star Casino,
1O7th Street near Park Avenue.
Delegations from scores of
workers clubs, trade unions, fra
ternal groups, youth organizations
and women's organizations will
crowd the Star Casino today for
the formal designation Of the Com
munist Party's election candidates.
Thousands more are expected in
the Bronx Coliseum, 177th Street
and Boston Road tomorrow.
Max Bedacht, who will oppose
the Socialist, Norman Thomas, as
candidate for United States Sena-
tor, will make the keynote speech at
the nominating convention. M. J.
Olgin, candidate for Congress in
the North Bronx. and Pat Toohey
Just returned from the textile strike
front in the South, will also make
important addresses at both rallies
I. Amter, Communist candidate
for Governor Of New York will
come straight from his flying trip
from Chicago tomorrow afternoon
TO the Bronx Coliseum to report the
great sister meet in Chicago
against War and Fascism.
Amter is to present a summary
of the Chicago Congress proceed
ings and it is expected that the
assembled workers in New York
will express their solidarity through
a resolution of greetings that will
point out the planks against war
and fascism in the Communist cleo
ton platform.
Other candidates who will speak
both at the nominating convention
and the mass ratification rally are
Williana Burroughs, candidate for
Lieutenant-G Governor; Fred Briehl
candidate for Attorney General;
Rose Wortis, nominee for State
Comptroller, and Isidore Begun
candidate for City Comptroller.
The campaign committee yester-
day emphasized the political llrg-
ency of a large turnout for both
meetings by all workers regardless
of political or trade union afilia-
tions.
"Non-party members, members Of
the Socialist Party and trade
unionistS are particularly invited to
attend" Carl Brodsky, State cam
paign manager, said.
Brodsky will give a complete or
ganizatiohal report on the activity
of his committee since its incep-
ton in July.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-29

small group, while major reyolu-
tionary battles were in the offing
Could the Communists then hope
70 be able to organize the working
class in that short period and to
rally them around their program
to such an extent that the Commu-
mist Party should be able to sup
plant major proletarian mass or
CARNATIONS, such as the Chartist
movement in England? No. The
political development of the masses
Of workers was inadequate for such
a task. Had the Communists taken
such a course, they would have
merely isolated themselves without
having aided the development of the
revolutionary movement.
Marx and Engels were absolu-
tely against such a sectarian ap-
proach. Their line of action con-
sisted Of the following: To start by
building a unified Communist Party
led by single Central Committee,
out Of these Communist groups al
ready organized by them in a few
countries, and out of the local or
carnations of the Union The re-
organized League of Communists
was to become that Communist
Party, which was to be an in
ternational party This was
the way Marx and Engels ap-
preached the problem in 1847: the
League of Communists will not put
Itself in opposition to other working
class parties, which may arise in
various forms depending upon the
concrete circumstances, but will
rather direct them forward along
the road of revolutionary class
struggle through the work of its
members within these parties" o.
Kuusinen, THE Communist Mani
festo - A Prograrnmatic Document
of the Dictatorship of the Prole-
tariat The Communist, February
1884, PIP. 195-196)
Today, in the epoch of decaying
capitalism and of proletarian rev.
olutions, the basic task of the van
guard Of the working class is the
preparation Of the proletariat for
the si8ure of power, for the setting
up of its dictatorship. Such task
can be realized only by a revolu-
tionary party, by a monolithic pro-
letarian party acting as the leader
and guide of the entire working
class. The structure, the functions
and the detectives of such party
are determined by the nature, the
historic role and the immediate
tasks Of the working class. Only
such a party with a revolutionary
theory, unified program of action
with unity of will, with iron disci-
pine, with revolutionary determine
ton and daring, with faith in the
revolutionary nature Of the prole-
tariat-only such Party can be
tne Party Of the working class. Anc
that is why today the world prole-
tariat has as its leaders the Com
munist International, of which the
Communist Party of the u. S. A. is
a section. Only the Communist
Parties the world over base them
selves upon the teachings Of Mar
and Engels, further developed by
Lenin and Stain, on the historic
task Of the proletariat for the rev.
dictionary overthrow of capitalism
and the establishment of the die.
tatorship Of the proletariat = tn,
transition State toward the classics
i society.
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Continued from Page y
direct violation Of the law passed In
1918 which permitted munitions
shipments only in specially con-
structed compartments.
1t is thus obvious why the Off
Gals of the Ward Line, together
with the officials of the Federal
government, were so eager to seek
protection by an artiflcialy stimuli
ated smoke screen Of Red scares'
in an effort to explain away the
frightful negligence of the COM
pany and its endangering the lives
Of the passengers and crew by the
transportation of highly dangerous
explosives.
That the Ward Line, as well as
every other shipping line in the
country, is sending steady stream
OF war material to Latin America
on all of its vessels, without letting
the passengers know of the dam
gerous cargo, is evidenced by the
following facts:
On September IL, 1894, the S. S.
Siboney carried II cases of car
tridges Weighing 6,301 pounds, for
consignment to Vera Cruz. Mexico.
The company had a government
permit for this shipment.
On the same trip, the Bethlehem
Steel Export Company shipped to
Vera Cruz 344 bundles of steel
helmets.
The S. S. Oriente carried to
Havana for the National Lead
Company on September 10 under
bill Of lading 3,275 gunnies of lead
shot weighing ISIS pounds.
The same vessel sailed on August
% for Vera Cruz with a shipment
from the Winchester Repeating
Arms Co., so cases of shotgun
shells, case Of primers, and S
cases of percussion caps.
These shipments Of war mate
rails, in many cases under condi-
tons gravely endangering the lives
Of the crew and the passengers.
are daily reaching greater proper
tons. The Federal government
investigators taking testimony On
the Moro Castle disaster have
sought to minimize the RESPONSE
bilitv Ct the Ward Line, and have
tried instead to fssten the guilt
on the Moro Castle crew, whose
lives were seriously endangered by
the proximity Of explosive material
near their living quarters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-29

In what relation do the Commu-
nists stand to the proletsrians as
a whole?
The Communists do not form a
separate Party opposed to other
working class parties"
They have no interests separate
and apart from. those of the prole-
tariat as a whole.
They do not set up any sectarian
principles of their own, by which to
shape and mould the proletarian
movement.
The Communists are distinguished
from the other working class par
ties* by this only: % In the ma
tional struggles of the proletarians
of the different countries, they point
out and bring to the front the COM
mon interests of the entire prole-
tariat independently of all nation
atty. (2l In the various stages of
development which the struggle of
the working class against the bour-
geoisie has to pass through, they
always and everywhere represent the
interests Of the movement as a
whole.
The Communists, therefore, are
on the one hand practically The
most advanced and resolute section
of the working-class parties" of
every country, that section which
pushes forward all others; on the
other hand, theoretically, they have
over the great mass Of the prole-
tariat the advantage of clearly
understanding the line Of march,
the conditions, and the ultimate
general results of the proletarian
movement.
The immediate aim of the Com
munists is the same as that of all
the other proletarian parties; for
nation Of the proletRriat into a
class, overthrow of the bourgeois
supremacy, conquest of political
power by the proletariat.
The theoretical conclusions of the
Communists are in no way based on
ideas or principles that have been
invented, or discovered. by this or
that would-be universal reformer.
They merely express, in general
terms, actual relations springing
from an existing class struggle,
form a historical movement going
on under our very eyes. The aboli-
ton Of existing property relations
is not at all distinctive feature
of Communism.
All property relations in the past
have continually been subject to
historical change consequent upon
the change in historical conditions.
The French Revolution, for ex-
ample, abolished feudal property in
favor Of bourgeois property.
The distinguishing feature of
Communism is not the abolition of
property generally, but the abolition
of bourgeois property. But modern
bourgeois private property is the
final and most complete expression
Of the system of producing and APP
propriating products, that is based
on class antagonism, on the ex-
ploitation Of the many by the few.
In this sense, the theory of the
Communists may be summed up in
the single sentence: Abolition of
private property Marx Engels:
Communist ManifestO.)
The conscious Communists of
that time lin 184O constituted a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-29
c. P. Offers Program and Slate to N Y Masses Tomoro

meet with all companies for negotia-
t.9ns and Discussion Of these demands.
The committee Is also INSTRUCTED to
inform you that unless We receive sat-
isfactory answer to these demands, strike
action will be taken not lase- than
October 8, 1894, for the enforcement Of
these demands.
We await an early answer in order
thRs this COMMITTEES mag intern the
seamen Of the stand taken by all ship
ping companies.
dYours truly,
II. BAXTER, Chairman of
Strike P-epE-atioA Committee"
The following are the main de-
for stewards and that the
Joint Strike Preparation Committee
is sending to all the steamship
lines: the scale that prevailed Prior
to the 1921 eoamen's strike, Tor an
8-hour day, number of men to be
determined by committees of the
men, no carrying Of coffee to the
bridge, etc, on freighters a three
hour credit for overtime for ext
coffee hours.