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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-22
URGES REMOVAL OF
SLOT MACHINES
BY Mrs. Eldridge.

BY Mrs. Edridge.
In regard to slot machines, I
really think it is time to move them
out of business places.
Persons can say all they wish
about these beer places, but what
about minors playing slot ma
chines-dropping pennies in them
and never getting anything back.
Children 8 and 9 years old play and
persons wonder how children get
the habit Of gambling. 1t is nothing
but graft. Who owns these ma
chimes? It looks as though they
would have a mind and conscience
about taking money and giving
nothing in return.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-22
HEARTS OF GOLD AND
HEADS OF IVORY
Rv naniel b. Luten.

BY Daniel B. Luton.
There is at present an excess both
of capital and of labor. Paying more
to labor will not put capital to work
because it will reduce profits which
is the objective of capital. But pay
ing more to capital will put labor
to work. What is needed for recoV-
cry from the depression is more en-
couragement to business to make
profits.
What folly then to condemn
profits as Professor Tugwell and
other professed altruists have done.
Hearts of gold, heads of ivory.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-22
Sc They Say

. The strikes are the sign of the
awakening Of the working class.
Labor has arisen from inertia. They
are the rumblings Of the storm to
come-Emma Goldman, anarchist.
Banks are altogether too liquid.
If they can find sound loans, they
should make them We can't have
recovery unless loans are made
Chairman Leo T Crowley Of the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corpo-
ration.
In the words Of Mark Twain. my
political future is behind me.-Pat-
rick J. Hurley, eX-secretary Of war.
The world now is not mentally
attuned TO the theater.-Max Rein
hardt, famous German producer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-22
CHARGES GAMBLING
STILL FLOURISHES
Rv q SuhscrihPr.

By Subscriber.
Sometime ago I read an editorial
in your paper in which you threat
ened to expose downtown gambling
unless action was taken by police. l
was very much encouraged to see
your paper take this stand.
However, 1 know that the police
have not bothered any of the seven
dice games that I know about. Your
editorial evidently did not frighten
the gamblers and I am anXiouSly
awaiting your expose of the condi-
tionS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-22
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
DECLARED FUTILE

By Raymond Z. wisehart.
I desire TO give my views upon
the subject OF capital punishment.
I register my opinion, which is ex-
tremely adverse to capital punish
ment, in the hope that it will stimu-
late family the idea among men
that it is wrong to commit murder.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-22
ANOTHER REPORT ON
CITY TRUCK DRIVER

By a Subscriber.
In reference to the article that
appeared in The Times Message
Center about the city truck driver
on English avenue. accused Of al
most running down school children.
I want to say that this article was
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-22
The Message Center

Times readers are Mvtted to eCprcss
their Uietos in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can have chance.
Limit them to ESQ 40ords or less.J
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-22

The next mayor Of New Baltimore, Mich, is
&c. Recalling Shirley Temple and schoolboy
ment declared an old age pension for any one
over 30.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-22
WHAT, NO SUCCOTASH2

A MEXICAN travellers who return from
n Europe are fond of telling the great
number Of ways in which American life is
more pleasant than European. But it remained
for midwest newspaper correspondent to get
down to the real essentials.
This man remarked recently that the chief
trouble with Europe is that you cant buy
decent tomatoes or corn on the cob there
In Rumania, Austria and Hungary. he
says. corn on the cob is a popular dish; in
France and England a few restaurants serve
it as a concession to American tourists: but
IN none Of these places is it the juicy and
havorSome delicacy that Americans know.
The ears tend to be small and nubbly. and
they are almost invariably cooked until they
are pithy and tasteless. And, he adds, Euro
pean tomatoes are small, pinkish, and gen.
orally worthless
Here, surely, is point for patriots to re-
member. land that can not provide good
sliced tomatoes and sweet corn must. by that
very fact. be a pretty second-rate sort of
place.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-22

The top hat is gradually disappearing from
London Streaming seems to be todays in
ternational bgword.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-22

Recently a donkey fell out of a truck and
done the same thing?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-22

AL Of the New Deal reports viii look good
FOL a while. Elections are here
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-22

Protactinium, new metal worth a million
dollars an ounce. has been discovered. How
long before Cecil B. De Mile wiz make bath
tub out OF Il? -
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-22

While the textile strike is on, how will the
Nazis get sn their flags and shirts?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-22

If California becomes the land of milk and
honey. Mr.. Sinclair, won't there be a lot of
flies?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-22
BILBO OF THE BAYOUS

Out of the backwoods of Mississippi comes
~ Theodore Gilmore Bilbo, hell-bent for the
United States senate.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-14

THUS preparation
venhon elected response among
Party members that it should.
The Daily Worker should be
active Party members active the
trade unions in the A. F. Of L. opposions
Preconvenon purpose
whole Party the fullest way
Party in the situation maturing struggles
Concrete the discussion should
Resolution Of the ECCIr and application
OF the Party districts its application by the sections
industries
Our comrades have experience economic
struggles in the fight against fascm the struggle
masses This experience must be brought before the
of improving actually Transforming mass work 70
the factories and to bring the Party
American tolers
All the articles published should be followed
membership and should units
Comrade sachel in his article the
raised many points that should the attention
Chicago Detroit Pittsburgh Cleveland California places
We these comrades to take the submit
their articles for the pre-conyenion discussion
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-14

the work in the A. F. L. The recent
delegated body meeting OF the OPP
position groups Of IS local unions of
he A. F. L. in Chicago is proof Of
that.
The inner life in the Party units
and sections has been bit improved.
But we cannot say today that we
2arried out the Open Letter. In dis
cussions in the units, fractions, sec
tons and district, this question must
be placed as one Of the central ques-
tons. Why did we not carry it outP
We must establish responsibility not
only in general form, but specif-
cally which particular member Of
our Party, and particularly leading
comrades. failed to carry out their
assignments? What are the reasons?
Which unit buro, section committee
and the district committee itself
failed to carry out the work and whyp
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-14
Social Youth Club
Defeats Disruption
Plans of Hoodlums

NEW YORK.-The Social Youth
Culture Club at 275 Broadway,
Brooklyn, which has in the past been
molested by hoodlums and rowdieS
who disrupted meetings and intimi-
dated members regularly, has elm
mated this trouble by drawing the
workers guilty of disruption into the
club and getting them active.
When on Jan. "a, they tried to
break up an unemployed meeting by
fighting, they were beaten up by the
workers Of the club, kicked out and
the leaders arrested. The workers Of
the club then called q mass meeting
at which the real trouble was ex-
plained-that the fault was with the
social system which breeds gangsters,
not with the individuals. The work
ers called uoon the "hoodlums" to
join in the fight against the social
system, for c. W. A. jobs and relief
for single unemployed youth. They
promised to drop charges against
them. The "hoodlums" accepted and
now are very active members OF the
club.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-14

Shoe Board Of Trade over union pro-
tests,
Under Eye Of Boss
Although the Board conceded the
unions demand for elections outside
the shop this concession proved to be
fareical. The boss selected an empty
loft in the building where the shop
was located, and even used stair land
ings where such lofts were not avail
able. Here the boss or the foreman
kept a strict eye on the voting. In
some cases the workers were marched
from their departments to the voting
room and then back again, The I.
Miller elections were held in the
shops garage. Many workers lost out
in the voting when the place was
changed a half hour before voting
time and the workers did not know
where to 60"
1909 Had No Right to Vote
.Of the $500 votes cast, at least
1000 had no right TO participate IN
the elections" said Biedenkapp.
They were hired by the bosses
through the Shoe Board of Trade or
the Boot and Shoe Union "a. F. of ID E.
The bosses prepared for the elections
by intimicating the workers in the
shops, threatening them with loss of
jobs, and by padding payrollS to make
recently hired workers eligible to
vote,
Where there was no severe intimi-
dation the shoe workers declared
their choice for the United Shoe and
Leather Workers Union. No honest
worker can accept this election as the
free expression o. the workers, and
the fight must go on" Biedenkapp
declared that the following steps
would be taken by the union to defeat
the attempt Of the scab Boot and
Shoe Union to destroy the conditions
of the shoe workers. The union is
demanding from the National Labor
Board an investigation of the lists If
voters and the payrolls Of shops re-
ported as having a minority for the
United Shoe Union. In the firms
where a majority of the workers voted
for the United, the union demands
that negotiations be started immedi-
ately for the improvement of the
workers conditions.
Our union Will leave nothing
undone TO fully expose She rotten at
tenapts OF the A. F, Of l., and the
National Labor Board to deliver the
workers into the clutehes of the bosses
and their union, the A. F. of L. Boot
and Shoe in order To eIIt WAGES In
crease hours of work and establish
more speed up in the shops" declared
Biedenkapp.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-14
Forced to Eat
Lunch in Toilet
at Rogers Peet
BY a Needle Worker Correspondent

BY a Needle Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK.-Just across from the
New York Public Library at And St.
and Fifth Ave (the fountain of know
LEDGE is a Rogers Peet Co. store.
On the 18th floor Of the building is
the Rogers Peet workers shop. where
they slave their lives out for a mis-
cradle few pennies a day. On the
same floor we have a lunch room run
by cousin Of Mr.. Niffen. the red
head slave driver. The prices in the
lunch room are absolutely too high
for us girls, and therefore we are
forced to bring our own lunches and
eat them in the ladies toilet, three
feet away from the urinals. That's
what you call civilization in the most
advanced country Of capitalism.
But Mr.. Niffen tells us that union
is no good. Why? Because in union
places the bosses have to pay bigger
salaries, and the slaves do not eat
in the toilet.
Sometimes they even have a nerve
to tell us we are lucky to work for
an American concern, but that don't
do us any coed, because from day to
day, we merely are just keeping alive,
just keeping on our feet so we can
go to work the next day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-14

the S. p, that we cid everything pos
sibie to win the miners of Illinois.
would be a gross exaggeration. We
just entered the correct road - we
Just made the first beginnings, i'm
portant beginnings, but not yet de-
cisive, toward the winning of the
majority of the Illinois miners for
the Party. This Is our objective and
task. We are especially very weak
in the work among the miners who
are members Of the U. M. w A. We
as yet were unable to cement the
unity Of miners. members of the P.
M. A. and U. M w. A in militant
action. Nor did we succeed to or
ganize and lead broad masses Of I'M
employed miners in struggle against
hunger and starvation.
II We take work among the rail-
road workers in our district we did
not make much progress. It is true
that we recruited a number of rail-
road workers into the Party, that
here and there some additional sup
porters of the Unity Movement were
gained. But the work among the
railroad workers still represents one
of the weakest links in the work of
the Chicago Party organization.
There is still q sufficient under
standing Of the problems and tasks
among the railroad workers due to
the lack Of contact with the railroad
workers. There is still basically iso-
lation from the railroad workers.
In the steel industry, our work pro-
ceeds at a very slow tempo. Our
cadres are very weak. There we still
have the problem of developing
cadres among the steel workers in
the units, unions, mass organizations,
to penetrate the Amalgamated As
ISOLATION union Of the A. F. L., etc,
We made some steps, however, to-
ward that direction by establishing
two branches of the Chicago Work
ers School, one in Gary and one in
South Chicago with 200 students,
practically half of them employed
steel workers. an important gain in
our work.
Some progress has been made In
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-14

OF relief and unemployment insur-
ance for the part-time workers, and
of enlarging the delegation by draw
ing in delegates from the Youngs-
town Sheet and Tube Co. NH and
Inland Steel Mill at Indiana Harb0r
who suffer from the same grievances
as we In Gary. These workers re-
ceived applique from the crowd but
were hammered down by the chair
man who was plainly scared by the
mihtancy Of the workers.
Bill Clark, local organizer OF the
S. ana M. W. I. u. wss refused the
floor by the chairman who never
theless introduced a lawyer by the
name Of Glen Harris, who is being
groomed for the coming elections by
the local capitalist politicians. Eagan
confessed he had no advice TO offer
except to send delegation to fine
out what could be done legally"
Before the meeting adjourned, with
election Of the three delegates 70
Washington, workers from the floor
succeeded ia passing the proposals
to reach the other mills in the ter
rltory. This was passed over the
heated objections Of the company
union representatives.
The Steel and Metal Workers IN
dustrial Union is calling several open
meetings Of workers from various de-
paTtments of the American Sheet
ard Tin Plate Company for the pur-
pose CT establishing committees Of
action 70 lead the fight against the
conditions there. A mass meeting is
being called on the north side OF
Gary also during the next week.
Members In the Youngstown Sheet
Ind Tube Plant and in the Inland
Steel Company plant are also being
organized to call meetings Of the
workers i'll their shops to organize
these workers for joint action, to
gether with the Gary workers, for
the winning of their demands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-14
Workers Organize Union
Demand End of Graft
by C.W.A. Bosses
(By a C.W.A. Worker Correspondent

tBy a C.W.A. Worker Correspondent
JACKSONVILLE, Fla am an
employee on a C.W-A. project work
ing at Neptune Beach The father
of the superintendent Of this project
has about IL mule teams, some
wagons and slip shoyels working on
this project.
These teams work on C.W.A. work
ten hours per day at sI.25 per hour
$3.50 per team per day. They work
two shifts Of drivers. Start at z
am. to IL noon, change drivers and
work to pm. He pays his drivers
50 each, leaving him 8 balance Of
$3.50 for each team
These teams viii continue to make
the ten hours while the men are
cut to Is hours per week at 40 cents
al hour, or Sc per week. The men
have to grub up all the stumps; then,
after all the hard work is done, the
slip shovels come along and move
the sand This work could be done
by the men and at the rate of pay
they receive they could be done fully
as cheap, if not cheaper.
Rob Negroes
1t is rumored that the owner Of
these teams hired his Negro drivers
for 60 cents per hour and put them
on CW.A. payroll for 40 cents, got
their pay checks cashed for them and
deducted the difference, So per driver,
"a of them each week.
Last week the workers on this
project held a meeting and elected
a protest committee to make pro-
tests to the officials about the graft
going on. Before the committee
reached them, however, some stool
pigeon had already notified them
of their coming, and when they
reached the officials, they were no.
/ titled to return at once to their Jobs
or they would be fired and put in
| jail.
| Need Organization
| The workers can certainly see that
we need a strong working class or
/ ganization here like they have in
Tampa, for as long as we are I'M
organized we will always be misled
by the grafters and racketeerS. The
! sooner, therefore, we organize, the
better off we will be, for where the
workers have a well-organized body
there is strength.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-14
Out with the Buck Boss !.
Auto Worker Declares
lBy ~ Auto worI.er corrspondentl

by An Auto Worker Correspondent
DETROIT, Mich.-The current
issue of the Auto Workers News
DetroiD contains many workers
letters dealing with the same subject.
the Buck Boss.
The tool and die business, now be-
ing operated as near to mass pro-
duction ideas as possible. is the chief
stamping ground Of the Buck Boss
The M E. s. Of A. must educate
the rank and file to Gust the Buck
Boss.
Another type Of boss must be
driven out of the tool and die plants.
That is the inefficient boss who
operates on a bluff. His orders are
never written, but given orally. When
the business gets into a jam, he re
pudiates his orders and passes the
buck to the workers. The worker is
usually squeezed out into the street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-14
5vey Phase Work Should Be Examined Convention Dscsso

want TO indicate however, some Of
The points which will demonstrate
what actually has been done in some
fields of activity.
In the Illinois coal fields, at the
time of the Open Letter, our Party
was still isolated, and the Open
Letter very correctly declared that:
a.. the '1eft" refornnists (MusteI
were able to bring many radical
lied workers, especially American
workers, under their influence
(Southern Illinois) -
This Characterization, at the time
Of the adoption OF the Open Letter,
was absolutely correct. But if we
would write the Open Letter today,
We would not characterize the situa-
ton in the Illinois coal fields in the
same light. We can declare that we
made a bit Of progress in the work
in the Illinois coal fields since the
Open Letter The number of Party
members has been increased. A
number Of new nuclei have been or
gained Two mine papers have been
issued. Opposition groups in the P.
M. A. have been established in some
locals. In some locals the rank and
file opposition was able to eject a
number Of local officials. We also
penetrated little bit into the locals
of the U. M. w. A.
This bit Of progress has been made
primarily and precisely in struggle,
as Comrade Browder put the ques-
ton before the 10th meeting of the
G. C. "for the Party line among the
broad masses" That meant in the
Illinois coal fields struggle against
the influence of Reverend A. j. Music,
who supports the renegade, Jerry Al
lard. We can definitely say that we
checked to some extent, the growth of
the Music movement, that we won
some miners who we're followers of
Music and even brought them into
the Party.
But to say that we already achieved
our aim. that we already isolated the
Musteites the Socialist leaders, that
we established a broad united front
with the rank and file members of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-14
Open Letter, 9th ECCl Plenum Resolution
As Applied to Work in the Chicago District

reduction Of real wages through
initiation, for increase Of wages,
against every form of the staggcr
plan, for reduction of working
hours with no reduction In pay.
"Closely linked up with the mo
bllization against the wage cut Of
fensiye is the campaign for the
organizing of the struggle of the
unemployed and part-tine workers
for immediate relief, and the or
ganization of the struggle for I'm
employment and Social Insurance
at the expense Of the government
and the employers"
The Open Letter also outlined a
number Of other immediate issues
and demands around which mass
work Of the Party Is to be developed
and that the whole work is to be
organized ION the basis of the united
front in which the Party must always
have the initiative" The Open Letter
particularly emphasizes;
"The systematic application Of
the united front in the big factor
les Is Of decisive significance in the
question of leading strikes, the
establishment of united fighting
front, and in tearing down the bar
riers between the revolutionary
workers and the masses of other
workers. The decisive factor in
carrying out this united front is
tireless revolutionary everyday work
among the workers, In order TO
prove in every question the correct
ness OF our slogans and our pro-
posals for action"
II we do not examine during the
in preparation for the 9th
National Convention of our Party
and particularly in preparation for
the District and Section Conventions,
the control tasks set in the Open
Letter and in the district, section,
unit and fraction plans Of work, then
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-14
Ambridge CWA Men
Win Strike; Defeat
Blacklist of ID
Force Hearing, Win All
Demands; Leaders
Reinstated
By 3 80. VOC Correspc-

By a C.W.A. Worker COrrespc- -
AAdBRIDGE, Pa, Feb. 13.-Th e
CIV. A. workers defied the terror
that exists in Anbridge by walking
of the job on strike after six hours
Of work instead Of the eight hour
day which was put into effect Jan.
81. Fourteen we're fired. They
went to the burgess Of Ambridge to
complain. He wired Fl. G. Biddle.
state C.WA. administrator, for On
investigation"
Biddle wired the Hart County adj
ministrator to conduct the investi-
CATION and the hearing Of the four
teen men who were fired. Hart was
the former County Commissioner.
for the Jones and Laughlin steel
mill, Of course.
Force Resignation.
The hearing was all in favor Of
the steel company until Pete Mu-
selin, so-called Red Of Ambridge
took the floor Then the workers
began demonstrating, which resulted
in big victory.
Former Borough Manager A. W
Johns, now head Of the C. ". A
project in Ambridge, called one OF
the councilmen a liar for saying
something in defense Of the work
ers. The mass pressure forced hin
to apologize.
The people Of Ambridge have beer
trying to get rid of A. w. Johns fol
the past IL years. One speech
from a so-caled Red made him re.
sign. Also the head engineer Ma.
/ deau resigned.
Win Demands.
Burgess Caul, who sold out tn,
! Ambridge steel strike to J. and L.
openly defended borough manager
Johns at this hearing. He said W.
need bosses and must have disci.
pline"
Pete Musein said the worker!
have the right to elect their owl
committees to take up their griev.
ances with the bosses.
We won the six hour demand
fires, the c. w. A. workers com.
mittees, the resignation Of John
ind Nadeau and re instatement o.
all men fired for striking. Iph
hearing took place on Feb. S in the
City Building.