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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-31
SHORTER WORK
HOURS COAL OF
LABOR LEADERS
Friendly Congress, Business
UpSWing Expected to
Aid Drive.
By United Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.-Lead-
ers of organized labor count on a
friendly Congress, an upswing of
industrial production, and their new
policy of industry-wide union or
ganization to propel the movement
forward in 1885.
President William Green of the
American Federation of Labor and
John L. Lewis of United Mine Work
ers, the strongest single union unit.
voice the general belief that unem-
ployment still is labor's most urgent
problem.
They feel that the only specific
method to create more employment
is to shorten work hours further
Success is cited in early stages Of
NRA when bringing down the av-
erage to 40 hours a week give jobs to
more than three million workers.
This creation of jobs was &C
companied by rapid growth OF Ia
Dor unions. Nearly 100000 members
were added among automobile, rub
Der, aluminium, lumber, cement, and
cleaning and dyeing workers. La
Dor claims failure of NRA last
spring to put over the Presidents
30 and 10" program, which would
have reduced the work week average
to So hours, marked the turning
point Of labor's gains under the
Blue Eagle.
Labor holds that prior to then in
dustriaI leaders had no plan TO COM
bat the labor unions drive to cap
ture the benefits in the Recovery
Act guarantee Of freedom to work.
ers in bargaining with employers.
Since March, the year has wit
messed the action Of industrial forces
combined to drive the A. F OF L. out
of industry Mr.. Lewis said. There
has been a concerted move to ANAL
gamate all interests opposed TO Or
ganized labor. We have seen the
parades of induStrialiStS to the
White House and to White Sulphur
Springs, for conferences on recov-
cry. Labor forces were ignored, al
though they have real contribu-
ton to make"
The drive in several major indus
tries to organize company unions
of so-called loyal" employees, the
Federation claims, has been aided
by low production volume and
labor's lack Of preparedness to cope
with the move.
The Fededation charges, also,
that company union growth has
been fostered by Government Ia
Dor boards. They claim the VOL
man automobile board, in admins
tering the Presidents agreement
for proportional representation, has
sold out" to the industry and failed
to reach a single decision favorable
to organized labor.
Steel and textile boards, more re
Gently established, have not yet Sc
cured for workers the desired free
dom in. bargaining, it is claimed.
The Federation considers epoch
al the change in policy agreed
upon in its annual convention. 1t
provides for organization of work
ers in mass production industries
into great industrial unions, instead
by crafts.
Labor forces, in the immediate
future. will concentrate on legisla-
tive activities, including sponsor
ship of the 30-hour week; finding
out how far they can go with free
dom of collective bargaining; secur-
ing code compliance and enforce
ment of labor sections; unemploy-
ment and health insurance, and old
age pensions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-31

0l9ss. LIeaEzx g Myzss TOBACCO Co.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-31
PROSECUTORS TO MAP
ASSEMBLY PROGRAM
State Association Committee to
Confer in City.

Legislative committee of the As
ISOLATION of Prosecuting Attorneys
of Indiana will meet here Friday
to consider bills to be submitted to
the General Assembly next month
affecting procedure in criminal
matters and remedial crime legisla-
ton.
Members of the committee, ap-
by Cecil F. Whitehead An
derson, president, are: Floyd Mat
tice, indianapolis; Richard w.
SharpleSs, Auburn; George L. Ruli-
son, South Bend; James H. Myer,
Evansville, and John R. Britton,
Mr.. SharplesS is chair
man.
Gov. Paul v. NIcNutt has been in
vited to confer with the committee.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-31
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
YOUTH ACCUSED
OF BURGLARY IN
FATHERS CAFE.
Suspect, 18, Is Arrested
Hiding in Mushroom,
Police Say.

An 18-year-old youth is held by
police today on charge of robbing
his fathers restaurant. James Ash
makis Jr. was arrested when police
found him hiding in the Mushroom
of the j. & G. Restaurant, 1906 N.
Illinois-st, early this morning.
Police were called by Arthur Ken
nedy, Waterman for A Weigands
Sons Co., florists, 1910 N. Illinois-st,
who said he had seen a burglar in
the restaurant next door. They in
vestigated and found the glass of
the rear door broken, the door I'M
locked and the kitchen light burn
ing.
The police were attracted to the
Mushroom by a noise and they saw
the young man there. When ordered
to come out, he dropped his hand
to his overcoat in a suspicious man
ner and the officers seized him. A
search of his person revealed $35.
The boy said he had been sent
for the money by his father, James
G. Asimakis, ITO N. Talbot-st,
proprietor of the restaurant. Mr.
ASimakis was called and said he
thought his son was in bed at home
and he denied that he had sent him
to the restaurant.
The boy then admitted, the police
said, that he had jimmied the back
door and taken the money from its
hiding place behind the counter. He
also had tried to open a cigaret
vending machine, they said.
Young Asimakis was taken to
City Hospital for treatment for in
juries received in his brief struggle
with the police, and was then ia
ken to police headquarters and
booked on charges of burglary and
grand larceny. 1t was reported by
police that the boy is on probation
for vehicle taking.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-31
FEDERAL MEN
KEEP SILENCE
ON STOLL CASE
Justice Department Opera
tiveS Here in Robinson
Search.

The traditional silence of the De-
partment of Justice today cloaked
developments in the intensive search
in indianapolis for Thomas H. Rob-
inson Jr., kidnaper of Mrs. Alice
Speed Stoll, Louisville society ma
iron.
Crack operatives among the Fed
eral man hunters were known to be
in the city. Saturday The Indian
apolis Times established that the
Department of Justice believes the
eccentric Nashville (Tenn) former
law student, who turned kidnaper, is
in the city, where he held Mrs. Stoll
captive for week.
Disclosure that the hunt for young
Robinson again centers here came
when it was learned Department of
Justice agents were running down
a rumor that the abductor had been
seen in a downtown tap room. This
rumor was known by The Times to
be false. 1t came facetiously from
Fl. Wayne travelling man.
Disguised as Woman
Search for the one-time asylum
inmate who schemed to kidnap Mrs.
Stolls wealthy father-in-law and
at the last minute altered his plans
by selecting Mrs Stoll as his vic
tim, is Handicapped because the fugi-
tive DISCUSSES himself in woman's
clothes when he appears out-of-
doors. once Nashville (Tenn0 po-
lice picked him up as a female i'm
personator.
Meanwhile Department of Justice
agents we're reported to be check
ing apartments and the haunts of
effeminate men, SuSpecting young
Robinson may be found there.
If a trail of ransom money has
been found here the fact is closely
guarded by the Federal investiga-
tors.
Scores Interviewed
Scores IF persons have been Sc
cretly interviewed. The unrelent-
ing search goes on day and night.
When Robinson released Mrs.
Stoll to his wife, who led her to
the home of the Rev. E. Arnold
Clegg, pastor of the Capitol Avenue
NJ. E. Church, the kidnaper had
S49,50O of the ransom money in his
pocket. He had given his wife $500
after she tossed the package corr
tanning the money on bed in the
apartment where Mrs. Stoll was
held captive.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-31
ERROR is CORRECTED
ON CHRISTMAS PARTY
Children Were Guests of Employees
at Highland Barns.

Roy Engle, 1904 Carrollton-av,
today asked The Times to correct
a statement which appeared in the
Christmas Day issue regarding the
entertainment of 500 children at the
Highland barns of the Indianapolis
Street Railway Co.
The children were entertained by
the employees Of the street railway
company barns and not by the st.
Vincent's Hospital Guild, Mr.. Engle
said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-31
SEARCH LAKE MICHIGAN
FOR MURDERER'S BODY
Former Steamship Pilot Kills Wife,
Then Disappears.
By United Press

Dy CHtttU tItSS
CHICAGO, Dec. 81. - Coast
guardsmen and police searched the
Jagged shore ice of Lake Michigan
today for a body that would wind
up the tragedy of depression
stricken family.
The man they sought was Walter
j. Hartz, former lake steamship pi-
lot, whose invalid wife was found
dead in their partment last night,
her skull crushed by a flatiron. Be-
side the body WIS a note signed by
Hartz
"I did this to put her out of her
misery" it said. Il am walking east
until the ice breaks. May God for
give me-"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-31
BUTLER FOUNDERS TO
BE HONORED FEB. I
Alumni to Meet in CiaypOOl for
Annual Observance.

Plans for the annual memorial
services for the 43 original incorpo-
rators of Butler University today
were nearing completion. Dean
James w. Putnam, acting president,
announced the program will be held
Feb. in the Riley Room of the
Claypool.
Originally established SO years ago
as a memorial to Ovid Butler, the
Founders Day celebration is at
tended by all alumni living in and
near indianapolis. Invitations have
been sent out by Miss Sarah Sisson,
alumni secretary.
The committee for the occasion
includes Professor Bruce L. Kersh-
ner, Clyde Aldrich, DR.. S. E. Elliott,
DR.. H. M. Gelston, Evan Walker,
Professor Donald S. Gilley and Miss
Sisson.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-31
REVOLT IN ALBANIA Is
REPORTED BY ATHENS
King Zog's Aid Leads Attack of
5000 Rebels, Is Rumor.

BIZ United Press
ATHENS, Dec. 31.-Newspapers
persisted today in reporting that
there was a revolt in Albania, led
by an aid of King zog. The re-
ports have been denied repeatedly
from Tirana and were believed to
be exaggerated even if any basis
existed for them.
One report was that there we're
5000 rebels in the Divri district; an
other that the rebels had been dis
persed and their leader arrested.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-31
CITY CHURCH TO HOLD
NEW YEARS SERVICE
Central Christian Group to Enjoy
Dinner Before Ceremony.

The Central Christian Church,
Delaware and Walnut-sts, will OBJ
serve its annual New Years service
Thursday evening.
An informal reception in charge
of Harry Jockey in the chapel at
$50 will begin the ceremonies. A
turkey dinner will be served in the
dining room at els with P. A. Wood
presiding.
A quartet consisting Of Mrs. James
Lowry, Mrs. Gladys Blake, Terrell
Scott and Virgil Phemister, will sing
1.-THE Persian Garden"
Following the dinner hour, serv-
ice will be held based on the theme,
1.-The Quest for God Through New
Vision"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-31
THREE KILLED IN BLAST
City County Building Destroyed by
Explosion.
By United Press

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SEMINOLE, Okla, Dec. 31.-Au-
thorities today sought the cause of
an explosion which destroyed the
Seminole City-County building last
night, killing three persons and in
juring two others so seriously they
we're not expected to live. Leaking
gas was advanced as the most likely
cause of the explosion.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-31
GASOLINE PRICES UP
Two High Grades Lifted 212 Cents a
Gallon Here.

Gasoline prices in the Indianapo-
lis area were increased today An
nouncement by E. P Galbreath,
manager of the Standard Oil Co. of
Indiana, that new prices would be
215 cents higher on two high grades
and IL cents a gallon on low-test
gasoline, brought similar action by
other major distributors.
Lower prices had come from
price war among some companies
several months ago. Mr.. Galbreath
termed the price increase as "a re-
turn to normal figures"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-31
Mail Chute Inventor Passes
BIZ United Press

bW JWFttU FFtso
ROCHESTER, N. Y, Dec. 31.-Jo-
seph Warren Cutler, n, inventor
and manufacturer of the Cutler mail
chute which is in general use
throughout the world, died yester-
day after a prolonged illness.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-31
PUBLIC WORKS FUNDS
GAVE 100000 JOBS
5000, 900, 900 Hours of Employment
Created by Program.
BIZ United Press

BV JHited Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. More
than 100000 persons were given
this year through pub
lie works expenditures, report to
Administrator Harold L. Ickes on
PWA activities revealed today.
The 1884 public works program
cost more than $4,000, 100000, or SIS
for each person in the United States,
the report said. A total of 100000
900 hours of employment was pro-
vided on 5000 projects completed and
1900 started.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-31
Violet Ray Meter Stolen

An electric meter used in testing
ultra violet rays was stolen last
night from an automobile belong
ing to R. B. Laycock, 1862 Wash
ington- blvd, police were told today.
The loss was estimated at SITS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-08
The Social Insurance Fight

CENTRAL in the election campaign of
y the Communist Party has been the
growing mass demand for the enactment
of the Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill. Today, the Communist Party in
every district and section is pushing forward prep
arations for the National Congress for Unemploy-
ment Insurance, to be held In Washington on Jan.
5, and 7. The Party of the working class carries
forward the demands and issues promulgated in It's
election campaign.
In an attempt to head off the sweeping mass
character which this National Congress is already
assuming, the Roosevelt regime has called con-
ference to discuss" unemployment insurance. Be-
hind the Roosevelt schemes are being modified
the top bureaucracy of the A. F. of L. and the en-
tire government apparatus Despite its rosy promises
the Roosevelt conference has but one objective
to squirm out of the Roosevelt unemployment in
surance promises and to cut relief. And every pos
sible maneuver is being resorted to in an attempt
to spike the Workers National Congress.
The Roosevelt conference will lay plans for fur
ther driving down the hunger doles on relief for
widening the forced labor plans of the FERA The
Workers National Congress- mobilizing the masses
around the Workers Bill, will be the workers ex-
preston of the bitter struggles for increased relief
in Denver, in Springfield and Chicago in the
Hunger March to Albany, in the thousands of day
to-day struggles of the jobless the employed, the
farmers, youth, women and Negro masses
In some localities notably Cleveland and Wis
consin, preliminary steps have already been taken
to set up local. county and state sponsoring COM
mittees. These committees modelled after the Ma
tional Sponsoring Committee with its broad rep
resentation in trade unions political parties church.
Negro and youth groups, must be built in every
center side by side with the drive to build the I'M
employment Councils
Into these local sponsoring committees must be
brought representatives Of the trade unions thou
sands of which have endorsed the Workers Bill
and Congressman and members of the City Coun-
ellis which have sgnified their backing of the bill
All ind. .als who in the past have given lip
serviCe to the bill must likewise be asked to give
active support.
Copies of the call to the National Congress have
been printed by the National Sponsoring Committee
for wide distribution among the membership of all
organizations, and among workers in the shops
Side by side with the campaign for the National
Congress, the Unemployment Councils must be
built into real mass organizations of the jobless-
mass organizations that will reflect at the congress
the vast millions of the unemployed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-08
Soviet Elections Embody Democracy
ThrOugh Worker and Farmer Control

THIS year the celebration of the
anniversary of the Socialist Oc-
tober Revolution comedies with the
beginning Of reflections to the So
viets throughout the entire Soviet
Union.
The Seventh All Union CONGRESS
Of Soviets, with which everyone in
Soviet-land is preoccupied, will be
entered in the history of the prole-
tartan dictatorship as one of the
most meaningful events in its his
tory. Not simply because it falls
in with an epoch during which the
Party of the proletariat has recorded
whole constellation of brilliant
claSs-Wctories, great echnical
achievements, and mighty conquests
in the construction of Socialism.
These victories and achievements
are to be grasped also as a funda-
mental Transformation of classes:
in the increase of proletarians, in
a significant re-molding of the main
masses of the peasantry, and in the
liquidation of the propertied peas
ants the Kulaks.
The transition to the system of
Soviet economy and collectivization
in agriculture, the change from an
lndividualistic peasant economy to
a collective one, the liquidation of
the Kulaks as a class-this is the
grandoise revolution in which the
deepest material bases of daily life,
of working, of the very appearance
of life, of human relationships and
consequently of habits, PSYCHOLOGY
and theology of the large masses of
the population have been re-shaped
from the ground up.
Precisely because this change par
alleled the colossal growth of So
cialist industry and, more important
than anything else, of basic heavy
industry, lever was forged with
which, by stirring the foundations of
city life and by accomplishing the
great transformation" on the farm
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-08
By Bwrck

of Chemical separation" of the
small capitalists, the Kulaks, the
variegated counter-revoluti n ary
groups staked their cards, dreaming
all the while of an all-Russian
Vendee. This is the explanation of
how honest" er-revolutionists
Of the stamp of Miliukov's period
took their stand on solution of
"Soviets without Communists" and
dragged with them thu coarsest and
most stupid counter-revolutionists,
such as the operate Gear Cyril,
who proposed a Soviet monarchy
under leadership" of nobility and
goodness.
Stains Leadership
Lenin's wise policy made it pos
sible in the most trying times Of
proletarian leadership to carry for
ward the state power of the dicta-
torship of the proletariat past all
the shoals and reefs of danger. IN
herited from the previous period,
the brilliant policy Of Stain became
the basis of solving social diff
culties, liquidating the class of Ku-
laks through the absorptive strength
of collectivization. AS a result, the
basis of the dictatorship of the pro-
letariat was considerably broadened.
1t is understood that neither this
whole process nor any one of its
parts is automatically brought to
reality. Every step toward progress
is accompanied by sheer strength
of will, effort and labor. The vic
tory of this process is not achieved
spontaneously. It must be con-
tinually organized, must be labori-
ously raised to higher level. The
Seventh All-Union Congress is one
of the significant steps in this or
ganization of proletarian victory.
With its strong electorate the
revolutionary Congress embodies in
its trusted deputies this proletarian
democracy which is the proletarian
dictatorship itself, which is Soviet
democracy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-08

through the agricultural policy Of
the Party, the entire scheme of the
Oct Der Revolution has been
brought to living reality and the
solution of when" has now been
replaced by the problem where. -
But the solution of this problem, the
tremendous formation and reform
nation of the deciding class, and
therefore mass, forces carries with
it a change in the composition of
the mass organizations of power,
ie., the Soviets.
The Seventh Congress of ALI
Union Soviets is the first Congress
which is to hold its session on the
foundation of victorious collectiviza-
ton. This fact itself is a sign of the
greatly increased strength Of the
proletarian dictatorship, the organ
of Soviet power.
Proletarian Democracy
The SovietS are the mass organs
OF power, inseparably connected
with production and holding in its
hand the combined function of leg
islative and executive force. The
Soyiets have been and are, for the
whole duration of the revolution, a
form of proletarian dictatorship, in
that they are the directing forces of
the proletarian party, which with
its persons, its policy, its devotion
to the revolution has won the trust
of the broadcast masses; and these
masses are the backbone of support
for the firmly united, organized
and, in the struggle against all the
threats of party enmity, thoroughly
steeled proletariat.
The greatest difficulty and con-
Germ awaiting the Party was the
problem of leading the millions of
small property owners, with their
two-fold interests, their two-fold
psychology, with their significance as
"vacillating force" denim. On
Its profiteering, specializing side this
SOUL turned to the middle and
upper peasantry, and in this process
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-08
Rail Wrecks
In $ tigated
By Japanese
Special 10 the Daily workerl

NSpectat 10 the Oally MOfker)
HARDIN, Manchuria, Nov. 7 (By
Wireless) Vivid light has now
been thrown on who are really
guilty of wrecks on the Chinese
Eastern Railway and who are actu-
ally behind the Hung -Hutze bandits
organizing raids on GER. trains.
According to reports received here
a Hung Hutze band is openly and
legally residing at the Shitouhetsi
station on the Eastern Line of the
GER, obviously supported by the
Japano-M anchurian authorities. The
latter have given the bandits living
quarters and fully supply them with
arms. The Hung -Hutzes enjoy COM
plete impunity and supported by
the japanese and Manchurian off,
Gals are robbing and terrorizing
local inhabitants. Lately the Hung
Hutzes promised these officials to
cease wrecking between Shitouhetsi
and Gaolintsi stations, stretch
along which wrecks most frequently
occurred. They openly declare, now
ever, that If their negotiations with
Tokyo fail, they will re-commence
their wrecking work.
1t is interesting to compare this
information, received from entirely
reliable sources, with the savage
campaigns of the Japano-M Man
churian press, which is spreading
absurd reports that the Hung
Hutze bandits raiding and wrecking
GER trains received support from
the soYiet employees Of the GER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-08
Soviet Sentences Men
On Train Wreck Charge


MOSCOW, Nov. 7 (By Wireless).
The investigation of the train
wreck at the Osnova station on the
Southern Railroad, which caused
the smash-up of "a freight cars and
the death Of one worker, established
that the immediate culprits were
the officer in charge of the station,
Linnik, signalman Yunoshev and
head switchman Pavlenko.
All three are hostile anti-prole-
tartan elements and this criminal
negligence in their work was a de-
liberste violation of labor disci-
pline. Concerning Linnik it was
proved that he had been maliciously
and consciously disorganizing traf-
fic. The court therefore qualified
him as an enemy of the people,
sentencing him to be shot. Yuno-
shev and Pavlenko were sentenced
to five and three years in prison