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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-07
Coffee Consumption Drops
b. z usea Special

CHICAGO. Aug. Smallest
world consumption IN coffee since
1926 was reported in July when the
total amount consumed fen 70
l.634.l54 bags.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-07
In the Cotton Markets
NEW ORLEANS
Retail Coal Prices
MTsTIC RETAIL PRICFs

The following Prices represent quotations
from leading Indianapolis coal dealers.
cash discount Of IS cents per ton IS al
loUec. A ascent carving chsrge per ton
VIII be added
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-07
Local Wagon Wheat
(Bv United Pressl

City grain elevators are paying "a cents
for No. soft red wheat Other grades@
on their merits.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-07
PLUMBING Permits

l. B. Skinner. $40 East Twenfy-fourth
one fixture
John Florence. 3425 Chester. one FIX
ture.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-07
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WE hold approximately one
Wv third OF the worlds mono

"TE hold approximately one
w third Of the worlds none
tary supply Of gold Only this year
We added approximately &c per cent
10 ITS credit effectiveness. And We
are now buying up silver with the
idea of using it as a currency base.
which Will add still more to our
ability to lend in this country.
This increased potential credit
capacity is useless today, just as
much of our vast mechanical equip
ment is TO all practical purposes
useless. Il is useless primarily be-
cause those who are in the business
Of lending money have not Suffi-
Cicnt confidence to put it 10 work.
They must be careful. of course,
because this money does not be-
long TO them. But the time proba-
bly, Will come when they Will feel
free TO lend with a lavish hand
and when IL does they will find the
supply almost inexhaustible. This
should make possible the coming
boom in American stocks the major
is forcCaStinC.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-07
Bond Prices
= BY Fenner X Is &
II. 6. GOVERNMENT BONDS
(By Abbott, Hoppin g. Coz
; tBy Abbott Hoppin y Col

U. S. GOVERNMENT BONDS
(By United Press
NEW YORK, Aug. 6.-Closing Liberties:
(Decimals represent thirty-secondsl
Liberty
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-08

The profits which American i'm
perialists made In the world war and
the profits they are making now as
RooSevelt's war plans skyrocket
munition stocks on the New York
Stock Exchange will be revealed in
an article by Robert Dunn.
Feature editor Of the Daily" SEN
der Garlin, will bring to light the
propaganda used by Roosevelt In
preparation for the new war and will
show that Roosevelt is applying the
lessons learned by the war mongers
during Wilson'S administration for
printing the minds of the masses into
an acceptance Of imperialist war.
A full page Of pre-convention dis
cussion material will outline the
tasks confronting the Communist
Party In It's campaign to organize the
working class for spiking Roosevelt's
war plans, and for the defense Of the
Soviet Union.
New York alone has ordered 10000
extra copies Of this special anti-war
edition. All districts are urged to
rush their orders In at once.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-08
BY MORRIS PITMAN

NEW YORK.-"It is race between
the Nazis and mass opinion in the
United States whether Ernst Thael-
mann, Ernst Torgler, George Dimi-
troff, Vassil Taneff and Blagoi Popoff
will remain alive"
It was Lord Marley, deputy chair
man of the British House of Lords,
and chairman Of the International
Committee to Aid Victims of German
Fascism, speaking to reporters on his
arrival in America for a tour OF 10
cities to build support for the fight
against Hitler. It was his committee
which assembled and prepared the
indictment of ten Nazi terror and
Reichstag fire guilt made famous in
the Brown Book Of Hitler Terror"
when left Europe, we no longer
knew what had become Of Torgler,"
he continued. "After he disappeared
from Leipzig, our committee there
brought all the foreign correspon-
dents together, and only thus forced
the chief Of police to admit Torgier
had been taken to Berlin.
"Our committee went 10 the min
lister of Justice In Berlin. They were
told that the whereabouts Of TorgIer
was none of their business"
While word was received in New
York yesterday that Dimitroff, Popoff
and Taneff had been allowed visitors
in Berlin, where they too are now N
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-08
Technical Buying
Sends Franc Up; No
End to Gold Drain
Dollar Forces British
Pound Up to
$500

NEW YORK, Feb. THE franc,
despite the still raging actions in the
Paris streets, rose 6 points to 6.37
cents. This strength, however, is not
due to any change in the drain of
gold from the Bank Of France, but
rather to sudden covering by shorts
With the fear of short sellers Of
the announcement of Doumergue's
acceptance of the Premiership.
There is still a large short position
on the market, as the future of the
franc is still very c'ouded.
The fow of god continued despite
the 48 hour notice required by the
Bank of France, with 24o,OO0,0O0
'rancs (315 600, O0o) being shipped cut.
The dollar sank as the British
pound rose to $500 at one time, thus
giving the British ilnperialists some
thing to worry about, as this m0kes
dollar trade more attractive to for
eign buyers of goods.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-08
Says Chairman of International Anti-Fascst
Aid Communicable Speak in l3 Cities

the hands Of the Political Police, no
word of the fate Of Torgler has been
received.
Lord Marley revealed that his COM
mittee had received word directly
from Dimitroff regarding the photo
graphs of the three Bulgarians, show
ing them sitting comfortably smoking
and playing chess, which the Nazi
authorities gave out to the press, and
which have been widely published in
the United States in the past few
days.
Photographs Are Forgeries
'Dimitroff sent word that those
photographs were dastardly forgeries, /"
he said. ''They have no comforts In
the Nazi prison. They live in condi-
lions OF constant brutality.
1.-THE German government Is very
susceptible to public opinion In the
United States and Great Britain.
That is why they gave out those
forged pictures.
'The survival OF the Bulgarians
depends more than anything else
ON mass opinion In the United
States and Great Britain. ] want
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-08
Japan Must
Fight USSR
Says Officer
'UnalterabIe Plan,' Says
High Official of War
Department

TOKYO, Feb. Open dec
laration of Japan's war plans
against the Soviet Union was
made by Major General Eiki
TOTO, chief of the war departments
bureau of Investigations, in an in
serview published here today.
japan should maintain strong
pressure on the Asiatic continent.
Only thus can Sic keep at bay the
Soviets' attempts to advance into the
Orient" he declared.
"Japan's desire for expansion on
The eastern Asiatic continent, mani
tested in her Manchurian policy, has
been her unalterable policy since her
foundation" he said.
eve must work out our program
without giving other nations a chance
TO thwart us"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-08
Saturdays ''Daily" to Propose
Concrete Action against Var

NEW YORK-"The Communist
Answer to the War Danger" special
feature article by Harry Cannes, in
this Saturdays special ten-page anti
war edition of the Daily Worker. will
sound sharp and concrete call for
action by American workers against
Roosevelt's National Defense Week"
which aims to excite the American
masses to high pitch of patriotism
in preparation for a new imperialist
wa
The article by Cannes, who Is a
veteran staff member of the Daily
Worker, will be only one Of the out
standing anti-war features in Sat
urday's ten-page illustrated issue.
Seymour Waldman, Of the Daily
Worker Washington Bureau, will
analyze the steps taken under the
guise Of peace by Congress and
Roosevelt to hurtle the United
States into new imperialist ven
ture, calling for the slaughter Of
tens Of thousands of American work.
ers to protect the financial interests
of American imperialism in the Far
East and elsewhere.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-08
l42 Dead; $4,000
Injured Toll Of
C.W.A. Accidents
Roosevelt Cove rn m e nj
Opposes Compensation
to Workers
BY MARGUERITE YOUNG
DAILY Worker Washington Bureau)

WASHINGTON, Feb. Civil Works
Administration workers have suf-
fered accidents resulting in 142
deaths and II coo injuries while work
ing-but the House recently revoked
all condensation for accidents, and
Roosevelt leaders in the Senate to-
Gay fell in line against providing
compensation.
The figures were given on the floor
of the Senate by Senator Hayden of
Arizona, who proposed to furnish
compensation. Senator Mcclellan Of
Tennessee, Roosevelt spokesman, i'm
mediately opposed compensation on
the ground that C.W.A. workers "are
receiving a gratuity" and therefore
do not deserve compensation when
injured.
The discussion rose as the Senate
gave consideration to the proposed
limitation of funds for all C.W.A. and
Federal relief to $950,000, 1000. A vote
on the question of compensation and
on the appropriation was POSTPONED
until tomorrow. The $3.50 1000 900 ap-
preparation proposal contemplates
abandonment of the C.W.A. program
on May L.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-08
Greater Taxes for
N. Y. Masses Urged
in New Charter Plan
Fake Public Ownership
Means Huge Profits
to Subway Owners

NEW YORK.-Proposals to further
fleece the taxpaying masses of New
York workers are contained in a pan
submitted to Mayor LaGrardia on
TUESDAY by 10 members of the New
York University faculty.
The proposals, which LaGuardia
claims were unsolicited, are re-
markedly similar to suggestions which
have been made recently by Alfred
E. Smith Joseph v. Mckee, Samuel
Seabury, and Assemblyman Abbott
Low Moffat. The plan, 74-pare
document. urges that Regulation of
all privately-owned and operated
utilities should be definitely trans
ferred to the city. It's administrative
features should be paced within a
speciol bureau Of the Department of
Public Works. The council should
have c9nrl2te rover to determine
the policies, standards and machin-
erv IF control" The report added
that 'the city should have the right
to institute raunicipal ownership and
operation with respect to any utility"
"Soak the Poor
Urging higher taxes and revenues
for the city administration, the re-
rort-fsr from proposing levies on
the wealthy business and BANKING in
terests-proposes that ga part of the
permanent additional revenue should
be obtained by the enlargement Of
the city's taxing powers" and that
these newer and bigger taxes be
levied on rents, pushcart stalls, etc.
The similarity Of the public own
ership of utilities" section of this
plan to that of Alfred E. Smiths
proposals brought to the fore the
fact that Smith has intimate con-
nections with the Brady family, which
controls Consolidated Gas, Brooklyn
Edison and Queens Electric Power
and Light companies.
But the possibility was seen that
LaGuardia might attempt to take
over the subways at the huge price
of $40o,000,000. The present private
subway owners expended only $685.
100000 for their holdings and have
since taken out over $250,000,000.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-08
Convention Spreads
JObleSs Struggles
ASDelegatesLeave
1000 Delegates Present
Represent 100000
Workers
BY GAEL REEVE

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 1.-THE
delegates to the National Conyen-
tlon Against Unemployment left for
their homes in trucks, autos and buses
after concluding session which de-
termined to go back and put into ac-
ton the decisions of the three DAYS
Of deliberat.on.
The concluding speech of Amter.
National Secretary of the Unem-
polyed Councils, summed up the
achievements of the convention. The
great militancy of the delegates was
shown everywhere, in the speeches.
the enthusiasm and the fighting spirit
- the offices Of the heeds of tho
Roosevelt government and the A. F.
OF L. The convention, Amter con-
tinued, took forward step in the
campaign for the Workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill, in the stems to
achieve unity of the UNEMPLOYED and
workers examinations, and in the
fight for C.W.A. jobs and relief. The
C.W.A. conference, Amter said, where
the delegates spoke for the organ'za-
ton of national organization of
C.W.A. workers, showed that the un-
employed mean to fight. Now the
delegates must return home and work
to carry out the conventions de-
cisions.
Form National Committee
A National Committee of the Ma
tional Unemployment Councils was
organized including 81 members from
all sections of the country. Amter
was e'ected national secretary and
Herbert Benjamin national organizer
The partial report of the creden-
tials committee showed 1000 delegates
representing more than 2,00O.O0
workers. Five hundred of the dele
gates were C.W.A. workers, 300 from
unions, including 100 from A. F. of l.
local unions. There were approx
mately 200 Negro delegates and 15O
women delegates. Amter pointed out
that one of the shortcomings of the
Continued on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-08
35European
Writers Aid
9NegrOLads
Hit S cOttsbOrO Lynch
Verdicts; Protests Rising
Over World

NEW YORK.-Thirty- fiYe famous
European writer's and scientists, in
GLIDING Henri Barbusse, noted French
author recently in the United States,
have joined in a stirring appeal in
behalf of the Scottsboro boys and
the Reichstag defendants.
The appeal, issued on the eve of
t'a a'-'--'0a"N'1T hearing (Feb. pa Of
motion by the International Labor
Defense for reversal Of the recent
Decatur lynch verdicts, stresses the
danger facing the nine innocent Ne
gro lads, points to the overwhelming
proof Of their innocence and the
forced admission of Judge Horton
(presiding at the first Decatur trial
of Haywood Patterson that 'the
evidence greatly preponderates in
favor Of the defendant" 1t enumer-
ates the increasing number Of gang
lynchings, the growing use of the
courts for legal lynching Of Negroes.
1t points to the effectiveness Of the
worldwide mass protest in three
times saving the bows from the cleo
trio chair, in wrestling verdict of
not guilty from the German fascist
court in the frame-up Of Dimitroff,
Torgler, Popoff and Taneff, and calls
for an intenSification of the mass
fight to save the Scottsboro and
Reichstag defendants:
"The judicial murder of the
Scottshoro bcys must be prevented!
An aroused public opinion, world
wide in scope, can save their lives!
Aroused public opinion must COM
mel the immediate. unconditional
md safe release of the ScOttsbOrO
boys
The appeal, addressed to call intel
lectuals, all humanitarians, all oppo-
Continued on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-08
100000 Profit on
s254 Investment in
us. Plane Contracts
Gov't w ar Program
Gives Morgan Co.
Huge Profits

WASHINGTON, Feb. IA profit
s5,332,000 on an investment Of
$50 in aviation stocks corrected with
the war program of the U. S. gov
eminent was revealed today in the
testimony of william E. Boeing.
r3heirr'ol of the Board of the United
Aircraft and Transport Company, be-
eore the Senate COMMITTEES inves-
tigating profits in the government
oirmail and ocean contracts.
Through five-year contract with
he Army and Navy, Boeing admitted
that his company had made profits
# $12,000,Goo.
It was shown that the United Air
craft paid $4,000 a year and "ex-
0enses" to many Army and Navy
officers who retired from the govern
-nent service to work for the company
n getting government contracts.
Many questions regarding profits
md expenses, Boeing refused to an
1wer.
The United Aircraft is controlled
through holding and investment COM
panies by Wall Street firms connected
with the house Of j. P. Morgan.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-08
Roosevelt Claims
Ignorance of War
Nature Of the CCC
Evades Assertions of
Secretary of War
Woodring
Daily Worker Washington Bureau

Daily Worker Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON. Feb. 7.-President
Roosevelt revealed today that he has
been very careful not to read tbs
Liberty Magazine article in which
Assistant Secretary of War Wood
ring declared that the War Depart
ment is ready to take complete con-
troll of c. c. c. camps and to or
ganize the boys with World War
veterans into "a system of economic
storm troops"
The confession was Rooseyelt's
way of making a light response to
conservative news correspondent s
question as to whether the Executive
had any comment to make on the
fact that certain radical elements
have ADOPTED the Woodring article
as proof that the G. c. G. is a kind
Of fascist army"
The President said he hadn't read
the article-that he had been very
careful not to read it. Most of the
correspondents laughed as though
this were good joke. Then the
President explained that one of his
Secretaries has received many peti-
tons regarding the Woodring article
and probably was comforting about
it with Woodring.
Roosevelt added that Of course the
c. G. c. camps obviously are not
militaristic and that anybody who
has seen one knows that. He die
not refer to the fact that many G.
G. c. camp boys just this week per-
sonally came to the National Con-
vention Against Unemployment and
went in special delegation to C. G
G. headquarters to protest just that
the military atmosphere of the
camps.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-08
Why Can't T a IN m any
Men Be Honest?" Asks
Dodge, Answers Himself

NEW YORK. - District Attorney
Dodge, elected on the Tammany
ticket after a prediction division
of-Spoils agreement between Tam
many and the Fusion forces, became
very emotional and selfrighteous in
a speech Tuesday at the annual
dinner OF the Greater New York
Federation of Churches, held at the
Riverside Church.
II have only been in office five
weeks" complained Dodge. What
right has anybody to say to this
town that because I was elected on
the Tammany ticket I can't be
honest? I'll show the day after to-
morrow whether can be-" he
threatened, when I place on trial
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-08
Cabinet Resigns;
New
Government Head
"NRA FaiIed,'' SpiUak
Told by NE. Chamber
of Commerce Official

An admission by q New Eng
land Chamber Of Commerce Of
fetal that the N. r. A. failed to
improve conditions will be pub
lished in John L. Spivak's 'Por-
trait Of America" series, starting
in the Daily Worker tomorrow,
Spivak also obtained facts show
ing that the Chamber of Com
merce is urging manufacturers to
move their plants into Brockton,
Mass, because labor is cheap,
qkilled labor is abundant, female
labor is plentiful"
Don't miss the start Of this re-
vealing series in the Daily" this
Friday. Get your friends and
fellow workers to subscribe to the
Daily"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-08
Fusion Plays Ball
With Tammany To
Pass Wage-Cut Bill
Lehman Asks Democrats
to Withdraw Their
Opposition

ALBANY, Feb. THE prospect of
widespread and immediate wage cuts,
as well as extended and paylesS fur
loughs, faced civil employees of New
York today as Tammany and Fusion
cohorts in the state capital arrived
at some sort of secret agreement
and understanding yesterday.
These attacks on the living stand
ards of city workers were imminent
as both Democratic and Republican
members Of the State Legislature re-
aligned their forces yesterday, after
conference with Governor Lehman,
in regard to the LaGuardia Economy
Bill. Last time the bill came up be-
fore the legislature, 1t failed TO muster
the two-thirds majority necessary foI
its passage.
In his conference with the Demo-
cratic assemblymen, Lehman reiter-
ated his position that, outside of two
or three slight amendments which
might be found necessary, he favored
the passage Of the bill virtually "as
written" These amendments he re-
ferred to, broadly and vaguely, as
possible safeguards against the con-
tinuation Of wage cuts and forced
furloughs after the emergency
period" which according to the La
Guardia Bill should end on Oct. !.
Political Dog-Fight
The nature of the fight on the bill,
led here by the Democrats under the
leadership Of Assemblyman Irwin
Steingut, was again proved to be q
political dog-f1ght to safeguard splits
in city graft when Steingut continued
to oppose the wide powers which the
bill would bestow on LaGuardia's
Board Of Estimate in placing the
county Offices within the Boards
control" Steingut was not opposed
to salary cuts for teachers and other
civil employees, but he insisted that
they should be made by the Legis-
lature rather than by the Board Of
Estimate, "since education was a
state function"
"We want TO help the Mayor
out" Steingut said, land II he win
cooperate with us, I am convinced
we can get together"
The new realignment, which is ex-
pected to pass the bill by safe
margin when 1t comes up next be-
fore the state legislature, is but a
continuation of the division Of spoils
which has been going on between
the Tammany and Fusion gangs since
the election campaign, when Tam
many leaders, expecting a Mayoralty
defeat, made last-minute deal with
Fusion to split its ticket so that a
solid group of its henchmen, par
ticularly the New York County dis
trict attorneys Office, could get into
The lucrative and gratt-controiling
political offices.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-08
p resident Roosevelt
Insists That the CWA
Will End on May lst
Report of ExtensiO n
Not True, He Tells
Newspapers
lilv Worker washington Bureau)

DAILY Worker Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Feb. T.
President Roosevelt repeated
today in his regular press con-
ference that he has made no
change in his plans to completely
abandon the C. w. A. program by
May 1.
Reporters. who cannot seem to I'M
derstand the Presidents repeated
plain statements that he will not re-
lent. asked about a story published
locally today, saying that the Presi-
dents emergency council has ap-
proved extension Of the G. w. A.
Roosevelt replied that the story was
news to him. Later someone asked
whether the President would say any
thing about a report, that Senator
Wagner was advocating application of
some of the profit from dollar -deva-
luation to the c. w. A. program. For
the present, the President said, he
is resting on his message to Congress
(Which provided for scrapping the G,
w. A. by May l..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-08
Second FiUe-YeGr Plan
Unanimously Ratified
by 18th C.P. Congress

MOSCOW, Feb. 7 (By Radio).-
Amid tremendous enthusiasm and
confidence, the 1,400 delegates Of
the 18th Party Congress of the
All-Union Communist (Bolshevik)
Party of the Soviet Union today
ratified the program of the Second
Fiye-Year Plan as outlined by
Premier Molotoy. The vote was
unanimous.
The plan provides for an I'M
mense advance in the economic
and cultural life of the country
along the road Of Socialist Con-
struction.
(For further details see the
story on page g.