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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-04
BY MARTHA STRAYER
Copyright 1884 scripps Howard Newspapers

XxTAsH1NGToN, Jan Mrs D. aid to
w employment among White House service
made discovery
The Roosevets the Mayower hotel Washington hay
before from New York Mrs Roosevelt rose early
2Ocent taxi around town to call on rea
ves another hotel and visit st Cauaef sculpture IN oca! Gene
beauty, Washington during the
through lobby the presidential suite for her little
AS the friend waited she approached by
Are you going with he
She looked after
prep school graduated,
Mrs Roosevelt went to the in advance Of her husband
failed had been expected Elaborate
Presidents there
police all sides strategic points
Walking
welt recognized man who had Just climbed stone fence after they
had climbed it as one OF the secret service She told James to go back
don't tell him I'll do it myself"
MRS ROOSEVELT haunted by Nobody
W. me- she said when advised submit constant secret service
Not even the attep on her hamd mage her afao
I'VE the danger decided think about it.
age says afraid may
going Nobody
knows how long an adventure may last but we might as we'll live it
courageouSly while live it,"
strongly believer
and she never 1ofges TO remember chdren ana child welfare
smpah deeply involved
in sweatshop labor has been of her principal
Women of that class the helpless the world
she said in the days before they were helped by the blue eagle
talked of plan she had
stamped other articles
and observing decent labor She
consult with labor leaders
tailers manufacturers
And the NRA brought labels said
smile
The question of whether should
lowed work another subject which
been silent In this necessary
that particular people
lation of the kind"
her opportunity demonstrate her interest
ing homemade cakes and other food products
Attempting beat the depression of its
farmers started Washington
When they furnished fifty
disabled World veterans the White
their regular
How did that happen?" they asked
Well read the that
in women they replied Our
Mrs Roosevelt been
If the Presidents wife
Abou Ben Adhenone who
postscript about her
children
we mustn't lose interest the child"
mentS Eveybodys child
won't generation
mah of increase the other poor
poor homes, poor education"
Asst summer she taught this doctrine All Club boys girls
~ their annual de grounds the Smithsonian
Inc All youngsters members of farm
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-04
IRA A. MINNICK
INSTALLED AS
K!WANIS Chief
Receives GaveI at Services;
All Other Officers
Also Seated.

Ira A Minnick received the presi-
dents gavel from w. Luther Snod-
grass yesterday at installation serv-
ices held by the Indianapolis XII
wants Club.
Other officers seated were Frank
V. Hawkins and Harry H Ochiltree
vice-president; Chester T. Spriggs
treasurer; Jack Harding, secretary
and John M Caswell, Albert J
Wohlgemuth and J. Ralph Fenster-
maker, directors.
Three new members. Howard j
Lacy Jr., Reginald w. Garstand anc
Paul w. Akin, were introduced. Il
was announced that the KiwaniS
midwinter conference will be hello
Wednesday at the Columbia Club.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-04
PAGE 8


Joan Hedrick, s, of 33l West Thir- 4
tieth street, was bitten by stray
dog yesterday while playing on the
sidewalk in front OF her home. She
was treated by the family ply
Sician.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-04
No Audit Made

III dNIOI QdilLE WIFI Illt 4dLLo.
No Audit Made
Also Of interest in connection with
the alleged guessing in the case is
the fact that no audit of the books
of the utility companies was made
by the accounting department Of
the public service commission. nor
by the auditors employed by the
Chamber Of Commerce guessing
committee, nor by any one else.
Ward B. Hiner, head Of COM
mittee Of public-spirited members Of
the Chamber of Commerce. offered
to deposit 81 900 in cash in any bank
in the city, If the officials who
agreed TO the compromise will call
an election and vote of the members
of the indianapolis Chamber Of
Commerce to find out whether mem
bers Of the Chamber Of Commerce
approved the actions of the guar
dians and officials of the Chamber
of Commerce.
Mr.. Hiner and his committee Of
fered the 81 900 TO charity. if the
action of the compromise commit
tee should be approved by majority
Of the members.
Explanations" Made
Behind closed doors. Frederick E.
Matson, attorney for the guessing
committee" made explanations" OF
the action Of the Chamber Of Com
merce committee in the alleged grab
case on a valuation of $4,000 900
'fixed-up" between the guessing
committee and the promoters.
Outside his office. the press waited
without being admitted to the con-
ferences.
On one occasion, while news
paper men waited for another Eek
PLANTATION" Andrew F. Sutton. Ills
North Alabama street, sought Cd
mittance to the conference.
4 am a taxpayer and there are
several things I would like to have
explained too" Mr.. Sutton an
nounced.
Only for Members
He was Informed that the meeting
only was for members of the Mer-
chants Association. the INDIANAPOLIS
Real Estate Board the Associated
employers and the indianapolis
Board of Trade, who had been in
vited to attend.
But 1 am a substantial taxpayer
and 1 am interested, too" Mr.. Sui
ton protested.
Indignant, Mr.. Sutton turned to
the newspapermen and said:
1 want them to explain to me.
too, what was the hurry in this deal
anyway. pay taxes of 5000 a year.
and my light bill is considerable. I
notice in the new schedule of light
rates that I get no reductions but
the big power users get theirs. all
right"
Next-Alleged fictitious property
values
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-04
10TH WARD G. o. P. MEET
Card Party and Social Saturday at
Home of Hotels.

Tenth Ward Republican Club will
hold a business meeting at Satur-
day night in the home Of Mr.. and
Mrs. r. w. Hotel, 1886 South Ran
dolph street. A card party and So
lcial will follow the business meeting
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-04
RECRUITING CLERK GETS
WORLD WAR CITATION
Belated Recognition for Verdun
Heroism Goes to Harlie Sylvester.

heFOlSm OoeS 10 hdFne sylvester.
For services to the French people
il the World war Sergeant Harlie
c. Sylvester. chief clerk Of the
United States army recruiting Office
at Indianapolis. has been awarded
the medal of Verdun.
His citation says The name of
Harlie c. Sylvester, Company A
Fifth machine gun battalion. is
written in the golden book Of the
soldiers of Verdun, St. Mihiel
Meuse-Argonne. 1918"
Sergeant Sylvester also has re-
ceived the silver star for gallantry
in action at Thiancourt. France
Sept. 10, 1918 He is married, has
two daughters and lives at R. r. q
Box 49,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-04
t THINK PEOPLE ARE SWELL
First Lady May Go Doom As Most Rezered Woman

$ the a of articles Of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-04
GUESS HELD
RUINOUS TO
LIGHT PAYERS
Chamber of Commences
1927 Committee Blamed
for Compromise
Continued From Page One

that the effort TO discredit the COM
mittee's action is unjust and not
in accordance with the facts"
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-21
Woman Paints
Waiting Relief
BY UCL Correspondent

SEATTLE, Sept. 20-Typical of
the callOuscd inhumanity with
which relief officials treat their
victims is the reported case OF
Mrs. Jean Peterson, resident of
Rainier Valley. Mrs. Peterson,
because of extreme sickness, call
ed the office of District II, and
begged her home visitor to ex-
cuse her from the necessity of
coming to the office for a vOuch-
er. Well knowing that Mrs. Pet
ersOn's health has been in such
a precarious state that she is
constantly under a doctors care,
the relief workers callOusly told
Mrs. Peterson that she must ap-
pear in person or receive no
voucher.
Forced to wait in line at the
district office, Mrs. Peterson col
lapsed. In fainting condition,
she was carried to neighbours
car by friends and taken home.
The office personnel did nothing
to relieve her suffering. The dis
graceful record of shameful treat
ment of relief seekers is blOtted
again. Unemployed workers must
organize protests, fight for de-
cent, human respect for them
selves and their elemental rights.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-21
Red Candidate Wins
Shoes For Aged Man

OLYMPIA, Wash, Sept. 90
On the grounds that clothes were
to be given to adults only in eases
OF emergency an elderly man
here was twice turned down by
relief officials on his request for
new shoes. The worker then
sought help from Bob Grimes
Communist candidate for sheriff
Grimes Immediately organized a
committee and. together with the
applicant for shoes, went to the
local relief station
As soon as the committee en-
tered the station. the girl at the
desk dashed upstairs to tell Mrs.
Metealf, relief chief, that "Bigelow
is here with a committee"
In a few minutes the order for
shoes was in the hands of the
worker. Apparently. the welfare
shoppers consider workers CON-
mittee an emergency"
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-21
Fired When They Refuse
Boss Demand for
Speed-up
BY Delegate 426 NLwU

BELLlNGHAM, Wash, Sept. 20
After ten or twelve years of
slavery for the BlOedel DOnavan
Lumber Company bog factory
here, Elmer Cobb, George Smith
and Joe Maslnaka were fired re-
Gently when they refused to run
their machines in higher gear.
The men in this plant are
bawled out if their work is not
to the liking of the boss and
good work is impossible under
high speed or much speed up.
This is just another example of
the New Deal, which protects the
bosses profit, but gives no pro-
lection to the workers. Lack of
much needed organization spells
speed-up and frame-up for any
and all militant workers, who do
not please the boss in his drive
for mass production at starva-
ton wages.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-21
By JOHN THOMAS PAINE
(rbis is the concluding article
Of a series on Upton Sinclair's
EPIC Plan.)

Many factors OF triekery, DEM
agogy and treacherg in the Sin
clair plan must be passed over
for want of space, and the rest
of our attention concentrated on
the Fascist elements of the EPIC
program. To determine whether
or not EPIC carries the seeds
of Fascism, and is preparing the
soil for their planting. it is only
necessary to consider what some
of the outstanding characters
ties of Fascism are, and then to
see If these appear in the Sin.
clair program.
First and foremost i'm its pro-
paganda, Fascism promises all
things to all men, it speaks safe
ly and usually secretly to the
large capitalists; it pledges re-
lief from taxation and interest
slavery" to the petty business
man. small property owner, and
small farmer. This was the pro-
gram both in Italy and Germany.
Security to Rich
What does Upton Sinclair
promise? TO the rich security
and continued possession OF
their goods up. 2S, 30. 33). 'To
the small farmer. all farms as
sessed at less than $1,000 would
be exempt from taxes" (pp. Sc.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-21
UNION OF WOOD CUTTERS
VOTES TO JOIN
NLWJ

BELFAIR, Wash, Sept. 20
Three months ago the wood cut
tiers of the Hood Canal country
realizing that in order to make
living and to keep down cut
throat competition among them
selves, organized an independent
Wood Cutters Union.
These wood cutters drafted up
a unionized scale for wood by the
rick and cord. At the same time
establishing a day wage scale for
the workers that are cutting for
bosses.
Being a small sectarian group
they realized the necessity of af.
filiating to some organization to
give them more strength. Being
aware of the sell-out and past
betrayals of the AFL, they refus-
ed to affiliate to any such ma.
chine as this. A motion was made
to invite the National Secretary
of the NLWU to come to their
next meeting and put forth the
program of a class struggle I'M
ion. A delegate came to the ma
tional office and explained their
desires. The secretary went to
Belfair Friday and met with the
union membership. After ex.
planning the role of the NLWU
and what they could gain by
organizing into a branch, a mo-
ton was entertained and passed
to establish a branch.
At the next meeting every
member will take out card in
the NLWU, thus making a trend
toward unification of the lumber
workers by the elimination of
another union that would tend
to keep the workers divided.
These workers fully realize the
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-21
Munitions Probe
BareS Plot On
Chinese SOvietS

WASHINGTON, ID. C., Sept. 20
Yielding to pressure from Du-
Points and other United States
capitalist interests and to the
protests of foreign munition
makers, the Senate Investigating
Committee which includes our
Homer lBig Navy Bone, has be,
gun to soft-pedal its arms in
quiry
Startling disclosures of whole
sale bribery and corruption, de-
liberate planning of war and in
ternational cooperation in a
Observation-Disclosures Japan
imperiailst plot to crush the Chi
nese Soviets, nevertheless have
been so far produced by the in
quiry.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-21

levied upon the workers in any form what
sOever for this insurance
Section 6. The unemployment insur-
ance fund shall be administered and con-
trolled by the workers through unemploy-
ment insurance commissions composed of
rank and file members of workers organiza-
tions Unemployment insurance commits
siOns shall be empowered to establish free
employment exchanges for the registration
of the workers, the payment of unemploy-
ment insurance, the hearing of contested
claims for unemployment insurance and
appeals from awards made
Section z. Social insurance shall be
paid to workers to the amount of not less
than SlO,OQ weekly for adult workers, and
$500 for each dependent, to compensate for
loss of wages through sickness, accident old
age, maternity
Section g. Part-time workers shall re-
ceive the difference between their wages
and the unemployment insurance benefit.
No worker shall be disqualified from re-
ceiving unemployment insurance because
he refuses to work at wages below the pre-
vailing trade union rates in that vicinity,
nor shall he or she be disqualified for refus-
ing to work because of strike or unsafe or
unhealthful conditions, nor where hours are
longer than the usual trade union stand
ards in the particular trade or locality. An
employee shall not be required to accept
employment If the establishment where
employment is offered is at an unreasonable
distance from his or her home
Section Q. This act shall take effect
Immediately and remain in force until the
Workers Unemployment and Social Insur-
anee bill has ben enacted by the federal
government.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-21
Pulp Cutters
DEFY Red Scare

COPALlS CROSSING, Wash,
Sept. 20-ln spite of a deliberate
attempt on the part of the lum-
Der baTOns to stir up red
scare" 30 pulp wood cutters met
here Sunday, Sept l6, to map out
plans for further organi2atiOnal
activit yto wrench from the pa
per companies a higher price Off
pulp wood cutting, and until
this is won. to force the relief
officials to give adequate relief
to the workers.
To keep the workers from at
tending this meeting the state.
ment that Johnson mad Ryan,
speakers at the meeting. were
paid agitatOrs," was widely
spread. Some stool pigeon stuck
up a notice at one of the skid
ders camps that if he did not
strike his horses would be killed
and the sleds blown up. One
worker. active in trying to or
ganize the pulp cutters, was cut
off relief, but a committee forced
his reinstatement the next day.
One ease, typical of the cutters
who are denied relief, is the Me-
Kee family, a father and two
sons cuttin gpulp, with another
son, nearly blinded year ago by
a chip from a steel falling wedge.
There are several other children
in the family. The relief refused
even medical aid for the injured
son until the workers at COpalis
Beach began to take action.
Another family refused relief
b ythe Welfare Board is the Vol
lendorffs, at Copalis Beach. Vol
lendroff works for the Northwest
Logging Company, falling and
bucking timeber He is in a very
bad physical condition, and his
young wife, q years of age, moth
er of five children, the youngest
two, twins five months of age, is
forced to go into the woods and
help her husband in order for
them both to make enough on
which to live.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-21
Soldier Hits War,
ISCOurt Martialed
Speech At Portland Anti-FaSciSt Meet Nets
Private Guard House, Discharge

and like the army. foot-loose
and ready to go anywhere. To
teach him to shoot rifle instead
of swing an AK and to dodge bul.
let's instead of falling trees, Is the
work OF but a day.
He is the backbone OF the
future imperialist war.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-21
Pulp Cutter Conference
Needed for Pay Boost
Action
From Call to Action"

FORKS, Wash, Sept. 2O-The
pulpwood cutters here in Forks
are still wanting a conference
and some action to get better
prices. They all say We might as
well strike and fight for relief
as to try and make it by cutting
at present prices as we can't
make anything but are going in
the hole every week.
The reason that nobody turn
ed up at the last conference was
that there was some slip in mail
ing the notices and nobody got
them in time. Anyway we are go
ing ahead, and if we don't get a
raise soon, Wen strike.
Forks PulpwOOd Cutter.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-21
RWPA Picnic Success
BY Worker CORRESPONDENCE

CENTRALIA, Wash, Sept. 20
In spite of a drilling rain all
Sunday morning, Sept. l6, the
Lewis County RWPA picnic was
far from a disappointment to
those workers and farmers who
braved the weather to attend.
In addition to the food, and
there was plenty of it, thanks to
the generous contributions of
Centralia merchants, with the ex-
ception of Charlie Meyer, butcher
shop proprietor Charlie couldn't
forget the LOngshore Strike Tag
Day when, as chairman of the
Twin City Labor Council, he was
numerically exposed, as well as
merchants of Winlock and Tole-
do, boxing, bean bag for the kids,
and horseshoe games for the men,
the political speeches delivered
during the day were greatly en-
joyed.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-21

AN ACT to provide for the estblish-
ment of Unemployment and Social Insur-
ance, and other purposes.
BE 1T ENACED BY THE LEGISLAT-
URE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Section 1. That system of Unemploy-
mcnt Insurance be established guarantee
ing the average wages in the respective in
dustries and territories in the State OF
Washington.
Section ; This act shall be known as
the Workers Unemployment and Social
Insurance Bill.
Section 3. The Unemployment Insur-
ance shall not be less than $1,000 weekly for
each adult worker and $500 weekly for
each dependent.
Section 4. All workers wholly unem-
ployed, through no fault of their own, shall
be entitled to the benefits of this act for
the entire period of their unemployment.
There shall be no discrimination. Unem-
plOyment insurance shall be paid to every
unemployed worker, adult and youth,
whether industrial or agricultural office
employee, and all other categories of wage
labor native or foreign-born citizen or nom
citizen, white or Negro, man or woman, with
out discrimination against race, color, age
or political opinion. No worker shall be
deprived of unemployment insurance be-
cause OF refusal to take the place of strik-
ers or to work for less than union rates OF
pay.
Section s. The full funds for unem-
ployment insurance shall be raised from
funds now set aside for the state militia
and other military purposes, and by taxa
ton upon incomes over 5000 year. In no
instance shall there be any contributions
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-21
GiUe Us OurW ay Or Bring
In Hitler, Says Sinclair

/ 30. This Is a word-bribe (prom-
Uses are cheap to win the poor
farmers support and prevent
him from Joining with his natur-
al ally, the city worker.
And to this same city worker
Sinclair roars loudly about cap
italists, bankers, exploiters and
birds of prey" tpp. 6, 59). This
language was borrowed directly
from Hitler, and is intended to
make the worker drunk with
dreams until his trade unions
and other working class organ.
izations can be completely smash
ed, and the masses chained to
the chariot wheel of capitalism,
and dashed with the whips of
Storm Troop-Vigilante terror.
Fascism, in the growing peri.
cd, as illustrated by Germany
from l924-32, has its dirty work
done by the Social Democrats,
who cry loudly about voting for
the lesser evil" Vote for Won
Hindenburg, vote for the So
cial Democrats, they will keep
Hitler out. and keep the Com
munists out, and make proper
ty safe!
This was the cry in Germany
for years, and today Hitler's car
nival of blood, mass-murder, mass
terror and mass starvation show
how well Hindenburg and the
Social Democrats kept their
promise. Hitler has often said
that he could not have succeed
ed without the connivance of
the Social Democrats.
Now what does Upton Sinclair
say? He attempts to terrorize
the small property owners by
telling them that if EPIC fails
the outcome will be violent
revolution" Up: 30), and again
that IF EPIC fails, the COmmun-
lists will do the job" Up. 33),
Next he turns to the workers
and to win their support threat
ems them with Fascism: We must
make the people understand
that this is their fight, not ours.
1t is the fight for their liberia
ton, their happiness-their very
existence in the future. If we do
not solve this problem (cure of
poverty via EPIC we shall have
civil war certain at tOmorl CIV 5
sunrise. We shall have FasciSm.
which means the end of every
thing that makes life worth liv-
ing to an American Democrat
Up. 49,.
The tactics are to frighten
the small business man and
farmer by shouting communist
revolution as inevitable if EPIC
fails, and to horrify the workers
with its opposite, Fascism, if
EPIC fails. This is another eX-
ample of Social Democrat propa-
/ ganda. Where the Social Demo-
cratic tactics won't work, then
Sinclair borrOws his methods
from Hitler.
But in the final analysis, Is
Upton Sinclair opposed to Fas-
cism? No more than were the So
cial Democratic betrayers of
Germany! And when the time
comes Sinclair will support Fas-
cism just as Braun and Severing
did in Germany. Do you doubt
it? Do you say imDOssibler?
Endorsed Terror
Remember that Sinclair en-
dOrsed the pOlice-vigilante ter
ror on the Pacific Coast. Read
his telegram to this effect, adj
dressed to the Daily Worker"
July "a, 1884.
Remember too, these words
from Sinclair's pen, IF we (EP-
lC) cannot have our way in a
crisis such as this, then Democ-
racy is dead horse, and we had
better call in Hitler or a Musso-
lini to run the State" Up. 26).
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-21
Wakefield Speaks on
UnemplOyed's Fight

SEATTLE, Sept. 2O-Declaring
that only the Communist candid
ates offered a program of action
for the unemployed in opposl-
tion to the one-third cut in re-
lief announced in the welfare
authorities bulletin. Lowell
Wakefield, editor of the Voice Of
Action. candidate for Represent
ative in the 43rd District, spoke
at an election rally held by Unit
Z of the Communist Party on the
corner of 9Th and Howell, Satur.
day evening,
Open air rallies will be held
at this corner each Saturday ey-
ening at Z o'clock, the unit cam
paign manager announced.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-21
Write-In Gallagher

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 20-As
a blow for civil rights the Com
munist Party election campaign
committee here has announced
a "Write-In' campaign to elect
Leo Gallagher Associate Justice
of the State Supreme Court.
Latest returns from the prim-
airy election give Gallagher bet
ter than 20j,000 votes.