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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-07
POPULATION OF u. S.
TOO EASILY LED

BY A. ]. McKinnon.
I owe w. L. Ballard an apology if
he feels I called him a dumbbeT.
That was far from my thoughts.
This expression was at the end of
my article and it calls your atten-
ton to the fact that there are
numerous such people in America.
1t is estimated from an authentic
sources that 80 per cent of the peo-
pie know very little outside of prize
fights, baseball and the funnies. A
majority Of our people know very
little as to whether America is COM
ing or going while the shreWd money
getters think all night on schemes
of how to profit on society.
The financier wakes up from a
short nap, decides his idea will be
carried out and hustles off to Wash
ington to start lobby while the
masses dream about baseball It's
about time some one has come along
to wake up the people that to pro-
tect our rights we have to have
peoples lobby too and see that our
rights are not thrown to the wind.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-07
NEGRO, AMERICAN CITIZEN
AND ENTITLED TO WORK

BY w. d. @.
Keep that shoe on, j. N, it seems
to fit. That day, June 4, should go
down in history as the day that a
certain j. N. displayed his remark
able literary talents for the first
time.
Where is your proof that foreign
ers are the grand pillar of support
for this country? Let's have some
statistics in this respect, then it
could be possible that your letter
would contain some significance.
The Civil War ended slavery and
at the same time threw the Negro
on the free labor market. Revolu-
tons, tyranny and other forms Of
distress in the Old Country threw
foreigners in Uncle Sans lap and
likewise on the free labor market.
The Negro is a full-f1edged Amer
lean entitled to work if he can find
it. He didn't come over to this
country after working for 20 rubles
day when they were 10000 to the
dollar. Then give three rousing
cheers to TrotSky or Stain.
am a new subscriber and like
YOUR paper very much.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-07

he brought up men, tanks and guns. Taking
the Germans of guard. he broke through, their
defenses, including the Hindenburg line. Be-
fore him was the open country and victory.
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg afterward
wrote that ne could not understand why Byng
did not push on and end the war. The answer
was that he had no reserves. Had not British
troops been decinated in long summer cam
paign, hopeless from the beginning the world
year Of the war.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-07
UphoIds Pension Needs

to this pension are many of them
property holders. They are bur-
dened almost beyond belief by
taxes.
1t would be very interesting TO
actually know just where the ten
million dollars allotted to the state
of Indiana will go. Wouldn't it be
just grand and sublime" to Grad
icate these bloated politicians from
office and have a government in
terest in all the people and not
the few? Are we a democracy?
Not for one second. I have no
patience with Communists but I
can certainly understand the at
titude of well-meaning, hard
working and industrious persons
who spend their lives accumulat-
ing-only to get nowhere.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-07
q
ROOSEVELT BATTLE HAS
ONLY BEGUN, HE ASSERTS
BY George n. Berry,

Dy
The Roosevelt revolution" has
lost its first battle of major impor-
lance. but the war is not over. It has
only begun. The problems that con-
fronted the President in March,
1893, have not been solved by the
Supreme Court decision. The eco
nomic and social structure OF the
nation is in greater need Of trans
formation today than it was on
March 4, 1888.
The Constitution is living docu-
ment to permit the nation to achieve
the purpose Of the Declaration OF
independence.
All business is dependent upon
the purchasing power of the public.
When purchasing power fails, the
cards are stacked against all buSi-
ness If this purchasing power is
not provided on a voluntary basis
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-07

I am leaving for North Carolina to-
morrow.
am not just speaking for myself
but for hundreds of other race fans
who come here each year and I
would like to inform the police OF
Indianapolis that they will not be
bothered with me any more because
if seven cops jump on a 17-year-old
youth and beat in his skull, good
ness knows how many it would
take to handle a man, or what they
would do to him.
What this indianapolis police de-
partment needs is to go South and
learn hospitality.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-07
The Message Center

(Times readers are Mvfted to erpress
their UietCs in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can have a chance.
Limit them to ESQ cords or less. Your
letter must be signed. but names toitl
be 40ithheId at request Of the letter
tCriteY.I
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-07
BY Helen Kay Young.

BY Helen Kay Young.
I was very much interested in
the humanitarian attitude evinced
by c. L., who wrote to The Times
regarding the old-age pension.
I have discussed this problem at
length with people for and against
it. The latter seem to take the at
titude that persons approaching
the last years of life should have
saved, should have prepared them
selves for the emergency (if we
can consider it in that Light.
1 often wonder if these (per-
haps weu-meaning citizens) ever
take into consideration the fact
that they did prepare. They pre-
pared and had their savings virtu-
ally wiped out in the 1888 debacle.
Too, the people who are entitled
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-07
ASSERTS DEMOCRATS DO NOT
RECEIVE AGE PENSIONS
Rv Times Rea der.

BY Times Reader.
I have been a reader of The
Times since it was changed from
the Sun and have been a life
long Democrat. I would like to
answer an article in Message Center
which stated that the writer OBJ
jected to the method of paying old
age pensions. He says if you are
a good Democrat you get a pension.
This statement is not true in Bar
tholomew County. I can name sew
eral Democrats in my locality who
have had their applications in since
November, 1884, and they can not
get an answer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-07

rescind the letting of the eight mil
lion dollar gas bond issue at Az per
cent, which is excessive for non
taxable bonds, and per cent above
prevailing rates for long-term bonds.
Ten days before the issue was
awarded he told The Times that he
felt that good bushes practice de-
manded that the city make an en-
cheering appraisal and audit of the
gas company books before awarding.
This was not done and the issue
was awarded too hastily.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-07
HE WONDERS WHAT
BECAME OF CHAIN LETTERS
By a Laborer.

BY LabOrer.
Well, what's the verdict on chain
letters? There hasn't been one per-
son killed due to chain letters. But
where are all these professors"
when it comes to summing up the
deaths caused on the race track?
Oh, they are busy trying TO stop the
chain letter racket. What is worse
racket than one which permits men
to deliberately race themselves to
death before thousands?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-07

Now that business men are acting in part
nership to preserve certain NRA principles,
let's hope none of them adopt the slogan, I'VE
Do Our Partners"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-07
SUGGESTS GAS co.
BOND ISSUE BE RESCINDED

By william Z. Evans
Mayor Kern in your issue Of June
3 states that he invites any sugges-
tons concerning ways in which he
can more economically serve the
people.
1 would suggest that he prevail
on the Utility District that it
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-07
MORNING

BY DOROTHY PERKINS
The sun ascending pales the sky,
The mute mist rises from the
ground.
High and sweet comes a birds clear
cry,
The earth is filed again with
sound.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-07

Manufacturer Of an antiseptic mouth wash
buys new racing yachts. It's an i'll breath that
blows nobody good.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-07

The worlds largest urcut diamond is in
the United States, and Americans are reported
70 be thrilled, this being almost as rare SEht
nowadays as uncut liquor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-07

MusSclini is sending $4,000 more men to
Africa. If this continues, a strategic Ethiopian
counter move would be for an Abyssinian to
take Italy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-07

Our war debt experience convinces us that
there should be an &c" in the middle of The
word, Finland
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-07

AS Pittsburgher went out his front door.
slamning it, his house collapsed. That should
teach his wife not to irritate him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-07

power.-Scott M. Loftin, president,
American Bar Association.
The Constitution was put in writ
ing to be infleXible, not to be elastic.
These hysterical propositions, pur-
portedly emergency measures but in
emergencies which are quickly past,
are unnecessary and should never
be enacted.-Robert H. McCarter.
dean of New Jersey bar.
I must pay tribute to the Ameri-
can women for their uniformly high
standard of smartness in dress. -
Dame Sybil Thorndike.
People think being a duke must
be great fun. Well, it has its adj
vantages, but I am not quite sure
I am glad was born a duke.-Duke
of Manchester, recently sentenced to
prison for fraud.
The Republican party has always
been in favor Of doing things ac-
cording to the Constitution. The
other people maybe haven't been so
careful.-EX-Vi President Charles
Curtis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-07
Daily Thought

Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts,
saying, Execute true judgment. and
show mercy and compassion every
man to his brother.-Zechariah
7:9.
TIE who is only just is cruel.
II Who ON earth could live wefe
all judged justly?-Byron.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-07
So They Say

Our courts should recognize Meth
er wealth nor birth nor political
power.-Scott NJ Loftin, president,
American Bar Association.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-07

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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-07

fifty THOUSAND more Italian soldiers
l. are about to depart for Africa, according
to dispatches from Rome.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-21
Police Arrest Workers
Who Return Furniture
OfEvicted Negro Widow

COLUMBUS, o., Jan. 20.-Mrs.
Maggie Morgan, Negro widow, and
two workers who led a delegation
from the Communist Party, the
League of Strugge for Negro
Rights and members of the Ohio
Unemployed League were arrested
here last week when they stopped
the eviction of Mrs. Morgan from
her home.
Wilson, tn e landlord, h a d at
tempted to foreclose on the house,
which represented the life savings
of Mrs. Morgan but the workers had
guarded the house so well that he
had been unable to carry out the
eviction.
Wednesday he arrived at the
house supported by six cars full of
deputy sheriffs and the riot squad
all armed with guns and tear gas
bombs. The police kept the work
ers at bay while they removed the
furniture but when it had been put
on the street the workers picked it
all up and carried it back.
The police then arrested David
Jackson and Charles Hendrix, who
were in the forefront of the action,
and Mrs. Morgan.
The workers are being held in
jail. The International Labor De-
tense the League of Struggle for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-21
Young Pickets
To Face Court
Tn New Jersey

NEWARK, N. j., Jan. 20.-Twelve
youths arrested for picketing the
Newark C.C.C. headquarters to pro-
test the brutal military discipline
used against West Orange, N. j.,
C.CC. strikers, will go on trial Tues
day morning in the Second Precinct
Court, Seventh and Summer Ave.
Attorney Sol Golat has been re-
tanned by the International Labor
Defense to represent IL of the
workers.
Frank Carlson, New Jersey dis
trcit organizer of the Young Com
munist League, who has been
singled out by the police for special
persecution, will conduct his own
defense. One of the charges against
Carlson is that he used profane
language in the august presence of
a policeman.
The LID. has organized a mass
protest campaign, with barrage
of protest kilograms, post cards and
letters and telephone calls to Judge
Seymour Klein, telephone Market
2-2660. Workers are urged to pack
the court Tuesday morning in soil
darity with the defendants.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-21

tons. This subscription drive must
serve to definitely establish the sys-
tematic sale of the Daily Worker in
our territory, with Party orgsniza-
tons, from Distrist to units, taking
full responsibility for bundle sales,
carrier routes and the organization
of sales in concentration areas.
Once and for all we must do away
with all looseness."
Chicago-"We are issuing imme-
diately 500 posters, 10000 'compari-
SON leaflets, immense signs to cover
every workers hall in the territory.
The present campaign will be sue
cess in our district"
Philsdelphia-"Send us at once
500 more copies Of How To Sell the
Daily Worker"
Buffalo-"District has assigned
its quota of 300 daily and $50 subs
to the sections"
Pittsburgh-"We have laid plans
for broad conference on Jan. 81,
at which Comrade Hathaway will
speak. We are forming a commit
tee"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-21
Philadelphia Maps
Drive for Insurance

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Jan. 90
The Philadelphia Sponsoring Com
mittee for the National Unemploy-
ment Insurance Congress Is follow
ing up the congress with the organ
ization Of local action committees,
which will carry out the decisions
Of the congress and carry on the
fight for the Workers Bill, H. r.
1927.
The local action committee will
consist of five American Federation
of Labor representatives and two
from each of the organizations that
sent delegates to the congress. At
meeting last Thursday the A. F.
Of L. Committee for Unemployment
Insurance elected six delegates to
the Action Committee.
Other organizations are also elect
ing delegates and the first meeting
of the committee will be held
Tuesday, Jan. %, Room TOT, Elan
ders Building, POT South 18th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-21
VAH TERRORISM RIVALED IN GEORGIA CONCENTRATION CAMP
10000 Crowd
Lenin Meeting
inPhiladelphia
American Traditions of
Revolution Cited
By BrOwder

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 20. - Ten
thousand workers crowded the Mar
ket Street Arena Friday night to
hear Earl Browder, general secre-
tsry Of the Communist Party, de-
liver mastery speech, at the
largest and most enthusiastic Lenin
Memorial meeting in the history Of
Philadelphia.
Smashing right back at Judge
McDevitt, Magistrates Zoeig and
OHara, the police, and other fas-
cistic elements in the city for their
vicious and slanderous attack on
the Communist Party and the work.
ing class, these workers not only
broke into enthusiastic applause Of
Lenin's revolutionary leadership,
but contributed S943 to help the
Communist Party apply Lenin's
teachings in its fight to weld a solid
united front of workers against all
fascist attacks and for its fight for
a Soviet America.
Speaking of the Workers Unem-
ployment and Social Insurance Bill,
H.R. 1927, Browder indicated the
tremendous significance of tn e
broad united front the recent Con-
gress for Unemployment and Social
Insurance showed.
Sixteen, seventeen million men
and women, able and willing to
work, plenty of machinery for them
to work with, plenty of natural
resources for them to make into fin
ished goods, with millions of needy
and poor. Is there any doubt in
anybody's mind that capitalism is
crumbling?
Can anyone think that American
workers, the inheritors Of a splendid
revolutionary tradition, will submit
to the degrading and corrupting
charity and forced labor?"
Manning johnson, militant Negro
leader Of the working class, bril-
iantly linked the Scottsboro frame
up with the age old Dive against
the Negro people in the United
States.
Irving Keith, district organizer of
the Young Communist League, elo-
quently and passionately, demanded
more guidance, more leadership of
the youth, ITO permit us to become
real Bolsheviks, to take our places
as organizers and fighters in the
Communist Party, for a Soviet
America"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-21
Workers Mass
Cleveland
Picket Line
Whole Dress Industry
Stopped Daily To
Aid Strikers
By Sander VOrOs
DAILY Worker Ohio Bureaul

CLEVELAND, Jan. 20. - Mass
picket lines of garment workers re-
inforced by workers of other unions
and industries shut down solidly the
Cleveland and Kent, Ohio, plants
of the L. N. Gross Co., one of the
largest manufacturers of cotton
dresses in the country.
The strike, called last Wednesday
by the International Ladies Gar
ment Workers Union, is for higher
wages over and above the MIRA.
code minimum, closed shop, ma
chinery for adjustment of disputes,
equal division of work, and no dis
charge Of workers before complain
ant has been placed before the
union, charges investigated and a
decision rendered by the impartial
arbitration board.
Voting full support for the strike,
the Cleveland Federation of Labor
issued a call for volunteers to re-
inforce the mass picket line.
Police attacked the picket line in
Kent, where the picketing was
turned into a real mass demonstra-
ton as members of other unions
and workers in different industries
massed on the picket line to dem
onstrate their solidarity with the
striking garment workers. The
workers withstood the attack and
picketing was continued.
Plans are being made to spread
the strike over the entire cotton
dress industry and preparations are
being made to pull another large
shop out early next week.
The entire dress industry is
stopped from 8 to 10 o'clock every
morning to participate in the mass
picketing. From next week on, the
cloak division will also be stopped
from 2:30 to in the afternoon to
man the picket lines.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-21
Unemployed Give Aid
To Hat Shop Strike

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Jan. 90
Strikers at the LaSalle Hat Shop
invited a speaker from the Unem-
ployment Councils to address them
last week at their headquarters at
1908 Tasker Street on unemploy-
ment and relief. The speaker from
the Unemployment Councils as
sured the strikers their fullest sup
port.
A delegation of the strikers will be
taken to the county relief admin
stration at 1,45O Cherry Street to
demand full relief to all the strik-
ers during the full time of their
walk-out.
The strikers sent telegram to
Representative Matthew Dunn of
Pennsylvania, who is chairman of
the subcommittee on labor, de-
handing that he support the Work
ers Unemployment, Old Age, and
Social Insurance Act. HR. 1927.
Units: Increase the circulation
of the Daily Worker by choosing
a few street corners for regular
sales.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-21
SyndicaIism
Trial of Denny
Begins in West
BY DAWN LOVELACE

PORTLAND, Ore, Jan. 20.-Ed-
ward Denny, leader and organizer of
the unemployed single men in their
fight against forced labor and hun
ger, went on trial yesterday in
Judge James Stapleton's court,
charged with criminal Syndicalism
for rallying unemployed workers
to support the picket-line during
the maritime strike here last Sum-
mer. Three International Labor
Defense attorneys, Irwin Goodman,
Harry Gross and Clifford OBrien,
are handling the legal defense.
The examination of prospective
jurors is expected to take the major
part of the first two days. One after
another, the jury panel members are
being question, here woman, wife
Of a prominent Legionnaire and
member of the local vigilantes;
there a member of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars, declaring his oppo-
sition to Communism, admitting
prejudice against Communist work
ers, yet with the court and the pros
ecution making every effort to re-
tain him on the jury.
The insidious methods employed
by the red-baiting reactionaries in
attempting to prejudice prospective
jurors against the defendant in
cluded the placing of copies of a
recent issue of Liberty Magazine
on the benches where prospective
jurors sat. The magazine was
opened at an article by Matthew
Vol, Gan the Reds Destroy
American, part of the Liberty
Hearst-Woll campaign of violent
provocation against the working
class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-21
Cleveland Relief
Picketing Thursday
DAILY Worker Ohio Bureau,

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 20. -
Picketing of the Prospect Relief
Station, Prospect and Twenty-sec-
ond Streets on Tuesday and We'd
nesday with a mass demonstration
on Thursday, Jan. "A, has been
called by the Unemployment Coun-
ellis of the Eleventh and Twelfth
Wards, the Italian Workers Club
and the Woodland Branch of the
Small Home and Landowners Fed
Grafton.
Following the relief march on
Dec. %, the policy committee of the
Cuyahoga County Relief Admins
tration decided to put cash relief
into effect in the Carnegie District,
which embraces the largest Negro
population in the city. This deci-
sion, however, limited by the pro-
vision "as soon as suitable appara-
tus can be set up" was never put
into practice.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-21

task of building the Daily Worker
among the broad masses of white,
Negro and Mexican workers. .
The present subscription drive must
be the turning point"
Task of All Districts
In Houston and Buffalo, in Chi
cago and Pittsburgh, in Buffalo,
New York and Philadelphia-in
every district-the present subscrip-
every district-the present subscrip-
ton drive must be made the truly
turning point The districts must
raise the subscriptions required in
the drive, by April 5. The Districts
must raise the "Dailys" circulation
to 100000 copies a day within the
next months.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-21
Downs Anti-Labor Law
Is Challenged in South

The constitutionality of the Downs
Literature Law, a city ordinance
which makes it crime to possess
two copies of any piece Of working
class literature, will be challenged
before the State Supreme Court
when Attorney G. B. Powell appeals
the case of Raymond Harris. Harris
was sentenced to six months on the
chain gang and a fine of 500 by
Judge Henry Martin. The defense
is being conducted by the Interna-
tional Labor Defense.
Two Negro workers, Fred Walker
and Pete Turney, were also SEN
fenced for possessing literature. The
LID. is fighting for their release.
The Interpretation of the Downs
law has been so broad as to make
illegal any paper or leaflet advo-
eating strikes, militant struggles Of
any kind, civil rights for Negroes,
etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-21
CONNECTICUT INSURANCE
RALLIES

WATERBURY, Conn, Jan. 90
Two meetings have been arranged
here to hear the report of the dele
gates who attended the National
Congress for Unemployment and
Social Insurance. One meeting will
be held on Tuesday, Jan. % In the
City Court Room of Naugatuck,
Conn, the other on Wednesday,
Jan. % at the Central Y.M.CA. of
Waterbury, Conn.