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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-21
HEADS POST AUXILIARY
Mrs. John Royse Elected at Meeting
of Legion Group.

Mrs. John Royse has been elected
president of the auxiliary to Indian
apolis Post. American Legion. Other
new officers are Mrs. Grover Parr,
vice president; Mrs. George Swain,
secretary; Mrs. E. w. Sayer, treas
urer: Mrs. E. P. Brennan, historian,
and Mrs. Glenn MELVILLE, chaplain.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-21

homes are now under construction.
Mr.. Collins said. The industry also
is profiting from the activity in
reconditioning and undermining OBJ
Solste properties, he said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-21
DANCE ARRANGED BY
MAENNERCH0R GROUP
Informal Party to BE Tomorrow in
Academy of Music.

indianapolis Msennerchor will en-
terrain with an informal party to-
morrow night at the Academy Of
Music. Dancing will begin at and
continue until /.
Franz Binninger Is chairman Of
the entertainment committee which
arranged the party. He is assisted
by Ed Mueller. Frank Koshnider,
Frank Cox. William Notlks. Otto
Ehrgott. Walter Heitkam and Rob-
ert G. Ledig.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-09
WHY THEY FREED
THE SLAVES

When Abe Lincoln was born in
1909 out in the wilderness, people
back east were still marvelling over
that new-fangled invention, the
steamboat, that very much to every
ones surprise managed to sail up
the Hudson River. In those days
the United States of America was
just piece Of land along the At
lantic Coast and pretty well pop
ulated In the South were large
farms owned by rich planters. They
had Negro slaves to do the work on
these plantations. The slave was
owned by his master for life, could
not go away, or have any land of
his own. In return the master gave
him food and shelter all his life,
but no wages.
The planters grew tobacco and
sugar and cotton. Soon cotton came
to be the most profitable crop. The
planters sold their cotton to En-
gland, where there had been fac
tories for some time, and they
bought finished things from En-
gland that they could not make
themselves. Ever since the begin
ming of our republic, these South
ern planters were the most power
full and had control of the govern
ment.
Now IN the North the kind of la
Dor used by the rich was very diff
ferent. Of course there were very
few workers like today, because
there were only few small fac
tories. The rich people, even be-
fore the days of Washington had
made lot of money by trading in
rum, molasses, and the Negro Slave
Trade. They built ships and sent
them far across the sea. But what
of the poor people? Some of them
were carpenters, mechanics, shoe
makers, and made things in small
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-09
Homes Searched
To Stem Union
By a Worker Correspondent

LINDEN. N. 1.-THE Simmons
plant in Linden N, j., is taking
drastic measures to prevent us en-
ployees from organizing into a
union of their own choice.
The National Furniture Workers
Industrial Union has been attempt
ing to organize these workers for
some time. During the strike last
year Of the Kenosha plant the
workers began more and more to
realize the need for a union which
would really protect their interests.
As a result of the activity of the
union at that time the workers in
the Linden plant had put across on
them one of the rankeSt steals
known to workers.
In the formation of the company
union at that time the workers were
called together to vote whether or
not they wanted this union to be
theirs" This union in which no
one was expected to pay dues. For
which the company would supply
free, headquarters, recreation rooms
for dances, etc. This union which
was to protect the interest of the
employee. Which never had mem
bership or even department meet
ings, was the one the workers had
railroaded through on them.
Militant workers showing the true
character of a union like this were
soon dismissed. While many work.
ers in the plant thought that this
was really a union in which no
fakery was possible and workers
had all the rights, they soon became
disillusioned. Many remembered
the teaching of the militant work
ers and now with the approaching
busy season, organizational activ-
ity is again going on. Simmons
this time is using much different
method to discourage organization.
1t is now making house to house
search of all employees on the pre-
text that it is looking for stolen
materials" Since it has long been
policy of the Simmons plant not
to permit workers in any depart
ment other than the one in which
they work, at any time, and many
workers homes have been visited
who could not possibly have been
near the departments from which
the so-called stolen goods came
from, it is very evident that they
are looking for another kind Of
merchandise" 1t is said at the
plant that if worker does not per-
nit the search he is subject to dis
missal.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-09
WITH OUR YOUNG READERS

shops. But most of them were farm
ers. Life was very hard for the
working people. Many of the farm
ers lost their lands because they
couldn't pay their taxes. Some of
the brav5st of these men and wo-
men packed their things and push
ed their way into the West where
there was plenty of land. They cut
down the trees, built log cabins,
planted corn, and made their own
cloth, or wore the skins of animals
they shot in the woods, and worst
of all had to be forever fighting the
Indians, to whom the land right
fully belonged.
Lincoln's father and grandfather
were among the Pioneers who cut
their way into the wilderness, NOV
ing always farther West. When Lin
coin was young man and left his
home in Illinois and f1oated down
the Mississippi on raft, the first
steamboats, began to chug their way
up the Mississippi.
Then things began to change.
Trading became easier. The Erie
Canal opened and steamboats,
brought people over the Great
Lakes from the East. Quickly tiny
villages grew into cities. Some peo-
pie began to get rich. They bought
up land and built railroads. Fac
tories poked their chimneys into the
sky.
Lincoln was one of those who
grsw along with the new West. His
father could scarcely read or write.
But Lincoln became a lawyer and
worked with the new business men
of the frontier, who were very
quickly growing as rich and as
powerful as the older capitalists in
the East. But only some of the
people owned factories and banks
and grew rich. There were more
and more people who were forced
to become workers in the mills.
The Southern planters wanted
new land, too, because their old
land was becoming less fertile. They
did get some new lands, where they
spread their plantations and slav-
cry. But the Northern capitalists
were able to spread out to the West
much easier because they were
making more money.
They could squeeze more profits
out of a free" white labor. They
found free labor much cheaper.
Slaves had to be fed and cared for
all their lives. But the free" work
ers could be thrown out any old
time and still cheaper labor could
always be found.
Around 1910 many immigrants
came here from Europe and filled
the places left by those who went
West. In Europe there was great
suffering and starvation for the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-09
BY Mine Worker Correspondent

MAHONING CITY, Pa. - The
Gilberton mine disaster which re-
suited in the killing of twelve min
ers and injuring eighty-two others
was a direct result Of negligence
and disregard of safety rules ky the
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and
Iron Company is the charge made
by the officials of the Draper Local
of the United Mine Workers of
America.
The officials showed that six days
before the disaster they had written
to Martin F. Brennan, President of
District No. 9, United Mine Work
ers of America, calling attention to
the dangerous condition of the mine
and requesting that steps be taken
to safeguard the lives of the men.
The total neglect of the safety of
the miners came about as a result
of what the company called a new
method Of mining" which really
was nothing more than an attempt
to speed the men up, and at the
same time cut their pay in the
change from the old to the new
method" The men had struck
against the attempt to cut their
wages and their grievance was
handed to the elaborate arbitration
machinery established in the min
ing industry.
The officials Of the local explained
the meaning of the change in meth
DDS in the following words:
Under the new system of min
ing, instead of driving gangways in
the vein they drive them through
rock. This eliminates headings as
used in the old method, resulting in
practically no ventilation other
than compressed air. In driving
these gangways they are supposed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-09
Grocery Statesmen Have
No Protection
By a Worker Correspondent

BY Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK.-The radical press
of this country has revealed various
abuses in all trades against wage
earners. There is one class of work
ers, amounting to three thousand in
this city, that little is heard about.
Even the MIRA. Codes have over
looked them. I am referring to
the statesmen in the wholesale groc-
cry trade.
We receive no guaranteed mini
mum salary, nor guaranteed fixed
commission, nor secure jobs, not
even the freedom Of changing our
job without the good will of our
former employer.
You would be astonished to learn
of instances where a salesman re-
ceived ninety-five cents for a whole
weeks work.
just lately, certain so-called lib
eral papers in this city described
how one of the jobbers in this trade
paid out $250,000 as bonuses to their
workers on a gross business of $18,-
100000 for the year 1884
Why do not these liberal papers
acquaint the public with the fact
that this firm spent about $4,000
to break a strike of their teamsters
about a year ago?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-09
Coal BarOns Plot
Against Union
By Mine Worker Correspondent

BIRMINGHAM. Ala.-The Tel
coal bosses have connected a plan
to smash the miners unions and to
establish their own Brotherhood of
Captive Miners.
They plan to open two mines, the
Edgewater and Docena mines, and
keep the rest of the mines closed.
The Edgewater and Docena mines
are in The center of a wide area of
company property and min ers
would have to treSpass a consider
able distance in order to picket in
time of strike. They figure it would
be a good excuse for calling the
National Guard and maintain a
large number of gun thugs to drive
off the miners.
The first step of the bosses will
be to open these two mines with a
large proportion of scabs and
picked union men. All known mil
liant union men will be left out.
The idea is to win all those who 20
to work for the Brotherhood of
Captive Miners. They also plan to
force strike to test the sentiment
of the miners and get rid of those
who stand for the real union.
While the bosses are planning
this attack on the miners the min
ers themselves are building the To-
Gals Of the U.M.W.A. stronger than
ever and each local meeting sees
the hall crowded with between 500
and 900 miners. The two leaders
Of the Edgewater Local. Leonard
Smith, president, and Floyd Ansley,
secretary (both white), have been
fired on the charge of beating up a
scab on company property. This is
part of the bosses plan to rob the
miners of their militant leaders in
the mine. The Communists are
urging the union to force the bosses
to rehire both Smith and Ansley
and to prepare for a bitter battle
with the bosses for the rights of
the miners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-09
Local UMWA Heads Charge Neglect
Of Bosses Caused Gilberton Disaster

to have two outlets for the men.
In the method of driving rock gang
ways there is only one outlet. Where
the gangways are driven through
the veins there is an outlet in the
main gangway and in the heading.
Chutes were driven from the fourth
to the third lifts as an outlet. but
the gangway above was closed
where the chutes came through
preventing the proper circulation of
the air"
These conditions were a violation
of the state mining laws which read
as follows on the questions of VEN
tilation:
THE ventilating currents shall be
conducted and circulated to and
along the face of each and every
working place throughout the en-
tire mine, in sufficient quantities
to dilute, render harmless and
sweep away smoke and noxious or
dangerous gases, to such an extent
that all working places and travel
ing roads shall be in a safe and fit
state to work and travel therein"
The Philadelphia and Reading
Coal and Iron Company is the big
gest outfit in the lower Anthracite
region, and it is expected that the
investigation commission set up will
go through the usual routine of
clearing the company.
Although Brennan, District Pres
ident of District No. of the U. M.
w. of A., knew six days before the
disaster the condition the mine was
in and took no steps to Immediately
safeguard the lives of the men, it
is quite ironic that fellow District
President Of the U. M. w. of A.,
Michael Hartneady, who incident
ally is also State Secretary of Mines,
has appointed the commission to
investigate the disaster.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-09
Promised Pay Rise
Turns Out Fraud
BY a Municipal Worker
Correspondent

SAN DIEGO, Cal.-The city en-
ployes of San Diego were promised
a five per cent raise on Jan. l., as
a part restoration Of our past pay
cuts. but when we got our checks
on Jan. 20, most of us found out
the so called raise wasn't anywhere
near five per cent.
The reason for this is that &C
cording to the law our pay can't be
increased above the maximum set
annually for the various job CLASH
flcations. So if some Of us are get
ting one per cent or maybe one-half
per cent under the maximum, our
pay isn't being increased the five
per cent at all, but only one per
cent or one-half per cent as the
case may be. Some Of us got only a
dollar or two more per month, and
one fellow got only ninety-four
cents! Many who were getting the
maximum didn't get any raise at
all!
The day after payday, the local
papers announced that meat prices
were up twenty-five per cent and
that other food prices were going
up too.
So we didn't get our five per cent
raise and food commodities did go
up, leaving us in a worse condition
than We were in.
When workers went to Assistant
City Manager CHitler) Lockwood
and complained about their miser-
able conditions, he told them if
they did not like it to-quit. think
that would be the right thing, for
1900 city employees to do, go out
and quit at the same time.
In March, these rats expect us to
vote for them in the municipal
elections, but they are going to be
fooled. We are going to vote right
this time. In order to get what we
want, we will have to vote for work
ers' candidates.
This afternoon a group of us rank
and filers in the City Employees As
ISOLATION, got together and had
meeting. We endorsed the Work
ers' Unemployment, Old Age and
Social Insurance Bill, H.R. 1927, and
we demand the release of the II
workers held on frame up charges
of Criminal Syndicalism in Sacra-
mento. We are glad to know that
there is one attorney like Leo CAL
lagher in the State of California,
one that can tell the truth and de-
fend workers. Tom Mooney was
framed up the same way as these
workers, and therefore we rank and
flers demand the release of Bro
Their Tom Mooney.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-09

Defeat Attempt
At Red Scare
BY a Worker Correspondent


SAN BERNARDINO. Cal. That
the SER.A. workers of San Der.
nardino County are growing more
militant needs no further proof than
that their meetings are of the over
flow type, that their grievance COM
mittees are becoming larger, better
Informed, and disillusioned in all
the alphabetical soup and promises
Of the local and national admin
strations.
San Bernardino has established a
national reputation in that it re-
ceives more and better relief than
any other county in the United
States. This news travelling far
and wide is the obvious reason for
an attempt on the part of the s. E.
r. A. director for San Demanding
County at raising the red scare"
A most petty reason was given for
taking ofense at the San Bernar-
dino Workers Club and the refusal
to see a grievance committee of the
San Bernardino County Wide Asso-
citation of Labor and Relief because
there is an af1liation between these
two organizations.
The petty reason arose from an
article published in the Workers
Voice five weeks ago, but it was not
mentioned until Jan. rs at a meet
ing of the County Wide Associa-
ton. The S. E. r. A. director of the
county, Harold P. Thorenson. is
sued an ultimatum that if the
County Wide Association did not see
to it that Workers Club rid itself
OF Communist leadership, he would
not receive any grievance commit
tee from the County Wide Associa-
ton.
Great interest was registered at
the Jan, 26 meeting by the delegates
and subsequently throughout the
entire county. A motion to appoint
a committee to investigate reds,
Communists and assorted radicals
in the Workers Club started a dis
cussion which lasted for an hour.
Following this, known Commu-
mist asked for permission to speak.
The role Of the Communist Party
was brought to the workers, as well
as its relation to other organiza-
tions of workers. The leadership of
the Communist Party in the San
Francisco and other strikes was also
gone in to. He issued a challenge
to the S. E. R. A. director to debate
the need for Communist leadership.
with rank and file control from be-
low, instead of the fake leadership
usually offered the workers. He also
challenged any one to show a single
instance where known Communist
leader did anything but carry out
the wishes of the rank and file.
The discussion of the workers
showed plainly that they had no
fear, no hatred for honest, willing,
hard working Communist leader
ship.
A vote was taken as to whether
or not they should appoint COM
mittee to investigate Communist
activities in the Workers Club.
Three voted yes, thirty voted no.
Another motion was made and car
ried unanimously. This motion
called for the sending of a message
to the S. E. r. A. director, telling
him to appoint his own committee
of investigation if he was so anxious
to investigate.
To answer the red scare" plans
were made to build bigger and bet
ter workers clubs. This is surely
being done, for the workers are join
ing at a rate unheard of in the an
nails of organized labor in San Ber-
nardino County.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-09

lar subject of the day. Industrial
workers, farmers, miners, white
collar workers, workers in all cate
gories, are ready to become regular
readers of the Daily Worker. They
need but to be approached!
Nine new cities are represented
cng last weeks entries.
Youngstown and Toledo, in Ohio;
Rockford, in Illinois; Bayonne, in
New Jersey; and Helper, in Utah,
are among them. They are widely
separated cities. But workers in
every city and state have the
chance for the prizes.
The Chicago District, however, is
still pushing ahead of its brothers
in the number of entries. Five
more were credited to it last week.
It's total is now II.
New York remains second, with
IL contestants. But Cleveland has
thrust Detroit out Of third place.
The Ohio district now has eight
entries, one more than Detroit.
But where are Philadelphia,
Minneapolis, Minnesota, CaIifor-
MIA, Washington? Surely there
are workers in those districts who
wish to see the Soviet Union! Can
it be that the contest is not be-
ing publicized, pOpuIarized enough
in those districts? Or in the
other districts that have not yet
been heard from?
The Daily Worker bids the leader
ship in those districts to make all
haste to bring the contest, to bring
the subscription drive to the atten-
ton of all the workers in their
statesl
Following is the list of entries
received last week:
NEW YORK DISTRICT
Glens Falls
Homer Lazure
Valley Stream, L. l.
Rebecca Cohen
CLEVELAND DISTRICT
Canton, Ohio
wilma Brazelton
Cleveland, Ohio:
Prayer
Toledo, Ohio
Fred v. Voelker
Youngstown, Ohio
John Neff
CHICAGO DISTRICT
Chicago, ILL.,:
Catherine Coolidge Matt Reinschneider
Daniel Lubin A. Cohen
Rockford, Ill.
Peter Peterson
NEBRASKA DISTRICT
Davenport, Iowa
Rudolph Benin
NEW JERSEY DISTRICT
Bayonne. N. ].
Antonio Fuente
WISCONSIN DISTRICT
Milwaukee, Wis:
William Kirchner
COLORADO DISTRICT
Helper, Utah
Adam Ostoich
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-09
JObless Council Formed
After Two-Year Effort
By Worker Correspondent

PITTSTON, Pa-For the last two
years we have worked very hard to
organize an unemployed council in
PittSton and haven't been success
full. Finally, we have held two
meetings in the last two weeks and
the thing is becoming a real success.
Our first meeting was held on
Jan. %, the second a week later. 1t
was Comrade Steve Nelson of
Wilkes-Barre who held the atten-
ton Of the crowd at the last meet
ing.
There are more Italians in this
town than people of any other ma
tionality, and it was very hard to
get them to join the unemployed
council. Now they all want to have
one of the largest branches.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-09

Mr.. Doughbags is taking the money he
stole from his workers to the bank. He
is going through the woods because he
doesn't want anyone to see him. Margie,
Tim and Jerry are there, though, watching
him. He doesn't see them Do you? If
you can find the outlines of all three
workers, and they were glad to come
to this new country where it seemed
that there was great opportunity
for all. So all during Lincolns life
the Northern capitalists were grow
ing rich and stronger. Soon they
were bigger and stronger than the
Southern plantation owners and
they wanted to get hold of the ma
tional government which the South
ern owners had kept so long. They
wanted to make laws that would be
good for their own business. They
managed to get Lincoln elected
their president and the government
was theirs.
But the South, although it saw
its power slipping, did not want to
let go so easily. There seemed to
be only one way out and that was
war. So the Civil War was fought
to see who would control the gov
eminent. The Southern planters
wanted power SO it could keep it's
old life and it's slavery. The North
ern capitalists wanted power so
they could make laws for the ben
eft of their new industry and bust
ness that needed free labor to make
their profits. They wanted to force
the Southern planters to send their
cotton to the mills in the North in
stead of to England. The North won
the war because of it's modern
methods that could easily turn out
guns and ships. So the backward
South, with its slavery, was con-
quered, and new ways rushed for
ward. The slaves were freed not
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-09
Negro Veterans Fed
On LeftOvers
BY a Worker Correspondent

DAYTON, O.-As I am veteran
at the National Military Home in
Dayton, I want to explain the con-
ditions of the vets in the home.
Every month we are issued four
cents worth of soap and a half
pound of tobacco. There is so much
red tape in getting anything that
most of the men are barefooted.
There is plenty of clothing but it is
not given out.
The waitress for company nine
and ten is getting shots for a con-
tagious disease. She waits on the
Negro vets. They clean up the
bread from the tables of the white
vets and then give it to the Negroes.
The Negro vets get all the left overs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-09
Transient Center Gusts
Man i'm Zero Weather
BY a Worker Correspondent


SCHENECTADY. N. Y. = John
Christian, with both hands frozen
stiff, was refused admittance to the
Transient Center in sub-zero wea-
ther.
He left the center and was picked
up by the roadside in a serious con-
dition and then taken to the
Schenectady City Jail. The next
day they sent him back to the
camp.
They put him in a two-by -four
room which they call a hospital,
just reeking with dirt and filth.
His medical attention was poor.
Now he is dead. His oppresscrs
appeal for donations for flowers.