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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-23
Suited to School Wear
BY ELLEN WORTH

How about new thin wooden in
tweed effect? They are so tremen-
dously good looking. These days
one could ask when is tweed not
tweed?" with the reply when it's
jersey or novelty wooden or WOOL
like silk, ETC." So many things have
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terms in their desire to be smart.
In lovely wisteria novelty wooden
was today's shirtmaker dress.
1t would also be stunning in brown
woOl-like silk or in moss green.
You can't make a better choice
for school, college and office wear.
Style No. 1874 is designed for sizes
IA, 16. 10 years, 36, 38 and 40 inches
bust. Size 16 requires 37s yards of
39-inch material for long sleeve
dress.
Our fashion magazine is beauti-
fully illustrated in color. Price, 10
cents.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-23

ter o. the fOX
hunt.
Mrs. Au g u S t
Bohlen's new dap
pie gray hunter
is being prepared
for the hunts al
the Algon quin
Riding Club. Mrs.
BOhlen will ride
her jumper in the
runs being ar
ranged by Mr..
Bailey and Mrs.
Bailey, joint mas
terS. .JumDer
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-23

To obtain a pattern Of this
model, tear out the coupon and
mail it to Ellen Worth. The Indi-
annapolis Times, pa w. Maryland
coins.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-11
l2h Cents an Hour
Pay at Hospital
By Worker Corresrondent

UTICA, N. Y. - am enclosing
copies Of two letters, one request
ing information from the N. r. A.
as to what are the regulations con-
corning hospital employees, and the
other reply we received from the
office of the State Director of the
N. R. A. Our letter follows:
Dear Sir:
We are writing in regards to the
N. r. A. What are the rules and
working hours? My husband is en-
ployed as fireman at st. Lukes Hos
pital. His pay is forty-five dollars
per month besides his room and
board.
He is employed as night fireman
and works twelve hours every night
with the exception of Friday night
when he goes to work at twelve
midnight and works until seven in
the morning.
He works at the rate of 1917 cents
per hour and it looks very unreason-
able to ask man to put in twelve
long hours day at such low nav.
A man is q human being. His
body needs rest. Besides, what can
be done on such wages? Groceries
and food are getting higher from
week to week. You can't help but
notice that the price on butter and
meat and other foodstuffs is three
or four cents higher. While prices
are rising, they pay twelve and a
half cents an hour for twelve
hour day. How do they expect any
one to pay rent, buy fuel, pay for
electric besides buying food and
othe:- necessities? Now that is why
we arc writing. We want to know
the rules and the number of work.
ing hours the N. R. A. calls for.
Nov, here is the answer we got
TO this letter:
Dear Sir:
With reference to your letter, re-
questing information as to hours
and wages due a hospital employee.
We regret to advise establishments
Of such classification are not sub
iect to provisions Of the N. r. A.
and therefore this Office has no
jurisdiction over the matter.
Very truly yours,
w j. MURRAY.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-11
Thousands Deprived of Franchise
In Effort to Block Workers Vote

voters, $500, or over 80 and 1-3 per
cent were stricken from the great
register of Imperial county! 5000
of the names stricken off, we're Of
voters in Brawley and Ell Centre
alone!
The state league of municipalities
has recently been engaged in
making a survey of election officials
throughout the state asking sug-
gestions on changes in election laws
The workers of California should
keep a sharp eye on this outfit and
their attempts to disfranchise the
working -class vote, legally or lille
gally.
For example, City Clerk Wright of
San Diego, in response to the
leagues queries, recommends that a
change in hours at the polls be
made Instead Of having the polls
open like at present, from 6 a. m. to
I p. m. which gives the workers
who actually have full time jobs. a
chance to vote, Wright wants the
polls opened at a. m. and closed at
6 p. M, direct move to disfran-
chise workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-11
ReliefAdds Burden
To Home Worker
By a Worker Correspondent


AUSTIN, Textile conditions Of
home laundry work are Of such
nature that they are actually un-
livable. I do the laundry for a
white lawyer who has four in MS
family. The laundry is in my house
four weeks before it is called fer.
He pays 81. This means that I am
paid at the rate of Csc per week TO
do Laundry for family Of four. and
I have to wait four weeks for the
pay. Every day some member Of
his family comes by to get one or
two pieces OF it, and this stops my
work and wastes fuel because of
these little amounts wanted. When
the week is gone, the money which
the work is worth is all gone for ex-
cess fuel
I worked one day cleaning and
washing for a woman. At the end
of that day, as the woman and her
husband were bringing me home in
thei: car, she asked me how much
I wanted for the work I said 81.
Her husband said. Two dollars?
Why, people in Houston are glad
to work all day for what they can
eat. You ought to be glad to get
so cents. What do you think about
those people in Houston7" I told
him. Il think that is why they are
having to work for food-because
they aren't paid." I was working
for money, I said, so I could buy
food. He was so angry that he drew
up at the curb in the middle of the
block and asked me where l wanted
to get out told him ION the cor
ner," and this is where he left me.
In addition to laundry work, I am
keeping clean the halls, stairways
and porches of two apartment
houses, one three stories high, the
other two, with porch to each
floor. l am paid 81 per month for
both houses Finding it so hard to
live unde~ such conditions, i'll and
in need OF medical attention, I de-
cided to seek help from the relief
headquarters. They first turned my
daughter down twice. Then I went
After my second visit the case
worker came and left me impressed
that everything would be all right.
An hour later he came back and
sent me out on job keeping house
for a family of nine, mothesr, four
sons, four daughters, all grown ups
except one, about twelve or thirteen
years old The house was three
sto: eys high. There was heavy
grey congoleum carpet on every hall,
stairway, and floor of all nine rooms.
There were two baths to be wet
mopped every day, and waxed. T
was to also do the laundry. sewing
and cook three meals every day for
these wealthy people. One of the
sons is a hospital physician. They
said they expected first class service
for IS. per week. as this was big
salary. I refused to take the Job be-
cause I knew that l could never
hold IN to such work.
Conditions like this makc me
realize that the Negro and white
people must unite
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-11

Describes Raid of Police
On Chicago Workers Hall

beaten. The beating started in TIE
hall and was finished at the Dcs-
PLANES Street Station. To top It
of Mr. Murphy" Adair came into
the cell Of Boyd and Frank and
threw a pail Of ice water at them.
Our hall was a mess of wreckage
when the vandals got through with
it. The detectives acted like Il
bunch Of dope f1ends. They actually
foamed at their mouths as they
proceeded to beat up the workers in
the hall. The detective that stood
at the door was so heavy with whis-
key that his sinking breath could
be smelled half way down the stairs
Women who &c sc to the dance
we're told to go home. Some were
cursed at and insulted
Workers standing on the sidewalk
we're indignant. Comments such as
You can't even dance any more. .
and Il never saw such brutality, 4"
we're heard.
.tl(reck ETAOI AOIN AOTN zfitiT
Floyd Walker. candidate for Al
decman in the 9th Ward. now ssrv-
ing f1fty-three days in Bridewell for
demanding relief at Union Park
Relief Station, is the organizer OF
branch No. Of the Unemployment
Councils, located in this hall
Precinct captains in this ward have
been intimidating the signers of
petitions circulated In his behalf
This hall was known throughout the
city as a place where action could
be gotten when grievances were
presented and whe.e workers could
have a good time at our affairs
1t was a menace to the political
machine in the 9th Ward. They
thought that through terror and
intimidation they could stop the
workers from organizing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-11
BY a Worker Correspondent

SAN DIEGO. Calif.-Out of the
121,527 registered voters in San
Diego county, 27,271 have been
stricken off the rolls. about % per
cent?
The technical reason used to de-
prive these voters of their fran
chise, is that they didn't vote either
at the primaries or the general
elections of last year. There is
great significance in this move to
the working class, for the real cause
of this promptness in striking off
names of voters from the registered
list, undoubtedly lies in the huge
Communist votes Of over 100000 for
Whitney, and the huge Sinclair
votes of last fall.
Imperial county. in which lies the
Imperial Valley, scene Of the now
historical struggles Of agricultural
workers for the right to live and for
better conditions, was even more in
hurry to strike off names of
voters from their register.
Out Of total of $4,000 registered
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-11
Trail of Corruption Marks
Career of Hit and Run Mayor

few hours later than the Pickett
accidenD It was definitely proved
by the reports Of two police officers
who interviewed Irones after he had
rammed the telephone post. that
he had been drinking. However. in
spite of the fact that a campaign
was being held against drunken
drivers. and many unimportant
persons and workers were being ar
rested on this charge, "his honor
the mayor" was not jailed.
The official car which was
wrecked when he rammed the post,
had been specially ordered by the
city council for the mayor 1t was
stipulated in the specifications for
the car that its cylinders must be
in two banks of 81 degrees. which
let out any other car than Lin
coin. When the mayor wrecked it.
it hadn't even off1cially been bought
yet.
This and other official and unof1-
cisl actions Of the mayor" have
caused a big stink. In the first
place he was never elected by the
people. The former Mayor. veal
thy land title shark, John Forward,
resigned, and the council appointed
DR.. Irones his successor. The story
goes that at the very hour of his
appointment, a sign-painteE was
placing Irones name on the door Ct
the Office he would occupy One of
his early actions which aroused the
public against him, was his at
tempt to bring back into effect the
Spoils system by discharging the
civil service board and putting into
Office one of his own. Public IN
dignation frustrated his corrupt
notions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-11
Child's Death, Frame>ub of Negro
GiVe Lesson in Capitalist Justice

the beginning OF her illness that
she was suffering from a bursted
appendix. But instead of immedi-
ately sending her to a hospital, DR..
Roper advised mustard plaster!
The Negro worker, Johnson, So
years old. was a coal vender for
years, always worked hard for a
living and was known by all who
knew him to be quiet "laW-ahid-
ing" citizen. On New Years night
he was lying asleep when he was
brutally awakened by the police.
After giving him a thorough beat
ing they dragged him to Jail where
they informed him that he had
killed Officer Butts. On this frame
up he was railroaded to 20 years
life sentence for Johnson-by an
all-white jury.
Then we have the picture of the
BOSSES court sentencing Van Chase,
young militant unemployed organ
izer, for daring to organize the
workers against the graft and mis-
cradle relief of the Welfare. For
this he was fined SIS and costs or
IS days
The Unemployed Councils and
the International Labor Defense
are organizing the workers OF Nor
folk and Portsmouth to expose this
treatment of the unemployed and
to fight for adequate relief ana
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill H. r. No. 1927; to free johnson
and Van Chase. And the workers
ere rallying their forces around this
call for they zee that the time has
come for them to act,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-11
Unemployed Youth
Attempts Suicide
By . Worker Corresnondent

LOS ANGELES. Slope gone be-
cause he could not find a Job
through which he could help his
19-year-old brother support family
of eight persons, Joe Apodaca, II,
resorted to suicide attempt as the
only means of relieving the suffer-
ing of his brothers and sisters.
Writing in pain from the poison
he had swallowed. Joe, who resides
with his family at 1929 East Eighty
fourth Street, was rushed in a police
ambulance to Georgia Street Hos
pital, where he told attendants the
reason for his act.
IF I were out of the way" he
sobbed, ut would mean one less
mouth to feed. There are eight in
our family and the only money that
comes in is $40 a week earned by
our 19-year- old brother. / looked
everywhere for a job and couldn't
find one. Ten dollars week can't
possibly be stretched far enough to
feed eight persons, especially when
families have small children in them
as ours has"
Joe was gotten to the hospital in
time for the first aid treatment to
take effect and nurses said he would
recover.
But Joe's recovery will not solve
the Apodaca family's economic
troubles. Neither would his suicide
had his attempt at self destruction
bsen successful.
Joe's case is only one of hundreds
in which victims of decaying cap
itslI-m try suicide to end the suf-
ferings Of themselves and alleviate
the miserable of their loved ones.
1t also is one of the strongest
arguments for unemployment insur-
ance, of the type proposed in As
sembly Bill 791 and H. r. 1927. Had
Joe's family been receiving insurance
funds provided for in these bills, the
youth and his parents and brothers
and sisters could be living in some
semblance of decency and theii
minds and activities could be di-
rected along the path to scientific
economic and social construction
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-11
DIV q Worker Corresnondent

NORFOLK, Va.-It is no concern
of the ruling class when the chill
dren of the unemployed die from
lack of medical attention; but they
call forth all their forces to crush
any attempt of the unemployed to
organize; to tighten their hold at
the throat of the Negro people.
Here are three pictures depicting
what existence under the capitalist
system means to the working class.
Little Deserie Scott died. For six
teen days she laid suffering from
appendicitis. The City doctor. DR..
Roper, advised mustard plaster
and left. After days OF continued
agony another Welfare doctor
Meade, arrived and he too left De-
serie to her misery.
The day after she was buried. DR..
Meade cynically told Describes
father that he knew the child was
dying; that Or. Roper knew from
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-11
Pullman Carp orter
Thrown OFF Train
By R.R. Worker Correspondent

ny MN. hDTker correspondent
NEW YORK. - Something has
happened on the Pullman Company
which We workers should discuss.
All porters should hear about this.
One of our brothers was aboard a
train operating from Detroit to
Florida. He was asked to drink
with some railroad officials. which
he refused to do. He was then
sent to the Club car on the pre-
tense of getting something. When
he left, the officials opened the door.
When Brother Quinn came back,
the train was rocking and he fell
out Of the train.
He was picked up by farmer in
Kentucky. Being very frightened at
his experience, he told the farmer
that he had just fallen off the train,
knowing what would happen to him
if he told the truth
Brothers, this should convince us
that we must organize and be able
to fight this brutality of the rail-
road officials.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-11
WinRe-instatement
Of Fired Worker
By q WORKER Correspondent

NEW YORK; am working for
the past three years for the Caruso
Restaurant, at S3rd Street where
Sam Harris was fired for exposing
the Company Union.
This Company Union, known as
the Mutual Aid Association of the
Employees of Caruso Restaurants"
was organized during the last gen.
eE2l strike of the Hotel workers, in
order to prevent us from joining the
rest Of the workers on strike.
Thi kitchen workers refused to
join the company union. So the
heads Of the departments started
to work on their help.
Mr. Dietz, the Head Waiter at the
33rd Street Restaurant. told Us at
meeting last October, IF you want
to work here. you have to join She
Company Union or else get out"
Most Of the dining room workers
we're forced into the Company
Union.
At the elections. however. We
voted for Sam Harris as our rep
resentative We knew that Sam
will neve- sell us to the Company
but the management refused to ac-
cept our choice ard appointed some
one else.
The management decided to stop
us by firing our leader, Sam Karrls.
The Hotel and Restaurant Work
ers Union Local 119 and our group
Immediately issued leafiet to all
workers of Caruso Restaurants. We
sent Sam Harris to register a COM
plant with Harry Spiegel, the
secretary Of the Company Union.
The answer of this agent of the
bosses was that our Association.
meaning the Company Union. did
net and will not protect anybody
on the job" This convinced even
those workers who we're sceptical
before.
Ouc Union pressed the question
OF the reinstatement from the out
side, we from the inside intensified
our agitation; recruited members
into our Union, got connections and
established organization practically
in all Caruso Restaurants.
The management now began to
bride us with steaks; but it was too
late. Before they fed us with food
that was fit for the garbage can.
NOW STEAK DINNERS!
We accepted the steaks but We
continued the fight for the elm
statement Of Sam Harris, until Mr..
Bloom. the president of the Caruco
Restaurants was forced to rein
state Sam Harris at the 34th Street
Restaurant.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-11
BY a Worker Correspondent

SAN DIEGO, Calif.-The spec
tacular and to the workers of San
Diego, infamous career in ONCE
land out of office) of Mayor d..
Rutherford B. Irones. came to an
end on Feb. l in the Superior
Courtroom of Judge Scovell, where
he was unanimously found guilty by
the jury, of being a "hit-and-rua'
driver, as a result of an accident in
which George D. Picket was thrown
so feet from his car and his wife
seriously injured
Charged under section 14l of the
state motor vehicle act. violation OF
which is felony, conviction auto
matically releases him from public
office.
Irones' cowsrdly act was ? most
putrid one, since he is q practicing
physician, and his assistance at the
time of the accident might well
have saved Pickett's wife much pain
since her back and several ribs
wee broken by his careless driving.
Although at the trial no evidence
was introduced that the mayor
was drunk, it is the popular con-
tention that he had been drinking.
Only slight mention was made at
the trial, Of his notorious meeting
with the telephone post, few hours
later on the same day of the &C
cident, where his honor the mayor"
unof1icially ruined his official
chariot Of 81 degreed cylinders, the
telephone post. and the DISPOSE
ton of several drivers of other cars
who had to dodge the mayors
weaving about.
On this occasion (Which was only
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-11
Macy's Plan Is Blow
At Wage Standard
By a Macy Worker Correspondent

BY Macy Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK. - Land of oppor-
tunity." was the slogan which
paralyzed us for action. But Macy's
has made the first move in a plan
to level all jobs and destroy what
ever difference there was In wages
between skilled and unskilled work
ers.
Sparks" the company magazine,
presents the Internal Per-
sonnet Exchange carefully
selected group trained to do several
kinds of work One part time sales
clerk was found to be an excellent
stenographer as we'll She Is now
an I. P. E. and spends part of her
day selling, part of it doing steno-
graphic work" Two other workers
are also mentioned. one a crack
salesman" the other an expert
"comptometer operator"
The I. P. E. is ito cope with tenn
porary emergencies when extra work
requires more people" Chat is In
the places where the work loads
are the heaviest). They forget to
mention that the wages paid are
as low as seventeen dollars oer week.
Also, that I. P. Els on selling as
signments do not receive any COM
4 missions for sales
Thus. at one stroke Macv's de-
stroys the wage standards of many
classifications of workers in the
store. at the same time killing all
incentive for advancement. If
sales people and machine operators
who have studied TO- wears to ac-
quire proficiency at their trade can
be paid seventeen dollars, what can
the many workers who are unskilled
expect? Probably ten dollars!
Macy's Internal Personnel Plan is
the beginning of a further offensive
on our already low wages. Sales
people will be the first to under
stand the menace that they face
I. P. Els working alongside of them
without commission on sales are
threat to their JOBS.
According to the same cheerful
Sparks" which claims that "the
facts are s5raieht,' over four times
as many Deoositors Accounts were
solicited by Macv's clerks in Decem-
Der. 1875, as in the same period
of 1888.
Elsewhere in the ducky-w ucky
Sparks" which is sold for one cent.
M Colts on the sixth floor is con-
graduated for opening thirty three
D. AS in one week. He got a half
gallon OF sherry. 1t seems that the
methods Of keeping people contented
haven't changed much since Man
haitian Island was stolen from the
Indians Alcohol is still used to
DOPE people into insensibilitv.
Macy's good cheer me- gazine
Sparks is studded with similar in
cidentT. Competent workers have
their photographs exhibited in its
pages end given LIQUOR instead OF
mcney. Try that on Your grocer
or landlord
Macy worsers The l. P. e. plan
Is a threat to your very existence.
Destroy a.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-11
Increase Speedup After
Firing Militant
By a Worker Correspondent


BIRMINGHAM, Ala.-Jackson,
boss at the American Casting Com
pany, is putting on more speed-up
following the firing of Parker, mill
tant union leader. The men were
ordered to get out Ito pipe day
instead of the usual 100.
Two stool-pigeons, Four Eye
Ray and Wess Morgan, are spread
ing the Red Scare, accusing Parker
of being a Communist, and trying
to split the ranks of the union A
union meeting is being planned for
Saturday, where the workers will
take up Parker's case and elect a
shop committee to present demands
for better conditions for the work
erS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-11

Demand for the Daily Worker
has increased since publication of
the series on wall Streets fascist
Conspiracy" Ask your newsdealer
to take a bundle. Send his ad-
dress to the Daily Worker, so E.
18th Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-11

looked around. Only about thirty
people we're there at that time. Sam
Boyd and Eric Frank were about to
come up the stairs then, when De-
tective Lynch stuck a gun into the
stomach of Boyd. Not recognizing
the officer and thinking that this
was hold-up, they resisted. This
was the signal or excuse for the
raid
/ In all there were thirteen detec-
tives, a block square filled with
patrol wagons, machine guns and
squad cars. Sam Boyd was severely
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-11

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ters to so E. 18th st.
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