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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-20
Money and Exchange
TREASURY STATEMENT
{ BY United Press

(By United Press
WASHINGTON. May 20.-Government
expenses and receipts for the current
fiscal year 10 May II. compared with the
corresponding period of the previous fiscal
year:
This year Last year
Expenses s63O4. 456 254 IS se.le9 755. 075 05
Receipts. 3253. 946. 1922. 70 2.65l 9Os. 327 u
Deficit $3.50 500 431.76 3.547 SAC. TAT 90
Cash bal 1857, 563 e2l OF 2.o9e o9s, SO5 O5
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-20

through with flying COlOrs. on the
question Of why he did not choose
10 run" there is much less basis
even for speculation. His close
friends have been unable 10 under
stand his retirement from the race.
Quite naturally. officials Of the
Exchange do not Ike the sugges-
ton that the vote. which also IA
vored two independent candidates
for members Of the board OF gov
errors. constituted a slap at the re-
formers and the so-Called New Deal,
but 10 is difficult TO see 1t IN any
other light. The majority Of the
members may believe 1t good busl-
ness TO cater 10 the wishes Of the
public. but underneath they resent
being forced 10 submit to outside
dlCtatiOn.
TN his first press conference as
IL president Of the exchange,
Charles r. Cav said there would be
no New Deal or Old Deal during
his administration. He meant to
imply, no doubt. that the forces of
the exchange were not to be segre-
gated into liberal and conservative
camps and that an effort would be
made TO compose such differences
as may have arisen among the
members.
And it can not be said that Mr..
Cav is more liberal in his thinking
than is Mr. Whitney. He gives
promise Of being able to make
friends with people on the outside
somewhat more easily than his pred
ecess0r. and it is quite possible that
ne may use more tact in dealing
with those who OutTank him in au-
thoritv. But the new chief is re-
moved by several layers from the
rank of the radical.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-20

2,25O,00O,00O.
Not all Of the gains since 1882 are
attributable 10 the AAA, OF course.
Dollar devaluation had a hand In
it. the drought a bigger one.
In May. 1888. the AAA was set
up to close the gap between the
farmers purchasing power and the
prices he must pay for non-agrl-
cultural products. The goal was the
l9O9-I4 average, when prices the
farmer received are considered TO
have had a fair relation with prices
he paid for what he bought.
Figures Reflect Gains
Today luxuries are returning to
the grassroots as prices gradually
rise toward this parity. Current
figures show a $50 per cent IN
crease in sales of toilet preparations,
for instance. TO 10 southeastern agrl-
cultural states. Furniture and house,
hold goods in general reflect SIM
liar rises. General merchandise
sales in small towns are up 81 per
cent this year.
Better prices for farm products,
plus benefit payments. have boosted
farm income. The wheat farmer IS
getting 80 per cent of the theoreti-
cal parity, cotton farmers "a per
cent and hog producers IS per cent.
while the corn grower has worked
his way to l04 per cent OF parity.
To the wheat farmer has gone
slightly more than S160000,OOO 10
benefit payments. Cotton producers
collected an aggregate OF S292,-
632 600. and cOrn-hOg beneficiarieS
received S286, 9S8 $50. These pay
ments are not made from Treasury
funds, but from processing tax COL
lections. At present there is
slight surplus over the S792,O96,OOU
distributed.
In a direct attack on price-de-
pressing SURPRISES, the Adminlstra-
ton has bought 1921, 1872 head of
cattle to be proceSSed into food for
relief. This is the largest OF the
surplus projects-it cost sl1,5OO,OOO
The bulk of the cattle came from
the drought areas.
Prices of virtually all the basic
AGRICULTURAL products show substan-
tiaI increases. wheat rising from 58.7
before The AAA began its work to
9O2. Cotton has come up from
81 10 1T: tobacco from 11.6 to Y
for the kind that goes into cigarets;
corn from 588 to $50, and hogs
from Al 10 78.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-02
A Fighting United Front
In Milwaukee

THE strike Of 1000 workers of the
Boston Store, Milwaukee department
store, is now in its fifth week 1t has al
ready proven to be a demonstration of
great significance for the working class
movements very important development in the
organization Of the hundreds Of thousands in such
stores, who are among the most exploited workers
in the country.
The strike was called jointly by three A. F of
L. unions. Attempts by certain officials to con-
duct it in bureaucratic manner have been resisted
by the rank and file during the entire period The
insignificant wage increase offered by the Store
was rejected Overwhelmingly at a mass meeting
Of strikers Despite efforts of such officials to main
tain picketing within the bounds prescribed by the
Milwaukee police, mass pcketing was organized.
Not depending upon the officials active rank and
1lers took the struggle to the entire labor move
ment and to the people generally. with the result
that the pressure forced the Federated Trades
Council to declare its support for the strikers
The attempt of the International officials and of
the Federated Trades Council TO get the workers
to surrender without winning any Of the basic de-
mands, or to conduct the strike in a manner that
would have spelled defeat weeks ago. was averted
due to the splendid spirit of cooperation which
was developed between the active miltants among
the strikers, Communists and rank and file So
Party leaders among whom are some union Off
Gals such open support to the Boston Store owners
as printing their full page ads in the Socialist Party
daily, the Milwaukee Leader, have aroused many
Socialist workers to openly oppose their party lead
ers in meetings of strikers. The united front is
built despite certain reactionary officials of the
unions and the s. P.-on the picket line and in the
activity to win the masses behind the strikers
International officials of the unions are again
maneuvering to bring end to the struggle which
is slipping out of their hands They want to end
it any way possible. A secret conference with the
employers has been arranged. They will try to ig-
more the decision of the workers that all unions on
strike must be affected by the settlement before the
workers return. They will be willing to wave wage
increases or recognition of the unions If the workers
will let them do it.
United action of all sincere rank and file work
erS among the strikers must be strengthened now
more than ever. No settlement should be permitted
unless the workers first approve it. The Boston
Store strikers have carried on splendid fight thew
have won the mass Of workers behind them and
have very good prospects for victory if the mill
tant policy is continued
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-02
A NeeV Ruling Aimed
to Trick Steel Workers

THE decision of the National Steel Labor
l Relations Board calling for elections IN
the Carnegie Company plants of the Z. 5.
Steel Corporation emphasizes the growing
unrest of the steel workers and their in
creasng demand for strike action.
The decision is aimed to bolster the waning faith
of the steel workers in the Steel Labor Board, and
to take their minds off strike action.
Such decisions, even if carried through, are not
of any benefit to the workers. AS the Houde and
Weirton cases show. these decisions only serve to
increase the strength Of the company union, in
crease blacklist. and keep the workers chained to
compulsory arbitration instead of preparing strike
The request of the Amalgamated Association of
Iron Steel and Tin Workers officials for elections
in these plants were ignored by the Steel Board.
The Steel Labor Board was set up last June, with
the approval of William Green, in order to prevent
the steel workers from striking at that time. Since
then company unions have grown, discrimination
against union men has increased, speedup has in
tensified and there is rumor Of coming wage cuts.
Under the Steel Labor Board the conditions Of the
workers have grown worse, not better
Now in view of these worsening conditions the
steel workers are becoming disillusioned with the
steel Board They are beginning to see that their
demands can be won and their conditions bettered
only through struggle. The rank and file
menJ in the A. A. is growing rapidly. Hence the
Steel Board makes an empty gesture in order to head
off the growing strike movement
Green and NJ. Tighe, president of the A. F. of L.
steel union are agreed with Roosevelt and the steel
companies on the basic questions of staving off
strikes. To prevent the coming struggles Green
and Tighe are now carrying on a red scare against
the militant rank and file of the A. A. Green
and Tighe also agree with Roosevelt and the en-
ployers compulsory arbitration of the Steel Labor
Relations Board They did not agree to the pro
portonal representation" proposals of Roosevelt be-
cause they knew the steel workers would not swal-
low such open company union proposals
But the present decision for elections" is aimed
to serve the same purpose as the truce" negotia
tions recently held between the companies, Roose-
welt and the A. F. of l.. top leaders. The present
decision is aimed to prevent strikes and to keep
the workers chained to the compulsory arbitration
OF the Steel Board. This would mean what it has
meant since last June-still worsening conditions
for the steel workers, the defeat Of all their de-
mands.
The steel workers can win their demands not
through reliance elections" which even if car
ried through will change nothing. They can win
their demands only by preparation of strike strug
gle and the control of the union by the rank and
file
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-02
Roosevelt Hands the Vets
A NeaV Year Greeting

WHAT bitter New Year greeting
W Roosevelt delivered to the hundreds
Of thousands of war veterans who sit to-
day in bleak homes with their families
facing hunger and evictions
Il am impressed with the fact that IS
per cent of you buns die paupers anyway" Roose
welt, in effect, tells the veterans and their families
So why not hold on to the back-pay certificates I'M
til 1915 when they fall due he suggests
Why not, in short starve quietly now, in the hone
that you will be alive in 1945 to starve then?
Is not this trickery the hallmark of this Wall
Street tool this President who always stabs in the
back while he embraces?
How unctuous is his empty solicitude for the
ragged. hungry children and wives Of the veterans!
But how shrewdly this solicitude begins in 1915.
ten years from nowl
Can one not see how this consunlmate actor will
weep tears for the boys" when he sends them by
the thousands again into the meat-grinders of the
next lmperialist WARP Can one not see how he will
glory in the sacrifices" of the people" for whom
he is at this very moment sharpening the bayonets
of war massacre?
Roosevelts contempt for the veterans and their
crying need is only the measure of his contempt
for the masses, for all who toll for all who are
loaded down by debt and misery!
Roosevelts blow at the veterans is only the sign
by which he indicates how he will act toward The
whole working class in the coming year. with the
ruthessness of devoted Wall Street lsckey spend
ing billions for and profits and trampne on
the faces of the poor.
Let the whole working class of America take III
the challenge of this Wall Street agent! supnort
the vets 1ght
Pay the veterans their cash bonus! Stop the
war funds and the bankers profits For cash re-
lief and Federal unemployment insurance!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-02

clared for recognition where the
A. A. is in the majority. The COM
panies and Roosevelt insisted on
proportional representation and that
the A. A, deal through the company
union works council" Green and
Tlghe knew that the rank and file
IN the A. A would not accept such
an open company union proposition.
But now the top leaders as well as
the Steel Board and the employers
are planning to accomplish the same
end-of preventing the coming strike
Struggles-through another Weirton
or Houde decision. They seek once
more to turn the attention of the
steel workers toward compulsory
arbitration.
The A. A. rank and file. however.
see that to once more put their trust
on Steel Board arbitration, on such
elections, would once more defeat
their demands. They are organizing
for control of the A. A. by the rank
and file, in order to prepare struggle
and thus win their demands
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-02
Rally Against Attacks
On Racine Workers

THE increasing use of fascist-like terror
4 to beat down the struggles of the
working class against starvation and for
unemployment relief is graphically dem
onstrated in the drive being conducted by
Racine Wis. police and vigantes against the work
ing class and its organizations
For several months past, police and fascist bands
of vgilantes and egonnaires have been raiding and
breaking up workers meetings in that industrial
city of $1,000 population. Unemployed workers pro-
testing cuts in relief have been gasSed and dubbed
by police, their leaders arrested and railroaded to
Jail sentences The right Of free speech and as
sembly have been brazenly trampled in the dust
by the authorities. AS usual, the fascist attacks
the working class directed first and particu-
larry against the Communist Party with prohibit
ton of Communist meetings, arrests Of Communist
leaders and even kidnappings in the case of
Sam Herman, who taken for ride by vigil
lantes but managed to save his life by jumping from
a speeding automobile.
These attacks openly LED by Grover G. Lut-
ter, Racine Chief of Police, who is quoted by the
necessary to save established institutions. In true
Hitler fashion this minion of the bosses of Racine
answers the protests of the workers against unem-
ployment and starvation with gas bombs, clubs
and bans on working class organizations.
The Communist Party in Racine is resisting with
the greatest herosm the attempts destroy it. The
workers OF Racine are answering with mighty
united front movement the attacks on their rights
and organizations 1t is necessary TO rally the toll
ing masses OF the whole country to their defense
to the fight against the rapid fascist onslaught in
Racine.
Protests should be sent by all workers and their
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-02
BY vBRN SMITH

MOSCOW, u. S. S. r., Jan. L.
When one realizes all that the mil
lions Of workers and farmers in the
Soviet Union have gained from
their assumption of power, from the
Soviet system, it does not seem IN
any way unnatural that the first
threat in recent years against that
system should have called forth the
blaze of passionate defence, the
torrent of pledges of loyalty to the
Soviet government, that resulted
from the assassination of Kirov.
This outburst of loyalty by millions
marching in the streets and tens
of millions in innumerable meetings
startles one only by it's universally
unanimity and vigor-even though
the threat which stimulated it now
appears to have been largly the
work of expatriated conspirators,
worming their way in across the
border for terrorist purposes, nee
essarily futile terrorism as far as
any larger aims are considered.
Practically every speaker, on
whatever subject, and there are
many workers and farmers speaking
now in connection with the cleo
ton workers and farmers speaking
peat, as fervently as he knows how,
his feelings of gratitude and loyalty
to the Soviet Power
The expression usually used is
Sovietski Vlast, which may be and
often has been translated, Soviet
System" or Soviet Regime" But
ylast actually means Power" and
the connotation and differences are
little different from those Of
Regime" or System" The masses
know the power is in their hands,
whereas before it was in the hands
of the Gar, or of capitalists and
landlords.
What the peasant or worker In
the mill or on the fields expresses
in direct and simple words mention
ing as reasons the difference be-
tween the way he lived before and
the way his father lived as COM
pared with the way he lives now
the workers who have mastered the
arts of literature, the young Soviet
worker intellectuals put in phrases
of poetic eloquence, expressing with
their greater ability what all are
feeling.
Worker NOvaiiSf
Take for example, the Soviet
writer A Avdeyenko, whose first
novel, an photographed work, en-
titled II Love" has been translated
into English and many other Ian
guages, Avdeyenko still works as 2
locomotive driver When a meeting
of writer's was recently called in the
heavy machinery manufacturing
city of Sverdlovsk, in the Urals, tc
discuss the issues in the election
Avdeyenko was invited, and came
What he said was reported in the
Soviet press, as follows:
"a few days ago I received this
invitation card, calling me to E
meeting of 'intellectuals.' l looked
at it several times, repeating The
word, intellectual! 1 am now ont
of the intellectuals.'
And 1 remembered. how. one day
going to meet my father at thu
gates of the. steel mill in Hughesov.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-02
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the sentry that he felt behind his
back.
Now, here, today, I am called an
intellectual myself, and quite Off
cially called so; the Soviet Power
has called me SO. repeat all over
again this euphonious singing word,
Intellectual and I try to find the
answer to the question: How did it
happen that am now called an in
tellectual?'
Il don't protest against this def
milton; I quite agree with it, and
am coming quite joyfully to this
meeting But WhyP
But I don't want to think of all
the word meant before. I am too
full of happiness to think more of
darkness and froth. Today 1 want
to think of happiness.
II Enjoy Life"
Il come to the meeting devoted
II come to the meeting devoted to
Soviet Power. am an intellectual.
I write books learn. 1 enjoy life
1 love a girl I live in a big, strong
country. I go to theatres. 1 don't
dread tomorrow. myself elect my
own Power.
And for all this, thanks to you,
Soviet Power!
In the early morning I jump
from my bed. I wash with cold
water. 1 do my exercises. And then
| run up and down my room and
sing and laugh because of so many
emotions, because of so much
strength.
And all this is due to you. Soviet
Power!
I may become a good writer. 1
will live in a socialist society and
all people will be my brothers and
1 will dwell in the world of happy
people.
And for all this, thanks to you,
Soviet Power!
i dream to create something i'm
mortal, or to fly to the moon. or
to go around the whole world and
see socialism in Europe and Amer
lea. and I dare to dream SO because
nobody Suppresses my creative fan
tasy.
And that, too, is due to YOU.
Soviet Power!
My hair will become gray. MY
skin will get wrinkled and brown.
will reach the age of 100 years,
but still 1 will smile. 1 will love
the sun and the air and Man.
All because OF you, Soviet Power!
Il am courageous, uoyant.
lreamy, strong, curious: like every
thing that is beautiful, healthy,
truthful and good. I am like nv
comrades and my comrades are like
me.
"All due to you, Soviet Power!
When I shall write a book about
this gratitude, I will lead my hero
to the grave Of his father who hated
intellectuals, will make him say:
Do you see me, My Father, do
you hear me, do you understand the
new meaning of this word that YOU
hated so much, this word Gntellec-
| tual?'
And I will make the father to
answer: You arc happy. NY Son
live and enjoy life for yourself. for
your children and for your grand
children"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-02

"The Farmers Weekly still has
about 500 weekly deficit above the
circulation income. 1t is therefore
necessary to take steps to cover this
deficit so that We can continue to
publish the paper, which is so vital
for the struggles of the toiling
farmers. We hope that through this
anniversary campaign we will be
able to raise reserve fund. This
will only be possible if our leading
organizers who are in the position
to give guidance and stimulus to
This campaign, will really do their
duty.
10 emphasize the Importance of
raising the circulation it is we'll for
you to know that with $4,000 cir
culation the Weekly could be self
supporting. BY uniting all our ef-
forts we can easily double the cir
culation
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-02
National Drive
Is Instituted
By FarmPaper
Farmers Weekly Plans
To Double Circulation
in Three Months

CHICAGO, Jan. IA three
month campaign to help the Farm
ers Weekly, national farm paper,
has been launched in letter sent
by Henry Puro, national secretary
Of the United Farmers League, to
farm organizers and workers all
over the country.
The campaign starts today and
will last until March l, with the
aim of doubling the present cricula-
ton to 10000 and strengthening the
financial position of the paper.
$500 Deficit Yearly
The present circulation brings a
S. 200 deficit every year, Puro points
out. and adds that $4,000 circula-
ton would wipe this deficit out and
make the paper self-supporting.
The campaign for increased cir
culation also commentaries the
first anniversary of the founding
of the paper.
Puro's letter follows:
Enclosed please find the First
Anniversary Campaign Bulletin of
the Farmers Weekly. This campaign
will start Jan. 1 and last until
March l. The purpose of this CAM
paign is to strengthen the financial
position of the Weekly and to make
our militant farm organizations
members of the publishing associa-
tion-the Farmers National Educa-
tional which publishes
the Weekly. This campaign Will
eliminate with a special enlarged
anniversary edition Of the Weekly
where all the greetings from organi-
cations and individuals are to ot
published.