Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 136, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 October 1931 — Page 10

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NEW INDUSTRIAL PLAN DEMANDED BY U. S. LABOR Social Revolution Impends Unless Relief Is Given, Green Warns. liY DAN BOWERMAN I nilrd Tru* Stall Correspondent VANCOUVER, B, C.. Oct. 16. New economic principles, officially as "the only way out of industrial depression and its attendant human misery," were recommended by the fifty-first convention of the American Federation of Labor. The convention adjourned Thursday night after two weeks of intensive work Economic policies which it presented to capitalism rind the government call for a wellordered and peaceful industrial revolution. The alternative, William Green, labor’s chieftain, warned, is possibility of a social revolution. “We speak for unorganized labor, and for the voiceless millions of unorganized toilers in the overall and white-collar classes,” President Green said. Shorter Hours Sought Here Is what that force demanded of industry. 1. Reduce unemployment and bal- , ance increased machine-production with buying power by shortening 1 the working week to five days and shortening the eight-hour day. 2. Make possible continuous operation of the important luxury-pro-ducing industries by maintaining : wages at higher levels and sustaining buying power. 1 3. Release savings now hoarded , through fear by assuring year- j around employment to minimum work forces. 4 Strengthen employment; agencies to end the confusion of placing men in employment. 5. Keep young persons in school j and out of competition with their elders for jobs. ; 6. Immediately amend the Volstead act to permit legal beer. Want Injunction Curbed This is what labor will demand of the next congress: I 1. Increase labor’s power of collective bargaining by removing power of federal judges to issue injunctioi s in labor disputes. 2. Reduce alien competition in the American job market by suspending immigration for two years, by totally excluding Filipinos. 3. Putting drastic restrictions on Mexican immigration. i 4. Distribute the wealth garnered ; by 2 per cent of the population by i sharply higher taxes, at the same ; time abandoning any plans to tax | the remaining 98 per cent of the j people with a levy on sales. 5. Create jobs by large-scale public works. Guarantee that contractors getting such jobs will maintain high wages and not depress wages for the sake of greater profits. 6. Aid in preventing future depressions by advance planning of public works to be slashed when industry falters and starts laying off men. Slander Alleged H'l Times Special FT. WAYNE, Ind., Oct. 16. Alleging slander, Wallace Merriman has filed a $5,000 damage suit against Mrs. Fany Large. He alleges she defamed his good name by saying his home was not a good place : to visit, and that he kept liquor. He j declares he was never charged with a crime nor arrested in his life. I

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SEABURY SPURS HIS HUNT FOR WALKER'S AID Report Sherwood’s Brokerage Accounts Totaled Over $1,000,000. Bu United Press NEW YORK, Oct. 16—Search for Mayor James J. Walker’s missing business agent, Russell T. Sherwood, was intensified today following reports that brokerage accounts totaling more than $1,000,000 have been traced to him. Sherwood has been wanted for questioning by Samuel Seabury and the city investigating committee. Mayor Walker, informed of the 1 reports, said: "Nothing to say.” The mayor, on his return from Europe recently, said he would appear at a public hearing of the committee if called. It was pointed out at. the city hall that the $1,000,000 figure might haVfe no significance, since by means of margin operations an individual might, by dally transactions, build up a $1,000,000 total on a relatively small balance. Meanwhile, Seabury went ahead with private hearings preparatory |to public sessions next week pn ! Queens public offices. Around Seabury headquarters.

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however, there were hints that the alleged $1,000,000 operation did not include all the accounts Sherwood had handled. Walker has refused persistently to discuss Sherwood, and refused

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even to answer Seabury’s claims j that Walker was shielding him from the investigators. ’Leggers Make Serious Error CLEVELAND, Oct. 16. Samuel Brownstein, 31, and Jacob Tayler,

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32, both of Pittsburgh, asked P. E. Selby, a trustee of the Dry Maintenance League, if he could use some whisky. Selby told officers, who arrested the two as they delivered a case of Scotch to the dry leader’s home. Trial was set for Oct. 26.

Fire Causes Liquor Raid H v Times Special MUNCIE. Ind., Oct. 16.—A farm house fire resulted in the arrest of two men and a woman on charges of possessing a still. Muncie flre-

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