Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 178, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 December 1931 — Page 12

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LIBERALS ASKED TO COMPEL U. S. JOBLESS RELIEF ‘Block All Legislation Until You Succeed,’ Advice to Progressives. B') Ecripys-H award \rtcxpapnr Alliance WASHINGTON, Doc. 4.—After asking progressive members of congress to block passage of all legislation until federal relief is made available for the unemployed, members of the joint committee on unemployment prepared today to organize public opinion in eighteen states in behalf of this cause. Members of the committee presented their plea for federal relief, and for a permanent program of public works, unemployment insurance. shorter work hours, and elimination of children and aged persons from industry, to a' small group of senators and representatives gathered at the Capital to hear them. Federal Aid I'rgrd Howard Y. Williams, secretary of the League lor Independent Political Action, proposed that federal relief funds be handled by a federal commission with elastic powers to turn money over to state and city governments * which would demonstrate inability to care for suffering within their jurisdiction. “There can be no comeback out of the depression unless there can he new purchasing power in the pockets of the workers,” said WiW liams. “The nation is engaged in a war against poverty and our only hope of victory is for the government to skim off new purchasing power through income taxation. The fight can be won if progressives in congress will refuse to pass all legislation until help is given.” Works Program Suggested At the closing sessions of the committee’s two-day conference here, the Rev. John A. Ryan. D. D., of the National Catholic Welfare Council, placed the responsibility for part, at least, of existing unemployment upon the federal government because of "wrong legislative policies and failure to provide a large program of public works in the summer of 1930. To fulfill its continuing responsibility, Ryan urged that the federai government provide relief through a five-billion-dollar public works program and also through direct appropriation of money to meet the needs of those who can not be employed on public works and will not be provided for otherwise. Organized labor's attitude during the depression was criticised severely by A. J. Muste, director of the League for Progressive Labor Action. “Organized labor has not done and is not doing its share in meeting and solving the unemployment problem and other issues arising from the present crisis,” said Muste. Find Baby by Dead Mother By I nitcil Press LOS ANGELES, Dec. 4.—While his mother lay dead two days as the result of a heart attack, a 15-month-old baby boy slept warmly wrapped and unharmed in a snowbound mountain cabin. The mother, Mrs. Lillian T A. Taylor, was found by her husband and other relatives.

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STALIN ORDERS SECOND 5-YEAR PLAN CONCLAVE Communist Party Parley on Jan. 30 to Discuss Next Experiment. By United Press MOSCOW, Dec. 4.—A second fiveyear plan of development for Soviet Russia will be discussed by Communist party officials meeting here Jan. 30 on the order of Josef V. Stalin. The government claimed recently that, the present five-year plan, including all phases of Russian life, would be completed in four years, instead of five. The plan is flexible and has been revised several times. The Russian attempt to regulate the development of the state over a definite period of years has proved a gauge to Soviet progress and has aroused the attention of the entire world. JIMMY TO ‘LOAF A BIT’ New York’s Mayor at Santa Barbara May “Play a Little Golf.” By United Press SANTA BARBARA, Cal., Dec. 4. Mayor James Walker of New York “may play a little golf,” but otherwise is here for a rest only, to recover from a cold, and doesn’t want to talk about business or politics. Mayor Walker, accompanied by Aaron Sapiro and Frank Walsh, who assisted him in his plea to Governor James Rolph that Thomas Mooney be freed, said he would remain here several days. He said he would spend his time “loafing and taking sun baths.”

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HOOVER PLEA FOR BUSINESS AIDEXPECTED White House Is Silent on Rumors on Emergency Finance Corporation. By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. The White House was silent today on persistent reports that President Hoover, in his message to congress next week, would recommend formation of an emergency finance corporation to aid business. It was believed in some quarters that such a plan practically has been completed by the President. Inquiries among members of his secretariat brought no comment. Reports were that the proposed financing scheme would include an organization similar to the war

I finance corporation, and capitalized at $1,000,000,000. I "I can say nothing about what i may or may not be in the President's message.” Secretary Theodore Joslin said. “The President is working on his message and it is far from finished. I do not even know I when it will be completed.” The message is to be presented to congress Tuesday. 1 Mr. Hoover has held frequent con- . ferences with members of congress on various finance committees. This has lent credence to the rumor regarding the financial plan, although some senators feel that further I loosening of credit is less essential now than it was two months ago. There is some inclination to believe that enough already has been done. The President's national credit corporation, capitalized at $500,000,000, is functioning, and he has asked for formation of a home | loan system of banks with federal | support, to rediscount loan mort- | ?ages and similar paper. Conversations among members of congress indicate this latter proj- | e't, a pet of Mr. Hoover's, may meet much opposition. A recommendation for new and I increased taxes is regarded as cerj tain. Recommendation of some scheme to loosen credit and restore

i i business confidence also is indicated ! in numerous conferences recently at the White House. Governmental economy in all branches is deemed certain to be urged in the message. Other items likely to be included are: Farm relief. The predicament" of the farm board, low prices of farm commodities, and distress generally among the farmers will call for action of some kind, it is believed. Railway relief. Rail executives have been conferring with Mr. Hoover, and are seeking some form of federal relief. In this they will find a stern critic in Chairman Couzens of the senate interstate commerce committee. Home building and ownership. Congress will be asked to approve Mr. Hoover's plan for a system of sectional home loan discount banks. War debts. Approval of the oneyear moratorium, already in operation, will be asked, but" will meet with considerable opposition in debate. Prohibition. The President is not expected to dwell long on this topic if he mentions it at all. Unemployment. This problem, linked with many of the other proposals the message will make, will, as a matter of course, receive major attention.

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